Oh yeah you know how to play the C there’s a big box of him over there he’s an old Dev body are you Sant yeah he joined you from the from the classes when was that 2000 2001 Kjab go J Y har Krishna Krishna kishna Kishna Krishna Krishna kishna Krishna Krishna Krishna kishna Krishna mad Karab divine grace all glory to the assemble of devotees all glory to the assemble of devotees all glory to the assemble of devotees all glory to shuru Andanga Okay on this 24th day of January 2024 in San Diego we reading from shimad Bhagavad Gita as it is translation and commentary by his divine grace AC and we are in chapter four entitled transcendental knowledge text number 36 on page 223 V For For go ahead are You anyone else want to try it anyone Online okay I’ll read the word by words myself can follow along up even if you are of Sinners of all the greatest sinner s all such sinful reactions Gana plena by the boat of transcendental knowledge AA certainly vam the ocean of miseries s you will cross completely translation Krishna says to Arjun even
If you are consider considered to be the most sinful of all Sinners when you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries purport proper understanding of one’s constitutional position in relationship to Krishna is so nice that it can at
Once lift one from the struggle for existence which goes on in the ocean of nence this material world is sometimes regarded as an ocean of nence and sometimes as a blaze forest in the ocean however however expert a swimmer one may be the struggle for existence is very severe if someone
Comes forward and lifts the struggling swimmer from the ocean he is the greatest savior perfect knowledge received from the Supreme personality of godhead is the path of Liberation the boat of Krishna Consciousness is very simple but at the same time the most Sublime oh me I was born in the darkest of ignorance
But my spiritual Master sh open my eyes with the torch light of knowledge I offer M obas unto him and all members of Shri parara the discipl succession so this is one of the many verses in the babat Gita in which Krishna encourages us that uh no matter
How Fallen you are no matter how disqualified you think you are if you take up the process of devotional service and in this particular instance he’s talking about uh different kinds of sacrifice that one can perform he gave a whole list in previous verses of uh
Juges that one can perform and then in text 34 he has this essential verse saying if you really want to understand uh the all these sacrifices and all of the process of devotion service then you need to take shelter of a Bonafide spiritual Master the idea is that uh the the
Knowledge of different sacrifice the knowledge of Krishna Consciousness try to understand it by approaching a Tashi Tashi means one who has seen the truth now what is that truth well we learned from the shim batam in the second chapter of the first Kanto this Brahman that we’re enjoying
To investigate or or inquire about at the very beginning of theant this this phrase g g means now that you’re a human being you should inquire into Brahman what is that Brahman that that second in second verse says this these sutes are very short but they’re packed with meaning uh Brahman
Is very succinctly that which is the source of everything that the cause of all causes and what he also that that entity that sustains everything and ultimately dissolves everything that’s what the AI means Etc birth Etc generation so Krishna makes it very clear in in sh Bhagavad Gita that he is
That personality he’s the source of everything in the 10th chapter a text 8 which is the first of the four essential verses in bhavita we understood he says very he says very distinctly I am the source of everything everything emanates for me the wise who understand that perfectly worship me
With all their hearts take up the process of B bakti so here in text 34 he gives the the importance of that Tashi of actually coming in touch with the realized Soul who can do what can can impart this critical knowledge which is meant to bring about a
Revolution in our in our lives there’s a nice verse in the in the fifth chapter of the first Cano of batam where naruni is in uh instructing V vasad and inspiring him to write the batam his last work he was dissatisfied he had written all the other panas he
Had written the different vadas and he’ written mahab containing the bhav Gita but in spite all that wonderful literature he says I still don’t think I fulfilled my mission as as as the the author you know there’s something missing so naruni sensed that he came down and he started instructing him and
One of the verses he instructed him with is so I this is such an important verse for this movement and for us because Shad was inspired by this verse he took this verse and he quoted at the end of his preface through the sh bhatan and what
It says is that that baso baso simply means the creation of words a literary work that create that book that um which is meant to bring about a revolution in the lives of of this highest uh civilization modern civilization uh it uses this word PL to
Uproot to to capsize the boat he was he talking about a boat right the boat of knowledge so so AA means sin so this in this kuga especially there there’s so much sin going on people are confused of how how to even manage their material life what
