Srimad Bhagavatam 4.17.35 apam bhavaste mayidamya-vasthitah pujabhavam anjavirmuktikasthila niviryamurti-samabuddhara-dharo dumampasya-yurusarojya-gamsati The door to the saundryam should be shut.

standing, Praja, living entity, Bhavan, yourself, Ajna, Bhavan, yourself, Ajna, now, Virakshisu, desiring to protect, Kila, indeed, Sa, He, Viramurti, He, Viramurti, in the form of a great hero, Samavut, became Dara-Dara, the protector of the planet Earth.

Earth, Iyavvonhu mam mi tayasi, for the sake of milk, ugdhvshara, with sharpened arrows, chugam shasi, you desire to kill.

Translation in purple by His Divine Grace, Sheila Prabhupada.

My dear Lord, in this way you once protected me by rescuing me from the water and consequently your name has been famous as Dharadhara, he who holds the planet Earth.

As a present moment in the form of a great hero, you're about to kill me with sharpened arrows.

I am, However, just like a boat on the water, keeping everything afloat.

The Lord is known as Dharadhara, meaning he who keeps the planet earth on his tusks.

Thus the planet earth in the shape of a cow, is clouding, is counting the contradictory acts of the Lord.

Although he once saved the earth, he now wants to upset the earth, which is like a boat in the water.

No 1 can understand the activities of the Lord due to a poor fund of knowledge, human beings sometimes think the Lord's activities contradictory.

Sri-rupaṁ sa-gṛhātāṁ sahagana-raghaṁ tan-vidhaṁ tam sa jīvam sadāitam sa-vidhūtam parijana-cahitam kṣu-viṣṇa-caitanya-devam sri-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padam sahagana-lalita-śrī-viṣakhan-vidhaṁś ca namaḥ om viṣṇu-padāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale Namaste Sarasvati Devi, Gauravani Pracharini, Nivishe Shasunyavadi, Prasthi Pradesh Tharini, Mukham Karoti Bhaktshalam, Panguni Yathegiri, Yatthipatthamaham, Pandeshvi Guru Nithyanandam.

So, as Prabhupada says here, sometimes, Human beings sometimes think the Lord's activities are contradictory.

This means the Lord never contradicts Himself.

The planet Earth appears to be contradictory.

We have to understand that even though it may appear the Lord is acting in a contradicting way, He is not contradicting.

In other words, what is the non-contradicting nature of the Lord?

Let's go deep in understanding what is the non-contradictory nature.

That's why we have to learn how to be equipoised, seeing everything as the blessings of the Lord.

The good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly, the auspicious, the inauspicious, actually everything that is coming is the unlimited mercy of Krishna upon us.

He simply wants to get us back in our original identity in the spiritual world.

Everything that is happening here is for that purpose.

So we should not think why is Krishna doing this to me?

You should never find fault with Krishna that he is not treating you properly.

You have to have that transcendental vision of all I have seen, the loving mercy of Krishna.

His whole purpose is to get us back to the above.

That's why he says in the Gita, paricchanaya sadhanam viniśyayate duskṛtām dharma saṁsthārpaṇāpāya saṁgubhāmi yuge yuge To live with the pious, annihilate the miscreants, as well as to re-establish the principle of religion, I myself appear millennium after millennium.

Actually even if paritranaya sadhana vinasaya dhudhus krtam, it's equal mercy.

Even in the Nilayana Miscreants, when he kills the demons, they get liberated also.

So Krishna is giving unlimited mercy to everyone.

So we have to learn then to become actually happy and situated in our natural constitutional position, our original pure nature, we have to learn how to reciprocate with Krishna.

Krishna is giving us unlimited love every minute, now we have to learn how to give love back to Krishna.

So you think, Krishna is a myth, Hindu myth.

We've many times given the example, you can't expect to get something, some nice beautiful creation out of an explosion.

Has an explosion ever caused some nice beautiful thing?

Just like the Russians, they fired some rockets into the Ukraine.

They took a beautiful apartment building and turned it into ashes, it was really devastated, the apartment building.

When that rocket hit the army building it exploded and it completely blew the apartment building to bits, just a bunch of rubble laying there on the ground.

