Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.27 — Philidelphia, 1975

[[spoken/750712sb.phi|Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.27 — Philadelphia, July 12, 1975

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sa evam vartamano ‘jno mrtyu-kala upasthite matim cakara tanaye bale narayanahvaye

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So vartamana, everyone is situated under certain condition. This is material life.

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I am situated under certain consciousness, you are situated in certain consciousness, everyone.

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According to the modes of nature, we have got different conception of life and different consciousness.

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That is called material life. All of us, we are sitting here. Every one of us has got a different consciousness.

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Generally, it is meant for sense gratification. Material life means everyone is planning,

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“I shall live like this. I shall acquire money like this. I shall enjoy like this.”

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Everyone has got a program. So Ajamila also had a program. What was his program?

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His program was, as he is very much attached to his youngest child

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and whole attention was there, how the child is moving, how the child is eating,

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how the child is talking, and sometimes he was calling, he was feeding,

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so his whole mind was absorbed with the activities of the child.

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In the previous verse we have already discussed:

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bhunjanah prapiban khadan balakam sneha-yantritah bhojayan payayan mudho na vedagatam antakam

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Not only Ajamila, everyone, they are absorbed in certain type of consciousness.

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And what is due to it? How the consciousness develops? It is said, sneha-yantritah.

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Sneha means affection. “By the…, affected by the machine which is called affection.”

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So everyone is affected by this machine. This machine… This body is a machine.

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And it is being worked by the nature. And direction is coming from the Supreme Lord.

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We wanted to enjoy a certain way and Krsna has given us a certain type of body, yantra.

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Just like you have got different makes of motorcar. You want. Somebody wants.

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I want Buick car. Somebody says, “I want Chevrolet,” some, “Ford.” They are ready.

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Similarly, our body is also like that. Somebody is Ford, somebody is Chevrolet,

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somebody is Buick, and Krsna has given us the chance, “You wanted this kind of car or body.

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You sit down and enjoy.” This is our material position. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati.

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We forget. After changing the body, we forget what I desired and why I have got this kind of body.

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But Krsna, He is situated within your heart. He does not forget. He gives you.

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Ye yatha mam prapadyante. You wanted this kind of body: you get it. Krsna is so kind.

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If somebody wanted a body so that he can eat everything, so Krsna gives him the body of a pig,

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so it can eat even stool. And if somebody wanted a body that “I shall dance with Krsna,”

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then he gets that body. Now, it is up to you to decide whether you are going to get a body

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which will be able to dance with Krsna, to talk with Krsna, to play with Krsna. You can get it.

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And if you want a body how to eat stool, urine, you will get it.

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So we have to decide, this human form of life.

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But if you have no information that “What kind of body I am going to get next,”

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if you don’t believe… You believe or not believe, it doesn’t matter. The nature’s law will act.

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If you say, “I don’t believe in the next life,” you may say like that, but nature’s law will act.

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Karmana daiva-netrena. As you are acting, according to that, you are preparing your next body.

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So after death–after death means when this body is finished–then you get another body

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immediately, because you have already made the field work, what kind of body you will get.

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So this man, Ajamila, was engaged in taking care of his child very nicely,

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and the whole mind was absorbed in the child. So… (aside:) Don’t disturb.

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Therefore he has been described as mudha. Here it is said, bhojayan payayan mudhah.

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We are forgetting that some day is coming. That is ahead. That is called mrtyu, death.

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We forget that. This is our imperfectness. So this man forgot that he was very busy as

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affectionate father or affectionate husband. Or anything. I have got so many relationship.

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As an affectionate friend or envious enemy, we have got some relationship.

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With everyone with this world we have got some. Either it may be affectionate or envy;

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it doesn’t matter. So in this way we are living forgetting that death is ahead.

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Therefore we are mudha. Mudha means rascal, ass, who does not know what is actual interest.

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Just like ass. Ass, the… Mudha means ass. The ass does not know his own interest.

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We have seen that ass is loaded with three tons of cloth by the washerman, and he cannot go;

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still, he has to do it. And he does (not) know that “I am loading so many tons of cloth

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on my back, and what interest I have got with it? Not a single cloth belongs to me.”

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So the ass has no such sense. Ass means he has no such sense. He is thinking, “It is my duty.

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To load upon me so much clothing, it is my duty.” Why it is duty? Now,

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“Because the washerman gives you grass.” So he has no sense that “Grass I can get anywhere.

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Why I have taken this duty?” This is the… Everyone is anxious about his duty.

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Somebody is politician, somebody is householder, somebody is something else.

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Because he has taken up some false duty and working hard for it, therefore he is an ass.

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He is forgetting his real business. Real business is that death will come. It will not avoid me.

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Everyone says, “As sure as death.” Now, before death, I have to act in such a way that I may

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have a position in Vaikuntha, in Vrndavana, and I may have permanent life to live with Krsna.

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This is our real duty.

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But we do not know that. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum.

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We are in this conditioned state of life because we are separated from our original person,

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Krsna. Because we are part and parcel of Krsna, we have forgotten this.

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We are thinking we are part and parcel of America or India. This is called illusion.

