So today we're reading from Shemot B'gatam, 4th Kena, 23, ch.

By blocking, by the air which goes up, pushing upward, by the navel, in the heart and in the throat, avyasthavya, fixing, slit in the heart, ura, upper, kanta, throat, shirshani, between the 2 eyebrows.

Translation in purport by his divine grace, Srila Prabhupada.

When Maharaja Prthu practiced a particular yogic sitting posture, he blocked the doors of his anus with his ankles, pressed his right and left calves and gradually raised his life air upward, passing it under the circle of his navel up to his heart and throat, and finally pushed it upward to the central position between his 2 eyebrows, purport.

The sitting posture described herein is called muktasana.

In the yoga process, after following the strict regular principles controlling the sleeping, eating and mating, 1 is allowed to practice the different sitting postures.

The ultimate aim of yoga is to enable 1 to give up his body according to his own free will.

When he has attained the ultimate summit of yoga practice, he can live in the body as long as he likes or as long as he is not completely perfect, leave the body to go anywhere within or outside the universe.

Some yogis leave their bodies to go to higher planetary systems and enjoy material facilities therein.

However, intelligent yogis do not wish to waste their time within this material world at all.

They do not care for the material facilities and higher planetary systems, but are interested in going directly to the spiritual sky, back to home, back to Godhead.

From the description in this verse, it appears that Maharaja Prithu had no desire to promote himself to the higher planetary systems.

He wanted to return home immediately back to Godhead.

Although Maharaja Prithu stopped all practice of mystic yoga after realizing Krishna consciousness, He took advantage of his previous practices and immediately placed himself on the Brahma-mukta platform in order to accelerate his return to Godhead.

The aim of this particular system is asana, known as the sitting posture for liberation, or muktasana, is to attain success in kundalini chakra and gradually raise the life from muladhara chakra to the sushishtana chakra, then to the manipura chakra, then the anahata chakra, the visuddhi chakra, and finally to the ajna chakra.

When the yogi reaches the ajna chakra between the 2 eyebrows, he's able to penetrate the brahmavrandhra of a hole in his skull and go to any planet he desires, up to the spiritual kingdom of Vaikuntha or Krishna-loka.

The conclusion is that 1 who has come to the Brahma Buddha stage for going back to home, back to Godhead.

1 has to come to the Brahma Sutra stage for going back to home, back to Godhead.

However, those who are not in, those who are in Krishna consciousness, or those who are practicing bhakti yajna, shavanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam parasevanam, can return to Godhead without even practicing the muktasana process.

The purpose of muktasana practice is to come to the Brahma Buddha stage, but without being on the Brahma Buddha stage 1 cannot be promoted to the spiritual sky.

As stated in the Bhagavad-gita 1426, manca yoga vicharena bhakti-yogena sevate, saguna-samanyit chayon brahm-bhutah kalpate.

The bhakti-yogi practicing bhakti-yoga is always situated on the brahma-bhuta stage, brahma-bhutah kalpate.

If a devotee is able to continue on the Brahma Buddha platform, he enters the spiritual sky automatically after death and returns to Godhead.

Consequently, a devotee need not feel sorry for not having practiced the kundalini chakra or not penetrating the 6 chakras 1 after another.

As far as Maharaja Prithvi was concerned, he had already practiced this process and since he did not want to wait for the time when his death would occur naturally, he took advantage of the shat-cakra penetration process and thus gave up the body according to his own free will and nidali in the spiritual sky.

E sa hitam krsna-cetanya devam sri-ralha krsna-padam sahagana-lalita-sivasa-kandita-sutra-nama-o-vishnu-padaya-krsna-presthaya-bhutale-srimate bhakti-vedanta-svamini-tilamine namaste Sarasvati Devi, Gauravani Pachanini, nivishe, Sushanya, Vahe, Pachita, Desha, Samine.

Here we can get some idea of what is the actual practice of yoga.

The modern day quote yogis unquote go to some yoga studio and they sit in some postures for so-called health.

Yoga is meant for raising the life air to the various chakras up to then be able to penetrate the brahma root of the hole on top of the skull, so boom, leaving the body the time of one's desire.

That's the actual, even this other process of developing mystic powers is not the real purpose of yoga.

