Srimad Bhagavatam, 4th Kanna, Chapter 17, Text Number 29.

Dharavaca namah parasmaye purusayamaya ya vinasyanana-tanave gunatmane namah surpanu-bhavena nirduta savasthriya-karaka-vipramoramaye dharam, the planet earth, uvaca, said, nama, I offer my obeisance, parismai, unto the transcendence, Parasmayee, unto the transcendence.

Expanded, na na, various, tanave, whose forms, praagmane, unto the source of the 3 modes of material nature.

Not affected by, dravya, matter, kriya, actions, karaka, doer, niprama, bewilderment, armaye, the waves of material existence.

Translation and purport by His Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Sri Dandigopali Maharaj, Prabhupada.

The planet Earth spoke, My dear Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are transcendental in your position and by your material energy you've expanded yourself in various forms and species of life through the interaction of the 3 modes of material nature.

Unlike some other masters, you always remain in your transcendental position and are not affected by the material creation which is subject to different material interactions.

Consequently, you are not be bothered by material activities.

After King Pithu gave his royal command, the planet earth in the shape of a cow could understand that the king was a directly empowered incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Consequently, the king knew everything past, present and future.

Thus There was no possibility of the earth cheating him.

The earth was accused of hiding the seeds of all herbs and grains and therefore she is preparing to explain how the seeds of those herbs and grains can be again exposed.

The earth knew that the king was very angry with her and she realized that unless she pacified his anger there was no possibility of placing a position, a positive program before him.

Therefore, in the beginning of her speech she very humbly presents herself as a part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's body.

She submits that the various bodily forms manifested in the physical world are but different parts and parcels of His supreme gigantic body.

It is said that the lower planetary systems are parts and parcels of the legs of the Lord, whereas the upper planetary systems are parts and parcels of the Lord's head.

The Lord creates this material world by his external energy, but this external energy is in 1 sense not different from him.

Yet at the same time the Lord is not directly manifest in the external energy, but is always situated in the spiritual energy.

As stated in Bhagavad-gita 9.10, mayad-daksena prakriti, material nature is working under the direction of the Lord.

Therefore the Lord is not unattached to the external energy and He is addressed in this verse as guna-atma, the source of the 3 modes of material nature.

As stated in the Bhagavad Gita 13.15, nirgunam guna bhaktir ca.

Although the Lord is not affected, although the Lord is not attached to the external energy, he is nonetheless the master of it.

The philosophy of Lord Caitanya upholding that the Lord is simultaneously 1 with and different from his creation, Acyantya-bheda-bheda-tattva, is very easily understandable in this connection.

The planet earth explains that although the Lord is not attached to the external energy here in the nirduta, He is completely free from the activities of the external energy.

The Lord is always situated in His internal energy.

Therefore in this verse it is stated, sarupa anuradhena.

The Lord remains completely in his internal potency and yet has full knowledge of the external energy as well as the internal energy, just as his devotee remains always in the transcendental position, keeping himself in the service of the Lord without becoming attacked to the material body.

Srila Rupa Gosvami says that the devotee who is always engaged in the devotional service of the Lord is always liberated regardless of his material situation.

If it is possible for a devotee to remain transcendental, it is certainly possible for the Supreme Personality of Godhead to remain in his internal potency without being attacked by the external potency.

There should be no difficulty in understanding this situation.

Just as the devotee is never reverted by his material body, the Lord is never reverted by the external energy of this material world.

The devotee is not hampered by the material body, although he is situated in a physical body that runs according to so many material conditions, it is just that there are 5 kinds of air functioning within the body and so many organs, the hands, the legs, the tongue, the genitals, the rectum, etc., all working differently.

The soul, The living entity with full knowledge of his position is always engaged in chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

It is not concerned with the bodily functions.

Although the Lord is connected to the material world, he is always situated in his spiritual energy and is always unattached to it.

He is always unattached to the functions of the material world.

As far as the material body is concerned, There are 6 waves of symptomatic material conditions.

Hunger, thirst, lamentation, bewilderment, old age and death.

The liberated soul is never concerned with these 6 physical interactions.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead being the all-powerful master of all energies, has some connection with the external energies, that he is always free from the interactions of the external energy in the material world.

Vandeham Sri Guru Sri Jatapada Kamalam Sri Guru Vaishnavams ca Sri Rupam Sagarajatam Saganaraganatam Vittamtam Sajivam Sadaitam Savadutam Svīgurūna Vaiṣṇavaṁś ca svī-rūpaṁ sa-grajātam sa-haṅgana-raghaṇa-taṁ vittam tam sajīvam sadāitam savadhūtam parijana-sahitam kṛṣṇa-cetanya-devam śrī-rākhaḥ kṛṣṇa-padam sa-haṅgana-lalita-śrī-viṣa-kaṁ vittamś ca.

