Today we're reading from Srimad Bhagavatam, 4th Chakra, Chapter 28, Text

Srimad Bhagavatam, 4th chapter 28, text number 25.

Vakrishyamana prasabham yavanena balayasa Navidattamasabhishta sakayam siridam pula Vakrishyamana being dragged prasabham forcibly being dragged

Avishta being covered, his friend, always a well-wisher, from the very beginning.

Translation and prayer part by His Divine Grace.

When King Paranjana was being dragged with great force by the powerful Yavana, out of his gross ignorance he still could not remember his friend and well-wisher of the super soul.

In Bhagavad Gita 529, Lord Krishna says, bhoktaram jagatapasam, savalokam maheshvadam, suhridam sarvabhuktanam, yana gatvamam sundam vijjati.

A person could be in full Krishna consciousness and become happy and satisfied if he knows the 3 things, namely that Supreme Lord Krishna is the enjoyer of all benefits, that he is the proprietor of everything, and that he is the supreme friend of all living entities.

If 1 does not know this and functions instead under the bodily conception, he is already harassed by the tribulations offered by material nature in actuality.

The Supreme Lord is sitting in the heart of the side of everyone.

Ishvara haca bhutana, the Desha Yuna Tishthati, Bhagavad Gita 1861.

The living entity and the Supersoul are sitting side by side in the same tree, but despite being harassed by the laws of material nature, the foolish living being does not turn toward the Supreme Personality of God and surrender unto Him.

Only then will he be saved from the onslaught of the powerful Yovana or Yamaraj.

The word the Qayyim friend is very significant in this verse because God is eternally present beside the living entity.

Supreme Lord is also described as Suhru Dham, the elder well-wisher.

Supreme Lord is always a well-wisher just like a father or mother despite all the offenses of the son.

The father and mother are always the son's well-wisher.

Similarly, despite all of our offenses and defiance of the desires of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The Lord will give us immediate relief from all the hardships offered by material nature.

If we simply surrender in Him as confirmed in Bhagavad Gita 714, Mameyabaiye Pradyumna Mayami Tamthiranthi.

Unfortunately, due to our bad association and great attachment for sense gratification we do not remember our best friend the Supreme Personality of God.

Shri Guru Shri Tathapada Kamalam Shri Guru Vaishnavam Shri Rupam Sahagda Jatam Sahagana Raghadev Tanditam Tamsa Jeevam Satayitam Sabadhootam Parijanam Sahitam Krishna Chaitanya Devam Shri Bada Krishna Padam Sahagana Lalita Shri Vishakanditam Shcham Namah Om Disnu Padaya Krishna Prashtaya Bhutale Shri Matthe Bhaktive Dant Svamane Ti Namane Namaste Sarasvate Deve Goravane Pracharane So, when Shilaprabha arrived in the US at Commonwealth Chair in Boston, he wrote, Although I have no devotion and no knowledge, still I have been designated Bhaktivedanta.

I personally have no realization, but I have this desire to see that this world should become delivered, and Prabhupada encouraged me in this way to maintain this enthusiasm for the mode of deliverance mission.

So if I have anything at all that is my enthusiasm to the world should become deliverance.

Although I completely avoid devotion and knowledge, what can I say?

As I speak these words, I have no ability to even speak.

I have no realization of anything about Krishna consciousness.

So I'm simply depending on Srila Prabhupada to somehow or other, I can properly represent him today in the Srila Bhagavatam class.

I'm very happy he gave this verse, a very familiar verse.

What does that mean, the enjoyer of everything?

Well, everything, Krishna is the supreme enjoyer.

So that means everything that exists, exists for the enjoyment of Krishna.

You can say, is Krishna being selfish by being the enjoyer of everything?

Oh, he's the enjoyer of everything, the supreme enjoyer.

Why does he take all the enjoyment upon himself, 1 could argue.

Well, That's like saying, why does the belly take all the food?

And the ear and the nose and the hairs on the head and the toes, why they can't also enjoy the food?

Well, they argue like this, they're rather ignorant because actually every part of the body enjoys the food equally.