So, explosions don't create order, they break down order.

We have to use some common sense to understand what is the actual basis of reality.

Just like you see some beautiful painting, a beautiful work of art, what do you think?

Well, who's the artist who made this beautiful painting?

Do you think it just came out of somebody threw some paint and just phew, some paint fell on the canvas and a beautiful painting?

Who is the artist who made this nice painting?

So an intelligent person will say, who is the supreme artist who has made this beautiful creation?

That's the intelligent way to look at it.

Who is that supreme artist who has made all these beautiful things, who has made the lotus flower, the peacock, beautiful peacock feathers, all these beautiful things.

There must be some designer behind this whole thing.

So the whole process of Krishna consciousness means how to get back to the knowledge of that Supreme Person and from that knowledge some love comes.

The more you can understand Krishna the more you will naturally love Krishna.

Just like the Bhagavad Gita says, jita-raga-vayasrodha man-mayam upasvata-ha bahavo jnanata-pasat putham abhavam agato Being free from the cat-mysphere and anger, being fully absorbed in Me, taking refuge in Me, Many, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of me and they all attained transcendental love for me.

So my purpose is to love God, what do I need to read books for?

But actually these books, this knowledge, these lectures are very important.

The study of this knowledge is very important because the more you know God, the more you are going to love him.

The more you know the science of how to awaken your love for him the more you can actually do that.

Because right now we are fools and rascals.

We are Buddha by the material nature, isn't it?

I don't mean we are Buddha by the material nature.

So Krishna understands we are Buddha and that's why he comes and speaks the whole Bhagavad Gita.

That's why he comes and gives us this transmittal knowledge.

the way you get out of your deluded condition.

the way you get out of your suffering condition.

We explained yesterday that ninth verse in the tenth canto.

So, mahasutaye palapalavah pavam mahat pavam punyam iso marare pavam vadir vatsa paramparam padam padam padam yad vadasam nityasyam.

1 who takes shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord, it is the shelter of the causing manifestation.

And the same as being the killer of the mura demon, this vast, insurmountable ocean of material existence, never stopping like anything in the world.

I become reduced to the amount of water in the hoof of a cat, that much.

So now we can get out of this world of misery, this horrible anxiety we go through, we get out of this world of misery and no longer being a slave of that world, they are in danger at every step.

It's really a pity these poor karmis, they are totally lost.

Instead of actually getting out of this world of dangers, it is really pathetic because they have gone through this process of transmigration, they come all by the human form.

In the human form they are meant for self-realization.

Now you have got this human form that is meant for self-realization.

It is a pity, it is actually a crying shame that they have come to this human form and instead of using it for self-realization, they are using it for sense gratification which means they go back down to become hogs and dogs and monkeys and orangutans and germs and they go back down to suffer again.

So in this Krishna Gana movement our mission is to save these people in the order of Lord Chaitanya.

Jaya Dekha Tadikana, Krishna Upadesha, Amar Gaya Guru, Hari Uttayatesh.

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

So this, Lord Caitanya is full of compassion.

Our great Vaishnava Acharya, Srila Prabhupada, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Guru Krsna dasa Babaji, Bhakti Manohar Dragupta, Jagannatha dasa Babaji, all the Narottam dasa Dakur, Manu Vacharya, all these great Acharyas are full of compassion.

They understand that we are in a suffering condition.

So we should take advantage of the mercy of these great Acharyas.

Spiritual Master also, he is a representative of these Acharyas.

He wants to save the whole world actually.

Spiritual master wants to save the whole world.

So we should take advantage of the mercy of Guru, Krishna and the Vaishnavas who are acting as representatives of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

We should take advantage of their association.

Why should we cheat ourselves and remain caught up in the cycle of suffering?

If it was natural, then why is it so unpleasant?

The natural conditions of the soul, atatadvi, satsidananda vigraha, That's the natural position of the soul.

Eternity, knowledge and bliss is the natural position.

Instead of sat-cid-ananda-vigraha is asat-anir-ananda.

That's what we are relegating ourselves to by remaining on this platform of serving our senses instead of serving Guru and his disciples.

