Room Conversation

Room Conversation in Hong Kong

📅 April 20, 1972 📍 Hong Kong ⏱ 41 min
All distinctions dissolve when we see each being as an eternal soul in service to Krishna.
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Room Conversation — April 20, 1972, Hong Kong 720420R1-HONG KONG [40:55 Minutes] Conv_720420R1-HONG KONG Prabhupāda: [indistinct] ...Bangladesh. That is His vision. rādhā-kṛṣṇa bol bol bolo re sobāi, [ei] śikhā diyā, sab nadīyā, phirche nece gaura-nitāi ["Everyone chant, chant, chant 'Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa'!" Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda are dancing all over the land of Nadia giving this teaching to all. O brother, needlessly under the control of māyā you suffer and are carried away by her waves, sometimes floating and sometimes sinking in this ocean of illusion.] Gaura-Nitāi, these two brothers, Gaura and Nitāi. There are Pañca-tattva: Śrī Caitanya, Nityānanda, Śrī Advaita, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa, five tattvas.

So rādhā kṛṣṇa bol bol, bolo re sobāi, ei śikhā diyā: "This is the teaching of Lord Caitanya." And he says, jay sakal bipod. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, the composer of this song, he says that "You get out of all kinds of dangers," jay sakal bipod, gāi bhaktivinod, jakhon o nām gāi, "if you simply take to chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra." And at last he says, rādhā kṛṣṇa bolo sañge calo: " 'Please cooperate with Me,' " Lord Caitanya says, " 'and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.' "Ei mātra bhikhā: "I am asking all this. I am begging." So our mission is like that. The same thing. We are asking people, without any argument or political purpose or social or...

No. Simply we are asking that "You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." That's all. Wherever we are opening our branches, it is our only business that we are requesting people to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa or Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. We don't want anything.

We don't want to do any business, but we are simply spreading this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra because people are being washed away. Māyār bośe, jāccho bhese. They are being washed away, khāccho hābu, always in trouble. Khāccho hābuḍubu bhāi(1). Jīv kṛṣṇa dās e biśwās korle to'ār duḥkho nāi: "But if you try to understand that your position is eternal servitude to Kṛṣṇa, then your all troubles are over." This is our mission.

So wherever we are preaching this instruction of Lord Caitanya, people are accepting. I saw one nice article published in some paper here? Bhūrijana: Bharatratna. The name of the paper is Bharatratna. Prabhupāda: Not the Bharatratna. Another daily paper. Bhūrijana: South China Morning Paper. Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.

So the article is nice. So one thing is that we are simply interested for a temporary object, but we are eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20]. We do not die; we simply change bodies. Just like these children, they are changing bodies from babyhood to childhood, from childhood to youthhood, the changing bodies.

The final change is called death. That means, final change means giving up this body, we accept again another babyhood body, again begin. This is going on. And this is called māyār bośe, jāccho bhese. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ [Bg. 3.27].

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