751011 Lecture - Srila Prabhupada Speaks a Nectar Drop in Durban
| Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada |
"So this human form of life is very durlabha, very rarely got. Durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma.
This is the version of Prahlāda Mahārāja. He was preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness among his school friends. Because he was born in a demon father's family, Hiraṇyakaśipu, he was stopped uttering even 'Kṛṣṇa'. He could not get any opportunity in the palace, so when he was coming to school, at the tiffin hour he would call his small friends, five years old, and he would preach this Bhāgavata-dharma. And the friends would say, 'My dear Prahlāda, we are now children. Oh, what is the use of this Bhāgavata-dharma? Let us play'. Now he said, 'no'. Kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān iha, durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma (SB 7.6.1): 'My dear friends, don't say that we'll keep it aside for cultivating Kṛṣṇa consciousness in old age. No, no'. Durlabham. 'We do not know when we shall die. Before the next death we must complete this Kṛṣṇa consciousness education'. That is the aim of human life. Otherwise we are losing the opportunity." |
| 751011 - Lecture BG 18.45 - Durban |