In Madhva-gatam 4th Kano, Chapter 17, text 13, yati virasato buddhya prajna-grihita-sarasana sandhane visikam bhume krodhya-sthru-parahayata yati, thus, Yalavasita having arrived at the conclusion, Bhuja, by intelligence, Sranghagita having taken up, Sarasana, the bow, Sundarhe, Sixth, here she comes, an arrow, bhumi, at the earth, kurudha, angry, chuparaha, Lord Shiva, yatha, like.

Translation in Purport by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnu, Padma Hamsa, Padivajya, Kucharjya, Asta, Tadishta, Shri Shri Ma, Esi Bhaktivedanta Sri Dandi Goswami Maharaj, our savior.

Having arrived at a conclusion, the king took up his bow and arrow and aimed them at the earth, exactly like Lord Shiva who destroys the whole world out of anger, purport.

King Puthu found out the cause for the scarcity of food grains.

He could understand it was not the people's fault for they were not lazy in executing their duties rather The earth was not producing sufficient food grains.

This indicates that the earth can produce sufficiently if everything is properly arranged, but sometimes the earth can refuse to produce food grains for various reasons.

The theory that there is a scarcity of food grains due to an increase in population is not a very sound theory.

There are other causes that enable the earth to produce profusely or to stop producing.

King Puthu found out the proper causes and took the necessary steps immediately.

Vishnachaitanya devam sri-vadha krsna-pradamsagam aladhitah.

Sivisakanti tamas ca namah om vishnupadaya krsna-prestham bhutale.

Namaste sarasvate deve gauravani pachaline.

So, when things are very simple also the earth can make it difficult.

Feeding the cows and slaughtering the cows and eating the flesh.

After we finish taking the milk from our mother's breast, we take the milk from our second mother's breast, the cow's breast.

So to actually kill your own mother and eat her, can you imagine how sinful this modern day civilization is?

Civilization is a misnomer, it's not civil at all.

How can you say it's civil if they're killing their own mother?

So this Krishna consciousness movement is meant to bring life back to that place where life doesn't even exist.

In fact they are just walking dead men in modern day so called civilization.

Cow killers, babies and they kill the babies also, that's the next thing.

Have sex, sex, sex, produce a baby, if you don't want to have a baby, just have sex, make a wife pregnant and then kill the baby.

So in this way they totally lose their ability to connect with Krishna as the source of all existence, that Supreme Person.

So whenever we ascribe Brahma-nirshi, Isvara, Paramaha, Krishna, Sat-Chit-Ananda, Vigraha, Anandir, Andir, Govinda, Sarva-Karana, Karana, Krishna is not as Govinda, is the Supreme Godhead, he is an eternal form, full of bliss and knowledge, he has no origin, he is the origin of all and he is the prime cause of all causes.

So just imagine getting back to our original relationship.

Everything that exists is this emanated energy.

He is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between potency and the possessor thereof.

In his work of creation of millions of worlds, his potency remains inseparable.

All the universes exist in him and he is present in his fullness in every atom that is scattered throughout the universe at 1 and the same time.

See, there is the expander Krishna and the expanded Krishna.

The living entity is the expanded energy of Krishna.

For enjoyment, for the enjoyment of rasa, if you are all alone, there is no enjoyment.

If you have a relationship, that's why people like to get married, they like to have friends, fraternities, sororities, so many clubs and organizations.

That's where it becomes, that's when you can't have love if there is only 1 person.

There is only 1 person in all of existence.

So how can there be happiness without love?

So Krishna, to enjoy loving relationships, He expands an infinite number of living entities from himself to enjoy an infinite variety of loving relationships.

Just imagine, you know, I remember back in my old brahmacharya days I was serving at Iskcon Ganges.

We were famous for the Pashatam castle of the world actually.

Iskand Genghis was famous for his Peshatim.

And believe me on Jinnah's night we built him at all out.

I still have that recipe of the cheesecake.

So the more there is variety, there is more enjoyment.

So there is an infinite number of varieties, then there is infinite enjoyment.

So Krishna expands an infinite number of living entities for himself to enjoy an infinite variety of relationships.

