TANAD YAYOVIDANNA TANARABATAYAYAM TASYAVA BHAKSHARAT YARTA ARABASCHA PANAKPUNA Translation and Purport by His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

A foolish person who manufactures his own ways and means through mental speculation and does not recognize the authority of the sages who laid down unimpeachable directions is simply unsuccessful again and again in his attempts.

Purport by Srila Prabhupada, At the present moment it has become fashionable to dissipate the unimpeachable directions given by the Acharyas and liberated souls of the past.

Presently people are so fallen they cannot distinguish between the liberated soul and the conditioned soul.

The conditioned soul is hampered by 4 defects.

He is sure to make mistakes, he is sure to become illusion, he has a tendency to cheat other than his senses are imperfect.

Consequently we have to take directions from liberated persons.

The Krishna consciousness movement directly receives instructions from the Supreme Personality of Godhead via persons who were strictly following His instructions.

Although a follower may not be a liberated person, if he follows the Supreme Liberated Personality of Godhead, his actions are naturally liberated from the contaminations of his material nature.

Lord Chaitanya therefore says, by my order you may become a spiritual master.

1 can immediately become a spiritual master by having full faith in the transcendental words of the Supreme Personality, have got it by following his instructions.

Materialistic men are not interested in taking directions from the liberated persons, but they are very much interested in their own concocted ideas, which make them repeatedly fail in their attempts, Because the entire world is now falling in perfect directions and conditions so humanity is completely devoted.

Andheham Sri Guru Sri Rtapalakamalam Sri Guru-Vaishnavams ca Sri-Rupam Sagarajatam Sahagana-Ragunatam Vittamtam Sajivam Sadaitam Sava-Dhutam Parijana-Sahitam Krishna-Chaitanya-Devam Sri Radha-Krishna-Padam Sadaitam savadhutam parijanah sahitam krsna-cetanya devam Sri ranha krsna-padam sahaganaladita-sivisakanditam stham Nama Vishnu padaya, Krishna presthaya bhutale, Ashrimataye bhakti vedanta svamititnamane, Namaste sadasvate deve gauravane pacharine, Nivishe shasunyavadi paschitudeshatarene.

So, it is very much explained, Prabhupada is a liberated soul and He is coming in a line of liberated souls called the Guru Parampara system.

Krishna says, this knowledge was thus perceived through the chain of the siddha succession.

The saintly kings understood it in that way.

But of course, at the time the succession was broken and that is the sign that it appears to be lost.

So Krishna came to re-establish that knowledge.

But that knowledge in our line coming from Lord Brahma is actually an unbroken line for the Siddhic succession.

So even though we may have so many defects, as Thapar points out in his purport, he said, although may a follower may not be a liberated person, if he follows the supreme liberated person, then he got his actions and naturally liberated.

So we can, therefore we can act as representatives of this specific succession.

Even though we're imperfect, If we follow the instructions of the Supreme, liberated Supreme Personality of God, that is our perfection.

In spite of all of our defects, the tendency to be illusion, committing mistakes, the Tablet points out the 4 defects.

Tendency to be illusion, committing mistakes, imperfect senses, and cheating tendency.

In spite of having these 4 defects, if we sincerely try to follow the previous Acharyas, we can actually act as teachers, as spiritual masters.

It is called as Poonanadha, in the spiritual world.

So therefore we must try our best to represent this is by power of orders to preach.

That's what Lord Caitanya orders us to preach.

Jare deka tadikara Krishna padash, amara gaya guru, jare deka.

Whoever you meet instruct him in the teachings of Krishna and this by amara you become guru and those are the people of this country.

So you know we have so many defects, if we sincerely try to preach on behalf of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, on behalf of Srila Prabhupada, on behalf of Lord Krishna, then our actions become a little bit impactful.

So let us now sincerely endeavor to preach as much as we can amongst ourselves, always talking about Krishna.

The thoughts of my pure devotees dwell in me.

Their lives are fully surrendered unto me and they derive great satisfaction and bliss by enlightening 1 another and conversing about it.

