Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto 4, Chapter 17, Dex.

24 tvam kvasavandhati vidshani pakshasthani svayam bhuvah namun sasyatmarudhani mam mavagaya-mandhati tvam yuh kaluh Certainly, O Shirdi, of herbs, plants, and grains, Bijani, the seeds, prak, formerly, shishtani, created, formerly Sistani created by Lord Rama.

Atmarudani, hidden within Atma-rudani, hidden within yourself.

Translation in purport by His Divine Gaysa on Vishnu.

Pada paramahaṁsapati vijayacarja āskatāraśatāśīśi mādhye bhakti-vadānta-tri-dandhi-gosvāmī mārāja Prabhupāda.

You have so lost your intelligence that despite my orders you do not deliver the seeds of herbs and grains formerly created by Brahma and are now hidden within yourself.

While creating all the plants in the universe, Lord Rama also created the seeds of various grains, herbs, plants and trees.

When sufficient water falls from the clouds, the seeds specify and produce fruits, grains, vegetables, etc.

By his example, Prithviraj indicates that whenever there is a scarcity in fruit production, the head of the government should take steps to see why the production is being held up and what should be done to rectify the situation.

Vandeham sri-guru sri-dattapadakam Shri-gurun-vaishnavam sthah sri-rupam Vandeham Sri Guru Sridhata Padakam Sri Guru Vaishnavamstra Sri Rupam Sagarajatam Sahagana Raghunatham Vittam Tam Sajivam Sadaidam Sabadutam Parijana Sahitam Krishna Caitanya Devam Sri Radha Krishna Padam Sahagana Radhita Sri Vishakam Vittamstra Namaam Vishnu Padam Sahagana Radhita Sri Vishakam Vittamstra Sadaitam sabadutam parijana-sahitam krsna-cetanya-devam Sri Radha krsna-padam sahagana-ladita Sri Visakhanvitam stham Nama om vishnu padaya krsna-presthaya bhutale Srimat-deva-sthive danta-svaminity namane Namaste Sarasvati-devi gauravani-picharine So So the government is responsible.

It's their duty to make sure that there are proper grains for everyone.

There's no starvation, people going hungry, suffering from malnutrition, etc.

It's also the government's duty to make sure the cows are protected.

So what kind of governments we have nowadays?

They are not giving the protection to the cows, they are not seeing that proper grains are available for all the population.

Well, we have to make the people Krishna conscious.

So when they go to vote for the leaders, they'll vote for Krishna conscious leaders.

Actually, at 1 point we had a party called the In God We Trust Party, but it's illegal that we have to stop it.

Actually we had In God We Trust Party in Gainesville, Arkansas, where the President was running for City Council.

He got a lot of votes too, a lot of votes.

In God We Trust Party, you can even read it in the database, In God We Trust Party, you can read about how it's going on for a short while there.

But devotees outside of ISKCON can certainly do such things.

Not ISKCON itself cannot do, but devotees outside of ISKCON can certainly try to make some inroads into the political situation.

Of course the real solution is to educate the people.

We have to educate the voters to vote for Krishna conscious leaders.

Otherwise fools are going to vote for fools.

If you have non-devotees, you are going to vote for non-devotees.

We have to make people devotees, so they will vote for devotees.

So the real question is why do we want to have devotees?

What's the purpose of even being a devotee?

Is it just being a member of some club or having some tea lark on the nose and a kanti mala on the neck?

Actually the purpose of being a devotee is to get back to being who we actually are.

We have nothing to do with these material bodies.

The material body is just like a vehicle we are using right now.

The body you have now is not the same body you have when I began this sentence.

The Constant flow of molecules going through the river.

So we have to get out of this bodily consciousness.

You see the great illusion of the body in a society is everybody identifying with the body.

I'm American, I'm male, I'm female, I'm Russian, I'm Indian, I'm Aussie, I'm this, I'm that.

You see, I'm a Hindu, I'm a Sikh, I'm a Jain, I'm a this.

