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Canakya Pandit was a great moralist, strategist and Brahmana Vaisnava. He left behind him some wonderful sayings that we can readily apply to our daily lives and more so, Srila Prabhupada used to quote him frequently.

So here are just 21, of many, which I am sure most of those who take the time to read them will gain valuable insight in human nature and be able to apply these to our daily association with Vaisnavas, and others..

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

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1. Separation from chaste wife, insult by ones own kinsmen, an enemy who is saved in battle, the service of a wicked king, poverty, and the assembly of egotistical people, burn the body without fire.

2. The duty of a gentleman is that he should give his daughter in marriage to one who is born in a high family and engage his son in learning higher knowledge, and inspire his friends for religious and pious activities.

3.The beauty of a cuckoo bird is her sweet voice. likewise the beauty of a woman is her chastity, along with her love for her husband. And the beauty of an ugly person is his knowledge and the beauty of an ascetic is his power of forgiveness.

4.If by abandoning one person the whole family can be saved, then one must abandon him gladly. If by abandoning a family the whole village can be saved, then the family has to be sacrificed. If the district is in danger and by abandoning one village the district can be saved, then the village must be sacrificed without hesitation. And for the welfare of ones self, the entire world should be abandoned cheerfully.

5.Queen Sita was stolen away due to her extreme beauty. Ravana was banished due to his extreme vanity. Bali maharaj was tied with a rope due to his being the extreme donor. Therefore a gentleman should not be an extremist.

6.Just as one single tree with one single blossum perfumes the entire forest , in the same way one single

devotee born in a family enlightens the entire history the race. And everyone enjoys the fragrance of his love enlightenment.

7.Nothing can be a burden for a powerful man. No country is far away for a man of efforts. No country is foreign for an educated person and no one is a stranger who has developed the habit of speaking sweet words always.

8.In the country where the foolish people are never respected, where the grain is stored in full capacity, where the husband and wife do not quarrel, there take it for granted, the Goddess of Fortune resides.

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This book Jaiva Dharma, is in Srila Prabhupada’s word “very important”. And after reading it now for the second and third time, I can see why he said this. Since I don’t have it on computer file I must hand type out every quote you will see here below. But it is so important I am willing to take the time and do this and share it with others who have a similar appreciation for Bhaktivinode Thakur’s works.

I hope those of you who take the time to read these statements, will get as much, if not more, out of it than did I.

Hare Krsna,

Damaghosa das

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Chapter 8, Jaiva Dharma-Nitya Dharma and Vaisnava Behavior-translated by Sarvabhavana das starting at pg. 110

He begins this chapter by quoting Manu samhita 6.92 with the 10 characteristics of religiosity. Contentment, forgiveness, not revenging a wrong, self control, remaining in control of the mind in spite of the presence of allurements, honesty, cleanliness, withdrawing the senses from sense objects, scriptural knowledge, education, knowledge of the soul, trutfulness, awareness of reality and freedom from anger, to be not angered when provoked.

Of these, 6 are characteristics directed to oneself and 4 are obligations to others. However the duty or worshipping the Supreme Lord Sri Hari is not clearly delineated in any of these 10 characteristics.

Then he quotes SB 2.3.19 which states that “men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Sri Krsna, the deliverer from evils.”

This is meant to distinguish ordinary moral persons, who are on the material level, from Vaisnavas who are not in the material world. A huge gulf of difference between the two.

Now he begins to make the distinctions between kanistha (3^rd class), madhyama (2^nd class) and Uttama (1^st class) devotees.

SB 11.2.47—Arcayam eva haraye, pujam yah sraddhayehate, na tad bhaktesu canyesu, sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah.

A materialistic devotee does not purposefully study the sastra and try to understand the actual standard of pure devotional service. Consequently he does not show proper respect to advanced devotees. He may however follow the regulative principles he has learnt from his spiritual master or family tradition and worship the Deity in the temple. He is to be considered as being on the material platform although he is trying to advance in devotional service.

