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Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So, then, we can’t say that the Vedic system, or sanātana-dharma, is fatalistic.

That means pleasing Kṛṣṇa. If Kṛṣṇa is pleased, He can change destiny. So sacrifice, yajña, means pleasing Kṛṣṇa. Our whole Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means pleasing Kṛṣṇa. That is the whole program. In all other business, there is no question of pleasing Kṛṣṇa. When one nation declares war upon another, there is no question of pleasing Kṛṣṇa or serving Kṛṣṇa.

Otherwise, Kṛṣṇa’s statement would be false: ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi – “I will deliver Suffering must befall me on account of my sinful activities, but Kṛṣṇa says, “I will deliver you from instead of wasting your time trying to change your economic condition or material destiny apart from Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you should employ your priceless human energy for attaining Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which

Everyone should offer up the fruits of his occupational duty to the lotus feet of the Lord Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa

Through many, many lives the soul has been in the forms of dogs or demigods or cats or birds or insects And the man is also doing the same business, in different ways.

So apratihatā means that in spite of your so-called destiny to suffer, if you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness That state of existence is called apratihatā: if you want to execute Kṛṣṇa consciousness, your material

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Question number three?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Question number two?

Disciple: Sacrifice to Viṣṇu, to Kṛṣṇa.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: What is the meaning of apratihatā?

Disciple: Śrīla Prabhupāda, if destiny cannot be changed, what does Kṛṣṇa mean when He says, “Be thou

Therefore our only business should be to surrender to Kṛṣṇa.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes, the usual charge is that this Vedic system of civilization is fatalistic, and that

our International Society for Krishna Consciousness, our main business is how to make advancement in Kṛṣṇa But we are very eager to utilize our energy for progressing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So then, Śrīla Prabhupāda, would it be accurate, after all, to say that people who have

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: “The traditional charge against Hinduism is that it is fatalistic, that it inhibits progress

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, then this question may be raised: If destiny cannot be checked, then why

But in spite of your destiny, if you try for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you can achieve spiritual success. Otherwise, why did Prahlāda Mahārāja urge his friends, kaumāra ācāret: “Take Kṛṣṇa consciousness up from

Or, he is busy all day simply so that in the evening he can look at his account books and say, “Oh, the But still he will have the same two pieces of bread and one cup of tea, even though he has increased And still he’ll work hard. This is why karmīs are called mūḍhas.

Let me utilize my energy for Kṛṣṇa consciousness.” That is intelligence.