are reading Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4th canto, chapter 17, text 34.

Sa vai bhavantatma-vidhir mitham jagat puchchandi yantah karanatma-kam vibho sang-sthapayusyanya-jamam nusat-talad abhut-chararambhata-adisu karam sa vai bhavanti vai, certainly bhavanti, yourself atma, by yourself

Sa Ti Ti Va Va Certainly Certainly Baba Baba Yourself Yourself Atma Atma By yourself By yourself Vinirmitam Vinirmitam Manufactured Manufactured Jagat Jagat This world This world Bhuta Bhuta This world, bhūta, the physical elements, indriya, senses, antahkarana, mind, heart, The Karana, mind, heart, Atmakam, lifting up, The Bo, Lord, Samsatayosham, maintaining, Adja, unborn, Ma, me, Misatalat, from the Plutonic region, and he is the original Sukara, the boar.

Translation in Purphore by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnupada.

Paramahamsa Parivrtta-Karunacharya-Satata-Satashishe-Srimad-Bhakti-Vidhanta-Sri-Dandi-Goswami Maharaj Prabhupada.

Once in the form of the original boar, you rescued me from the waters in the bottom of the universe.

Through your own energy you created all the physical elements, the senses and the heart for the maintenance of the world." This refers to the time when Lord Krishna appeared as the supreme boar, Varaha, and rescued the earth which had been merged in water.

The asura, Aranyaksa, had dislocated the earth from its orbit and stranded beneath the waters of the Garbhodak ocean.

In the Lord in the shape of the original boar rescued the earth.

Sagrajatam sahagana-raghati-tanditam tam sajivam sadaitam savadutam parijanatahitam krsna-cetanya-devam sri-radha krsna-padam sahagana-ladhitashi visakhanditam namo om vishnu-padaye krsna-presthaya-bhutale namo namah om vishnu-padaye krsna-presthaya bhutale shirmate bhaktivedanta-svabhaviti-namane namaste sarasvate deve gauravane pracharane Namaste Sarasvati Devi, Gauravani Pracharini, Nirvishesha Shunyavadi, Pashuchinisha Tharini, Mukham karoti vachalam, vangam agate ganyam, yat tri-patamam bandheshvi, uddhina tharanam.

So these various pastimes of the Lord are actually a great blessing for us fallen souls who are caught up here in the cycle of birth and death.

Because by considering these wonderful pastimes, these wonderful teachings, these wonderful qualities, the attributes, what he wears, what he eats, what he does, etc., etc., etc., We become greatly blessed.

Just like Krishna explains in the Bhagavad Gita, man-mana-bhava-bhagato ma-jaji-mam namaskaru mam eva sri-yuktva evam atmanam viparayanah.

He says, engage your mind always in thinking of me.

Become my devotee, offer your faithfulness to me and worship me.

Being completely absorbed in me, surely you will come to me.

Right now we're caught up in a hellish nightmare called the cycle of birth and death.

And death, wow, I mean you think birth and sickness and all the age of death, just getting ready for death.

The Yamadutas come, they rip you out of the body and take you to the hellish regions for punishment.

Just like you're saving up to go to Mayapur, right?

Saving up for many months, waiting to go to Mayapur.

You go out to the airport, you get in the airplane, you buckle your seatbelt and it's taking off.

You're buckling up and now it's the most thrilling, exciting adventure.

So death is something you'll actually look forward to if you're a devotee.

Now I'm going to go back and be with Krishna.

That place doesn't worry about income tax.

It's getting so bad now, do you hear the latest news?

5 policemen are being charged with murder.

They stopped some guy in a traffic stop and they beat him to death.

They just got angry and they just beat him to death.

And so now these police are being charged with murder.

Just imagine how horrible it is, this place, even the police are murderers.

But this chanting of Hare Krishna is so powerful and so wonderful.

So the more we chant, the more we go deeply into this chanting, the more we preach, the more we distribute books, the more we do harem nams, the more we propagate this Krishna consciousness, more and more people will take it up.

We can actually change the atmosphere on this planet.

That's the wonderful thing about this Krishna consciousness movement.

He actually describes in great detail in the third canto, in great detail, let's read a little bit to get somewhere about nectar from the Bhagavatam.

