Prabhupada Speaks to Parents — Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers

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[01:12]: I don’t think we have to worry about your disciples being in the criminal courts now do we.
[01:17]: We don’t have to worry about that. You have fine followers here.
[01:23]: It’s a good community.
[01:26]: Yes.
[01:43]: A magistrate or a lawyer is already graduate.
[01:49]: If there is a lawyer it is to be understood that he has passed his graduate examination.
[01:58]: Similarly if one is Vaisnava it is to be understood that he has already become a brahmana.
[02:06]: Is it clear?
[02:10]: Why we offer you the sacred thread? That means there is brahminical standard.
[02:17]: Unless one is Brahmin he cannot become Vaisnava.
[02:21]: Just like unless one is graduate, he cannot become lawyer.
[02:25]: So as a lawyer means he is already a graduate of the university,
[02:31]: similarly a Vaisnava means he is already a Brahmin.
[02:37]: So therefore the Vaisnavas should have no contamination of passion and ignorance.
[02:45]: They should all be…
[02:47]: Vaisnava means, Bhakti means, bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra shat,
[02:52]: bhakti means realization of God consciousness.
[02:56]: And the symptom of God consciousness is that he is adverse to all material activities.
[03:04]: He has no interest.
[03:07]: It is said that the Vaisnava has no interest in becoming a Brahman, ksatriya, vaisya
[03:14]: or sudra, but that he takes some specific occupation…
[03:17]: That is, he is actually on the topmost position. He has no interest.
[03:27]: But so long he is not so perfect, he has interest.
[03:33]: Therefore that interest should be corroborated or adjusted
[03:44]: according to the brahminical, ksatriya…
[03:55]: Because, in that time, the people were so rotten, that they could not understand what is God.
[04:03]: Therefore he took up that “First of all let them become sinless.
[04:08]: Then one day will come, he will understand what is God.
[04:12]: Lord Christ also said, “Thou shall not kill.”
[04:17]: Because the people at that time were killers.
[04:20]: Otherwise why does he say: “Thou shall not kill.” Why this first commandment?
[04:28]: Because full of killers. Not very good society.
[04:34]: If in a society constantly there is killing, murder, is that very good society?
[04:40]: So therefore he first of all asked not to kill, first of all let them become sinless..
[04:49]: There they will understand what is God.
[04:53]: Here is, Bhagavad-gita confirms it: yesam tv anta-gatam papam.
[04:57]: One who has become completely sinless.
[05:00]: So God consciousness is meant for the person who is sinless.
[05:08]: You cannot become God conscious and at the same time sinful.
[05:14]: That is cheating.
[05:17]: God-conscious person means he has no sin.
[05:22]: He can not be within the jurisdiction of sinful activities.
[05:28]: That is God consciousness.
[05:30]: You can not become God conscious and at the same time sinful.
[05:35]: That is not possible.
[05:37]: So everyone can understand whether I am actually God consciousness or not
[05:47]: by judging his own activities.
[05:50]: There is no need of asking for external certificate.
[05:59]: Whether I am fixed up on these principles:
[06:02]: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication.
[06:10]: If one is sincere he can judge himself whether I am actually on the platform or not.
[06:16]: Just like you are hungry, if you have eaten something then you can feel strength.
[06:28]: Satisfaction. There is no need of external certificate.
[06:32]: Similarly God consciousness means whether you are freed from all sinful activities.
[06:41]: Then you’ll become.
[06:44]: A God conscious person will not be inclined to any sinful activities.