Oct 23, 2022 — SRIDHAM MAYAPUR (SUN) —
Srila Prabhupada: [Regarding how the Krsna consciousness movement is not here to make compromise, it is here to make people Krsna conscious and therefore there is no compromise with regards to sinful activity - one must give up sinful activity in order to become conscious of Krsna.]
"Therefore Krsna consciousness movement means solution of all problems. Teaching people not to become sinful. Because a sinful man cannot become Krsna conscious. To become Krsna conscious means that he has to give up his sinful activities. No illicit sex life, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling. These are the four pillars of sinful life. So people are not ready to give up this. But we do not make any compromise, that you go on with your sinful life, at the same time I sanction that you have become Krsna conscious. No, that we cannot do.
There is no compromise on this point. You must give up all this sinful life. Because there is no chance of becoming Krsna conscious. Why you shall make a show? There is no benefit by making a show. Just like Arjuna. Arjuna is trying to make a show of Krsna consciousness. He has good attachment for other things. And the whole Bhagavad-gita is taught to Arjuna to give up that attachment."
(Bhagavad-gita Lecture 1.31, London 24 July 1973)
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