Such a person is bhakta praya or bhakta abhasa, a neophyte devotee for he is but a little enlightened about the Vaisnava philosophy. One who worships the Deity of the Lord with faith, but neither respects the created living creatures of the Lord nor worships and serves His devotees with devotion is a prakrta-bhakta…To worship the Deity of the Lord with sraddha is certainly bhakti, but without worshipping and serving the devotee of the Lord, one cannot execute suddha –bhakti. This position of serving the Lord but not His pure devotee can be described as being at best a step inside the portals of the realm of bhakti.

Now the Thakur quotes SB 10.84.13—“One who identifies his self as the inert body composed of mucus bile and air who assumes his wife and family are permanently his own, who thinks an earthen image of the land of his birth are worshippable, or who see a place of pilgrimage as merely the water there, but who never identifies himself with, feels kinship with, worships or even visits those who are wise in spiritual truth-such a person is no better than a cow or an ass.”

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The Glories of Bhagavad Gita

from the Hari-bhakti-viläsa 6.214-228

skände avanté-khaëòe çré-vyäsoktau – gétä sugétä kartavyä kim anyaiù çästra-vistaraiù yä svayaà padma-näbhasya mukha-padmäd viniùsåtä In the Skanda-puräëa, Srila Vyasadev says, “Memorize and sing sweetly this Bhagavad-gétä. What need is there to elaborate on other scriptures? She has descended directly from the lotus mouth of Lord Padmanabh.”

sarva-çästra-mayé gétä sarva-deva-mayé yataù sarva-dharma-mayé yasmät tasmäd etäà samabhyaset The Bhagavad-gétä contains the essence of all literatures. It is the sum total of all the demigods and the sum total of all religion. Therefore, one should study the Bhagavadgétä thoroughly.

çälagräma-çilägre tu gétädhyäyaà paöhet tu yaù manvantara-sahasräëi vasate brahmaëaù pure

One who recites a chapter from the Bhagavadgétä in front of a sälagräma-silä resides for a thousand manvantaras in Lord Brahma’s abode. teneñöaà kratubhiù sarvair dattaà tena gaväyutam gétäm abhyasyatä nityaà tenäptaà padam avyayam Such a person attains the result of donating ten thousand cows and the result of conducting all Vedic sacrifices. Those who constantly study the Bhagavad-gétä attain to the eternal spiritual world.

gétädhyäyaà paöhed yas tu çlokaà çlokärdham eva vä bhava-päpa-vinirmukto yäti viñëoù paraà padaà By reading a chapter, a verse or even half a verse from the Bhagavad-gétä, one is liberated from all sins and attains the topmost destination of Lord Vishnu’s planets.

yo nityaà viçva-rüpäkhyam adhyäyaà paöhati dvijaù vibhütià deva-devasya tasya puëyaà vadämy aham A brahmin who studies the tenth and eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad-gétä attains the following result [as described in the next verse].

vedair adhétair yat puëyaà setihäsaiù purätanaiù çlokenaikena tat puëyaà labhate nätra saàçayaù äbrahma-stamba-paryantaà jagat-tåptià karoti saù viçva-rüpaà sadädhyäyaà vibhütià ca paöhet tu yaù By studying a single verse from these two chapters one attains the same result as studying all the Vedas

Itihäsas and Puräëas, of which there is no doubt. One who studies the tenth and eleventh chapters enjoys all pleasures enjoyed by all living entities — from the ordinary blades of grass up to Lord Brahma.

ahany ahani yo martyo gétädhyäyaà paöhet tu vai dvätriàçad-aparädhäàs tu kñamate tasya keçavaù Lord Keshava forgives all thirty-two kinds of offenses for a mortal who recites a chapter of the Bhagavad-gétä.

likhitvä vaiñëavänäà ca gétä-çästraà prayacchati dine dine ca yajate harià cätra na saàçayaù There is no doubt that those who copy and gift this literature to the devotees of the Lord attain the same result as worshiping Lord Hari daily.

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Hare Krsna-pranams to all

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below we have 6 letters Prabhupada wrote to disciples indicating the

importance of daily reading his books, especially Bhagavad Gita.

