This is called Krsna Consciousness

So materialists, they do not know where their advancement of material civilization will be perfect. They do not know that. 

Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum. 

That perfection will never come, but they are after that perfection, dismantling and building. And after fifty years they will dismantle this building and prepare another kind of building. That will be… At that time further material advancement will be there. So this is going on, gatagatam. Gatagatam means, what is called, stereotyped. Everyone is going. The exact Hindi word is variyagasan. They call variyagasan. Variyagasan means that the goats, the goats, the goat merchant, they are taking to the slaughterhouse, and they are going hither and thither. But if one goat enters the door, all the variyas, they will enter. You see? So because one has entered… But nobody will consider that he has entered the slaughterhouse. No. “One has entered; therefore let us enter all.” This is advancement. “Oh, one has entered; therefore I must enter also. I do not care where I am entering. That I do not know.” So this is going on, gatagatam.

Gatagatam kama-kama labhante. 

Kama-kamah means sense gratification. Sense gratification. But transcendentalists, they have understood that “This sense gratification process will not help me.” 

 

This is called Krsna consciousness. One must understand perfectly well that this process of sense gratification, variyagasan, that will not help me. He is very intelligent. I will have to search out something else, not this sense gratification. So long I have got a pinch of desire for sense gratification, I will have to take this material body. And as soon as I have got this material body, then all of the material miseries are along with it. 

So those who are serious about, that “I do not want any more…” 

But we have become callous. We don’t think that “What is miseries of…?” But those who are actually in knowledge, those who want to live, those who want to have perfect knowledge, those who want to have blissful life, they understand that, This material existence, either this Svargaloka or the heavenly planet or this planet or that, will never give me happiness. I will have to…

As Krsna informs herein, that yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama, I will have to enter the kingdom of God, spiritual planet, where  I will not have to return back again to accept this material body.”

That seriousness, one who has taken that serious attitude, they can actually perform this Krsna consciousness very nicely. But those who are still under the impression that “Material advancement will make me happy,” they are still under the spell of illusion. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya. 

This planet, that planet, that planet, that planet, that planet. But in no planet nowhere you can have perfect peace of life. That is impossible. Therefore those who are intelligent, those who are by God’s grace, Krsna’s grace, or by good association one who can understand that “This sort of life is not desirable. I must perform drdha-vrata, with great determination and vow, in this life so that yad gatva na nivartante, I may be transferred into the Krsnaloka planet where  I shall not have to return back…” 

This is a section of the book “Brilliant As the Sun”(English).

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