|
Jayapataka: Service and
reading are
nondifferent?
Prabhupada: Yes, if one is actually reading. Just like
Rüpa Gosvami. He
was reading. Nana-sastra-vicaranaika-nipunau. But he must be
expertly
reading, not as a
book worm,
expert.
Jayapataka: And on the other hand, sometimes devotees are
only engaged
in service, and then, without reading, and they...
Prabhupada: But every, everyone... You cannot expect
everyone is capable
for reading.
Jayapataka: They have desire to read, but they have no
opportunity. And
then in their service, they become... They lose sight sometimes, where
they,
because of fallen condition, they cannot remember Krishna
in their service. But while reading, one can easily..., cannot help but
remember Krishna.
Prabhupada
: If he cannot remember Krishna,
he will sleep. That is the test. When you have seen so many reading but
sleeping, that means there is no Krishna.
Yahan Krishna tahan nahi mayara adhikara. Sleeping is maya, so
if he's
thinking of Krishna, there cannot be
sleeping.
Jayapataka: No, I'm talking not about the reading half,
but the service
half.
Prabhupada: Service also... Everything
depends on advancement in Krishna
consciousness. If Krishna is there,
either you
read or work as a coolie, the same thing.
Jayapataka: You instructed that service is as good as
reading, but
only... We see that devotees only doing service without reading, then
they
become agitated in their mind.
Prabhupada: That means there is no Krishna.
The real disease is there is no Krishna.
Therefore he'll be agitated, either reading or working.
Morning Walk
February 26th, 1976
Mayapur
|