If you get knowledge, automatically tapasyä will follow, and then you will make advancement in spiritual life. So to get knowledge is the first item for anyone who is hoping to find his perfection of life. Therefore, I advise you to daily read our books as far as possible and try to understand the subject matter from different angles of vision by discussing frequently with the devotees at the New York temple. (Letter to Bob, 16 June 1972)

Therefore, I recommend you to read our books more and more and try to understand the subject matter from different angles of vision and be always discussing it with your god brothers even while you are working at the press, and when you are working and you cannot read, then listen to the tapes of my lectures and hear in that way. (Letter to Bhargava, 13 June 1972) I am very much stressing nowadays that my students shall increase their reading of my books and try to understand them from different angles of vision. Each çloka can be seen from many, many angles of vision, so become practiced in seeing things like this. If we are selling the books but we do not know what is inside the book, then that will be a farce, especially if you are preaching and selling books to the students of Edinburgh. (Letter to Tribhuvanatha, 16 June 1972)

I am very much stressing at this point that all of my students shall be very much conversant with the philosophy of Krishna consciousness, and that they should read our books very diligently at least one or two hours daily and try to understand the subject matter from varieties of angles. We are holding our morning class in Los Angeles in the temple and I am speaking from 7 to 8 am, and the process is that we are going through some chapters of Srimad Bhägavatam by taking one sloka each day, and reading the Sanskrit aloud. Each word is pronounced by me and repeated by the students and then all

together we chant the sloka several times until we have learned it. And then we discuss the subject matter very minutely and inspect it from all angles of approach and savor the new understandings. So you introduce this system in all of the centers in your zone and you will discover that everyone becomes very much enlivened by these daily classes. Read one sloka and discuss and then go on to the next sloka on the next day, and so on, and even you discuss one verse each day it will take you fifty years to finish the Srimad Bhägavatam in this way. So we have got ample stock for acquiring knowledge. And if the students get knowledge more and more, they will automatically become convinced and very easily perform their duties for tapasyä or renunciation of the material bondage, and that will be their successful advancement in Krishna consciousness. So I want that advancement amongst all of my students, so you are responsible that the standard will be maintained. (Letter to Madhudvisa, 16 June 1972)

Your first job should be to make sure that every one of the devotees in your zone of management is reading regularly our literature and discussing the subject matter seriously from different angles

of seeing, and if they are somehow or other absorbing the knowledge of Krishna consciousness philosophy. If they are fully educated in our philosophy and if they can get all of the knowledge and study it from every viewpoint, then very easily they will perform tapasyä (renunciation) and that will be their advancement in Krishna consciousness. (Letter to Satsvarupa, 16 June 1972)

So especially you must encourage the students to read our books throughout the day as much as possible, and give them all good advice how to understand the books, and inspire them to study the things from every point of view. In this way, by constantly engaging our tongues in the service of the Lord, either by discussing his philosophy or by chanting Hare Krishna, the truth is that Krishna himself will reveal himself to us and we shall understand how to do everything properly. (Letter to Hamsaduta,22 June 1972)

Yes, this program is very nice to try to attract the attention of the students seriously. That will be a great success. They should put intelligent questions and they should be answered properly with reference to modern science and philosophy. That will be very much convincing. I think if you read our books thoroughly you will get a supply of material to answer all the questions. Now I am preparing one book answering all types of philosophical arguments. Every morning, Shyamsundar is putting questions from different angles of vision beginning from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc. and we are trying to answer. We shall discuss also Marx philosophy of communism. It will require some time but I wish that all our preachers should be well versed with all philosophical ideas and after studying all philosophical points of view we will put Krishna Conscious philosophy on the top. (Letter to Madhudvisa, 15 September 1971)

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So if you want to stop these varieties of body, then you should give up all these nonsense desires. Anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam. You are jnani, you are karmi, you are yogi, but your desires are all different. One yogi wants that “I shall fly in the sky.” One yogi wants, “I shall walk on the water.” One yogi thinks, “I shall create gold and show magic to the rascal people that I am God.” This is going on. One jnani, he is speaking something, one karmi… This is going on. Therefore there are varieties, varieties of desires. You have to stop these nonsense desires. That is wanted. Otherwise, you are implicated. You are implicated. So, therefore you can stop your desires only by becoming Krsna conscious. Otherwise, they will go on. Svamin krtartho ‘smi varam na yace. This is Dhruva Maharaja said. He had desires, very, very great desires that “I shall have, I shall possess a kingdom greater than Brahma, greater than my father.”

