Shri Mat Bhagavatam, 4th Keno chapter 19, text 11.

Shadomeinashvamedena yajamane yajuspratim.

Vanya yajnabhushu spardhan apavaha turohita.

By the last 1, by the Ashvamedha sacrifice, When he is performing the sacrifice, Yajupitam, for the satisfaction of the Lord of the Yajna, Vishnu.

Vainye, the son of King Vena, Yajnaprashum, the animal meant to be sacrificed in the Yajna.

Translation in Purport by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.

When King Prithu was performing the last horse sacrifice, Ashwamedha Yajna, King Indra, invisible to everyone, stole the horse intended to sacrifice.

He did this because of his great envy of King Vrindu.

King Indra is known as Shatakratu, which indicates that he has performed 100 horse sacrifices, as per the Yajna.

We should note, however, that the animal sacrifice and the Yajna were not killed.

If the Vedic mantras were properly pronounced during the sacrifice, the animal sacrifice would come out again with a new life.

When King Pitu was performing 100 yajnas, Indra became very envious because he did not have anyone to excel him.

Being an ordinary living entity he became envious of King Pitu and making himself invisible he stole the horse and thus impeded the yajna performance.

Vandeham Sri Guru Sridhata Pratakamam Sri Guru Vaishnavam Sra Srirupam Sagrajatam Sahagana Raghana Tanvitam Tam Sajeevam Sadaitam Sava Dutam Parijana Sahitam Krishna Chaitanya Devam Sri Radha Krishna Padam Sadaitam savadutam parijanatahitam krsna cetanya devam Sriradha krsna-padam sahaganala-ditasi visakhanvitam Sthya.

Namaam vishnu padaya krsna-presthaya bhutave in some water.

Nama om Vishnu padaya, Krishna padeshtaya, Bhutale.

Namaste Sarasvati Devi, Gauravani Pracharine, Nirvisesha, Sunyavadi, Paschisadesha, Tharine.

Yat-tripat-tamam-bandhe, Sri-Guru-vinataranam.

So even great personalities like Indra, the king of heaven, very pious person to get in such position, to be very, very pious.

What kind of good karma, very, very pious person.

But even such a person is not free from envy.

It's interesting to note here, the yagis, they wouldn't kill the animals.

Actually, the yagis, they would take an old animal and give it, come out with a fresh body.

Just imagine if they had some clinic where senior citizens could go in and they do some mantras and you come out with a body of a young teenager.

So it was like that, they take an old, old animal and come out with a young animal's body.

Just prior to the time of the Lord Buddha, however, They were actually taking the animals for eating.

The Vedas in which these sacrifices were described, he denied the Vedas and put a stop to the sacrifices.

But actually it was a whole point, it was a whole point because the Vedic culture had been polluted.

It was a point of giving up the bogus version of Vedic culture so the real Vedic culture can be brought back again by halfway by Shankaracharya and all the way by Lord Chaitanya and other previous other Vaishnava Acharyas bringing back in full force.

So here we see envy is a big problem of the living entities here in the material world.

In fact that's why we're here, we have this envy problem.

We can't stand to see somebody go ahead of me.

We couldn't stand to see somebody ahead of me, namely Krishna himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

All right, so you go to a world where you can think you're the Supreme.

Everybody thinks they're supreme in this material world.

He cries and he is not happy, he cries and the parents come running and do this for him, they do that for him and this way he thinks he is a supreme.

The dog thinks he is a supreme, barking, barking, barking, what are you doing in my territory, get out of here.

So this mentality, this envious mentality of thinking I'm the supreme, it doesn't satisfy the self, it's an unnatural position.

So this position where I am envious and thinking I am the supreme is an artificial position and can never satisfy the self.

This is why Krishna consciousness is very important.

Because Krishna consciousness means you give up the envious mentality, you want to be the supreme, and you put yourself back in your natural position.

It's like the fish being put back in the water.

The fish may flap in agony on the land but he can't be satisfied there.

