So, today we are reading from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 4th cano, Chapter 25, Text 30, 425-30.

Om namo bhagavate om namo bhagavate vasudevaya yad eṣaṁ pāṅgavi kaṇḍitrendriyāṁ

sab-riddhava smita-vibhrahmad-bhuvah tayo prashishtho bhagavan manobhava prabandhate bandhagrihan shobhane Yet, because esa, this, ma me apanga by your glances pikandita agitated indriyam whose senses are mind Savrida, with shyness.

Vibramat, Bewildering, Brava, with eyebrows, Vaya, by you, Paschmista, being influenced, Bhagavan, the most powerful, Manabhava, Cupid, Tribandhate, is harassing, Ata, therefore, Anugrana, be merciful, Shobhane, O beautiful 1.

Translation in Purport by His Divine Grace, Shrila Prabhupada.

Certainly your glancing upon me today has very much agitated my mind.

Your smile, which is full of shyness, at the same time lusty, is agitating the most powerful cupid within me.

Therefore, O most beautiful 1, I ask you to be merciful upon me.

Everyone has lusty desires within and as soon as 1 is agitated by the movement of a beautiful woman's eyebrows, the Kubera within immediately throws his arrow at the heart.

Thus 1 is quickly conquered by the eyebrows of a beautiful woman.

When 1 is agitated by lusty desires, his senses are agitated by all kinds of viśāyā, enjoyable things like sound, touch, form, smell and taste.

These attractive sense objects oblige 1 to come under the control of a woman.

In this way the conditional life of a living entity begins.

Conditional life means being controlled under the woman and certainly the living entity is always at the mercy of a woman or a man.

Thus living entities live in bondage to 1 another and thus they continue this conditional material life illusioned by maya.

Vandeham śrī-guru śrī-jatā-padakamalāṁ śrī-guru-vaiṣṇavaṁś ca Sri Guru, Sri Jata, Padakamalam, Sri Guru Vaishnavamsha, Sri Rupam, Sagarjatam, Śrī rūpaṁ sa grja tam

vitaṁ tam sujīvaṁ tam sujīva sadhāyitam savadūtam parījana-saṁhitam kṛṣṇa-caitanya-deva

śrī-rādhā kṛṣṇa-pādāṁ sahagana-lalita So, this describes very nicely our position here in this material world, being attracted by the opposite sex.

Even the movement of a woman's eyebrows can totally conquer the mind of a man.

Therefore I want us to be very, very careful in this material world not to be overpowered by sex desire.

This sex desire is the basic principle of material existence.

Even for ordinary toothpaste, there are so many things in the advertising, they use sex to sell it.

Even some ordinary thing, they always saw a beautiful woman, very attractively dressed, with very attractive makeup, etc., etc., to lure the customers to buy the product.

So we're also buying this product of sex.

And this sex desire is keeping us entangled 1 birth after another birth, after another birth, another birth.

Whether we're attracted to the female of the human species, or the baboon species, or the crocodile species, or the elephant species, or the monkey species, or the woman being attracted to the male.

And this way we're going on birth after birth after birth after birth.

Sex is the basic principle of material existence.

So even in this married life, it's also the same attraction of sex, although it's slightly polished.

Even Prabhupada says marriage is called licensed prostitution.

So even in married life the sexual attraction is there.

Legalized prostitution, even married life.

So the whole thing is going on sex, sex, sex.

We want to become Krishna conscious, we have to become free from this lust, this sex desire, going crazy about the opposite sex.

So we have to get the higher taste, that's the key.

Viśeha vinivartante nirāhā raśhidehīna raśhava-saṁvāśopraśvā parama-viśanavartate The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains but ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.

So the real position here, the real thing we have to do is we have to get the higher taste.

If you don't get the higher taste, taste must be there.

Even in the Mayavadi, everybody is looking for taste.

So we have to learn that experience, that higher taste.

That taste is there in our original loving relationship with Krishna.

Each 1 of us has an original svarupa, original identity with Lord Sri Krishna, in which we have unlimited taste of loving reciprocation with that supreme, all-attractive personality, who is all-powerful, all-beautiful, all-renounced, all-famous, all-wealthy and all-wise.

Each 1 of us has that supreme taste of a loving relationship with the Supreme Beloved, Lord Sri Krishna.

So how do we revive that original, unlimitedly tasteful experience of loving reciprocation of the Supreme Lord?

He comes and he sends his representative, the 1 who finds spiritual mastery, sends the devotees, and he himself comes as a devotee to show us what is this process of getting back to our original, unlimitedly tasteful position.

So all these lower tastes will no longer attract us.

