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Arr PAR 1974-06-08 Krishna Means the Active Principle --etc
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ANNOUNCER: The following
is an arrival address,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 8th of
June 1974, in Paris, France.
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Prabhupada: So I am very happy
to see that Radha-Parisīśvara
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is being worshiped nicely.
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Thank you very much.
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So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness
philosophy is very simple,
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but the dull-headed
person cannot understand.
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That is the difficulty.
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In the Bhagavad-gītā,
it is said that the…
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na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ
prapadyante narādhamāḥ
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māyayāpahṛta-jñānā
āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ
[Bg. 7.15]
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There are many classes of men, they
have been classified as the duṣkṛtina,
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mūḍha, narādhama,
māyayāpahṛta-jñānā,
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and all of them are based on the atheistic
theory “There is no God, I am God.”
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Asuri bhāvam, asura.
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Asura means they defy God,
“I am God; who is God?”
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Just like Hiraṇyakaśipu and
his son, Prahlāda Mahārāja.
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Prahlada Mahārāja is
devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa,
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and Hiraṇyakaśipu
would not accept.
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“Who is God?
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I am God.”
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This is atheistic attitude.
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So the atheist are
divided into four classes.
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Number one is duṣkṛtina.
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Duṣkṛtina means
they have got merit.
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Kṛti means meritorious.
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The modern men,
they have got merit.
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Especially the Western people,
they have got nice merit.
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Just like while passing through the
city, we saw very nice buildings.
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So to construct such buildings,
it requires merit, undoubtedly.
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But what for this building?
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Duṣkṛtina, only for
committing sinful life.
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Therefore it is called du, duṣkalya.
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Meat-eating, illicit sex,
intoxication, and gambling.
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Meritorious, they are undoubtedly
for constructing this building,
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but what is the purpose?
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The purpose is sinful activities.
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These things are going on.
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Therefore, they are
called duṣkṛtina.
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And mūḍha.
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Mūḍha means they cannot
understand what is God.
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It is very simple thing.
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Anyone can…, a child
can understand.
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Take for example
your body, my body.
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What is the important
thing in the body?
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The soul.
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Without the soul, you
may be very big man,
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even Napoleon Bonaparte, but as
soon as the soul is gone, it is useless.
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The whole world is useless.
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Anyone can understand.
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Where is now Napoleon Bonaparte who
struggled so much for glorifying France.
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But where is that gentleman?
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Finished.
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As soon as the soul is gone…
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You may keep one statue, dead
statue, that is another thing.
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But you do not know where the soul
has gone and what he is doing now.
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So anyone can understand that this
body may be very, very important,
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scientist, politicians,
and so on, so on.
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But as soon as the soul is gone
from this body, it is useless,
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not worth even a farthing.
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Anyone can understand.
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Similarly, as the soul is the important
thing in this body, my body, your body,
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or anyone’s body, similarly in this
huge gigantic body of universe,
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there must be one soul.
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Otherwise how it is going on?
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How it is working so nicely?
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The big sun is rising exactly in time,
the moon is rising exactly in time,
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the seasons are changing
one after another.
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So many millions and millions of living
entities, they are being maintained.
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Everyone is getting their food,
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even the elephant who eats at a
time hundred kilogram, he also eats.
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An ant also eats.
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The birds also eat, the beast
also eats—there is no problem.
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Only the civilized man,
so-called civilized man,
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he creates problem
because duṣkṛtina.
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He has got merit, but it is
being used for sinful activities.
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Therefore there is problem.
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If the birds have no problem,
the beasts have no problem,
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the ant has no problem, why the
civilized man has got problem?
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Because they are
duṣkṛtina and mūḍha.
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Rascal and always engaged in
sinful activities, duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ.
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Simple thing.
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If the soul is important in this body,
why there shall not be bigger soul,
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the Supersoul, in
this gigantic body?
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What is this universal
body and this body?
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The same thing.
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It is only small, and that is very big.
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The same material construction.
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bhūmir āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ
[Bg. 7.4]
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This earth, water, air.
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Just like you have got your
bones, the huge earth mountain,
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that is also another bone
of this gigantic body.
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As you have got your
hairs on the body,
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the millions and millions
of trees and plants,
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they are also the hairs
on the gigantic body.
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So as you have got holes
in your body here, there,
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and the navel, similarly these oceans
and seas, they are also different holes.
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So they are described—it is not my
imagination—they are described in the
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Second Canto,
to conceive the gigantic body.
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As you have got your skull, the
round skull, the whole, hemisphere
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is also skull of this gigantic body.
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It is similar.
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As you have got a
body and you, the soul,
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is the important thing, active
principle within this body,
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similarly this gigantic body,
the active principle is there,
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that is we call from the
śāstra Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu,
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the same comparison.
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But because they are mūḍha,
rascal, they cannot understand.
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No brain.
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We have no brain, we are
all not very intelligent.
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But we can understand if there is the
active principle soul within this body,
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there must be a Supersoul within
this huge structure of body.
