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Date: May 12, 1969<\/p>\n
Location: Colombus<\/p>\n
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Allen Ginsberg: The amazing thing was that everybody was able to shake their own ass and get up and dance after…, a long time, and not knowing what to do. When ancient rhythms were floating through, everybody thought and certainly everybody desired to dance and sing rather than be frozen.<\/p>\n
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But such is the nature of our conditioning, in this, which is called the Kali-yuga, according to Hindu fairytale, Hindu mythology, Hindu religion, Hindu belief, Hindu metaphysics, Hindu cosmography, probably corresponding to what in our Western tradition we know as the gnostic tradition, through [indistinct], [indistinct] and William Blake.<\/p>\n
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This is a Orient version of what may be the same tradition, suppressed in the West when the CIA took over religion in 313 A.D. [laughter and applause], when Constantine, Caesar, made a deal with the Church to suppress all alien thoughts and heresies and to formulate a square Western version of heaven and hell. [laughter]\n
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The Kali-yuga concept is one that you can now, in a sense, interpret ecologically. If you’ve been following the scientifical pronouncements of doom possibility coming over television, radio and slick magazines, as well as from the underground press, you will notice that there’s increasing attention to the fact that our own fecal material, the waste products of our robots, have now so polluted Lake Erie that it’s a great lake of green goo slime, biologically dead;.<\/p>\n
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That our atmosphere, the planetary atmosphere, is increasingly polluted with carbon wastes; and that we are so sunk in our attachment to automobile exhaust fumes, to sulfur wastes from great steel factories producing metals that can be sent flying to explode on the other side of the planet with the collaboration of the science faculties in such universities as this, [applause] so that we find ourselves increasingly sunk into what is called a materialistic habit, like a junky stuck on his junk.<\/p>\n
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People are hooked on matter, and on their own identity in matter, taking their own identity from their faces, nose, bodies, and immediate physical city-complex around them, and not realizing another sweeter, deeper but wilder, or “transcendental,” identity than the identity of the one-dimensional man that Marcuse has talked out. So what we are proposing here is a modern-minded view, or some indications of a modern Western, i.e., gnostic, Marcuse view of Kali-yuga, as applying to our own situation, rather than being an Oriental fairytale.<\/p>\n
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As it stands, I read in the paper today, the prognosis for our… According to U Thant in today’s paper, according to the head of the U.N., mankind has only ten years to reverse the political, social, moral, emotional, bhakti course of the planet, and alter our technology, alter our consciousness radically enough to preserve human existence on the planet. [applause] So this is not only the official U.N. pronouncement; it’s also the pronouncement of most of the ecologists, biologists and ecosystemic students of the planet that are presently considering the ecological disruption that we have caused through our greed and destructiveness.<\/p>\n
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The Oriental tale, or analysis, has it, however, that we have a good deal more time. The Kali-yuga, or age of heavy metal entanglement, iron age, lasts 432,000 years, and we’re only 5,000 years into it. So there is 428…, 427,000 years to go.<\/p>\n
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In a conversation with Swami Bhaktivedanta today, I was inquiring more about the details of the mythology, which are found in a book called the Bh\u0101gavata Pur\u0101\u1e47a. He explained that according to Hindu analysis we are five thousand years into the descent from a lighter age, the age of brass, the disappearance of Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, an aspect of the Hindu Deity Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, preserver, or perhaps the supreme form of the preserver aspect of the universe, of ourselves, or of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u.<\/p>\n
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This appearance of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, mythologically or historically, is five thousand years ago. We’re five thousand years into the age of iron, and we have ten thousand years in which to chant Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, which is to say, repeating the name of the aspect of preservation, hope, that particular vibration of dancing joy, transcending our cosmopolitical words. We have ten thousand years for that play before there is a total descent into one-foot-tall monsters who eat each other up for meat because all the vegetables have disappeared, because DDT has completely cleared out any biological life form except mammals who go around eating each other at that point.<\/p>\n
