So today we are reading Shemot B'gatam, 4th Kena, 23rd Chapter, text 16.

The different holes in the body for the sense organs.

With substance, to ye in the water, kithah sthanam, according to proper situation, the bhagasha, as they are divided.

Yayau, in the air, navas, in the sky, amum, that translation in purport by his divine grace Srila Prabhupada.

In this way, according to the different positions of the various parts of the body, Prithu Maharaj merged the wholes of his senses with the sky, his bodily liquids such as blood and various secretions with a totality of water, and he merged earth with water, and then water with fire, fire with air, air with sky and so on.

In this verse 2 words are very important.

In the Srimad Bhagavatam, second canto, fifth chapter, Lord Ramana clearly explains to Narada how the creation took place.

He explained 1 step after another the power divisions of the senses, the controller of the senses, the objects of the senses and the material elements.

And he also explained how they are created 1 after another.

The air from sky, the fire from the air, the water from the fire, the earth from the water, etc.

It is important to know thoroughly the process of creation as it applies to this cosmic manifestation.

Similarly, this body is also created according to the same process by the Supreme Lord.

The Presidentiality of Godhead, after entering the universe, creates the cosmic manifestations, 1 after another.

Similarly, the living entity, after entering a womb of the mother, also collects his gross and subtle bodies, taking ingredients from the totality of sky, air, fire, water, and earth.

The word nidastanam vivagasa indicates that 1 should know the process of creation and should meditate upon the creative prospect inversely and thus become free from material contamination.

E nama-sri-janasahitam krsna-caitanya devam sri-rabha krsna-padam sahaganaladita-sri-visakam-vitam ca nama om vishnu-padaya krsna-presthaya bhutale srimat-dev-bhakti-vedanta-svamini-tinamane namaste, Sarasvati Devi, Krishna-prestha-yabhutale, Simhate bhaktive dantisva-amritinamane, Namaste Sarasvati Devi, Govani-pacharine, Nibhisheshu-suryavadi-pastitide-satavine.

So my dear listeners, what if we are not able to know all these things, the inverse process of the creation, in order to become free from material contamination.

What if we do not understand this science about 1 element into another element into another element and then we're lost in the cycle of birth and death?

This is a process by the Ashtanga yogis to know all these things and to meditate in this way.

So the good news is we don't have to worry about all this stuff the Ashtanga yogis did.

All we have to do is take the bhakti yoga process very seriously as given by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

And it's made even more easy by the wonderful mercy of Lord Caitanya and even more easy by the wonderful, wonderful blessings of Lord Nityananda.

So what is this actual process given by Lord Caitanya, Lord Nityananda?

Haranama, haranama, haranama eva kevalam, khalo nastaiva, nastaiva, nastaiva, kathir anya-cchha.

Chant the holy names, shant the holy names, shant the holy names, there is no other alternative, there is no other alternative, there is no other alternative for God realization.

If I say things 3 times that emphasizes it.

If I say shut the door, shut the door, shut the door, That means you should shut the door.

If I say things 3 times it's very, very, very emphatic.

So when it's said 3 times, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, it's making very, very, very, very, very crystal clear.

It's very very to the point where you have to chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

words we have to train ourselves to always be Krishna conscious.

Just like when you take a course in the university, you go to the classes, you do the homework, you study for the exams, etc., etc., etc.

And then the final day, the final process, the final processing, or what are you going to call it, the final event in that class is the final exam.

The final exam, that's everything, how well you were studying, how well you were learning, how well you match to the subject matter.

So the final exam, the final exam will make you or break you.

If you flunk the final exam, you're in bad shape.

If you ace it, that means making A's, make an excellent grade, you call it acing the exam.

If you ace the exam, you're in very, very good shape.

You're now recognized as an honors student, you get all kinds of special privileges, and you're very much encouraged to go forward to get that degree you wanted, even some higher level degrees you're running after.

So in the same way that the final exam is very important when you're studying a subject matter in the school or university.

