Real pure devotee
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"real pure devotee"
Conversations and Morning Walks
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
"Let me remain perpetually here, but be engaged in Your service." That is real, pure devotee. He doesn't want even promotion.
Morning Walk -- May 3, 1976, Fiji:
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: [break] ...go back to Godhead can be sense gratification?
Prabhupāda: Yes, that is also a contaminated desire. Otherwise why Caitanya will say mama janmani, to go? Kṛṣṇa says, yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramam [Bg. 15.6]. If one goes to Vaikuṇṭha he does not come. But Caitanya also says He does not desire that. He is.... "Let me remain perpetually here, but be engaged in Your service." That is real, pure devotee. He doesn't want even promotion. That is also mentioned now: dīyamānaṁ na gṛhṇanti. Dīyamānam, even Kṛṣṇa says, "Come immediately to Vaikuṇṭha," "Sir, that is for..." Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja. Prahlāda Mahārāja was offered, "Whatever you like, you take." "Sir, do not make me a bāniyā (indistinct)." [break] But if anyone wants in exchange of service, then he's not a devotee, he's a bāniyā (merchant).
| Page Title: | Real pure devotee |
| Compiler: | Laksmipriya, Visnu Murti |
| Created: | 01 of Dec, 2008 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0 |
| No. of Quotes: | 2 |