She met Bhagavatam, 4th Kanna, Chapter 17, Text 26.

Pumana yoshit utaklibha atmasambhava odhama uteshu nilnukrosho nirpanam tad-dhobhata Pumana, a man.

Atmasambhavana, interested in self-maintenance.

Adama, lowest of mankind, Bhuteshu, to other living entities.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnu Pad, Pranamahamsa Padivya Jagat Chandra Ashtitale Satishi Maharaj, Bhakti Vedanta Tri Dandi Goswami Maharaj Prabhupada.

Bhaktivedanta-tri-dandi-goswami Maharaj, Prabhupada.

Any cruel person, be he a man, woman or impotent eunuch, who is only interested in his personal maintenance and has no compassion for other living entities may be killed by the king.

Such killing can never be considered actual killing.

The planet earth is actually a woman in her constitutional form and as such she needs to be protected by the king.

Prithvi Maharaj argues however that if a citizen within the state, be he man, woman or eunuch, is not compassionate upon his fellow men, he or she may be killed by the king and such killing is never to be considered actual killing.

As far as the field of spiritual activities is concerned, when a devotee is self-satisfied and does not preach the glories of Krishna, he is not considered a first-class devotee.

The devotee who tries to preach, who has compassion upon innocent persons, who has no knowledge of Krishna, is a superior devotee.

In his prayer to the Lord, Prahlad Maharaj said that he was not personally interested in liberation from this material world.

Rather, he did not wish to be liberated from this material condition until all fallen souls were delivered.

Even in this material world, if a person is not interested in others' welfare, he should be considered to be condemned by the person how he got it or his incarnation like Prithu Maharaj.

Vande aham sri-jata pada-kamalam sri-gurum vaisnavam sva-sri-rupam sagra-jatam sahagana-ragana-tambitam tam Krishna Caitanya Devam Sri Radha Krishna Pradham Sahagam Lalitushivishakanvitam Sram Namaham Visnupadaya Krishna Prasthaya Bhutale Shrimati Bhaktivedanta Svaminitinamane Namaste Sarasvati Devi Gauravani Pracharinaye Namaste Sarasvati Devi Gauravani Pracharinai Nirvisesha Shunyavali Pashyachidusha Tharinai Ukam Karoti Vatsanam Pangunam Yathegiriam Yad Kriyatma Mahamdande Sri Guru Nithyanandam So just see here this amazing compassion of Pallad Maharaj.

Pallad Maharaj did not want to be delivered from this material world until all the fallen souls of this material world were delivered back to home, back to Godhead.

So this difference between compassion and non-compassion is being very clearly stated here by Srila Prabhupada.

A devotee who does not preach the glories of the Lord is not considered a first class devotee.

But a devotee who has tried to preach who has compassion upon innocent persons who have no knowledge of Krishna, the superior devotee.

So this is actually Lord Caitanya's order.

Dharidega Tadikara Krishna Upadesa Umara Iyegara Guru Jyotirtha Ede So, whomever you meet, instruct him in the teachings of Krishna, in this way on my order you become a spiritual master and deliver the people of this country.

So we have to take this order very seriously.

If we don't feel any compassion for the suffering souls, we are not very advanced in Krishna consciousness.

We are simply greedy, thinking of our own liberation.

But the true Vaishnava, he is very concerned to see that all the suffering souls of this world can be delivered.

It's a horrible nightmare going on on this planet right now.

All the cows being slaughtered, all the babies being slaughtered.

And now this crazy thing, it's an official policy now in the schools, you can choose your gender.

You might be a boy or a girl, it's your choice, it doesn't base on your body, you can choose your own gender.

I was shocked here in Texas, There's this idea that you can choose your own gender, you know.

Like you're in school, you can go to the girl's locker room and the boy's locker room and the boy can go to the girl's locker room.

It's like they have a boy's team and a girl's team.

If you're a boy you think you're a girl you can play in the girls soccer team.

I mean it's so ridiculous I can't believe it.

I mean it's just unbelievable what's going on in this modern-day society.

