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Date: May 2, 1969<\/span> Prabhup\u0101da: I understand that your…, this society is known as International Student Society? Yes. There are many other international societies. There are international United Nations also. The idea is very nice, but we should try to understand\u2014internationally or universally\u2014what is the central idea. Just like if you throw a stone in the middle of water, it expands. It becomes…, the circle expands, and the circle goes to the limit of the bank of the water. That is the way. The vibration, sound vibration also, radio message also. Similarly, the circle increases, and you capture the waves and you understand.<\/span><\/p>\n Similarly, international feeling can be extended also. In the beginning of our life, just like a child, anna-brahma: everything he wants to eat. A small child, whatever he captures he wants to eat. Personal interest. Then, when the child grows, he tries to participate with his other brothers and sisters: “All right. You also take little.” This is increasing the feeling of fellowship. Then he grows again; he feels for his father, parents, society, then community, country and, at last, international. Expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n But in such feeling, unless the center is right, that expansion of feeling, universally or internationally or nationally even, that is not perfect. That is not perfect. Take, for example, internationally. In your country, what is the meaning of national? National means one who has taken birth in that particular country. Is that all right? National? You feel for another American because he is born in this country. Or any other country, Indian. That national feeling…, that is called national feeling. You feel for your countrymen. You sacrifice your life for your country.<\/span><\/p>\n But there is defect. What is that defect? If this is the definition\u2014that a living entity or a person born in that country, he is a national\u2014then why not the animals? They are also born in that country. But we are not expanding our feelings beyond this human society. We don’t think animals are national assets. Animals are sent to the slaughterhouse. So this is because the center of national feeling or international feeling is losing. The center is not fixed up. If the center is right, then you can make circle from that center, any number of circles, they’ll never overlap. They’ll be growing, growing, growing. They’ll not interact with one another if the center is all right.<\/span><\/p>\n So everyone is feeling nationally or internationally, but the center is missing. Therefore your feeling, your international feeling, my international feeling, your national feeling, my national feeling, they are overlapping. So we have to find out the center. Then you expand your circle, it will not, I mean to say, overlap or counteract. It will go on. That center is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Our society, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, is teaching to the people of all country that the center is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. You try to think from the central point of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. That K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a philosophy is the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101.<\/span><\/p>\n I take it for granted that many of you have studied Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101. And in the Seventh Chapter there is a nice verse that,<\/span><\/p>\n bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante<\/span> [Bg. 7.19]<\/span><\/p>\n [After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.]<\/span><\/p>\n You have heard the word mah\u0101tm\u0101. That is a Sanskrit word, or Indian word, which is applied to a person whose mind is expanded, whose feelings, the circle of his feelings, is very expanding. He is called mah\u0101tm\u0101. Mah\u0101 means big or great, and \u0101tm\u0101, \u0101tm\u0101 means soul. Who has expanded his soul very wide, he is called mah\u0101tm\u0101. So this Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 gives the definition of the person who has expanded his feeling very wide.<\/span><\/p>\n Who is that? It is said there, bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante [Bg. 7.19]. We are trying to expand our feeling socially, communally or nationally or internationally or universally or some other way. This is going on. We try to do it. That is our natural function, especially in the human form of life\u2014expanded consciousness, broader consciousness. We try.<\/span><\/p>\n We try to do some service to the whole humanity, to society, to the country. That is expanded consciousness. But Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 says that bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante. Bahu means many, and janma means birth. Bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante: at the end of. At the end of many, many births.<\/span><\/p>\n Perhaps you know that we believe the theory\u2014not theory; the fact\u2014of transmigration of soul. We are changing bodies one after another. There are 8,400,000’s of different species of life, and we are evolving. And at last we come to this form, human form of life. This is also called bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante: after many, many births.