Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The installing of telex communications for our main temples is not required. Then they will gossip more through the telex. (Letter to Gurudasa, 5 February 1977.)
Never waste your time in any other talks. I think our students have already developed this attitude and they are not interested in idle talks. Ambarish Maharaja set a nice example by engaging his mind always on the lotus feet of Krishna and talking always about him. We should follow the same example." (Letter to Upendra, 4 July 1968.)
Another impediment is prajalpa, unnecessary talking. When we mix with a few friends, we immediately begin unnecessary talking, sounding just like croaking toads. If we must talk, we should talk about the Krishna consciousness movement. Those outside of the Krishna consciousness movement are interested in reading heaps of newspapers, magazines, and novels, solving crossword puzzles and doing many other nonsensical things. In this fashion people simply waste their valuable time and energy. In the Western countries old men, retired from active life, play cards, fish, watch television and debate about useless socio-political schemes. All these and other frivolous activities are included in the prajalpacategory. Intelligent persons interested in Krishna consciousness should never take part in such activities. (From the purport to verse 2 of Nectar of Instruction.)
The next impediment to devotional service is prajalpa, talking of mundane subject matters. Many people unnecessarily talk of the daily happenings in the newspapers and pass the time without any profit. A devotee, however, does not indulge in unnecessary talks of politics or economics. (From the purport to text 5 of Narada-bhakti-sutras.)
Prajalpa means talking all nonsense. Some speak about politics, "What did Mr. Nixon do yesterday? What did he say?" What interest do we have in Mr. Nixon? We should not waste our time talking about politics, sociology, and cinema affairs. We have nothing to do with that. That is called prajalpa, unnecessary talking. Talking means decreasing your duration of life. Why should you decrease your life unnecessarily? You have to utilize every moment, thinking, "Was it used for Krishna?" This is sadhana, practice. Unnecessary talking creates unnecessary enemies, "You are my subordinate; I am your master." Who is master? Everyone is subordinate to Krishna. No one is master. Why do you talk unnecessarily? (Lecture on 3 January 1974.)
Unnecessary talking all nonsense — politics, rascaldom, speculation, this and that. No. Be grave. Don't talk nonsense and waste time. (Arrival address in New Zealand, 27 April 1976.)
Your suggestion that the devotees visiting Vrindavan engage in preaching and chanting and not in gossiping is very good. We have sacrificed our life for Krishna's service, so where is there scope for sleeping and gossiping? You can see in my example that not a single moment is wasted. (Letter to Gurudas, 5 February 1977.)
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