The dedicated body becomes Krishna's instrument, and sincere service spreads the Lord's movement worldwide.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Indian man (1): As you have said, it comes and goes, somehow attached to the body. Prabhupāda: Today or tomorrow. Best thing is so long we have got this opportunity of human form of life, let us cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is... Indian man (1): I came other day also, and you were advised by the doctors not to see you. Prabhupāda: No—doctor says like that. I see everyone. Indian man (1): So Gopāla Kṛṣṇa told me...
That was the first day with the doctor. You had... Your Worship had accepted that doctor's decision. So it was first day when I came.
So Gopāla Kṛṣṇa told me this is the problem as it is, and I'm not disappointed at all. I am one with Prabhupāda, so there is no difficulty. So I took a chance today. Prabhupāda: So I did not like that idea. Indian man (1): No, but sometimes, Prabhupāda, just to keep... You may not require your body for yourself, but we require your body also for ourselves.
So we always..., all the devotees always pray to our Lord to give you a long physical body and healthy, so that the cause which you have taken up in your hand should be completely fulfilled. And this is the way I feel. Prabhupāda: Yes, I also desire at least let me finish... Indian man (1): I have gone to the Fourth Canto..., Fifth Canto. Prabhupāda: We have finished now Eighth Canto, and Ninth Canto is also at the press. Tenth Canto is already printed, this KṚṢṆA as the summary of Tenth. Now I have to publish in detail. Indian man (1): We have been praying, Prabhupāda, to Lord Kṛṣṇa, that "We want him for a long time.
Till this movement is fully bloomed and blossomed." So for our sake your body has to last. Prabhupāda: After all, it is Kṛṣṇa's body. Indian man (1): Yes. But what I said we pray for not for your sake but for our sake. Prabhupāda: The body is dedicated to Kṛṣṇa. Indian man (1): Yes. And through you we get inspirations. If we go to wrong path, we remember you, we are checked. Prabhupāda: The similar question was Sanātana Gosvāmī.
Sanātana Gosvāmī, after leaving his..., resigning his post, he was living as a mendicant, and there was no bodily comfort. Naturally there was so many eczema, and it is wet eczema. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, as soon as will meet him, immediately embrace him. So he would say, "Don't touch me!
This is not for Your..., touch me. This is the disease..." So Caitanya Mahāprabhu... "I'm touching just to purify Myself." Then he consulted some friends, that "Caitanya Mahāprabhu will not hear me, and He'll touch forcibly. Better I give up this body." He desired to commit suicide.