Irash chashvam ma paadaya, pitsi yagyam matavadja, tad avadjam hare rupam, jag me urgana durbala.

Vira, the son of King Pitu shall also, ashvam, the horse, upadaya, taking pitiyajam to the sacrificial of his father.

Atat, thereafter, avrja, went, tat, that, avajyam, abominable, hare,

Rupam, Dres, Jagrihu, Adopted, Ganadharabala.

By his divine grace, Om Vishnu Pad, Paramahamsa Parivajakaraja Aspatarajashe Shemad, A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Dandigal Swami Maharaj, Pad.

Then the great hero, Vijatasva, the son of King Pruthu, again took the horse and returned it to his father's sacrificial arena.

Since that time, certain men with a poor fund of knowledge have adopted the dress of a false sannyasi.

It was King Indra who introduced this purport.

Since time immemorial the sannyas order has carried the tridanda.

Later Shankaracharya introduced the Ekadandi sannyas.

A Tridandi sannyasi is a Vaishnava sannyasi and an Ekadandi sannyasi is a Mayavadi sannyasi.

There are many other types of sannyasis who are not approved by Vedic rituals.

The type of pseudo-sannyasis was introduced by Lendra when he tried to hide himself from the attack of Vijitashvaha, the great son of King Prithu.

Now there are many different types of sannyasis.

Some of them go naked and some of them carry a skull and trident, generally known as kapalika.

All of them were introduced under some meaningless circumstances and those who have a poor fund of knowledge accept these false sannyasis and their pretenses, although they are not bona fide guides of spiritual advancement.

At the present moment, some missionary institutions, without referring to the Vedic rituals, have introduced some sannyasis who engage in sinful activities.

The sinful activities forbidden by the Shastras are illicit sex, intoxication, meat eating and gambling.

These so-called sannyasis indulge in all these activities.

They eat meat and flesh, fish, eggs and just about anything, just about everything.

They sometimes drink with the excuse that without alcohol, fish and meat is impossible to remain in the cold countries near the Arctic zone.

These sannyasis introduce all these sinful activities in the name of serving the poor and consequently poor animals who cut to pieces and go into the bellies of these sannyasis.

As described in the following verses, such sannyasis are pakandis.

Vedic literature states that a person who puts Narayana on a level with Lord Shiva or Lord Rama immediately becomes a Pakandi.

Yastu Narayanam Deva Brahma Rudra Daivataaha Daivataaya Samat Venaiva Viksheta Saapashanti vived dhruvam.

So you are not a class, you can't collect it.

In Kali Yuga the Prakandis are very prominent.

However, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has tried to kill all these pecandis by introducing his Sankirtana movement.

Those who take advantage of this Sankirtana movement of the international society for Krishna consciousness will be able to save themselves from the influence of these Prakandins.

Vandeham Sri Guru Sridhata Palakamam Sri Guru-Vaishnavamstra Sri Rupam Sagarajatam Sahagana Raghunatham Vritam Tam Sajjivan Sadaitam Savadutam Vadidana Saitam Krishna Caitanya Devam Sri Rama Krishna Pradam Sahagana Vadita Sri Visakhanvitam Stham Nama Om Vishnu Padayu Krishna Preshtayu Bhutale Namaste Sarasvati Devi, Gauravani Pachalini, Nirmishesha Shunyavari, Pashyatya Deshatarini.

Unfortunately, nowadays there are so many bogus sannyasis.

1 came to Austin and he said, I'm God, you're God, we're all God.

Another became very prominent and popular.

He charged money for the mancha, mancha fee.

He became a millionaire by selling Mancha.

So we are very fortunate that we have a bona fide sannyasi, Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is actually a proper representative of the Vedic culture.

The Vedic culture was an amazing time on this planet.

You can imagine, Right now there are so many nations fighting with 1 another.

You want to go to Canada, you need a passport.

But in the Vedic ages, The whole planet was 1 country.

India was the capital and the whole world was under 1 rule.

