0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,971 Bg 04-09 BOM 1974-03-29 Cheater Leaders 1 00:00:04,972 --> 00:00:09,251 ANNOUNCER: The following is a class on a Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, 2 00:00:09,252 --> 00:00:12,241 4th chapter, text number 9, 3 00:00:12,242 --> 00:00:17,971 given by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, 4 00:00:17,972 --> 00:00:24,961 recorded on March 29th, 1974, in Bombay, India. 5 00:00:24,962 --> 00:00:25,911 PRADYUMNA: [leads text chanting] Translation: 6 00:00:25,912 --> 00:00:31,051 “One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities, does not, 7 00:00:31,052 --> 00:00:35,251 upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, 8 00:00:35,252 --> 00:00:43,732 but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.” 9 00:00:43,733 --> 00:00:46,342 PRABHUPĀDA: Janma karma ca me divyam 10 00:00:46,343 --> 00:00:50,142 evaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ 11 00:00:50,143 --> 00:00:57,672 tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti so’rjuna [Bg. 4.9]. 12 00:00:57,673 --> 00:01:01,182 This is very important verse. 13 00:01:01,183 --> 00:01:05,652 Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [?]. 14 00:01:05,653 --> 00:01:16,542 Our problem is this transmigration of the soul, one body to another. 15 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:19,292 This is going on. 16 00:01:19,293 --> 00:01:24,752 Because you do not know how to get out of it, 17 00:01:24,753 --> 00:01:31,002 modern education they do not know even what is soul, what is this body, 18 00:01:31,003 --> 00:01:36,032 how the transmigration of the soul taking place. 19 00:01:36,033 --> 00:01:38,928 All blunt. 20 00:01:38,929 --> 00:01:47,208 There is no educational institution all over the world to understand this science. 21 00:01:47,209 --> 00:01:54,068 Although it is the most important science for the human being. 22 00:01:54,069 --> 00:01:58,558 Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. 23 00:01:58,559 --> 00:02:02,168 No more transmigration of the soul. 24 00:02:02,169 --> 00:02:08,078 The soul, in its original spiritual body, 25 00:02:08,079 --> 00:02:15,908 can be transferred from this material world to the spiritual world. 26 00:02:15,909 --> 00:02:23,768 And there is the spiritual world as I’ve already explained, 27 00:02:23,769 --> 00:02:29,938 that is three times creation of the Lord. 28 00:02:29,939 --> 00:02:36,208 This is only one-fourth, this material world. 29 00:02:36,209 --> 00:02:41,838 So our problem of human life 30 00:02:41,839 --> 00:02:46,358 is to get out of these material clutches 31 00:02:46,359 --> 00:02:50,788 and transfer ourselves to the spiritual world. 32 00:02:50,789 --> 00:02:54,708 That is real problem. 33 00:02:54,709 --> 00:02:57,568 Not this food problem, that problem. 34 00:02:57,569 --> 00:02:59,898 This will go on. 35 00:02:59,899 --> 00:03:06,978 So long you are in the material world, such problems will come and go. 36 00:03:06,979 --> 00:03:09,479 They’re not permanent. 37 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,869 That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. 38 00:03:12,870 --> 00:03:19,129 Āgamāpāyinaḥ anityāḥ tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata [?]. 39 00:03:19,130 --> 00:03:24,989 These problems, they’ll come and they’ll go. 40 00:03:24,990 --> 00:03:27,439 Just like seasonal changes. 41 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:34,579 Mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ 42 00:03:34,580 --> 00:03:41,089 āgamāpāyino ’nityās tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata [?]. 43 00:03:41,090 --> 00:03:43,799 That is real knowledge. 44 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:49,729 We should not be disturbed by the material problems. 