In the Bhagavatam, 4th cano, chapter 18, text 3, asmin loke tava amusmin munibhistha tadarsibi dhis chayog rpayug tasca pum su-shraya prasidhye asmin, in this, locate duration of life, attava, or amushmim.

In the next life, munibhi, by the great sages, tatva, the truth, darshibi, by those who have seen it.

This style prescribed yoga methods, prayukta applied, cha, also, methods, prayukta, applied, ca, also, pumsam, of the people in general, shreya, benefit, Prasindhye, in the matter of obtaining.

Translation in Purple, by His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

To benefit all human society, not only in this life, but in the next, The great seers and sages that describe various methods conducive to the prosperity of the people in general.

Vedic civilization takes advantage of the perfect knowledge presented in the Vedas and presented by great sages and dhammas for the benefit of human society.

Vedic injunctions are known as Shruti and The additional supplementary presentations of these principles that are given by the great sages are known as Smriti.

They follow the principles of Vedic instruction.

Human society should take advantage of the instructions on both Smriti and Shruti.

If 1 wants to advance in spiritual life, he must take these instructions and follow the principles.

In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Srila Rupa Goswami says that if 1 poses himself as advanced in spiritual life, but does not refer to the shruti and smritis, he is simply a disturbance in society.

1 should follow the principles laid down in shruti and smritis, in shruti and smritis, not only in one's spiritual life but in material life as well.

As far as human society is concerned, it should follow the Manu Smriti as well, for these laws are given by Manu, the father of mankind.

In the Manu Smriti it is stated that a woman should not be given independence, but should be given protection by her father, husband, and elderly sons.

In all circumstances, a woman should remain dependent upon some guardian.

Presently, women are given full independence like men, but actually we can see that such independent women are no happier than those women who are placed under guardians.

If people follow the injunctions given by the great sages, Structes and Smithies, they can actually be happy in both this life and the next.

Unfortunately, rascals are manufacturing so many ways and means to be happy.

Consequently, human society has lost the standard ways of life, both materially and spiritually.

And as a result, people are rebuilded and there is no peace or happiness in the world.

Although they are trying to solve the problems of human society in the United Nations, they are still baffled because they do not follow the liberated instructions of the Vedas.

2 significant words used in this verse are asmin and amushmin.

Asmin means in this life and amushmin means in the next life.

Unfortunately in this age even exalted professors and learned men believe there is no next life and that everything is finished in this life.

Since they are rascals and fools, what advice can they give?

Still they are passing as learned scholars and professors.

In this verse the word Amushmin is very explicit.

It is the duty of everyone to mold his life in such a way that he will have a profitable next life.

Death as a boy is educated in order to become happy later.

1 should be educated in this life in order to attain an eternal and prosperous life after death.

It is therefore essential that Tiva follow what is given in the Srutis and Smriti to make sure the human mission is successful.

Vandeham sri guru sri jatapada kamalam sri guru nbaisnavam scah sri rupam sanghritam Namaste Sarasvati Devi Gauravani Pucharini Nirmishesha Shunyavadi Paschachitisha Tharini Mukham Karoti Bhatshalam Pankumarate Girem Yatripatamaham Vande Sri Guru Nithyanandam So we should be following the Vedic literatures, shruti and the corollary literatures in pursuance of the Vedic version, Smriti.

If we don't do this we are virtually committing suicide.

Because if we don't live a proper life in accordance with the shruti and smriti, then even though they deny there is a next life, there is a next life.

Their denial won't help them at all to be saved from going down to the animal kingdom.

They say when this body is finished everything is finished.

That's because they don't realize there is a spirit soul actually seated within the body.

They don't realize that there is a person within the body that lives eternally.

This is Krishna is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss.

So the living entity also has a form which is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss.

But due to ignorance he misidentifies with this material body and thus puts himself into all kinds of difficult situations going down into hellish nightmarish conditions birth after birth after birth after birth.

So in This Krishna consciousness movement we want to wake everybody up.

How long will you sleep in the lap of the witch named Maya?

They have their head in maya, they place their head in maya lab.

Yes my dear maya devi, I place my head in your lab.

They're so nonsense and they're blaspheming the supreme personality of God, they're blaspheming the pure devotee, they're blaspheming the spiritual master.

So they give all these counter arguments, we have to be very expert to defeat them.

God by His mind has to defeat these arguments with scripture and with logic.

They can give all these ridiculous arguments against the Vedic scriptures, we have to defeat them.

We can't allow them to continue presenting this nonsense philosophy and duping the people like all these professors.

Just like the atheistic people out there taking the position of teacher.

So what they can teach, they are atheists.

What an atheist can teach is an example, a very bad example.

So these atheists should not have any positions in the universities and the schools.

They should be Krishna conscious people in all these positions.

The college professors should be Krishna conscious, the school teacher should be Krishna conscious, the government leader should be Krishna conscious.