So it's not that Krishna is the only enjoyer, he's the prime enjoyer.

In fact, through Krishna's enjoyment, everyone and everything enjoys.

So there's a process of digesting the food which goes through the belly.

There's a process where every living entity can enjoy equally with Krishna actually.

In fact, Krishna sees that, oh I'll give the example, Krishna, here I am the supreme enjoyer but I see my devotees enjoying more than me.

So Krishna takes the mood of being the devotee of Krishna, as Lord Caitanya, to relish the even greater pleasure of being enjoyed by Krishna.

So don't feel like you're being left out while Krishna is enjoying.

Actually Krishna sees that his devotees enjoy serving him more than he enjoys being served by them.

So it's not that the devotees are left out, the living entities are left out, no, they get to the state of equal, if not even greater, participants in the enjoyment of Krishna.

But still the process is, as we feed, give all the food to the belly, the process is we have to give all our loving service to Krishna.

You may say, well, why can't I be the belly?

Why can't the hand may argue, why can't I be the belly And all the food comes to me and every part of the body enjoys through my enjoyment.

I want to be the digester of all the food and everything comes through me.

If you want to be a scientist and try this and that, some so-called new system of enjoyment, go ahead and give it a try and see if it works.

It's like you have a car and you say, well, I'm tired of putting air in the tires and gas in the gas tank.

Let me try putting gas in the tires and air in the gas tank.

Why do I have to follow the rules and regulations of the car manufacturer?

I put in gasoline in the tires and air in the gas tank.

Well, go ahead and try it and see if it works.

The point is there's a system already existing, and why not plug into the system to get the proper utilization of it?

Why not plug into the system that's already there?

You didn't manufacture the cars coming from the car manufacturer, It is a system of how the car works properly.

So there's already a system of how everything works properly within the causing manifestation.

So why not take the system that's already there instead of trying to invent a new system?

I'll put the gas in the tire and the air in the gas tank.

Don't be idealist thinking, well, I can do it my own way.

You're going to actually enjoy it unlimitedly by doing that.

So We should just surrender ourselves to what the system that's already in place, instead of trying to invent a new system.

Bhaktaram dhakkha tibhasaam sarvaloka maheeshwaraam.

See if you can pull it off, being the owner of everything.

But if the true thing actually works, the untrue thing doesn't work.

My favorite line is, Sufri dhamm se vabhut dhamnam I'm the ever well wishing most intimate friend of all living entities.

Just consider that whatever situation you're in, and as we read later in the Purport, there's 2 birds sitting in the tree, the Ottoman and the Parmab are sitting side by side.

So just consider this, in every situation you may be in, that Supreme Person is all powerful, all knowledgeable, and all benevolent.

In any situation, you are not bereft from the mercy of that supreme person who is your most enemy and well-wishing friend.

It's like you're working in some company and there's office politics going on and everybody's worried about the office politics, how to move up the ladder, the corporate ladder.

Who can move up the poor corporate ladder to get the new higher and higher positions in the corporation?

Everybody's in anxiety about how to keep their position, how to expand their position to higher levels.

You're just laughing about the whole thing because your best friend happens to be the owner of the whole corporation.

See, every time you see the office politics, you just kind of chuckle and laugh.

I don't have to worry about this because my best friend owns the corporation.

He doesn't have to worry about trying to move up a rung in the material world.

Let him become this or that and get a higher position, a higher salary, whatever it may be, more prestige, more this, more that.

He doesn't worry about it because the supreme insurer, the 1 who owns everything, who knows everything, He happens to be the best friend.

So your best friend is the knower, the supreme controller, the owner of everything.

And just as they say, you got it made in the shade.

Just Stay connected with your best friend.

So if you run away from your best friend, you renounce your relationship with your best friend, then that's what happens to us in the material world.

In this way they cut off their relationship.

And the Karmic things, well I'm the enjoyer.

I should serve somebody else's enjoyment.

So everybody cuts off their relationship with that supreme well-wishing friend.

In this way they commit the most foolish activities.

Their thoughts are ridiculous, their feelings are ridiculous, their activities are ridiculous.

Everything they do is completely insane because they cut off their relationship.

