Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 41

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Guest (2): To bring more people in our movement...

Prabhupada: They should be trained up, more people. Just like I went alone

in Europe and America. So I have trained them. So it will depend on your

training power, the more people will be attracted. If you advertise, "Come

here," and if you have no power to attract them, then it will not be... You

must be attractive to bring them. And that is spiritual attraction. You must

behave yourself nicely. Then people will come. If you become purified, then

naturally they will come. Just like if you prepare nice preparation with

pure ghee, customers will be naturally attracted and they will pay and

purchase. And if you prepare rubbish thing, one man may be cheated, but that

will not be attraction for the general. Purity is required. That will

attract. Param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [bg. 10.12]. One

must be pure. Then he will be able to attract. So if they see practically

that "These people are very happy; they have no anxiety," then they will be

attracted. Is it not? What is the difficulty? But if you want brothel and

night dancing and wine and meat-eating, then it is spoiled. It becomes

impure. To become pure is not at all difficult. Rather, to become impure, it

is difficult. But people, with all difficulties, they are becoming impure.

Otherwise the idea which I am giving, you can start anywhere, anywhere, any

part of the world. It doesn't matter. Locally you produce your own food. You

get your own cloth. Have sufficient milk, vegetables. Then what you want

more? And chant Hare Krsna. This is Vedic civilization: plain living, high

thinking. And poor thinking, poor in thought, poor in behavior, and living

with motorcar and this, that, nonsense. It is all nonsense civilization.

 

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