In my Bhagavatam, 4th Kano chapter 17, text 9, Maitreya Uvaca yada avisikta-puturvam gulitraya, a manti to janate yasya pava, prajanirane citi prishteya, cittamadeha-putirvam yajoksam.

Maitreya Uvaca, the great sage Maitreya said, Yada, when Abhisikta was enthroned, Prithu, King Prithu, Anga, my dear Vidura, reprieved by the Brahmins, Amantrita, was declared Janathaya of the people.

Cha, also, Pana, the protector, Praja, the citizens, Nirane, being without food grains, Jiti-Pishti, the surface of the globe, Etya, coming near, chut, by hunger, and chana, skinny.

They have their bodies, to the protector, they said.

Translation and purport by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnu, The great sage Maitreya continued, The great sage Maitreya continued, My dear Rudra, at the time King Prithvi was enthroned by the great sages and brahmins and declared to be the protector of the citizens there was a scarcity of food grains.

The citizens actually became skinny due to starvation.

Therefore they became before the king and informed him of their real situation." The report by Srila Prabhupada.

Information is given herein concerning the selection of the king by the Brahmins.

According to the Varanasi system, the Brahmins are considered to be the heads of society and therefore to be situated in the topmost social position.

The Varanasi dharma, the institution of 4 Varanas and 4 ashrams, is very scientifically designed.

As stated in Bhagavad Gita, Varna Shram Dharma is not a man-made institution, but is God-made.

And this narration is clearly indicated the Brahmins used to control the royal power.

When an evil king like Vena ruled, the Brahmins would kill him through their ruminable powers and would select a proper ruler by testing his qualifications.

In other words, The Brahmins, the intelligent men or great sages would control the monarchial powers.

We have here, we have an indication of how the Brahmins elected King Prithu to the throne as the protector of the citizens.

The citizens became skinny due to hunger.

Being skinny, during the hunger, approached the king and informed him that necessary actions should be taken.

The structure of the Varashram Dharma was so nice that the Brahmins would guide the head of the state.

The head of state would then give protection to the citizens.

The Kshatriyas would take charge of protecting the people in general and the protection of the kshatriyas, the vaisyas that protect the cows, produce food grains and distribute them, shudras, the working class and help the highest classes by manual labor.

Vandeham Shri Guru Shri Jatapada Kamalam Sri Guru Vaishnavamstra Sri Rupam Sagarajavtam Sahagana Raghunatham Vittam Tam Sajeevam Sadaitam Sabadhutam parijana sahitam krsna cetanya devam Sri rama krsna padam sahagana ladita sri visakhandi tam stham Nama om vishnu padaya krsna presthaya bhutale Srimat te bhaktivedanta svamin iti namane Namaste sarasvate deve gauravani pachanine So, there was a great problem, but King Putu fixed the problem.

So we have a problem now on this planet much worse than they had then.

Consider the slaughterhouses this morning.

I was, the grandmother, she asked me to make the whipped cream.

So I, and I was thinking, where did the cream come from?

It's from these cows and they're killing the cows, you see.

It's like the knife in my heart was thinking about it, whipping the whipped cream.

So we have to do something to stop this ridiculous abuse of the cow.

We don't have Brahmins regarding the society.

You see the actual leaders of the society can be chosen not by the votes of the Sudras, but by the choice of the Brahmins.

Prabhupada created a class of Brahmins here on the planet right now, the devotees, the ISKCON devotees should be deciding who the leaders are on this planet.

Who is the President of the United States, who is the Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister of India, Russia also.

In every country, The leader should be chosen by the devotees.

Those who are strictly following Prabhupada, they're the Brahmin class, and they should be deciding who the leaders are in this plan, in a sense.

So what do you do if you're in a position of being in the Brahmin class?

Actually we have first initiation and second initiation.

See, when you're actually initiated as a Brahmin, that's when you're fully initiated.

Of course, you can consider it initiated, but that's the real initiation.

So first initiation is a preliminary to bringing the state of being given the full status of a Brahmin.

