Srimad Bhagavatam, 4th Canto, Chapter 19, Text 36.

Ebi Indra Upasang Sri Shtai, Pakandayi Haribir Janam, Hriyamanu Vajakshamayinam, Yasya Yajna Dudhas Mamut.

Ebi, by these, Indra Upasang Sri Shtai, created by the King of Heaven, Indra, Pakhandai, sinful activities, Hare Bhi, very attractive to hear, Janam, the people in general.

Yajnagiruk, creating a disturbance in the performance of the sacrifice.

Translation in Purport by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnupada Padamahamsa Piri Pujyakacarya Jaya Siddhati Srimat E Si Bhaktivedanta Tri Dandi Goswami Maharaj Just see how Indra, the king of heaven, was creating a disturbance in the midst of the sacrifice by stealing the sacrificial horse.

These attractive sinful activities he has introduced will be carried out by the people in general.

Purpur, in the Bhagavad Gita 3.21 it is said, yajna-rasi-svestha-sthattarivi taro janah syatamanam kudute lokas tad-anvartate Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps.

Whatever standard he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

For his own sense gratification, King Indra sought to defeat Maharaj Prithu in the performance of 100 horse sacrifices.

Consequently, he stole the horse and hid himself amidst so many irreligious personalities.

Such activities are attractive to people in general, therefore they are dangerous.

Lord Brahma thought that instead of allowing any further introduced such irreligious system, they better to stop the sacrifice.

The similar stance was taken by Lord Buddha when people were overly engrossed in the animal sacrifices recommended by Vedic instructions.

Lord Buddha had to introduce the religion of non-violence by contradicting the Vedic sacrificial instructions.

Actually in the sacrifices, the slaughtered animals were given a new life, the people without such powers were taking advantage of such evading rituals and unnecessarily and unnecessarily killing poor animals.

Therefore, Lord Buddha denied the authority of the evaders for the time being.

1 should not perform sacrifices that will increase, rebel, induce reverse orders.

It is better to stop such sacrifices." So Lord Buddha was actually an incarnation of Krishna, but he denied the Vedas to stop the misuse of the Vedas so that gradually the proper use of the Vedas can be reintroduced.

And we have repeatedly explained due to a lack of qualified nomencl priests in Kali Yuga, It is not possible to perform the ritualistic ceremonies recommended in the Vedas.

Consequently, the Shastras instruct us to perform the Sankirtana Yajna.

By the Sankirtana sacrifice, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in his form of Lord Chaitanya will be satisfied and worshipped.

The entire purpose of performing sacrifices is to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Vishnu or Lord Krishna is present in his form of Lord Caitanya.

Therefore, people who are intelligent should try to satisfy him by performing some kirtan yajna.

This is the easiest way to satisfy Lord Vishnu in this age.

People should take advantage of the injunctions in different shops concerning sacrifice in this age and not create unnecessary disturbances during the sinful age of Kali.

In Kaliism, men all over the world are very expert in opening slaughterhouses for killing animals that they eat.

If the old ritualistic ceremonies were observed, people would be encouraged to kill more and more animals.

In Calcutta, there are many butcher shops which keep a deity of the goddess Kali, and animal eaters think that it is poverty to purchase animal flesh in such shops and hope they are eating the remnants of food offered to goddess Kali.

They do not know that goddess Kali never accepts non-vegetarian food because she is the taste wife of Lord Shiva.

Lord Shiva is also a great Vaishnava and never eats non-vegetarian food and the Goddess Kali accepts the remnants of food left by Lord Shiva.

Therefore there is no possibility of her eating flesh or fish.

Such offerings are accepted by the associates of Goddess Kali, known as bhutas, pisachas and nakshatas.

And those who take the prasad of Goddess Kali in the shape of flesh or fish, we are not actually taking the prasad left by the goddess Kali, but the food left by the bhutas and the visachas.

So we can see how Irujan is going on, they oppose the religion.

Even we see Sunaytevo opposes sanyasi, but behind the scene they engage in all kinds of illicit activities.

Even within ISKCON sometimes these things are going on.

Child abuse, seducing women in the name of someone who is supposedly a great spiritual leader, but behind the scenes they are having illicit sex and abusing children.

