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	'''Woman:''' I'm from California.		'''Woman:''' I'm from California.

	Woman (2): I am Narmadā's sister.		'''Woman (2):''' I am Narmadā's sister.

	'''Bhagavān:''' Oh, Narmadā's sister. It is Haihaya's wife's sister.		'''Bhagavān:''' Oh, Narmadā's sister. It is Haihaya's wife's sister.

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	'''Prabhupāda:''' And Jyotirmayī?		'''Prabhupāda:''' And Jyotirmayī?

	'''Bhagavān:''' She is doing the distribution of ''Bhagavad-gītās'' in stores, and she is meeting important people, getting . . . whatever articles are written about us, she is answering the articles in the paper. Nice service. This Europe is a very good field for making devotees.		'''Bhagavān:''' She is doing the distribution of ''Bhagavad-gītās'' in stores, and she is meeting important people, getting . . . whatever articles are written about us, she is answering the articles in the paper. Nice service. This Europe is a very good field for making devotees.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Oh, yes.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Oh, yes.
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	'''Devotee (1):''' Yeah, they all speak French. (break)		'''Devotee (1):''' Yeah, they all speak French. (break)

	'''Bhagavān:''' . . . that all over the world there are actually devotees of Kṛṣṇa and that they are just waiting for the ''saṅkīrtana'' parties to pick them up.		'''Bhagavān:''' . . . that all over the world there are actually devotees of Kṛṣṇa and that they are just waiting for the ''saṅkīrtana'' parties to pick them up.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. (laughs) ''Nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Kṛṣṇa-bhakti'' is there in everywhere.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. (laughs) ''Nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Kṛṣṇa-bhakti'' is there in everywhere.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' Everything is flying. All these planets, they are flying.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Everything is flying. All these planets, they are flying.

	'''Devotee (3):''' Sometimes they are zigzagging very fast across the sky . . . (indistinct)		'''Devotee (3):''' Sometimes they are zigzagging very fast across the sky . . . (indistinct)

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Maybe there is. Why not?		'''Prabhupāda:''' Maybe there is. Why not?
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' You can read this verse, ''kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānam''.		'''Prabhupāda:''' You can read this verse, ''kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānam''.

	'''Yogeśvara:''' Thirteenth chapter? ''Kṣetra'' . . .		'''Yogeśvara:''' Thirteenth chapter? ''Kṣetra'' . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' (''japa'') Go ahead, ''jñānam''.		'''Prabhupāda:''' (''japa'') Go ahead, ''jñānam''.
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	'''Yogeśvara:''' (reads purport in French)		'''Yogeśvara:''' (reads purport in French)

	'''Prabhupāda:''' So the God, He is also with me always as friend. So one . . . it is said in the ''Upaniṣad'', there are two birds in one tree. The two birds means I, individual soul, and God, the Supreme Soul. The individual soul is limited within this body, and God is everywhere: in every body, in every atomic particle, everywhere. Because I am individual soul, I can understand my bodily pains and pleasure. But I cannot understand your bodily pains and pleasure. But God, being all-pervading, He can understand my pains and pleasure, He can understand your pains and pleasure, He can understand cats' and dogs' pains and . . . everyone. This is the difference between me and God. Sometimes they mistake. Because God is also within this body, I am also within this body, therefore they think that there is no other individual soul than God; therefore I am God. So if I am God, then you are also God. And if there is more than one God, there is not God. God is one. There cannot be two. So if I think I am God, then everyone is also God—so God becomes plural, so there is not God. God is one. Therefore God is great, we are small. In quality we are one. Just like the president and the citizen, as man they are one, but in power, the citizen and the president, they are different. So these things can be understood if one is sober and very great thinker: they can understand that, "God is situated with me. He can help me also." That is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'':		'''Prabhupāda:''' So the God, He is also with me always as friend. So one . . . it is said in the ''Upaniṣad'', there are two birds in one tree. The two birds means I, individual soul, and God, the Supreme Soul. The individual soul is limited within this body, and God is everywhere: in every body, in every atomic particle, everywhere. Because I am individual soul, I can understand my bodily pains and pleasure. But I cannot understand your bodily pains and pleasure. But God, being all-pervading, He can understand my pains and pleasure, He can understand your pains and pleasure, He can understand cats' and dogs' pains and . . . everyone. This is the difference between me and God. Sometimes they mistake. Because God is also within this body, I am also within this body, therefore they think that there is no other individual soul than God; therefore I am God. So if I am God, then you are also God. And if there is more than one God, there is not God. God is one. There cannot be two. So if I think I am God, then everyone is also God—so God becomes plural, so there is not God. God is one. Therefore God is great, we are small. In quality we are one. Just like the president and the citizen, as man they are one, but in power, the citizen and the president, they are different. So these things can be understood if one is sober and very great thinker: they can understand that, "God is situated with me. He can help me also." That is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'':

