Atah kayam imam vidvam avidya kama karma vi A rabdam idinaivas min pati budho na sajyate Atah Therefore, kayam, body, imam, this, vidvan, he who has knowledge, avijja, by nescience, kama, desires, karmabhi, form of e and by activities.

He thus never, ever, certainly, asnim to this body, sattvibhutha, 1 who knows, anisajyate, becomes addicted.

Translation in Purpore by His Divine Grace, Nila Prabhupada.

Those who are in full knowledge of the bodily conception of life, who know that this body is composed of nescience, desires and activities resulting from illusion, do not become addicted to the body.

Purport, as stated in this verse, those with good intellect, sūtīya, do not accept themselves to be the body.

Being a creation of nescience, the body has 2 types of activities.

In the bodily conception, when we think that sense gratification will help us, we are in illusion.

Another kind of illusion is to think that we will become happy by trying to satisfy the desires that arise from the illusory body or by attaining elevation to higher planetary systems, or by performing various types of daily rituals.

Similarly, material activities that form from political emancipation and social and humanitarian activities, to form an idea that people will be happy, are all illusory because the basic principle is the bodily conception, which is illusory.

Whatever we desire or perform under the bodily conception is all illusion.

In other words, Lord Vishnu informed Krtumaharaja that although the sacrificial performances set an example for ordinary people, there was no need for such sacrificial performances as far as this person himself is concerned.

As confirmed in Bhagavad Gita 2.45, tai gunya visaya veda nishtai gunya bhavardhina nirnvandhau nithinat sattva-stho niyoga cema atmavan The Vedas mainly deal with the subject of the 3 modes of material nature.

Life above these modes, O Arjuna, be transmittal to all of them, be free from all dualities and from all anxieties for gain and safety, and be established in the self.

The ritualistic performance is recommended in the Vedas mainly dependent on the 3 modes of material nature.

Consequently Arjuna was advised to transcend the Vedic activities.

The activities Arjuna was advised to perform were the traditional activities of devotional service.

Those who are in full knowledge of the bodily conception of life, who know that this body is composed of nescience, desires and activities, is often an allusion to not become addicted to the body.

We're still addicted to the bodily conception of happiness.

So we have to rise beyond this bodily conception.

Arjuna was also in the bodily conception.

He was thinking, I am this body, how can I kill my kin?

If I kill all my relatives, Who am I going to invite to the palace on the weekend?

Therefore he said, karpanjato so pahata-sabhava kisvamitam dharmasamudhvichekta kisrayantam nishtitam bhuviham me kisastetam sadhimam tvam vipadhanam Now I am confused about my duty.

I have lost all composure to the miserly weakness.

In this condition I ask you to tell me clearly what is best for me.

Now I am a disciple, the soul should render to you, please instruct me." So beginning in the chapter 2, Krishna is putting aside the bodily conception.

This is the whole point of this verse, we have to give up the bodily conception.

So Krishna says, Dehi nausmin yatha dehe, kumaram jovanam jara, yatha dehanta na praptir dhira satanamuyati.

The embodied self continually passes in this body from boyhood to youth to old age.

The self similarly passes in another body at the time of death, the self realized person is not immutable to such a change.

So we have to kick out this bodily conception.

There is so much rooted in it, the whole material world is based on it.

Oh, I'm not a cute little boy but a cute little girl.

It's immediately hard to identify with the body.

I'm American, I'm Lithuanian, I'm Russian, I'm Ukrainian, I'm Indian, you know, all the bodies, the bodies, the bodies, the bodies.

We have to kick out this bodily conception.

This body is destined to birth, death, old age and disease whether you like it or not.

Your body gets born, it gets sick, it gets old and it dies again and again and again and again.

As long as we continue to base our happiness on this body we are cheating ourselves big time, big big time.

You can't really enjoy the body, you might have some temporary sense of enjoyment but that's not permanent, it's a temporary titillation of the senses.

