In my Bhagavatam, 4th Kano chapter 19, text 9, Sindhava Ratna-Nikaraan, Giriyonam Chaturvidham, Upalyanam Upajahru, Sarve Loka Supalaka, Sindhava,

the oceans, Ratna-Nikara, heaps of jewels, Giriyat, the hills, Anam, eatables, Chaturvedam, 4 kinds of upayanam, presentations, upajjahru, brought forward, sarve all, lokah, the people in general of all planets.

Translation in Purport by His Divine Grace Om Vishnupada Padamahamsa Parivrtta-Krishnan Jatavta Tattvatthi Sri Srimat Esi Bhaktivedanta Sri Dandigal Swami Maharaj Prabhupada.

King Prithvi was presented with various gifts from the general populace and predominating deities of all planets.

The oceans and seas were full of valuable jewels and pearls and the hills were full of chemicals and fertilizers.

4 kinds of edibles were produced profusely.

Purport, As stated in Isopanisad, this material creation is supplied with all the potencies for the production of all necessities required for the living entities, not only human beings but animals, reptiles, aquatics and trees.

The oceans and seas produce pearls, coral and valuable jewels so that fortunate law-abiding people can utilize them.

Similarly, the hills are full of chemicals so that when rivers flow down from them, the chemicals spread over the fields to fertilize the 4 kinds of foodstuffs.

These are technically known as charvya, those edibles which are chewed, lehya, those which are licked up, chushya, those which are swallowed, and peyya, those which are drunk.

Kirtimaraj was greeted by the residents of other planets and their presiding deities.

They presented various gifts to the king and acknowledged him as the proper type of king by whose planning and activities everyone throughout the universe could be happy and prosperous.

It is clearly indicated in this verse that the oceans and seas are meant for producing jewels, but in Kali Yuga the oceans are mainly used just for fishing.

The Sudras and poor men are allowed to fish, but the higher classes like the Chakras and Vaishyas would rather gather pearls, jewels, and coral.

Although poor men would catch tons of fish, they would not be equal in value to 1 piece of coral or pearl.

In this age, so many factories where the manufacture of fertilizers had been open, but When the personality of God is pleased at the performance of the yajnas, the hills automatically produce fertilizing chemicals which help produce edibles in the field.

Everything is dependent on the people's acceptance of Vedic principles of sacrifice.

Vandeham Sri Guru Sri Jatapada Kamalam Sri Guru Vaishnavam Shah Sri Rupam Sahajaatam Sahagana Raghunatham Vittamtam Sajeevam Sadaitam Svadhutam Parijanasahitam Krishna Caitanya Devam Sri Vabha Krishna Paramahamsa Sahagana Lalita Sri Visakhan Vittam Shah.

Sarasvati Devi Gauravani Pichaine, Nirvisheshu Shunyavadi Pashchachideshatharine, Mukham Karoti Vatsalam Pandhunam Thegirim, Yatritathamaham Vande Sri Guru Vimsharanam.

The point is because they are not affirming yajna, therefore there is so much trouble.

Economic problems, social problems, political problems, problems, problems, problems stacked upon 1 another.

There is even a popular song, Problems, problems, problems all day long.

Back in the 60s, popular song in the radio, problems, problems, problems.

That's the nature of our world because we are not doing yajna.

We are meant to perform yajna, sacrifice.

In the Vedic age the Brahmins would do all kinds of elaborate sacrificial ceremonies but it is not possible to do that in this age of Kali.

But in this age Lord Caitanya has made it very simple.

We just have to engage in chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

Engage many people in congregational chanting of the holy names of the lord.

In this way we can have all prosperity, all these wars will go away, all the poverty, all the crime, all these horrible things, the pollution, 1 thing after another,

after another, after another, after another.

All these problems will go away, it will become a very auspicious age.

People will live, people will be dying from all these diseases, the hospitals will be full of emergency rooms with so many things going wrong, people having this problem, that problem, you see it all becomes very auspicious.

People have long healthy lives, very auspicious people, peaceful atmosphere.

If we tell them they still won't accept it.

Difficulty is, instead of wanting to acknowledge the existence of the Supreme Lord, and they should subordinate themselves, they want to consider themselves the Lord of all they survey.

That's the whole reason we came to the material world to begin with.

In this age of Kali it is especially bad.

There are 4 ages, Sācā-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvārpa-yuga, Kali-yuga.