	:''teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ''		:''teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ''
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	(reads French translation) So here in this verse that Śrīla Prabhupāda quotes, Kṛṣṇa says: "Knowing Me to be the ultimate goal of all sacrifices and all austerities, the Lord of all planets and of all demigods, the friend and well-wisher of all living beings, the sage finds relief from all material miseries."		(reads French translation) So here in this verse that Śrīla Prabhupāda quotes, Kṛṣṇa says: "Knowing Me to be the ultimate goal of all sacrifices and all austerities, the Lord of all planets and of all demigods, the friend and well-wisher of all living beings, the sage finds relief from all material miseries."

	'''Prabhupāda:''' So long I think that I am the friend or father of my children, I will have to give . . . help them, so I am thinking falsely responsible. Actually I cannot do anything. Therefore, the so-called responsibility is ''māyā''. My real responsibility is how to realize God. That is my real. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says openly,'' sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam''. (aside) Find out.		'''Prabhupāda:''' So long I think that I am the friend or father of my children, I will have to give . . . help them, so I am thinking falsely responsible. Actually I cannot do anything. Therefore, the so-called responsibility is ''māyā''. My real responsibility is how to realize God. That is my real. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says openly,'' sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam''. (aside) Find out.

	'''Yogeśvara:'''		'''Yogeśvara:'''
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' That is false. That I am saying. This is false responsibility. Actually you cannot become responsible. You have no power. Everyone is under the laws of nature. Just like some birds flying in the sky—the father, mother and children. But nobody is responsible for anyone. When there is danger in the sky, you cannot give protection. Suppose one bird is hit, he is falling. The father, mother and others, they cannot give any protection. He has to become responsible for himself. Just like the aeroplane. When the one plane is in danger, no other plane come and help it. Even if you see that the other plane is flying just a few yards, and if it is in fire, you cannot help. There is one nice story that one hunter was hunting birds, and he spread his network. So when the children of the parent birds, they become victimized by the network, so when the parents came, they saw, "Oh, my children have been caught up by the net of the hunter." So mother became very overwhelmed. She went to rescue them and she also become victimized. Then the father was intelligent, he saw that, "My children, my wife, they all have been victimized, and if I foolishly go to save them, then I will be also victimized. Let me go this way. Take ''sannyāsa'' and go." No responsibility. It is not possible when everyone is captured by the laws of nature. How you can help, and what is your responsibility?		'''Prabhupāda:''' That is false. That I am saying. This is false responsibility. Actually you cannot become responsible. You have no power. Everyone is under the laws of nature. Just like some birds flying in the sky—the father, mother and children. But nobody is responsible for anyone. When there is danger in the sky, you cannot give protection. Suppose one bird is hit, he is falling. The father, mother and others, they cannot give any protection. He has to become responsible for himself. Just like the aeroplane. When the one plane is in danger, no other plane come and help it. Even if you see that the other plane is flying just a few yards, and if it is in fire, you cannot help. There is one nice story that one hunter was hunting birds, and he spread his network. So when the children of the parent birds, they become victimized by the network, so when the parents came, they saw, "Oh, my children have been caught up by the net of the hunter." So mother became very overwhelmed. She went to rescue them and she also become victimized. Then the father was intelligent, he saw that, "My children, my wife, they all have been victimized, and if I foolishly go to save them, then I will be also victimized. Let me go this way. Take ''sannyāsa'' and go." No responsibility. It is not possible when everyone is captured by the laws of nature. How you can help, and what is your responsibility?

