Bhagavatam, 4th Kanna, Chapter 17, Text 22.

Prithu Uvaca Vasudevam Nivadishyami Matsyatana Parambukim Saddam Hrishyamante Natharoti Chinno Vasu Prithu Uvaca King Prithu replied, Vasudeva, my dear earthly planet, from you, Hridayasami, I shall kill I shall kill, but my shatana rulings, parah mukham, disobedient to, bhagam, your share, Your share, Barhishi, in the Yajna, Ya, who brings tea, accepts, Na, Na, to no tea does deliver, Sha, and Na, to us, Vasu, produce.

Translation in Purple by His Divine Grace Om Vishnu Padma Hamsa Biribudga Chandra Aas Tatara Siddhashi Srimad A.C.

King Prithvi replied to the Earthly planet, My dear Earth, You have disobeyed my orders and rulings in the form of a denigride.

You accepted your share of the yagya as we perform, but in return you have not produced sufficient food grains.

For this reason I must kill you." Purpur.

The cow-shaped earthly planet submitted that she not only was a woman but was innocent and sinless as well.

Thus she argued that she should not be killed, besides she pointed out that being perfectly religious minded, the kings could not violate the religious principles that forbade killing a woman.

In reply, Maharaj Prithvi informed her that first of all she had disobeyed his orders.

Secondly, he accused her of taking her share of the yajna sacrifices but not producing sufficient food grains in return.

Vandeham Sri Guru Sridata Patakamalam Sri Guru-Vaishnavam Sthasri-Rupam Sva-Gurujatam Sahagana-Raghunathanvitam Tam Siddhivam Sadaitam Sabadhutam Parijana-Sahitam Sri Rupa Svagraja tam, Sahagana Raghunathan Vittam tam, Siddhivam.

Sadaitam Sabhadutam Parijana Sahitam, Vishnu Caitanya Devam, Sri Radha Krishna Padam, Sahagana Lalita Sri Visakhan Vittam Stham.

Nama om Vishnu padaya, krsna prestaya bhutave.

Srimatve bhaktive dhantu-svaminity namane.

Namaste, Sarasvati Devi, Gauravani Prachalini, Nirviseksha, Sunyavadi, Paschacchadesvatari So we are meant to perform our duties, not that we are simply meant to take, we must also give.

We are meant, just like the various parts of the body, they have to sacrifice giving their service to the complete whole.

They have to act as parts and parcel servitors of the complete whole.

So the scriptural knowledge is very very important we see through the eyes of the scripture.

Actually the Bhagavad Gita confirms, na hi jnanena sad-vrisham vabhidhamir avijyate tat-payam samsara-kalena mad-ivindhiti In this world there is nothing so sublime and pure as Transcendental Knowledge.

As Transcendental Knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism.

He becomes accomplished in the practice of devotional service, relishes this knowledge within himself in due course of time.

So to actually see through the eyes of scripture is very, very essential.

And by doing so we can actually relish great happiness actually.

It is described also in chapter 5 of the Bhagavad Gita, bhāyasvarśeṣva-sakta-tattma-vindajatmanaya-sukham subrahma-yogayukta-tattma-sukham akshaya-masyute.

In this way, the liberated person is not a target of material sense pleasure, but instead he relishes the pleasure within.

And this way the self-realized soul enjoys unlimited happiness, where he concentrates on the Supreme.

Would you like to enjoy unlimited happiness?

Be free from all the anxieties and miseries of material existence?

So that means we have to see through the eyes of scripture.

Seeing everything through the eyes of scripture.

I was just thinking about that verse last night.

He relishes this knowledge within himself in due course of time.

Can you imagine relishing the knowledge, the scriptural knowledge, in every minute of all situations, even when you are taking out the garbage or washing the dishes or whatever, you are relishing the transcendental knowledge of seeing everything in relationship with Krishna and seeing the complete whole of what is actually going on here.

