Atrena churidu hantum prittuputra mahalato anvadavata sankruddhas tistha teshta tisabhavi.

Atrena, by the great sage Achari, Chaudita, being encouraged and to kill Prithuputra, the son son of King Prithu, Mahavata, a great hero, Ambedavata, followed Sankrutha, being very tishta tishta, just wait, just wait, iti, das, cha, also, amrivi, he said.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

When the son of King Prithu was informed by Atri of King Indra's trick, he immediately became very angry and followed Indra to kill him, calling, wait, wait.

The words tishta tishta are used by a ksatriya when he challenges his enemy.

When fighting a ksatriya cannot flee from the battlefield.

However when a ksatriya out of cowardice flees from the battlefield, showing his back to his enemy, he is challenged with the word, tishta tishta.

A real kshatriya does not kill his enemy from behind, nor does a real kshatriya turn his back on the battlefield.

According to ksatriya principle and spirit, 1 either attains victory or dies on the battlefield.

Although King Indra was very exalted, being the king of heaven, he became degraded due to his stealing the horse intended for sacrifice.

Therefore he fled without observing the ksatriya principles and the son of Prithu had to challenge him with the words, tishta tishta.

Vandeham sri guru sri jatapadakamalam sri guru Vandeham Shri Guru Shri Dattapada Kamalam Shri Guru Vaishnavam Shchao Shri Rupam Sagarajatam Sahagama Raghunatham Vidham Tam Sajivam Sadaitam Sabhadutam Parijana Sahitam Krishna Chaitanya Sadaitam Sava-dhutam Parijana-sahitam Krsna Caitanya Devam Sri Radha Krsna Pradham Sahagana Radhita Sri Visakhanvitam Namah Om Vishnu Pradaya Krsna Presthaya Bhutale So in the Vedic culture things were very structured.

And even the Kshatriyas, it wasn't proper for them to flee from the battlefield.

They had to either die fighting or become victorious.

Nowadays when they have war they have to surrender.

They figure if they can't win, okay, we'll have a peace treaty.

But this modern day society is very far from the Vedic culture.

In so many ways we are deviated from the Vedic culture.

Just like all the slaughterhouses, all the cows are being killed.

In so many ways it is a very, very degraded situation.

Just like Bhagavatam says, Svabhidhara ustra karai, Sankshita-parashakpa-suh, Naja-takama-pato peito, Jatana-magadha-gaja-ha.

Men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, praise those men who do not listen to the little pastimes of the Lord Sri Krishna, deliver from all evils.

So Prabhupada in great detail explains these 4 types of animals, how the modern day civilization is like these 4 types of animals.

Shiva, a dog, a dog has to have a master.

That's the modern day, The street dog is in a very difficult situation.

The dog has a master and he is in a very nice situation.

So nowadays everyone has to be, If they don't have a boss, they don't have an employer, they don't have a master, they are in difficulty.

In the Vedic culture you have the Brahmins, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas and the Shudras.

The Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas are all completely independent.

The Brahmins, they teach the Vedic wisdom and whatever comes, whatever donations come, they live on that, even if it is very little.

There was 1 Brahmin, he was very impoverished, and 1 wealthy man was going to offer him, I'll give you support.

My disciples, they bring some rice, and see this tamarind tree here?

My wife takes the leaf from the tamarind tree and she boils it with the rice and we eat very nicely.

The Brahmin didn't want to be supported, have a master.

Just like in the battlefield of Kurukshetra, the Pandavas were taken away, they were ruling, having some land that they could take taxes from.

The Kshatriya had to have a ruler, he had to have some area that was his territory, he would take taxes from the citizens and protect them.

So the Chakri is also completely independent and the Vaishyas also, they are engaged in business or they are engaged in cow protection.

Only the Shudra class would have to have a boss, an employer, a master.

So the modern day society they're like the dogs, they have to have a master.

They may have a very big degree, even a PhD degree from Harvard University, but still they don't have, someone doesn't hire them, they are in great difficulty.

They have to have a boss, somebody to hire them.

They go from employer to employer, with a tail between the leg, Please accept me as your qualified dog.

They go from employer to employer with a tail between the legs.

But the village hog, but it's his diet, he eats stool.