The real ISKCON is pure and perfect, given to us by Srila Prabhupada.

Those who oppose themselves as ISKCON, that engage in irreligious activities, are not actually ISKCON.

So the pure perfect ISKCON is here in the form of Prabhupada's teachings and all those who are sincerely following Prabhupada's teachings without deviating, They are also connected with Srila Prabhupada.

So we should take advantage of these great teachings of Srila Prabhupada and make our lives perfect.

As he pointed out, Prabhupada quoted this verse here, Yad Yad Acha Rithish Re Stath Tat Tad Evi Taro Janath Sayatam Anam Kuthute Loka Stada Nivartate Whatever action a great man, is performed by a great man, the common people follow in his footsteps, and understand, he said, by exemplary acts all the world pursues.

The trouble is the so-called great men are doing nonsense.

Just like Indra is a great personality, but because he engaged in nonsense activities, now other people are taking that example and they are also engaging in nonsense activities.

So the so-called great men may do nonsense.

The true great men are strictly following the instructions of Krishna, strictly following the bona fide spiritual master, they are not deviating in the name of religion or the name of this kind.

So it is up to us now who are trying to follow Prabhupada, we should do so sincerely without any deviation.

Let us be true Acharyas, you see, resenting the proper example.

Now let us not be cheaters in the name of Krishna consciousness, let us be actual examples of what it means to be a devotee.

Yato yato nishcalati mannas cancala mastaram tatas tata na yah myata atma ye bhavisham ye yah.

From wherever and wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, 1 must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.

Someone who is actually following the path way of mahajano yena gatah sapantah, once you follow the path way of the great acharya, the great mahajanas, Those who are actually following this process, they don't cheat.

They chant 16 rounds every day, at least 16 rounds every day without fail.

They don't engage in illicit sex, mediating, intoxication, or gambling.

They strictly follow the instructions given by the coming down of the Cypriot succession.

We follow the path of these great Mahajans.

Evam paramparapta tam namo mahajayo viduh.

This knowledge was thus received by the chain of the Cypriot succession and the saintly kings understood it in that way.

Now they began to invent some new teachings.

These so-called religious people opposing the religious but not actually religious, they invent their own teachings, some new teachings.

They want to go out and attract followers and they make some new teachings.

It's like these butcher shops in Calcutta attracting many customers.

So called Kali Pashadam they're selling in the form of flesh and fish.

So that is they may attract many many customers by advertising this is Pashadam Kali.

But such a religion simply is the royal road to hell.

The propagators of it and those who follow it are also going to the hellish regions.

We should take advantage of this human form of life which is meant for self-realization and not engaged in sense gratification.

Sense gratification means you stay in the cycle of birth and death going down and not even guaranteed a human birth again.

By engaging in so many sinful activities you are going to go down to the lower kingdom, lower the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom, the fish, the germs, the worms.

Once you take full advantage of the human form, we have gotten after great difficulty going through so many species of life to get this human form.

Now we should take full advantage of it and engage in this Sankirtan movement.

The Sankirtan movement is the prime benediction of humanity at large.

It spreads the veins of the benediction moon and increases the ocean of transcendental bliss and enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious.

See, everyone is actually hankering for pure love of God.

Everybody is hankering for Krishna consciousness.

That's why we introduced this in Kirtan, this public chanting of the holy names.

Not just some musical performance, because everybody likes some attractive music, But it goes beyond that.

It actually connects them with their original nature.

We can go to some place and we can begin this chanting of Hare Krishna mantra and people became attracted to it.

Prabhupada came, just 1 lone sannyasi, an elderly man and 1 son, but he attracted so many people to the holy name.

Thousands and thousands of people were attracted because the problem is purely chanting the name of Krishna.

So we purely chant Krishna's name not from ulterior motive to attract followers to make money or some other ulterior motive.

If we chant simply to the purpose of developing love of God and trying to bless the fallen souls with this process by which they can attain love of God, we can attract thousands and millions of people.

We can just go to some place and chant and so many people will come and they will start chanting and dancing in ecstasy actually.

We can chant purely these holy names without any motive.

In fact so many people have joined the singing and dancing movement in Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

There is no qualified mama to do the Vedic ritualistic sacrifices.