Namā om viṣṇu-padāya kṛṣṇa-viṣṭhāya bhūle.

Śrīmatē bhaktivedanta svābhāni tiṇamane.

Namaste, sarasvate deve, namaḥ, sarasvate deve, namaḥ, sarasvate deve, namaḥ, sarasvate So, just like the king, he is situated in his palace, the prison is also under his direction.

So in the same way, Krishna, even though the external energy is his energy, and he is in 1 sense present, but actually he is not there.

So, the Bhagavata makes a very nice point here how the devotee is detached from the bodily functions.

He mentions these different functions of the body.

Hunger, thirst, lamentation, debilitation, old age and death.

We get old, it's like we have aging bodies sometimes.

We all have bodies that are actually aging every minute.

But they age to the point where you kind of old, you're old man's body and things are going wrong.

This is going wrong, the brain starts going wrong, the legs start going wrong, the knees start going wrong, some of the things start going wrong.

So if you are actually Krishna conscious, you say, OK, Whatever Krishna wants to do, his body belongs to him.

If he wants to get old and get sick and die, that's all right.

My business is I'm going to keep serving him.

It's not that I am his body, it's just a tool I'm using right now in Krishna's service.

When he's working in the kitchen with a cutting knife, the knife gets kind of dull and the head cook says, here is another knife you can use, that knife is getting dull, here is a better knife.

So this body gets dull, here is a better body you can use, Krishna says.

So in this way the devotee is completely detached, he just goes on chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

Completely detached from all the pains and pleasures of the body.

The devotee's mission is to spread Krishna consciousness.

Goetia Tenu Siddhi, Jyotiradheka Tadikaha, Krishna Upadash, Amaragadha Guru, Haritadeva Desh.

Whomever you meet, instruct them in the teachings of Krishna, and in this way, my Lord, you become guru, deliver the people of this world.

So the devotee's business is to go on preaching.

He was on his deathbed, just like Prabhupada was on his deathbed, you can see a video of it.

Prabhupada is actually translating the Bhagavatam.

He is lying there on the bed getting ready to die and His eyes are closed but he is giving Bhagavatam purports.

Very last minute and he is dead in Vrindavan.

So in this way a devotee is always aloof.

He is always in the mood, hearing, chanting about Krishna.

Mach chitav ma gata prana bodhi yantah paras padam.

Paras padam katha yantah shivam yasam tisam ramantu ca.

See how they go, mach-citta-mah-katha-pranah, boli-yam-praspanam-katha-yantras-yam-yasam tushyam-tisam-ramantrtyam.

The thoughts of my pure devotees dwell in me, their lives are surrendered unto me And they derive great satisfaction and bliss by enlightening 1 another and conversing about me." So this is actually the pleasure of the devotees.

We don't require sense gratification to be happy.

The chair boy thinks, well you have to have sense gratification.

Eat, eat, eat, mate, mate, mate, defend, defend, defend, sleep, sleep, sleep.

They think they are happy by their sense gratification.

Sense gratification is Simply keeping the body and soul together to keep the body healthy.

Our sense gratification is not our enjoyment.

Our enjoyment is hearing and chanting about Krishna, serving Krishna.

Just like you make your car very happy by having oil, sufficient oil and sufficient gas.

If you gas up your tank in the car, does that make you happy?

Oh, I have a full tank now, I feel really good.

Your position is different from that of the Karma.

So in the same way we have different positions in this body.

The body can be old, it can be young, it can be sick, it can be healthy, whatever it is, that's alright.

Krishna wants to give me an old sick body, that's okay, a young healthy body, whatever Krishna gives me, that's his mercy.

Devotee learns how to have a loving reciprocation with Kṛṣṇa, an amazing personality, who is having all those wonderful pastimes in the spiritual world and is also manifesting this whole material existence to rectify those of us who are so stupid and foolish we thought we could be happier by enjoying separating from Krishna.

So the material world is there to rectify us, not to punish us, it is to rectify us.

Krishna is not punishing anyone, he wants to rectify.

The whole material situation is simply to rectify us, to help us realize that I don't belong in this world of birth, death, old age and disease.

I belong in the world of eternity, knowledge and bliss.

I need to get back to that relation with that amazing person.

