Qualify yourself. That is wanted. That qualification is sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam. He is always prepared to give you light. Just like sunlight is open always

Expressions researched:
"qualify yourself. That is wanted. That qualification is sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam" |"He is always prepared to give you light. Just like sunlight is open always"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Qualify yourself. That is wanted. That qualification is sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam (BG 18.66). He is always prepared to give you light. Just like sunlight is open always, but if you keep yourself in the dark room, how you can take benefit of the sunlight?

760122 - Morning Walk - Mayapur

Prabhupāda: Don't dictate God. The demigod worshipers, they dictate, dhanaṁ dehi, rūpaṁ dehi, yaśo de . . . this dehi, dehi, dehi. Therefore they are condemned. In the Bhagavad-gītā they have been condemned. Kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ prapadyante (BG 7.20). He is so kāmuka, he is ordering God. Kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ. But that order cannot be carried by God, but the demigods, they sometimes become flattered and give this benediction. So Kṛṣṇa said, tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām: "This kind of flattering the demigods and take some benediction," antavat tu phalaṁ teṣāṁ tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām (BG 7.23). Order . . . you cannot order God, but you can flatter these demigods. And therefore people are very much fond of flattering these demigods because . . .

Indian man (1): Just to get material wealth. Material happiness.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that's it. Tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām. Antavat tu phalaṁ teṣām. All this material happiness, you may get it, but it will be finished with your body.

Indian man (1): It is transcient.

Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa says that teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam, dadāmi buddhi-yoga (BG 10.10). He says, "I will give intelligence. There is no question of asking. If you become a devotee, sincere devotee, I'll give you everything without your asking." You understand, follow?

Śāstrījī: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So you qualify yourself. That is wanted. That qualification is sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam (BG 18.66). He is always prepared to give you light. Just like sunlight is open always, but if you keep yourself in the dark room, how you can take benefit of the sunlight? Your business is to come before the sun; then everything will be all right. (break) . . . used to sing like that, sab ke sumati de bhagavān. (?) Huh? Raghupati rāghava rāja . . . you know? Sab ke sumati de bhagavān. De bhagavān? What is this nonsense? He's asking, de bhagavān.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What does that mean, "de bhagavān"?

Guḍākeśa: "Give me."

Prabhupāda: Give him. Sab ke sumati de bhagavān.