Srimad Bhagavatam 4th canto chapter 18, verse 9 and 10.

Putanam buddha-bhavana anam icchitam urjas vad bhagavan vacchate yadi vatsam a calf kathayah arrange me or me vira or hero yena by which May me, Vera, O Hero, Jaina, by which I, Vatsala, affectionate.

Anurupam, according to different living entities.

Dharmaram, milkman, shav, also, mahabaho, almighty army man, uttanam, of all living entities, Bhutabhavanam, all protector of the living entities.

Ipshitan, Desired, urjavat, nourishing, Bhagavan, your worshipable self, vanchate, desires, yadi, if.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnupad Paramahamsa Pratibhijakar Janasat, Teletattva Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Sri Dandigos Mahamandala, Nirmala Pariksit Jaya.

Oh great hero, protector of living entities, if you desire to relieve the living entities by supplying them sufficient grains, and if you desire to nourish them By taking milk from me, you should make arrangements to bring a calf suitable for this purpose and put a pot in which the milk can be kept as well as a milkman to do the work.

Since I will be very much affectionate toward my calf, your desire to take milk from me will be fulfilled." These are very nice instructions for milking a cow.

The cow must first have a calf so that out of affection for the calf she will voluntarily give sufficient milk.

There must also be an expert milkman and a suitable pot in which to keep the milk.

Just as a cow cannot deliver sufficient milk without being affectionate to her calf, the earth cannot produce sufficient necessities without feeling affection for those who are Krishna conscious.

Even though the earth being in the shape of a cow may be taken figuratively, the meaning herein is very explicit.

Just as a calf can derive milk from a cow, all living entities, including animals, birds, bees, reptiles and aquatics can receive their respective foods from the planet earth provided that human beings are not asat or adrita-vrata as we previously discussed.

When human society becomes asat or ungodly or devoid of Krishna consciousness, the entire world suffers.

If human beings are well behaved, animals will also receive sufficient food and be happy.

The ungodly human being, ignorant of his duty to give protection and food to the animals, kills them to compensate for the insufficient production of grains.

Thus no 1 is satisfied and that is the cause for the present condition in today's world.

Shri Guru Vaishnavamsa Sri Rupam Saagraja Tam Saha Gana Radhitam Vittam Tam Sajeevam Sadaitam Savadhutam Parijana Saitam Krishna Chaitanya Devam Sri Radha Krishna Param Saha Gana Radhitam Shri Visakhan Vittam Sha Nama Nama om vishnupadaya krishna presthaya bhutale Srimathe Bhaktivedanta Swamini Kinnamane Namaste Sarasvati Devi Gauravani Pracharinai Nirvishesha Shunyavadi Pashto Chidushya Tharinai Mukham Karoti Bhachalam Pangum Nigate Girim Yat Tripath Tamaham Vande Sri Guru Nithyanandam So, the present day situation on this planet is very, as powerful as us, that's ungodly.

There are people who say we should not abuse the cows, we shouldn't kill the cows.

Even they don't have the proper understanding.

They say, well, you should not separate the calf from the cow.

They say it's cruel to separate the calf from the cow.

They don't realize that actually if the cow is sufficiently cared for with love and devotion, she is sufficiently fed, she has sufficient milk both for her calf and for the human beings.

The Human beings are actually meant to drink milk, it's not just for the calves.

So even the people who have some little piety who want to stop calculating, they still don't have the proper understanding of the Vedic conception.

Give the cow sufficient food, sufficient love and devotion, she will happily give more milk than her calf can even drink.

The calf can drink sufficiently, as much as it wants and still there is sufficient milk for the human beings.

So it's a great travesty of justice that we take the milk from the cow and then we kill the cow and eat her.

We take the first milk from our mother's breast and then our second mother is the cow.

She gives us all kinds of nice milk, yogurt, sour cream, ice cream, ghee, curd, so many nice things.

Burfi, there's so many nice things we derive from the milk.

Paneer, there's so many nice things we derive from the milk.

How we could be so cruel and heartless to this animal who's clearly giving her milk for our enjoyment, for our nourishment.

So this cow slaughter business must be stopped.

We must close down all these slaughterhouses.

This cow killing civilization is very, very Assad, very, very, very Assad civilization.

That's 1 point we can understand regarding this verse today.

Another point is because the Prophet also makes the point that all necessities are being withheld.