<\/span><\/p>\n Labdhv\u0101 su-durlabham ida\u1e41 bahu-sambhav\u0101nte<\/span><\/p>\n [SB 11.9.29].<\/span><\/p>\n [After many, many births and deaths one achieves the rare human form of life, which, although temporary, affords one the opportunity to attain the highest perfection. Thus a sober human being should quickly endeavor for the ultimate perfection of life as long as his body, which is always subject to death, has not fallen down and died. After all, sense gratification is available even in the most abominable species of life, whereas K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness is possible only for a human being.]<\/span><\/p>\n In the Bh\u0101gavata there is a verse. It is said there, labdhv\u0101 su-durlabham idam. Idam. Idam means “this.” This body, labdhv\u0101, you have got it. Labdhv\u0101 su-durlabham idam. Su-durlabham means it is very rare. This is not very cheap. The body of cats and dogs or animals, they are cheap, but this is not very cheap. Su-durlabha\u1e25. Bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman… Labdhv\u0101 su-durlabham ida\u1e41 bahu-sambha-v\u0101nte.<\/span><\/p>\n After many, many births, at least 8,000,000 births of different species of life, we get this human form of life. It is stated in the Bh\u0101gavata, and similarly, all Vedic literatures, they corroborate one another. It is… The person who can understand, he doesn’t find any contradiction. The same statement is there in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101: bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante.<\/span><\/p>\n So this human form of life is obtained after many, many births of lower animal or other than human form of life. But even in this human form of life also, if one is cultivating that knowledge to find out the central point, what is the central point, then that also requires he gets many, many births in human form of life also. But he has to find out that central point.<\/span><\/p>\n That central point is there, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is saying, that bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante j\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101n [Bg. 7.19].<\/span><\/p>\n [After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.]<\/span><\/p>\n J\u00f1\u0101navan means who has actually acquired knowledge. J\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101n. J\u00f1\u0101na means knowledge, and v\u0101n means one who possesses. So one who possesses actual knowledge, after… We are cultivating knowledge. If we are actually cultivating knowledge, spiritual knowledge, not in one life but many, many lives, then when we actually become on the highest platform of knowledge, bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante j\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101n, then K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a says, mam prapadyate: “He comes and surrenders unto Me, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a,” or God.<\/span><\/p>\n When I speak “K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a,” “K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a” means the Supreme Lord, the all-attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead. So bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante j\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101n m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyate. Surrenders. Why? V\u0101sudeva\u1e25 sarvam iti sa mah\u0101tm\u0101 su-durlabha\u1e25. This word mah\u0101tm\u0101 is there, because after cultivating knowledge many, many births, he has expanded himself to be very great.<\/span><\/p>\n God is great, and His devotee who expands up to the point of God, he is also called great. His \u0101tm\u0101 is also great. Mah\u0101tm\u0101. But He says, sa mah\u0101tm\u0101 su-durlabha\u1e25. That sort of mah\u0101tm\u0101, or great soul, is very rare to be seen. Su-durlabha\u1e25. Su-durlabha\u1e25. Su means very, and durlabha\u1e25 means rare. Very rare.<\/span><\/p>\n So this is the definition we get from Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, that we are expanding our feelings of love, different types of love\u2014love of the country, love of the nation, love of the society, love of the community, love of the family, or love of the cats and dogs and so on. Love is there. Love is there, but we are expanding it according to our expansion of perfect knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n That perfect knowledge comes to exist when we come to the point of loving K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. That is perfection. Sa mah\u0101tm\u0101 su-durlabha\u1e25. But it is very difficult to find out such person who has developed love of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. But that is the aim of life. That is the aim of all activities.<\/span><\/p>\n Similarly, in the Bh\u0101gavata, there is another verse. It is said that,<\/span><\/p>\n dharma\u1e25 svanu\u1e63\u1e6dhita\u1e25 pu\u1e41s\u0101\u1e41<\/span> [SB 1.2.8]<\/span><\/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.