Prabhupada, April 15, 1977, Bombay: So Lord Caitanya declares that bharata-bhumite manusya-janma haila yara: [Cc. Adi 9.41] “Anyone who has taken birth as human being, not cats and dogs…” Cats and dogs, they simply jump whole night: “Gow! Gow! Gow!”
That is another… We find so many dogs, whole night busy, watching. Whose property he is watching? But he… He has got this business, very busy. As soon as some motorcycle or some…, “Gow! Gow! Gow! Gow! Gow! Gow!” watching, watching, watching.
So therefore this is business of cats and dogs. But human being’s business is different. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, bharata-bhumite haila manusya-janma yara: [Cc. Adi 9.41] “Anyone who has taken birth as a human being in India, bharata-bhumi…” Janma sarthaka kari’ kara para-upakara: “First of all make your life perfect”—you have got the opportunity, Vedic culture—“and then distribute the knowledge all over the world for doing good to the whole human society.”
That will glorify the prestige of India. So why not continue this? Let there be an institution fully following the principles of Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavad-gita As It Is. Then people will be benefited. If you say, “It is secular,” Bhagavad-gita is for every man. There is no question of Hindu, Muslim, Christian or this or that, no. When Krishna says,
dehino ’smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati [Bg. 2.13]
So this growing… A child is growing to become a boy. A boy is growing to become a young man. A young man is growing to become an old man. So what is the secular? Everyone grows. Does it mean, when it is spoken in the Bhagavad-gita, it is only meant for the Hindus?
Mr. Rajda: It is universal activities.
Prabhupada: It is universal, science. It is science. So why this science is kept locket up and distorted by the leaders? If you understand one line of Bhagavad-gita, your life becomes successful.
Now our leaders are supposed to read Bhagavad-gita, but who understands this one line, tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati [Bg. 2.13]? Nobody understands. And they are scholars of Bhagavad-gita. They cannot understand this one line in the beginning.
This is going on. So I would request you to take this matter seriously and… And it is being responded. I am writing these books on Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, and we are selling daily five to six lakhs’ worth of books. In a foreign country, where their religious system is different, and during Christmas festival we are selling our books, large quantity.
Mr. Rajda: That’s a novel thing, no, novel thing.
Prabhupada: So unless there is something substantial… They are intelligent.
Mr. Rajda: Intelligent people.
Prabhupada: Why they should accept this? And this is one man’s attempt.
Mr. Rajda: It has got to be institutionalized.
Prabhupada: Yes. Why not make that? This political change, this political situation change, it will go on. Today you are powerful. Tomorrow I am powerful. That does not make any difference. Indira Gandhi was so powerful.
In one day everything finished. So it may be finished, my position. Mohitam nabhijanati mam ebhyah param avyayam. Tribhir gunamayair bhavaih. They do not know, behind these all activities there is a person who can do anything He likes. So what about to know about Him?
So these things are there in India. The knowledge is not secret. It is open. So without distorting it, without breaking it and spoiling it, why not give it as it is for the benefit of the whole humanity? You are young man. You can think over. Full Conversation
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