So, let's see, what is the verse number today?

Alright, let's go to BetaBase 4, 25, 17, 4, 25, 18, 4, 25, 17, 4, 21, 17.

425, 17 425, 17 Okay, so the interruption of the technical difficulties and bad internet connection here.

I'll get off, put it on the proper mode, lecture mode.

There's no volume on the...I wish I could hear what's going on.

Nathad vihan gali kula Kala hala jalashya ye Korya stu bhyapa vanay Divya dhru malatak kule Nathad vihan gali kula Kala hala jalashya ye Qura'ah ala jalashai Quri'atubah yo fawwani Dib'yatrum ala ta'qulay Anad bi hangali qula'an Qura'ah ala jalashai Now let's go to the internet.

Purihaastu bahayo bhavane, devyadruma nankas natakule, nadad vihanga leikula, kula hula jadashay, kula vajjajay.

I'll see if we can do the internet people.

Puriya of that town, Koo, then, Bhaya Upavane, in an outside garden, Divya, very nice, Dhruma, Then by a above a name in an outside garden Very nice Droom up tree Let's have creepers Kool-aid filled with Vibrating the hunger Ali be be filled with nadat, vibrating, vihanga, birds, ali, bees, kula, groups of kalahala, coming, Jalashaya.

On the outskirts of that city were many beautiful trees and creepers extolling a nice lake.

Also surrounding that lake were many groups of birds and bees that were always chanting and humming.

Since the body is a great city, there must be various arrangements such as lakes and gardens to sense enjoyment.

The various parts of the body, those which incite sexual impulses, are referred to here indirectly.

Because the body has genitals, then the living entity attains the right age.

Be he man or woman, he becomes agitated by the sex impulse.

As long as 1 remains a child, he is not agitated by seeing a beautiful woman.

Although the sense organs are there, unless the age is right, there is no sex impulse.

The favorable conditions surrounding the sex impulse are compared to a park or a nice solitary garden, to a garden or a nice solitary park.

When 1 sees the opposite sex, naturally the sex impulse increases.

It is said that if a man in a solitary place does not become agitated when seeing a woman, he is considered a brahmachari.

The sex impulse is so strong that even by seeing, touching, talking about, coming and touching, even thinking of the opposite sex, in so many subtle ways 1 becomes sexually impelled.

Constantly a Brahmin shari or sannyasi is prohibited to associate with women, especially in a secret place.

The shasas enjoin that 1 should not even talk to a woman and seek a place even if she happens to be one's daughter, sister or mother.

The sex impulse is so strong that even if 1 is very learned, he becomes sexually agitated in such circumstances.

If this is the case, how can a young man in a nice park remain calm and quiet upon seeing a beautiful young woman?

Vande hama shree guru shree tatapata kamalam shree gurun vaisnavamscha shree vrupam sagraja So, who were the first people who became Baba's disciples?

So how did they give up this sex impulse and become brahmacharis, brahmacharini's, controlled house orders, how do they do that?

Vishaya vini varatante niraha rashi dayina rasha vasam rishopya shvapra, ram vishanivartate The embodied soul may be restricted in sense and enjoyment, so there's taste that sense the object remains, but, see, things like engagement, my experience on higher taste, is fixed in consciousness." So the point is chanting Hare Krishna is better than sex.

Sex is only for a few seconds only intense pleasure and then finished.

But Hare Krishna you can go on 24 hours a day and those who have attained the plethora of Ruchi, they can chant 24 hours a day in ever increasing ecstasy like Hari Dasa Dakur.

Dabhata explains that, I don't know if it's true nowadays, back during Prabhupada's time in the 70s, there were people in Vrindavan chanting 120 rounds every day.

So those who don't have that taste, they become slaves of their senses.

Just like, for example, Biblumunga of Takur.

It was very lightning and very heavy and I couldn't go out at such a night.

But his girlfriend was at this side of the river and he was hankering for some sex enjoyment.

He went under the storm and the river was flooding.

He grabbed a hold of a corpse, if you can imagine, to get across the river.

She couldn't hear the knocking because of the thunder.

He grabbed a snake to get up the wall and he finally got in there and she said, oh, Bivalmangala, she said.

Oh, if you only had so much attraction to Krishna, your life would be perfect.

She's very enlightened, even though she was his girlfriend, they were having sex enjoyment, still she had some Krishna consciousness.

What we call girlfriend in modern day is actually called prostitutes in Vedic culture.

Girlfriend and prostitute are 2 different things.

Yeah, that's also another way of looking at it too.

She said, oh, Bivalmunga, if you only had so much attraction to Krishna in your life, you'd go probably, oh, wow.

You realize, oh, here I'm running after sex pleasure, but she's right.

I shouldn't run after the body of a woman like this with sex enjoyment.

It's a long walk in those days, all the way to Vrindavan.

And the husband said, all right, you're a high level Brahmin.

Yes, you can enjoy with my wife." He said, so he went to enjoy with his wife and he realized, oh what am I doing again?

I was giving up this sex enjoyment going for Krishna Bhakti.

He said, Maharaj, please give me a hairpin.