In the third canto they give details about this amazing pastime.

So Brahma thought, While I have been engaged in the process of creation, the earth has been inundated in the deluge and has gone down into the depths of the ocean.

We are engaged in the matter of creation.

All of a sudden when Brahma was engaged in thinking, a small form of a boar came out of his nostril.

The measurement of the creature was not more than the upper portion of his thumb.

The tip of your thumb, that's how big he was, only the tip of your thumb.

Just imagine, so small, little teeny, itsy bitsy, teeny meeny.

But then, all of a sudden, a Brahmin observing him, that boar became situated in the sky and a wonderful manifestation as gigantic as a great elephant, boom, became like a humongous elephant in size.

Struck with wonder at observing the wonderful fur-like form of the sky, Brahma with great Brahmins like Maruchi as well as the Kumaras and Mali began to argue in various ways.

Is this some extraordinary entity come from the pretense of a boar?

It is very wonderful that it has come from my nose.

First of all, this boar was seen no bigger than the tip of a thumb, and within a moment he was as large as a stone.

Is he the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vishnu?

So Brahma is trying to figure out what's going on here.

While Obama is deliberating with his son, the Supreme Personality of God Adishnu roared to most of us like a great mountain.

That's something we've never heard of, a roaring mountain.

But in the Vedic literature, there's such a thing as roaring mountains.

Just imagine how loud a mountain could roar.

The omnipotent Supreme Personality got it enlivened from out in the other highly elevated realms by again roaring with his uncommon voice which echoed in all directions.

From the great sages and thinkers who were residents of Janalok, Tapalok and Satyalok heard the tumultuous voice of Lord Bhora which was all auspicious sound of the all merciful Lord, they chanted various chants of the 3 Vedas.

He was probably going to chant all the Vedic mantras as they were going on.

Chanting Vedic mantras and reciprocation of his loud roar.

Playing like an elephant, he entered in the water after roaring again in reply to the Vedic prayers of the great devotees.

The Lord is the object of the Vedic prayers and thus he understood that the devotees' prayers were meant for him.

So when you actually pray for Krishna, Krishna reciprocates, He appreciates it.

I just had an amazing realization this morning, well I shouldn't talk about myself, I'm sorry.

This chanting of Hare Krishna mantra that we do every morning in our japa, it's not some ordinary thing, well I got to get my japa done right, another duty, ok, chant japa, cut the vegetables, you know, this chanting of japa is a very special thing because actually now you are having your own personal meeting with Bhadra and Krishna.

You have your private darshan with Shri Shri Bhadra and Krishna.

You get to go and have an intimate reciprocation with Sri Sri Radha and Krishna.

Every morning we have a personal meeting with God.

Every morning I have a personal meeting with God.

Just as powerful as going to Goloka Vrindavan and seeing Krishna face to face.

So it is a matter of how deeply we go into it.

We should take this Japa as the greatest blessing every day.

Now I get it on my own personal meeting with God himself.

So anyway, before entering the water to rescue the earth, Lord Bohr flew in the sky.

Take these vibrations deep into your heart through your ears.

Before entering the water to rescue the earth, Lord Borg flew in the sky, slashing his tail, his hard hair quivering, his very glance was luminous, and he scattered the clouds in the sky in his clothes and his glittering white tusks." Can you imagine glittering white tusks?

They were like emanating light, you see, glittering.

Can you imagine a hog with a glittering tusk?

He was personally the Supreme Lord Vishnu and was therefore transcendental, yet because he is the body of a hog he searched after the earth by smell.

Because they might have found out where his stool was.

It's thought we're fearful and he glanced over the devotee Brahmins and gays and offering prayers.

This is Not an ordinary like going into the Gulf of Mexico.

It fills up the whole bottom half of the universe.

Diving into the water like a great mountain.

The large board divided the middle of the ocean in 2.

He divided the middle of the ocean and 2 high waves appeared as the arms of the ocean, which cried loudly as they prayed to the Lord, O Lord of all sacrifices, please do not cut me in 2, kindly give me protection.

The ocean was praying, not to be cut in 2.

The lower bird penetrated the water with its hooves, which were like sharp arrows, and found the limits of the ocean all of its unlimited.

