Karmanatayatakalam yatadesham yatavalam Yata yatham yata vittam akaro dvamasatkritam Srimad Bhagavatam 4th canto, chapter 22, text number 50.

Also, yathābhālam, befitting time and circumstances.

Yathādeśam, befitting place and situation.

Yata balam, befitting one's own strength.

Yata vittam, As far as 1 can spend money in this connection.

Anka wrote, performed Brahma Sat in the absolute truth.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace Om Vishnu Bhatt, for the Mahamsa Parivartakar Chandra Akshata Kirti Srimat, AC Bhaktivedanta T.

Dantigoos Swami Maharaj Prabhupada, Founder, Shari of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

Being self-satisfied, Maharaja Prithvi executed his duties as perfectly as possible according to the time and his situation, strength and financial position.

His only aim in all his activities was to satisfy the absolute truth.

Purport, Maharaja Puthu was a responsible monarch and he had to execute the duties of a kshatriya, king and devotee at the same time.

Being perfect in the Lord's devotional service, he could execute his prescribed duties with complete perfection as it fitted the time and circumstance and his financial strength and personal ability.

In this regard the word karmāṇi in this verse is significant.

Pītā Mahārāja's activities were not ordinary through the relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Śrīla Rūpa Goswāmī has advised that things which are favorable to devotional service should not be rejected, and nor should activity favorable for devotional service be considered ordinary work or fruit of activity.

For example, an ordinary worker conducts business in order to earn money for his sense gratification.

The devotee may perform the same work and execute it in exactly the same way, but his aim is to satisfy the Supreme Lord.

Consequently, his activities are not ordinary.

So, mind you, by non-devotees, everybody is working the same job, trying to do well in the same job.

But the consciousness of the devotee is, he wants to earn money so he can engage in nicely in Krishna's service to maintain his own Krishna consciousness lifestyle and to support the Krishna consciousness movement.

Whereas the non-devotee is simply working for easily made descent.

The big difference, the work appears to be the same but the consciousness is completely different.

Prahlada Maharaja's activities were therefore not ordinary, but were all spiritual and transcendental.

For his aim was to satisfy the Lord just as Arjuna, who was a warrior, had to fight to satisfy Krishna.

Prithvamanaraya performed his royal duties as a king for the satisfaction of Krishna.

Indeed, whatever he did as an emperor of the whole world was perfectly defeating a pure devotee.

It is therefore said by a Vaishnava poet, vaishnavera kriyamudra nige na bhujaya.

No 1 can understand the activities of a pure devotee.

A pure devotee's activities may appear like ordinary activities, but behind them there is a profound significance, the satisfaction of the Lord.

In order to understand the activities of a Vaishnava, 1 has to become very expert.

Prithu Maharaj did not allow himself to function outside the institution of the 4 Varnas and 4 Ashramas, although as a Vaishnava he was a Paramahamsa and transcendental to all material activities.

He remained in his position as a Kshatriya to rule the world activities, and through the world at the same time remained transcendental to such activities by satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Concealing himself as a pure devotee, he externally manifested himself as a very powerful and dutiful king.

In other words none of his activities were carried off for his own sense gratification.

Everything he did was meant for the satisfaction of the senses of the Lord.

This is clearly explained in the next verse.

Vandeham Sri Guru Sri Jatapada Kamalam Sri Guru Vaishnavam ca Sri Rupam Sagarjatam Sahagunaragulitam Vittam Sajivam Sadaitam Sabhavitam Parijanatahitam Krishnachaitam Yadevam Sri Radha Krishnapadam Sahagunalalitasivisakam Vittam ca So We have a great deal to learn from this great king and great Vaishnava Prithu Maharaj.

How to dovetail all activities in the service of the Lord.

In carpentry there is what is known as a dovetail joint where just like I can show you with my fingers, just like this, it's a very solid joint, it's like this, it's called a dovetail joint.

So when we dovetail our activities in the service of the Lord, it means they are firmly and solidly interlinked with devotional service.

Not just slightly or casually, no, very tightly and expertly connected with Krishna consciousness in all times, all places and circumstances.

So in this way we have to dovetail our consciousness with the supreme consciousness.

