17, text 19, sa tvaṁ sataṁ jīgaṁ śiṣe kaśmāt, dīnaṁ ākṛtu-kīlbī-śaṁ, ahaṁ niṣat-kathaṁ yoṣaṁ dharmajñāti yo mataḥ.

that very person, tvam you, jigam sase, want to kill, kasmat, why?

Dinam, poor, akrita, without having done any sinful activities would kill a woman Dharma Gya, Naur, religious principles, iti, thus, ya, 1 who, mata, is considered.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace Om Vishnu Padma.

The cow shaped earth continued to appeal to the king.

I am very poor and have not committed any sinful activities.

I do not know why you want to kill me since you are supposed to be the knower of all religious principles.

Why are you so envious of me and why are you so anxious to kill a woman?" Purport, the earth appealed to the king in 2 ways.

The king who knows religious principles cannot kill anyone who has not committed sinful activities.

Apart from this, a woman is not to be killed even if she does commit some sinful activities since the earth was innocent.

There is also a woman, the king should not kill her.

Vande aham sri-guru-sri-gratapata-kamalam sri-gurun-vaisnavam ca sri-rupam saghrjatam sahagnaragad-tambitam tam sajivam So there are actually some principles in the Vedic scriptures.

The Vedic scriptures give us principles on how we should live.

Unfortunately nowadays such principles are being ignored.

It's all based on money, money, money, sweeter than honey.

And therefore we are in a very much difficult situation.

The whole planet, the earth is very polluted, so many sinful activities are going on, so much injustice, so much cruelty, so much pain and suffering unnecessarily being experienced because we are not putting Krishna or God in the center.

Isvara shumi dham sarvam yad kinjam jagat jam jagat tena chitena bhunjita magrita kasisiddhanam Everything animate or inanimate in the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord.

Therefore 1 should accept only those things necessary for oneself which have been set aside as one's quota, knowing well to whom everything belongs.

If They don't acknowledge who is the actual owner, everybody is trying to be the owner.

Everybody is being the lord of all life's survey.

I'm trying to play God, you're trying to play God, and our circles overlap and clash.

Within the family, the brothers and sisters, or the parents and the kids, between the husband and wife, in so many ways, between communities, between nations, it is going on conflict, conflict, conflict everywhere because we don't understand what is the center.

So we have to get back to the God-centered conception.

That is the whole mission of the Krishna consciousness movement is to bring the whole human society back to the God-centered conception.

Even the so-called religions, they are not putting God in the center.

They are taking God as the order supplier.

God give me this, give me, give me, give me.

They are putting themselves as supreme and taking God as the order supplier.

Give me this, give me that, give me, give me, give me.

Even the so called religionists are creating problems.

So we have to get back to pure bhakti, that's the essence, to get back to pure devotional service.

Krishna is very kindly giving us this formula, how we can get back to pure devotional service.

Vitta-raga-vayah krodha man-manayo mam upasrata bahavo jena tapasah putham adbhavam agatam Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in me, taking refuge in me, Many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of me and thus they all developed transmittal love for me.

We have to become knowledgeable about Krishna or God.

We have to understand what is the origin of everything.

It's not coming out of a big explosion somewhere.

There is actually a Supreme Person there who is manifesting everything from himself for his own pleasure and satisfaction.

His purpose for existence, we say where did he come from?

It is not that we created God, God is manifesting himself by his own desire to exist.

And that's why everything exists, because Krishna is there.

He didn't come from anywhere else, he is eternally manifesting, he is self manifesting.

So he is manifesting there and he emanates from himself an infinite number of living entities so he can have an infinite number of loving relationships for his own pleasure and satisfaction.

So that's why we exist as living entities, to have a love, we exist to give a loving, to give loving service to God.

We exist for the sole purpose of giving loving, of pleasing God by giving Him loving service.

And in that mood, He gives us equal enjoyment.

We actually, it's even said that 1 enjoys more than God.

