Yesterday we did 425-26, is that what it was?

Today we're on Bhagavatam, 4th Canto, Chapter 25, Text Number 27.

OM NAMAH BAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA OM NAMAH BAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA OM NAMAH BAGAVATE VASUDEVAYA Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.

Ekadāśyā-mahā-bhataḥ etavālālānā-sūpruḥ koṅṭhyaṁ te hi parāśaraḥ KUETE All these ANUB ANAPATA Followers ye, they who, te, your, ekadasha, 11, mahabhata, very powerful bodyguards, eta, all of these, va, also, la-da-na, women, subhru, O beautiful-eyed 1, ka, who, ayam, this, te, this, te, your, ahi, the snake, pura, in front, sada, going.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.25.27 Translation My dear Lodiside, Who are these 11 strong body-gauras with you?

Who are these women following the 10 servants and who is the snake that is preceding you?" Purpura.

The 10 strong servants of the mind are the 5 working senses and the 5 knowledge acquiring senses.

All these 10 senses work under the agyas of the mind.

The mind and the 10 senses combined become 11 strong body guards.

The hundreds of women under the jurisdiction of the senses are dressed here as lalana.

The mind works under the intelligence and under the mind of the 10 senses.

Under the 10 senses are innumerable desires to be fulfilled.

All these, however, depend on the vital life force which is here represented by the snake.

As long as the vital life force is there, the mind works.

In the head of the mind, the senses work, and the senses give rise to so many material desires.

Actually, the living entity is known as paranjana, is embarrassed by so much paraphernalia.

All this paraphernalia nicely constitutes different sources of anxiety, rather simply constitutes different sources of anxiety, but 1 who is surrendered under the Supreme Personality of Godhead and who leaves all business to Him is freed from such anxieties.

Therefore, Pallad Maharaj advises a person who was taken to the materialistic way of life, which is never permanent, but always temporary, to take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and leave aside all his so-called responsibilities in order to get free from all anxieties.

Shri Jata Padakamalam Shri Guru Vaishnavamsha Shri Rupam Sagarajatam Sahagana Raghunathanvitam Tam Sajeevam Sadaitam Savadhootam Parijana Sahitam Krishna Chaitanya Devam Shri Radha savadhūtam parījana-sahitam kṛṣṇa-caitanya devam śrī-rādhā kṛṣṇa-padam sahagana-lalita śrīviṣa-kaṇḍvitaṁś ca nama om viṣṇu-padāya kṛṣṇa-pleśtāya bhūtale śrīmate bhaktivedanta svāmarīti nāmane namaste sarasvate deve So, we have to understand the wonderful advice of Pilate Maharaj.

Why is he advised that to take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The materialistic way of life is never permanent but always temporary.

So in other words, there's permanent happiness and there's temporary happiness.

It's interesting to note, as for Prabhupada's quote this morning in the, after the Mangal-arati, there's 2 types of happiness, internal and external.

The 1 who goes after external happiness, he's called a materialist, and 1 who goes off of internal happiness he's called the spiritualist.

So now we should consider the 2 types of happiness.

The external happiness is temporary, it's always happiness and distress, happiness and distress, happiness and distress.

Even when there's happiness, it's only so-called happiness.

It's not real happiness, it's illusory happiness.

Just like in the desert, there's an illusion of water, it's called a mirage.

So, why does the mirage appear to be an illusion of water?

Because a real water actually exists, you understand.

If there's no such thing as real water, the mirage would not be attractive.

Because there's such thing as real water that looks in a certain way, and the mirage looks like that real water, therefore the mirage is attractive.

So illusory happiness is only attractive because it is perverted reflection of real happiness.

So real happiness is a real thing and illusory happiness is simply a perverted reflection of the real thing.

There's a nice plate of pashatam here, you're really hungry, you've got a nice plate of pashatam.

I take a mirror and I give you a reflection of the pashatam, I give you the mirror, here's your prashadam.

Could you get any nourishment by taking a mirror of prashadam?

So this illusory Happiness is really a joke, a real joke, illusory happiness.

But yet we're running after it, isn't that crazy?

I mean, this is called a madman running after illusory happiness.

Running, running, running, running, running, running, running, like the animal running after the mirage.

So, you got some animal running after the mirage, that's us.

