In the Jagat Jananam, in the mother of the universe, Lakshmi.

Jagat Isha, O Lord of the universe, Vaishya Sam, anger, Siyat, may arise, Eva, certainly.

Siyat may arise, eva, certainly, yatkarmani, in whose activity, na, my, samihitam, desire, karoshi, you consider, pagu insignificant service, api even, uru very great, dina-vatsala Dina Batsala, favorably inclined to the poor.

Abir-tash-ya, of 1 who is fully satisfied.

Translation and purport by a divine great, Srila Prabhupada.

My dear Lord of the Universe, the Goddess of fortune Lakshmi is the mother of the universe and I think she may be angry with me because of my intruding upon her service and acting on that very platform to which she is so much attached.

Yet I am hopeful that Even though there is some misunderstanding, you will take my part, for you are very much inclined to the poor and you always magnify even significant service unto you.

Therefore even though she becomes angry, I think that there is no harm for you, because you are self-sufficient and you can do without her.

Mother Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune, is well known for always massaging the lotus feet of Lord Narayan.

She is an ideal wife because she takes care of Lord Narayan in every detail.

She takes care not only of his lotus feet but of the household affairs of the Lord as well.

She cooks nice food for him, fans him with malai-eath, a smooth sandalwood pulp on his face, and sets his bed and sitting places in the right order.

In this way she is always engaged in the service of the Lord and there is hardly any opportunity for any other devotee to intrude upon his daily activities.

Prithu Maharaj was therefore almost certain that his intrusion into the service of a goddess of fortune would irritate her and cause her to become angry with him.

So why should Mother Lakshmi, the Mother of the Universe, be angry with an insignificant devotee like Prithviraj?

All this was not very likely, yet Prithviraj, just for his personal protection, appeared to the Lord to take his part.

Prithviraj was engaged in performing the ordinary Vedic rituals and sacrifices according to Karmakandha, a period of activity.

The Lord being so kind and magnanimous is ready to award Prithu Maharaj the highest perfection of life, namely devotional service.

When a person performs Vedic rituals and sacrifices, he does so to elevate himself to the heavenly planets.

No 1 can become qualified to go back to home, back to Godhead by means of such sacrifices, but the Lord is so kind that he accepts a little insignificant service and therefore It is stated in the Vishnu Purana, by following the principles of Varnashrama Dharma only can 1 satisfy the Supreme Lord.

When the Lord is satisfied, the performer of sacrifices is elevated to the platform of devotional service.

Prakriti Maharaj therefore expected that this insignificant service to the Lord would be accepted by him as being greater than that of Lakshmi-ji.

The Goddess of Fortune is called Shantala, restless, because she is very restless and is always coming and going.

So Prithviraj indicated that even though she might go away out of anger, there would be no harm for Lord Vishnu because he is self-sufficient and can do anything and everything without the help of Lakshmi-ji.

For example, when Garbhodakaraja Vishnu begot Lord Rama from his navel, He did not take any help from Lakshmi.

He was just sitting by him and reciting his lotus feet.

Generally, if a son is to begotten, the husband impregnates the wife, and in due course of time the son is born.

But in the case of Lord Brahma's birth, Prabhupada's vision did not impregnate Lakshmi-ji.

Being self-sufficient, the Lord began Brahma from his own navel.

Therefore Prithviraj was confident that even if Bhagavata's fortune became angry with him, there would be no harm neither to the Lord nor to himself.

Sri Guru Vaishnavam Shah Sri Rupam Sagarajatam Sahagana

Sadaitam Sabhadutam Parijanasahitam Krishna Caitanya Devam Sri Radha Krishna Paramsahagana So, daitam sabadutam varijanah sahitam, krsna-cetanya devam, sri-radha, krsna-paramsahagananaditashivisakam jitam.

Normally the husband requires the help of his wife to get a child, but Garbhadatta Sri Avishnath didn't require any help from Lakshmi.

He simply gave birth to his son, Lord Brahma, from a lotus flower coming out of his navel.

Show me what man can do that in this world.

Can sprout a navel from his navel, a lotus flower and give birth to a son without requiring the help of what?

So that's a pretty unique position of Lord Vishnu.

So he doesn't require Lakshmi, this is the point that Prithvamala is making.

So if she becomes angry and goes away, so what?

So The point is we should simply be determined to serve Krishna no matter what may happen.

My family members get angry, they may not like it that I am becoming Krishna conscious.

I had that experience in my own devotional life.

I was singing with a tapa beater on my neck.

At that time I had a gig as a singer at a vegetarian restaurant here in Austin.

I would sing and entertain all the customers.

But then when I had the gig, The head of the restaurant told me that you can't sing songs about Krishna at the restaurant.

By showing that I was interested in Krishna Consciousness, I got rejected.

