Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya, Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya, Om Namah Bhagavate Vasudevaya, Om

pragya dhuhitaram upaye me dhita vratam asaṅdhidhācchita jatta hirnya mā atma jaṁuni

va jata yidh ma va hatma jo muni yidh ma va hatma jo muni

yasyam dhidha dhidha ayyayyasyam dhidha chhito

jata yasyam dhidha chhito jata Agastya praagduhitaram, bhaime dhritavagratam, yasyam dhritachyatodjata, itmavajatmajomuni.

Upayam me drittavrtam, yasyam drittayutajata, idamavahatmajomuni.

Prach, first, to Hitharam daughter who by Yemay married to Tiritham, taking the vows.

Yashyam, through whom, drddhiyutta, named drddhiyutta.

Jyata was born, idmavaha, named Idmavaha, Atmaja, son, Muni, the great sage.

Translation in purport by His Divine Grace, Srila Prabhupada.

The great sage named Agresha married the first born daughter of Malaya Dvaja, the devout devotee of Lord Krishna.

From her 1 son was born whose name was Dhridhatsuta and from him another son was born whose name was Idmavahab.

The name Agastha Muni is very significant.

The word Agastya indicates that senses do not act independently, and the word Muni means mind.

The mind is the center of all senses and thus the senses cannot work independent of the mind.

When the mind takes to the call of bhakti, it engages in devotional service.

The call of bhakti, bhakti-lata, is the first daughter of Malaya the Vajra.

And as pleasedly ascribe her eyes are always upon Krishna.

Thinking the absolute truth is to be without form.

The Mayavadis say that the word bhakti can apply to any form of worship.

If this were the case, the devotee could imagine any demigod or any godly form of worship.

The real fact is that Bhakti can be applied only to Lord Vishnu and his expansions.

Therefore Bhakti-Rita is Jidhavrata, the great vow from when the mind is completely engaged in devotional service, the mind does not fall down.

If 1 tries to advance by other means, by Karma Yoga or Jnana Yoga, 1 will fall down, but if 1 is fixed in Bhakti, he never falls down.

Thus, from Bhakti Yatabha's son, Vidhatshvara, is born into Vidhatshvara.

The word Idmavaha refers to 1 who carries wood for burning and sacrifice when approaching a spiritual master.

The point is that Bhante Vittal the Cobbler devotion fixes 1 in his spiritual position.

1 self-fix never comes down and he begets children who are strict followers of the scriptural shastra injunctions and set in the Vedas.

Tad bhigha naa tam sagarumiva bhigha seth samit pranayi shyoti brahmam nish tam.

In the line of devotional service, those who are initiated as straight-followers, they are the exceptional injunctions.

Vande hamshri guru shri jatapada kamalam.

Sri Guru Vaishnavamstha Sri Rupam Sagajatam Sahagana Raghunathan Vitam Tam Sajivam Sadayetam Sabadutam Parijanasayetam Krishna Chaitanya Devam Sri Valha Krishna Padam Sahagana Lalita Sri Vishakhan Vitamstha Sadayetam sabadutam parijanasayutam, Krishna-jaitanya-devam, Srivahakrishna-padam, Sahagana-lalitasi-vishakam-vitam-scha, Nama om vishnu-padaya, Krishna-prestaya-butale, Shri Matte-bhakti-vedantusva-mriti-namane, It's interesting to note here that 1, those who are initiated are strict followers of the Vigitasan Dantra.

But we see so many who got initiated are not strictly following.

I'm going to say there's a contradiction here.

So what is the proper understanding of this?

Well 1 thing is it's supposed to be strict, that's 1 thing.

Another understanding is that they're not really initiated.

They haven't really accepted it within the arm.

Those who are not strictly followed, they may superficially appear to be initiated, but they're not actually initiated.

Initiation is a very, very significant thing.

You're born again as a devotee of the Lord.

Even in Christianity, they are called born again Christians.

So the idea of being born again is there in many different cultures.

