To turn your home into Vaikuntha is not very difficult job

“So we can change our home also into Vaikuntha”

Prabhupada, Bombay, September 25, 1973: […] So how things can be changed into Vaikuntha? That is by chanting the holy name of the Lord. Tatra tisthami narada yatra gayanti mad-bhaktah. So the bhaktas, they are also so powerful that by chanting the holy name of God, they make the supreme all-powerful Lord descend in that place.

Therefore the statement of Bhaktivinoda Thakura that ye dine grhete bhajana dekhi, se dine grhete goloka bhaya… So we can change our home also into Vaikuntha. We can change our home. It is not difficult. Because as Krishna can be all-pervading, Vaikuntha is all-pervading. But we have to simply realize it by the authorized process. Everyone, we can change our home into Vaikuntha.

So there is another statement of Bhaktivinoda Thakura that krsnera samsara kara chadi anacara. To turn your home into Vaikuntha is not very difficult job. Simply you have to adopt the method. Krsnera samsara kara chadi anacara. Anacara means sinful activities. You cannot associate with God if you become sinful.

That is not possible. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita. Yesam tv anta-gatam papam: “One who is completely free from sinful life,” te dvandva-moha- nirmukta bhajante mam drdha-vratah [Bg. 7.28], “He can worship Me.” So therefore our Krishna consciousness movement is that we do not recommend that “You give up your occupation, you become a sannyasi, give up your wife and children.” No. That is not our movement.

Amongst ourself here there are sannyasis, brahmacaris, grhastha, vanaprastha. Everyone is there. Everyone can worship Krishna. There is no such thing that “This class of men, only the brahmana or the sannyasis or brahmacari or Hindus…”

No. Krishna is open for everyone. Mam hi partha vyapasritya ye ’pi syuh papa- yonayah. Even lower born, born in the lower grade family, he is also open. Simply one has to adopt the means.
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  1. Hasti Gopala dasa says:

    Excellent presentation by Srila Prabhupada and joyfully posted by the PrabhupadaNews site. New comers can get a great deal of inspiration from these instructions and connections to Prabhupada Books. Indeed even the seasoned seniors of the society will get inspiration. Every time Srila Prabhupada speaks it is ever fresh. I like that the whole lecture is available for the readers via PrabhupadaBooks.
    Thank you
    Ys Hasti Gopala dasa

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