You are now kicked out of your gig as a singer of the sattva restaurant because you are interested in Krishna consciousness.

The sattva restaurant which is mode of goodness, but I was rejected because of Krishna consciousness.

was not really sattva, it was more like tamo-guna.

So the point is we should be very determined, I must become Krishna conscious no matter what they may think, no matter what may happen.

Simply determine I must be Krishna conscious.

No matter what may happen, I am determined I must surrender to Krishna.

We have a determination and Krishna will bless us.

It is much like surrendering to me and reward them accordingly.

Any hesitance I have to surrender, kick it out with booze.

Only 1 thing is welcome in my heart and that is absolute total determination that I must now be totally submitted to Krishna.

There are so many obstacles we may face in the mind, in the body, in so many ways, things that interfere with devotional service.

But we don't care, we can all be kicked out.

By our determination Krishna will bless us.

Krishna is there waiting, actually Krishna is waiting and watching for millions and millions of births, he is waiting and watching, when will this soul come back to me?

So we actually say, OK, Krishna, I am ready to come back.

Krishna is so pleased to give us all facilities.

So don't think there is some impediment that is going to stand in the way of your devotional service.

All those impediments are simply the illusory energy of the Lord.

The Lord's inferior energy, his superior energy is more powerful than his inferior energy.

All impediments will be kicked away when you become very, very determined that now I have 1 business only and that is to be totally sold out, pure devotee of Lord Sri Krishna with my every thought and heart indeed in all times, places and circumstances, I have no business now, from now on for all of eternity, except to be totally sold out servant of Krishna.

By that determination he will allow us to come back into his personal association.

Can you imagine being 1 of the intimate associates of the Lord in his trident of Elisa?

You can be 1 of the intimate associates of the Lord and his friends of the pastime.

In that world where there is no birth, no death, no age, no disease and no IRS.

That's the attack service here in the United States.

So why do we cheat ourselves by saying, hang on to this, I am this body, I have to gratify myself.

Why are we so damn stupid, we hold on to this thing, I

gotta gratify this body, I gotta gratify this body, I

have to gratify the tongue, the belly, the genitals.

Why do I have to hold on to this foolishness?

So yeah, we keep on doing it again and again and again.

I've been gazing, eating, sleeping, mating, and spending for millions of lifetimes, and it keeps me caught up in the cycle of birth and again.

Again I want to Pranapana Sarvata Charvanaam.

They don't realize What is the Sanskrit word for meat?

You know what the Sanskrit word for meat is?

Now it is me killing him and it will be he killing me.

So every time they go to McDonald's hamburgers and they eat 1 of those hamburgers, they're eating a cow that they paid McDonald's to kill that cow for them.

McDonald's paid the slaughterhouse, but actually they're paying for that cow to be killed.

So every time they eat cow, that cow is going to kill them and eat them or pay someone to kill them.

We need to educate these people What is the actual meaning of flesh or meat?

It means you are going to be eaten by that very animal that you were eating.

So this is the mission of our Krishna consciousness movement, to enlighten these fools and rascals how to give up this stupid, asinine activity of eating meat.

We must convince them, especially the cow, which is the most dear animal to Krishna.

Govinda, he who gives pleasure to the cows.

The cow is very good, Gopala, the cow is very good.

and rascals There he'd been, Gopal, the coward boy.

We didn't educate these fools in math because how to stop these heinous activities.

They wonder why there's so many mass shootings going on in this country.

How many mass shootings this year so far?

142 mass shootings in this country this year.

We're only talking about January, February, March.

A little over 90, there's been more than 1 every day.

Yesterday some employee was very angry, he got fired from his job, he went to his place of employment and started shooting people.

He killed 5 people in his workplace at work because he didn't like getting fired.

They're engaging in all these activities of killing, killing, killing and now they must be killed in the reaction.

They're getting the karmic reaction of all this killing.

So we really have to save these people from this hellish nightmare they are creating on this planet.

We have to save these poor fools and rascals.

What Bhabha said, become guru and deliver the world.

Bhabha gave us a duty to become gurus, teachers, pure teachers of the science and enlighten these people, to save them.

So somehow or other we flood this world with prophets books, flood this world with the holy names, flood this world with the shalom, enlighten all these fools and peep fools and rascals who they really are.

You're not that body sir, you're not that material body.

are not Indians or Americans or Lithuanians.

The constitutional position of the living entity is the eternal servant of Krishna.

Yesterday I was asked, are you an Indian?

I was being interviewed for a podcast that's coming up next month.

Some fellow from India, Rohit Arora, He said, are you an Indian?

I said, no, I'm a citizen of the spiritual world.

We're all actually citizens of the spiritual world.

We have a passport in the spiritual world.

That should be our actual passport showing our nationality.

