Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fourth Canto, Chapter 23, Verse 21.

Teham vipanakircit-tanad-ikam prajupati-vyada-yatasya-chatmana alak-kincit-stabilak-sasati citam to-ropa-yad-ad-dvisanuni translation in purple, by Srila Bhagavan.

When Queen Archi saw that her husband, who had been so merciful to her and the earth, no longer showed symptoms of life, she lamented for a little while and then built a fiery pyre on top of a hill and placed the body of her husband on it.

After seeing all the life symptoms in her husband's dog, the claimant lamented for a while.

The word kinship means for a little while.

The claimant is completely aware that her husband was not dead, although the symptoms of life, action, intelligence, and sense perception had ceased.

As stated in the Bhagavad-Gita 2.13, As the embodied soul continually passes

body, in this body from boyhood to youth or old age, the soul similarly passes into another body of death.

The self-realized soul is not liberated by such a change.

When a living entity transfers from 1 body to another, the process generally noted as death.

The same man is not lamented, for he knows that a living entity is not dead, but is simply transferred from 1 body to another.

The queen should have been afraid of being alone in the forest with the body of her husband, but since she was a great wife of a great personality, she meditated for a while, but immediately understood that she had many duties before him.

So instead of wasting her time in lamentation, she immediately prepared a five-ring pyre on top of a hill and then placed the body with a husband on it to be burned.

Maharaja Prithu is described here as Dayita for not only was he the king of the earth, but he treated the earth as his protected child, similarly his protected wife also.

duty of the king to give protection to everyone, especially to the earth and land which he ruled, as well as the citizens and his family members.

Since Prithu Maharaja was a perfect king, he gave protection to everyone, and therefore he is described here as vrubham sva-dvijatam sva-dana-ragana-tambitam tam sa jivam sadaitam savadutam parijana-saitam krsna-caitanya-devam Sri Rama, Krsna, padam, sva-dhanam lalita-sivasa-tambitam ca nama om Vishnu padaya, Krsna, Prasty-abhutale namaste, sarasvati dey dey, gauravani satchani naya, nivishe shushuni yavadi, paschita dey sattva-arvine.

So, this is a very nice point, as Bhagavad says, a living entity is not dead.

We call it death, but actually it's not death.

Simply just like you're staying in some apartment and you decide to move to a different apartment.

You're still living, but you're not living in the old apartment.

Now some person may look in the old apartment and say, where is Mr.

He must be dead because I don't see him here anymore.

But actually he's just gone to a different apartment.

So this is the great value of Krishna consciousness movement.

We're educating people that you don't really die.

Death is simply for those who misidentify themselves with their material bodies.

So 1 has to understand I am not this body.

I'm an eternal spiritual being, qualitatively 1 with the Supreme Lord.

The Supreme Lord is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss.

And me being part of him, I'm also eternally in knowledge and bliss.

It's like the ocean, the drop of ocean water contains the same chemical composition as the entire ocean although it's much smaller.

You can float a battleship on the ocean but you cannot float a battleship on a drop.

So qualitatively 1 and quantitatively different.

Just like the Supreme Lord is Amrita, he has the quality of deathlessness, so the living entity also has the quality of deathlessness.

There is a famous lecture from Prabhupada, deathlessness begins from the day of initiation.

So if 1 takes initiation of the bona fide spiritual master and takes his initiations out very seriously, he doesn't neglect them to go back to material sense gratification, eating, sleeping, mating, defending, or let's expect mating, intoxication, and gambling.

If 1 takes his initiations out very seriously, then he is, from that very moment of initiation, he has now achieved deathlessness.

So this is actually a great boon to the human society.

So when 1 gets older, it becomes very painfully obvious that death is coming.

And it's a great anxiety for 1 who is misidentified with his body throughout his whole life.

So the intelligent thing to do is to enter into deathlessness by taking initiation from the bountified spiritual master, taking into order one's very life and soul, and this way you become free of anxiety.

