I'm giving a lecture today on Srimad Bhagavatam 4.23.1.

As stated in the Bhagavad Gita, the Supreme Lord is the proprietor of all planets.

He is always anxious to see that in each and every planet the living entities are happily living and executing their duties.

As soon as there is some discrepancy in the execution of devotees and the execution of duties, the Lord appears on earth and confirms that Bhagavad Gita, yadah yadah, hiddharam asagyam, nirbhavati bhagavatam.

Some people say everything is going perfectly right now, everything is fine.

According to Krishna's plan everything is perfect.

There is nothing to think about delivering the fallen souls.

Everything is properly situated right now.

Why should we think about delivering the world?

So, the fact is it's not in order right now.

If somebody, they have sex for fun and they kill the babies as they come out of it.

Sex is only meant for procreation, they use it for recreation.

It's like going to the ball game, watching a tele, going to a movie, having sex, it's all considered the same thing.

No problem, if there's a baby, you just go to the abortion clinic, kill the damn thing.

And then the cow is giving it so much nourishment in front of it, milk, yogurt, cheese, ice cream, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Just see how the cat is such a wonderful, beautiful animal, even their cow dung is pure, if you can imagine, and kill the damn thing and eat the flesh.

It's actually unbelievable, and they call it pro-choice.

You know, we're gonna say we're pro-choice.

Just tissue, Just see how ignorant they are.

It just makes me very, very, very, very angry.

And oftentimes I make my offer of milk in the morning for the offering.

I put that milk into the milk pot and warm it up to the Lord.

I just think about those slaughterhouses.

We really do have to take charge of this planet and shut down all these rascal slaughterhouses and abortion clinics.

By forceful preaching, we must take charge of this planet but it stopped all this nonsense.

And the Lord appears, he has come as Lord Caitanya, he has come in the form of the internet, ISKCON is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of God.

Krishna has come as ISKCON and says put a stop to all this nonsense.

We cannot just be happy while I am chanting my rounds and going back to Godhead.

No we have to think we must now in the order of his divine grace, Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Pratimahajapacharya Jatasthitah Sada Shri Srimah, AC Bhaktivedanta Tri Danti Goswami Maharaj Sivapada, We must now put a stop to all this nonsense by forceful preaching, convince these rascals to give up their nonsense.

We must convince them by forceful, powerful preaching.

We must convince them to give up this nonsense.

Somehow or other we have to attract them to hear and then enlighten them on how to actually become happy.

They cannot become happy but it's life of sense enjoyment.

All they are doing is going to the lower species.

All they are doing is lowering down the animal kingdom.

I can feel it again this morning, this life of sense enjoyment, Even if neophyte devotees are meditating on sense enjoyment.

Ah, the lower self as I was explaining yesterday.

I was meditating, even meditating on sense gratification, what does it mean to have sense gratification?

It's like illicit sex is sinful but even meditating on illicit sex is also illicit sex.

So what is happening is like, well I pass stool and somebody gave me a spoon, I'm dipping it in the toilet, I'm dipping it in the toilet, mmm, that stool is so delicious, mmm, so delicious Eating stool.

You pass stool, you take a spoon, oh it looks so beautiful, so attractive.

So those who go for sense enjoyment, they are editing for the life of a hog.

So we have to wake up, my dear devotees, we have to wake up, we have to get out of maya.

Here we are even as neophytes we are still cultivating sense enjoyment, not eating stool you see.

If we want to become empowered preachers who are going to save this world from degradation to bring Lord Jesus into this movement in every heart, in every home, in every town, in every village, in every government house.

If we're actually going to bring Lord Jesus into this movement everywhere we have to become pure devotees.

We have to kick out this stool eating propensity from our own hearts, meditating on sense enjoyment.

We have to kick it out, kick it out, kick it out with booze.

I am some kind of fanatic up here saying you can't even meditate on sense enjoyment.

Saying it's sinful even to think about sense enjoyment?

I'm just repeating what the Prophet says.

If you don't like it, you're in the wrong movement.

The Prophet said if you're too much a lover of vagina, then give up worshipping Krishna and start worshipping Indra.

If you are too much a lover of the vagina, then go and become a devotee of Indra.

Papa is very happy that the devotees are running after vaginas.

If you want to be a devotee of Krishna, you have to follow Krishna.

Not make a show of being a devotee of Krishna.

The Christians make a show of loving Jesus and go to McDonald's after church.

Even though the Bible says thou shall not kill.

Is it Kentucky Fried or McDonald's after church service?

Just see the nonsense, ridiculous hypocrisy going on.

Those Hare Krishnas are going to hell and I'm going to heaven because I accepted Jesus.

Why don't you truly accept Jesus instead of making a show?

So we devotees of Krishna we should also be truly devotees of Krishna.

I was making a show, I got Tilaka on the nose, I got Kanti on the neck, I'm a great devotee of the Lord, I got on my dhoti, I'm wearing a sari, I'm going great.

Are you meditating on trishna or are you meditating on sense enjoyment?

