Jan 19 1969 LA
…There is a very nice verse in Caitanya-caritāmṛta:anādi bahir-mukha jīva kṛṣṇa bhuli gelā ataeva kṛṣṇa veda purāṇa karilā…
We do not know when we have forgotten God, when we have missed our relationship with God. We are eternally related with God. We are still related. Our relationship is not lost. Just like the father and the son, the relationship cannot be lost, but when the son becomes crazy or mad, he thinks that he has no father. That is a conditional… But actually the relationship is not lost. When he comes to the consciousness, “Oh, I am the son of such and such gentleman,” the relationship is immediately there.
Similarly, our consciousness, this material consciousness, is a condition of craziness.
We have forgotten God. We are declaring God is dead. Actually I am dead. I am thinking, “God is dead.” Just like I am deaf, I am asking somebody, “Oh, Mr. such and such.” He’s replying, but I am deaf. I cannot hear. I say, “Mr. such and such, he cannot hear me.” You see? He himself is deaf. The answer is there, but because he cannot appreciate, he says, “Mr. such and such is deaf.” He is deaf. Similarly, we have become so much materially dead that we have lost our Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or God consciousness, but we are declaring, “God is dead.” God is not dead. How God can be dead if functions are going on? According to His order, the sun is rising every day. Yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇām. The moon is rising, the air is changing, the season is changing. Everything is going on nicely. How you can say God is dead? God is not dead, but we are dead to appreciate the function of God. We are dead.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to give life to the dead society of human being.They are now dead, crazy dead. So our request is that you take full advantage of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Your life will be happy.
Todays darshan of our Gaura Nitai—–