So this is the beauty of Lord Caitanya and the Krishna Khandhas movement.

Lord Caitanya is the founder of the Krishna Khandhas movement.

Well, actually Krishna is the founder of the Krishna Khandhas movement.

Lord Caitanya popularized it that formlessly you have to submit to Krishna to get the mercy, but Lord Caitanya has made it so easy just to get the mercy.

Just singing, dancing, feasting, the mercy is already yours.

So Lord Chaitanya made the Krishna-Kaunas movement more accessible.

And now Prabhupada has made it even more accessible by traveling all over, coming to the Western countries to give it to the searching young people here, the hippies, looking for some better culture than what their parents had.

Adi Krishna, Adi Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Adi, Adi, Adi Rama, Adi Rama, Adi Rama, Adi, Adi.

So my dear listeners, all we have to do is take advantage of Prabhupada's mercy.

How many sannyasis perform marriages, for example?

That was unheard of, a sannyasi being connected with a marriage ceremony.

He saw the mentality and the situation of the devotee and he tasted Desa Kalapattra, time, place and circumstance.

Prabhupada was an expert master of time, place and circumstance.

He reduced the japa from 64 to 32 and finally down to 16 rounds.

Prabhupada was very, very flexible in understanding the situation he was in to make it accessible.

So Prabhupada has made it very, very accessible.

Well, I think we should adjust this and adjust that.

No, Prabhupada has made the necessary adjustments for the modern day world.

Whatever Prabhupada has given in these books, that's the law for this country.

That's the system that's in place and it works.

Prabhupada is the preeminent Acharya for the next 10, 000 years of this Krishna consciousness, the Caitanya-Ur.

His books are the law books of the next 10, 000 years.

How to be Krishna conscious, how to awaken that loving feeling that the Supreme Lord is standing in the bank of Keshigat, playing the flute, that supreme person is the ever well-wishing friend of all living beings who lives in the Governing Hill, who has all these amazing pastimes killing Putin, the demon, all these amazing pastimes.

You don't have to go back to the spiritual world to connect with Krishna.

You can spiritualize your life right now, spiritualize your thoughts, your words, your deeds in all time, places and circumstances through this sublime process of Krishna consciousness and you can actually be as good as in the spiritual world right here right now.

Even if you're the most despicable sinful people, if we take advantage of this mercy of Prabhupada, then our lives can become sublime, become of freedom, all-miserable.

This is a wonderful, wonderful prayer book.

A person can be full in Krishna consciousness and become happy and satisfied.

Is being full in Krishna Kanyas different from being happy and satisfied?

You can be full in Krishna and be happy and satisfied.

No, that's the natural, that goes along with it.

Being full in Krishna Kanyas means to be happy and satisfied.

It's not something different saying, well, we're here to be fully in Krishna consciousness or we're here to be happy and satisfied.

The more you're Krishna conscious, the more you're happy, the more you're satisfied.

So we want to be completely happy and completely satisfied with and become completely Krishna conscious.

Does anything have to do practically, or is knowing it good enough?

The point here, since knowing these 3 things will make you fully happy and satisfied.

That means if you really know them, if you really have that jñāna, the vijñāna will be automatically there.

If you actually know these things, you're completely convinced.

You're completely fixed in knowing these things.

The practice will automatically be there.

If the practice is not automatically there, there's any efficiency in the practice.

Your jnana is imperfect, therefore your big jnana is imperfect.

That's the 1 we can understand that point from the state and the prasad.

If 1 does not know this, then function is dead in the bodily conception.

So that means to every extent we don't know this, to that extent we're going to function in the bodily conception.

That way we cheat ourselves for the constitutional nature that we have to be eternal for the knowledge and bliss.

Can you imagine how foolish that is, how asinine it is to actually be denying ourselves the terrible knowledge and bliss, embracing ignorance and misery because we're in ignorance.

This is why Thabat has given us these prayer ports.

Even Thabat said, even if you just chant these names, all the knowledge will come automatically.

He told us in San Francisco, that first lecture I heard in Golden Gate Park.

