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Everyone Should Serve Krishna Enthusiastically, ISKCON Temples Displayed Worldwide

📅 March 12, 1976 📍 Mayapur ⏱ 25 min
Everyone should serve Krishna enthusiastically, engaging their natural talents as the residents of Vrindavana do.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: ...clean. That also we sometimes neglect. [break] ...means rūpena jāyate iti prajā. Everything which is born, that is prajā.

Everyone should be engaged. That is supervision. [break] ...are also engaged in serving Kṛṣṇa. They give flower, and they're offering: "Take this flower.

Offer to Kṛṣṇa." This is service, dedicating. This is explained by Kṛṣṇa to Balarāma while going through the Vṛndāvana forest, that "Just see how the trees are welcoming You, how the birds..." You have got that picture? Hrdayananda: Yes. Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is seeing that, how everyone is ready to serve. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa-bhakta also sees how everyone is eager to serve Kṛṣṇa. [break] ...engage them rightly, that is leadership.

Yes. Otherwise, andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ [SB 7.5.31]. As a blind leader is leading other blind men, this whole world is going on like that. They do not know how to properly lead the people.

Misleaders. [break] ...grains, cows, all they should be very properly taken care of and the products offered to Kṛṣṇa. Everyone should be engaged as Kṛṣṇa's servant. That is Vṛndāvana. In Vṛndāvana everyone is engaged how to please Kṛṣṇa.

That is Vṛndāvana. [break] ...business to study Vedānta. In Vṛndāvana life we see they were not interested to know what is Brahman. [chuckles] They were interested how to please Kṛṣṇa, how to see Kṛṣṇa smiling. That is Vṛndāvana.

Huh? Is it not? From Vṛndāvana picture you see they are simply busy to see how Kṛṣṇa is smiling. They didn't care for studying.

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