You are liberated in a bodily conception.

We have to understand his body is not me.

His body may want this, his body may want that, it may want eating, sleeping, mating and descending.

The body may crave these different things, anchor to them.

But 1 who is Krishna conscious, he's not carried away by eating, sleeping, mating, and ascending.

The body out there is demanding these things.

But the spirit soul doesn't need eating, sleeping, mating, and defending.

Of course we engage in these things when we have the body.

We eat, we sleep, we bring, create some offspring, We defend ourselves from the rascals.

As long as we have these material bodies, we engage in eating, sleeping, mating, and fending.

when they become asexual and give up this sex life business, which is simply trouble anyway, if 1 can avoid it altogether, it's great.

1 has a strong desire, he can get married and have the children, but not check for recreation.

But anyway, someone has to eat and sleep.

And some attack comes, 1 has to defend oneself.

So these things are there because the self is sitting within the body just like you have to take care of your automobile even though it's not you So we have to take care of these bodies with eating, sleeping, and descending, even though it's not really us.

So, but because of this eating, sleeping, mating, and descending, we should not misidentify with the body.

We have to hear from the sages and the spiritual master.

We have to hear from the scriptures, that I am not this body, I am an eternal spiritual being.

So we have to become very intelligent and realize that this body has nothing to do with me, it's simply a tool I can use in the service of the Lord.

Of course this human body is a very great boon.

Now after transmigrating to the 8000004 hundred thousand species, you've gotten the opportunity in the sum and form of life to tantra, brahma, yajna, now you can inquire about the absolute truth.

You can hear from the sages and the Buddha's spiritual masters and the scriptures and actually understand I'm an eternal spiritual being.

So 1 has to then act as if 1 is an eternal spiritual being.

If you want to act as if I'm this body gratifying the tongue, the belly, and the genitals, You're not going to become self-realized.

You have to realize this tongue, this belly, in general, this is not me.

I don't need to gratify, for my Krishna consciousness, I don't need to gratify this tongue, this belly, this genitals.

All I really need to do is satisfy my beloved Krsna.

Of course, they take care of the body while I live, but that's not my satisfaction.

Material sense gratification gives some temporary satisfaction, and you go back to being unsatisfied once again.

And you can't go on doing it 24 hours a day, how long, when you feel hungry, you get relief by eating, but can you eat 24 hours a day?

So if somebody can eat 24 hours a day or sleep 24 hours a day, somebody who can make 24 hours a day, They make for a few minutes and they're tired of it.

But here's the gratification, it's a temporary relief.

You can't go on 24 hours a day, gratifying your tongue, your belly, and your genitals.

You cannot enjoy your tongue, your belly, and your genitals 24 hours a day.

Therefore, the enjoyment of the tongue, the belly, and genitals is inferior enjoyment.

Because you can't do it 24 hours a day but Krishna consciousness is the superior enjoyment because you can go on enjoying Krishna consciousness 24 hours a day in all times, places and circumstances.

So if there's something better, you see, then we should go for it.

If there's a better enjoyment, why should we take the inferior enjoyment?

It's like when people go shopping, they want to get the best bargain, they want to get the best thing for their money.

They're very careful to buy, get the proper thing that's going to be the best for their money.

They don't want to waste their money on some 10th class thing.

They want to spend their money on the first class thing.

People are very discriminating when it comes to shopping.

They want to get the best thing for their money.

Because if somebody is completely indignant they may just, they may not think about that.

But intelligent people, they want to manage their money wisely and get the best things with their money.

So just like an intelligent shopper, a discriminated shopper will make sure he gets the best for the money.

The intelligent person, the intelligent person, whether it's a man or a woman, they will say, well, I'm spending, I'm investing my time, 24 hours a day doing this and that, So let me invest my time where I get the best bargain, the best thing for my time spent.

Actually 1 minute lost can only be bought back with millions and billions of dollars.

So time is much more valuable than money.

Money you can get it back if you lose it.

