So today we're going to sing the Bhagavad Gita on the fourth candle at chapter 28, text number 16, 42816.

Om Namo Bhagavate Vatsudevaya Bhagavate Vatsudevaya Om Mano Ayodhe Vatsudevaya Dehrade Puttapal Tamsthya Doodhitrao Rukprapal Tamsthya Yame Jamatra Parshadam Yame Jamatra Parshadam Vatva Vashtitam Yatkinchid Vatva Vashtitam Yatkinchid Gaya Karsha Parichadam

Everybody should be chanting, the whole room, the kids, everyone should be chanting.

Give this to Guru Maharajji so she can lead us.

Swad Swad Swad Swad Swad Swad Svavadishtham Vasishtham.

Tawrītabakta bhaktam yam chen chen Jāmi jāma tupā sadaṁ Tawrītabakta bhaktam yam chen chen Sada'a bha' shedam yad kenshed.

Duhitra, Daughters, Putra, Sons, Tautran, Grandsons, Cha, and Jami, Daughters-in-law, sons, and daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, associates, property, remaining, whatever, home, home, Svatthava

property, abhaksha tam remaining, yajnchit whatever, griha,

koshav, accumulation of wealth, kudhich chitam, haasav parapanayya, Translation purported by His Divine Grace Sri Lupevapada.

King Pranjan has then began to think of his daughters, sons, grandsons, daughters-in-laws, sons-in-law, servants and other associates, as well as his house, his house of Perponella and his wealth accumulated, his wealth, his little accumulation of wealth.

It is not as frequent for a person utterly attached to a body to request a physician to prolong his life at least for some time.

The so-called scientific physician is able to prolong his life for a few minutes through the use of oxygen or other medicines he thinks that he's very successful in his attempts, although ultimately the patient will die.

This is called the struggle for existence.

At the time of death, both patient and physician still think of prolonging life, although all the constituents of the body are practically dead and gone.

Vande hamshri Guru Sri Datapada Kamalam Sri Guru Vaishnavam Shchho Sri Rupam Sagrajatam Sahagana Raghana Tanvitam Tam Sajivam Sadayitam Sabhagutam Parijana Saitam Krishna Chaitanya Devam Sri Ramakrishna Padam Sahagana Lalita Sri Vishakam Vitam Shchho Sama om Viṣṇu-padaya, Kṛṣṇa-predya-bhūta-le, Śrīmat-e-bhakti-ve, Dānta-svā-mī-līk-i-nāvana, Namaste, Sarasvat-e-deva, Gauravani-pichā-lī-nā, Nirmu-viṣe-cishu-nyavādi-pāścacade-cittā-lī-nā.

So I'm going to try some of this road spray to see if it helps with my hoarse voice.

See if it helps so I can speak a little better.

Even for a few minutes they're very happy.

Oh, I got my life prolonged with oxygen and this and that.

Just see what a wonderful doctor I got 1 extra hour.

Does anybody know why the desire for a long life?

Why when it is attached, they can change their lives?

Sat-chirinanda-vigraha, eternal form for the bliss and knowledge.

We don't want to die because actually we don't die.

In other words, people intuitively know that I don't die.

They think I'm the body, but inside they actually know that death is unnatural for me.

You know we know death is natural, but we don't feel it is natural.

It's natural to eat, natural to walk, all these things.

So we don't get upset if we have to eat or they can walk.

So why we're sort of stirred about that, that's natural.

Because actually it's unnatural for the soul.

Niyang buddhava vidhava nabhuyajonit yam chishpatoyam paranam.

For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time.

He is not coming to being, does not come to being, and will not come to being.

He is unborn and terrible, ever existing and primeval.

We don't want to die because we don't die.

We intuitively know the difficulty is that intuitive understanding is blocked by that association.

Those who are a little intelligent, you see, those who are a little bit intelligent, they're not satisfied with material life.

Those who are a little intelligent are not satisfied with money and opportunity and cars and houses and swimming pools and all the stuff that goes along with your success.

The fools and rascals say, oh I got money, I got a house, I got kids, I got a wife, I have this, I have that, I have a nice computer.

But those who are a little intelligent are not satisfied with this stuff.

They wonder why is all this going on here?

And out of those, the Ghanis, you see, out of those philosophers, even very few actually want to go beyond simply philosophizing and get to the point of self-realization.

And those who go to self-realization, most of them have a my-body philosophy.

It's all 1 thing, there's no individual identity.

But even rare is that person who actually comes to understand Jeevara, the servant of God.

Jeevara is a Rupaahui, Krishna and Nishadana.

Out of that, even rarer are those who actually perfect it.

Those Who actually say, okay, I understand the servants of Ganesha, let me perfect it and actually become situated in the Pure Devotional Service.