But if he's picked up and thrown back in the water, so the Bhagavad spiritual master, the Vaishnavas, they pick up the suffering souls, trying to enjoy separately on the land, trying to enjoy independently from this natural atmosphere and they toss them back in the water.

Why are you suffering here trying to be the supreme?

Jivera Svarupa Hoi Krishnaera Nitya Dada.

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

Why do we have such a hard time accepting that?

Well we have been conditioned for millions of lifetimes trying to be the supreme.

That's why to give up this tendency to become a subordinate servant once again is difficult for us.

That's why we have the Krishna consciousness movement.

It's Lord Chaitanya's mercy to manifest this movement to give you an atmosphere where you can come back to your original position.

You can chant and dance in ecstasy, you can take prasadam, and in this way you can revive that natural tendency to be the servant once again.

By hearing the wonderful teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, the Srimad Bhagavatam, Chaitanya Charita Mita and all these wonderful books that Prabhupada has given us, you can come back, come back, come back to being who you really are.

Come back home to being a servant once again.

So we have to speed up this process, the thing, okay, let me give it a tendency to enjoy it separately, let me actually take up being a servant once again.

Let me see what service is required to be done.

Some service needs to be done and I'm just going to be an illusion that somebody else is doing the service.

I can look and see if there is some service to be done.

I'm not going to be a rascal, just let someone else do the service, let me be the enjoyer.

So we can actually say, okay you nonsense rascal trying to enjoy and let others do the service.

Let you now Give up your tendency to try to enjoy separately and just be the servant of Gita.

Devotional service is my natural position.

Let me get back to being who I actually am.

Let me actually hear from this wonderful knowledge, the teachings of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam by hearing, hearing, hearing, hearing, I can actually revive my natural aboriginal consciousness.

Just like Krishna says, na hi jnane na sarvesham, vidgami habhidyate, tat tvayam yogasam sarat kalinatmani vindati.

In this world there is nothing so sublime and pure as Transmental Knowledge.

Such Transmental Knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism.

And he who becomes accomplished in the practice of devotional service relishes this knowledge within himself in due course of time.

So this is the advantage of actually becoming eager to do service.

You can actually relish this Transcendental Knowledge which is the mature fruit of all mysticism.

Just by being eager to do devotional service you can actually relish this transmittal knowledge.

So 1 doesn't cheat oneself by taking up the mood of devotional service, you actually reward yourself.

Because it's not just the service itself is relishable, but you actually get realization of who I actually am, who is actually the Lord of all existence, how is everything being manifested, how is this planet being manifested, how is this universe being manifested, how is the multi-universe being manifested, How can I act in such a way to bring about revival of the consciousness of all the living entities who are sleeping in this material existence?

So many realizations will come if we just become enthusiastic and give devotion service.

Like Krishna says, gyanena tu tad agyanam ye sam na sri-samad-manah te sam niditvam bhagyayam prakashi yati tad-param When 1 is in line with that knowledge by which in essence is destroyed then his knowledge reveals everything.

It is like the sun lights up everything in the daytime.

So right now we're in the darkness of ignorance.

We're misidentifying with these rotting corpses.

We're suffering in so many ways, misidentifying.

But 1 takes up this mood of devotional service with great enthusiasm, then it's like a beautiful sunrise happens and everything becomes illuminated.

And I can see everything in this proper perspective.

I see everything in relationship with Krishna.

See right now I am thinking everything in relationship with my sense gratification.

How can I avoid that which is not enjoyable?

How can I go for this which is enjoyable?

I am still thinking I am the center, that is the problem.

Go on, I am the center, I am the center, I am the center.

When we take up this mood of devotional service of great enthusiasm, we actually experience how Krishna is there manifesting everything for himself, letting me participate in Krishna's enjoyment.

I try to enjoy separately, it doesn't work.

Like a hand trying to enjoy the food without giving to the stomach.

He may think, oh, the rice feels so good in my fingers.

But what nutritional value to get from squeezing the rice in the fingers?

So we have this tendency about enjoying separately, And it doesn't actually make us happy.

