Today we're reading from Shinglat B'agvatam, 4th Keno chapter 16, text number 26.

Tatra tatra g'ra tatra, iti bushvat t'vikvamah, shoshyat yatoshyat yat mashvataagata, pitu pitu parakvamam.

Tatra tatra, here and there, g'ra, worms, tata, many varieties, many various.

Iti, thus, Vishruta Vikrama, he whose chivalrous activities are widely reputed, Shroshyati, will hear atma ashrita,

himself, gata, songs, narrations, krtu, king krtu, krtu Parakrama, distinctly powerful.

Translation in Purport by His Divine Grace Om Vishnu Param Paramahamsa Parivrtta-Karunjaya Siddhare Sattvashishe Mat A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Sri Dandi Goswami Maharaj Prabhupada.

In this way the shiverous activities of King Prithu come to be known to the people in general.

King Prithu will always hear about himself and his uniquely powerful activities.

Purpura, to artificially advertise oneself and thus enjoy a so-called reputation kind of conceit.

Prithvi Maharaj is famous amongst the people because of his chivalrous activities.

He does not have to advertise himself artificially, one's factual reputation cannot be covered.

Vandeham sri guru sri jatapadakamam, sri guru naisnavam, sri rupam, sagha-jatam, sagha-niragham SRI RUPAM SAGYE JATAM SAHAGANA RAGUNATAM VITAM TAM SA JIVAM SADAITAM SAVADHUTAM BALIJANATAHITAM KRISHNA CHE TANYA DEVAM SRI BALHA KRISHNA PADAM SAHAGANA LALITA SRI VISHAKAM VITAM SJAVAM NAMA OM VISNU PADAYE KRISHNA PRESHTAYO BHUTALAYE SHRI MATE BHAKTI VEDANTA SVAMANITI NAMANAYE So in this material world many people are being artificially advertised.

The big famous singer, the big famous author, the big famous politician, etc.

Shivabhidbhara-ustra-karai samsthita-parishak-pashu-najatakam-patauketau jatam namah gadagraja Those men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, praise those men and do not listen to the transmittal pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna, the deliverer from all evils.

When you have men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, who do they make the famous people?

The big dogs, the big hogs, the big camels and the big asses.

So that's what we have, just like the mascot of the Democratic Party, the big asses.

The whole world is being run by dogs, hogs, camels and asses.

That's why the Krishna Kanda's movement is so important.

So Chaitanya said, sa jana durjana pangu jada anagana prema dvayadu dvayala jagateta jana This Krishnakanda's movement is like a tidal wave.

It will inundate the entire world and drown everyone, whether it is a gentleman, a rogue, even lame, invalid, blind.

This Krishna consciousness movement is hope.

Yadah Yadahi Dharmasya Gnanir Bhavati Bharata Abhyutthannam Dharmasya Tadatmanamsa Janmoham.

Whenever and wherever there is a kind of religious practice, o descendant of Bharata.

And a prominent rise of irreligion at that time, I descend myself.

So Krishna certainly is a prominent rise of your religion right now.

We had a potluck dinner on Wednesday night, all these meat dishes you see.

Even though the Bible says thou shall not kill, we are eating meat and we eat meat at home and we go to the church, there is all kind of meat being served, you see.

This is not religion, this is irreligion masquerading as religion, you see.

So that is why this Krishna Kandis movement is so vital and so essential because this is genuine religion.

You see, actually yoga, yoga, religion means yoga or linking, relig, ligament, ligament means, you see, relig, reconnect.

So the process of reconnecting with God, that is religion.

And this pseudo religion actually makes them more disconnected from God.

It's actually irreligion masquerading as religion.

Can you imagine the horrible thing it is?

There are so many churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples all over the world that they're engaged in sinful activities.

The priests are engaged in sinful activities, the ministers are engaged in sinful activities, and the rabbis are all engaged in sinful activities.

You see how abominable and how disgusting it is.

We have to wake up and realize we need to do something about this madness.

We have been given the order by Lord Caitanya, yadidhe katharikah krsna-upadasah amaragaya guru hoyate yadesam.

Whatever you mean instructive in the teachings of Krishna, in this time where you become a guru, you deliver the people.

We are all meant to become Krishna conscious.

Control our mind, words, anger, tongue, belly and gender.

