Vaiṣṇava is he . . . devotee is he who is very compassionate to these conditioned soul. Kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca. Kṛpā means mercy, and sindhu means ocean. A devotee is ocean of mercy. He wants to distribute the mercy.
Just like Lord Jesus Christ—he was God conscious, Kṛṣṇa conscious, but he was not satisfied in himself. If he would have continued his God consciousness alone, he would not have met crucification. But no. He want to take care of others also, the others should be God conscious, others should be Kṛṣṇa conscious. He was forbidden by the king not to do that. So at the risk of his life he did it. That is the nature of devotee.
Therefore the preacher devotee is the most dearest devotee of Lord. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. They are going outside, they are preaching, they are meeting opposing elements. Sometimes they are defeated, sometimes disappointed, sometimes able to convince; there are different kinds of people. So, not that every devotee is very well equipped. There are three classes of devotees also. But that endeavor that, "I shall go and preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness," is the best service to the Lord, because they are trying in opposition to elevate people to the highest standard of self-realization.
So one who has seen, one who is in trance of self-realization, he cannot sit idly. He must come out. He . . . just like Rāmānujācārya: he declared the mantra publicly. His spiritual master said that, "This mantra . . ." Just like that Maharshi came in your country. He wanted to give some private mantra. If that mantra has any power, why it should be private? If at all the mantra has any . . . why not it should be publicly declared, so that everyone can take advantage of that mantra? That is real. It is cheating, you see?
So here is no cheating process. We say that this mahā-mantra can save you; we are distributing publicly. No . . . (indistinct) . . . free, without any charge. But people are so fools, they are not prepared to take this. They'll hanker after that mantra, after Maharshi: pay thirty-five dollars and take some private mantra. You see? So people want to be cheated. And here, Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, these people are preaching without any charge, declaring in the street, park, everywhere, "Come on, take it." "Oh, this is not good." This is māyā. This is called illusion. This is spell of māyā. And if you charge something, if you bluff, if you cheat, oh, people will follow.
Sacha bole to mare lathha jhuta jagat ghurai dhanna kali-yuga dukh lalge has pai. This is a Hindi verse by one devotee, that this Kali-yuga is so abominable that if you speak truth, then people will come with some rod to beat you. But if you cheat them, bluff them, they'll be bewildered; they'll like it. If I say: "I'm God," people will say: "Oh, here is Swāmījī, God." They won't inquire that, "How you have become God? What is the symptom of God? Have you got all the symptoms?" Nobody inquires.
So these things happen, unless one is not fixed up in the self, unless one does not understand what is real self, unless one does not understand what is Superself. So yoga means to understand this self-realizing process. That is yoga.
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Viṣṇujana: Verse twenty-six: "From whatever and wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self."
Prabhupāda: This is the process. This is yoga system. Suppose you are trying to concentrate your mind on Kṛṣṇa, and your mind is diverted, going somewhere, in some cinema house. So you should withdraw, "Not there. Please, here." This is practice of yoga: not to allow the mind to go away from Kṛṣṇa. If you can practice this simply, don't allow your mind to go away from Kṛṣṇa . . . and because we cannot fix up our mind sitting in one place in Kṛṣṇa, that requires very high training. To sit down in a place and always fix up in Kṛṣṇa the mind, that is not very easy job. One who is not practiced to it, if he simply imitates, then he will be confused.
We have to engage ourself always in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Everything we do must be dovetailed in Kṛṣṇa. Our usual activities should be so molded that it has to do everything for Kṛṣṇa. Then your mind will be fixed up in Kṛṣṇa. Artificially, when you are not advanced, if you try to fix up our mind in Kṛṣṇa, that yoga practice as it is recommended here: that you have to sit down in this way, straight, you have to concentrate your eyesight on the tip of the nose in a secluded sacred place. But where are these chances? At the present moment, where is the chance of all these facilities?
Therefore this is the only method, that you chant loudly and hear Hare Kṛṣṇa. If your mind is in other things, it will be forced to concentrate on the sound vibration "Kṛṣṇa." You haven't got to withdraw your mind from other—automatically it will be withdrawn, because the sound is there.
Just like the motorcar sound is going on, automatically our attention is diverted. Similarly, if we chant "Kṛṣṇa," so automatically my mind will be fixed up. Otherwise I'm accustomed to fix up my mind in so many things. So yoga practice means to withdraw the mind and again fix up in Kṛṣṇa. So this vibration of chanting automatically helps us in that yoga practice.