And He took complete shelter of Krishna and Adabhan and Krishna was personally coming to him, as you can imagine.

So this sex pleasure is a very, very dangerous thing.

The whole material world is running in the sex literature.

I many times gave the example when I was a kid.

There was a toothpaste called ultra-bite toothpaste.

New ultra-bite toothpaste gives you a mouth sex appeal.

We kids growing up thinking, oh, we don't even take puberty yet.

We're laying almost sex appeal on some wonderful thing.

We're being taught that the average man that sex appeals is something wonderful.

Yeah, you've got to use the ultra-butt so the girls don't want to kiss me, right?

And then we see the other example of given time given that he became a great Vaishnava Charya, actually.

He was previously a king, and kings had full facility.

There were so many girls in the palace and they were all maidens of the queen.

He was having so much sex pleasure, girl after girl after girl.

That had become a great Vaishnava Acharya action.

Suddenly he remembered his mind had flashed back to those days in the town, having sex with old girls, and he would go, he would say, Yadavati mamachetakrishnipadaravinday, nirvanavaratham yatharam tamasitatavati matyadavati matyachari, sangham ismaryamani, bhavati mukhudnishti manamcha.

Ever since I engaged in the trend of loving service of Shri Sivarada and Krishna tasting never never ever increasing ecstasy in that service.

Remember those days in the palace with all those girls and my lips covered with this taste and I spit in the sauce.

So we devotees who come from that background of sex enjoyment, like the hippie background.

We have to become spitters, good spitters.

And even nowadays we see it's happening in modern day Indian culture too.

Like some girl wants to get married, she's saying this is a good guy and he wants to have sex with him.

I go ahead and have sex with him, he says I want to marry me and he just uses her and goes away.

The boys are using the girls for sex pleasure and like 1 night stand they go to dump her, have sex and dump her, finished.

So in India it's also going on, and I get these emails, you see when I'm getting something, it's really heavy.

India also is happening now, this kind of playboy mentality they call it.

So it's a very bad thing, this whole thing of serving the genitals.

Vatsa vegam manasa krodh vegam jiva vegam mudro bhakti vegam, itan batan yo visaheta dira sravam vipimam tishim jishya.

When we conquer the mind, the words, the anger, the tongue, belly, and the genitals.

He can make the whole world His disciples.

So it's a very powerful thing if you can bring your generals under control.

You can actually advance in this pathway.

There's a very, very important pathway that the Acharyas have given us.

Very important steps that thou shudhas, that thar sadhusangas, very important progress we're going through.

First thing is you have some interest in Self-realization.

First of all, you come inclined towards Self-realization.

That's called Shraddha, some preliminary inclination towards Self-realization.

Then you hang out with those who are in that mood.

That's called sadhusamgama, looking for the devotees, like an associate.

And then by that association, oh, they get initiated.

They make a formal relationship with the spiritual master.

They take a vow to get out of this entanglement and they take shelter of the spiritual master.

Vajanakriya, they take the activities of Vajana.

Anakta Navritti, all those lusty, angry, greedy, all those material desires that were polluting their hearts, they started to go away.

They started to drop off, they started to go away, they go away, they go away.

And then finally, all that dirt finishes off, nishta, they become very steady.

Like a rock, like a rock of Gibraltar they call it.

And then they enter the most, they become very, very advanced in Shiva.

Rupasi means you can chant Hare Krishna mantra 24 hours a day, never get tired.

Go on chanting, chanting, chanting, chanting, chanting, chanting.

24 is a very high level that we can shoot for.

Ruchi level, you can chant Hare Krishna with unlimited x-t, 24 hours a day.

That's called Bhadibhakti after that point.

After Ruchi, you achieve what's called the Bhagyanuga platform.

It can be Asati, Asakhi, Where you actually realize what is your transcendental identity in the spiritual world.

They go, oh yeah, I know I'm a gopī or I'm a gopa.

There's already enough monkeys jumping in Vrindavan, jumping over the branches.

So don't be some cheap so-called realizer of your rusa.

You have to go to Ruchi first, where you can chant twenty-four hours a day in ever-increasing ecstasy.

You actually know who you are and then you see that Bhakti now is going and then you go to Baba and pray with him.

So Papad explains a very nice lecture I heard this morning.

He gave a nectar devotion lecture here in Vraj and Vidavan.

He was saying how it's actually there within us.

It's interesting, it's kind of indirectly connected with this lecture.

He said that when you're a small child, you have no sex impulse.

When you come to attain puberty, then sex impulse is there.

So in the same way that sex desire awakens, interesting analogy here, in the same way that sex desire awakens, your natural identity in the spiritual world also awakens at some point.

You actually realize, you actually feel, you enter into it.

It just comes automatically at a certain stage.

So actually, you're realizing your, at Sarubh Siddhi, you're actually realizing your identity in the spiritual world.

It actually comes naturally to a certain point of purification.

And Then Prabhupada also explained in the same lecture that 1 should not be in a rush.

I've been chanting 16 rounds for 2 years but I haven't realized my sarup.

I got initiated and following the rules and regulations and not following them.

So as long as are committing the offenses, you see.

