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| Devotee: Then we should always try to act discriminately and always try to serve Kṛṣṇa and not have Kṛṣṇa serve us. Always feel that we should try to serve Kṛṣṇa, and not say that we will do this and Kṛṣṇa will provide, Kṛṣṇa will help us.
| | Those who are advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they have to work for Kṛṣṇa. Just like child, simply disturbing. The mother says: "My dear child, sit down here." But if he can work nicely, "Oh, yes," mother asks: "My dear boy, you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to do that." So sit down tightly for the nonsense, not for the sensible. For the nonsense, the more he sits down, at least he does not commit any nonsense, that's all. Negation of nonsense. That is not positive. Here is positive activities. |
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| Prabhupāda: You are serving Kṛṣṇa, that means you are doing. Serving means doing. What do you mean by serving? Actually when you serve somebody, are you are not doing something? You are engaged in serving Kṛṣṇa how? You are going to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you are cooking, you are cleansing, you are so many, doing something. So helping Kṛṣṇa means doing. Helping Kṛṣṇa does not mean you sit down tightly. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness activities. Whatever asset you have got to work, utilize it for Kṛṣṇa. That is bhakti. Now we have got, what assets we have got? We have got the mind. All right, think of Kṛṣṇa. We have got this hand - wash the temple or cook for Kṛṣṇa. We have got the legs - go to the temple of Kṛṣṇa. We have got this nose - Oh, smell the flowers offered to Kṛṣṇa. So you can engage. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness engage means working, activity. Arjuna, he was declining to act. And Kṛṣṇa was enthusing him to act. This is the whole Bhagavad-gītā. Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not mean that no work. To engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness means to work - for Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa does not say, of course in this chapter Kṛṣṇa will say something about… He never says Arjuna, "My dear friend Arjuna, you don't care for this world. Sit down and meditate upon Me." Have you seen in the Bhagavad-gītā? This meditation means to stop all nonsense work, sit down tightly. But those who are advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they have to work for Kṛṣṇa. Just like child. Simply disturbing the home. Mother says, "My dear child, sit down here." But if he can work nicely, "Oh yes," mother asks, "My dear boy, you have to do this, you have to do that, you have to do that." So sit down tightly for the nonsense. Not for the sensible. For the nonsense, the more he sits down, at least he does not commit any nonsense, that's all. Negation of nonsense. That is not positive. Here is positive activities.
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| So negation is no life. Positive life is life. "Don't do this," is no life. "Do this," this is life. But in order to do rightly, there are some things "don't." "Don't" is not life, "do" is life. The whole Bhagavad-gītā is "do." "Do fight for Me." There is nothing "don't." Arjuna wanted, "Don't induce me." And Kṛṣṇa did not like that. "You are speaking like non-Aryan." Kutas tvā kaśmalam idam. Anārya-juṣṭam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.2|BG 2.2]]). "This kind of words are spoken by the non-Aryans." He was accused of being non-Aryan. Anārya. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not mean sitting idly, no. We have the whole pastimes of Kṛṣṇa is full of activities. When you go to spiritual world Kṛṣṇa is always dancing. You have to twenty-four hours dance there and eat there. Where is sit down? There is no question of sit down. Have you heard anything about gopīs meditating? Sit down. (laughter) Have you heard? On earth, Krsna… Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu? He’s done, what He’s done, dancing, "Hare Kṛṣṇa." You see? You see, spirit, you are spirit soul, how you can stop yourself silent? That is not possible. Arjuna refused, when… You'll find in this chapter when Arjuna was recommended, "My dear Arjuna, you meditate." He immediately refused. "My dear Kṛṣṇa, it is not possible for me. It is not possible for me." That is actual fact. How it is possible for him? He was a householder man, he wanted kingdom, he wanted to rule over the country. How, where is the time for his meditation? He flatly refused. "My dear Kṛṣṇa, it is not possible for me." He said that controlling the mind: vāyor iva suduṣkaram. "It is as difficult as to control the air." That is a fact. You have to engage the mind in Kṛṣṇa. Then it is controlled. Otherwise, artificially you cannot control. It is impossible. Arjuna said, what to speak of others. Arjuna, who is Arjuna? Personally talking with Kṛṣṇa. Do you think he is ordinary man? He said that it is impossible. Vāyor iva suduṣkaram ([[Vanisource:BG 6.34|BG 6.34]]).
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| This very example he has given. Cañcalaṁ hi manaḥ kṛṣṇa pramāthi balavad dṛḍham ([[Vanisource:BG 6.34|BG 6.34]]). "My dear Kṛṣṇa, you are asking me to control the mind. It is so powerful that, and restless, - "I think to control the mind is as good as to control the air." If there is high wind, can you control it? So he gives this example. You can control the mind when you fix up the mind in Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, that's all. No nonsense can come within your mind, simply Kṛṣṇa. That is perfection of meditation. Activities?
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| Devotee: What is recreation for the Kṛṣṇa conscious person?
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| Prabhupāda: Dancing. (laughter) Come on, dance with us. Is it not recreation? And when you get tired take prasādam. Do you want more recreation than this? What is your answer. Is it not recreation?
| | So negation is no life. Positive life is life. "Don't do this" is no life. "Do this," this is life. But in order to do rightly, there are some things "don't." "Don't" is not life, "do" is life. The whole ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is "do." "Do fight for Me." There is nothing "don't." Arjuna wanted, "Don't induce me." And Kṛṣṇa did not like that. "You are speaking like non-Āryan." ''Kutas te kaśmalam idam'' ([[vanisource:BG 2.2 (1972)|BG 2.2]]). |
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| Prabhupāda: Why difficult? Dancing is difficult? Chant and dance?
| | So Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not mean sitting idly. No. We have the whole pastimes of Kṛṣṇa is full of activities. When you go to spiritual world, Kṛṣṇa is always dancing. You have to twenty-four hours dance there and eat there. Where is sit down? There is no question of sit down. Have you heard anything about ''gopīs'' meditating? Sit down? (laughter) (chuckles) Have you heard? Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu? What is that, dancing, "Hare Kṛṣṇa." You see? You are spirit soul. How you can stop yourself silent? That is not possible. |
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