Churnaayam Svadhanushkotya Girikutani Rajarat Umandami Rambhanya Rayashakri Samambhibhu Churnaayam, making into pieces, Svad, his arm, Dhanukotya, are the power of his bow.

Giri, of the hills, Kutani, the tops, Rajaraja, the emperor, Vumangalam, the whole earth, Idam, this, The tops, Raja Rav, the emperor.

Kaya, almost, Chakra, made, Samam, level, Debu, the powerful.

Translation in Purple by His Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Sri Dandigoswami Maharaj Prabhupada.

After this, the King of all Kings, Maharaj Prithu, leveled all rough places on the surface of the globe, for breaking up the hills with the strength of his bow, by his grace the surface of the globe almost became flat." Purport, generally the mountains and hilly portions of the earth are made flat by the striking of thunderbolts.

Generally this is the business of King Indra, the heavenly planet.

The King Kritu, an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, did not wait for the King Indra to break up the hills and mountains, but he did so himself by using his strong bow.

Sadaitam savadutam parijana sahitam krsna cetanya devam Srivadha krsna padam sahaganalita sri visakhandi tam ca Nama om Vishnu padaya, krsna preshtaya bhutale, shrimate bhaktivedanta svamini tinane.

Namaste Sarasvati Devi, Gauravani Pracharini, nirvisesha shunyavadi, paschacchati satarine, mukham karoti vatsalam, vanaguna gade girim, So just see the previous day the kings had such power they could even level the earth to make it more suitable for growing crops.

Now the kings, the presidents, they have no power at all.

Because They are not worthy of having power actually.

If they had it they wouldn't know what to do with it.

The present day leaders are rascals, rogues and rascals.

Shva vidva da ushtara karai, sang sthita phurajah pashu, na jata karma patau peta, jata The men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, praise those men who do not listen to the transmittal pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna, deliver from all evils.

So the modern day leaders are simply in that category, dogs, hawks, camels and asses.

And the people go to vote, even, what is the symbol of The Republicans are the elephants, right?

And the Democrats are the asses, isn't it?

They go to vote for a big elephant or a big ass.

Common people don't know who to vote for and there is nobody decent to vote for anyway.

So there is a great need for spiritual leadership on this planet.

In the Vedic culture there were 4 divisions.

You had the Brahmins, the priestly class, the spiritual teachers, you had the kshatriya, the political rulers and the warriors, you had the vaisya, the farmers and the businessmen, you had the general class, the employee class, the worker class, the sudras.

So now the so-called Brahmins, the college professors, the priests, the rabbis, the ministers, they are all rogues and rascals, engaging in all kinds of sinful activities, eating meat, smoking cigars, etc.

The priestly class is not the bona fide priestly class.

And the administrative class, All the classes are completely, the whole thing is run amok.

You don't have proper priestly class, you don't have proper administrative class, the businessmen, the farmers, in the Vedic culture the farmers protected the cows.

They gave all protection, the cow is our mother.

When our first mother stops giving us her breast milk, the second mother gives us her breast milk.

It's such a demonic culture, they're killing the mother, the cow.

We take advantage of her breast milk, we have so many things, milk, yogurt, ice cream, we have so many nice things, whipped cream, so many things we take advantage of the cow.

How we can kill such a gentle animal that doesn't harm anybody.

He's trying to eat grass that you cannot eat and those delicious wonderful foodstuffs.

So we don't have the proper business manner of engaging in making money with liquor and cigarettes and so many things, so many businessmen selling meat, cow meat.

So the Krishna Conscious movement is meant for creating that priestly class, the medical class who can actually give guidance.

Papa said he especially came to America because America is the leading country in the world.

He wanted America to actually take the lead.

He wanted America to become Krishna conscious and lead the whole world out of chaos back into the Vedic culture.

But they are not the real leader, they are bogus leaders.

He wanted America to become the real leader.

That's why he came here and started his movement.

This is the leading country in the world.

If I can make them Krishna conscious, then they can lead the whole world in Krishna consciousness.

Prabhupada told us to become the leaders.