Offenses make fences that prevent you from realizing Krishna.

So the Anartha Naviti says you're free from the offenses, no more offenses.

But the fact is, for us Neophytes, we're still committing so many offenses, and we haven't even cleared an act of the vitiya, but to speak of nish daruchi, or asati.

So we shouldn't think, yes, I'm a Raghunuga Bhakti.

Yes, I go to Vraj and I feel like I'm a gopī.

This is called sahajiya, when he takes the prasas very cheaply.

So anyway, of course the Goswamis were in that mood.

And actually Lord Chaitanya himself is in the mood of the gopis, the mood of Radharani.

So we were following their footsteps and that day We actually realized we were in Krishna's lila, in Vrindavan actually, because we're following Lord Caitanya.

Now that we're going to the Vaikuntha Loka, we're actually heading to Krishna Loka.

Everyone who's following Lord Caitanya, they're going to Krishna Loka.

That's our destination, because that's Lord Chittanya's mood.

So we're actually going to Raj in due course of time by following Lord Chittanya Mahaprabhu.

But we shouldn't try to jump artificially.

We do so, we'll stay in material existence, But we follow very carefully and sincerely the orders of the spiritual master, trying to avoid all the offenses, who will come to an Arahantamitri eventually, and then to Nishta and Mucchi, Asati, Baba and Prem and Dukkhus.

This Narad Muni is explaining so much about bodies.

Although the body is not important, why is is going around to Ranjana so much.

So many verses, what are they not in the body?

Well, the thing is, we are so much in the bodily platform that if we hear some detailed explanations of the body, it can help us to get free from the body you see what I'm saying?

If we all understand the details like Prabhak gives so many details also about the body.

We call this you're talking about the city of 9 gates for example.

If we understand the body from the Vedic perspective, it can help us to get detached from it, and that's fine.

If we understand the city of 9 gates, these things are there to help us understand the body better than the doctors and the scientists can tell us.

The Vedas give us better knowledge of the body than these vascular scientists do.

So to have some knowledge of the body from the Vedic perspective can help us to get free from the body.

Rupji state is where 1 gets the higher taste.

So it is also said that 1 cannot give a fuller taste unless 1 gets the higher taste.

Actually, we get a higher taste even in the beginning.

Even just like somebody may be addicted to Arakham Role music, for example, but they find more pleasure in the Kirtan, Arakham Role music.

So the rishi, We get a little, we get a little, we get a higher, we start getting a higher taste in the beginning.

Why, why, why does somebody give up elicit sex, meeting, intoxicant, gambling?

So we, the higher taste begins and starts in the very beginning, actually.

But it grows and grows and grows and becomes a root-sheet.

In any case, it goes even sweeter after that.

So we have a higher taste in the very beginning.

Isn't it 1 has to be getting off the anartar and ready to get the root-sheet?

You can't get, You get some taste, but you don't get the rooty level of taste.

Rooty is when you have complete, 100% taste and there's no taste at all from the chiosense gratification.

In the beginning, though, we find that we get some special flavor.

It's like the hippies, they were into illicit sex and LSD and marijuana, so they gave it up because they thought this is better.

They got some higher taste from Krishna Kalyanism, better than their illicit sex and their marijuana.

But when that taste becomes absolutely 100%, that's a ruchi state.

Yes, in an atanamrithi it has to be there.

An atanamrithi, you have to, actually in ruchi there's 2 levels beyond an atanamrithi.

There's an atanamrithi and Nishta, when you're actually steady, there's no wavering.

No, Nishta, Nishta, absolutely totally fixed, but no deviation.

Here we have something coming in, rolling in from the Sri Internet.

Why is he committing offenses even though I don't want to commit them?

We have materialistic habits going back from millions of lifetimes.

We have habituated to sense gratification.

That's why we have to break the habits by creating new habits.

We have to make a habit of getting up from maha varty every day, chanting rounds every day, hearing scripture every day.

We have to create new habits to make our old habits.

You do the habits, create bad habits in the past.

So the way to overcome it is you increase your new habits.

If you can read 1 chapter every day, you can borrow about books.

Get new habits, spiritual transcendental habits, and the bad habits will just fade away.

Yes, like, this is what I'm going to talk about.

gave up his bad habits of going to prostitutes.

That's right, he gave up his relationship with Shintamani.

He took her as a Sikh Shikur also, in a different way.

He actually worshipped her with his heart, but not as a sex partner, but as someone who actually sent him on the right path.

Get out of here, get out of my brain, you damn thought.

Get out of here, don't you ever dare come back again.

He was very heavy with those thoughts, like smashed them.

But material was time right now, as we see the example of hippies who gave up.

In fact, I got a comment on LinkedIn from 1 of

That means they did not get the highest stage from this and just carried away.

They still remember like my old Goddard Palastra.

After 2 years he went away but he still remembers.

He asked me if I had any memories from the old days.

I got a message from him on LinkedIn and he wanted to know what memories I had.

He still had the feeling for it, although he lost it, but he didn't totally lose it.

He had the sentiment, he wants to, if I can remember some of the old days experiences from 50 years ago, he wants to hear my memories.

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