Because there is more pleasure in giving service than there is in accepting service actually in the transcendental platform.

But instead of trying to enjoy either, the devotee actually enjoys greater than God.

That's why Krishna becomes Lord Caitanya.

He must taste that nectar which is experienced by his devotees.

Because he sees these devotees are getting more nectar than I am.

I am the supreme enjoyer and these devotees are enjoying more than me?

So Krishna becomes Lord Caitanya so we can taste the nectar of being a devotee of Krishna, being a Hare Krishna.

God wants to be a Hare Krishna also and becomes Lord Caitanya.

So we have to get out of this neophyte consciousness of trying to enjoy separately from God.

It is insanity to try to enjoy separately from God.

We are so stubborn in our rebellion against the Lord, we keep trying to do it again and again and again.

Even though we know better, we still keep doing it.

Still keep trying to enjoy separately from Krishna.

We are suffering in neophyte consciousness because we are still trying to enjoy separately from Krishna.

So it's time to kick it out, okay, okay enjoying separately, get out, get out, get out of my heart once and for all, get out, get out and never come back.

This tendency to enjoy separately from Krishna, get out of my heart right now.

I am telling you to get out or you get out and never come back again.

Let me always be simply in this mood of wanting to please give unlimited pleasure to Guru as an external manifestation of Krishna, to give unlimited pleasure to Guru and Krishna with my every thought, my every word, my every deed in all times, places and circumstances from now on for all of eternity.

We have to understand what is the actual mood of pure devotional service.

We have to understand what is the attitude of someone who is a pure devotee.

We have to see how I am lacking in that mentality And what I can do to correct my mentality.

Yato yato nishchalate manas chan salam astaram tatas tato na yam yataatma ye'vav yasham yabeyat.

From wherever and whenever the mind wanders due to its flickering and steady nature 1 must suddenly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.

Okay mind, get back to the mood of pure devotional service you rascal.

My dear mind, you've cheated me for millions and millions of births, dragging me from 1 material body to another, trying to enjoy me as a cow, trying to enjoy as an elephant, trying to enjoy as an orangutan, trying to enjoy as a peacock, trying to enjoy as a mango tree, trying to enjoy as a mosquito.

My dear mind, you have been cheating me long enough, dragging me From body to body to body, trying to enjoy in so many situations where the enjoyment does not exist.

Enjoyment does not exist independently from service to Krishna.

It is called maya-tukaya, illusory happiness.

So my dear mind, Bajahuraymana, Shri Nandananda, Abhayacharanaravinduri, my dear mind, please come back now to devotional service to the divine son of Nandamahara.

So we come back to that position, then we can be in bliss.

Even on the material level we are suffering in so many ways.

It's like I found out yesterday, I got a very horrible report from the epilepsy center yesterday about what's going on in my brain.

And now I have horrible pain in my knee, I can't even offer a begging to God going through intense pain in my knee.

But I was thinking, well, how do you relate with all this stuff going on in the interior plane?

Well, I was thinking of God when his dad died.

He's still alive but his body was a complete wreck.

We've been to Prabhupada's room in Vrindavan and seen where he was lying.

You can see pictures of Prabhupada lying there in that bed.

He's still lying, all the bodhisattvas surrounding him, they're having the cure time, but his body is completely devastated.

So we have to learn from Prabhupada's example.

No matter what may be happening on the material plane, come hell or high water, it will be transmitted the whole thing.

My happiness is not based on the external situation.

Whether I'm healthy, whether I'm sick, whether I'm famous, whether I'm infamous, whether I'm wealthy, whether I'm poor, our happiness does not depend on these external things.

Whether I'm being glorified or being chastised, whatever it may be, we have to learn where is my actual happiness?

How do I actually come to that platform of transcendental bliss?

Prabhupada, we learn from his example, he just takes shelter of Krishna.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, My dear Lord, you may witness this body, actually this thing died any minute.