Ananda Chinmayavrata Pratipabhatabdhi Sthavkirya eva nidra-rupa-tayakavabhi Goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhuto Govindam adi-puru-santam aham bhajami I wish to come in and pray to the Lord, this transcendental form is full of bliss, truth, substantiality, and is thus full of the most dazzling splendor.

Each of the limbs of that transcendental body, of that transcendental figure, possesses in itself the full-fledged functions of all the organs, internally sees, main things and manifests the infinite universe as both spiritual and mundane.

Can you imagine the amazing, tremendous body of Krishna?

He can see with his ears, he can hear with his eyes, he can taste with his nose.

His senses are completely interchangeable.

See, In our material bodies we are limited.

The eyes can only see and they are limited but they can see also.

So we can be back in an amazing relationship having similar characteristics in our bodies as we are qualitatively 1 with the body of the Supreme Lord.

We can have amazing experiences in our original sentimental form.

We just have to get back to our original natural state of being loving in relationship with Krishna.

We've been going on artificially through millions of lifetimes as a Brahman, as an Indra, as an Indragova germ.

We've tried in so many ways to be happy here, but in every situation we've been frustrated and unhappy.

Well I didn't enjoy as a Brahman, let me try as an Indian, let me try as a this and a that, let me try as a human, let me try as a pig eating stool, having sex with my mother, sister and daughter with no discrimination.

They have been trying to enjoy in this way and that way, enjoy, enjoy, but never really finding the satisfaction.

Because in every situation we are gratifying the senses, we are not actually taking it to the knee of the Atma within.

So it's time to take advantage of the mercy of his divine grace, Om Vishnu Pratama Hamsa Padivadrakacharja Asa Tadasiddhasi Srimad Asi Bhaktivedanta Sri Dantika Samavih Maharaj Tulpa Time to take advantage of his mercy.

Just see how Prabhupada was so dedicated to spiritual master's order.

Can you imagine coming to America with no money?

Can you imagine coming to America with only 10 dollars?

Start to make the Westerners into Krishna consciousness.

These meat eaters, sex mongers, drug takers, cigarette smokers, completely absorbed in sinful activities.

And even in order to go there to spread Krishna consciousness in the English speaking world, just imagine the dedication, even 2 heart attacks on the boat, Can you imagine?

The Papa said, if another pain came like that, I'm sure I would die.

He was just there all alone, suffering a heart attack, with no doctor to help him, completely just depending on Krishna, whether I die or live.

Just like My godbrother, Mukundamara, she wrote a book called Miracle on Second Avenue.

Somehow he got a little, it's amazing how he attracted a bunch of young hippie kids, hippie boys and girls And they totally gave up all their illicit sex and their LSD and their marijuana and they completely dedicated themselves to following Prabhupada's system, chanting 16 mantras of Hare Krishna mantra every day, giving up illicit sex, meeting, intoxication, gambling and going out to make a spiritual revolution in the order of Srila Prabhupada attracting thousands and thousands of followers all over the world.

And then I probably went back to India and they had a, in Mumbai, they called it Bombay in those days, they had some kind of a, I forget what they called it, they set up a stage and they invited everybody for Prabhupada to speak, 20 to 30,000 people can you imagine came.

20 to 30,000 people came to hear Prabhupada speaking.

He even had a wedding marrying 2 devotees from 2 different countries.

Everybody would see how he is marrying 2 of his disciples.

I mean it is an amazing thing how Prabhupada, how so many people became attracted and they got that wonderful property there.

Now we have our Iskcon Jehu Temple, beautiful, beautiful temple.

There are so many amazing adventures in Prabhupada's pastimes because he was dedicated to serving the order of his spiritual master.

So we can have the same, we can experience the same nectar, the same ecstasy, the same bliss.

We can be as devoted to Srila Prabhupada's orders as he was devoted to his spiritual master's orders.

There is no limit to the ecstasy we can taste and the moment of how much we can expand this movement and attract the world.

We just have to study the example of our beloved Sandracharya, the Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and take up that same mode of total dedication to serving the spiritual master's order.

So Lord Caitanya is there, Prabhupada's order is to follow Lord Caitanya and follow the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita.

The more we become knowledgeable and the more we read these books and the more we practice within these books and the more we distribute these books, the more our lives become glorious.

So there is no reason just to live a boring life, you know, just getting up and going to work, coming home, having a dinner and going to sleep, you know, having a little sex life.

Living a boring meaningless life, just maintaining the body and bodily maintenance and nothing else.

No reason to live such an empty, meaningless life.

We take up this mission, we can meet Krishna consciousness.

Just like we have our practices, we chant our Gayatri 3 times a day.