We are not doing yajna, we are not doing sacrifice.

In this age the yagi is the Sankirtana yaga.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

So how many people are chanting Hare Krishna?

Only a very, very small, small percentage of the human population is chanting Hare Krishna.

Anad bhavanti bhutani parjanya anasambhava jagad bhaviti parjanya yajna-karma-sambhut bhavaha.

All living bodies subsist on food grains produced from rains.

Rains are produced from the form of yogya, sacrifice and sacrifice is born of prescribed duties.

So they are neglecting their prescribed duties.

And therefore the rain is being withheld.

There is so many droughts going on all over the world.

And therefore there is not sufficient grains.

And as the Bhagavad Gita points out, if there are not sufficient grains, they kill the animals and eat them.

But actually everything depends on the grains.

So to get the rain we have to do the yajna.

We have to chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

We have to convince everybody around the whole world to chant the Hare Krishna mantra.

The Sankirtana movement will bring not only spiritual perfection but also material happiness will be there.

There will be proper balance of the brain and enough sufficient production of grains.

And this way it is our mission actually to make the whole world happy by making them Krishna conscious.

So the difficulty is so wrapped up in sense gratification.

They falsely consider the body to be the self.

They don't realize they have a spiritual identity beyond their body.

So they base their whole happiness on gratifying the senses, the tongue, the belly, the genitals, etc.

Therefore the whole civilization is going down to the animal kingdom.

The animals are simply in the platform of sense gratification.

The human beings are meant to go beyond sense gratification.

Now you've got a human form, you're meant to utilize it for self-realization.

You're not meant to use it, utilize it by imitating the ways of the animal, simply eating, sleeping, mating and descending.

Human life is a very, very rare opportunity.

We had to get out of this quagmire of material existence and get back to our original home in the spiritual sky.

Actually we are eternal associates of Krishna.

Our Lord Vishnu and the Vaikuntha planets, That's our original identity.

We all have identities in the pastimes of the Lord, in the spiritual sky.

So what are we doing here, trying to deny God, saying there is no God, everything is void, everything is 1.

How can we be so foolish and how misguided it's due to bad association.

We have bad leadership, we have bad teachers.

It's like we see the teachers are atheists.

We have these atheists, they are teachers and they teach atheism to the students.

So we are so much misguided that we can't even understand that there is a supreme person that serves all existence.

They don't even use logic and intelligence to analyze things carefully.

It's fanaticism, it's atheism, it's fanaticism.

I see that every machine has an operator.

No machine can function without an operator.

So we also see this gigantic cosmic manifestation operates like a machine.

So this is every machine has an operator, this gigantic machine must also have an operator.

How they can say that every machine requires an operator except for this gigantic machine.

It is foolishness, it is asinine to deny the supreme operator.

So our Krishna Gandha's movement is meant to educate and enlighten everyone to use their intelligence.

From knowledge we can go to pure devotional service.

If you understand things properly, then you can do the needful to achieve the proper result of this human form of life.

If you don't understand things properly, you'll misuse your human intelligence for sense gratification.

How to build skyscraper buildings, big freeways, you know, so much development, development, development of this so-called civilization.

They shouldn't call it human civilization.

Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord.

1 should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself which have been set aside as his quota, knowing well to whom everything belongs." Do they care a fig about quota?

Grab, grab, grab, grab as much as you can.

The whole society is going on lust, anger and greed.

Kama esa krodha esa rajaguna samumbhava mahasana maha papa ma vidvidham eva eva vidham.

The whole civilization is going crazy, lust, anger and greed.

The naked dance shows, the tall buildings, the big factories, you know, pouring out all kinds of manufactured goods to gratify the senses of the materialists.

There has to be a put a stop to this nonsense.

Lord Caitanya wants to put a stop to this nonsense.

Lord Srila Prabhupada wants to put a stop to this nonsense.

He wants to bring Krishna back to the center of the human civilization.

When you put God and Krishna in the center, we have to put Krishna back in the center.

We have to understand Krishna actually is a censor, but we don't recognize it.

Everything is going in his direction and those who don't follow his laws or his instructions, they get punished actually.

It's like here in the modern day government, if you break the law you can be arrested and put in prison.

So this material world is a prison house for all of those who are defying the authority of God.

That's what everybody here is a prisoner.

Even the demigods are highly placed prisoners, that's all.

