Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fourth Canon, Chapter 23, Text 19.

Archanamaharaji tat tat jnanu-gita-vanam sukumar...

Sukumartha-bhagatya yat pajavyam sparshanam bhuvah.

E, Sukumar-tad-ahatsa, yat-pajavya-svarshanam-bhuvah.

Translation, The queen, the wife of Prithi Maharaj, whose name was Archi, followed her husband into the forest.

Since she was a queen, her body was very delicate, although she did not deserve to live in the forest.

She voluntarily touched and let his feet to the ground.

Because Prithi Maharaj's wife was the queen and also a daughter of a king, she never experienced walking on the ground.

For queens used to never come out of the palace.

They certainly never went to the forest and tolerated all the difficulties of living in the goodness.

In Vedic civilization there are hundreds of similar examples of such renunciation on the part of queens and dedication to the husband.

The goddess of fortune, mother Sita, followed her husband Ramachandra when he went to the forest.

Lord Ramachandra went to the forest in compliance with the order of his father Maharaja Dasarath.

Nonetheless, she voluntarily accepted the path of her husband.

Similarly, Gandhari, the wife of King Vishwaraj, also followed her husband into the forest.

Being the wives of great personalities like Pithu, Lord Ramachandra and Vishwaraj, these were ideal-shaped women.

Such queens also instructed the general people by showing them how to be in a chaste wife and follow a husband in every stage of life.

When the husband is king she sits beside him as the queen and when he goes to the forest she also follows despite having to tolerate all kinds of difficulties living in the forest.

Therefore it is said here that although she did not want to touch her feet to the ground she nonetheless accepted all difficulties when she went to the forest with her husband.

E tam vitton tam sajivam sadai tam savadhutam parijana-sahitam krsna-cetanya-devam Sri Rama Krsna padam sahagana-lalita-sivasa-tanditam Namo namah andhishmukh-padai krsna-presthaya-bhutale Simhate bhakti-vedanta-svamani-tinamane The women's libers are this, the absolutely shocked.

The husband goes to the source and the wife follows him to the source.

She's actually the, she's the controller of the supreme person and everyone should do what she says otherwise she'll dump them.

That's the modern day women's liberal mentality.

Many of them are protesting, they call it the choice, pro-choice movement.

If I want to kill my baby, it's my right.

So we're living in a very demoniac age when we don't see wives being very chaste.

We want to get a father or a husband in all situations.

Of course if the husband is a rascal that's another thing.

It's like some of my, some disciples, they have a rascal husband.

So if the husband is a rascal, the wife has no obligation to follow such a husband.

If the husband is a very nice devotee, then obviously the wife should cooperate with him.

I know my godbrother Tejas, he told us how his wife, her name was Tejasini.

And Prabhupada, they were living in Vrindavan and Tejasini was going away again and again.

And Prabhupada was a marriage counselor, having to bring him back, this quarreling outsider couple, bringing them back.

So Prabhupada had to keep bringing Tejasini back every time she would go away.

Prabhupada said, she won't do what I say, Prabhupada.

And Prabhupada said, she doesn't do what you say, and you should do what she said and this way live peacefully.

From Palapada's wonderful examples, he's a cooperation.

It's not that the husband is the center or the wife is the center.

The mentality is that the Christian is the center.

1 of my disciples just wrote me today that really no matter how hard I try I'm not happy.

I'm trying to be happy but I can't be happy.

I'm trying to get happiness but I'm not getting it.

I'm writing him an email right now because you're trying to get happiness.

As long as we try to get happiness, We're not going to have happiness.

The more you give happiness, the more you get it automatically.

Trouble is this material way of a taking mood.

Let me take, take, take as much gratification as I can get.

The hand thinks, let me take all the food I can get and not feed it to the stomach.

So the more the hand gives satisfaction to the stomach, the more hand gets the satisfaction.

So we have to know the real mood is how to give happiness to Krishna.

