So continuing on with you in our study of Srimad Bhagavatam, 4th Canto, Chapter 28, Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya Tadhyam Sajanayam Chakra Adma Jammani Sekshanam Yabhiya Shastra Tastra Tattadabhina Bhurita Tadhyam Sajanayam Chakra Adma Jammani Sekshanam Yabhiya Sastra Tastra Dattadam vidabhubrita Dattam sadhanayam chakran Padmajam anisekshanam Yaviyasad suptasuttan Dattadam vidabhubrita through her, the king,

Ikshanam Whose eyes Yaviya Saptar Younger,

Sapta 7 Suttan Sons Sapta Vritha Palmasavdirvrita Or South India Who Sons, Saptas, Vrithavidas, or South India, who of the land, Brita, Kings.

Translation in Purport, by Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

King Malaya Dvaja fathered 1 daughter who had very black eyes.

He also had 7 sons who later became rulers of the tract of land known as Dvida.

King Malaya Dvaja was a great devotee And after he married the daughter of King Vidarbha, he gave 1 nice daughter whose eyes were black.

Figuratively this means the daughter of King Malabarja was also bestowed with devotional service.

And the other has no vision of his life other than Krishna.

The 7 songs of the 7 processes, devotional service, hearing, chanting, remembering, offering worship, offering prayers, rendering devotional loving service, and serving the lotus seed of the Lord.

Of the 9 types of devotional service, only 7 were immediately given.

The balance, friendship, and surrendering everything were to be declared and developed later.

In other words, devotional service divided into 2 categories, namely vidhi-marga and ragamarga.

The process of becoming friends with the Lord and sacrificing everything that belongs to the category of Raga Marg of the state, the developed devotion service.

For the Neophyte, the important processes are these of hearing and chanting, Shravadam Kirtan, and then being the Lord, worshipping the deity in the temple, offering prayers and all engaging in the service of the Lord and worshipping the Lord at the feet of the Lord.

The Yadivasha indicates that these processes are very powerful.

Abhyarita Virdi engages in the process of Shravanam Kirtanam Vishnu Smarnam Padasyevanam Arjuna Manam Navsham Bhagwadam 7.23 and is able to secure these processes, he can later become a devotee capable of rendering spontaneous devotional service, namely sakyamadna sakyam and atma-nivedanam.

Generally the greater Acharyas who preach devotional service of a Lord belong to the category of sakyamadnivedanam.

In fact, a devotee cannot actually become a preacher.

Pindhavasi is advised to execute devotional service in the 7 other fields, Sattgama, Kirtanam, etc.

If 1 is successful in executing the preliminary 7 items, in the future it will be situated in the platform of Sathya, Atma and Nivedya.

The specific mention of Javitadeśa refers to the 5 Javitadeśas in South India.

All are very strong in rendering the preliminary devotional processes.

Shravanam, Kirtanam, Bhagavatam 7.5.23, some great Acharyas like Ramanujacharya and Mavacharya also came into the Deish and became great preachers.

They were all situated in the platform of Sakyam at Nihalini.

Vandeham Sri Guru Sri Jatapada Kamalam Sri Guru Vaishnavamstha Sri Rupam Sagrachatam Sahagana Ragulitam Vitam Tamsa Jeevam Sadayitam Sabudhutam Parijana Sahitam Krishna Chetan Yadevam Sri Radha Krishna Padam Sahagana Lalita Shri Vishakam Vitam Shcham Nama Om Vishnu Padaya Krishna Praishtaya Bhutave So, we're Namaste, Satisfate Deve, Gauravani Pachalini, Nishesha, Sushumya Bhadipa, Sushumya Pachalini.

So we're finding out here that the last 1 is on the platform, Rangamahar, Ksap Yamanivayana, which is not becoming a preacher.

Some of you think, well, I didn't feel like preaching anyway.

Now I won't preach because I'm not on the level of Sakyamata and Imaidarnam.

But we have to balance 1 statement of Prabhupada with the other statements of the parliament.

So even though we're on the level of Sakyamata and Imaidarnam, we still have to preach.

But we shouldn't understand we're not really qualified preachers.

But in doing so, in the order of our spiritual master, we're on the level of Sokhumut and Immeditim.

So by His mercy, by His blessings, our preaching may have some success.

That's only by His mercy, because certainly we are not qualified to preach.

We have so many words following in so many ways.

But by the mercy of Siddhartha and the previous Acharyas, we act as their instruments.

As puppets act as their instruments, then we can meet some pubs.

Like, I'll give you an example, a mailman is living you a cash-share check for 1000000 dollars, but he himself is starting to pay his bills.

He's actually getting evicted from his apartment because he can't even afford to pay his rent.

Yet he's giving you a cash-deer check from when they get out.

So in this way, even though we're not very qualified preachers, we're on the level of the 7, starting with the 7 preliminary items, Viddhi Marg, we're not situated in the Vagamarg, so we can deliver the goods.

We can give whatever Bhagavata has given us without addition or subtraction.

The Hrithik devotees say, well, you can't really do anything.

You can't initiate disciples because you're not on the level of Raghamaka.

Prabhupada orders us to accept disciples also.