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For… I’ve known Swami Bhaktivedanta for about three years, since he settled in the Lower East Side in New York, which was my territory and my neighborhood… [applause] It seemed to me like a stroke of great intelligence of him to come not as an uptown swami [laughter], but as a real down-home street swami, and make it on the street in the Lower East Side, as in…, as also opening a branch on Frederick Street in San Francisco, right in the center of Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, so that people who were tripping in Haight-Ashbury several years ago, coming down, wanting some, quote, “permanent\u2014eternal reassurance,” formula, ritual, magic, hope, feel, one truth, if you wish, okay, zeroed in on the Frederick Street rug’d, perfumed, incensed, \u0101\u015brama, where chanting would be heard at dawn as they were coming down off a trip all night.<\/p>\n
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A great many people who were hung on acid or other varieties of chemical psychedelics found it much more stable to practice a prolonged ritual, or s\u0101dhana, following the instructions of Swami Bhaktivedanta, which are old, classical, Indian-style instructions for both ritual, daily living, diet, sexuality, thought consciousness, apparel, hand gestures\u2014in other words, a very complicated ritualized yoga, a very ancient one also.<\/p>\n
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I thought Swami Bhaktivedanta made a great move in coming to the Lower East Side and to Haight-Ashbury. And then, naturally, because people dig chanting, centers formed in other parts of the United States, so that there are small street-level houses or storefront centers in Vancouver or in L.A., in Montreal, up in Buffalo, down in… There’s some Buffalo chanters here. And “chant” comes from the word enchant, by the way, which means to make oneself into…, to make a magical spell about oneself. So there are Santa Fe centers also.<\/p>\n
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In other words, the indigenous…, the importation of a very strange Oriental form, almost a hard-shelled Baptist Oriental form, in the sense of its traditionality and its fundamentalism, its reliance on ancient texts and interpretation of ancient texts by a long tradition of teachers\u2014it’s strange, it’s so far-out and ritualized an Indian form should take root in the United States a little more naturally than the more Protestant Ved\u0101nta Society or the extremely rigorous Zen groups that have taken root.<\/p>\n
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I think partly it’s due to the magnanimity or generosity or the old-age charm, wisdom, cheerfulness of Swami Bhaktivedanta, his openness of heart, his willingness to come down onto the street, and his sense of his own divinity and the divinity of others around him that it’s been possible for the bhakti-yoga cult of India to be planted very firmly here in America, so that now there are communes, or \u0101\u015bramas, functioning on the basis of the K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a rituals, which are, in some respect, a model for all those anarchists and political people who are interested in establishing indigenous American communes.<\/p>\n
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The regulations on food, on sexual relations, which generally cause much confusion in mutual-living health pads; the regulations on sleep and thinking process are, like, an interesting model to study for those who are interested in forming affinity groups or large family communes.<\/p>\n
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I will have my turn at language tomorrow, because I’m giving a poetry reading at the Student Union somewhere\u2014I’m not sure where\u2014which is my regular thing, which is why I was invited here by the Student Activities Committee. So I will cut myself off now and be brief and leave the rest of the evening to Swami Bhaktivedanta, who will give a language explanation, or whatever he wants to say, of the cultural or metaphysical or religious roots in… Pardon me?<\/p>\n
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Student: What time?<\/p>\n
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Allen Ginsberg: I don’t know. Any time now. The time now…<\/p>\n
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Hayagr\u012bva: Mention we’ll have more chanting.<\/p>\n
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Allen Ginsberg: Yes, I will. So the rest of this evening will be…, Swami Bhaktivedanta will explain his divine self. Then we will continue chanting.<\/p>\n
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Sw\u0101m\u012bj\u012b. [applause]\n
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Prabhup\u0101da:<\/p>\n
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o\u1e41 aj\u00f1\u0101na-timir\u0101ndhasya<\/p>\n
j\u00f1\u0101n\u0101\u00f1jana-\u015bal\u0101kay\u0101<\/p>\n
cak\u1e63ur-unm\u012blita\u1e41 yena<\/p>\n
tasmai \u015br\u012b-gurave nama\u1e25<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[Gautam\u012bya-tantra]\n
<\/p>\n[I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance.]\n
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My dear boys and girls, I thank you very much for your coming here and participating with this sa\u1e45k\u012brtana function. The sa\u1e45k\u012brtana function, or… It is called sa\u1e45k\u012brtana-yaj\u00f1a, sacrifice. There is a statement in \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam that sa\u1e45k\u012brtanair yaj\u00f1ai\u1e25 prayair yajanti hi su-medhasa\u1e25 [SB 11.5.32].<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions.]\n