Many times we say, in Manusha Namsaharishu, yata kushu didyatati siddhi ye, yata tam mappi siddhayaam kushin manmati tatpatara.

Out of thousands of men, only 1 will endeavor perfection, out of thousands endeavor perfection, not even 1 will know the truth.

Even those who endeavor perfection are extremely, extremely rare out of the world population.

The city of Austin, how many people endeavoring for spiritual perfection?

We have a lecture, we advertise everywhere a lecture on spiritual perfection.

You can put $1 and you'll have a millionaire.

$1 and that's when you become a millionaire.

This reminds me of the story of the little potter boy.

He thought, well, I have another story of the little potter boy.

He had a pot and he was going to sell the pot and take the money and buy 2 or 3 pots.

So he was thinking, oh yes, now I have 1 pot, I'm going to sell it, I'm going to take the profit and get 2 or 3 pots, I'll sell those, become a pot wholesaler.

And then I'm going to send 2 or 3 pots, I'll get 10, and I'll go from 10 to 100, and very soon I'll be a millionaire.

He was, you know, he went to sleep dreaming of becoming a multi-billionaire from this pot business.

And then he was dreaming, thinking, oh yes, I'll become a multi-vehicleer and I'll get married to my wife and she gives me a hard time, I'll give her a kick.

My wife gives me a hard time, I'll give her a kick.

So in his dream he kicked the pot, he woke up, the pot was broken and all that and he finishes it.

So we shouldn't just dream about becoming material success.

Any dream of material success is actually a nightmare.

Because material success, where does it lead?

Just like as a kid, I realized, here I was in college.

I was an honors student, 1 of the top levels of students in the whole college.

I think here I am studying hard to make good grades.

I get a good degree, get a good job, get a good house, a good wife, a good car, and get retired to St.

Petersburg, Florida, put in a few good names of shuffleboard, you know.

They get the retiree, they play shuffleboard.

My brothers are coming over, and I'll bring them good flowers once a year in my death day.

That's how I realize that college didn't exist.

What's the use of the steady hearted egg?

So we have to not be carried away by material success because it leads to the grave or the crematorium.

Or for the Parsis, to the jackals, right?

And so the body of the jackal will be devoured by the jackal down the street.

So hard for mature success and it's all going to be finished.

Why when I find something I can do before it will not be finished?

Svabhivadam ushtaparai samsutak parashakpasu na jatapam na jatapam vipatopadam jatam gudhagruja.

He's thinking, how can I get out of here?

He's thinking, how can I get out of the clasp?

You're thinking, how can I get out of here?

He said he's the only 1 going and you wanted to go with him.

Thinking, I got to get out of this class, it's too much for me, right?

I can't handle this class, let me get out of here.

Now your father is intelligent, he told you to stay.

Even though you don't want to be here, now you are here, so it's a great blessing.

You have to grow up with a proper understanding like Pilate.

You should be very eager to hear the glories of the Lord.

So in this way, you see, the whole world has gone crazy.

Those persons who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses, praise the men who do not listen to the tramlin' of the past times of Lord Sri Krishna, who live from all evils.

So they make big heroes out of those people who are not interested in Krishna consciousness.

The politicians, the rock stars, the businessmen, you see.

They make these rascals, these men who are the category of dogs, owls, camels, and asses, they make them the heroes.

He chews the thorn he twigs and he cuts his tongue.

His tongue is bleeding and he's drinking his own blood.

He's drinking his own blood, making how delicious this is.

It's like they have sex life, passing their, discharging their semen and they say, oh it's so nice.

They're cutting, they take 40 drops of blood to make 1 drop of semen and they say, oh it's so wonderful.

They're cutting like cutting their own tongue and drinking and they think it's very, very nice.

But they ask, he's carrying a huge burden on the back.

He's thinking, if I don't carry this burden, the master will not feed me.

But there's so much grass going on outside the road, he doesn't see the grass there.

Why am I carrying this big bird when the grass is growing right here?" He's thinking, I must carry this big bird, otherwise I will starve to death.

These modern day leaders are this caliber of people.

So who glorifies the big dog-tongue camel asses?

Tune into the message of Bhagavatam and become elevated, a trend that will pass on.

It's not really going into your conscious.

You can learn to take this deep into your heart.

Because this will liberate you from the cycle.

Do you know the cycle of birth and death?

You didn't always have this little kid's body.

You were an old man in previous life, or you were an animal form.

But now you've gotten a human form in the family of the bodhisattvas.

You can actually hear the fundamental path like the Lord Shri Krishna deliver from all the evil.

You can become delivered from the cycle of breath and death.

So 1 should be very eager to hear from the Vandavai spiritual masters.