It was a wonderful time, the Vedic culture.

So our Krishna Gandha's movement now, the Prophet wanted to bring back that Vedic culture.

So that's why we distribute books, why we do Harinam, we have preaching programs, Prasadam.

In so many ways we're trying to introduce Krishna consciousness, to bring the world back to the Vedic culture.

There's no reason for all this suffering to go on, it's simply due to ignorance.

The actual position of the living entity is full of bliss.

That's the natural position of the living entity.

It's not due to a lack of money or a lack of power or a lack of this or that.

So we want to enlighten everyone to understand who you really are.

No, you are not your car, but you take proper care of it.

Put air in the tires, keep the battery charged, put oil, gasoline.

You take good care of the car so you can do your activities.

So this body we take good care of it, we feed it properly, we give it proper rest, we give the proper necessities to the body so we can use it nicely for Krishna.

The whole point is to use everything in Krishna's service.

Mind becomes completely absorbed and getting that mind completely absorbed in Krishna consciousness.

The nature and the material world our minds are very flickering.

They want to jump here, jump there, jumping, jumping, jumping, Very unsteady.

But as Krishna says, yathā yathā niscalati mānaś caṁś cittamāstharaṁ tathā sthato na jñānyatātmā ye vimuṣaṁ ye vimuṣaṁ.

Sure, wherever the mind wanders, I do it with flickering and unsteady nature, 1 will suddenly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.

People take the mind to be the self, that's the problem.

And they don't realize the mind is just a tool to be utilized by the self.

So when the tool is not being properly utilized, just like you may have a saw, electric saw, if you don't use it properly you can cut off your hand.

To use it properly you can do things very nicely.

So tools have to be used very nicely and properly.

If they are misused it leaves us with so much trouble and chaos.

So right now our minds are being misused.

Jayato visayam pum san, san gac chay te su-pijayate, sangat sanjayate kama, kama kodo-pijayate, krodha bhavati sanmaha, sanmahas tisidigvam asmiti-bhamsad buddhina-sopurnasati.

While contemplating the objects of the senses, the person becomes attracted to them.

From that attraction lust develops, from lust comes anger, from anger comes illusion, from illusion comes the movement of memory, memory is the intelligence of love, and when intelligence of love falls down again into the material pool.

To utilize the mind becomes a very powerful instrument.

We actually bring our mind under control, we can actually have great power and influence on this planet.

Bring these suffering souls out of their illusion of bodily consciousness, bring them to the transcendental platform of Krishna consciousness.

So just consider how fortunate we are, just amazing how this movement took off like a rocket, I mean is it really amazing, can you imagine?

A 70 year old man with 10 rupees after 2 heart attacks.

He went back and left a whole year, but nothing happened.

But then somehow or other, he got that storefront down at 26th Second Avenue, the hippie neighborhoods.

And he became very popular with the hippies.

And so they would go hear the Swami and they would hear his lectures and he took them to the park.

They went and they chanted in the park and the thing just took off like a rocket.

some devotees went to San Francisco and took out a raga there too.

And then it was boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

Thousands and thousands of people, young people, joined this Krishna consciousness movement And he sent them to India to re-establish the bona fide Vaishnava culture in India, the Amavaishnava culture, which had been so much polluted by all these Bhogis and Nassis.

So just consider the great fortune we have to be connected with Srila Prabhupada and this movement.

We have to actually learn how to sacrifice our sense gratification.

We have to minimize our own personal sense gratification as much as we possibly can and maximize our devotional service.

We have a tendency because we are so addicted to sense gratification to continue, want to continue in that sense gratification mood.

It leads to birth after birth after birth in the material world.

So we have to say, okay, let me take whatever sense gratification is necessary to keep body and soul together.

Let me take whatever sense gratification is necessary.

Just like how much gasoline do you want to put in your car?

You don't want to try putting more than the gas tank will hold.

So whatever sense gratification is necessary, let's do that.

Let's maximize our devotional service and minimize sense gratification as much as possible.

