Today we are reading Srimad Bhagavatam, 4th Canon, Chapter 20, Text number 7.

Eku-suddha-svayam jyotir nirgunasur-ganasvayah sarva-gauranam-bhutasva-kshid-nirat-mat-mam-anapadah Sarvaga 1, shuddha, pure, svayam, self, jyoti, effulgent, nirguna, without material qualification, aso, that, guna-asraya, the reservoir of good qualities, sarvaja, able to go everywhere, anavrta, without being covered by matter.

Sakshi, witness, niratma, without another self, atmaatmanah, to the body and mind, pada, Transcendental.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnupada Paramahamsa Parivrtta-Karunastha Ashtapada Siddhashiv Shri Mat Eti Bhaktivedanta-Ti Dantigos Mami Maharaj Prabhupada, my beloved Guru Maharaj.

The individual soul is 1, pure, non-material and self-evolgent.

He is the reservoir of all good qualities and he is all-pervading, he is without material covering and he is a witness of all activities.

He is completely distinguished from other living entities and he is transcendental to all embodied souls.

Let us see how Prabhupada explains all pervading.

Let's see what Prabhupada says in the Purpura.

In the previous verse, 2 significant words are used.

Asamsakta, meaning without attachment, and Buddha, meaning fully cognizant of everything.

By full cognizance it is meant that 1 should know about his own constitutional position as well as the position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

According to Sri Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakur, in this verse Lord Vishnu is describing himself or the Paramatma.

The Paramatma is always distinguished from the embodied soul as well as the material world.

That para or supreme personality of God is eka, meaning 1.

The Lord is 1, whereas the conditioned soul embodied within the material world exists in many varieties of forms.

There are demigods, human beings, animals, trees, birds, bees, and so forth.

Thus the living entities are not eka but many, As confirmed in the Vedas, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam.

The living entities who are many and who are entangled in this material world are not pure.

However, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pure and detached.

Due to being covered by the material body, the living entities are not self-effulgent, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Paramatma, is self-effulgent.

The living entities being contaminated by the modes of material nature are called saguna, whereas the paramama, the Supreme Personality of God, is nirguna, not being under the influence of the material modes.

The living entities being encased in material qualities are guna-shrita, whereas the Supreme Personality of God is guna-srayah.

The conditioned soul's vision is covered by material contamination.

Therefore, he cannot see the cause of his actions and he cannot see his past lives.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead not being covered by a material body is a witness of all activities of a living entity.

But both of them, the living entity and the Paramatma, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are Atma or spirit.

They are 1 in quality, yet they are different in so many ways, especially in regard to the 6 opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as His full.

Full knowledge means that the jivatma, the living entity, must know both his position and the Supreme's position.

Sadaitam Sava-dhutam Parijna-sahitam Krishna Caitanya Devam Sri Radha Krishna Param Sahagana Lalita Sri Visakhana Vittamscha Nama Om Vishnu Padaya Krishna Pleshtaya Bhutade Shimate Bhaktive Danta Svameliti Namane Namaste Sarasvate Deve So, Baba didn't answer it, but I will answer it.

That means in 1 sense that there are living entities everywhere, in the material world and the spiritual world.

The jivas are everywhere, in both the spiritual world and the material world.

There is an infinite number of them and they are everywhere.

In that sense the individual soul is all-pervading.

Not that 1 individual soul is all-pervading, but the individual souls are all-pervading.

What understanding can we derive from this?

It is very important we derive understanding from the scripture because now we are eluded by the modes of material nature.

We are caught up in the grips of Maya Devi.

That's why we're caught up here in the cycle of birth and death, going through the 8,400,000 species again and again and again.

But by hearing from the revealed scriptures, by hearing from the Bhagavad spiritual masters, we can become then liberated from this hellish nightmare of material existence and come back to our original natural position – chivarasya rupa hai krishnare ne chidat – the constitutional position of a living entity is the eternal servant of Krishna.

So the scriptures and the spiritual masters teach us the science of Bhakti Yoga, how to become pure devotees of the Lord.