This misidentification of the body is the source of all misery, you see.

Because the body is destined to get sick, old and die.

Sickness is not fine, old age is a bummer.

But if you are Krishna conscious, you become transcendental to all these things.

So we have to pray for Krishna consciousness.

Actually to be Krishna conscious means you are completely transcendental to all the dualities.

A person who does not rejoice upon achieving something pleasant nor lament upon achieving something unpleasant is a self-controlled omnipotent and knows the science of God is probably situated in transcendence.

So So, in our present neophyte condition, when things are going great, we say, oh this is great.

When things are going bad, oh this is horrible.

We are affected by the dualities, up and down, up and down, like a yo-yo, up and down, up and down, up and down.

Yo-yo consciousness, the duality, feeling great when things are going good, feeling horrible when things are going bad.

How to develop that equal vision and see everything equally and be equipoised?

Well, we have to understand, we stupid neophytes, we have to understand that everything that is happening is actually the mercy of Krishna.

Krishna is giving unlimited blessings in a minute.

If I am suffering, that is the mercy of Krishna.

If I am enjoying, it is all Krishna's mercy to help us come back as soon as possible to what?

Krishna wants us back in that he wants to have that loving reciprocation with us.

Like he reciprocated with all the Brijapati, the associates of the spiritual world.

He has unlimited ecstatic reciprocation with each and every devotee in the spiritual world.

We've been denying him of that loving reciprocation by our selfishness, by our greed, by our stupidity.

We have only been torturing ourselves by doing that.

It is time to stop torturing ourselves, inflicting all this unnecessary misery on ourselves, and come back to that position of unlimited reciprocation, loving reciprocation with Krishna at every minute.

See, at every minute he is blessing me with unlimited mercy, So now let me reciprocate with his love.

Krishna gives me unlimited loving kindness at every minute, every situation.

That is why we also have that nice verse, Matrushvarsha Sukham Taya, Shito Shun Sukha Dukhada, Agapayamunit Jastam Siksasya Parvata.

The non-permanent appearance of happiness and distress and their disappearance in due course.

They are like the appearance and disappearance of the winter and summer seasons.

1 must learn to tolerate them, O Sainava Arju, without being disturbed.

So this is the key, how to tolerate them.

We should always be in the mood, it's called an attitude of gratitude.

So I'm suffering some horrible pain, well, thank you, Krishna.

Thank you for blessing me with this horrible pain I am going through right now.

So I can realize that this is not me, I am not this rotting corpse, this aging rotting corpse.

So we have to, By remembering this and saying, okay my dear mind, stop being such a rascal and stop becoming elated and depressed, my dear mind.

My dear mind, you go through elation and depression, elation and depression, elation and depression, my dear mind, stop it.

Stop being caught up in the dualities my dear mind.

Now fix yourself at the lotus feet of Krishna.

Bajahuraymana, Bajahuraymana, Shri Nandanandana, Avayacharanaravindare, my dear mind fix yourself now at the lotus feet of the divine sun, Nanda Nanda Nara, having all those amazing pastimes in Goloka right now.

What happened was 5,000 years ago, it was a little sample of what's going on in the spiritual world actually.

It's not that those pastimes are dead and gone.

Every single pastime is going on eternally, simultaneously.

Every single pastime is going on eternally.

So you can actually, in the spiritual world, you can be in whatever pastime you want to be in.

You can be a gopi, you can be a gopa, you can be a cow, you can be a peacock, whatever you are most alive and inspired to be in the spiritual world you can be that.

You can be whatever you want in the spiritual world.

So let us now then bring these rascal minds under control and become transcendentally situated.

Na jayate mriyate kadam vada kadacin, na yang buddhava vittava nabhuyah, ajau nityam sasvatahyam paranam na anyate hanyamane sri-re.

So the soul has never birthed in the dead.

As in having birthed men as they ever ceased to be.

He is unborn, ever existing, undying and primeval.

That's an illusion, that's not my birthday.

