Guest (5): Swamiji, perhaps you can..., when people ask about this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is only limited to a few full-time devotees, I had expressed, now in Gītā, it is expressed, now read the words according to basic extents to people who follow and accept Kṛṣṇa to practically everyone, to everyone.
Prabhupāda: Who? Everyone? Everyone is Kṛṣṇa? No?
Guest (5): To all the people who want to accept movement.
- sve sve karmaṇy abhirataḥ
- saṁsiddhiṁ labhate naraḥ
- sva-karma-nirataḥ siddhiṁ
- yathā vandati tac chṛṇu
Anybody who wants to accept Kṛṣṇa and Gītā, he is part of, and he can be a part of the Kṛṣṇa movement.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Guest (5): He can be a part of the Kṛṣṇa movement, with whatever, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ (BG 9.26).
Prabhupāda: So you read next.
Guest (5):
- yataḥ pravṛttir bhūtānāṁ
- yena sarvam idaṁ tatam
- sva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya
- siddhiṁ vindati mānavaḥ
- (BG 18.46)
Prabhupāda: Sarva-karmaṇā?
Guest (5): Sva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya
Prabhupāda: Vaca?
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Abhyarcya.
Prabhupāda: Abhyarcya, that is the important word. Sarva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya. Whatever engagement you may have, with that engagement you abhyarcya, just worship Him. Abhyarcya means worshiping.
Guest (5): Tam abhyarcya.
Prabhupāda: Tam abhyarcya, yes. So tam, the supreme, He who worshiped. And He is the Supreme. Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat (BG 7.7). So in any position, if you worship Kṛṣṇa, then it is all right.
Guest (5): But is that correct?
Prabhupāda: That is the correct, yes.
Guest (5): So after giving all this in the chapter eighteen, then He points out that despite all these things.
Prabhupāda: No, the thing is, best thing is sarva-dharmān parityajya (BG 18.66).
Guest (5): Mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja.
Prabhupāda: But if you cannot do that, then in your position you can also abhyarcya, you can worship Him. And especially in this age, whatever position you are, you can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is abhyarcya. He Kṛṣṇa, he hari.
Guest (5): Worship Him.
Prabhupāda: Yes, this is worship. This is worshiping. "Engage me in Your service." Just like Haridāsa Ṭhākura. He was simply chanting. He was doing nothing. So simply... You are engaged as professor. You go on with your professorship, but chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Where is the loss? Rather, your students will learn "Oh, he is such a big professor, he is chanting. Let me chant." You'll be preaching at the same time.
Guest (5): I'm a bureaucrat, no longer a professor.
Prabhupāda: Whatever it may be... Because yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tad tad evetaro janaḥ (BG 3.21). If a chief man practices something, the followers also practice. So a businessman, professor, scientist, philosopher, they chant the holy name of God, there is no taxation, no income tax, but the income is very good. (laughter) So why people do not do it?