Everyone is saying all kinds of yoga is going on, it is very peaceful, prosperous.

Then the Trepa Yoga goes on to 75% pious, 25% impious.

Dvarpa, 50-50, Kalayuga, 75% impious, 25% pious, going down 25, 24, but the end of Kali Yuga we are down to 0.

And then the personality of God will come, Kalki Avatar will come and annihilate all the rascals and bring in a Vaisakha Yuga.

Well, we should do everything we can because there is a special era within the Kali Yuga, the Chaitanya era, a 10,000 year period of the deities.

When yoga becomes prominent once again, the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra becomes prominent.

So we do everything we can to push it forward by distributing books, by having programs, engaging people in chanting, prasadam distribution, as much as we can, pushing for the Sankirtan movement of Lord Chaitanya as much as we possibly can.

And that will make our lives glorious and that will actually push forward the Chaitanya era and become fully manifest eventually.

The Babasat increases for 10,000 and after that it diminishes.

So it's a very exciting time right now when the Kali Yuga is going to be put into remission.

So what can we do then to do our share, to do our part, to do our duty in this regard?

Well we have to purely practice Krishna consciousness.

The more we are pure the more there will be power and potency in our preaching and our example.

So we should strive for purity, chanting the holy name without any offense.

We should strive to be very punctual in attending Mangal-Arti, We should be very punctual in attending the various programs.

We should become very learned in these teachings.

Read the Pabbaja's books, become very learned in these wonderful teachings.

It's amazing knowledge contained in these books.

The more we read, the more we learn, the more we transcendentalize our vision.

It's called Shastra Chaksu, 1 who can see through the eyes of scripture.

You get your eyes get bad, you get glasses corrected.

But our eyes are right now bad, lust, anger, greed, madness, delusion, envy.

If our eyes were pure, we could see Krishna everywhere.

The Lord is Shama Sundar, Krishna himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion, with the salve of love.

Prabhupada said they see him within and without and see Krishna everywhere.

If we come to that level then we can quickly bring the whole world to Krishna consciousness.

Prabhupada says if 1 can chant the holy name without offense he becomes Jagadguru and his influence the whole world will take up Krishna consciousness.

So let each 1 of us strive to become a pure chant of the holy name because to whatever extent of purity we manifest to that extent will have the power for transforming the Kali Yuga into the Chaitanya era.

So we have to be very careful how to avoid these offenses.

How to be, not to be inattentive, how to focus our mind.

Yato yata nishcalati manas chan salamastaram tatas tata na yajnata atma ye vimshamaya.

From wherever and whenever the mind wanders, dude with flickering and steady nature, mama certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.

So our japa is a very very important time of the day for us.

Now is the time we intensify our focus on Krishna.

Bring the mind back, bring it back, bring it back.

And according to the quality of our japa we will have to that extent we will be Krishna conscious during the day.

If our japa is not very attentive, our mind is running here, running there, our whole day will be splayed out.

But if we can very intensely focus on the holy names of Krishna, begging the Lord to please allow me to enter into this mood of pure bhakti, complete total absorption in your transcendental name.

Then our whole day will become ecstatic, our whole life will become ecstatic.

Krishna Consciousness is simply wonderful.

We have these sweets called Simply Wonderful.

This reminds me of 1 pastime of Prabhupada.

Prabhupada, someone asked, what happens if we give somebody 1 of these simply wonderful sweets?

Prabhupada said, he will come to your temple, and he will become simply wonderful.

And then, Prabhupada said, what is the next thing?

Krishna is simply wonderful, This process of Krishna consciousness is simply wonderful.

And then Prabhupada said, you all are simply wonderful.

And then when everybody said Prabhupada is simply wonderful, and Prabhupada said, that's all right, I have kirtan.

What kind of ecstatic kirtan they had after that.

So when Papa was here it was a very, very special, wonderful time.

We didn't have the internet in those days, there was no email, but they would send letters in the mail, the latest, What Prophet said here, what he did there, the latest pastime of Prophet.

It's in the mail, the reports would go out, the letters would come, oh Prophet did this, Prophet said that.

Oh, it's the most exciting thing, what did Prophet see, What did he do, what did he say to that demon, what did he, it's always the latest lecture, what are the problems, what are the problems.

Then to actually be where he was there, that was really, really special.

I remember he came to the San Francisco airport, there were 300 of us.

So they got, maybe he did it on purpose, because they all came to the Kirtan.

Prabhupada came first, but Kirtan would have gone to them.