45 00:03:49,730 --> 00:03:52,219 You cannot avoid them. 46 00:03:52,220 --> 00:03:57,839 So long… Just like if you are in the winter season, 47 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:07,559 how you can avoid cold, infection by cold, or affection by cold? 48 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,439 You cannot avoid. 49 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,229 That does not mean, 50 00:04:12,230 --> 00:04:19,929 because it is the season is very cool and you cannot take bath. 51 00:04:19,930 --> 00:04:22,419 No. You must take bath. 52 00:04:22,420 --> 00:04:24,769 That is Aryan civilization. 53 00:04:24,770 --> 00:04:30,390 Still in India we’ll find in the villages severe cold. 54 00:04:30,391 --> 00:04:33,880 Still the people are taking bath early in the morning. 55 00:04:33,881 --> 00:04:35,840 They are accustomed. 56 00:04:35,841 --> 00:04:38,580 But now we are giving up. 57 00:04:38,581 --> 00:04:44,040 Now we are rising at seven o’clock because we are advanced in education. 58 00:04:44,041 --> 00:04:48,430 And if there is maṅgala- ārātrika, it is nuisance. 59 00:04:48,431 --> 00:04:52,390 This is our advancement of civilization at the present moment. 60 00:04:52,391 --> 00:04:59,700 But if you go in the villages, you’ll find that the villagers rising early in the morning, 61 00:04:59,701 --> 00:05:08,650 they’re taking bath, changing cloth, and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa as far as possible. 62 00:05:08,651 --> 00:05:19,250 Still in the mass of people of India, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness is still existing, 63 00:05:19,251 --> 00:05:31,070 And they believe in the next birth, next life, past life, they believe in God, in Kṛṣṇa. 64 00:05:31,071 --> 00:05:38,640 They’re satisfied with that position, but the modern leaders they do not like it. 65 00:05:38,641 --> 00:05:42,230 They want to make them intoxicated 66 00:05:42,231 --> 00:05:50,120 so that they can work like an ass for the morsel of food. 67 00:05:50,121 --> 00:05:52,030 But this is not the problem. 68 00:05:52,031 --> 00:06:03,550 The real problem is here, stated, that you should stop the disease of birth and death. 69 00:06:03,551 --> 00:06:05,910 That is real problem. 70 00:06:05,911 --> 00:06:09,910 Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma [Bg. 4.9]. 71 00:06:09,911 --> 00:06:15,101 The human life is meant for making a solution 72 00:06:15,102 --> 00:06:18,651 of the repetition of birth and death. 73 00:06:18,652 --> 00:06:21,181 That is real problem. 74 00:06:21,182 --> 00:06:26,341 Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [?]. 75 00:06:26,342 --> 00:06:29,751 We are finding fault with so many things. 76 00:06:29,752 --> 00:06:40,401 But really we should find fault with this process of repetition of birth and death. 77 00:06:40,402 --> 00:06:47,511 People are now being educated in this way that there is no more life. 78 00:06:47,512 --> 00:06:55,821 You have got this life and you enjoy the senses as far as possible. 79 00:06:55,822 --> 00:06:59,391 That is nastik theory. 80 00:06:59,392 --> 00:07:06,141 This nastik or atheism… There were many saints in India also. 81 00:07:06,142 --> 00:07:09,791 One of them is Carvaka. 82 00:07:09,792 --> 00:07:13,811 He’s very famous atheist. 83 00:07:13,812 --> 00:07:17,021 His philosophy is hedonism. 84 00:07:17,022 --> 00:07:23,441 Ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet yāvaj jīvet sukhaṁ jīvet [?]. 85 00:07:23,442 --> 00:07:29,441 His theory is, because in India the luxury is 86 00:07:29,442 --> 00:07:34,931 to eat something which is cooked in ghee: 87 00:07:34,932 --> 00:07:39,131 Luci, purī, halavā. 88 00:07:39,132 --> 00:07:50,092 So Carvaka Muni says that you take loan from your friends if you have no money 89 00:07:50,093 --> 00:07:54,392 and eat as much as possible ghee. 90 00:07:54,393 --> 00:07:59,242 Ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā ghṛtaṁ pibet yāvaj jīvet sukhaṁ jīvet [?]