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they form all their different commissions, send their different

ambassadors, sit and do their negotiations, trying to treat one cause with

another cause, or trying to treat one symptome... But one who has actual

spiritual vision, he knows: these are all external, that the laws of karma

cannot be overcome. There is just no way they can be overcome. They are very

stringent. And the more one continues to commit sinful activities, the more

these sinful reactions will have to come. We can make so many protests against

war, but what will our protests do, if everyone continues in their sinful

activities. Therefore, sadhus, they have spiritual vision, and they are

thinking how to change the cause of the affairs in the world. They don`t absorb

their lives in symptomatic treatment of the problems of life. but a sadhu, he

tries to change the course by introducing the ultimate religious principles.

And he is always thinking how to introduce this to the world, how to give Krsna

consciousness to others, how to stop all this slaughter, stop all this

suffering. What is that motivates a sadhu to behave this way? He cannot

tolerate to see the suffering of living entities. He knows that as long as they

continue with their sinful activities, they will not be able to avoid their

suffering. How to relieve them from their suffering? This is how a sadhu should

actually think. So, that is what Srila Prabhupada is explaining here in this

purport. He is just describing a saintly person. He said, "But who is a saintly

person? A saintly person is one who follows the path of serving the Lord." So,

one who actually follows the path of the Lord, he can establish the path for

others to follow. That is the meaning of `mahajana yena gata sa pantha.`

Because they are following the path, and strictly following, never deviating

from the path of religion, therefore they can establish the true path of

religion for others to follow. So, Svayambhuva Manu is therefore speaking this

way to Dhruva Maharaja. He wanted to change the course of Dhruva Maharaja, to

stop Dhruva Maharaja from this unnecessary killing, and to stop any further

death of the Yaksas. And the instructions given within this chapter were

successfully administered and Dhruva Maharaja followed these instructions

strictly.

Any questions?

Question: From the lecture it is clear that without ISKCON there is no other

force that could stop the degradation. Why are we so little involved in this

and how can we increase, and give people the chance, give them this knowledge?

Why the preaching is decreasing? Many yatras are closing... What are our

chances to do this in time? We must preach, but the preaching is decreasing.

Actually no more than five per cent are directly preaching to people. Why is

this so?

Guru Maharaja: I wonder, where you`ve got such statistics to say that only five

per cent of ISKCON are preaching?

A devotee who asked the question: I speak of Kaunas, not of ISKCON...

Guru Maharaja: Oh, I see... The way I was translated, I thought it was five per

cent of ISKCON. So, you are asking, how to increase the preaching? So,

increasing the preaching means increasing the desire. Without the desire to

preach it is very difficult to increase the preaching. And the way we increase

the desire of others to preach is by giving them the message which must be

preached and by giving them the impetus to go out with that message. Because in

general we see, that it is not necessarily compassion which motivates devotees

to go out and preach. There can be many motivations for preaching. Recognition

Х this can be motivation. Profit, this can also be a motivation for preaching.

There are many motivations that are there within the heart. But if we actually

want to be effective in preaching... because that`s what really inspires us.

One becomes very inspired and motivated when he sees his preaching is

effective. It`s not that we should be motivated for result. We shouldn`t just

simply think that the effectiveness of our preaching is the number of books

that we`ve distributed. Just like recently one person was asking me a question,

saying that, "If the book distribution is the only way to increase love of God,

then how can we increase our book distribution?" So, I tried to explain him,

that yes, certainly, book distribution can help increase love of God. But once

Srila Prabhupad was asked a question by one devotee. He asked Srila Prabhupad,

"What pleases you the most?" And the devotee was holding up a book, and he was

expecting that Prabhupad will ansver, "When you distribute my books". Because

he was a book distributor. And therefore he wanted a reinforcement, some

recognition that he is pleasing Srila Prabhupada the most. And Prabhupad`s

answer was that what pleases me the most is that you love Krsna. So, that was

Prabhupad`s answer very clearly. So, certainly, distributing Srila Prabhupad`s

books is pleasing to Srila Prabhupad. But