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Bg 04-09 BOM 1974-03-29 Cheater Leaders
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a
class on a Bhagavad-gītā As It Is,
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4th chapter, text number 9,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on March 29th,
1974, in Bombay, India.
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PRADYUMNA: [leads text
chanting] Translation:
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“One who knows the transcendental nature
of My appearance and activities, does not,
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upon leaving the body, take his
birth again in this material world,
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but attains My eternal
abode, O Arjuna.”
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PRABHUPĀDA: Janma
karma ca me divyam
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evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ
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tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so’rjuna [Bg. 4.9].
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This is very important verse.
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Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [?].
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Our problem is this transmigration
of the soul, one body to another.
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This is going on.
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Because you do not know
how to get out of it,
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modern education they do not know
even what is soul, what is this body,
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how the transmigration
of the soul taking place.
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All blunt.
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There is no educational institution all
over the world to understand this science.
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Although it is the most important
science for the human being.
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Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9].
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No more transmigration
of the soul.
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The soul, in its
original spiritual body,
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can be transferred from this
material world to the spiritual world.
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And there is the spiritual
world as I’ve already explained,
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that is three times
creation of the Lord.
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This is only one-fourth,
this material world.
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So our problem of human life
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is to get out of these
material clutches
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and transfer ourselves
to the spiritual world.
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That is real problem.
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Not this food problem,
that problem.
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This will go on.
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So long you are in the material world,
such problems will come and go.
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They’re not permanent.
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That is explained in
the Bhagavad-gītā.
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Āgamāpāyinaḥ anityāḥ tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata [?].
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These problems, they’ll
come and they’ll go.
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Just like seasonal changes.
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Mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ
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āgamāpāyino ’nityās tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata [?].
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That is real knowledge.
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We should not be disturbed
by the material problems.
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You cannot avoid them.
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So long… Just like if you
are in the winter season,
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how you can avoid cold, infection
by cold, or affection by cold?
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You cannot avoid.
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That does not mean,
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because it is the season is very
cool and you cannot take bath.
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No. You must take bath.
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That is Aryan civilization.
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Still in India we’ll find in
the villages severe cold.
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Still the people are taking
bath early in the morning.
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They are accustomed.
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But now we are giving up.
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Now we are rising at seven o’clock
because we are advanced in education.
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And if there is maṅgala-
ārātrika, it is nuisance.
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This is our advancement of
civilization at the present moment.
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But if you go in the villages, you’ll find that
the villagers rising early in the morning,
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they’re taking bath, changing cloth, and
chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa as far as possible.
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Still in the mass of people of India, the
Kṛṣṇa consciousness is still existing,
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And they believe in the next birth, next
life, past life, they believe in God, in Kṛṣṇa.
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They’re satisfied with that position, but
the modern leaders they do not like it.
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They want to make
them intoxicated
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so that they can work like an
ass for the morsel of food.
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But this is not the problem.
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The real problem is here, stated, that you
should stop the disease of birth and death.
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That is real problem.
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Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma [Bg. 4.9].
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The human life is meant
for making a solution
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of the repetition
of birth and death.
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That is real problem.
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Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [?].
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We are finding fault
with so many things.
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But really we should find fault with this
process of repetition of birth and death.
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People are now being educated in
this way that there is no more life.
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You have got this life and you
enjoy the senses as far as possible.
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That is nastik theory.
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This nastik or atheism… There
were many saints in India also.
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One of them is Carvaka.
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He’s very famous atheist.
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His philosophy is hedonism.
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Ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet yāvaj jīvet sukhaṁ jīvet [?].
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His theory is, because
in India the luxury is
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to eat something which
is cooked in ghee:
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Luci, purī, halavā.
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So Carvaka Muni says that you take loan
from your friends if you have no money
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and eat as much as possible ghee.
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Ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet yāvaj jīvet sukhaṁ jīvet [?].
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And so long you live, you live
by gratifying your senses.
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Here sukham means
sense gratification.
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But according to Vedic civilization, sukham
ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriyam grāhyam [?].
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What is the actual happiness?
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That is beyond your senses.
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Not sense gratification.
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But because we are materially absorbed,
we think indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur [Bg. 3.42].
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Indriya.
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the senses, always all. To
satisfy the senses that is sukh.
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That is happiness.
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And those who are a little
disgusted with sense gratification,
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indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ [Bg. 3.42].