I give you a glabjaman or a piece of stool, you go for the glabjaman, isn't it?

You want a nice piece of stool, of course the hob will go for the stool, all very nice.

So we have to learn how to revive that original taste for bhakti.

So, there we have the promise of sadhana bhakti, there's avadhi bhakti, there's vaga bhakti, when your taste is already awakened, and then there's Vahidi-gita trying to awaken that taste, by regulated principles, hearing, chanting, remembering, offering prayers, serving the Vaishnavas, serving the spiritual master.

In this way, Navavida-gita, we go through these regulated processes.

It's Like when you're sick, you go to the doctor, he gives you the medicine, you take this, you don't take that, and this way you follow the instructions of the physician, you become healthy again.

So right now we're in a very diseased state.

We're lusty, we're angry, we're greedy, we're lazy, we're crazy, we have all these problems.

And our internet went off, another problem.

We have to take advantage of these great acharyas who have talked out the way.

These great acharyas have chalked out the pathway.

We have to take advantage of these great Acharyas.

If you're lost in the forest somewhere, you don't know where to go, you're completely bewildered, what to do, what to do, how to get back to civilization.

So these great Acharyas like Srila Prabhupada, here's the pathway.

You're lost, you're bewildered, you're confused, you're in great anxiety, you're in distress, trying to squeeze pleasure out of that place where pleasure does not even exist.

See, nobody gets any satisfaction from this sex pleasure, actually.

The woman also says, I cannot live without you.

It's like that popular song back in the 60s, I can't get no satisfaction.

We're trying this way, that way, this way, that way, but there's no satisfaction because we're trying to enjoy on an artificial platform.

You cannot enjoy where enjoyment does not exist.

Enjoyment does not exist in this material existence.

So we have to get back to that position where actual enjoyment exists.

We have to get back to the actual position where enjoyment, real enjoyment is there.

Come back, come back, come back, come back.

Actually, there's great, you say, well, I have to be a servant?

But the thing is, there's so much bhakti in this devotional service.

Even Krishna himself, he sees, what is this?

There's this girl here, Radharani, She's getting more pleasure by serving me than I'm tasting by being served by her.

He says, I want to taste what Radharani is tasting.

Because she's tasting more nectar than I am, I want to taste what Radharani is tasting.

Therefore I will take the complexion and the mood of Radharani and what is that?

oh yeah, let's turn on the chat mode then to see if you all can hear me you can hear, say yes I hear you and if there's no comment we know you're not hearing.

We're tuned in, turn on and blissing out.

And just like there's so much garbage out there on the radio, but if you tune into the right channel, the Krishna Kittad channel, you see, then you're sitting pretty, you're well situated.

Matsyita Magata Pranabodhendak Purasparam Katiyantasthavam Nityam Tushyantirvajyam Tushyantirtha Ramanticha.

They taste great satisfaction and bliss by enlightenment rather than conversing about me.

So we have to, Prabhupada is showing us where to tune in, you see.

We've been tuning into this material existence for thousands and millions and billions and quadrillions and quintillions, go on expanding, unlimited number of lifetimes we've been trying to squeeze Pleasure from that place where there is no pleasure.

So it's time to stop being so stupid, so misguided, so misdirected, so cheated.

It's time for us to stop being cheated by all these rascals, so-called leaders, these rakshasa-man-eating demons who are leading the world right now.

It's time for us to stop being misled by these cheaters and actually understand who is our real leader.

Lord Sri Krishna Bhagavan, He's our real leader.

He said, Why should Krishna be the leader?

He's manifesting this whole thing for his own pleasure.

This manifestation, this existence, is the pleasure pastime of the Supreme Lord.

Well, you have to go meet him, you know he exists.

And we show you the way how to go meet him, you see.

Then you know he really exists, he's not just a myth.

Some fairy tale, oh there's someone called God out there.

Actually we can philosophically understand there must be a Supreme Person behind all of existence.

And wouldn't it be interesting to meet that person?

That's why he's come and spoken, he's come and given us this wonderful knowledge, the Bhagavad Gita.

Telling us to give up all our other nonsense.

You're serving this, you're serving that.

You're serving your wife, you're serving your husband, you're serving your dog, you're serving your country.

You're serving so many ways, but not being satisfied.

Instead of being caught up in all these different seva, seva, seva, seva, seva, come to the supreme seva, param seva, come to serving that supreme person, you water the root of the tree, we said millions of times, you water the root of the tree, all the leaves and branches are nourished, you feed the belly, the whole body becomes nourished, you feed the belly, that's the way to do.

We put our loving service there, the root of all existence, then we feel unlimited satisfaction.