So we have to kick out this bodily misidentification that's causing us so much unnecessary suffering.

And we can be in a state of unlimited ecstasy at every minute.

Such a liberated person does not misidentify with material senses.

He is always in trance realizing he is an eternal servant of Krishna.

This way he experiences unlimited ecstasy at every minute.

So we have to learn how to come to that position, become liberated souls instead of conditioned souls.

Even as devotees we are still neophytes, we are conditioned, We are still thinking I am this body, still identifying the pains and pleasures of the body.

We have to get free of this bodily consciousness and realize my actual identity.

Come to that traditional position beyond all these dualities.

Not difficult because simply remember Krishna.

That's why we have to bring our minds back to Krishna.

By offering everything, By engaging in the loving service of Krishna 24 hours a day, how can I think, speak and act in such a way that pleases Krishna, that pleases my spiritual master, the representative of Krishna?

By taking that in the mood, then we can become liberated souls.

Even while we are here in this material world being liberated souls, qualified to see Krishna face to face, eye to eye.

So it is not difficult, it simply requires practice.

But as it says, it is difficult, It is simple for the simple and difficult for the crooked.

Because we have a crooked mentality of trying to be the enjoyer of separation from Krishna.

We have to get rid of this crooked criminal mentality of try to enjoy separately from Krishna.

Since I remember that amazing personality.

I worship Govinda, the prime immolor, Whose glory ever triumphantly dominates the mundane world by the activity of his own pastime, being reflected in the minds of recollecting souls as a transcendental entity of ever blissful cognitive vessel.

His glories triumphantly dominate the mundane world.

But That's not recognized in the newspapers and the websites and the advertisements.

His glories are hidden in the material society.

How many billboards do you see that glorify Krishna Up and down the I-35 here in Auslan.

How many websites, how many advertisements, how many newspaper articles, how many magazines.

Not that Krishna is unheard of, except in fact he got in a magazine and saw all those books.

His glory is ever triumphantly dominating the mundane world.

So actually Krishna's pastimes are so glorious that everything else is merged into insignificance.

And who cares about George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or Mahatma Gandhi and all these.

They merge into total insignificance when we consider the pastimes of Krishna.

The real history is Krishna and the pastimes of Krishna, Bhagavad Gita is spoken by Krishna, the great Acharyas also are not different from Krishna because they purely represent Krishna.

This is what is actually worth talking about and thinking about and remembering instead of who won the World Series last year or whatever it is.

Those things are irrelevant, completely irrelevant.

We have to get back to understanding the amazing pastimes, qualities, characteristics of Krishna.

The 64 artistic activities in association with his content, Sakis, the embodiment of the extensions of his bodily form.

Actually that is what Adirondack is thinking about.

Ananda Chinmaya Vasapati Baba Tavi Tavya eva nidha rupa taya kalavi Goloka eva nivasatyakilatmabhuto Govinda Maripurusham tamo majami Worship the Venerable Pranayama Lord, zioning his own realm Goloka with Vardha.

The embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities in the company of her tantra, Lansakis.

The embodiment of the extensions of her bodily form permeated and utilized by his efforts of spiritual cognitive vratas.

So these are things that are actually of interest.

These are amazing things going on, these pastimes of Krishna, the gopis, Radharani, Mother Yasoda, Nanamaharaja, Vasudeva, Devaki, so many things.

I was just hearing Prabhupada speaking yesterday about Vasudeva and Devaki.

They were doing all these penances and austerity even though they were husband and wife.

They weren't having any family, any sexual relationship.

Unless they could have Krishna as their child, they didn't want to become householders.

Unless they could have Krishna as their child.

But finally they got that blessing, they have Christians as their child.

So we have any corrections, Guru Maharajji, any corrections?

I would say that something that, the Caitanya's teachings are very, very valuable for beginners, although we have been practicing many many years, but we need emphasis on Lord Chaitanya's teachings very much.

You are saying we should emphasize Lord Chaitanya's teachings.

Lord Chaitanya is giving us a valuable teaching.