Being born again your first body, your first brother is a mother and father, second brother is a Buddha and Krishna.

So if you are initiated but you are struggling, not having difficulty, you follow strictly the injunctions of the spiritual master and scriptures.

That's a very important question that 1 can ask if they're struggling.

We go back here, we can see that the very nice point of this connection, we can be a little early in the purport of how the mind is the center of all the senses.

The senses cannot work independently of the mind.

So if the senses are engaged in nonsense, then that means the mind is not properly situated.

So we have to then, very important, yutah yutah nishchalitay man nishchantay namasptay.

From whatever and wherever the mind wanders, due to its flicker and unsteady nature, it will not certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self.

So we have to see then what is the position of the mind.

Is the mind wandering here and there, going here and there, wandering, wandering, wandering?

Is the mind solidly fixed to the Lord at the feet of Radha and Krishna?

For us Neophytes we have to admit the mind is roaming here and there, roaming, roaming, roaming, roaming, roaming.

We're not solidly fixed to the Lord at the feet of Radha and Krishna.

So how do we Neophytes then get back to that position?

Well that's actually devotional service and practice.

There's real life devotional service and there's devotional service and practice.

So it's like in any field of activity, in the beginning you're not very good.

You need training, you need guidance, you're trying to learn, you make so many mistakes.

But finally a day comes, you're very expert, you everything perfectly.

In the beginning you make this mistake, that mistake, so many mistakes are there.

You have to humble yourself to take instructions for those that Krishna sent you to guide you.

If you don't want to hear from those that Krishna sent you to guide you, then it's a hopeless position.

And you remain an idiot and a rascal serving of your senses.

But if you very intelligently take advice from those that Krishna sent you to guide you and help you get out of the mental platform, get out of the mental platform, then you can gradually become a very expert devotee and actually fulfill the real meaning of your initiation.

Instead of hovering in your birth, once born and twice born, going back and forth like a windshield wiper.

So it's very important we learn that and humble ourselves to those that Krishna sent to train us.

We should not think I don't require any training.

I've been initiated for so many years and second initiated this and that.

While you're not really initiated in the true sense of the term, but your mind is not fixed.

Your mind is wandering, wandering, wandering, wandering, like a monkey, you see, in the red oven, jumping from the branch to the branch to the branch, going here, going there, monkey business.

There is a saying called monkey business, and he is doing all kinds of nonsense.

So we have to stop this monkey business, doing all kinds of nonsense, and actually become solidly fixed to the lotus feet of the spiritual master and Krishna.

In this way all our anxieties will go away.

See, we're actually punishing ourselves by letting our minds roam freely.

We're so used to letting our minds roam here and there and there and go wherever they want to go.

This is our habit since time immemorial, to allow the mind to go freely, wherever it wants to go.

That's why we've gone through the 8 million so far out of the species.

We go out because the mind was thinking, well, I can have this, I can have that, let me enjoy this, let me enjoy that, let me try this, let me try that.

Okay, you want to enjoy this way, okay here's the body for you.

You want to enjoy that way, here's the body for that.

So Krishna facilitates and according to our mental state, upon leaving the body, he facilitates us to giving our next body.

So the intelligent person in the middle is, now wait a minute, as long as I continue with these material hankerings, I'm again in other material bodies.

So this is not really a very good thing to be suffering like this, unless you say a linear cycle of birth and death.

Here I am an actually eternal spiritual being, 1 of the associates of the Supreme Lord in the strata of the pastimes and the spiritual world.

So I have no idea in here as a one-way kid trying to enjoy on the street.

Why should I try to enjoy in this position?

We have to become a little sober, a little intelligent and realize, why am I punishing myself unnecessarily like this?

Punishing, punishing, punishing myself day after day, week after week, year after year, decade after decade.

Here I am cheating myself out of pure bhakti, trying to enjoy separately when they're in place when there is no enjoyment.

So Krishna comes here and delivers us by giving us his Bhagavad Gita, the Bhagavatam is there in the agency of Sukhadeva.

