Kadachit Atmananasah Brahma Lokan Mahim Gatham.

Vabhrebrahadvrata Mantu Jnati Kamamohita.

Gatham Vabhre brahad vratam maṅg tu janati kamamohita kadachit Once upon a time a dhamana traveling, sa she brahmalokkha from brahmaloka the highest planet Brahmaloka, the highest planet, Mahim on the earth, Gatham having come, Vabhre, she proposed, Prihatvratam, Avowed Brahmachari, Mom unto me, to then Jnani, knowing Kamamohita being illusioned by lust.

When I came once to this earth planet from Brahmaloka, the highest planetary system, the daughter of time wandering over the universe, met me.

Knowing me to be an avowed brahmachari, she became lusty and proposed that I accept her.

The great sage Narada Muni was a brahminish tikka brahmachari, that is he never had sex life.

The indolidity of old age can overcome an ordinary man, but Narnamuni was different.

Taking Narnamuni to be an ordinary man, the daughter of time confronted him with her lusty desire.

It requires great strength to risk a woman's attraction.

It is difficult for old men what to speak of young.

Those who live as brahmacharis must follow the footsteps of the great sage Narayana, who never accepted the proposals of Jira.

Those who are too much sexually addicted become vixen of Jara and very soon their lifespan is shortened.

Without utilizing the human form of life for Krishna consciousness, the vixen of Jara die very soon in this world.

So in this material world, sex is number 1.

Every advertisement they use, women, very lusty looking women to promote their products.

It's a very much sexually orientated world.

These fools and rascals don't realize the more you engage in sex, either illicit or illicit, in either case, sexual intercourse diminishes.

The more you have sexual intercourse, it decreases the duration of life.

Every time 1 has sex, they're shortening their life span, Because it has a very, very delimiting effect on one's longevity.

That's why the more you can remain brahmachari, it extends your lifespan more and more and gives you more intelligence, more lustre, more good health, etc., etc., etc.

That's why in the Vedic culture it's recommended to be Brahmachari, to completely give up sex life.

But if 1 cannot give it up altogether, he can get married and have regulated sex life.

This idea that when in marriage, even in ISKCON, this idea of the broader definition of all this is sex.

You can have sex as much as you want in married life as long as you don't kill the baby, it's okay.

But they don't realize the more they're having sex, they're subdecking themselves, they're opening themselves up to so many bodily difficulties in old age and shortening their lifespan.

So the point is, how can you give this desire?

It requires great strength to resist a woman's attraction.

So women now are going around, especially the non-devoting women, and they're dressing in such a way to make themselves attractive for sex.

Everything is, the whole thing, their makeup, their clothes, everything, the way they deal with you, everything.

They're trying to attract, they're trying to stimulate the lusty desires in men.

So especially now in the Kali Yuga, practically every woman is like a prostitute.

So it's very, very difficult to remain brahmachari in this age.

How do you not fall victim to the attraction of women?

Well the point is that we've many times explained, vishaya vini-vartante, niraha rashi deyina, rashi vasham vishopya-sva, pranatam vini-vartante.

The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste of sense object remains.

With ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he sticks to consciousness." So it all boils down to higher taste.

Well that's the whole process of Krishna consciousness, how to get the higher taste.

The whole process that Prabhupada has given us is to get the higher taste.

Otherwise, how do you attract all these sex monger, drug addicted hippies?

So how did he convince these drug addicted sex monger hippies to become brahmacharis?

Actually, we always really crave his love.

That's the popular thing in the hippie movement, making love.

Let's make love is a very popular statement among the hippies.

But real love actually is not bodily sense gratification.

Real love is not titillating the jingles.

Real love is actually from the heart, not from the senses.

It's the loving feeling of a living being for another living being.

And love does not mean enjoying your body.

So Hariprabhav convinced these drug addicted, sex crazy hippies because he gave us love.

We never tasted love anywhere before in our whole life.

We never experienced love in our whole lives.

The whole materialist civilization is based on love, anger and greed.

Even from our parents, we didn't really get love in the highest and purest sense of the term.

Because nobody knows how to love in this world.

Everyone is self-centered trying to take, take, take, take, take as much as they possibly can.

Some are doing it in a more pious way, some are doing it in a Rajasic way, some are doing it in a Tamasic way.

But basically everybody here is self-centered trying to take, take, take, take, take, take, take, take, and give, give, give, but it's that never heard of it.

So the first time in our lives we met somebody who was actually giving himself to us fully and purely with no strings attached.

If there's a string attached, I'm giving to you, but there's a string attached about I'll give you this if you give me this in return.

You see, that is not love, that is business.

So what they call love in the material world is not exactly a business deal.

The selfless love means I give, give, give and no thought of return.

I want to give, I want to give, I want to give.

So many difficulties with his bodily health, 2 heart attacks, no money, but he just came to give himself, to give his love to us.