. 91 00:07:59,243 --> 00:08:04,942 And so long you live, you live by gratifying your senses. 92 00:08:04,943 --> 00:08:09,302 Here sukham means sense gratification. 93 00:08:09,303 --> 00:08:18,792 But according to Vedic civilization, sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriyam grāhyam [?]. 94 00:08:18,793 --> 00:08:21,202 What is the actual happiness? 95 00:08:21,203 --> 00:08:23,862 That is beyond your senses. 96 00:08:23,863 --> 00:08:25,942 Not sense gratification. 97 00:08:25,943 --> 00:08:33,582 But because we are materially absorbed, we think indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur [Bg. 3.42]. 98 00:08:33,583 --> 00:08:35,302 Indriya. 99 00:08:35,303 --> 00:08:41,742 the senses, always all. To satisfy the senses that is sukh. 100 00:08:41,743 --> 00:08:44,202 That is happiness. 101 00:08:44,203 --> 00:08:50,422 And those who are a little disgusted with sense gratification, 102 00:08:50,423 --> 00:08:54,522 indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ [Bg. 3.42]. 103 00:08:54,523 --> 00:08:57,512 They are mental speculators. 104 00:08:57,513 --> 00:09:05,422 They write poetries and utopian theories, “This philosophy, that philosophy.” 105 00:09:05,423 --> 00:09:09,692 In this way they satisfy the mind. 106 00:09:09,693 --> 00:09:12,052 But that is also not happiness. 107 00:09:12,053 --> 00:09:13,813 Mental happiness. 108 00:09:13,814 --> 00:09:17,563 Mano-rathena asato dhāvato bahiḥ [?]. 109 00:09:17,564 --> 00:09:23,113 If you become satisfied by mental happiness, 110 00:09:23,114 --> 00:09:26,713 then you’ll have to come down again. Asato. 111 00:09:26,714 --> 00:09:28,773 Asato mā sad-gamaḥ [?]. 112 00:09:28,774 --> 00:09:37,523 Real life is: “Don’t stay in this temporary world but go to the real world”, 113 00:09:37,524 --> 00:09:42,223 paras tasmāt tu bhāvo ’nyo ’vyakto ’vyaktāt sanātanaḥ [Bg. 8.20]. 114 00:09:42,224 --> 00:09:46,623 You’ll find all these things in Bhagavad-gītā. 115 00:09:46,624 --> 00:09:53,873 So either on the bodily plane or on the mental plane you cannot be happy. 116 00:09:53,874 --> 00:09:57,423 That is not possible. 117 00:09:57,424 --> 00:10:06,323 But if you want to be happy then you have to come to the spiritual platform 118 00:10:06,324 --> 00:10:10,583 and engage in spiritual activities, 119 00:10:10,584 --> 00:10:15,633 sukham ātyantikaṁ yat tad atīndriyam grāhyam [?]. 120 00:10:15,634 --> 00:10:23,943 above the material platform of sensual and mental activities. 121 00:10:23,944 --> 00:10:30,213 So spiritual activities means devotional service. 122 00:10:30,214 --> 00:10:33,203 Spiritual activities mean devotional service, 123 00:10:33,204 --> 00:10:39,093 activities in relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. 124 00:10:39,094 --> 00:10:42,754 Bhakti-yoga. 125 00:10:42,755 --> 00:10:46,974 Bhakti-yoga means, as I have repeatedly explained, 126 00:10:46,975 --> 00:10:52,374 that you have to forget your identification with the matter, 127 00:10:52,375 --> 00:10:55,374 sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. 128 00:10:55,375 --> 00:11:02,354 You have to forget your body as American, Indian, brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, 129 00:11:02,355 --> 00:11:06,054 śūdra, Hindu, Muslim. That you have to forget. 130 00:11:06,055 --> 00:11:09,704 Ahaṁ brahmāsmi, “I am spirit soul.” 131 00:11:09,705 --> 00:11:12,174 That is real identification. 132 00:11:12,175 --> 00:11:19,124 And when the spirit soul is active, sometimes the Māyāvādī philosophers, 133 00:11:19,125 --> 00:11:26,404 they think, “Now I’ve realized that I am not this body, I am not matter, I am spirit soul, 134 00:11:26,405 --> 00:11:29,234 so now I have become Nārāyaṇa. 135 00:11:29,235 --> 00:11:33,514 I have become the Supreme.” 