Prabhupada, Bombay, September 25, 1973: […] 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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