Reading today Shemot Bagutam 4th Kano chapter 18 text number 16.

Daytaya, Danava, Vatsam, Talaadam, Asharashavam, Vidha, Yadur, Hanjiram, Ayah Patre, Sarasavam.

Demon, Vishvam, the chief, Vihaya, making.

Chiram, milk, ayak, iron, patre, in a pot, sarab, liquor, atam, Fermented liquids like beer.

Translation in Purple by His Divine Grace A.C.

The sons of Diti and the demons transform Talaad Maharaj, who was born in a sura family, into a calf and they extract various kinds of liquor and beer which they put into a pot made of iron.

The demons also have their own types of beverages in the form of liquors and beers.

It says that the demigods use somarasa for their drinking purposes.

The demons born of Diti take great pleasure in drinking wine and beer.

Even today people of demoniac nature are very much addicted to liquor and beer.

The name of Pilate Maharaj is very significant in this connection because Pilate Maharaj was born in a family of demons as the son of Aranya Kashi Poo.

By his mercy the demons were and are still able to have their drinks in the form of wine and beer.

The word ayah, iron, is very significant.

Whereas the nectarian, some of us put into a golden pot, the liquors and beers are put into an iron pot.

Because the liquor and beer are inferior, they are placed in an iron pot, and because the samajja is superior, it is placed in a golden pot.

Krsna Caitanya Devam Sri-Rabha Krsna-Padam Sahaganadali Sri-Visakhandi Tamsa Namah Om Vishnu Padaya Krsna-Preshtaya Bhutale Srimat-Bhaktivedanta Swaminity Namane Namaste Sarasvati Devi Gauravani Pucarine Namaste Sarasvati Devi Gauravani Puchari Ne Nivisheshu Shunyavadi Pashisadesha Tharinai Mukham Kuroti Vatsalam Pamguni Gathegiri Yat Kripas Tamam Vande Sri Guru Dinatarinam So the subject matter of today's class is wine and beer, the demons in an iron pot.

Actually this wine and beer are very popular with the non devotees.

There are so many brands of beer and wine and liquors available.

They have liquor shops in the grocery store.

There is a big section for all the liquors.

They drink this liquor because they are suffering like anything, when they get a little drunk they can forget their suffering, but actually they become even more miserable you see.

This drinking the liquor actually shortens their life span, it has a detrimental impact on their brain and their health because they are intoxicated and they think they are happy in their intoxicated state and they go on drinking these things shortening their life spans, ruining their brain, ruining their health, etc.

They have an offense called DWI, driving while intoxicated.

If you are caught driving a vehicle while you are intoxicated you can be arrested for driving while you are intoxicated.

Because when you are intoxicated you can't function properly, you can't drive a car properly, you can't do anything properly when you are intoxicated.

Sometimes they drink so much they vomit and they throw up because they drink so much.

So this is the so-called enjoyment of these materialists.

But what is the enjoyment for the spiritualist?

Vindajatmaniyat Sukham Sukham Akshayam Asnate.

So the liberated soul is not attracted to wine and beer, to material sense gratification, but he is always entranced relishing the pleasure within.

In this way the self-realized soul enjoys unlimited happiness.

Because he always concentrates on the Supreme.

Anadir andir bhogindas sarva-karanakaranam.

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

He is the origin of all and he is the prime cause of all causes.

These materialists, they don't accept the existence of God.

They have different theories, well it all just came out of an explosion or popped out of the void or it's just a manifestation of the oneness of the divine light.

But we have to understand there's actually a supreme person out there behind the whole thing.

It's like I have a father, my father has a father, his father has a father, you go back, back, back, back, back, the original father has no father and that's God, Krishna, God.

But some would say actually there is just an infinite chain of causality.

There is no original person who just goes on into infinity.

There is no origin, it just keeps going into infinity.

But Just consider an infinite chain of action and reaction.

There is an action and a reaction, something has to start it off.

You can't have a cause after cause, there is no original cause that started us.

An infinite chain of causality requires a supreme person that started us.

So the chain of causality actually comes back to the original starting point.

