May we read the Assam Shema Bhagavatam, 4th Canon, Chapter 20, Text Number 3.

Surya Sadhava loke, Naradeva Narottama, Nibidru Yantri Bhuttebhyo, Yari Namaka Vevaram.

Surya, the most intelligent person, Sadhava, are inclined to perform welfare activities, located in this world, Naradeva, O King, Narautama, the best of human beings, Na abhidhriyanti, never become malicious, Bhutavia, toward other living beings, Yari, because, na, never, atma, the self or soul, kalevaram, this body.

Translation in Purpura, by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.

O King, 1 who is advanced in intelligence and eager to perform welfare activities for others is considered best among human beings.

An advanced human being is never malicious to others.

Those with advanced intelligence are always conscious that this material body is different from the soul.

In daily life we find that when a madman commits murder, he is excused even by a high court judge.

The idea that a living entity is always pure because he is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

When he falls in the clutches of material energy, he becomes a victim of the 3 modes of material nature.

Indeed, whatever he does, he does under the influence of material nature.

It is stated in Bhagavad Gita 5.14, na karasvid-dham na karmani lokasya jyotir prabhu na karma-padasam yogam sa bhagavat tu pravartate The embodied spirit, master of the city and his body, does not create activities nor does he induce people to act.

All this is created by the, all this is enacted by the modes of material nature.

Actually the living entity or soul does not do anything.

Everything is done under the influence of the modes of material nature.

When a man is diseased, the symptoms of the disease become a source of all kinds of pain.

Those who are advanced in transcendental consciousness or Krishna consciousness are never envious neither of the soul nor of the activities of the soul under the influence of material nature.

Advanced transcendentalists are called suddhiya.

Suddhi means intelligence and dhiya means highly advanced and suddhi means devoting.

1 who is both devoted and highly advanced in intelligence does not take action against the soul or the body.

If there is any discrepancy in forgiveness, it is said that forgiveness is the quality of those who are advancing in spiritual knowledge.

Shri Guru, Shri Jatapada Kamanam, Shri Guru Vaishnavamsa, Shri Rupam, Sagarajatam, Sahagana Raghunatham, Vittam Tamtaji, Sadaivam, Sabadhu, Valijanatham, Krishna Chaitanya Devam, Shri Varaha, Krishnapadam, Sahagana Lalita, Shri Vishvadantam, Vittamsa.

Namah Om Vishnupadaya, Krishna Prasadam, Vrilae, Simhate Bhakti Bhadantam, Smaranikinamane, So here we see a very important point that forgiveness is the quality of a devotee of the Lord.

Even if others are very offensive to him, he is very tolerant and forgiving.

He sees all this all coming by the interaction, ultimately by the arrangement of Krishna.

From my own purification, ultimately the interaction of the 3 Muslim material nature are not independent.

Krishna controls both the superior nature and the inferior nature.

Both are under his control either directly or indirectly.

Everything is coming to me by the mercy of Krishna.

If somebody is respectful to me, that's Krishna's mercy.

If somebody is very disrespectful to me, that is also Krishna's mercy.

All the mercy of Krishna is coming, now let me reciprocate with that mercy of Krishna.

Let me always be in a mood of loving reciprocation with Krishna.

This is called divine love, I was explaining yesterday.

Selfless love, giving with no thought of giving something back, giving for the sake of giving.

It's not well, you know, if Krishna would give me this and give me that and I'll chant his holy name.

I'm chanting his holy name just because I'm given the privilege, I'm given this great opportunity to chant the holy name of Krishna.

So the point is in this state of mind 1 can always be peaceful.

Bhaktadhamma bhagatapasam sarva-loka-maheshwaram suhrdam sabha-bhutanam jatamam.

A person in full consciousness of me, who knows me as the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, all sacrifices and austerities, As the supreme lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities attains peace from the pains and material miseries.

We simply have to always recognize Krishna.