He was insulted by his stepmother. This is desire. This is We are Action and reaction. So he desired that “I shall have a great kingdom–greater kingdom than my father.” He went to the forest and he underwent very severe austerities, a five-years-old boy. He saw, Krsna came. So when He wanted to give him, fulfill his desires, he said, svamin krtartho ‘smi varam na yace: “No, no, no, no. I have nothing to ask from You.” This is Krsna consciousness. No more desires. Otherwise, karmi, jnani, yogi, and bhakta. Akamah sarva-kamo va moksa-kama udara-dhih. Moksa-kama, the jnanis they want moksa, to merge into the existence of Brahman. The yogis, they want siddhis, some perfection, material perfection, to show some magic. And the karmis, they want sense gratification. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that karmi jnani yogi sakali asanta. Asanta, they cannot be at peace because they are desiring. So long you want, you desire, there will be no peace. Krsna-bhakta–niskama, ataeva santa. So this is the recommendation, nunam pramattah kurute-vikarma. They are mad after sense gratification and doing everything nonsense which is forbidden in the sastra.

You know, those who are too much after fulfilling desires, they even kill his own men. He’ll kill his own child. Because the mother desiring that “I have become pregnant. It is botheration. It will check my sense gratification. Kill.” Vikarma. Nunam pramattah kurute vikarma. He doesn’t see that what will be the result of it. Vikarma. Karma, vikarma, akarma. Karma means prescribed duties, according… Just like law. “You keep to the right,” this is law. And as soon as you keep to the wrong side, left, it is vikarma. This is karma and vikarma. But for sense-gratification we execute vikarma. So therefore we are implicating and we are preparing for the next life. Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram: at the time of death these desires become prominent. Even without desire we get so many ideas and dream at night. So at the time of death, on account of our vikarma, we shall create a situation, and the next life we get a similar body. That’s all. Nunam pramattah kurute. Na sadhu manye yata atmano ‘yam. I have got already one body which is klesada. Everyone has got experience. No one is here who can say that “My body is very nice. There is no klesa.

There is no pains and pleasure. I am very perfect.” That is not possible. As soon as you get a material body, it must be subjected to so many sufferings: adhyatmika, adhibautika, adhidaivika. Tribulations there must be. Material body means klesada. Therefore the Vedic civilization is to stop getting this material body. That is Vedic civilization. Not that increase. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gita. Two things are there. You must accept, you must get the service of Krsna. Otherwise you go on in this way. Mrtyu-samsara-vartamani. Asraddadhanan purusa dharmasyasya parantapa mam aprapya. If you don’t get Krsna, then there is no other way. There is no other alternative. The only alternative is

mrtyu-samsara-vartmani. You get one body and again you die, again get another body. This will go on. Therefore we should not Na sadhu manye. Rsabhadeva, boys, said, “This is not good.” Na sadhu manye yata atmano ‘yam asann api klesada asa dehah. So this culture, this education, is practically nil. Especially in Kali-yuga, it is very regrettable. But the informations are there, the science is there. If one is intelligent, he can take advantage of this science, Krsna consciousness, and mold his life accordingly so that he can stop this process of accepting a body which is klesada. Klesada. That is the perfection of life. And that can be simply done very easily if you simply study Krsna, if you come in this temple and see Krsna. Very simple method. Mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah.

These are not our manufacture; Krsna says. You come here. The temple is meant for this purpose: that you come, see Krsna, and be attached to Krsna. The more you become attached to Krsna, that is called bhakti-yoga.

mayy asakta-manah partha

yogam yunjan mad-asrayah

asamsayam samagram mam

yatha jnasyasi…

Then what will be the benefit? Suppose I understand you very perfectly. Then what will be the result? The result is,

janma karma ca divyam

me yo janati tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma

naiti mam eti

Simply. If you simply know Krsna, then this business, repetition of birth and death, will stop. It is so simple thing. So we should take advantage of it and utilize our human form of life perfectly. Thank you very much. (end)

1. Adi 6.85 Some accept Him ( Lord Caitanya ) whereas others do not, yet everyone is His servant. One who does not accept Him, however, will be ruined by his sinful activities.

