Yellow, garment, beautiful waist, blackish, golden, belt, with the feet, tinkling,

a lump, belt, Padmyam, with the feet, Kvanadvyam, tinkling, Chalantim, walking, Nuparai, with ankle bells, Devatam, a denizen of the heavens, Iva like.

Translation in Purple by His Divine Grace, Sheela Prabhupada.

The waist and hips of the woman were very beautiful.

She was dressed in a yellow sari with a golden belt.

While she walked her ankle bells rang, she appeared exactly like a denizen of the heavens.

This verse expresses the joyfulness of the mind upon seeing a woman with raised hips and breasts, dressed in an attractive sari and bedecked with ornaments.

Sadāyatāṁ savadūtāṁ parījana-sahitam kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ śrī-vādhā kṛṣṇa-padāṁ sahagana-ladhīta-śrī-viṣakaṁ vitāṁś ca namaḥ om viṣṇu-padāya kṛṣṇa-presthāya bhūtale śrīmate bhakti-vedanta svāmin iti namaṇe So, our original position is in the spiritual world with Lord Shri Krishna engaged in so many varieties of loving relationships, in 5 different kinds of primary vases.

You give the example sometimes, the cow is grazing in the grass, but the fence is there.

So the cow wants to stick her head on the other side of the fence, as they're saying the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.

So the same mentality is there sometimes of living entities in the spiritual world, thinking, well, maybe it's better on the other side

So then we find ourselves here in this material world going through the 8400000 species again and again and again and again.

And it's been a reading here today how the man is very joyful as seeing a woman with raised hips and breasts, very nicely dressed.

So this is what keeps him in the material world, this attraction.

And the woman's side is being attracted to the male, you see.

is attracted to the female, the male in this way.

This mutual attraction between male and female is what keeps them entangled here in

Of course, this attraction is natural, is there between Vada and Krishna.

But here it takes a perverted form, you see.

Because we try to take the position of being the enjoyer, that's the typical thing.

Woman wants to be the enjoyer of the man, and the man wants to be the enjoyer of the woman.

But the real position is we are the enjoyer, We are enjoyed by Krishna.

But instead of agreeing to be the enjoyed, we want to be the enjoyer.

And this attraction to the opposite sex is keeping us birth after birth after birth after birth.

As The male, the human male is attracted to the human female.

The male pig is attracted to the female pig in this way, for being attracted, male and female going on.

Romeo and Juliet is going on again and again and Again, lifetime after lifetime, millions and millions of births.

Now this satisfaction we get by enjoying with the opposite sex,

may give us some temporary pleasure but that is called maya sukha, illusory pleasure.

That pleasure actually doesn't leave us satisfied.

The man may enjoy a woman, the woman may enjoy a man.

This male-female enjoyment doesn't bring actual satisfaction of the self.

So instead of looking for this male-female enjoyment, We should take advice from these great sages who have gone beyond this male-female relationship.

Just like we see Haridas Thakur, he was tasting unlimited nectar.

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

So much so that even a beautiful young prostitute was sent to allure him

dead of night, all alone in his little bhajan kutcha.

A beautiful young girl came, She showed her naked parts of her body to him, begging for sex pleasure.

And he was so detached, he had no attraction whatsoever for sex enjoyment with this beautiful girl.

He was just going on, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

He could have just gathered here, but no, he was so compassionate and so detached, he could sit here with Shri Akshaya Nagarjuna, the beautiful girl, lusting after him, all night long, and not even be disturbed at all, going on for hours and hours.

The beautiful girl who wanted sex with him, then gets there peacefully going, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

Out of his compassion, he went with the girl to come to me for sex.

Actually, I want to deliver this poor girl, he said.

He was so detached, we are not on that level.

Not that we can be on that level, a beautiful young girl, begging for sex, and we say, just sit here.

We have to run away as fast as we can, to run the level of Haridas Thakur.

He was so compassionate, he heard this chanting again, He said, my dear girl, I'm so sorry I couldn't satisfy you last night.

And I will certainly satisfy your lusty desires tonight.

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

Oh my dear girl, I wanted to satisfy your lusty desires tonight, but I just didn't finish my rounds.

You come tomorrow night, I'll surely satisfy you.

By that time, she was going on hearing him chanting.

fun of his chanting even making fun of his chanting guess what she was telling the holy names

became a beautiful oh my dear I'm so sorry I came to pollute you now.

And this way she became completely liberated.

So we're not on a level we can imitate Arya Laskar.

Actually, even thinking of women can make him fall down.

So we practice this separation of the sexes, you see.

We protect this because we're not very advanced devotees.

We haven't crossed over and acted as rtih yet, we have this lust still sitting in our hearts.

