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RC PAR 1976-08-02 Gurukula Teachers
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ANNOUNCER: Next is a
conversation between
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupāda and the gurukula teachers,
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recorded August 2nd,
1976, at the Paris farm.
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PRABHUPĀDA: He
begins with surrender.
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sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
[Bg. 18.66]
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So anyone who voluntarily
offers obeisances,
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immediately he becomes
fifty percent advanced.
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Because….
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Who is talking?
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This material world means
nobody wants to surrender.
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Everyone wants to become master:
“I am the monarch of all I survey.”
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Everyone is planning
how to become a master.
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Therefore the
struggle for existence.
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Nobody wants to
become a servant.
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You know very well
in European history,
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Napoleon wanted to become
the master of all Europe.
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Hitler wanted also.
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Similarly, there were
so many leaders,
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sometimes Roman leaders,
sometimes Greek leaders,
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sometimes French leaders, sometimes
German leaders, English leader.
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The whole European history
is full of fighting: War.
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The basic idea is that everyone
wanted to become master.
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That is the material disease.
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We are now discussing
Bali Mahārāja.
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And he also wanted to become
master of the whole universe.
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So that is the material disease.
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Actually, master is one, Kṛṣṇa.
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There cannot be two masters.
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There is only one master.
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That is Kṛṣṇa, or God.
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But in the material world, because
we have forgotten the real master,
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every one of us is trying
to become master.
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This is material disease.
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Not only in one life,
but life after life.
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The cats and dogs: They
also want to be master.
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The dog, if he finds
another dog coming,
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he immediately begins barking very
loudly, “Why you are coming here?”
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So this mastership competition is going on
life after life, sometimes as human being,
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sometimes as animal, sometimes as fish,
aquatic, sometimes as demigod, bird.
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This is the whole
material situation.
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And the difficulty is that
we cannot become master,
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but on account of our false ambition
that “I shall become master,”
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we are becoming servants
of material nature.
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We are acting in a certain way to
become master, creating a situation,
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mentality, and at the time of
death, when this body finishes,
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the mind absorbed in
that mastership idea
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takes me to another body
according to my ambition,
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so I become again manifest in different
body to exhibit my mastership.
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Another chapter begins.
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So they do not know how these subtle
laws of material nature is working
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to give us opportunity to become
master according to our idea—false idea.
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And we are actually suffering,
sometimes as human being,
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sometimes as animal, sometimes
as trees, sometimes as dog.
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So the mastership
cannot be attained.
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That is not possible.
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In the false idea to become
master we are becoming slaves
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of the laws of material nature.
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This is real position,
and that is suffering.
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So, when one comes to this
understanding, that we are not master,
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we are servant, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
jñānavān māṁ prapadyate [Bg. 7.19].
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After many, many births,
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if by chance one gets the association
of the servant of the Lord,
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then he understands that he is
not master, he’s servant of Kṛṣṇa.
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And then he surrenders.
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vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti
sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ
[Bg. 7.19]
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Such great soul who has understood
that “I am eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa,”
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he’s a very great soul.
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Sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ.
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Very, very rare to be found.
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But that is the fact.
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The sooner we learn that
we cannot become master,
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we are eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa,
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let us surrender to Kṛṣṇa and remain
in our own position as servant,
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then it is perfection of life.
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Therefore one who
surrenders, one who offers….
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This is the beginning,
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man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
[Bg. 18.65]
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Namaskuru.
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Kṛṣṇa says namaskuru.
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Namaskuru means “Just offer
your obeisances unto Me.”
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Ah; in the absence of….
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Kṛṣṇa is everywhere, but Kṛṣṇa
sends His representative.
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So if we begin, offer namaskuru, to
the representative, it goes to Kṛṣṇa,
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and then gradually,
by the grace of Kṛṣṇa,
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one becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious
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and becomes situated in his
own original consciousness,
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Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and
that is perfection of life.
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Thank you very much.
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