2. Conversations reporter (2): What will happen to the movement in the United States when you die? Prabhupada: I will never die. devotees: Jaya! Hari bol! (laughter) Prabhupada: I shall live for my books, and you will utilize.

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Pressman: Do you know how many followers there are in the United States now? Prabhupada: Unlimited. (devotees roar) Some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That’s all. (laughter) Everyone is eternally servant of God, but some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That is the difficulty. But anyone who does not admit, he is servant of somebody. That is a fact. He cannot be master. Everyone is servant. But one who knows that “I am servant of Krsna,” his life is perfect. That’s all. Please try to understand this point that everyone is servant. Even your president is servant of the nation. So nobody can say that “I am no one’s servant.” He is servant, but he does not know that actually he is the servant of the Supreme Lord. That is his ignorance. We are just eradicating this ignorance, that “You are servant, but you admit that you are servant of God. That will make your life successful.” That’s all. Therefore I say that there are unlimited followers. Some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That is the difficulty. But if anyone comes to me, I shall make him to admit.

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We can see from the above statement in Caitanya Caritamrta that Krsna das Kaviraj

explicitly states that Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

And those who accept Him will be saved and those who do not, will be ruined.

This same principle can be applied to Caitanya Mahaprabhus predicted Senapati Bhakta, or Field Commander– A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada has been chosen by Lord Gauranga to represent Him in the coming years of Kali yuga. As Srila Prabhupada once said, after him, only Lord Caitanya can save one.

Therefore the conclusion is this- Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada are the ones whom we must surrender to , because without both of them, we are ruined.

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

750412SB.HYD Lectures

Why we are sent to this material world? Iccha-dvesa sammutthena, sarge yanti parantapa, because we wanted to enjoy life independent of God, or Krsna. This is the disease. We are not independent. If there is no rain and there is no food grain, what your independence will do? No. Therefore Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, annad bhavanti bhutani, very practical.

That if you want to be happy,either animal or man, bhutani, then you

produce anna, food grains sumptuously.

Annad bhavanti bhutani parjanyad anna-sambhavah. And there must be sufficient rain for producing sufficient food grains. Yajnad bhavanti parjanyah, and you perform yajna, there will be regular rainfall. Yajnah-karma samudbhavam.

Who is following thisprinciple? Yajnah-karma samudbhavam.

Krsna never says that factories,by factories bhavanti bhutani. Annad bhavanti bhutani, He says this is practical.We are not interested how to produce anna. We are now interested how to produce tire tubes. So eat tire tube…..

Or, you can eat this—

So this is going on. Take Krsna’s instruction as it is. You’ll be happy. This is Krsna consciousness movement. It is not a bogus thing, it is very scientific, authorized. Take it very seriously, especially those who are born Indians. They’ve got the advantage. Don’t be misled. Thank you very much. So any questions?….

741220SB.BOM Lectures That means because we have come to this material nature… How we have come to material nature? That is explained in the Bhagavad-gita, that iccha-dvesa samutthena sarge yanti parantapa. Iccha-dvesa. There are two things: hatred and desire. Something we desire and something we hate, iccha-dvesa. Two kinds of propensities there are. So when we want to enjoy this material world, that is called iccha, and when we want to disobey God, that is called dvesa. So that iccha and dvesa, there can be. That is two opposing elements. There are. So iccha-dvesa samutthena. When we think… That is not very difficult to understand. Everyone is thinking, “Why shall I worship God? These are all bogus things, they are going to the temple. No.” That propensity is there, dvesa. Tan aham dvisatah kruran ksipamy ajasram asubhan yonisu, Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita. Tan aham dvisatah kruran. These persons who are envious of God and kruran… Krura means, krura also, envious, very, very atheistic. Duskrtino mudhah asuram bhavam asritah. This is asuri-bhava. When we become envious, atheist, godless, without any God consciousness, that is called atheism. That is dvesa.

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So they have increased the working capability. That is

civilization. Just like in the prisonhouse you have to work. Eh? So

they think this working is civilization. This is avidya. So therefore

they have created more work. From early morning, five o’clock, till

ten o’clock, simply working. They do not know that “This working is

our punishment.” But because ignorant, they think that “Working is

life.” This is called ignorance. He does not know, “This working is my

punishment. How to get out of this work?” No. To increase the work

more, complicate, that is civilization. This is called avidya.