<\/span><\/p>\n It is said that you are doing your duty according to your position. Everyone is doing. Svanu\u1e63\u1e6dhita\u1e25 dharma\u1e25. Dharma means occupational duty. Everyone has got duty. A student has a duty, or a householder has got some duty, a sanny\u0101s\u012b has got some duty, a brahmac\u0101r\u012b has got duty. So there are different types of duties according to different occupation or profession.<\/span><\/p>\n But Bh\u0101gavata says that you can perform your duties very nicely, very accurately, but if by performing your duties you do not come to the understanding of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, or God, then whatever you have done very nicely, \u015brama eva hi kevalam: it is simply laboring. Simply laboring.<\/span><\/p>\n But if you want to perfection, come to the point of perfection, then that is stated in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, as I said, that bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m, after discharging duties very nicely, very accurately, very faithfully, if one comes to the point that v\u0101sudeva\u1e25 sarvam iti, then you should understand that your feelings of love or international feeling or national feeling has actually expanded. That is it. That is real national feeling.<\/span><\/p>\n And what is the symptom? A man says, “Yes, I have expanded very widely my feelings of love.” No. There are some symptoms how you are feeling, how you are… That is also stated in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, that pa\u1e47\u1e0dit\u0101\u1e25 sama-dar\u015bina\u1e25. Pa\u1e47\u1e0dita means learned. Sama-dar\u015bina\u1e25.<\/span><\/p>\n vidy\u0101-vinaya-sampanne<\/span> [Bg. 5.18]<\/span><\/p>\n [The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle br\u0101hma\u1e47a, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste]]<\/span><\/p>\n A pa\u1e47\u1e0dita, if one has actually elevated to that stage of perfect wisdom, then he is sama-dar\u015bina\u1e25, that actually sama… How sama-dar\u015bina\u1e25? Vidy\u0101-vinaya-sampanne br\u0101hma\u1e47e. A br\u0101hma\u1e47a, according to Vedic culture, a br\u0101hma\u1e47a is considered… Br\u0101hma\u1e47a means vidy\u0101-vinaya-sampanne. He is very gentle and very learned. That is the first qualification of br\u0101hma\u1e47a. Not by birth but by qualification.<\/span><\/p>\n Gentle and learned. Vidy\u0101-vinaya-sampanne br\u0101hma\u1e47e gavi…, br\u0101hma\u1e47e gavi hastini, pa\u1e47\u1e0dita\u1e25 sama-dar\u015bina\u1e25. Because his vision is no more on the platform of this body. Sama-dar\u015bina\u1e25. He sees a learned br\u0101hma\u1e47a is also a spirit soul, and a dog is also a spirit soul, an elephant is also a spirit soul, or a low-born man, he is also spirit soul.<\/span><\/p>\n Beginning from the high-born br\u0101hma\u1e47a up to the ca\u1e47\u1e0d\u0101la, there are social stages in the human society. But if a man is really learned, he sees everyone, every living entity, on the same level. That is the stage of learning.<\/span><\/p>\n vidy\u0101-vinaya-sampanne<\/span> [Bg. 5.18]<\/span><\/p>\n \u015ava-p\u0101k means the dog-eaters. In India there are many types of flesh eaters. Not higher caste; amongst the lower grade. But anyone who eats the flesh of dog, he is called ca\u1e47\u1e0d\u0101la, lowest of the mankind. But here Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 says even if he is ca\u1e47\u1e0d\u0101la, the pa\u1e47\u1e0dita\u1e25, he sees equally like the br\u0101hma\u1e47a, because he sees the spirit soul.<\/span><\/p>\n So our point is that if we actually want to expand this international feeling, then we must find out the real center. That center is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2014K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, or God, I have already explained. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a said in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101… You’ll please always remember that this K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness movement means placing Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 as it is.<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever I am speaking, it is there in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101. Unfortunately, Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 has been misinterpreted by so many commentators that people have misunderstood the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101. Actually, Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 means to develop K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, and we are trying to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n So in that Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, as K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a has given the definition of mah\u0101tm\u0101, broadminded… So what is that broadminded? He says next verse, mah\u0101tm\u0101nas tu m\u0101\u1e41 p\u0101rtha daiv\u012b\u1e41 prak\u1e5btim \u0101\u015brit\u0101\u1e25 [Bg. 9.13].<\/span><\/p>\n [O son of P\u1e5bth\u0101, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.]