Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.3.27–28

Haṁsadūta: The following lecture was recorded on the morning of February 20th, 1971, at Śrī Kṛṣṅa-niketana, Gorakhpur, U.P.

Prabhupāda: [prema-dhvani]

te deva-siddha-parigīta-pavitra-gāthā ye sādhavaḥ samadṛśo bhagavat-prapannāḥ tān nopasīdata harer gadayābhiguptān naiṣāṁ vayaṁ na ca vayaḥ prabhavāma daṅḍe [SB 6.3.27]

[break] So devotees, they are so exalted that as Kṛṣṅa's activities, pastimes, are transcendentally relishable, similarly, devotees' dealings with the Personality of Godhead is also relishable. Sometimes we find the gopīs, they accuse Kṛṣṅa, "Ungrateful cheater," and so many things. Very strong words sometimes gopīs use.

When Uddhava came, that they immediately accused Uddhava, "Oh, you are coming from Kṛṣṅa? We know your Kṛṣṅa, how cheater He is. So you must be another cheater." You see? But these strong words used by the gopīs in connection with Kṛṣṅa, that is, it is stated here, te deva-siddha-parigīta-pavitra-gāthā.

When these words are discussed even in the society of the demigods and the siddhas... Siddha means... There is a Siddhaloka. The inhabitants of that planet, they are automatically yoga-siddhi. All the perfection of yogic principles are there, yoga siddha. There are different planets of different vibhūtis. Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṅḍa-koṭi-koṭiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi-vibhūti-bhinnam [Bs 5.40].

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose effulgence is the source of the nondifferentiated Brahman mentioned in the Upaniṣads, being differentiated from the infinity of glories of the mundane universe appears as the indivisible, infinite, limitless, truth.]

Every planet is differently exalted. And the more you go in the upper planetary system, thousands and thousands of times better comfortable life than on this planet. I have several times explained. Vibhūti-bhinnam. All of them are differently situated. Not that all planets are of the same type. So there is a Siddhaloka. In that Siddhaloka, if anyone wants to go to another planet, he does not require any airplane or sputnik. He can go immediately. That is called Siddhaloka.

So ye sādhavaḥ. Te deva-siddha-parigīta-pavitra-gāthā. Pavitra-gāthā, varṅita pavitra-kathā. If they are discussed as Kṛṣṅa's pastimes... Śṛṅvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṅaḥ puṅya-śravaṅa-kīrtanaḥ [SB 1.2.17].

[Śrī Kṛṣṅa, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone's heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.]

As Kṛṣṅa's pastimes, Kṛṣṅa's activities, are puṅya-śravaṅa-kīrtanaḥ... If somebody hears and chants, if he does not understand even a farthing of it, still, he becomes pious. There is no need of understanding. Simply that holy sound will make his heart pure. Pavitra-gāthā.

This sound... Just like when kīrtana is going on, an animal is standing. He does not understand what is the meaning of that kīrtana, but that sound will purify him. There are many insects within this room, many small creatures, ants, mosquitoes, flies. Simply by hearing this holy name, transcendental vibration, they will be purified. Pavitra-gāthā. As soon as you discuss dealings of Kṛṣṅa with the gopīs... Because Kṛṣṅa's pastimes means there must be the other party. And what is that other party? That is devotee. Dealings.

There is a proverb like that. Some foolish persons were speaking that "This year I have seen many boys were married." What does it mean? Many boys are married means there must be many girls also. Otherwise, how he's married? Similarly, Kṛṣṅa's pastimes means there must be devotee; otherwise, with whom Kṛṣṅa will play? Kṛṣṅa does not play with any other one unless they are devotees. Sādhavo hṛdayaṁ mahyam. As a devotee is always absorbed in thought of Kṛṣṅa, similarly, Kṛṣṅa is always absorbed in thought of His devotee.

The gopīs... Kṛṣṅa became absent from Vṛndāvana, so their mind was always absorbed in the thought of Kṛṣṅa. When Kṛṣṅa was present in Vṛndāvana, that time also. When Kṛṣṅa used to go the forest, the gopīs were thinking of Kṛṣṅa always: "Oh, how Kṛṣṅa is walking on the rough field. There are so many stone chips. Kṛṣṅa's feet is so soft. How He is feeling?" And feeling this, they were crying. That was their business, gopīs.

