Prabhupada, London, September 12, 1973: […] Just like you’ll find in another verse Krishna says, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati. Yo me bhaktya prayacchati: “Anyone who offers Me in love and faith a little flower, a little water, a little fruit”, patram puspam phalam toyam.. Patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati.
This is the real point. Krishna, the Supreme Person who is giving all the necessities of all the living entities.. He is actually the provider, maintainer of everyone. So why He is asking a little fruit, flower and water from you? Is He hungry? No. Yo me bhaktya prayacchati. Just to induce you again to love Krishna. That is the point.
Because your, this material condition is bhutva bhutva praliyate, subjected to birth, death, old age, disease, and so many other material conditions. You have fallen in this condition because you have forgotten Krishna. Just like last night so many people came to discuss with us, but they are not interested in talking of Krishna.
They are interested how their sense gratification will be disturbed by starting this temple. That is their concern. Here we have come to preach about Krishna. They did not ask anything about Krishna, “What is this philosophy? What is this Krishna’s philosophy?” No. They are simply interested in their own sense gratification. That’s all. How their sense gratification will be disturbed—they are concerned in that way. This is the position of the material world.
Everyone is simply interested in sense gratification. That’s all. There is no question of asking “What is God? What I am? What is this world?” Actually, these should be the questions of human life. Athato brahma jijnasa. They should be engaged always in inquiring about the Supreme Being, the Absolute Truth. That is their only business. But you see the whole world. They are simply busy how to satisfy their senses. This is the cause of fall down.
krsna-bahirmukha hana bhoga vancha kare nikata-stha maya tare japatiya dhare
There are many quotations. Because we have forgotten Krishna, therefore we are now under the clutches of maya.
So we have forgotten Krishna, we are suffering, but because we are part and parcel of Krishna, Krishna comes to canvass that “Why you are suffering? You just surrender unto Me. I’ll give you all protection.” No, they’ll not take. They’ll not take. Therefore, when one is trained up to, how to surrender to Krishna, that is called devotional service, practice, practicing.
And when, actually, one is very sincere to serve Krishna… Krishna is within everyone’s heart. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati [Bg. 18.61]. So He can understand whether you are sincerely serving or with some motive you are serving. Even with a motive you serve Krishna, it will never go in vain. Krishnais so kind. Full Lecture
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