Chima Bhagavatam, 4th Kano, Chapter 19, Text Number 38.

Satangri-viśvāśabha-vam prajāpate, sankāpanam viśvācajāṁ prapīpahi, aindinjamāyam nupadharma-mottaram, prachanda-bhākanda-patam prabho jihī.

The aforesaid, to whom you, Vimrishya, consider me, asya, of the world, bhavan, existence, of the world, bhavan, existence, prajapate, O protector of the people, sankalpanam, the determination, visvajam, of the progenitors of the world.

Cha, also, mayam, illusion, upadharma, of the irreligious system of so-called sannyas.

Mataram, the mother, prachanda, furious, dangerous, pakandapatam, the path of sinful activities.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

O progenitor of the people in general, please consider the purpose of your being incarnated by Lord Vishnu.

The irreligious principles created by Indra are but mothers of so many unwanted religions.

Please therefore stop these imitations immediately.

Lord Brahma addresses King Prithu as Prajapati just to remind him of his great responsibility in maintaining the peace and prosperity of the citizens.

Maharaj Prithu was empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead for this purpose only.

It is the duty of the ideal king to see that people are properly executing religious principles.

Lord Ramat specially requested King Puthu to conquer the pseudo-religious principles produced by King Indra.

is the duty of the state or king to put a stop to pseudo-religious systems produced by unscrupulous persons.

A visionary and religious principle is 1 given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead and it comes through the channel of the siddhic succession in 2 forms.

Lord Rama instructed, rather requested Prithu Maharaj to desist from his unnecessary competition with Indra, who was determined to stop Prithu Maharaj from completing his 100 yajnas.

Instead of creating adverse reactions, it was better for Maharaj Prithu to stop the yajnas in the interest of his original purpose as an incarnation.

This purpose was to establish good government and set things in the right order.

Bhandayaham Sri Guru, Sri Jatapada Kamal, Sri Guru and Vaishnavamsa, Sri Rupam, Sagrajatam, Sahagam, Raghunatham, Vittamtam, Sujeevam, Sadaitam, Savadutam, Parijana Sahitam, Krishna Chaitanya Deva, Sivarham, Krishnapadam, Sahagam Lalita, Sri Vishakanti Tamsa.

So it is very important to note here that Maharaj, rather Lord Rama wanted King Kripa to do his actual duty, not to be sidetracked by stopping, by trying to do a hundred sacrifices.

His actual duty was to put a stop to pseudo-religious activities.

And now here is the duty of the state or the king.

That means even if you don't have a king, you don't have a monarchy.

Even if there's a democracy, the same principle applies.

The duty of the democratic leaders to put a stop to pseudo-religion.

The difficulty is they are themselves promoting pseudo-religion.

So we need to have new leadership on this planet.

Whether we have monarchy or democracy, we need to have enlightened persons at the head of the governments.

In the Vedic system it is rajarsi, meaning Raja and Vrishi at the same time.

The king is not only a king, not only a monarch, but he is also a saint at the same time.

So the same principle applies in democracy.

We must have saints at the head of the government, whether it's the national government, the state government, the local government, and all the levels we need to have saintly persons in those positions.

Unfortunately when you have a democratic system, the shlabdibhra ushta karai, those persons who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, praise those men who do not listen to the transcendental path signs of Lord Sri Krishna, deliverer of all evils.

The difficulty is when you have dogs, hogs, camels and asses voting for the leadership, what kind of leaders do you get?

We had at 1 time actually the In God We Trust Party, but we had to stop it because it's not legal.

We had actually probably the God We Trust Party.

We actually ran various candidates and Gainesville, our town hall president ran for mayor of the city council.

So we can't do that as a religious organization.

The trouble is we don't have the voters to vote for such persons who are actually qualified to lead the world.

That's why Lord Caitanya said, jyare deka tali-kaaha, krishna upadesha, hamaranga ayo guru, hoyo tayo hridesha, wherever you meet, instruct them in the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna.

In this way become Guru and live with the people of this country.

Every ISKCON devotee should take it as his duty to educate as much as possible everyone.

Education means to actually bring out what's already there within.

It doesn't mean to artificially impose something, but it means to bring out what's already there within.