So therefore, as Kṛṣṅa and Kṛṣṅa's thought, they are absolute, there is no difference... Therefore it is said Kṛṣṅa never goes a step forward from Vṛndāvana because gopīs have captured them. Kṛṣṅa cannot go out of Vṛndāvana on account of gopīs always thinking of Him. The gopīs will never cease to think of Kṛṣṅa; therefore it is not possible for Kṛṣṅa to go out of Vṛndāvana, although physically He may not be present.

He has no difference between physical or mental, or subtle or gross. He has no such difference. Kṛṣṅa is absolute any way. Similarly, if you also think of Kṛṣṅa, if you are also pure devotee, then Kṛṣṅa is always with you. That is the advantage. Otherwise, how Kṛṣṅa says, yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad-gatena [Bg 6.47]

[And of all yogīs, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.]

The topmost yogī: those who are always thinking of Kṛṣṅa. Pavitra-gāthā.

Te deva-siddha-parigīta-pavitra-gāthā ye sādhavaḥ samadṛśo bhagavat-prapannāḥ. Bhagavat-prapannāḥ sādhavaḥ. Sādhus, sādhavaḥ, bahuvacana, plural number. So only the bhagavat-prapannāḥ sādhus, not others. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ [Bg 9.30].

[Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service, he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated.]

Api cet sudurācāraḥ. Sādhu, there is a word, sādhu, means pious man. So pious man is he who is surrendered to Kṛṣṅa, bhagavat-prapannāḥ. They are sādhavaḥ. Sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṅāḥ. Sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṅāḥ. Ajāta-śatravaḥ...

Suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām, titikṣavaḥ kāruṅikāḥ [SB 3.25.21].

[The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime.]

These are the symptoms of sādhavaḥ, sādhus. The first symptom is titikṣavaḥ, very tolerant. In any condition they'll go on thinking of Kṛṣṅa, never mind what is happening externally. There may be so many dangerous things coming and going, but they cannot give up thinking of Kṛṣṅa. Titikṣavaḥ. And kāruṅikāḥ. Kāruṅikāḥ means very compassionate. Just like Gosvāmīs. Nānā-śāstra-vicāraṅaika-nipuṅau sad-dharma-saṁsthāpakau lokānāṁ hita-kāriṅau [Śrī Ṣaḍ Gosvāmy Aṣṭaka 3].

The devotee's business is he's always thinking of how to do good to the people in general, how they will accept Kṛṣṅa consciousness. Simply twenty-four hours thinking, making plan. Therefore kāruṅikāḥ. Although personally they are in so many inconveniences—tolerating. But that planning, Kṛṣṅa planning, is going on, kāruṅikāḥ: how the people of the world will be happy. Titikṣavaḥ kāruṅikāḥ. Why they are planning like...? Suhṛdam sarva-bhūtānāṁ. They are not selfish, "Now I have become Kṛṣṅa devotee, that's all right. Let others go to hell." No. They want to see that everyone becomes a devotee of Kṛṣṅa. Therefore they are real friend. That is, he is real friend.

Lokānāṁ hita-kāriṅau. The Gosvāmīs, ideal. They left their comfortable position as ministers, went to Vṛndāvana and became a mendicant. Kaupīna-kanthāśritau. Tyaktvā tūrṅam aśeṣa-maṅḍala-pati-śreṅīṁ sadā tucchavat. Because they were ministers, their associates, their friends, their companions were all rich men, aristocratic. Tyaktvā tūrṅam aśeṣa-maṅḍala-pati.

Maṅḍala-pati means great leaders of aristocratic family. He gave up. Gosvāmīs, Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī, they gave up this association of big aristocratic families. Tyaktvā tūrṅam aśeṣa-maṅḍala-pati-śreṅīṁ sadā tucchavat. Tucchavat means "There is no necessity. It is most insignificant. We don't want it." Tyaktvā tūrṅam aśeṣa...

[aside:] Why you are standing? Huh?

Haṁsadūta: This just came off the wall.

Prabhupāda: Tyaktvā tūrṅam aśeṣa-maṅḍala-pati-śreṅīṁ sadā tucchavat. Just like you have got a piece of scrap paper, you throw it away, similarly, they gave up the association of aristocratic family just like: "Oh, what is this? No need. Throw it away." Tucchavat.

tyaktvā tūrṅam aśeṣa-maṅḍala-pati-śreṅīṁ sadā tucchavat bhūtvā dīna-gaṅeśakau karuṅayā kaupīna-kanthāśritau [Śrī Śrī Ṣaḍ Gosvāmy Aṣṭaka 4]

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the six Gosvāmīs, namely Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī, and Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, who kicked off all association of aristocracy as insignificant. In order to deliver the poor conditioned souls, they accepted loincloths, treating themselves as mendicants, but they are always merged in the ecstatic ocean of the gopīs' love for Kṛṣṅa and bathe always and repeatedly in the waves of that ocean.]