So we should preach amongst ourselves, talking about Krishna.

And that's why we have these classes every day, Prabhupada established the regular classes.

We study Prabhupada's books and we talk about what Prabhupada has taught us.

In this way we become reconnected with Krishna.

The most important sense is actually the hearing sense.

If we can engage our hearing, and the tongue is also required, Something has to be vibrated for something to be heard.

So the tongue and the ear are engaged in this Krishna katha.

This actually enables us to become Transcendental to this material existence.

In other words, we vibrate on the Transcendental platform.

Right now we are conditioned souls caught up in these 4 defects.

But if we vibrate on the Transcendental level, Hare Krishna mantra, the teachings of the Gita, the teachings of the Bhagavatam, Chaitanya Charita, etc., if we take these teachings carefully handed down by the previous Acharyas and we vibrate these teachings amongst ourselves and to the general public.

That will actually liberally become as good as the Reded Salt by doing that.

So this is why Pabon said this movement is going to sweep the whole world.

This movement is actually going to sweep the whole world on the basis of our preaching.

Shibbonese books and preaching, taking this process very seriously.

So it's not that we have to contend with suffering in this material existence.

Birth is a horrible nightmare, to be squeezed in a little tube in your mother's body.

They come out screaming, they come out crying.

It's a very fearful experience being born.

And then you get sick, you get old, and you die.

Who wants to go through the pains of getting old and dying?

It's a very unpleasant suffering condition.

But if 1 can transcendentalize one's consciousness, kick out this bodily identification, which is the greatest illusion, thinking I'm the body.

If 1 can kick out this bodily misidentification, identify as a spiritual being, qualitatively 1 of the Lord.

The Lord is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss.

Isvaraha paramaha krishnaha sat-cid-ananda-vigraha, anadir adir govinda sarva-karana-karanam.

Krishna is the supreme controller, he is known as Govinda.

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

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

So we understand that we are actually qualitatively 1 with that Supreme Person.

And kick out this bodily misidentification.

Even the subtle body, we have to detach from it, and the mind also.

We shouldn't misinterpret it as our mind either.

It's like the body is a tool, the mind is a tool.

If we use it in the wrong way, If we let the mind be dictated by the mature modes of nature, the mind becomes our worst enemy.

Your mind can either be your best friend or your worst enemy, depending on how you engage it.

So you want to have an enemy sitting within you or you want to have a friend.

So you let your mind dictate, I think this, I think that, but I go with my mental whims.

To go with your mental whims are the whims of your gross senses, then you are a prisoner of maya.

You let an enemy take over you and make you a prisoner in their encampment called the material nature.

So we should not become prisoners of the mind and the senses.

We should be liberated souls by following the path of the great mahajanas.

We should not take the foolish people who criticize and Prabhupada did this, Prabhupada did that, this kind of doing this, this people, so many criticizing the envious people, you see.

The fools and rascals who don't want to follow Krishna's instructions, sarva-dharmaham parijya mam ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ahaṁ tvam sarva-bhāvebhyo mokṣu śaṁhi mā śucah kīvābhālā, your nonsense activities, fully surrender to me, I will deliver you from all your sensory reactions, You don't have to worry about anything.

Because they don't want to give up their foolish thinking.

They are the center of all the existence, consciousness.

And actually follow Krishna's instruction of serenity and therefore they find so many faults.

Krishna did this, Krishna did that, Prabhupada did this, Prabhupada did that, ISKCON is doing this, ISKCON is doing that.

Actually, they're just envious rascals, that's all they really are.

They try to make all these justifications, why they shouldn't surrender to Krishna, why they shouldn't follow Prabhupada, why they shouldn't become a part of this kind, etc, etc, etc.

We should follow these great Mahajanas, liberators, such as intelligence.

We have to look, we have to really deeply analyze.

Let's go to the basic, the most basic thing.

Krishna is manifesting us from himself for the sole purpose of enjoying a relationship with us.

We exist for the purpose of giving enjoyment to Krishna.

But actually the devotee enjoys equally with Krishna.