We have to become fixed up in the Brahmin culture.

Brahmins are described in the Bhagavad Gita as shama dhamma sthapavaccha samyam chantararvamame vichyat jnana-vijnanam asthakam brahmakarmahabhavajam Peacefulness, dhamma, self-control, austerity, these are the qualities.

They have theoretical knowledge, they have practical application of knowledge.

So we should become the actual Brahmin class.

So we can do our duty to lead this country out of chaos and lead the whole world out of chaos.

So we follow Prabhupada's guidance, follow Prabhupada's teachings, strictly follow what Prabhupada is telling us here in these wonderful, wonderful books and his wonderful, wonderful lectures.

We have the Veda base loaded with his correspondence, his lectures, his conversations.

We have so much opportunity to associate with Prabhupada even though he's physically gone.

We have so much opportunity to associate with the crowd, but even though he's physically gone, we have so much opportunity to associate with him.

Even when he's here, how many people were on the morning walks, you hear the conversation, but We'd hear the recording.

In those days we didn't have MP3, we had cassettes.

So they'd make cassette recordings of all those morning walks.

Oh, a morning walk conversation with Papa.

It was like they'd get a Papa tape, like the greatest jewel, the greatest treasure they call a prop by table.

And then you hear a prop by how he speaks, how he deceives all the rascal arguments of the atheists and the scientists to establish the authenticity of the Vedic culture, the authenticity of the Vedic teachings.

It is very important we understand these teachings very well.

So we can actually establish Krishna consciousness as the leading science.

They say science, well you know, H2O equals water, that's science.

But now there is a higher science, Sivere Svarupa Hai Krishnere Nitya Das.

The constitutional position of a living entity is he is the eternal servant of Krishna.

If we come back to our constitutional position, then we actually become liberated from the cycle of birth and death.

Right now this material existence is the prison house of God's creation.

I can't put a guy, you say love me, I'll blow your brain.

So Krishna gives us this love me or leave me.

If you want to love me in the spiritual world, you're welcome.

We'll have a reciprocal loving relationship.

If you're not happy, accepting me as your superior, as your supreme, and you'd rather be the supreme yourself, alright, I'll give you wherever you can think you're the supreme.

Everybody here thinks they're the supreme, even the dog next to him thinks he's the supreme.

You walk in the back yard and he starts barking, what are you doing in my turf?

So everybody here thinks they're the supreme.

And because of that we're caught up in this cycle of birth and death going through 8 million 400 thousand species again and again and again looping the loop.

The thousands and millions and billions and trillions and quadrillions of lifetimes are looping the loop.

And this is going through these 8 million 400 thousand species.

Yadah Yadah He Dharmasha, Gulan Nirbhavati Bharata, Abhyutthannamadharmasha, Tadatmadham Shajamrnam.

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice and a predominant rise of irreligion, at that time I descend myself.

The things that really went amok as they are right now, there are actually 4 yugas.

The Sāṅkhya yuga is very pious and then the Tretya yuga comes and becomes 75% pious, the Dvārpa yuga 50% pious And the Kali Yuga 25% pious, 25, 24, 23, 22 going down, down, down.

So this Kali Yuga, Krishna comes just before the beginning of the Kali Yuga, he comes to establish the Tistha Bhagavad Gita and special mercy, he comes in the middle of Kali Yuga.

4,500 years into the Kali Yuga he comes as Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to give us this very simple process.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Now they do great austerities, dances and austerities.

Going to the Himalayas doing all kinds of austerities in the freezing cold, doing yogic pranayama and yogic postures in the freezing cold, the Himalayas, to gradually become on a higher platform of consciousness.

Or not yet to follow the pathway of the Gyanis to deny all varieties, deny everything in the material world, deny, deny, in the 1880s, the absolute truth is not this, keep negating everything, negating going on for thousands and millions of lifetimes so you can finally merge into the oneness and then fall down again because it's not a permanent position.

Instead of going through all these great difficult pathways of yoga or jnana, simply by bhakti, chanting Hare Krishna mantra, 1 can awaken one's original divine consciousness.