The more we can put Krishna consciousness first, put everything else second, the more we'll actually awaken that amazing consciousness called Krishna consciousness which has been sleeping in our hearts for millions and millions of births.

We have been diverted by sense gratification for millions and millions of births.

But here we are in a human form and even more fortunate here we are having contact with this great Vaishnava Acharya, Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Sri Dandegoswami Maharaj Prabhupada.

It's not that well, only those devotees who were here when Prabhupada was here to see him, to get initiated, only they are in a good position now.

Anybody who takes Prabhupada, even many Prabhupada's disciples gave it up because they didn't prioritize Krishna consciousness.

They deprioritized Krishna consciousness and prioritized sense gratification.

That's why you have so many Prabhupada's.

So let us, the disciples, grand disciples, let us all be very serious now to prioritize Krishna consciousness.

Put Krishna first and then everything will follow automatically.

When you water the root of the tree all the leaves and branches are nourished.

When you feed the belly you nourish the whole body.

So we have to do that by the devised Krishna consciousness.

Not be carried away anymore by the material nature.

Pratrite kriyamanani gunanikarmasarvasah ahankara vimudhagma kartamati vanyate.

The spirit solved by the influence of false ego considers himself to be the doer of activities and Actually carried out by the 3 modes of maturation.

Whatever we are able to accomplish, we shouldn't say, yes, I'm so great.

We should just try to see everything as Krishna's arraignment and try to be instrumental.

Let Krishna act, let me be an instrument.

Krishna is the puppeteer and I'm the puppet.

Make me dance, make me dance, make me dance as you like.

Begging Krishna, my dear Lord, you please use me in whatever way you want to use me.

However I can best please you and serve you, you engage me in that way.

Let me make pleasing you my only real business in life.

My only business is actually to please you.

Please let me do everything for your pleasure.

Actually you will not be the losers by doing that.

Krishna is the supreme controller, everything is under his direction.

We put ourselves fully under his direction, you will be amazed everything, it will come breaking so perfectly in your life, wow amazing, how did this happen?

The most amazing thing will happen when you put Krishna first.

As long as we try to be the controllers, things will sometimes be good, sometimes they will not be good.

It will be up and down, up and down, up and down.

You say, okay, let Krishna get complete control, let my every thought, my every word, my every deed, in all times, places and circumstances, be it for the pleasure of my beloved Lord." Then you'll be amazed at everything that happens.

You'll say, wow, it's amazing how Krishna is arranging all these things.

What did we say in the American currency?

If I put myself completely under his, I can trust him.

He's not going to abuse me, he's not going to cheat me, he's not going to torture me.

Let me put myself completely under Krishna's direction.

Whatever my dear lord you want me to do that I will do.

Then it is amazing how we can become fully awakened living beings.

We can get out of this darkness of illusion.

Itadhi par nivartasto, nengamesa parmasmeta, yogino yuktitushyasa, bhunjyato yuga matmanah.

As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, So the transcendentalist's mind is controlled, it means always steady, and in meditation on the transcendental self.

We have to have mind like a lamp in a windless place.

If it's windy, the flame will be flickering this way, this way.

When there's no wind, that flame is just steady.

We only have mind like a lamp in a windless place, not flickering mind.

So the transcendentalist whose mind is controlled remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent self.

And it's also the transcendent self that's Krishna and the transcendent self is my transcendent self.

That's who I actually am and not just a corpse.

Venu, kwanantam aravindad alayataksam, barhabatam samasitam buddhasundarankam, kandarpakoti kamini yavishe shashobham, govindam adhipurusham damabhjami.

I worship Govinda, the primeval lord, who is the depth of playing on his flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals, head decked with peacock feathers, with the figure of beauty tinged with a hue of blue clouds.

His unique loveliness is charming millions of Cupid.

Can you imagine what kind of complexion he has?

A bluish complexion like dark rain clouds, beautiful dark rain clouds.

