Lecture 3 - “Real mission”
The whole mission is to preach. We have no other purpose for opening this house except to preach. If we assist in some way to keep the institution or the center running, then that’s also preaching. But that should be our consideration. Not that I want to be comfortable and have a nice place for eating and sleeping, and sex life. This should not be our goal. Our goal should be that we’re missionaries and we should be dedicated to that mission. Then Krsna will help us. There is a saying “The world steps aside for those who know where they’re going”. Because everyone is loitering here. They have no real mission. Their mission is to eat, sleep, drink and be merry. That’s not a mission. That’s animal life. Animals have no mission except to maintain themselves. To enjoy. Anna-maya - just to eat. You find eating and you think wow, I can exist. But that’s not a real mission. You’re already existing. You’re eternal, you always exists. The mission is to get out of this material world. So, if we don’t have that mission, then how we’re actually different than materialists? And if we do have that mission, then people will notice “Oh, these people are not ordinary. They’re not just simply thinking how to be comfortable, have nice house, bank balance, good food, and so on”. Srila Prabhupada used to say “Plain living and high thinking”. We can live very plainly. Eat vegetables and rice. Ordinary people will think why not barbecue? But we live simply and we have high thinking. What is this high thinking? We’re taxing our brain what is the best way to spread Srila Prabhupada’s mission. That should be our first consideration. Then other things will follow.