First initiation, you're a Brahmin in training.

Second initiation, now you're an authorized Brahmin.

You can do the performing, the yagas, you can offer the arties, etc.

First initiation, you can't go on the altar.

You're not still a Brahmin, you're still in training.

But second initiation, now you're a Brahmin, now you're qualified to decide who should be the leaders of this world.

Those who are second initiated, we have to understand what is our actual duty.

We should be so sober and so fixed up that we should be able to choose the proper leaders for every department on this planet.

We should be that sober and that intelligent and that fixed in our intelligence.

Dehi no sminita dehe kumaram drovanam dharam tatadayantara-dhira-dhira-sthata-namuyati.

The embodied soul continually paths in this body from boyhood to youth to old age.

The soul similarly paths in another body of the death.

The self-realized soul is no longer bitter but such a change.

Just like I was talking earlier this morning, here I'm sitting in an old man's body, 75 year old old man's body, suffering this thing and that thing, and the knee and the prostate, and so many problems.

1 problem, and I think, well, it's that old age.

Birth, death, old age, and disease, the 4 miseries.

Oh, you see, spaghetti can be miserable, suffering various miseries in old age, you see.

But I was thinking, and then death also, boom, wow, death, you know.

But if you're Krishna conscious, it's a piece of cake with icing on it, you see.

Because you're just saying, oh yeah, there it is, just like the Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Tantra, Here it is, it's happening.

It's confirming what's in the scriptures, you see.

So that way your conviction becomes stronger, become more and more convinced.

So the key is to see everything through the eyes of scripture, not through the mundane eyes.

Shas, vich, shak, sus, to see everything through the eyes of scripture.

Even if you're an outsorter, you can be an enlightened sage.

Even if you have a wife and a job and kids and the whole thing, the whole 9 to 5, as young as they do, getting out there in the traffic and the whole thing.

You can be an enlightened sage even going to your corporate job, you see, If you are Krishna conscious.

So the key is we have to really take Krishna consciousness seriously.

My 1 business in life is to become a peer devotee of Krishna.

Papa gave us the duty, to deliver the world.

That's just the Nazi's or the Guru's or just some Brahmin.

But Actually, every member of this movement has that personal duty.

Every member of the movement has that responsibility.

The family business is not only for the family, it's also for each individual.

Each individual has a duty of the family business.

If I'm going to live with the world, if I'm going to close the slaughterhouses and stave my mother the cow, if I'm going to shut down these abortion clinics, murdering all these babies, of course they are not so innocent as to getting murdered.

They are getting the reaction for their previous sinful activity, but still we want to save them and make them do it.

So we have to take this process seriously.

I must now become spotlessly pure devotee.

No lust, no anger, no greed, no madness, all those things.

As Papa told me, now you become a follower of Krishna face to face.

I have to become a follower of Krishna face to face.

Premanjanacharita bhakti-valokyanena santak-sadād-bhagavate yeṣa-valokayanti yam śyāma-śūnyarāma-cchūnyaka-nasvarūpaṁ govinda-mādhipuruṣaṁ tamo āvād-dhīmi.

All I can see in this way is the Deity, but that's as far as I've gotten so far.

In the nice pictures there's so many nice paintings.

He's painting, Krishna is actually fully present in these paintings.

We have to understand that is Krishna himself.

If it's some crime you're doing to make money, that's another thing.

But this is made by a devotee, an artist called a devotee, on the order of attendance, inspired by Srila Prabhupada, she painted this.

So we have to understand Krishna is actually manifest here.

I can associate with him right here, right now, in making the proper move.

While I'm making, while I'm cutting a banana or whatever I'm doing, while I'm taking out the garbage, whatever I'm doing in Krishna's service, going to my job, earning some money, I help pay for the new temple or whatever it may be.

Take whatever I'm doing as an offering of love to Krishna.

We have to wake up in the sleep of bodily misidentification.

The problem is we keep thinking, I'm this body.