When you can conquer mind, words, anger, tongue, belly and gender you can make devotees all over the world.

So it's our duty to actually get out of this nonsense neophyte mentality where you are making this mistake after another mistake, another mistake, going on like bumbling idiots, you see, making 1 mistake after another in our neophyte, kineshta, adhikari mentality, materialistic mentality.

We should at least come to the majan platform, be a fixed up preacher.

Yat yata tate shvesta tatate ve sarojana Sayat paramatam kurute lokas tad na nivartate Whatever a great man does, the common people follow in his footsteps, but every standard he sets by exemplary acts all the world pursues.

So a preacher named Acharya, we have to get out of this neophyte platform, materialistic devotees, 1 mistake after another, say bumbling idiots.

We have to come to the platform of actually being a chariot, ideal examples of Krishna consciousness.

Not every thought or every word or every day, no time, place, and circumstance.

Otherwise we are just a disturbance in the assembly of devotees.

Holding on to our neophyte mentality we are causing disturbance in the society.

We should show by our power of uplifting impact on the world around us by our ideal example of Krishna consciousness.

This is how we'll become happy and this is how we can make others happy.

The physician, the Prophet said, physician heal thyself.

Our first business as preachers is that we have to be ideal examples ourselves, otherwise what is the use of our preaching?

We say, be Krishna conscious and then we space out on my end.

We say, we used to be Krishna conscious, why don't we be Krishna conscious?

Why don't we get out of this, you know, mano ritena, the charity of the mind is called ratha.

The mind is going to go here and there, shaking out the material energy.

Yato yato nishchalati manas chamsalam astharam tatas tatar na yajnatat atma ye vipasyanti yajna.

From whatever and wherever the mind wanders with its flicking unsteady nature it must only bring it back under the control of the self.

We have to learn how to detach ourselves from all this garbage that is flowing through us every day just dealing with material world.

So we have to, we should not be affected by dealing with material energy.

Whether it is going somewhere, going shopping or whether it is going to the job, we have to deal with material energy.

But we shouldn't deal with it in such a way that we're carried away by it or we're identified with it.

Samudra ma pa sabhishanti yad vada tad vada kamayam sabhishanti sarve.

A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires that enter like rivers into the ocean which is ever being filled but always remains still can alone achieve peace and not the man who tries to satisfy such desires.

So we deal with this material world, we just, okay, let me offer it on Krishna's service.

You see, if you try to enjoy even 1 percent of it, you are polluting your consciousness.

Even 1 percent, even 0.0001 percent, if you try to enjoy it, that will keep us in the cycle of birth and death.

But you still have a desire to enjoy the material world.

Oh, you still want to enjoy the material world?

We have to realize, we have to kick out this misidentification with matter.

Just like I think I'm a 75 year old man, I'm a fool, an idiot, a rascal.

It's just some costume I'm wearing, a 75 year old old man's body.

I'm maternal youth actually, not just old man's body.

So we have to identify with who we actually are.

Divyaara Svarupaaya, Krishna, and Nitya Dasa.

We have to realize that I am an eternal spiritual being, I am a Krishna's servant.

So let me get back to being who I really am, instead of stupidly trying to be what I'm not.

This misidentification of the matter puts me into misery.

When you're an eternal spiritual being who's full of knowledge and bliss, And you identify yourself with a temporary body which is dignified and full of misery, but can you actually be happy in that condition?

You may think you are happy, it is called maya sukhaya.

It is like people say, how are you doing?

Give up this so-called being fine and learn how to become actually sublime in your consciousness.

By kicking out all this misidentification of the material, kick it out with a boot.

Flush it down, get rid of it, get it out, finish it, finish this material misidentification, come back to being an eternal spiritual being.

His only duty is to serve Guru and Krishna for all eternity.

There's a tendency now, I see a very alarming tendency in this country, watered down pop-ups teaching.

Like they're saying now that recreational sex is necessary to keep the marriages together.

Recreational sex is required to keep the marriages together.

Devotees are saying this, promoting this idea.

Unless you have recreational sex, you can't keep your marriage together.

If you try to be too strict, strictly follow the instruction, you will have a divorce.

Actually, what is Krishna saying in the Bhagavad Gita?

Actually I wanted to share this verse in purport with you all today in this class.

Bahiyat sparshes vissaktatma vimdhavyat maniyat sukham sarvamayugayuktatma sukham akshayam asnute.

Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always entranced enjoying the pleasure within.

In this way, the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he concentrates on the Supreme.

Sri Jamanacharya, a great devotee in Krishna consciousness said, Yadavadi mamacheta krishna padaravindi, Nava nava rasa dhamma yatha ram tumasya, Tadavadi bhattanari sangham e smaryamani, Bhavati mukha vikara sushtu nishti vanamsa.

Since I've been engaged in the treadmill loving service of Krishna, relishing every new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, my lips curve at this taste.

A person in Brahma Yoga or Krishna consciousness is so absorbed in loving service of the Lord that he loses his taste for material sense pleasure altogether.

The highest pleasure in terms of matter is sex pleasure.

The whole material world is moving under his spell and a materialist cannot work at all without this motivation.

But a person engaged in Krishna consciousness can work with greater vigor without sex pleasure if we see a voice.

This is the test in spiritual realization.

Spiritual realization and sex pleasure go ill together.

A Krishna conscious person is not attracted to any kind of sex pleasure due to his being a liberated soul.

So the idea going around that to keep our ISKCON merities together we have to facilitate recreational senses, okay.

I mean This is called watering down Prabhupada's teachings.

Watering them down, mixing in sense gratification with Prabhupada's teachings.

And if you water them down, they have no use, they have no value.

This movement has completely lost its value.

If our Papa's teachings are watered down, then the movement is finished.

We've just killed the Krishna consciousness movement that Papa gave us.

We have to keep it as Papa has given it to us, not as some upstart person thinks we should water it down this way and we need to water it down to make it practical for the devotees.

The practical thing is to follow Prabhupada's teachings.

If we want to deviate from the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, it is no longer ISKCON, it is MISKON, missing Krishna consciousness.

Let's not make it MISKON, let's make it ISKCON.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, according to the Mahajanayena Gita Sapantha, according to the teachings of the great Acharyas.

We have to follow the pathway of the great Acharyas.

That's what will make us happy in Krishna consciousness.

Not that we have to now make it more palatable for the Westerners by adapting in this way, in that way, in this way, in that way.

If we do that, if we stick to exactly what Prabhupada has taught us, then our lives will be sublime.

Just like this verse says, we can relish unlimited pleasure.

He said, Yeah, in the verse itself, unlimited happiness, in the translation.

Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always in trance enjoying the pleasure within.

In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness.

So as long as we try to base our happiness on the external, it's not going to be successful.

You base your happiness on satisfying your senses, then you are always going to be miserable.

You are trying to enjoy on a false platform.

If you try to enjoy being the eternal servant of Krishna, the sold out servant of Guru, Krishna and Vaisnava, you try to enjoy a naked platform, then you can come to the platform of unlimited happiness.

Of course, in neophyte sometimes we get overwhelmed, become depressed or morose or confused or bewildered.

But we have Lord Nithyananda to help us when that happens.

Never forget the Buddha, just remember Lord Nithyananda.

As Narottam Rasa was very kindly giving us this prayer, you get, you get, As neophytes we slip, we fall down, we get all the good, oh I made a mistake, I was offensive, I ignored this devotee, I was offensive to this devotee, I got angry when I shouldn't have gotten angry.

When you find you're making mistakes and you're all miserable and unhappy, just remember Lord Nityananda.

Ha ha prabhu nityananda premanandasuki, tri-bhava-amikara-bhava-amuduki.

My dear Lord Nityananda, I see you are always full of spiritual bliss and I am the most happy miserable neophyte in all the 3 worlds.

Please cast your glance upon me, Lord Nithyananda, so I can also become happy like you.

So we have these special benedictions from Lord Chaitanya, Lord Nithyananda, to help us in our fallen neophyte conditions.

Here we are, Kali Yugais, trying to become pure devotees, isn't it?

Here we are, Kali Yugais, totally thought up, false egotism, laziness, craziness, all these garbage things.

Why do you want to keep Krishna safe to say?

The Yesha-Valokayanti, Yamsa-Mushunyam Machintya-Ganaskarupa, Govindam Adipurusham Dhammam Ajami.

I worship the Prime Minister, Lord Vishva, Sundar, Krishna Himself, with inconceivable innumerable attributes, and the pure devotee see in their heart and heart to the eye devotion, tend to the side of love and the Prophet explained not only to see within but also without also.