1 disciple wrote me, he says, Gurudeva, I got this job now, how can I chant Gayatri, can I chant some extra rounds to make up for missing Gayatri?

I said, no, you have a lunch break, right?

So I said, all right, Gurudeva, now I'm going to go out to my car during the lunch break in the Jain Gayatri.

So if you actually don't think you can't practice Krishna consciousness, you can practice.

Just like my version got a job, it was a night shift.

We were always, I have always been a a Mangalati, everyday, Mangalati is a duty.

Then I got this job, it was like from, I think it was from like, It was like 11 o'clock or maybe midnight, I forget, till 8 in the morning.

But they tell me, well, I started the job, nobody liked this night shift, so we didn't let him take an extra long lunch break.

So I took my lunch break from 4.15 to 5.15.

I would drive home, drive back to the temple, and I had just enough time to attend my hour lunch break.

So you actually have this, you're determined, yes I've taken this vow of initiation, I'm chanting 16 rounds a day without fail, I am giving up illicit sex, meeting, intoxication and gambling, I am taking up these regulative principles, If you are determined to do this, Krishna will help you to do it.

It is like somebody arriving, you know, Gurudev, you know, I am in this house where there are meat eaters.

You have to be determined to follow Krishna consciousness principles, whatever your situation is.

And if you are determined, Krishna will help you.

Krishna wants you to become his pure devotee.

So if you are determined to practice this science of Krishna consciousness, the Bhakti yoga system, if you are determined to follow it according to Prabhupada's teachings, Krishna will facilitate it.

You can't think, well, my material situation is allowing me to be Krishna conscious.

No, Krishna is behind your material situation.

So whatever situation you are in, if you are determined I now want to become fixed up in Krishna consciousness, I want to get initiated, I want to strictly follow my initiation vows, if you have this determination Krishna will give you all facilities to do it.

Impossible is a word in a fool's dictionary.

You can do it, you simply have to be determined that yes, I must do this.

So if there's any questions now we can open it up for questions, arguments, disagreements.

I remember 1 very nice instruction I got from Vishnu Janaswami.

And Baba told me that you have been trained up in the ex-Rasputin guidance of His Holiness Vishnu Janam Maharaj.

The advice he gave him was this, you must inquire until your intelligence is satisfied.

It was a very, very, very good instruction.

If something is not understood, it doesn't make sense to you, then you inquire about it.

Every little detail, you are welcome to inquire about every little detail.

Because you inquire and you inquire and you inquire until your intelligence is satisfied.

The intelligence is next to our neighbor's soul.

Papa says, it's packed together like 2 fingers together.

The intelligence and the soul are packed together.

The mind is a rascal, it's always jumping here, jumping there, jumping, jumping, jumping.

So you have to be fixed in your intelligence, then you can keep your mind under control.

The mind is like a naughty child and the intelligence is like the mother.

You get your intelligence fixed and then when your mind does these crazy things, well maybe the spiritual master is just an ordinary man, I shouldn't really take him that seriously.

My mind may play tricks on you like that.

You become completely sold out servant of Guru and Krishna.

How to understand that Lord Krishna is in every atom yet free from the activities of external energy?

Very nice, very nice, very nice, deep question.

Isvaraha paramaha krishnaha, sat-chit-ananda-vigraha, anadi-radhi-govinda-sarva-karana-karanaam.

Isvaraha paramaha krishnaha, sat-cid-ananda-vigraha, anandi-randi-govinda-sarva-karana-karana.

Krishna is not his govinda, he is the supreme Godhead.

He has an eternal form, full of bliss and knowledge.

He has no origin, He is the origin of all.

So this will help you understand, Bhakti Sannidhi.

Sarva Karanakaranam, He is the prime cause of all causes.

Everything is going on in His energy and His direction.

The sunshine is everywhere but yet it's like the sun.

There was 1 popular song, Here comes the sun.

That's the sun shine, not the sun planet.

So the sun shine is also considered to be the sun, but it's not the sun.

It is the sun and not the sun at the same time.

So the energy of Krishna is Krishna, like the sunshine is the sun, but it's also not.

So it's a chinchya beta beta type of simultaneously inconceivably 1 and different.

In the same sense the sun is the sun and the sunshine are 1 so there is a difference.

But what is the Sanskrit a chinchya beta, It is inconceivably 1 and different.

It is inconceivable how something can be 1 and different simultaneously.

Just like Krishna says, I am the taste of the water.

So how do you experience that Krishna is the taste of the water?

Well, you drink water, you remember the taste.

Just remember, vatsaham apam sukham teya, I am the taste of water.

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