Chima Bhagavatam, 4th Kano, Chapter 26, 1 and 2.

Maitreya Uvaca Bhagavan Api Vaikuntha Svakam Bhagavata Abhibhu Yajna Yajnavati Sthushta Yajnavati Bhaktam Abhashata Maitreya Uvaca The great sage Maitreya continued to speak.

Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vishnu, Also Vaikuntha, the Lord of Vaikuntha, Saakam, along with Magavata, King Indra, Debu, The Lord, Yajna, by the sacrifices, Yajnapati, the Lord of all Yajnas, Tushta, satisfied, Yajnabhuk, the enjoyer of the yajna, tam, under King Pitu, abhashita, said, translation by Srila Prabhupada, the great sage Maitreya continued, My dear Vidura, being very much satisfied by the performance of ninety-nine horse sacrifices, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Vishnu, appeared on the scene.

Shri Bhagavan is asha, e shate karshid bhagat.

Vandam haya mena shatashyaha shuma payata atmanam amusha jantam arasi.

Lord Vishnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, said, My dear King Kritu, into the kingdom of heaven has disturbed your execution of 100 sacrifices.

Now he has come with me to be forgiven by you.

Therefore excuse him." My voice is working again.

Therefore excuse him, therefore excuse him, therefore.

This verse, the word Atmanam is very significant.

It is a caution on the own yogis and jnanis to address 1 another or even an ordinary man as one's self.

For a transcendentalist never accepts a living being to be the body.

Since the individual self is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self and the super self are qualitatively non-different.

As the next verse will explain, the body is only a superficial covering and consequently an advanced transcendentalist will not make a distinction between oneself and another.

Now the amazing thing is that all those offenses came into now begging forgiveness.

In our association of devotees, sometimes we commit so many offenses.

We should always be in the mood of begging forgiveness.

Not that we should go on 1 offense, another offense, another offense, another offense, another offense.

We should be very much in the mood of begging forgiveness for our offenses.

Another point is we're not the material body.

Another point is that King Pithu actually satisfied Lord Vishnu even though he didn't hit the 100.

Because his sincere endeavour to hit the 99 he was very much appreciated by Lord Vishnu.

So the point is we want to please Lord Vishnu or Lord Krishna.

Actually we exist for that purpose of pleasing Lord Krishna.

And this is where everybody is running after love.

It's a very popular thing, love, love, love, love, love, running, running, running, running.

The difficulty is because that love is not selfless.

Because they don't find that pure love, that divine love, that pure love they're angling for in this material.

Everybody is miserable here because they are not finding that divine love they are actually seeking within their heart of hearts.

They are all hankering for that divine love, that pure selfless loving relationship with Krishna, the spiritual master and the Vaishnavas.

They are angry with that divine love but they don't find that divine love.

Therefore there are so many cases of even murder.

The so-called beloved, they murder their so-called lover.

Divorce, murders, is 1 thing after another.

So many problems of the so-called love in this material world.

Kama isha krodha isha rajaguni samudbhava maha shanobhava patma vidyam evairvina It is lust only, Arjuna, born of conduct with a material mode of passion and later transforming to wrath which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world.

So we have to learn how to give up this lusty tendency.

I am the enjoyer, I want to be the enjoyer, I want everyone to satisfy me.

We have to give up this lusty tendency, I want to be the enjoyer, and take the mood of being the enjoyed.

Instead of taking pleasure I want to give pleasure.

This is the mood, the transcendentalist, they are not interested in sense pleasure.

It is like Krishna explains, Such a liberated person has no interest in material sense pleasure but he is always entranced relishing the pleasure within.

In this way the self-realized person enjoys unlimited happiness, so he always concentrates on the supreme.

Doesn't everybody want unlimited happiness?

Isn't that what we actually desire, unlimited happiness?

But We cheat ourselves by trying to find that happiness in sense pleasure.

We try to find that pleasure in sense pleasure, either subtle or gross, keeping ourselves as the center of enjoyment.

There's a gross sense pleasure and there's a subtle sense of pleasure also.

I'm going to be the worshipped person, the person everybody appreciates.

Being ready to offer all respect to others but expecting even the slightest bit of respect for ourselves.

That is the mood in which we can go on chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, 24 hours a day in a state of total unlimited bliss.

We have to learn how to get out of this horrible entanglement of unlimited anxieties and enter into that world of transmittal bliss, enter into that divine world of spiritual happiness.

We can taste happiness in every second, in every nanosecond, relishing the sweetest ecstasy in the pure love in relation to Krishna, spiritual master in relation to all this.

The difficulty is because of this selfishness, you see.

In this age the yajna is the kirtan yajna.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare That's the yajna for this age.

There's not enough rain and now the rice farmers are downstream of the Colorado River.

They're not being allowed to take any river water.

They're not getting enough river water as they normally get, it's being held back.

Whatever little water is there, they're keeping it for the city of Austin.

See, but here's when we have all these lakes.

We have all these lakes, Travis Lake, so many lakes that accumulate water coming down the Colorado River.

But there is not enough water coming down the Colorado River, only enough in the city of Austin, so they are not releasing downstream as much as the rice farmers need.