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In this age… As poet Ginsberg has explained to you, this is called Kali-yuga, or very degraded age. From the spiritual point of view, from material point of view also, people are reducing their duration of life and their merciful tendency, their strength, their stature.<\/p>\n
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If you study scrutinizingly, you will see that your stature is reducing, your memory is reducing, your duration of life is also reducing in this Kali-yuga. There are many symptoms. So Bh\u0101gavata recommends, “For self-realization in this age, simply by performing this sacrifice of sa\u1e45k\u012brtana.”<\/p>\n
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The sa\u1e45k\u012brtana-yaj\u00f1a is so nice that at once you get transcendental ecstasy, and from spiritual consciousness, you try to join. Even a child desires like that. This is the effect of the sa\u1e45k\u012brtana-yaj\u00f1a. And Lord Caitanya, the inaugurator of this movement five hundred years ago.<\/p>\n
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He says that if you chant this mantra, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare Hare\/ Hare R\u0101ma, Hare R\u0101ma, R\u0101ma R\u0101ma, Hare Hare, then the first installment of your gain will be that all the dirty things in your heart will be cleansed. Ceto-darpa\u1e47a-m\u0101rjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12].<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[\u201c\u2019Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, which can cleanse the mirror of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon that spreads the white lotus of good fortune for all living entities. It is the life and soul of all education. The chanting of the holy name of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a expands the blissful ocean of transcendental life. It gives a cooling effect to everyone and enables one to taste full nectar at every step.\u2019]\n
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And when we are in clean heart, then the next stage will be bhava-mah\u0101-d\u0101v\u0101gni-nirv\u0101pa\u1e47am: “The problems of material existence will be solved.” And when you are spiritually steady on the platform of sa\u1e45k\u012brtana-yaj\u00f1a, then your original consciousness, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, and its concomitant joyfulness begins.<\/p>\n
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This thing also is explained in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101:<\/p>\n
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brahma-bh\u016bta\u1e25 prasann\u0101tm\u0101<\/p>\n
na \u015bocati na k\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63ati<\/p>\n
sama\u1e25 sarve\u1e63u bh\u016bte\u1e63u<\/p>\n
mad-bhakti\u1e41 labhate par\u0101m<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[Bg. 18.54]\n
<\/p>\n[And of all yog\u012bs, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.]\n
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It is said there that “When one comes on the platform of spiritual consciousness, or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, at that time he becomes completely joyful.” Brahma-bh\u016bta\u1e25 prasann\u0101tm\u0101. Prasanna means joyful; \u0101tm\u0101 means soul. And the symptom is na \u015bocati na k\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63ati.<\/p>\n
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He does not lament, neither hanker. In the material existence we have got two diseases: hankering for things which we do not possess and lamenting for things which we have lost. But actually we don’t possess anything; everything belongs to God.<\/p>\n
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That is the Vedic injunction. \u012a\u015b\u0101v\u0101syam ida\u1e41 sarvam [\u012a\u015bo mantra 1]\n
<\/p>\n[Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.]\n
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Whatever we see, that is the property of the Supreme Lord. And this claiming that “This is my property,” “This is my body,” “This is my country,” “This is my home,” “This is my…,” “This is my…,” this is called illusion.<\/p>\n
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Actually we do not possess anything. So when you actually come on the spiritual consciousness, you understand that nothing belongs to you. Brahma-bh\u016bta\u1e25 prasann\u0101tm\u0101 na \u015bocati na k\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63ati [Bg. 18.54].<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[And of all yog\u012bs, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.]\n
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K\u0101\u1e45k\u1e63ati means hankering, and socati means lament.<\/p>\n
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Then the next stage is sama\u1e25 sarve\u1e63u bh\u016bte\u1e63u. Then you can see everything, or every living entity, on the equal status. People are trying to come to that platform of oneness, but that is only possible when you come to the spiritual platform, or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. In the material platform it is not possible.<\/p>\n