Avidya-karma-samjnanya. Our tendency is not to work but get things.

Therefore he has asked that question. Because he has to get cloth by

working, therefore he asking, “Why God has not created?” That means

tendency is not to work. That is spiritual tendency. Everything,

necessities, automatically available. That is our… Therefore as soon

as one man becomes rich, he does not work. He gets his thing by

working others. The tendency is there, to retire from work. They go to

a solitary place. They retire. They do not go out. Weekly, at least,

they want to stop worker, working. So why this tendency? He does not

want to die. He does not want to work. This is spiritual. Why man

should work like… Therefore real civilization is that minimize work.

Minimize work, save time, and go back to your spiritual life. That is

civilization.

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Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Sri Sri Radha Girihari Manohar

We celebrated the lifting of Govardhana Hill pastime with great fun and of course very opulent prasadam.

The older I get, the less I am able to “honor” so many sweets at one time without going into some kind

of sugar shock, but I try anyway.

Many devotees attended and most of them stayed for quite some time after the whole thing was over.

Seems these devotees like each other and have absolutely no inclination to squabble with each other and this is all due to Srila Prabhupadas mercy upon us all. When there is no fighting and only chanting, then it is not kali yuga anymore– but Vaikuntha and I think all who attended would heartily agree.

Our grateful thanks to all who came, brought offerings for the Lord and devotees, and helped out in various ways.

Oh, and Kanhaiya prabhu-thanks for leaving your jimbay drum for me to practice on—!!

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

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Look–Its a cow devotee in a punjabi outfit !!

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Just as a devoted wife becomes afflicted at the passing away of her husband, when a spiritual master passes away, the disciple becomes similarly bereaved. (Purport to Bhäg. 4.28.49)

The spiritual master, äcärya, is always situated in the spiritual status of life. Birth, death, old age and disease do not affect him. According to the Haribhakti- viläsa, therefore, after the disappearance of an äcärya, his body is never burnt to ashes, for it is a spiritual body. The spiritual body is always unaffected by material conditions. (Purport to Bhäg. 10.4.20)

SB 7.7.30-31 What Prahlada Learned in the Womb The words guru-susrusaya mean that one should personally serve the spiritual master by giving him bodily comforts, helping him in bathing, dressing, sleeping, eating and so on. This is called guru-susrusanam. A disciple should serve the spiritual master as a menial servant, and whatever he has in his possession should be dedicated to the spiritual master. pranair arthair dhiya vaca. Everyone has his life, his wealth, his intelligence and his words, and all of them should be offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the via medium of the spiritual master. Everything should be offered to the spiritual master as a matter of duty, but the offering should be made to the spiritual master with heart and soul, not artificially to gain material prestige. This offering is called arpana. Moreover, one should live among devotees, saintly persons, to learn the etiquette and proper behavior of devotional service. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura remarks in this connection that whatever is offered to the spiritual master should be offered with love and affection, not for material adoration.

Whenever an äcärya comes, following the superior orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or his representative, he establishes the principles of religion. Unfortunately, when the äcärya disappears, rogues and non-devotees take advantage and immediately begin to introduce unauthorized principles in the name of so-called svämés, yogés, philanthropists, welfare workers, and so on. The äcärya, the authorized representative of the Supreme Lord, establishes these principles, but when he disappears, things once again become disordered. The perfect disciples of the äcärya try to relieve the situation by sincerely following the instructions of the spiritual master. (Purport to Bhäg. 4.28.48) ·

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below you will find some interesting points in this abbreviated lecture about:

1) how to turn a kali yuga debauch- into a mahatma

2) Human life should be for very easy living and not be for hard working

3) Symptoms of a Mahatma

4) Prabhupada is creating ideal grhastha mahatmas

5) Difference between a grhamedi and grhastha and how to deal with grhamedis

6) Grhastha has one aim-how to develop love for God

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

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690917SB.LON Lectures They are simply engaged in sense gratification: eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. That’s all. Their business finished. They do not know anything else. If I call some animals… Why people are not taking part in this Krsna consciousness? Because they are animals. They are appearing with four hands and legs, but they have been trained to become animals. So they cannot take. But we are trying to train them from animalism to humanism by associating with this Krsna consciousness movement. This Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s movement is to give chance to this animalistic civilization to associate with devotees and mahatmas so that they can also become devotee and mahatma. You associate with mahatma, you become mahatma. You associate with debauch, you become debauch. Practical. We have taken from the debauchery condition all our disciples. But they are now mahatmas. It is possible. By this Krsna consciousness movement we can turn debauch into mahatma. That is possible. Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s movement is so nice.