Now the rice farmers have great difficulty to grow their rice.

Just like Krishna said, anad bhavanti putani, parjanjo anasambhava, jagad bhavih parjanjo, jagad karma samudbhava.

All living beings, all living beings, all

living beings subsist on fruit grains which are produced from rains.

Rains are produced by the form of the yajna sacrifice and sacrifice is 1 of the described duties.

So we subsist on grains like rice, we subsist on grains like rice and other grains.

And now they are produced by rains and the rains come by yajna, by chanting Hare Krishna.

Actually all over the world there is water shortage because they are not chanting Hare Krishna mantra.

Even if they don't want to become pure devotees, just for the sake of economic development, just for having sufficient food to eat, people start chanting the Hare Krishna mantra.

But these fools and rascals think it's just some cult, some brainwashed cult.

They don't realize the science behind the rains.

The Rains come because of the yajna sacrifice.

The chanting of Hare Krishna mantra produces rain.

They are caught up in all this so-called science.

There was a big bang, everything came out of the explosion.

You say 2 plus 2 equals 5, that's not science, that's nescience.

So What they are teaching in the so-called science courses in the universities, the science books, all the scientific reports, it's not science, it's nescience.

We have all civilization based on nescience instead of science.

We're just saying be scientific, you fool.

Why do you have a sense of identity that goes all the way back to when you were

Try to use a little intelligence, a little common sense, my dear PhD.

Try to use a little intelligence, a little common sense.

You can remember that as you were a little kid, or you're reading the tricycle around the block, you can remember that.

And then you graduated the bicycle and then the car, you can remember all these things my dear scientist.

Try to see the self remains the same through all the changes of body and even at the time of death the self remains the same.

For the soul that is never birthed, nor dead, nor having ever been as he once ceased to be, he is unborn, ever existing, undying, and primeval.

But unfortunately they are not reading Prabhupada's books.

These books should be required reading in every school.

The kids should be reading Krishna books.

And you know, at least in junior, they are introducing Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam in all the schools and colleges throughout the whole world.

You can't get a degree unless you have learned it in Prabhupada's books.

That should be the standard for education.

You are not qualified for a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, a PhD, unless you have mastered Prabhupada's books.

That has to be the required reading now in every school and university throughout this entire planet.

Because by understanding this science and absorbing yourself in devotional service, then you can relish and realize great ecstasy.

Na hi gyanena sadhya sam pravrttam niya vidyate.

Tat sa yam yoga sam sadhya kalanam mani vindati.

In this world, there's nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge.

Such knowledge is a mature fruit of all mysticism, and he who becomes accomplished in the practice of devotional service relishes this knowledge within himself and due course of time.

So they should not only teach theoretically Prabhupada's books, they should also engage the students in devotional service.

Just like in the schools, in the high schools, they teach the students, my dear students, H2O was water.

And then they take them down to the laboratory and let the students actually do it.

The students actually combine 2 parts hydrogen with 1 part oxygen and lo and behold what appears in the test tube, water.

Oh, actually, if not just some theory I actually did it in the test tube and water came.

So in the same way they should teach bhakti yoga, not just theoretically but actually engaging the students in doing devotional service.

Every day in the school there should be a kirtan.

The whole school has a kirtan together, a big Mahasana kirtan.

They all go to the auditorium and they have 1 big kirtan, the whole school has a kirtan.

So this is how we have to introduce Krishna consciousness, the theory and the practice of Krishna consciousness in every town, in every village throughout the whole world.

Lord Chaitanya told us to enlighten all of them in every town and village.

Jyadidheka tadikara, Krishna uttate, Amaragaya guru, Hari uttate, from every you meet instruct them in the teachings of Krishna and this way on my order you become a spiritual master and you deliver the people of this country.

So we are all meant to be spiritual masters, we are teachers of the science of Krishna consciousness.

By our example and by our words we should be leading this world out of chaos.

This is the duty we have to make this whole world Krishna conscious.

We have to be ideal teachers of Krishna consciousness ourselves.

We have to give up all of our bad habits, our laziness, our craziness, our asinine-ness.

We have to give all this up and become ideal Acharyas.

Like Krishna says, yajna-arjaritih shrestha tat tadeve carojana sayat pramanam kurute lokas tad anuvartate Yajñāna-cāratiṣṭhreṣṭh tattvade ve ca rojanā sa yad pramāṇam kuruṭe loka-sthād anuvārthate Whatever action a great man performs, the common man follows.

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

That's pretty amazing, the whole world pursues it.

So we have to become ideal teachers of Krishna consciousness.

By our actions and by our words we inspire people to come forward and surrender and become absorbed in devotional service.

We should be ecstatically absorbed in chanting, dancing, and feasting and serving.

Ecstatically absorbed in these things so that others will go, wow, this person is relishing so much nectar, how are they tasting so much like a succumb, just like that verse says, he relishes unlimited happiness, for he always counts himself as Supreme.

I've never seen somebody so happy in my whole life.

So let me learn how to become happy like this.

Sometimes we have, sometimes there's confusion and delusion going on amongst the devotees and they get carried away by a little false ego.