136 00:11:33,515 --> 00:11:37,924 But no, that is also mistake. 137 00:11:37,925 --> 00:11:44,094 When you realize that “Supreme is the Supreme Brahman, Parabrahman, 138 00:11:44,095 --> 00:11:48,914 I am part and parcel of the Supreme, I am also Brahman, 139 00:11:48,915 --> 00:11:51,374 but I am not the Supreme Brahman, 140 00:11:51,375 --> 00:11:55,914 therefore my business is to serve Parabrahman.” 141 00:11:55,915 --> 00:11:59,704 That is real spiritual life. 142 00:11:59,705 --> 00:12:01,954 That is the beginning of spiritual life. 143 00:12:01,955 --> 00:12:05,905 Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati 144 00:12:05,906 --> 00:12:11,695 samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām [Bg. 18.54]. 145 00:12:11,696 --> 00:12:13,705 Parā bhakti. 146 00:12:13,706 --> 00:12:19,135 Parā-bhakti, that is real spiritual life. 147 00:12:19,136 --> 00:12:26,895 Parā aparā, aparā bhakti means on the material platform. 148 00:12:26,896 --> 00:12:30,785 Generally, the Deity worship. 149 00:12:30,786 --> 00:12:33,395 This is the beginning, 150 00:12:33,396 --> 00:12:41,545 but as you go on worshiping the Deity you realize your spiritual identity. 151 00:12:41,546 --> 00:12:49,085 Then you do not see the Deity as made of stone or wood. 152 00:12:49,086 --> 00:12:55,665 You see directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead and you can talk, 153 00:12:55,666 --> 00:12:58,355 you can receive an inspiration. 154 00:12:58,356 --> 00:13:00,815 This is the beginning. 155 00:13:00,816 --> 00:13:04,625 Arcāyām eva haraye pūjāṁ yaḥ śraddhayehate 156 00:13:04,626 --> 00:13:11,245 na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu sa bhaktaḥ prākṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ [?]. 157 00:13:11,246 --> 00:13:17,285 We should learn how to do good to the people in general. 158 00:13:17,286 --> 00:13:21,675 They have forgotten their relationship with God. 159 00:13:21,676 --> 00:13:24,666 You should be sympathetic for them. 160 00:13:24,667 --> 00:13:29,856 That they’re suffering on account of their forgetfulness of God, 161 00:13:29,857 --> 00:13:35,276 let us do some service to them [indistinct] Awaken them. 162 00:13:35,277 --> 00:13:38,126 Awaken their Kṛṣṇa consciousness. 163 00:13:38,127 --> 00:13:41,966 That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. 164 00:13:41,967 --> 00:13:49,006 It is the best welfare activities to the human society. 165 00:13:49,007 --> 00:13:51,886 Because he has got, he has forgotten Kṛṣṇa, 166 00:13:51,887 --> 00:14:00,946 he’s suffering and if you awaken his Kṛṣṇa consciousness then he will be happy. 167 00:14:00,947 --> 00:14:03,796 Just like a rich man’s son. 168 00:14:03,797 --> 00:14:12,246 He has forgotten that his father is very rich, or his father has left immense property. 169 00:14:12,247 --> 00:14:19,126 But forgetting his real position, he’s loitering in the street, hungry. 170 00:14:19,127 --> 00:14:23,226 You can call him, “All right, you take some food.” 171 00:14:23,227 --> 00:14:26,836 That is not real benefit, that is temporary. 172 00:14:26,837 --> 00:14:35,176 But if you awaken his real consciousness, that he is the son of a very rich man, 173 00:14:35,177 --> 00:14:37,506 his father has got immense property, 174 00:14:37,507 --> 00:14:42,286 “Why don’t you go back to your father and be happy?” 175 00:14:42,287 --> 00:14:45,236 That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. 176 00:14:45,237 --> 00:14:47,206 That is stated here. 177 00:14:47,207 --> 00:14:52,017 Janma karma ca me divyaṁ yo vetti tattvataḥ [Bg. 4.9]. 178 00:14:52,018 --> 00:14:58,227 One has to understand Kṛṣṇa, tattvataḥ, in truth. 179 00:14:58,228 --> 00:15:00,707 Not superficially. 180 00:15:00,708 --> 00:15:03,007 What is Kṛṣṇa? 181 00:15:03,008 --> 00:15:08,217 Kṛṣṇa is the supreme leader. 182 00:15:08,218 --> 00:15:12,217 Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām [?]