It may seem like infinity because it's so long, but actually it's not infinite.

There's a finite chain of causality and there's a sub-original person out there starting the whole thing off.

So we have to understand there's actually a supreme personality of God there.

We have to learn how to absorb ourselves in His loving devotion and service.

And the more we do that, the more we become rewarded.

Yeyatai mam prapadyante tam satai labhajanyam mamahavadmanu-vartante munusya-pratasarvashah It is all surrendered unto me, I reward them accordingly.

You may say Everyone follows, how a Christian can say, everybody follows my path.

Not only that they say only the devotees follow Krishna's path, but actually just consider this.

The law abiding citizens and the criminals.

The criminals are put in the jail, they are forced to follow the laws of the state.

So everybody is following the state, either the law-abiding citizens are voluntarily following the state, and the criminals are by force following the laws of the state, in the prison house.

So everybody is actually following Krishna, either directly or indirectly.

As a free citizen or a prisoner, an inmate in the modes of nature?

You have to follow Krishna 1 way or the other whether you like it or not.

But actually when you understand what it means to follow Krishna you'll love it because that's the natural nature.

The hand may complain, I don't want to feed the stomach, why should I have to feed the stomach, he just sits there and doesn't do anything, you know I'm working so hard moving my fingers this way and that way, and the stomach is sitting there, he doesn't deserve any service, I'm not going to feed the stomach anymore.

But by nature the hand gets its enjoyment by serving the stomach.

So by our very nature we get our happiness by serving the supreme source, the supreme personality of God.

So instead of trying to concoct some new program, well I'm going to get my nutrition just by squeezing the food in my fingers.

Instead of trying to concoct some program which will not work, trying to enjoy separately from the supreme, we should just surrender and do the needful.

The hand has to surrender and do the needful to get its nutrition.

So we should not follow the pathway of these foolish demigods, or dumb foolish demigods who are going after Soma Rath.

It may be very pleasant intoxicating liquor, not liquor, but drink that enhances the intelligence and strength and length and increases your life span as opposed to the wine and liquor of the demons.

But even that is still a suffering condition actually.

Some of us are also a different type of suffering.

Thinking I can be happy is separate from the Supreme Personality of God here in this material world.

Everybody, even the demigods are actually suffering.

They have a very long life span but still they have to end up dying.

So why should I try to enjoy in a place where ultimately I have to die.

Whether I am a beggar on the street or I have a nice million dollar house in South Austin, I still have to get old and die.

So why not take seriously this process of Krishna consciousness?

Why not take it seriously and Get out of the cycle of birth and death.

Janma karma ca me devyam eva nirbhuti tatva taha tatva deyan punar janma naiti mamati sarjanam.

When he knows the transcendental nature of my appearance and activity, it is not upon leaving his body to take his birth again in this material world, but he attains my eternal abode, arjuna." Somebody asked me, well, why do you need a guru then?

You just remember the transmittal nature of Krishna's appearance and activities.

If you're actually remembering Krishna's appearance and activities, what are his activities?

If you are actually remembering what he spoke in the Bhagavad Gita, tad viddhi pranipatena pare paśyati na sevaya upadekṣyanti jñānaṁ upadekṣyanti.

Tad viddhi pranipatena paripasnina sevaya upadekshanti te jnano jnananato padarshina.

He is actually remembering his activities, namely speaking the teachings of Baba Gita and you follow his instructions.

So the point is, if you think you can disobey his instructions and remember his activities, you won't be able to do that.

If you don't follow his instructions, your mind will not be inclined to remember his activities because you won't be in harmony with them.

His activity was to tell you that you need a spiritual master, that's why his name is activity.

So if I don't take a spiritual master I won't remember his activities.

I won't be able to remember his activities because I'm not in harmony with them.

So to remember the transcendental nature of a Christian's appearance and activities means you have to be in harmony with the instructions and then you will be able to remember Krishna at that time.

That is because you are in harmony with it, you are vibrating with it, you are in harmony with the instructions.

They take the instructions of Krishna and they twist them around their material attachments trying to draw out a new meaning.

This is why it's very important to have the purports of Srila Prabhupada.