The final exam that we all have to face, even more essential, even more important, even more, very, very, very important, is the final exam called death.

If you can ace the exam by remembering that beautiful Lord who is standing on the bank of Keshi God, playing the fifth note in his flute, and any of his leelas, that's just 1 example, even killing the putana demon, sucking the poison out of her breast.

If you can remember anything about Krishna, his name, his fame, his qualities, his entourage, his paraphernalia, his wonderful, wonderful acharyas like Srila Prabhupada.

If you can remember anything related with Krishna, even the satsangas, or the deity worship, or the karthas, If you can remember anything that's in relationship with Krishna, you're in good shape.

So your destination will be back to home, back to Godhead.

And if you don't remember Krishna, what is your destination?

Well, there's 8,400,000 different species and you're going to end up in 1 of them.

It may not be on the earth planet, it could be in a different planet, it could be in a different universe even.

According to your non-devotional mentality, you receive a certain type of body.

What if at the time of death you were lusty?

Probably explained that lust is so powerful, even old men are paying money to go to a dance club to see naked women in Paris.

If you're lusty at the time of death, well, good luck.

You can get full facility for your lusty desires in the body of a pig, a hog.

A hog has no discrimination, sex with his mother, sex with his sister, sex with his daughter.

He has no need to enjoy sex whoever he wants but he has to eat stool also taking it very very yummy yummy yummy stool in the tummy so if that's what you want whatever mentality you have at the time of death, that determines your next body.

So, if you would like to not take another material body, Why not take another material body?

Well, material body means subject to birth, death, old age and disease, the fourfold misery, and the threefold misery, the idiotic, the idiotic and the idiotic.

Misery in the mind and the body, miseries caused by ill-living beings and miseries caused by natural disasters like the drought we're having right now.

would like to not have to taste these fourfold and threefold miseries in the next life, then you need to get out of this rotten existence called the material world, which is actually a penal colony, a place of punishment.

It's like they have the prisons for the criminals, they have to reside in the prison.

Certain prisoners are more highly, have special qualifications.

We should turn off that ringer during Brahmatam.

You have to put it in another room somewhere.

You shouldn't have to hear a ringer during Bhagavatam.

Prabhupada would never allow such things.

So, satyavah, what we want, you see, this is even special, certain certain prisoners may be highly placed they get a special cell well that's a heavenly planet this is special for highly elevated prisoners they get a certain better privileges the heavenly planets are also hellish you may say how can we be hellish?

Well it's hellish because you still have to get sick and die there.

Maybe you don't get sick, so they have to die.

Everyone has to face death, and nobody wants to die.

So, we should be a little intelligent, a little sober minded to not be carried away by these modes of nature thinking, oh yes, I can enjoy here, there's so much pleasure here, eating, sleeping, mating, defending.

There's no sense in trying to enjoy the senses because it's not me.

Sense gratification forces me to misidentify myself with this body which is rotting and getting old.

Therefore, even though it may appear I can enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy by gratifying these senses.

It's like the sense gratification is like the donkey and the carrot.

The master holds a little carrot in front of the donkey hanging on a stick.

The donkey is running after that carrot carrying a huge, huge burden on the back.

You never become satisfied by gratifying your senses because it is not you.

If you want actual satisfaction, you have to become a Goswami.

See there's 2 categories, Goswami and Godas.

You can master your senses or you can serve your senses.

Prabhupada Goswami encourages us to master our senses.

Vatsa vegam manasa krodha vegam, jiva vegam, udara pata vegam, etam vittam yo visahit, tirasavam vittimam, prathisim shishat.

1 who can control mind, words, anger, tongue, belly and genitals can make disciples all over the world.

So when you can bring these 6 pushings, these bhagavans, they are called in Sanskrit language.

When you can bring these bhagavans under control, you become powerful for studying the Krishna conscious movement and of course that means you're powerful in being Krishna conscious also.

Unless you're fixed and purely fixed in bhakti, you cannot become powerful for spreading the Krishna consciousness movement.