It's wonderful, wonderful knowledge that's here.

We simply have to learn to take advantage of it.

By hearing very submissively teachings, taking very seriously in the heart, not a good mode of rejection, except rejection.

This I don't enjoy, I'll reject it, based on my sense gratification, bogatiag.

So instead of going to accept, reject on the face of the bogatiag, let me just understand that Lord Krishna is giving me the highest blessings that I could make.

Take advantage of this kindness coming from Krishna.

He's manifested in so many ways, the light of the sun, the light of the moon, the ability in man, the taste of water.

And Krishna is making himself available, purifiers on the wind.

It's like we can take a walk and feel the wind, the strong wind blowing at us while taking the walk.

So we should think, oh, Krishna is purifying the air by this wind, driving away all the garbage in the air, bringing in this purified air, the wind.

So in this way we have to learn to see Krishna based on Bhagavad Gita.

We can see through the eyes of the scripture, Krishna manifests in so many ways.

We can see he manifests in the form of the deity, in the form of the Shastra, in the form of the Sadhusangha, in the form of the spiritual masters.

In so many ways Krishna is coming, in the form of the holy name, in the form of our Japa Mala,

name, the form of our Japa Mala, so many ways Krishna is coming to bless us.

So let us take advantage of His kindness and actually come out of our so-called independence.

You're a dancing dog of Krishna or a dancing dog of Maya.

Of course the amazing thing is, just consider the example of the puppet.

There's the puppet and the puppeteer, the strings.

The puppeteer is controlling the puppet with the strings.

But Krishna is so kind, the strings are there, so long as the puppet can control the puppeteer.

Krishna reciprocates, oh, you're letting yourself be pulled by strings, okay we're connected by this string, now you can pull me with this string.

I've been pulling you, now you can pull me.

Like Mother's the son of the whipping stick.

Krishna's afraid that Mother's the son of the whipping stick.

So in this way, it's not some kind of impersonal thing, some cruel or exploitative impersonal thing.

Well you can if you want, but there actually is not such thing as an independence.

It's like here in the state, here we are in Texas.

You can be a law abiding citizen, abiding by the rules of the state, or you can be a criminal abiding by the laws of the prison house.

You may try to enjoy separately, disobeying the laws of the state, but you'll be captured and put in the prison.

So either way we have to follow higher authority, like it or not.

You say, why can't I be the higher authority, the my buddy and my debes?

Well, Christians, if you want to be, alright, I'll give you illusion that you are the Supreme.

You can carry on thinking you are very happy in that way.

But such a mentality, even though you may feel very happy to think that you are God, such a mentality is not very practical because now here you are your God, but you're being forced to get sick and get old and die.

Being forced to get sick and get old and die.

For those who want to become God, is a dog, is a monkey, is a orangutan, is a cactus plant, is a mosquito, is a fly, is a demigod, is an endogoprogerm.

We've been shy to be God in so many ways that it doesn't work.

We just had to face the reality, even though I want to be God, I can't really be God, because I'm not God.

So can I claim to be the source of all existence?

Even a hard time getting up in the morning, can I claim to be the source of all existence?

So we have to become a little thoughtful and intelligent and realize We have to follow the path of the great Acharyas, like Lord Jesus Christ is 1 of the great Vaishnava Acharyas.

And he taught the principle to many of the Supreme Lords.

Jesus Christ taught the same exact principle as Krishna is teaching from the devotee's perspective.

Father, not my will, but thy will be done.

When you can give up the idea of doing what you want, giving it what Krishna wants, Of course, that's not the higher platform.

That's the innermost desire of every living being.

Vāṅcā-kāpā-lī-vāśyāṅkā-kāpā-sindhu-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-bhū-b I offer my respect to the vaisnavas and to all the vaisnavas of the Lord.

I just like to desire and treat, to fulfill the desires of everyone.

He's never suffering in any way, the real Vaishnava.

If I am suffering it means I am not fully a Vaishnava yet.