<\/span><\/p>\n Mah\u0101tm\u0101, who is actually wise and broadminded, he is no more within the spell of this material energy. He is under the shelter, or protection, of spiritual energy. Everything… Just try to understand. Whatever we are seeing, they are different energies of God. Par\u0101sya br\u0101hma\u1e47a \u015baktir…, akhila\u1e41 jagat. Whatever we are experiencing, they are all different energies of the Supreme Lord, par\u0101sya \u015baktir.<\/span><\/p>\n In the Vedic literature, Upani\u1e63ad, it is said, par\u0101sya \u015baktir vividhaiva \u015br\u016byate. The Supreme Absolute Truth has many varieties of energies. Par\u0101sya \u015baktir vividhaiva \u015br\u016byate, sv\u0101bh\u0101vik\u012b j\u00f1\u0101na-bala-kriy\u0101 ca [\u015avet\u0101\u015bvatara Upani\u1e63ad 6.8, Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport].<\/span><\/p>\n [The Supreme Lord has multipotencies, which act so perfectly that all consciousness, strength and activity are being directed solely by His will.]<\/span><\/p>\n And the energies are acting so nicely that it appears that it is being automatically, nicely done. Just like a flower is blooming. The energy of God is acting there, but we are seeing that it has automatically become so beautiful and blooming. No. That is energy. That is the vision how we can see God.<\/span><\/p>\n How we can see K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a? In the Fourth Chapter you’ll find, raso ‘ham apsu kaunteya [Bg. 7.8]<\/span><\/p>\n [O son of Kunt\u012b [Arjuna], I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.]<\/span><\/p>\n “My dear Kaunteya, Arjuna, you, if you try to understand Me, if you want to make your soul broader to understand Me, try to understand Me\u2014raso ‘ham apsu kaunteya\u2014I am the taste, the sweet taste in the water.” So every day we are drinking water. There is nobody here who does not drink water. So when you drink water and you feel satisfaction, that satisfaction is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Raso ‘ham apsu kaunteya prabh\u0101smi \u015ba\u015bi-s\u016bryayo\u1e25. Nobody can escape seeing the light of the sun, of the moon. \u015aa\u015bi, \u015ba\u015bi means moon. S\u016brya means sun. So K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a says, “That illumination is I am.”<\/span><\/p>\n So there is so many list of understanding that God consciousness, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. So when one is fully cognizant of the energies of the Lord, how they are acting… And we have to practice. We take lesson from Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 and we practice. You will be able to understand. Then after bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante, when you become mature, v\u0101sudeva\u1e25 sarvam iti, “Oh, V\u0101sudeva is everything,” then you surrender. Sa mah\u0101tm\u0101 sudurlabha\u1e25. That person, who has widened his soul in that way, he is very rare to be seen.<\/span><\/p>\n And what are the functions of such mah\u0101tm\u0101? Mah\u0101tm\u0101nas tu m\u0101\u1e41 p\u0101rtha daiv\u012b\u1e41 prak\u1e5btim \u0101\u015brit\u0101\u1e25 [Bg. 9.13].<\/span><\/p>\n [O son of P\u1e5bth\u0101, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.]<\/span><\/p>\n Mah\u0101tm\u0101, one who is so broadminded, he is not crooked to be under the spell of this material energy. He is under the protection of the spiritual energy, daiv\u012b prak\u1e5bti. Prak\u1e5bti means nature. This nature is called the material energy. And there is another, spiritual energy. These things are all explained in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101. Apareyam. These are apar\u0101. Apar\u0101 means inferior energies, material energy. Itas tu viddhi me prak\u1e5bti\u1e41 par\u0101. Beyond this inferior energy, there is another, spiritual energy. There are so many verses you’ll find in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101.<\/span><\/p>\n So our propagation is to present Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 as it is, without any nonsensical commentation. There is no need of nonsensical commentation. Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 is as clear as the sunlight. As you do not require to see the sun with another lamp, similarly, you do not [chuckling] require to study Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 with another commentation of a common man who has no knowledge. Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 as it is, you should study. Then you will get all this knowledge. Bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante: you become wise and you can understand K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Then you surrender. Then you become mah\u0101tm\u0101.<\/span><\/p>\n And what is the function of mah\u0101tm\u0101? Mah\u0101tm\u0101 is under the protection of spiritual energy. And what is the symptom of that protection of spiritual energy? That is also stated,<\/span><\/p>\n mah\u0101tm\u0101nas tu m\u0101\u1e41 p\u0101rtha<\/span> [Bg. 9.13]<\/span><\/p>\n He is always engaged in devotional service of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. That is the only symptom. That is mah\u0101tm\u0101.