. 183 00:15:12,218 --> 00:15:20,097 supreme leader, perfect leader, without any mistake, without any illusion, 184 00:15:20,098 --> 00:15:26,137 without any cheating, and without any imperfection of the senses. 185 00:15:26,138 --> 00:15:33,117 We have to take direction from such a leader, then our life will be successful. 186 00:15:33,118 --> 00:15:41,317 And because we are taking direction from imperfect leaders, cheater leaders, 187 00:15:41,318 --> 00:15:45,137 therefore we are meeting with so many problems. 188 00:15:45,138 --> 00:15:52,017 Kṛṣṇa says that yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata [?]. 189 00:15:52,018 --> 00:15:55,137 Tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham [Bg. 4.7]. 190 00:15:55,138 --> 00:15:59,177 That I have already explained, what is that glāniḥ? 191 00:15:59,178 --> 00:16:02,847 The glāniḥ is when we forget Kṛṣṇa. 192 00:16:02,848 --> 00:16:07,857 Then our activities become polluted. 193 00:16:07,858 --> 00:16:09,842 Just like a servant. 194 00:16:09,843 --> 00:16:16,632 If he forgets that there is master, then he becomes polluted. 195 00:16:16,633 --> 00:16:23,642 He steals, he mismanages things, things become very disordered. 196 00:16:23,643 --> 00:16:27,622 But if he has got the sense that “I have got my master, 197 00:16:27,623 --> 00:16:34,442 everything belongs to my master,” and if he acts accordingly, that is very nice. 198 00:16:34,443 --> 00:16:40,582 So we do not know what is the constitutional position of Kṛṣṇa 199 00:16:40,583 --> 00:16:43,932 and what is my constitutional position. 200 00:16:43,933 --> 00:16:46,532 That is called sambandha-jñā. 201 00:16:46,533 --> 00:16:48,792 My relationship with Kṛṣṇa. 202 00:16:48,793 --> 00:16:53,152 Everyone of us has got a relationship. 203 00:16:53,153 --> 00:16:58,692 Kṛṣṇa says in the Fifteenth Chapter, mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ [Bg. 15.7]. 204 00:16:58,693 --> 00:17:05,622 Just like sons are part and parcel of the father. 205 00:17:05,623 --> 00:17:09,972 Father’s body extends as son and daughter. 206 00:17:09,973 --> 00:17:16,542 Similarly we are also expansion of Kṛṣṇa’s body. 207 00:17:16,543 --> 00:17:18,583 We are vibhinnāṁśa. 208 00:17:18,584 --> 00:17:24,683 Kṛṣṇa expands in two ways, svāṁśa and vibhinnāṁśa. 209 00:17:24,684 --> 00:17:30,753 The vibhinnāṁśa expansion we are, we living entities. 210 00:17:30,754 --> 00:17:37,313 But because we have forgotten Kṛṣṇa, we have come to enjoy this material world, 211 00:17:37,314 --> 00:17:41,773 we are becoming infected with the modes of material nature, 212 00:17:41,774 --> 00:17:49,923 and accepting different types of body, 8,400,000 species of life. 213 00:17:49,924 --> 00:17:56,533 But somehow or other if we come in contact with Kṛṣṇa, 214 00:17:56,534 --> 00:18:04,783 by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa’s confidential devotees, then our life becomes success. 215 00:18:04,784 --> 00:18:07,003 That is described here. 216 00:18:07,004 --> 00:18:11,883 Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. 217 00:18:11,884 --> 00:18:19,973 Then this transmigration of the soul stops. 218 00:18:19,974 --> 00:18:22,723 Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [?]. 219 00:18:22,724 --> 00:18:27,473 Punar janma naiti, does not mean that soul is finished. 220 00:18:27,474 --> 00:18:29,023 No. 221 00:18:29,024 --> 00:18:35,343 This body, material body, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20]. 222 00:18:35,344 --> 00:18:40,613 This material body, when it is dissolved, 223 00:18:40,614 --> 00:18:46,223 pañcatvaṁ prāpta, mixes with these five elements, earth, water, 224 00:18:46,224 --> 00:18:51,544 fire, air, it does not mean that the soul is finished. 225 00:18:51,545 --> 00:18:54,344 The soul is there. 