Attracting that most beautiful of all girls, Srimati Radharani, attracted to Krishna.

Ananda Chinmaya Vasapati Patapada, this, Tadhirya even in the Rupa, the Yakalavi, Goloka even in the Satyaki, the Mabhuta, Govinda Manipurusham, Tamabhajami.

I worship Govinda, the prime in the Lord, residing in his own realm, Goloka, with Vada,

I wrote to Gobinda, the prime name of the Lord, deciding his own realm of

Goloka with Vada, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of his sixty-four artistic activities and the accompanying of her Kantan-Ansakis, the embodiment of the extensions of her bodily form permeated and vitalized me with a blissful spiritual rest.

Can you imagine what kind of relationship is going on between Radha and Krishna?

These pastimes of the cowherd boys also have amazing, amazing leaders.

Now after the Aghasura demon, killing the Aghasura demon, Krishna was taking his lunch with the cowherd boys.

There are thousands of cowherd boys, each has thousands of calves.

You actually go there and see that, in the middle of millions of calves and they wandered off to take some grass.

And Krishna said, you boys, you keep taking your lunch, I'll go look for the calves.

And then Lord Rama thought he'd play a trick.

Who was this little boy being so much celebrated?

He stole all the calves and the boys also.

Now Krishna is telling you, what about the mothers, the mother cows and the cowherd boys mothers, what will they think?

So Krishna then manifested himself in every 1 of those calves and every 1 of those boys.

And he went home after the day, the normal thing.

And Krishna knew the personality of every single boy and every single calf.

He could perfectly duplicate every mood, their gesture.

So the mother cows and the mothers of the boys, they couldn't suspect that this was someone else.

But 1 thing was different, they had amazing increase of affection for their son, for the calves and the boys.

They never had so much affection for their son for a whole year this went on.

This 4 billion, 300 million years is 12 hours.

So he said, well what happened when I played this trick?

So a moment later, a moment later, Brahma's time, he came back, it was a year later for our time, he came back and he was amazed.

There's a whole chapter in the Krishna book where the prayer is offered like Brahma.

That's where he had that experience of understanding who is his category.

It's amazing how Brahma actually, he would sometimes be covered by the material energy and think Krishna was an ordinary boy.

So he had different moods and different times.

But sometimes I thought Krishna was an ordinary boy.

It's amazing the pastimes of Lord Ramana and Krishna.

There's so many amazing things, amazing, amazing pastimes.

And what we have in the Krishna book is just the tip of the iceberg, you know, the tiny tip of the iceberg.

You can actually experience all those pastimes.

Actually we all are a part of Krishna's pastimes.

We are thinking here I am a citizen of the US or a citizen of this or that, here is my passport, my driver's license.

We are actually associates of the Supreme Lord in his pastimes in the spiritual world.

So Prabhupada now is bringing us back, bringing us back to who we actually are, getting us out of this illusion of bodily consciousness.

Any questions from you all here in this kind of Austin?

You fully realize now in the science of self-realization no longer be worried by the influence of material nature.

How can I stop misidentifying with this male body or female body, American body, Lithuanian body, the Mauritian body, Indian body?

This is the advantage of absorbing ourselves in the Sadhana Bhakti.

This Raghunuga Bhakti when you fully realize it, spontaneous, you come back and actually realize your eternal relationship with Krishna, you spontaneously engage in devotional service in great ecstasy.

But then there is sadhanavati, that's us.

We are taking the medicine to become healthy.

So the medicine is generally 16 rounds every day of the Hare Krishna mantra.

Avoid illicit sex, meeting intoxication, gambling, that means no recreational sex.

In married life it means only for procreation, according to the Papa's instructions, once in a month, 4 to 6 days after the menstrual cycle, after 50 rounds of job.

Some of the buddies say it's not really practical to do that, no 1 can follow it.

If you're properly trained by someone who himself is, if you're properly trained by someone who has himself been able to strictly follow the principles throughout his whole married life, then you can also follow.

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