We're all prisoners here in this material existence.

We're thinking, well, my happiness is to get a nicer cell.

We get a nicer cell with a nice bed, you know.

But actually, prison life is prison life, that's all.

No matter how you look at it, you're a prisoner.

It's not a happy position to be a prisoner, to be an inmate within the cycle of birth and death.

I don't care how wealthy, how famous, how powerful you may be, but it's not a very nice position to be caught up in this hellish nightmare of material existence.

Therefore we have to become intelligent, we have to become sober, we have to become enthusiastic to revive our original enlightened consciousness which has been sleeping within our hearts for millions and billions of lifetimes.

You have had pure Krishna Bhakti within your heart for millions and billions of lifetimes.

Even when you are an animal, even when you are a worm in a stool, you had Krishna Kanyas within your heart.

So now we have this opportunity and we have the greatest opportunity, we have been blessed by this great Acharya, his divine grace, Om Vishnupad Paramahamsa Parivrtta, Charanjya Asatala Sathashivshima, Asi Bhaktivedanta Dandekosmali Maharaj Prabhupada.

We have been blessed by the mercy of this great powerful Vaiṣṇava ācārya to arrive our Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

So let's not be stupid, let's not be foolish, let's not be atheline to continue going after sense gratification.

Let's be intelligent now and kick out sense gratification.

It's like Jamanacharya Bandhu, he was formerly a king enjoying so much sexual pleasure with the Aryam, But he realized, he gave it up, he realized this is nonsense, this sense gratification is nonsense, he became a sadhu.

But sometimes he would remember those past, the past so-called pleasure pastimes with his harem and he would spit at the thought of such things.

Yadavadi mamacheta, Krishna padaravinde, nava nava rasa damo nyatirantum asit, tadavadi bhattanari sangamesvaryanane, bhuvati mukha nishtivanam ca.

Ever since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, relishing what?

Navanāvarāsa, newer and newer pleasures, ever expanding ecstasy in that service.

Whenever my mind happens to go back to those past days of so-called enjoyment of my harem, my lips trouble with this taste and I spit at the thought.

We all were previously engaged in sense gratification, to be good spitters.

Any thoughts of trying to enjoy like that again comes back, spit at the thought, spit at the damn thought, get it out of my brain.

Let my mind now be fully absorbed in the devotional service of the divine son of Nanda Maharaja.

Let me come back now to our original duty to always be thinking about Krishna, talking about Krishna, worshipping Krishna, bowing down to Krishna, doing everything for the pleasure of Krishna.

Sattva-tankyati yantam mam yatan tas ca drdhru-dhru-tah, namah shantah shanam bhaktya nitya yukta-pasate.

Always chanting my glories and giving with big determination and bowing down before me these great souls for passionately, virtually devotion.

That's the secret, that's the secret of success on the pathway of self-realization.

Do everything with love, not mechanically, well I got to wash the pot, scrub, scrub, scrub, I got to get out of here.

No, whatever service we are doing, let me do this with love and devotion.

Krishna can see what I am doing right now, he knows what I'm thinking right now.

Krishna sees everything I'm doing, he knows everything I'm thinking.

So let me do everything in a way that pleases Krishna.

Let me give this lecture in a way that pleases Krishna.

Let me give this love and devotion to Krishna, Give a lecture of his teachings that will please him.

Let me wash this pot in such a way that will please him.

Or put away these jewelries in such a way that will please him.

You see, you are rolling these straps here, do it with love and devotion.

If you are hearing the lecture, do it with whatever, the key is bhakti, with devotion.

Whatever you are doing in any situation, it has to be Krishna conscious.

I am not going to have to eat a hamburger for love and devotion.

You have to follow the regulative principles.

I'm going to have some recreational sex with my wife and do it with love and devotion.

I have to follow the regulative principles.

I have to strictly follow the regulative principles and I have to follow the order of my spiritual master taking it as my very life and soul, not acting independently doing my own thing.

What does my spiritual master want me to do, what does he want me not to do also?

I have to think, speak and act in such a way that I am pleasing Guru and Krishna and the Vaishnavas and do that with love and devotion, not mechanically, with feeling, bhaktya, that's the key, that's the secret.

We do everything with even taking care of bodily needs.