So anybody who is powerful enough to make disciples all over the world, obviously his senses are under control.

His mind, words, anger, child-bearing, genitals are very nicely dovetailed in the service of the Lord.

We don't deny these things like the Mayavadis or the Buddhists saying it's all false, you know.

There's a place for the free citizens, there's a place for the prisoners.

It's for those who are disobedient to the laws of the state.

We never say it's false like the Mayabodhis or the Buddhists.

So 1 has to learn how to get out of the prison.

I may think I'm sitting here in the prison and I think I can get out of the prison by saying here I'm an inmate in the prison and say this prison is false therefore I'm now liberated.

I'm sitting here locked in a cell and thinking oh this prison is false and I'm liberated.

They think I'm liberated because I say the prison is false therefore I'm liberated.

You're still locked up in a prison cell to think I deny this prison therefore I'm liberated.

You want to get out of the prison you have to become obedient to the laws of the state.

So let us not be carried away by this bogus philosophy that spirit is truth and matter is false.

Let us enter the transcendental realm called Krishna consciousness.

There's an amazing, amazing realm and it's there waiting for us right now.

I worship the man of the prime of the Lord, whose transcendental body is full of bliss, truth, substantiality, and is thus full of the most dazzling splendor.

Each of the limbs of that transcendental body possesses in itself the full-fledged functions of all the organs and internally receives, maintains and manifests the infinite universe of both spiritual and mundane.

Can you imagine getting reconnected with that person who is manifesting infinite spiritual universes and infinite material universes from himself at every minute.

Just imagine becoming reconnected when Krishna says, I am the most intimate well-wishing friend of every civilized being.

Wait a minute, how can Krishna be my intimate friend?

Jeta says Krishna is the most intimate husband of each 1 of those 16,109 queens because he manifests the self of Krishna for each and every 1 of them.

Krishna can manifest the self of Krishna for each and every living entity through all of existence.

He wants to have that sweet intimate loving relationship with every 1 of us.

He's giving us his unlimited love and we're saying no thank you, no thank you, later, later, later.

I have to do this, I have to do that, I have to get some followers, get some money, have some sex pleasure.

No, no, no, wait, wait, wait, later, later, later.

We're thinking let me enjoy this material a little longer let me get a little more pleasure here is it we're so stupid we're so asinine like asses we're thinking let me get a little more pleasure here and later on I'll take the Krishna conch, solely and purely.

We're actually cheating ourselves, my dear listeners, we're cheating ourselves trying to enjoy separately from Krishna.

There is, try to understand this point, There is no enjoyment separate from Krishna.

And here we are sleeping in the lab of the witch Maya, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming.

Yes, I can enjoy here in my own little world where I think I'm the center of all existence.

See how often I announce to people, Mahamudra, we're great fools.

Why don't we listen to the great Acharyas like He is the Divine Grace, Siva Prabhupada, and His Divine Grace, Bhakti-siddhana, Sarasvati, Drakula.

Why don't we listen to Narayana Muni and Vyasadeva and Lord Caitanya.

Why don't we listen to these great authorities?

Why do we keep going on our own little mental platform.

It's time we stop and listen to these authorities.

Let their teachings go not in 1 ear, not the other ear.

Let these teachings go in both ears and go deep, deep, deep, deep into our heart to rid us of all the lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, and envy which is deeply, deeply rooted.

You realize how many layers of lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion we have?

After millions of lifetimes in this material world, you realize how many layers you have of these things sitting in your heart?

How many layers we have of this lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, and envy?

It's inconceivable how many layers we have.

Actually it's uncountable how many layers of lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, and envy we have sitting in our hearts.

But the beauty is in 1 stroke finished Abandon all other pseudo religions and simply fully surrender to me.

I will deliver you from all your sense of reaction.

I will not deliver you from all of those layers.

It's those millions and millions and trillions and quadrillions and quintillions of layers of lust, anger, greed, madness, and now boom, I finish it, liberate him, all of it.

