In Bhagavatam 4th Kanna Chapter 22, text number 63.

Kirtanjor dva, kitayatam vish, Tvay loke tat tat tatraha, Pravrshtha karma randhri shu, Sthiri nam ramasattam eva.

Kritya, reputation, Purva Gita by loud declaration, Pumbi by the general public, Sailokye all over the universe, by the general public.

Srinama of the women, Rama for Ramachandra, Sita of the devotees, Eva like.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnu Pad, Paramahamsa Parivajakacarya Ashtadharishe Shri Mat, AC Bhaktivedanta Sri Dandi Goswami Maharaj, Prabhupada.

Throughout the whole universe, in the higher, lower and middle planetary systems, Prithu Maharaja's reputation was loudly declared and all ladies and saintly persons heard his glories which were as sweet as the glories of Lord Ramacandra.

PURPORT In this verse, the words Srinam and Rama are significant.

It is a practice among ladies to hear and enjoy the prayers and praises of great heroes.

From this verse it appears that Prithu Maharaja's reputation was so great that ladies all over the universe would hear of it with great pleasure.

At the same time, his glories were heard all over the universe by the devotees and they were as pleasing as Lord Ramachandra's glories.

Lord Ramachandra's kingdom is still existing and recently there was a political party in India called the Rama Raja Party which wanted to establish a kingdom resembling the kingdom of Rama.

Unfortunately modern politicians bought the kingdom of Ram without Ram himself.

Although they had banished the idea of God consciousness, they still expected to have the kingdom of God of Ram.

Prithviraj's reputation was hurt by saintly persons because he exactly represented Lord Ramacandra, the ideal king.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta Purports of the 4th Canto, 22nd Chapter of the Srimad Bhagavatam entitled, Prithviraj's meeting with the 4 Kumaras.

So, that is the predicament of the modern day society.

They want the kingdom of God without God, but they cannot have it.

We want to enjoy the opulences of God without God.

We want to be the enjoyers without giving enjoyment to the Supreme Person.

Actually, this is the hand is enjoyed by giving the food to the stomach and getting therefore the nutrition it requires, we are like the hand and Krishna is like the stomach.

We try to enjoy independently by squeezing the food in our fingers.

We may say, oh it feels so nice, this glub-jhamana, oh it feels so nice squeezing the glabjaman in my fingers, the sugar juice is running down my wrist, oh, it's so ecstatic, squeezing this glabjaman, but you get any nutrition from it?

So we have to give up this tendency of wanting to enjoy separately from Krishna.

It is our disease that has kept us entangled in this cycle of birth and death since time immemorial.

When are we going to learn our lesson, devotees?

When are we going to learn our lesson to stop trying to enjoy separately from Krishna?

The higher self wants to enjoy by satisfying the Supreme Self.

The lower self wants to enjoy independently of Krishna.

So we have this battle going on between the lower self and the higher self.

Sometimes the higher self predominates and sometimes the lower self predominates.

We go back and forth between higher self and lower self, higher self and lower self.

We have to learn how to subdue the lower self.

Okay, you lower self, get down there where you belong.

You should not take predominance, my dear lower self.

My dear lower self, you must now be always under the direction of the higher self.

In other words, take all of your material propensities and engage them in the service of the Supreme Lord.

Do not try to enjoy independently, that's the lower self.

But take all your natural tendencies to enjoy and engage them in the service of the supreme lord and that way you subdue the lower self and you become situated in the higher self.

These government people are actually completely off the track.

Just like a few years ago, there was a big disturbance when the United States bombed the capital, the large cities there in North Vietnam.

They bombed major population areas in North Vietnam, were bombed by the U.S.

People all over the world were very disturbed.

All the other governments were criticized in the U.S.

So they decided to have a big peace rally at the U.N.

And they invited Prabhupada and the devotees to come to this peace valley, even though the Prabhupada gave a speech.

So they came okay with the kirtan, and they said, no, no, no, this must be a silent, they wouldn't allow the kirtan, this must be a silent peace vigil.

So Prabhupada decided not to go back into these nonsense so-called peace values.

They want peace but they don't want the kirtan.

They want peace but they don't want to hear the holy names.

They don't realize that the kirtan movement of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the way to have peace.

Not silent vigil or sit here in silent peace.

You can't have peace by going into silence.

Actually you cannot go into silence because the mind is very active.

It's Dancing this way and dancing that way, dancing, dancing, dancing, dancing.

You cannot just silence the mind and go into oneness or nothingness.

Let me make the mind blank, make the mind blank, turn off the mind, relax and float downstream.

Turn off your mind and relax and float downstream.

The natural thing is for the mind to be always engaged.

So instead of engaging the mind in the lower self, engaging the mind in lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion and envy, we must engage the mind in transcendental thoughts.

The pastimes of the Lord, the teachings of the Lord, the qualities of the Lord, the form of the Lord, the fame of the Lord.

So is this just an empty slogan, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness or is this what we are supposed to be doing at every nanosecond?

Well, it's a very nice name, a very catchy name, yeah, NISKAN.