No, we are not qualified to do such things.

No brahmana can chant so perfectly the mantra.

Even we mispronounce Hare Krishna mantra.

Hare Krishna instead of Hare we say Hare.

Even we mispronounce the Hare Krishna mantra many times.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna instead of Hare Krishna.

Krishna is so kind, he accepts our endeavor.

Well, they are trying to chant my name, they are trying to chant this mantra.

The Krishna is very kind and he accepts our stumbling efforts to chant Hare Krishna and to make and love of God within our hearts.

We make so many mistakes doing this wrong, that wrong, this and so many wrongs.

But he was sincerely trying to be Krishna conscious, sincerely trying to please the spiritual master, the previous Acharyas, Lord Caitanya, Lord Krishna and Radharani, were sincerely trying and in spite of our so many mistakes, our sincere effort is accepted.

And we make progress on this pathway to get out of the entanglement of this material nature, caught up in birth and death, old age and disease, again and again and again and again, suffering like anything.

So everybody is hankering for this pure nectar of Krishna consciousness and it's available.

Anybody who reads these books, anybody who gets this prasadam, anyone who can chant this holy name, even unknowingly, you see.

We just tell people, say Hare, Hare Krishna.

They say Hare Krishna, just cooperating in a friendly way with us.

We ask them to say Hare Krishna and they say it and they get unlimited mercy, unlimited blessing.

Because they uttered the holy name, and Radha and Krishna were dancing in their mouth.

They got the direct contact of the Supreme Personality of God in the eternal concert.

This personality of Krishna is simply amazing, amazing person.

all powerful, all beautiful, all renounced, all wealthy, all famous and all wise.

And he is all merciful upon us suffering souls in this material world.

This is why he has come to Lord Caitanya.

We should take full advantage of this amazing personality.

It's like he told Arjuna, Bahuni me viti tani, janmani tavit arjuna, tanya ham vidasarvani na sma parantapa.

I commemorate all of them, but you cannot, O Subdura Viham.

Whenever and wherever there was a calling of religious practice and a predominant rise of irreligion, at that time I would ascend myself.

So this is why it is very very irreligious.

How it is becoming more and more irreligious.

When I was a child in the 50s, we said the Lord's Prayer.

The whole school, everything paused and said the whole intercom system, the Lord's Prayer was stated.

But then Some lady didn't like that her child didn't hear the Lord's Prayer, so she went to the court and the court threw it out.

Now because of 1 child wouldn't have to hear the Lord's Prayer.

Now no children is allowed to say the Lord's Prayer anymore.

Why didn't they just say, let the child go to a different room so they didn't have to hear the prayer.

They say, in God we trust on the currency.

That's probably coming down the tubes eventually.

And God we trust will be removed from the currency.

How can you trust somebody you don't know?

If They don't know who is God, how they can really trust Him.

The Supreme Personality of God who appeared 5000 years ago.

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, all the books of Krishna, the Krishna book is here.

How Krishna appeared, how he killed all these demons.

He had his childhood pastimes with the cowherd boys and then with the cowherd girls.

I am coming to listen to Guruji's lecture.

So we have to take advantage of this process.

We have a tendency, so many people they get initiated, but they end up just acting like rascals.

They don't follow the instructions of the scriptures.

It's shocking sometimes the reports I get about what my disciples are doing.

There's so much deviating, they're not following their initiation vows.

It's a great shock to me as a spiritual master to hear how these disciples are so much deviating from Dharma.

So my request is all my disciples and those who are disciples or other spiritual masters, don't deviate from Dharma.

Don't put your spiritual master in a difficulty by engaging in sinful activities, acting irreligiously.

Anyone who takes the vow of initiation, you have to keep your word.

If you make a promise, you keep your promise.

Otherwise you are not even a human being, you are an animal.

You don't keep your initiation vow to follow the instructions of the spiritual master of your life and soul.

Those men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, Praise those men who do not listen to the transmittal pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna, the deliverer from all evils.

Don't be a category of a dog, hog, camel and ass.

Running running running after sense gratification.

Become an actual human being by taking this process of Krishna consciousness very seriously.

Now you have got this human form, you must utilize it for self-realization.