And that love actually had a very powerful impact on thousands and thousands of youth.

Even some of the older people would join, like Shravavati.

She was a 50-year-old woman, but she also was attracted to the loving mercy of Prabhupada.

She became the original head bhajari in our movement.

She became very authoritative head bhajari.

50-year-old, can you imagine a 50-year-old woman joining with all these 20-year-olds?

She felt right at home with all the 20 year olds even though she was a 50 year old.

Because Baba created this atmosphere of pure giving.

So then how do we, we have to learn, if we want to actually awaken our Dharma and Krishna consciousness, we have to also learn how to give in this mood of giving without any strings attached, without any conditions.

Love with conditions means lust, actually.

So unconditional love means I give, I give, I give without any thought of return.

Not that I have to have this in return or that in return, no.

So the amazing thing about this unconditional love is you can actually conquer God just like Mother just saw them.

She's telling Krishna, you carry those slippers to Nandamara.

That's the kind of consciousness 1 can achieve, the kind of relationship 1 can achieve by selfless giving.

Where God Himself will be under your direction.

He became the cherry driver of Arjuna, the slippery carrier for Nandamana.

In so many other ways, Krishna was serving the cows, the calves, the gopis, the queens in Dwaraka.

In so many ways, Krishna became the servant for those who had fully given themselves to him without any conditions.

Some, my dear listeners, what we have to do is learn how to enter into this mood of unconditional love.

Sometimes, as I pointed and saw it the other day, somebody went and asked, what can I do to help myself materially?

How can I chant the way to get material benefits?

If you're trying to get something back in return for your chanting, your so-called devotion, that's not good devotion.

And a business deal will not get you out of the quagmire material existence.

It will keep you caught up in the threefold misery and the fourfold misery.

Fourfold, birth, death, old age, and disease.

Janma mriti yajravali, birth, death, old age, and disease.

The threefold, adhyagmik, adhyabotik, adhyadivik.

Misery is caused by living beings and misery is caused by natural disturbances like drought or hurricanes or forest fires.

So we can always be caught up in these fourfold and threefold miseries as long as we have love, lust basically.

You may call it love, but it's just lust.

As long as we have this condition, I only give if I get this back.

We're so conditioned to want something back for our so-called love, it's very difficult to break out of this quagmire.

It's like we're entangled in this net of conditional dealings.

That's how I will actually be able to take the sweet, sweet nectar of Krishna Bhakti.

As I explained yesterday in the home program, like getting on an elevator, it keeps going up, up, up, up, up, up, up, ad infinitum.

The difficulty is, you may go up for a while but then we slip back into the conditional mentality.

So we're on the elevator of Krishna Bhakti, but if we get back into this conditional mentality, we go down again.

So don't disservice to yourself by starting to put conditions on your service.

I've seen so many devotees who left our movement.

So many God brothers they left because they were put in conditions.

well I didn't like this, I didn't like that, so I'm leaving.

1 has to remember it's not what you like or dislike that counts.

What is the order of the spiritual mansion?

It's not that I was displeased by this or was displeased by that so I'm leaving this guy.

I was displeased by this or displeased by that so I'm leaving.

But it's not for your pleasure, my dear devotees.

As long as you're still here, you're still the center of enjoyment.

We still think ourselves to be the center of enjoyment.

So we understand that Krishna is the center of enjoyment and he is represented by the pure devotee, the spiritual master.

I have to do everything for his satisfaction of Guru and Krishna.

No, Papa said, stay in this camp, stick to this movement.

So why they leave, it means they're disobeying the orders of the spiritual management because they didn't like what was happening in Iskand.

If you don't like what's happening in Iskand, then why don't you stick around and rectify it?

There are things that are definitely wrong things that happen here.

If your car becomes out of repair, do you trash it or do you get it repaired?

If your house is clean, you burn it down.

I mean, your house is dirty, You burn it down because it's dirty.

You move out of your house and live in the forest.

If your house is dirty, no, you clean your house.

So not to believe Iskahn because there's some things going wrong in Iskahn.

We stay in Iskahn and break together and rectify Iskahn because this movement is meant to lead the whole world out of chaos.

So we all leave this movement to go off being our own little penitent devotees thinking, I know better than the leaders.

They were actually destroying the movement.

So let's not do a disservice to Prabhupada.

Let us please our beloved Tantra Acharya by breaking together to make ISKCON everything that he wanted to be.

An organization of pure devotees who are dedicated to serving Krishna with love and dedicated to serving Lord Caitanya's order to live in the world.

So, if there's any questions I can, Jermano, you want to add some points?

So if there's any questions so far we can try to answer them.

We're looking at the purport, grab some more points from the purple to discuss.

The invalidity of old age can overcome any man.

An old man may lose his sense of balance, he may lose his eye, he may become blurry, hearing may go down, so many things, to materially overcome an old man.

But if he's Krishna conscious, he's not really an old man.

