Srila Prabhupada: "So this is difficulty, that we are not very much
interested in hearing. And that is the main business. Our bhakti begins:
sravanam kirtanam visnoh [SB 7.5.23]. We have to hear and we have to
speak. But if we are not interested in hearing and speak, then it will
be the same thakura-bari (?), simply formula. That's all. And gradually
it will be stopped. Unless there is life of sravanam kirtanam, these
big, big buildings, temples, will become burden. So if we are, if we
want to create burden for future, then we may give up this hearing and
chanting and sleep very nicely.
It will be burden. Galagraha. Not sri-vigraha, but galagraha. Galagraha.
Sri-vigraha means worshipable Deity. So if we give up this sravanam
kirtanam visnoh, then it will be thought that "Our Guru Maharaja has
given a burden in the neck, galagraha." This is the danger. So we must
be very much alert in sravanam kirtanam. Otherwise all this labor will
be futile. This building will be only the nest, nest for the doves and the pigeons.
That is the danger. That is being done. Nobody is interested. Such,
such things..." -Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.19 Mayapura, September 29, 1974 —
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