To speak of a spiritual life so that that literature which is meant to bring about a revolution in the impious lives of present day civilization and even if it’s imperfectly composed it may not be the greatest literary work you see but it glorifies Krishna the unlimited Lord is the name
For Krishna and is filled with the names and qualities and pastimes and activities of that Lord then the those who are wise even if it may not be such great literature they they they hear it they they share it they relish it because of the subject matter so Shila
Prad he was not a native English speaker he was he had learned English in school and he was writing in English but if you if you take a look at the what we call the deli batam he printed three volumes of the first Kanto in New Delhi in 1960
To 64 it took him four years about to print those first three volumes he didn’t have much money he had to keep he printed one volume used that to show to get donations for the second volume and everything he was doing a law and proof reading and writing and everything so it
Took him almost four years so once he had that it was about in 1965 he felt now I have the ammunition now I’m empowered you know I can maybe do something and he heroically got on this this uh a cargo ship you know he had free passage from a Pious devote lady
There in Bombay and he gets on this jol Duda and he’s got the books you know he made sure he picked up the book he had a few cases of them you know of uh those um those long Indian trunks fed with the books and he had about you know $7 worth
Of rupes he had a bag of oatmeal or something or you know that that he didn’t know what he was going to be able to eat when he got got to America it was like you know he was just putting himself at the in the hands of chrisna
Please you know you want me to do this Mission so and his spiritual Master Lord and I going to go into the whole detail was wonderfully told and she probably L and many other books about how he was able to you know last for a whole year
Practically in in New York City uh and and eventually he he began to get some traction when he came down to the Lower East Side in the middle of the hippie era if he had come earlier or come later I don’t know if he would have made it I
Lived there I was part of I didn’t join in 1966 but I was part of that I lived in in Long Island I would spend a lot of time in New York City and it was a time of great upheaval in uh young people with searching you know the LSD was part
Of it you know and the music and everything and and and uh there there was there was a lot of firment thinking and and experimentation that was the thing and so certain you know when this new mantra came and here’s this Indian Guru he looks pretty um Blissful and
Then genuine so let’s try it out let’s check out the and then on Sunday they have this Feast you know so they free Feast you can go and so he had figured out and he got a few uh sincere followers who then helped him to start
The movement and it be all over the world in the next 12 years so prad is this tatashi in mentioned in the text 34 we’re going to beere text 36 and so this is this is necessary if you want to get the knowledge he can impart that
Knowledge the knowledge is the key gam and then y knowing that understanding that having Ain real Knowledge from a self-realized soul you will never fall again into such illusion Arjun has been put into illusion you know and not wanting to fight you know for material reasons so that Krishna would speak to
Bhagavad for by this knowledge you will see that all living beings are but part of the supreme or in other words that they’re mine so you’ll get you’ll understand what’s what that you are a spiritual being that every other that were surrounded by millions and millions of living entities and different bodies
And all of them are part and parel of Krishna as he says in 15 that all of these living entities are part and parcel of me Ana now the word Ana is important because it means it it part and parcel means it has the same quality as what is part and parcel of
And we have two wonderful examples at hand the sun anywhere where you get the sun rays there’s also a minute bit of light and heat in each Sunray but it’s insignificant compared to the whole Sun but we have that relationship with the sun we have the same quality but vastly
Different quantity the ocean you take a little thimble full or even a drop out of the out of the ocean and you analyze it and it’ll have the same chemical quality as the vast ocean it’ll be salty like that right so that drop has the qual the same in quality different in
Quantity similarly we are minute uh Brahman we are also Brahman the famous phrase from the vadas aasi I remember that’s one of the first things we learned when we join the asham aam Brasi I’m Spirit I’m not matter you know and Krishna explains the beginning in the second chapter that we’re all
Transmigrating through this one body we’ve all had many different bodies even in this one birth just as you grow up I mean we were all we were all 10 years old at one point right so we all had different body different mind subtle body gross body was different but same
We’re the same person now as we were 20 30 40 50 years ago when we were 10 but we been transmigrating and eventually like all machines this yantra known as the body will uh malfunction for whatever reason it’ll stop working and we have to leave the body and and we