Actually, everyone, jivara svarupa hai krishnara nitya dasa, When the constitutional position of every single living entity is that he is the eternal servant of Krishna.

So in our Krishna consciousness movement we simply want to turn people back on, tune in, turn on, be who you actually are.

Come out of this misidentification with the material body which is simply a lump of ignorance.

Why should you, when your actual nature is to be eternal, full of knowledge and bliss, why should you misidentify with that which is temporary, full of ignorance and full of mystery?

It means actually we understand the ass is very asinine.

He's carrying this huge, huge burden on the back from the laundry man between the village and the river, carrying this huge burden of laundry, thinking well if I don't carry this burden the master will not feed me, I will starve.

But there is so much grass on each side of the road.

He could be eating the grass freely without carrying the burden, but he is carrying the burden out of foolishness.

Actually God has provided very simply that we can live very, we can have plain living and high thinking but this is the opposite.

We live very high in a nice house in suburbia, a two-car garage, very fancy automobiles, all this fancy, fancy stuff is working, working, working, working like asses.

So we want to teach them to actually live simply.

My struggle so hard, my husband and I both working, spending huge money in education, used to be much more simple, used to be like 50 dollars to pay your tuition for the whole semester, $50.

Now it's thousands and thousands of dollars for the tuition, like 50 years ago.

Like $50 would cover your tuition for the whole semester and the rent $30 a month.

But now there's so much endeavor, endeavor, endeavor, endeavor, endeavor, So you can keep up with this huge humongous, very expensive situation.

Now the banks are collapsing, the big huge collapse, the major bank, there's a whole ripple, many many banks are going under.

This whole big artificial society building money, money, money, money, money.

Instead of basing it on land and the cows, that's the actual basis of the economy and the data culture.

But now they want to play the land and kill the cow.

Why don't we get back to the most simple of the 2?

Why was India was creating so many pseudo-religions.

Yeah, we'll save the questions in for later on.

So how do we actually come to this point?

Are we going to have a simple God conscious civilization?

To do that we ourselves have to understand our actual identities.

If we are going to manifest a Krishna conscious world civilization that means we have to manifest pure Krishna consciousness.

But to whatever extent we actually purify ourselves, to that extent we will have an uplifting potency in the world around us.

Devotees are not strictly following the regulative principles, then it creates havoc, creates chaos.

We need our devotees who are strictly following the principles of no illicit sex, no meat eating, no intoxication, no gambling.

Devotees themselves are cheating on the principles of what's the hope of Vedic culture.

We ourselves cannot follow the Vedic culture, what's the hope of having Vedic culture?

Even only 1 person can purely follow this path of Krishna consciousness, purely chant the holy name, strictly follow the regular principles.

Not 1 person will have a big impact on the world around them.

But if we ourselves are cheating, we're not strictly following the regular principles for having illicit sex, even in marriage, recreational sex is illicit.

Sex is only for procreation, it's not for recreation.

So if you cheat by taking a little intoxication here and there, then it spoils everything.

If we can have even a small number of devotees who are strictly following the regulative principles and purely chanting the holy names, we can make a big difference on this planet and make a big difference in world history.

So this movement is meant to go down in history for having saved the world in its darkest hour of despair.

That's actually the mission that we've been given by Srila Prabhupada.

So we have to take our duty very seriously to strictly follow this process for our own deliverance and the deliverance of others.

Devotees should not think only of his own deliverance.

Even if he is a devotee he doesn't even care whether he goes back to Gaya or not.

He just wants to serve, he just wants to please Guru and Trishna.

That's more important to him than his own liberation.

If I can do what is pleasing to my spiritual master and Krishna, that's already a liberated position.

You don't have to wait to go back to home, back to Gaia to be liberated.

You can be liberated right here, right now, by fully embracing the principle of being totally dedicated, giving all pleasure to my spiritual master and Lord Krishna and Lord Caitanya with my every thought, word and deed in all times, places and circumstances.

So why should we cheat ourselves by trying to squeeze out a little sense gratification, subtle or gross?

Why should we be so stupid to cheat ourselves out of the highest ecstasy of Krishna consciousness?