He's the ultimate well-wisher of all living entities.

He has come as Lord Caitanya to show us exactly how to do it.

Not the way you have to guess how to be a devotee.

Example is better than precepts as is sometimes stated.

So Krishna has taught the Bhagavad Gita but he has shown how to practice the Bhagavad Gita.

And his great Vaishnava Acharya is like his divine grace.

Asi bhakti vadanta tri dandi go swami maharaj prabhupada.

Prabhupada has so kindly come to show exactly how to be a devotee.

It's amazing, even an elderly man, he's like 78 years old, he was dancing in ecstasy at the Ratha Yatra.

He was standing there with his arms in the air, dancing, a really cute smile, dancing in ecstasy.

And devotees were jumping up and down seeing the Baba's ecstasy.

This is an amazing thing, such a personality.

Like writing letters, Answering so many letters, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of letters he was answering.

Writing the books, answering letters, giving lectures, hardly slept.

Such a personality, traveling, traveling, traveling, traveling.

In an old man's body, traveling like that, hardly sleeping at all, I'm seeing all these lectures, I'm seeing all the letters, all the conversations.

It's so amazing to hear how he speaks in these lectures and conversations.

We have all these recordings, hundreds and hundreds of recordings of his lectures.

And how expert he was at giving instructions.

Just like in Atlanta, the devotee named Kardama Muni, He was instructed to cut the cutting vegetables, not on the metal table.

He was told to do that but he wasn't following the instruction.

He was doing it anyway, cutting on the metal table.

And right in the middle of the lecture, the Prabhupada said, what does that sound like?

The Prabhupada heard him while he was giving the lecture.

Because he wouldn't take the instruction from the devotees, he had to get it from Prabhupada directly, not to do that.

So Prabhupada, even in terms of management, Prabhupada was ultimately managing everything by his expertise.

So just consider this great good fortune.

Papa gave us the order to make our Austin Center a grand success.

And now we're asking all the devotees, please help us.

Everything you can, not just in terms of donating money for a new temple, but actually if any devotees can relocate here and actually do service.

We need more devotees doing service here in Austin.

Any devotees can relocate here to Austin.

I'm putting this in thought for the day also.

It's a direct order from Srila Prabhupada.

Now many devotees can relocate here, that would be very wonderful.

We need devotees, more devotees to do service.

By serving the order of the spiritual master, by serving the orders of Srila Prabhupada, our lives become glorious.

The disciple does not want to act independently, just doing his own thing, satisfying his own desires, no.

He wants to think how can I satisfy the desires of my spiritual master?

Not living for my own self, But my real satisfaction is satisfying my spiritual master.

My spiritual master's satisfaction is satisfying his spiritual master and his satisfaction is satisfying his spiritual master.

In This way the knowledge comes down and the satisfaction comes down.

You give satisfaction and you get satisfaction.

You just try to get satisfaction without trying to give satisfaction, it is not possible.

You want satisfaction, you have to give satisfaction.

This knowledge was thus received to attain the disciplic succession of the saintly kings and is suited in that way.

So knowledge is coming in the disciplic succession, the satisfaction is also coming in the disciplic succession.

It ultimately comes when we satisfy Krishna.

When I satisfy my spiritual master, then he is satisfied and that satisfied, when he is satisfied with my service, then his spiritual master is satisfied, and his spiritual master is satisfied, then his goes all the way up.

By satisfying your spiritual master, you satisfy every Acharya in the line, and ultimately Krishna is satisfied.

And then the black things come down through the disciplic succession.

It goes up and down through the disciplic succession.

Tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasannina sevaya upadeksa titi jnana jnanina sthapaharsana Just try to learn the truth by approaching the spiritual master, inquire of him submissively, render service unto him.

The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.

Sometimes they ask me, well, if I really need a guru can't I just chant Hare Krishna on my own?

Well, chanting Hare Krishna means that you are wanting to serve Krishna.