Don't be a cheater, don't be a rascal, don't put your spiritual master into difficulty by not keeping initiation values.

So this process of Krishna consciousness is simply wonderful.

And if we take it seriously, our lives will become simply wonderful.

So we have to not be stupid idiots to throw away this great opportunity that is coming by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.

Prabhupada has given this wonderful institution, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

So take the association of devotees, it is a very valuable thing.

The Association of devotees, even 1 moment, love a mantra, even 1 eleventh of a second can deliver all perfection.

Sarva Siddhi Hoyi can give all perfection.

So take advantage of having the association of the sadhus here in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, don't be offensive, actually we are offending the devotees, we are offending the holy name also.

You can't be a pure chandler of the holy name If you don't have a proper loving relationship with the Vaishnavas, that's the first offense against the holy name.

It's a blasphemy to the devotees who have dedicated their lives to propagating the holy name all over the world.

So we have to have a proper relationship with the Vaishnavas.

Otherwise we can't have a proper relationship with the Holy Name also.

So please understand, have proper relationships with the devotees, don't be abusive to the devotees, don't neglect the devotees, have a wonderful loving service mood with the Vaishnavas and that will enable you to chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare in the proper mood.

We can properly connect with the Holy Name of Krishna and the whole spiritual world becomes accessible to us.

The holy name enables us to fully face the negativity which we are always hankering for.

The holy name in the Vaishnava Sangha is the access to the holy name.

The more you dive into chanting Hare Krishna, the more you can have proper relations with the devotees, the more you can chant Hare Krishna, the more they feed into each other.

are having trouble with your japa, try to improve the relationship with the devotees.

are having trouble with the relationship with the devotees, try to improve the quality of your japa, how they feed into each other, on both sides.

We chant our japa for our 16 rounds for a bit of the day, but then all day long we are having an opportunity to associate with the devotees.

So take that, the devotee association is very very important, this is the barna of your japa.

And it's actually the quality of your japa, how you have a quality relationship with the devotee.

So are there any questions coming in yet?

how can we have proper relationships with devotees if the other devotee is really offensive and cruel?

Yeah, if a devotee is being offensive, what do you do?

Well, if someone is offensive, you can try being kind to them and pull them out of their offensive mentality.

If in spite of that they still remain offensive, there is not much you can do except keep a distance.

a sad thing that sometimes devotees are not really devotees actually, only so called devotees.

A devotee will not be a, Somebody who is a devotee will try to avoid being offensive.

If they go on being offensive, they are not really devotees.

They are just a show bottle of devotees, not actually devotees of Krishna.

A devotee may accidentally be offensive sometimes, but he will certainly reject being offensive and try to overcome it.

We have a nature to be offensive, that's why we are here in the material world.

That is how we got these material bodies.

Coming to Krishna consciousness means I want to give up this offensive mentality, become actually absolutely pure and perfect in all my thoughts, words, and deeds, in all times, places, and circumstances.

So due to the past contamination I had, it's natural sometimes I'll be offensive, either openly or in my thoughts.

So by being a devotee means I'm working to overcome that offensive nature.

I'm sincerely endeavoring to overcome that offensive nature and become proper in all of my thoughts, words, and deeds in all time, places, and circumstances.

Because these offenses are actually keeping me here in the cycle of birth and death.

I become qualified to go back to home, back to God, and actually I have to become offense-less.

So therefore, someone who is not trying to give up the offensive nature, they are not really a devotee of Krishna,

Sometimes, like I have seen people, they don't even really care that they are being offensive and then they will literally start thinking the other people are offensive and then they go and they are alone all day and don't associate at all.

So how are they even still around with that mentality?

Like Krishna is great, they are somehow still in the association of devotees, they get a chance to overcome their offensive nature.

They are not part of this kind, they are part of this kind.

It is very sad that so many people have given up Krishna consciousness.

They are only half way following it or they have given up completely.

Manushyanaam sahasreshu kashyat yatati siddhanaye yata tam api siddhanam kashyat naivam titat patah.

Out of thousands of men, 1 may endeavor for perfection.

Now out of all those who endeavor for perfection aren't even 1 Muslim in truth so it's actually 1 out of a million who actually take it properly it's a very rare thing for even someone to be attracted to

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