	So this is called ''māyā''. The children are thinking that, "My father and mother will give me protection," and the father and mother is thinking that, "There is my responsibility." This is called ''māyā''. With this false responsibility, they are packed up in a home. But when death comes, nobody can help. Nobody. This is happening every day, every moment, and still we are falsely thinking, "I am responsible." So what is the value of your responsibility? If you cannot give protection, then what is the value of your responsibility? There is no responsibility. The only responsibility is that I have got this human form of life. Even in this life I do not realize God, then I remain cats and dogs, that's all. This is the only responsibility. If you miss this opportunity, then I do not know what I am going to become in my next life. So gaining or losing this opportunity, that is my responsibility. If I am not responsible . . .		So this is called ''māyā''. The children are thinking that, "My father and mother will give me protection," and the father and mother is thinking that, "There is my responsibility." This is called ''māyā''. With this false responsibility, they are packed up in a home. But when death comes, nobody can help. Nobody. This is happening every day, every moment, and still we are falsely thinking, "I am responsible." So what is the value of your responsibility? If you cannot give protection, then what is the value of your responsibility? There is no responsibility. The only responsibility is that I have got this human form of life. Even in this life I do not realize God, then I remain cats and dogs, that's all. This is the only responsibility. If you miss this opportunity, then I do not know what I am going to become in my next life. So gaining or losing this opportunity, that is my responsibility. If I am not responsible . . .

	(break) . . . but if the head—king or president—excuses him, he can save. So nobody in this material world can transcend or overcome the laws of material nature. But if one is devotee, by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, he can. This is the sum and substance. Therefore we have no responsibility. If we have touched fire, then it must burn. So whatever we may be, very big man, we cannot violate the laws of nature. Tit for tat we accept. So those who are violating laws of material nature, they suffer continuously. But when he takes to Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet shelter, sincerely surrendering, then he can be saved. Otherwise not. So everyone should become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and he should try to save his relatives, friends, husband, wife, children from these clutches of laws of material nature by educating him to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the only responsibility. That is intelligence. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, ''na ca tasmāt manuṣyeṣu kaścit me priya-kṛttamaḥ. Ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ mad-bhakteṣu abhidhāsyati'' ([[BG 18.68 (1972)\|BG 18.68]]). ''Na ca tasmāt manuṣyeṣu'', find out.		(break) . . . but if the head—king or president—excuses him, he can save. So nobody in this material world can transcend or overcome the laws of material nature. But if one is devotee, by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, he can. This is the sum and substance. Therefore we have no responsibility. If we have touched fire, then it must burn. So whatever we may be, very big man, we cannot violate the laws of nature. Tit for tat we accept. So those who are violating laws of material nature, they suffer continuously. But when he takes to Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet shelter, sincerely surrendering, then he can be saved. Otherwise not. So everyone should become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and he should try to save his relatives, friends, husband, wife, children from these clutches of laws of material nature by educating him to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the only responsibility. That is intelligence. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, ''na ca tasmāt manuṣyeṣu kaścit me priya-kṛttamaḥ. Ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ mad-bhakteṣu abhidhāsyati'' ([[BG 18.68 (1972)\|BG 18.68]]). ''Na ca tasmāt manuṣyeṣu'', find out.

	'''Yogeśvara:''' ''Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu'' . . .		'''Yogeśvara:''' ''Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu'' . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Find out.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Find out.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' So anyone who is trying to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Because that is the real welfare work. All bogus. That is a fact. Everyone is under the laws of material nature. How you can do benefit to him? It is very powerful. The same example: a man is condemned by law to be hanged, you cannot save him, however rich man you may be. It is not possible. But the state executive head can excuse. Similarly, you cannot do anything without Kṛṣṇa's order. So if you want to help your relatives, your friends, your . . . then you must become Kṛṣṇa conscious and make him Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the only way. This is the only responsibility. There is no other responsibility. And to serve this responsibility you can do everything. To make a person Kṛṣṇa conscious, you can give him help, you can give him education, you can give him money, you can . . . to make him Kṛṣṇa conscious. Not for sense gratification. Then it will be useless. He is going hell, you are going hell, that's all.		'''Prabhupāda:''' So anyone who is trying to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Because that is the real welfare work. All bogus. That is a fact. Everyone is under the laws of material nature. How you can do benefit to him? It is very powerful. The same example: a man is condemned by law to be hanged, you cannot save him, however rich man you may be. It is not possible. But the state executive head can excuse. Similarly, you cannot do anything without Kṛṣṇa's order. So if you want to help your relatives, your friends, your . . . then you must become Kṛṣṇa conscious and make him Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the only way. This is the only responsibility. There is no other responsibility. And to serve this responsibility you can do everything. To make a person Kṛṣṇa conscious, you can give him help, you can give him education, you can give him money, you can . . . to make him Kṛṣṇa conscious. Not for sense gratification. Then it will be useless. He is going hell, you are going hell, that's all.