Like that nice verse, 521, vayas prasesthatat tatman vindajat manayat sukham sabhamo yogayuktatman sukham akshayam asnute Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sense pleasure but is always entranced by the pleasure within.

In this way the self-realized soul enjoys unlimited happiness, free from the supreme.

So it is not that we enjoy anything less by existing to give enjoyment to Krishna.

Krishna enjoys unlimited happiness and similarly that person who connects with Krishna, he also enjoys unlimited happiness.

So and even sometimes the devotee is greater than God.

Just like somebody, just like Krishna Just like Krishna has to be chastised, Madhusudana is bigger than Krishna.

So in this way Madhusudana has actually become the chastiser of Krishna.

You will ask on the tie you up with ropes, you naughty boy, I'm going to tie you up with ropes.

We had these big deities of Adi and Krishna.

And because of the bus, it was bouncing, so They tied ropes so they wouldn't fall over.

So Palma said, oh you can name that naughty boy, Radha-Dhamma.

They were very famous, the Radha-Dhamma traveling from Kirtaparvati, a very famous part of this country.

The big, these are the little Radha-Dhamma, named after him.

I think they're in Gita Nagarina, the Radha-Dhamma.

Now these are little, this is a little version, mini, Mini, mini, that's the maxi Radha-Dhamma, this is the mini Radha-Dhamma.

We are very fortunate have Krishna, the naughty boy, with Thaddeus here to bless us.

So to become the sold out servant of God doesn't mean you are diminishing your position.

It means you are increasing your position.

Because Krishna becomes a servant of those who become totally surrendered to him.

You don't lose out anything by fully surrendering to Krishna.

Even the rest of the day we hear that material prosperity also comes to the Buddha.

So even spiritually and even materially 1 benefits by becoming Krishna conscious.

So it's a shame right Now the whole world is completely in a state of illusion, completely carried away by all these nonsense speculators who say that everything came out of a big explosion.

It's the latest discovery of some scientists.

They found, you know, it's still going on.

It's considered a gospel truth what the scientists are discovering about the solar system and the universe.

But people accept it, oh yes, the scientists are telling it.

There was a big explosion out there and everything came.

They are just carried away by their senses.

And these foolish rascals are also big, big, carried away by the census persons.

So at least we should not be carried away by all this bogus propaganda.

At least we should understand who I really am.

Jivara Sarvabhai, Krishna Aranya Chidada, Constitutional position of living entity, the eternal servant of Krishna.

Why should you suffer when you don't have to?

Isn't it stupid to suffer when you don't have to suffer?

Why should 1 inflict suffering on himself?

1 who inflicts suffering, actually the whole material world is masochistic.

They're all inflicting suffering upon themselves because they're embracing a false sense of identity with that which gets sick, that which gets old and that which dies.

Because every few years you buy a new model.

You're driving down the street, you know, and you actually run into somebody and they gather, you hit me!

They didn't hit their car, but they said me.

You hit me, you rascal, I'm gonna sue you, you hit me.

Sometimes Krishna puts us in great difficulties.

Like right now we are going great difficulty here in Austin.

There's 2000 power outages right now in Austin.

It was 1400 and then it went to 1700 and now There's more power outages increasing.

So how long can they get around to fix 2,000 power outages?

How many workers do they have throughout?

You know, there's not 2,000 workers working in the utility department.

So we're going through a great difficulty here.

No electricity and no heat and it's cold.

This is some special mercy from Krishna to help us intensify our taking shelter of his lotus feet.

If we train ourselves to see everything in a very positive way, see the bright side of everything, then we can be better by even the most apparently devastating negative situation.

Because the moment of death is going to be like that.

The moment of death will be everything is being taken away.

So we have to learn to see everything as a special mercy of Krishna.

I remember Prabhupada told us in that first lecture, the lecture I heard in Ratha-yatra, how he says you can become qualified to see God face to face.

It's not you seeing, we see each other face to face, you can see God face to face, probably, but this requires practice.

See Krishna within everything and everything within Krishna.