Don’t the soul doesn’t leave alone we take our mind and our intelligence and our ego with us these are also material elements and those form the template of our next body whatever we’ve done we’ve created our Consciousness here so that’s the basic science so understanding the knowledge what’s the knowledge Propet
Said what is real knowledge knowledge of the matter Spirit and the controller of both he says that in the 13th chapter comes up and it’s it’s a very nice little uh you know uh modotto so what does that matter it’s all around us the gross and subtle matter matter the earth
Water fire in other words solid matter liquids radiant energy including electricity and fire and that uh uh liquids of all kinds uh air of course gases and then there’s the space it’s getting more and more subtle you see and then the the mind is also a material
Element very subtle we all have our mind we can’t see each other’s mind but we know we have it and then intelligence that critical factor of of discrimination and finally the ego the sense of self those are the eight material elements but there but that
That’s not us then then he says in the seventh chapter uper a all of these are my upper prti my inferior energy but there’s also par prti Superior uh energy which is spiritual which comprises all the Jas all the living energies all of us who are struggling very hard and sustain and
And and sustaining the universe just like we’re sustaining this body as soon as the the soul leaves the body for whatever reason there the body deteriorates you have to bury it burn it get rid of it right it’s not functioning anymore it’s just a lot of gross matter
So so that that that’s that’s basic knowledge so now so now in 35 he says and knowing this getting this knowledge from the realized Soul uh you will no longer uh be an illusion you will never again fall into such illusion for by this knowledge you will see that all
Living beings are but part of the supreme or in other words that they mind so you’re seeing are the the you see that we have a relationship with God and that everyone else does too and therefore we’re all kin kin we’re all the same family and then and that’s
That’s the true basis of Brotherhood and and and fraternity and all of that thing otherwise we tend to judge each other by our externals with the race and the language and the age and the gender and million different things and that causes so much so much conflict in the world so
Once we see the essential Oneness we can break through all of those external barriers and and relate to each other as Spiritual Beings and that’s the way we’re supposed to do it and basically it means try to give everyone Krishna Consciousness and try to uh you know
Unite people in the the the most valuable thing because otherwise no matter what you succeed in doing in this world it’s going to be taken from you at the time of death if anything material but anything spiritual you do if you build your relationship with chrishna your understanding that you’ll take with
You it it’ll you’ll start from that point in the next life Krishna makes that clear in the second chapter so here Krishna in the in the 36th verse he’s encouraging it doesn’t matter how sinful you are you know it doesn’t matter what what whatever socioeconomic condition or race whatever you come from
No the most sinful you’ll be on his boat he compares the knowledge to a boat to take you across the ocean of birth and death and if you’ll allow me I’m going to refer to a few other boat verses because there there some wonderful uh verses in the in
The sh batam and another book I’ll share with you that compares um the different what what are the different boats that take us across this dangerous ocean of birth and death so in the 14th chapter the 10th cantom this is uh I this is after the the prayers of
Brahma and he has this Brahma Vian Leela where he tries to he steals krishna’s C CES and he steals Chris’s friends and he say what what’s chrisan what is this little boy going to do with his little fruit in his hand you know so he comes back after for a
Moment and he’s Christian’s still playing with the boys and K what is this I I thought I HIIT him in my Mystic so Krishna expanded himself into all the boys and caves exact replicas so that even their mothers wouldn’t know and they all get a chance to suckle him you
Know the C the cows and the caves and the boys who you know for a whole year which is just a moment in brahma’s time then he comes back so then he has these wonderful prayers and one of them uh I think is this one unless it’s shuk
Afterward but anyway it’s in that chapter there’s that word again you see you know the Boat you can hear the Poetry in that verse so he says those who take full shelter of the boat of the lotus feet of Krishna this is the analogy um means total sh who whose feet is it marari the name for Krishna krishna’s Lotus feet the boat of the lotus
Feet now this is interesting uh that that that that those those feet are Maham it means two meanings one is that’s where all the mahatmas stay they reside the great Souls that reside at Chris’s Lotus feet mean they’re always absorbed in serving Lotus feet means the service and it’s also where the entire
