Srimad Bhagavatam, Fourth Kanna Chapter 18, Text 13.

Tata, so, apare, others, ca, also, sarvatra, everywhere, saram, the essence, adadhe, adadate, adadate, took Buddha, the intelligent class of men, Tathā, thereafter,

others shall also yathākāmām, as much as they desired, Dūḍhūḍhu, melt

The planet earth controlled by Prithu Maharaj.

TATARESHA SARVATRA SARVAM ADADATE BUDDHA TATONIYE CHAGYATHA KAMAM DUDUHU PITUBHA VITAM.

The translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada, Others who were as intelligent as King Pitu also took the essence out of the earthly planet.

Indeed, everyone took this opportunity to follow in the footsteps of King Pitu and get whatever he desired from the planet earth, Purpur.

The planet earth is also called Vasundhara.

The word Vasu means wealth and Dhara means 1 who holds.

All creatures within the earth fulfill the necessities required for human beings and all living entities can be taken out of the earth by the proper means.

And suggested by the planet earth and initiated by King Prithu, whatever is taken from the earth either from the minds, from the surface of the globe, or from the atmosphere, should always be considered the property of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and should be used for yajna, Lord Vishnu.

As soon as the process of yajna is stopped, the earth will withhold all productions, vegetables, trees, plants, fruits, flowers, other agricultural products and minerals.

As confirmed in the Bhagavad Gita, the process of yajna was instituted from the beginning of creation.

By the regular performance of yajna, the equal distribution of wealth and the restriction of sense gratification, the entire world will be made peaceful and prosperous.

As already mentioned, in this age of Kali, the simple performance of Sankirtan Yajna, the holding of festivals as initiated by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, should be introduced in every town and village.

Intelligent men should encourage the performance of Sankirtana Yoga by their personal behavior.

This means that they should follow the process of austerity by restricting themselves from illicit sex, meat eating, gambling and intoxication.

If the intelligent men or the Brahmins of society would follow the rules and regulations, suddenly the entire face of this present world which is in such chaotic condition would change and people would be very happy and prosperous.

Vandeham Sri Guru Sri Jatapada Kamalam Sri Guru-Vaishnavam Stham Sri Rupam Sagradatam

Shri Rupam Sagradatam Sahagana Raghunatham Vittam Tam Sajeevam.

Krishna Chaitanya Devam Shri Radha Krishna Padam Sahagana Lalita Shri Vishakanti Tam Stha.

Namaste, Sarasvati Devi, Gauravani Pracharini, Nirvisesha, Suryavati, Pashyachitisha, Tarvini, Mukham, Kaloti, Vatsalam, Pangunam, Ithe, Giriyam, Yathri, Partham, Ambandeshwari, Guru So this is very, very important point that Prabhupada is making.

The intelligent class of men, that means the Brahmins in the Vedic culture, the intelligent class of men.

They should themselves strictly follow the process of austerity by straining themselves from illicit sex life, meeting, intoxication and gambling.

If the Brahmins and intelligent men actually do this, then the whole face of the world will change.

But if the intelligent class of men start watering down the regulative principles, they mix in sense gratification with the regulated principles, then it's spoiled.

Actually we have a duty, Baba gave us a duty to live with the world.

So to live with the world we have to strictly follow the regulative principles.

If we do strictly follow these principles this movement will be successful in delivering the world.

So this tendency to sense justification is a big, big problem actually.

That's what got us into this mess to begin with.

Desire to enjoy independently from the Lord.

Actually our happiness is to give happiness to the Lord.

But we foolishly think we have our own separate agenda.

I want to be happy in this way, I want to be happy in that way, etc., etc., etc.

The hand doesn't want to feed the stomach, the hand wants to enjoy the food separately.

The hand has to feed the stomach and then the hand gets the nourishment it needs.

So our attempts to enjoy separately from pleasing the spiritual master and pleasing Krishna, These attempts will be futile, they will not make us happy.

The big mistake we made in the beginning, we were in the spiritual world, but Krishna in pure devotional service, we had this desire to try to enjoy independently.

And we were stubborn in that desire so Krishna said, all right, I'll give you, if you want to try to enjoy it independently, I'll give you a place where you can try to do it.

