So you cannot do business with Krishna. Krishna is not agreeable to this proposal.
Prabhupada gave his last class to a packed house. Guru-puja vibrated through the building, the last chance for the American devotees to worship their spiritual master in person before he flew halfway across the world, leaving their country thousands of miles behind.
The verse continued with the description of Krishna's energies, and Prabhupada gave a beautiful example of how they are working, with the Lord Himself in the background. "He has got so unlimited potency that things are being done as if naturally, without any endeavor. Just like we see one flower growing. Very small flower, the stem is very fine and the flower is decorated different colors. But it is not ordinary thing. If you are a painter, if you paint such a flower it will take so many days. But it is coming. But don't think simply that it has come automatically. No, there is no such thing as automatically. Same, as you, when you paint a flower you have to employ so much energy, so Krishna has also do that, the same energy. But it is because it is so natural for Krishna, svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. Simply by His willing it is happening. So He hasn't got to endeavor for it. That is the difference between Krishna's activities and our activity."
He encouraged the devotees to continue the principle of associating together. "Just like you are hearing from the sastra and we are speaking from the sastra. This is called sat-sanga. By sat-sanga, by real spiritual association, by talking with them, by mixing with them, satam prasangan mama virya-samvidah. Then we can learn about the unlimited potencies of Krishna. Then it becomes very pleasing to the heart and to the ear. By satam prasanga. Otherwise it is not possible. If you go to a professional reciter, it will enter in this ear and go out this ear, that's all. Because there is no life. It is business. So you cannot do business with Krishna. Krishna is not agreeable to this proposal. He's master. You cannot utilize Him for your service. You must engage yourself to His service, that is wanted."
Reference: Transcendental Diary Volume 3 by Srila Prabhupada
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