How do you convince him not to run after the mirage?

My dear animal, while you're running after the mirage, How do you convince him?

Because he's convinced there's real happiness out there in the desert.

How do you convince him not to stop running after the mirage?

Well, you've got to give him some real water.

So that's the beauty of what's that called?

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

Looking for real happiness, well here it is, right here, on a silver platter, Hare Krishna Mantra, you see.

Actually, it's interesting to note, as Prabhupada explains, Krishna literally means the 2 syllables mean greatest pleasure.

That's the literal meaning of the 2 syllables, greatest pleasure.

So you can get the greatest pleasure just by chanting Hare Krishna.

So why am I not totally absorbed in chanting Hare Krishna 24 hours a day?

Actually, you want to be absorbed, just like somebody wrote a question to me, I got a question coming through the emails from what's called Quora.com.

She wants to know, where is the spiritual master who can teach me how to be in a meditative state 8 hours a day?

This Bhakti Yoga system teaches you how to be in a meditative state 24 hours a day.

The amazing thing is you can be here in this external world going on successfully as a leader, as a follower, as a businessman, as an employee, as a teacher, as a student, any position.

And the beauty of this process is you can be in a meditative state 24 hours a day.

You have to see everything as the energy of Krishna, engage everything in Krishna's service.

You can be a street sweeper, you can be a prime minister, it doesn't matter what your position is.

A husband, a wife, a kid, it doesn't matter what your position is, if you see everything as the energy of Krishna, engage everything in the service of Krishna, then you are rightly situated in a state called samadhi.

Learn how to be in a state of samadhi, internally situated in a transcendental bliss in every situation.

Doesn't matter what's happening in the external energy.

It doesn't matter, because your happiness is within.

Well, people who are glorifying me, they feel happy.

If they're chastising me, I feel miserable.

If they're ignoring me, I feel even more miserable.

See, your devotees, someone who's actually a devotee of Krishna, not a pseudo devotee, but someone who is actually a devotee of Krishna, they find their happiness within 24 hours of death.

They're locked in to this transcendental platform, Not by force, but by choice.

The spiritual measure does not lock you in.

Okay, here's some handcuffs and a ball and a chain, now you're locked in.

Even Prabhupada would sometimes tell the devotee who's having difficulty, well if you like, give it up and go as you enjoy your life on the outside.

Prabhupada would tell them, you're not locked in to this process.

It's for those who are actually intelligent, who understand what is the real happiness.

Those persons who understand what is the real happiness, they will do whatever it takes to get fixed in this consciousness.

Whatever austerities they have to do, whatever penance, whatever difficulties they have to embrace.

No illicit sex, no intoxication, no meeting, no gambling.

Someone who's addicted to illicit sex, intoxication, meeting, and gambling it's difficult to give them up you see we live in a world where practically everybody's absorbed in this is sex meeting intoxication and gambling so with a newcomer to come it's a little difficult he's used to running after this is sex meeting intoxication and gambling so to give it up a little bit but austerity But if you give him a taste of Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare.

Why run after licit sex, intoxication, meeting and gambling when you can get even more pleasure here you can get real pleasure here you see from this process of Krishna consciousness So if you give up those things which distract you from Krishna consciousness, and embrace those things which give you Krishna consciousness, then you're rightly situated.

I was meditating this morning, at the temple this morning, about these 2 types of happiness, sense gratification and bhakti.

The difference is material happiness actually drains your energy.

It actually takes your energy away, it actually kills you.

Material happiness drains your energy away, it actually kills you.

You get more energy, more enthusiasm, more determination, more patience, more intelligence, more loving feelings.

Everything comes from the spiritual enjoyment.

You can enjoy having a list of sex if you want, go for it.

You can enjoy getting consticated if you want, go for it.

McDonald's is waiting for you, Gleefully waiting for you, or Kentucky Fried or whatever.

All these, the gambling casinos right there, it's like in the US we have El Reno, a music club, Reno and Las Vegas, it's all waiting for you.

But if you actually understand and realize the science of enjoyment, and you realize that material enjoyment bleeds me of my energy, and spiritual enjoyment energizes me more and more and more and more.

So it's your choice, my dear listeners, have you become de-energized or energized?

Have all your energy taken away, little by little taken all away, you're dead, you just, you drop dead, finished.