We think, oh this person is such a rascal, why are they telling me like this?

But This happens sometimes because we are not very advanced in Krishna consciousness.

Somebody corrects me and I think they are a rascal because they corrected me.

But actually I should understand I am a rascal.

The more you can feel that I'm a rascal, just like that prayer by Gopinath, a materialistic rascal, I'm always full of lust.

So Bhaktivinoda is praying that he's a materialistic rascal, always full of lust.

So if he can think he's a rascal, what should be our position?

So instead of finding fault with someone who corrects me, oh there is such a rascal why is he correcting me?

You take that mood always thinking I am a rascal, number 1.

Then you can actually learn how to dive deeply into Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, great knowledge.

How much nectar is there in these 2 syllables.

Unlimited nectar is available in Krishna.

So we have to learn how to connect with that nectar, how to bring our minds back.

I get these devotees, there are so many devotees having difficulties.

I know because they are writing me, I get all these letters, all the difficulties the devotees are having.

They are not able to control their lust, They are overwhelmed by their senses.

This only happens because of forgetting Krishna.

Only happens, we only get bewildered by lust and anger and greed when we forget Krishna.

We have to keep bringing the mind back, bringing the mind back, bringing the mind back to Krishna.

You tell, you tell, nitya-lati manasamsa-namas-dharam tatas tapo na yajna-tattva-adma-yajna-samnyaya.

From whatever and wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering

unsteady nature, 1 must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self.

The mind belongs to the lotus feet of Krishna.

It does not belong in roaming here and there but sends gratification.

The mind does not belong roaming around the material world looking for a little gratification here, a little gratification there, no.

We don't need any artificial intoxication, some marijuana or some methadrine, we don't need any artificial intoxication to find satisfaction.

The salchow material intoxication actually makes it worse.

Because we are trying to titillate the senses, we are trying to find happiness by titillating the brain or the senses with various types of drugs.

But this actually makes things worse because we are trying to find happiness on the material plane.

The happiness does not exist on the material plane.

It's temporary, full of ignorance and misery.

So we should stop trying to find pleasure on this material plane and understand this is marcha loca, simply a world of death and I don't want to die.

So why am I identifying with a world where I'm forced to die?

That's absolutely asinine to misidentify myself in a place which is completely contradictory to my nature.

Why do I understand my nature is I don't want to die so let me look for a world where I don't die.

Paravyoma, the material world and the paravyoma, the spiritual world.

So we understand I don't want to be a para, I want to be para.

I want to come to the superior nature not the inferior nature.

Let me come back now, let me qualify myself to go back to home, back to Godhead.

To get out of this horrible, messian atmosphere, capital of craziness.

Let me get out of this capital of craziness and come back to my actual home, spiritual sky, where people never die, with all kinds of amazing pastimes going on every minute.

Krishna is there, the gopis are there, the cowherd boys are there, the cows, the calves, the peacocks, Govardhan, Nandamahara, Nandirasota, Devaki, Rahini, all these great personalities read about in the Krishna book.

Actually they are in the spiritual realm.

So why don't we go back and enter into our actual eternal relationships with these great personalities.

Why are we loitering here in this place of misery at every step?

Where I have to get sick, I have to get old, I have to die, I have to worry about paying taxes, worry about paying my rent, I'm worrying about the utility bills, the water supply, this thing and that.

Why am I so stupid to keep misidentifying with this place?

Chandra Bole, go to your Chinese college.

Jeeb Jaago, Jeeb Jaago, Go to Chandra Bole.

My dear living entities, how long will you sleep in the lap of the Vishnu and Maya?

I will put my head in her lap and let her tiddle my senses.

Come on, come on, let's get out of this stupidity.

Let's put our head in the lotus feet of Krishna.

Maya is not, she is just there in the looting agency.

Those who want to be rebellious to the Lord, Maya Devi, Durga Devi is there to keep them in prison.

She is there to keep him in prison because there were rebels against her.

The supremacy of the Supreme Personality of God because I make I the Supreme.

Why should I take shelter of someone else when I am the Supreme?

She says, alright, that's your mentality.

Birth, death, old age and disease, birth after birth after birth.

So we should understand that she is doing this under the direction of Krishna, it is her duty.

It is the tango's task given to Durga Devi, Maya Devi to keep us entangled here in the cycle of birth and death.

Let us get out of the shackles of Maya and Come back to being who we actually are, the eternal servant of Krishna.

Let's see if we have any questions coming in.

1 devotee the other day was telling me that he was not so, like when he hears about Godhead by Kuntas that he doesn't get so...

I don't know, he had some collision from Christianity telling him about heaven and all these glorious things.

So he has a little struggle when he hears about God like the spiritual world so he doesn't really think about it so much but he is still...

He is not connecting with Christ, he is actually a pure Vaishnavacharya, a Shaktavish avatar.

That means he is not connecting with Christianity, not real Christianity, pseudo Christianity.

If you actually study the Bible, you'll see that Lord Jesus says, Father not my will, but thy will be done.

Jesus is teaching you don't do what you want, do what God wants.

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