So we are simply carrying out the orders of Srila Prabhupada, that's all we can do.

We have no qualifications, we are struggling in the 7 preliminary items, that's all we can do, is follow the orders of our spiritual master.

We don't know many subversives, we don't understand so many points of philosophy, the prabhava understands everything very, very deeply and we're just coming to the surface.

Even though I'm not really qualified to give this class actually to be honest with you.

Even prabhava doesn't himself desire, I'm doing my best to make bhakti vedanta but I have no Bhakti and I have no Vedanta.

So the Prophet presents himself as an unqualified person.

We are most unqualified to present the science.

But yet, on the order of our spiritual masters, the previous Acharyas, we are making a humble attempt to make a difference in the world.

But there's just like this material society, everybody is basically just a cog in the machine of the material society, a bunch of cogs.

Following those who are under the control of material modes of nature, They're simply acting as cogs in the wheels of material society.

Material society means the material nature.

It's everyone, all the Karmes, are simply acting as cogs in the machine of material nature.

They're grinding down whatever is left of human civilizations in the previous yugas is gradually being destroyed.

It's like in God we trusted there in the dollar bill, but now the scientists immediately reject any idea of God.

It's like they're studying now 1 branch of medicine, studying near-death experiences.

Some people report some kind of a mystical, they come close to death, they come back from death, they report some kind of mystical experience.

But the scientists say, obviously that's not true, it's just some chemicals in their brain.

So the scientists, they automatically assume that if they are given truth, there's no spiritual reality.

These are the big, big scientists, big, big PhDs, who get all kinds of money for their research from the government, and they assume spirituality is false.

They just make that automatic assumption, can you imagine?

Of course we all know there's no such thing as a spiritual platform, and they take it as a given truth,

there's no such thing as a spiritual platform.

it as a given truth, there is no such thing as a spiritual platform.

Blind leading, the blind man leads the blind where they end up in the ditch.

So these scientists are blind and people who follow them are also blind.

The big fools are leading the little fools.

Now 1 of the whole things is actually grinding down to becoming a vision of Aborigines in the jungle once again in due course of time.

That's how it will be at the end of Kali Yuga.

It will all be just cannibals living in the jungle.

Somebody invites you over for dinner, you're the den.

I mean, no civilization left at all with cannibalism.

And so Kalki Amitabha would come and be merciful on all these bounties and invite them out.

Huge wholesale slaughter of all these demons.

So we have a very golden opportunity here with the mercy of Lord Yatena, Lord Nijananda and Srila Prabhupada, we can act as instruments.

Instead of being cogs, we can make a difference by whatever we know, whatever we build, understanding we have, share it with the world.

You know, we have no qualification as confirmed here by Prabhupada.

We're not simply Vittimargis, we're not Raghamargis, we're Vittimargis.

But still if we take in order these Raghamargis, the previous Acharyas,

try a little bit, distribute books, tell what you feel about the philosophy, invite them to come to programs, try to cultivate them.

You see, I wasn't cultivated by Prabhupada.

I was cultivated by 1 of his disciples, Vishnujanamayaraj.

And others also, many, many, many cultivated me along the way.

So these personalities, they may not have been Vagamargis, they may have been Vigimargis, but because they were acting on behalf of Siddhartha Palapad, his Raghuramargopadhyayi acted through them.

So in this way we simply have to be instrumental in the hands of the previous Acharyas.

And then all kinds of magic can take place.

You can't even explain them in a book or a scientific journal cannot even explain.

And I think things that can happen if 1 puts himself in the hands of Guru and Krishna and Vaisnavas.

So, In this way we have to be very, very serendipitous to previous Acharyas and simply try to engage nicely in these preliminary practices, hearing, chanting, remembering.

It's like you all are hearing the class right now or your mind going somewhere else.

Are your minds floating around somewhere?

The 1 who's giving the class is vibrating.

The 1 who's giving the class, that's called Kirtanam.

Kirtanam not only means getting the kirtanam, it means giving a lecture.

So right now I'm doing shravanam and kirtanam.

So when you preach, you're going to do 2 processes at once.

You get to hear and chant simultaneously, and automatically you remember.

So preaching is a very great opportunity.

You get to hear, chant, and remember all at 1 time.

Well, In order to preach you have to remember, but that's the last phrase isn't it?

So the preach you have to remember, you have to hear also.

My God sister Mallati, a little daughter, they were in Vinayana, a little girl named Saraswati.

would approach some gentleman, some Hindu gentleman.

And she would say, do you know who is God?

Even some teenager or some adult, even a little kid can preach.

There's even a picture in London, they called him the Bobby, the British policeman with a big hat.

Some little kid, some little boy, I don't know if you remember, she was going and handing him an invitation.

He was handing an invitation to the policeman.

Everybody was in line when they see this.

You can approach the policeman and invite them to come to the temple.

Approach the policeman, invite him to the temple.

But anyway, yeah, preaching is really nice.

I made this realization while I gave this class, actually.

I'm actually realizing the great opportunity in preaching, even though we're not qualified, totally, we're just vidi margis.

We're not qualified to preach as Raghuramargis are qualified.