Sometimes the devotees complain, well, I can't control my sex desire, I'm masturbating, I can't control my lust, what to do, what to do, what to do.

It's very simple, you just have to be Krishna conscious.

Pick up the Krishna book and start reading these amazing pastimes of Krishna.

Actually when you read the Krishna book or when you chant Hare Krishna you are directly associating with Krishna.

And in that position there is unlimited ecstasy, there is unlimited nectar in associating with Lord Sri Krishna.

So 1 is carried away by sense gratification, it just means he is not putting Krishna in the center.

Yathau yathau nishchalati manmas chanchalamastaram tatastha parinaya yathat atma ye bhusham yajat.

From whatever 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.

So we have a tendency to think, we are thinking this, thinking that, thinking, thinking, thinking all day long.

So why not put Krishna in the center of our thoughts?

Why not be intelligent and bring the mind back to Krishna?

How can I please Krishna by the way I am doing this service right now, by the way I am speaking right now, by the way I am thinking right now?

How can I give this class in a way that pleases Krishna?

How can it all be in such a way that pleases Krishna?

If we do that we will get unlimited nectar every minute.

But right now instead of nectar we're taking so much poison.

Because I'm putting myself in the center.

Keep putting so and so dasi, so and so dasi in the center of existence.

Of course in the higher sense, you actually understand that you will get unlimited pleasure by giving pleasure to Krishna.

It's like what is Bhagavad Gita said, Yatantsa kautarama ma sattam tirjyotadeva ha, sravami yoga nirvana brahmabhutah digasthati.

1 who is happy within, who rejoices and is active within, whose aim is inward, is actually the perfect mystic.

He is already liberated and supreme and ultimately attains the supreme.

So he is liberated right now, even though he hasn't gone back to Gadhata, he is still in the material world because he is putting Krishna in the center, he is already liberated.

He is a perfect mystic, always with Krishna in the center.

You don't have to be a mystic yogi, you know, you can only attain the tip of the lotus feet of the Lord.

Why not attain the full Supreme Personality of Godhead and become an intimate associate of the Supreme Personality of Godhead?

That's intelligence, that's the pathway of the bhaktas.

Instead of going to doing the mystic yoga system, Become even a greater mystic by always putting Krishna in front of you.

So there is no sense in going on cheating ourselves again and again and again through 8 million to 100,000 species.

Trying to enjoy in this way and that way.

Somebody thinks let me enjoy by flying in the sky and become a bird by swimming in the ocean and become a fish.

Like the surfers, the sea surfers, probably called them the sea sufferers.

They can enjoy sporting in the way they can become a fish.

There are people who like to skydive and skydive and they become birds in the next life.

So All these people enjoy in this way and this way, this quality, that type of animal body.

So instead of qualifying a different type of animal birth, we should qualify for an eternal body which is filled with bliss and knowledge, sat-cid-ananda-vigraha.

We should qualify ourself for that kind of body in the future.

Come 1 of the associates of the Supreme Personality of God in his transcendental pastimes.

If you are reading Krishna book, why not be in Krishna book?

Why not be 1 of the associates of Krishna, 1 of those cowherd boys, cowherd girls, Even a cow or a calf or a peacock, it doesn't matter what position you have, they are all fully conscious.

Even though they take the body of cows and calves and peacocks, they all have human consciousness associating with Krishna in that particular way that gives him the greatest pleasure.

So let's become actually intelligent and not continue being foolish to try to enjoy separately from Krishna.

It is like cutting our own throat trying to enjoy separating and fishing.

So let's see we have some questions here.

Why Indra is creating so many pseudo religious things or initiatives?

The demigods are different from the pure devotees.

They still have some desire to lord it over in the material world, because they are very pious, they get these positions, big positions.

So that's why we are not running after the demigods.

He is not punished, but King Prithvi was asked to compromise.

King Prithvi's duty was to establish religious principles, give all protection to the citizens as he stated.

His great responsibility was in maintaining peace and prosperity of the citizens.

So that was his main duty, not to curb down Indra.

So since trying to curb down Indra was creating so many problematic situations, it would bring great turmoil in human society.

Therefore, King Peter was advised not to do that, to focus on his actual duty, maintaining the peace and prosperity of the tradition.