Sat-sanga chadi’ kainu asate vilas. If people give up the association of this Krsna consciousness society and they simply indulge in the sense gratificatory process, then more and more they’ll be entangled. Sat-sanga chadi’ kainu asate vilas, te-karane lagila ye karma-bandha-phans. People are now entangled in hard working. Actually, human life should be very easy, very easy. No hard work. Living very simple life and eating very healthy food, living in open space, no quarrel, no antagonism, everyone is happy, everyone is free. That is human civilization. Not to become entangled. But at the present moment we have become entangled. So Rsabhadeva says that mahat-sevam dvaram ahur vimukteh. If we actually want liberation from this entanglement, then we should associate with mahatmas, great souls. And who is a great soul? That is being described.

We have discussed some of the symptoms of great soul. The great soul is sama-citta, equal to everyone. Great soul is never angry; they are friend to everyone. And sadhava. Sadhava means sadacara, clean habits. A mahatma cannot be implicated with those four principles of sinful life. That is the first test. No illicit sex life, no gambling, no meat-eating, and no intoxication. This is called sadacara, clean habit. Anything beyond this: unclean habit. Here it is stated,

sadhava. Sadhava means sadacara, clean habit. Then it is said, ye va mayise krta-sauhrdarthah. Now this mahatma is specifically indicated for a sannyasa, a perfect sannyasi, renounced order. Their characteristics is that. And another mahatma… Suppose one is in household life. Question may be whether a mahatma can be in the household life or not. That is being described: Yes. In household life also there can be mahatma. Just like Advaita Mahaprabhu. Caitanya Mahaprabhu even, Nityananda Mahaprabhu. They were all householders. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was a householder. He married twice. His first wife died–He married for the second time. Regular householder, although He left household life very early. He was only twenty-four years old; therefore He had no children. But Nityananda Prabhu had one child, Virabhadra, and Advaita Prabhu had two, three children, of which buddhi was very highly elevated. Similarly, Srivasa Thakura, he had children. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu does not say that one has to become in the renounced order or sannyasi, then he becomes a mahatma. No. We also do not propagate such idea. At least, I am not doing that. I am creating householder, ideal householder. And my ideas are being fruitful. Here in London I sent six householders, and they are doing nice, sincerely they are working. Therefore I am very much proud of

them.

So here is also the statement that even… It’s not required that sannyasi is only mahatma, but a grhastha can be, is also mahatma. So grhastha-mahatma, his symptoms are described: ye va mayise krta-sauhrdarthah. Their only business is to please Krsna. That is the first qualification. They have no other business. Ye va mayise krta-sauhrdarthah. Then how they deal with others? A grhastha has to live… A sannyasi may live alone in forest or in Himalaya or in a secluded place in Vrndavana or somewhere, but a grhastha, he has to deal with ordinary persons, so many others, businessmen or ordinary people. So that is stated here, that a grhastha-mahatma, his first symptom is that he has no other business than to please Krsna. That is his first business. And so far dealing with others, that is janesu dehambhara-vartikesu grhesu jayatmaja-ratimatsu na priti-yukta yavad-arthas ca loke. Very nice. What does he say? That people who are simply interested in maintaining this body and sense gratification, dehambhara-vartikesu. Deha means this body, and bhara means maintaining, and vartika means occupation.