So, If you don't know it, then you're harassed with the tribulations offered by material nature.

1 of those tribulations is the threefold miseries and the fourfold miseries.

Threefold, adiachmic, adibodic, and antidiabatic miseries in the mind and the body, misery is car-bent living entities, and misery is car-binatural as it is like this hurricane now coming through, killing many people here in the U.S.

Hurricane, barreling through, ruining houses, ruining neighborhoods, killing people.

So the Adi-divic, Adi-Bodhi, and Adi-divic misery is in there.

And the four-pole, birth, death, old age, and disease.

The threefold wasn't enough and the fourfold are also there.

We have 7 kinds of misery that is punishing us.

We're being punished by these 7 types of misery day in and day out.

Of course the fourfold, the different stages, the threefold are always there, and the fourfold is different.

Sometimes it's punished by birth, sometimes by sickness, sometimes by old age, and sometimes death.

You get 1, and you get another, and you get another, and another.

You can say, well, I can say any 1 of the 4 is always there.

Death, why you can say they are all going on, that means sickness is always there to some degree.

There is always some kind of sickness, we are all suffering sickness.

The point is our health is never perfect.

Even the so-called healthy person, he still has something going on with his body or his mind.

So we're always being slapped or punished by at least 1 of these three-fold mysteries.

Now, let's look at the three-fold mysteries.

We are constantly being inflicted by all 3 of these three-fold mysteries.

The mind and the body, that includes the 4 forms of this world, maybe it's included in the 3 forms.

So the threefold actually includes everything.

The fourfold are included within the threefold.

The threefold are always slapping us at every minute.

He is sitting side by side with Krishna right now.

Krishna is sitting inside it, looking somewhere else.

But here we have our best friend sitting right beside us, we're looking somewhere else.

You're back with me, you know, I'm ignoring you.

It's like being a pauper in the street and you have a millionaire friend sitting right beside you with millions of dollars of wealth and you're sitting there starving in the street ignoring your friend.

Some of the early hippies, they had no job.

They would go to restaurants and they would steal a little ketchup, ketchup containers and they would take a mix of the water and that was their whole diet.

They would go to restaurants and nip the little ketchup plastic things and mix that with water, that was their whole food they had.

So, how we could, so you're the most wealthy person in all existence sitting right beside you, You're stealing ketchup containers from restaurants that you mix with water and have as your only food.

We have the most wealthy person sitting right beside us and we're beggars in the street trying to somehow survive.

It is not turned to the person I think it is, Mark.

There's a nice mirror on the left side, or you could say the right side.

He's standing in my place, I guess, and looking in the other direction.

And he thinks he's able to protect himself in the stringent laws of material nature.

This is the illusion, well, I'm very powerful, I can hold off death, I can hold off old age, I can hold off sickness, I'm taking some nice herbs or whatever, going to the doctor, getting prescription medicine.

I have a special doctor who can save me if I'm in difficulty, he'll keep me from dying, you see.

In this illusion thing I can hold off these miseries.

We cannot hold off the stringent laws of material nature.

They're going to zap us every time, like it or not, we're going to be zapped by these laws of material nature.

You might think you're protecting yourself from them, but you're delusional, isn't it?

We're delusional, you always think we can protect ourselves, but we're actually delusional, thinking we can protect ourselves.

Prabhupada confirms this is not possible.

And then Prabhupada then continues, the living entity must turn to other Supreme Personalities.

He is rebinding us of what Krishna said, sarva-lama-nupada-rca-mahamakamsa-rca.

Give up all your activities, surrender all your other duties.

You have 1 duty only, ekadharma, surrender unto Me.

I'm thinking duty, duty, duty, duty, duty, duty.

I don't have time to think about Krishna consciousness because there's so many duties.

I've got to work my job, I've got to put my kids through school, I've got to take out the garbage.

Who has time to think about Krishna consciousness?

By all these duties I'm doing, a million and 1 different duties, I'm doing all these duties.

By dutifully doing all these duties, I can hold off these three-fold miseries.

But actually, Krishna says and Prabhupada confirms, give up all these duties, yet 1 duty only, that's surrender to Krishna.

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