It said, if my thought dreams could be seen, they would probably stick my head in a guillotine.

It's a very poignant line from a singer-songwriter who was very instrumental in the whole counterculture.

My thought dreams could be seen, they would probably stick my head in a guillotine.

We made the show on the outside, Tilaka, and then Alaskanti.

We made a nice show, but now let's really get it together and become pure devotees.

Like Prabhupada told me, you have to become qualified to see Krishna face to face.

Let's get off this neophyte platform we are on and actually become qualified to see Krishna face to face.

We have to take this very very seriously, not for our own deliverance, but for the deliverance of these fallen souls.

We are meant to make a mark on the world.

We are meant to turn the upside down history right side up.

We are meant to completely revolutionize at least this planet.

Janmandaya sahasvesu, yasya sad-vrata-idhashi, dasa ham badhadeja, satsarva-lokam samudhira.

Now Arnabundi was telling Kundarik and Prabhupada quotes it in his books.

After thousands and thousands of births, 1 realizes he is a devotee of Krishna and can deliver all the worlds.

And Prabhupada in another space can deliver the whole material world.

So that's a great power from actually realizing, actually becoming Krishna conscious.

Krishna is giving the power to live with the whole material world.

That's the power of actually becoming Krishna conscious.

So we can see how much we are not Krishna conscious.

We are not able to deliver these fallen souls and convince them to close abortion clinics and slaughterhouses and liquor shops.

He married 2 disciples who were living together but not married.

Then he said, now you got to get married.

I will arrange a papa and cook the wedding feast.

Papa cooked the wedding feast, the disciples' wedding.

And then he said, you must invite your relatives because that's the standard.

They were far away in Oregon, 3,000 miles, but 1 of them came.

And so he engaged Joan in helping to cook the feasts.

And he was so talented, he said, Father, can I take a cigarette break?

You have to wash your hands after you come back from your cigarette break.

And that dome became Jamuna, 1 of the most powerful monasteries in our whole movement.

Jamuna is a very famous powerful creature in our movement.

Baba was so tolerant, if she was smoking cigarettes, he would let her help him cook the food.

The Bapa was very tolerant, very, very tolerant.

So we can be heavy, but at the same time we are very, very tolerant like Bapa.

He had nothing and then somehow I had this little storefront and apartment and I was reading how the whole thing took off like a rocket.

And Papa was so much appreciated by only 1 Godbrother.

All his Godbrothers were critical of him when he became successful.

But 1, 1 Godbrother, Papa was a very nice Godbrother.

He said, Lord Caitanya said, Priti Vitya Yatra Yadi Satna.

Anyway, the English is, In many towns and villages, I don't remember it, Priti Vitya Yatra Yodhi.

The translation is, In many towns and villages there are throughout the entire world, this Krishna consciousness movement will be spread.

So he said yes we were thinking it was some kind of poetry, some simile.

We didn't think it was literally a fact, but you have made it happen.

So 1 guy that I really much appreciated Prabhupada, you have made it happen.

So now, my dear devotees, it's up to us to continue with this same.

If we are truly Prabhupada anugas, we will take the same mood, the same spirit, and we will have the best of the same potency as Shri Nisargadatta.

He wants us all to become empowered like he was empowered to now take this movement and make the whole work of the Krishna consciousness.

So are we going to do it or are we just going to think about eating, sleeping, mating and defending?

Am I getting out of maya, am I going to get out of this neophyte stage where I'm thinking about eating, sleeping, mating and descending?

Or I'm actually becoming a power invasion of a truly taking the pose of the Shiva to turn this upside down color yoga into make a beautiful golden angel of Chaitanya happen.

A virtual Satchi Yuga in the middle of Kali Yuga.

A virtual Satchi Yuga for 10,000 years, it's predicted it's going to happen now, we are challenged who is going to make it happen?

Who is going to make this golden year become fully manifest as predicted in

this golden year become fully manifest as predicted in the scriptures?

It's going to be you, it's going to be me, it's going to be Dr.

Who is going to bring, which devotee is going to fully take this empowerment of Srila Bapa and bring this golden age of Caitanya into full manifestation.

Are we going to be caught up in eating, sleeping, meditating on sense enjoyment?

I still have to think about sense enjoyment.

I mean it's so nice to meditate on sense enjoyment.

Even though I know it's wrong, still I'm very attracted to meditation.

Sense enjoyment, lust, anger, madness, illusion, envy.

Give me a little space Gurudev, let me meditate on sense enjoyment, have a little fun in my mind at least.

Well, you want to cheat yourself and then reward yourself.

You want to cheat yourself and reward yourself, that's your choice.

We can cheat ourselves or we can reward ourselves but we continue to hover on this platform of sense gratification, we're doing nothing but cheating ourselves big time.

But if we get off this sense gratification mental platform and actually come to a platform of pure devotional service rewarding ourselves unlimited.

So it's a choice each 1 of us has to make.

Do I want to reward myself or punish myself?

If you had a choice to inflict punishment on yourself, would you do it?

