Varnasrama College Diary

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Varnasrama College Diary

By Rabindranatha Dasa Adhikari

Thursday, January 27, 2005

 

Today I signed up some more devotees for the "Bhaktivedanta Reading Program"

here at the college. How I have 12 devotees in the program.

 

In order to do this Varnasrama College we have to put together things that

are useless in and of themselves, but putting them together great things can

happen.

 

 

Prabhupada: This combination of rich men, poor men, for Krsna. The

same-andha-pangu-nyaya. Both of them are useless separately, and when they

combine in Krsna consciousness, they are all useful. It is very good

example. And there is another example, that a piece of wire is falling,

rotting, and a piece of bamboo, rotting, and a piece of squash skin is

rotting. And one gentleman collected. He nicely trimmed the piece and dried

the squash, the outer portion, and took the bamboo and nicely cut it and

joined the string and this became a sitar: "Ting, ting, ting." So it is the

intelligent person who joins all these things and makes it very useful.

These are the examples. The bamboo alone is useless, and a small piece of

wire, useless, and a thrown out squash skin, useless. But if you can join

them together,...you can "Ting, ting. Similarly andha-pangu-nyaya. Here is a

lame man; here is a blind man. All right, combine together and use them.

That is wanted. Svakarmana tam abhyarcya samsiddhi labhate. This wire does

not change. It is wire. But when it is combined, it is useful. So our

propaganda is, "They are separately planning useless. Let them combine

together in Krsna consciousness. All this planning shall be successful.

Jayapataka: We were all useless in the West, but you have come and then

engaged us.

Prabhupada: It is Krsna's desire. Nobody is useless. I was also useless. I

could not do in India alone anything. This is... Again this example

(laughs). Two useless makes useful. Intelligence alone cannot work. Money is

required. One man was challenged, "You have no intelligence." So he said,

"Yes." He was searching these..."No, why you are searching here?No, here

is intelligence. If here is money, then my intelligence can work. Otherwise

what is the use of intelligence?" But he was searching here," Whether I have

got intelligence?" Simply intelligence... In industry also: land labor

capital, organization, four things. Simple capital will not do. Simple

organization will not do. A man may have very good brain power,

organization, but if he has no money-useless. So four things required: land,

labor, capital, organization." (Conversation August 19, 1976)