Hare Krishna Gurudev, this is Paramatma Das.

So, the thing is, I was wondering, I mean, Lord Brahma is the father and the creator.

He could directly ask Indra to stop all those nonsense what he is doing instead of stopping Prithu Maharaj.

In 1 sense Prithu Maharaj is asking to...

Do you think he would have surrendered to Brahma?

You are assuming he would have surrendered to Brahma?

He is not surrendered to Krishna or to Brahma.

So I I'm just connecting this with Gurudev, like you know when a leader is doing nonsense things and because he is not surrendered to a senior or something, if he is not punished then how can the system work on that's my bottom question now.

that's the problem with the material world That's the big problem with the material world.

That's the reason the movement is introduced, to try to give people the higher attention.

Everybody has independence, they can be good or bad, according to their choice.

Everybody has a free choice to be a rascal or to be a sadhu.

Everybody who came to this material world is a rascal.

Now some may rectify it and become sadhus, but that's a minority.

The only concern here is Gurudev, a leader being a rascal and innocent devotees will be put off and they may run away from Krishna consciousness.

But the innocent devotees, they are all rascals.

There was a question on the ask the other day also.

That the intelligent person will guide the person who is going to take that instruction, not to fight with somebody who is not going to take the instruction.

So Bhagwati being very, very intelligent, he asked Prithu Maharaj because Prithu Maharaj himself surrendered devotee.

Instead of telling Indra who is acting like a king of the heaven, king of the demigods, he may not listen.

So why instruct the person who will follow?

Yes it makes sense Gurumata, I perfectly understand.

But if the entire system goes like this, then it is becoming more chaotic.

Devotees will not run away, because They are devotees.

Like Krishna said, out of a thousand among men, 1 of them devil perfection, out of a thousand devil perfection hardly 1 will know me in truth.

We see many people come to this movement and they end up being rascals.

It is a very rare thing that somebody actually becomes a devotee of Krishna, give up all their nonsense?

I understand when you say that everybody is a rascal in that sense, not surrendered fully.

We initiate so many devotees, but how many are strictly following?

I have initiated 300 disciples, how many are strictly following?

People are rascals, they may make a show of it, make some meager attempt to become pure but how many of them actually can maintain it and become a pure devotee and go back to God is a very rare thing.

Now we have a discussion of the Tamil Uparana.

In the Purva, Achiller Baba says that the vision of the religious principles is 1 given by the Supreme President of the United States.

It comes through the channel of the sifasic succession in 2 forms.

Well, 1 way of saying it is the spiritual master and the scriptures.

There's 2 forms there in the way religious people have come.

They come through the personality and they come through the scriptures.

Now we have Paramahamsa finding peace or happiness inwardly not being affected by externals.

Is it possible within the current civilization?

1 actually comes fixed in Krishna consciousness.

He can be in a state of pure chandana bliss even if all chaos is going on around him.

Leader Manjari, does it depend on one's sully, on one's free will to be among the pure devotees following purely or is it 1 who is a specifically empowered soul to influence the whole world?

Actually every devotee who is strictly following this process has a potency which is helping to purify the world atmosphere.

Every devotee who is strictly sincerely following this process is having an uplifting impact on the world atmosphere.

And according to the degree of his purity, he has more and more, more or less potency on the world around him, uplifting the world around him.

Those who are more advanced they have greater potency, those who are less advanced have less potency, but everybody has potency to have an uplifting impact on the world around him.

Every ability he has according to his degree of advancement in Krishna consciousness.

Yajnata riteshvastah tat tadevetarojanah, sayatramanam kurute, lokas tad anubhartate.

Whatever a great man does, the Kalam Vipa, following in his footsteps, whatever standard he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.

So whatever degree of greatness 1 may have, whatever degree of advancement 1 may have, that has an uplifting impact on the world around him.

Brahma told Prithu about his status or did he remind him of his status?

I ask this question because if the empowered devotees are still under maya or not?

Well here Brahma is telling him, O Prithu, O Pradakshita people in general, please consider the purpose of your being incarnate by Lord Vishnu.

Lord Brahma is reminding Prithu of his actual duty in this verse.

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