226 00:18:54,345 --> 00:19:00,814 The soul is transmigrating to another body. 227 00:19:00,815 --> 00:19:02,554 Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa. 228 00:19:02,555 --> 00:19:12,514 By the supervision of the external energy, and superior superintendent, 229 00:19:12,515 --> 00:19:22,154 we are transferred to a different body by the subtle body, mana, buddhi, ahaṅkāra. 230 00:19:22,155 --> 00:19:26,594 But these foolish people, they do not know how the soul is… 231 00:19:26,595 --> 00:19:33,024 They do not know what is soul and how the soul is being transferred. 232 00:19:33,025 --> 00:19:37,444 But these things are all explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. 233 00:19:37,445 --> 00:19:46,204 Just like we cannot see the flavor, but when the flavor passes through carried by the air, 234 00:19:46,205 --> 00:19:48,854 we can smell. 235 00:19:48,855 --> 00:19:57,454 Similarly, we can smell how the soul is being transferred. 236 00:19:57,455 --> 00:20:02,654 These processes are explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. 237 00:20:02,655 --> 00:20:07,484 Therefore our duty is to know Kṛṣṇa. 238 00:20:07,485 --> 00:20:10,764 Janma karma. Kṛṣṇa comes, 239 00:20:10,765 --> 00:20:13,604 Kṛṣṇa appears, Kṛṣṇa disappears. 240 00:20:13,605 --> 00:20:16,524 Why Kṛṣṇa comes? 241 00:20:16,525 --> 00:20:18,914 Why Kṛṣṇa is not seen? 242 00:20:18,915 --> 00:20:21,414 Janma karma. Why He acts? 243 00:20:21,415 --> 00:20:24,934 Why He takes birth in the battlefield of Kurukṣetra? 244 00:20:24,935 --> 00:20:27,625 Why He teaches Arjuna? 245 00:20:27,626 --> 00:20:30,815 Why He dances with the gopīs? 246 00:20:30,816 --> 00:20:33,195 So many things Kṛṣṇa’s life. 247 00:20:33,196 --> 00:20:36,005 We have read Kṛṣṇa book. 248 00:20:36,006 --> 00:20:38,155 There are so many activities. 249 00:20:38,156 --> 00:20:40,155 They’re all transcendental, 250 00:20:40,156 --> 00:20:47,055 although they’re written just like ordinary story activities of a person. 251 00:20:47,056 --> 00:20:49,605 But they are not ordinary things. 252 00:20:49,606 --> 00:20:56,315 If you simply read Kṛṣṇa book, although it looks like story, 253 00:20:56,316 --> 00:21:03,055 then you become delivered from these clutches of repetition of birth and death. 254 00:21:03,056 --> 00:21:05,725 It is so nice. 255 00:21:05,726 --> 00:21:08,905 Because you will understand Kṛṣṇa, what is Kṛṣṇa, 256 00:21:08,906 --> 00:21:14,645 and here it is said, janma karma ca me divyaṁ ye jānāti tattvataḥ [Bg. 4.9]. 257 00:21:14,646 --> 00:21:17,325 It is explained. 258 00:21:17,326 --> 00:21:24,395 The people who are reading Kṛṣṇa book very seriously, 259 00:21:24,396 --> 00:21:28,655 and tries to understand Kṛṣṇa, he will understand. 260 00:21:28,656 --> 00:21:31,345 Kṛṣṇa is very kind. 261 00:21:31,346 --> 00:21:39,516 As soon as he begins reading Kṛṣṇa book with a little faith and adherence, 262 00:21:39,517 --> 00:21:42,556 Kṛṣṇa will be very much pleased. 263 00:21:42,557 --> 00:21:45,406 Śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ 264 00:21:45,407 --> 00:21:48,736 puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ [Bhāg. 1.2.17]. 265 00:21:48,737 --> 00:21:52,036 As soon as Kṛṣṇa is within your heart 266 00:21:52,037 --> 00:21:59,396 so when you read Bhagavad-gītā or Kṛṣṇa book with little seriousness, 267 00:21:59,397 --> 00:22:04,126 then Kṛṣṇa understands, “Now he is serious to understand me.” 268 00:22:04,127 --> 00:22:07,286 He’s with the…. You haven’t got to search out Kṛṣṇa, 269 00:22:07,287 --> 00:22:09,526 He’s already within you. 270 00:22:09,527 --> 00:22:12,876 Simply you have to become little serious. 271 00:22:12,877 --> 00:22:17,996 “Kṛṣṇa, kindly give me knowledge so that I can understand.” 272 00:22:17,997 --> 00:22:20,926 Buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi tam [?]. 