Firm faith that Krishna consciousness perfects all duties is the foundation of eternal peace.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 4.39–42 — January 14, 1969, Los Angeles 690114BG-LOS ANGELES [56:29 Minutes] Bg-04.39–42_690114BG-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [aside:] ....the assembled devotees. Revatīnandana: Chapter Four, verse thirty-nine. [indistinct]
Prabhupāda: Page? Revatīnandana: One hundred and thirty-one. "A faithful man who is absorbed in transcendental knowledge and who subdues his senses quickly attains the supreme spiritual peace." Purport: "Such knowledge in Kṛṣṇa consciousness can be achieved by a faithful person who believes firmly in Kṛṣṇa. One is called a faithful man who thinks that simply by acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness one can attain the highest perfection." Prabhupāda: Yes.
Faith... There are different kinds of faith, but in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the preliminary condition of faith is to believe that simply by serving Kṛṣṇa, everything will be complete. Kṛṣṇe... There is a verse in...
[aside:] It is not working. [taps microphone] In Caitanya-caritāmṛta there is a verse, śraddhā śabde viśvāsa kahe sudṛḍha niścaya kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya [Cc. Madhya 22.62] [“Śraddhā is confident, firm faith that by rendering transcendental loving service to Kṛṣṇa one automatically performs all subsidiary activities. Such faith is favorable to the discharge of devotional service.] There are different kinds of activities—karma, jñāna, yoga, especially.
Everything, all activities, are grouped under three headings. One is karma, fruitive activities. People are working to get some desired result for sense gratification. That is generally.
Everyone is working to get some money, and money means to satisfy my senses, my demands of the senses. This is called karma. Then, out of many millions of such karmīs, or workers, one is jñānī, or a man in knowledge. When a man comes into the platform of knowledge, when he becomes frustrated by working hard and tasting all results of karma, when one is not satisfied, then he comes to the platform of knowledge. Knowledge means inquiry—"What I am?
Why I am frustrated? Why I am confused? What is my position?" That is the platform of knowledge. So out of many thousands of such persons who have attained knowledge actually, who have understood what is the position of these living entities, brahma-bhūtaḥ, they are called liberated. And out of many thousands of such liberated persons, one can understand what is Kṛṣṇa.