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They are mental speculators.
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They write poetries and utopian theories,
“This philosophy, that philosophy.”
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In this way they satisfy the mind.
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But that is also not happiness.
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Mental happiness.
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Mano-rathena asato dhāvato bahiḥ [?].
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If you become satisfied
by mental happiness,
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then you’ll have to come
down again. Asato.
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Asato mā sad-gamaḥ [?].
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Real life is: “Don’t stay in this temporary
world but go to the real world”,
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paras tasmāt tu bhāvo ’nyo ’vyakto ’vyaktāt sanātanaḥ [Bg. 8.20].
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You’ll find all these
things in Bhagavad-gītā.
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So either on the bodily plane or on the
mental plane you cannot be happy.
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That is not possible.
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But if you want to be happy then you
have to come to the spiritual platform
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and engage in spiritual activities,
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sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriyam grāhyam [?].
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above the material platform of
sensual and mental activities.
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So spiritual activities
means devotional service.
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Spiritual activities mean
devotional service,
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activities in relationship with the
Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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Bhakti-yoga.
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Bhakti-yoga means, as I
have repeatedly explained,
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that you have to forget your
identification with the matter,
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sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170].
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You have to forget your body as
American, Indian, brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya,
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śūdra, Hindu, Muslim.
That you have to forget.
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Ahaṁ brahmāsmi,
“I am spirit soul.”
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That is real identification.
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And when the spirit soul is active,
sometimes the Māyāvādī philosophers,
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they think, “Now I’ve realized that I am not
this body, I am not matter, I am spirit soul,
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so now I have become Nārāyaṇa.
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I have become the Supreme.”
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But no, that is also mistake.
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When you realize that “Supreme is
the Supreme Brahman, Parabrahman,
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I am part and parcel of the
Supreme, I am also Brahman,
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but I am not the
Supreme Brahman,
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therefore my business is
to serve Parabrahman.”
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That is real spiritual life.
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That is the beginning
of spiritual life.
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Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati
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samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām [Bg. 18.54].
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Parā bhakti.
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Parā-bhakti, that
is real spiritual life.
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Parā aparā, aparā bhakti means
on the material platform.
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Generally, the Deity worship.
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This is the beginning,
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but as you go on worshiping the Deity
you realize your spiritual identity.
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Then you do not see the Deity
as made of stone or wood.
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You see directly the Supreme Personality
of Godhead and you can talk,
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you can receive an inspiration.
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This is the beginning.
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Arcāyām eva haraye pūjāṁ yaḥ śraddhayehate
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na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu sa bhaktaḥ prākṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ [?].
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We should learn how to do
good to the people in general.
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They have forgotten their
relationship with God.
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You should be
sympathetic for them.
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That they’re suffering on account
of their forgetfulness of God,
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let us do some service to them
[indistinct] Awaken them.
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Awaken their Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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That is Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement.
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It is the best welfare activities
to the human society.
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Because he has got, he
has forgotten Kṛṣṇa,
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he’s suffering and if you awaken his Kṛṣṇa
consciousness then he will be happy.
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Just like a rich man’s son.
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He has forgotten that his father is very rich,
or his father has left immense property.
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But forgetting his real position,
he’s loitering in the street, hungry.
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You can call him, “All right,
you take some food.”
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That is not real benefit,
that is temporary.
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But if you awaken his real consciousness,
that he is the son of a very rich man,
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his father has got
immense property,
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“Why don’t you go back to
your father and be happy?”
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That is Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement.
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That is stated here.
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Janma karma ca me divyaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ [Bg. 4.9].
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One has to understand
Kṛṣṇa, tattvataḥ, in truth.
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Not superficially.
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What is Kṛṣṇa?
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Kṛṣṇa is the supreme leader.
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Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām [?].
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supreme leader, perfect leader, without
any mistake, without any illusion,
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without any cheating, and without
any imperfection of the senses.
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We have to take direction from such a
leader, then our life will be successful.
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And because we are taking direction
from imperfect leaders, cheater leaders,
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therefore we are meeting
with so many problems.
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Kṛṣṇa says that yadā yadā hi
dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata [?].
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Tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham [Bg. 4.7].
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That I have already explained,
what is that glāniḥ?
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The glāniḥ is when
we forget Kṛṣṇa.