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Practically we see the United Nations, they are trying to come to oneness of all nations, but they have failed. Simply the flags are increasing. Instead of being united, we are increasing our flags. So if you want actually oneness, then you have [to] come to that platform of brahma-bh\u016bta\u1e25 prasann\u0101tm\u0101 [Bg. 18.54]\u2014prasann\u0101tm\u0101, joyfulness.<\/p>\n
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Everyone is hankering after joyfulness. How that joyfulness can be attained? That is explained in the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam. The \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam says,<\/p>\n
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sa vai pu\u1e41s\u0101\u1e41 paro dharmo<\/p>\n
yato bhaktir adhok\u1e63aje<\/p>\n
ahaituky apratihat\u0101<\/p>\n
yay\u0101tm\u0101 supras\u012bdati<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[SB 1.2.6]\n
<\/p>\n[The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self.]\n
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\u0100tm\u0101 means soul, your self. We are, every one of us, hankering after that peace and tranquillity. How it is possible? Bh\u0101gavata says yay\u0101tm\u0101 supras\u012bdati. Supras\u012bdati means completely become satisfied. How it is possible? Now, sa vai pu\u1e41s\u0101\u1e41 paro dharma\u1e25: “That is the first-class occupational duty by which you develop your love of God.” That is first class.<\/p>\n
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The test of religion… Every religion has got some conception of God. That’s all right. But if by following the principles of that religion, if you see that you are developing your love for God, then that is first class. Otherwise, Bh\u0101gavata says, it is simply wasting time laboring.<\/p>\n
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dharma\u1e25 svanu\u1e63\u1e6dhita\u1e25 pu\u1e41s\u0101\u1e41<\/p>\n
vi\u1e63vaksena-kath\u0101su ya\u1e25<\/p>\n
notp\u0101dayed rati\u1e41 yadi<\/p>\n
\u015brama eva hi kevalam<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n[The occupational activities a man performs according to his own position are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke attraction for the message of the Personality of Godhead.]\n
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The Bh\u0101gavata says that “You are very nice man. You are very honest to your occupational duty. That is all right. But if by discharging your occupational duty you do not develop your eagerness to understand what is God and what is love of God,” then, Bh\u0101gavata says, “it is simply laboring and wasting time.” That is the test.<\/p>\n
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And why we should try to increase our love of God? That is also explained: ahaituky apratihat\u0101 yay\u0101tm\u0101 supras\u012bdati [SB 1.2.6]. Ahaituk\u012b, without any cause. We should love God without any cause. Just like we go to temple, church, with a motive. We go there: “O God, give us our daily bread. I have come to You for my bread.” That is not love of God. That is love of bread. [applause]\n
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So Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu has given nice sample of love. He is playing the part of R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b. R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b is the conjugal consort of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Our K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness is not dry. You’ll see the picture, R\u0101dh\u0101 and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is a boy, sixteen years old, and R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b, a young girl, a little younger than K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. They are enjoying, R\u0101dh\u0101-K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. R\u0101dh\u0101 k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-pra\u1e47aya-vik\u1e5btir hl\u0101din\u012b \u015baktir asm\u0101t [Cc. \u0100di 1.5].<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[The loving affairs of \u015ar\u012b R\u0101dh\u0101 and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a are transcendental manifestations of the Lord\u2019s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although R\u0101dh\u0101 and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a are one in Their identity, previously They separated Themselves. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of \u015ar\u012bmat\u012b R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b although He is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Himself.]\n
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There are different potencies of God. Par\u0101sya \u015baktir vividhaiva \u015br\u016byate [\u015avet\u0101\u015bvatara Upani\u1e63ad 6.8, Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport].<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[The Supreme Lord has multipotencies, which act so perfectly that all consciousness, strength and activity are being directed solely by His will.]\n
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In the Vedic literature you’ll find, Vedas, “God has many energies.” Par\u0101sya \u015bakti\u1e25. \u015aakti means energy, power; vividhaiva, multi, various. Par\u0101sya \u015baktir vividhaiva \u015br\u016byate svabh\u0101va… Par\u0101sya \u015baktir vividhaiva, na tasya sama\u015b c\u0101bhyadhika\u015b ca d\u1e5b\u015byate.<\/p>\n
