Are you educating people in how to increase their taste for understanding Krsna???

[krsna]

PREACHING MEANS CREATING A TASTE

 

Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 

This sraddha has to be increased. Then when you come to the point of ruci, vasudeva-katha ruci, that is the beginning of our perfection. At the present moment, there is no ruci, no taste. There are so many exalted persons, but they have no taste. They have lost all taste. The preachers could not preach properly to create taste in the people in general. It is not the fault of the people; it is the fault of the so-called preachers. Because they could not create taste, they wanted to take the place of Krishna. That was their purpose. Imitation of Krishna. Imitation of God. That will not do. You have to create taste.

 

Just like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu did. Therefore when Srila Rupa Goswami first met Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, he offered this prayer: namo mahavadanyaya krsna-prema-pradaya te,

 

“You are the most munificentincarnation because you are giving Krishna(Cc. madhya 19.53).

 

You are greater than Krishna, “maha-vadanaya”. Krishna asked everybody to surrender, but He did not give himself immediately. However, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, He is also Krishna in the form of a devotee. He is giving Himself, “Take me!” without any price.

 

So vasudeva-katha ruci (Bhag. 1.2.16). People should be educated how to increase their taste for understanding Krishna. This is the Krishna consciousness movement. Everyone should come forward and assist this movement. One should behave in a Krishna conscious way and then he will be able to make others Krishna conscious — not by theoretical knowledge, but by behavior, apani acari’ bhakti karila pracara (Cc. Adi 4.41).

 

— Lecture in Vrindavan, 27 October 1972.

[krsna]

"So vasudeva-katha ruci (Bhag. 1.2.16). People should be educated how to increase their taste for understanding Krishna."

 

Sweet immortal elixir taken through the ears as vasudeva-katha ruci...Krsna sound coming from Krsna bhakta.