Today we are reading Srimad Bhagavatam, 4th Canto, Chapter 17, Text Number 27.

Maharaja Pruthu becomes angry at the earth.

Tam shabdam durmadham nidva maya gam tilasah sarai atma yoga-balenema tadayasyam yahan vraja tvam yudh sthabdham very much puffed up durmadham

durmdam, mad, nidva, bringing into such a condition.

Tilesha, into small particles like grains.

Shadai, by my arrows, atma, personal, yoga-balena, by mystic power, ima, all these, dada-yasyami, Dada Yasyami shall uphold Aham, Hai, Prajap, all the citizens or all the living entities.

Translation in Purport by His Divine Grace, Om Nishnu Padma Hamsa Padivya Jagrchandra Aska Paratata Shri Shri Mare Si Bhakti Vadanta Si Dandigal Smali Maharaj, Prabhupada.

You are very much topped up with pride and have become almost insane.

Presently you have assumed the form of a cow by your mystic powers.

Nonetheless I should cut you into small pieces That goes by.

Reign and I will uphold the entire population by my personal mystic powers.

The earth informed King Prithu that if he destroyed her, he and his subjects would all fall down into the waters of the Garba Ocean.

King Prithu now replies to that point, although the earth assumed the form of a cow by our mystic powers, nor to be saved from being killed by the king, the king was aware of this fact and would not hesitate to cut it to pieces just like small bits of grain.

As far as the destruction of the citizen is concerned, Maharaja could maintain that he could uphold everyone by his own mystic powers.

He did not need the help of the earthly planets.

By being the incarnation of Lord Vishnu, Prithviraj possesses the power of Sankarsana, which is explained by the scientists as the power of gravitation.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is holding millions of planets in space without any support.

Similarly, Maharaja Purti would not have any difficulty supporting all his citizens and himself in space without the help of the planet Earth.

The Lord is known as Yogeshwara, the master of all mystic powers.

Consequently, the planet earth was informed by the king that she need not worry about his standing without her help.

Sri Guru-Vaisnava-amstra-sri-rupam-sagra-jatam-sahagana-raghata-tanditam-sajivam Sadaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam krsna-caitanya-devam Sri Rama krsna-padam sahagana-ladita-sri-visakhandita-amstra Namaste Sarasvate Deve Gauravani Pachalinai Nirviseshu Shunyavari Paschuchatisha Tharvinai Mukham Kuroti Vatsalam Pankham Mukhe Tegadim Yatipatama Ham Bandesvi Guru Nidhatarvinaam mukham kuroti vācālam paṅgama-gate gadhim yad kīpātamaṁ bandheṣvi guḍūlīna-tārvinaṁ So Mahārāja Pītā is not under any difficulty.

He has the being Viṣṇu himself, an incarnation of Viṣṇu.

He can't be threatened or discouraged by any kind of impediment because he can overcome all impediments.

This is the great mercy of being Krishna conscious also because when you take shelter of Krishna who can overcome all impediments then you can also overcome all impediments.

We face so many impediments in this material world that are causing so much disturbance to our minds, birth and death, old age and disease, adhyatmic miseries, adhibhautic miseries, adhidaivic miseries.

We are being tortured and tormented in so many ways here in this material world, isn't it?

This problem, that problem, this problem.

We have 1 problem and 1 problem only and that is to remain Krishna conscious.

We have to come out of this platform of not being Krishna conscious and become Krishna conscious.

It is like Krishna explains so nicely in the Bhagavad Gita, vāyās paśeṣva-saktatmā vinda-jātmani yajñāpāsukhaṁ sarvāma yoga-yukta-tātmā sukhaṁ akshāny asnute.

Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense gratification, that he is always in trance, embellishing the pleasure within.

In this way the self-realized soul enjoys unlimited happiness for he concentrates on the Supreme.

So we have to come to this level now where we are fully concentrating on Krishna, fully absorbing Krishna.

We are not under the influence of the modes of nature, the mode of ignorance, the mode of passion, the mode of goodness.

We want to become transcendental to all these modes.

These modes, even the mode of goodness is a contamination.

So we have to become this level of pure Krishna consciousness.

Sarva dharmam puritnirjam mam ekam siddhanam vraja aham sarva-pate moksh chitnami ma sucaham Give up all your nonsense, so that they surrender to me and I deliver you from all sinful reactions.

