For a long moment Isvaracandra said nothing. He seemed to have no real reason. Finally, he said that he wanted to take care of his family.
Prabhupada continued to pierce through his consciousness. "So how you can take care with nothing? Krsna makes you nothing, then how you can take care of your family? These things I have explained. That we have got so many means against struggle for existence, but that is not final. Tavat tanu-bhrtam tvad-upeksitanam. If there is no sanction from Krsna, you cannot do it; it is impossible. If Krsna does not like you to be implicated in that way, that is false, then how can you do it? You are thinking that I shall take care of my family. But if Krsna wants that you cannot take care of your family then how you'll do it? Can you go against the will of Krsna? You can understand at least this, if not very much advanced. You cannot go against the will of Krsna. So you have tried for the last one and a half years, you could not improve your material situation. That means you are going against the will of Krsna. Take it from me."
He asked Isvaracandra how many children he had. When he said that he had four, Prabhupada added further weight to his argument. "Everything is discussed in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Krpana, brahmana, krpana trpyanti neha. He knows that one bacca [baby] has given me so much trouble. Illicit or legal, it is troublesome business. Otherwise why these Americans and Europeans, they're killing their own child? They don't want to take the botheration. So it is botheration, there is no doubt about it. The Bhagavata says trpyanti neha krpanah. What is the meaning of krpana? Do you know? Miser. Miser, what is the meaning of miser? Yes. We have got this something, human form of body, to develop Krsna consciousness. Instead of doing that, in spite of possessing this something, I am utilizing it for sense gratification. If you want sense gratification, that's all right. Get one child, two child. Why again and again? Therefore sastra says trpyanti neha krpanah. Because he's krpana, he's never satisfied. He's suffering -- again, another child, again, another child. All right, you have got two child, one child, that's all right. Be satisfied. Why again and again? The krpana, he does not know how to utilize this asset of human life. He's wasting the asset in a different way. One has to become brahmana. The opposite word of krpana is brahmana. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma. That is wanted. So we are giving brahmana's position. Instead of taking the brahmana position, if he wants to take again krpana position, then what is the use of being initiated? All these great sages, saintly person, who were they? They were all brahmanas. Sukadeva Gosvami is always addressed, 'Brahmana.' Is it not? This is brahmana's business; it is not the krpana's business. Krpana's business means he does not know how to utilize the asset."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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