Morning Walk

Cataka Takes Cloud Water Only Not Ground – Devotee Takes Krsna's Mercy Not Material World

📅 July 6, 1975 📍 Chicago ⏱ 10 min
A devotee accepts only Kṛṣṇa's mercy, never material comfort, like the cātaka bird takes only cloud water.
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Morning Walk — July 6, 1975, Chicago 750706MW-CHICAGO [09:30 Minutes] Walk_750706MW-CHICAGO [in car] Jagadīśa: ...discussed with Satsvarūpa Mahārāja and...

Prabhupāda: Why? Jagadīśa: Because it would greatly facilitate my preaching.

Prabhupāda: You are already preaching. Jagadīśa: But many of the devotees are not so inclined to listen to a householder as to a sannyāsī.

Prabhupāda: [laughs] Neither to the sannyāsīs. [japa] [break] ...this building? Brahmānanda: It's the univers... It's a theo...

Prabhupāda: Not for the students? Jagadīśa: That's what they originally were for.

Prabhupāda: Now? [break] Eucalyptus? No. Sudāmā: No, Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: ...one for the bathroom[?]. [break] Eh? Fifth class. [break] ...fourth class.

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