So today we're reading Srimad Bhagavatam with Canto Chapter 27, text number 26.

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Atah Vajashvamaam Bhadra Bhadatim Me Dayankuru Etavan Pahvishodharma Yudharatham Anukampate

me dayam kuru Eta vam pavrisho dharma Yadartam anu kampe te Atah bhajas samam badra Eta vam pavrisho dharma Eta

vam pavrisho dharma Atah bhajasvam an badhra Atatim me dayam kuru

Eitavan pa vishodharmo Gadartan anukan pate Guru Maharaj Ji, can you read us?

Therefore, bajasva, except mam, me, badra, oh gentleman, tattatim, willing to serve, May to me, Dayaam, Mercy, Kudu, Do, Etaavan, such a measure, Parvusha, for any gentleman, Dharma, the latest principle, yet that, Artaam, to to the distressed, Anukamkate is compassionate.

Translation and purport by the Divine Grace, Sri Lepervapada.

Kalakanya continued, oh, gentleman, I am now present before you to serve you.

It is a gentleman's greatest duty to be compassionate upon a person who is distressed.

Yavana Raj, the king of the Yavanas, could also refuse to accept Kalakanya, daughter of time, to be considered a request due to the order of Nardamuni.

Thus, he accepted Kalakanya in a different way.

In other words, the instruction of Nardamuni as a path of devotion and service can be accepted by anyone within the 3 worlds and certainly by the king of the Yavanas.

Lord Caitanya himself requested everyone to priest the cult of Bhakti Yoga all over the world in every town and village.

Preachers in the Krishna Ganges movement have actually experienced that even the Yavanas and Mletches have taken a spiritual life on the strength of Narmamuni's Pancharatrakavidhi.

When mankind follows the disciplic succession as recommended by Chaitanya Mahabhavu, Everyone throughout the world will benefit.

Vandehaam Sri Guru Sri Dattaam Shri Dattar, Vada Kamalam, Shri Guru Vaishnavam, Shri Vrupan, Sāgrajātā, sahagana-ragaṇāktāṁ vītāṁ,

Sadoytam Savadhootam Parijanasaytam Krishna Chaitanya Deva Sri Radha Sri Radha Krishna Padam Sahagana Lalita Sri Vishakamvitamcha

Om Vishnu Padaya, Krishna Prestaya, Bhutale, Namaste, Sarasvathay Devi, Gauravani Pracharinai, Nirvishesha Shunyavadi, Vashtyar Nidishatarinai.

So here, I should have followed what I was explaining.

When mankind follows the Siddhic Succession, as recommended by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, everyone throughout the world will benefit.

What does it mean to follow the Deceptive Succession, 1 could ask?

The spiritual master gives the instruction.

When the disciple follows it, that means he obeys the instruction that he's been given.

And the spiritual master is not some upstart inventing his own teachings, self-proclaimed guru.

1 does not become a guru by self-proclaiming I am a guru or I am God or this or that.

1 becomes a guru by following the Decyptic succession.

He is a representative of the Decyptic succession.

Similarly, like the post delivers man, he gives the letter which has been given in by the regional office, he delivers to the home.

So the spiritual master is the deliverer who doesn't open the envelope, he doesn't add something, he doesn't subtract anything, he keeps it exactly as it is.

So the follow the specific session means to follow the spiritual master who is coming in the line of that specific session.

Well, I caught up on this quagmire of birth after birth after birth.

And they're going through 8, 400, 000 different species.

We come to this human form suffering like anything.

It's like when somebody asks how you're doing, everyone says, fine, gotta keep up a good show, right?

I feel like hell but I say, fine, fine, fine.

So actually everyone is deluding themselves and thinking, I'm fine, I'm okay, you're okay, everybody's okay.

We're being dragged moment by moment to the clutches of death.

The Yamadudas are prepared to drag us into another body.

The Vishnududas are prepared to take us back to home, back to garden.

But how many people are ready for the Vishnu?

Manushanam sahasrechu kashchid yatati siddhaye yatatam mappi siddhah nam kashchid nam matipat fataha.

So 1000000 out of 7 billion, If 1 out of a million that means 700...

million, so a thousand million is 1000000000.

means maybe 7000 people are taking it really

You want to be in that number when the saints go marching in.

According to Bhagavad Gita, it's going to be 7, 000 taking it very seriously right now on this planet.

Mahajana, you have to get that stuff on top.

You have to verse the trail which has been blazed to the wilderness of this material existence.

For the great sages, the Mahajanas have blazed this path to the wilderness.

So you stick to that pathway of the Mahajanas and You're okay.

Say, well, it looks pretty good over there.

It's this very safe road given by the Mahajanas.

Repeat their teachings for the benefit of others, and be obedient, and then you're in very good shape.