If I am suffering this anxiety and that anxiety it means I am not fully a Vaishnava yet because the Vaishnavas have no unhappiness whatsoever, except for 1 unhappiness, paridukha dukkhi.

They are very unhappy, you see the sufferings of others.

And that's actually what it means to be a devotee.

You have personal no problem, personally no problems at all, but your only problem is how to save these poor rascals who are drowning in the cycle of breath and death.

So in this way we take this process with intelligence, with sincerity, with dedication, all kinds of wonderful things will come.

All kinds of wonderful results will be there guaranteed.

As Krishna is a solid guarantee, if you surrender to me, I will deliver it to all your Papas.

No, you're absolutely pure, absolutely sure.

Sarvapabhaya, Bhogavata, all moksha, shramis.

I'll become liberated from all of my sinful reactions.

So right now I'm suffering from so many different reactions.

My pious activities, I'm still entangled because of them.

So Christians, I give my body a slate, and you're charged with a clean slate.

No garbage there, no pious or impious karma to deal with, no finish.

Now you simply become reestablish and you're blessed with me.

Become qualified to come back to your original home in the spiritual world.

So in this way, it's all they are waiting for.

I know what I want to do and I want to do it.

If you want to have that mentality, I say I want to do what I want.

I don't want to get any guidance from anybody.

If you want to be a rascal, you can be a rascal.

We should intelligently analyze what is the result of doing whatever I want to do and what is the result of foolishness and doing good in Krishna.

It makes you intelligent and like, what did I get the best deal?

Like shopping during an airline ticket, we look for the best deal.

Doing what I want, doing what Krishna wants.

But the greater char is, they've shown us you get the best result, the best bang for your buck by day when Krishna was.

That's because of the best result from your activities.

So we should learn Mahajanogyanika, that's the Bhangta.

We should follow the path of these Vedic Charyas.

We've chalked out this pathway back to our original home in the spiritual world.

They've taught us, do what Krishna wants.

And then all nature and all mercy will be available to you.

And minds means we're being controlled by our senses.

When will that day be mine when I give up all this nonsense, become serious about becoming who I really am, and stop punishing myself unnecessarily.

Kabe habe voda sedi mama, when will that day be mine?

When my offense is increasing, taste of the name increasing, whenever I will your mercy shine, kabe habe bodhisattva amma vena vena nadi.

This is a prayer that Bhakti Manoj took in all the greater charyas.

So let us take this smooth Bhakti Manoj and the greater charyas by anchoring, anchoring, anchoring, anchoring From that day when I give up all my nonsense and become fully absorbed in Krishna consciousness so I can taste unlimited nectar and chant the holy names.

It may not even achieve that state in our present lifetime.

But if we're sincerely endeavoring, just like the final exam in some courses, The best thing is that 100% of the time, even when I was in college, 100% is the ideal, but even 70% is the passing drink.

So even if we somehow rather, if Krishna is conscious, even though we have so many faults, if we somehow rather remember Krishna at the time of death, then we're liberated.

I just remember Krishna doing the mistakes.

I shouldn't be, I shouldn't, the devotees shouldn't be so disturbed I'm making all the mistakes because I'm remembering Krishna.

Not that I can go on making so many mistakes.

If I really remember Krishna, it means Bhakti is with love.

If I remember Krishna And I think it's okay to make mistakes, but my remembrance is tainted with selfishness and greed.

If I'm remembering Krishna properly, that means I am in love with Bhakti.

My supreme beloved Krishna is showing unlimited mercy upon me.

Let me try to give back a little bit of love at least.

Let me try to give a little bit of love back to him.

So if I'm sincerely loving Krishna, I won't be content with just remembering him and making all these mistakes.

I want to remember Him and show Him that I'm doing everything perfectly in this service.

I'm really sincere about becoming an devotee of Krishna.

Not that I can go on being fool and rascal and expect Krishna to be happy with me now.

So, do you mind if I just add some points?

That word urges is a very significant word.

The urges of the mind, the urges of the tongue, the urges of the genitals.

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