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Bg 16-07 HYD 1976-12-14 The Path of No
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a
class on the Bhagavad-gītā As Is Is
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16th chapter, text number 7,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 14th of December
1976, in Hyderabad, India.
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PRABHUPĀDA: So,
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we were discussing yesterday
about the demons or nondevotees.
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Demons means nondevotee.
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That I have explained.
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Devatā means
demigods, and demons…
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So demons, they do not know which
way they have to live their life.
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That they do not know.
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pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca
janā na vidur āsurāḥ
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na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro
na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate
[Bg. 16.7]
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These are the first
qualification of the demons,
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that they do not know which
way one has to make progress.
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That they do not know.
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This is the defect of
the modern civilization.
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They have universities, educational
institution and advancement of knowledge,
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so on, so on; but ask them what is the aim
of life, why education is being imparted,
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what is the purpose; these
are… They do not know.
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Do they know?
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HAṀSADŪTA: No.
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They simply know how
to eat, how to sleep,
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how to have sex,
and how to defend.
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For this purpose they
are giving education.
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That is… Does it require
any education, how to eat?
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Everyone, even a child, he knows.
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You give him something eatable;
immediately takes and he knows
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it is to be put here,
not here, not there.
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Natural.
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You don’t require any education
for these things, primary,
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I mean to say, wants of the
body, eating, sleeping, sex.
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It doesn’t require any high
education, how to enjoy sex life.
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Everyone knows; even the
cats and dogs, they know.
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Similarly eating, everyone knows.
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Sleeping, it doesn’t require
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that “You have to sleep in this way;”
whenever you feel tired, there is sleep.
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But the asura-jana, they do not know
what is the purpose of education.
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That they do not know.
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This is… This is beginning of
asuras’ life, pravṛtti and nivṛtti.
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Pravṛtti means the,
what is called, incentive
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which makes… There is a grain of sugar,
and the ant knows there is a grain of sugar.
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He is running after it.
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That is pravṛtti.
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And nivṛtti means I have
passed my life in this way,
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but it is not actually
my progress of life.
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I should stop this way of life; I
should go to the spiritual realization.
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That is nivṛtti-mārga.
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There are two ways,
pravṛtti and nivṛtti.
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Pravṛtti means we are going
to the dark, darkest region.
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adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisram
[SB 7.5.30]
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Because we cannot control our senses,
adānta… Adānta means uncontrolled,
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and go, go means senses.
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adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisram
[SB 7.5.30]
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Just like we see varieties of life, so
there is life also in the hell, tamisra.
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So either you go to the hellish condition
of life or you go to the path of liberation,
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both ways are open to you.
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So if you go to the hellish condition
of life, that is called pravṛtti-mārga,
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and if you go towards the path
of liberation, that is nivṛtti-mārga.
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Our, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness
movement is training of nivṛtti-mārga,
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the basic principles, so many no’s.
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No means nivṛtti.
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No illicit sex, no meat-eating,
no gambling, no intoxication.
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So this is the no; “no” path.
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So that they do not know.
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When we say so many no’s
they think it is brainwash.
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Not brainwash.
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It is actual.
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If you want to develop your spiritual life,
then you have to stop so many nuisance.
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That is nivṛtti-mārga.
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The asuras, they do not know.
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Because they do not
know, when nivṛtti-mārga,
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“no,” the path of “no” is
recommended, they become angry.
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They become angry.
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Mūrkhāṇām upadeśo hi prakopāya na śāntaye
payaḥ-pānaṁ bhujaṅgānāṁ kevalaṁ viṣa-vardhanam
[Cāṇakya Paṇḍita - Nīti Śāstra]
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Those who are rascals, fools,
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if you speak something valuable
for his life he’ll not hear you.
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He’ll become angry.
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The example is given,
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payaḥ-pānaṁ bhujaṅgānāṁ kevalaṁ viṣa-vardhanam
[Cāṇakya Paṇḍita - Nīti Śāstra]
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Just like if a snake, if you ask the snake
that “I shall give you daily a cup of milk.
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Do not commit this harmful
life, biting unnecessarily others.
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You come here, take a cup of milk and
live peacefully,” that he will not be able.
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He… By drinking, by drinking that
cup of milk, his poison will increase,
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and as soon as the poison is increased—
it is also another itching sensation—
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he wants to bite.
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He’ll bite.
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So the result will be
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payaḥ-pānaṁ bhujaṅgānāṁ kevalaṁ viṣa-vardhanam
[Cāṇakya Paṇḍita - Nīti Śāstra]
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The more they starve, that is good for
them because the poison will not increase.
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The nature’s law is there.
