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Why the young people go to the university? Why in the university you'll find all the students are young boys and girls? Why

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"Why the young people go to the university" |"Why in the university you'll find all the students are young boys and girls? Why"

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Arrival Addresses and Talks

Woman: It seems that most of the devotees are young people, are persons under thirty, under twenty-five. Why is this so? Why hasn't the movement spread? Is this a deliberate thing, or why do you feel it hasn't spread to parents or to older people? Prabhupāda: Why the young people go to the university? Woman: I'm sorry? Prabhupāda: Why in the university you'll find all the students are young boys and girls? Why? Woman: Because that's the age of education. Prabhupāda: That's the age of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. (laughter) Old fools, they cannot change their opinion. (laughter).

Devotee (1): Anyone have any questions?

Woman: It seems that most of the devotees are young people, are persons under thirty, under twenty-five. Why is this so? Why hasn't the movement spread? Is this a deliberate thing, or why do you feel it hasn't spread to parents or to older people?

Prabhupāda: Why the young people go to the university?

Woman: I'm sorry?

Prabhupāda: Why in the university you'll find all the students are young boys and girls? Why?

Woman: Because that's the age of education.

Prabhupāda: That's the age of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. (laughter) Old fools, they cannot change their opinion. (laughter)

Woman: Why just in the last five years?

Prabhupāda: Because they have got now. Before this there was no such thing. Now they have got it, they're coming.

Woman: Were you trying before then?

Prabhupāda: No. Before there was no such movement in your country.

Woman: I know, I know. But why did you just now . . .

Prabhupāda: So now they have got the thing. They are wanting it. As they have got it, they are coming.

Devotee (2): How do you develop a service attitude in Kṛṣṇa consciousness?

Devotee (1): (repeats) How do you develop a service attitude?

Prabhupāda: By service. In the material world, if you give service you become tired. But transcendental world if you give service, you more become enthusiastic. Yes. More service. That is happening. I do not pay these boys. Rather, they pay me, and they engage the service. They pay and serve. In the material world, as soon as you stop payment there is no service. Why? Because they, by serving Kṛṣṇa, they get transcendental pleasure.

So the more you engage yourself in the service of the Lord, the more you become enthusiastic. There is no question of becoming tired. Just like I am old man. I have come from India. My age is seventy-six years. So still I am enthusiastic. Still I am going everywhere, all over the world. Why? Kṛṣṇa's service is so nice. Even old man like me, he gets energy to work. And that's also without any salary. So Kṛṣṇa's service is so nice that you try to engage yourself more and more. Then you'll get more and more Kṛṣṇa conscious, more enthusiasm.

Page Title:Why the young people go to the university? Why in the university you'll find all the students are young boys and girls? Why
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-01-28, 13:40:46
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1