19820909 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.2.53

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The following is a lecture given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on September 9, 1982 – in Philadelphia, USA. The lecture begins with a reading from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.2.53.

Ramdez I know even by the greatness of God. Never forget this is in fact the Lord as well as the other demigods are always searching for dreams of the Lord. The word that is God indicates that the demagogues are not actually able to see the locust feet of the Lord, but I get them to see them. An example of this is giving the tense counsel when Lord Gama offers prayers to wisdom, begging the Lord to rectify the disturbances on the earth. A similar verse is found elsewhere.

11 14 Naparam Namah Nasal the devotee who has offered his soul to me does not want anything if it is separate from me, not the position of the supreme demigod of the universe, Brahma, nor that of Lord India, nor kinship over the entire earth, or over the lower planetary system, nor the mystic perfections of yoga, nor even freedom from the cycle of Libra. According to Śrīracha, we can ask the right can also be taken to Nima to tend to beat for those whose tenses are uncontrolled. Although Medicare all to be respected as you go through the Lord Vishnu, the absence of gross material discomfort in the higher predatory system makes them tend to become affected by the bodily concept of life. And sometimes they experience some spiritual difficulties due to voices material facilities available to them.

Such disturbances, however, cannot exist from the mind of the pure devotee of the Lord, as indicated removed by the word. According to philosophy. We can understand from this work that since none of the material facilities available that any of the universal monetary systems can distract the due devotion of the Lord, such as the Lord, who has never possibly fall or become the purple, be separated because of my life from here, through the local street of moral even he was offered the kingdom, he was offered the whole universe, he was offered everything. He didn’t want him at all. He wanted to simply serve the association, of course, because he one leg up at a time with one lady like you.

But even though he was allowed to teach with other devotees, even though he was allowed the association of other devotees, he was so tasked to being a tender mahakavir that he could not maintain his right lord having the association, we saw that this Kṛṣṇa made a joke with this woman lady. She could go find another husband that she wanted, and she wasn’t able to do the job properly, and so on and so forth. And when she heard that we’re so talking to her, the thought of separation from Lord Kṛṣṇa that he really just painted like a lost touch of separation from the Lord. The gopī is the amount of separation that the eyes are positive. Maybe somewhat similar to the discussion here is 46 1 second or half or a half of three times a day.

Anyway, about a half of that event used to be about four 90th of a couple, but they said the universe for creating such bodies that kill that five months old just slippery island and missed that much dichotomous. So under such situations, you can understand how the devotees never bring to accept even a love of half a level of separation from the Lord, willingness, the emperor, power in the universe. And they don’t have any desire for universal opulence or anything. The Lord gives them that opulence so easily. But to have that opulence, anything other than the Lord’s service is completely inconceivable to a human devotion. All wealth is that promise to be a model and to be used in his service. All potential same qualifications should be rather offered to him in the appropriate moment.

Nothing could be done without actually having a gun for the pleasure of Christ. But the repeatable is not like it’s a rural regulation. It’s spontaneous. They can’t help us utilize everything for the political system. So we find the same thing when we talk about how should you know? I feel like you are. Someone says, like mahā, you said, may I be in the home of your devotees, may I be born again, even as it were. So long as I remain your devotees, I have no desire to be born as a zunha, a voice to you. After coming back from Zaya. And when he came and he was just saying Kṛṣṇa, Khishka, Kṛṣṇa. And he was crying and he was telling his mother how he could simply turn Hari Kishma, how there was nothing apart from Kishka.

And that time Lord Kanye was glorifying the difference of Lord, especially the daha for Jesus always worshipping Kṛṣṇa. Similarly, when Lord Kanya was in Jagannathur, when the devotees came down to Śrīna from Bengal, when they saw him even from a distance, they fell down, paid obeisances, he also offered them obeisances. He came up and embraced them and they went down, they dragged his lowest street and they prayed that even life after life simply allow us to always be abusing the devotional service, to never lose the cells. So the devotion how to please Kṛṣṇa contains everything. Therefore that’s the most broad man. Any other type of mentality, however apparently broad it may seem, can only be insignificantly key compared to being single, pointed and kid.

Because Kisma is everything or any other thing, whether universal national, a familial, can only be but a small portion of kaethy. Therefore, comparatively, they are actually narrow minded. And the devotees, by being single pointed, are actually the broadest minded soul, a broad minded Mahatma. And the place also many places sit on the side. We resist it. That’s our problem. First of all, we get out of gross sense gratification. Then we come into a very steady type of devotional service where half of our battle is over. What happens is that in spite of our giving over the 10th gratification of spirit, still half the Bible is left to fight. That is only with the Mandev mind. Materialistic mind. What type of devotee are you?

