# Bhagavad-gita - The Yoga System **Duration:** 10:11 <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/MPoqUTf5Vp0" 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=MPoqUTf5Vp0) --- ## Transcript **[00:15]** So, this yoga system, bhakti-yoga, how to increase attachment for Krsna, **[00:27]** is being taught by our Krsna Consciousness movement. **[00:40]** In this connection, one has to learn this yogic system from Krsna directly or from his representative. **[00:57]** That is the meaning of mad-asraya. One must take shelter… **[01:03]** So at the present moment, it is not possible to take shelter of Krsna directly, **[01:13]** therefore one has to take shelter of his bona fide representative. **[01:23]** There are four parties or sampradaya who are vaishnavas. **[01:35]** The Brahma Sampradaya, Rudra Sampradaya, Sri Sampradaya, and Kumar Sampradaya. **[01:45]** So one has to take shelter of either of these Sampradayas, disciplic succession, **[01:55]** and then learn the bhakti-yoga system from him. Then he'll understand, or he'll see God. **[02:11]** Seeing God is not exactly seeing with the eyes. **[02:21]** God's another name is anubhav, realization. A revelation. Realization. **[02:33]** So that is one technique. **[02:36]** That revelation is made by Krsna Himself to the bona fide devotee. **[02:51]** Krsna, God reveals Himself, just like you cannot see the sun in the darkness of night. **[03:03]** Sun is there in the sky, but somehow or other, when your planet is on the other side, **[03:13]** and it is darkness, you cannot see the sun. Not that the sun is not there, but you cannot see. **[03:21]** Similarly, Krsna is always present before us, but we cannot see Him. **[03:31]** Just like Krsna was personally present. **[03:37]** There are so many hundreds and millions of men on the surface of the globe. **[03:43]** Only few could have seen that He is Supreme Personality of Godhead. **[03:49]** So even God, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna comes before somebody. **[03:57]** It is not possible to see him. The seeing process is different. **[04:11]** One can see when the eyes are anointed with the ointment of bhakti. **[04:21]** The eyes have cleansed to see God. That is revelation. **[04:27]** It is said that a pure devotee is seeing Krsna every moment. **[04:38]** Sadeva means every moment. He is seeing, but that means he's a different person. **[04:47]** His senses are purified. Electrified. Sanctified. Therefore he's seeing. **[04:56]** And once eyes, if not sanctified, purified. He cannot see. There are so many examples. **[05:08]** Just like a machine. A child is seeing, but he cannot see properly. He sees a lump of metal. **[05:19]** But an engineer, when he sees, he immediately understand that **[05:24]** this machine is made by such and such, it is working for this, good machine, bad machine, nice. **[05:30]** He can see in different way because he has got the eyes to see. **[05:37]** Similarly, to understand Krsna, God, we require to purify our senses. **[05:47]** That is defined by Narada Pancharatra. **[06:00]** Being freed from all kinds of designations. **[06:06]** Just like we are seeing Krsna Consciousness, accepting Krsna Consciousness in a vision. **[06:18]** And somebody else, ordinary man, suppose somebody is Christian. **[06:28]** He sees Krsna Consciousness as a movement of the Hindus. But actually it is not. **[06:36]** Therefore, he has to become free from the designation of becoming an American. **[06:49]** One should be free from the designation. Like this body is a designation. **[06:57]** Actually there is no difference between American body and Indian body. **[07:03]** The same physiological construction. There is blood, there is flesh, there is bone. **[07:11]** If you see within the body, there is no difference. But still, we have designated, **[07:19]** "I am American, you are Indian, you are black, I am white…" These are all designations. False. **[07:28]** So one has to become free from the designations. **[07:33]** That is defined that when we are freed from the designation, **[07:43]** One should be freed from the designation. Actually, designation has no value. **[07:48]** The person is important. Not the designation. **[07:56]** So to see Krsna means first business is to become free from the designations. **[08:12]** Here it is said mat-parah, and Narada says tat-parah. **[08:18]** Tat-parah means to become Krsna-ized. **[08:25]** and mat-parah means, Krsna says you will become mat-parah. **[08:30]** Intensely absorbed in Me. And the devotee says intensely absorbed in Krsna. That is it. **[08:42]** But actually the aim is the same. **[08:44]** So one has to become designation free, and intensely in Krsna. **[08:57]** Then he will be nirmal. Nirmal means purified. Without any material contamination. **[09:04]** I am thinking in terms of my bodily concept of life. That is material. The body is material. **[09:15]** So long as I am thinking, "I am American, I am Indian, I am Brahmin, I am kshatriya, I am this, I am that," **[09:21]** they're all designations. That is not nirmalam, purified condition. **[09:30]** Purified condition is when one understands that I am spirit soul, **[09:37]** Krsna is the Supreme Spirit Soul, and I am part and parcel of Krsna. **[09:43]** We are one in quality. We may be different as individuals. **[09:50]** Krsna is big individual. I am a small individual. **[09:57]** Just like in this material world also, one man is very powerful. Another man is less powerful. **[10:04]** But