That original divine consciousness is actually sitting right there within the heart.

Actually you are already a liberated soul but because you are misidentifying with your material body and your material mind therefore you are suffering in the cycle of birth and death.

So 1 simply has to reaffirm his transcendental identity I am a spirit soul part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of God, and qualitatively 1 with him, and quantitatively different.

Just like the ocean, And the drop of the ocean water.

The drop of ocean water is qualitatively 1 to the ocean.

The same chemical composition in the drop as you find in the entire ocean.

Quantitatively there's a gulf of difference between the drop and the entire ocean.

You can float a battleship on the ocean but not a drop, forget it.

So we are qualitatively 1 and quantitatively different from that Supreme Person.

So you need to get back into a harmonious loving relationship with that Supreme Person.

That's what the whole Bhagavad Gita is for.

This is our owner's manual of the human form of life.

How to properly utilize the human life in such a way that no more birth and death in the material existence.

Going back to your original home in the spiritual sky.

We need to take these instructions very seriously.

There's no reason to suffer in this material existence.

GANANATHAHAN SIYAN GANAM TEHAM SEVYE GANAM GANAM What is that verse?

1 is enlightened with this Transcendental knowledge.

It was standing up instead of being flat.

Gyanena tutad agyanam, ye samnasyitamat manah, tesam badhichya bhaganam, prakashi yati tat puram.

When however 1 is enlightened with the knowledge of which nescience is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, the sunlight of everything in the daytime.

So when you become Krishna conscious everything becomes illuminated.

Right now in the darkness of ignorance we can't see things as they actually are.

Because we are in the darkness of ignorance.

When that Krishna sun rises in the heart, everything becomes illuminated.

1 understands one's actual identity as a spiritual being.

You see actually every manasara are also spiritual beings who are misidentifying with the material body.

And we see the whole civilization based on this false conception of the body is a very chaotic situation.

It is a very, very chaotic situation on this planet right now because they are not Krishna conscious.

Because they are thinking I am the Lord of all I survey.

But now, Krishna is saying, bhoktadam jagatapasam sarva-lokam aishvara-dham sura-dham sarva-bhutanam ghatva-mamsam tam ristati 1 who knows Me is the owner of everything and therefore the enjoyer of everything and is the most intimate, well-wishing friend of all living beings, he attains peace from the pangs of material misery.

So it's not difficult to get out of the material misery.

Simply you have to understand who is the real owner here.

You own all this property here in Austin.

Everybody is thinking it is my property, my property.

This material world is emanating from Mahavishnu, an expansion of Krishna.

So everything here is the property of the Supreme Lord and therefore meant to be used in his service.

So the Bhagavad Spiritual Master teaches us the art of how to utilize everything in the service of the Supreme and thus regain our original divine consciousness, our Krishna consciousness.

So why should we punish ourselves trying to enjoy separately from Krishna?

Punishing ourselves by trying to enjoy separately from Krishna.

The hand thinks I don't want to feed that stomach, he just sits there and doesn't do any work.

Here I am working so hard, moving my fingers this way and that way, taking the spoon and cutting the, you know, doing so much work.

The hand is, the stomach just sits there and enjoys it.

I'm gonna stop feeding that rascal's stomach.

All the bodily parts, the hands, the mouth, all the parts of the body that work to feed the stomach.

That would be a big demonstration, you know.

Well, the first day was going with great enthusiasm, but the second day they were losing their energy.

The third day, I think we had a meeting of the political party.

I think we had to feed the stomach because we had no energy without feeding the stomach.

So Krishna is like the stomach and we are like the bodily parts.

We try to enjoy separately and the result is chaos, chaotic situation.

Look at all the chaos happening here in Austin right now, or in Texas or in the United States.

We just found that there's 60 mass shootings so far this year.

Probably a higher number, that was a week ago.

Yeah, we're in the second month, there's already, that's more than 1 a day on the average.

I'll show you how frustrated, how miserable people are.

They take a gun and they go to public places and go, pfff.

There's a little gratification, now I'm God.