Prabhupada came last, so every single Karma came out of the airplane through a cure-tonic.

There were 150 devotees on each side chanting in ecstasy.

I've told this story many times, I like telling it.

Papa got to where the people, you come out of the terminal where the cars pick you up, there was no vehicle for Papa.

He very peacefully, he stood there like an aristocratic gentleman, totally peacefully waiting for when the ride would come.

He just tolerated it and just stood there peacefully waiting.

And we devotees in Texas were so foolish, we had a car and we drove away so we could be at the festival site and greet him there when he arrived.

Then Prabhupada came and he gave a wonderful lecture about how, he says, you have all seen God.

There were 300 devotees and 3000 hippies.

You have all seen God because Krishna said, I am the light of the sun and the moon.

Everyday you drink water, once, twice, thrice, more than everyday, every time you drink water you remember Krishna's place in the water, immediately becoming Krishna conscious.

were just leaning on everything and everything aware that would come out of Prabhupada's mouth, taking it as the ultimate nectar, just like being with Krishna himself, to be there with Prabhupada.

See, Prabhupada did this, Prabhupada did that, Prabhupada, he had this, he looked this way over here, scrutinizing, analyzing everything he did, every gesture, every turn of his head, everything was just complete, we just tuned in like anything to Prabhupada.

So in this way, by associating with this great personality of the Divine Great Sri Lupapa, and now he is here in his books, by taking these, going in depth and studying these wonderful books.

He would sleep, he would get up in the middle of the night and everything, there was no distractions and translate these books.

So his labor of love, so much labor of love in all these books.

Bhagavad Gita as it is, the Sriya Sapanasad, the teaching of the planet, the teachings of Lord Caitanya, the nectar of devotion, Srimad Bhagavatam, Caitanya-caritamrta, so much labor of love, giving up sleep, sacrificing his sleep So we could write these books for us.

So if we go deep, deep, deep in these books, it is like putting Prabhupada's lotus feet on our head to take these books very seriously and try to understand exactly what Prabhupada is telling us and try to understand exactly what he wants it to be like.

So we can look at this, we analyze this verse for today, what is Bhabha saying for us, what should we be doing?

The shudras in Purman are allowed to fish.

Pearls, jewels and coral, Higher classes.

Shamadhamas tapau choksam, shantir agama meva choksam.

Gyanam gyanam astakam, ghamakam sabhava jam.

Controlling the mind, controlling the senses.

So the Baba gave us this second initiation that we have to develop these qualities of a Brahmin.

Being very truthful, very clean, very austere, controlling the senses, not oversleeping.

He doesn't overeat, he doesn't oversleep.

He takes whatever is necessary to energize him in his service because he wants to be fully absorbed in serving Krishna 24 hours a day and that is his great ecstasy.

Not devotional service is an austerity for him, devotional service is pure nectar for him to be totally absorbed in reconnecting himself with that Supreme Person as a source of all existence.

He is emitting everything from himself in order to have an unlimited variety of intimate loving relationships.

He's not going to force us because you can't force someone to love you.

But Krishna is giving, doing everything from his side to inspire us to fully absorb ourselves in loving him.

And That's why he sent Prabhupada to the world, to teach us how we can actually re-establish our loving relationship with him.

So we should take this awakening of our Krishna consciousness as my only business, my only duty.

I have no business except to awaken my Krishna consciousness and to awaken the Krishna consciousness of others.

Everything that I'm doing, everything I'm thinking, everything I'm saying, whatever I'm doing, it should all be for this purpose of awakening my Krishna consciousness and making the world Krishna conscious.

Nirmalaji, do you want to add some points?

initiated, the second initiated, the dominant initiated, and you quoted the verse from Bhagavad Gita.

So is it possible For everyone who is second initiated to develop that qualities.

And they take shelter of Guru and Krishna.

Even if they have a mentality of a shudra, they still have the shudra tendencies.

If they take shelter of Guru and Krishna and they sincerely desire and they beg for the mercy, even the most fallen rascal can become a paramahamsa.

I make the point that the qualities of Brahman.

It is possible for anyone who sincerely takes up this path of the Krishna consciousness, they can develop the qualities of a Brahmin.

Sometimes we see that the Buddhists don't have this quality, although they have Brahmanical initiatives.

And loving relationship also I feel like that means you do everything perfect for the lover.

You can't, if you don't serve the Vaishnavas, Krishna doesn't accept your service.

