My Guru Maharaja used to say, "When our men will be sahajiya, he will be more dangerous"

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"My Guru Maharaja used to say" |"When our men will be sahajiyā, he will be more dangerous"

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

My Guru Mahārāja used to say, "When our men will be sahajiyā, he will be more dangerous."

Room Conversation -- January 24, 1977, Bhuvanesvara:

Satsvarūpa: Yes. I have some of those from the United States. Here is one. Twenty-two Bhagavad-gītās was ordered on December lst.

Prabhupāda: That will be nice.

Satsvarūpa: Thirteen . . .

Prabhupāda: Let them introduce as text for studying by the students.

Satsvarūpa: That we can still push.

Prabhupāda: Yes. A new batch of students will come—new books will be sold. Text books.

Hari-śauri: Every new batch . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Hari-śauri: . . . requires more books.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Every year, the new batches of student, and you'll have opportunities of selling a new set. If the university professors cooperate—they must; they should—then we'll have every year a large number of books sold to the . . .

Hari-śauri: If you bring more small books . . . Like you were going to do Padma Purāṇa . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes. That we can give.

Hari-śauri: . . .and the Upaniṣads, like that. Those will also be very . . .

Prabhupāda: That will be nice.

Satsvarūpa: So far . . .

Prabhupāda: I was training, but they have not become so expert. As I am doing Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad . . . they could do Padma Purāṇa, Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa in the same way. But our students are not so expert.

Hari-śauri: And no one can give the purports that you give. (laughs)

Prabhupāda: A little progress, they think they have become a great scholar—"Now we are for bhajana. Here there is no chance of bhajana. Let us go and bhajana." Ichore pākā. Ichore pākā, Ichore mean unripe jackfruit. Unripe jackfruit has become yellow, by a stunted growth. You know stunted growth?

Satsvarūpa: Something stops growing.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Growth is not there, like a dwarf, and he has become fifty years old. Vidvatvaṁ vayasaṁ-vinā . . . No, vayasaṁ vidvatvaṁ vinā. Where is Nitāi now? You know?

Satsvarūpa: I heard he was in Vṛndāvana.

Prabhupāda: He's making bhajana.

Satsvarūpa: He's making poison.

Prabhupāda: Oh, he's distributing the poison.

Satsvarūpa: Yeah, well I heard about it. I heard some letter he wrote.

Prabhupāda: To?

Hari-śauri: No. That was that letter that you got.

Satsvarūpa: There was another letter that Yogānanda, an accomplice of his, wrote to another person in California, saying that he should also come to Vṛndāvana; Nitai had found all this new secrets.

Prabhupāda: That will happen. Sahajiyā.

Hari-śauri: Posing himself as a big, learned man.

Prabhupāda: My Guru Mahārāja used to say, "When our men will be sahajiyā, he will be more dangerous."

Satsvarūpa: Our own men.

Prabhupāda: Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, he said that "When our men will be sahajiyā, oh, they'll be more dangerous." So our men are becoming, some of them, sahajiyās. This very word he said, that "When our men will be sahajiyā, he'll be more dangerous."

Hari-śauri: Without any proper realization, on the basis of being able to read Sanskrit, they delve into all kinds of books, and then they pick fault—"Oh, this rule is not being followed. This is wrong. This is wrong."

Satsvarūpa: "We don't chant sixty-four rounds, so that is very bad. We'll never make any progress."

Prabhupāda: Sahajiyā.

Hari-śauri: No faith in the spiritual master. (pause)

Satsvarūpa: So far, though, we have not learned a way to sell standing orders to the common man.

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Satsvarūpa: You say now the standing orders, the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Caitanya-caritāmṛta, after the universities, should be sold in every home. So far, no one has learned how to do that.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Satsvarūpa: That remains to be done.

Prabhupāda: Every gentleman should have a valuable library of these. That we want. Then our preaching is successful.

Hari-śauri: Once people recognize the worth of spiritual literature, then they'll purchase. Just like they sell these Encyclopaedia Britannicas from house to house . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Hari-śauri: . . .on the basis, "You've got so many children. They need this knowledge and education for when they go to school." So they purchase whole volumes.

Prabhupāda: Introducing as study book in higher colleges, universities, text book, then it will be . . . What is the use, a so-called scholar having a Ṣaṭ-sandarbha? And this has been failure. Our one Godbrother, he did. Simply he printed. It was not sold, and then it was mishandled, distributed like anything.