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<div class="heading">When you become in service attitude, just to serve Kṛṣṇa with humble attitude, with devotion, then Kṛṣṇa will reveal. Otherwise you cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. It is not possible. If you think that "I am very rich man, I can offer Kṛṣṇa so many things, nice dress, nice foodstuff. Kṛṣṇa now is within my grip." No. Kṛṣṇa is not so cheap.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.15.35 -- Los Angeles, December 13, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.15.35 -- Los Angeles, December 13, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So Kṛṣṇa worship is so easy, universal. Other worshiping method you have to collect so many things, then you can worship. Or you must have temple, you must have church, you must have worshiping place. But Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. And you can collect this ''patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalam'' anywhere. You can worship Kṛṣṇa anywhere. But you have to learn how to worship. What is that learning? ''Bhaktyā''. That is the method. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, ''patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati'' ([[vanisource:BG 9.26 (1972)|BG 9.26]]). This ''patraṁ puṣpam'' is not important thing. The important thing is ''bhakti'', devotion. That is wanted. Without ''bhakti'', if you offer Kṛṣṇa very big plate, Kṛṣṇa is not hungry to take your food. He'll not accept it. He'll not accept anything if you do not offer with your love, ''bhaktyā'', love and serving spirit, "My dear Kṛṣṇa, You are so opulent. I have nothing to offer You because You have got everything. But I have tried to collect these things to my best power, so I am offering You. Kindly take it." This is ''mantra''. This is ''mantra''.

Don't require much ''mantra''. That meekness, that humbleness: "Kṛṣṇa, I am most insignificant. I have nothing to give You, neither You are very much hungry or You have to take . . . you have got many, many . . ." ''Lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānam'' (Bs. 5.29). Kṛṣṇa is served by the goddess of fortune—not one; many millions. Here we are praying to goddess of fortune, "My dear goddess of fortune, kindly give me little fortune. I am very poor." That is our position. We are praying. But Kṛṣṇa's position is that ''lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānam''. The goddess of fortune is praying Kṛṣṇa—just like the ''gopīs'', they are all goddess of fortune—"Kṛṣṇa, kindly take little service from me." This is the position.

So why Kṛṣṇa will come to you, take your foodstuff? Because Kṛṣṇa wants that you surrender. That is required. That is required. Therefore we should serve Kṛṣṇa, because without ''bhakti'' . . . many times Kṛṣṇa has said, ''bhaktyā mām abhijānāti'' ([[vanisource:BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]): simply through ''bhakti''. You cannot understand Kṛṣṇa by your so-called scholarship, scientific knowledge and speculation. These are all useless, nonsense things. You cannot understand what is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa clearly says, ''bhaktyā mām abhijānāti. Bhaktyā'', "Simply by devotional service one can understand Me." ''Bhakti'' means serving, service. ''Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ'' (Brs. 1.2.234). When you become in service attitude, just to serve Kṛṣṇa with humble attitude, with devotion, then Kṛṣṇa will reveal. Otherwise you cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. It is not possible. If you think that, "I am very rich man. I can offer Kṛṣṇa so many things, nice dress, nice foodstuff. Kṛṣṇa now is within my grip," no. Kṛṣṇa is not so cheap.

There also it is said that ''vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau'' (Bs. 5.33). You cannot understand Kṛṣṇa because you are very learned scholar in Vedic knowledge. No. ''Vedeṣu durlabham'': it is very difficult. But adurlabha: He is very cheap unto His devotees. He is very cheap. Just like Vidura. Vidura invited Him, and Kṛṣṇa did not go to Arjuna's house . . . I mean to say, Duryodhana's house, very palatial building. Vidura, a cottage, so He went there. And Vidura, being in ecstasy, was offering Him some banana. So he was so, I mean, overpowered by ecstasy that instead of giving the fruit banana, he was giving the skin, and Kṛṣṇa was eating. So when he came to his senses, he saw that, "I have given Him only the skin, and Kṛṣṇa is eating." So this is ''bhakti''. This is ''bhakti''. Kṛṣṇa wants that. Kṛṣṇa can eat anything. Either you give the pulp or skin, He can eat anything, because He is all-powerful and everything is equal to Him.

So real thing is ''bhakti''. So when people become rascals and nonsense and do not care for God consciousness, devotion to God, that is become ''bhū-bhāraḥ'', burdened. That has now become. Now Kṛṣṇa has . . . because at the present moment in the Kali-yuga . . . Kṛṣṇa formerly came to kill big, big giant demons like Rāvaṇa and Kaṁsa, Hiraṇyakaśipu, very, very big giant. But at the present moment where is that big giant? They are all poor. There is no . . . although by mentality they are all rogues and rascals and demons, but in material condition they are very, very poor. That is stated. ''Mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ'' ([[vanisource:SB 1.1.10|SB 1.1.10]]). People are so unfortunate that even the bird and beast, they can get their two meals, eating, sleeping, mating; they have got their arrangement. At the present moment a human being has no arrangement what he is going to eat in the morning or in the evening, whether he has got any chance of sex life or . . . these things are preliminary requirement, but nobody is guarantee of these things, they are so unfortunate. They are not getting the preliminary necessities of life, what to speak of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are so unfortunate. So why should He come, Kṛṣṇa, to kill them? They are already killed by the laws of nature. They are already killed, half-killed. Therefore Kṛṣṇa has come in the form of His name, "Please chant Hare Kṛṣṇa."

Thank you very much.