You know, take a razor and cut my wrist with a razor for a little fun.

We did the other day, you know, it takes 40 drops of semen, of blood to make 1 drop of semen and each semen is passing from 1 third to 1 teaspoon of semen.

So I want to believe myself and think it feels so good, ah, passing semen feels so good.

I reward myself by only passing semen if I want to produce Krishna consciousness, it should be according to the Buddha's principles, once in a month, after 50 minutes of japa.

I want to minimize this and maximize my spiritual advancement, that's a choice I can make.

Samara is the ideal example, we should follow in his footsteps.

We should follow carefully in the footsteps of Prithvi Maharaj.

He didn't want to stay in his comfortable home until the last minute.

He wanted to go to his, We have our sacred places, Maya Purabhandavan.

If you want to get ready to leave the body, you can go there and get ready to leave in a sacred place.

Oh, Gurudev, you're just a stupid fanatic.

Please be lenient with us, please give us some scope and little space for, sun is enjoying me, so wonderful, give me some sun, some sun, some sun, So it's your choice devotees.

I'm giving probably a short lecture today.

Somebody is ripping us off, some company is ripping us off.

We try to solve this problem as soon as possible.

Dev, Just on meditating on sense gratification we are making, just on meditating,

Then we are actually, it is non-divine engaging in it.

But at the same time we also hear that in Kali Yuga we have a confession where we are not punished for our thoughts, But when the thought becomes an action, that's when we...

But Baba and Asha said that meditating on sentient gratification is also illicit.

Meditating on illicit sex is also illicit sex.

So now if you have a concession you can meditate on this sex all day long, feel lusty and meditate on the sex all day long and say okay.

Sreerabhishne retadas, why an artist appears to be attacking when 1 is the least alert?

That's why they are attacking you, Lisa Lowe.

When you let down your guard, maya comes in.

If you are not heavy to stand guard against the attack of maya, maya will find a way to sneak in.

Amala Purana, what is needed to become a powerful devotee to bring revolution on this planet?

Kicking out all the sense gratification, subtle and gross, kicking it all out of the arm.

Sahir Zalay, why is the mind 1 sense enjoyment?

Well in Sahir Zalay we've been addicted to sense enjoyment since time immemorial through millions and millions of lifetimes.

We're habituated to sense gratification, It's our habit.

As dogs, as monkeys, as demigods, as human beings, as worms in a stool, we are addicted to sense enjoyment.

It's our habit for millions and millions of lifetimes.

That's why we have sadhana bhakti, chanting 16 rounds a day, following the 4 vows of the principles, we have to become obituated.

That's why we have Mangal-arthi everyday and salsi worship.

Become more attracted to Mangal Aarti than we are to nonsense activities.

We have regulated devotional service to develop new habits.

And when you become fully purified, there's no question of regulation.

You do it spontaneously, automatically, because you love to do it.

Raja Ram Das, in the Purport it is mentioned that as per Vedic principles, when 1 is leaving retired life, 1 can take his wife with him.

So it is not required to take sannyas in order to go back to Gaya.

It is a very exemplary thing, those who do take sannyas, we offer them all respect.

I have shown you a very profound example.

You don't have to take Sannath to go back to Gauda.

You and your wife can go to holy sites like Vrindavan and Mayapur and go back to Gauda without having to take Sannath.

Is it a set that we have to go to the non-marathon?

not absolutely required but it is certainly recommended.

My father might have been up and he said It's not required but it's very helpful.

Because you may have your home here in whatever it may be, Austin or London or Berlin or whatever it may be.

There's a tendency to be attached to your home.

But when you go somewhere else, a holy place, then that attachment is there.

It's like here, We have so much paraphernalia we're dealing with every day.

I got my desk, I got my, you know, I have this, I have that, I got my place for my razor blade and there's a whole thing I'm living in every day where I have this, I have that, all these facilities here and there's a certain attachment to being in that place.

You know, I have my car, I have the garage, I push the button and it goes up.

The whole thing moves to that atmosphere.

I like traveling and preaching and you get away from all that attachment.

I got my bathroom, I got a mirror, I got the heater, I got the hot, the hot and the cold, the whole thing, how you get attached to the whole thing.

So that's the event of going to the holy place.

You get out of it, you kind of break free from all this.

Now I have the stove, I know where the burner is, I know where the switch is, I know where the refrigerator is, I know where the freezer is, you know the whole thing, you are attached to all these things.

Going to a holy place you get free automatically, you get more and more Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, where your stove is, where your fridge is, where The pots are kept, the small pots are here, the big ones are over here, the spoons are here, the whole thing you get attached to.

You go to the holy place, you get attached to the holy place naturally.

I'm not getting attached to my drawer with the spoons and the pots and the paper towels and the toilet paper.

All that attachment is not there when You go to the holy place.

Now you get attached to going to Mangalati and seeing Krishna Balarama, going to Prabhupada Samadhi from Mangalati.

So it is very nice to go to the holy place.

The Guru Maharaj is always saying we should go to the holy place.

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