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rmad-Bhgavatam 1.2.17Vndvana, October 28, 1972

Pradyumna (leads chanting, etc.):

vat sva-kath kapuya-ravaa-krtanahdy anta-stho hy abhadrividhunoti suht satm[SB 1.2.17]

Translation: "r Ka, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramtm, Supersoul, in eone's heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who relishes His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted."

Prabhupda:


There is a English proverb that "God helps him who tries to help himself." Thatis a English proverb. So to become Ka conscious is not very difficult thing. Peoplehave no taste. They do not understand the importance of this Ka consciousness movement. But this is the only way by which one can become perfect and happy.

It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gt that just to become happy and peaceful one has

to learn three things.

bhoktra yaja-tapassarva-loka-mahevaramsuhda sarva-bhtnjtv m ntim cchati[Bg. 5.29]

If you want... Because the problem is that we want to be happy and peaceful. Everyone says, "I want peace. There is no peace in my mind." That is a general understanding. Nobody can say that "I am completely happy and peaceful." No, that isnot possible. The material world is made in such a way that you cannot feel hap

py. That is not possible. First of all, we have come to this material world to enjoy sense gratification, but that is not our proper business. Our proper business is to satisfy the senses of Ka, not our senses. So because we have deviated fromour original position, therefore it is always a perplexity of our life. But dueto illusion we cannot understand it.

Just like a hog is eating stool, living in a very filthy place, having sex without any discrimination, but you see, hogs are very fatty. They feel very happy. Unless one feels very happy, he cannot become fatty. This is a psychology. Yes. We have seen, sometimes, a confectioner, very quickly they become fatty. Becausethey always smell rasagull. It is natural. You see. So the hogs, they feel very happy, and get fatty. You see. But actually what is the happiness? He's eating stool, living in a filthy place and no fixity of eating. But still, he's happy.

Therefore Prahlda Mahrja, when he was asked by his father, "My dear boy, will you kindly let me know what best thing you have learned from your teachers?" So Prahld


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a Mahrja replied,

tat sdhu manye 'sura-varya dehinsad samudvigna-dhiym asad-grahthitvtma-pta gham andha-kpavana gato yad dharim rayeta[SB 7.5.5]

"My dear father..." He did not say "father." He said, "My dear the best of the demons..." His father was a demon, and he was not afraid of his father, althoughhis father was always insisting him, "You give up this Ka consciousness, learn likeme, become a very big king, politician." But he would say, "No. ravaa krtana vio5.23]. This is best thing." So that was the fight between the father and the son. So sometimes, after all, he was father, sometimes patting the son. So he replied, "My dear the best of the demons, asura-varya..." Asura means demon, and varya means the best. Tat sdhu manye 'sura-varya dehinm. "I think for any living entity who has accepted this material body..."

All of us, we have accepted this material body. Tat sdhu manye 'sura-varya dehinm

asad-graht, sad samudvigna-dhiym asad-graht [SB 7.5.5]. Because the living entitiesaccepted this material body, asad-graht... Asat means "that will not exist." Every living entity is eternal. He must have his eternal body. But purposefully, toenjoy this material world, the living entity has accepted a material body. Not only once, but it is going on continually, one after another. As I am accumulating material desires in this life... Just like I have got this body according to my desires in the last life, similarly, whatever we are desiring in this life, that will be fulfilled in the next life. Ka is very kind. As we desire, ye yath m prapyante ts tathaiva bhajmy aham [Bg. 4.11]. a is so kind that if you want a tiger's bo, Ka will give you. If you want a demigod's body, Ka will give you. If you want a bolike Ka, Ka will give you. Mad-yjino 'pi ynti mm. That is stated in the Bhagavadeva-vrat devn pitn ynti pit-vrat [Bg. 9.25]. Whatever you want, especially in thisn form of life, whatever you desire, Ka will give you chance. It may be very unpala

table, but this is a fact. We have heard from authorities.

That is why in Vndvana there are so many hogs and monkeys and dogs. This is very mysterious thing. The siddhnta, the conclusion is, we get it, information from Bhgavatam... Just like that, the two sons of Kuvera. What is the? Maibandha...?

Devotees: Maigrva.

Prabhupda: Maigrva...?

Devotees: Nalakvara.