Mahatat rest the whole universe is resting on Krishna you know now this is describing marari or Krishna just just by his glorification Yasha means Fame you get Pious you become Pious in other words it’s so so powerful the chanting of the Holy Name is our main glorification that your
Whole being changes and your your your the whole direction of your life changes so the ocean of baba baba means change and come in in this context it always means birth old ages EAS and death birth old ages EAS and death around and around we go so this is like a very frightening
Dangerous painful ocean you and this danger that’s the thing with the ocean if you’re in the middle of it let should have a nice boat so the whole ocean you’re you’re now fully surrendered and clinging fast to krishna’s Lotus feet the boat it all shrinks down this vast ocean shrinks
Down to the water that’s can be contained in a calf’s hotprint not even a cow cows a hotprint a little bigger c a little tiny so now it’s paradoxical this happens like this you’re in you have this boat boat now you don’t even need the boat you can just step
Across but it is a boat you are in the because you’re already in the spiritual world even if physically your body may still be here your Consciousness has now become so purified that you’re living in a liberated State always thinking of Krishna and therefore always thinking the spiritual world so
Therefore not for them is this world where every step there’s so much danger you see the danger comes because we identify with the body and the body is always subject to injury or or destruction or disease as we’ve learned in the last few years and so that causes
Great anxiety for the soul when we forget our protector and our shelter is Krishna so that’s the first boat now here’s the second boat this is a verse spoken by Krishna himself in the 11th Cano to UDA there’s another Gita there it’s even longer than the babad Gita
It’s it’s called the udita in the 11th don’t exact chapters 7 8 9 10 11 12 and so he says to there and he’s speaking to all of us that word again so ataha ataha means the killer of the Soul you can’t kill the soul but spiritual suicide
So he says very hopeful at the beginning human form of body it is filled with all kinds of faculties most important of which is the human intelligence the highest intelligence uh this is a great little phrase because it’s a play on words these are opposites these are Su means easily gotten and and
Sud means very easy to get well how can it be both CU means that you automatically get it in other words Every Soul comes up to the human form there’s no souls who are permanently damned in lower species everyone gets a chance you know so in that sense it’s
Sulum but there’s only a limited number of us even on this planet yes there’s 400,000 species or varieties of human beings but then the count is oh we’ve reached 8 billion you know I would I would guess that in in a square mile you have many
More than 8 billion ants termites I I’ve had termites in my I’ve been fighting those for years uh you know in other words those are all living entities these Blades of grass when you see a lawn every one of those Blades of grass is a different soul in there you know so
Anyway it’s it’s rare so it’s so it’s rare but it’s automatically gotten so the human form of body so what is it there’s the word PL again is a very nicely constructed boat Plum suul and you also and and what kind of boat a sailboat you know not a motorboat
Sailboat and so in any kind of boat uh you need a good a captain Guru the captain we just read about the the guru who is Tashi no the basic principle knows the shastras lives the shastras realize the goal of the shastras and teaches that’s
That’s what a guru is in a charara you so we have we have the opportunity we have that Krishna has empowered sh pra and other gurus so Guru is there the boat is there now what about the winds favorable winds krishna’s words in the vas by me my spoken words beginning with
Bita this Krishna speaking here there favorable winds to push that Bo so with all of these things uh bab that human being here’s the bab again the ocean of birth and death that person human being who does not cross is virtually committing spiritual suicide you can kill the soul soul is
Never killed but you’re postponing your Liberation for who knows how many millions of years so we should take advantage of it you see now here’s another boat verse this is this is at the end of chapter 4 of the 12th Cano near the end of the whole bat and the
Chapter is a very bracing one it’s a very sobering one because it describes different kinds of annihilations there’s this big Annihilation where the whole universe is is is withdrawn into the body of mahavishnu at the end of brahma’s life you know he only lives for one breath for one breath of mahavishnu
So he when comes out you know and and and Brahma lives for over 8 trillion is it 8 trillion year 3 311 trillion 40 billion years is is the lifetime of our Brahma for this small universe is other bigger universes brahmas with more heads and everything much longer lived so
Anyway from from our little point of view it’s practically forever but it’s not forever and eventually the whole universe is drawn into to the body of Mah Vishnu we’re all in sub suspended animation we’re not thinking anything our minds are you know quiet and eventually eventually we come out when