The Thakavad was very eager to hear from his spiritual master.

Bhaktisanna Sarasvati spoke with very high level English.

He spoke in English, not like the common English, but very erudite English, like this.

The materialistic seminar cannot possibly stretch to the transcendental autocrat who was ever inviting the following soul.

The transcendental autocrat is ever inviting.

It's very high level, the transcendental Autocrat.

Even a common English speaking person, I go, what's he talking about in his dictionary?

What does he speak of someone whose language is Bengali?

And trying to announce a little bit in English and try to follow Guru Maharaj's thing.

He said, I would understand it, but I don't understand, but I go on hearing.

So they put him, they said, Guru Maharaj, we think this boy, Bhai Charan Das, you should initiate him.

He said, oh yes, he hears very nicely, except he is my disciple.

This is a qualification for spiritual life, being very eager to hear, not having to get out of the hearing.

That's the qualification of spiritual life.

Wherever the spiritual master is speaking, oh yes, I must go in here.

So in this way, if we take very seriously the process of Krishna consciousness our lives become successful.

And real success means to develop attraction for hearing about Krishna, talking about Krishna, bowing down to Krishna, serving Krishna, everywhere Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna.

I may lose all my attachment for material things, but that's all right.

The Gopi telling her Gopi girlfriend, you know that past time?

So 1 Gopi who had become very in love with Krishna, she's telling her Gopi girlfriend, my dear Gopi girlfriend, smaran bangi tayapa chitam sachi bhushten rishten, vanksi na saa kishalam ujadam san nakena govindakam, haritana mita keesha te pakatam te, maa bhaksha sthavayari saki bandhasti langa aap.

She said, my dear gopī girlfriend, If you have any desire to enjoy society, friendship and love in this material world, then don't you dare go to the Maitreya Ghat tonight, because this beautiful boy Krishna is on his Govinda.

And he's standing there, he has very enchanting eyes, and he's playing upon his flute, He has a peacock feather in his hair, and his very body is very beautifully illuminated by the moonlight in the sky.

Otherwise, your material life will be finished.

So where that gold be, then she'd been running.

Oh, let me see this beautiful boy of Krishna, the Keshe God, you see that Murti Mananar, that blue playing boy, the deceased Cupid, let me see that little boy.

She became also a great devotee by seeing Krishna in the moonlit night.

We're not there 5, 000 years ago to run the Kashi Ghat, to see the beautiful body of Krishna in the moonlit night.

But we have the same privilege, you know that?

Does anybody know how we achieve the same benefit?

Do you know how we achieve the same benefit?

Bhaktan Niel, how do we achieve the same benefit as that gopī who went running the Kashi Ghat?

You know how we achieve the same benefit?

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Ramana Ramana Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Ramana Ramana Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Ramana Ramana Ramana How does that feel?

Do you realize that every single past time of Krishna is all right there, that's inside the maha-mancha?

Playing the food of Kashi-God, living the govindaniyo, killing the putanadimniss, they're all there inside the mantra.

It's all there, you say, Krishna killing the putana demon, you know, that past time, the putana demon, demoness.

And she comes inside her to kill Krishna.

And so she made herself a very beautiful woman.

The demons have all kinds of mystic powers.

So you know, she's an ugly big huge demon.

She made herself 1 of the most beautiful women.

She came as a mother to let Krishna suck her breasts.

So he played like a little baby and said, oh yes, I was very happy to suck your breasts.

And so not only he sucked the milk, but he sucked the...

He was sucking the life out of the person, the demon.

She was crying, Oh child, leave me, leave me.

She sucked the life out and she became a huge demon.

The amazing thing is this, usually the demons, they get...

This demon, because she came as a mother, you know what she got?

She got the liberation of being in the mood of a mother in the spiritual world.

She was elevated to Goloka Vrindavan, become like a mother for Krishna.

She came to kill him, but because she came as a mother, she got the position of a mother in Goloka Vrindavan.

Just imagine the amazing mercy of Krishna.

We can also get that same mercy of Krishna, in spite of all of our rascals and our craziness, all of our nonsense.

If we can just approach Krishna, begging for his mercy, my dear Lord, please engage me in your pure devotional service.

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama.

If a demon can go back to Kaloka Vrindavan, certainly rascals like us can also go back.

So we should take advantage of this mercy of Krishna.

Krishna is an eye of the sorts of knowledge, remembrance and forgetfulness.

If we want to forget Him, He will give us hamburgers and Kentucky Fried, Big Macadonals.

If you want to forget Krishna, He will give you all facilities.

A job, money, Toyota, whatever you want to do.

If you want to forget Krishna, He'll give you a complete delusion.

The Internet, if you want to forget Him, He'll give you all the ability to forget Him.

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