This whole thing of gender, transgenderism, it's so ridiculous.

Because you're not either a male or female body.

I mean, Why the hell do you want to identify that I am a male?

Why are you identifying transgenderism, chan-idiotism?

Why do you want to identify that I think I am a male?

Why don't you identify who you really are, you idiot?

We have to be sensitive to the transgender rights.

We have to respect them if they want to, if he wants to put on a sari and a blouse, we have to say yes, my dear brahmachari, If you want to do that, you can put on a sari and a blouse.

You're a part and parcel of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of God.

Why do you identify with a damn material body, you idiot.

So it's time we become a little sensible, time that we actually see through the eyes of scripture instead of our material desires.

I have this desire for this, desire for that.

Why don't you kick out these material desires with boots?

My dear material desires who have now kept me entangled in the cycle of birth and death for thousands and millions of births, I now kick you out with boots.

Get out of here, get out of my heart, get away and don't ever come back again.

Now that my only desire to be Krishna is pure devotee in all times, all places, in all circumstances, every thought, everywhere, in every situation.

Let me now be a pure devotee of Krishna and wake up in this sleep of bodily misidentification, which is attacking me, attacking you, attacking all of us.

I have been suffering long enough in bodily consciousness.

Even as a Brahma, I was suffering birth, death, old age, and disease.

Or to speak of it, Indra, Indra Gopin, germ.

I've been suffering like anything for millions of lifetimes.

It's time to kick it out and get out of this ridiculous nightmare and come back.

So we really need to bring back, as described in this verse, we need to bring back the Viminika Kosha.

We got to take this very, my duty is to save the world, to make this world Krishna conscious, to bring Ramanuja culture back as a guiding principle for this human society.

So Prabhupada's book should be the authority.

Here's the chief Brahmanand, Srila Prabhupada giving these books to completely transform this whole world society.

So we should see that Prabhupada's books are now the required text book in every university.

Just like when I was a college student here at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, a little town north of Dallas near the Oklahoma border, Sherman, Texas, Austin College, named after the founder of Texas.

We all did take our freshman and sophomore semesters of what's called basic study.

Of course, that was a campus joke BS 101 BS.

But we're studying the whole Western civilization, starting in the cradle of modern civilization, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Oh, the culture of the Tigris and the Euphrates.

There's nothing about Indian culture or Vedic culture about fools and rascals.

Did he admit that, did he admit, did he accept that it existed?

The beginning of civilization was the Tigris and the Euphrates.

That's where they said, not the Ganges and the Jamuna, the fools and rascals.

You're supposed to study all the great thinkers, you know, to become enlightened.

In terms of that, my whole thing is why do I exist?

See my dad always said, son, your college education is the happiest education I've ever held up.

You know, They welcomed me into the dorm, you know, welcome to Baker Hall, you know.

I had my roommate who said, he thought that the God is dead philosophy was a very cool philosophy, God is dead.

So, but what is the purpose of my existence?

And I studied all these great thinkers, you know, Bertrand Russell and Heidegger, I always studied all the great thinkers, but no 1 can say, why do I exist?

No 1 told me the meaning of life, you see.

So I'm going to find out why do I exist, not just get a job, make good grades in school, get a good job, get a nice house in the suburbs, a nice wife, a nice kid, A nice swimming pool in the backyard, he really got it together.

Petersburg and they shuffleboard until they put you in a very nice coffin and put very nice flowers over your grave once a year every day on your deathday until they forget about you.

It wasn't enough, sorry, it just wasn't enough.

I went to this teacher and that teacher and they all, they cheated me.

They took my initiation, I had to pay to get initiation fee.

Papa never charged a penny for initiation.

Everybody gets the same mantra, but it's secret, you can't tell anyone, you have to pay for it.

That's why it was secret, you had to pay for it.

If it was told, then anybody would pay for it.

You see, I was cheated, But finally I realized that Lord Jesus was actually a self-realized soul.

And I found him 1 day, Father not my will but thy will be done.

So that's the kind of work God wants me to do.