Don't hesitate, don't worry, I'll take care of everything.

So why are we so foolish, we don't surrender to Krishna, we keep thinking on my own I can solve all my problems but actually we can never solve these problems.

Problems, problems, problems all day long.

1 problem after another problem after another problem after another problem.

And we actually take seriously these teachings given by the Lord in the Bhagavad Gita and also these teachings here in the Bhagavatam, these wonderful instructions given to us by Prabhupada on how to connect with Krishna.

This is the real key, this is our real happiness.

Our happiness is not in sense gratification.

The foolishness we have, we think, well I can be happy by sense gratification.

You know, eating, sleeping, mating and descending, in this way I can be happy.

But you can't be happy by these things, because that's simply for the body.

You eat, sleep, mate and descend for the body, but that's not you.

By putting air in the tires of your car and putting gasoline in the car's gas tank, will that satisfy you?

Satisfying the vehicle does not satisfy the driver.

So we are the drivers of this vehicle called the human body.

So we have to actually satisfy the driver, not the vehicle.

So that's why we have to learn how to be Krishna conscious.

Just like Krishna's son actually explains in the Bhagavad Gita, mat-cittam agatah pranah bodhiyantah pralaspatam kathiyantah shramam nyakhyam tushyantih sarvam antah ca.

The thoughts of my devotees bow in me, their lives are fully surrendered to me and they derive great satisfaction and bliss by enlightening 1 another and conversing about.

That's our actual bliss, you see, by engaging in Krishna conscious activities, talking about Krishna, hearing about Krishna, bowing down to Krishna, serving Krishna, remembering Krishna, pushing forward the movement of Krishna on the order of Srila Prabhupada.

This Krishna consciousness gives us unlimited bliss.

Devotees sometimes feel as they think, no I have to have sense gratification to be happy but actually sense gratification if we over indulge in sense gratification what does that mean?

It means I am misidentifying with my material body.

If We take more than is necessary to keep body and soul together, that means I am misidentifying and thinking I am the body.

So we have to get off this platform of thinking I need this so much sense gratification to be happy.

Real happiness becomes totally absorbed in Krishna consciousness 24 hours a day.

Yato yato nishchalati manna samshalam ashtaram tatas tata na yajna catatma yajna visham yadat.

From whatever and wherever the mind wanders, it is flickering in a steady nature, 1 must suddenly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.

So this tendency we have for the mind to go here, here, here, kick it out, okay mind, give up this tendency of running here, running there, running, running, running, running, trying to get pleasure in this way and that way.

My dear mind, you can get 1 pleasure, there is only 1 place for pleasure and that is in Krishna consciousness.

You cannot be satisfied going anywhere else.

There's no way to be satisfied going anywhere else.

Only by fixing the mind in Krishna consciousness.

That's why Prabhupada has given it this mantra.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

The second lecture I heard, the first lecture I heard was at the beginning of the Vrata Yatra festival, before the parade began.

And then after we got to the side, Papa gave another lecture.

In this lecture, Prabhupada chanted Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Hare Hare.

Then the whole audience, the whole crowd, everybody, Prabhupada said, thank you very much.

So Prabhupada very much appreciates it when we chant Hare Krishna.

When you chant Hare Krishna, Prabhupada likes to say, thank you very much.

See the whole idea is that we have to please the spiritual master, especially Sri Lakshata, the big Jagadguru, we have to please him.

It's like he was telling about this pastime, it's actually an amazing pastime.

The whole Vatri Yatra is commemorating a festival.

Krishna was there in Dwaraka, Balaram, Subhadra, they all went to Kurukshetra.

And then the Brijabati, they also came to Kuruksetra.

They wanted to bring Krishna back to Vrindavan.

So Lord Caitanya, when he was dancing in front of the Vratayatra Karpa in the mood of bringing Krishna back to Vrindavan, he was in the mood of Radharani.

Lord Caitanya was in the mood of Radharani in the mood of bringing Krishna back to Vrindavan.

So this is about the yatra, not just some parade pulling some deities, it is actually a commemorating a Leela.

With a bridge of Vastis they want to bring Krishna back to Vrindavan, back to Vrindavan, back to Vrindavan.

So it is such a nice thing to remember this Vrindavan and all the pastimes of Krishna.

Jaya Radhe Jaya Krishna Jaya Vrindavan Sri Govinda Gopinatha Madana Mohan Govinda, Gopinatha, Madana, Mohana.