They get to be God for a few minutes until the police close them.

A few minutes and they think they're God, I'm the Lord.

Actually the first famous fast shooting was the Tower Sniper many years ago back in, must have been in the 60s.

Some guy went to the University of Texas Tower with a rifle, saw about 30 or 40 people dead all over the campus.

People are so miserable they just take a gun and start shooting.

They lose their mercy because they eat flesh.

Because they eat flesh, so they don't have any mercy.

1 who was raised on eating slaughtered animals will not have the tendency to be compassionate because they are eating violence the little kids are growing up eating hamburger meat they go to McDonald's on Sunday after church McDonald's hamburger so they are raised on violence So the tendency to be compassionate is not there.

It's killed by eating all these murdered animals.

And also when they are watching the television or phone, whatever they are watching, it's also saying violence.

Because they are associating with violence.

The whole culture is going on in violence.

When they're murdering millions of innocent babies in the womb by abortion, and considering it legally, legally murdering millions of human beings, legally, then where's the tendency to be compassionate?

They're Totally killed by the violent baby killing, cow killing culture.

So this Krishna Consciousness movement offers a real solution.

We can convince them, at least we can get out of the madness.

That's why we have book distribution, Harinams and Kirtans, public programs.

We want everyone to come and become Krishna conscious.

That's our mission, to make the whole world Krishna conscious.

So the more we become Krishna conscious the more we will have the power to attract them also.

By Channing Japa you purify your own consciousness and you become, you purify yourself more and more and more you become more and more empowered to give Krishna consciousness to others.

Priti viti yac chayate, naga radi gam, sarvabhapta pachari mohaiva madanam.

Whomever you meet, instruct them in the teachings of Krishna and this is my order, you become a guru and deliver the people of this world.

So we have a mission given by Lord Chaitanya to become gurus and deliver the world.

So that's why our hearing these classes is very important, my chanting our japa is very important, having darshan of the deity, taking vishalam, all these things add up to make us more and more purified and more and

to share Krishna consciousness with others and deliver them from their suffering condition.

If more people's diet becomes prasadam, does it affect meat-eating population, develop some...

If prasadam becomes more and more popular, it will have a good impact on the meat-eating culture because people started hearing about it.

Oh I went to that Sunday love feast at the temple and wow the word will spread.

The more prashanamika becomes popular he will help to curb the meat eating.

Vishnu Ratadas, Srila Gurudev, is it only persons who perform activities in Krishna consciousness who are actually taught to become Brahmins?

Even if 1 is situated in the mode of goodness and devotee of a demigod.

The idea is going on that they take it by birth, which is not right.

It is not by, Krishna says, guna karma, Not Janma Karma.

By one's qualities and activities, when it is understood, when his social position is understood.

question is, if they are worshipping the demigod, taking the demigod as their scream, are they actually a Brahmin?

A Brahmin means 1 who knows the absolute truth.

And when he knows the absolute truth, he is a Brahmin.

He may have some brahminical qualities of self-control and rising early and taking baths.

He may have some brahminical qualities, but he is not really fully a Brahmin.

He doesn't know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he doesn't know the absolute truth.

He's been misled to think that some demigod is the Supreme.

If the rulers of the world are country, is Krishna representative, why Krishna Let's kill the cows.

Krishna conscious will not allow cow killing.

Any will that allows cow killing is not Krishna conscious.

Krishna conscious would definitely put a stop to cow killing if he had the power to do it.

Yes, when you mentioned, I mean a lot of the times we talk about how terrible or how bad

How terrible being here in the material world is.

And a lot of times that comes out when we are talking about Krishna consciousness to others.

So how can we do that without sounding pessimistic?

Well you could just tell them, are you looking for enjoyment?

So I understand you have happiness, but your happiness is only temporary, it comes and goes, isn't it?

So here's the way you're going to have permanent happiness that's ever increasing.

It's like death is coming, are you happy about getting old and dying?

I understand you have happiness, but that happiness is only temporary, you understand?

But here is permanent, here is happiness is permanent, it is never interrupted by anything.

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