It's very important that Srila Prabhupada's purports.

There was 1 Bhagavad Gita, if you can imagine, it says, it is not to the person Krishna that we have to surrender, but the unborn, the unborn self that is within Krishna, that is within you, within me, within everything.

That's what we have to surrender to, not to Krishna.

Krishna says, jāvarādhāma, surrender unto me.

You see, me means the unborn, unmanifested, It doesn't mean the person Krishna.

Because the unborn or manifest, the impersonal 1 is higher than the person Krishna.

That's why we have to hear from the pure devotee, not from the mental speculators.

There are so many nonsense garbage things out there.

There is a popular book back in the 60s called The Book.

The subtitle was on the taboo against knowing who you are.

There is a taboo, you are not supposed to know that you are God.

You are not supposed to know that you are God.

You are not supposed to know who you are, you are actually God.

He said actually you are God but right now you are playing hide and go seek with yourself.

So simply come out of hiding and be God once again.

How you can be God is by following Alan Watts.

I bought the book and it was pretty good.

If things weren't happening the way I wanted them to happen, it was obvious that he was a cheating thing.

Krishna comes to annihilate the cheaters actually.

To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants as well as to re-establish the principles of religion I myself appear millennium after millennium.

So Krishna actually annihilates all these rascals either by killing them directly or letting the normal cycle of birth, death, old age and disease kill them off.

But the devotees are delivered back to Krishna's attendant above.

They don't continue to ride in this hellish nightmare of material existence.

So we should be a little intelligent, we should not be carried away, we should try to be equal in all situations.

Seeing that Krishna's mercy is always acting, Matsya-svartha-sukha-duhkha-dha, agama-padyumna-vindhya-stham sthita-sthita-svartha-dha, the non-permanent appearance of happiness in distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of the winter and summer seasons.

1 must learn to tolerate them, or sign of Arjuna, without being disturbed.

So whether I am happy or I am unhappy, take everything as Krishna's mercy.

Sometimes I'm very healthy, feeling vibrant and healthy.

Sometimes I'm feeling very sick and weak.

But take everything as the blessing of Krishna to help me connect with him.

Actually everything that happens to us at every minute is Krishna's mercy to help us connect with him.

So we should take everything, whether I'm being honored or dishonored, or being prayed or criticized, whatever the situation may be, I should take it all as the mercy of Krishna.

In this way I can never be carried away by the multi-material nature.

Seeing everything in relation with Krishna.

This is the secret of success in Krishna consciousness.

We have to understand this knowledge is coming down to us through an ancient line of siddhi succession.

This knowledge is thus achieved through the saintly siddhic succession and the saintly kings understood in Madhya-Veda.

So we take this knowledge coming down to us by the mercy of these great Acharyas, Sri the Prabhupada, Sri the Bhakti-siddhanta Saraswati, Bhakti-sarva-savaji, Bhakti-vinoda-sukhuri, Jagannatha Saraswati going back, back, back, Narottam Nath Thakur, Visvanath Chakravarti Thakur, she was a Pravapada, and Lord Chaitanya, the 6 Goswamis, all these great personalities have very carefully understood and transmitted this knowledge to our benefit.

So instead of being carried away by our mental whims, we have to learn this mind is either our best friend or our worst enemy.

If you let the mind wander here and there, here and there, neglecting the orders of the spiritual master, then we can be in big trouble.

There was 1 sannyasi actually, he became very sick, there was a female therapist, a married woman who had the medical skills or the professional skills to deal with his sickness.

He made the mistake of meeting her alone again and again and again.

The sannyasi, you got carried away and you end up having illicit sex.

He completely spoiled his position as a spiritual master and as a sannyasi just because he didn't strictly value the spiritual master, not to never be alone with a woman, 1 should never be alone with any woman except with one's wife, that's the Vedic system.

So you think, well, I can, It doesn't really apply in my case, you know, I can do it.

If you become loose in following the rules and regulations, the standards, then you can easily fall down and be carried away by the illicit sex.

So we have to be very careful to always follow the instructions that the Prophet has given to us, not to water it down and twist it around in material attachments.