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They are interested… Somebody is interested in his country;

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somebody is interested in his society or family. We have created so many things, duty.

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Therefore sastra says that “These rascals do not know what is his actual self-interest.”

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Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum durasaya.

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He is hoping something which will never be fulfilled. Therefore he is rascal.

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We are trying to adjust things within this material world to become happy,

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but the rascal does not know that so long he will remain in this material world,

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there is no question of happiness. That is rascaldom.

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Krsna says that this place is duhkhalayam asasvatam.

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This material world, where we are now living under different change of body one after another,

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it is duhkhalayam. Why I have to change my body? Why not… I am permanent.

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Na hanyate hanyamane sarire. Therefore we have to learn, we have to be educated,

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we have to receive knowledge from the perfect.

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And Krsna personally, the Supreme Perfect Person, is giving you knowledge.

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And if we are so unfortunate that we do not take the perfect knowledge–we concoct,

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we speculate, we create our own idea–then it is to be understood that durasaya.

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We are thinking, “I shall be happy in this way. I shall be happy in this…” Nothing.

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You shall never be happy–this is perfect instruction–unless you go back to home,

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back to Godhead. Just like a mad boy, he has forsaken his father. His father is rich man,

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everything is there, but he has become hippie. So similarly, we are also like that.

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Our father is Krsna. We can live there very comfortably without any botheration,

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without endeavor for earning money, but we have decided that we shall live here in this

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material world. This is called ass. This is the… Therefore mudha.

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We do not know what is our self-interest. And we are hoping against hope,

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“I shall be happy in this way. I shall be happy in this way.” Therefore this word is used, mudha.

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They do not know what is actually his happiness, and he is trying one chapter, another,

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one chapter, another, “Now I will be happy.” The ass. The ass. Sometimes the washerman sits

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on his back and takes a bunch of grass and puts in front of the ass, and the ass wants to take

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the grass. But as he moving forward, the grass is also moving forward. (laughter)

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And he thinks, “Just one step forward, I shall get the grass.”

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But because he is ass, he does not know that “The grass is situated in such a way that I may

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go on for millions of years; still, I will not get the happi…” This is ass.

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He does not come to his senses that “For millions and trillions of years I may try to be happy

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in this material world. I will never be happy.”

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Therefore we have to take the knowledge from the guru who knows things.

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Therefore guru is worshiped,

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ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave namah

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The politician or, what is called, leaders, andha, they will promise you that

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“You will be happy in this way. You give me vote, and I shall bring heaven for you,

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and let me become minister. That is… You simply wait, and as soon as I become a minister

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and president, I will give you such and such benefit.” So you select Mr. Nixon,

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and again you become disappointed. Then we request, “Mr. Nixon, you get out.”

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And we accept another fool. This is going on. This is going…

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But sastra says you will not be getting right information in that way.

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These foolish men, they will promise you something, and he is unable to make you happy.

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You will be again disappointed, again regret. Then what is…,

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wherefrom I shall get the right information?

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That Vedas says, tad-vijnanartham sa gurum eva abhigacchet:

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“If you want right information, then go to the guru.” And who is guru?

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That Caitanya Mahaprabhu explains that amara ajnaya guru hana tara’ ei desa.

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He says, “You just become on My order.” Guru means who carries the order of Krsna.

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Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna. Or who is Krsna’s servant, that is guru.

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Nobody can become guru unless he carries the order of the Supreme.

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Therefore you will find… Because every one of us is ass,

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we do not know what is our self-interest, and somebody comes, “I am guru.”

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“How you become guru?” “No, I am self-perfected. I don’t require to read any book.

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I have come to bless you.” (laughter) And the foolish rascals, they do not know,

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“How you can become guru?” If he does not follow the sastra or the supreme authority Krsna,

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how he can become? But they accept, guru. So this kind of guru is going on.

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But you should know, guru means who carries the order of the Supreme Lord. That is guru.

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Any rascal who manufactures some idea is not guru. Immediately kick him out, immediately,

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that “This is a rascal. This is not a guru.” Guru is here, as Caitanya Mahaprabhu says,

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amara ajnaya guru hana. Guru means the faithful servant of God. That is guru.

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So you have to first of all test that “Are you faithful servant of God?”

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If he says, “No, I am God,” oh, kick him on his face immediately. (laughter)

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Kick him immediately, that “You are rascal. You have come to cheat us.”

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Because test is there that guru means faithful servant of God, simple.

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You don’t require large definition, what is guru.

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So Vedic knowledge gives you indication that tad-vijnanartham.

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If you want to know the science of spiritual life, tad-vijnanartham sa gurum eva abhigacchet,

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you must approach guru. And who is guru? Guru means who is the faithful servant of God.

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Very simple.

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So this is the position. Without guru, if he is manufacturing his way of life, then he is mudha,

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rascal. Therefore it is said, mudha. He was thinking, “I am so affectionate father. I am taking care

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of my son, little son. In all respect I am feeding him, I am patting him, and so many things I am…

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I am very faithful and very honest father.” But sastra says, “Here is a mudha, rascal.”