You are begging Krishna, please engage me in your pure devotional service.

It is not just some mantra dancing on your lips.

You are actually praying to Krishna, please engage me in your pure devotional service.

If you do not say, I want to serve Krishna, I will just chant Hare Krishna, Then you are not chanting in the right mood.

You have to chant in the mood of wanting to serve Krishna.

Yam yushtasya na shanto muh chante sarva-kabhi-sai vum yam jate te pakam papa ye bhajah mata karanam The devotees of the Lord are relieved from all kinds of sins because they eat food which they do not prefer to sacrifice.

Others who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment rarely eat only sense.

So we have to think, well Krishna wants me to offer all my food.

So if I chant Hare Krishna and don't offer my food, then I'm not really chanting Hare Krishna in the proper mood.

To disobey the orders of the spiritual master is a defense against the holy name.

In the spiritual master's orders, you must follow the instructions given in the Bhagavad Gita.

So having the guru and the Krishna comes as 1 package.

I'd like Guru without Krishna and Krishna without Guru.

When you accept the spiritual master, then it becomes actually an amazing process.

You can please your spiritual master, you've actually pleased Krishna.

So just try to learn how to please your spiritual master.

There are so many offenses made, but the spiritual master is very, very tolerant.

He sees everything coming at the mercy of Krishna.

He corrects the disciples when they make mistakes.

He is very merciful also to forgive their mistakes.

They're sincerely trying to overcome their deficiencies.

But the disciple doesn't want to give up his nonsense and wants to continue doing nonsense.

Next thing is like sometimes the disciple thinks, well my wife is not really nice, you know, she has bipolar, she's not very psychologically together, so I'm just going to dump her.

Some of the foolish disciples are right, the spiritual master.

I have a right to dump my wife because she is not psychologically together.

But I have to inform the disciple that actually you are not psychologically together either.

That's why you have a material body, you rascal.

You say you want to dump your wife because she is not psychologically sound.

You are not psychologically sound either.

We are all psychological bath cases here in this material world.

So don't be so proud of thinking, well I'm psychologically together and she isn't so I'm going to dump her.

We have to all take a humble position and realize she's not psychologically sound, I'm not psychologically sound, so let us work together by serving the spiritual master to become psychologically sound.

We should not think of our own sense gratification, we should think of duty.

What does my spiritual master want me to do?

But if I don't care about my spiritual master, what else am I going to do what I want?

Then you are not going to become Krishna conscious.

You are not going to get out of the cycle of birth and death.

So we have to become very serious to give up all of our nonsense and become fixed in devotional service.

In the mind of those who are too attached to sense enjoyment and material opulence, the resolute determination of devotional service to the Supreme Lord does not take place.

We have To kick out this thing of our own sense enjoyment.

But as Krishna says, vishayah vini vartante niraah rashidehina rasha-varshan shau persa parama-vrsinvartate.

The embodied soul may be restricted to sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains, but ceasing such engagement by experiencing what?

So someone says, well I am not getting a higher taste in Krishna consciousness, so I give it up.

That means you are not actually practicing Krishna consciousness, sir.

If you are not getting a higher taste, you are not actually practicing it.

You are practicing your own concocted version of what is Krishna consciousness, where you are the center of enjoyment.

If you keep yourself as the center of enjoyment you will not get a higher taste, trust me, you won't get a higher taste as long as you keep yourself as the center of enjoyment.

You actually learn how to put Krishna in the center, even though you have the taste for sense objects.

Right now we are still addicted to material sense gratification.

We come out of that world where we are gratifying our senses, taking sense gratification as the purpose of our existence.

So by restraining the senses you may have that taste to go back to sense gratification, But if you actually practice Krishna consciousness sincerely and properly according to the instructions of Guru and Krishna, then you get a higher state, a lower state of body.

You may get, sometimes your mind becomes lusty to enjoy sex pleasure.