273 00:22:20,927 --> 00:22:27,266 If you are serious devotee, if you are in love with Kṛṣṇa, 274 00:22:27,267 --> 00:22:31,666 teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam [Bg. 10.10]. 275 00:22:31,667 --> 00:22:36,806 If you are engaged in His worshiping, in chanting, 276 00:22:36,807 --> 00:22:40,516 man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru [Bg. 18.65]. 277 00:22:40,517 --> 00:22:49,246 If you simply follow these four principles, simply thinking of Kṛṣṇa, simply, always, 278 00:22:49,247 --> 00:22:52,186 sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ [?]. 279 00:22:52,187 --> 00:22:54,196 Simply meditate. 280 00:22:54,197 --> 00:22:55,957 This is meditation. 281 00:22:55,958 --> 00:23:02,207 Meditation means as you see the form of Kṛṣṇa, and whenever you go, 282 00:23:02,208 --> 00:23:07,197 the impression of the form will be within your eyes, and if you think of Kṛṣṇa, 283 00:23:07,198 --> 00:23:10,447 your life is succesful. 284 00:23:10,448 --> 00:23:15,357 Therefore the Deity of Kṛṣṇa should be seen. 285 00:23:15,358 --> 00:23:21,807 That is the benefit of the eyes. 286 00:23:21,808 --> 00:23:26,357 The ears should be engaged hearing about Kṛṣṇa. 287 00:23:26,358 --> 00:23:33,627 The tongue should be engaged for eating Kṛṣṇa’s remnants of foddstuff, prasādam. 288 00:23:33,628 --> 00:23:39,807 The nose should be engaged for smelling the flower which is offered to Kṛṣṇa, 289 00:23:39,808 --> 00:23:41,947 or the tulasī. 290 00:23:41,948 --> 00:23:47,277 In this way, when you engage all your senses, 291 00:23:47,278 --> 00:23:52,817 the legs should be utilized for coming to this temple to see Kṛṣṇa. 292 00:23:52,818 --> 00:23:57,027 Not to going to the cinema rascal. 293 00:23:57,028 --> 00:23:58,947 Then your life will be successful. 294 00:23:58,948 --> 00:24:02,587 You’ll understand Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is very kind. 295 00:24:02,588 --> 00:24:06,637 He says teṣāṁ satata- yuktānām [Bg. 10.10], 296 00:24:06,638 --> 00:24:09,398 if you engage all your senses 297 00:24:09,399 --> 00:24:13,827 for understanding Kṛṣṇa with devotion and faith, 298 00:24:13,828 --> 00:24:17,817 prīti-purvakam, with love, 299 00:24:17,818 --> 00:24:22,538 the love is the basic principle of understanding Kṛṣṇa. 300 00:24:22,539 --> 00:24:26,708 But you will develop your love. 301 00:24:26,709 --> 00:24:33,058 The love means, just like it is said, dadāti pratigṛhṇāti. 302 00:24:33,059 --> 00:24:37,248 You are coming into the temple if you give something, 303 00:24:37,249 --> 00:24:40,758 patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ [?]. Little things. 304 00:24:40,759 --> 00:24:43,498 “Kṛṣṇa, I have brought You.” 305 00:24:43,499 --> 00:24:47,558 I could not bring any very costly thing, 306 00:24:47,559 --> 00:24:51,818 but I’ve collected these patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ [?]. 307 00:24:51,819 --> 00:24:56,558 Kṛṣṇa is pleased, tad aham aśnāmi. 308 00:24:56,559 --> 00:25:02,498 Kṛṣṇa says patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati 309 00:25:02,499 --> 00:25:06,758 tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi… [?]. 310 00:25:06,759 --> 00:25:11,348 Because he has brought it, Kṛṣṇa is not beggar. 311 00:25:11,349 --> 00:25:15,318 Kṛṣṇa can create millions of fruits and flowers. 312 00:25:15,319 --> 00:25:20,428 He’s ātmārāma, He’s fully satisfied in Himself. 313 00:25:20,429 --> 00:25:22,488 He’s so opulent. 314 00:25:22,489 --> 00:25:28,608 But He wants that you should also love Kṛṣṇa and give Him something. 315 00:25:28,609 --> 00:25:30,368 That He wants. 316 00:25:30,369 --> 00:25:34,658 Therefore He comes, paritrāṇāya sādhūnām. 317 00:25:34,659 --> 00:25:38,509 Therefore He comes. He’s not poor. 318 00:25:38,510 --> 00:25:40,709 Kṛṣṇa is all opulent. 319 00:25:40,710 --> 00:25:44,929 Lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānam [Bs. 5.29]. 