He saw the earth, the resting place for all living beings, lying as it was in the beginning of the creation and he personally lifted it up.

He parted the ocean and there was the earth sitting there.

Lord Borr very easily took the earth on his tusks.

So on his 2 tusks, the earth was sitting between the 2 tusks.

The whole earth is sitting between his 2 tusks.

Then his anger glowing like a Sudarshan wheel.

He immediately killed the demon, Hiranyaksha, although he tried to fight with the Lord.

Of course, you get killed by Krishna, it is a very special thing.

It is like that Putana, she poisoned her breast and she went to kill the baby Krishna because he sucked her breast.

When he killed her she got the form of Krishna's mother in the spiritual world because She tried to kill him by giving her breast.

Alputa, who was blessed, became like a mother in the spiritual world, in the mood of a mother of Krishna in the spiritual world.

Therefore, thereupon Lord Bhora killed the demon within the water just as the lion kills an elephant.

The cheeks and tongue of the Lord became smeared with the blood of the demon, just as an elephant becomes reddish from digging in the purple earth.

Then the Lord, playing like an elephant, suspended the earth on the edge of his curved white tusks.

He assumed a bluish complexion like that of a tamal tree.

And thus the sages, headed by Ramana, could understand him to be the supreme personality of Godhead and offer respectful obeisances unto him.

You can think about Krishna, talk about Krishna.

Just like what does Krishna say, māc-cittaṁ maññatāpana bhauti yantak parāsparam kathayantaś-tamo-nirvāṇam yaj śānti śrānti ca brahmānti ca The thoughts of my peer devotees dwell in me.

Their lives are fully devoted to my service and they are my great satisfaction and bliss by enlightening 1 another and conversing about me.

What about poor struggling neophytes like me?

If you do that, you can do it as a practice.

We neophytes, we have to do it by, okay, in Bhakti Yoga, I talk about Krishna, I hear about Krishna, I serve Krishna, this is what I am supposed to do.

We have to make a conscious choice to do this.

In the material world, the material world is just to be carried away by Maya.

So we have to make a conscious choice that yes, now I must hear about Krishna, talk about Krishna.

But the good news is that by doing these things, by giving your life to his service, then you become a pure devotee.

See, even for us neophytes this verse also works.

The thoughts of my pure devotees dwell in me.

Their lives are fully dedicated to my service and they derive great satisfaction and bliss by enlightening 1 another and conversing about me.

This is actually ecstatic to hear back Krishna and talk about Krishna.

Even though we are struggling neophytes, we can taste nectar.

Just like when Prabhupada came, we were just so, just sit at Prabhupada's lotus feet and hear him speak.

It was like, it was as good as being with Krishna in the spiritual world.

It was as good as being right there in Gagri Vrindavan

right in Krishna, to sit at Prabhupada's lotus feet and hear him speak.

It was as good as being with Krishna in the spiritual world.

was as good as being right there in Gagabindabha and right there in Krishna to sit at Prabhupada's lotus feet and hear him speak.

So in this way, if we take this process very seriously, then our lives become unlimitedly ecstatic.

There is no reason to suffer in this material world, going through the cycle of birth and death again and again and again, to the higher planets, the lower planets, the demigods, down to the endergopa germ.

There is no reason for us to keep going through this again and again and again.

We can just tune in to Krishna and turn on our actual identity.

So actually we're not these material bodies, we're actually eternal spiritual beings.

We're a selfless of a Lord and his pastimes in the spiritual world.

You are an eternal servant of Krishna and his pastimes in the spiritual world.

So don't misidentify with your old man's body, your young kid's body, your male body, your female body, Indian body, American body.

I'm an eternal spiritual being qualitatively 1 with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

So now let me take this process very seriously, talk about Krishna, hear about Krishna, bow down to Krishna, serve Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, everything, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna.

This process is so powerful, it's so unbelievable and ecstatic.

There's no reason, it's like the Bhagavatam, that nice Bhagavatam verse.

Samasrita ye palapallava pavam mahat paham punya yasho marare pavam vadir vatsa param padam padam padam yad va padam na te sham Such a wonderful verse from the Tenth Canto, amazing verse.

For those who accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of this cosmic manifestation and is famous for his mirari.