We have to bring Krishna consciousness into the center of the human society because without Krishna consciousness They have some idea of religion but it is polluted with sense gratification.

They say, God give me this, give me that, give me, give me, give me, give me.

This is a great contribution of Srila Prabhupada.

He is teaching us pure devotional service.

This mixed devotional service, mixing it with sense gratification doesn't satisfy the self.

It's better than atheism, but it still doesn't satisfy the self.

Because you are not waking, you don't have a loving relationship with God, you are giving your loving service to him.

You are endeavouring with your thoughts, your words and your deeds to give pleasure to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

This is the human life is meant for such a thing.

That everything I do should be for the pleasure of Krishna and the spiritual master and the Vaishnavas.

But because they have their concept of the self completely wrong, therefore they are doing all kinds of ridiculous things.

What did the United Nations do to solve these problems?

They have to put Krishna back in the center.

Bhaktaram jaka tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram.

Suhritam sarva-bhutanam jatamam shuntam nisthitam.

1 who knows Krishna is the owner of everything and the enjoyer of everything and is the most intimate well-wishing friend of all living entities, they can have actual peace.

This peace formula now has to be introduced to everybody.

Everybody has to understand who is the actual owner, who is the enjoyer.

This land is my land, it is not your land.

You better get off or I'll blow your head off.

We have to understand who is the actual owner.

Even his body does not belong to me, it is Krishna.

So since it is all his, it ought to be used in his service.

Whatever I have, whatever talent I have, whatever ability I have, whatever possessions I have, everything is under my control.

It is all being offered in the service of Krishna.

And then we can have actual peace of mind.

There is a nice verse in the Bhagavad Gita.

Yon sattva-kam tarar-mamah tatantar jyotir eva yah Sayogi brahma-nirvanam brahma-bhutah tukacchati 1 whose happiness is within, whose action, who acts and rejoices within, whose aim is inward, whose aim goes inward.

He is liberated in the Supreme and he ultimately attains the Supreme.

So this is the way you have to learn how to do it.

Our happiness should be based on our loving relationship with Krishna.

If you are actually in that mood of giving loving service to Krishna, my dear Lord, here I am.

So whatever situation I am in, Let me use this particular situation right now in such a way that gives pleasure to you.

Instead of thinking, my pleasure, my enjoyment, I have to think how can I give pleasure to the Supreme Lord?

That should be my happiness, giving pleasure to Krishna.

And then it doesn't matter what's happening externally.

It can be happiness or distress, pain and pleasure, honor and dishonor, wealth and poverty, sickness and health.

It doesn't matter what the external situation is, if I'm in that mood of giving loving service to Krishna, then I'm transcendentally situated.

We have to learn actually how to become Krishna conscious, not I, me and my consciousness.

We take this process seriously, then our lives will be unlimitedly sublime.

Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always entranced relishing the pleasure within.

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

Now where can you get unlimited happiness anywhere in the material world?

Is there any way you can get unlimited happiness?

Is there any way you can get unlimited pleasure?

Even if they have some pleasure, it is always temporary.

Material pleasure is temporary, spiritual pleasure is not ending.

So we have to find our happiness not in material pleasure but in spiritual pleasure.

Spiritual pleasure means giving pleasure to Krishna.

When you feed the belly then all the parts of the body are nourished.

So Krishna is like the belly and we are like the parts of the body.

So when you give your loving service to Krishna then you become satisfied.

Krishna says that they enjoy unlimited happiness when they concentrate on the Supreme.

So Prabhupada is teaching us how to concentrate on the Supreme.

It is like we have our japa, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, We worship the Mahavatar, we worship the Deity, we worship the Talthi, worship the spiritual master.

Prabhupada introduced these things gradually.

It wasn't until about 1971 he introduced Tulsi worship.

Then a couple of years later, I think it was around 1975, he introduced Guru Puja.

So probably gradually introduced all these things.

Because these things are actually meant to help us tune in our consciousness.

We have to tune in to Krishna, the source of all existence.

Aham sarvasya prabhavo matak sarvam pravartate.

Hiti ma babajante van bhuta babasamangvata ha.

I am the source of all material and spiritual worlds.

The Vajrayana is perfectly enmeshed in my devotional service and worships me with all their heart.

So right now We are still distracted by the material energy, thinking, I, me and mine will make me feel real fine.

We still are caught up in the I, me and mine consciousness.

We have to learn how to get out of this I, me and mine consciousness and think, what if I believe Krishna?

Well, I will serve Krishna, but not in this condition.

Pure devotional service, there's no condition.

Not that you make some conditions under which you will serve Krishna.

And whatever Krishna wants, Krishna gets.

He wants me to die right now, that's fine.

She's out of the battle zone, but the Russians are firing rockets and blowing up apartment buildings.

He says, the missile comes, you see, it's Krishna coming to get her, take her.