So we have to take every moment, every moment is the rarest treasure, every moment, we like those moment after moment after moment after moment.

We have to see how am I spending my time so I get the ultimate benefit.

So let us now be intelligent, my dear listeners, let us not be fools running after sense gratification.

Let us now become intelligent and spend our time in such a way that we get the ultimate benefit, awakening our dharma in Krishna consciousness.

There is not much more to be said in this connection.

You simply have to be intelligent and follow the Vedic injunction, the tantra of Ramana Jagat.

Now that you have got this human form of life, you must utilize it in self-realization.

We should not imitate the pathway of the animal.

Simply Eat, eat, eat, mate, mate, mate, defend, defend, defend.

We shouldn't follow that pathway of the animal.

Human life is meant for more than animalism.

The difficulty is that modern day civilization, what do you speak of animalism, is going lower than animalism.

The animals, they follow the laws of nature.

So the human beings, they're not defying the laws of nature with their so-called happiness based on eating, sleeping, mating, and defending.

So you want to be a true human being, you want to be lower than an animal.

Unfortunately, 99.9999% of the human civilization now have chosen to be lower than animals.

So how are they going to be happy in such a place?

Because they're acting against their own natures.

The nature of every living entity is to be a Christian's eternal servant.

So those who engage in sense gratification, they're committing spiritual suicide because they're acting totally against their real nature.

The fish tries to act against his nature by being a creature of the land, he will die, slapping on the beach.

But the human being tries to ignore his own nature and tries to live under the water, he will drown very quickly.

So 1 has to live, speak and act according to one's nature.

So we have to find out what is my actual nature, what is my actual identity and the scriptures tell us?

This verse Father quoted, dehino samatah, dehino samanyatā dehe, kamāraṁ yoganaṁ jarā, kathādayanta-praptir, dharistha-namu-yati.

So we have to take lessons in the Bhagavad Gita which is the teachings of God himself.

The Bhagavad Gita is not speculative knowledge.

It is the teachings of the Supreme Authority himself.

It is like when you get some piece of equipment, do you speculate on how to use it?

It is like some aboriginals that were given an automobile.

They had no idea you could drive it somewhere.

The car, I would give them a car as a gift.

You know, you have aborigines in a different area than I do.

They've actually given a jeep, a four-wheel-drive jeep, so they could drive through the forest very nicely.

But no, they just lay down in the back seat.

So we are like those aborigines, we have been given this human form of life and we are utilizing it to sense gratification only.

We are not utilizing it to awaken our dharma in Krishna consciousness.

It is a great tragedy, it is a great disaster, it is a horrible misuse of our free will to engage in sense gratification.

So we should take advantage of Srila Prabhupada and the great Vaishnava Acharyas to get out of this madness and illusion of thinking of the source of everything and thinking of his body and me.

Let us not remain sleeping in the lap of the Mayavich.

Lord Caitanya is calling, jiv-jago, jiv-jago, go-to-chand-gol-e.

My dear sleeping souls, now you should wake up, jivjago, jivjago, wake up, wake up you poor suffering souls.

The purpose of human life is to awaken your dharma and Krishna consciousness.

want to continue suffering or would you like to attain unlimited happiness?

If you want to suffer or you want to be in bliss, what's your choice?

want to be in bliss, then you have to learn how to do it.

You have to learn how to enter into a spiritual family.

If we keep a separatist mood that no I'm doing my thing, you do your thing and I'll do my thing.

If we keep a separatist mentality we will not awaken our Krishna consciousness.

We have to learn the art of how to enter into spiritual family.

Sarva-sangha, sarva-sangha, sarva-sattva-kāyā.

By association of the saintly devotees of the Lord, 1 can achieve all.

1 can get all the siddhis, all perfections.

So we come to the association of devotees, we keep a separate mood, you do your thing, I'll do my thing.

We keep a separatist mood, we will not be able to awaken our Krishna consciousness.

We have to learn the art of how to enter the spiritual family.