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Then our activities
become polluted.
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Just like a servant.
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If he forgets that there is master,
then he becomes polluted.
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He steals, he mismanages things,
things become very disordered.
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But if he has got the sense
that “I have got my master,
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everything belongs to my master,” and
if he acts accordingly, that is very nice.
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So we do not know what is the
constitutional position of Kṛṣṇa
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and what is my
constitutional position.
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That is called sambandha-jñā.
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My relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
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Everyone of us has
got a relationship.
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Kṛṣṇa says in the Fifteenth Chapter,
mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ [Bg. 15.7].
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Just like sons are part
and parcel of the father.
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Father’s body extends
as son and daughter.
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Similarly we are also
expansion of Kṛṣṇa’s body.
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We are vibhinnāṁśa.
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Kṛṣṇa expands in two ways,
svāṁśa and vibhinnāṁśa.
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The vibhinnāṁśa expansion
we are, we living entities.
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But because we have forgotten Kṛṣṇa, we
have come to enjoy this material world,
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we are becoming infected with
the modes of material nature,
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and accepting different types of
body, 8,400,000 species of life.
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But somehow or other if we
come in contact with Kṛṣṇa,
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by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa’s confidential
devotees, then our life becomes success.
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That is described here.
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Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9].
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Then this transmigration
of the soul stops.
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Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [?].
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Punar janma naiti, does not
mean that soul is finished.
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No.
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This body, material body, na
hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20].
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This material body,
when it is dissolved,
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pañcatvaṁ prāpta, mixes with
these five elements, earth, water,
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fire, air, it does not mean
that the soul is finished.
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The soul is there.
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The soul is transmigrating
to another body.
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Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa.
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By the supervision of the external
energy, and superior superintendent,
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we are transferred to a different body by
the subtle body, mana, buddhi, ahaṅkāra.
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But these foolish people, they
do not know how the soul is…
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They do not know what is soul and
how the soul is being transferred.
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But these things are all
explained in the Bhagavad-gītā.
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Just like we cannot see the flavor, but when
the flavor passes through carried by the air,
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we can smell.
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Similarly, we can smell how
the soul is being transferred.
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These processes are explained
in the Bhagavad-gītā.
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Therefore our duty
is to know Kṛṣṇa.
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Janma karma. Kṛṣṇa comes,
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Kṛṣṇa appears, Kṛṣṇa disappears.
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Why Kṛṣṇa comes?
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Why Kṛṣṇa is not seen?
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Janma karma. Why He acts?
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Why He takes birth in the
battlefield of Kurukṣetra?
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Why He teaches Arjuna?
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Why He dances with the gopīs?
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So many things Kṛṣṇa’s life.
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We have read Kṛṣṇa book.
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There are so many activities.
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They’re all transcendental,
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although they’re written just like
ordinary story activities of a person.
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But they are not ordinary things.
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If you simply read Kṛṣṇa book,
although it looks like story,
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then you become delivered from these
clutches of repetition of birth and death.
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It is so nice.
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Because you will understand
Kṛṣṇa, what is Kṛṣṇa,
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and here it is said, janma karma ca me
divyaṁ ye jānāti tattvataḥ [Bg. 4.9].
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It is explained.
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The people who are reading
Kṛṣṇa book very seriously,
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and tries to understand
Kṛṣṇa, he will understand.
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Kṛṣṇa is very kind.
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As soon as he begins reading Kṛṣṇa
book with a little faith and adherence,
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Kṛṣṇa will be very much pleased.
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Śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
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puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ [Bhāg. 1.2.17].
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As soon as Kṛṣṇa is
within your heart
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so when you read Bhagavad-gītā or
Kṛṣṇa book with little seriousness,
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then Kṛṣṇa understands, “Now
he is serious to understand me.”
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He’s with the…. You haven’t
got to search out Kṛṣṇa,
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He’s already within you.
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Simply you have to
become little serious.
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“Kṛṣṇa, kindly give me knowledge
so that I can understand.”
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Buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi tam [?].
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If you are serious devotee,
if you are in love with Kṛṣṇa,
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teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam [Bg. 10.10].
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If you are engaged in His
worshiping, in chanting,
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man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru [Bg. 18.65].
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If you simply follow these four principles,
simply thinking of Kṛṣṇa, simply, always,
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sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ [?].