Why are we so unintelligent, so foolish, so spaced out?

Surely there must be some enjoyment here.

What enjoyment we can get from these senses?

And still we think, yes, I can enjoy these senses.

When are we going to have a little sense to realize I can enjoy these senses?

Yeah, we hold on, you know, hope against hope.

Surely I get a little pleasure out of these senses.

I mean, it's time we wake up and stop dreaming, you know, this little dream that I can enjoy here, these material senses.

When are we going to hear the great Acharyas?

When are we going to hear the spiritual masters beating on our heads with his philosophy?

Why are you sleeping in the lap of the witch Maya?

Lord Jaya is calling, wake up, wake up, you sleeping soul.

But here we are all sleeping, sleeping, sleeping, sleeping.

The witch Maya, we have our heads in Maya's lap.

When are we going to come out of this hallucination we're in?

When are we going to get out of this hallucination?

We're so still we want to hold on to, Oh yes, I can enjoy here.

Surely Krishna will let me have a little enjoyment.

So anyway, we've been rambling on here quite a while.

I don't want to take up too much of your time.

Anybody have any questions or we can end it here.

Due to exams, I was not able to join the Bhagavatam.

Even if you catch even 1 minute of the Bhagavatam class, you're unlimitedly benefited.

powerful, Even if you catch even 1 minute of the Bhagavatam

Even if you catch even 1 syllable of the Bhagavatam class, you're unlimitedly blessed.

I'm glad you're here even though you're tied up in exams.

Actually, we're all tied up in exams right now.

They have to remember you have a big final exam coming up very soon.

So don't, you might study for these other exams.

Understand This exam is more important than the other exam.

You have to prepare yourself for death, the final exam of death.

Every day you must cram and study and prepare yourself for death.

What Lord Krishna means when he says, ma suchah, do not fear.

There's no anxiety, nothing to worry about.

It's like we say in America, in the money, in God we trust.

There's nothing to worry about, nothing to hesitate about, nothing to be afraid about.

Just go ahead and surrender because in Krishna we trust.

Okay now, Zaheel Zalish, Shrila Gurudev, the question is how can 1 always depend on Guru and Krishna?

matter of intelligence and realizing on my own I'm nothing.

I tried for so many years to be a spiritualist without having a guru.

I had 2 invitations to go and hear from Prabhupada.

I turned down 2 invitations to actually go and be with Prabhupada.

Because I was thinking I don't need a guru.

The hell with my body philosophy, I'm God.

I've been cheated by 2 bogus gurus I was skeptical about these gurus But actually Guru is very important.

Someone says, can I just take Krishna as my Guru?

But then you have to do exactly what Krishna says.

If you accept Krishna as your Guru, you have to obey him.

Submissively under service unto him, the self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.

So if you understand that Krishna is the supreme authority, then you have to...

Well, actually you're already depending on him for everything.

Your every breath of air depends on Krishna.

The proper temperature you're living in right now, if it was too hot or too cold, you would die.

Now you have to realize you're already depending on him with every minute.

Grace says there is no sense in the sense of the dedication.

How do the facilities that come in the course of one's life engage them in Christian service?

Just like 1 opportunity for sense gratification is sex life.

Well, engage in Christian service, get married, have some Christian conscious children.

So whatever, if there's any opportunity for sense enjoyment, get him in Krishna's service.

Well, go ahead and satisfy your eating desire by taking Vishada.

So you have to transcendentalize all of your sense gratification.

There are so many lectures on Prabhupada.

So many Krishna conscious videos, audio recordings, there's a place where you can download hundreds of Prabhupada's lectures onto your smart phone, you

him all day long, driving down the street, or cutting, going and working in your garden, you can hear Prabhupada all day long.

There are so many facilities where you can gratify your senses.

There are so many things you can do to gratify your senses in Krishna conscious way.

Gauri, how can we develop seriousness in Krishna consciousness in the neophyte stage?

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