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Lect LA 1970-04-16 Get Some Land and a Cow and Find Your Spirit
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ANNOUNCER: Next is a lecture
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded in May of
1970 in Los Angeles.
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PRABHUPĀDA:
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Brahma-saṁhitā]
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Govindam, Lord Kṛṣṇa, ādi-
puruṣa, the original person.
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In the Vedānta-sūtra it
is said that Brahma…
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athāto brahma jijñāsā.
What is Brahman?
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In this human form of life this is the
business, to understand what is Brahman.
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Therefore Parīkṣit
Mahārāja says that
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apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ
gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām
[SB 2.1.2]
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śrotavyādīni rājendra
nṛṇāṁ santi sahasraśaḥ
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apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ
gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām
[SB 2.1.2]
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Question and answer.
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Everywhere life means
questions and answers.
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So those who are not interested or
do not know what is the aim of life,
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they have got questions and answers
only for sense gratification. That’s all.
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They have no more any
questions or answers.
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Whole field of questioning and
answering is sense gratification. That’s all.
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But the human life is not
meant for that purpose.
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Animals, they are…
Morning… Just like birds,
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just early in the morning, they began
to chirp, “Where is food? Where is…?
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Where we have to go? Where
we have to find out some food?”
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That is their business.
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The animals also.
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But human form of life, does
it mean it is meant like that,
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that they should
simply be involved
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in questions and answers
for sense gratification? No.
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Therefore Vedānta-sūtra
says, brahma-jijñāsā.
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athāto brahma jijñāsā atha
[Vedanta-sutra 1.1.1]
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“After this, after the evolutionary
process of lower than human being,
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when we have come,
we have got this body,
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human form of body, the
business is brahma-jijñāsā.”
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Jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā.
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That is the Bhāgavata.
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But there is no education.
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There are so many universities,
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they are going on simply how to advance
the method of sense gratification.
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That’s all.
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There is no education.
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athāto brahma jijṣāsā
[Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.1]
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The human form of life should be
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specially engaged for
understanding what is Brahman.
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Otherwise it is simply spoiled.
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Śaṅkarācārya says…
He was a sannyāsī.
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Sannyāsīs’s business is to travel all
over the world, or as far as he can,
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and enlighten people
about Brahman.
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That is sannyāsīs’ business.
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So, Śaṅkarācārya is lamenting, bālasya
tāvad kriyā-saktaḥ “Oh, what I see?
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I see the boys are
engaged in playing.”
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bālasya tāvad kriyāsaktas
taruṇas tāvad taruṇī-raktaḥ
[Śaṅkarācārya]
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“Young boys, they
are after young girls.
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That is their business.
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Boys are playing.
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Young boys are after young girls.”
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vṛddhas tāvad cinta-magnaḥ
[?]
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“And those who are old, they are absorbed
in thought, ‘Oh, what I have done?
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I could not do this. I have…’”
Vṛddhas tāvad cinta-magnaḥ, taruṇī,
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parame brahmaṇi ko ’pi na lagnaḥ
[?]
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“Nobody is interested
with the Paraṁbrahman.
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Oh, what nonsense society it is.”
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He analyzed the whole
population—boys, youths, old men—
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and he saw nobody is, no rascal
is interested with Brahman.
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So that is the position.
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But it is meant for Brahma-jijñāsā.
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This is the defect of
material civilization.
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The human form of life is
being spoiled, simply spoiled.
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And they are… Māyā is dictating,
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“Oh, you are making so much
advancement. Thank you.
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”What advancement
you have made, sir?
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Bhagavad-gītā says, janma-mṛtyu-
jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha doṣānudarśanam.
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Your problem is birth,
death, old age and disease.
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What you have made
for these four problems?
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What solution you have got?
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Your scientific advancement?
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Is there any solution
of controlling birth?
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They have invented so many
contraceptive methods.
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Still, in every minute, there
is three human increasing.
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Where is your birth control?
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You cannot control.
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So birth… Similarly, death.
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So many medicines, so many scientific
research, this thing, that thing,
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they have invented.
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And what you have done?
You have stopped death?
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“No, sir.”
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Then?
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Birth, death, old age.
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What your scientific advancement of
knowledge has done to stop old age?
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Everyone is trying to keep his
youth by cosmetic, pomade,
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lipstick, but nature
will not allow him.
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It is becoming flappy. You see?
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One Marwari gentleman, he, in Calcutta,
he spent eighty lakhs of rupees,
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or eighty-thousand,
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for changing his gland into monkey
gland for increasing his sex life.
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These things are going on.
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The monkeys, they have
got very good sex life.
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One monkey has got at least thirty wives,
and anywhere, he is very enjoying sex life.
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Markaṭa.
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So, the scientists have discovered the
monkey’s gland is very strong for sex life.
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So kill them, you take out the
gland and insert into man’s…
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This is going on in
medical science.
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So old age.
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They are doing…
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Science means they are
trying to counteract
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the incapabil…
[in]capabilities of old age,
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but they are still failure; there
are so many old men dying.
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So janma, mṛtyu, jarā,
and vyādhi, and disease.
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You are counteracting one disease;
another disease is coming out.
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They complain that “India is poor.
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There are so many diseases,” but
here there are so many cancer.
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So you cannot stop
this, the nature’s way.
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janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi
[Bg. 13.9]
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Your only business is
to find out Brahman.
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That is your business.
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Nature has given you sufficient means
to live very comfortably everywhere.
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If you get a piece of land and one cow,
your whole economic question is solved.
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You haven’t got to go
fifty miles for working.
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There is no necessity.
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Wherever you are living, take
little land and keep one cow.
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Your economic question is solved.
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So nature has given
you all facilities.
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prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
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ahaṅkāra-vimūḍha ātmā
kartāham iti manyate
[Bg. 3.27]
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Everything is being supplied by the order
of Kṛṣṇa because prakṛti is working,
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nature is working…
How it is working?
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Mayādhyakṣeṇa.
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mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ
sūyate sa carācaram
[Bg. 9.10]
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“Under My order,” Kṛṣṇa says.
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Prakṛti, nature, is
not working blindly.
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You see? It has got
its master, Kṛṣṇa.
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So this life is meant for brahma-
jijñāsā, inquiring, “What is Brahman?”
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Instead of inquiring Brahman,
they are trying to kill Brahman.
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“There is no soul.
There is no Supersoul.
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It is nature automatically
becoming this.”
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These nonsense things are
being pushed within the,
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this rubbish brain of
the human society.
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They cannot explain.
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They cannot give
right understanding.
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Still, they will say, “I am
scientist. I am philosopher.
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I am this. I am that.”
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But your business…
What is your business?
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Now, direct people
wrongly, to go to hell.
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So this is not life.
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Life is athāto brahma jijñāsā:
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“This human form of life is
meant for inquiring Brahman.”
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And if you engage yourself in this Brahman
business, for Kṛṣṇa consciousness business,
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rest assured, Kṛṣṇa
will take care of you.
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teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ
yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham
[Bg. 10.10]
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“I take care personally for
their necessities of life.”
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Ordinarily, Kṛṣṇa, or God,
is taking care of everyone
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even if he’s not in
Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
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and those who are coming to Kṛṣṇa
consciousness, what to speak of them?
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Special care by Kṛṣṇa.
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Rest assured.
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Engage yourself rigidly
to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Be happy.
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That is our program.
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Thank you.
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