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SB 1-16-24 LA 1974-07-14 Faith or No Faith-Fact Is Fact
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a class
on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, first canto,
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16th chapter, text number 24,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 14th of July,
1974, in Los Angeles, California.
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NITĀI: “Mother, you are
the reservoir of all riches.
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Please inform me of the root
cause of your tribulations
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by which you have been
reduced to such a weak state.
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I think that the powerful influence of
time, which conquers the most powerful,
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might have forcibly taken
away all your fortune,
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which was adored even
by the demigods.”
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PRABHUPĀDA: Idaṁ hi
mamācakṣva tavādhi-mūlaṁ
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vasundhare yena vikarśitāsi
kālena vā te balināṁ balīyasā
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surārcitaṁ kiṁ hṛtam
amba saubhagam [?].
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So kālena, kālena
means “by the time.”
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In the Bhagavad-gītā there is, sa
kāleneha yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa [?].
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So time is very powerful.
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Time is eternal, and
it is very powerful.
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So the inquiry is, “Vasundhare,
the reservoir of all riches,
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whether you have been
plundered or taken away
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of all your fortunes in
due course of time?”
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Vasundharā, this planet… There are
innumerable planets. This is one of them.
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And it is referred
here that surārcitam.
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Surārcitam. Sura means the demigods,
and arcitam means worshiped.
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So the demigods, they live
in higher planetary system.
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Their standard of life is far, far better,
thousands and thousands times better.
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Therefore when this planet is
more opulent, even the demigods,
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they eulogize,
surārcitaṁ saubhagam.
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That kind of opulence is
certainly very great fortune.
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So all these inquiries are being
made because Kṛṣṇa left this planet.
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“When Kṛṣṇa was present,
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so the opulence of this
planet was so great
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that even the demigods in higher
planetary systems, they were also envious.
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So that is now… Because Kṛṣṇa is not
there, so that opulence is now taken away.
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So whether you are so much
sorry for this purpose?”
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So this planet or any planet,
they are all full with opulence.
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Pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ
[Īśopaniṣad, Invocation].
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By… Anything created
by God is complete.
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Several times I have explained.
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Just like in this planet
we require water.
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Water is required for
cleansing, for cultivating…
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So many things water is,
profuse water is required.
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So Kṛṣṇa has provided this planet—three-
fourths part of the planet is full with water.
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But you cannot utilize
it unless Kṛṣṇa touches.
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There is scarcity of water.
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You require so much water.
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Suppose in the desert you can pump water
from the sea, but that will not be effective.
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It must be managed by Kṛṣṇa.
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The water must be evaporated
by the machine, sunshine,
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and they’ll be turned into clouds.
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And when that water is
poured, then it will benefit.
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So you are always dependent
on Kṛṣṇa and His mercy.
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You are thinking that “We shall adjust
these material things and become happy.”
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That is foolishness.
That is not possible.
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Mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ
sūyate sa-carācaram [Bg. 9.10].
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The prakṛti is there.
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All the riches are there.
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Everything is there on the ground.
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Just like we are getting so
many things from this ground.
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The trees, the plants, the foodstuffs,
the minerals, so many things.
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There is everything, complete.
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You’ll see in your garden there are different
types of flowers, color, scent, flavor.
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But wherefrom it is coming?
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It is coming from the earth.
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Can you make any
scent from the earth?
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But the scent is
coming from the earth.
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The rose flavor, wherefrom
it is coming? It is there.
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Anyone can understand.
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But you cannot extract that.
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Kṛṣṇa requires His hand.
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When Kṛṣṇa is there in the
form of seed… Kṛṣṇa says,
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bījo ’haṁ sarva-bhūtānām [?]: “I
am the seed of all living beings.”
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The seed. That…
Just like there is sex.
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Unless the seed is
there, there is no child.
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Similarly, unless the seed is
there, there is no plantation.
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The banyan tree is there
because the seed is there.
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And the rose tree is there
because the seed is there.
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And Kṛṣṇa claims, bījo
’haṁ sarva-bhūtānām [?].
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And Kṛṣṇa’s potencies
are there in the seed
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so that different types of seeds
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producing different types of
flowers, fruits, colors, flavor.
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This is Kṛṣṇa’s supervision.
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Mayādhyakṣeṇa [Bg. 9.10].
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So ultimately, time and earth and
everyone is abiding by the Lord,
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by the orders of the Lord.
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Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo
mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate
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iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā
bhāva-samanvitāḥ [Bg. 10.8].
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Budhāḥ, those who are not rascals.
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Budha means intelligent.
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Budha. Budha means intelligent.
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So those who are intelligent, they know
that everything is supplied by Kṛṣṇa.
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So why not depend on Kṛṣṇa only?
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Why so many other attempts?