You see where there are 5 rasas, but within those 5 rasas there are infinite subdivisions.

Within each rasa, conjugal, parenthood, friendship, service, neutrality, within each rasa there is an infinite number of subdivisions.

Every single Jiva soul has a unique sort of flavor of relationship with Krishna.

There are no carbon copies in Krishna's existence.

Each 1 of you here today, you are all unique.

Nobody can give the type of love, nobody can give the type of love that you can give to Krishna except for you.

Yadah yadahi dharmah sa dharmir yadahi dharmah sa dharmir dharmah sa dharmir bhavati bhavata abhyutanam badharmah sa tanatma damasya jam yanah Whenever and wherever is a carnival that is practiced, the predominant by the individual at that time I descend myself by the sign of Bhagavan.

So Krishna comes again and then he comes again as Lord Caitanya in the Kali Yuga to give special blessings.

Our Lord Nityananda is even more merciful.

Ha ha Prabhu Nityananda, Premananda Sukhi, Kripa Balokamarvayo, Ami Vadoduki.

Lord Nityananda is giving unlimited bliss.

My dear Lord Nityananda, I see you are always full of spiritual bliss.

Please cast your glance of mercy upon me so that I can also become ecstatic.

I can come out of this miserable material consciousness or this somewhat miserable neophyte devotee consciousness where I am still going back and forth between maya and Krishna, maya and Krishna, bouncing back and forth, bouncing, bouncing back, maya and Krishna, maya and Krishna, maya and Krishna.

So my dear Lord Nityananda, please get me out of maya where there is not even a tinge of material desire left in my heart.

No lust, no anger, no greed, no madness, no illusion.

Let me get it completely flushed all out, my dear Lord Nithyananda.

We can beg Lord Nithyananda, please cast your glance of mercy and drive all the impurities out of my heart so I become a completely pure devotee.

As Baba told me, now you become qualified to see Krishna face to face.

Let us come to that pure level of prema-bhakti, not even a tinge of lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, envy.

We are directly associating with Krishna at every minute, in regard to every thought, word and deed, in every time, place and circumstance, intimately connected in a loving exchange with him at every minute.

That's called Krishna consciousness, isn't it?

Or Krishna here is some kind of mundane religion like Hinduism.

No, this is the science of reconnecting with that supreme force emanating from himself right now to have a loving relationship with you.

Not because your mother and father want to have a baby.

You exist as an eternal living entity because Krishna wants to have a certain flavor of relationship that only you can give him.

So that's why this science of bhakti is the ultimate science.

These other sciences are just here today and gone tomorrow.

Just like I studied chemistry in high school, we went to the laboratory and we learned that the teacher said, students, H2O is water.

2 parts hydrogen, 1 part H2O, 1 part oxygen.

Lo and behold, there was water in the test tube.

So we have the same thing here because it is science.

We say if you give your loving feelings to Krishna, if you give your loving service to Krishna, my Dear Lord, let my thoughts, words and deeds now be for your pleasure.

Well, maybe someone may say, well I don't know, maybe Krishna is just a myth.

But these Hare Krishnas tell me that he is actually real and if I give my loving feelings to him I will feel transcendental realizations within my heart.

If Krishna were actually a real person and he wanted my love and I wanted to give it to him, what would I do?

Experiment in consciousness, the science of Krishna consciousness.

And if you do it, just like in the laboratory, we ate 2 of them, we got water.

If you take your loving tendency which you apply to a dog or a cat or your country or this or that.

I mean, we used to have a song, I remember, instead of loving a dog or a cat, why not love Krishna who made all of that?

So just try giving your love to Krishna and see what happens.

Cook an offering and put it before a picture of Krishna and say, My dear Lord Krishna, I want you to, this is for your pleasure and your satisfaction.

Or you are just cutting some carrots or whatever you are doing.

Are you giving a donation to help make a nice temple for Krishna?

Why not do it as a loving offering instead of, I have this condition, I have that condition because I want to be the controller.

No, if we want to experience bhakti we have to give up the tendency to be the controller and just be controlled.

My dear Lord, now I put myself in your hands.