You are going to the grave at every minute, going to the cremation ground closer by every second.

So what is that so-called pleasure of the senses?

So we have to understand Jivera, Sarvabhaja, Krishna and Siddhartha, the constitutional position of living entity, the eternal servant of Krishna.

When we actually come to this position, you actually become Krishna conscious.

We have to become Krishna conscious, that is the whole point of having a spiritual master, that is the whole point of having the scriptures, that is the whole point of the Krishna conscious movement, is to train us how to become Krishna conscious and to kick out this bodily conception by replacing it.

Now the Mayavadis they also kick out the bodily conception so in that sense they are good.

In the Ganesha part of the Mayavadis it is good.

But they don't know how to affirm the other side.

It's true, but what is the nature of Brahman?

That is the big problem with the Mayavadis.

The very conception that God has kicked out of the spiritual world, they are embracing that conception.

So we have to affirm the other side on the eternal service of Krishna.

That is how we can actually become happy.

Vishaya ben yivartante niraha rishidehina rasha visham rishopya shva parlam vishmanivartate.

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

By experiencing the higher states of the Krishna consciousness.

So this taste, I am the disciple of my spiritual master and the devotee of Krishna, is a very high case, very high case.

The ecstasy of having a loving relationship with the spiritual master is beyond any love of this material world.

The loving feelings the disciples have of the spiritual master are not based on the body, they are not based on lust, anger, greed, manna, delusion or envy.

So that is actually the attractive feature of Krishna consciousness.

So we can feel loving affection for the spiritual master.

Because that actually elevates us into transcendental dimension beyond the cycle of birth and death.

The loving affection of the spiritual master saves us from all the hell we are going through and through millions and millions of births.

When you actually become a Krishna Consciousness, it is a very, very enviable position to be in.

Just imagine if your best friend was the most powerful, the most wealthy, the most intelligent and the most cognizant person in all of existence.

He was your best friend, he was with you at every minute, he could see everything that was happening, he was with you at every minute.

He's the most powerful, the most wealthy, the most famous, the most everything and he's with you at every minute and he's arranging everything for your benefit at every minute.

You can never be in a difficult situation because he controls everything and he owns everything and he knows everything.

So the only difficulty you ever have is When you cut yourself off from them, you see.

If you're back in touch with them, you're sitting pretty.

The difficulty is we're so foolish we cut ourselves off.

We cut ourselves off, you know how stupid we were?

Cut ourselves off, put ourselves in so much difficulty being tossed in the 3 modes of material nature, being tossed in the waves of the material ocean, Up and down, around and around, to the carnal chakra, being taught this way and taught that way.

We are so stupid, can you imagine how idiotic we actually were?

Bodhi yoga means the yoga of the intelligence.

Bhakti yoga is also buddhi yoga, the yoga of the intelligence.

Those who are fools, they don't take up bhakti yoga.

Those who are intelligent, those who have good brains, they take up bhakti yoga.

It's not a religion for sentimental fools.

It's a religion for the most highly intelligent person.

It is religion in its original pure form.

Religion comes from the, means religio, to relink.

It's like a ligament in your body, it connects.

That's the actual meaning of religion, to reconnect with that Supreme Person as the source of your existence.

It's not a question of which religion do you belong to.

No, it's not saying a different religion.

Religion is 1, you become a pure lover of God, you call him Allah, Jehovah, Krishna.

There is 1 supreme person as a source of all existence, he has unlimited name, but to actually be connected with him, now you are truly a religious person.

So the modern day religionists are actually not religious, they are irreligious.

They are religious, they belong to a messiah, a jain, a Christian, a Hindu.

So it's time to kick out all these pseudo religions from the mentality of the world population and bring back the verbalist why this book distribution is so important.

Because the books contain this knowledge of the actual, what is actual religion.

To reconnect with that Supreme Person as the source of all existence.

So we simply take this Bhagavad Gita very seriously.

Then our lives become limitlessly sublime.