Not just thinking about my sense gratification, but actually seeing what this whole picture is going on here.

Krishna is here emanating from himself to have unlimited varieties of loving relationships, but that love can't be forced, it has to be voluntary.

So therefore 1 wants to experiment, trying to enjoy separately from Krishna, he gives all facilities for that.

So love cannot exist unless The choice not to love is also there, you see, because love is voluntary.

So the whole thing is going on perfectly.

We see everything in relationship with Krishna, how everything is happening perfectly according to his direction.

Then we can relish unlimited bliss in every situation.

Whether I'm in a happy situation, sometimes in a suffering condition, you see, sukha, dukkha, sometimes happiness, sometimes distress, sometimes I'm sick, sometimes I'm healthy, sometimes I'm young, Sometimes I'm old, sometimes I'm in youth and I'm grateful of energy, sometimes I'm on my deathbed getting ready to leave the body.

All these changes are going on at every minute.

The 1 who is fixed in Transcendental Knowledge, he relishes unlimited bliss.

Just imagine Prabhupada on his deathbed in Vrindavan.

He was so sick there was nothing they could do.

He was getting ready to leave his body but he was in a state of, he was embellishing unlimited happiness.

Lying on your deathbed embellishing unlimited happiness?

That would make it worth waking up to Krishna consciousness instead of sleeping in the lap of Maya witch.

But Maya has been cheating us since time immemorial.

Having us misidentify as a dog, as a hog, as a camel, as a human being, as a demigod.

She's been cheating us again and again and again.

Sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes an American, sometimes an Indian, sometimes an Aussie, or whatever he said.

We keep misidentifying with all these different gross bodies, grotesque bodies, actually, grotesque is a better word for them.

So, then how do we, how do we get to the end?

How to get free from this grotesque consciousness, this grotesque bodily consciousness.

That's why this process of bhakti yoga is so important.

Chanting the holy name, hearing the holy name.

Arpanam arjanam, bhavam ahadavagni nirvapanam, shreya kairvachandika-vitara-dambudho jivanam.

Anandam buddhi-vardhanam, pratipadam pranamitasvaranam, sarvatma-snapadam param, vijayate shi-krsna-sankirtanam.

Glory to the shi-krsna-sankirtan, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years together.

And that's the fire of conditional life where repeated birth and death is extinguished.

When you finish, this should be ended also.

You can turn both of them off at the same time.

So in this way we have to learn how to tune in to our actual identities and get out of this false identification with matter which is doing nothing but causing a suffering.

Dehi nausmin yatha dehe kumaram jyobalam jara sata deham talaparthir dhira sata namo yati.

The embodied soul continually passes in this body from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes another body at the time of death, the self-realized soul is nothing but a change.

It's time for us to get out of this illusion of bodily consciousness, of thinking, I am the Lord of all I survey.

We have to come out of this position and see things spiritually.

See things through the eyes of scripture, not through our mundane, I am the Lord of all our surveyed visions.

The problem is we are not trained in this way.

Of course if you grow up in a devotee family, if you are born in a family where your parents are Vaishnavas and they are purely practicing this process of Krishna consciousness and they are training you from the very beginning how to see things as they are, then you are in a very fortunate position.

If you are a small child growing up in a family where your parents are strictly following this pathway of Krishna consciousness, you are in a very fortunate position.

We are born into an illusory sort of an atmosphere where it is all based on sense gratification.

Just try to enjoy your senses as much as you can while you have a chance.

If you base your happiness on material sense gratification, you are on a losing pathway because you are heading, where are you heading?

Old age, disease and death, that's where you are heading.

If you base your happiness on these material senses, then you're embracing misery actually is what you're doing.

Because old age, disease and death, they're coming for everyone.

It doesn't matter how powerful you are, how beautiful you are, how healthy you are, how wealthy you are, how famous you are, you may have all kinds of material opulences, but now you're finished.

Even in the mature way, there was some famous celebrity's daughter, she died at the age of 54, she died.