He starts breathing out and start again so that’s um uh yeah so so it’s it’s a it’s it’s virtual suicide if we if we don’t develop our spiritual life then we’ll be going into that state and basically non-existent for uncounted years so that’s like spiritual suicide so the the
Motto is it’s always the same motto don’t waste time you know take advantage of this human form of life inquire into the absolute truth from the right Source uh and develop your relationship with Krishna your Krishna Consciousness and in this age we have this great benediction we don’t have to go to the
Himalayas we don’t have to perform all these severe austerities chant the Holy Name you know such an important verse I put into a little poem If you want to achieve the supreme goal of life in this age when descension and Chaos abound there is no
Other way there is no other way there is no other way that can never be found but through chant Christ’s name and chant Chris’s name and to chant Chris’s name with a stout-hearted vow and to pray oh Lord kishna friend of the poor let my
Head ever run to your Lord’s feet bow so that’s the that’s the uh that’s in the Piranhas that’s be had I think Nar I forget the name of the Briar naria piranha yeah so finally there’s this my final boat no actually there’s two more boats so this is the
End of the now the one at the end of the 12th Cano goes like this again the so he uses both analogies I think Pro mentions it in the pur Bo here that it’s often compared we’re on page uh 223 you that this world is of often compared to an ocean very dangerous
Place that you have to get cross over or a forest fire which is also very dangerous right so this verse has both of those analogies so he says for those who are uh suffering the in the forest fire of birth and death in this world and are
Really eager to cross over the ocean of birth and death uh which is very difficult to cross over but they’re very eager to do it there’s no other boat that other than to cultivate The Taste for for descriptions and and accounts of krishna’s pastimes which shaa would
Worked so hard to give us in his Krishna book you know he wrote that he suspended the formal production of the bhagwatam so that we would know who Krishna was because he’s there you know working on the third Kanto and he didn’t know if he
Had enough time to get to the 10th Cano they at least they should have Krishna book so he it’s a what do you call a summary study it’s a translation with interspersed comments but it’s not as formal as we have here like bav Gita with verse and P so you can chant the
Verse you know so he stopped and then I had the great opportunity and prop could see he only got through 13 chapters of the 10th CLE and then and then he did not complete the bhat and I was greatly blessed by Krishna to be able to participate in the team that completed
The last 130 chapters or 120 chapters rest of the 10th canand 11th canand and then the 12th can so those are theirs so that’s then then there’s one more really sweet one with a boat and this one boats that that I that I haven’t memorized in
In the bat but this one is a prayer uh to shim from the Vali of ragas and and he says like this is in this verse there’s no but there’s is another word for boat so he says oh D Shani this poor soul is drowning in an
Ocean of misery in the middle in in uh and very unfortunate so please place this Soul on the powerful boat very strong boat of your mercy and take him to the infallible Refuge of your Lotus feet so it’s say it’s a very sweet it’s kind of it’s an advanced verse but it’s
Again the same boat we need that Refuge we need to be on a secure boat proba compared isan to a boat he said get on the boat and stay on the boat don’t jump back off into the ocean because some devotees would get have trouble and they
Would leave you know once you get on the boat do everything you can to stay so that’s uh that’s all inspired by the word plava in this verse but but here Gana itself is a is a boat you know is a refuge for us cultivating this this this
Knowledge PR is labored so hard to give it give us in his books is a real Refuge if we lead Our Lives according to this knowledge we accept it and uh we we uh integrate it into our world view and our self View and we try to act according to
The the instructions Krishna gives here and his followers give then we have a uh good a good chance of crossing over this ocean maybe it won’t take it will take more than one life but we should take encouragement from the second chapter which says nothing there’s no loss
There’s no diminution so we should try as hard as we can as fast as we can to develop this Krishna Consciousness and uh stay on this boat of Krishna K’s knowledge okay so uh now we the boat then now he compares the knowledge to a fire in the next next verse
Yeah text 77 top of 224 as a blazing fire turns fire to ashes o Arjun so does the fire of knowledge burn burn to ashes all reactions to material activities purport perfect knowledge of self and super sself and of the relationship is compared herein to fire this fire not only burns up all
Reactions to impious activities but also all reactions to Pious activities turning them to ashes there are many stages of reaction reaction in the making reaction fructifying reaction already achieved and reaction a priori but knowledge of the Constitutional position of the living entity Burns everything to ashes when one is in