You'll see how it doesn't work, then you come back to me.

But yet we're here in this material world, being fooled by the material nature, we still keep thinking we can enjoy separately by doing our own thing.

That was a popular saying back in the 60's, do your own thing.

But actually we don't want to do our own thing, we want to do Krishna's thing.

Satatam kutiyanto mam, yatan tas ca drdhida-vita, namah shantah shraman bhaktah, nitya-yukta-upasate.

Always chanting my glories, endeavouring with great determination, bowing down before me, these great souls perpetually worship me with devotion.

So whenever we find ourselves in anxiety, all wilted and confused, it simply means we are not following that instruction of Krishna.

Am I always endeavoring in great determination to please my Lord?

If I am doing that then I will become in a state of pure bliss, transmittal bliss, the ultimate nirvana.

Nirvana, nirvana uttamam, the ultimate nirvana.

The ultimate nirvana, to be fully absorbed in loving service to Krishna.

An amazing person standing in the bank of Keshiga.

Amazing person who has all these amazing pastimes.

We can actually relish having a transcendental relationship with Krishna.

Can you imagine having a relationship with the Supreme Enjoyer in his eternal pastime, never getting sick, never getting old, never worrying about arthritis in the knee or a large prostate or any of this garbage we go through in the material world.

Just imagine going back and being with Krishna.

So we want to do that, we want to go back to that transcendental abode and be with Krishna and we have to follow the process of Krishna consciousness.

If we try to do our own independent program, then we're putting ourselves in difficulty.

If we act independently, what does that mean?

It means we stay here in the cycle of birth and death.

Well I don't want to do what my spiritual master wants me to do.

Well, good luck, because you're going to be stuck here in the cycle of birth and death, suffering, birth, death, old age and disease again and again and again and again, lifetime after lifetime after lifetime.

But when you give up this foolish desire to be independent and you simply think let me simply do what Guru and Krishna want me to do, then you become a liberated soul.

Even within this material world we liberate ourselves.

1 who is happiness within, who is active and rejoices within and whose aim is inward is the perfect mystic.

He is already living in the supreme and ultimately he attains the supreme.

So this is what we have to do, we have to put our aim inwards.

Not my material senses, my material mind, is it gratifying my mental urges?

Well, please my spiritual master and Krishna.

And that, when we've gone to that mood, we can be in a state of bliss in any situation.

You can even be arrested and put in jail and be in a state of bliss.

If you have your aim inward, it doesn't matter you are in any situation externally, it won't matter.

You can be in a huge earthquake or in a freezing cold where there is no power.

In any situation, if your aim is inward, I have to think, speak and act in such a way that will please my beloved spiritual master and will please Krishna.

If we put our aim in this way, then there is no problem.

We live in the Vaikuntha world already within our hearts.

So there is no need to punish ourselves by trying to enjoy independently.

Let us simply think, how can I please my beloved Krishna?

Let me not be a fool and a rascal to try to enjoy separately.

Let me simply try to please my beloved Krishna, my beloved spiritual master, with my every thought where indeed in all times, places and circumstances.

Because We are not these material bodies.

Na tve va haṁ jāti na saṁ na tam me me janādhi pa na jāyavānāmbi viṣṇamāt sarvam āyam athahāpanaṁ Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you nor all these kings.

Nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.

So we have nothing to do with these rotting corpses.

Na jayate mriyate va kadacin na yam budhva bhavitabha nabhuyah na jyotnayam sa svato yam parano la amyate yanyamane sarire For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time.

He is not come into being, does not come into being and will not come into being.

He is unborn, ever existing, and undying and primeval.

So let's start acting in our own real self-interest.

Let us start acting now in our real self-interest.

By serving our false self-interest we do nothing but punish ourselves.

Do we have any sadistic people here who want to punish themselves?

So let's not be masochistic and try to punish ourselves.

Let us give ourselves the supreme benediction of Krishna consciousness.

Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, hey!

Let me get connected to my beloved Krishna.

He is actually present with us at every minute.

