{"id":45911,"date":"2023-04-27T02:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T06:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=45911"},"modified":"2023-04-27T04:04:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T08:04:20","slug":"in-kali-yuga-you-cannot-strictly-follow-neither-i-can-strictly-follow-from-srila-prabhupada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/in-kali-yuga-you-cannot-strictly-follow-neither-i-can-strictly-follow-from-srila-prabhupada\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kali-yuga, you cannot strictly follow, neither I can strictly follow, from Srila Prabhupada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Srila Prabhupada: In Kali-yuga, you cannot strictly follow, neither I can strictly follow. If I criticize you, if you criticize me, then we go far away from our real life of Krsna consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nMorning Walk \u2013 March 10, 1976, Mayapur:<\/span>
\nBh\u0101gavata: About attraction and aversion\u2026 There\u2019s\u2026<\/span>
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Hm? Attraction?<\/span><\/p>\n

Bh\u0101gavata: \u2026a point about attraction and aversion, that there\u2019s a complaint that sometimes there\u2019s too much aversion on the part of the brahmac\u0101r\u012bs. But isn\u2019t that not a quality, to a point a brahmac\u0101r\u012b should have a healthy contempt for sense gratification?<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: I do not follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pu\u1e63\u1e6da K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a: He\u2019s saying that sometimes the brahmac\u0101r\u012bs, even the sanny\u0101s\u012bs, they may have a very strong aversion towards association with women and\/or householder life, things of this nature. And sometimes the g\u1e5bhasthas will criticize the sanny\u0101s\u012bs and brahmac\u0101r\u012bs that \u201cThis is fanaticism,\u201d or it\u2019s, to the other end, \u201cIt\u2019s just as bad as the enjoying spirit, because you\u2019re meditating on the same thing, but only you\u2019re averse to it.\u201d So what is the\u2026? Bh\u0101gavata d\u0101sa\u2019s question is \u201cWhat is the condition?\u201d Is it better to be neutral or to be averse?<\/span><\/p>\n

Tam\u0101la K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a: Neutral.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: These are all fanaticism. Real unity is in advancing K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. Kalau n\u0101sty eva n\u0101sty eva\u2026 In Kali-yuga, you cannot strictly follow, neither I can strictly follow. If I criticize you, if you criticize me, then we go far away from our real life of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pu\u1e63\u1e6da K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a: So is it correct to say that if we\u2019re not K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a conscious, then if it\u2019s not the g\u1e5bhastha problem, it would be some other problem?<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: Yes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pu\u1e63\u1e6da K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a: We\u2019ll find something or another to absorb our time with besides K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: No, you should always remember that either g\u1e5bhastha or brahmac\u0101r\u012b or sanny\u0101s\u012b, nobody can strictly follow all the rules and regulations of them. In the Kali-yuga it is not possible. So if I find simply fault with you, and if you find fault with me, then it will be factional, and our real business will be hampered. Therefore Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu has recommended that hari-n\u0101ma, chanting Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra, should be very rigidly performed, which is common for everyone: g\u1e5bhastha, v\u0101naprastha or sanny\u0101s\u012b. They should always chant Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra. Then everything will be adjusted. Otherwise it is impossible to advance. We shall be complicated with the details only. This is called niyam\u0101graha\u1e25. I think I have explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

Madhudvi\u1e63a: In the Nectar of Instruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: Niyamagraha\u1e25 is not good. Niyama means regulative principles. And niyama-\u0101graha\u1e25 is niyam\u0101graha\u1e25. \u0100graha\u1e25 means not to accept. And niyama-\u0101graha. \u0100graha means only eager to follow the regulative principles, but no advancement spiritually. Both of them are called niyam\u0101graha\u1e25. So the basic principle is that niyam\u0101graha\u1e25 is not recommended. The real business is that\u2026. And if we advance in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, simple method, chanting twenty-four hours, k\u012brtan\u012bya\u1e25 sad\u0101 hari\u1e25 (CC Adi 17.31), then things will be automatically adjusted. You cannot find in Kali-yuga everything is being done very correctly, to the point. That is very difficult. Just like our poet, Allen Ginsberg. He was always accusing me, \u201cSwamij\u012b, you are very conservative and strict.\u201d Actually, I told him that \u201cI am never strict, neither I am conservative. If I become conservative, then I cannot live here for a moment. So I\u2019m not at all conservative.\u201d (laughter) I was cooking, and I saw in the, what is called, refrigerator of Yeargen, Yeargon? What is his\u2026?<\/span><\/p>\n

Tam\u0101la K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a: Yeah. (sic:) Jergen. That boy you were staying with.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: Ah, ah! I saw he kept some pieces of meat for his cat. So still, I kept my things in that refrigerator. What can be done? I had no place at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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