Why are you designing after some type of material position, some type of material attainment which will cause you to envy your devotees and ultimately cause you to fall down into words. This is one of the hellish regions of existence you came to mind to actually avoid being distracted from Christmas in the beginning of the type of conscious effort, but actually becomes quite natural. We advance in devotional service. Especially if Lord Nishimony gives a special mercy. You know what the special mercy of admission? Special mercy is? To give one drop of nexus in his local street. And that drop of message is more powerful, more nectar. Like a tidal wave. It completely flags the holy system. More like the end of anything. So it is pure transcendental happiness.

Even though it’s not a devotion, because you have the whole universe, then you have to worry about how to maintain the whole universe. People are having trouble maintaining one family. Can you imagine 100 the whole universe or even a darkness unless the person was a devotee of Khan. So that mercy is the taste of ecstatic devotional service. Once we get a taste of that ecstasy and devotional service, then the mind actually is drawn to its origin. Drawn to the Lord in an almost spontaneous way. And the prophet also describes that one can never forget the local seed of the Lord. Once the Lord replaces muster at his lotus feet, even they wander off and they come healed by stage due to that association. So why do that mention of the Lord’s mother seed? They can never forget so much.

But for the devotee of the Lord who has mine, as he loaded seed of the Lord, there’s no more to it. That person becomes still right. No more fear, no more words. But even. Even if one 90th of a second, if one has the opulence of the universe without the Lord mercy, how to protect it? How to enjoy it? Or something like that. So therefore, I wanted to advise you anything. Don’t give out the shelter of the lowly seat of the Lord. Even for a single moment can we be away from. People are giving up the service of the Lord. I am learning, I am making a little bit of money. Sometimes we hear people say, well, I will just leave a temple and they have to stop training for a little while, but I will make, you know, ten, 1500 thousand dollars temple.

Or they go and do some authorized, unauthorized, illegal activity for getting so called money to give sutism. And they leave the shelter of the lowest feet of the Lord under the proposed purpose of giving the money in rent, even though the activities are authorized as a result. And they just put into so much difficulty because it’s all speculation. Good intentions have sacrificed their association and devotional service to the Lord and suffered from it. So here is a very good instruction for such people, because here I speak of, you know, $100,000 that they’re going to make. Of course, we haven’t ever seen it yet. Anyone makes money so easily, and if they do, they usually become so entangled with the money that they further gamble on various type of programs.

And how can they get the lower end of the deal, the intended material, the only issue that even in exchange for the benediction of ruin and enjoying the opulence of the entire universe, he will not give up his shelter at the lotus for a single moment. Indeed, not for a half a moment. So here’s the topmost devotee. Once even for such an allurement, give up for happy moments. Then how can a devotion provide to give up or compromise the shelter of the Lord for days, weeks, months and years together to support some insignificant fraction of opulence, which there is no guarantee that they will even achieve? One can understand from this verse how no one should take any unnecessary risk of one’s devotional service for any material of change. Sometimes with the words you take, someone makes a big difference.

But here, this is benediction of material oculus or wealth or power, advised to leave or give up the charity of the Lord for even a single moment? The Bible, if you just give up. But the message of Jesus and that invited him over the purpose of that wonderful expression. But the devil’s off and down even after eating a full blood, since I buried in the blood. Anyway, the point is where the life of our Jesus was teaching his house. He was tempted by the whole devil, one form of mother, to have the whole universe, to have the whole world to enjoy. Even after being decided optimum, he didn’t labor at all. Similarly, Miami test the devoted one day, like Lord Jesus, be considered the best of the devotees but 1 may momentarily falter like the apostle and then later on recover.

Or 1 may completely group like this and become a vice operator. So any high points that you will find in any of the other scriptures will definitely be covered by scores of process and explanations by data values in the data accurate way. What’s very rare is that this crisis is being practiced by the digītāl scientist movement. This is the Patmos system. The very qualities that belt have here are being promoted for the devotees, which of course no one would even conceive of in the modern context, that anyone should try to come up to even a standard similar to that. But here, the passage of devotional service is so perfect that it creates the fabric devotional character, that is the actual standard, not the compromised standard that we see in the modern world today.

If someone practices Kṛṣṇa consciousness properly, he will be the best christian, he will be the best muslim, he will be the best any bona fide religion in the world, there’s no doubt that it’s a Kṛṣṇa constitution, would be considered to be at the topmost level to pass all the things. Besides, they become. They won’t compromise their conscious value in return for any material value. Of course, that’s what we should study. We should know what is material, what we can compromise with. So that the case of my insight is to be wilderized by telling us that, no, this is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We should do it. You can see, I can just do that in this point. According to that, what’s the harm of the needle for this insignificant half a moment? Get the money, a lot of money. The opulence of the entire universe.