The difficulty is we are so conditioned to being rascals, it is hard for us to give up our rascal mentality immediately.

Lord Caitanya said, tanad api sanicena tarar api sahishnuna amanina manadena kirtaniya saddhahari Won't you be more tolerant than a tree, offering all respect to others without expecting any respect from oneself.

In such a state of mind 1 can go on chanting Hare Krishna mantra 24-7.

Because We haven't mastered the art of tolerance yet.

I can tolerate so much and beyond that I can't handle it.

That's why we can't taste the full nature of the Holy Name.

We have some limit in our tolerance, therefore we have some limit on what we can naturally taste in Krishna consciousness.

So 1 of the most important things we learn in the pathway of Bhaga Yoga is tolerance.

Pure devotee can tolerate unlimitedly, but the neophyte can only tolerate so much.

So we have to come out of this neophyte platform of only tolerating so much and come to the pure devotee platform of having unlimited power of tolerance to be able to take anything.

Whatever Krishna gives me, that's all right.

Not that, Why did you give this to me, Krishna?

So we have to learn the process of bhakti yoga given by our beloved Srila Prabhupada.

Can you imagine how much effort Prabhupada went into writing all these books?

Volume after volume after volume of books.

He was so dedicated to giving up his sleep to write these books.

So we would have this opportunity to get out of this hellish nightmare we are in right now of thinking I am the Lord of all, I survive, everything has to be the way I want it.

We have to instead of thinking what I want, what does my spiritual master want, what does Krishna want?

That's how we have to mold our consciousness.

If we carefully study the Bhagavad Gita, we can see exactly how Krishna wants us to think, speak and act in all time, places and circumstances.

Actually Arjuna didn't really need to hear the Bhagavad Gita but he played the role of a conditioned soul.

He played the role of being 1 like us, he is a Maya.

So Krishna could give this knowledge what actually we need to hear.

So this Bhagavad Gita is the most important book.

Raja Vidya Rau Jagu Yam, Svavitam Idam Uttamam, Prachakshavagamam Dharmyam, Susukham Katamam Yadam.

This knowledge is the king of all education, it's the most secret of all secrets, it's the purest knowledge and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization it is the perfection of religion, it is everlasting and what else?

This material world is always up and down, happiness and distress, happiness and distress, happiness and distress.

But if we lock ourselves 100% into following the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, Susukham will always be happy, will never be disturbed in any situation.

Because we are not doing that, we are not fully plugged in the teachings of Agita.

I follow Krishna to a certain extent, I follow my own mental whims to a certain extent.

We take the bogus guru of our mind as a great authority.

Therefore the great Vaisnava charyas they sing, Bajahuray mana srinananandana abhayacharanara vindare, my dear mind, See how kind he is, my dear mind, actually he is my rascal mind, but I say my dear mind, I am pacifying him a little bit, my dear mind, you rascal, my dear mind, Please now engage yourself in the loving devotional service of the divine son of Nandana.

As Nanda and Nanda Nandana, the beloved son of Nandana.

You see how Krishna is always in relationship.

Of course he has his own name, Krishna, but he really values being named after his disciple Nandana.

Krishna likes to be associated with the devotees.

He's in spite of all the little baby boy.

So Nanda just started carrying the slipper of Nanamaraj, the slippers of Nanamaraj on his head to take them to him.

Struggling to pick up the heavy slippers to carry them to Nandamayaj.

Even though he is the Supreme Lord, he can lift a whole mountain, he can lift the whole universe, But still he struggles to lift the slippers of his father and his excesses of loving relations with his devotees.

So We have to learn also how to relish loving relations with the devotees.

We have to learn how to learn in the loving relationship with the Vaishnavas.

The scriptures describe 6 kinds of loving exchange with devotees.

We have to learn how to enter these loving relationships with the Vaishnavas.

It is very important to give up our intolerant natures and learn how to have loving relationships with the Vaishnavas.

The more we can love the devotees, the more we can love Krishna.

We can't love Krishna separate from loving his devotees.