Prabhupda: Nalakvara. They wanted extensively sense enjoyment. They were enjoying.At that time, Nrada was passing. But they were so much intoxicated that they could not cover their body. So Nrada cursed them that "You become a tree." But whenthey were very much submissive, fell down on the feet of Nrada, "How we shall get...?" he asked them to get the tree life in Vndvana. And because they were put inVndvana, after some time, they were delivered.

So similarly, those who are executing devotional service, but at the same time cheating... Cheating means outwardly very devotional, inwardly doing all sinful activities. Such living entity is given the chance to become a hog and dog in Vndvana so that the reaction of the sinful activities, they get this body; at the same time, due to their touch with the dust of Vndvana, they become eliminated of allsinful activities and liberated. So these hogs and dogs, they're also very impo

rtant. They are not ordinary thing. But this is the explanation. The tortoise, the... They have, they have got... Therefore a devotee, when he's punished in that way for the short time, they'll be liberated. Undoubtedly.


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There is a statement in the rmad-Bhgavatam:

tyaktv sva-dharma carambuja harerbhajann apakvo 'tha patet tato yadi...[SB 1.5.17]

Even one falls down, still, there is no loss. Because he'll get the chance. Ka willarrange in such a way. They'll get the chance. So actually, there is no loss. But one must be purified completely. So to get this hog's and dog's life means they are being purified. They are being purified. But without being completely purified, nobody can enter into the kingdom of God. That is not possible. Yem anta-gata ppam. So there is another version in Caitanya-caritmta:

anivij tare viaye khana dibasa caramta diye visa bhula iva(?)

If one, by mistake, while executing devotional service, at the same time, keeping his propensity for sense gratification, material enjoyment, then he is rectifi

ed in that way.So we should be very much careful. Careful... It is said, kurasya dhr niit duratyay.he spiritual path, Ka consciousness path, is just like sharpened razor. You take your sharpened razor and shave your cheek. If you are expert, it will be very clean-shaved. But if you are not expert, there is little inattention, immediately cut and blood. Kurasya dhr. This is an example. Durga pathas tat kavayo vadanti. But the safest way... Here it is stated in the rmad-Bhgavatam, vat sva-kath ka [Sttentively hear about Ka, puya-ravaa-krtana, if we hear about Ka, it doesn't maam, but simply by hearing Ka, about Ka, I shal l acquire some resultant action of pis activities. Just like there is the Bhgavata-saptha. You, within a week, nobody can understand what is Bhgavata. And the speaker also does not know what he's speaking. But because somehow or other, they're hearing about Ka, there is some pious r

esultant action. That's a fact.

So vat sva-kath ka puya-ravaa-krtana [SB 1.2.17]. If we engage ourselves..cepted this process, simply hearing... That is the accepted process, ravaam, ravaa kanam. So Caitanya Mahprabhu also accepted this process. Sthne sthit ruti-gat tanu-vhi. He refused so many other processes of self-realization, beginning from varrama-dharma, jna-mira-bhakti, karma-mira-bhakti, karma-tyga. He, not rejected; he said, "Itis external. If you know something more, speak," when He was talking with RmnandaRya. So when Rmnanda Rya quoted a passage from rmad-Bhgavatam which wa s spoken byd Brahm:

jne praysam udapsya namanta evajvanti san-mukharit bhavadya-vrtmsthne sthit ruti-gat tanu-v-manobhirye pryao 'jita jito 'py asi tais tri-lokym

So Caitanya Mahprabhu accepted that people should be given chance, some way or other, to hear about Ka. That's all. These meetings are arranged, these sakrtana parties are arranged... We are sending our men throughout the whole world simply to give them some chance to hear about Ka. This is the process. And it is actually happening very effective. Simply.

When I was coming here, I was in Manila. What is called?

Devotees: Manila.

Prabhupda: Manila. Yes. Manila, in Philippines. So this Manila, Philippines, theyeat dogs. But still they gave very patient hearing to ka-kath. My last meeting was


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in a big hotel. Our Sudm Vipra Gosvm Mahrja arranged it, and it was very successfuleting. All full of young men. And they came to hear about Ka. And they responded very nicely. They purchased books, they danced, they chanted. So this Ka consciousness movement is progressing only on this basis: vat sva-kath ka [SB 1.2.17]. Justhance to hear about Ka. We are not bribing them. I have not bribed all these American and European boys to become Ka conscious. I have no money. I, when I went to America, I had only seven dolla rs. One h our's expenditure in New York. You see. S

o there is no question of bribing them. But they heard about Ka. I was reading Bhagavad-gt on the street, on the store, in the park, and chanting. They heard, and they came to me. They became attracted. Why? Because it is said here, hdy anta-stha.Within the heart, hy abhadri...