Sama kunda, Radha kunda, Giri Govardhan, Kalindi, Jamuna, Jaya, Jaya, Mahavan.

Shri Damadi Jaya Jaya Dhenu Vatsakam, Jaya Vrishabhanu, Jaya Krishna Sundari, Jaya Purnamati, Jaya Vrindavanagari.

Jaya, in this way, so nice, just thinking about these pastimes of Krishna, the associates of Krishna, the holy places of Krishna's pastimes.

This is the whole point, We have to keep bringing the mind back to Krishna.

And Krishna means also those things in relationship with Krishna.

Nanda Maharaj, Mother Dasara, Vasudeva, Devaki, Radharani, Balaram, Keshigarh, Vamsiva.

All these different places where Krishna plays, blows on the flute.

All these wonderful, wonderful descriptions by Brahmansri.

Venam kanantam aravindadalayatam Bharava tam samasitam buddhusundarangam Kandarpakoti kamani abhishekshashobham Govindam adi purusham damam vrajami I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord.

He is especially adept at sitting on his flute and he has blooming eyes like lotus petals.

And his head is bedecked with a peacock feather and his figure of beauty is tinged with what?

The body is tinged with the hue of blue clouds, not ugly bodies like ours.

We have to tune in, tune in, tune in, turn on and bliss out.

Tune in to Krishna, turn on our spiritual identities.

We tune in to Krishna and we turn on Jivera Svarupa, I, Krishna and Isvara, the constitutional position of the living entities, the eternal servant of Krishna.

When you tune in, you turn on, and what happens?

Instead of being overwhelmed by devastating depression you can celebrate exhilarating ecstasy.

Can you imagine exhilarating ecstasy 24 hours a day?

So I'm not celebrating, exhilarating, if I'm not celebrating, exhilarating ecstasy it means I'm forgetting Krishna.

If I'm not exhilaratingly ecstatic at every minute, it means I am not properly connecting with Krishna.

So that's why you have the 10 senses against the all-encompassing.

If there is static in the way, it is like you hear a broadcast on the radio but it is not tuned in properly, you get static.

When you are trying to hear some nice music, some of your favorite songs on the radio and you hear all this static coming through.

So we want to get rid of the static and become ecstatic.

So that's why we have the 10 Assents against the holy name.

Then you can become ecstatic and even the prophet says when you become free of all essences you become Jagadguru under your influence.

Under your influence the whole world takes up chanting and recitation.

So just see the power of developing pure chanting, how significant is our job every day.

We tune in, turn on, bliss out and also empower, stimulate a global spiritual reawakening.

So chanting is absolutely, in chanting we just have to get into it, that this is the greatest thing.

Actually the real standard was sixty-four.

The devotees couldn't do it, couldn't manage it.

The Pope said, okay, thirty-two, they couldn't handle that either.

So anyway there's no reason to stop at 16.

Another program is a chapter a day that keeps maya away.

Read a chapter a day of the Papa's books, maya won't touch you.

There are so many lectures, you can hear Prabhupada's lectures.

So many nice kirtans, you can hear lectures of the spiritual master, lectures like Guru Maharaj's lectures, you can tune into her classes every day.

So there is so much opportunity for us to tune in to Krishna consciousness.

We have to be very aggressive to get Maya completely out of my heart.

Maya get out of here, I kick you out with boot.

You see, You are not welcome in my heart, my baby.

I want only Krishna in my heart from now on.

Krishna and the associates of Krishna, the pastimes of Krishna, the Leela places of Krishna, that everything is in my heart be filled up with Krishna consciousness in every situation.

I remember that first lecture I heard, he said, every day you drink water, once, twice, thrice, more than every day.

If every time you drink water, remember that Krishna is the taste of the water, immediately become Krishna conscious.

You become Krishna conscious by drinking water, can you imagine?

Every time you drink water you can remember Krishna is the taste of the water.

Raso Amma Sukhunte I am the Sun and Kunti, I am the taste of water.

You look out your window and oh there is the sun.

It is called Shastachok Sushma who sees through the eyes of scripture.

Just like Guru Maharaj is very expert in making garlands.

So in some way somebody can sing very nicely, somebody can offer an arati very nicely.

Anytime you see an ability in someone, that is also Krishna and the ability in man.

So we have to, that is why by reading these books we gain so much knowledge and insight how to become free.

