0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,902 Fest SF 1971-06-27 Ratha-yatra--Do Not Think There is --etc 1 00:00:16,003 --> 00:00:17,892 ANNOUNCER: The following is a lecture 2 00:00:17,893 --> 00:00:23,882 given by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, 3 00:00:23,883 --> 00:00:47,802 recorded on the 27th of June, 1971, in San Francisco, California. 4 00:00:47,803 --> 00:00:50,122 PRABHUPĀDA: jagannātha svāmī 5 00:00:50,123 --> 00:01:01,422 nayana-pathagāmī bhavatu me [crowd repeats] 6 00:01:01,423 --> 00:01:05,942 Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ 7 00:01:05,943 --> 00:01:09,062 Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. 8 00:01:09,063 --> 00:01:19,172 [crowd repeats] 9 00:01:19,173 --> 00:01:23,922 Thank you very much. 10 00:01:23,923 --> 00:01:26,293 Ladies and Gentlemen, 11 00:01:26,294 --> 00:01:30,003 I thank you very much for your kindly 12 00:01:30,004 --> 00:01:36,343 participating in this great Ratha-yatra festival. 13 00:01:36,344 --> 00:01:44,353 I have already explained what is this Ratha-yatra festival. 14 00:01:44,354 --> 00:01:56,363 It is in commemoration of a grand visit by Lord Kṛṣṇa along with His elder brother, 15 00:01:56,364 --> 00:02:00,053 Balarāma, and His younger sister, 16 00:02:00,054 --> 00:02:08,563 Subhadrā, in a solar eclipse ceremony at Kurukṣetra. 17 00:02:08,564 --> 00:02:15,653 This occasion is the subject matter of this Ratha-yatra festival. 18 00:02:15,654 --> 00:02:25,233 Apart from these historical references in the matter of Ratha-yatra festival, 19 00:02:25,234 --> 00:02:34,373 there is another spiritual meaning, that the Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, 20 00:02:34,374 --> 00:02:38,753 and this body is just like ratha, or car. 21 00:02:38,754 --> 00:02:42,203 He is sitting in everyone’s heart. 22 00:02:42,204 --> 00:02:45,653 It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, 23 00:02:45,654 --> 00:02:54,743 sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ “I am sitting in everyone’s heart.” 24 00:02:54,744 --> 00:02:58,613 Mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca [Bg. 15.15]. 25 00:02:58,614 --> 00:03:02,763 “I am giving everyone the intelligence 26 00:03:02,764 --> 00:03:08,074 as well as I am taking away the intelligence from everyone.’’ 27 00:03:08,075 --> 00:03:13,614 This double work is being done by the Supersoul. 28 00:03:13,615 --> 00:03:22,584 In one side He is helping how to realize self, how to realize God, 29 00:03:22,585 --> 00:03:29,364 and other side He is helping also to forget God. 30 00:03:29,365 --> 00:03:34,904 How is it that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as paramātmā, 31 00:03:34,905 --> 00:03:38,034 is doing this double work? 32 00:03:38,035 --> 00:03:44,484 The sense is that if we want to forget God, 33 00:03:44,485 --> 00:03:52,004 God will help us in such a way that we’ll forget God life after life. 34 00:03:52,005 --> 00:03:58,414 But if we want to reestablish our relationship with God, 35 00:03:58,415 --> 00:04:02,794 from within He will help us in every way. 36 00:04:02,795 --> 00:04:09,584 This human form of life is a chance for God realization. 37 00:04:09,585 --> 00:04:15,364 Without God realization, our life is frustrated. 38 00:04:15,365 --> 00:04:18,754 We being part and parcel of God, 39 00:04:18,755 --> 00:04:27,224 it is our duty to understand our relationship with God and act accordingly, 40 00:04:27,225 --> 00:04:32,474 and then our ultimate goal of life is achieved. 41 00:04:32,475 --> 00:04:41,334 The ultimate goal of life is to attain eternal life, full of knowledge and bliss. 42 00:04:41,335 --> 00:04:43,724 Sac-cid-ānanda vigraha [Bs. 5.1]. 43 00:04:43,725 --> 00:04:52,035 Sat means eternal, ānanda means bliss and cit means knowledge. 44 00:04:52,036 --> 00:04:56,455 This body is just the opposite. 45 00:04:56,456 --> 00:04:58,865 It is not sat. 46 00:04:58,866 --> 00:05:03,605 This body is temporary. It is not eternal. 47 00:05:03,606 --> 00:05:07,965 This body is full of ignorance. 48 00:05:07,966 --> 00:05:11,905 There is practically no knowledge. 49 00:05:11,906 --> 00:05:16,015 We do not know, after closing our eyes, 50 00:05:16,016 --> 00:05:19,555 we do not know what is happening before our eyes. 51 00:05:19,556 --> 00:05:22,595 So our knowledge is always imperfect. 