In this world there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge, as transcendental knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism.

And he who becomes accomplished in the practice of devotional service relishes this knowledge within himself in due course of time.

How would you like to be in that position?

Relishing this knowledge within yourself in due course of time, the mature fruit of all mysticism.

If you actually achieve the mature fruit of all mysticism, you are more powerful than a yogi sitting in the Himalayas doing all the mystic yoga exercises.

Well, we are stumbling, bumbling neophytes right now.

How do you take a thousand mile journey 1 step at a time, isn't it?

You give up, well, a thousand miles I can never do it, I give up.

But you keep taking 1 step, another step, another step, you can achieve the goal in due course of time.

So that's the key, every day, chant your rounds without fail.

And to be disrespectful to the Vaishnavas is an offense against the holy name.

Always be respectful to the Vaishnavas, don't be in an angry, argumentative mood with the devotees, that's a defense against the holy name.

Always be in a cooperative, loving, respectful mood.

Chant Hare krishna, give up illicit sex, meeting, intoxication, gambling, and also includes fish and eggs.

And as far as sex goes, sex is only for procreation.

Not that you're married and you can have sex as much as you want, have some fun in bed at night with your wife.

Sex is only for procreation and the standard for procreation is that if the father gave us anything else is illicit.

And once in a month, 4 to 6 days after the menstrual cycle.

Because that's when the wife is most likely to get pregnant.

4 to 6 days after the menstrual cycle, that's a lot.

How many wives have got shand in these 50 rounds of japa?

So if you follow that principle, no illicit sex can...

And actually who wants to waste their semen?

It takes many pounds of blood to make even 1 drop of semen.

So people who pass semen, whether masturbating or having fun with their wives, they're foolish.

They don't understand they're actually depleting themselves with so much energy that will go to the brain and nourish the brain for higher understanding, give 1 resistance against disease and a longer life span also.

So the more you can withhold your semen the better off you are.

So no illicit sex, no intoxication, that includes marijuana and methadrine and so many other things.

Also even caffeine, No caffeine, no caffeinated tea or no coffee.

Caffeine is also a mild form of intoxication.

Going to Las Vegas and playing the casino, that's a gamble.

But also to speculate, well I don't know what I'll just get, you see, that mental speculation is also gambling.

Don't gamble with knowledge, you have to read these books, you don't have to gamble with knowledge.

Not what I think, what do the authorities say?

If you don't know, you say, well I think, no, I don't know, so I'll check Papa's books, I'll find out what Papa said, then I can give you an answer.

Right now I'm going to give you what I think is the way it is.

I use my intelligence to hear from that person who has the perfect knowledge.

This way we can actually transcend this material existence.

We follow this pathway, chanting the 16 rounds, following the 4 regular samsara taking shelter of the bountiful spiritual master.

Sometimes people think, who should I accept as my guru?

There are so many people who are getting so many gurus in this kind.

Well, my advice is just hear from as many as you can and see who inspires you the most.

Hear from as many as you can and see which 1 inspires you the most.

Whoever inspires you the most is a tremendous practitioner.

So we take this process seriously, the fact that we are going to take the sweetest nectar.

We have to kick out this bodily conception, the greatest stumbling block on the spiritual pathway.

Bodily conception means I base my enjoyment on gratifying my senses, isn't it?

If you are not your body, then all you have to do is keep your body in good health.

That's your service to Krishna, to keep your body in good health so you can serve nicely.

Your happiness is not based on gratifying your senses.

Your happiness is based on satisfying your spiritual master and satisfying Krishna.

If anytime, given the example, When you water the root of the tree all the leaves and branches are nourished.

If you water the leaves and branches separately and you don't water the root, the tree will die.

So if you just try to gratify, you are like a leaf or a branch on Krishna.

So you have to water the root, you have to give your loving service to Krishna.