<\/span><\/p>\n mah\u0101tm\u0101nas tu m\u0101\u1e41 p\u0101rtha<\/span> [Bg. 9.13]<\/span><\/p>\n [O son of P\u1e5bth\u0101, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.]<\/span><\/p>\n Does he follow this devotional service blindly? No. J\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101. J\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101 means “knowing perfectly that I am the source of everything.” Aha\u1e41 sarvasya prabhava\u1e25 [Bg. 10.8]:<\/span><\/p>\n [I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.]<\/span><\/p>\n “I am the source of everything.”<\/span><\/p>\n So these things are there in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 As It Is. It is not possible to explain all the verses, but our request is that this K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness movement is to spread the knowledge depicted in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 as it is, without any nonsensical commentation. Then the human society will profit by it. They are actually not in sound condition of living atmosphere, but if they understand Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 and if they actually expand their broader outlook, then these questions of social, national, international, all will be automatically solved. There will be no difficulty.<\/span><\/p>\n And without finding out the center, if we manufacture our own ways… Not to speak of any individual person; the different nations of the whole world, they are trying to be united. And in your country there is United Nations Organization. Unfortunately, instead of becoming one, the flags are increasing. Daily you pass, you’ll see another flag is there. Just like in our India, there was one Hindustan. Now [chuckling] there has become another, Pakistan. And sometime there will be Sikhistan and there will be some-stan. So instead of becoming united, we are being disunited, because we are missing the center.<\/span><\/p>\n So my request is that you are all international students, you try to find out the center of any international movement. That international movement does not mean that “My brother is international and I am international. All others, they are nothing.” Not like that. Actually you try to feel internationally. That international feeling will be possible when you find out the center, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, as it is in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101: bah\u016bn\u0101\u1e41 janman\u0101m ante j\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101n m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyat. When you actually understand K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, the K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a philosophy, that will be perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n And K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a says, in the Thirteenth Chapter, you’ll find,<\/span><\/p>\n sarva-yoni\u1e63u kaunteya<\/span> [Bg. 14.4]<\/span><\/p>\n [It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunt\u012b, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.]<\/span><\/p>\n He is claiming that “I am the father of all forms of life.” Sarva-yoni\u1e63u, “all species of life.” “The material nature is the mother, and I am the seed-giving father.” Just like without father and mother nobody can appear, similarly, in this material world, whoever has come, every one of us, beginning from Brahm\u0101 down to the ant, everyone, the mother is the material nature.<\/span><\/p>\n The mother supplies this body. So our this body is material; therefore it is the gift of the material mother, material nature. But I, the spirit soul, that I am part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Mamaiv\u0101\u1e41\u015bo j\u012bva-bh\u016bta\u1e25 [Bg. 15.7]<\/span><\/p>\n [The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.]<\/span><\/p>\n “All these living entities, they are My part and parcel.”<\/span><\/p>\n So if you try to wide your feelings of internationality, please try to understand Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101. You’ll be getting enlightenment, you’ll understand what is international feeling. Sarva-yoni\u1e63u. Sarva-yoni\u1e63u means then you will feel international even for the cats and dogs and animals and reptiles. In the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam…<\/span><\/p>\n These people are manufacturing Communism, but in the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam, Seventh Canto, you’ll find a statement given by N\u0101rada Muni that if in your house there is a snake even, you should give him something to eat. Just see how the feeling. Even there is a snake, what to speak of other animals.<\/span><\/p>\n So these feelings will be enlightened. Unless… We cannot be enlightened unless we come to the real point of God, or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. So we are preaching this K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, or God consciousness. It is not a new movement, because as I told you, that this is based on the principles of Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, and Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 is not new. At least from historical point of view, it is five thousand years old. And beyond history, pre-history, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 in the Fourth Chapter, it is said, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a said,<\/span><\/p>\n ima\u1e41 vivasvate yoga\u1e41<\/span> [Bg. 4.1]<\/span><\/p>\n [The Blessed Lord said: I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun-god, Vivasv\u0101n, and Vivasv\u0101n instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ik\u1e63v\u0101ku.]