Therefore we keep some separation, protect ourselves.

And Bhagavatam is giving us very good instructions, very good points.

YAN MAITYANARDI GRIHA MEDI SUKHAM ITUK CHAM.

That pleasure was considered maityanardi, the number 1 pleasure by materialists.

MAITYANARDI GRIHA MEDI SUKHAM ITUK CHAM indeed is insignificant.

we Haridas Krishna was on this level, and we have to try to come to this level also.

Taking the sex pleasure, he, to chum, indeed, insignificant.

Well, that's the whole process about the son of a bhakti.

remembering, offering prayers, serving the deities, the sacred...

day we mentioned the 5 potent forms of devotional service given by Rūpa Goswāmī.

Residing in Vṛndāvana-dāma is the first

residing in the holy dome, deity worship, serving the Vaishnavas, chanting the holy name.

really take these seriously, residing in Vrindavan, of course we're not in Vrindavan, we make our place as good as Vrindavan.

If you're not living in Vrindavan, make your residence or your place as good as Vrindavan.

You have nice pictures of Krishna, a nice altar, a nice kirtan going on.

If You're not living in Vrindavan, make your place as good as Vrindavan.

Even if you don't have deity, you can have a nice photograph, nice picture of Krishna.

The idea is you have to have a form of Krishna there, either deity or a picture.

And offer your basins, offer your foodstuffs, offer the RT.

It's very important, because 1 of my students, he wrote me, he said that, I'm here in Kashmir, they're mostly Muslim, they say, You Hindus are so foolish, you're worshiping a stone as if it's God, you see.

What can I say to them when I say, you Hindus are so stupid, your religion, your stone is God?

So I said, ask them, is God limited or unlimited?

How about I say, if he's unlimited, he can do whatever he wants.

If you say he's limited, I say, who are you to put a limit on God?

If he's unlimited, he can do whatever he wants.

Even in the Bible it says that God appears in the form of a burning bush.

Even the Christian Bible admits that God can appear in a material form.

So if Krishna is unlimited, He can appear in any form, wherever you can give your love and devotion.

It's like here we have a picture of Radha and Krishna, see it with them?

Now if you treat that form as Radha and Krishna, they will be there, you see.

If you bow down, you offer your foodstuffs.

So in this way, even if you are a deity, you can have a nice picture.

And offer your worship and your arti and your food stuff.

So Krishna will appear wherever you're giving your love and devotion.

Residing in Vrindavan, make your places good in Vrindavan, worshipping the deity, hearing the Bhagavatam like we're doing now.

You say, well there's no class, but you can read the Bhagavatam.

Studying the Bhagavad is beating the Bhagavatam.

That's also an important form of devotional service, serving the devotees.

By taking the spiritual master's orders, your life and soul, and following the instructions of the spiritual master, that's serving a devotee, you see.

So we take these 5 potent forms of devotional service, we get beyond this

we're tormented by lusty desires, but by serving these 5 potent forms in emotional service you come free from these lusty desires enter into that sublime realm what is it called consciousness right that wonderful realm of Krishna

we many times stated this process is simple the simple typical for the crookeds you're gonna be took it are you gonna be simple to be simple yeah we have to be simple that means take things that they're given spiritual masters giving these things all right let me accept we don't say except blind

blindly you can get in big trouble, because there are so many bogus gurus out there.

taking your money, they're taking whatever.

But then I was finally to the point where I could realize that Siddhartha Prabhupada is a bona fide spiritual master.

And there's nothing sweeter than giving my love to him,

could ever have in billions of lifetimes,

give my love to this great spiritual master, Krishna Prabhupada.

So this way I was ushered by the association of the devotees into the divine, sublime realm of this Krishna consciousness.

But we don't accept these things blindly this is the whole science you see if you take it blindly sentimentless or you can even

take it blindly, we take it scientifically, philosophically.

We take it scientifically and philosophically.

As Prabhupada says, religion without philosophy is sanma and sometimes fanaticism.

And philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

By taking these things together, then you become solidly situated in Krishna consciousness.

words, you need to know, The point is you need to know what you're doing.

Of course, we do follow, but not blindly.

We don't know the science of why except the spiritual master, why I become a bitty of the spiritual master, why

We know, we scientifically understand all these things that would become pakasana so that's why we have so many books the science of God isn't it some stories some enjoyable stories no it's a science we understand this science of the great sages and the science and they teach this science we learn this science If you offer me even

devotion, a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.

Can I say, well, can you offer meat to Krishna?

Can I offer the meat to Krishna and give the fish on the meat to my dog?

Because it's a leaf, flower, fruit or water.

So if a Christian wanted meat, he would say, you can offer me meat, a flower, no, he says, a

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