Supreme consciousness means the consciousness of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, the source of all existence.

And we many times explain the existence has a source.

The atheists say it comes out of nothing, but if we explain many times, nothing comes out of nothing.

Show me any 1 thing that ever came out of nothing.

So if they want to prove their philosophy that everything can come out of nothing, let them demonstrate scientifically that any 1 thing can come out of nothing.

So Krishna consciousness, the philosophy of Bhagavad Gita, is most scientific.

The Supreme Lord, given us Bhagavad Gita, it's the science of love of God.

The whole thing is very precisely described in very scientific and profound ways.

So therefore it should be taught everywhere, just like mathematics is a science, it's taught everywhere in all elementary schools all over the world.

The little kids are taught 1 plus 1 equals 2, 2 plus 2 equals 4, etc.

The science of mathematics is a universal science.

Similarly the science of God is a universal science.

And my of not being taught in all the colleges, schools, and universities all over the world.

It's a great crime that they are not teaching the science of God.

So nobody knows who they are, where they've come from, what the purpose of their existence is.

This is my great anxiety as a young college student.

The courses, the professors were not in the textbooks.

This is the great deficiency of the western civilization.

They don't have any philosophical foundation as to know why we exist.

What's the meaning of life and it's the purpose of existence.

You don't even know why you exist and how you possibly can protect your existence.

So they go on in a blind way, just trying to gratify the senses, the tongue, the belly, the genitals, gratify as much as possible, the more you are expert in gratifying your senses, that means you are a big successful person.

But what is the use of gratifying all these senses?

So they're going after, it's called maya sukhaya, illusory happiness.

Actually we want things to go on perpetually.

Do I want to be temporarily happy or permanently happy?

Temporary happiness or permanent happiness?

So we have to learn the art of permanent happiness from the bona fide spiritual masters, the sadhus and the sages and the scriptures.

There is great knowledge coming down that Krishna revealed to Lord Brahma, Brahma revealed to Narada Muni, revealed to Vyasadeva.

There is coming down this great science how to become free from all anxiety.

The difficulty is, they don't even want to admit they're suffering.

It's like you ask somebody, you go out and ask people, how are they, oh fine, How are you doing?

Actually, they feel like hell, they're not allowed to admit it.

It's like when I was a college student walking down the hall here at the University of Texas and somebody said, how are you doing?

You're not allowed to even admit you're suffering.

You have to pretend you have to keep up a good face.

It's just the same way of a culture is you can't even honestly reveal that you're in anxiety.

So what kind of nonsense civilization is it that you can't even be honest?

You have to fool yourself into thinking you're happy even though you're miserable like hell.

You have to fool yourself into thinking, I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy.

So just see the great mercy of Srila Prabhupada to reveal to us all this nonsense that's going on, to cut through all the nonsense.

All these bogus gurus, like yesterday we were at the Mind, Body, Spirit exposition in the booth next to us presenting some bogus guru.

They called it Guru Day, teaching the art of living.

There was some big guru standing up on the stage and saying, yes, I am going to teach you the art of living.

He is presenting himself as a spiritual master, but he is not presenting the science of God.

The more you can make others happy, the more you can be happy.

But he doesn't know how to make others happy.

He doesn't even disbash them even though real happiness is.

He's a real happiness, he comes to 1 of my seminars, that's my real happiness, that's how you make them happy.

So he packs the hall with all these people, it's called the cheaters and the cheated.

You go to the cheater to be cheated and you think, oh I'm very happy.

I heard Gurudev's lecture on the art of living, how to give joy to others so I can become joyful.

They think it's the mind, the body and the senses.

They don't know what actual joy is in schools and grad schools.

Because they don't understand Brahmavuta, Prasannatma, Nusocati, Nakantsati.

They don't understand what is the spiritual platform when it becomes transcendental to all the ups and downs of material existence.

They have no conception of actually achieving the spiritual platform.

Brahma, Buddha becoming joyful for Sanatana on the transcendental platform.

But the Vaishnavas, the devotees of the Lord, the Krishna Bhaktas, they know that the actual platform of happiness.

They know, actually a devotee of Krishna never has to be in any anxiety in any situation.

Well, his best friend is the most powerful, influential, merciful, and all-knowing person in all of existence.