Are you going to be energized, awaken your actual identity, which is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss?

See, devotees, a devotee's body maybe go downhill, you see.

When you're actually Krishna conscious, you become younger every day.

Because you become more and more in touch with your eternal identity, Navya-yobhanam.

As Krishna is Navya-yobhanam, devotee is qualitatively 1 with Krishna, the Devotee is also an eternal youth.

So the more you awaken Krishna consciousness...

There was some song, it says, I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." And you say...

So Krishna consciousness means you become younger every day, because you're coming closer and closer and closer to your sarupa, your eternal relationship, your eternal identity in the pastimes of the Supreme Lord.

So, it's what we call it in America, a no-brainer.

I mean, anybody, even if you don't have a brain at all, you may have no brain, you can understand that ever increasing happiness is better than ever decreasing happiness, you see.

But the difficulty is we're even less with having no brains.

Dvīpadaḥ paśu, you know that śloka, śvādbhedaḥ uṣṭaḥ karaiḥ saṁsthitaḥ pariṣad paśu nājataḥ pauḥ nājataḥ gomaḥ patauḥ peito jātanaṁ gadaṅga-dvajahāḥ.

Those men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, I praise those men who have no attachment to the pastimes of Krishna.

So Prabhupāda explained a very wonderful lecture in L.A.

That lecture is so enlightening, you should hear it sometime on the recordings.

He says, who will they, when the dogs, hogs, camels and asses go to vote, who will they vote for?

When you vote, the small dogs, hogs, camels and asses, like their leaders, big dogs, hogs, camels and asses.

It's run by dogs, hogs, camels and asses.

You wonder why there's so much chaos in the world.

There's regular shootings in the neighborhood.

1 shooting every, every, every, every, there are regular, many kids have been shot dead in this neighborhood.

And they don't know any solution for this, you see.

There's many, some, you know, kids take guns, they go to school and shoot and kill.

And little, I mean small children, teenagers, or students, not even legal adults, they take a gun and go to, they get a gun and they're from their parents' house and they go to the school and they shoot people.

Can you imagine children doing this now, how it's going downhill?

Downhill, more and more and more and more and more.

Because why they got the vipadapashu, they have two-legged animals running these countries.

Two-legged animals running the universities, the businesses, all of these things are being run by two-legged animals, less than animals actually.

We were discussing the other day, an animal acts in perfect accordance with the laws of nature, Perfect accordance.

The dog does exactly what he's supposed to do.

The snake does exactly what he's supposed to do.

The monkey, as we see in Vrindavan, every single animal is doing it.

Every plant, every animal, every worm, every germ, they're acting perfectly in accordance with the laws of nature.

They don't deviate even slightly from the laws of nature.

Just like who's polluting the earth right now?

The dogs polluting it, the snakes, the monkeys, the gorillas.

Which of all these creatures here, Which creatures are polluting the water and the air right now?

The human beings are not living in harmony with the laws of nature, the laws of God.

Even the laws of nature is not living in harmony.

That's why the humans are polluting the earth and polluting the air and the water.

Even every day you look on the air index, they say a very poor quality air in Vrindavan even right now.

People have heart disease, it's dangerous to breathe here, it explains.

Even in Vrindavan the air is being polluted now.

So all this is going on because we're being led by those persons who are in the category of dogs, hogs, camels and asses.

So it's time we understand who are the actual leaders on this planet.

Those persons who are Krishna conscious, they are the actual leaders.

And the so-called leaders of this planet now, they should take training from those persons who are Krishna conscious.

Just like in the Vedic culture, who actually led the society was the kings?

The actual leaders were the, not the kshatriyas, the kings, the princely class, the actual leaders of the society were the brahmanas, you see.

Because they would train the administrators how to administrate in a way that would be beneficial for the citizens.

So it's time now that we emerge, that we the Krishna conscious devotees can emerge developing all saintly qualities.

Vārcha-vegam manasa-krodha-vegam jīvā vegam mudaropa-stha-vegam etāṁ vittāṁ yo viṣayita-tīrāp Vigam, Mudaropastha Vigam, Etan, Vittam, Yovi, Sahita, Dera, Sarvam, Bhaksha Vigam, Manasa, Kauda Vigam, Jiva Vigam, Mudaropastha Vigam, Etan, Vittam, Yovi, Sahita, Dera, Sarvam, Vipin, Vim, Vim, Vim, Shishya, Shishya.