So our marriages are based on this, where the husband's trying to please Krishna, The wife is trying to please Krishna.

You know, I have very nice marriages, you see, in our movement.

There's so many verses now in the material world because they attracted to somebody for sex pleasure.

If that pleasure is fleeting, it doesn't stay.

But today, the material attraction doesn't remain.

Today I'm attracted to this woman, tomorrow I'm attracted to another woman.

By all those things, I'm attracted to this man, and I'm attracted to another man, dump him, let me get another man.

As long as we base our happiness on our own personal enjoyment, we're not going to get satisfied.

We're going to get a little pleasure from God and become dis-faithful for us.

The position of ever-existing faith is to try to give pleasure to Krishna.

In one's married life, you try to give pleasure to Krishna, in that marriage, that marriage will last.

So we have to think how to make Krishna the center.

This is what is lacking in the world today.

These so-called leaders, I call them cheaters because they're not putting Krishna in the center.

They're trying to put themselves in the center.

They want to push themselves as the center and it doesn't work.

You think all these hellish things happening right now, the mass shootings, the drought, the hurricanes, the earthquakes, you think this is happening by chance?

This is a karmic reaction to the sinful activities going on this planet.

The abortion, the cow slaughter, you name it, it goes on and on and on.

The illicit sex, the gambling, the intoxication, the meat eating, these things, we're getting karmic reactions from all these sinful things.

So that these leaders have no idea, they themselves are running after these sinful activities.

If the leaders themselves are engaged in sinful activities, what can we expect of the people in general?

Whatever a great man does, the common people follow in his footsteps, whatever standard he set by exemplary acts all the world pursues.

So the so-called great men are setting very, very, very bad examples and the people in general follow such examples.

We need to have leaders who are Krishna conscious.

We need to have presidents, prime ministers, senators, congressmen, governors, mayors.

All these people should be pure devotees of Krishna.

And then the whole problem will be solved.

When you have a Krishna conscious king who has absolute ruling authority, then things are very beautiful and wonderful.

These kings, the Vedic kings, they were expert in the art of killing.

Somebody, some rascal who was engaged in sinful activity, immediately punished, even kill him.

They would give capital punishment on the spot.

If somebody was engaging in very sinful activity, just kill him.

This, such, Nowadays, somebody's guilty of a sinful activity, as I previously gave an example, there was this man here in Austin, they gave him, he murdered somebody, they gave him so many years in prison and then he let him out and he again started murdering again.

This ridiculous thing, well give him 20 years in prison, let him out early for good behavior, it's all nonsense.

Now somebody who's guilty of murder immediately kill him.

Somebody who's guilty of murder and they immediately put to death, they overcome the karmic reaction for having killed that person.

They're put to death as reciprocation, they get over the karmic reaction.

But if they're not put to death, then that's just accumulating again.

That's going to come over time in so many ways of suffering.

So the best, the capital punishment is the best thing to peace in the society and the best thing for the karma of that person also.

But these fools and mouths who put somebody in prison.

They give them a life sentence and let them out early for good behavior and it's so ridiculous.

How to punish criminals in a proper way that benefits the criminals.

So this is why Prabhupada's books are so important.

If somebody wants to run for office, they have to say, I've read all Prabhupada's books and I'm following Prabhupada's books.

That should be the requirement for office.

You should be initiated devotee before you can run for political office.

We have to raise the standards now and make God kind of society.

We have to raise the standards, put Krishna in the center, but they don't want to put Christ in the center.

They want to put sense gratification in the center.

They want to put sense gratification in the center of society.

Civilization based on sense gratification is not civilization it's uncivil non-civil civil means peaceful where is the where is the it's not a civilization that's a misnomer the basics of non-civilization so what can we do all begin with us my dear listeners my dear devotees.

As Prabhupada very wonderfully points out in his purport, if 1 chants the holy name of the Lord without offense, he becomes a God-guru, and under his influence everybody takes up the chanting of Hare Krishna.