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You see here. It says, bhojayan payayan mudhah. Why he is mudha? Na vedagatam antakam.

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He does not say, does not know, that “Behind me, the death is awaiting.

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He has come to take me.” Now, “How your affection for your so-called son and society

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and family and nation will save you? Here is death.” That he cannot answer.

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He cannot answer that death is there. So we shall be prepared. That is human life.

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We must always know that “There is death behind me.”

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At any moment he can capture my neck and take it away. That’s a fact.

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Is there any guarantee that you shall live hundred years? No. Even just after few seconds,

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if you go to the street, you may immediately meet death. There may be heart failure.

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There may be motor accident. There may be something, something. So to live is wonderful.

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To die is not wonderful. Because you are meant for death. As soon as you took your birth,

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immediately you begin to die. Immediately. If you enquire, “Oh, when the child is born?” you say,

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say, “One week.” That means he has died one week. We are taking that he is living one week,

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but actually he has died one week. That is wonderful, that still he is living, he has not died.

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So death is not wonderful because it is sure. It will come–after one week or after one hundred years.

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That is not wonderful. So long you live, that is wonderful.

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So we should utilize this time to make solution of the life that we are repeatedly dying and again

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accepting another body. So how they will understand unless they come to the proper guru?

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Therefore sastra, says tad-vijnanartham: “If you want to know the real problem of your life

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and if you want to be enlightened how to become Krsna conscious, how to become eternal,

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go back to home, back to Godhead, then you must approach the guru.” And who is guru?

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That is explained, very simple thing. Guru never manufactures idea that

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“You do this and give me money and you become happy.” That is not guru.

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That is another process of earning money. So here it is said, mudha,

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everyone who is simply living in the fool’s paradise, manufacturing his own ideas like Ajamila…

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Somebody has taken, “This is my duty,” somebody has… He is a fool.

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You must know what is your duty from guru. You are singing every day,

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guru-mukha-padma-vakya, cittete koriya aikya, ar na koriho mane asa. This is life. This is life.

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Guru-mukha-pad… You accept the bona fide guru, and what he orders you, carry out.

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Then your life is successful. Ar na koriho mane asa. You rascal, you do not desire anything else.

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Are you not singing daily? But do you understand the meaning? Or you are singing only?

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What is the meaning? Who will explain? Nobody knows? Yes, what is the meaning?

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“My only wish is that my mind be purified by the words coming from the mouth of my

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spiritual master. I have no other desire but this.”

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Yes. This is the order. Guru-mukha-padma-vakya, cittete koriya aikya.

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Now citta means consciousness or heart. “I shall do this only, bas. My Guru Maharaja told me;

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I shall do this.” Cittete koriya aikya, ar na koriho mane asa.

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So it is not my pride, but I can say, for your instruction, I did it.

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Therefore whatever little success you see than my all my Godbrothers, it is due to this.

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I have no capacity, but I took it, the words of my guru, as life and soul. So this is fact.

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Guru-mukha-padma-vakya, cittete koriya aikya. Everyone should do that.

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But if he makes addition, alteration, then he is finished. No addition, alteration.

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You have to approach guru–guru means the faithful servant of God, Krsna–

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and take his word how to serve Him. Then you are successful. If you concoct,

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“I am very intelligent than my guru, and I can make addition or alteration,” then you are finished.

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But he got the opportunity of chanting the holy name of Narayana. This is his good fortune.

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Therefore, according to this, we change the name. Why?

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Because every name is meant for becoming a servant of Krsna. So just like Upendra.

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Upendra means Vamanadeva. So if you call “Upendra, Upendra,” or similarly,

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that name is taken account of. So that will be explained later on.

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So here also it is said… In the first verse it is said mudha, and the second verse also it is said,

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sa evam vartamanah ajnah. Ajna means rascal. Mudha means rascal. Ajna means ignorant,

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ignorant, who has no knowledge. Jna means one who has knowledge.

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Ajna mean who has no knowledge. Mrtyu-kala upasthite. So everyone in this material world,

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he is mudha, ajna. He does not care that “I will have to meet death.

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When everything will be finished, all my plans, all my assets, everything, will be finished.”

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He does not know that. He knows it, but he doesn’t care to observing these things.

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Therefore everyone is mudha and ajna. Then, in spite of the death has come,

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matim cakara tanaye bale narayanahvaye. He is experiencing, “Now I am dying; death is near.”

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Still, he is thinking of his, that child. So yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante.

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He has got a child. His name is Narayana. Now, his position is different.

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But if I am similarly affected, similarly affectionate to my dog, then what is my position?

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Or anything. Naturally, I will think of my dog, and immediately I shall get the another body

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like a dog, or dog. This is nature’s law. Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram.

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At the time… The test will be at the time of death, what kind of body you are going to get.

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So yam yam vapi smaran bhavam. The… Just like he is very much affectionate to his son.

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He is thinking of his son. Similarly, if you very much affectionate to your dog or something else,

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you will think at that time.

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Therefore practice Hare Krsna so that at the time of death you can think of Krsna

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and your life is successful.

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Thank you very much. (end)