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Prabhupada: So Jayapataka
Maharaja,
explain. You have got practical experience.
Jayapataka: Bhärata-bhümite haila manusya-janma jära.
Those
people who are born on
the sacred land
of Bhäratavarsa,
they should perfect their life, janma särthaka kari', and help
others.
Purpose of Krishna consciousness is
to perfect
one's own spiritual knowledge and then to go and help other people. So people that are
born here in
Bhäratavarsa have a special facility because of the Vedic
culture, Aryan
culture, to perfect their lives.
And just as Srila Prabhupada has gone all over the world spreading the
Krishna
consciousness—one person from this Bhäratavarsa has been able
to do so
much—if other
pure devotees would come and preach as Srila Prabhupada has done, then
how many
unlimited amount of fallen souls could receive the benefit of Krishna
consciousness.
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Prabhupada: ...in so-called transcendental meditation, go
to the Himalaya and go to the forest.
We are not interested in
all this nonsense. Our only business is to spread Bhagavad-Gita As It
Is, door
to door, town to town, city to city. We are not going to seclusion.
Prahlada Maharaja said, "This is professional bluff: 'I am going to the
Himalaya. I am going to the
forest." Prahlada
Maharaja condemns that "These are professional bluffs." Or they may
be sincere, but still, they are trying for their own salvation.
Prahlada
Maharaja said,
"I am not interested in that sal... I am interested for everyone's
salvation. Everyone must go back to home, back to..." That is
Vaisnava, not that "For my own salvation I go to Himalaya
or in the forest and transcendental meditation, nonsense..." We are not
interested in those things.
Morning Walk
February 3rd, 1976
Mayapur
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