But I tell you this, my dear devotees, if we don't actually practice Krishna consciousness by always bringing our mind to Krishna, the lotus feet of that amazing Lord who is all powerful, all beautiful, all renowned, all wealthy, all famous and wise, If we do not bring our minds always to His lotus feet, to His pastimes, His qualities, His entourages, His teachings, etc.

So let us not make ISKCON into MISKCON by meditating on sense gratification and running after sense gratification.

Let's kick out sense gratification with a boot.

It's like a stool, flush it down the toilet.

We don't want to have this tendency towards material sense gratification lurking in our hearts.

The lower self has to be completely conquered by the higher self.

So Krishna has made it very easy in the Bhagavad Gita, he is teaching exactly how to conquer the lower self and the higher self.

Actually there is a verse, a specific verse in the third chakra which says, 1 must conquer the lower self and the higher self in this way to defeat that insatiable enemy known as lust.

This tendency to enjoy separately from Krishna is called lust.

You think, well, let me satisfy my lust and then I'll be happy.

When you satisfy your lust, it's insatiable.

You can never give your lust enough enjoyment to satisfy it.

It goes on demanding more and more and more.

The more you give fuel to the fire, it gets hotter, more fire, more fire, more fire.

Like this huge fire going on in Hawaii yesterday.

It was so bad, people jumped into the ocean to save their lives, devouring everything.

So we have this fire burning our hearts called lust, wanting to enjoy separately from Krishna.

You see, I'm thinking I'm the body, let me satisfy my senses, and this way I can be happy.

But no, by satisfying your senses you never become happy.

No matter how much gratification you may give to your senses, they demand more, more, more, give me more, give me more, give me more, give me more.

So we have to use our intelligence, we have to hear from the great sages, we have to hear from the saintly devotees of the Lord, we have to hear from the great Acharyas, we have to hear from Krishna Himself who is telling Arjuna exactly what needs to be done.

So why do you want to invent our own philosophy?

Sometimes devotees, they want to invent their own, so-called devotees, they want to invent their own philosophy.

They don't want to take what Krishna is saying.

They think they have more, they have better understanding than Krishna has.

Some of these so-called devotees, they think they know better than Krishna.

They don't want to follow what Krishna says.

They think they are a bigger authority than Krishna.

This is going on even in so-called devotees right now in this movement.

They think they know better than Krishna.

We should follow them instead of Krishna.

So let us not be carried away by those who are under the influence of lust.

Let us Listen to those who are purely absorbed in Krishna consciousness.

Every thought born in the unit of all time, places and circumstances is for the pleasure of that beautiful lotus standing in the bank of the Yamuna in Keshagat, playing the fifth nudra on his flute and the beautiful full moon night in the shard season.

That's the person you want to be attracted to.

That amazing person, it's actually an amazing thing, I was reading yesterday in the Chaitanya Sphere, that Krishna is the supreme enjoyer of Rasa, there is no greater enjoyer than Krishna, but you know what?

He is saying that this girl, Srimati Radharani, how is this?

I am the supreme enjoyer of Rasa, but she is enjoying me.

She is enjoying serving me more than I am enjoying being served by her.

She is getting more negative out of loving me than I am getting out of being loved by her.

So Krishna doesn't want to be outdone, so what does he do?

He says, I will become, and I will become like Radharani.

I will enter that female mood of being the servitor.

And so he takes the complexion and the mood.

This is the original transgender actually.

Krishna decides to be a female, take the female mood of being the servitor.

That's the primary reason for Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's advent.

His delivering of fallen souls is secondary actually.

His primary thing, Krishna wants to take the mood of being his own servant.

So he becomes Lord Kīrtanī Mahāprabhu in this way.

And then as a secondary benefit, you deliver all the fallen souls of this world.

Some people think there is no fallen souls, everybody is already delivered.

Why should we think about delivering the fallen soul?

People are suffering in the cycle of birth and death.

You may think this is the kingdom of God, but it's not the kingdom of God.

Don't think that this is the kingdom of God.

We're actually being suffering according to our sinful activities.

Every sinful activity we do is noted down by Yamaraja in his book.

He actually keeps record of infinite number of living entities.

He keeps a precise record of every nonsense thought, every nonsense word, every nonsense thing that everybody does here.

So the time of death, boom, now is the time for punishment my dear soul.

Now you come to the judge, summarize with the judge and now it's time to face the music, get your reaction, get your reward for all the things you did.

But, the good news is, my dear devotees, Krishna also has his book.

And Krishna is not in every thought you had that was Krishna conscious, every word you spoke that was Krishna conscious, everything you did that was Krishna conscious, Krishna is not in every bit of it.

So, my dear devotees, do you want to be in Ramaraja's book or Krishna's book?

If you let this lower self predominate, you are going to be, I guarantee you, you will be in Yamaraja's book.

Very carefully noted down by Yamaraja, Every stupid, nonsense, rascal thing you did, it will all be noted down by Yamaraja.

So it's your choice whose book you want to be in.

If you let the higher self predominate, you're going to be recognized as Krishna.

So what about other neophytes who are in a mixture, the lower self and the higher self?