The advanced yogis, they can develop all kinds of mystic powers but that's also not the purpose of yoga.

So the real purpose of yoga is to go through, is to raise the life enter of all these chakras, to be able to penetrate the ramana opening in the top of the skull so 1 can choose when he wants to die.

For us normal person, people who are not advanced in this process, we have to die according to our karma.

Of course the average age right now here in the US is 79.

But you could die at the age of 20 or 85.

The average doesn't mean you're going to live to be 79 because that's the average.

So, but the yogi he doesn't depend on the average, the average time, the average lifespan.

He's completely under control of when he dies.

So 1 could think, why does he not want to die then?

You can stay here forever, for as long as you want.

Well, this material world is not a very nice place actually.

It's a place of birth, death, old age, and disease.

Adi-atmic, adi-abotic, and adi-diastic misery.

So to have the privilege of being to leave whenever you want to do it is actually a great blessing.

It's like you can buy an airline ticket and you can choose when you want to fly to a certain destination.

I want to fly on September 13th to a certain destination.

You can choose your time and you want to fly.

He gets to fly on the airplane, the yogic airplane, wherever he chooses to go.

When he wants to book his ticket, you see.

When he wants to penetrate the Brahma-ramta, boom, and go back to the material planet and higher planetary systems to enjoy heavenly pleasures in the heavenly regions that's intelligent yogis.

As Papa points out those are actually intelligent they don't want to mess around with the higher planets.

The higher planets are also a place of misery because even on the higher planets you have to die.

You may enjoy all kinds of celestial pleasures but still you have to die.

So what's the use of going to the heavenly planets?

So those who are actually intelligent say they want nothing to do with this material.

You may try to do good here but you get so many...

You may try to be a good person here but you get so many...

You might try to be an honest person but everybody's trying to cheat you.

Try to be honest to everyone, friend of everyone, but you see you got so many enemies so this is a nasty place especially now in the Kali Yuga it's very very very nasty.

In the Sathya Yuga it was almost completely pious, almost 100% piety.

The Kalpa yuga is 75% impious, 25% piety and going down 25, 24, 23.

Probably mention a time that gets so bad right now we're in great anxiety about the drought isn't it?

We don't see any rain here and everything's drying up, the water supply is going down and telling us we can't water very much our lawns like we used to.

It could get so bad that you can only take drinking water.

Actually, Prabhupada points out a time when the whole ocean will dry up.

There won't be a Pacific Ocean anymore, the Prophet said.

That's where we're heading in this Kali Yuga, all these sinful reactions of all the sinful activities, abortion clinics, the slaughterhouses.

I mean, we're getting heavy, heavy, heavy reactions, right?

And these Baskars, they're murdering babies, they say, pro-choice like it's some very virtuous thing to have a choice whether I let my kid live or murder him.

This is more intelligent than being pro-life.

There's The pro-lifers and the pro-choices.

They think pro-choice is better than pro-life.

I can't imagine how sick they're getting.

Now they have the thing you can change your gender.

You can do surgery and change your gender.

You have artificial manipulation of your bodily organs so you can appear like a female or a male.

I mean it's so absolutely ridiculous what's going on now.

I mean it's shocking to think how the greater it has become absolutely shocking how the greater it has become so there's no hope except for this movement of Lord Sri Atenya Mahaprabhu this is the only hope for the suffering humanity the only hope There is no hope other than this.

Other than this is somebody down, down, down.

They actually become lower than animals, these rascals.

They act according to the laws of nature.

But these so-called human beings are acting against the laws of nature.

Show me many animals that act against the laws of nature.

Every animal strictly abides by the laws of nature.

So these human beings are not even a level of animals.

It's absolutely insane how they're living nowadays.

The philosophy they're espousing is absolutely insane what's going on this planet.

It all happened because Shringi cursed Maharaja Pariksha.

Maharaja Pariksha was out hunting and he was a little thirsty he went to the head of the sage to get some water but the sage neglected him he was absorbed deep in meditation.

So Myra's trickster being a little bit disturbed why he's not giving me any and he got on him with a snake.

He shouldn't have done that but still the sage was tolerant.

But his son, a little unintelligent Brahmin boy, he was disturbed.