Yeah, because serving the Vaishnavas, loving service, means your service to them is full of devotion.

There has to be, There has to be full devotion for Guru, Krishna and Vaishnava.

That means everything will be perfectly done.

It should be done perfectly, yes, but because of our contamination, our lust, our anger, our greed, our madness, illusion and envy, there is so much defect in our service.

Sometimes we become lusty, we become angry.

Even the most helpless basket case can become a pure devotee of Krishna if he takes this process seriously.

Even the most helpless basket case, you can become a pure devotee.

Basket case means, you know, it's a hopeless nightmare.

So, you would just say that they have not fully taken shelter or they want to remain in basket case?

For us basket cases, the reason we are still basket cases is We haven't fully taken shelter of Guru and Krishna yet.

We're still following our mental whims, instead of following the instructions of Guru and Krishna.

We are holding on to our so-called independence.

We think, yes, I am independent, but actually we are just being manipulated by the modes of nature.

Here is a nice question that has come in.

What does it mean to take full, emphasize, full shelter of Guru and Krishna?

It means, no, you totally give up your so-called independence, totally give it up.

At what stage of devotional service 1 reaches this stage of taking bleep shut?

When you become a Prabhupada and see Krishna face to face eye to eye, that is when you have really gotten to that level.

When you actually see Krishna face to face eye to eye, when your eyes are anointed with the love of God, then you know you have taken full shelter of Guru and Krishna.

Because we have not taken full shelter of Guru and Krishna, therefore I am still saying the material world out there.

Because I have not taken complete shelter of Guru and Krishna, I am still saying Austin, Texas, that I go to Vrindavan.

We actually are completely, fully absorbed.

Is that something that we have to do like at every moment or is it something that we do once and then it's just a real list?

Full surrender is something that once you do it, you keep doing it forever.

Once you come to the point of full surrender, it automatically, spontaneously will happen.

See, for us neophytes, we have to follow rules and regulations.

There is sadhana bhakti and raganuga bhakti.

Sadhana bhakti is following the rules and regulations, get up in time for mamalati, you know, etc.

But once you become a pure devotee, automatically you do everything perfectly, spontaneous love of God manifest in the heart.

Every word that comes out of your mouth is pure bhakti, every thought in your brain is pure bhakti.

Once you come to that stage then you automatically spontaneously engage in pure devotional service for all of eternity.

Right now we are struggling neophytes, isn't it?

But you reach a point where there is no more struggle, it is automatic.

Like the water flowing down the mountain down to the ocean, automatically happening.

The water isn't struggling to flow to the ocean, it is automatically flowing.

Right now it is a struggle for us to get up and down from our malarties.

To always have a nice cheerful mood, not become disturbed.

We have a hard time with it because we are neophytes.

But we keep doing this Sanatapati to the best of our ability in spite of all our mistakes, our fumbles.

We say okay let me pick myself up and try again.

I made a mistake, I overslept, I didn't come in time for Mangalavarti or I did this or I did that or I did this or that.

Let me over, keep trying, trying, trying, trying, trying.

Krishna will see the sincere endeavor and he'll bless us.

Oh, this person has trouble, but he's sincerely endeavoring to overcome his defects.

So Krishna will say, oh, this person's sincerely trying, even though he's a neophyte and he has bad habits, but he's sincerely trying to become my pure devotee.

Give all blessings to help 1 overcome all the anarchism, the harmful lust, the anger, the aggression.

That includes also if you make 1 mistake you don't repeat it?

Even though we'd like to, we have a habit to make the mistake again and again and again.

Some of us are so fallen, we've gone for many years making the same mistake again and again and again.

When does the question come to put surrender to Guru and Krishna?

It's like Bhaktivinoda Thakur is showing us the move.

When my offenses ceasing, taste for the name increasing, when in my heart will your mercy shine?

So for us neophytes who haven't gotten over our nardus, We can sing this song about the Vinod and great feeling and wonder when will that day come when I can stop this stupid, ridiculous war of independence that I'm engaging in against Krishna and Guru and Vaishnavas.

We should definitely endeavor for it and pray for it and beg for it.

We should strive like anything at every minute.

Let me give up my nonsense independence and become a fully submissive servant of Guru, Krishna and Vaishnavas.

We should endeavor every minute, every nanosecond.

Sadhana Bhakti, you are endeavoring, endeavoring, endeavoring, endeavoring to bring the rascal mind under control.

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