So we should take advantage of this knowledge.

It's like when your eyes go bad you get glasses, that's how you can see properly.

So ours are bad right now, we've been deluded, we've been misguided by this so-called human society, I thought they were humans, so-called humans, they're not actually humans, they're actually lower than animals.

The animals are acting according to their nature.

But the human beings are actually more, they are less than animals.

Because they are not acting according to their nature.

It's like he spoke to you according to the laws of nature.

The monkey, the pig, the bird, they are all acting completely in harmony with nature.

Because the human beings, they're acting out of harmony with nature.

Just like now the earth is becoming more polluted, the water is polluted, the air is polluted, who's polluting it?

No, it's the human beings who are screwing up the whole situation.

The human beings are the ones who are out of sync, they are not in harmony with the Supreme.

So now We have to revolutionize our consciousness and revolutionize the world.

Be Krishna conscious and make the world Krishna conscious.

Well we have to, It all begins with our japa, doesn't it?

If we just chant it and get over with it, okay, let me get over with it quickly.

We have to take this japa as the most serious thing I do every day.

The quality of my japa will determine the quality of my consciousness.

So I take this job as the most important thing to purify my consciousness, to get tuned into Krishna.

It's like, you know, you can, on a high, they have these stereo radios where they have the tuning knob and the fine tuning knob.

There is the tuning knob and the fine tuning knob.

So we have to fine tune our consciousness.

In japa, that's where we do the fine tuning.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Every syllable is very important.

Hear and chant every syllable distinctly.

That's the instruction that Baba has given us.

Let me fine tune my consciousness, connected with Krishna, to tune in to Krishna fully.

Let me totally Krishna-ize my consciousness.

Get all the lust, the anger, the greed, the madness, the illusion, this lust, that's the very tendency we have.

Kama esa karoda esa, radha guna samudra ma asana upaha papa vidmanam evairinam.

Born of contact with the material mode of passion and later turned into wrath to the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world.

He said, be as a married couple, avoid sex as much as possible.

It's only for procreation, not for brexiation.

So this tendency to lusty, to gratify our material senses, we have to minimize it as much as possible.

Eating and sleeping is whatever is required to keep healthy, not for sense enjoyment.

We have to learn how to regulate our senses.

So instead of putting our consciousness into sense gratification, we put it into Krishna, connecting with Krishna.

That supreme personality of God is all powerful, all beautiful, power beauty, all renounced, all wealthy, all famous and all wise.

An amazing person standing on the bank of Keshikab and playing the fifth note on his flute to attract the gopis to come and dance bhaja dance with him.

We had a chance to actually connect with him, become re-associated with him.

Instead of wandering in the cycle of birth and death, worrying about passports, driver's licenses, insurance policies, all this stuff you have to worry about, income tax, working a job, getting out in traffic, risking your life on the freeway everyday, driving up and down the freeway.

People are killed everyday on these freeways.

So what, such a hassle being, actually, it's being as well as a royal hassle actually.

We should not be depressed by being in this material world.

They say there is a saying, see every cloud as a silver lining.

So what's the bright side of our present situation?

Well, all the atrocious nature of this civilization we're living in right now is actually a blessing.

To remind that, that this is not my actual home.

This place with a padam padam padam padam padam padam padam padam padam padam padam I want to be in a place where there is no danger, no anxieties, no fears.

Here we have, even for Mangalati, we have the door locked.

And we have to check in the doorbell room to make sure it is actually the devotee that is doing it, not some demon coming to rob us or kill us.

Even when we lock the door, even right before Mangalati we had the door locked.

Because there are people, somebody could just walk in with a gun and say, OK, like that happened in Miami.

During Mount Peshawm, 2 bandits with a rifle and a pistol, they came into Babus.

So this material world is very dangerous.

Even in the temples, we have to be very careful, keep the doors locked, they don't come in to rob us or to

This is all Krishna's mercy to help us realize My actual home is in the spiritual world with Krishna, Radharani and the gopis.

Or 1 can be in the Vaikuntha realms too, in 1 of the Vishnus.

Of course, in the spiritual world you have full freedom.