He looks where there's fresh stool, where there's fresh stool, you see.

So that's the modern day civilization, they're just eating garbage food.

They're like stew eaters, just eating garbage, all this garbage they eat in so called restaurants, it is just garbage, it is all garbage.

Restaurants and just garbage, that's all it is, garbage.

1 of the camels, He takes a thorn eating twig, he chews on it and thinks that it's very tasty.

He's actually cutting his tongue on the thorns and he's thinking, oh this is very delicious.

He's eating his own blood and he thinks, oh this is very tasty.

So in the modern day civilization they overindulge in sex life.

Baba explains how it takes many pounds of blood to make 1 drop of semen.

So they take great pleasure on passing the semen.

It's just like the camel eating, the thorn eating camel.

So in this way they're passing their semen, passing their semen.

Even now in this country there's a new idea, bogus idea going around that recreational sex is okay.

As long as you don't kill any children to come out of it, it's okay to have recreational sex.

But actually in Vedic culture they minimize sex because they understand it takes many pounds of blood to make 1 drop of semen.

And if 1 can, the Prophet says If 1 can remain brahmachari after the age of 25, then he has very good, never passing semen, strictly brahmachari.

Then anything he hears from his spiritual master he can remember his whole life.

If 1 remains brahmachari after the age of 25, he can have a very good memory.

So this idea going around is okay to pass semen for fun, but as long as you don't kill it, it's completely bogus.

I don't know how such things can go around ISCOM.

They call it the broader definition of a illicit sex life.

Because Paul Bitts sometimes said no sex life outside of marriage, but he also made it very clear in other times that sex is only once in a month, 4 to 6 days after the menstrual cycle, after 50 rounds of japa.

And then Prabhupada clarified and gave the details Because sometimes he said no sex life out of marriage, they say okay that's a new definition.

It's like saying, the Prophet said, well no meat eating.

Sometimes he would say no meat, fish or eggs.

Because sometimes he says no meat eating, that's all he has said.

So that's the broader definition of no meat eating is we can have fish and eggs now.

So this idea that recreational sex is okay, might as well have fish and eggs too.

So in this way the Papa warned us not to be like the camel, the thorn eating camel, taking great pleasure in passing semen.

So many drops of, so many pounds of blood going there, every 1 drop of semen.

And somebody says, would you give me a, here, I'd like to take a lot of your blood.

You say, oh yes, here, take a lot of my blood.

Please, here, take some blood, yes, I'd love to give you a lot of my blood.

Yes, please give me some blood, give me many, many pounds of your blood, please give it to me.

So this is the foolishness of the camel eating, the thorn eating camel civilization.

The ass carries a huge, huge burden on the back.

The washer man loaded him with a huge load of laundry going down the river to do the laundry for the villagers.

The foolish ass doesn't see there is so much grass growing here.

Why am I carrying this huge, huge burden?

This burdening myself with this huge weight on my back.

So modern day civilization is dogs, hens, camels and asses.

So Krishna Gandhi's movement is saying there is something better than this.

You have to come to the transcendental platform beyond the platform of material sense gratification.

This is the foolishness of the modern day civilization.

They take the gratification of the material body to be happiness.

The body is not the actual self, it's the covering, it's the vehicle you're using.

If I said, well you don't need to eat, all you have to do is put gasoline in your car and you'll be happy, you don't have to eat anything, just put gasoline in your car.

Just gratify your material senses, but don't neglect the self within.

We have to understand very carefully from the Bhagavad Gita the importance of that self within.

It is like Krishna says, yantaksa kamsa ramam asmat kamsar jyotah evah sa yogi brahma nirvanam brahma bhutah digacchati 1 whose happiness is within, who is active and rejoices within, and whose aim is inward is a perfect mystic.

He is liberated in the supreme and ultimately he attains the supreme.

So this is how we have to have our actual happiness.

Our actual happiness is not based on the material senses.

Our actual happiness is based on our relationship with Krishna.

By this loving relationship with Krishna we can get back to being who we actually are.

So here we are going on to these 8,400,000 species again and again and again.

Up and down, around and around, and the not so merry go around, The higher species, the lower species, up and down and around and around for millions and millions of births.

We have been trying to enjoy in a false way that doesn't give satisfaction to the self.

