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| <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> | | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
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| <div class="heading">Our policy is not to ask anything from Kṛṣṇa. He knows what is good for me; simply I have to surrender unto Him. That's all. Why shall I bother Him, "Give me this, give me that, give me that"? | | <div class="heading">Our policy is not to ask anything from Kṛṣṇa. He knows what is good for me; simply I have to surrender unto Him. That's all. Why shall I bother Him, "Give me this, give me that, give me that"? |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In India there are so many nice rivers, Ganges, Yamunā, Godāvarī, Kāverī, Kṛṣṇā, Sindh. There are many rivers, all very nice water. In the Western countries I have seen only one river very nice, in Montreal. What is that river? St. Lawrence, yes. All other rivers I have seen, they are very unclean, especially in Moscow, Hamburg. Oh, it is so dirty. So in India the rivers are very clean, and people take pleasure in taking bath in rivers. If there is river, nobody will take bath at home. They will go all to the river. And it is very refreshing. That you know. So this example is very nice, that if you go to the river, then your all purposes are served. But in the village, they are restricted that "This well is for this purpose, this well is this purpose." It may be crowded. You have to wait for the opportunity. But the river is open. You can go there and have your business done very nicely.</p> | | |
| <p>That will be summarized in the last verse:</p>
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| :akāmaḥ sarva-kāmo vā | | <mp3player>https://vanipedia.s3.amazonaws.com/clip/720524SB-LOS_ANGELES_clip0.mp3</mp3player> |
| :mokṣa-kāma udāra-dhīḥ | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.3.1-4 -- Los Angeles, May 24, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| :tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena | | Prabhupāda: In India there are so many nice rivers—Ganges, Yamunā, Godāvarī, Kāverī, Kṛṣṇā, Sindh. There are many rivers, all very nice water. In the Western countries I have seen only one river very nice, in Montreal. What is that river? |
| :yajeta puruṣaṁ param | | |
| :([[Vanisource:SB 2.3.10|SB 2.3.10]]) | | Devotee: St. Lawrence. |
| <p>That is the conclusion. Here Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is recommending different demigods for different purposes because there are all classes of men. So to take immediate effect, they worship demigods. Kṣipram, very soon. Generally, people do not go to worship Kṛṣṇa and Viṣṇu, because you cannot ask from Kṛṣṇa anything which is not good for you. Suppose you pray to Kṛṣṇa on the seaside, "Kṛṣṇa, give me a good fish. I want to catch." Kṛṣṇa will never fulfill your desire. That is Kṛṣṇa's mercy. Because Kṛṣṇa will not give you facility for possessing anything which will ultimately cause your falldown. Kṛṣṇa knows that "If he catches a fish, then he will have to become a fish again to be caught by the same fish. So why shall I give the facility?" So therefore our policy is not to ask anything from Kṛṣṇa. He knows what is good for me; simply I have to surrender unto Him. That's all. Why shall I bother Him, "Give me this, give me that, give me that"? Na dhanaṁ na janam.</p>
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| | Prabhupāda: St. Lawrence, yes. All other rivers I have seen, they are very unclean, especially in Moscow, Hamburg. Oh, it is so dirty. So in India the rivers are very clean, and people take pleasure in taking bath in rivers. If there is river, nobody will take bath at home. They will go all to the river. And it is very refreshing. That you know. So this example is very nice, that if you go to the river, then your all purposes are served. But in the village, there are restricted, that "This well is for this purpose, this well is this purpose." It may be crowded. You have to wait for the opportunity. But the river is open. You can go there and have your business done very nicely. That will be summarized in the last verse: |
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| | :''akāmaḥ sarva-kāmo vā'' |
| | :''mokṣa-kāma udāra-dhīḥ'' |
| | :''tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena'' |
| | :''yajeta paramaṁ puruṣa'' |
| | :([[vanisource:SB 2.3.10|SB 2.3.10]]) |
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| | That will be the conclusion. Here, ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' is recommending different demigods for different purposes, because there are all classes of men. So to take immediate effect, they worship demigods. ''Kṣipram'', "very soon." Generally, people do not go to worship Kṛṣṇa and Viṣṇu, because you cannot ask from Kṛṣṇa anything which is not good for you. Suppose you pray to Kṛṣṇa on the seaside, "Kṛṣṇa, give me a good fish. I want to catch," Kṛṣṇa will never fulfill your desire. That is Kṛṣṇa's mercies. Because Kṛṣṇa will not give you facility for possessing anything which will ultimately cause your harden(?). Kṛṣṇa knows that "If he catches a fish, then he will have to become a fish again, to be caught by the same fish." So why shall He give the facility? You see? So therefore our policy is not to ask anything from Kṛṣṇa. He knows what is good for me; simply I have to surrender unto Him. That's all. Why shall I bother Him, "Give me this, give me that, give me that"? No. ''Na dhanaṁ na janam'' . . . ([[vanisource:CC Antya 20.29|CC Antya 20.29, ''Śikṣāṣṭaka'' 4]]). |