And you will focus on giving your loving service to Krishna in all times, all places and circumstances you will find yourself in a state of bliss 24 hours a day without any need of intoxication, gambling, illicit sex or meat eating.

Just always think, what can I think right now that will please Krishna?

How can I speak right now that will please Krishna?

How can I act right now that will please Krishna?

You say, well, why do you ask about Krishna?

Because Krishna is aware of everything you're thinking, everything you're saying, everything you're doing.

And he's not played out because he has to pay attention to so many living entities.

No, Krishna has the ability to focus 100% on you.

He can give you a complete undivided full attention.

Everything you are doing, everything you are saying, He is fully aware of everything you are doing, everything you are saying, everything you are thinking.

So my dear listeners, do not cheat yourselves by trying to find happiness outside of Krishna consciousness because I guarantee you, you will not find even 1 teeny weeny tinge of happiness, genuine happiness outside of pure Krishna consciousness, pure bhakti.

You will not find any, even, it's only on a pseudo happiness you will find and that pseudo happiness will cheat you into more and more suffering.

So don't cheat yourself by giving in to pseudo happiness.

This is a fact meeting into identification gambling or mental speculation.

Don't cheat yourself by giving in to these things.

Yogini intelligence by basing your thoughts, words and deeds on these wonderful teachings of the Bhagavad Gita.

Krishna makes it very, very clear exactly how we should think, how we should find our happiness.

Yantak sakam sarama ma sakam sarvodareva sabhami yuga yuktatmam buddha-bhava-bhutah digacchati 1 whose happiness is within, who rejoices and is active within and whose aim is inward is actually the perfect mystic.

He is already liberated in the Supreme and ultimately attains the Supreme.

So that my dear listeners, is where you have to find your happiness, within.

That means in your relationship with Krishna.

That's your actual happiness, your relationship with your spiritual master and your relationship with Krishna.

So that's where you define your happiness.

My relationship with my Guru and Krishna.

If you rejoice and you're active in that plane, then you're actually the perfect mystic, Krishna says.

Absolutely totally fixed on the divine consciousness and the divine love.

Even while you're in this material world, even when you're working a job, even when you're working a job or out there on the commute on the freeway, on the not so free freeway, whatever your position, you see, if your aim is inward, you're a liberated soul in any condition.

And the time of death, you wake up and go to sleep and wake up in the pastimes of Krishna.

That would be a nice better than having a nightmare right?

You know what I say, you'll wake up in a galactic Vrindavan.

So my dear listeners, don't become confused and be bitter like Arjuna was in the beginning because of bodily consciousness.

Try to understand my dear listeners, who is your actual family?

They don't like me if I don't think Krishna consciousness.

No, you have to understand who is your actual family member.

Your actual family members are all living entities.

You have to understand who is your actual family member.

And you should ask for the benefit of all family members by dedicating your life to follow Lord Caitanya's order.

Dhare Dehka Tare Kaha, Krishna Upadash, Amaragaya Guru, Hoyate Udesh.

Whomever you meet, instruct him in the teachings of Krishna, and this way on my order you become a guru and you deliver the people of this country, wherever country you are in.

You want to travel country to country, that's also good.

Whatever your position, wherever you are, you must be very active to give them Krishna consciousness.

Every opportunity you must look at as the opportunity to live or deliver this poor living entity who is caught up in bodily consciousness.

This is my opportunity to help them see there is something beyond this hellish material existence.

I offer my respectful obeisance unto all the Vaishnava devotees of the Lord who are just like desire trees who can fulfill the desires of everyone and they are full of compassion for the fallen conditioned souls.

They want to get out there and give Krishna to everyone.

That's what it means, full of compassion.

They want to liberate all these poor souls who are caught up in the cycle of birth and death.

Now they can fulfill the desires of everyone.

Well that means not their rascal material desires, their innermost desires, the genuine actual desire of every single living entity is to be reconnected with Krishna.

Deep within, that's what everybody wants.

Nobody wants to keep suffering in the cycle of birth.

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