Being compassionate with the poor souls. Poor souls... Who are poor souls? Anyone who is not Kṛṣṅa conscious, he's a poor soul. He may be outwardly very rich, but he's a poor soul. Dīna-gaṅeśakau karuṅayā kaupīna-kanthāśritau.

Tyaktvā tūrṅam aśeṣa-maṅḍala-pati-śreṅīṁ sadā tucchavat bhūtvā dīna-gaṅeśakau karuṅayā kaupīna-kanthāśritau, gopī-bhāva-rasāmṛtābdhi-laharī-kallola-magnau sadāḥ. And how they were living? Always thinking of the pastimes of the gopīs with Kṛṣṅa. That was their life substance: how Kṛṣṅa..., gopī-jana-vallabha. They are thinking of Kṛṣṅa as gopī-jana-vallabha. That is Kṛṣṅa's business. Rādhā-mādhava gopī-jana-vallabha. So how gopī-jana-vallabha was dealing, they were always thinking. In that ecstasy they were getting life.

Otherwise, they had no comforts of the body. They gave up everything, living underneath a tree, and became a mendi... Kaupīna-kanthāśritau. Kaupīna means simply the two pieces of underwear, that's all. No gorgeous clothing, nothing of the sort. But they were rich in understanding the gopī-jana-vallabha.

They understood what is gopī-jana-vallabha. Gopī-bhāva-rasa. That is just like ocean. Rasāmṛtābdhi. There is a rasa, mellow, which they were tasting twenty-four hours, and therefore they didn't care whether they were living underneath a tree or there was no cloth, no food. That doesn't matter. Gopī-jana-vallabha.

So sādhavaḥ, they are... Apparently, it appears that they are living in a very..., in a poor condition. But they are very rich. Sādhavaḥ. Sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṅāḥ. These are the symptoms of sādhu.

titikṣavaḥ kāruṅikāḥ suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām ajāta-śatravaḥ śāntāḥ sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṅāḥ [SB 3.25.21]

[The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime.]

The first thing is they are very tolerant, titikṣavaḥ; kāruṅikāḥ, compassionate; and suhṛdaḥ, friend of all living entities. They are not like that... Just like politicians, they are friends only to the countrymen or to the party. But still, they are so much eulogized: "Oh, he is our leader."

But this sort of leader cannot be compared with a sādhu, because a sādhu is leader for all living entities. They are thinking of the ant also, how it will be helped. Not only human society or own society, family members. There cannot be broader-minded than a sādhu.

That is real sādhu. Suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām. Friend of all living entities. Never mind whether it is an ant or whether he is Brahmā—he's friend of everyone. Ajāta-śatravaḥ. And because a sādhu is friend of everyone, there cannot be any conceivable enemy. But still, there are enemies. That is the nature of the world.

So here it is said, ye sādhavaḥ samadṛśaḥ. Samadṛśaḥ. Samadṛśaḥ means equally, equipoised. Not that "I shall simply serve this, my brothers or my community or my society or my nation or the human society." Nowadays there is a hobby. Just like Vivekananda: "daridra-nārāyaṅa-sevā," the human society, the poor men. And chāga-nārāyaṅa, the goat nārāyaṅa, they must be killed for this daridra-nārāyaṅa-sevā. This kind of discrimination of not for the sādhu. He's not a sādhu. Sādhu is equally disposed to all living entities—not only human society; animal society.

In the material atmosphere... Because the material atmosphere is envious one another. I am envious to you, you are envious to me. That is the position of the material world. So these so-called philanthropists or altruists, they take a section only, do good to them, but neglect others. Neglect others. Or others are enemies. But a sādhu is equipoised. He takes compassion for all kinds of living entities. Suhṛdaḥ sarva-dehinām. Ajāta-śatravaḥ śāntāḥ sādhavaḥ sādhu-bhūṣaṅāḥ.

Ye sādhavaḥ samadṛśo bhagavat-prapannāḥ. So without being surrendered soul to Kṛṣṅa, bhagavat-prapannāḥ, there cannot be any sādhu and there cannot be any man equipoised to everyone. [short Hindi conversation with a woman] But these are the description of sādhu. Bhagavat-prapannāḥ. Each and every word is so nice, perfect, in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, describing ye sādhavaḥ. Sādhavaḥ means those who are pious men. Who is a pious man? Samadṛśaḥ. Samadṛśaḥ, equipoised. And bhagavat-prapannāḥ.

