Ratha Yatra festival — Melbourne, 1974

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[12:30]: It is our glory if we spend our life and soul, our whole life, glorifying God,
[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.