So it's time to get intelligent, time to get sober, time to get serious, give up our foolishness, running, running, running, running, like dogs, running after the sea dogs, you know, you got to give up the stupidity, you know, give up the stupidity and become actually intelligent.

We talk about protecting the cows, but these people, those are the killer and the cows are coming, the people are coming back as cows and they are

Well the point is we want to stop the cycle.

We would like to take the milk of these cows and offer to Krishna.

That gave them devotional service and purified them of the sinful reactions that got them in a cow's body.

So our solution is to offer all their milk in the service of the Lord.

All these cows are going to be milked so their milk should be offered to the Lord.

Well, they're having sex with the sheep cows and producing the cows.

That cow gave them milk, so that way the bull also engaged in the virginal service indirectly.

He gave birth to a cow, who's giving the milk.

So he gets the benefit of impregnating the cow and giving her a cat.

See if there are any questions coming in here.

Another question, I was thinking, what Prithu Maharaj is saying that Lakshmi Devi will be, that wouldn't the devotee be pleased to see another devotee serving the Lord.

But Papa said there is also competition in the spiritual world.

Even Papa talked about Transcendental Competition.

That was a big transcendental competition in the old days.

The monthly BBT report would be a big thing.

Where is our temple in the top 10 or not?

When Baba was here, which temple is number 1 this month?

There is Transcendental Envy and Mundane Envy, the difference.

Transcendental Envy, this person has served better than me, so let me try harder so I can also do nice service.

can you do so they don't distribute so many books?

What can we do, What can we do so they don't

What can we do so they can't distribute more books than we can?

Transcendental envy is to see they've served nicely, let me also do nicely.

It's not putting them down, it's appreciating them, that's threatening them.

Okay, but that time is a blank check given.

The chapel said, okay, they turned the check in the BBC, whoever gets the biggest remand put my check for more.

Why do we have to save those meat eaters who subtly eat

Gandharvika, Our mission is to save everyone.

Our mission is that the prophet says that living in the world means that everybody wants to save everyone.

Even though they deserve to suffer because of their karma, still we want to bring them out of their karma and deliver them back to go home, back to Godhead.

If someone is asking donation for cow protection,

If you want to support cow protection, donate to the devotees who are doing cow protection.

Mundane cow protection, they don't offer the milk, they just use it for sense enjoyment.

So just like we have many devotees doing cow protection, You can donate to them.

My disciples in Bulgaria are doing it, so you can donate to their project.

It is natural to be disturbed when the mind, senses or external things put obstacles in our Krishna consciousness.

Well I remember that nice quote from Prabhupada in the Sri Yajur Panisad.

I may not give the exact, but Prabhupada said, 1 should not be happy or disturbed over desirable or undesirable circumstances, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

Very powerful quote from the Sri Yudhsopanishad Purport.

This may be the exact wording or may not be, but the point is the same.

1 should not be happy or disturbed over desirable or undesirable situations, nor have such feelings as is created by the mind.

So we become disturbed, it means we are misidentifying with the mind.

1 is detached from his mind realizing I am an eternal spirit of being, qualitatively 1 of the Lord and everything that is happening is only by Christian's arraignment to bring me back to his lotus feet as soon as possible.

It's easy to say that, but it's not so easy to do it.

We all have the problem, we can say it, but How many of us can actually do it?

It's difficult for us to do that, naturally.

It's difficult to not be disturbed or elated by the so-called ups and downs of this material world.

It's easy to say, but not so difficult to do.

Well, we have to chant our rounds, follow the principles, speak the Bhagavatam, hear the Bhagavatam, worship the deities, wash the dishes nicely, apply the process very nicely, clean everything very nicely, clean our hearts very nicely, this whole process will gradually, gradually bring us to that stage where we are no longer disturbed or elated by the favorable or unfavorable situations in the material world.

Gandharika Devi, authority of the Templar enviates or Bhamajaris seeing and looking to Krishna and Silabhaba lovingly then drop them out.

So if the authorities are doing something wrong, then they should be corrected by the GBC.

Sharda Devadasi, the development of consciousness depends on one's activities or the mentality.

I happen to know some GBCs, very, very nice devotees who have blessed me very much with their divine sangha.

They've blessed me with their divine sangha.

The development of consciousness depends on one's activities or the mentality.

The mentality in which you hear, the mentality in which you speak, the mentality in which you do service.

If a person is engaging in cow protection out of emotional attraction, do they gradually advance?

If they are offering the milk of Krishna to the cows, they are definitely making advancement.

If they are drinking the milk to send God a vacation, they are making some progress, at least they are coming in the mode of goodness, but they are not pure.

They are drinking the milk, not offering to Krishna.

Will they gradually develop a devotional attitude?

There's actually some non-devotees in Australia who have milk where the cows don't get killed.

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