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SB 6-01-11 HON 1976-05-12 Real Reform School
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a class
on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 6th canto,
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1st chapter, text number 11,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on May 12th,
1976, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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PRABHUPĀDA: The next step… Next
step means to become cultured.
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First of all prāyaścitta: “You have done
this wrong; you should be punished.”
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But the punishment
will not rectify him.
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And that is practical.
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There are so many rules
and regular punishment.
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In common cases…
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Just like every day and the police is
giving a ticket to the motor driver.
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Still, the same thing is going on.
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So to keep oneself in darkness and
makes rules and regulation will not help.
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Just like your government has admitted
that they have spent millions of dollars;
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they could not stop the intoxication
habit of LSD. That’s a fact.
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But in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement
one who joins, he gives up immediately.
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That’s a fact.
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What is the difference?
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The difference is that to stop one
kind of karma by karma will not help.
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Therefore it is said, karmaṇā
karma-nirhāra [SB. 10.84.35].
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One kind of activity is criminality, and
one kind of activity just to punish him,
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this will not stop criminality.
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This is the real fact.
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He must be in knowledge.
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Cultivation of knowledge required.
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He must come to the
senses, that “I am suffering.
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Every time I commit some
criminality, I am punished.
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This is not very palatable.
So why I cannot stop it?”
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This is the beginning of human life, that
unless you come to this knowledge…
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Athāto brahma jijñāsā [Vedānta-
sūtra]. This is called brahma-jijñāsā.
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So that is possible in the human
form of life. A dog cannot.
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A dog comes within your room, and you
drive him away, you punish him, and still,
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with some plea he will come.
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So therefore Parīkṣit…
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Śukadeva Gosvāmī suggests that we
have to make him free from the avidyā,
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ignorance.
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That is Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement.
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Everyone is under
the spell of māyā.
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Punaḥ punaḥ.
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Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate
[Bg. 8.19]. It is going on,
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but we do not inquire
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that “Why I am repeatedly accepting
the cycle of birth and death?”
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That is avidyā.
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They are, rather, supporting, “Suppose if
I become dog, what is the wrong there?”
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They say like that: “What
is the wrong there?”
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So this means avidyā, ignorance.
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So for eradicating ignorance from
life, it requires culture, cultivation.
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That is suggested
in the next verse.
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nāśnataḥ pathyam evānnaṁ
vyādhayo 'bhibhavanti hi
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evaṁ niyamakṛd rājan
śanaiḥ kṣemāya kalpate [SB 6.1.12]
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Just like if you go to the physician
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and the physician is giving medicine
and he’s taking the medicine and cured,
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again he is affected with the disease,
again going, so why it is happening?
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It is happening because he
does not follow the rules
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and regulation given by the
physician. Therefore it is happening.
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The physician… As soon
as you go to a physician,
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you have to accept something
“do not” and something “do.”
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That is called regulative principle.
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Without regulative principle
you cannot correct yourself.
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So that regulative principle also
cannot stay if you are not a devotee.
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This is the gradual process.
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Simply if I say, “Follow
the rules and regulation,”
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it will not stay unless
you become a devotee.
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That is the test of devotional
service, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Because it is so powerful,
devotional service,
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that as soon as you become
a devotee, gradually,
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immediately, all the good qualities
of your original position…
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Good qualities means we are part
and parcel of God, so God is good,
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so we are also good.
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Otherwise how can I be
part and parcel of God?
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If God is gold, then I am gold.
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So why I become iron?
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I am not iron, but I am
covered with dirty things.
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I look like iron.
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This is the position.
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Actually I am not iron; I am gold,
because I am part and parcel of God.
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If God is good, then I am good.
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So because I am covered by the
material dirty things, I look like not gold.
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So this is the test.
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As soon as you become
God conscious,
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your original all good qualities
will manifest automatically.
