Chima-dvajna-dharmakosana, chapter 20, text 10.

Parityag-dhagunah samyag darshanah vishadasah yaham shantim mesam avasthanam ramakayavayam asnute.

1 who is disassociated from the material modes of nature.

Shantum, peace, may, may, samavastanam, equal situation, equal situation, brahma, spirit, kaivalyam, freedom from material contamination, freedom from material contamination, Ashnurte, achieved.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

When the heart is cleansed of all material contamination, the devotee's mind becomes broader and transparent and he can see things equally.

At that stage of life there is peace and 1 is situated equally with me as satya-nanda-vigraha.

The Mayavadi conception of Kaivalya and that of the Vaishnava community is different.

The Mayavadi thinks that as soon as 1 is free from all material contamination, he is merged in the existence of the Supreme.

The Vaishnava philosopher's conception of Kavali is different.

He understands both his position and the position of the Supreme Personality of God.

In the uncontaminated position, the living entity understands that he is the eternal servitor of the Supreme and that is called Brahman realization, The spiritual perfection of the living entity.

This report is very easily achieved as stated in Bhagavad Gita when 1 is engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, he is immediately situated in the transcendental platform in Kavaya or Raman.

Sri Rama, Krishna padam, sahagana-ladita-sivisatam vittam sthah.

Nama om Vishnu padaya, Krishna preshtaya bhutale.

At that stage of life there is peace and 1 is situated equally with me as subject and underling.

This reminds me of what Prabhupada explained in the Isopanisad.

He said, 1 should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

So when 1 sees things equally, he sees happiness and distress as the same thing.

There is no difference between being happy or distressed because it is the feelings of the mind.

In other words, in such a state, 1 just keeps trying for a little happiness.

So the devotee is not interested in the happiness of this world, profit, adoration and distinction.

He sees these things as enemies actually, running after profit, adoration and distinction.

The Living entity should only be running after devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Krishna also confirms this point of equanimity in Bhagavad Gita chapter 2, text 14.

The appearance and disappearance of, 1 should not be happy or disturbed by the desirables and undesirables.

The appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.

The non-permanent appearance of happiness and distress And their disappearance in due course are like the appearance and disappearance of the winter and summer seasons.

1 must learn to tolerate them, O Sainamaratha, without being disturbed.

How to not become depressed or elated over happiness, over desirables and undesirables?

How to see everything as the mercy of Krishna?

Actually Krishna is unlimitedly merciful.

It's not that Krishna is sometimes kind and sometimes cruel.

So we have to see Krishna in that way, not see him in some mundane way.

We have to see Krishna through the eyes of the scripture.

Some of the people think, well, God is being very cruel to me right now.

God has unlimited loving mercy upon all living entities.

The difficulty we have is we don't know how to reciprocate that mercy.

And we come to the point of actually reciprocating that loving mercy of the Lord, we will not be elated or depressed over the desirable or undesirable.

Whether I'm healthy, whether I'm sick, whether I'm wealthy, whether I'm poor, whether I'm being glorified, whether I'm being chastised, the body of the Lord sees everything equally.

He doesn't become overwhelmed by the material modes of nature.

Material modes of nature are always up and down, bouncing up and down.

Different modes, Sadhvagun, Rajagun, Tamogun, always bouncing, bouncing up and down like a wave in the ocean.

The devotee becomes transcendental to the modes of nature, that's the position to be in, beyond the modes of nature.

Is situated in remembering that amazing personality.

It is like we are singing that Najairatamadha, Jumuna Tiruvannacharya.

I am just meditating as I was singing that.

Just trying to visualize Krishna on the bank of the Jamuna River, meditating on an amazing personality, all powerful, all beautiful, all wealthy, all famous, all renounced.

So when will that day come when we can actually awaken our Krishna consciousness?

When my offenses ceasing, taste for the name increasing, when in my heart will your mercy shine?

Actually, the Lord's mercy is always shining, but we're not tasting it, we're not seeing it.

We're lusty, we're angry, we're greedy, we have all these contaminations of our heart.

So we have to get beyond the contamination.

And then flush it all out, get all that, all the stool and urine and all those anger flushed and get rid of it.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare As long as we continue to misidentify with these material bodies, we are bound to feel the effect of the Moses.

This bodily identification roots us or chains us to being affected by the modes of nature.

We have to kick out this bodily consciousness.

Dehi no smin yathad dehe khamo ramdo vanam jara tatad de antara-praptir dhira-sthita-namuyati The embodied soul continually passes in this body from boyhood to youth to old age.

The soul similarly passes in another body from time of death.

The self-realized person has not been good about such a change.

How can we get rid of this bodily consciousness?

As long as I'm trying to be the enjoyer of this material world, I'm going to be rooted and identified with his flesh and blood.

The key is we have to get out of this mood of trying to enjoy this material world.

We have to see, let me engage everything in Krishna's service.

Mind, mind, tongue, belly, everything engaged in the service of Krishna.