Complete knowledge all reactions both a priori and aposteriori are consumed in the VES the 4422 it is stated one overcomes both the the pious and impious reactions of work so one may ask well why why do I want to uh eradicate the pious reactions isn’t that good this is material piety this is
There’s a whole section of the vas some of you are familiar with called the karmaka section at the beginning of in the second chapter Christa says uh some people think that this is all there is in the Bas the flowery words of the Bas but no that’s meant for people who are uh
Anxious to improve their material condition either in this life or in the next life to go to heaven and so one can worship this God or this goddess you know and worship Indra you go go to Indra Loca and as Krishna will describe in the ninth
Chapter in that in that swal Loca that’s Heaven Heavenly Planet one can enjoy like anything material sense gratification you have a strong body there’s all kinds of facility for enjoyment and you live a long time but it’s not eternal it’s it’s based on your your Pious credits that you you accumulated from
Performing sacrifices and worshiping the gods and charity and all these different so unfortunately you know it may be thousands of years but at a certain point your pun is used up and you have to fall down against this world of birth and death you know and
So you end up just going and coming you’re not really progressing back to godhead it just you know on this planet you can see so many people they they they save their money they they Aspire and then they somehow were able to buy a house in San Diego you know as opposed
To Montreal or somewhere in Montana you know hoping the weather will be better you know like so but it’s a foolish uh uh aspiration because anything material is limited it’s aat and we’re we’re missing the boat we’re missing our chance as human beings to really you
Know go back to guid it so therefore um we have we that’s why it says here Burns ashes all even if you have a good reaction coming that that’ll still bring you back to a material body so you can get your good results but it’s not that good because you know then they’re
They’re consumed and then you’re still faced with birth old age disease and death which Chris says want you to remember he says gentl this is one of the elements of knowledge he describes in Chapter 13 there’s a whole 20 of them or so and means that
One should be aware and keep in the back of mind you know the the evils meanings the the pains the distresses caused by birth old ages EAS and death which inevitably accompany material body so this is one of the the the the primary impetuses for practicing any kind of
Yoga get Liberation now Krishna Consciousness you achieve that but much more if you if you actually advance in devotional service that Liberation becomes less prominent to you as a as a motivation because you’re you’re tasting your actual relationship with Krishna more progressively the more pure you get and we should understand that that
Includes MTI perfection in bakti includes MTI rishab when Lord rishab was an incarnation of Krishna the fifth Cano he has certain little lessons in his full lesson that he gives and one of them describes uh he’s saying you know says certainly mean certainly those who are simply endeavoring for sense
Gratification gross or subtle are mad in this world why he says I don’t think it’s a very good idea because it ensures that you’re going to take another body another gross body in world and you’re going to suffer like anything and then he has a really key verse uh he’s describing there a
Whole lesson here so there’s two pairs there of in Sanskrit very perfect language you know just like we have you want to make an analogy there’s a lot of analogies like the boat is an analogy and in uh in the vers just as you have transmigrated in
This one body from body to body similarly when the body dies you’re going to get another body the same transmation so this is like usually it’s negative as long as you don’t do this you won’t get that so you listen for the the can come first sometimes so what is it’s described here
As defeat paradas means again taking another physical body with no Krishna Consciousness that’s parabas which is born of ignorance we’re back to knowledge which is the subject here born of of ignorance it doesn’t mean that you’re not a professor of you know chemistry or something you’re born of ignorance of transcendental
Science here’s that word again which is in the very first as long as one is does not as long as one does not inquire into the truth of the Soul you know what is matter Spirit and the control of both is the truth of the of the soul of
The self then one will remain ignorant which is the root cause of of birth and death because as long as you you are in that ignorance your mind will be saturated with um impetuses for for material fruit of action that’s called Kaa y as long as you’re performing these
Fruit of activities it could be in the mode of goodness passion ignorance your mind will May stated called katum with fruit of desires just like the ordinary person you see on the street you know they have their immediate desires okay I got to get to