	(pause) That's all. All other bogus. (end)		(pause) That's all. All other bogus. (end)

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	'''Prabhupāda:''' And Jyotirmayī?		'''Prabhupāda:''' And Jyotirmayī?

	'''Bhagavān:''' She is doing the distribution of ''Bhagavad-gītās'' in stores, and she is meeting important people, getting . . . whatever articles are written about us, she is answering the articles in the paper. Nice service. This Europe is a very good field for making devotees.		'''Bhagavān:''' She is doing the distribution of ''Bhagavad-gītās'' in stores, and she is meeting important people, getting . . . whatever articles are written about us, she is answering the articles in the paper. Nice service. This Europe is a very good field for making devotees.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Oh, yes.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Oh, yes.
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	'''Devotee (1):''' Yeah, they all speak French. (break)		'''Devotee (1):''' Yeah, they all speak French. (break)

	'''Bhagavān:''' . . . that all over the world there are actually devotees of Kṛṣṇa and that they are just waiting for the ''saṅkīrtana'' parties to pick them up.		'''Bhagavān:''' . . . that all over the world there are actually devotees of Kṛṣṇa and that they are just waiting for the ''saṅkīrtana'' parties to pick them up.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. (laughs) ''Nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Kṛṣṇa-bhakti'' is there in everywhere.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. (laughs) ''Nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Kṛṣṇa-bhakti'' is there in everywhere.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' Everything is flying. All these planets, they are flying.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Everything is flying. All these planets, they are flying.

	'''Devotee (3):''' Sometimes they are zigzagging very fast across the sky . . . (indistinct)		'''Devotee (3):''' Sometimes they are zigzagging very fast across the sky . . . (indistinct)

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Maybe there is. Why not?		'''Prabhupāda:''' Maybe there is. Why not?
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' You can read this verse, ''kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānam''.		'''Prabhupāda:''' You can read this verse, ''kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānam''.

	'''Yogeśvara:''' Thirteenth chapter? ''Kṣetra'' . . .		'''Yogeśvara:''' Thirteenth chapter? ''Kṣetra'' . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' (''japa'') Go ahead, ''jñānam''.		'''Prabhupāda:''' (''japa'') Go ahead, ''jñānam''.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' So the God, He is also with me always as friend. So one . . . it is said in the ''Upaniṣad'', there are two birds in one tree. The two birds means I, individual soul, and God, the Supreme Soul. The individual soul is limited within this body, and God is everywhere: in every body, in every atomic particle, everywhere. Because I am individual soul, I can understand my bodily pains and pleasure. But I cannot understand your bodily pains and pleasure. But God, being all-pervading, He can understand my pains and pleasure, He can understand your pains and pleasure, He can understand cats' and dogs' pains and . . . everyone. This is the difference between me and God. Sometimes they mistake. Because God is also within this body, I am also within this body, therefore they think that there is no other individual soul than God; therefore I am God. So if I am God, then you are also God. And if there is more than one God, there is not God. God is one. There cannot be two. So if I think I am God, then everyone is also God—so God becomes plural, so there is not God. God is one. Therefore God is great, we are small. In quality we are one. Just like the president and the citizen, as man they are one, but in power, the citizen and the president, they are different. So these things can be understood if one is sober and very great thinker: they can understand that, "God is situated with me. He can help me also." That is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'':		'''Prabhupāda:''' So the God, He is also with me always as friend. So one . . . it is said in the ''Upaniṣad'', there are two birds in one tree. The two birds means I, individual soul, and God, the Supreme Soul. The individual soul is limited within this body, and God is everywhere: in every body, in every atomic particle, everywhere. Because I am individual soul, I can understand my bodily pains and pleasure. But I cannot understand your bodily pains and pleasure. But God, being all-pervading, He can understand my pains and pleasure, He can understand your pains and pleasure, He can understand cats' and dogs' pains and . . . everyone. This is the difference between me and God. Sometimes they mistake. Because God is also within this body, I am also within this body, therefore they think that there is no other individual soul than God; therefore I am God. So if I am God, then you are also God. And if there is more than one God, there is not God. God is one. There cannot be two. So if I think I am God, then everyone is also God—so God becomes plural, so there is not God. God is one. Therefore God is great, we are small. In quality we are one. Just like the president and the citizen, as man they are one, but in power, the citizen and the president, they are different. So these things can be understood if one is sober and very great thinker: they can understand that, "God is situated with me. He can help me also." That is stated in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'':