How can we push forward this Krishna consciousness movement in such a way that we can attract all these people.

Actually what is that verse if I can remember it?

Bahya sparsayit tatak, bah, bah, vimdyat yatmanayam sakam, sarvamah yogayuktaad ma sukam akshayam asnute.

Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense enjoyment, but he is always entrenched, relishing the pleasure within.

In this way, such a sovereignized person enjoys unlimited happiness, for he always concentrates on the Supreme.

So our Happiness is not based on these material senses.

Our happiness is based on what is called Krishna consciousness.

So that is why you have this movement, the Krishna consciousness movement.

So we as members can be Krishna conscious and we can accept Lord Caitanya's order to make the whole world Krishna conscious.

He's even predicted it's going to happen.

As many towns and villages as there are throughout the entire world this Krishna consciousness movement will be spread.

So it is actually predicted that there is going to be a huge spiritual revolution inundating this whole planet.

Or to speak of the universities, even the multi-universities.

We are sitting in a very amazing moment in history.

He spread this movement in India, then Prabhupada spread it all over the world.

He said, become perfect in understanding the science of Krishna, become guru and deliver the world.

That's your assignment, deliver the world.

Not just make a living and have a happy family life.

Our real business is to deliver the world.

We have the power to deliver the world to whatever extent we deliver it ourselves.

of the Lord without offense he becomes Jagadguru and under his influence the whole world takes up chanting Hare Krishna.

So each 1 of us should take our own sadhana, our own perfection of our consciousness very, very seriously and not be carried away by bodily consciousness, thinking I am this body, my happiness is based on this body.

Our happiness is not based on the health or the sickness of our body.

And there is that nice statement that 1 should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

So this happiness and distress is simply a mental concoction.

Happiness and distress, happiness and distress.

So I'm happy about this, I'm disturbed about this.

We have to come beyond the level of the mind and come to the level of self-realization.

We are embellishing the pleasure of serving Krishna and of giving Krishna and spreading Krishna's mercy to the suffering souls of this world.

Like we sing every morning in the Sringa prayer, Bege in the Sringa, Hridaye in the Sringa.

May Lord, the Sringadev dwell within my heart, killing all this dirt, all this garbage in my heart, all my sinful propensities, so my mind becomes completely clean and I can make the whole world Krishna conscious.

So we have a spiritual revolution, a two-sided spiritual revolution going on right now here in this international society for Krishna consciousness.

Purify ourselves, deliver ourselves and deliver the world.

So it's really interesting how it works because the more you deliver yourself, the more you empower the world, the more you take of the activity of living in the world, the more you become delivered.

So that each side, each 1 feeds into the other.

The more you focus on your own side of the world, the more you become empowered to preach, and the more you preach, the more you become purified.

We not only purify the world by preaching, we purify ourselves.

So we should work both ways, by hearing the singer, and by hearing the singer.

The shrink-a-tie is the within, and the shrink-a-tie is the without.

Revolutionized are within and revolutionized are without.

In this way we can actually get free from all the sufferings and anxieties of material existence.

And that's where we can kick depression in the face.

Get out of my heart right here right now.

It's simply a mental concoction of bodily misidentification, mental misidentification, etc.

So there's really nothing to do except become Krishna conscious and spread Krishna consciousness.

Do everything we can to awaken our Krishna consciousness and to attract the people of this world to get Krishna consciousness.

So it's time to get serious, time to get really serious about being frivolous.

I'm becoming very sober and understand this is my business here.

I've gotten this human birth after millions and millions of forms in the lower species.

There's 8 million in the lower species, the plants, the animals, the worms, the germs, the demigods, some of these different species.

Of course the demigods may be considered in the 400, but anyway, go to all these species and now we've got a human form.

So we have to take it very, very seriously, atato, brahma, jagas, and now you've got this human form, You must utilize it for self-realization.

I understand I am not this body, I am not this mind, I am not even the intelligence.

I am simply the eternal spiritual being, qualitatively 1 of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Isvaraḥ paramahaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sat-cid-ananda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-karana-kāraṇaṁ Kṛṣṇa is known as Govinda, the Supreme Godhead.