You make me dance, make me dance, make me dance as you like.

Not that I'm doing a service, but I have this condition, this condition, that condition.

I'll cook the offering, but you have to do this, this, this, this for me, and this for me, and this for me, and this for me, and this for me.

That you're just going to serve yourself, you see.

So we should not be in this mood of putting ourselves in the center.

This is the biggest disease we have in the material world.

That is why we are here in the cycle of birth and death.

Krishna says you want to be the controller.

That was the first, every living entity gets his first version of Brahma.

He gets to have a whole universe, be a god of a whole universe, but he wasn't satisfied in that position.

So he tried this and that and this and that through millions and millions of functions.

Maybe he's being a bird, maybe he's being a dog, maybe

being a tree, maybe he's being a cactus plant, maybe he's being a mosquito.

We've been frustrated again and again and again.

But now by the mercy of his divine grace, AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, We have the ability to get back to our original identity, to get out of this nonsense hallucination we're going through.

Then if I'm with this body, I'm not just a body, I'm not a 75 year old man, I'm an eternal youth, qualitatively 1 with the Supreme Lord.

He is eternal filled with knowledge and bliss.

I am also eternal filled with knowledge and bliss.

The part and parcel is qualitatively 1 with the complete whole.

We are part and parcel of them, so we are eternal full of knowledge and bliss.

So why are we misidentifying with matter and cursing ourselves to temporality, ignorance and misery?

Hee haw, hee haw, running after the sea ass.

How damn stupid we are to misidentify with the body and corpse, you see.

When actually I'm an eternal spiritual being, I'm 1 of the associates of the Lord in His amazing pastimes.

What am I doing here, riding in a material world, trying to be the enjoyer in Austin, Texas, or Melbourne, Australia, or Houston, or Calcutta, or whatever they call it now.

Why should I continue with this foolishness?

We should take advantage of the mercy of the Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and take these teachings that he has given us as our very life and soul.

It's called Shastra Chak Suss, 1 who sees through the eyes of scripture.

We should see everything in terms of scripture, whatever it may be.

My wife, my husband, my kids, my parents, my job, my income, my body, my health.

Don't see anything outside of the vision of scripture.

When your eyes are bad you got to get glasses so you can see things properly.

So our vision is there, we need the glasses of shastra.

We have to see everything through the eyes of scripture.

And if you do that, you enter a good, wonderful awakening when you see through the eyes of scripture.

You enter a wonderful awakening of the Unmatta body and the eternal spiritual being.

And actually I get to participate in Lord Chaitanya's pastime and Srila Prabhupada, I get to participate in this great Vaishnava Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada being part of this being.

As you saw about the Leela, the Iskcon is a Leela of Pranaparamita, which is destined to take over the whole world.

So I have either in our lifetime or in a future lifetime, this movement will completely flood the whole world.

In as many towns and villages throughout this entire world, this Krishna Kandaluva will flood every town and village throughout the whole world.

So we get to be the pioneers in the early days.

Just like we studied in American history about the pioneers who came, the first pioneers who came to America from Europe.

They're the great heroes, they're the pioneers.

We had Thanksgiving Day remembering the pilgrims.

Thanksgiving Day remembering the pilgrims, so they gave thanks to God for their first big dinner.

So we used to worship the pilgrims as great personalities, the pioneers of bringing this great nation, America.

But the same thing is there for the Palatine.

Even more so, he is a great pioneer bringing in this whole new era, the Chaitanya era.

Lord Chaitanya introduced it as the 5 centuries that stayed in India in a seed like state.

Prabhupada now has taken it all over the world and he is planting the seeds of bhakti everywhere and the Krishna consciousness center is coming up in so many places.

We have 30,000 people signed up for the seed course right now.

And I just got 80 people yesterday, 80 new people came down.

That's more people than you have in the class.

We're pioneers in bringing a new year to this whole universe.

Bringing this new, this eruption, this whole tidal wave of Krishna praying.

We get into the pioneers, in the early days, it's hardly anywhere.

Everywhere You got slaughterhouses, you got liquor shops, you got abortion clinics.

As if it's some noble thing to be able to kill your baby, and it's a wonderful thing to be able to kill your child.

