If you have got a very intimate friend, he wants how you can be happy. So dṛḍham iti, iṣṭo 'si me dṛḍham iti tato vakṣyāmi: (Bengali: Because of that I am telling you) "I am not speaking to the rascals. I am speaking to you, because you are My most confidential friend." What is that?
- man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
- mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
- mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te
- pratijāne priyo 'si me
- (BG 18.65)
"You are My dear friend." This is . . . sarva-dharmān parityajya (BG 18.66). "Whatever I've spoken, they are all nonsense. There is sense, but the truth which I am speaking to you just now, 'Just become My devotee, just think of Me, just offer your obeisance unto Me, just work for Me,' this is the most confidential."
But those who are not able to understand, they are not to be spoken. They are to be instructed that "You become a yogī, you practice your breathing, you sit like this, you sit like that." Because he's unable to understand. Therefore He says, idaṁ te na atapaskāya (BG 18.67).
One who has not undergone severe austerities, don't speak this final knowledge. He'll not understand. He'll misunderstand. Just like scholars, like Radhakrishnan, misunderstands because he has no tapasya. It requires tapasya to understand this philosophy. Therefore Bhāgavata says, tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvam (SB 5.5.1): "My dear boys, just accept austerity voluntarily. Restrain."
So these boys, they are undergoing tapasya. Don't you think that—in this country, they are giving up meat-eating, giving up all kinds of intoxicants including coffee and tea, they are giving up illicit sex life—don't you think this is not tapasya? Great tapasya, at least for this country. So idaṁ te nātapaskāya. Without undergoing austerity, this science is difficult to understand. Therefore it is warned, idaṁ te nātapaskāya.
Now people ask us, "Swāmījī, why you make condition?" The condition . . . if I don't make condition, he'll not be able to understand it. But I don't make condition in the beginning. I invite everyone to come and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Then you automatically accept all condition. This is so nice. Because he becomes purified. When he's a little bit purified, he immediately accepts all conditions.
So those who are not tapasvīs, or voluntarily accepting some, I mean to say, inconvenience . . . suppose I am habituated to doing something, liquor or something. If I am stopped, there is inconvenience. But if somebody accepts voluntarily, "Yes, for Kṛṣṇa's sake I shall accept it," that is tapasya.
Just like Arjuna, he was very much painful to kill his kinsmen, but for Kṛṣṇa's sake he agreed. That is tapasya. It was not very happy for him to kill his grandfather and nephews, but for Kṛṣṇa he accepted. That is tapasya.