both of them are men. They are not animals. **[10:10]** Similarly, Krsna, God, is qualitatively one with me. Quantitatively He is very, very powerful. **[10:26]** His creative power. He has got creative power. I have also got creative power. **[10:33]** I can, at most, create a big airplane, flying in the sky. **[10:41]** But He has created big, big planets floating in the sky. **[10:50]** He has made such a nice arrangement that it is floating. And we have to float millions times, **[11:03]** less important than the planet, suppose a Sputnik, with so many machines. **[11:10]** That is the difference between His power and our power. **[11:16]** But the quantity of creation, creative power, is different from Krsna. **[11:27]** My quantitative power of creation. We are part and parcel of Krsna. **[11:38]** So although the quality is the same, but the quantity different. **[11:48]** At the present moment, our difficulties are that although you are part and parcel of God, **[11:59]** we are now separated. Every one of us is trying to become a separate god. **[12:10]** That is called materialism. Everyone is struggling. **[12:15]** The materialistic theory is struggle for existence, survival of the fittest. **[12:21]** The Mayavada theory that you go on struggling and if you come to the fittest position, **[12:32]** then you survive. But actually nobody is fit in this material world. **[12:41]** Nobody will survive. Everyone will be vanquished beginning from Brahma down to the ant, **[12:50]** nobody will survive. **[12:52]** That is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-Gita, that **[13:03]** Even if you go to the topmost planetary system which is called Brahmaloka, still you have to be **[13:18]** under the stringent laws of material nature, namely birth, death, old age, and disease. **[13:27]** You cannot avoid it. **[13:30]** So we remain insignificant in any condition of life, either as a Brahma. **[13:38]** The duration of life of brahma is described, that we cannot calculate even. **[13:47]** So even if you get such position, still, you cannot avoid death. That is not possible. **[13:57]** You cannot avoid old age. You cannot avoid disease. But if our real problem is there, **[14:06]** that everyone of us, nobody wants to become old, nobody wants to become diseased, nobody **[14:16]** wants to meet death, nobody wants to take birth. **[14:21]** Unfortunately modern civilization, they take birth and they take death, **[14:33]** but they do not believe that there is next birth. **[14:39]** If there is not next birth, then wherefrom this birth takes place? **[14:46]** This is a subject matter to be dealt with separately. **[14:53]** Now, the thing is that we, by comparison, we can see that I am human being, **[15:04]** I have got my position. Another man is there, he has got his position, individual position. **[15:12]** He may be greater than me, maybe, you know, actually we see both ways. **[15:21]** Someone is better than me, someone is lesser than me, less important. **[15:27]** In any position we can see that somebody is less important than me, and **[15:35]** somebody is more important than me. I am in the via-medium in any position. **[15:41]** Nobody can say, "I am the ultimate. Nobody's better than me." That is not possible. **[15:50]** That position is God's, Krsna's position. Nobody is greater than Him. **[15:57]** Therefore, our problem of life can be solved only by dovetailing ourselves with Krsna. **[16:12]** That is called bhakti-yoga. Dovetailing. The example can be given, just like a… **[16:21]** One man is going on a motor car at sixty miles speed, and another man is going on cycle, **[16:31]** ten miles speed. The ten miles speed cycle cannot become one with this sixty miles speed. **[16:42]** That is not possible. But if the ten mile speed man on the cycle, catches the motorcar, **[16:51]** which is running at sixty miles, then he also goes sixty miles. That is called dovetailing. **[16:59]** So, if you want to be perfect, full freedom, full creative power, everything in fullness, **[17:12]** then we must join with the Supreme Full, complete, whole. Just like a very rich man, **[17:25]** the servants in the house of a rich man, they are also rich men. **[17:31]** But they're also eating in the same way. They are eating in the same palace. **[17:36]** This is a crude example. So there is a spiritual world where Krsna is there. Krsna is everywhere, **[17:52]** here, there, He's personally there. Here in this material world Krsna is present by His energy. **[18:00]** Just like the president of your country, he's in his white house, but at the same time, **[18:14]** he's present everywhere. His energy, his power is there. Nobody can deny it. **[18:22]** Everywhere the picture of Mr. Nixon is there, and everyone is conscious that our ruler, **[18:29]** our chief man, is Mr. Nixon. Similarly, Krsna is also everywhere by His power. **[18:42]** But He has still got His own abode. So everyone of us can go back to him, in His abode. **[18:54]** Both ways. Here also, in this material world. **[19:00]** If we remain in Krsna's service, then we are protected under Krsna's special energy. **[19:10]** So anyone who is in Krsna Consciousness, believes in Krsna. **[19:18]** So like the government. The government man. **[19:21]** Anywhere he goes, sometimes they go out of the country, embassies, the ambassadors. **[19:27]** In India, there is Mr. Keating. Ambassador of your country. **[19:38]** So, he is always in his own abode, any ambassador.