So we have to take this movement very seriously because only this movement can actually put a stop to all this nonsense.

The anti-abortion people, although their assignment is very nice, they are not going to be able to stop it.

All these different movements which are trying to improve the situation, they are not going to be successful ultimately.

But this Krishna Gandhi movement will be successful in solving all these problems.

Every single problem will be solved by this Krishna consciousness movement, including our own personal problems.

I get up in the morning and I'm like, wow,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Come out of all this bebootment.

I am not going to let myself ever become bewildered ever again like Arjuna showed by an example.

I have lost all composure to my miserly weakness.

When you lose composure, that is how that is.

Arjuna has told us that I lose my composure due to my mildly weakness, not that somebody is mistreating me.

Now I have lost my composure due to my mildly weakness, I am asking you to tell me clearly what is best for me now I'm your disciple and the soul surrendered to me, the soul surrendered to you, please instruct me." So that's the key.

Instead of trying to be the Lord of all I survey, which never works.

That's why he's given the Brahmas some healing.

Even he couldn't pull off being the Lord of all his surveys when he has the whole universe under his control.

Venum konantam aravindatala yataksam, varhavatam samasritam buddhusundalandam, kandarpakoti kamini visesha-sobham govindam adipurusham tam aham bhajami.

Now where shall Govinda, the primeval Lord, what is he doing?

He is adept at playing on his flute with blooming eyes like lotus petals, head deck with peacock feather, his figure of beauty tinge with a hue of blue clouds and his unique loveliness is churning millions of cupids." So just imagine this great personality and the realization that Brahma had.

So let us come to our own realization so we can have our own personal realization of Krishna, not just something in the book.

This is Brahma, had his own personal realization.

That has become absolutely pure and perfect in our devotion.

So we can have a personal realization of Krishna.

We can personally realize and connect with him and Feel His presence within every atom and between every atom.

Why don't we come off the neophyte platform?

You're struggling to get out of bed in the morning.

Struggling to do my service in a cheerful mood.

We have to learn how to conquer this damn mind.

I tell you right now, the mind is our greatest enemy.

It can be your best friend also if you engage in Krishna's service.

So take your mind which is an enemy right now, I want you to enjoy the material world and say okay, that's it, now you're getting trained up, bachta mind.

You have a bachta program, bachta program for the mind.

Okay bachta mind, now you're going to chant 16 rounds, you're going to rise early in the morning, no illicit sex, no meeting, no intoxication, no gambling.

So in this way, take this process seriously.

Let's see if we have any questions coming in on the internet and from our locals here.

Sharda Devidas, just like 1 is unable to connect with the Lord if the service is done without love, but with conditions, so similarly it is, yeah that happens, see, if I have conditions, I actually am doing this service but I want to be the controller, I want this, this, this, this, this, you have to arrange.

If you want me to do the service, you have to do this, this, this, this, and this for me.

It means actually you're trying to be using service as some way of lording it over, another way to lord it over.

If the service is done without love and condition, so similarly 1 may endeavor to obey the spiritual master but able to feel the connection with him.

This is some conditions in the subconscious mind and lack of love.

So you're trying to obey the spiritual master but you're not feeling a connection with him.

Well I think the spiritual master is just an ordinary man.

There are doubts, you think he is just an ordinary man.

We have to learn how to kick out those doubts.

The spiritual master is not an ordinary man, He is an empowered representative of the line of Vaishnava Acharya going all the way back including Lord Chaitanya himself taking the role of an Acharya in that line of succession.

So it is simply due to doubts actually, but you have to kick the doubts out of the boot.

No, the spiritual master is not an ordinary man.

He may appear to be an ordinary man, but because he was elevated by his spiritual master, the position of being his spiritual master, therefore I should not see him as an ordinary person.

I should see him as an empowered representative of the disciplic succession and take his instructions as my very life and soul." This way, kick out skepticism from your heart.

And then, when you kick out that skepticism, then you will start to feel that connection, that mythical connection through the spiritual master with the whole disciplic succession.

What should I do if I am able to experience bliss in Krishna consciousness.

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