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portunity to do so. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, etddrsi tava
krpa bhagavan mamapi: ‘‘My dear Lord, You are so kind to me that You
are always prepared to give me Your association.”’ Durdaivam idrsam iha-
jani nanuragah: ‘‘But I am so unfortunate that I do not take advantage of
this opportunity.”

Our Krsna consciousness movement is simply requesting people,
‘‘Chant Hare Krsna.’’ There was a cartoon in some newspaper that
depicted an old lady and her husband sitting face to face. The lady is re-
questing her husband, ‘‘Chant, chant, chant.’’ And the husband is
answering, ‘‘Can’t, can’t, can’t.’’ So in this same way, we are requesting
everyone, ‘‘Please chant, chant, chant.’ But they are replying, ‘‘Can’t,
can’t, can’t.”’ This is their misfortune.

Still, it is our duty to make all such unfortunate creatures fortunate.
That is our mission. Therefore we go into the street and chant. Although
they say ‘‘Can’t,’’ we go on chanting. That is our duty. And if somehow
or other we place some literature in someone’s hand, he becomes fortu-
nate. He would have squandered his hard-earned money in so many
nasty, sinful ways, but if he purchases even one book, regardless of the
price, his money is properly utilized. This is the beginning of his Krsna
consciousness. Because he gives some of his hard-earned money for the
Krsna consciousness movement, he gets some spiritual profit. He is not
losing; rather, he is gaining some spiritual profit. Therefore our business
is somehow or other to bring everyone to this Krsna consciousness
movement so that everyone may spiritually profit.

When Krsna appeared on earth, not everyone knew that He was the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although when there was need He
proved Himself the Supreme Godhead, He generally appeared to be just
like an ordinary human being. Therefore Sukadeva Gosvami, while de-
scribing how Krsna played as one of the cowherd boys, points out
Krsna’s identity. Who is this cowherd boy? Sukadeva Gosvami says, it-
tham satam brahma-sukhdnubhitya. The impersonalists meditate upon
the impersonal Brahman and thus feel some transcendental bliss, but
Sukadeva Gosvami points out that the source of that transcendental bliss
is here—Krsna.

Krsna is the source of everything (aham sarvasya prabhavah), and
therefore the transcendental bliss that the impersonalists try to ex-
perience by meditating on the impersonal Brahman in fact comes from
Krsna. Sukadeva Gosvami says, ‘‘Here is the person who is the source of
brahma-sukha, the transcendental bliss that comes from realization of
Brahman.”