She'll say, the missile comes to their neighborhood, she'll take it as Krishna coming to take me.

So we have to learn how to see everything in relation with Krishna.

Everything happens in relation with Krishna.

Because ultimately he is the supreme controller.

Even the material nature is going in his direction to rectify the living entities from their rascal, lording it over mentality.

So we see the loving hand of Krishna at every minute and try to reciprocate with that loving mercy from Krishna.

This, this, this, this, this, this, this.

Guru Maharaj, do you want to add some points?

This is considered very controversial in modern day society.

The thing is, unprotected women are exploitable.

That's why women are subject to being exploited by, Unprotected women can be easily exploited by men.

But it's not that women, that men's a woman is a slave.

No, it's a cooperative relationship between husband and wife, cooperative relationship.

Tejas and Tejasini, and they were serving in Vrindavan or in India and they would have quarrels and then Tejasini would go away And Prabhupada would bring her back.

Prabhupada, the marriage counselor, would bring her back.

And Prabhupada asked Tejasini, what is the difficulty?

And Prabhupada said, if she doesn't do what you say, you should do what she says and this way live peacefully.

So Krishna Gaya doesn't mean that women are enslaved with the men.

The cooperative relationship is serving Krishna.

I don't know the history, but it's not the instruction that Prabhupada gave.

So women under protection doesn't mean a woman is a slave.

Everybody is under the spiritual master, Krishna.

How do we understand that women should be protected by men?

Well the men have to be Krishna conscious.

If the men are exploitive, they have to be a saintly man.

Not some woman who is going to take advantage and exploit the woman.

We are talking about a civilization where you have saintly men who are pure in devotional service.

Such men are qualified to get protection of women.

Not these exploited men who take advantage of women and then they dump her and get another 1 and dump her and get another 1 and dump her and go on and on like this.

In modern day society we don't have men who are actually qualified to give protection to women.

Isn't that why the women don't want the protection?

Yeah, if we tell them that, they'll reject it because they don't see any men who are actually qualified to give protection.

Only, you know, in our movement we're training men to be like that.

Even sometimes our men aren't properly doing their, even within his kind, they're not properly doing their service, giving protection to women.

But if a man is actually strictly following Sita Baba's instructions, he's qualified to give protection.

Others are deviating from the instructions of Baba, they are not qualified to get protection.

So, here it is mentioned about in the next life, like what you do in the next life.

Currently most people we know, we meet, they believe 1 life or live in the moment.

So how does 1 get to them in the sense that it is just everywhere.

What are the logical arguments to prove there is a next life.

Of course the scriptures say it, na jayate mriyate bhava kadachin, for the soul that has never birthed in the death at any time, he has not come to being, he has not come to being, he will not come to being, he is unborn, ever existing in primeval.

All the scriptures of the world, the Bible, the Koran, the Vedic scriptures, they are all talking about the eternal nature of the self.

But how do you convince an atheist that there is a next life?

1 thing is you can say what's your proof?

That When the body is finished everything is finished.

The fact is you can remember things when you were a little kid.

The body was a different body, the atoms and molecules that were made of your body were quite different than the ones you have now.

Your body is like in the river, the water molecules are constantly flowing through it.

I gave the example many times, the Mississippi River you see.

The Ohio and the Missouri rivers flow into the Mississippi River.

So the water molecules in the Mississippi, they are a combination of Ohio and Missouri molecules.

And they go to the Gulf of Mexico and they call it Gulf of Mexico.

So there is a constant change, a constant flux, what we call the Mississippi River today is not the Mississippi River tomorrow, it's the Gulf of Mexico.

So your body is like that too, there is a constant flow of chemicals in and out of your body every time you inhale, every time you exhale, every time you eat, every time you pass stool in your room, there's a constant flow of chemicals clustered around the atma.

But that you can remember the experience you had when you were a little child, that indicates the difference of the soul.

You know your body is different still you can remember.

Of course they won't accept that, they'll argue that well there's something in the brain that's still locked in the brain but actually it's not true.

So yeah it's an interesting how to defeat the atheists.

And we have countless examples in the scriptures of persons, you know, going to birth after birth after birth.

We've got, How can we stay always in the mood to please Krishna in every moment despite a lot of material disturbances.

That's why we have to take shelter of the holy names.

We have to chant the holy names with great attention and great devotion because that purifies our consciousness.

If we just chant it around to get them over with, it's not going to work.

You have to take this as the greatest opportunity to fine tune the consciousness.

Should do it in taking on relationship with devotees.

Therefore we offer our obeisances to the Vaishnavas everyday.

Not just on the lips but should be in our dealings also, the way we deal with the Vaishnavas.

Taking the advice of the Vaishnava Association is a great blessing.

Actually after millions and millions of lifetimes to have the association of the devotee is the greatest blessing.

We take it, we take devotee association for granted.

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