320 00:25:44,930 --> 00:25:46,959 He’s always being worshiped 321 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,399 by many hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune. 322 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:57,449 Here we worship Goddess Lakṣmī, goddess of fortune, “Mother, give me some money.” 323 00:25:57,450 --> 00:26:00,109 And that also does not stay. 324 00:26:00,110 --> 00:26:05,659 Lakṣmī’s another name is cañcala, sometimes she favors and goes away. 325 00:26:05,660 --> 00:26:10,159 But Kṛṣṇa is so opulent 326 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:16,049 that millions of godesses of fortune are engaged in His service. 327 00:26:16,050 --> 00:26:21,909 So why He’s asking you, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ [?]? 328 00:26:21,910 --> 00:26:24,599 He’s asking out of love. 329 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,909 That, “You try to love Me. 330 00:26:27,910 --> 00:26:32,659 If You are so poor you cannot give Me anything, alright, 331 00:26:32,660 --> 00:26:37,349 give me little flower, little fruit. I will be satisfied.” 332 00:26:37,350 --> 00:26:39,399 Kṛṣṇa is so kind. 333 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,859 And still you are not taking the opportunity of understanding Kṛṣṇa. 334 00:26:44,860 --> 00:26:49,590 Just see how much unfortunate we are. 335 00:26:49,591 --> 00:26:54,650 As you serve Kṛṣṇa, you understand Kṛṣṇa. 336 00:26:54,651 --> 00:26:59,660 You cannot understand Kṛṣṇa otherwise, unless you render service. 337 00:26:59,661 --> 00:27:03,990 Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ [?]. 338 00:27:03,991 --> 00:27:08,840 Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [BRS. 1.2.234]. 339 00:27:08,841 --> 00:27:17,320 If you simply exact your senses, your nice brain, “Kṛṣṇa is like this, Kṛṣṇa is like that,” 340 00:27:17,321 --> 00:27:22,080 but if you are not a devotee, Kṛṣṇa will not reveal Himself. 341 00:27:22,081 --> 00:27:26,310 Nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ [Bg. 7.25]. 342 00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:33,930 The rascal’s mental speculation will not help him to understand Kṛṣṇa, what He is. 343 00:27:33,931 --> 00:27:37,550 That is not possible. 344 00:27:37,551 --> 00:27:42,100 His all activities are divyam, transcendental. 345 00:27:42,101 --> 00:27:46,070 We cannot understand with our material blunt senses. 346 00:27:46,071 --> 00:27:48,220 That is not possible. 347 00:27:48,221 --> 00:27:50,320 Therefore, the śāstra says, 348 00:27:50,321 --> 00:27:56,250 ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [BRS. 1.2.234]. 349 00:27:56,251 --> 00:28:00,220 These blunt senses, you cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. 350 00:28:00,221 --> 00:28:07,550 Or Kṛṣṇa means His name, His form, His quality, His activities, 351 00:28:07,551 --> 00:28:10,841 His pastimes, so many things. 352 00:28:10,842 --> 00:28:13,131 Janma karma. 353 00:28:13,132 --> 00:28:17,291 So how Kṛṣṇa will be understood then? 354 00:28:17,292 --> 00:28:20,701 Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau. 355 00:28:20,702 --> 00:28:26,111 If you engage your tongue in His service, 356 00:28:26,112 --> 00:28:29,941 then that is the recommendation of Vedic literature. 357 00:28:29,942 --> 00:28:33,991 That, first of all, you have to engage your tongue. 358 00:28:33,992 --> 00:28:42,101 Kṛṣṇa’s service begins from the tongue, because tongue has got two functions, 359 00:28:42,102 --> 00:28:49,591 namely to vibrate to speak something, and to taste something. 360 00:28:49,592 --> 00:28:51,351 So you engage. 361 00:28:51,352 --> 00:28:58,071 You simply engage your tongue for chanting and glorifying Kṛṣṇa, 362 00:28:58,072 --> 00:29:04,591 and eat prasādam, then the two tongue’s business will be finished. 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