"Krsna's mission is very clearly defined. It is there, everything is declared there in the Bhagavad-gita. We can do it very nicely. But if you want to do any other mission, then you can do. You are government, you are in power, you can do that. But that will not be pleasing to Krsna. He has got a mission. That is stated. Dharmasya glanir bhavati. So any dharma, so-called dharma, which does not awaken their Krsna consciousness is glanih. Krsna does not want that. If you're against the will of Krsna, against the mission of Krsna, if you want to do something, you can do. People are doing so many things. That is also mentioned by Krsna."
He had Harikesa read out several verses from Bhagavad-gita about the fate of those who adopt the asuric path of opposition to Krsna. He added another relevant point, "So this is my request, that our money ... there is nothing 'our money.' Everything Krsna's. But we are thinking, because we are asuric. Just like Kamsa, Hiranyakasipu; Ravana -- 'Ha! What is Rama?' That is asura's ... They think like that, and that is asuric. But otherwise isavasyam idam sarvam -- everything belongs to Krsna. Therefore yajna is advised. The sooner you hand over Krsna's property to Krsna, it is good for you."
Mr. Raju said that they were karma-yogis. "We start the day with surrendering to God and asking Him to show us the way. Beyond that, I don't know what our duty..."
Srila Prabhupada was again single-pointed and focused. He told them that their business was to bring people to the point of satatam kirtayanto mam. "As we are doing. We are always chanting Hare Krsna. But if you manufacture in your own way, that you can do -- yah sastra-vidhim utsrjya vartate kama-karatah na sa siddhim avapnoti -- that will never be successful. If you have to execute the mission of Krsna, you have to take instruction of Krsna and do it rigidly, then you'll be successful. Krsna's mission is that one must know Krsna and surrender to Him, this is mission. Krsna does not say that by karma-yoga one can understand Him. Krsna says bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah. You cannot say, "We are karma-yogis."
Prabhupada said that karma-yoga was third class. It was karma mixed with a little bhakti. Jnana-yoga was a similar adulteration. Real bhakti was completely free from any influence of karma or jnana. The point of pure bhakti was Krsna's mission. "Except krsna-bhakti, everything is glanih," he told them. So their business was to awaken that bhakti, and it could be done by hearing from a pure source. Quoting Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.17-19, he said this was the formula. But if they didn't follow the sastra-viddhi, then despite a big show, they could not be successful.
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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