And the level of, you know, sakya matnamitaveda, we're not there yet.

By preaching actually helps us get there.

By preaching, it actually helps us come gradually, gradually, gradually, step by step.

Trying to get up in time for the morning program, trying to bring our wandering minds back to the holy names.

says, yata yata nishchalati mam nishcham sadam

astadam tatatatamayaya tatatamayaya tatatamayaya.

And whatever and wherever the mind monitors due to flickering and unsteady nature, we must still need to draw it and bring it back into the control of the Self.

So Krishna knows very well what our minds are like.

From whatever and wherever, the flickering mind wanders.

Look at a candle, and there's a little breeze going on the scene.

You've seen the candle flickering, candle?

So we have this flickering, unsteady nature in the mind.

We have to bring them back out of control of the self.

The I am of the self as a spiritual being.

What that means is you have to be in control.

See right now, if I ask are you controlling your mind?

My mind is actually controlling the modes of nature.

What a passion and thinking, I've got to go here and do this and do that and do this.

And what a goodness, now I'm starting to get fixed.

And what a goodness, I'm starting to get fixed, I'm turning in.

So what a goodness means there's still a little tinge of passion and ignorance.

See that the material mode of goodness is also pure goodness, sata and shita satsang.

Sata means there's still some tinge of passion and ignorance.

So The mode of goodness is not pure goodness.

It's a goodness mixed with passion and ignorance a little bit.

Even a slight of tinge of passion or ignorance doesn't mean you're not going to shoot yourself again.

about this star-bent thinking about eating, sleeping, mating and descending.

You're wandering here and there thinking about this kind of pleasure, that kind of pleasure, money pleasure, sex pleasure, whatever it is.

This is destructive for you, my dear mind.

It's suicidal, my dear mind, to go anywhere besides the lotus feet of Krishna it's suicide would you want to commit suicide?

That'd be stupid wouldn't it You know what happens when you commit suicide?

Some of my leaders on my inquest, they write me and say, I want to commit suicide.

So, instead of committing suicide, by the letter of mind wander here and there all over the universe.

Say, okay mind, now you have 1 business and 1 business only, now you have to fix yourself purely in Krishna consciousness in all times, all places and all circumstances.

The topic confirmed in the first lecture I heard in Golden Gate Park is not difficult.

If there are foolishness, that was this very simple thing.

He's going to know who you are and be who you are.

Is it natural for the fish to swim in the ocean?

But the trouble is, he wants to jump out of the water and be a teacher of the land, but it's not his nature.

Instead of being naturally spirit-cell servants of Krishna, we want to artificially try to be competitors of Krishna, enjoy the supreme enjoyers ourselves.

Therefore, for us, rascals and idiots, it's very difficult to become Krishna-Kalmas.

We don't just take the humble role of being devoted to Krishna.

The verse of Rupa Ayurveda, Krishnare Nitya Datta, the constitutional position of a living entity is eternal sovereign of Krishna.

I'm not knowing that day is going to come.

That's why we're still living margis, we're not ragi-margis, because we haven't fully learned it yet.

How to absorb ourselves in Krishna consciousness.

The last item, Atma-niveya, fully surrendered everything to Krishna service.

We're still thinking, well, can I keep a little bit of the 5% enjoyment?

Like some millionaire wants to give a donation.

Can I keep something for my own sense enjoyment?

Can my dear Lord, can I not give 999, 999 dollars and 99 cents?

No, Krishna says, I want that last penny.

You may say, is this a puny penny, my Lord?

But anyway, when we ever learn, Baba's telling us, we're reading his books again and again and again and again.

Here there's great Raghav Margis, following the footsteps of the great great Acharyas, the great great Raghav Margis.

Here we're following their footsteps, but we're still a little bit out of step.

It was like the soldiers, you know, they march in formation, they have to stay in step.

You get in the formation, you have your rifle and all of your uniform, everything, pucca and you're marching in step.

We're going to go, it looks so nice to see the soldiers marching in step.

He's in the formation, but he's out of step.

So that's our problem, we're out of step.

We're not harmonizing with Guru and Krishna.

We're harmonizing with the material nature that's our problem.

I'm fully coordinated with the material nature, with the spiritual nature of something way out there, something way, way out there.

Walking down the beach, having a great time.

And I'm seeing them on the beach walking up and down having a great time.

I see some people snorkeling, some people surfing.

They're having a great time and here I'm drowning in the ocean.

So what you do, you call, help, help, help.

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

My dear energy of the Lord, my dear Krishna, here I am drowning in this ocean, please save me, please save me.

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

How much intensity will you call after help?

How much intensity do you put in your chanting?

How much intensity you put into calling out for help?

So we have to learn to call the Lord with intensity.

We just chant kind of casually, but not, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna.

We're only putting ourselves halfway and then we're chanting.

Chanting is enchanting, but we're not being enchanted because we're not fully absorbing the chanting that's the problem.

And not allowing ourselves to be fully enchanted by Krishna's name.

Aparadharaguchi shudamane ruchi kripa bol de humbe grido ye sancha humbe humbe bol o se diya Vela when will that day be mine?

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