That's why he tells us, tad viddhi tani-pantena paripraśnena sevaya upadekṣyanti te jñānam gaṇinas tatha dārśinaḥ 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.

Actually that is the most powerful way of seeing, by hearing.

We may not properly see, we may not properly see.

When you hear, it is very clear, it is stated clearly.

Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Everything emanates from him and we are all his eternal servants.

So we hear, hear, hear from the spiritual master, from the Vaishnavas, from the scripture.

That's why we study every day the Srimad Bhagavatam.

We might hear, hear, hear, take a deep, deep, deep in our heart, drive away all the illusion and confusion, the dwelling and confusion since time immemorial in our hearts, carrying us from 1 animal body to a plant body to a germ body to a worm body, a demigod body, sometimes a human body.

Demigods are carried away by material opulence.

The human being has enough austerity to consider, why am I suffering like this?

Why am I being forced to suffer against my desire again and again and again?

So that he can inquire, he can approach a bona fide authority, a bona fide spiritual master, inquire and learn what is the actual purpose of my existence, what is the perfection of my existence.

So if we take this process seriously our lives will be unlimitedly sublime.

The difficulty is if we don't take it seriously.

We want to remain on the mental platform, a little bhakti, a little sense enjoyment, a little bhakti, a little sense enjoyment.

We don't take it with full seriousness, we don't take it with full sobriety.

Dehino smjata dehe kumaram jhovanam jah tatah deham tada-pramtir dhira-sthata-lamuyati.

As the embodied soul continually passes in this body from boyhood to youth to old age to suffering, and so the same way we pass another body at the time of death, the sober person is no longer bitter by such a change.

If we are not sober, that is the problem.

If we are not sober, then we are not bitter.

Or whatever it may be, we begin to be emotive.

Because we keep misidentifying with this body.

It's not very intelligent, we keep doing it.

But They think it means switching genders.

But the real meaning of transgender is transcendental to gender.

So the Hare Krishna devotees are the real transgender people.

To think I don't have a feeling of being a male so I will be a female instead.

You have understood you are not really a male.

But now you have to understand that you're not a female either, you're not this body.

This gender idea is like half way there, you know.

But the second understanding is misinterpreted.

If I understood properly I am not a male, I am not a female, but they misunderstand therefore I am the opposite sex.

But that is why Krishna Gandhi's movement is so important.

We can say, Okay, we admit you are not a male or female because actually you are a spirit soul.

The perfection of transgender is realized in Jivara Saripa, I, Krishniranjan Das, I am eternal spiritual being.

So that is why this book distribution is very important.

We can educate all these transgenders how to actually be transgender.

So this whole world is going on in a crazy madhouse right now.

Shva-bhidra-ustra-karaye samsthitah parashat-pushyat na-jata-karma-patopetau jatnam agadagra-jaha Those men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, They praise those men who do not listen to the transcendental path signs of who?

So these are the people running our countries, running our corporations, running our organizations.

Dogs, dogs, camels and elephants are leading the world right now.

It's like having a nice machine but it's not plugged in.

You try to get some utilization from it but it's not plugged in.

When you plug it in and flip on the switch it runs naturally.

So we want to plug this lost, confused human society back into the source, back into the power source, Krishna.

So if you disconnect from the energy source, you're going to have difficulties.

I tried to get an artificial energy source, but it doesn't work.

It's like right now, a huge society built on petroleum.

Can you imagine how much petroleum is burning, how many billions of gallons of petroleum is being burned at every nanosecond right now on this planet?

All the cars, the airplanes, It's just unbelievable how much petrol they're burning at every minute.

What are they going to do when there's no more petrol?

But how do they run the powerhouse if they charge the electricity?

I mean the whole thing is based on the point, my point is this, my dear listeners.

My point is that artificial civilization is meant to be developed, the whole economic development is meant to be on the land of the cows.

That's a nativated culture based on land and cows, that's a natural environment that doesn't deplete over time.

Because the cows, the whole thing perpetuates a thousand and millions of years.

You take the cow dung and you fertilize the soil, you keep growing crops on the soil.