If we continue to engage in sense gratification, we're going to stay caught up in the cycle of birth and death, 1 material body, another material body, after another material body.

Do you want to take birth again in the material world?

want to get out of this hellish nightmare?

We keep desiring the sense gratification.

Instead of seeing through the eyes of scripture, we see through the eyes of the internet.

We don't see through the eyes of the internet or Google or whatever.

We don't see through the eyes of the church.

Instead of CNN consciousness we need Krishna consciousness.

That is why we have to hear the Bhagavatam, that is why we have to read the Bhagavatam in books, that is why we have to study these amazing verses.

Today I was really focusing on Bhagavad Gita chapter 6, text number 30, amazing verse.

Yonmam paschati sarvam ca sarvam samayi paschati, paschaham ne pramaschati, satsam ina pranaschati.

The 1 who sees me everywhere and sees everything in me, I'm never lost, and they were lost to me.

The 1 who sees me everywhere and sees everything in me, I am never lost and they were lost to me.

The 1 who sees me everywhere and sees everything in me, so how can we develop that ability?

And the taste of water and the sound of ether and the syllable Om, the Vedic mantra, and the light of the sun, the ability of man.

Krishna appears as 1 of the Pashas, as 1 of the Deities.

That's also Krishna, the sound and ether.

everything, how to see Krishna everywhere, everything within Krishna.

This whole material world is Krishna's manifested energy.

It didn't come out of Darwinism or this or that or some big bang.

He is emanating as Krishna from himself for a purpose.

He is emitting the Krishna-firmness of the Self for a purpose.

And for the purpose of rectifying the conditioned souls who are foolishly trying to enjoy independently.

Giving a facility, alright, you might enjoy independently, here is a place where you can go and try to enjoy and realize that actually you can only enjoy separately.

We have to realize that it is not possible to enjoy a separate living in Krishna.

The kind soul picks up that fish and tosses it back in the water.

You see the living entity suffering in the material world, and he's going to pick him up and toss him back in the water.

The spiritual master engages in the service of Krishna.

That's why the spiritual master has to be respected and obeyed.

Krishna says, tad viddhi pranipatena paripraśnena sevayā upadekṣyante te jñānaṁ jñānena tattvatārṣina He says, Try to learn the truth by approaching the spiritual master, inquire from him submissively, render service unto him, the self-realized souls can impart knowledge unto you because they have seen the truth.

So some people think, well I don't need a guru to be Krishna conscious, I can be Krishna conscious on my own.

How can you be Krishna conscious if you don't obey Krishna?

Well I am going to be Krishna conscious but I am not going to obey Krishna.

Good luck on your Krishna consciousness sir.

You might not disobey Krishna and be Krishna conscious.

Being Krishna conscious means we can fully submit to Krishna and follow Krishna's instructions.

Krishna is giving us so many instructions, but you have to follow these amazing, amazing Krishna's instructions.

This will liberate us from all the difficulties in material existence.

As long as we think, well I'll do it on my own, I'm not going to follow what Krishna says or what Guru says, I'll just do this on my own.

You remain A slave of sense gratification.

The material energy is not a pleasant place to be entangled in.

It means you get sick, you get old, you die again and again and again.

Some devotees are caught up in sense gratification, they are addicted to it, they can't give it up.

I may have an attraction for sense enjoyment, I may have this addiction, but if I give in to that urge, what's the problem?

Goswami means who's master of the senses.

Now, only the Sanatis are supposed to be Goswami?

hasid, a panaprastha, every sannyasi, every devotee must be a goswami.

You must control your senses, the mind, words, and your tongue beveling in general.

Everything must, indriya seva doesn't cut it.

Serving your senses doesn't work, it keeps you a slave of maya.

You have to serve the master of the senses, Vishikesha.

If you serve the master of the senses, you become a liberated soul.

If you continue to serve your senses, you become a slave of maya.

So why is it that some devotees are so foolish, even though they know it's not good they give in to sense gratification.

Even though they know it's wrong why do they do it?

You have to by force say okay senses I know you want sense gratification but too bad you're not going to get it.

You want to become a master of your senses, you have some addiction, you have to be heavy.

I don't care if you want illicit sex, meeting and identification, gambling, you can't have it.

They think, well, I don't really have to follow all the principles.

Well, the job I work at, you know, I'm supposed to serve meat to the kids.

I work in the kindergarten, I serve them meat.

And I can't, since I was trained to be a school teacher, I really have to keep working as a school teacher to earn a livelihood.

So it's okay I'll be a devotee and I'll serve meat to the kids.

That means they're more interested in what's convenient for me.

Well it'd be inconvenient for me to take up another livelihood that I wasn't trained in when I went to school.

So I just go ahead and work as a school teacher, a kindergarten teacher, and I give out, I give meat to the kids.

I think it's not necessary for me to give it up.

You see how lazy that mentality is, how lazy.

I know you're trying to be a kindergarten teacher, but you can't work in that situation where you can't be serving meat to people.

