Subtitles for Airport Conversation
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- The definition of sannyasi is given in Bhagavad-gita.
- [07:55]
- Karmi, karmi means he works and he wants to enjoy the fruit.
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- That is karmi.
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- But Bhagavan Sri Krsihna says: anasritah karma-phalam karyam.
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- One who does not take the result of karma.
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- Suppose you are a businessman so you are working very hard
- [08:23]
- earning fifty thousand dollars. If you don’t take that then you are sannyasi.
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- Anasritah karma-phalam karyam. It is my duty.
- [08:37]
- So if he does not take the result of karma, who will take?
- [08:44]
- Krishna says: kurusva mad-arpanam, give it to Me.
- [09:01]
- This is life. Do you think…
- [09:08]
- To give up the karma phal, result of your work, to Krishna, that is real life,
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- that is real renunciation
- [09:20]
- So try to understand in that way…
- [09:51]
- …just like we are traveling for thousands and thousands of dollars…
- [09:56]
- Why shall I neglect it? ; [09:58]
- [10:01]
- If I did not have money for airplane how could I come to your country?
- [10:08]
- So money is required, money is not bad.
- [10:12]
- Money, if it is spent for Krishna, then it is Laksmi.
- [10:22]
- Laksmi’s business is to be engaged in Krishna’s service.
- [10:28]
- So all the money in the world, they should engage for Krishna’s service.
- [10:35]
- Krishna says yat karosi, “Never mind what you are doing, you give it to Me.”
- [10:42]
- Is it not? Bhagavad-gita. You have read it?
- [10:46]
- So give to Krishna and Krishna wants money for paying the airplane fare.
- [11:01]
- We are going daily from New York to London, London to here.
- [11:07]
- So we are spending thousands and thousands of dollars. So who will pay?
- [11:13]
- Krishna will pay. We are servant of Krishna.
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- This is our goswami’s instruction.
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- Everything has relation with Krishna.
- [11:37]
- So if it is Krishna’s money why should we refuse it as material?
- [11:46]
- Anything dovetailed with Krishna is spiritual, not material.
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- [12:10]
- Phalgu means “false renunciation.”
- [12:16]
- Just like Mayavadis, they think, “No, no, I shall not touch it.” Why not?
- [12:28]
- Money is Laksmi, why should you not touch it? But to engage in Krishna’s service.
- [12:34]
- One who has no idea of Krishna, he cannot spend for Krishna. He should not touch.
- [12:41]
- That is good, because he will misuse. He should not touch it.
- [12:48]
- But one who knows how to spend money for Krishna, why he should not touch it?
- [12:56]
- [13:06]
- So New York temple is very nice, going on. Don’t be disturbed by outward elements.
- [13:14]
- Fix up your understanding then maya will not be able to touch you.
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- Because of this flourishing condition so many religious persons want to destroy this movement.
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- [13:46]
- The whole world is envious. Material world means envious.
- [13:55]
- So we have got so many enemies. Krishna is always protecting us.
- [14:09]
- Otherwise so many counteracting things are going on, especially in India.
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- Caitanya Mahaprabhu also says… Krishna had to kill so many demons from the beginning.
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- So there are many demons but we have no strength to kill them,
- [14:45]
- but Krishna will kill them. We cannot kill them.
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- Prahlada Maharaja could not kill Hiranyakasipu, but Krishna killed him.
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- Anyone who is impediment to the movement, he will be killed.
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- We must be also steady, very learned, convinced… Then it will be all right.
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- We should never deviate from the parampara.
- [15:40]
- [15:44]
- So by chanting Hare Krishna you can keep yourself on the standard.
- [15:50]
- Thinking of Krishna, man-manah. To become devotee of Krishna,
- [15:56]
- man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji
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- Worshipping Krishna very nicely. Mam namaskuru, and offering obeisances…
- [16:07]
- Simply chant Hare Krishna and this includes hearing Bhagavad-gita,
- [16:16]
- Srimad-Bhagavatam, Deity worship. You strictly follow these things, no maya.
- [16:23]
- And if you deviate then maya is very strong. Immediately capture.
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- [16:48]
- Did we get the permit to build the temple in Bombay now?
- [16:56]
- It can not be checked by any material impediment.
- [17:02]
- Checking is for material things, not for spiritual.
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- [17:54]
- Don’t disagree with your wife. Since you have married you have…
- [18:04]
- [18:12]
- It is fortunate you have good wife. You are also fortunate you have got son.
- [18:22]
- If one is fortunate to get nice husband, nice son…
- [18:33]
- [19:18]
- They have women’s liberation movement in America. They call it women lib.
- [19:24]
- So they want equal opportunity for women.
- [19:28]
- Who will give birth to the child? Where is that liberation?
- [19:35]
- Can the women transfer to the man to give birth to the child?
- [19:41]
- They are trying!
- [19:46]
- [19:50]
- Where is the liberty? The women has to carry the child for ten months. Natures way.
- [19:59]
- To go against nature. That is not sense.
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- [20:11]
- God has made women and man and they have got respective duties.
- [20:18]
- What women can do, man cannot do. What man can do women can not do.
- [20:23]
- How they can be equated? That is not possible.
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- [20:32]
- Everyone should do his own duty.
- [20:38]
- [20:41]
- It is my duty.
- [20:46]
- [20:48]
- Husband should give all comforts to the wife.
- [20:51]
- She may not be uncomfortable in any way. They want silk cloth, little ornaments…
- [21:01]
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- Husband must give to keep the women happy.
- [21:11]
- [21:14]
- In India you will find the poor men, they will get lead bangles,
- [21:28]
- they cannot provide silver or gold, but bangle must be there.
- [21:36]
- If not lead then glass.
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- [21:56]
- Krishna has got two: to kill the demons and to benedict the devotees…
- [22:07]
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