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And as soon as one sees a snake,
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immediately everyone
becomes alert to kill the snake.
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And by nature’s law…
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It is said, “Even a great saintly person, he
does not lament when a snake is killed.”
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modeta sādhur api… sarpa…
vṛścika-sarpa-hatyā
[SB 7.9.14]
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Prahlāda Mahārāja said.
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When his father was killed and
Nṛsiṁhadeva was still angry,
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so he pacified Lord Nṛsiṁha,
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“Sir, now you can give up your
anger because nobody is unhappy
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on account of my father being killed,”
means “[splice] I am also happy
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because my father was just
like a snake and a scorpion.
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So even a great saintly person is happy
when a scorpion or a snake is killed.”
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They are not happy if somebody
is killed; even an ant is killed,
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a saintly person is unhappy.
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But a saintly person, when he sees
that a snake is killed, he is happy.
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He is happy.
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So we should not follow the
life of a snake, pravṛtti-mārga.
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Human life is meant
for nivṛtti-mārga.
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We have got so many bad habits.
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To give up these bad
habits, that is human life.
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If we cannot do that, then we are not
making any spiritual progress of life.
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Spiritual progress… So long
you will have a little desire
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for committing sinful life
for your sense gratification,
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you will have to
accept a next body.
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And as soon as you accept a
material body, then you will suffer.
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Yena.
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It is said that
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nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma
[SB 5.5.4]
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These rascals, they are mad.
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They are committing sinful life
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simply for sense gratification; there
is no need of committing sinful life
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but for sense gratification
they are doing that.
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So Ṛṣabhadeva says,
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“It is not good because
for sense gratification
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you have got already this body,
and you know, experiencing,
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that you are suffering threefold miseries,
and again you are committing something
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which will oblige you to accept
another body; this is not good.
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This is not good;” we should do in such
a way that we may not accept again
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this material body.
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That will save us from all suffering.
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Material body means it is
given to you for your suffering.
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But that they do not know.
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They think, “I am enjoying.”
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Eating, sleeping, mating—in any
body you will have these facilities.
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viṣayaḥ khalu sarvataḥ syāt
[SB 11.9.29]
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Even you become a dog or you
become a hog or you become a man
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or you become a demigod, these
four facilities you will get everywhere,
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eating facility, sleeping facility, sex
facilities and defense facility; you will get.
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viṣayaḥ khalu sarvataḥ syāt
[SB 11.9.29]
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And the human form of life, these
facilities should be minimized, denied.
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Not only minimized, no
meat-eating, no illicit sex.
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That is nivṛtti-mārga.
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But the asuras, they do not know.
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pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttim; [Bg. 16.7] that
this life is meant for nivṛtti-mārga,
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they do not know.
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When you say, “Don’t do
this,” they think otherwise.
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payaḥ-pānaṁ bhujaṅgānāṁ kevalaṁ viṣa-vardhanam
[Hitopadeśa 3.4]
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na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāraḥ
[Bg. 16.7]
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And why they become
addicted to sense gratification?
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Because they are
not clean, śaucam.
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Śauca is the qualification
of brāhmaṇa.
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We are getting sacred thread but we are
neglecting how to remain śaucam, śuci.
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śucīnāṁ śrīmatāṁ gehe
yoga-bhraṣṭo ’bhijāyate
[Bg. 6.31]
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Śuci means first-class brāhmaṇa.
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So we are accepting sacred thread
to become first-class brāhmaṇa, śuci,
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but we do not know, after eating,
we have to wash our hand.
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We are taking the
handkerchief and finished.
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So this kind of brāhmaṇa,
what they will do?
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That is not even a civilized man.
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So you should be very, very careful
how to follow the rules and regulation.
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That is nivṛtti-mārga.
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If we still remain in pravṛtti-mārga,
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then we will not be able to make
any advance in spiritual life.
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And if we do not make advance in
spiritual life, then again and again, śarīra.
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tathā dehāntara-prāptir
dhīras tatra na muhyati
[Bg. 2.13]
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Everyone is suffering on
account of this body,
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and this human body is meant
for ending this suffering.
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That should be the aim of life.
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But those who are asuras, they do not
know how to end this life of suffering
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and accept the life of ānandamayo
’bhyāsāt, [Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12]
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simply ānanda in Vaikuṇṭha,
in Goloka Vṛndāvana.
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Kṛṣṇa, to live with Him as His
associate, you have no information.
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We are demons, and therefore we take
pleasure in so-called material activities.
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And that means we are doomed.
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We should stop this nonsense and
take to the principles of nivṛtti-mārga.
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Then our life will be success.
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Thank you very much.
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