While we are actually punishing ourselves by continuing to remain in this mood of enjoying separately.

We say, okay, my real happiness is to please Krishna, not to try to enjoy separately.

So when I take this mood of doing everything for the Krishna satisfaction, then I can actually become a liberated soul.

Instead of trying to enjoy separately from Krishna, let us try to do everything for his satisfaction.

From the moment we wake up, the moment we go to bed, even in our dreams, let me now be absorbed in devotional service.

I have nothing to do with this rotting body.

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 actually we have nothing to do with these bodies, we are eternal beings.

So let's get out of this misidentification madness that we are in.

Misidentifying with that which is full of ignorance and misery.

Isn't it stupid to misidentify, actually it's like the son of a multi-millionaire living like a beggar on the street, misidentifying himself becoming a pauper on the street when actually the son of a multi-trillionaire.

So why should we keep punishing ourselves by trying to enjoy separately from Krishna?

We are condemning ourselves to suffering the threefold miseries and the fourfold miseries.

Isn't it time you become a little intelligent?

Why should we remain foolish trying to enjoy separately from Krishna?

It's the original constitutional nature of the living entity.

So let's get back to being who we actually are.

All of our attempts to enjoy separately do Nothing but put us in a miserable position.

Nothing but it's actually doesn't make any sense to put ourself in a miserable position where we could be unlimited blissful.

Why am I suffering right now when I could be experiencing unlimited nectar.

It's simply due to my idiocy, my foolishness, my asinine-ness.

The pure devotees are called paramahamsas.

Because just like the Swan has an amazing quality with his beak.

He can take a mixture of milk and water and extract the milk and leave the side of the water.

So the pure devotees are called paramahamsas because they can deal with the material world and extract Krishna.

They extract Krishna at every minute from this material existence.

So we should become paramahamsas, 1 like devotees of the Lord, who experience Krishna at every time, in every place, in every situation experiencing Krishna.

Baba told us that first lecture that I attended in San Francisco.

He was telling us how we experience Krishna within everything.

Every time you are drinking water, once, twice, thrice, more than every day, every time you drink water, you remember Krishna as the taste of the water, immediately become Krishna conscious.

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

And then he said, Krishna says, I'm the light of the sun.

He said, so by seeing the sun you can remember Krishna.

We can see the sunlight here lighting up the blinds.

We have to learn how to exchange Krishna within Everything and everything within Krishna.

Yaman pashati sarvatra sarvam samayi pashati.

Tashaham na pranashami satsame na pranashati.

For 1 who sees me in everything and sees everything in me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost in me.

We can see Krishna as everything and everything within Krishna.

So Prabhupada is trying to pull us out of the illusion that we're in.

I'm trying to enjoy separately from Krishna.

Prabhupada has come by Krishna's mercy to show us there is a higher taste in this material existence.

Vishayāvani-vartante nirahārāśhidehīna rāśhava-saṁvartam yāśā purāṇa-viśvāni-pārthate The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains but ceasing such engagement by experiencing a higher taste is fixed in consciousness.

Somebody may want to try to become renounced, I guess renunciation, thinking that way become an exalted personality, a great yogi or a great mystic by becoming renounced.

They still have a taste for sense enjoyment.

It's like somebody who is enjoying sex life may become a brahmachari.

But he still has that taste for enjoying sex pleasure.

So after some time you give up being a brahmachari and go back to sex pleasure once again.

But if he gets a higher taste just like I may give you 1 dollar and you are very attracted to 1 dollar but I say I'll give you a million instead.

So if 1 gets a taste which is better than sex pleasure, then 1 can easily remain brahmachari, no problem.

Because I am tasting something that is better than sex pleasure.

So When 1 becomes Krishna conscious, he can easily become a brahmachari, a lifelong brahmachari.

Because the pleasure of Krishna consciousness is millions and millions of times greater than sex pleasure.

But what if I'm not tasting that higher pleasure of Krishna consciousness?

So the struggling neophyte who wants to taste that experience but he is not tasting it, how can he get there?

What's the secret on how to actually get the higher taste?

