Every Devotee's Duty Is To Extinguish The Blazing Fire Of The Material World

[Gavin Swinden]

(Every devotee, every pure soul, duty is how to extinguish the blazing fire. And that can be done only by pushing on this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.) 

 

"So take shelter of the holy name of the Lord, then disturbing condition of this material world will not touch you. *Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam *(CC Antya 20.12). Bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam. There is a blazing fire. That is the duty, that is the business of . . . Vande guroḥ śrī caraṇāravindam.

 

How to extinguish the blazing fire of this material world—that is the duty. Every devotee, every pure soul, duty is how to extinguish the blazing fire. And that can be done only by pushing on this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Otherwise, it is not possible."

 

(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, February 20, 1976, Mayapur)