View source for Everyone, I shall request you to chant Hare Krsna. We have enjoyed so many lives in the past, or suffered. Now, this life, at least one life may be devoted for chanting Hare Krsna and see the result. That is our request

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<div class="heading">Everyone, I shall request you to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. We have enjoyed so many lives in the past, or suffered. Now, this life, at least one life may be devoted for chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and see the result. That is our request.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 6, 1967|Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 6, 1967]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Prabhupāda: Yes, I know. Not from that book, but from ''Bhāgavata'' I have read Lord Buddha's life. So we know Lord Buddha. It is not that we do not know him, but we know from ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam''. In ''Bhāgavatam'' there is description of Lord Buddha. The reason is that when a doctor says a patient that, "You must starve," what is the reason? Sometimes doctors says to his patient that "You cannot eat. You must starve." Why?

Guest: To help heal?

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Guest: To help heal?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore when by nature's way one is starving, you should know that he is getting better. (laughter) You should not be bothered about that thing. Suppose doctor advises some patient that he should starve. And if you become very compassionate and give him some bread, you will be doing harm to him. Your business is how to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. You should not be disturbed by nature's process. But if you want to help anyone, just try to help him in relationship with Kṛṣṇa. That will be real benefit.

People are very much attracted by humanitarian work, but there are so many institutions that improvement, the world's, I mean to say, condition has not improved. Just like from India I was thinking that every American is rich man, but actually, when I come to America, there is economic problem. There is poverty problem here also, although not in comparison to India. But proportion is there, five thousand upon five, and five hundred upon . . . like that. Proportion is the same. 

So ''karma'', the ''karma'', the law of ''karma'' is there. Everyone is subjected to law of ''karma'', and he has to enjoy or suffer according to law of ''karma''. So we cannot interfere. We can simply teach everybody that sometimes you are becoming in the point of starvation, and sometimes you are becoming extravagant in opulence. But this is changing. Your life, this material existence, is always changing. 

Sometimes I am very rich man. Sometimes I am very poor man. Sometimes I am human being. Sometimes I am cats and dogs. We shall stop this business of changing. ''Bhagavad-gītā'' says, ''mad-dhāma gatvā punar janma na vidyate'' ([[Vanisource:BG 8.16 (1972)|BG 8.16]]). If we try this life to go back to Godhead, go back to home, that is our success. We should not bother about the condition of life. Whatever condition of life we are put in, we may be satisfied.

So we should endeavor for improving Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then our life will be successful. Sometimes you will find mother is supplying very nice foodstuff to one child, and other child the mother is supplying only little barley water. Do you mean to say mother is unkind to one child and not unkind to other? 

Because mother knows better than anyone that, "This child cannot digest. There is some trouble in his stomach. He should be given light food. And the other child is all right." Similarly, Mother Nature is the guidance. So if somebody is starving, it should be noted like that, that he is put into that circumstances to get better. That's all. 

So any other question? 

(break) Everyone, I shall request you to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. We have enjoyed so many lives in the past, or suffered. Now, this life, at least one life may be devoted for chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and see the result. That is our request.</p>
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