Pramanjanacarita bhakti-valocanena santaksadai-vahideyesa-valokayanti yam samasunyam ramacitnyagunasvarupam govindam haripurusham jama harpam I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is samasundara, Krishna himself with inconceivable and innumerable attributes and the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion, tinged with the salve of love.

So let us tinge our eyes with the sap of love so we can actually experience Krishna.

Baba said not only within but without also.

Like he told us in that wonderful lecture he gave in San Francisco, the Vati-yatra.

He said, you have all seen God, because Krishna says, I'm the light of the sun and the moon.

He said, every day you're drinking water, once, twice, thrice, more than that.

Every time you drink water, you remember Krishna, the taste of the water, and immediately become Krishna conscious.

To become Krishna conscious is not difficult, it simply requires practice.

So how do you practice being Krishna conscious?

By always doing what will please your spiritual master.

You actually do what will please your spiritual master, then you will actually become Krishna conscious and you will be able to experience Krishna within everything and everything within Krishna.

That amazing Krishna who has these unlimited wonderful pastimes in the spiritual world.

I worship him in the prime name of the Lord, whose...

I worship him in the prime name of the Lord, whose glory is ever...

Transcendent, dominates the world by the...

I worship the 1 and only Prime Leader of the Lord, whose glory is ever...

The Graveshikamanda, the Prime Immortal, whose glories ever triumphantly dominate the mundane

world by the activities of his own mind reflected in

the mind of recollecting cells of the transcendental integrity of blissful cognitive rest.

So his glory triumphantly dominated the mundane world.

So Krishna's glory actually triumphantly dominated the whole material world.

In this material world we have people who become so called glorious, for some time, become big famous people, the Beatle, President Kennedy, you know this and that.

But their glory vanishes into oblivion in due course of time.

Krishna means the eternally the most famous person.

His fame and glory is outlived by all the temporary fame and glory of the little so-called big names in the material world.

You try to connect with somebody else or your own mind, then you are in difficulty.

Instead of trying to please your own mental urges, sing, Baba please my beloved Krishna, Shama Sundari.

Ishvaraha paramaha krishnaha, satchitananda vigraha, anadhirandhir govinda, sarva karanakaranam.

Krishna is not of the govindas, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

He has an eternal form, full of bliss and Knowledge.

He is the origin of all and he is Sarva-karuṇāṁ, the prime cause of all causes.

Let us learn how to feel His presence in every situation, at every minute, how to feel His presence, how to taste the nectar of His divine presence at every minute.

He is fully manifested in the form of His holy names.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Every anxiety all you have to do is chant with feeling.

Put some love and devotion in the chanting and all your anxiety will be gone.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Lord Chaitanya has so mercifully come.

There in Navadvipa, 500 years ago, the Chanakya, he didn't like it.

He made a huge chanting party and he marched in the house of the Qazi.

the Qazi tried to pacify the whole situation.

When he came out he said, actually, you are the, he called him uncle, they had some conversation that passed by the whole thing and the Qazi was actually converted by the mercy of Lord Chaitanya.

He made it his will that from now on none of my descendants shall ever put a stop to this Samkirtan movement.

Even during the days of the Hindu-Muslim riot, the chanting was still going on with no obstruction because of the Qazi's instruction for his future generation.

And even now, his tomb is there and Hindus even go to offer their respect to this Muslim because he joined the Samkirtan movement of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Just like in Gainesville when we were doing this program.

We had gone on Gargumuni's farm and we had originally started it, but then it stopped and then it was restarted again.

For 3 whole years they gave me out Pashatim every day on the campus.

It was a huge popular program in the Plaza de Americas.

We take a luncheon, we have our expert cooks at the temple, we have a wonderful lunch pashyana we could take out.

We had so many students and hippie types coming and relishing the pashyana.

We had all kinds of interesting philosophical discussions there, defeating my body philosophy, that was a big thing, you know, I'm God, you're God, we're all God.

But then after 3 years, the campus, we never got permission from the campus, so the campus decided we're going to shut them down, get rid of these Hare Krishnas.

They said no more prashadam, no more lunch program on the campus, you are now banned.

So Amarindra, our Tamil President, went and he said, OK, no, you follow Lord Chaitanya's movement, you see, defy the Kazis.