	:''teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ''		:''teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ''
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	(reads French translation) So here in this verse that Śrīla Prabhupāda quotes, Kṛṣṇa says: "Knowing Me to be the ultimate goal of all sacrifices and all austerities, the Lord of all planets and of all demigods, the friend and well-wisher of all living beings, the sage finds relief from all material miseries."		(reads French translation) So here in this verse that Śrīla Prabhupāda quotes, Kṛṣṇa says: "Knowing Me to be the ultimate goal of all sacrifices and all austerities, the Lord of all planets and of all demigods, the friend and well-wisher of all living beings, the sage finds relief from all material miseries."

	'''Prabhupāda:''' So long I think that I am the friend or father of my children, I will have to give . . . help them, so I am thinking falsely responsible. Actually I cannot do anything. Therefore, the so-called responsibility is ''māyā''. My real responsibility is how to realize God. That is my real. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says openly,'' sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam''. (aside) Find out.		'''Prabhupāda:''' So long I think that I am the friend or father of my children, I will have to give . . . help them, so I am thinking falsely responsible. Actually I cannot do anything. Therefore, the so-called responsibility is ''māyā''. My real responsibility is how to realize God. That is my real. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says openly,'' sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam''. (aside) Find out.

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	'''Prabhupāda:''' That is false. That I am saying. This is false responsibility. Actually you cannot become responsible. You have no power. Everyone is under the laws of nature. Just like some birds flying in the sky—the father, mother and children. But nobody is responsible for anyone. When there is danger in the sky, you cannot give protection. Suppose one bird is hit, he is falling. The father, mother and others, they cannot give any protection. He has to become responsible for himself. Just like the aeroplane. When the one plane is in danger, no other plane come and help it. Even if you see that the other plane is flying just a few yards, and if it is in fire, you cannot help. There is one nice story that one hunter was hunting birds, and he spread his network. So when the children of the parent birds, they become victimized by the network, so when the parents came, they saw, "Oh, my children have been caught up by the net of the hunter." So mother became very overwhelmed. She went to rescue them and she also become victimized. Then the father was intelligent, he saw that, "My children, my wife, they all have been victimized, and if I foolishly go to save them, then I will be also victimized. Let me go this way. Take ''sannyāsa'' and go." No responsibility. It is not possible when everyone is captured by the laws of nature. How you can help, and what is your responsibility?		'''Prabhupāda:''' That is false. That I am saying. This is false responsibility. Actually you cannot become responsible. You have no power. Everyone is under the laws of nature. Just like some birds flying in the sky—the father, mother and children. But nobody is responsible for anyone. When there is danger in the sky, you cannot give protection. Suppose one bird is hit, he is falling. The father, mother and others, they cannot give any protection. He has to become responsible for himself. Just like the aeroplane. When the one plane is in danger, no other plane come and help it. Even if you see that the other plane is flying just a few yards, and if it is in fire, you cannot help. There is one nice story that one hunter was hunting birds, and he spread his network. So when the children of the parent birds, they become victimized by the network, so when the parents came, they saw, "Oh, my children have been caught up by the net of the hunter." So mother became very overwhelmed. She went to rescue them and she also become victimized. Then the father was intelligent, he saw that, "My children, my wife, they all have been victimized, and if I foolishly go to save them, then I will be also victimized. Let me go this way. Take ''sannyāsa'' and go." No responsibility. It is not possible when everyone is captured by the laws of nature. How you can help, and what is your responsibility?