She was the daughter of a big, big famous celebrity and she was also famous because she was the daughter of the only child of this big big celebrity.

But now she's dead, at age 54 she's dead and gone.

So We should not base our happiness on this false platform.

We have to understand, na jayate mriyate vah kadachan, nayam bhuvah lahita manabhuyah, ajau nijam sasvato yam parano, na anyate hanyamani suryate.

For the soul there is neither birth nor death.

Not having once met as he ever ceased to be, he is unborn, ever existing, undying and primeval.

So we have to take advantage of this process that Krishna is giving us of how to actually reawaken our spiritual identity.

Sarva-nama-parit-raja, ma me kang shuddha-nandra-ja, aham tung sarva-papebhyo, mokshu-shami ma shu-caha.

Give up all your non-sexual activity, give up all these pseudo pathways of happiness and fully surrender to me and attain the real happiness.

When you come back to your spiritual identity beyond your material existence and you actually tune in that actually I am an eternal spiritual being and qualitatively 1 to the Lord, He is eternally full of bliss and knowledge.

Just like a drop of water is qualitatively 1 to the entire ocean, we are also tiny samples of the Supreme Complete Whole, Lord Sri Krishna.

So we have the same qualities that he has, eternal knowledge and bliss.

So if we come back to this process of being a humble servant of that supreme Lord, then the material miseries can't even touch us anymore.

We can be chastised, we can be glorified, we can be sick, we can be healthy, it won't matter what the situation is, we'll see everything equally.

Matrus parshas takhanteya, shito shnusukadukadah, aga bhavayano yashtam shishiksha-shabarata.

The non-permanent appearance and happiness and distress and their disappearance in due course are like the appearance and disappearance of the summer and winter and summer season may arise and sense perception of Sainabharata and are not going to tolerate them without being disturbed.

So 1 who is happy within, who relishes within, who is happy within, the external things don't bother him anymore.

He just takes them all and says, OK, Krishna's mercy is coming in this way, Krishna's Mercy is coming in that way.

He sees everything as the mercy of Krishna and offers every thought, word and deed in all times, places and circumstances to his beloved Lord.

So this is why it is very important to see everything through the eyes of the scriptures.

This transcendental knowledge is very very important to see everything through the eyes of scripture.

This is Arjuna you see, by hearing from Krishna he became enlightened.

Arjuna was actually bewildered in the beginning.

Actually he had self-realized so that he played the part of a conditioned soul so that the Bhagavad Gita could be spoken for us because we needed it.

He played the part of being 1 who is in illusion.

Karpanya-doṣo pahātasya vāma pṛcchāṁ ithaṁ dharma-samuddhi-ceta yasrayanta-niṣṭhitaṁ bhūgī-tame śiṣyas te tam śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam Now I am confused about my duty.

I have lost all composure to the mightily weakness.

In this condition I am asking you to tell me clearly what is best for me.

Now I am your disciple and a soul surrendered to you.

Please instruct me." So then Krishna gives all kinds of wonderful words of enlightenment.

Many many births both you and I have passed.

I can remember all of them but you cannot, O Sudurabhi." So Krishna has perfect knowledge of everything but we don't.

Janma karma ca me divyam eva nyo tati tat-patah cak-padeyam punar jama naiti mama pisor janam When he knows the transcendental nature of my appearance and activities, does not, upon leaving his body, take his birth again, this material well-being attained in my eternal abode, Arjuna." So would that make it worthwhile then for us to understand the transcendental nature of Krishna's birth and activity, to study his pastimes and his teaching?

Would that make it worthwhile to read the Krishna book, to read the Bhagavad Gita and study these scriptures?

Because by this knowledge, 1 who knows the transcendental nature of my appearance and activities is not upon leaving his body, taking birth again, but he attains my eternal abode.

Do you like to go to sleep and wake up with Krishna in his pastimes in the spiritual world?

