Bhakti Vikasa Swami (left) is one of the almost 5,000 disciples who were initiated by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (right), the founder-acarya of ISKCON

Transcendental savings policy

Posted on January 20, 2013  
Filed under BVKS Sanga

Sita belonged to Rama, but was taken by Ravana. And whole world becomes
perplexed. So we are perplexed that Sita has been taken by Ravana, and so we
are trying to rescue her. And that is our Krsna consciousness movement.
Sita– Laksmiji, Ramacandra — Lord Rama, Narayana. So Ravana thought that
“Let me make profit taking away Sita.” The result was that he became
vanquished with everything. He could not get the favor of Sita, but the
whole family, whole kingdom became vanquished.

So this policy is being followed at the present moment. Everybody is
interested with Sita, not with Rama. But the foolish people do not know that
without Rama you cannot keep Sita. That is happening. When you go to ask for
some money in India, they give us one thousand, two thousand. And when there
is war within Pakistan and Hindustan, somebody is giving fifty lakhs,
somebody is giving hundred lakhs. And what is being used? Namo “bombayah”
namah. “Bombayah.” So if you don’t spend for Rama, then you will have to
spend for bomb, that’s all. You cannot keep the money. That is the way of
nature. That “I want to keep money”– that is illusion; you cannot keep. It
will be spoiled. If you don’t spend for Krsna, then it will be spoiled for
some other purpose. Therefore so long as we have got money, let us spend it
for Krsna. That is real savings.

[A] man who has given up his prescribed duties and taken to Krsna
consciousness, and even he falls down, whatever percentage he has executed
it goes with him, whereas in ordinary work, suppose you are a businessman
and you have accumulated millions of dollars in the bank; when you go, the
money remains in the bank, you go empty-handed. Therefore you have worked so
hard for this millions of dollars — it is all lost. And Krsna says in the
Bhagavad-gita, mrtyuh sarva-haras caham [Bg. 10.34]: “I am death, and as
death I take away everything.”

So the purport is that whether I accumulate millions of dollars, and at the
time of my death it remains in the bank and I go empty-handed, and according
to my karma I take another birth, maybe human being or cats and dogs — that
is a different thing. But whatever I have accumulated here, that remains
here; it does not go with me. But this devotional service, whatever you have
executed, even if it is not fulfilled cent percent, even if it is ten
percent or fifteen percent, that ten percent, fifteen percent or fifty
percent goes with you, and next life you get a chance for begin either from
fifty-one percent or sixteen percent, as you have. But all other material
assets, that you cannot take. Therefore the conclusion is that so long we
have got some strength, intelligence, money, it should be utilized for Krsna
consciousness so that it will go with us.

Srila Prabhupada, Conversation

September 7, 1971, London


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