(Because He is God, He will take your everything. (laughs) Once you agree to offer something, then He will take yourself also." God is very intelligent. Once you engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no way out. You cannot go out. (laughter)) 🙏💖
 
 
"Just like there is a nice story, Bali Mahārāja. Bali Mahārāja, he became a very strong king, and he . . . nowadays, as in the modern age, we find a strong government or a strong king, he simply tries to conquer other countries. Formerly they were able to conquer other planets also. They were so powerful. So this Bali Mahārāja became so powerful that he conquered many of the higher planets of the demigods, so he became a disturbing element.
 
So God, as incarnation of Vāmanadeva, He . . . Bali Mahārāja was also a grandson of a great devotee, Prahlāda Mahārāja. He had that blood of devotional blood. He had some devotion to Lord Kṛṣṇa also. But at the same time he was king. He was conquering life. He was making disturbance like that. So all the demigods prayed to Kṛṣṇa to settle up this thing. So Kṛṣṇa as Vāmanāvatāra, incarnation of Vāmana . . . dwarf. Vāmana means dwarf.
 
He went to Bali Mahārāja, and He was Brāhmin. So as a Brāhmin boy, so He asked some charity, because the Kṣatriyas, the kings, are meant for give in charity. So he was very much pleased to see that beautiful dwarf boy, "Yes, what do You want? I will give You charity." But his spiritual master, so-called spiritual master, he could understand that, "This boy is Viṣṇu, God Himself. He has come to cheat this Bali."
 
So he asked his disciple, "Don't promise any charity to Him. Because He is God, He will take your everything. (laughs) Once you agree to offer something, then He will take yourself also." God is very intelligent. Once you engage yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no way out. You cannot go out. (laughter) You cannot go out. He is so kind. As once you become sincerely a surrendered soul to Kṛṣṇa, then there is no way out. You have to be Kṛṣṇa conscious. You have to continue to be Kṛṣṇa conscious. You cannot do otherwise."
 
10912079095?profile=RESIZE_710x(Prabhupada Lecture, December 16, 1966, New York)
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