He is an eternal form, so the bliss analogy has no origin.

He is the origin of all and He is the prime cause of all causes.

So we are qualitatively 1 with that Krishna where he is eternal emanation.

We exist simply for the purpose of having a loving relationship with him.

We have no other purpose for our existence so we try to find some other purpose for our existence that puts us in a state of illusion and confusion.

We can't actually taste the true happiness of our beings, our actual beings.

So it's very important we take advantage of the mercy of the Bonavide spiritual master who is coming in the cyclic accession from Krishna himself.

This supreme science was thus perceived in the chain of the cyclic accession And the saintly kings understood it in that way.

So we as the saintly kings understood it, we also need to understand it.

We have been blessed by Srila Prabhupada's presence here.

How he attracted so many thousands of young boys and girls to take up Krishna consciousness.

It's just amazing being with Prabhupada, just to be with him is an unbelievable ecstasy.

Just to be in his presence, it was like being with Krishna himself.

It was so powerful, his personal association.

I remember 1 time I was there in Atlanta.

We came up from Gainesville because Papa was in Atlanta.

He didn't come to Gainesville at that time.

When I was there, he didn't come to Gainesville.

So we all came up from Atlanta and the place was packed.

And Shuddha Kirti, his personal servant, can you imagine being Prabhupada's personal servant, traveling with him, living with him 20 hours a day?

Wow, what an amazing thing to be Prabhupada's personal servant.

So anyway, I got as close as I could, the closer the better, as close as I could get to his body, right there.

So Papa was sitting near the Yasa Sam, and I was on the right side, right up by the Yasa Sam.

And I looked across Papa's lap and there was Shudra Kirti Prabhu, he was on the left side.

Me, I am, the source and the serpent, and me and Prabhupada, and the cowards.

And he gave me the most beautiful, loving, wonderful smile.

It was like he was flooding me with unlimited mercy.

The beautiful, loving smile just flooded me and I realized he was like a mirror.

And this mercy, this unlimited mercy was bouncing off Prabhupada and coming via Shuddhakirti upon me.

So in this way being with Prabhupada is very special.

When I speak I got my Brahman initiation.

I got to be all alone in the room with Prabhupada, with this thread over my head.

And let me do the Gayatri mantra 1 word at a time.

So we have to understand the great power and potency of the bona fide spiritual master, that his presence is as powerful as Krishna's presence.

So by hearing Prabhupada's words, and the beauty of these books, you see, actually if we read, if we tune in these books with full love and devotion, reading these purports is as powerful as being right there with the Prophet himself.

In these Bhaktivedanta Purports, his translations also, the Prophet is personally here.

But now, my Dear Srila Prabhupada, please bless me now I can be fully tuned in to you and my every thought, my every word, my every deed can be pleasing to you.

Let me no longer act in some stupid way for some so-called sense gratification.

Let me now work for Krishna gratification.

Let me gratify Krishna, let me guru gratification, Krishna gratification.

Let me gratify guru and Krishna by my every thought, my every deed and all times, places and circumstances.

In this way I can enter into the sublime mellow known as what's it called?

I can enter that sublime mellow where I'm actually tasting the nectar of being in Goloka Vrindavan even while I'm here in Austin, Texas or wherever I am in the material world.

I can actually experience the nectar, the bridge of bodies that are tasting right now in Krishna's presence just by tuning completely into Guru and Krishna right here and right now, kicking out all this nonsense, all this garbage that has been clouding my consciousness from millions and millions of births.

Get out of my heart once and for all and never come back again.

I now want to become so purified that I can see Krishna face to face right now, right here.

Let me become fully empowered to see Krishna face to face.

I'd revolutionize this whole material world.

It's like Pradhan Maharaj wanted to do that.

Let me become an instrument in the hands of the previous Acharyas, fully empowered to deliver the fallen souls of this world back to home after God ends.

Let me fully embrace the world deliverance mission of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Sri Atanya Mahaprabhu and all these great Acharyas, the Brahma, Madhva, Gauri, Asom, Pradaya.

