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<div class="heading">Regulative principles are meant for everyone, all varṇas and āśramas. Not that "I am now sannyāsī. I have got the highest platform. Therefore regulative principles is not meant for me. It is for the kaniṣṭha..." This is rascaldom. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā na tyājyam. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ. Tapasya. Following the regulative principles means tapasya. So "I have renounced the world. Renounced. I have become a sannyāsī, renounced the world..." That doesn't mean I have renounced all these things, yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā. No. These things are not to be renounced. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā na tyajyam. They are not to be renounced. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā pāvanāni manīṣiṇām. Even if you are, have become a great saintly person, still you should consider, continue yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā. This is the injunction of the śāstra. It should not be given up at any stage. Pāvanāni manīṣiṇām.
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Prabhupāda: Everyone can install the Deity. All the family members can gather together, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mahā''-''mantra'' and read ''śāstras'', as we are doing in this temple. But the present tendency is that we have . . . they have got sufficient time to smoke, they have got sufficient time for playing cards, they have sufficient time for drinking, going to the cinema, going to the sports. But they have no time for developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is the difficulty. As soon as you talk of them, talk to them about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they'll immediately say: "Sir, we have no time." And for other things, the paraphernalia of Kali-yuga, they have got enough time. They'll read newspapers—all full of rascal news, "One man has stolen, one man has kidnapped, one man has stabbed." These news, he'll very, with great interest he'll read. And as soon as we present ''Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu'', "Oh, this is not good." This is the position.

Therefore there is a great necessity for pushing on this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. That is the best welfare activity to the human society. All of them, they are rascals. ''Abodha-jāta''. In the ''śāstra'' it is said, ''parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāta.'' They are being defeated by the onslaught of material nature. These rascals, they do not know. They are thinking they have become great leaders, philanthropist, nationalist, politician, scientist, philosopher—but they're killing themselves and others. ''Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu'' ([[vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]). They do not know how to make progress.

Therefore a person who has understood little value of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he should take this movement very seriously and distribute to the fallen souls. That is the best work. That is the best work.

(aside) Go on.

Mādhavānanda: "Whether one concentrates his mind on the four-handed form of Viṣṇu or on the form of two-handed Kṛṣṇa, it is the same. The ''Padma Purāṇa'' recommends—somehow or other, always think of Viṣṇu without forgetting Him under any circumstances. Actually, this is the most basic of all regulative principles. For, when there is an order from a superior about doing something, there is simultaneously a prohibition. When the order is that one should always remember Kṛṣṇa, the prohibition is that one should never forget Him. Within this simple order and prohibition, all regulative principles are found completely. This regulative principle is applicable to all ''varṇas'' and ''āśramas'', the castes and occu . . ."

Prabhupāda: Yes. Regulative principles are meant for everyone—all ''varṇas'' and ''āśramas''. Not that, "I am now ''sannyāsī''. I have got the highest platform. Therefore regulative principle is not meant for me. It is for the ''kaniṣṭha''." This is rascaldom. ''Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā na tyājyam. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ. Tapasya''. Following the regulative principle means ''tapasya''. So "I have renounced the world. Renounced. I have become ''sannyāsī'', renounced the world . . ." That doesn't mean I have renounced all these things, ''yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā''. No. These things are not to be renounced.

''Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā na tyajyam'' ([[vanisource:BG 18.5 (1972)|BG 18.5]]). They are not to be renounced. ''Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā pāvanāni manīṣiṇām.'' Even if you are . . . you have become a great saintly person, still you should consider, continue ''yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriyā.'' This is the injunction of the ''śāstra''. It should not be given up at any stage. ''Pāvanāni manīṣiṇām'' ([[vanisource:BG 18.5 (1972)|BG 18.5]]).