May 28, 1976 : Honolulu
Hari Sauri: The morning walks are lively, Sukadeva Prabhu raised a common complaint against the mood of humble service and dependence that a religionist seeks to cultivate. "Those persons who are atheistic, they say that God is created out of a necessity, that people have a necessity to have their father image, so therefore they create religion. Man needs a father image, so therefore he creates the idea of God. They say that because people are feeling this necessity, it is a crutch."
Prabhupada turned the argument on its head, offering a simple but practical example as to why the feeling of necessity is actually a symptom of advanced life. "No, no. Necessity means there is. Otherwise why necessity? When you feel hungry, the necessity of food, food is there. The necessity of light, the sun is there." He told us, the feeling of necessity is the difference between the intelligent and the dull. The dull have no necessity and the intelligent have necessity. He said, "First of all we have to understand that one who has no necessity, he's in the lowest status. One who has got necessity, he is in higher status."
He continued, "Then higher, higher, higher, higher - where's the higher status? When you necessitate Krishna. This is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. That necessity, that without Govinda I'm feeling everything vacant. That is necessity. That makes it finer... If somebody whom you love very much, he dies, you think, 'I don't want anything. World is vacant.' 'I've no necessity but Krishna.' This is also necessity. So we have to see first of all necessity, then quality of necessity... A Vaishnava says that, 'I have no more necessity.' But he has no more necessity of this false necessities, material world."
Prabhupada turned the argument on its head, offering a simple but practical example as to why the feeling of necessity is actually a symptom of advanced life. "No, no. Necessity means there is. Otherwise why necessity? When you feel hungry, the necessity of food, food is there. The necessity of light, the sun is there." He told us, the feeling of necessity is the difference between the intelligent and the dull. The dull have no necessity and the intelligent have necessity. He said, "First of all we have to understand that one who has no necessity, he's in the lowest status. One who has got necessity, he is in higher status."
He continued, "Then higher, higher, higher, higher - where's the higher status? When you necessitate Krishna. This is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. That necessity, that without Govinda I'm feeling everything vacant. That is necessity. That makes it finer... If somebody whom you love very much, he dies, you think, 'I don't want anything. World is vacant.' 'I've no necessity but Krishna.' This is also necessity. So we have to see first of all necessity, then quality of necessity... A Vaishnava says that, 'I have no more necessity.' But he has no more necessity of this false necessities, material world."
Reference: A Transcendental Diary Volume 2 - Hari Sauri Dasa
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