<\/span><\/p>\n That means “I first of all spoke to the sun-god.” Now if you take that duration, it will be some millions of years before it was spoken. These things are stated in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101.<\/span><\/p>\n So apart from that statement, from historical point of view, since the days of Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata, yes, Battle of Kuruk\u1e63etra… Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 was spoken in the Battle of Kuruk\u1e63etra. From historical point of view, it is five thousand years old. So this Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 teaching is coming, at least, from five thousand…, since five thousand years. So it is older than any other scripture in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n So you try to understand as it is, without any unnecessary commentary. You do not… There is no use of commentary. The words are sufficient to give you enlightenment, but unfortunately, people take advantage of the popularity of Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101, and they try to impress under the shelter of Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 their own philosophy or own idea. That is useless.<\/span><\/p>\n You try to understand Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 as it is, then you will get this entitlement, enlightenment, that K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the center of all activities. And if you become K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a conscious, then everything will be perfect; all problems will be solved. Ceto-darpa\u1e47a-m\u0101rjana\u1e41 bhava-mah\u0101-d\u0101v\u0101gni-nirv\u0101panam [Cc. Antya 20.12].<\/span><\/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]<\/span><\/p>\n These things are there, and actually, they are happening. Our students are feeling…, they are actually doing that. So we shall request you to read this Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 As It Is, so your feelings of international spirit will be perfect and you’ll be happy, and wherever you preach this cult, they will be also happy. And that will be very nice thing.<\/span><\/p>\n Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances]<\/span><\/p>\n If there are any question, you can ask.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes?<\/span><\/p>\n Guest: Could you discuss the various levels on the way to bliss consciousness? What happens to the body and the mind as one approaches bliss consciousness?<\/span><\/p>\n Prabhup\u0101da: [aside:] What is that question?<\/span><\/p>\n Satsvar\u016bpa: What are the different levels that you go through on the way to getting bliss consciousness? What happens to the body? What happens to the mind?<\/span><\/p>\n Prabhup\u0101da: We are acting not singly, simply with mind or simply… Pr\u0101\u1e47air arthair dhiy\u0101 v\u0101c\u0101 [SB 10.22.35].<\/span><\/p>\n [It is the duty of every living being to perform welfare activities for the benefit of others with his life, wealth, intelligence and words.]<\/span><\/p>\n K\u0101ya-mana-v\u0101kya. Whatever we do, we do with our body, mind and words. But this consciousness means if you put your mind in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, then your words and body also become K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-ized.<\/span><\/p>\n Sa vai mana\u1e25 k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-pad\u0101ravindayor<\/span><\/p>\n [SB 9.4.18].<\/span><\/p>\n [Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Ambar\u012b\u1e63a always engaged his mind in meditating upon the lotus feet of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, his words in describing the glories of the Lord, his hands in cleansing the Lord’s temple, and his ears in hearing the words spoken by K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a or about K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. He engaged his eyes in seeing the Deity of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a’s temples and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a’s places like Mathur\u0101 and V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana, he engaged his sense of touch in touching the bodies of the Lord’s devotees, he engaged his sense of smell in smelling the fragrance of tulas\u012b offered to the Lord, and he engaged his tongue in tasting the Lord’s pras\u0101da. He engaged his legs in walking to the holy places and temples of the Lord, his head in bowing down before the Lord, and all his desires in serving the Lord, twenty-four hours a day. Indeed, Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Ambar\u012b\u1e63a never desired anything for his own sense gratification. He engaged all his senses in devotional service, in various engagements related to the Lord. This is the way to increase attachment for the Lord and be completely free from all material desires.]