Vita raga maya krodha mannaya mam upasrata balena yoga tapasra putam adbhavam agata.

Being free from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in me, taking refuge in me, many, many persons in the past become purified by knowledge in me and thus they all fully surrender to me with transmittal love.

They all attain transmittal love from me.

We have these enemies attached with fear and anger.

But by taking shoddha of Krishna you become free from fear, you become abide, fearless.

I understand I'm not his body, there's nothing to be afraid of.

I understand that Krishna is the supreme controller and I will leave my body when he wants me to leave my body.

It could be today, tomorrow, next week, 20 years from now, 40 years from now.

It's like some lady, she lived like 118, she just had an advertiser on the news.

Actually the yogis could live up to 300 years.

They withhold their seminar, they wouldn't pass seminar.

By withholding seminar you can actually extend, you can live longer.

It's like the idea of going to a disco that recreational sex is okay, it's a stupid idea.

Because it's stated right there in Prabhupada's books, like with holding seminar you expand your life, the more you pass seminar it means you are calling death near.

So I don't know why devotees, I guess they are not reading Prabhupada's books.

They are thinking that recreation of sex is okay as long as you don't kill the baby.

They think that if we are having an intimate relationship, a happy marriage, we have to have sex pleasure.

Krishna says, the thoughts of my devotees dwell in me by engaging in Krishna Gita they take great satisfaction and bliss.

So there is actually more bliss in talking about Krishna than there is in sex pleasure.

So instead of being bed buddies, be Krishna Gita buddies.

This is what we recommend for our householders.

Don't think you have to be a bed buddy to have a happy marriage.

Talking about Krishna, serving Krishna, chanting Hare Krishna.

In this way you can have a delightful marriage with no questions about it.

A very, very happy marriage by basing it on Krishna, not on sex pleasure.

So in this way we have to take full advantage of these teachings of Srila Prabhupada and this way we can actually have an amazing transformation of consciousness.

When we actually come to that point we can see Krishna everywhere.

We can experience Krishna within and without.

Experience Krishna everywhere, always in contact with Krishna at every minute.

His amazing qualities, his amazing pastimes, the names of Krishna, actually unlimited names, unlimited qualities, unlimited pastimes, just absolutely amazing person.

We can actually be, we can revive in our intimate loving relationship with him.

To the mercy of the bona fide spiritual master, Krishna says, tad viddhi pradipatena pariprasnena sevaya upadekshati te jnana mgyanena tad padakshina ha.

Just tried on the truth by approaching the spiritual master, inquiring him submissively, rendered service unto him, the self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because, because what?

The spiritual master was blessed by his spiritual master, the realization of the absolute truth.

And now he will bless you also in the realization of the Absolute Truth.

But sometimes you think, I don't need a spiritual master, I'll just be a devotee of Krishna.

Well, what does it mean to be a devotee of Krishna?

Well Krishna, I'm your devotee, but I don't want to obey you, right?

Krishna, I want to be your devotee, but I refuse to follow you.

If you're actually Krishna's devotee, that's great, now do what he says.

Krishna says, first a spiritual master, inquire from him and render service unto him.

So in this way we have to give up all these bogus new ideas.

They are trying to water down Krishna consciousness with all these ridiculous ideas of how I can enjoy it separately basically.

I want to make a show of being a devotee but I don't actually want to surrender.

What is the value of being a show bottle devotee with tea lock on the nose, coffee mouth on the neck, but not even following the principles of Krishna consciousness.

A real Vaishnava, he takes the order of the spiritual master, his life and soul.

That's a real Vaishnava, not a pseudo-Vaishnava, a show bottle, so-called devotees.

Actually, you are only cheating yourself.

You may think I can enjoy, let me have some enjoyment, you know, water down the process with a little sense gratification here and there, but that doesn't actually work.

It actually doesn't bring 1 to the ecstasy of Krishna consciousness.

When you put sand in the sweet rice, you ruin it.

Take the sweet rice as it is, take Krishna consciousness as it is, take Krishna consciousness as Prabhupada has given it.

Don't pollute it with sense gratification.

They polluted the pure teachings of Jesus with all this sense gratification.

The whole thing is a show bottle, it's not real Christianity, it's a show bottle of Christianity.

I used to go to the potluck dinner every Wednesday night in our church and there was so many meat dishes, how many animals were killed, we were eating killed animals right there in the church.

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