52 00:05:22,596 --> 00:05:26,665 And this life is also miserable. 53 00:05:26,666 --> 00:05:29,265 It is not at all blissful. 54 00:05:29,266 --> 00:05:33,955 Every step, there are three kinds of miserable condition: 55 00:05:33,956 --> 00:05:37,445 ādhyātmika, adhibautika, adhidaivika. 56 00:05:37,446 --> 00:05:42,995 Ādhyātmika means miseries pertaining to the body and the mind. 57 00:05:42,996 --> 00:05:51,565 Adhibautika means miserable condition offered by other living entities. 58 00:05:51,566 --> 00:05:55,545 And adhidaivika, natural disturbances. 59 00:05:55,546 --> 00:06:02,665 So either of these three, or at least one or two, there must be always present. 60 00:06:02,666 --> 00:06:06,125 This is the material condition of life. 61 00:06:06,126 --> 00:06:10,786 But as spirit soul, we are sac-cid-ānanda vigraha, 62 00:06:10,787 --> 00:06:14,356 part and parcel of Sac-cid- ānanda vigraha [Bs. 5.1]. 63 00:06:14,357 --> 00:06:21,386 Sat means eternal, cit means knowledge, and ānanda means blissfulness. 64 00:06:21,387 --> 00:06:29,416 So if we want to have eternal life, full of knowledge and blissfulness, 65 00:06:29,417 --> 00:06:32,616 then we must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. 66 00:06:32,617 --> 00:06:36,126 Our, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement 67 00:06:36,127 --> 00:06:41,616 is the greatest welfare activities in the human society. 68 00:06:41,617 --> 00:06:47,506 We are giving information to every man, without any discrimination of cast, 69 00:06:47,507 --> 00:06:55,826 creed, and color, that every human being especially, not only human being, 70 00:06:55,827 --> 00:07:03,346 all living entities, including the animals, beasts, birds, trees, aquatics—everyone— 71 00:07:03,347 --> 00:07:09,626 they can achieve to the highest perfection of life by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. 72 00:07:09,627 --> 00:07:15,176 But especially the extra intelligence of the human being 73 00:07:15,177 --> 00:07:18,706 can be utilized to realize Kṛṣṇa. 74 00:07:18,707 --> 00:07:23,466 If we don’t do that, we are missing a great opportunity. 75 00:07:23,467 --> 00:07:26,036 So our request to everyone 76 00:07:26,037 --> 00:07:30,776 is to understand this philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. 77 00:07:30,777 --> 00:07:34,616 If anyone wants to understand this philosophy 78 00:07:34,617 --> 00:07:41,396 through philosophical angle of vision or scientific angle of vision, 79 00:07:41,397 --> 00:07:44,537 we have got immense volumes of books. 80 00:07:44,538 --> 00:07:51,717 You can read and try to understand what is this great movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. 81 00:07:51,718 --> 00:07:56,417 But you can also, without reading books, 82 00:07:56,418 --> 00:08:04,147 without taking any trouble, if you simply agree to chant this mahā-mantra, 83 00:08:04,148 --> 00:08:10,047 Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, 84 00:08:10,048 --> 00:08:15,907 Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, you get the same result. 85 00:08:15,908 --> 00:08:18,407 Even a child can join. 86 00:08:18,408 --> 00:08:22,807 Actually we have experienced that a child, a dog, 87 00:08:22,808 --> 00:08:26,977 an animal, everyone takes part in this movement. 88 00:08:26,978 --> 00:08:29,787 During the Lord Caitanya’s movement, 89 00:08:29,788 --> 00:08:35,837 when He passed through a great forest known as Jharikhaṇḍa… 90 00:08:35,838 --> 00:08:40,067 Central India there is a great forest. 91 00:08:40,068 --> 00:08:46,587 Along with Him, the tigers, the elephants, the deers, 92 00:08:46,588 --> 00:08:50,637 everyone danced and chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. 93 00:08:50,638 --> 00:08:54,587 It is so nice, and it is so spiritual, 94 00:08:54,588 --> 00:09:02,007 the very vibration will immediately enthuse your ecstasy in spiritual consciousness. 95 00:09:02,008 --> 00:09:06,867 Please, therefore, take to this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. 96 00:09:06,868 --> 00:09:09,087 There is no loss. 97 00:09:09,088 --> 00:09:11,147 There is no expenditure. 98 00:09:11,148 --> 00:09:13,128 We don’t charge anything. 99 00:09:13,129 --> 00:09:18,528 We have arranged this Ratha-yatra festival by begging from door to door. 100 00:09:18,529 --> 00:09:21,208 Although we have no means, 101 00:09:21,209 --> 00:09:28,108 but still we are executing this function for the benefit of the people in general. 