Work you I got to pay my bills you know they have their you know ultimate desires okay uh I can I if I if I work nicely I’ll have two weeks paid vacation that’s so I will go to here you know you know all all kinds of then little you know there’s
All little desires and the negative I want to avoid that avoid that avoid that person you know I’m I’m I’m hurting pain oh I drop a you know aspirin whatever these are all whole bunch of desires so that’s then your mind that’s katm by that mind saturated with foolish
Desires and fears and all all these things by by which sh you stay bound up to sh a physical body so third verse now in this verse gives a punch line so this speak so he says the first two lines is th the Mind mind is the key K which is impelled by
Karmic desires this is Karm you see in ignorance that’s a situation full of ignorance but then he says so here’s the the whole ultimate lesson and it fits right in with everything else PR love he he says I am Bas I an incarnation of Bas as long as one
Therefore as long as one does not develop love for me Vas then there’s no MTI for you MTI is is is is subordinate is to prma and and if you try to get MTI without bakti then you may merge into Brahman for some time but it’s not
Fulfilling because the soul we are all persons Eternal person just like Krishna you know we we’re an of Krishna so we have his qualities that means we need relationship we need Russa we need activity we need form we have person if that’s all suppressed and we’re just a
Conscious being sitting in the uh sensory deprivation chamber of bran eventually we get bored and we come down again to this we come down it’s not secure that that imp personal Liberation so therefore he says PR love there’s no love in in Brahman you know it’s all
Just I am that I am uh so PR until and unless there is love foras Krishna they will not be MTI and so that also means that you just Endeavor to to develop your loving service attitude to Krishna MTI will take care of itself and there’s a verse like that uh it’s
Getting kind of late uh very famous verse probably would quote near the end of the Krishna caram Krishna is a beautiful book by Bal takur um L fell in love with that book he went to South India brought it back with him and and became current in G bishna so near the
End it says btis this this bil mang taka was blind he had blinded himself that’s a long story I won’t tell you but he’s blind but he has the transcendental Vision so he’s always seeing Krishna with the spiritual vision and he’s addressing Krishna my dear Lord if one is fixed in
Devotional service to you then one will get the result we’ll have the fruit of of that fix you know that fixed devotion and what is it MTI no no it’s a vision of your beautiful adolescent form in other words you will reveal your original form that s to him
So that’s what he’s experiencing he can’t see physically but in his spiritual eyes he’s seeing Krishna all the time and as far as MTI is concerned what about MTI m you know how we have this an is a mud it’s like this mud in the in in in here there an offering you
Have flowers or whatever you have in there your soul you know uh so so she has she’s waiting at the door MTI to serve you in other words whatever I need in terms of MTI it’s already taken care of and then he said dharm and
If I need any Dharma and K which are the other three goals they’re also there you know that’ll be there but the main thing is I’m concerned most with getting a beautiful vision of your Kish miti you know that’s that’s so that’s the devote devote Works to develop Krishna
Consciousness and let Muki take care of itself and Lord says I’m not praying for that I’m chanting Hari Krishna but I’m not saying oh would please deliver me from this birth and death no he’s teaching us how to play pray in his wealth and women followers the fruits of
Mundane piety Liberation from this world of Limitless anxiety for me oh Lord these common goals have not the slightest worth let me serve you purely now and in each future birth and when he mentions each future birth it means he’s not praying for Liberation either that’s
A jman jman so this is the the the the prayer of the uh the V the go of vishna we start out you know our path yes it’s a great impetus let me get let me get free of birth and death and go back to godhead that’s first perfectly fine har
Krishna Krish but as you progress and you taste more and more the nectar of krishna’s Lot’s feet that’s not your main concern you’re not worried about birth and death let me take some many births as long as I can keep serving Krishna you see that’s the the the great
Devotees so you can see that this prma is more valuable than MTI and there’s Past Times like that I won’t get into it how who was a great May converted him and this uh this verse oh what is that verse see the verse it it it skips my
Mind but the but the verse ends with M and and sa didn’t want to hear it he he changed he changed the verse the verse he edited the verse the Rascal editor like me and he said and Lord laugh he said you can’t change the verse you can’t change the
Batam that m means that Lord Chan’s feet Lord krishna’s feet are the place where Liberation resides you know it’s it’s okay you know and he wasn’t he said I don’t even want to hear that word MTI anymore because it had all this connotation in his mind of impersonal