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And that is called God.
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mohitaṁ nābhijānāti
mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam
[Bg. 7.13]
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Those who are
bewildered, narādhamāḥ.
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Narādhamāḥ, the
lowest of the mankind.
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These things cannot be
understood by the cats and dogs.
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Their body is constituted
in such a way,
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that they cannot think of that there
is an active principle within the body,
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and there is active principle
in this huge gigantic body.
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The cats and dogs cannot understand,
but a human being can understand.
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And that active principle is Kṛṣṇa.
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Kṛṣṇa means all-attractive.
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As the active principle within
this body is all-attractive,
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this beautiful body of
French boys and girls, why?
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The active principle is there;
therefore they are attractive.
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Many people come
to see your city.
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Why?
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The active principle is there.
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So Kṛṣṇa means the active
principle of everything.
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That is explained in
the Bhagavad-gītā,
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ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo
mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate
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iti matvā bhajante māṁ
budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ
[Bg. 10.8]
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The active principle is everything.
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From His energy, material energy,
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this huge gigantic material man…, cosmic
manifestation is there, from His energy.
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And we are also His energy.
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bhūmir āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ
khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca
[Bg. 7.4]
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The five material elements are also Kṛṣṇa’s
energy, and we living entities, we are also.
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apareyam itas tu…
viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parā…
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jīva-bhūtaṁ mahā-bāho
yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat
[Bg. 7.5]
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Everything is explained there.
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But the mūḍhas, these duṣkṛtinas, the
narādhamas, they cannot understand.
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Narādhama means
lowest of the mankind.
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Why?
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Because cats and dogs cannot
understand this philosophy.
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But a human being
can understand.
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He has got the brain.
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Nature has given the fertile
brain, but they are misusing it,
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duṣkṛtina, only for
sense gratification.
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The brain was given to understand
God, but the rascal is using for illicit sex,
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meat-eating, drinking,
and gambling.
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This is the position of the
whole human society.
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So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement
is to give the greatest benefit
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to the human society to clear
their brain, the rascal brain.
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We call, declare,
they are all rascals.
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Let any scientist, philosopher come here, I
shall prove that he is nothing but a rascal.
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I shall prove that.
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I challenge them.
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What they are doing?
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Nonsense.
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So you do not become rascals.
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By the grace of
Caitanya Mahāprabhu,
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you are trying to understand this
Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophy,
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and there is no difficulty, everything
is there in our Bhagavad-gītā.
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You simply try to understand,
and make your life successful.
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That is our request.
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Don’t be rascals, mūḍhas,
narādhamas, māyayāpahṛta-jñānā.
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This education has no value, because
the real knowledge, there is nothing.
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Real knowledge is
to understand God.
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There is no education throughout the
whole world, there is no university.
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So they are simply
producing rascals.
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So my only request is that
don’t become rascals.
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You just worship
here Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.
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rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtiḥ
[Cc. Ādi 1.5]
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just try to understand Kṛṣṇa and
then your life will be successful.
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In what way?
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janma karma me divyaṁ
yo jānāti tattvataḥ
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tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti…
[Bg. 4.9]
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If you simply try to understand Kṛṣṇa, the
result will be that after giving up this body,
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you will not accept any
more material body.
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You will remain in your spiritual body
and go back to home, back to Godhead.
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That is your eternal life,
blissful, full of knowledge.
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That is wanted.
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Otherwise, now you have got this very
beautiful body, French girl, French boy,
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if you don’t take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
if you lose the opportunity,
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then you may get, because you
have got very good friend, dogs.
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So, yaṁ yaṁ vāpi
smaran bhāvam [Bg. 8.6]
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so at the time of dying, you will think
of dog and you will get a body of dog.
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This is a fact.
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Because you are under the
grip of material nature.
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prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
[Bg. 3.27]
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As you infect some disease, you
must suffer from that disease.
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Similarly, the infection of ignorance, tamo-
guṇa, will give you a tamo-guṇa body.
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jaghanya-guṇa-vṛtti-sthā
adho gacchanti tāmasāḥ
[Bg. 14.18]
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Go down.
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Nature gives you the opportunity:
get a nice human form of body,
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nice brain, try to
understand what is God.
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But if you misuse it, then again go
to become cats and dogs and hogs.
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This is nature’s law.
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Don’t risk your life.
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Always think of Kṛṣṇa.
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sadā tad-bhāva-bhāvitaḥ
[Bg. 8.6]
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These things are explained.
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So what is the difficulty to
become Kṛṣṇa conscious?
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You have got nice Deity, Kṛṣṇa
is present to take your service.
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Be pure, eat nice prasādam,
chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and dance,
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and go to back to home, back to
Godhead; where is the difficulty?
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Simple thing.
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Don’t be misled by
the rascals and fools.
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Just try to understand
Kṛṣṇa, try to hear Kṛṣṇa,
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His instruction is
there, and be happy.
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Thank you very much.
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