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Simply meditate.
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This is meditation.
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Meditation means as you see the
form of Kṛṣṇa, and whenever you go,
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the impression of the form will be within
your eyes, and if you think of Kṛṣṇa,
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your life is succesful.
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Therefore the Deity of
Kṛṣṇa should be seen.
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That is the benefit of the eyes.
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The ears should be engaged
hearing about Kṛṣṇa.
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The tongue should be engaged for eating
Kṛṣṇa’s remnants of foddstuff, prasādam.
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The nose should be engaged for smelling
the flower which is offered to Kṛṣṇa,
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or the tulasī.
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In this way, when you
engage all your senses,
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the legs should be utilized for
coming to this temple to see Kṛṣṇa.
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Not to going to the cinema rascal.
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Then your life will be successful.
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You’ll understand Kṛṣṇa.
Kṛṣṇa is very kind.
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He says teṣāṁ satata-
yuktānām [Bg. 10.10],
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if you engage all your senses
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for understanding Kṛṣṇa
with devotion and faith,
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prīti-purvakam, with love,
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the love is the basic principle
of understanding Kṛṣṇa.
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But you will develop your love.
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The love means, just like it
is said, dadāti pratigṛhṇāti.
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You are coming into the
temple if you give something,
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patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ
toyaṁ [?]. Little things.
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“Kṛṣṇa, I have brought You.”
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I could not bring any
very costly thing,
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but I’ve collected these patraṁ
puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ [?].
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Kṛṣṇa is pleased, tad aham aśnāmi.
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Kṛṣṇa says patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ
toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati
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tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi… [?].
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Because he has brought
it, Kṛṣṇa is not beggar.
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Kṛṣṇa can create millions
of fruits and flowers.
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He’s ātmārāma, He’s
fully satisfied in Himself.
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He’s so opulent.
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But He wants that you should also
love Kṛṣṇa and give Him something.
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That He wants.
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Therefore He comes,
paritrāṇāya sādhūnām.
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Therefore He comes.
He’s not poor.
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Kṛṣṇa is all opulent.
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Lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānam [Bs. 5.29].
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He’s always being worshiped
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by many hundreds and thousands
of goddesses of fortune.
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Here we worship Goddess Lakṣmī, goddess
of fortune, “Mother, give me some money.”
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And that also does not stay.
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Lakṣmī’s another name is cañcala,
sometimes she favors and goes away.
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But Kṛṣṇa is so opulent
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that millions of godesses of
fortune are engaged in His service.
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So why He’s asking you, patraṁ
puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ [?]?
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He’s asking out of love.
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That, “You try to love Me.
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If You are so poor you cannot
give Me anything, alright,
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give me little flower, little
fruit. I will be satisfied.”
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Kṛṣṇa is so kind.
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And still you are not taking the
opportunity of understanding Kṛṣṇa.
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Just see how much
unfortunate we are.
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As you serve Kṛṣṇa,
you understand Kṛṣṇa.
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You cannot understand Kṛṣṇa
otherwise, unless you render service.
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Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ [?].
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Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [BRS. 1.2.234].
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If you simply exact your senses, your nice
brain, “Kṛṣṇa is like this, Kṛṣṇa is like that,”
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but if you are not a devotee,
Kṛṣṇa will not reveal Himself.
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Nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ [Bg. 7.25].
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The rascal’s mental speculation will not
help him to understand Kṛṣṇa, what He is.
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That is not possible.
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His all activities are
divyam, transcendental.
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We cannot understand with
our material blunt senses.
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That is not possible.
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Therefore, the śāstra says,
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ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [BRS. 1.2.234].
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These blunt senses, you
cannot understand Kṛṣṇa.
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Or Kṛṣṇa means His name, His
form, His quality, His activities,
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His pastimes, so many things.
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Janma karma.
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So how Kṛṣṇa will be
understood then?
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Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau.
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If you engage your
tongue in His service,
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then that is the recommendation
of Vedic literature.
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That, first of all, you have
to engage your tongue.
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Kṛṣṇa’s service begins from the tongue,
because tongue has got two functions,
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namely to vibrate to speak
something, and to taste something.
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So you engage.
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You simply engage your tongue
for chanting and glorifying Kṛṣṇa,
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and eat prasādam, then the two tongue’s
business will be finished. [splice]
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Thank you very much [end]
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