Liberation which he didn’t want even think about it anymore well 809 any final questions or comments I’m sorry I kind of got off a little bit but we’ll resume go ahead uh take them like because the people out in in YouTube land listening I think it’s on right
It’s on yeah just hold a little so if I understood the last part of of what if I understood the last part of what you were explaining if on a daily basis if we’re trying to use self-discipline and a lot of effort to renounce and and and not be
Attached to the results of our work that’s not the right strategy if I understood what you said what if I understood what you said correctly it’s more through the practice It comes naturally did I Well here here’s the thing is that chrisan is going through uh different kinds of yoga here actually
You know this Gana yoga He he’ll also speak about aanga yoga meditative yoga chapter 6 you see and these are all the important Concepts you know but uh ultimately they’re they’re all integrated into the process of bakti the sa forance the sacrifice this idea of jagya you know this that that’s
Been the last couple of chapters this is what he’s talking about the third chapter he had the famous verse that uh whatever you do you have to do it as sacrifice for the Supreme otherwise it’ll bind you to this world well that’s pretty hard unless you’re you know
You’re living a life is a devote and everything you do if you come to the point okay even though I’m I’m working to support my household and whatever but that household is a is is kind of a temple I’m raising my children and why everyone is you know abaka so that’s
Also part of devotional service so the main thing is that uh these these uh these ideas are very important but when you come to the point of actually practicing pure devotional service the goal is is ultimately it’s prma or pure love for and everything else is subsumed under
That you’ll get everything you need in terms of uh of Liberation and knowledge and even Krishna says in the eth chapter I’ll provide what you need to live you know you don’t have to worry about your maintenance I mean that’s pretty radical but Sheila prad proved it by starting
This movement and and everyone was just working to serve Krishna and the LMI came the books were printed in The Lox coming the temple is you know going on so in other words uh we don’t we don’t have to separately worry about mukti but it’s a good kind of fail safe to
Understand it say okay I can see now I’m doing something it’s not in the program of Krishna Consciousness and so uh it’s it’s planting another desired seed in my mind that I’m then I’m that’s going to again going to have to purify later so let me just stay strictly uh you know
Doing things in Krishna Consciousness remembering Krishna and yes the the the um the Liberation part will be taken care of and I won’t be prolonging my stay in this material world and I’ll be speeding up my realization of the bakti Russa which is really what we’re looking
For so so the whole process has been been uh created a good book to me would be nectar of devotion which which is R Goos Swami’s book about the process of devotional service and the fruit of devotional service he talks about the different russes there but in the
Beginning he says oh here’s the eight uh benefits of Krishna the Consciousness and they’re more than just Liberation Liberation is one of them but uh the real benefit is you know tasting the great ocean of of happiness and Bliss that’s not even available for the for
The those who achieve MTI in other words it’s the greatest happiness you can achieve on any plane is by re uh Reawakening your original relationship with Krishna and your loving relationship of service so so it’s not that these things are unimportant but they’re ultimately integrated whatever we need in terms of sacrifice and
Detachment is there if we follow the if you just surrender under Krishna the last the last instruction he says he says oh Arjun give up all dharmas and surrender only unto me your sins on nullify oh friend from all anxiety be free so you know so that’s
The the essence of it the last two verses Jim just think of me become devoted worship me and bow down low you’ll come to me oh friend I promise you this Bo I shall bestow give up all dharmas and surrender only unto me your sins on the
Orin from anxiety be free I put him into a little poem obviously so that it all boils down to that if you can surrender unto Krishna through the means of the spiritual Master you know uh and follow the principles of devotional service then you don’t have to worry you know so
Much about the details of how your Liberation is going to be taken care of of you know the knowledge will come because a very important part of bakti is studying the shastra these these classes and everything so everything is taken care of in that sense but they
Come to that point okay then let’s let’s see the importance of not working for food of results and keeping our mind clear of of all these material desires you know in other words it’s all very scientific but once we start the process of devotional service then um it it
Takes care of everything we have to get ready because it’s time uh oh we’re really in trouble now all glory to sh maybe we need to start maybe at 7 o’clock all right we’ll resume next week at uh on text 37 38 37 yeah did we do that one blazing
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