If you are in a Vaikuntha planet, you want to go to Goloka, you can go.

You are not allowed to go to Goloka Vrindavan, you have to stay in 1 of the Vaikuntha planets.

No, if your nature is to serve in Goloka, you desire to go to Goloka, there is full freedom in the spiritual world.

Although there is an unlimited, there is an infinite number of spiritual universes, infinite number of Vishnu's.

So some people have a nature to serve a Vishnu, 1 of the Vaikuntha planets, that is their nature.

But Lord Chaitanya, especially, Lord Chaitanya's mood is the mood of Radharani.

So following Lord Caitanya our nature is to go to Goloka.

Following the footsteps of Lord Caitanya.

Hey Radhe, Radhe devi ke chalate ke, inandasan ukar kaha.

Gurudev, you mentioned that how we have to take precautions like shutting the door, driving carefully, locking even our car doors.

And at the same time, We are to think that everything that's happening is the mercy of Krishna.

It seems a bit like I'm taking precautions as if I'm trying to prevent something from happening.

But at the same time I'm taking everything as the mercy of Krishna, then why am I trying to prevent something from happening?

Why do we, when we travel, why do we not just have our wallet, our passport in some side pocket or here, put my passport and my wallet right here, you know.

I'm walking to and from the airport, why not, why not, why have it inside a money belt, inside, hidden inside my dohdie or inside my, I have a vest with a special, you know, lock, a special inside pocket that can't be picked up very easily.

Well, Krishna is giving you the intelligence to protect yourself from these things is also with mercy.

But in spite of all precautions if something happens, and we also think that is Krishna's mercy.

If I have an accident, it will be Krishna's mercy.

If I have a collision, it will be Krishna's mercy.

No, it is Christian's mercy to use your intelligence how to keep yourself in a safe position.

much you may Try to make arrangements to protect yourself, eventually death is going to come.

No matter what you do, birth, death, old age and diseases, you're born, you get sick, you get old and you die.

You can't stop them, it's going to happen.

Even if you live to be 120, some people live to be 120, even in this Kali Yuga, some people live very old, because that was their karma, but still they had to take it as Krishna's mercy and at the same time take our intelligence to protect ourselves from the dangers of Krishna's mercy.

Let's see what we got here from Sarabhushana.

Though Krishna can act in a way which may seem duplicitous, but that is not allowed for his devoting.

Krishna never acts in a way that is duplicitous.

That's what makes my body separate from personalism.

Krishna declares conceit, anger and harshness is belonging to those of the mani and nesha.

There is no cheating in the Bhagavad Gita.

The scriptures are giving us the factual knowledge of how we can become liberated from this material nature.

Gurudev, since we say that everything that exists comes from Krishna, then it must exist within him in pure original form.

So wouldn't it be that duplicity would also happen with Krishna for it to exist here in pure form?

Is there an example of Krishna being duplicitous?

He is stealing the butter, counting, counting everything.

In terms of his teaching, in his Leela there may be transmittal duplicity.

To give pleasure, it's like in Krishna, to give pleasure to his devotee.

But in terms of, I'm just trying to think, maybe there's some examples from his pastimes.

But stealing the butter, certainly I think is that's a duplicity, I think.

But his teachings are completely straightforward, he is not cheating in his teachings.

Actually all his so called duplicitous dealings with his devotees is actually transnettal ecstasy.

We read about Yamaraj punishments and life in hell after death, I understand it's because of individual's karma, but why does it have to be so harsh and unpleasant?

It's all there, but there's nothing unnecessarily harsh or unpleasant.

Everything is there perfectly designed to free us from our sinful reactions and to bring us back to Krishna.

There is nothing excessive in the laws of karma.

Whatever you do, you are going to get an equal reaction.

Krishna is giving unlimited mercy to all and 1 has to reciprocate.

Every second counts in reciprocating that.

But most of the time, when inspecting this, it becomes cloudy to see whether 1 is working with Krishna or sense gratification.

That's why the spiritual master is there, that's why the advanced devotees are there, to make, to help us stay on track.

Sometimes we think we are engaging in devotional service but actually we are engaging in sense gratification.

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