16 Krsna Consciousness: the Topmost Yoga System

saying that this is the topmost yoga system, though at the same
time it is very simple. You don’t have to exercise your body
over a period of weeks before you feel some power. But in
Krsna consciousness you won’t feel tired. All of our students
are simply anxious to be overloaded with work in Krsna con-
sciousness. ‘“‘Prabhupada, what can I do?” And they are actually
doing it. In the material world, if you work for some time
you'll feel weak.

Of course, I am not exercising myself. I am an old man of
seventy-two years. I was ill, I went back to India; but I want
to work. Actually, I could retire from all these activities, but
as far as I can, I want to work; I want to learn day and night.
At night I will work with the dictaphone, and I am sorry if I
cannot work. This is Krsna consciousness. One must be very
anxious to work. It is not an idle society. No, we have sufficient
engagements: editing papers, selling papers.

Simply find out how Krsna conscious you can be. If you
want to be really at peace, if you want to be happy, then
develop Krsna consciousness. And the beginning is to develop
attachment for Krsna. The process which we have prescribed is
chanting and dancing before the Deities, and offering prasadam,
spiritual food. This will make you more Krsna conscious.

The yoga system as it is described in the Bhagavad-gita is
different from the bogus yoga system which is going on in the
West these days. The yoga systems which have been introduced
into the West by so-called yogis are not bona fide. Yoga is
difficult: the first thing is to control the senses. That is the
position of the yogi: he is not allowed to indulge in sex life.
If you indulge in intoxication, if you indulge in meat-eating,
and if you indulge in gambling and sporting—all nonsense—you
cannot at the same time become a yogi. I was astonished when
a yogi came here, having advertised in India that you can be a
yogi even though you may be addicted to drinking. This is not
