Ratha Yatra festival — Melbourne, 1974
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- It is our glory if we spend our life and soul, our whole life, glorifying God,
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- glorifying the Holy Lord. Lord Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
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- Everybody sing and dance, dance for Krishna!
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- Complete knowledge. If you read Bhagavad-gita you get complete knowledge.
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- So what Bhagavan says?
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- Bhagavan Krishna is teaching Arjuna so in the ninth chapter He says, “My dear Arjuna,
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- I am now speaking to you the most confidential knowledge. Guhyatamam.
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- Tama means superlative. Positive, comparative and superlative.
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- In Sanskrit tara-tama. Tara is comparative and tama means superlative.
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- So here Bhagavan says, the perfect Personality of Godhead says.
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- “Now I am speaking to you the most confidential knowledge.”
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- The knowledge is with full knowledge, not that imagination.
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- Vijnana means “science.” Practical demonstration.
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- If you learn this knowledge.
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- Moksyase means you get liberation and asubha means inauspiciousness.
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- Inauspiciousness. So our present life, at the present moment.
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- Present life means so long we posses this material body it is full of inauspiciousness.
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- Moksyase asubha. Asubha means inauspicious.
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- So what is that confidential knowledge? Now Krishna says, again stressing.
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- Srila Rupa Goswami when he met Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Prayaga.
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- There is a place, holy place in India, which is called Prayaga.
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- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu after accepting His renounced order of sannyasa,
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- He went to Prayaga and other holy places, so Srila Rupa Goswami,
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- he was minister of the government, but he gave up everything and joined
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- this Hare Krishna movement with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
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- So when he first met he offered this verse.
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- Vadanaya means the most magnanimous
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- Yes, Krishna asked that, “You rascal, surrender unto Me.”
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- You are all rascals, you surrender to Krishna. Then your life will be successful.
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- This is the sum and substance of Krishna’s instruction.
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- Krishna is not asking only Arjuna.
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- He is asking all of us, all rascals, that you are manufacturing so many things
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- for becoming happy. You’ll never be happy. Rest assured.
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- But surrender unto Me and I will make you happy.
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- This is Krishna consciousness, that’s all. One line.
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- So what can be done? Krishna is offering all opportunities and we,
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- humble servant of Krishna, we are trying to preach it
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- but the rascals will not accept it. What can be done? That is the difficulty.
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- They want to continue to remain as rascals.
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- This is the difficulty. Otherwise everything is there, if we take it.
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- Even a child can take benefit out of it, Krishna consciousness.
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- That we have seen practically. But we’ll not take it. That is the difficulty.
Ratha Yatra Carts — Melbourne, 1974
Program after Ratha Yatra — Melbourne, 1974