People are suffering because they have got so many dirty things within the heart. The most important dirty thing are the modes of material nature. Sattva-gua, tamo-gua... Sattva-gua is also not dirty, but it is mixed with dirty things. And rajo-gua, tamo-gua is purely dirty. Rajo-gua, tamo-gua is purely dirty. Here, our intelligence is also dirty, because it is mixed up with these modes of material nature. In the material life, the int..., we are using our intelligence... Everyone is using, or..., his intelligence, how to become happy. The whole world is going

on, working so hard. There is intelligence, certainly. But that is dirty intelligence. That is dirty intelligence. Dirty intelli...

What kind of dirty intelligence? That is described in the Bhagavad-gt: duktina. Kt.ans very expert, kt. Kt. One who is expert, he's called kt. But here the word has beadded: dus. Dukt. Duktin. Just like one who has discovered the atomic bomb. It has required very nice brain. Unless the scientist is very intelligent, kt, how he could discover such dangerous weapon? So there is intelligence, undoubtedly. But theintelligence has been wrongly used. Duktina. They have discovered something to kill man. But they could discover something which will save man. But that is not possible. That is Ka consciousness movementwhich will save man. You can discover something to kill man, but you cannot discover something which will save man. That isKa consciousness. And it is very easy. Simply by giving some time to hear about Ka.

s soon as one sincerely hears about Ka...

Ka is situated in everyone's heart. vara sarva-bhtn hd-dee arjuna tihati [Bgoth are living together within the heart as friends. Ka is so sincere friend that He's trying always to take me back again, back to home, back to Godhead. That isHis business. But I am denying, "No, Sir, I shall remain as hog. I shall be happy by eating stool." Ka says, "No, give up this business." Sarva-dharmn parityajya mmeka araa vraja [Bg. 18.66]. "I'll give you protection." "No, Sir, I'll eat meat, I shall eat the stool. I have got very good facility for sex life without any discrimination." There are so many so-called... I don't wish to discuss, but sex lifeis so strong that they cannot give up even in so-called devotional life. So this is dirty things. Actually it is very dirty. But one can give it up if one is very strongly under the shelter of Ka.

yad-avadhi mama ceta ka-padravindenava-nava-rasa-dhmany udyata rantum sttad-avadhi bata nr-sagame smaryamnebhavati mukha-vikra suhu nihvana ca

Ymuncrya says. If one... Ka is Madana-mohana. If one is attracted, actually, by Ka cannot kill him. Ka will save. So the... Actually, the dirty thing is our..., this sex desire. Sex desire increases our attachment for this world.

pusa striy mithun-bhvam etatayor mitho hdaya-granthim hu

ato gha-ketra-sutpta-vittairjanasya moho 'yam aha mameti[SB 5.5.8]


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Everything is there, rmad-Bhgavatam. The ultimate knowledge to understand everything. Unfortunately, they speak on rmad-Bhgavatam, but not scrutinizingly, pointing out what are the defects in our life. They want to enjoy another type of sense gratification. Anyway, we do not wish to discuss. But actually, if we want to get rid of all dirty things from our heart, we must hear scrutinizingly about Ka. This is the prescription given here. vat sva-kath ka puya-ravaa-krtana [SB 1.2.1

rstand, it doesn't matter. You simply give vibration, hear the vibration. Just like we are doing. What, in European countries and American countries, they'll understand? But we are sending in every important street. In New York we are sending in the Fifth Ave nue, the most important street in the world. Fifth Avenue, New York, we are chanting. We have seen pictures in our Back to Godhead. They arechanting. In London, the most important street, Oxford Street, we send our men.In Melbourne, they're, they're now arresting. I do not know what is the position now. But they are prepared. These boys and girls, so nice that they're arrested sometimes. Just like Kazi was torturing Caitanya Mahprabhu's party. Of course,now, civilized world, there is no such torturing, but our men are, very often they are arrested and put into jail also. But still, they go. They go every day. Now in London, the police has become disgusted. They don't, do not arrest anymore

. Yes. So I say that if you are arrested, why you should be sorry? You go in thejail and chant Hare Ka. That's all. So that others will get the opportunity to hear about Ka.