Let's see if we have some questions coming in now.

Shri Gurudev, in the translation it is written that Prithu Maharaj wanted to kill the cow, I mean the mother.

So, even though he is a king, without giving her a chance to put forward her situation, he is already ready to kill.

Let's see how it develops and That will be answered in the upcoming verses.

I am sure he did not have killing him but there is some Leela going on here to make a point for some teachings to come out.

Okay let's see what we have going on here.

Probably that's why it's said, Krishnara samsara kari tadi anachara.

What will it take and when will we be absorbed fully in all this sacred knowledge that we are hearing?

We can pray, my dear Lord Krishna please let me right now this very instant I can become an absolutely pure devotee qualified to see you face to face eye to eye.

It can happen within a nanosecond you can become fully enlightened in Krishna consciousness.

Or it may take a couple of years, a couple of lifetimes, a few million lifetimes.

It is a matter of how intense are you in your desire to fully realize Krishna, to be able to see him face to face, eye to eye.

I got that personal order from Prabhupada, he told me to become qualified to see Krishna face to face.

So I'm begging my dear Lord Krishna, please let me this very minute I can become fully qualified to see you face to face.

So I can describe in the Brahma Samhita, Premam janacarita bhaktivalo chanena, santaksadai vaheleyesa valokayanti, Yam ksama sunya ramacintya ganasvarupam govindam adipurujam tamo amajami.

I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord of Vishamasundara, Krishna Himself, with inconceivable and innumerable attributes whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts for the eye of devotion change to the self of love.

Prophets that I not only see within but I see externally as well.

So it is just a matter of how intense our desire is, how determined are we, I must become fully awakened right now.

It is up to each and everyone of us how intense, the more intense your desire is, but as Krishna said, ye yatha mam prapadyante tam satyayat avahamnyamam.

Inasmuch as they surrender to me, I reward them accordingly.

Do You want to be rewarded with Krishna's darshan?

So it is just a matter of our bringing this rascal mind, okay you are a rascal mind, you have been loitering long enough trying to enjoy, trying to squeeze pleasure out of that place where there is no pleasure.

My dear mind, stop being so stupid, trying to enjoy pleasure in a place where there is no pleasure.

Bajahuray mana shri nandana nandana abhayacarana da vinda...

My dear mind, please now engage yourself fully in the devotional service of the divine son of Nandamaharaj.

So if you want to intensify your awakening of love of God, that's a very nice bhajan that you can sing.

You see we can take the prayers of these great Acharyas and make them part of our daily activities.

You know even while you are taking a shower you can be going, Bhaja Vare Manasri Nandananda.

We have to keep these prayers going, keep the prayer wheel going constantly when we are doing our services.

So our mind, we keep the mind fixed on pure bhakti is my only business, pure bhakti is my only business, is to keep bringing the mind back.

Yato yato niscalati manas cancala mas param tatas patal mayy arnyar jatatma yajna visham yajna yatra, and wherever the mind wanders to where it is flickering, unsteady nature, we must suddenly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self, bring it back to Krishna.

So we have to master the art of keeping that mind fixed fully in Krishna consciousness 24 hours a day, even when we are sleeping.

And then we come to that point where we have no interest in anything but serving Krishna and pleasing Krishna.

That's how we become fully manifest to us.

We are directly associated with him just as they do in the spiritual world.

Well maybe a little sense of gratification.

Maybe little by little, maybe enjoy the material world while I'm here.

You know we have to get rid of that tendency when we enjoy the material world.

I don't think you're going to, I'm sure, I haven't, I don't remember having read it, it's been many years since I've read it, but we're not going to see him killing a cow.

There is some kind of a past ongoing here to make a point.

We are not going to see him killing a cow.

What helps 1 to be fixed in transmittal knowledge?

Well the more you are knowledgeable, it is very simple, the more you know about Krishna, the more you are going to love Him.

So the more you become knowledgeable, it is like memorizing verses for example.