Even coming down the stairs you can trip and fall down the stairs and die walking down the stairs.

We are speaking of an automobile accident on Interstate 35 over here.

Let me just put myself in the hands of Krishna.

My dear Lord, if you want me to die right now while I'm giving this Bhagavatam class, have a heart attack and drop dead in a minute.

If you want me to die right now, that's fine.

want me to live for a hundred more years, whatever, I put myself completely in your hands my lord, make me dance, make me dance, make me dance as you like.

You say, ok Krishna, I'm your puppet, and you pull the strings.

I put myself in your hands, I want to do everything for your pleasure and your satisfaction.

You come to that mood and it doesn't matter, your body can be, you know, you may be dying from a heart attack or epilepsy or anything, it doesn't bother you, it's not me.

It's just Krishna gave me this to use in his service and to the best of my ability may I use it in his service.

And if he wants me to come back to his abode or he wants me to stay here for preaching Or do both at the same time like Pradhan Maharaj did?

He was in both worlds simultaneously, he was in the other day.

He was both in the spiritual world and in the material world simultaneously doing both things.

So you could actually go back to Gauda and at the same time be here preaching birth after birth and having your pastimes of Krishna in the spiritual world at the same time being preaching here and sparking up a spiritual revolution on this planet and this universe.

But Why not the whole material existence?

Why not think, let's make this whole planet Krishna conscious, this whole universe Krishna conscious and then why not the whole material world, every universe?

Why not deliver all the living entities throughout the whole material existence back to Godhead?

Why only take 1 divided by… This universe is just 1 little mustard seed in a bag of mustard seeds.

Why not live all the way in all the universes?

Why not think about living every single conditioned soul in the entire material existence back to their original identity in the spiritual world.

You think that desire would please the Lord if 1 is desiring like that?

My dear Lord, please bless me so I can deliver all the living entities of suffering throughout the entire material existence back to your eternal abode.

I asked Prabhupada about my desire to become Jagadguru for 1 universe.

And Prabhupada said, yes, spiritual desire.

Desire to live with all living entities in this universe.

It's a very nice, Prabhupada very much, when Gavinda was very angry, he said, no more letters you eccentric nub.

He gets this amazing instruction from Prabhupada, he tells me I get a spiritual power to become your God Guru.

So even if your body is falling apart, you are in a death bed, you can still think, alright, let me take another birth, my Lord.

This body is now useless, doesn't work anymore, it's not functioning, but let me take another 1 and another 1 and another 1, as many as you want me to take, for delivering all the fallen souls from this material existence back to home, back to God.

This spiritual world is an amazing place, a really amazing place.

And all the pastimes are going on there, amazing pastimes of Krishna are happening there.

He's the most adept musician in all of existence.

He's adept at playing on his flute with blooming eyes like lotus petals.

Head, neck with a peacock's feather with a figure of beauty, tins with a hue of blue clouds, and unique lovingness charming millions of cupids.

And you can be in a, you can, he's a supreme superstar.

Makes all these other superstars look like nothing.

Like I was a kid, the Beatles were the superstars.

And there were other superstars, Bob Dylan and so many superstars.

The transcendental form is full of bliss, truth and substantiality and is full of the most dazzling splendor.

Each of the limbs of that transcendental figure possesses in itself the full-fledged functions of all the organs.

Krishna can see with his ears, he can hear with his eyes.

With my eyes I can only see, but Krishna's senses are telling, with his nose he can see, with his tongue he can hear.

His senses are completely, there is no limit, he is unlimitedly cognizant of everyone in his senses.

Just imagine being an inmate associate of that person.

So I got an interesting question that came in and I'm going to go for it from Paramahamsa.

The argument could be that we say God has no origin and in the same way the atheists say the Big Bang has no origin.

Show me an atheist, so the atheist says a big bang came out of it, it happened, there was no urge, an explosion happened, where can you, show me 1 example of an explosion that can happen by itself with nothing causing it?