It's like they say you want to enter some country and they say, well, you know, we don't, where's your visa, where's your passport?

We're not gonna let you into this country.

But if your best president, your best friend is the president, or the king, the better example, your best friend is the king, you have no trouble.

Nobody can mess with you if your best friend is the king.

No 1 can mess with you in actual traditional royal countries.

You have no trouble in any situation because your best man is the king.

So our best man is the king of all existence.

The devotee's best friend is the king of all existence, Lord Sri Krishna.

He is all powerful, all merciful and all knowing.

So the secret is if you simply understand, bhoktadam dhakkha-papam sarva-loka-maheshvaram suhrdam sarva-bhutnam suhrit What does suhrit mean?

That person is my most intimate well-wisher.

I have the most intimate well-wisher as my constantly protecting me.

So, all we have to do is take shelter of Krishna.

There is never any anxiety in any situation.

We see that there is so much disturbance, disturbance about this, disturbance about that, disturbance, disturbance, disturbance going on.

But the only reason we are ever disturbed is we are not taking shelter of Krishna.

When we actually take shelter of Krishna there is no question of being disturbed in any situation.

So why are we so stupid if we don't take shelter of Krishna?

Why are we so idiotic that we think, well I'll just follow my mind.

My mind says, take this, smoke this, drink this.

I just follow the dictates, have sex with this person.

What kind of an idiot am I to follow the mind, the rascal mind?

Bajah hu re mana, shri nanda nanda nanda, abhaya chah dana da vinda de.

Please now engage yourself in the devotional service of the divine son of Nandamaharaj." He didn't even say Krishna, he said the son of Nandamaharaj.

Krishna's devotees are very, very dear to him.

So when you address him as Nanda Nandamaraja, Krishna becomes very pleased because Nandamaraja is very, very dear to him.

And when Krishna's name according to his associates, his most intimate devotees, that gives him great, great pleasure.

So we just Krishna in this way, we do in our bhajan, we sing everything, Jai Radha Madhava, Kunjali Hari, Gopi Janabalabha, Giriraj Dadi, the lifter of Govardhana, Krishna is very very pleased.

That's why we chant Hare Krishna, but we also chant these other songs too, because it is very very pleasing to Krishna.

We address in all these different ways, the lifter of Govardhana, and the 1 who wanders the bank of the Yamuna playing the flute, the flute player.

Krishna is very, actually there are unlimited ways of describing the Lord of Dvaraka, the Lord of Mathura, Jagannath, the Lord of the Universe, there are many, many, actually unlimited numbers of ways we can name, you know, designate that Supreme Lord.

So just like there is what is called vishnu sahasranam, the thousand names of vishnu.

There are actually thousands and millions and quadrillions and trillions going on and on and on in the names of the supreme.

And this chanting of Hare Krishna is so ecstatic.

Everybody is looking for sense gratification.

A little sense gratification here, a little sense gratification there.

They smoke this or they drink this or they have a little temporary pleasure but how long is that pleasure left?

Material pleasure comes for a while and it goes away.

I go to the restaurant and eat, eat, eat and I'm so full I can't take it anymore, I have to vomit actually.

I had some problem with my bowel movement because I ate so much.

This Hare Krishna Kirtan, this chanting of the holy names of the Lord is so static.

Prabhupada explains, I want you to go on chanting 24 hours a day.

Just like our Haridasa Thakur, our Namacharya, the great acharya of chanting all the names.

Now with our 16 rounds we chanted about 28,000 names a day.

Actually it comes out, if you calculate it comes out to 173 rounds every day.

So he chanted about 173, he was chanting 24 hours a day.

I wonder how he could take care of the bodily needs, it is not even mentioned.

He was chanting 24 hours a day this Hare Krishna mantra.

He was so fixed on this chanting that this Ramachandra Kriya was very much disturbed.

He wanted to bring this Haridasa to be worshipped as a great Acharya.

So he was very envious of all this honor and worship that Haridasa was getting.

So he wanted to pollute and wanted to destroy his reputation.

And you go there and you pollute and you attract the Haridasa for sex life and this way we will catch him and this way we will destroy his reputation.