So we devotees now have to come to the standard, here we are still lingering in the plethora of sense gratification ourselves, holding back the Christianization of this planet.

So each 1 of us now should become very serious now to become pure devotees so we can influence the whole world but simply by our own purity we can influence the whole world to become Krishna conscious.

My disciples wrote me about restrictions, how there's restrictions on my preaching, but actually the only restrictions we put on our preaching is our own impurities, our lust, our anger, our greed, our madness, illusion, and envy.

The only restrictions in our preaching is our own impurities.

Because our impurities are gone, then we can make the whole world Krishna conscious.

All I need is to be a pure devotee and then I'll be automatically able to make the whole world Krishna conscious.

So it's time now to come to that position.

Shuddha Vaishnavas, pure devotees of Krishna.

Giving up all of our bad habits, our laziness, our craziness, our sensiveness, our argumentiveness.

We have to give up all these things and become solely, wholly fixed on the transmittal platform beyond the modes of nature.

No longer imprisoned beneath the ropes of these modes.

Atva guna, raja guna, tamo guna, these are all ropes.

Even the mode of goodness is a rope entangling us in the cycle of birth and death.

It's better than the other modes in that mode of goodness you can go farther to pure goodness but the goodness without going to pure goodness is another entanglement.

Well I gave charity to all those people, free medical care, and guess what?

Now they get to give me free medical care in the future lives, you see.

I get to take a birth again to each of those persons, give me free medical care.

You see the entanglement of the motive goodness?

So we have to come to the Transcendental platform, Sudha Vaishnava, Sudhanam.

We have to come to that Transcendental platform where there's no more entanglement.

But why are we holding on to the modes of nature?

Even though we know better, we're still foolishly clinging to this idea I can enjoy several days of Krishna.

We're clinging, clinging, clinging, surely there must be some way I can enjoy without being Krishna conscious.

We're clinging, clinging, clinging in this nonsensical platform of trying to enjoy several even Krishna but it doesn't work.

You want to be no it's not good still we addicted to it after millions of lifetimes of making ourselves a center we had this addiction to egocentrism.

So we have to kick out this egocentricism and come to Krishna-centrism.

Well the scriptures are there to help us.

Krishna is speaking in the Bhagavad Gita.

Lord Ramana is speaking in the Brahma Samhita.

There's so many wonderful scriptures that help us learn the art and master the art and fully implement this art of putting Krishna back in the center.

If not difficult, if we take shelter of the devotee association, take shelter of the spiritual masters, mercy, take shelter of Prabhupada's books, it's not difficult if we actually take shelter, but the difficulty is we're so proud, we're so puffed up, we don't think we need to think shortly.

We think we're already properly situated even though we're still lusty angry greedy mad and something madness illusion and everything.

So we have to kick out this idea that I'm properly situated and learn from the great Acharas and teach us how to approach Krishna in this mood of not being captive by the modes of nature.

Right now we are captive by the modes of nature.

So we should learn the Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Narottam, who have been all these wonderful songs, to help us understand in our fallen position how should we be anchored and be out of it.

So we should be hankering, hankering, yearning, craving that day, craving it, intensely craving that day, that moment when I can kick out all these anarchists and become qualified to see Krishna directly, face to face.

When we come to that position, why are we holding on to this so-called enjoyment position in the material world, but foolishly holding on to the idea that we can enjoy separately from Krishna.

Kindly understand that my dear devotees, my dear listeners, it is not possible to ever enjoy separate from Krishna.

Again, we're still, whole again told that somehow I can enjoy separate from Krishna.

It's impossible, we still go on doing it.

Still we go on doing it again and again and again.

We're habituated to trying to enjoy separate from Krishna.

Just like somebody wrote me today, they have this trouble with masturbating.

From time to time they fall down and they masturbate because they have this idea they can enjoy separate from Krishna.