So he sent out the devotees anyway and the police came and they put the devotees in hands.

The devotees wouldn't watch the squad cars.

They were non-cooperating with the police.

They had to drag them in the squad cars across the plaza, dragging the devotees.

All the students were bullying the police.

And now for half a century that program is still going on, the Gainesville, Iskcon Gainesville free lunch program in the Plaza de la Miranca.

So we have to have this determination, we're not going to let anything stop this movement and individually also we should have this determination, I'm not going to let anything stop me from embracing pure devotional service as my only business from now on for all of eternity.

I don't care if I feel this way or I feel that way, the hell with my damned feelings.

Not what I want, what does my spiritual master want me to do?

Because of what I want, and I'm here in this material world to begin with, because I want it.

And what does Krishna, representative of my spiritual master, want?

If we take this mentality, and we just take it and have faith in this process.

Prabhupada is not just some author who wrote some big books.

Prabhupada is a self-realized spiritual master and empowered representative sent by Krishna, this is material wealth, to launch this Sankirtan movement all over the world.

So these teachings are not some bogus thing, just some fancy words from a philosopher who wanted to make some money by selling books.

No, these are words that will actually liberate us from all the stress, all anxiety, all confusion that we are feeling now and perfusion.

These teachings and this process will liberate us.

So we should not follow our own stupid mental whims and We should follow the instructions of the spiritual master and the previous Acharyas.

Tad viddhi pranipatena paripraśninasevaya upadekṣyate te jñāna jñānena tad-padarśinaḥ Just try to learn the truth by approaching the spiritual master.

Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him.

The self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you.

So what does my spiritual master want me to do?

What does my spiritual master want me to do?

You inquire submissively from the spiritual master.

If we're not willing to do that, I don't want to do what my Guru Maharaj wants me to do, I'm going to do what I want to do.

We're just punishing ourselves, that's all.

We're just keeping ourselves locked up in the cycle of birth and death.

This hellish nightmare of birth, death, old age and disease, looping the loop again and again through the 8 million to 100,000 species all the way from being ended down to being an endergropa germ.

We want to stay in this cycle going from end to the end and go progerm again and again for millions and millions of births.

We should be intelligent and realize the way out is to take the instructions of my spiritual master is my very life and soul.

That's what will save me, that's what will liberate me.

Then we can actually become full of bliss, full of knowledge.

Coming back to the original 1 of opposition.

We can get reconnected with that Krishna, a tranquil flute player with a peacock feather in his hair.

And where shall go bend in the primeval Lord, who is adept at playing on his flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals, head decked with peacock feather, with a figure of beauty, tunes with a hue of blue clouds, and his unique loveliness is charming millions of Cupids.

Just imagine we can be reconnected with that person.

Aalola chalana kajasadvanamaya vamsi, ratnam gadam karena kela kalabhilasam, shamanti bangal adhitanya daprakasham, govindam adhipurusham tamo bhajami.

I worship Govinda the prime name of the Lord, round whose neck is swinging a flower of garland beautified with a moon locket, whose 2 hands are on the flute and jeweled ornaments and always revels in pastimes of love, And His graceful threefold bending form of Shama Sundara is eternally manifested.

Just imagine you become reconnected with that personality.

Therefore we should not punish ourselves by doing things that put us into suffering conditions.

We should intelligently do those things that will bring us out of all suffering.

We have a movement called the Krishna consciousness movement.

We have the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

It means that we are supposed to be cultivating Krishna consciousness, right?

If I'm here in ISKCON, a member of ISKCON, but I'm not cultivating Krishna consciousness, then I'm not in ISKCON, I'm in MISKCON, missing Krishna consciousness.

So don't be a MISKCON devotee, be an ISKCON devotee, cultivating Krishna consciousness.

We need to come back to that, the lotus feet of that Supreme Person.

That's what we, if we're intelligent, that's what we'll do, we'll call it Krishna consciousness.

We won't punish ourselves again and again and again in the cycle of birth and death.

We have suffered like anything for millions of births and now the Prophet is giving us a way out.

So let's take advantage of the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.

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