Agatam 4.22.59 Narmarad Nivasakshayam, Ashtayey Himavanniva, Kubera, Ivakosha, Guptarto, Varanoya, Dharmarath, Dharmarath Iva.

Like King Yamarāja, the superintendent of death.

Himavāṇivā, like the Himalaya mountains.

Kuvera, the treasure of the heavenly planets.

Eva, like kosa-adya, in the manner of possessing wealth.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Shri Lekavapada.

Maharaj preaches intelligence and education exactly like that of Yamaraja, the superintendent of death.

His opulence is comparable to the Himalayan mountains where all valuable jewels and metals are stocked.

He possessed great riches like the bearer of the treasure of the heavenly plants and no 1 can reveal his secrets, for They were like the demigods of Verun's purport.

Yamaraj or Dharmaraj, as the superintendent of death, has not just judged the criminal living entities who have committed sinful activities throughout their lives.

Consequently, Yama-Raja is expected to be most expert in judicial matters.

Pitya Maharaja was also highly learned and extraordinarily exact in delivering the judgment upon the citizens.

No 1 could excel him in opulence any more than estimate the stock of minerals and jewels in the Himalayan mountains.

Therefore he is compared to Kubera, the treasure of the heavenly planets.

Nor can anyone discover the secrets of his life any more than learn the secrets of Varuna, the demigod residing over water, the night and the western sky.

Varuna is omniscient and since he punishes sins, he is paid to by, he is paid to for forgiveness.

He is also the center of disease and is often associated with Mithra and Indra.

Vande ham shri guru shri jatapata kamalam.

Shri Guru Vaishnavams ca shri rupam sagadadatam.

Vandeham sri-guru sri-jata-padakamalam sri-guru vaisnavam scah sri-rupam sagradatam sahagana-ragana-tanvitam tam sajivam sadaitam rustavadutam parijana-sahitam krsna-caitanya-devam sri-rabha krsna-padam sahagana-ladita-sri-visakhanvitam Sadaitanusavadutam parijanah sahitam krsna cetanya devam Sri rabha krsna padam sahagana ladita shivisakam vittam sthah Nama om vishnu padaya krsna paistaya bhutale Simhate bhakti vedanta smamare kinamane Namaste sarasvate deve gauravani pachanine So again we are reading about the amazing qualities of Prithvi Maharaja.

This is the advantage of becoming Krishna conscious.

Why would 1 not want to become Krishna conscious?

It is idiocy not to become Krishna conscious, to remain caught up in the modes of nature, to be a slave of maya.

So we have to understand how to properly guide ourselves so we become Krishna conscious.

There is a nice example of the chariot, the chariot driver, the reins, the horses and the passenger.

The horses are the senses and the reins are the mind and the intelligence is the driver and the passenger is the spirit soul.

So The driver is the spirit soul and the passenger is the intelligence and the passenger is the spirit soul.

So the difficulty is in our modern day society, there is no intelligence.

The passenger is there being driven to hell, the horse is running wild, the reins have been let go.

When someone has the intelligence that does not control the mind is letting go of the senses.

Okay, go wild, whatever you want to do, if it feels good, do it.

Serving their mind, their words, their anger, their tongue, their belly, and their genitals, they just go wild, they go crazy.

But then you go off the cliff and you perish.

So instead of letting the horses run wild, the intelligence has to take those reins very carefully and guide the horses in such a way that 1 will achieve the supreme destination of going back to home, back to Godhead.

The people are so foolish, They are so unintelligent, they don't do that.

They don't use their intelligence to understand what is for my benefit.

They go with the philosophy of eat, sleep, mate and defend.

Eat, eat, eat, sleep, sleep, sleep, mate, mate, mate and defend.

They don't use the intelligence to understand that by serving my senses I'm becoming a, it's called Gau Dāsa.

There's Gau Dāsa, the servant of the senses, and there's Gautami, the master of the senses.

You want your senses to dictate to you what you should be doing, what you should be thinking, what you should be feeling?

Is that what you want your senses to dictate to you?

Or do you want to be the master of the senses and say, no my dear senses, you must engage yourself in the service of the master of the senses, Vishikesha.

In fact this whole world is running on the principle of serving the senses.