But now by the mercy of his divine grace, Om Vishnu Pad, Paramahamsa Parivrtta-karunam Asatasadashishimah, Acy Bhaktivedanta Tri-dandi Goswami Maharaj Prabhupada, we have this opportunity We have this opportunity now to get back to being who we actually are.

We can get back to being who we actually are.

We can get out of this madness of bodily misidentification, cheating ourselves, exploiting ourselves actually by cheating ourselves, going after that pleasure where there is no actual happiness.

So it's time now we come out of this madness of illusion.

We hear very carefully from Srila Prabhupada and the great Vaishnava Acharyas.

Prabhupada is explaining it so nicely in these books that help us get out of the madness of material consciousness and come to the Transcendental Platform.

Nahi jnane na sadhvi-sama-vrabhidhamihad-vidyate tat tvayam yukasamsad-atkalinatmani-vindate In this world there is nothing so sublime and pure as Transcendental Knowledge.

Such Transcendental 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 that should be our focus, you see, becoming accomplished in devotional service.

24 hours a day we have the opportunity to engage in Krishna service.

The moment we wake up, the moment we go to sleep at night, even in our dreams, we can be Krishna conscious.

So we should become very, very accomplished in practicing devotional service.

Our eyes seeing, always seeing in relationship with Krishna, our ears hearing in relationship with Krishna, our tongue tasting in relationship with Krishna.

And if we use our genitals, then producing Krishna conscious children according to Prabhupada's instructions.

So in this way we become accomplished in the practice of devotional service and relish this knowledge.

I'm not this body in the service of Krishna.

I can relish the fact that I am not this material body.

I am an eternal spiritual being, qualitatively 1 with the Supreme Lord.

He is eternal full of knowledge and bliss.

I am also eternal full of knowledge and bliss.

We can meditate on his wonderful pastimes, his amazing qualities.

Venum khanantam aravindaralayataksam, barhabatam samasritam buddhasundarangam, khandarpakoti kamini visesha-sobham govindam aripurusham tamaham bhajami.

I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord who is adept at playing on his flute, With blooming eyes like lotus petals, head decked with peacock feather, with the figure of beauty, chins with the hue of blue clouds, and his unique loveliness is charming millions of cupids.

Just imagine, Here's a person, the most expert musician in all of existence.

Nobody can compete, nobody can, even the most famous so-called accomplished musicians of this world, they're nothing compared to his musical ability.

When he plays that flute it charms everyone.

The whole world is charmed by the beautiful sound of his flute playing.

Just imagine a supreme musician who is attracting everyone.

The way he glances with his eyes, the way he holds his head, the way he walks, everything about him is just, everybody is completely enchanted by his amazing, amazing qualities.

We have the opportunity now to regain his association, actually enter into his transcendental pastimes, be 1 of his associates in his amazing, amazing adventures in the spiritual sky.

And even here we get to participate also in his pastimes.

His pastimes as Lord Chaitanya, He has come to live with the world.

So by engaging in this activity, the Sankirtana yoga, distributing books, Harinam Sankirtana, preaching, prasadam distribution, preaching programs, all these activities, We are actually participating in the pastimes of Krishna Himself, in His most merciful form of Lord Caitanya.

Even giving this class, you see, I am participating in the pastimes of Krishna by giving this class and you by hearing this class are also participating in the pastimes of Krishna.

So we can actually enter into Krishna's pastimes right here, right now, by the mercy of Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada.

So it is not difficult actually to become Krishna conscious, which is Vakara's practice.

It is like how do you learn to drive a car?

The same way you learn to do anything, by practice, we just practice devotional service.

By this practice, everything becomes, the more we practice devotional service the more everything becomes transcendentalized.

Everything becomes completely transcendentalized.

Gyanena tutad agyanam ye sam na siddhamatmanah te samadhi samvat garyam prakasyate tatpanam When 1 is enlightened with that knowledge by which nessence is destroyed, then his knowledge lights up everything.

It's like the sun lights up everything in the daytime.

Or just like in the dark night, and the sun comes up, oh, and all the suns come.

So in the same way, 1 becomes enlightened with this transcendental knowledge and everything becomes enlightened and brilliant.

You can see the whole world in relation to Krishna.