Oh my, the father's been insulted by the king.

The father was so disturbed, you just see the Brahminical powder, they had so much power, even a little boy could curse the king to die in 7 days.

The Brahmins formerly had so much power, even the son of a Brahmin could curse the king.

But the curse was given and had to happen.

But that was the opportunity for Bhagavan to be spoken.

Because of that, the whole Vedic civilization collapsed.

Up until that point the whole world was ruled by a Vedic king.

This whole world was like a paradise ruled by Vedic kings.

There was peace and happiness all over the whole planet.

Vedic civilization under 1 Vedic king, a whole planet.

But formerly India was the Bharat culture, the Indian culture of this entire planet.

And these foolish bastards, they teach in the universities.

They taught that the first cities on this planet were the Tigris and Euphrates civilizations.

That was the original cities on this planet.

They completely block Vedic culture out of their history books.

There was the Tagus and Euphrates cultures and the Greek cultures and Roman cultures.

They completely turned it away from their history books, these schools and masters.

problem is bringing it back, bringing it back, bringing it back.

Let these schools and masters put the Bhagavatam in every university.

It's like we have our courses called basic studies in our universities.

This should be the basic study in every university.

Prabhupada's books should be the basic study.

Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, this should be taught in every college, every university throughout the whole world.

We want to make Prabhupada's books the guiding principle in every town, in every village, in every home throughout the world.

That's our goal here in this Krishnagarhana's movement.

We want to bring Krishna back to the center of the human civilization, not this rakshata, sense gratification, you know, go ahead and gratify my general civilization it's completely nonsense so how are we going to do it well we have to be pure that's all the trouble is we're contaminating ourselves with so many material desires lust anger greed madness illusion and we're covered by these these here we are neophyte devotees starting to get out of our own material desires.

If we were free of all these material desires we could make the whole world Krishna conscious.

Because we have all these material desires sitting in our hearts, we're not successful in our preaching.

Our own, our own anarchists are holding back, pushing forward this movement.

Our own anarchists are holding on to our own dirt in our hearts, and therefore this movement is not spreading.

Prabhupada explains in his purport, if 1 can chant the holy name without offense, he becomes a God guru, and under his influence the whole world becomes Krishna conscious.

So we can understand we are committing so many nama parats.

Therefore the world is not becoming Krishna conscious.

Therefore we should beg every day, my dear Krishna, my dear Sivapada, my dear Lord Caitanya, please bless me now I can chant these holy names without any offense.

If we Vaisnava, if we neophyte devotees can learn how to chant without offence, we'll see that the whole world becomes Krishna conscious.

Vedic civilization will come back to this planet once again.

You may say, well how is that possible in the Kalayuga?

You can't say it can't happen in the Kalayuga, because it's predicted in the Caitanya-charita-amrita, that jana-durjana-pan-gu, jana-anajana, prem-dvaya-dvaya-dvaya-dvaya, jana.

This Krishna consciousness movement will inundate the entire world and drown everyone whether 1 is pious, impious, lame, ignorant, blind, etc.

So in this Chaitanya era which started 500 years ago, a huge revolution is going to take place.

It's not just some poetic simile to encourage this.

This Krishna Consciousness Movement will inundate the entire world, making everyone Krishna Conscious.

So those devotees who can learn how to chant purely without offense, by their pure chanting, it's going to happen.

But I'm praying that day will come when I become free of all these offenses.

I'm just praying to that day I can give up all my offenses so I can act as a pure conduit of Shri Rampalabha's mercy and get out of all my lust, my anger, my greed, my naz, delusion, envy.

I'm begging Prabhupada to please bless me for that day when I can become a pure devotee and actually do my service to make this world Krishna conscious.

So I see some people couldn't handle it they left couldn't handle this class so that some of the numbers have gone down because they can't handle my class.

There's no questions any questions coming in Okay, there's no questions.

see a question Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama

What is the best method to spread Krishna consciousness?

As Prabhupada explained, I quoted, it's actually our own purity.

Of course, Prabhupada always said book distribution.

So, Harinam, book distribution, Vishadham distribution, these are the primary means that Prabhupada gave us but our own purity has to be there

have to They may read our books and go, wow, this is wonderful.