The mind may sometimes get all enamored and start meditating on sex and thinking it's a really attractive thing, you know, the sex organs and this and that.

The mind may start going off into that tangent and you go, wait a minute.

See the mind is not very intelligent, like a little kid.

Not very intelligent, it can do anything nonsense.

Your mind is getting carried away by lusty thoughts.

An amazing person standing on the bank of the Yamuna playing his flute.

Yamuna Tiravanachari is wandering on the bank of the river Yamuna.

An amazing person, he is so attracted to his bluish complexion, the peacock feather in his hair, the beautiful lotus feet.

Come back to the higher taste now, my dear mind, give up that lower taste, spit it out, like Jumanacharya Albandra.

Yadavari mamateta, Krishna padaravinde, nava nava rasa damuñjata ramtu masa, tadavari bhattanari, sangam esmaryamane, bhavati muku nishtivanam ca.

Ever since I have been engaged in the Shraddhna loving service of Lord Sri Sri Radha and Krishna tasting Navarasa, ever increasing nectar in that service, whenever I do my past sinful activities I might start thinking about sex.

My lips crawl with this taste and I spit at this office.

Telling this, I will save a good day, but I can't give it up.

Well, you just have to spit harder than, make it up, spit up with more determination.

It's like when you want a fast food, you want to linger on it?

No, you're going to flush it, get rid of that damn thing, flush it down the toilet.

I want to meditate, I'll just see how nice that stool is.

Get it out of there, flush it, get it out of here.

It stinks, it looks horrible, get it out of here.

So Lushy thought to like stool, get rid of it.

I'm going to flush them down, get rid of them.

You can get out and don't you ever dare come back.

In Vedic culture there are 4 types of brahmachari.

There is brahmachari, brahmachari, grhastha brahmachari, anaprastha brahmachari and sannyasa brahmachari.

Brahmachari kindness is where it's at for everyone.

This idea that it's okay to have recreational sex on your household is completely bogus.

Grihasta means he only has sex for producing children according to the order of the spiritual master.

He is a Grimaditya if he has sex for fun.

In this way Brahmachari means 1 who only has sex or profanation.

That is only in that 1 order of life, Prihasta Ashram.

It is available in Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

If you are not interested in it, you won't get it.

It's like a little sparrow was determined to get her egg back and The ocean wasn't going to give in.

She was determined, no I'll dry up that rascal ocean.

I don't care how, I don't care if the ocean won't give the eggs back, I'm going to dry up the ocean and force that ocean to give the eggs back.

The singer of determination, Garuda, the king of the birds, swooping in on Garuda Airlines.

And he said, you rascal ocean, you give that ocean immediately, I will dry you up by my mystic power.

The ocean immediately will do 10 of the eggs.

So we should be that determined to become a pure devotee, completely free from lust, from anger, from greed, from madness, delusion.

We become determined to become a pure devotee who is qualified to seek Krishna face to face.

Then we become so pure and so free of all contamination that Krishna becomes personally revealed to me.

I have become qualified to see Krishna's face.

Yam asha ma shunya rama chintam yuganasvarupa.

I have become so qualified that we can anoint our eyes with the salve of love of God.

Chintamani prakarasadhamah chukalpavriksha Laksham visheshu sadhavir abhipalayantam Lakshmi sahasrvajasam ramasevamanam Govindamadhi purusham vamanvajami I worship the man of the primeval Lord, what's he doing?

He's tending the cows in abodes built with spiritual gems.

Can you imagine a world built with spiritual gems?

It was Kenny Macauldin who built the world with spiritual gems.

So that in my opinion is a purpose tree and these are wish fulfilling trees.

Whatever you desire the tree will facilitate.

Just like you have a tree, you might get a mango from a certain type of tree and an apple from a different type of tree, a banana from a different type of tree, but you have a tree that gives anything.

It will give mango, it will give apple, it will give anything.

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