# Ratha-yatra Festival, Melbourne, 1974 **Location:** Melbourne (1974) **Duration:** 17:24 <div class="video-container" style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mpXWoqM5K8E" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; pointer-events: auto; z-index: 10;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpXWoqM5K8E) --- ## Transcript **[12:37]** glorifying the Holy Lord. Lord Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. **[14:15]** Everybody sing and dance, dance for Krishna! **[16:06]** Complete knowledge. If you read Bhagavad-gita you get complete knowledge. **[16:14]** So what Bhagavan says? **[16:21]** Bhagavan Krishna is teaching Arjuna so in the ninth chapter He says, "My dear Arjuna, **[16:29]** I am now speaking to you the most confidential knowledge. Guhyatamam. **[16:36]** Tama means superlative. Positive, comparative and superlative. **[16:42]** In Sanskrit tara-tama. Tara is comparative and tama means superlative. **[16:52]** So here Bhagavan says, the perfect Personality of Godhead says. **[17:02]** "Now I am speaking to you the most confidential knowledge." **[17:14]** The knowledge is with full knowledge, not that imagination. **[17:26]** Vijnana means "science." Practical demonstration. **[17:36]** If you learn this knowledge. **[17:44]** Moksyase means you get liberation and asubha means inauspiciousness. **[17:51]** Inauspiciousness. So our present life, at the present moment. **[17:59]** Present life means so long we posses this material body it is full of inauspiciousness. **[18:08]** Moksyase asubha. Asubha means inauspicious. **[18:15]** So what is that confidential knowledge? Now Krishna says, again stressing. **[18:35]** Srila Rupa Goswami when he met Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Prayaga. **[18:42]** There is a place, holy place in India, which is called Prayaga. **[18:49]** Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu after accepting His renounced order of sannyasa, **[18:55]** He went to Prayaga and other holy places, so Srila Rupa Goswami, **[19:04]** he was minister of the government, but he gave up everything and joined **[19:11]** this Hare Krishna movement with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. **[19:16]** So when he first met he offered this verse. **[19:25]** Vadanaya means the most magnanimous **[19:54]** Yes, Krishna asked that, "You rascal, surrender unto Me." **[20:06]** You are all rascals, you surrender to Krishna. Then your life will be successful. **[20:18]** This is the sum and substance of Krishna's instruction. **[20:35]** Krishna is not asking only Arjuna. **[20:39]** He is asking all of us, all rascals, that you are manufacturing so many things **[20:46]** for becoming happy. You'll never be happy. Rest assured. **[20:51]** But surrender unto Me and I will make you happy. **[20:55]** This is Krishna consciousness, that's all. One line. **[21:05]** So what can be done? Krishna is offering all opportunities and we, **[21:13]** humble servant of Krishna, we are trying to preach it **[21:17]** but the rascals will not accept it. What can be done? That is the difficulty. **[21:25]** They want to continue to remain as rascals. **[21:29]** This is the difficulty. Otherwise everything is there, if we take it. **[21:42]** Even a child can take benefit out of it, Krishna consciousness. **[21:46]** That we have seen practically. But we'll not take it. That is the difficulty.