So this is our propaganda. Ka consciousness movement means we are giving chance topeople to hear about Ka. vat sva-kath ka puya-ravaa-krtana [SB 1.2.17].in India also. But we have got better field of activities outside India, I tellyou, frankly. I am very much encouraged. Because the, we get very good responsequickly. And they become immediately attached to Ka, as you see the samples here. They have given up, on account of their attachment to Ka, they have given up all their nonsense, or abhadri. Abhadri. Abhadri. This, the principle abhadri means illic, intoxication, meat-eating, and gambling. These are the four pillars of abhadr&7751;i. So by Ka consciousness, Ka helps. vatm... When Ka sees that "This man,

ity's now sincere to hear about Me," He helps. Hdi... Because He's there. You haven't got to find out somewhere else. You haven't got to go to Himalaya to find Him. He's here. Hdy anta-stho hi. So He's also within. And my all dirty things arealso within. So as soon as He sees... I am also within. As soon as He sees that"This living entity's now little serious about hearing about Me," He helps. Hdy anta-stho hy abhadri vidhunoti. He helps you. I cannot get out of these dirty thingsby my own endeavor. That is not possible. But Ka helps. As soon as we are little serious to hear about Ka, He helps.

Buddhi-yoga dadmi ta yena mm upaynti te. Ka says. Here, it is indirectly said that. And in the Bhagavad-gt Ka directly says, "Yes. I give him such intelligence so thathe may come back to home, back to Godhead." Yena mm upaynti te. To whom? Te satata-yuktn bhajat prti-prvakam [Bg. 10.10]. One who is twenty-four hours engaged in the lg service of the Lord, and satata-yukt... Satata means twenty-four hours. Not officially. Of course, by official, one may gradually come to the position of satata-yuktnm. Bhajat prti-prvakam. With faith and love, if one is engaged in the servicef the Lord, then Ka says, buddhi-yoga dadmi tam. There are two things, buddhi and buddhi-yogam. Buddhi, ordinary buddhi, intelligence, that is dirty. But when it isyogam... Yogam means connected with Ka. It is called buddhi-yogam.

So we require buddhi-yogam. Not buddhi. If we simply use our buddhi, intelligence, then we continue to become duktina. Buddhi's there, but it is utilized in a misdirected way. That is called duktina. Therefore we must engage our buddhi... Becausebuddhi is the immediate step before we realize self. First our conception is indriyi, these senses. Indriyi pary hur indriyebhya para mana [Bg. 3.42]. We give

importance to the senses. The bodily concept of life means to give importance tosense enjoyment. That's all. This is bodily concept of life. So indriyi pary hu. Thare very important. Those who are bodily, in bodily concept of life, they are a


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ddicted to sense gratification. Indriyi pary hur indriyebhya para mana [Bg. 3.42].hose who are little advanced more, they are addicted to the mental speculation.The so-called jns, mental speculation. Manasas tu par buddhi. Then again you come tothe platform of intelligence. Intelligence, and when the intelligence is purified, hdy anta-stho hy abhadri, purified, simply by hearing about Ka, then immediatelyare raised to the platform of spiritual life. This is the process.

So,


He is very intimate friend of the sdhus, of the devotees. He is everyone's friend. Suhda sarva-bhtnm [Bg. 5.29]. He's everyone's friend. God, Ka, He's everyone's fbut He's a special friend for the devotees. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gt. Hesays,

samo 'ha sarva-bhteuna me dveyo 'sti na priyaye bhajanti tu m bhaktymayi te teu cpy aham[Bg. 9.29]

Priya teu te mayi: because He's God, He's kind to everyone; without His kindness,we cannot live for a moment. That is a fact. But if one becomes a devotee, He gives special protection. Kaunteya pratijnhi na me bhakta praayati [Bg. 9.31]. So therefore this human form of life is a special prerogative for the living entity, andif we take advantage of it and simply try to hear about Ka, then our life is successful.

Thank you very much. (end)

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