Everything is going to hell more and more and more.

It's becoming more and more of a nightmare on this planet.

The atmosphere, there's so much pollution in the air, so much pollution in the water, now there's a shortage of water.

So many things are going bad because we are not serving the Master of the senses.

So how do you convince somebody who is going wild and addicted to serving their senses?

How do we convince that person to get out of this horrible position of serving their senses and get into the position of engaging their senses in the master of the service of the senses.

The difficulty is they are addicted to sense gratification.

I can't even live if I can't gratify my senses.

Like that prostitute who told Harry Lutz, if you don't gratify, you know I may have sexual genuineness, I can't even live.

If I can't gratify my senses, I can't commit suicide if I can't gratify my senses.

But they don't understand the self and the body, the self and the body are 2 different things.

They are spiritual beings, The body is just a tool, it's just a vehicle.

But they're so caught up in bodily consciousness.

I'm the eyes and the nose and the ears and the tongue, the belly, the genitals.

If I can't gratify my mind, my nose, if I can't gratify these things, I can't be happy.

So they are completely misguided by the modern day civilization.

I ask you, I challenge you, my listeners, is there anything civil about this so-called civilization?

Civilization means Vedic culture, Krishna consciousness culture.

There's actual peace when you get back to serving Krishna.

We are the part and parcel of Krishna, therefore we are meant to serve Krishna.

Just like your hand and your legs and your tongue, the eyes, the ears, the nose, all these things are meant to serve the passenger seated within the car or the body.

We are totally caught up in just ratifying the senses.

We forget who is the actual person meant to be serving.

The hand child is given the axel many times.

If the hand child is not giving the food to the belly, just squeezing with the fingers, the body will die.

So instead of serving Our source, Krishna, was serving his energies.

He was a slave of Maya, he was a slave of Durga Devi, serving, serving, serving, serving, serving these sensual desires day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, lifetime after lifetime after lifetime to the 8,400,000 species.

When are we going to come to our senses and realize, I cannot be happy about serving this mind, words, anger, tongue, rebellion and generals.

But still we've gone a slave of Maya, serving, serving, serving, serving, serving.

Our nature is to serve, but we don't know where to serve.

We just like Ramayana gave the example, you're going for a job, go bring it to that deal.

Don't take some horrible job where you don't get paid very much.

So we should, since our nature is to serve, we should see where will I get the best deal.

By serving this mind, words, anger, tongue, belly, and genitals, where do I get 1 material body

another material body through these 8,400,000 species?

To be caught up, sometimes a man, sometimes an animal, sometimes a plant, sometimes a worm, sometimes a germ, sometimes a demigod.

Is it good to be caught up in this crazy madness?

Why not go to that place where you have eternity, knowledge and bliss?

Why not get out of this madness and come to that place?

But the senses keep saying, Gratify me, gratify me, gratify me.

Give me gratification, give me gratification, give me gratification.

Like a screaming child, you know, a screaming baby demanding the mother's attention.

The senses are like a screaming baby demanding that we give him attention.

But now we have to say, my dear senses, you calm down now, be a little peaceful.

This is a tool that I'm using for both of them, who will be most beneficial for me.

So my dear senses now instead of becoming agitated and disturbed, give me, give me, give me mentality, my dear senses, now we are going to engage in the service of the Lord.

Vācchā-vegam manasa-krodha-vegam, sivā-vegam mudarā-pastā-vegam, me tanvi-taññoṁ viśayeta-deva, sa vāmita imām pratitaṁ pāśyati.

Can you imagine the unlimited benefit of bringing your senses?

They are called pushings in Sanskrit, vagums.

The mind pushing, the words pushing, the anger pushing, the tongue pushing, the belly pushing, the genitals pushing, pushing.

But you bring these pushing under control and then you have a powerful impact you actually become strong.

as you continue to serve your senses you are a weakling, you remain weak and impotent and eunuch.

As long as you continue to serve your senses.

So when you say, okay senses I have served you for millions and billions of lifetimes and where did it get me?

I'm not going to be so stupid to serve you again.

Now, my dear senses, your only business is to be engaged in the service of the Lord.

That's your only business, you're not meant for any sense gratification.