So therefore the conclusion is the same thing as we repeat several times: without being Kṛṣṅa conscious, nobody can be a good man. That's all. We should not hate, that "Oh, he's not a good man; therefore we have to hate." No. That is not our business. No. But this is the conclusion. And because the world is full of no good men, therefore we have to preach.

So we cannot hate, even he's not a good man. But this is a fact. One who is not a Kṛṣṅa conscious person, he's not a good man. But our duty is preach. Because the world is full of no-good men, therefore we have to preach. Otherwise what is the use of preaching? Therefore we should not be envious, although a man is not good man. That is the time. Samadṛśaḥ.

Just like Gosvāmīs. Kṛṣṅotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau premāmṛtāmbho-nidhī dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau [Śrīnivāsa Ācārya].

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Six Gosvāmīs, namely Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī, and Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, who are always engaged in chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṅa and dancing. They are just like the ocean of love of God, and they are popular both with the gentle and with the ruffians, because they are not envious of anyone. Whatever they do, they are all-pleasing to everyone, and they are fully blessed by Lord Caitanya. Thus they are engaged in missionary activities meant to deliver all the conditioned souls in the material universe.]

Dhīra. Dhīra means sober, and adhīra means rascals. So dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau. They were priya, dear, both the rascals and good men, because they were distributing Kṛṣṅa consciousness.

Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, just you saw in Benares. Not that all the men who joined the procession, they were all good men, from materialist's point of view. But this Caitanya Mahāprabhu is so kind, thousand of men joined Caitanya and they danced. Dhīrādhīra. Not that in the crowd only selected devotees were there. No. Most of them, ninety-nine percent, all nondevotees. Similarly, in your country you have seen. That Caitanya Mahāprabhu statue attracted so many people in Berkeley.

Dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His servant, they are dear both to the sober and rascals. Dhīrādhīra-jana-priyau. Because in their mind there is no such discrimination that "Here is a rascal. I shall not talk to him," or "Here is only good man. I shall talk to him." No. Nityānanda Prabhu, He first of all selected, "Oh, here is Jagāi-Mādhāi. All right, first..., My first business is with them," and delivered them. These are the examples. Sādhu.

What is sādhu? Sādhu is not with a tilaka and in a secluded place chanting and not coming out and very..., imitating Haridāsa Ṭhākura. And as soon as the throat is dry, "Oh, bīḍī. Give me bīḍī." You see? These imitations are going on. You see? Showing just like Haridāsa Ṭhākura, but chanting, chanting, the throat becomes dry, and immediately assistance of cigarette or bīḍī is required, or a gāñjā, [laughter] still more.

What do you think, Muktānanda? Is it not? Did you practice this?

Muktānanda: No, I have not... [laughter]

Prabhupāda: Thank you. Therefore you have come to us. Because... So sādhavaḥ samadṛśo bhagavat-prapannāḥ tān nopasīdata [SB 6.3.27]. These are the signs of sādhu. "Don't approach there." Yamarāja says, "Don't approach there. Be careful. You have no business to go there." Nopasīdata. "Don't approach." Why nopasīdata? Harer gadayābhiguptān. You know, Viṣṅu has got club?

Immediately that club will be used. Just like the Viṣṅudūta acted in case of Ajāmila as soon as they approached. Therefore warning, "Don't do this again. One who's a devotee, don't do, don't go there. Otherwise... They are protected by the club of Viṣṅu, cakra. Immediately that will be used." Just see, everything is clearly said.

So simply become Kṛṣṅa devotee, your life is successful. That's all. You are well protected and you are very recognized. Your qualities, your everything becomes all transcendental, immediately. It is so nice. Kṛṣṅa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām [Bg 18.66]:

[Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.]

"I'll give you." That is... These are things are stated.

Tān nopasīdata harer gadayābhiguptān naiṣāṁ vayaṁ na ca vayaḥ prabhavāma daṅḍe [SB 6.3.27].

"They are not our candidates, and neither we have got any power to punish them. Even he's in wrong, that is not our jurisdiction. That is Kṛṣṅa's jurisdiction. Kṛṣṅa will see to it what to do, even if he's wrong." That is called departmental punishment. That is Kṛṣṅa's departmental punishment, not outside. "Kṛṣṅa may punish him or excuse him; that is Kṛṣṅa's business, not ours."

