True Krishna consciousness transcends envy; only genuine spiritual power, not worldly achievement, matters eternally.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk — June 30, 1975, Denver 750630MW-DENVER [29:08 Minutes] Walk_750630MW-DENVER [in car] Prabhupāda: Nārada Muni was cursed, accepted one curse. And Dakṣa-rāja said that "I curse you that you will [not] stay anywhere." So he said, "Yes, that is very good for me." [laughs] He could curse, counter, but he accepted, "Yes, it is a very good curse. I shall not stay anywhere." "You have spoiled my children to become mendicant, go back to home, back to Godhead. They did not enjoy this material world.
You are so heinous," like that. Our students' parents, they are also thinking, "What is this nonsense, no meat-eating, no illicit sex? The enjoyment of life, everything is spoiled. They are becoming sannyāsī." So they are cursing me.
Satsvarūpa: They say we must have been hypnotized to give this up.
Satsvarūpa: You must have hypnotized us to give this up.
Prabhupāda: Dr. Judah, what is that, charmistic? Charmistic or... Brahmānanda: Charismic.
Prabhupāda: Charismatic. Brahmānanda: Charismatic, yes.
Prabhupāda: [laughs] He also said. Yes, they are thinking it is hypnotism. "All young men, their life is for this material enjoyment, and they are giving up everything and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa? What is this?" Brahmānanda: In Māyāpur there is one astrologer, and he...