We have to understand there is no enjoyment just like the scripture says, that happiness, sexual intercourse, which is the original number 1 pleasure for the Grim-Hades, the householders, the materialistic householders, it's indeed insignificant.

So we try to enjoy the sex pleasure that the householders try to do, sometimes the men try to masturbate and enjoy, try to enjoy some pleasure of the sex enjoyment but actually it's simply insignificant.

Nothing compares to the pleasure of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

So we have to learn how to dive deep, how to deep sea dive in the nature of the holy name.

That's what makes us actually happy when we learn it.

Not that you have to go back to God to directly approach Krishna.

Krishna has now directly come to you in the form of his holy name.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, Here comes Krishna, are you willing to, do you want his association or not?

Well I got other things to do later on, I'll chant Hare Krishna.

Wait a minute, God himself has come and you don't want to associate with him?

God himself has come directly and you don't want to associate with him?

It's time we become a little intelligent my dear listeners, my dear devotees.

It's time we wake up and come out of this dream state, there's any happiness separate from Krishna consciousness.

It's time we kick out this illusion from our mind that thinking we can enjoy self-belief in Krishna.

There's absolutely 0 enjoyment outside of Krishna.

Therefore, as Papa told me, all material desires, 0.

That's the position we must come to, all material desires, 0.

The Buddhist tries to do that also, emerging into the void.

But the person who's also trying to do that, emerging into the oneness.

But those positions give what we, in fact, the Buddhistic or the personal liberation, you can temporarily fly in the sky of Brahmā, but because there's no satisfaction there, only denying the material satisfaction, well, tanti, you know, they fall back in their material existence.

So we have to learn how to be satisfied by giving happiness to Krishna.

We chant Hare Krishna in such a way that Krishna will be pleased.

You are chanting to please Krishna not to please yourself.

That is a very important thing to understand.

We are chanting Hare Krishna not to enjoy the holy name.

We are trying to chant Hare Krishna in such a way to please Krishna.

Just imagine Radha and Krishna are there, actually they are, and we're singing, we're chanting and singing for their pleasure.

Just visualize that when you chant Hare Krishna, Radha and Krishna is there, I want to please them by the way I chant.

By the mood of my chanting, the feeling of my chanting, the enthusiasm of my chanting, I want to please them.

So we chant in that mood, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

Then we'll start to get, then we'll start to really get connected to be online with Krishna.

Because now everybody wants to be online with the internet.

But there's another internet which has been there since time immemorial is Krishna-nept.

So if we want to get online, you want to be tuned in to the Krishna-nept.

The password is Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

You want to log in and the pass gets logged in to Krishna consciousness.

It's got the password Hare Krishna mantra and this way we'll be on, we'll be online with Krishna directly in contact with him 24 7.

Directly in contact with Sri Sri Bhatta and Krishna 24 hours a day.

So if you're not diligent, if you don't want to take this process seriously, that means you think you can enjoy, you're foolishly thinking you can enjoy several days with Krishna.

But try to understand my dear listeners, there is absolutely no happiness outside of Krishna consciousness.

The hand cannot enjoy by shutting itself off from the body.

The hand can only enjoy by serving the interest of the entire body.

So it's time to come out of the hallucination and wake up to our actual original identity as the eternal servants of Krishna.

Let's see if there's any questions rolling in.

In society sometimes women are killed due to their being unchaste and faithful husbands.

They need proper husbands giving protection.

The husband actually giving protection to the wife should be happy to take care of the husband.

The husband, the Pratishna actually explains that women like ornaments, The husband should give some nice ornaments to the wife.

That's 1 thing I just read yesterday in the Baba's books.

Give her nice clothing, nice sari, nice ornaments, nice prashadam.

Give her a nice atmosphere in the home with a deity worship going on or at least a nice altar with photographs.

Make a nice atmosphere so she can be happy.

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