It's not just that we are going to correct Krishna and we are going to become Krishna conscious.

Well we have to be in the mood of spiritual revolutionaries.

Lord Chaitanya is a spiritual revolution.

Whoever you meet instruct him in the teachings of Krishna and this may make you become a Guru and even the people of this world.

Yes, preachers also have to practice in a way that they can emanate the empowerment of God's Chaitanya.

Now the government has to, again we have to see the bad government we have nowadays, unbelievable bad government, such demoniac things going on.

The learning of our mentality is like Russia wanting to take over Ukraine, killing innocent civilians, bombing an apartment complex and killing so many people.

Innocent civilians, husbands, wives and kids, and an apartment building, the residents blow up the apartment building.

They want to expand the borders of our country.

Why don't they just see everything belongs to Krishna?

Bhoktaram jagatapasam sarvaloka maheshwaram.

Suhrdam sarva-bhutanam ghatvamam samtam rictate.

Bhoktaram jagatapasam, the enjoyer of all sacrifices.

Sarvaloka maheshwaram, the owner of everything.

And Suhrdam sarva-bhutanam, the most intimate, well-wishing friend of all living beings.

We have to come back to seeing Who is the actual owner and who is the enjoyer?

Everything that exists is a property of Krishna, therefore everything is meant to be enjoyed by Krishna.

We should try to enjoy that which is supposed to be enjoyed by somebody else.

You can't enjoy somebody else's property.

You have to let the owner of the property is the rightful enjoyer.

So Krishna is the rightful enjoyer of everything.

He is the most intimate, well-wishing friend of everyone.

He says, No, no, I think you don't exist, I think you are a myth.

God is a myth, there is no God, he is an atheist.

God is an invention of some moralists, you know, who want to scare you into being good.

If you are sinful then God will punish you.

They invent God as some idea of forcing morality on the people.

This is bogus misinformation coming from these atheists, these impersonalists.

Right now you are thinking yourself suffering from God and you are suffering now, come back and be 1 with God once again and that way become full of bliss.

That's what they teach us in the prisons.

But now, the nature, Krishna is the source of everything but at the same time simultaneously 1 and different.

At cinta beta beta tatva, the absolute truth is simultaneously, inconceivably 1 and different.

Yes, because everything is Krishna, but is there the expanded Krishna and the expander Krishna?

Just like with the sun, I can see the sun rising through the window shining in the sense.

I can see the bright sunlight shining in the sense.

But that is the sunshine, not the sun planning.

There's a popular song, here comes the sun.

If that was the sun, they wouldn't be singing here comes the sun, they'd be dead and gone, burned to a crisp.

Here comes the sun, or here comes the sunshine.

So there is Krishna and the Krishna shines.

So we are the shine of Krishna, we are the living entities of the shine of Krishna.

This all material world is the shine of Krishna, even the spiritual world is the shine of Krishna.

So we have to get back now to being in a state of harmony with Krishna instead of disharmony.

Of course in a sense harmony means there is a oneness.

But there is a difference in the harmonies.

Just like in music we have what's called a chord.

You have a series of notes that now blend very nicely with each other.

We had 6 strings on the guitar and you play them in such a way that they all vibrate nicely together.

It is 1 chord but within that chord there are 6 separate notes.

So we have to be in accord with Krishna, not that we become Krishna.

This is a very important difference, very important distinction.

Shri Ramachandraji, You were mentioning about the body like pains and pleasures and all that.

So is it my correct understanding that If 1 focuses more and more and fully on Krishna, then we disassociate with the body or

that, how do I not identify with those pains and sensations?

By becoming Krishna conscious, you will naturally no longer identify with your material body.

When you become fully Krishna conscious you will see the body for what it is, it is the energy of Krishna, it is not you.

If I am Krishna conscious I am automatically disidentified from my material body.

On 1 hand I cultivate Krishna consciousness and on the other hand cultivate detachment from the body.

See my body, they try to detach from the body without cultivating Krishna consciousness.

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