You get out of this quagmire, back to home, back to Godhead, back to your original identity.

So you might wonder, well, what do you do in the spiritual world?

They're very curious, so well I do there.

But you know, saying curiosity kills the cat.

Instead of qualifying yourself, actually go there.

You don't want to qualify yourself for going there.

Like in a sneak preview of Gokul and Dharmam.

You're not going to qualify yourself for having to know what they do there.

Unless they know what they do there, I don't want to go there.

You have to trust the previous Acharya that that's your original home.

You don't need to know what's going on there.

All you need to know is that there are all kinds of loving exchanges between the Lord and His abilities.

Just understand you're a Christian's eternal servant.

You're actually home in the spiritual world.

Now qualify yourself and go there by taking a shot of the bona fide spiritual master.

The difficulty is we think we're big know-it-alls.

I've mentioned a few darshanas, a few satsangs.

Now, It's not so easy to become a self-realized soul.

1 has to actually become completely in control of the senses.

Vatsa vegam manasakradha vegam jivaagya vegam udharopasta vegam etan vegdon yoga shahe tattirasvam api man prati simchitisha 1 can conquer mind, words, anger, tongue, belly and the genders.

He can preach all over the world in great success.

So we have to become actual Goswamis, my dear listeners.

We have to come back into the control of these senses.

Right now we're being dragged by these senses, the eyes, the ears, the nose, the tongue, the belly, the genitals, the senses saying gratify me, gratify me, give me, give me, give me, give me.

The senses are very lefty, they are like give me this, give me that.

But you cannot be a servant of your senses, that's called go das.

You cannot be a servant of your senses and go back to gada because by serving your senses you are locked into false identification, misidentification with this rotting corpse.

So 1 must kick out this tendency to be an enjoyer of the senses, serve into the senses, and become a master of the senses.

Okay, my dear eyes, you're not supposed to look at pretty girls, my dear mind, or good looking guys.

Are you supposed to look at the form of the Deity?

You're supposed to look at the scriptures.

You're supposed to see everything in relation to Krishna.

Krishna says, I'm the light of the sun and the moon.

So when you see the sun and the moon, or you see the sunlight during the day time, oh, just see how Krishna is illuminating everything.

There are many things called shasper, chasus, 1 who sees through the eyes of the scriptures.

I've been here, not interested to hear anything mundane, but to hear the glories of the Lord sound like pure devotees.

Just like somebody wrote me, can I say, if I wear a khanti mal on my neck, I'm eating onions and garlic?

They want some permission to wear Kunti Mala while they're eating onion and garlic.

I explained to this lady that actually, Krishna doesn't accept such things, therefore we're eating them, eating sin.

So I said, when you stop eating onion and garlic, then you can wear Kunti mala.

Advertise yourself a bowl of onions and garlic.

I have tea like on my nose, kanti mala that can keep so many women behind for sex enjoyment.

So we are the most bogus babas, posing as great devotees with a Kunti Malan and a Tilak.

Because if we don't actually train you to become actual devotees, your show-bottle of Vaishnavism will not save you the time of death.

Just like Baba gave the example of the cat or the parrot, yeah.

Parrot is going Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna.

When the cat catches by the neck, caw, caw, caw, no more Krishna.

So we don't want such crow-like devotees who are making you show Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, but they're actually thinking of So many nonsense things in the brain, making you show being a devotee.

So show-bodilism will not save you the time of death, but sincere devotion will save you the time of death.

You may not be a big, big this or that, but just be a humble, humble servant of the Lord, And that will save you.

A failing servant, most fallen servant of the servant, but a halapabha doesn't himself.

Another nice Vyasapurja homage, we can see the mood of being a devotee.

Adore, adore ye all the happy day, blessed in heaven, sweeter than May, and He appeared at the holy place, my Lord and Master, His Divine Grace.

Except me as a phoenix, the Baba presenting Himself as a fallen soul.

So the Baba presenting Himself as a fallen soul, what is our position?

I've been chanting Hare Krishna for 3 or 4 years.

Advanced in nescience, my dear Prabhu, you're advanced in nescience.

Prabhupada said, save me a fallen, your divine grace.

So that's the actual position of advanced devotees.

They consider themselves very fallen, not just a shell bottle of fallen, but really feels himself fallen.

You can see how he's fallen in so many ways.

And he's begging, begging, begging, please my dear Gurumaraj, please my dear Gurnatai, please my dear Radhakrishnan, please save me from my fallen, fallen, fallen condition.

Remember that day come when I actually feel myself very fallen.

Kabe habe bodhose dinamah When my offense is ceasing Thanks for the name increasing when in my heart will your mercy shine?

Kambhe, Kambhe, Bholo, Sadhi, Nama, when omen will that day be mine?