Let me embrace the world deliverance move which has been passed down from guru to disciple, from Guru to disciple, from Guru to disciple, from Guru to disciple for thousands of years and it's predicted that now it's going to happen.

It's predicted the whole world is going to become Krishna conscious.

Even Papa said we can conquer the whole world.

He told 1 of his disciples that we can conquer the world.

So conquer your mind by keeping it fully absorbed in Krishna consciousness and every nanosecond and 24 hours a day in all times, places and circumstances.

The more we conquer our minds, the more we are empowered to conquer the world.

To track these poor suffering souls who have been caught up in this horrible situation.

Where are all these human populations right now on this planet?

All these so-called leaders, so-called professors, so-called doctors and lawyers and all these people we even go to sometimes to get help in different ways are going down to the animal kingdom.

They are all going down to the animal kingdom.

Even the garbage man, everybody is all going

They're all going down to the animal kingdom.

So we should have mercy upon them by cultivating pure bhakti as our only business.

So that will have an uplifting impact on this whole material existence.

If not, I have some questions for you all.

How do you know that Krishna exists and he is not just a myth?

Anybody say how they know Krishna exists and he is not just a myth?

Or some very talented poet who made all these Vedic teachings, this concocted thing.

Do you know that he is Krishna is real or you think maybe he is real?

What convinces you that Krishna is real, that he is not a myth?

If you take Krishna out of the picture, then the world doesn't make sense.

You can't explain the existence without Krishna.

So the idea of God is that We can understand God by logic.

It is like every machine requires an operator.

So by logic we can deduce or say it is a supreme operator.

But how do you know Krishna is that supreme operator and not Shiva or not 1 of these people who claim to be God?

How do you know that Krishna is the real God and not somebody else?

He has to be the most attractive in every aspect.

But the name Krishna, it means all the time, but how do you know he actually lives up to the name?

see, the way I see it, Krishna, we can name anyone Krishna.

There are so many people named Krishna in India, you know.

But When we pray to Krishna, we are praying to that person who is not just named Krishna, who is actually all attractive.

So what exactly is meant by Krishna consciousness?

Krishna consciousness means to always think of Krishna.

To always be totally devoted to Krishna with every thought, word and deed in all times, places and circumstances.

So what can this mean that Krishna is God?

I had like a mystical experience actually.

I went to this guru and that guru and it didn't work.

Alan Watts said, actually you're God but you're playing hide and go seek with yourself.

You just have to come out of hiding and be God again.

I tried Maharishi, his mantra didn't work.

I was going ay, ay, ay, never lifting off the material plane.

But then a friend of mine turned me on to this Hare Krishna mantra and I had a very mystical experience and I thought, wow, this is pretty amazing.

I'm experiencing something transcendental and in the Hare Krishna mantra I wasn't tasting this anywhere else.

I'm actually feeling a lift off of the material plane.

And then I went to the Denver Public Library, or my college library, forget 1, Metropolitan State College, I got a little Bhagavad Gita and checked it out from the library and I found 1 verse, Krishna says, to offer me beloved devotion, a leaf, flower, fruit or wine, I'll accept it.

I never thought this as a Christian, I could give something to God and he would accept it from me.

And then I got a picture, I found a beautiful poster in a gift store, of Radha and Krishna.

And it was like I really felt their presence there and I could really feel their presence.

I could feel how I was offering it, I was bowing down and offering my food and I could actually feel their accepting it.

I got that, I could feel their presence, I could feel they were accepting it.

That can be somebody can say that was your experience but my experience is different.

Yes, so how can you tell others, they will say they are not experienced.

I can say that I, ok, then Krishna speaks, I actually experience, I experience how the Bhagavad Gita was actually the words of God.

I can experience that was the words of God.

Upadhyayam, Krishna also says according to the modes, 1 experiences differently.

Krishna explains beyond the modes of nature, how to escape the modes of nature, how to act beyond the modes of nature.

That's the whole Bhagavad Gita, how to get you out of the modes

Even the word of goodness is contamination.

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