So if we take this process seriously we can become completely transcendentalized, no longer captivated by the material nature.

This is such a wonderful process, we get a higher taste.

Taste we want, we want satisfaction, everybody is looking for satisfaction.

We can't get it in this material world, because material sense gratification does not satisfy the self, simply agitates actually.

Vayasya-saktatmam-vindajyatmanayah Sukham Surbhama-yogayuktatmam Sukham Avshayam Asnityam Such a liberated person, the Krishna conscious person, you see, he's not attracted to material sense pleasure, but he's always in trance relishing the pleasure within.

In this way the self-realized soul enjoys limited happiness, for he always concentrates on the Supreme.

How would you like to enjoy unlimited happiness?

Who wouldn't want to enjoy unlimited happiness?

Unlimited happiness is there waiting for us.

See right now the trouble is we are intoxicated by the mature nature.

He says, jayato visayam pum sam sanjata sanjayate kama kama krodho vijayate krodha-dvabhati sammoha sammoha smtih vighnam smtih brahm sudhvidhi na surabudhinah sarpanashyati While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attraction for them.

From such attraction lust develops from lust anger from anger delusion delusion we go to memory but memory is better than telling this is lost and when you tell them this is lost 1 falls down again into the material pool.

We're constantly asking the senses, oh see that girl over there, or see that fancy car, or see that million dollar house.

We get attracted by these material sense objects.

So we have to say, okay senses, now you have 1, my dear eyes, my dear ears, all my dear senses, you have 1 business only, rishi kesha, rishi kena, say vanam.

All your senses, your only business now is to be engaging in Krishna service 24-7.

In every situation, whatever you are doing, your only business is Krishna consciousness.

Don't give in to the tendency to want to enjoy separate from Krishna.

I have to have my only business now is Krishna consciousness from now on for all of eternity.

Why do I keep running after the material nature?

I keep running after the material nature thinking I get some pleasure there.

There is any pleasure to be having the material world, it is a long time finished.

If there is any flavor in the material energy it is a long time finished.

It is like somebody spat out their bubble gum and some poverty picked out the bubble gum and started chewing it.

There might be some pleasure in that bubble gum.

They may have to bubble down the cigarette.

Barbara may pass out, they might get a cigarette.

So anyway, the point is, if there is any happiness in the long time chewed out, chewing the chewed doesn't make any sense.

We should not try to chew the sense gratification anymore.

We should give it up realizing there is nothing there for us.

My only happiness is in Krishna consciousness.

So take this process seriously, become completely turned on to the Transcendental Platform.

Prabhupada so kindly given us this wonderful process, taking so much time and trouble writing all these books, giving up his sleep.

An old man like that should be traveling constantly all over the world, not sleeping very much.

He did a great austerity actually for us.

Of course he was in transmittal ecstasy doing it because he was pleasing his spiritual master.

His spiritual master told him to spread Krishna consciousness to the English speaking world and he took it very seriously.

He took that order of his very life and soul and just see the results.

Now he wants us all to take this world deliverance mission very, very, very seriously, very soberly, very seriously accept this world deliverance mission.

If we dedicate ourselves for making the world Krishna conscious, our Krishna consciousness will automatically be there.

Let me do everything possible to spread this Krishna consciousness movement 24 hours a day.

Let me do everything, set a perfect example by my quality japa, my quality service.

Let me do everything first class service to show the example of the world that by focusing on serving Krishna in the most perfect way, it becomes a very happy, very ecstatic thing.

So we have to become like a lamp in a windless place.

Yathā dīpo nava-tastho nengre sukhamāt-sitah yoginā yata-tistha-śca yunjato yuga-māt-manah As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist whose mind is controlled remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent self.

We shouldn't be like a flickering lamp of the wind.

Material nature is agitating us, you see.

Agitated by this non-material thought, no.

Like a lamp in a windless place, you see.

How to become a good example for others when I'm still getting affected with happiness, distress, attachment?

Well we have to detach ourselves from the, We have to see everything philosophically, not be carried away by our emotions, our material emotions.

See everything through the eyes of scripture, Shastra Chak Sus.

If I'm going to get difficulty, it's like when we have some health issues, some severe health difficulty, it doesn't go away.

Well see this is Krishna's special mercy.

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