102 00:09:28,109 --> 00:09:32,588 Please take advantage of this spiritual movement 103 00:09:32,589 --> 00:09:36,528 and make your life blissful and perfect. 104 00:09:36,529 --> 00:09:43,948 If you miss this opportunity, you do not know what you are going to have next life. 105 00:09:43,949 --> 00:09:47,358 Do not think that there is no next life. 106 00:09:47,359 --> 00:09:51,188 Next life, every moment we are changing our body. 107 00:09:51,189 --> 00:09:58,328 You know that when your body was a baby, that body was very small. 108 00:09:58,329 --> 00:10:01,158 Now that body is no longer there. 109 00:10:01,159 --> 00:10:04,918 When you were a boy there was another body. 110 00:10:04,919 --> 00:10:07,298 That body is no longer there. 111 00:10:07,299 --> 00:10:10,988 Now you are young man there is another body, 112 00:10:10,989 --> 00:10:15,748 and when you’ll become old man like me, you’ll have another body. 113 00:10:15,749 --> 00:10:22,468 This means that we are changing bodies in every moment, every second, 114 00:10:22,469 --> 00:10:29,378 imperceptibly, but I, the spirit soul, exist in all circumstances. 115 00:10:29,379 --> 00:10:33,128 Therefore it is natural to conclude 116 00:10:33,129 --> 00:10:37,548 that after leaving this body I shall have another body. 117 00:10:37,549 --> 00:10:39,049 That’s a fact. 118 00:10:39,050 --> 00:10:40,809 That is Vedic truth. 119 00:10:40,810 --> 00:10:44,199 Vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya [Bg. 2.22]. 120 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:49,949 The example is given that as we change our dresses; similarly, 121 00:10:49,950 --> 00:10:54,629 we are changing our dresses from one body to another. 122 00:10:54,630 --> 00:10:58,749 We have changed dresses as aquatic animals, 123 00:10:58,750 --> 00:11:04,599 as many fishes and aquatic animals as there are in the sea, 124 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:11,529 then we are change bodies as creepers, plants and trees for many, many years. 125 00:11:11,530 --> 00:11:17,159 Then we change our bodies in the insect life, reptiles life, 126 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:23,819 then we are change our bodies in thirty hundred thousands of beasts, 127 00:11:23,820 --> 00:11:26,879 then we have got this human form of life. 128 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:33,359 That is also an evolution through many uncivilized form of human life. 129 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:39,749 Now this civilized form of human life, with higher intelligence and consciousness, 130 00:11:39,750 --> 00:11:42,779 it is meant for God realization. 131 00:11:42,780 --> 00:11:50,189 It is not meant for utilizing as the animals waste their time simply for eating, sleeping, 132 00:11:50,190 --> 00:11:51,829 mating and defending. 133 00:11:51,830 --> 00:11:53,759 That is not our business. 134 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:58,070 That is part of our business so far the body is concerned. 135 00:11:58,071 --> 00:12:05,210 But as spirit soul, our main business is to understand what I am, 136 00:12:05,211 --> 00:12:09,220 wherefrom I have come, where I shall go, 137 00:12:09,221 --> 00:12:15,200 why I am under the tribulation of threefold miseries of material condition. 138 00:12:15,201 --> 00:12:18,240 These questions must be answered. 139 00:12:18,241 --> 00:12:22,590 If we do not question, just like live like animal… 140 00:12:22,591 --> 00:12:27,870 The animal cannot question, neither they can understand the answer, 141 00:12:27,871 --> 00:12:34,680 but the human form of life they can question and understand the answer also. 142 00:12:34,681 --> 00:12:41,570 In the Vedānta-sūtra it is called brahma- jijñāsā, inquiring about the Supreme. 143 00:12:41,571 --> 00:12:44,940 So that is our prerogative. 144 00:12:44,941 --> 00:12:50,510 Please take chance of this human body and try to understand yourself 145 00:12:50,511 --> 00:12:56,830 and cleanse your heart from the dirty things by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, 146 00:12:56,831 --> 00:13:04,760 Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. 147 00:13:04,761 --> 00:13:15,901 Thank you very much. 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