And it's not me, but it's like you're driving the temple vehicle, it belongs to the temple, your service is to go somewhere, you are driving the temple vehicle, you have to take care of it, it belongs to the temple, you have to take good care of the vehicle, make sure you don't crash, make sure you don't run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, whatever, There is sufficient oil, you have to take good care of the vehicle, it belongs to the temple, you have to take good care of it.

So in the same way this body belongs to you, it is not yours, but it has been given to you by Krishna to use in his service.

So you have to keep your body in good condition, Keep it in good operating order as best as possible.

Gets more challenging as we get old but still, even in all ways, Pabba was advised by 1 health care person to take walks for his health and He did that.

He was regularly taking walks and we had so many recordings of Baba's morning walk conversation.

He was advised by a health care professional to take walks for his health and he took that advice very seriously and applied it because the body, you tell the body that this is an instrument given by Krishna, I have to take good care of it, so let me take this advice now to keep the body in good condition.

So in this way we have to see everything is a property of Krishna, utilize everything in Krishna's service and this way our minds become peaceful, become happy.

Nitya-raga-vaya-krodha, man-mano-mami, man-mayo-mami-vamsa-tatha, bahavau jnana-tapasah, puthamadbhavam Mad-mayya-mad-yamah, bahavau jnana-tapasah, putta-mad-bhavam agatah, being free from attachment, fear and anger, Being fully absorbed in me, taking refuge in me, these great personalities became purified by knowledge of me and they all attained transcendental love for me.

So we have attachment, fear and anger, we can become free from these enemies of the soul, attachment, fear and anger and become fully absorbed in Krishna.

Let me not be angry, let me see everything that is coming to me as the mercy of Krishna.

Of course anger is being used for teaching but it is not that 1 is overwhelmed by anger.

Prabhupada used anger as a teaching tool to instruct us and correct us from our mistakes but it is not that he was overwhelmed by anger.

He lost his intelligence and became overwhelmed by Krodha Vegna, overwhelmed his intelligence.

We can utilize these things, even lust can be used to produce Krishna conscious children.

We should not become overwhelmed by lust or anger.

So in this way We become fully absorbed in Krishna, take complete shelter of Krishna, become very knowledgeable and read these books of Sita Prabhupada.

1 tip that I recommend sometimes is have a sloka for the day.

Every day take 1 verse, this is my sloka for the day.

Today I'm going to learn this verse, pronounce it very nicely, recite it again and again, study the purport.

That's my little tip for those who are looking for ways to become more absorbed in Krishna consciousness.

I'm going to meditate on it and try to live in harmony with it, etc., etc., etc.

So this process is simple for the simple and difficult for the crooked.

The reason we have difficulties is we sell this crooked mentality.

That's called a crooked mentality, isn't it?

If you have a crooked mentality, you are a crook.

We can't have a crooked mentality thinking I am the Lord of all.

Actually the more 1 becomes mature in Krishna consciousness, the more he appreciates being corrected.

Someone who is immature, they get all upset when they are corrected.

It is like a little child when they are corrected they may start crying, they don't feel very happy that they got corrected.

But actually when they become more mature they will appreciate, oh my mother and my father they are helping me I will become more expert in doing everything in Krishna's service.

So the more we become mature we actually become happy and satisfied that I am getting the mercy of being corrected.

I can help get rid of all these faults I have.

And here the devotee is putting out my faults to try to help me get out of this ocean of faults that I am drowning in right now.

So we shouldn't be angry when we are corrected, we should take it as a great blessing.

But now I hear that a devotee who has enough love and compassion, they are trying to correct me to help me get out of this ocean of faults that I am drowning in right now.

So the Supreme Lord is so kindly manifested, He's even manifested a holy dhamma, Vrindavan dhamma, Mayapura dhamma, Jagannath Puri dhamma.

The Lord is, these dhammas are still present, you can actually go there and take the dust of the dhamma, you can bow down in the dust of the holy Vrindavan dhamma, you can bow down in the dust of Navadvipa dhamma, Mayapura dhamma.

We can actually go and take the dust on our head, it is non-different from Krishna.

The holy dhamma is non-different from Krishna himself.

We can take pilgrimages to the holy dhams.

And just breathing in the air in the holy dhams purifies you.

Just by breathing in the air, just by seeing the holy dhams, it's a great blessing.

So we should take advantage of this wonderful kindness of Krishna and Guru and give up our foolishness, you see.

We should all take very seriously this process of Krishna-prasadam.

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