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Arr CAL 1977-02-04 The Fight Against Atheism
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ANNOUNCER: The following is an arrival address
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on February 4th, 1977, in Calcutta, India.
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PRABHUPĀDA: So this is the duty of all disciples
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under the guidance of the spiritual master, to decorate.
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Śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-
śṛṅgāra [Śrī Śrī Gurv Aṣṭakam].
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Śṛṅgāra means decoration.
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Amongst the various paraphernalia
of worshiping the Lord,
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the śṛṅgāra is very essential, śṛṅgāra
and tan-mandira-mārjanādi,
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and cleansing the temple.
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The more you cleanse the temple,
the more you decorate the Deity,
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more your heart becomes cleansed
and you become spiritually decorated.
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So cleanliness is next to godliness.
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And after cleansing, taking bath regularly,
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keeping the temple very neat and clean
and worshiping the Deity, dressing,
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decorating, ornamenting…
These are the general process.
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So if we follow the process regularly,
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then we gradually become
advanced in spiritual consciousness,
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material world and spiritual world.
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Material world means dirty things
and spiritual world means clean.
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So the living entities, they are called taṭasthā-śakta.
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Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate.
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God has many potencies.
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They have been divided into three
primarily: external, internal, and marginal;
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bahiraṅgā-śakti, antaraṅga-śakti, and taṭasthā-śakti.
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So we jīvas, living entities,
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we are also another energy of Kṛṣṇa,
in between the material and spiritual.
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So if we like we can remain in
the spiritual world; if we like,
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we can remain in the material world.
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If we remain in the material world, then,
temporary, we enjoy happiness or distress.
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There is no happiness.
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Sometimes we take distress as happiness.
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Actually there is no happiness,
because however happy you may be,
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you have to change this body.
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Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi [Bg 13.9].
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So this happiness… Suppose this life I am a king.
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Maybe for few years, but I have to change this body.
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Tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras
tatra na muhyati [Bg. 2.13].
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So there is no happiness.
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Suppose you arrange very nicely to
live here very happily in this world,
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but you’ll not be allowed to live.
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You’ll not be allowed.
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Duḥkhalayam aśāśvatam [Bg. 8.15].
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So long we live, there is happiness or distress.
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There is no happiness.
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To get happiness we have to go through distress.
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Anyway, mixed up happiness or distress,
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even if you make nice arrangement, but
all of a sudden you’ll be asked to get out.
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duḥkhalayam aśāśvatam [Bg. 8.15]
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Therefore we should not be
attracted with this happiness,
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so-called happiness of material world.
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Aśāśvatam.
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Even if you think you are happy,
you’ll not be allowed to stay here.
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So we must know all these principles of our
life, and Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the guide.
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Kṛṣṇa consciousness means we
are guided by Kṛṣṇa personally.
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Everyone can be guided.
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Kṛṣṇa is giving instruction to the whole
human society in the Bhagavad-gītā.
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So we can take advantage of it.
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Kṛṣṇa is guiding personally.
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So there are two ways of accepting Kṛṣṇa’s guidance.
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You accept the instruction of the
Bhagavad-gītā, then you’ll be happy.
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If you don’t accept, then you will go back
again to the cycle of birth and death.
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Mām aprāpya nivartante mṛtyu-
saṁsāra-vartmani [Bg 9.3].
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So mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani is not good life.
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Mṛtyu, mṛtyu… Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi.
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If you take birth, then you’ll have to die,
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and if you have to die, you have to take birth again.
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This is called mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartma.
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So this is not very good business.
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That intelligence is lacking.
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We are simply trying to adjust things for a few years,
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but we are not taking account of our real life.
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Our real life is Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20].
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That is real life, that we do not die.
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But our brain is so dull
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that we have accepted janma-
mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi as usual thing.
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But death can be checked.
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That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
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If you so desire, you can stop it.
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There is no difficulty.
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Very easy.
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And that is also explained by Kṛṣṇa:
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Janma karma ca me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ [Bg. 4.9].
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Simply try to understand Kṛṣṇa.
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And He’s explaining Himself.
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What is the difficulty to understand Kṛṣṇa?
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Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme, Parabrahman,
the greatest, and we are anu, very small.
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Our knowledge is very small, limited.
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It is not possible to understand Kṛṣṇa,
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but He is explaining Himself for our little understanding.
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Whatever we have got capacity to
understand, that Kṛṣṇa is explaining.
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So if you simply take Kṛṣṇa’s word:
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Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-
yājī māṁ namaskuru [Bg. 18.65].
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Here is a chance.
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This Deity worship… When we see the form of Kṛṣṇa,
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naturally our mind is impressed that
“Here is Kṛṣṇa. Here is Rādhārāṇī.
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Here is Jagannātha.”
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So if you come daily and see Kṛṣṇa at least
once—man-manā bhava mad-bhaktoḥ—
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where is the difficulty? [splice]
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So our mission is para-upakāra, Caitanya
Mahāprabhu’s mission, para-upakāra.
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This para-upakāra mission was entrusted to the Indians.
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Caitanya Mahāprabhu said:
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Bhārata bhūmite haila manuṣya-
janma yāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41].
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“To the human beings,” not to the cats and dogs.
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Unfortunately, we have become like cats and dogs.
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We do not take the responsibility of an Indian.
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It is the duty of the Indian.
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As Caitanya Mahāprabhu said:
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bhārata bhumite haila manuṣya-janma yāra
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janma sārthaka kari kara para-upakāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41]
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All over the world they are in darkness.
They do not know what is the value of life.
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So in India, anyone born, he
can make his life successful.
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We have got Bhagavad-gītā and all Vedic literatures.
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By learning, by practicing,
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we can make our life perfect and
then distribute the knowledge.
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This is India’s business.
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Unfortunately, they have been
conquered by the illusion of māyā.
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They are not interested.
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They are becoming drunkard and talking all nonsense.
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So you have come, kindly.
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Of course, Bhārata means the whole planet.
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Anyway, don’t deviate.
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Just try to do some good to the human society
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by awakening them to spiritual
consciousness or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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The method is very simple:
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harer nāma harer nāma harer nāma iva
kevalam [Adi 17.21] But it is para-upakāra.
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That is human life, para-upakāra, to
do good to others, not to exploit.
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That is not human life.
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So you have very kindly joined this movement.
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You have not joined this movement for your poverty.
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You are not poverty-stricken.
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Sometimes people join this
movement for poverty-stricken.
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But you are not belonging to that.
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You have voluntarily joined.
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So don’t be disappointed.
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There is now opposition, but don’t be disappointed.
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Kṛṣṇa will give you protection.
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Try to go on with this para-upakāra movement.
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Maybe because it is a fight against atheism,
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so some of our soldiers may fall down.
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But that should not discourage us.
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We must go on fighting with this atheistic civilization
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and try to push [this] Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
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Thank you very much.
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DEVOTEES: Jaya Prabhupāda!
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