Your only business now is engaging in the service of the Lord and my dear senses, actually that's how I become more satisfied.

You think you'd be happy if I gratify you, but actually my dear senses, you will never be happy if I'm gratifying you because you keep screaming, give me more, give me more, give me more, give me more, you will never be satisfied.

how much gratification I give you my dear senses you will still never be happy and keep demanding more, more, more, give me more, give me, give me, give me more.

The senses will keep begging, begging, begging, begging, begging for more gratification.

But if you want your senses to become calm, become peaceful and stop screaming at you, then say, okay senses, now engage yourself in the service of Krishna.

Actually my dear senses, my dear self also, you can now speak to yourself, your nature is to actually love, isn't it?

We always want to love, We love our country, we love our dog, we love our wife, we love our girlfriend, we love our boyfriend, we love our guitar, we love our harmonium, we have this tendency to love.

I love my iPhone, you know, we have this tendency to love, love, love, love, love.

So why don't we see where I can put my love where I get the most benefit.

Actually, Prabhupada explains love means 2, Krishna and you.

Anything other than loving Krishna is not really love.

They call it love, I love you, I love you, I love you, but it's not actual love.

Because I want to use you to gratify my, I love you, no, I lust after you and I want to use you to gratify my senses.

They call it love, it's cheating business.

Actual love means to satisfy your senses.

Actual love means to satisfy the senses of Krishna.

We cannot even imagine how much Krishna loves us.

We can't even begin to imagine how much Krishna loves us.

Krishna has been loving us since time immemorial.

He doesn't want to force us because love can't be forced.

So he has given us a choice, love me or leave me, but he is wanting, he keeps giving us our love, giving us his love, giving us his love, waiting, when will that take, when this soul wants to reciprocate lovingly once again.

Krishna loves to have loving relationships, that's why we exist.

Krishna is manifesting us from himself for 1 purpose only and that is to have loving relationships with each and every 1 of us.

Each and every 1 of us has a loving relationship with Krishna.

We are meant actually to bow down at his feet and beg him to put his lotus feet on our heads and blessed with his lotus feet.

We take a homo position, not that I am God, you are God, we are all God.

No, a homo position, Jivaara Sarvaabhaaya Krishna Ramya Siddhata.

The constitutional position of a living entity is that he is the eternal servant of Krishna.

So we are actually meant to reciprocate that love, not that I am equal to Krishna.

The interesting thing is that you take that humble position, now my dear Lord, SABHARAMAN PURIJAYA JA MAME KAM CHUDDHARAM PURJAYA AHAM SVAMSARAPAVA VEGYO MOKSHA SAMYI MOKSHA JA As soon as you take that humble position, guess what happens?

And Krishna says, OK, now you are totally surrendered to me, Now you can have an intimate relationship with me as a servant, as a friend, as a parent, or as a gopi girl.

Now, because you are totally surrendered to me, I will let you have whatever relationship is most natural for you.

You can come back to your original natural rasa, your relationship with me.

He's been missing us since time immemorial.

Actually, Krishna is your most intimate well-worshipper.

Krishna has an intimate, loving relationship with every single jiva soul as if that jiva soul is the only person.

Just like he did with those queens in Dwaraka.

An intimate loving relationship with that Supreme Lord, Krishna.

He gave her nice clothes, a nice bed, nice furniture, nice children.

So Krishna wants to have that kind of an intimate loving relationship with every single living entity in all of existence, where you give yourself fully to Krishna and he gives himself fully to you.

He wants that kind of a sweet, intimate loving relationship.

So why are we, my dear listeners, I ask you this, why are we cheating ourselves by trying to go on gratifying my senses, gratifying my senses, it feels good, do it.

Why are we so stupid, why are we so idiotic, why are we such asinine people we go on like this.

It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make any sense.

It's absolutely insane, it's crazy, it's madness, it's just absolutely idiotic if you go on like this trying to gratify my senses.

Oh, I have to, I must, I must gratify my senses.

Gratify Krishna and then your senses will be satisfied.

By gratifying your senses, your senses will never be gratified.

But when you gratify Krishna, your senses will be gratified and you can actually make the whole world happy.