Those who can conquer mind, words, anger, tongue, belly and genitals can make the whole world their disciples.

So we need to become, those of us who are struggling here, to awaken our Krishna consciousness.

We get out of the maya, all these mature desires still flooding our brains, you see.

It's time for us to get out of this semi-Krishna conscious position and come to actual Krishna consciousness, pure Krishna bhakti.

Because when our devotees, when we devotees can come to that position, we'll be qualified to lead all these, guide and instruct all these leaders how to solve the problems of this planet.

We'll actually be able to inspire the voters to vote for Krishna conscious leaders.

Even Prabhupāda at 1 time established, as I explained before, the In God We Trust Party.

It's kind of an interesting, very interesting title, political party.

Because that's what's on the all-American currency, is In God We Trust.

You look on the dollar bill, it says In God We Trust.

It's still loved earlier days when they were more God-conscious.

We hope the atheists don't take it off anytime soon.

They may try, the court, going to the Supreme Court or something, taking God We Trust off the dollar.

So, the Pope has started a God We Trust political party.

And we had candidates running for office.

But we had this topic that is illegal, a religious organization cannot engage in politics.

But our individual devotees can do that, and I encourage 1 highly placed devotee and highly placed government in the government in Mauritius to go ahead and run for office.

He is already a big political post in the country.

I don't know if he's taken my advice or not.

So anyway, the more we can actually have Krishna conscious leaders who take the authority of scripture, both as a Brahmin or an instructor or as an administrator, the more we can have Krishna conscious leadership on this planet, the more the whole thing is going to turn around.

In other words, the more we can turn around our own hearts, the more we'll have the potency to turn around the world around us.

So let's take this process of awakening Krishna consciousness for our own benefit, and the benefit of all living entities, very seriously.

Prabhupada gave us the order to become guru and deliver the whole world.

So we have some heavy-duty marching orders from our founder, Acharya.

Somebody put out there on the internet, won't the world be better off if we have more women leaders, someone was asking.

If we have more women in leadership positions, won't that solve the problems of the world?

But the problem is, as long as we think men and women, that's the problem.

As long as we identify with these bodies, that's the problem.

They say, well women don't, women may be better off.

No, as long as you think man and woman that's the problem.

The problem is we're still thinking man and woman on the bodily platform.

When we actually come beyond the bodily platform, I realize that a man or a woman, either 1, can become a very powerful leader if they're not on the bodily platform.

I'm an eternal spiritual being, qualitatively 1 with the Supreme Lord.

And then such a person can be a very powerful leader, can be uplifted in consciousness, can uplift the consciousness very greatly by their own preaching activities and their own example.

So we need such qualified leaders now to bring the world out of chaos.

And Prabhupāda is giving us everything we need to actually become such Kṛṣṇa conscious persons who can understand the real nature of existence, the tato brahma jñāsa.

Now you've got this human form, you're meant to utilize it for self-realization, not for sense gratification.

You're meant to find happiness within, not to look for it without.

It's interesting, I like the word without to describe the happiness, external happiness, because it's a very good term for external happiness, within and without.

It's a very nice, very poetic way of understanding.

Happiness without, you're without happiness.

So within is where you're going to find the real happiness.

So let us not be deluded anymore about all this false propaganda going on in the material world.

Ultra-bite toothpaste gives your mouth sex appeal.

They're trying to encourage everybody about ultra-bite toothpaste so you can enjoy sex life, with ultra by toothpaste.

It's going on, all this ridiculous propaganda, you see.

So it's time for us to not be deluded and misled by all this.

We have to take the guidance from these great acharyas who chalked out this pathway back to home, back to Godhead.

That's whose advice we should take, not the rascals and fools or something like exploit us in so many ways.

You want to be exploited, the exploiters are waiting for you, come on.

So, if you want to be exploited, you'll have no trouble finding exploiters.

If you want to be exploited, you'll have no trouble finding exploiters.

If you want to be exploited, no problem at all.

But if you don't want to be exploited, You have to find those persons who have no exploitive consciousness, no exploitive motives, no exploitive mentality.

That's the bona fide Vaishnavas, the bona fide spiritual masters.

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