I recommend every devotee because we are all supposed to preach.

If you preach you can actually quote verses and it becomes very powerful.

So get yourself a list of all the verses you'd like to learn by heart and start working on them.

The more you can actually see things through the eyes of scripture, the more you are knowledgeable.

Just like that nice verse, what is that, Bible Giddu chapter 4, text 10?

Vita raga vayah krodhah man mayah mam upasrata bahavah dhyanata pasah putam abadham agata Being free from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in me and taking refuge in me, many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of me and thus they attained transcendental love for me." So just see, the knowledge itself purifies you.

The more you know about Krishna, you become purified, more and more purified.

The more verses you know, the more pastimes you know, the more you know about Krishna, the more you become purified and the result of the brotherhood and purification, you fall in love with him.

So the more you know about him, wow, what an amazing person.

He is actually the source of all existence.

Ananda Chinmaya Vrata-pati-pavata-vistam Hirya-evanita-rupataya-kalavi Goloka-evani-vrsatnya-kelatma-bhutah Govinda-maharipurusham-tama-jami I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose transcendental form is full of bliss, truth, substantiality, and is thus 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 and eternally sees, maintains and manifests the infinite universes both spiritual and mundane.

Ananda Chinmaya Vrata Mataya Manasuya Praninaam Prasutam Svam Svam Nupam Upeksa Leelaya Thenebhya Bhavanam Nidra Chachachram Govindam Adipurusham Dhammam Ajami I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose glory ever triumphantly dominates the mundane world by the activity of his own pastimes being reflected in the minds of recollecting souls as the transmittal entity of ever blissful, cognitive rasa.

So Sharda Devi, you should be 1 of those recollecting souls that Brahmanyi describes there.

Krishna's pastimes are reflected within your heart.

You should be 1 of those recollecting souls.

And that by memorizing verses, studying, reading Bhabha's books, you see there are so many lectures also available on my smart phone, I might have 3 or 400 more lectures of Prabhupada.

Last night I was giving a lecture he gave in Geneva to some mundane government organization.

I was giving like an hour and a half lecture telling them how Vedic culture could solve all the problems of the world.

Jeev Jago, Jeev Jago, Gaurachandra Bole, Kottanidra Jao Maya, Pisa Chirakole.

Wake up you sleeping souls, wake up you sleeping souls, how long will you sleep in the lap of the witch named Maya.

We are idiots, we are foolish neophyte devotees.

We are still sleeping in the lap of the witch, that's why we are neophytes.

We should be seeing Krishna face to face, the eyes, every minute we are still sleeping.

Let me sleep in the lap of the witch Maya.

Okay Maya Devi, let me sleep in your lap.

Thank you for giving me all this sense gratification, subtle and gross sense gratification.

I think we're sitting on this material body, you see, with the dehydrated meniscus and the knee.

We have existed since time immemorial, you see.

Prajnapada so, natavevaham jata-nasam, natham anme nijanadhi-pa, nacchaivanad-vishamah sagra-mayeva tohapadam.

So, you have to be so, na tveva ham jatanasa, na tvanme nijanadipa, na caiva na vipishyama sagra maya vittahaparam.

Never was a time when I did not exist, nor you nor all these kings, nor in the future say any of it cease to be.

Christians there is never a time when I did not exist nor you.

We have existed as long as Christians existed.

Can you imagine we have existed as Christians existed for all of eternity, we have also existed for all of eternity.

So it is time for us to get out of this mundane consciousness, get our head off of the lap of the Maya Witch and get it on the lotus feet of our spiritual master, on Srila Prabhupada and Krishna.

We have to take shelter of Guru, Krishna and Vaishnava.

Give up taking shelter of the Maya Witch.

And this devotee association is very powerful.

Lord Caitanya has ordered us that we have to make the whole world Krishna conscious.

Once you are gone alive, well, I'll make the whole world Krishna conscious.

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