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Fest SF 1971-06-27 Ratha-yatra--Do Not Think There is --etc
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a lecture
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 27th of June,
1971, in San Francisco, California.
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PRABHUPĀDA: jagannātha svāmī
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nayana-pathagāmī bhavatu
me [crowd repeats]
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Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa,
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/
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Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma,
Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.
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[crowd repeats]
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Thank you very much.
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
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I thank you very
much for your kindly
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participating in this great
Ratha-yatra festival.
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I have already explained what
is this Ratha-yatra festival.
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It is in commemoration of a grand visit by
Lord Kṛṣṇa along with His elder brother,
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Balarāma, and His younger sister,
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Subhadrā, in a solar eclipse
ceremony at Kurukṣetra.
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This occasion is the subject
matter of this Ratha-yatra festival.
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Apart from these historical references
in the matter of Ratha-yatra festival,
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there is another spiritual meaning, that
the Lord is situated in everyone’s heart,
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and this body is just
like ratha, or car.
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He is sitting in everyone’s heart.
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It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā,
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sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ
“I am sitting in everyone’s heart.”
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Mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam
apohanaṁ ca [Bg. 15.15].
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“I am giving everyone
the intelligence
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as well as I am taking away the
intelligence from everyone.’’
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This double work is being
done by the Supersoul.
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In one side He is helping how to
realize self, how to realize God,
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and other side He is
helping also to forget God.
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How is it that the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, as paramātmā,
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is doing this double work?
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The sense is that if we
want to forget God,
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God will help us in such a way
that we’ll forget God life after life.
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But if we want to reestablish
our relationship with God,
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from within He will
help us in every way.
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This human form of life is a
chance for God realization.
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Without God realization,
our life is frustrated.
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We being part and parcel of God,
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it is our duty to understand our
relationship with God and act accordingly,
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and then our ultimate
goal of life is achieved.
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The ultimate goal of life is to attain
eternal life, full of knowledge and bliss.
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Sac-cid-ānanda vigraha [Bs. 5.1].
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Sat means eternal, ānanda means
bliss and cit means knowledge.
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This body is just the opposite.
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It is not sat.
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This body is temporary.
It is not eternal.
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This body is full of ignorance.
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There is practically no knowledge.
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We do not know,
after closing our eyes,
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we do not know what is
happening before our eyes.
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So our knowledge
is always imperfect.
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And this life is also miserable.
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It is not at all blissful.
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Every step, there are three
kinds of miserable condition:
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ādhyātmika,
adhibautika, adhidaivika.
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Ādhyātmika means miseries
pertaining to the body and the mind.
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Adhibautika means miserable condition
offered by other living entities.
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And adhidaivika,
natural disturbances.
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So either of these three, or at least one
or two, there must be always present.
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This is the material
condition of life.
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But as spirit soul, we are
sac-cid-ānanda vigraha,
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part and parcel of Sac-cid-
ānanda vigraha [Bs. 5.1].
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Sat means eternal, cit means knowledge,
and ānanda means blissfulness.
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So if we want to have eternal life,
full of knowledge and blissfulness,
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then we must take to
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Our, this Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement
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is the greatest welfare
activities in the human society.
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We are giving information to every
man, without any discrimination of cast,
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creed, and color, that every human
being especially, not only human being,
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all living entities, including the animals,
beasts, birds, trees, aquatics—everyone—
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they can achieve to the highest perfection
of life by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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But especially the extra
intelligence of the human being
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can be utilized to realize Kṛṣṇa.
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If we don’t do that, we are
missing a great opportunity.
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So our request to everyone
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is to understand this philosophy
of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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If anyone wants to
understand this philosophy
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through philosophical angle of
vision or scientific angle of vision,
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we have got immense
volumes of books.
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You can read and try to understand what is
this great movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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But you can also,
without reading books,
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without taking any trouble, if you simply
agree to chant this mahā-mantra,
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Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma,
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Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare
Hare, you get the same result.
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Even a child can join.
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Actually we have experienced
that a child, a dog,
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an animal, everyone takes
part in this movement.
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During the Lord
Caitanya’s movement,
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when He passed through a great
forest known as Jharikhaṇḍa…
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Central India there
is a great forest.
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Along with Him, the tigers,
the elephants, the deers,
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everyone danced and
chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
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It is so nice, and it is so spiritual,
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the very vibration will immediately enthuse
your ecstasy in spiritual consciousness.
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Please, therefore, take to this
chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
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There is no loss.
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There is no expenditure.
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We don’t charge anything.
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We have arranged this Ratha-yatra
festival by begging from door to door.
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Although we have no means,
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but still we are executing this function
for the benefit of the people in general.
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Please take advantage of
this spiritual movement
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and make your life
blissful and perfect.
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If you miss this opportunity, you do not
know what you are going to have next life.
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Do not think that
there is no next life.
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Next life, every moment
we are changing our body.
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You know that when your body was
a baby, that body was very small.
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Now that body is no longer there.
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When you were a boy
there was another body.
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That body is no longer there.
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Now you are young man
there is another body,
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and when you’ll become old man
like me, you’ll have another body.
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This means that we are changing
bodies in every moment, every second,
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imperceptibly, but I, the spirit
soul, exist in all circumstances.
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Therefore it is natural to conclude
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that after leaving this body
I shall have another body.
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That’s a fact.
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That is Vedic truth.
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Vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā
vihāya [Bg. 2.22].
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The example is given that as we
change our dresses; similarly,
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we are changing our dresses
from one body to another.
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We have changed dresses
as aquatic animals,
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as many fishes and aquatic
animals as there are in the sea,
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then we are change bodies as creepers,
plants and trees for many, many years.
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Then we change our bodies
in the insect life, reptiles life,
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then we are change our bodies in
thirty hundred thousands of beasts,
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then we have got this
human form of life.
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That is also an evolution through
many uncivilized form of human life.
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Now this civilized form of human life, with
higher intelligence and consciousness,
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it is meant for God realization.
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It is not meant for utilizing as the animals
waste their time simply for eating, sleeping,
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mating and defending.
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That is not our business.
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That is part of our business
so far the body is concerned.
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But as spirit soul, our main business
is to understand what I am,
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wherefrom I have
come, where I shall go,
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why I am under the tribulation of
threefold miseries of material condition.
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These questions
must be answered.
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If we do not question,
just like live like animal…
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The animal cannot question, neither
they can understand the answer,
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but the human form of life they can
question and understand the answer also.
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In the Vedānta-sūtra it is called brahma-
jijñāsā, inquiring about the Supreme.
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So that is our prerogative.
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Please take chance of this human
body and try to understand yourself
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and cleanse your heart from the
dirty things by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa,
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Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare
Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.
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Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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