We're all the prophet's family members here.

Just like in a traditional family, everyone is there, the father, the mother, the children, the parents of the father and the father, the grandparents are there, 2 sets of grandparents are there, everyone is there, all many many generations in 1 house, that was the original system.

But now the modern day system is as soon as you go off to college that's it, finished.

Now you're out on your own, you get your degree, you get your own house, and this way everybody's separatist mentality, separatist.

And they go to college, they fell down to illicit habits, drugs and illicit sex.

This idea of family spirit is practically non-existent in the world today.

So we have to bring this family spirit back.

You see, we're all the children of Prabhupada.

Now let's be merged together as a loving spiritual family, not a separatist mentality.

She executed her duty even though it could be kind of murdering your husband, you're alone in the forest, your husband just died, your so-called died.

She made a funeral pyre and she burned her body, burned her husband's body on the funeral pyre.

So we have to learn how to be dutiful, not just acting according to our whims, our senses.

We have to always understand what is my duty?

What does my spiritual master want me to do now?

But how does Krishna want me to think now?

How does Krishna want me to, how does my spiritual master want me to think now?

How does my spiritual master want me to speak.

We have to always see, am I acting in such a way that my spiritual master is pleased or am I acting in such a way that he is blissed?

We have to always act in such a way that it is pleasing to our spiritual master because then we know we are pleasing Krishna.

You can't take out the guru from the equation.

Krishna says you have to take a spiritual master.

He is the spiritual master is part of Krishna's equation.

He is the external manifestation of the super soul.

So 1 has to be thinking, speaking, acting in such a way the spiritual master is pleased.

And if he's not pleased, then you're in bad shape.

You have to think, what pleases my Guru Maharaj?

Just like Amundi Chari Albanda, who formerly was a king, having so much pleasure having sexual intercourse with so many women in the palaces.

But sometimes he remembers those past activities.

He'd have flashbacks of the sexual intercourse of those women.

He says, ever since I've been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Sri Srivada and Krishna, tasting newer, nubber, nubber, rasa, newer, newer pleasures in that service.

Whenever I have flashbacks of having sexual intercourse with those women, my lips crumbled in the states and I spit at the thought.

Way to be good spitters of whatever nonsense we did before we came to Krishna consciousness.

We shouldn't put a flashback and enjoy it by meditation.

We should kick it out with booze, spit at it, get rid of it, flush it down, get it out of the consciousness.

Now we have a new mood, now at every thought, at every minute, at every step, I want to please my thinking, speaking, acting in such a way that it pleases my spiritual master and pleases Krishna.

That's why we should be very strong and very heavy with ourselves.

Okay, you know, you rascal, you start being such a nonsense and now you become the pure devotee but you become very heavy with ourselves Everyone should be their own guru.

You should be your own disciple be your own guru.

Guru means heavy So you should be heavy with yourself, heavy with your vascular mind.

My dear mind, now your only business is to think, speak and act in such a way that pleases the spiritual master, anything else is nonsense, give it up, give it up, give it up right now.

Become a pure devotee and not a nonsense pseudo devotee.

Now I should become an actual pure devotee of Krishna.

In this way we have to train our minds how to get out of this quagmire of material existence and come back to the Transcendental Platform.

So I've been rambling on here for quite a Does anybody have any questions?

So, Shantideva mentioned the example of Yama Chandra.

You mentioned also in that verse that he was tasting.

So, we know that when 1 gets to higher states it is very easy to reject lower states.

But the biggest problem is that a huge amount of devotees doesn't have a higher state and they try to reject lower taste and then when you don't have a higher taste it's very difficult.

Or you should go back and try to enjoy it.

the higher taste, I go back to the lower taste.

All those days I was enjoying as a hippy or whatever.

I try to go back and enjoy those because I'm not getting a taste of what I'm doing now.

So how do we get out of this neophyte mentality of not getting any higher taste and going back to the so-called enjoy the memories of our days of sense enjoyment?

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