So she went there very beautifully dressed first she offered her business to Tulsi Devi and then she came in and she told Haridas, she explained part of her body also explained and then she said if you don't give me union I will commit suicide.

I so intensely want union with you, If you don't give it to me I will kill myself.

Instead of being carried away and very fixed and chanting, she said yes, yes.

I have taken a vow to chant 10000000 names.

So you just sit here and wait patiently and certainly I will fulfill your desire.

So in this way she actually went and told Ramachandra Khanda what was going to happen.

So they were all looking forward to catching him and having this illicit sex life.

But she came, I think it was 3 nights, he was chanting and saying, yes, yes, I am almost done, you come again, surely tonight I will satisfy you.

But she actually seemed so purified, he was chanting Hare Krishna, so she started imitating, she was imitating, Hare Hare, she was imitating, making fun, Hare Hare, so then she got purified, She was chanting the holy name in a fun way, making fun of him actually.

But she was chanting the holy name, she had offered a bath in the salty lave, she had the associate in the great sadhu, and then she became a pure devotee actually.

So this chanting of Hare Krishna is so powerful, even a prostitute trying to pollute the devotee, she became a devotee just by hearing the holy name.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

So let us learn from Hare Rāsa-Takur, how to become fixed in chanting Hare Krishna mantra, that nothing in this service, no material attractions will divert our mind from Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

I don't know how much nectar these 2 syllables, Krishna, produce.

Because my chanting Krishna, I might need to have millions of tongues and millions of ears.

There's so much nectar in the name of Krishna that my tongue and my ears are not sufficient.

1 tongue and 1 set of ears are not sufficient.

Then we have millions and millions and trillions of ears and tongues so I can even get just a little fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the unlimited negative that is contained in the name of Krishna.

We should learn from Rupa Goswami and Hari Dasa Thakur how valuable these holy names actually are And take this chanting Hare Krishna as the greatest benediction, the greatest blessing, not just something you have to get out of the way of.

No, you should take it as the greatest benediction, the greatest blessing.

That this opportunity for the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Nityananda, Bhakti Sudhana Sarasvati, the Divine Grace, Om Vishnu Vad Paramahamsa Parivartate, Jatajna Aastha, we have any questions or challenges or any points that need clarification.

You can type it in or if not we can end it a little early today.

Not just mechanically do things, but Bhaktya, what is that verse?

Bhaktyam putam tadam payam vormibhattami tadam vabhishnami nasnami purnam.

Well the good news Ajamila Das is we already have that devotion within us.

We actually are pure devotees, we are actually intimate associates of the Lord.

That is a natural thing, just like a father and son have a natural intimate relationship.

A husband and wife have a natural intimacy there, a natural feeling there.

So just by practice, it's called sadhana bhakti.

There's prema bhakti, serving with love and sadhana bhakti, serving according to the rules and regulations.

So if you are sick, healthy is your normal state and you are sick right now, you go to the doctor and say take this medicine and restrict your diet in this way.

So you follow the doctor's order and by doing that your natural healthy state comes back, the disease is removed.

So we have a disease now called material lust, Anger, greed, madness, illusion and envy.

We have this disease, disease of our heart, covering the prema bhakti which is within us.

No illicit sex, no mediating, no intoxication and gambling.

Take the orders of the spiritual master of your life and soul and be dedicated to serving the spiritual master's orders.

In this way, by doing sadhana bhakti, you gradually become purified.

It's like the natural state of the room is clean but now there is dust and dirt everywhere so you have to clean it up.

It is like everyday after lunch our service is to clean the floor in the kitchen.

There are so many particles of food on the floor, so many things, but we take up the rugs and we sweep and sweep and sweep, take a dustpan and throw all the dust away.

So we have that dust and dirt in the heart, so you have to sweep and clean, get rid of it.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare This way cleanse the heart of all the dirt that's polluting it.

So once you get the dirt out of the way, that lust, the anger, the greed, the madness, the illusion is all gone and now your original pure state of loving Krishna becomes re-manifested.

But to Sunil, I am confused about the phrase personal ability in the first paragraph of the Purpura.

He could execute his prescribed duties with complete perfection as it fit at the time and circumstances, financial strength and personal ability.

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