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This is the injunction of Vedas. “You cannot find anyone equal or greater than God. Nobody can be equal with God; nobody can be greater than God.” Then he is not God. Na tasya sama\u015b c\u0101bhyadhika\u015b ca. Sama means equal; adhika means greater. Na tat-sama\u015b c\u0101bhyadhika\u015b ca d\u1e5b\u015byate.<\/p>\n
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They have analyzed who is God. The great sages, the liberated sages, they are not fools, rascals, that they will accept anyone God. No. They will test. This is the test. If you find somebody that he is neither lower than anyone, neither equal to anyone, then he is God. There are other, many definitions of God. Ai\u015bvaryasya samagrasya v\u012bryasya ya\u015basa\u1e25 \u015briya\u1e25 [Vi\u1e63\u1e47u Pur\u0101\u1e47a 6.5.47].<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[Full wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation-these are the six opulences of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.]\n
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Analytical study. Try to understand God. This is the only business of human form of life, not that simply eating, sleeping and mating and, I mean to say, defending. These are animal business. The animal knows how to eat, how to sleep, how to mate, and how to defend in its own way. So that is common formula for human being or animal.<\/p>\n
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But there is one speciality in human society or human being\u2014he can understand God, what is God. If I explain to a human being, however illiterate, uneducated he may be, if he has simply these two ears, he will understand what is God.<\/p>\n
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Therefore the Vedic information is called \u015bruti. Just try to hear. You haven’t got to be educated or literate. God has given you these two ears, and you can learn. Simply you have to learn from the authorized sources. Then you will understand God. And when you understand God, then you develop love of God.<\/p>\n
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And when you develop love of God without any motive and without any impediment, then you find, “Oh,” sv\u0101min k\u1e5bt\u0101rtho ‘smi vara\u1e41 na y\u0101ce [Cc. Madhya 22.42]\n
<\/p>\n[\u201c[When he was being blessed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Dhruva Mah\u0101r\u0101ja said:] \u2019O my Lord, because I was seeking an opulent material position, I was performing severe types of penance and austerity. Now I have gotten You, who are very difficult for the great demigods, saintly persons and kings to attain. I was searching after a piece of glass, but instead I have found a most valuable jewel. Therefore I am so satisfied that I do not wish to ask any benediction from You.\u2019]\n
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“I have no more any demand. I am completely satisfied.” Try to come to this platform, transcendental stage. You cannot be happy simply by material advancement. That is not possible.<\/p>\n
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That is explained in the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam: par\u0101bhavas t\u0101vad abodha-j\u0101ta\u1e25 [SB 5.5.5].<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life, one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance. Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions. If a person is engaged in any kind of karma, his mind is called karm\u0101tmaka, colored with fruitive activity. As long as the mind is impure, consciousness is unclear, and as long as one is absorbed in fruitive activity, he has to accept a material body.]\n
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Every one of us are rascals, born ignorant. But we have got the capacity to take the message of God from authorized information. That we have got.<\/p>\n
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So Bh\u0101gavata says, par\u0101bhavas t\u0101vad abodha-j\u0101ta\u1e25: “All living entities who are born ignorant, whatever they are doing for advancement of society, culture, education, civilization, all such activities are defeat only if he does not inquire what he is.”<\/p>\n
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Par\u0101bhavas t\u0101vad abodha-j\u0101to y\u0101van na jij\u00f1\u0101sata \u0101tma-tattvam. \u0100tma-tattvam. So long one does not inquire, “What I am? What is God? What is this material nature? What are these activities? What are our relationships?”\u2014if these inquiries are not there, then all our activities are simply defeat. Par\u0101bhavas t\u0101vad abodha-j\u0101to y\u0101van na jij\u00f1\u0101sata \u0101tma-tattvam. Y\u0101van na pr\u012btir may\u012b v\u0101sudeve [SB 5.5.6]\n
<\/p>\n[When the living entity is covered by the mode of ignorance, he does not understand the individual living being and the supreme living being, and his mind is subjugated by fruitive activity. Therefore, until one has love for Lord V\u0101sudeva, who is none other than Myself, he is certainly not delivered from having to accept a material body again and again.]\n
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“So long one does not develop his dormant love of God,” na mucyate deha-yogena t\u0101vat, “so long he will not be able to get out of this repeated birth and death and transmigration of the soul.”<\/p>\n