Like this, Krishna's the taste of water, The light of the sun and the moon, Prabhupada was explaining like this.

Every day you drink water once, twice, thrice, more than that.

Every time you drink water, if you remember Krishna's attention to water, immediately you become Krishna conscious.

In the day you can see the sunshine, hopefully we'll see some sunshine here in Austin pretty soon.

But actually 1 has to see Krishna in everything.

It is like when you hear the thunder, that is Krishna.

We heard some thunder earlier this morning, or even a car driving on the street, and the sound in ether.

You can learn how to experience, see Krishna with everything, and the ability in man.

You see somebody has a talent for singing or cooking or any kind of talent you can see.

A talent, someone knows how to drive a car even, that's a talent.

So learn how to speak Krishna with everything.

This is the Krishna consciousness process, to where you cannot forget Krishna even for a minute.

Always experiencing Krishna in every situation.

So the more we read these books, the more we talk about what's in these books, the more we remember what's in these books, the more we serve the instructions of Srila Prabhupada remembering what a great personality he is, he's not an ordinary man, he's a power to charge, he's coming in unbroken line or in civic succession.

I just remember how, I can just think of so many wonderful personal instructions that Baba gave me, Wonderful, wonderful instructions.

So there was that policy that, because I was getting so many letters, they said, okay, now only the Tamil presidents and GBCs and sannyasis, They can write, but no 1 else can write.

I felt a need to have that connection with the Prabhupada, to be able to personally ask him questions and get answers.

And I wrote him anyway, and then he wrote me a letter, telling me about the new policy, but he said, there's an urgent need.

I'm always happy to hear from my beloved disciples.

So this Papa took us, his beloved disciples and he cared, he had unlimited compassion for every 1 of us, unlimited compassion.

So we have to learn how to reciprocate that love that Prabhupada gave to us and it is coming down to us through his representatives and through his books, through his teachings.

We have to learn how to take this mercy coming from Prabhupada and reciprocate that mercy by following Prabhupada's instructions to become pure devotees of Krishna and to make this world Krishna conscious.

Spiritual strength means not being carried away by the material modes of nature.

Means to keep yourself fixed in Krishna consciousness.

How to deliver the mind while executing Krishna consciousness.

It means you are keeping your mind fixed in Krishna consciousness.

You are not letting it go here and go there.

Yato yato nischalati manas chanchalamastalam tatastatad na yajnatah atma ye vimushamyaya From wherever and wherever the mind wanders, due to its flickering and unsteady nature, 1 must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.

You keep your mind fixed in Krishna consciousness.

They're tied up in service for Lord Nithyananda.

What is the secret of Srila Prabhupada's pure devotion?

I think we only have 20% left, we should be able to make it.

Secret of Prabhupada's pure devotion is his dedication to his spiritual master.

When he takes the order of his spiritual master, his very life and soul, that is the secret of pure devotion.

Take the order of the spiritual master as one's very life and soul.

But, the divine gift of the Bhagavad Gita is that we can follow him and become like him by taking the orders of your spiritual master as your very life and soul.

That's how you can become like Prabhupada and a pure devotee of Krishna.

How we can all become pure devotees by taking the orders of our spiritual master as our very life and soul.

Is it recognized saying in other confession it's consuming me to be taken there as a saint?

Even, no, a saintly person cannot be eating meat.

It doesn't matter what your tradition you're in.

Anyone who's eating meat is not a saintly person.

They're eating the flesh of murdered animals.

How to understand that Krishna is the supreme enjoyer if the devotee also enjoys equally with Krishna?

Because his enjoyment depends on his relationship with Krishna.

Krishna enjoys independently, but we can't enjoy independently.

Our enjoyment depends on our relationship with Him.

Gautam, I understand that Krishna is unlimited, infinite, and where infinite has to move.

So it's really difficult for me to understand how I'm capable of experiencing.

He may want to enjoy being subordinate to you.

If you become His pure devotee, He may take pleasure in being subordinate to you.

He was not disturbed, oh no, I'm being chastised.

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