Persistent preaching of practical spiritual solutions overcomes all worldly obstacles through Krishna's divine arrangement.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: They are seeking after comfort, but on the contrary, they have to work like an ass. Śatadhanya: To work hard. Prabhupāda: Eh? Śatadhanya: They have to work hard. Prabhupāda: Like an ass. Have you not seen the ass? Can anyone work like that? The animal is so small, and the load is ten times than his body's weight.
You have not seen? If you weighed the animal's body and the load, the load is ten times more than his body. This is the punishment. And again, the man who is loading him now, he'll have to become an ass and take the load.
This is called karma-bandhana. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He writes, "Many days... After working for more than one day at several universities, my presence became too obvious, and this becomes politically and legally dangerous, although in some little cities I became practically the talk of the town because people had not seen one with a dark body as mine, speaking only English and a little French." He's very dark. So as I... [break] He said that "Most important at this school was that after four days of trying to meet the Indologist, we were successful.
I met the man and his assistant. They kept stressing that they were..." [break] Prabhupāda: If required, you can show this line to Mr. Kapoor. In foreign countries they are no more interested in philosophical speculation.
Actually they are not, neither in America nor India. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Prabhupāda: Hmm? Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Right, Śrīla Prabhupāda. "Lord Caitanya did not let them escape, so He..." Prabhupāda: Our books are sold not for philosophical speculation but practical solution of the problems. The philosophical classes are now being closed everywhere. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, that's a fact. Prabhupāda: The professors are starving. No students are interested in philosophy.
Rather, they take admission in technological classes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Or even in meditation classes. They want some practical realization. Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Should I go on reading, Śrīla Prabhupāda? Prabhupāda: Hmm. Hmm. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Seeing that the...
Lord Caitanya did not let them escape so easily. Seeing that the books would be very interesting, he requested both standing orders and several small books. Before leaving the city, I went to two international book shops. One bookshop bought several books, and the other shop, an enterprise, wanted to translate two of your books into the Yugoslavian language." Prabhupāda: Eh?