This vast, intermountable ocean of material existence becomes reduced down to the size of water within the hoof print of a cat.

This place which is full of misery becomes reduced down to a little tiny, that big, for 1 can easily cross over it.

If you were to cross over the Atlantic Ocean, it would be pretty difficult.

But for us to cross the Atlantic Ocean, it's pretty difficult.

But to step over the hoof of a calf, even little Nalambar can do that.

Step over the hoof of a calf, that's easy to do.

So their destination is that place where there is no material misery.

Not this place where there is danger at every step.

So we can get out of this dangerous, dangerous place just by taking shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord and that and the killer of the murra demon.

We ask him, Please kill the demon within my heart too.

My dear Lord, you killed Murat, now you kill the demon in my heart also.

I this demon in my heart must enjoy the material world.

Please kill this demon my Lord within my heart.

I'll do the killing of this demon within me.

So that my true nature as your eternal servant now become fully manifest.

My dear Lord I'm tired of suffering here and all these hellish nightmares I go through in this material existence.

My body is falling apart in so many ways, so many difficulties.

My dear Lord, please bless me now I can get free from all this madness and this confusion and perfusion and delusion.

Please let me become resituated now as your eternal associate and your eternal pastime in the spiritual world.

Can you imagine the endeavor, the austerity that Prabhupada went through coming with no money to America?

Some yoga teacher let him stay a little bit free.

He gave him a place to stay in his yoga studio, a little room, you know.

But then it was amazing how the movement took off.

It really took off and got that story in 26th Second Avenue.

We got to make a pilgrimage to New York sometime.

They put the original sign Matchless Gifts.

I think it was matchboxes without matches, they called it matchless gifts.

Little decorated matchboxes with no matches in them.

So the Sunday we should all go to matchless gifts and bow down, take the dust and mash it from the sidewalk where Prabhupada used to walk in his original early days in Swami Bhaktivedanta.

Take that dust and put it over our head and get purified.

Prabhupada's dust is still lingering there in the sidewalk at 26th Academy.

Even though the rains come, there are still some microscopic remnants of Prabhupada's dust there in that sidewalk at 26th Academy.

At least spiritually it is affected there.

We have a great opportunity to develop this Krishna consciousness movement given to us by Prabhupada.

To take it now in the order of Lakshita, Jyotiradheka, Tadika, Krishna Upadesa, Amaragaya Guru, Hoyyuteyudesh, whomever you meet instruct them in the teachings of Krishna and this is my order, you become guru and you deliver the people of this world.

Next weekend We have the Mind and Body, the Body, Mind and Spirit Expo coming up.

It's a great opportunity for preaching, distributing books.

We need a volunteer to correct the business cards too.

We have our invitation card gives 4.30 to 6 at the time for the program.

Anybody wants to scratch through them from 11 a.m.

To 1 p.m., Anyone volunteer want to do that?

There's a whole box of cards that need to be corrected so we can hand them out.

They won't come before 4 30 in the afternoon for the program.

See if we have any questions coming in from the internet.

Yeah, this process really works, but you have to work the process.

We have this tendency to be doubtful also.

We have to, with our intelligence, we have to inquire until our doubts are removed.

That's what attracted me about the devotees.

When I first saw the devotees I thought they were like zombies,

I liked they were chanting Hare Krishna, but I thought they were a little bit too far out, just kind of like a military, like soldiers in a board camp, you know, in the military.

I sound like a soldier in a military boot camp.

I didn't seem as free thinking individual.

But later on, I'm still not sure enough to talk about the past 10 years.

So we have to see the devotees not as just some zombie like soldiers in a boot camp.

We have to see how the advanced devotees they are acting now on the basis of higher understanding.

They have realizations about who they are, what is their relationship, what is their duty, what is their ecstasy, how to overcome other faults, they have not had realizations about these things.

So we see devotees like this, who are not like soldiers in a boot camp, but actually like empowered revolutionaries who can actually have a great impact on the world around us.

We see such devotees and we can become really inspired.

To not take this as some brainwashed cult.

Sometimes they advertise, the Hare Krishna is a bunch of brainwashed cult members.

Now they've been duped by the guru and they're just blind followers of this cult.

That's what the anti-cult people say about us.

But actually the real fact is, the material world is a cult.

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