Therefore a devotee knows, when he's fully surrendered to Kṛṣṅa, if there is some punishment from the side of Kṛṣṅa, they accept it as mercy of Kṛṣṅa. Tat te 'nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṅaḥ [SB 10.14.8]. They have the eyes to see that "This is mercy of Kṛṣṅa. Kṛṣṅa has put me into some dangerous position. That is Kṛṣṅa's mercy." And actually it is so. By a little inconvenience, immediately he's rectified.

So Yamarāja says, naiṣāṁ vayaṁ na ca vayaḥ prabhavāma daṅḍe. Atas tān nopasīdata samipan api na gacchata.[?] Śrīdhara Svāmī says, "Do not try to go their vicinity even, what to speak of going directly before them. Where they are sitting, don't go hundreds of thousands of years away's time." Vayaḥ kālo 'pi na prabhavati. Then the Yamadūta can say that "We may not go, but the time factor will act on them." So that is also, "No. There is no question of time factor for them." Such are the facilities.

Now, Yamarāja is a mahājana. We have to take his statement how devotees are stated. Kṛṣṅa says summarily that "I'll give you protection." And how they are protected you have to learn from the mahājana. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ [Cc Madhya 17.186].

[Dry arguments are inconclusive. A great personality whose opinion does not differ from others is not considered a great sage. Simply by studying the Vedas, which are variegated, one cannot come to the right path by which religious principles are understood. The solid truth of religious principles is hidden in the heart of an unadulterated self-realized person. Consequently, as the śāstras confirm, one should accept whatever progressive path the mahājanas advocate.]

Then next question will be: "Then what is our business? Where to go? Suppose they're all devotee?" Sometimes a rascal question is there, that "If everyone becomes devotee, how this world will go on?" That is their concern. If everyone becomes honest, how the prison house will go on? What is the use of prison house? If it is closed, that is good. Similarly, if the whole world becomes devotee and the business of the material world is closed for good, that is very good. But that will not happen. That is not possible.

So Yamarāja says, tān ānayadhvam. Tān ānayadhvam asato vimukhān mukunda-pādāravinda-makaranda-rasād ajasram [SB 6.3.28]: "You simply approach to persons who are averse to the lotus feet of Mukunda, Kṛṣṅa. One who does not relish the honey in the lotus feet..." Because in the lotus there is honey. So devotees, they take the honey in the lotus feet of Kṛṣṅa. One who is averse to this nice honey at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṅa, but how...? What they are tasting?

They are tasting: niṣkiñcanaiḥ paramahaṁsa-kulair asaṅgair juṣṭād gṛhe niraya-vartmani baddha-tṛṣṅān. Those who are not associating with pure devotees, niṣkiñcanaiḥ, one who has no other business than to taste the honey at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṅa... The persons who are not associating, that means those who are not becoming Life Members of Kṛṣṅa conscious movement, [chuckles] Yamarāja is advising, "Go there." [laughter] "Go there."

Why? Why? Now, juṣṭād gṛhe niraya-vartmani baddha-tṛṣṅān. They are staying at home, which is the path to hell, and they are absorbed in unlimited desires. Gṛhe. Gṛhe. Gṛhe means staying at home, not going out for canvassing for Kṛṣṅa. Gṛhe niraya-vartmani. What is this gṛhe? Niraya means hell, and vartmani means path. Gṛhe means "the path of going to hell."

That was also advised by Prahlāda Mahārāja. Gṛham andha-kūpam [SB 7.5.5].

[Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: O best of the asuras, King of the demons, as far as I have learned from my spiritual master, any person who has accepted a temporary body and temporary household life is certainly embarrassed by anxiety because of having fallen in a dark well where there is no water but only suffering. One should give up this position and go to the forest [vana]. More clearly, one should go to Vṛndāvana, where only Kṛṣṅa consciousness is prevalent, and should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.]

Tyaktvā gṛham andha-kūpam. Andha-kūpam, this blind well. I saw one blind well in Ascot when I was at... What is his name?

Haṁsadūta: John Lennon.

Prabhupāda: John Lennon's house. There was a blind pit, and it was covered with grass, and somebody fell. So this gṛham andha-kūpam, this family life is sometimes... Unless there is Kṛṣṅa, the family life... Without Kṛṣṅa, without Kṛṣṅa consciousness, family life is just like a blind well covered with grass. As soon as you go, and fall down. Prahlāda Mahārāja recommended that one should give up this blind well and go to the open forest.

