Krsna consciousness in a second

[Guest guest]

Devotee: Swamiji? Is it possible for us to worship Krsna purely in this

lifetime?

 

Prabhupada: Why not? Do you think we are simply wasting our time with this

process? Why lifetime? Within a second you can do. It is spiritual process.

It is not material process that it requires so much time. No. It requires

simply the spiritual technique, to know how you can develop Krsna

attachment. As soon as you are cent percent attached with Krsna, your

business is finished. Aradhito yadi haris tapasa tatah kim. The whole

formula is that you have to develop your attachment for Krsna. So if you

have developed such attachment for Krsna, then your business is finished. No

more. That's all right. And naradhito yadi haris tapasa tatah kim. And if

you cannot develop fully Krsna consciousness, then all your labor is waste

of time. There is no need of advertising yourself that "I am religious, I am

philosopher, I am yogi." All is nonsense if at the end there is no Krsna

consciousness. So if Krsna consciousness is there, so all these things end.

And if there is no Krsna consciousness, these are all useless labor.

aradhito yadi haris tapasa tatah kim

naradhito yadi haris tapasa tatah kim

[Narada-pancaratra]

The whole business is how to develop attachment for Krsna. If you have

developed that attachment within a second, oh, then the business is finished

within a second. And if you cannot develop that attachment for years, then

it is very difficult. The only test is how you have developed your

attachment for Krsna. If you are serious about it, it can be done within a

second. If you are not serious about it, it cannot be done in many lives. So

that depends on your serious nature. Krsna is not a material thing that it

requires one particular time or... No. The only thing is mayy asakta-manah.

You have to develop your full attachment for Krsna. That you can test,

whether you have full attachment for Krsna. Then it is..., the business is

finished.

 

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 7.1 -- San Francisco, March 17, 1968