Room Conversation
Prabhupāda: …kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann…
kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann asti hy eko mahān guṅaḥ [SB 12.3.51]
[My dear King, although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is still one good quality about this age: Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṅa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.]
After describing all the faults of Kali-yuga, Śukadeva Gosvāmī is saying, "My dear King, rājan, this Kali-yuga is full of faults just like the ocean." Kaler doṣa-nidhe. Doṣa-nidhe means this ocean of faults. Doṣa-nidhe.
kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann asti hy eko mahān guṅaḥ
This is very nice verse. What is that?
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṅasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet [SB 12.3.51]
Simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṅa one can become free from all his contamination and go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the special advantage of Kali-yuga. This advantage is not... So if one has taken to this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement, chanting, then he is saved. Not only saved; he goes back to home, back to Godhead. Not only saved, but he is dispatched in another place, where there is no danger. Padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ na teṣām [SB 10.14.58].
[For those who have accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Murāri, the enemy of the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf's hoof-print. Their goal is paraṁ padam, Vaikuṅṭha, the place where there are no material miseries, not the place where there is danger at every step.]
One is transferred to the spiritual world, for them, this nonsense material world, where danger is there in every step, it is not for them. They cannot come. Just like here is epidemic, so a family is transferred to another place. So by this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṅa, Kṛṣṅa will transfer to the safety place, go back to home, back to Godhead. It is so nice. Otherwise, you become victimized. You see?
So it is not a fashion; it is compulsory. If one does not take to this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement, then he is doomed. Now let him consider whether to take to it or not. That is his business. Kṛṣṅa is still giving the opportunity, and He has come personally, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, to distribute. That, Rūpa Gosvāmī understood.
namo mahā-vadānyāya kṛṣṅa-prema-pradāya te kṛṣṅāya kṛṣṅa-caitanya- nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ [Cc Madhya 19.53]
[O most munificent incarnation! You are Kṛṣṅa Himself appearing as Śrī Kṛṣṅa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṅī, and You are widely distributing pure love of Kṛṣṅa. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.]
"Oh, You are so munificent! To save us You have personally come to distribute kṛṣṅa-prema, love of Kṛṣṅa. So I offer You my respectful obeisances." Kṛṣṅa came personally, and He advised,
sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṅaṁ vraja [Bg 18.66]
People did not care. Then Kṛṣṅa came as devotee, Caitanya Mahāprabhu: "You do like this. You take it." So even if we, after hearing so many things [indistinct],
mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ [SB 1.1.10]
[O learned one, in this iron Age of Kali men almost always have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed.]
[indistinct] So anyone who does not take to this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement, he is most unfortunate. Ātma-hā: he is killing himself. Just see. If one kills himself, who can save him? You keep your knife within the pocket, and as soon as there is nobody, you kill yourself, then who can save you? So anyone who is not taking to this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement is killing himself, that’s all. And we are canvassing, "Please take to this. Free yourself." That is our duty as servant of Kṛṣṅa. He may take or not take; it doesn’t matter. It is our duty as Kṛṣṅa’s servant to speak. [pause] [end]