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This transmigration of soul, repeated birth and death, is a diseased condition of the spirit soul. That we do not know. Neither in our education system there is any department of knowledge teaching what is the soul, what is after death, what was before birth. There is no science. It is very lamentable. Education in the name of simply eating, sleeping and mating, this is not education. If my bodily conception continues… The Bh\u0101gavata says, yasy\u0101tma-buddhi\u1e25 ku\u1e47ape tri-dh\u0101tuke [SB 10.84.13]\n
<\/p>\n[One who identifies his self as the inert body composed of mucus, bile and air, who assumes his wife and family are permanently his own, who thinks an earthen image or the land of his birth is worshipable, or who sees a place of pilgrimage as merely the water there, but who never identifies himself with, feels kinship with, worships or even visits those who are wise in spiritual truth\u2014such a person is no better than a cow or an ass.]\n
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“Anyone who is thinking that this body of flesh and bone is self, he is an ass.” [laughter] Sa eva go-khara\u1e25. Go-khara\u1e25. Khara means ass [laughter].<\/p>\n
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Yasy\u0101tma-buddhi\u1e25 ku\u1e47ape tri-dh\u0101tuke sva-dh\u012b\u1e25 kalatr\u0101di\u1e63u bhauma ijya-dh\u012b\u1e25. And by his conceiving this body as self… They have no even common reason that “This bag of flesh, bone, urine, stool and secretion\u2014can it be soul? Can it be self?” But they are finding out by exercising this body to find out the soul.<\/p>\n
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The soul is there, but you cannot see by material instrument. It is very fine. It is one ten-thousandth part of the tip of your hair. These are explained in the Vedic literature. So how you can find with your material eyes? You cannot see it. And because you cannot see it, you are concluding there is no soul. That is the ignorance.<\/p>\n
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There is. There is soul, and this body has developed on the platform of that soul, and that soul is migrating from one body to another. That is called evolution. And that evolutional process is going on, 8,400,000’s of species of life\u2014aquatics, birds, beasts, plants and so many species of life. And we have got now this developed consciousness, human form of life.<\/p>\n
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We should properly utilize it. That is our K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness movement. We simply educating people, “Don’t waste your valuable life, the human form of life. If you are missing this chance, you are committing suicide.” That is our propaganda. Don’t commit suicide. Take to this K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness.<\/p>\n
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And the process is very simple. You haven’t got to take difficult processes like yoga system or philosophical, speculative system. That is not possible in this age. That is… I am not speaking from my own experience, but I am taking the experience of big \u0101c\u0101ryas and big stalwart sages. They say that kalau n\u0101sty eva n\u0101sty eva n\u0101sty eva gatir anyath\u0101.<\/p>\n
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If you want to realize yourself, if you want to know what is your next life, if you want to know what is God, if you want to know what is your relationship with God, all these things will be revealed to you\u2014this is real knowledge\u2014by simply chanting this mantra, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare Hare\/ Hare R\u0101ma, Hare R\u0101ma, R\u0101ma R\u0101ma, Hare Hare.<\/p>\n
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It is practical. We are not charging anything. We are not bluffing you that “I shall give you some something, secret mantra, and charge you fifty dollars.” No. It is open for everyone. Please take it. That is our request. We are begging you, “Don’t spoil your life. Please take this mantra. Chant wherever you like.”<\/p>\n
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It has no hard-and-fast rules you have to follow. Whenever you like, wherever you like, any condition of life… Just like we chanted half an hour before. Any condition, you felt ecstasy.<\/p>\n
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Similarly, you can continue this. Chant this Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra. It is given to you free. But if you want to know what is this Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra through philosophy, through knowledge, through logic, we have got volumes of books. Don’t think that we are simply sentimentally dancing. No, we have got background.<\/p>\n
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So try to understand this K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness movement. I have especially come to your country to deliver you this good message, because if you accept this, if you can understand this science of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, other part of the world will also follow, and the face of the world will be changed. That is a fact.<\/p>\n