<\/span><\/p>\n There was a nice king, Mah\u0101r\u0101ja Ambar\u012b\u1e63a. He was great king. He had to administer a great kingdom, whole world. But he was a great devotee also, although he was very busy. Because it is said, sa vai mana\u1e25. Mana\u1e25 means mind. Sa vai mana\u1e25 k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-pad\u0101ravindayor. He always kept his mind in the lotus feet of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Vac\u0101\u1e41si vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha-gu\u1e47\u0101nuvar\u1e47ane. And therefore his mind was always dedicated to the lotus feet of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. He could not speak anything but K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. Vac\u0101\u1e41si vaiku\u1e47\u1e6dha-gu\u1e47a.<\/span><\/p>\n So the whole process of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness is transferring the business from matter to spirit, or K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. There is a nice definition how to execute K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness in the N\u0101rada Pa\u00f1car\u0101tra. Sarvop\u0101dhi-vinirmukta\u1e41 tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170].<\/span><\/p>\n [\u201c\u2019Bhakti, or devotional service, means engaging all our senses in the service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all the senses. When the spirit soul renders service unto the Supreme, there are two side effects. One is freed from all material designations, and one\u2019s senses are purified simply by being employed in the service of the Lord.\u2019]<\/span><\/p>\n If we become freed from all these designations… “I am American,” this is a designation. “I am Indian,” this is a designation. I am not Indian; you are not American. We are all parts and parcel of the Supreme. This is only dress. It does not mean because I am in this saffron colored dress and you are in black coat or green coat, there is difference between you and me.<\/span><\/p>\n We are all human being. Similarly, we have to understand that this body is our dress only. Because we have got a different dress\u2014a black dress or white dress or Indian dress or American dress\u2014that does not mean we are different.<\/span><\/p>\n When we can feel in that way, when we are trained in that way, that is called sarvop\u0101dhi-vinirmuktam. He is freed from all designation. Sarvop\u0101dhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam. That time he becomes purified, nirmalam. So long I have got identification that “I am this,” “I am that,” “I am that…”<\/span><\/p>\n Simply when I shall understand that “I am part and parcel of God,” that is…, means, that status of mind is called nirmalam, without any contamination. And when you are in that status of life… That is also explained in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101. This is called brahma-bh\u016bta\u1e25 prasann\u0101tm\u0101 [Bg. 18.54].<\/span><\/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.]<\/span><\/p>\n Brahma-bh\u016bta\u1e25 means self-realization. And the symptom will be prasann\u0101tm\u0101, joyfulness, without any anxiety. So there are stages. One has to learn this from authoritative sources. Then it is possible to become… But our movement, it is…, chanting Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra is so nice that what was possible after many, many births, you can get it within a few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n That is a fact. If you chant Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra as we are doing, then you’ll understand. Very quickly your self-realization, your freedom from designation, your mental concoction, everything will be cleared, and there will be no more anxiety.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nj\u00f1\u0101nav\u0101n m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyate<\/span>
\nv\u0101sudeva\u1e25 sarvam iti<\/span>
\nsa mah\u0101tm\u0101 su-durlabha\u1e25<\/span><\/p>\n
\nvi\u1e63vaksena-kath\u0101su ya\u1e25<\/span>
\nnotp\u0101dayed rati\u1e41 yadi<\/span>
\n\u015brama eva hi kevalam<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbr\u0101hma\u1e47e gavi hastini<\/span>
\n\u015buni caiva \u015bva-p\u0101ke ca<\/span>
\npa\u1e47\u1e0dit\u0101\u1e25 sama-dar\u015bina\u1e25<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbr\u0101hma\u1e47e gavi hastini<\/span>
\n\u015buni caiva \u015bva-p\u0101ke ca…<\/span><\/p>\n
\ndaiv\u012b\u1e41 prak\u1e5btim \u0101\u015brit\u0101\u1e25<\/span>
\nbhajanty ananya-manaso…<\/span><\/p>\n
\ndaiv\u012b\u1e41 prak\u1e5btim \u0101\u015brit\u0101\u1e25<\/span>
\nbhajanty ananya-manaso<\/span>
\nj\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101 bh\u016bt\u0101dim avyayam<\/span><\/p>\n
\nsambhavanti m\u016brtaya\u1e25 y\u0101\u1e25<\/span>
\nt\u0101s\u0101\u1e41 mahad yoni brahma<\/span>
\naha\u1e41 b\u012bja-prada\u1e25 [pit\u0101]<\/span><\/p>\n
\nproktav\u0101n aham avyayam<\/span>
\nvivasv\u0101n manave pr\u0101hur<\/span>
\nmanur ik\u1e63v\u0101kave ‘brav\u012bt<\/span><\/p>\n