Now you analyze everyone in this world. What is their business? Their business is how to maintain this body. That’s all. If you ask

somebody, “My dear sir, what you are doing?” “Oh, I am doing this business.” “Why you are doing this business?” “Oh, I must get money. Otherwise how can I maintain myself?” This is called dehambhara-vartikesu. Their only engagement is how to maintain this body. This is their business. So janesu dehambhara-vartikesu. And grhesu, a householder has got home. And jaya, jaya means wife. Atmaja, atmaja means children. Rati, some money, bank balance or some wealth, rati. Or persons who are engaged simply for the business of maintaining this body, their only business is how to maintain a home, how to maintain a wife, how to maintain children, how to have good bank balance. In this way their life is like that. But a householder who is mahatma, whose only business is to satisfy Krsna, for him, these things are not priti-yuktah, not very pleasing. Not very pleasing. Na priti-yuktah.

Then what is their dealing? Yavad-arthas ca loke. They deal as much as required only. That’s all. I have to deal with some gentleman who is completely out of our, this Krsna consciousness movement, but I have to deal with him. Then how I have to deal? As much as possible to avoid him, but so far the business is concerned, all right. This is all. Just like a businessman talks with another businessman so far

profit is concerned. That’s all. No more talk. A businessman, a lawyer, talks with his client so much… Especially in America, they cannot waste their time. Any businessman will not waste their time. They will talk. Similarly, a householder devotee whose only business is to satisfy Krsna, they will deal with other persons… Other person means those who are simply interested for maintaining this body, wife, children, in this way. They have no other ideas. We should not have any very intimate relationship, but we shall have to deal with them only as far necessary. No more. That’s all. We shall try to avoid them as far as possible. But because we are living with the human society we have to deal with such persons. So our dealings should be so far as required. Not more than that. Then, if one lives a householder life in this way, keeping his viewpoint only in Krsna, in the lotus feet of Krsna, and other dealings superfluous, he is also mahatma. He’s also mahatma. Na priti-yukta yavad-arthas ca loke. Mayi ise krta-sauhrdarthah purusartha yesam.

A householder mahatma has only one aim: how to attain the perfectional stage of love of God. That is the aim. Generally, a householder in the modern civilization, they are simply trying to accumulate money, increase the bank balance and make the society,

friendship and love as the aim and object of life, and they have no other business. But a person who is mahatma, his aim is different. His aim is “How to make my life perfect in Krsna consciousness. How to please Krsna, how to make friendship with Krsna.” Everyone is seeking some friend. That is a fact. The businessmen or lawyers or politicians, everyone is seeking some friend. Without friend… Society, friendship and love, these things are required. But a mahatma householder, he is seeking actual friendship with Krsna. Ise sauhrdarthah. Because he knows, “If Krsna is my friend…” Just like Arjuna sought friendship with Krsna; Duryodhana sought friendship with Krsna’s power. Krsna divided Himself. Because it was a family warfare between two cousin brothers, and Krsna was also related with both of them by family relationship, so He said, “How can I take part with one and not with the other? Then that will be partiality. So anyway, I divide Myself into two. I am alone, one side, and in which side I shall go, I shall not fight. I shall not touch even a weapon. And the other side, all My soldiers.” Krsna had many soldiers. So Duryodhana thought that “I shall take Krsna’s soldiers,” and Arjuna thought, “I shall take Krsna only, even He does not fight.” So this is the determination of mahatmas, that they want simply Krsna’s friendship. Mayi sauhrdarthah.

ye va mayise krta-sauhrdartha

janesu dehambhara-vartikesu grhesu jayatmaja-ratimatsu na priti-yukta yavad-arthas ca loke

Yavad-arthas ca loke, just to deal with other persons as much as necessary, not more than that. But to keep friendship with devotees, that is necessary. Not that I shall not intimately mix, intermingle with the devotees. That is required. A devotee has got four business: isvare priti, love for God, Krsna; friendship with devotees; and kindness to the neophyte; and rejection to the nondevotees. These four principles. A devotee’s only lovable object is Krsna. His only friend is devotee, another devotee.

isvare tad-adhinesu balisesu dvisatsu ca prema-maitri-krpopeksa yah karoti sa madhyamah

Isvare means krsna-prema, love, to love Krsna. Maitri means friendship. Maitri with whom? Tad-adhinesu, those who are under the

control of Krsna. Everyone is under the control of Krsna by this way or that way, but those who are given to Krsna voluntarily, surrendered souls, I am speaking of them. Tad-adhinesu.

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