Just imagine coming to that level where you can directly experience Krishna's face to face, eye to eye, 24-7.

Prophet is giving us the means how to come to that level.

That's why Papa told me, now you become qualified to see Krishna's face.

He's not saying that just some empty words.

He's saying that because he's given me the means of how to do that.

So as an infant, I just hope for an infant, you see, We can take these instructions and say, okay, I made this mistake and that mistake, but I'm not giving up.

I'm going to keep my enthusiasm to become Krishna's pure devotee and be pleading to the Vaishnavas, not be a disturbance to the Vaishnavas.

I'm determined, I'm going to get out of my, the state of my puffed up nature, my lazy, crazy nature, which is causing a disturbance to the Vaishnavas.

I am determined to get out of this stupid, nonsense, ridiculous mentality and actually come to a pleasure with it.

I am Actually enlivened by my association instead of disturbed by my association.

So we make this determination and Krishna is there to help us, the spiritual master is there to help us.

We have to realize Prabhupada's position as a self-realized soul whose words are non-different from Krishna's, associating with Srila Prabhupada's teaching, is coming in direct contact with Krishna himself.

And I was hearing a lecture this morning by Prabhupada.

He was telling how even a picture of Krishna, here is a picture of Krishna, you see, there is a picture of Krishna there, You see, with the gopis and ramas.

The pathak said, seeing the picture of Krishna as good as seeing Krishna himself, there is no difference.

So we experience that way, oh there is a nice, someone did a nice painting of Krishna over there.

Seeing this painting of Krishna right here on the wall right now is as good as seeing Krishna face to face eye to eye and seeing Radharani and the gopis also.

It is as good as being there in Galakirmandava and seeing her directly.

It shows how much covered by the Ramana-Madhu-Matarination.

We don't experience it as good as seeing Krishna Himself and being alive at all.

Now I'm beholding my beloved Lord, my Lord and Master, who has given me unlimited mercy to come back and be His eternal associate once again.

How can we get out of this materialistic, mundane, neophyte, kineshta mentality?

Well, hearing, hearing, hearing, hearing, hearing, and then thinking.

The more we hear, hear, hear, and the more we apply what we hear.

You have to hear to know what you're supposed to do, know what you're supposed to be, and then you put it into practice.

By taking what you've heard and putting it into practice, by chanting, by serving, by loving relationships with the Vaishnavas, the more you put it into practice, the more it becomes realized.

If you hear it, if you don't apply it, it's just 1 ear and out the other.

So what you hear, we have to take it deep, deep into our heart.

Not like, you know, it's foolish, our present state is in 1 ear and out the other.

There's this selfishness and greediness and laziness and craziness still going on inside.

So we have to become very serious now to kick out this dirt.

You get rid of the dirt of the mind, very seriously.

You get rid of that horrible dirt of the mind, clean the mind.

Heart cleansing process, It's become very serious.

Very serious to take the instructions of Srila Prabhupada in our very life and soul.

Now that Prabhupada has said, I must embrace it and fully manifest it in my every thought, my every journey, my every deed in all time, places and circumstances, 24-7.

Stop being this stupid idiot who's trying to enjoy separately from serving Sheila Bradbush's instructions.

And to get out of this stupid nonsense mentality trying to be the enjoyer of the material world.

This material world is not a place of enjoyment, it is a place of suffering.

The only way you can be happy is to get out of material consciousness.

Stop misidentifying with the material body, Stop misidentifying with the material world.

Get out of here you nonsense, material consciousness.

From now on I want only pure devotion in my heart.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare See if we have any questions coming in.

Leela Smriti, how can we humble ourselves in such a way that nothing disturbs us?

To do that, we have to become perfect in our humility.

Okay, 1 step, and that's a very involved process.

Shavanam, kirtanam, vishnu, smaranam, padasevyam.

We have to go through this process of Krishna consciousness.

It's like somebody wants to get a PhD degree, well they have to go to the first grade, go to kindergarten, first grade, second grade, fifth grade, they go junior high, to high school, they get a bachelor's degree, it's a very long process to get a PhD.

It's very long, you have to take it step by step.

Every day they go to class, they learn 1 plus 1 equals 2, then they learn 2 times 2 equals 4, and then they learn about algebra and trigonometry and so many things.

And gradually they get that PhD and become a mathematics professor in a big university.

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