The tendency now I see in this convention is to water it down and mix it with material attachments.

But we have to take it as it is, as Prabhupada has given to us.

Not that I like this part of Prabhupada's teachings and this part I don't like.

So I am a good disciple of Prabhupada because I am doing this.

Of course I am neglecting that but I am doing this.

There was this 1 farmer who had this hen and she laid very nice eggs, big fat hen, laid really big nice eggs.

The farmer was very happy, all these eggs, did she eat so much food, so much chicken feed I have to feed to this hen, so I know what I will do, I will cut off the head, I like this head, nice side that lays the eggs, but this side that eats the feed I will cut that side off, so then the hen was finished.

So this half hen logic, well I like the crop, I am sad you know, this was very nice, he said, no illicit sex means no sex outside of marriage.

But this other side, he said, any sex besides once a month is illicit sex even for a married couple.

I don't like that side so I'll take this side, no sex out of marriage and I'll ignore this side.

You're engaging in illicit sex and you think it's not illicit sex because I'm just taking this instruction and ignoring this 1.

So we have to read carefully these instructions of Sivapapa and know exactly what he's saying.

Becoming free from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in me and taking refuge in me.

Many, many persons in the past became liberated, became purified by knowledge of me and they all changed and fell in love with me.

So we should become very learned in the teachings.

These books are not just for selling, these books are for reading.

The most important thing is to read these books.

Because the more we read these, it's called shastra chak-sus, 1 who sees through the eyes of scripture.

The more we see things through the eyes of the scripture, the more we become liberated and freed from the influence of the mother material nature.

We have to learn how to think, speak and act in terms of what the Prophet is saying in his books, in his lectures, in his conversations.

We have this, if we gain this kind of a vision, then the material nature of Maya Devya will never be able to divert us from the path of Krishna consciousness.

We are getting a little early today, we have kitchen service, Sunday feast service we're going to do.

You were, Drudy, you were mentioning the sannyasi that fell down.

Is there any way to, if that happens, for somebody to reclaim the position they were once in?

Well, you can again take up the sunyat activities and purely follow it.

And you can still become qualified and go back to Godhead, but your reputation as a Sinatse is definitely impacted and it's not going to go away.

Your history of having that cell down will not go away.

It will still be there for the rest of your life.

Is it possible to save a drunkard from approaching death?

He's not willing to take Krishna consciousness.

Somebody's not willing to take Krishna consciousness, you cannot save them.

You can't save them from going down to the animal kingdom.

As far as leaving drinking, give them prashadam, higher form of intoxication.

Get high on prashadam, better than somarath even.

Give them prashadam, better than summer bath even.

Give them prasadam, fill them up with prasadam, nectar drink.

what makes the unmanifest more attractive than the personal aspect of Krishna

The very disease that God is here to begin with, you can embrace it once again.

We came here because we wanted to be God, that's why we came here.

We are our first person, Brahmaji, we are all Brahmas in our first birth, we are the God of the whole universe.

We wanted to be God, So the impersonal philosophy says that actually you are God.

You have to come back and be God once again.

It is a twisted Ardhaka Kutinaya version of the Vedic wisdom.

Krishna says, I am within everything and everything is within me.

They take it and twist it to re-establish, they don't take it as it is, but they take a twisted version and establish that I'm God.

And the Vedas affirm that everything is spirit.

But there is the original, there is the emanator spirit and the emanated spirit, there are 2 differences.

It is like the sun shines, it is like we can say here comes the sun, that was a popular song actually, here comes the sun.

So that's the sun shining, the sun planet, that was the sun shine.

You can call the sun shine the sun, that's acceptable but it's not the sun planet.

So the emanator, so that's the basic to establish that I'm God.

How did these thoughts even come into being?

The thoughts of impersonalism in my body.

Free will can be either properly utilized or improperly utilized.

Because free will is there, you can't have love without free will.

So the ability to reject Krishna is also given by Krishna.

Free will can be used or misused, either 1.

The free will they have gotten from Krishna, they have misused it.

The vast majority of living entities are in the spiritual world.

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