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Therefore Kṛṣṇa says,
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vyavasāyātmikā buddhir
ekeha kuru-nandana
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bahu-śākhā hy anantāś ca
buddhayo ’vyavasāyinām
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Vyavasāyī [?]. means one who knows
business particularly. Vyavasāya.
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Or one who knows confidently, “It is…
This is the cause, this is the effect.”
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So those who know that Kṛṣṇa is the origin
of everything, so they are fixed up in Kṛṣṇa.
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Vyavasāyātmikā
buddhir ekeha. One.
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Just depend on Kṛṣṇa.
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One who does not this, they
depend on so many things.
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Buddhayo ’vyavasāyinām.
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So if we want to be Kṛṣṇa conscious,
we shall fix up our mind on Kṛṣṇa,
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and… How to become fixed up, that art
will be given to you by the spiritual master.
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Therefore Viśvanātha
Cakravartī Ṭhākura says
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in connection with the
explanation of this verse,
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vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ,
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so he says vyavasāyātmikā
buddhiḥ means
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to take the words of the
spiritual master as life and soul.
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That is vyavasāya… That is
called vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ.
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And Viśvanātha Cakravartī says
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that “Whatever I am ordered
by the spiritual master,
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that is my life and soul. I
don’t care for liberation.
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My only business is to
serve my spiritual master.”
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And in the song you have just sung, ye
prasāde… What is that? Ye prasāde…?
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RĀMEŚVARA: Pūre
sarva… Pūre sarva āśā.
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You do not know the meaning.
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Ye prasāde means “By his mercy,
all our desires are fulfilled.”
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Ye prasāde pūre sarva āśā… [?].
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So, so this is our process,
to depend on Kṛṣṇa.
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Depend does not mean
I shall remain idle.
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Depend means to work according
to the direction of the śāstra.
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Sādhu-śāstra-guru-vākya
[?], tinete kariyā aikya.
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Depend does not mean, “Now let me
sleep, and Kṛṣṇa will do everything.
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Depend on Kṛṣṇa.”
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No, not like that.
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Kṛṣṇa never advised Arjuna that “You sleep
on this chariot [laughter] I’ll…” Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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He never said that.
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He said, “You must have to fight.”
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Yudhyasva mām
anusmara [Bg. 8.7].
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“Fighting you have to do.
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But you always think of
Me.” This is the success.
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Not that depend on Kṛṣṇa means,
“I have not to, nothing to do.”
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So everything is there.
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Here it is said that surārcitaṁ
kiṁ hṛtam amba saubhagam [?].
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All opulences are there.
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I have already explained. Anything
fortune… There are mines.
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There are petrol.
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There are water.
Everything is there.
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But as soon as we forget Kṛṣṇa, then
the time will take away everything.
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Yes. It will not allow. Time
will not allow to enjoy.
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Then there will be strife, there
will be misunderstanding.
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Just like the petrol is
there in, within this earth,
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but because we do not know how to use
them, therefore there is scarcity of petrol.
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Petrol is there.
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We do not know how
to use Kṛṣṇa’s property.
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We are trying to use
everything as my own.
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But factually it is not.
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Factually it is everything Kṛṣṇa’s.
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So if we are Kṛṣṇa conscious, every
one of us, there is no scarcity, no want.
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Because the things
are there already.
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There is no question of scarcity.
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But because we have forgotten
Kṛṣṇa, there is scarcity.
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It is very clear.
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We have forgotten that this
petrol belongs to Kṛṣṇa.
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Then it is all right.
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This land belongs to Kṛṣṇa.
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But the Arabians are thinking,
“This land belongs to us.”
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Therefore there is difficulty.
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So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness
movement is so important.
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If people simply learn this, that everything
belongs to Kṛṣṇa… Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam.
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Sarvam means “everything.”
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Not that “This much is
mine, this much is Kṛṣṇa’s.”
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No. Sarvam.
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Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvaṁ yat kiñca jagatyāṁ
jagat [?], tena tyaktena bhuñjīthāḥ…
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Simply we shall use as
much He has allotted for us.
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Then there is peace and
prosperity, without any difficulty.
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Otherwise, you go on adjusting
your material possessions;
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the time will take away everything.
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When you die by the…,
in due course of time,
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then whatever possession
we have got, all finished.
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That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, mṛtyuḥ
sarva-haraś ca aham [?]: “I am death.”
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Kṛṣṇa is everything.
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So death is also Kṛṣṇa.
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Just like here is a picture
of Hiraṇyakaśipu.
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Such a great demon, so proud.
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He was thinking that “I am
the proprietor of everything.”
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He was chastising his son, doing
everything, whatever he liked.
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But when Nṛsiṁhadeva came,
within a second, everything finished.
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Everything finished. But
Prahlāda remained the same.
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Prahlāda is not finished.
Hiraṇyakaśipu is finished.
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So those who are trying to be very,
very big by material possessions,
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they’ll be all finished.
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But if you remain in the position of
Prahlāda, you’ll never be finished.
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Thank you very much [end]
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