Just like that prayer, Vamsa ko papa-pillu-vracha, kripa-sindhubhya eva cha, tatita-nang-pavanendyo vaisnavedanam avanam aham.

I offer my respectful obeisances to all the Vaishnavas and the Lord, who are just like desire trees, who can satisfy the desires of everyone and they are full of compassion to the fallen conditioned souls.

The fact is that when you come to the point of satisfying Krishna you can actually satisfy the whole world.

You may say that's crazy, that's madness, but no, that's an authorized prayer we say every day.

So the fact is, the point is this, Krishna consciousness can satisfy everyone.

But We have to hear and we have to learn.

Just like when Papa was there on 22nd Avenue.

So many people came and a few of them stayed.

Those who became submissive, they got the benefit.

Those who became challenging, like when Hippie came into Papa's room, he said, Swamiji, I'm higher than you.

And Papa very, he said, actually sarcastically, he said, please accept my beg, now get out of here.

So many people came, But those who took it seriously, actually everyone who rendered service, they benefited.

It's like 1 drunk came in, totally irregular drunk, awesomely dressed, but he came to do some service.

He brought some toilet paper and put it in the bathroom.

He went to do a little service for Swamiji.

Even though he was a drunkard, that person got unlimited benefit.

So any little service we do is our eternal asset.

That's the beauty of this Krishna consciousness movement.

Any little service, every bhajana, Every time you give a donation, every time you attend the RT, every time you give a lecture, all these things add up more and more and more and more.

So finally you get enough assets in your bank account for your ticket back to home, back to God.

So keep doing that service, keep doing that service, keep hearing, keep chanting, keep offering service, keep on doing these things, you're building up your spiritual assets more and more and more.

Right now we're impoverished people, we're poor, our spiritual assets are hardly existing at all.

We are so caught up in material sense and the other occasion trying to gratify the false self of the material body.

We are so caught up in these things that if we just do some service, we hear, we speak, we remember, we sit with some books, we do all these things that Prabhupada has given us in the International Society of Krishna consciousness, ISKCON, then things will build up more and more and more.

They will build up more and more and more.

Tarun Lachandani, a big Bhagavad Gita question.

Hare Krishna Guru, I recently had an episode of anxiety

could tell Maya took it over, but I couldn't get back to Krishna consciousness.

We wonder if I am Krishna conscious and then Maya takes over our consciousness.

We become mad if there is sense enjoyment or whatever, depression or whatever it may be.

Sometimes Maya takes over, like Cupid comes with his arrows, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, shoot, our heart, we have a heart full of Cupid's arrows and we can't even control our mind, We get so disturbed by Cupid.

You're overwhelmed with lust, you're with anger, with greed.

What to do when you become overwhelmed like this?

Well, you have to, That's when you have to declare war.

Maya has gotten you, you've lost the battle, but you're not going to lose the war.

You may lose the battle, Rob, but if you're determined, like a little sparrow is determined to drive the ocean, even though it's an impossible feat.

It seems impossible sometimes, we have so many material desires, we're so lusty, we're so angry, we're so greedy, it seems impossible sometimes to ever overcome this.

I'm so overwhelmed by lust, by anger and greed, how can I get out of this mentality?

It seems impossible sometimes, doesn't it?

But if we have the determination of a little sparrow, I'm going to dry up that ocean, took my eighth, I'm going to dry up that ocean.

Everyone's laughing, just that stupid little bird, she can never dry up the ocean.

She can only get maybe 1 cup for the little beak.

After much endeavor she can fill up 1 cup of ocean water.

But Garuda, the king of the birds, saw his little sister, what she had gone through, and came flying in on Garuda Airlines, and that's it.

You rascal ocean, you give those eggs back immediately.

We have to determine a little sparrow, determination of a little sparrow.

I'm so lusty, I can't stand it, I'm so angry, I can't stand it, and so all these bad emotions and feelings are overcoming me.

It doesn't help to declare war on the ocean.

She may have won a battle, but I'm going to win the war.

Maya may win a battle with you, get you off the track, get you out of Krishna consciousness, get you back into the sense of identification mood, or you may be engaged, get off the track and engage in sense of identification.

But in any case, you can lose the battle, but if you are determined, you are going to win the war.

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