When you're Krishna conscious, the body may be going through validity, but the consciousness becoming more and more fresh.

So when you actually awaken your Krishna consciousness, Even there was a popular song, I was so much older than, I'm younger than that today.

Oh, I was so much older than, I'm younger than that now.

So when you actually awaken your Krishna consciousness, even when your body is getting older, within your heart you are becoming younger and younger and younger and younger.

So who would refuse to become younger and younger every day instead of older and older?

Only those who don't understand the science.

This is why the books are here, to educate the whole world on this science.

This movement can capture the whole world once they understand what it's actually offering them.

They're going to the psychiatrist, they're taking so many things, they're getting drunk, so many things.

They're in anxiety, they're trying to blot away their anxiety in so many ways, but all their attempts to become free of anxiety are simply putting them into more and more anxiety.

So here we have the true form, the completely crushed anxiety, defeated, totally defeated.

Lord Nirananda, if we beg for his mercy, he'll completely wipe out all anxieties.

It's like we sing, ha prabhu nithyananda, premananda suki, kripa balokanna koro, ame badoduki.

My dear Lord Nityananda, I see that you are always full of bliss.

You are called Nityananda, eternal bliss.

But I am the most miserable and happy person, I do, Lord.

So please cast your glance of mercy upon me so I can become like you, always blissful.

If you're ever down, you're ever depressed, and you feel miserable, just chant Lord Nithyananda.

Jai Shri Krishna Chaitanya Prabhu Nithyananda Shri Advaita Garada Shri Vasudev Bhoobhaktabhrinda.

So you're calling out the mercy of Lord Caitanya, Lord Nityananda, Advaita Acharya in this way.

So just by chanting Pancchittaka mantra you can become liberated from all anxieties.

But you say, well, I'm chanting, but I'm so miserable.

Like a helpless child crying out for the mother.

See, The difficulty is that they got a big shot.

I don't need any help because I've got it together.

Because actually, unless you feel helpless, unless you can cry out helpless like a child devastated and the wilderness crying for the mother to come back.

Then anxiety will never touch our hearts.

Anxiety will help us become more liberated.

That's why Kunti was praying for anxiety.

But she was begging for anxiety through difficulties.

So who can imagine such a process where even anxiety, as I pointed out in thought for the day, failure, failure, failure, steps on the wrong and the latter is exist.

So therefore devotees never doubt about anything.

This is my stepping stone to go over to Rindavan.

For a devotee, everything is a stepping stone.

So a devotee can totally conquer over depression and misery and anxiety and find taste and nectar of Krishna consciousness at every step, no matter what's happening.

The good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly, pain and pleasure, happiness and distress, honor and dishonor, wealth and poverty, youth or old age, the devotee can find taste to supply inconceivably sweet nectar of Krishna Bhakti in every situation.

So Let us become serious now to become pure devotees of Krishna.

I have 1 business and 1 business only and that is to become pure devotees of Krishna and to liberate the fallen souls of this world back to home, back to Godhead.

I focus on this two-fold mission by hearing this singha, his reign, this singha.

The singha ties my, revolutionizes my consciousness within and revolutionize the world around me.

We have this 1, this 1 two-fold business.

By hearing this singa, Hrini rei nis singa.

You want to purify others, you want to preach others and attract them to pure bhakti, you have to be purifying pure bhakti yourself.

How can I convince you to become a devotee if I'm not really a devotee myself?

Tealock on the nose, Cunty on the neck, they're keeping so many women behind for illicit sex.

If I'm in such a cheater devotee, how can I make anybody a devotee?

I'm not even a devotee myself, I'm cheating.

But I'm actually purely following this process without cheating, keeping it pure.

No illicit sex, no meeting, no intoxication, no gambling.

I'm purely following this process without any deviations, then Krishna will empower me to attract the other people.

It's amazing when we take up this mood of purely following it and preaching, it's amazing all the things that can happen to us.

Your life becomes like a simply wonderful suite.

If you purely practice these principles, chant Hare Krishna with as much sincerity as you possibly can and then try to share it with all the people around you.

Try to find ways to push forward this movement, to book distribution, Arunachalya, and cultivation, Vishananda distribution, etc.

Sometimes devotees talk about this, but they don't practice.

So we may talk very big, but If we don't practice it, then it's just what they call hot air.

If I'm talking big, big, big here, and not really practice what I'm saying, then I'm what they call a hypocrite.

If I talk big, big philosophy, but it's actually, it's jn, but no big jn.

Krishna jn is meaning jn and big jn both.

Theoretical knowledge and practical application.

If I give all kinds of fancy theoretical knowledge that I don't practice it, then my preaching is useless.

But if I actually sincerely practice these things in all times, places and circumstances, and then I preach, then we'll be great in presidency.

So we must not cheat ourselves by being show-bottled devotees, simply talk, talk, talk, and not really manifested in our activities, in our words, our speech, our mentalities.

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