The big bang happened without any cause, it's just on its own.

That's just their blind faith, that's a dogma.

You cannot produce an explosion out of nothing, There has to be a cause of the explosion.

Explosions don't happen, explosions have causes.

They may, because they want to defeat theism, they may argue, well there's an explosion without a cause.

There's no scientific evidence to support this idea that an explosion can happen on its own with no cause.

Krishna is the supreme cause as Brahmaji confirms.

Isvaraha paramaha krsnaha sat-cid-ananda-vigraha anadir adir govinda sarva-karana karanam.

Krishna is not only govinda, the supreme Godhead, he is an eternal form of the bliss of knowledge.

He is the origin of all needs, the prime cause of all causes.

Let's see if that's any meaningful phone call.

Hare Krishna, do you have a question for the class?

We're in the middle of a class right now.

If you're not attending the class, you can call back later.

Shri Ramachandraji, you just mentioned that about relating to the pains of, not relating to the pains of body with the example of Prabhupada.

He was completely blissful even though on the death bed.

He was totally detached from the body, totally fixed in his spiritual identity.

Is there something that can be done through mental adjustment in his realization?

Yeah, how do you get to that point where you are totally detached from all the hell you are going through with your body?

Hearing the 9 aspects of bhakti, every 1 of them will help you do that.

Hearing about Krishna, talking about Krishna, remembering Krishna, engaging in devotional service, all the 9 aspects of Naga Vidya Bhakti will bring you to that point of being totally detached from the pains and pleasures of your material body and totally in bliss in your spiritual identity.

So it's not something you impose on your mind?

Self-realization is not an artificial imposition on the mind.

Krishna consciousness is not an artificial imposition on the mind.

It's the natural awakening of the visual energy of a living being.

You already have that consciousness within you which is covered by the material nature.

The sun is already there, the sun is already shining, but it's a cloudy day, you can't see the sun.

So you have the clouds of illusion, which are now preventing you from actually tasting and experiencing them.

So, just like the sun will burn away the clouds, so Krishna himself will burn away all the illusions.

So you have to associate with Krishna as much as possible, hearing about Krishna, talking about Krishna.

That's not just a statue, that's Krishna himself.

You have to look and see here is Krishna himself manifesting.

These blunt material senses are actually seeing God himself.

Even the way you see the deities, the way you train your mind when you see the deities can actually liberate you from this material existence.

Just like deity Darshan, you become a liberated soul.

I want to speak of cutting the vegetables, How can I please Krishna the way I cut this apple, the way I take the garbage out?

Always in this mood of giving pleasure to Guru and Krishna.

Always in that mood that will actually liberate us from our tendency to try to enjoy separately which is causing our miseries.

You mentioned about death, death can come at

And especially you mentioned that it could be accidental like a car crash.

But even that is not karma, the laws of karma.

Somebody had a car wreck, it was their karma.

What about in devotee's life, if this happens to a devotee who is already initiated practicing?

So the question is how much of the laws of karma act upon a devotee?

And how much is this Krishna's arrangement?

Especially this, because if we see in life of Srila Prabhupada and other devotees, they

get a… Prabhupada is totally beyond karma, it was Krishna's arrangement.

So they get a very nice Krishna conscious, like a passing away.

They leave in the association of devotees.

But we hear some devotees they just met a car accident and

Your level of Krishna consciousness has a big impact on how you leave your body.

How much in your heart you are totally sold out to go in Krishna?

That can have a big impact on how you leave your body.

Krishna says, inasmuch as they surrender to me, I reward them accordingly.

If you take 1 step towards Krishna, He takes a hundred steps towards you.

So we have to take as many steps as we can towards Krishna.

Please let me get free from this tendency to try to enjoy separately.

Please let me kick out all this foolishness, all this stupidity, all this false ego.

You see, begging Krishna, please free me from all this nonsense.

It's keeping me entangled in the cycle of birth and death.

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