Morning Walk

Stages of Sannyasa and Firm Faith, Falldown Means Spiritual Suicide

📅 March 11, 1976 📍 Mayapur ⏱ 31 min
Without firm faith, there is no beginning of Krishna worship; without rules and regulations, the soul remains perpetually wet with maya.
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Prabhupāda: ...at the lotus feet of Nitāi. Nitāi-pāda-kamala, koṭi candra suśītala. Because the shelter is so cool, a thousand times cooler than the moon. Where is that..., Yaśomatīnandana?

He is not here? Yesterday he met Mādhava Mahārāja. So he had some talks. [chuckles] In that talk he mentioned that "Your Guru Mahārāja was previously a businessman, so...

And we are, from our childhood, we are Vaiṣṇava. So therefore he is doing business and getting money." Devotees: Whew. Harikeśa: Kick him on the face. Prabhupāda: [chuckles] No, don't say like that. But the thing is... Business means...

Business means four things. Yes, we are businessman. I was student of economics. I know how to do business, and the business principle means you require four things: land, labor, capital, organization.

So ordinary man cannot do that. Otherwise, everyone would have done some business and become millionaires. But it requires these four things: land, labor, organization and capital. So where you have got these?

You have neither land, neither capital, neither place. So how you can do business? I am doing business because I have got all these things. I went to America—land.

Then I worked—labor. Then I earned some capital, and I have got brain how to do it. [to Lokanātha:] Hare Kṛṣṇa. So why you are becoming paramahaṁsa?

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