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So therefore I request you that you take this chanting, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra, with you, and wherever you live, in whatever condition you are, you don’t require to change. Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu has recommended that,<\/p>\n
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sth\u0101ne sthit\u0101\u1e25 \u015bruti-gat\u0101\u1e41 tanu-v\u0101\u1e45-manobhi\u1e25<\/p>\n
pr\u0101ya\u015ba ajita jito ‘py asi tais tri-loky\u0101m<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[SB 10.14.3]\n
<\/p>\n[Those who, even while remaining situated in their established social positions, throw away the process of speculative knowledge and with their body, words and mind offer all respects to descriptions of Your personality and activities, dedicating their lives to these narrations, which are vibrated by You personally and by Your pure devotees, certainly conquer Your Lordship, although You are otherwise unconquerable by anyone within the three worlds.]\n
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Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu discussed about spiritual realization with one of His great devotees called R\u0101m\u0101nanda R\u0101ya. And R\u0101ma\u1e47anda R\u0101ya placed before Him many theories expounded in the Vedic literature. And at last, when R\u0101m\u0101nanda R\u0101ya placed this verse from \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, that j\u00f1\u0101ne pray\u0101sam udap\u0101sya namanta eva… Don’t be foolishly try to speculate to understand the unlimited. It is not possible.<\/p>\n
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By your tiny senses you cannot understand the unlimited. It is not possible. Therefore the first recommendation is that j\u00f1\u0101ne pray\u0101sam udap\u0101sya: don’t try to be a dry speculator to understand the ultimate truth. Namanta: just become meek and humble. Namanta eva san-mukharit\u0101\u1e41 bhavad\u012bya-v\u0101rt\u0101m. And try to receive the message from authorized sources.<\/p>\n
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Then sthane sthita\u1e25 \u015bruti-gatam tanu-van-manobhi\u1e25: in whatever condition you are, you don’t require to change. You simply hear. Then a day will come when you will be able to conquer the Supreme Lord, who is unconquerable. God is great, nobody can conquer, but if you simply follow this process, then\u2014in whatever condition you are, simply try to hear about God from authorized sources\u2014then one day you will be able to conquer God within your hand.<\/p>\n
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This is also confirmed in the Brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101:<\/p>\n
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advaitam acyutam an\u0101dim ananta-r\u016bpam<\/p>\n
\u0101dya\u1e41 pur\u0101\u1e47a-puru\u1e63a\u1e41 nava-yauvana\u1e41 ca<\/p>\n
vede\u1e63u durlabham adurlabham \u0101tma-bhaktau…<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[Bs. 5.33]\n
<\/p>\n[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is inaccessible to the Vedas, but obtainable by pure unalloyed devotion of the soul, who is without a second, who is not subject to decay, is without a beginning, whose form is endless, who is the beginning, and the eternal puru\u1e63a; yet He is a person possessing the beauty of blooming youth.]\n
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You cannot find out, simply you find out searching in the Vedas or scripture where is God. You have to conquer Him by your love. He will reveal to yourself. That is also explained in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101:<\/p>\n
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te\u1e63\u0101\u1e41 satata-yukt\u0101n\u0101\u1e41<\/p>\n
bhajat\u0101\u1e41 pr\u012bti-p\u016brvakam<\/p>\n
buddhi-yoga\u1e41 dad\u0101mi ta\u1e41<\/p>\n
yena m\u0101m upay\u0101nti te<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[Bg. 10.10]\n
<\/p>\n[To those who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.]\n
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Everything is clearly explained there. Please try to read this Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 As It Is. It is science of God. You will understand. You will realize. And chant this Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra. This Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra will cleanse your heart. And after cleansing your heart, if you read one chapter of Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, you will understand gradually what is God, what you are, what is your relationship with God. And when you understand all these things and you develop your love of God, you’ll become perfectly happy.<\/p>\n
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So we want to see you all happy. That is our program.<\/p>\n
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Sarve sukhino bhavantu.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n[Let everyone be happy.]\n
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Every one of you become happy. But you must take the path how you can be happy. This is the path, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness: Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare Hare\/ Hare R\u0101ma, Hare R\u0101ma, R\u0101ma R\u0101ma, Hare Hare.<\/p>\n
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Thank you very much. [applause] [end]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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