So here also it is said, gṛhe niraya-vartmani baddha-tṛṣṅān. And why they are staying in that blind well? Baddha-tṛṣṅān: conditioned by material desires. Just see. Thinking that "I am in family. My..., they are friends, they are my countrymen, they are my children, and they'll give me protection. What this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement will give us protection? They have no money. They are begging. So how they can?" No. That is their idea, that "This my family affairs, a nice situation, that will give me protection." But that is wrong.

Teṣāṁ nidhanaṁ paśyann api na paśyati.

dehāpatya-kalatrādiṣv ātma-sainyeṣv [asatsv api] teṣāṁ pramatto nidhanaṁ paśyann api na paśyati [SB 2.1.4]

[Persons devoid of ātma-tattva do not inquire into the problems of life, being too attached to the fallible soldiers like the body, children and wife. Although sufficiently experienced, they still do not see their inevitable destruction.]

They think that "This atmosphere will give me protection," without seeing that they'll be all destroyed by the laws of nature. So Yamarāja says, "Those who are under this conception, that 'This secure home life will give me protection...,' " but that is not the fact. Such security means security for gliding down to hell. That's all. Juṣṭād gṛhe niraya-vartmani baddha-tṛṣṅān.

[reads commentary:] Ke tarhi daṅḍārtham anaya tat praha tan iti darbhyam asataḥ.[?] Asataḥ, duṣṭān. Asat means duṣṭān, rogues. Asato duṣṭān tan eva aha mukunda pādāravindayoḥ.[?] How one can distinguish that he's a rogue? That's what I say, that rogue you can understand immediately: who is not Kṛṣṅa conscious. He's a rogue. So tān evāha mukunda-pādāravindayo makaranda-rūpa-rasaṁ tasmād vimukhān.

Those who are averse to taste the honey in Kṛṣṅa consciousness, they are rogues. They are rogues. And the Yamarāja is advising, "Go there. Bring them here, and I shall chastise them nicely." That is Yamarāja's... Duṣṭān tān eva āha mukunda-pādāravindayo yo makaranda-rūpa tasmād vimukhān. Kathām bhūtat? Niṣkiñcinair ajasram juṣṭād tesam jñāpakam aha niraya-vartmani sva-dharma-sunye gṛhe baddha trsnad ye tan.[?]

So what is their symptoms? Their symptoms we shall describe tomorrow.

[break] ...the advantages of Kṛṣṅa consciousness. Yes. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ [Cc Madhya 17.186].

[Dry arguments are inconclusive. A great personality whose opinion does not differ from others is not considered a great sage. Simply by studying the Vedas, which are variegated, one cannot come to the right path by which religious principles are understood. The solid truth of religious principles is hidden in the heart of an unadulterated self-realized person. Consequently, as the śāstras confirm, one should accept whatever progressive path the mahājanas advocate.]

Yamarāja personally explains. He is mahājana. Anyone who is not Kṛṣṅa conscious, he's a candidate for Yamarāja.

[aside] You replay it.

Hamsadutta: Replay?

[break] ...incarnations are as unlimited as there are waves in the sea. As there is no limit how many waves are there, similarly there is no limit of Kṛṣṅa's incarnation. But some of the prominent incarnations connected with this world, they have been mentioned.

Now this boy is advancing in Kṛṣṅa consciousness by this method. So Kauśalyā has transferred Kṛṣṅa consciousness to him?

Devotee: She's leaving today.

Tamāla Kṛṣṅa: But he's also leaving today. That means he has to transfer it to someone else. [break]

Prabhupāda: ...ādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ. We should not transfer our service to somebody. The more we serve, the more we understand Kṛṣṅa. We should follow this principle. Sevonmukhe hi... The only means of understanding Kṛṣṅa is service. There is no other means. [break]

Devotee: Some day one person will do the floor, and the next day another person? Is that all right?

Prabhupāda: If one man can continue, that's nice. Why should we try for another man?

Devotee: I was thinking that everybody could have an opportunity that way.

Prabhupāda: Well, that is very doubtful. [chuckles] The opportunity is neglected. That attitude, it is accepted that "Here is an opportunity," that is very nice. But sometimes we try to transfer the opportunity, being compassionate with another devotee. [laughter] Himāvatī? [chuckles]

Himāvatī: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Devotees are very compassionate. [laughs] Kāruṅikāḥ. "Please you take this service, and other service, I may take prasādam. [laughter] That I cannot neglect." And Kṛṣṅa is so kind, any service you do, still you are accepted. Either you take this service or that service, still you are accepted. [end]