You have to find another occupation even though it is an inconvenience for you.

Devoting means I am willing to accept all inconveniences myself.

My own inconvenience I am willing to accept my own inconvenience.

Not convenient for me to get up from the monastery every day.

So being a devotee means I have to accept that it's inconvenient for me, it's an austerity for me.

I'm just being willing to accept austerity.

There are a lot of other austerities I just want to enjoy, but here's the point.

If you accept violence, I accept austerity.

You may enter the realm of transcendental enjoyment.

1 has to have that intellectual understanding.

By embracing austerity, I actually give up all difficulties.

See, the biggest austerity is birth and death, old age and disease.

That's the big austerity I'm going through right now.

So by taking some other austerities like rising early in the morning, not working in a job where I have to serve meat to the kids, by embracing some minor austerities you overcome the greatest austerity.

It's a matter of seeing through the eyes of the scripture and understanding things not according to my mental whims but according to the vision of the great Vaishnava Acharya.

When the heart is cleansed of all material contamination, that's the lust, the anger, the greed, the madness, the illusion, the envy.

So we get free by chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, giving up the sinful activities, not contaminating the heart anymore by sinful activities and purifying it.

We have all this contamination for millions of lifetimes in the material world, but actually 1 pure chanting of Hare Krishna can purify you from more sins than you can commit even in millions and billions of lifetimes.

We have to learn how to chant senselessly without any offense.

It's very important we learn how to have the proper mood in chanting.

Not to be inattentive, not to be offensive to the Vaishnavas, to be obedient to the spiritual master.

All of these things are very important if we want to chant senselessly the holy name.

The more we can purify our chanting, the more we purify our heart, the more we cleanse the heart of all this dirt and accumulated years and years together.

So we should take pure chanting of the holy name as my most important activity every day.

My japa is my most important activity every day.

It's my every day I should complete my rounds.

Of course if you don't finish on 1 day you can finish on the next, but don't make that a normal habit.

The easiest way to do it is don't allow yourself to take prasadams, you get your rounds done.

That's the easiest way to make sure you get your rounds done.

To make sure that 1 gets one's rounds done.

The next thing, the devotee's mind becomes broader.

Well, it's the opposite of being narrow-minded.

It means you don't see things as they are.

You see things according to your own mental concoctions.

So we have to say, okay mind, you've been misleading me long enough for millions and millions of births, taking me from 1 body to another body to another body.

My dear mind, now no longer will I be your slave.

Bajahuray mana, shri nandananda, abhayacharananam vindhude.

My dear mind, please now engage yourself in the devotional service of the divine sound of Nanda Mahamaya.

When you actually focus your mind on Krishna, focus your mind on Krishna, bring the K.O.K.

Mind, come back, yato yato nishalati manasam jana-mastadam, tatas tato neyam yatat atma yegah samjhaya, 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.

Under the control of the self means to fix on Krishna consciousness.

Now the yogis they may say to make the mind still, to make the mind quiet, but the mind's nature is to be active.

You can't just say, okay, mind, flip it off.

Your mind is going to go with you birth after birth after birth, mind is always there.

Therefore you have to fix the mind on Krishna.

That's how you become liberated, that's how you become broad minded.

Because when you see through Krishna, when your mind sees everything, when your mind is fixed on Krishna, that means you see everything through the eyes of the scripture.

And when you see through the eyes of the scripture, then you see things as they are.

He says, in verse 2, he says, "...beyond this 1 comes enlightenment and knowledge which is beyond..." very nice point, I give the whole verse because 1 achieves that knowledge but beyond which there is nothing further to be known.

When you actually see things through the eyes of Krishna consciousness, through the scriptures, then everything is, then you become perfect in your seeing, see everything perfectly.

When you see through the eyes of scripture, you see everything perfectly.

So let us not be slaves of maya, keeping our minds fixed on sense gratification.

They say, okay mind, I've given you liberty for millions of births and you can go wherever you want and that's how you've kept me entangled here in the cycle of birth and death.

But now it's time for you to get serious and to take to bhakti yoga as your only business.

Give up all your nonsense and now become fully absorbed in Krishna.

My dear mind, please now engage yourself in the devotional service of the divine son of Nanda Maharaj.

Is there any reason we should do something else besides pure devotional service?

Can anybody give a reason why we should do something else besides pure devotional service?

have any reason to do something beyond the version of service?

Do you have any reason to do something beyond the version of service?

But even though we can't give any reason, still we go after it.

Even though we can't give any reason to do anything beyond devotional service, we keep doing it.

A little bit of Krishna, a little bit of Maya, a little bit of Krishna, a little bit of Maya, a

We haven't made our own minds, like a windshield wiper, going back and

Krishna consciousness sends God on vacation.

When are we going to make the mind still fixed at the lotus feet of Krishna?

Yantaksa kamsa-nahanama tatam suryate eva anasyogi brahma-virna anambhuma brahma-vrttam sakasthi.

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