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yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā
sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ
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harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā
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mano-rathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ
[SB 5.18.12]
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That “One who has
got unflinching faith,
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devotion to the Lord,” yasyāsti bhaktir
bhagavaty akiñcanā “Without any motive,
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then the all the good qualities of God
will manifest in him him very soon.”
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kṣipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā
śaśvac-chāntiṁ nigacchati
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kaunteya pratijānīhi
na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati [Bg. 9.31]
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api cet su-durācāro
bhajate mām ananya-bhāk
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sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ…
[Bg. 9.30]
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These things are there. The
devotional service is so nice.
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If you simply take to devotional service,
then all good qualities will come.
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You don’t have to educate him, to send
some reformatory school or this or that.
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That will be explained.
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In devotional service, Kṛṣṇa
consciousness is so nice.
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If you simply take to Kṛṣṇa
consciousness, then all your…
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Because originally you are good.
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You have become bad on account
of the material association.
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Therefore devotion
means to be purified.
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This is a purificatory process
from material contamination.
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sarvopādhi vinirmuktaṁ
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tat paratvena nirmalam
[Cc. Madhya 19.170]
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If you think… Vimarśanam.
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If we think little soberly, that “I am
thinking I am American or Indian.
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Am I American or Indian?
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This is upādhi—designation.
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By accident or somehow or other,
I have got this body in America.
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Therefore I am American.
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But next time I may not
take the American body.
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I may take another, Chinese
body or something else.”
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So one has to understand that “I am
neither American, neither Chinese,
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nor Indian, nor white, nor black.”
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Ahaṁ brahmāsmi: “I am spirit
soul, part and parcel of God.”
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That is knowledge.
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We have to come to that.
That is brahma-bhūtaḥ.
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brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
na śocati na kāṅkṣati
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samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām [Bg. 18.54]
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So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness
movement is to purify the designation.
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And so long we are in the darkness
of this designation, that “I am this,”
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“I am that,” “I am this,” “I
am that,” that is ignorance.
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Suppose a thief—he is thinking that
“If I do not steal, I cannot exist.
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I’ll die.
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So I cannot stop
stealing. I must go on.”
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So this is ignorance.
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But if he thinks over that “The cats
and dogs and the birds and beasts,
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they are very nicely eating.
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They are not stealing anyone’s…
Whatever he gets by the grace of God,
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he is happy,” this is knowledge.
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Vimarśanam.
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Vimarśanam.
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īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam [Īśo mantra
1] Everything God’s property.
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And we are all part and parcel, sons
of God, so the property is for us.
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It is not for others.
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Just like father’s property is
meant for the son’s enjoyment.
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That’s a fact.
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So “If other sons,
without any labor,
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without any endeavor, they can
get their food, why I am stealing?”
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This is knowledge.
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This is knowledge.
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“Why I shall steal?
There is enough food.”
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But because I haven’t got this
knowledge that “God is the proprietor.
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I am His part and parcel, son.
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So if He has provided food for the
elephant, who eats at a time forty kilos,
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he can eat, and I eat only, say,
half a pound, I cannot eat?”
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This is knowledge.
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“Why shall I steal? I shall depend
on God.” This is knowledge.
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So this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa.
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I am God’s part…
Why shall I starve?
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There are so many… Out
of 8,400,000 forms of life,
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eight million forms of life are
less than the human being.
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Human being, only 400,000.
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Out of that, civilized men very few.
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Out of that, Americans are
very few, Indians are very few.
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So “If so many, 8,300,000 forms of life, they
can get without stealing, why shall I steal?”
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This is knowledge.
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Prāyaścitta vimarśanam.
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As soon as he becomes in quite perfect
knowledge, then whole problem solved.
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So this is the instruction
of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
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If we take seriously, then
there is no problem.
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Otherwise the problems will go on,
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and the so-called rascal
scientists will give us bluff
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that “We are making
solution of all problem.”
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It is never solved.
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It will never be solved in the future also,
unless we take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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That is a fact.
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If you like, you can take
it; other-wise suffer.
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Thank you very much.
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