All talents should be engaged in Krishna's service through cooperation, not competition.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with Mayor — November 10, 1971, Delhi 711110R1-DELHI [21:49 Minutes] Conv_711110R1-DELHI Prabhupāda: This kīrtana will go on nicely. So only you have got only mṛdaṅga? Why? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think more are coming from Calcutta.
Prabhupāda: Means? [break] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śyāmasundara called me.
Prabhupāda: Oh, that's nice. At least four khols you have to have. Four khols and sixteen men, that is party. Yes.
And one leading singer and one dancer. That makes complete party. Twenty, twenty-two men. So where is Śyāmasundara?
Prabhupāda: He is not here? Huh? Resting? [background discussion among devotees] He went to bed very late last night?
Prabhupāda: Hmm. Lady devotee: He just wanted to finish that [indistinct]. He was trying to finish the Māyāpur thing. Prabhupāda: Oh. Oh, that's all right.Then he may not come.
So you can speak some discussion from our books? You can see, he is very great speaker, Viṣala prabhu. Viṣala: Me? Prabhupāda: Yes. Viṣala: I cannot speak. [laughter] Prabhupāda: Yes. Viṣala: I've been reading the Brahma-saṁhitā, and uh, by His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, and he mentions that to receive the mercy of..., Kṛṣṇa's mercy, one has to be free of all mundane desires, and also he has to receive the grace of God at the same time. So it's all..., it's like the son, he mentions... He doesn't know how wealthy his father is, but by the grace of his father, he says, "My dear son, I have a lot of money and I..., you will be in my will, and you will have this all, and I will give you all these instructions.'' So similarly, by finally, gradually becoming free of all mundane desires and completely being influenced by the cit potency, by the superior cognitive energy of Lord Kṛṣṇa, one will receive the mercy of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.