I serve this and that, I get only limited satisfaction, often I get frustrated when I serve this and that.

I get so many letters from my students how they're frustrated in this way and that way.

It's Overwhelming how much people are frustrated.

My husband did this, my wife did this, my parents did this.

That's why we don't like being frustrated because frustration is not our natural position.

Our natural position is always being in a state of bliss.

That's why we're always looking, where can I find the bliss?

But the real fact is, if we get back to our original loving relationship with that Supreme Person, we can find unlimited happiness.

So this Krishna Ganges movement is a wonderful benediction of Lord Caitanya.

He's actually conquering the world right now by this Sankirtana movement.

This is a wonderful, wonderful benediction of Lord Caitanya to help us getting back, as we often say, know who you are and be who you are.

So now we leave a little time here for questions and answers.

So I'm just going to stop going on with the lecture and we'll open it up for questions and answers now.

Guru Maharaj Ji can give us some further realizations.

But in the beginning if we deny the taste, wouldn't we make progress and try to take the real taste?

Lord Jumanachari would spit at such tastes.

Yadāvati mamaceta kṛṣṇa-padāravinde nava-nava-rasa-dhaṁ yatra-māmasit yadāvati

bhūvidhikūmiṣṭhīva-namca such tastes.

Yadavari mamaceta, Krishna padaravinde, nava nava rasa doma yatra maha masit, yathadavari bhattamare, sangamesh maryamane, bhupati kumar sthiva nam ca.

He was formerly a king, having so much sex pleasure with the maidens in the palace.

He would sometimes remember, oh, remember when I was doing this for that girl?

Is that why we have this 4 regulative principles?

It's good to spit at them, but then at the same time, you've got to have something better.

You can spit, but you have to put something...

You're spitting out, but you have to put something in that's nice.

We spit out the thought of all this sinful activity, we take in wonderful kirtan, wonderful darshan, wonderful philosophy.

So both things are there, denying and accepting both.

The bodies, they simply want to deny, you see.

We deny also, but then we replace it with something better.

Still, that attitude towards that, to give up this lower taste, is very beneficial.

We have to understand if I'm still attracted by seeing these girls over here, these boys over here, if I'm still feeling an urge to enjoy that woman or that man, we have to spit at that thing.

We have to say, no, stop it, you damn mind.

My dear mind, you must understand your happiness is not the opposite sex, your happiness is Krishna.

It's good to deny those things and then replace it with a positive thing.

Trying that also to replace with something, we go wrong direction also, replacing.

We have to replace it with the proper thing.

Yeah, so we have to, even marriage is a license for sex pleasure, but even then it has to be given up.

And even in marriage, Papa made it very strict.

Sex life is not unlimited in married life.

Sex life in married life means, first of all, how many people are doing this?

Pabbaji said, first thing you get permission from the spiritual master.

How many Iskandar devotees are doing that?

How many married couples are getting permission first from the spiritual master?

That's like the problem is, first they get permission from the spiritual master.

Good day, will you bless us to try to get a child?

First thing is, get the blessings of the spiritual master.

And then second thing, once in a month, 4 to 6 days after the woman's menstrual cycle and after chanting at least 5 0, not 1 5, but 5 0 rounds of japa.

And then, So in this way, Prabhupada gives that concession, but then after Vāṇḍaprastha, after the age of 50, no more sex.

See, up to 50 you can do that, but then Vāṇḍaprastha...

Also, before beginning the child, going to take the permission, they have to be celibate.

Oh, yeah, there's celibacy before that, of course.

Not that they can have fun and then take permission.

Have fun in the bed and then take permission.

That's called grihasta brahmacharya, you see?

Grihasta means strictly following the principles given by Prabhupada.

Otherwise they're not Grihasta, they're Grihamedhi.

Green medhi is good for remaining in the cycle of birth and death.

Very good for staying, for going out of the animal kingdom.

Yeah, very good for going down to the 8 million per annum species.

And after also getting into the rest of life, getting the children, they should do it early as possible so they have time for retirement.

wait till the age of 49, it's going to be a little tough.

By the time the children are grown up, you can retire.

Now there are little kids and you're running around with their diapers and you want to take Vana Prastha.

It's like at the age of 40 or 45 that people want to get married

Let's not let's be a little realistic and let's follow in the Vedic culture.

Why don't we follow Vedic culture instead of Karmic culture.

Which culture do you want to follow, Vedic culture or Karmic culture?

So I told him, you are over 40, there was no time for retirement.

Swagyadev, there are many devotees who keep asking about why you got married if you don't want to have a child or if you want to become a brahmachari.

So it's better you could have a brahmachari life, why you got married.

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