If you sincerely endeavor, you see, sabadhaman purit jaja mam ekam chaliranvaja aham van sarvapadheyo mokshasami marshu ca, If you sincerely desire to surrender to Krishna, okay, this lower self is predominating me, what can I do?

Krishna, please accept me as your surrendered servant.

Please help me out of this lower self mentality, lust, anger, greed, madness, delusion and envy.

Please Krishna help me out of this lower self mentality.

If you make that sincere endeavor, Krishna is going to help you.

He is going to give you special mercy, special blessing.

How do you get the special mercy of Krishna and Guru?

By your sincere desire to conquer the lower self and the higher self.

If you have that sincere desire, Krishna and Guru and all the Vaishnava Acharyas will give you special blessings.

Here's 1 of the beautiful things about this process.

For every step you take towards Krishna, Krishna takes 10 steps towards you.

Just imagine there is a million mile journey and you have to take it on foot.

It would be interesting to do the mathematics on this.

Very interesting mathematics, at least I'm going to do it during the class.

If you have to walk for a million miles and each step is say 2-3 feet, how many steps would it take to go a million miles is 3 feet steps.

You get 10 steps, 3 equals 30, and 30 equals 300.

If everything gets multiplied by 10 times, how long will it take you to go a million mile journey?

It's an interesting mathematical thing to calculate.

Those who are mathematicians, maybe they can do that by giving the class, they can post it.

Krishna takes 10 steps towards you for every step you take.

Anyway, the point is Krishna gives you an amazing mercy.

If you take sincere desire to get out of maya, My dear Lord Krishna, I am burning in this fire of sense gratification.

My thoughts, my words, my deeds are all full of lust, anger, greed, naija, lust, envy.

I am burning in this fire of sense gratification.

My thoughts, my words, my deeds are all full of lust, anger, greed, mad delusion, envy.

I'm burning in this fire of sense gratification.

Krishna, please shower your mercy upon me.

Put out this fire of insatiable love that's burning in my heart.

Please Krishna save me." If we have this sincere desire, Krishna will come.

As I explained the other day, Krishna wants our love.

Krishna is manifesting us to enjoy loving relationships with us.

Krishna's only desire is that we have a loving relationship with him and we stop trying to enjoy him independently.

So we actually, after millions of lifetimes of not loving Krishna, trying to loving or accented instead, he is a dog, he is a monkey, he is a hog, he is a camel, he is an ass, in so many ways trying to enjoy severally from Krishna.

When we make this endeavor, we realize, I've been a stupid idiot to try to enjoy several Angel Krishna.

I've gone through millions and millions of births, trying to enjoy it separately, which is absolutely impossible.

Now by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, the spiritual master and the great Vaishnava Acharya, I'm getting this opportunity to get out of this maya and come back to being who I actually am, the higher self, the eternal spiritual being.

So let me do it now, let me come out of this hallucination.

So here it comes from Google, 1 million miles is 473,485 steps.

So anyway, it's much easier, it's 10 times easier than Krishna.

The first step, if every step is 10, and he accepts that as hundred, the second step is a hundred, the third step is a thousand, Krishna can do that also.

If every step is 10 times, the previous first step is 10 steps, second step is 100 steps, third step is 1000 steps, fourth step is 10,000 steps, how many steps would take you a million miles to get Krishna done like that?

We talk about that Krishna takes 10 steps.

The question is how Krishna is already there.

The thing is that it is like a million miles away because of our consciousness.

It's like a million miles away Because of our consciousness.

But he is like a million miles away because of our consciousness.

Alright, so, just imagine how stupid these Vasquezeros are, they want the Kingdom of God without God.

The difficulty is, they go to God, please give me this, give me, give me, give me, give me, they have a shopping list.

They go to the temple, the synagogue, the mosque, the church, give me this, give me that, Give me, give me, give me, give me.

Give me a Cadillac, a brand new Cadillac, replete with Michelin tires.

You see how stupid they are, these fools and rascals.

They don't realize they can achieve something much better than all these things just by giving themselves to Krishna.

Instead of asking Krishna, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, Krishna is already saying, you give me.

So we actually take that very seriously, now let me give myself fully to Krishna.

Let me give up this stupid habit of trying to enjoy separately.

And all my senses, my mind, all these different senses I have, all these sense organs, here they are trying to enjoy something from Krishna.

I wake up in the morning and immediately think, how can I enjoy?

I want to enjoy, I want to enjoy, How can I enjoy?

Wake up the lower self, certainly wake up the lower self is in charge.

Therefore getting up and chanting Hare Krishna is very important.

Because all night long we are dreaming, I am the enjoyer, I am the enjoyer, I am the enjoyer.

So as soon as you wake up, how can I enjoy, how can I enjoy, how can I enjoy?

So that is why it is very important in the morning we chant Hare Krishna mantra.

As soon as you wake up start chanting Hare Krishna.

Get back to your original constitutional position.

The higher self is your original constitutional position, the lower self is your misidentification of your material body.

So as soon as you wake up, get back your actual identity as an eternal spiritual being.

Otherwise we are just cheating ourselves, my dear devotees.

We are so idiotic, even if we know better.

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