When will that day come when I can wake up in the morning and actually be attracted to Krishna instead of thinking, I've got to go back to sleep.

Let me have a few more minutes of dozing.

But whenever we come to the motive of the ego-Swamis, we minimize sleep as much as I possibly can.

We minimize my eating and sleeping so I can maximize my thinking about Krishna, talking about Krishna, reading about Krishna, writing about Krishna, serving Krishna, chanting Arah.

We have to have this enthusiasm, this intense desire to be fully absorbed in Krishna consciousness and to preach Krishna consciousness to the suffering souls of this world.

Bhagavad encouraged me in this way even though I'm really not very enthusiastic.

Prabhupada encouraged me that I see you're enthusiastic so continue in this way and surely Krishna will bless you.

I had a little, I had at least a desire to be enthusiastic.

And Prabhupada gave me some credit for being enthusiastic and said, continue in this way and Krishna will surely bless you.

So let us get out of our laziness and craziness and be actually enthusiastic to be Krishna conscious, to serve Krishna, to serve the Vaishnavas and to spread this movement to every town and village all over the world.

Let us add this enthusiasm to make this world Krishna conscious.

By not being so much misguided and misdirected by these bogus leaders, Bhagavata actually told us, take the leadership.

Bhagavata told us to take the leadership of the world.

Can you imagine where Bhagavata or the leaders of the world?

Because that's the business of the Brahmins.

The Brahmins are actually the world leaders.

Not the Chakras who sit in administrative positions, the presidents and the prime ministers.

Those who are fixed in the absolute truth and who preach the absolute truth.

So that is what it means to take the leadership.

It means to take the leadership of your own senses.

who controls his senses can actually lead the whole world.

He can make the whole world His disciples, Rupa Goswami confirms.

So to lead the world means we have to lead our senses.

So the point is, 1 becomes a potent leader to whatever extent he can lead his own senses.

So the first followers we have to convert our senses.

Make your eyes a devotee, your ears, your tongue, your venomous, make them all devotees now.

I only use that for producing Krishna Ganges.

All the senses, We must make them into devotees.

And then we'll become empowered to lead the whole world, Papa confirms.

So then how do we get to that point then of actually controlling these senses?

It really is a big struggle for us neophytes.

We make friendship to those who are equally situated and be very kind to those who are not so advanced as us.

1 could say, well, how can I think of being kind of those who are less advanced than I think I'm less advanced than anybody else?

I consider myself the most followed of the fallen, the Majjhimaadikari is defined as someone who takes shelter in all their breath, for friends those who are equally advanced and kind of those who are less advanced.

So How can I actually come to that position if I think I'm less advanced than anybody else?

Because that's the uttamarikari actually, this position.

The great Acharya is saying, consider myself lower than the stone on the street.

How do you balance being from the duties of maja marikari and being an utama marikari and trying to cultivate an utama marikari mentality?

He would chastise the disciples, thinking he was lower than them at the same time.

Actually, Baba didn't think he was the Lowest.

He said, right now, I'm a very invalid man.

I think in 1 of my disciples, he's going to be back to God.

If you can't get him, you either let him go.

Even though Prabhupada is correcting us, chastising us, etc., still he thought, 1 of my disciples can turn you back to God.

So, Prabhupada is a perfect example of someone who thinks he's lower but at the same time acts as superior instructor.

So we have to follow Prabhupada's example.

We have to see objectively who is not as well situated as ourselves, who is not chanting his rounds, who is not coming from the running program, who is breaking the principles, etc.

But our service to them is that we don't think I'm superior, we think I'm inferior, never right to serve them.

If you see Prabhupada's example, He's a sincere well-wisher of every living being.

Not difficult to balance those out as a well-wisher.

So we are meant also to be every well-wishers.

Always wishing well for the living entities.

Even the little moth that was flying around.

There's a beautiful tree over here in Collinwood.

As a well-wishing friend, you can say, Hare Krishna to the tree.

It's a beautiful old tree on Collinwood, near Amelwood, the corner of Amelwood and Collinwood.

He's been caught in that body for over 100 years.

So actually, Every living being is actually a conscious being, but they are really deep in sleep.

That's an eternal spirit soul in the spiritual world.

The eternal soul lives in that tree's body right now.

So why not say, Hare Krishna, as you walk by to bless that tree for the holy name of Jesus.

So in this way you always want to feel as though the servants of all living beings.

You want to help them get out of the quagmire material existence.

So we can see now if Grumanaji had some points she would like to add.

Any questions, corrections, comments, arguments?

That's a big, big, big problem we all have.

We keep misidentifying with these bodies, even though they're temporary for living in this industry.

I continue to misidentify with this body.

We're enjoyers by nature, so we're still under the illusion I can enjoy this body.

So we have a question here from Tarun Krishnadas.

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