	So this is called ''māyā''. The children are thinking that, "My father and mother will give me protection," and the father and mother is thinking that, "There is my responsibility." This is called ''māyā''. With this false responsibility, they are packed up in a home. But when death comes, nobody can help. Nobody. This is happening every day, every moment, and still we are falsely thinking, "I am responsible." So what is the value of your responsibility? If you cannot give protection, then what is the value of your responsibility? There is no responsibility. The only responsibility is that I have got this human form of life. Even in this life I do not realize God, then I remain cats and dogs, that's all. This is the only responsibility. If you miss this opportunity, then I do not know what I am going to become in my next life. So gaining or losing this opportunity, that is my responsibility. If I am not responsible . . .		So this is called ''māyā''. The children are thinking that, "My father and mother will give me protection," and the father and mother is thinking that, "There is my responsibility." This is called ''māyā''. With this false responsibility, they are packed up in a home. But when death comes, nobody can help. Nobody. This is happening every day, every moment, and still we are falsely thinking, "I am responsible." So what is the value of your responsibility? If you cannot give protection, then what is the value of your responsibility? There is no responsibility. The only responsibility is that I have got this human form of life. Even in this life I do not realize God, then I remain cats and dogs, that's all. This is the only responsibility. If you miss this opportunity, then I do not know what I am going to become in my next life. So gaining or losing this opportunity, that is my responsibility. If I am not responsible . . .

	(break) . . . but if the head—king or president—excuses him, he can save. So nobody in this material world can transcend or overcome the laws of material nature. But if one is devotee, by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, he can. This is the sum and substance. Therefore we have no responsibility. If we have touched fire, then it must burn. So whatever we may be, very big man, we cannot violate the laws of nature. Tit for tat we accept. So those who are violating laws of material nature, they suffer continuously. But when he takes to Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet shelter, sincerely surrendering, then he can be saved. Otherwise not. So everyone should become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and he should try to save his relatives, friends, husband, wife, children from these clutches of laws of material nature by educating him to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the only responsibility. That is intelligence. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, ''na ca tasmāt manuṣyeṣu kaścit me priya-kṛttamaḥ. Ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ mad-bhakteṣu abhidhāsyati'' ([[BG 18.68 (1972)\|BG 18.68]]). ''Na ca tasmāt manuṣyeṣu'', find out.		(break) . . . but if the head—king or president—excuses him, he can save. So nobody in this material world can transcend or overcome the laws of material nature. But if one is devotee, by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, he can. This is the sum and substance. Therefore we have no responsibility. If we have touched fire, then it must burn. So whatever we may be, very big man, we cannot violate the laws of nature. Tit for tat we accept. So those who are violating laws of material nature, they suffer continuously. But when he takes to Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet shelter, sincerely surrendering, then he can be saved. Otherwise not. So everyone should become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and he should try to save his relatives, friends, husband, wife, children from these clutches of laws of material nature by educating him to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the only responsibility. That is intelligence. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, ''na ca tasmāt manuṣyeṣu kaścit me priya-kṛttamaḥ. Ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ mad-bhakteṣu abhidhāsyati'' ([[BG 18.68 (1972)\|BG 18.68]]). ''Na ca tasmāt manuṣyeṣu'', find out.

	'''Yogeśvara:''' ''Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu'' . . .		'''Yogeśvara:''' ''Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu'' . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Find out.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Find out.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' So anyone who is trying to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Because that is the real welfare work. All bogus. That is a fact. Everyone is under the laws of material nature. How you can do benefit to him? It is very powerful. The same example: a man is condemned by law to be hanged, you cannot save him, however rich man you may be. It is not possible. But the state executive head can excuse. Similarly, you cannot do anything without Kṛṣṇa's order. So if you want to help your relatives, your friends, your . . . then you must become Kṛṣṇa conscious and make him Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the only way. This is the only responsibility. There is no other responsibility. And to serve this responsibility you can do everything. To make a person Kṛṣṇa conscious, you can give him help, you can give him education, you can give him money, you can . . . to make him Kṛṣṇa conscious. Not for sense gratification. Then it will be useless. He is going hell, you are going hell, that's all.		'''Prabhupāda:''' So anyone who is trying to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Because that is the real welfare work. All bogus. That is a fact. Everyone is under the laws of material nature. How you can do benefit to him? It is very powerful. The same example: a man is condemned by law to be hanged, you cannot save him, however rich man you may be. It is not possible. But the state executive head can excuse. Similarly, you cannot do anything without Kṛṣṇa's order. So if you want to help your relatives, your friends, your . . . then you must become Kṛṣṇa conscious and make him Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the only way. This is the only responsibility. There is no other responsibility. And to serve this responsibility you can do everything. To make a person Kṛṣṇa conscious, you can give him help, you can give him education, you can give him money, you can . . . to make him Kṛṣṇa conscious. Not for sense gratification. Then it will be useless. He is going hell, you are going hell, that's all.

	(pause) That's all. All other bogus. (end)		(pause) That's all. All other bogus. (end)

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