But because they are basing it on a whole artificial thing, and this thing and that thing, they are temporary, the whole thing is going to fall down, all of them are going to go into complete chaos.

It's going to be like cannibals in the jungle eventually, the way things are heading.

The whole thing is going to completely break down.

No more electricity, no more this, no more that, no more grocery stores, no more internet, the whole thing is going to fall apart.

The whole thing is completely fall apart.

So the only solution is this Krishna consciousness movement.

This is why we want to take a leadership role on this planet.

Because this movement can actually solve the problem.

This Krishna consciousness movement, Prabhupada's teachings can actually solve the problem.

So this is why we have to stick closely to Prabhupada's teachings and not mix in other ideas like they are trying to do nowadays in this country, mix in other ideas to change what Prabhupada actually said.

We have to keep it precisely as Prabhupada gave it to us and not water it down with any sense gratification or mental speculation.

Even if 1 person can strictly follow exactly what the Bhagavad Gita is saying with no deviation, not 1 person can lead the whole world.

The Bhagavad Gita says this in its purport.

It says, if 1 chants the holy name of the Lord without offense, he becomes Jagadguru and that is influenced the whole world's chance of Hare Krishna.

Even if 1 person, the trouble is none of us are there yet, that's the problem.

We are intolerant, we can't chant Hare Krishna 24 hours a day because of our intolerance.

But even if 1 of us can get out of maya, become a fully enlightened soul, that 1 devotee can live the whole world.

So we are trying to, that's why we are trying to, each 1 of us should endeavor to become pure devotees, completely pure devotees.

Premanjanah carita bhaktivalo chanena samtaksad eva hrideshivalo kuyanti yam syamasunyur uvacinyuganasvarupam govindam anipurusham tamo namah bhajami yad varsham gamir na sannimu dharmam So we shall assume our Krishna Himself with inconceivable and innumerable attributes and the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinned with the salve of love, you see.

And we come to that point where our eyes become purely, fully tinned with the salve of love we can see Krishna everywhere, See Krishna within everything and everything within Krishna.

He says, I am the light of the sun and the moon.

We can look up in the moonlit sky, all there is Krishna.

You see how Krishna is manifest as the moon.

When the sun comes up in the morning, you see how Krishna is manifest as the sun.

If you have some herb that is healing you from your sickness, all that, that healing herb is Krishna.

We have to learn how to experience Krishna everywhere.

By seeing through the eyes of the scripture, on the taste of water, on the sound of ether.

Even the sound is like we hear the sounds now over there of Guru Maharaj putting the garlands in the bag.

You can hear the sound as she's putting the garlands in the bag.

So in this way we have to, through the scripture, we have to experience Krishna more and more and more and more and more and everything.

Every minute always connecting with Krishna.

In this way when you connect with Krishna there is no anxiety, there is no illusion, there is no confusion.

And when disconnected from Krishna we become completely bewildered and confused and in a state of lamentation of not connecting with Krishna.

So anybody have any questions or any arguments?

It reminds me that I want to make some corrections or additions.

You were describing how the petroleum is going to run out and then at some point everything is going to crash.

So I'm wondering why I feel like I don't hear so much push towards going, like building many farms in his country.

Rather I feel like you are building a preaching center.

We are dealing with people in the cities.

So we are mostly in the cities because we want to minister to the people.

We have a few farms, we have some farm communities like Nittai Chandra and Garachandra in Bulgaria they have that farm.

She said it can't maintain the whole world.

How many people are even willing to get out and be farmers?

We are so conditioned to city life that very few devotees are inclined to be farmers.

Cow protectors, milking the cow, killing the man.

How many devotees were not trained in that way, were not inclined to do that?

So, any devotees who are inclined should be encouraged very much, supported to do that.

Very very limited number of people, number of devotees who are actually engaged in Kapastha.

And very much encouraged And we have not developed it as much as we should have.

Are we doing something wrong by not doing that?

Because what if everything crashes and we have these beautiful temples and things but no electricity or water

The most important thing is actually the massive education.

Baba emphasizes the most important thing is the book distribution.

We have to get this knowledge out there as much as we possibly can.

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