They come to the temple, they see the devotees quarreling and arguing.

They see a nice relation between the devotees and go, what is this?

I don't see it in this movement, but I read in the books.

I read in the books about wonderful cooperation and loving relations between devotees.

I come to the temple and I see anger and I see quarreling going on.

So we have to be living examples of what Prabhupada is saying.

If We ourselves are full of anarchists and dirt and quarreling and anger.

We have to be living examples of what is there in Prabhupada's books.

If we can be living examples, then all these things, the book distribution, the Harinam, the Shah distribution, cultivation programs, and we are ideal living examples of what we read in the books, and this movement has become very successful to take over the whole world.

We're not showing the example by our own relationships that we have.

These impurities, lust, anger, greed, etc., are so deep it seems lifelong task to get rid of them.

We've been polluted by lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, and thousands and millions of lifetimes.

It's a very, very difficult thing to get rid of.

We've been serving the tongue, belly, and genitals for millions and millions of lifetimes.

That's why we need a special mercy of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

That's why Narada prays, and the payment on the soukhi, kiva-valokanah, amida-dhuki.

My dear Lord Ananda, Lord dear Lord Ananda, I see you're always happy for the spiritual bliss.

I'm the most unhappy, miserable person in the whole world, so kindly cast your glance of mercy upon me, my dear Lord Ananda, so I can also become happy.

Now we're suffering so, we're suffering in this lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, envy because of a very miserable action.

But if we can beg Lord Nithyananda, that's why he always chants, Sri Krishna, Jai Chandra, Prabhu Nithyananda.

Prabhu Nithyananda especially, he's the most merciful, He's actually Lord Balaram coming in a more merciful form.

If we can get that mercy of Lord Nithyananda, then it's possible to get rid of our lust, our anger, our greed, our madness, illusion, envy.

So we should specially beg Lord Nithyananda to save us from this horrible syndrome, all these lusty, angry, greedy, ridiculous desires that are polluting our hearts.

Many souls are coming to the temples, shall the preacher try to evoke their voluntary service?

Absolutely, we should be an example of someone who is enlivened to do devotional service so they'll be inspired by our example of devotional service.

If we ourselves don't want to do devotional service because we want to eat, sleep, mate and defend, now if we inspire anybody else to do devotional service.

Chanting is the best process to achieve the highest affection.

Easily what is the purpose of so many processes given even in the Bhagavad-Gita?

Well, it's chanting, hearing, remembering, there's a whole 9 system, processes.

The other processes whether it's cleaning the dishes or sweeping the floor or whatever it may be.

All these other processes are there to help bring us to the point of pure chanting.

Pure chanting is the essence and everything else is there to bring us

Pure chanting is the essence and everything else is there to

Chanting is enchanting but we're not enchanted, we're enchanted by maya, that's the problem.

I'm still asking for lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion and envy.

But all these activities, offering an arati, taking vishadham, everything we do is actually there to bring us to the point of shuddhanam, pure chanting.

Hare Krishna and Gurudev are being pure devotee and having a loving relationship with Krishna the same?

See, right now, instead of loving Krishna, we want Krishna to serve us.

Give me this, give me that, give me, give me, give me.

They come to the temple, the shopping was, okay Krishna I need a new job, I need a new house, I need a wife, I need a car, please give me, they come to the temple, give me a Cadillac, a brand new Cadillac, replete with Michelin tires, give my wife a new silk sari, give my kids a Harvard education, Give me a house by the sea.

The trouble is we are coming to the temple with our shopping list.

So instead of loving Krishna, we want Krishna.

You better love me by showing me how much you love me by giving me this, this, this, this, this and this.

But to love means to surrender, my dear Krishna, I now give myself fully to you.

So pure devotion and love are the same thing.

See now they call love something different.

Love means I love you, I want to have a sex relationship with you, I love you.

You see this is, they've converted the word love.

They even have a little manic heart equal to love.

I want to have a sexual relationship with you.

Love means selflessness, pure giving to the beloved.

Doesn't mean coming to you to how you can gratify me.

The senses of Krishna and lust means how can I get my senses satisfied?

So let's see what else we have rolling in here.

I'll take the Krishna consciousness if I can get what I want.

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