I didn't know, but then 1 day, I wrote a letter, just ask him.

You can hear, just ask him, God, please guide me how I can become your perfect servant.

And he sent a Sanasi, a Wisconsin Sanasi to Austin to show me here is how you become the perfect servant.

Try doing what the Asari Krishna is saying.

I actually entered another dimension of consciousness, opened up.

You can actually enter a whole other dimension where you can be ecstatic and realize your eternal identity.

1 of the associates of the Supreme Person is the source of all existence.

An amazing person standing on the bank of the Yamuna playing on his flute.

He is actually 1 of his associates in his amazing pastimes.

So all you have to do is follow his instructions.

Sarva dharmam prajnavajah mam ekam chittam vraja aham sarva-papayopamuksham imahasucham Give up all your other duties and activities, take 1 devotee only, surrender to Krishna, nothing else.

Everything else you are doing, you can do that within your surrender to Krishna.

If you can't do it within your surrender to Krishna, stop it altogether.

Everything you are doing should be within surrender to Krishna.

You can't put it within surrender to Krishna, kick it out with boot, spit in the face of it.

You can't put it within surrender to Krishna.

It's just going to keep you entangled in birth, death, old age and disease.

You accept whatever I can include within surrender to Krishna.

That I will embrace my very life and soul.

Rising early in the morning, attending the Mangal Aarti, worshipping Talthi Devi, chanting my java, worshipping the spiritual master, hearing the Bhagavatam, engage in my daily activities.

On Sunday, go to the Sunday program, in the evening, Just plug yourself in to complete surrendered Krishna.

Whatever you're doing, it has to fit within that, or else kick it out.

It's going to keep you entangled in birth, death, old age, disease, birth after birth after birth.

Do you want to stay in the cycle of birth, death, suffering, birth, death, old age, disease again and again, and kick out all that nonsense that does not sit within surrender to Krishna.

Kick it out and say, get out of here, you are not welcome in my heart, get out of here once and for all, and don't you ever dare come back close to me ever again.

Now my only business is to become a completely pure devotee of Krishna.

We have a mission now to save the whole world.

Sri Lankan Guruji, in the beginning you said about the Brahminical culture, his devotees should be

Those who are strictly following Prabhupada, not the ones who are mixing in sense gratification.

Those who are strictly following Prabhupada, they should be the leaders on this planet right now.

All the politicians should take guidance from that and run their countries.

Now looking at the current situation, in most countries the religion aspect or religious aspect is declined.

People, maybe based on their previous experience with other religious institutes, they don't have a faith that these religious people are really...

They have been cheated by the so-called religionists.

Because they are very skeptical religionists who are just trying to puff up their own sense gratification in the name of religion.

We have a very big job to overcome all the misconceptions I have about what religion actually is.

We chant Hare Krishna, we have to go deep, deep, deep.

My dear Lord Krishna, today I am chanting my 16 rounds.

Please bless me that I can chant these with absolute purity and drive all the lust, anger and greed out of my heart once and for all.

Now I must completely drive away all the nonsense that is keeping me entangled here.

And all the nonsense that is not allowing me to do my duty to deliver the world.

Please let me get rid of all this nonsense.

Beg Krishna, beg Prabhupada, beg your spiritual master, beg all the Acharyas, please let me now become absolutely pure devotee and empowered to actually do my duty.

What is Prabhupada's translation for, Bhagir Nrsimha Hridaya Nrsimha?

It's this, Bahir Nasingho, Nasingha without and Nasingha within.

May Lord Nasingha Dev dwell within my heart, killing all my bad propensities, so my mind becomes completely clean and I can make the whole world Krishna conscious.

Do you realize you're praying to be the spiritual revolutionary, and you chant the Nrsingaparamsa every day?

You're praying that you can now become empowered to make the whole world Krishna conscious.

That is the meaning of being here in this thing.

The shringam is not completely, the shringataya is the outside.

Total and shringataya, total and shringatization within and total and shringatization without.

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