It's like we ever cook, we get the higher taste.

Well, You have to embrace devotional service.

You have to enthusiastically embrace the loving devotional service.

Sometimes laziness also gives a higher taste.

Prabhupada said lazy intelligence is a first class man.

Well, let everybody else do when I am in the seat.

Prabhupada, lazy intelligence of first class man.

Then everybody has to get out of this shit.

Instead of running hard, Running hard to become a successful materialist.

running running to become a big successful materialist.

He sees that actually just by living simply, being Krishna conscious and living simply, plain living and high thinking.

Not that I have to have a big 2000000 dollar mansion, a big swimming pool, a huge yard, a Mercedes Benz.

Not that he's lazy in the matter of devotional service.

For becoming Krishna conscious and spreading the Krishna Gana movement, he's willing to work very hard.

For descent gratification, he's not eager to work very hard.

For making the world Krishna conscious, he is willing to work very, very hard.

To make this movement successful, he is willing to work very hard to make this movement successful.

By preaching, distributing books, establishing temples, putting on big festivals, he is working very very hard, Prabhupada is working very hard.

We see how he is working very very hard, hardly sleeping at all.

I'm wondering that we get, so what's the difference between giving something up and then getting the higher taste?

Do we have to give something up falsely before we get the higher taste or we still have our attachments and we perform devotional service and then we naturally give it up?

1 can become just like the example of sex pleasure.

1 can be a married man and follow sex life according to regulated principles and gradually give up the taste and get tired.

Or you can do it all of a sudden by becoming a brahmachari or sannyas?

1 may have this desire for sex pleasure, alright, become married, we have our regulative principles, You can have sex like once in a month, just after the menstrual cycle, chanting at least 50 rounds of japa.

So in this way you can have many, many children if you follow this principle.

You can have sex like in Krishna's service many, many times.

You can Have a whole Krishna conscious family.

Or 1 can say, well, let me just give it up completely.

Have faith that even now I am still attracted to it.

I have faith that if I just put that aside and go deep into Kirtan, go deep into preaching, go deep into service, that it will go away in due course of time.

You can have faith that by, even though I still have a taste, I have faith that higher taste will come, so I can just say, okay, lower taste, you can sit there, and have some fun while I'm going the other side.

So, you were mentioning going either way with sex life which can be used in devotional service but what about some of these like addicted to cigarettes or like eating meat or gambling then what about that?

What if someone still likes to smoke cigarettes?

You can keep smoking, you can have a pack a day, you can go down to have a pack a day, you can have 1 cigarette a day and then you can gradually give it up or you can give it up all at once if you have faith in the process.

is giving it up right then and there the best thing to do?

You can give up everything and give up, you know, this is sex life, me and Tashi, you can get me all of a sudden and start chanting 16 vows, that's the best thing, do it immediately, absolutely.

Is it best to do that and then there's a chance that the attachment is strong and maybe you slip away for a bit?

You can say, let me chai-fondo by getting a bindi for 6 months.

Now we have a question from Vishnu Rathadas.

If 1 does not begin relish reading Srimad Bhagavatam, is it due to dormant envy of Sattvika toward the Lord?

So if 1 is not relishing reading the Srimad Bhagavatam or the Bhagavad Gita or any of these literature.

When it's not relishing, it's due to contamination in the heart, definitely.

1 has a taste for hearing Bhagavatam, it means you are still polluted by envy.

So actually until we come to that point of being able to see Krishna face to face, we are still polluted by envy.

We have to understand I have been envious of the Lord for millions of lifetimes and that envy is still polluting my heart.

Even now, even though I am initiated, I am chanting 16 mantras for so many years, I have been preaching, distributing books, making devotees and so many things, but I am still not seeing Krishna face to face eye to eye.

It means I am still polluted by envy to some extent.

So to whatever extent I am free from envy, to that extent I experience Krishna, to that extent I do not experience Krishna.

So therefore I should be very eager to get rid of all envy as soon as possible.

Envy, get out, get out and stay out and don't you come back ever again.

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