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You can do the most beneficial work to the human society by these four things: by your life, by your money, by your intelligence and by your words

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Prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā: by dedicating your life, by dedicating your riches, prāṇair arthair dhiyā, by dedicating your intelligence, by dedicating your words. You can do the most beneficial work to the human society by these four things: by your life, by your money, by your intelligence and by your words. Everyone has got either the four, or some of them. But even one you can sacrifice. Better if you sacrifice life; that includes everything. If not, please sacrifice some money, prāṇair arthair. If not, then intelligence. If you cannot pay anything, let us worship, give your intelligence how it will be successful. Intelligence. And vācā: and if not, you give your word.

Iha dehiṣu, in this body, in human form of life, the perfection is to śreya-ācaraṇaṁ sadā. Śreya means ultimate good. That is called śreya. Śreya and preya, there are two words. Preya means immediate benefit, immediate happiness, just like sense gratification, immediate, and śreya means that permanent happiness. So śreya-ācaraṇaṁ sadā, in this human form of life you should not be—I mean to say, deviated by some temporary happiness. We should seek after the permanent happiness.

And how this permanent happiness can be achieved? Prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā: by dedicating your life, by dedicating your riches, prāṇair arthair dhiyā, by dedicating your intelligence, by dedicating your words. You can do the most beneficial work to the human society by these four things: by your life, by your money, by your intelligence and by your words. Everyone has got either the four, or some of them. But even one you can sacrifice. Better if you sacrifice life; that includes everything. If not, please sacrifice some money, prāṇair arthair. If not, then intelligence. If you cannot pay anything, let us worship, give your intelligence how it will be successful. Intelligence. And vācā: and if not, you give your word.

What is that word? What is this movement? This movement, they are going, they are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. They are not giving any money. They have no money, but they are simply chanting, vācā. So people are taking it and being benefited all over the world. So if you cannot sacrifice your life or your vācā, just sacrifice little money. That is the way of living, our Sanātana Gosvāmī.

And it is the duty of the gṛhastha and kṣatriyas especially, dāna, charity. And where dāna should be given? In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, dātavyam iti yad dānaṁ tad dānaṁ sāttvikam ucyate (BG 17.20). There are three kinds of dāna, charity: sattvika, rajasika and tamasika. We should not take to the policy of rajasika and tamasika charity. We should take to the sattvika charity. What is that sattvika charity?

Dātavyam yajña: when you think, "Here is the place where charity must be given there." And this movement is so, because it is trying to educate every man to come to the ultimate goal of life, Viṣṇu. That will make them happy. That will make them prosperous. That will solve all the problems of life. This is a fact. It is to be understood with little cool head and subtle mind. This is a fact. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice, so authorized.

So try to help this movement. Immediately we'll require a place. These devotees who have come here, they are from America, Europe, and still some of them are coming. So we must have a place to stay. Unless we stay, how we can prosecute the movement? Therefore help us immediately to give us a place, and see how things are going on, how things improve, gradually.

We have already tested that this movement has been successful all over the world; why not in Africa? So there is immense chance, and we have no sectarian view. We don't consider that, "He is African," "He is American." Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ. This movement is freed from all designation, sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁtat-paratvena nirmalam (CC Madhya 19.170)

Be Kṛṣṇa conscious. It is very, very pure, nirmalam. Because these American boys, they do not think that they are American or I think I am Indian. If I thought Indian, why should I have taken so much trouble to travel all over the world to preach this movement? So we have no such conception that "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am brāhmin" or "I am śūdra," or "I am black," "I am white." We all are the same. We are eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, or God. That is our position.

Page Title:You can do the most beneficial work to the human society by these four things: by your life, by your money, by your intelligence and by your words
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2024-01-28, 15:03:45.000
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