So of course that happened not unlimited, but quite long. So the devotee doesn’t even change our separation for that even half a moment. Similarity. Devotees are being trained by uncontrolled minds and always been driven to think of different ways. To independent of devotional service, to advice in devotional service, to take a good warning from you. The father said, just like lay his egg. Devotional service. A little bit scared. That’s pretty devotee. Not even a half a moment willingly will they separate themselves from the life. No matter what may be the material option. Because despite everything that comes in there is going to be given according to his instructions, according to the orders of the guru, and whatever amount of success he wants to give, that will be his mercy. This is the devotee guarantee. Not that they disembarking. Let the Lord give.

No, they work, they give the effort. But according to authorized program. According to bona fide program. Without compromising the church principles of devotional service. And whatever may be the Lord’s mercy, they accept. They don’t waver in their determination and their service. This way, one can be actually perfected very quickly in the workman’s earth to hold back to goddesse. This way. Some of the same problem is when you’re going up to the spiritual sky, you’re going by all these opulent places in your load, from yellow to hollows. Then, of course, yellow. If you think, oh, look at that. And next thing you know, you will be there with all the other Danube guys. And then after some time, you will remember that. What am I doing here? Supposed to be going back to Daniel.

This way, 1 may get temporary, or you may get stuck up for quite some time. The best way. It’s better to be very eagerly begging. You cannot give that drop of next prayer with your immunizer. That can erase. Therefore, we pray for being happy always. But sometimes our mind becomes bewildered by material happiness. So the best solution is that we get flooded with spiritual bliss. That way our cup will be full, even running over, and there will be no room for the material desire to come in that way. Now some prayers. Lord Nicholas, you always filled with transcendental bliss, transcendental ecstasy, spirit existence. But I am always filled with miserable existence. I am always. I am the most miserable person. Therefore, you please have your special mercy upon me now, as soon as possible.

That way you can actually become independent of all these desires. We can hang up for that happiness, not be hanging for material happiness or be misled by material desire, because by that, he may actually miss out on his greatest benefit, accepting the supreme lord of life, and so having his lotus breath as eternal soul, Hari Ram, we can have question answers. And Matthew Kit, tomorrow from the Los Angeles, Rochester, they sent him a letter with 300 signatures, prepaid tickets and everything, but surely wouldn’t go. He said that he just can’t travel anymore. Even once a day he travels over to that, from where he is to the temple. He’s going to be moving to the temple in Miami, next to an apartment and a condominium. That’s all the traveling wants to do right now.

But I realized we had a nice, great dark time, and I keep that together. He had me play my. Asked me to pull out my wants. He sent his blessings to all of his disciples. Hopes that they will understand that he established so much integrity. Now, when caught up to when he feels that his problem. Of course, now he’s got advice you have to give to Miami. Temple. But apart from that, it’s just not right. Are there any questions? But making. Everyone wants to but sometimes we do like we’re not really talking about. So they become wonderful. Someone is president and instead of thinking, well, I will go outside and because sometimes we forget why and.

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One completely because of the. So we take ourselves out of the and stop even thinking about even so much time. And we have to come to a level of great hectic.

All parts become so much that the struggle to be pitched to passive is more important than in anything more important than a person who is just maintaining the working. The Lord appreciate when the devotee is tried. That’s why we have so many odds. Even 1 may not be very advanced, but the devotees, many patients felt that we even principles that were struggling to get over that and how their struggle is because they’re actually accepting the proprietary consciousness, struggling with the senses. And they’re coming up to that professional. Once one gets some kind of steadiness and divorcement service, one thinks that when prevention go up to the higher level, it doesn’t become a struggle so much anymore with the senses. Then they become subtler with the mind. And finally it just becomes useful all along.

So once things develop, the struggle, even if he’s a meal place and if one’s advanced and already has the shelter of the lotus to the reward, then we would never give up that what you see the vet won’t even develop a struggle to get the Lotus to any other questions?

But when you go up, not able to tell. And that’s it. And I.

In the western world, many brands made television Kai, Madam Toplu. And also maybe many banks may be of the mind, maybe as intelligence, maybe many branch. Communism, capitalism, socialism, philanthropism. That way the mind is divided in so many different things that are solving it. Alternative for material happiness, like it becomes money brand. Tell you how to fix your mind. All the speculation, all this problems with.

The people are trying to but realizing what was happening. So I trying to wish them a little bit and.

How.

Many someone wasn’t so taken away. But if we use fully what we have, the Lord wants us to serve. We have to be very beneficial, based on not much as you give, but it’s in regards to what they hold back. So we can really. You see that every single activity for the into my life. Because then not only are we going down the activities of your own personal lifetime association, we’re going to be less focused and how to realize and respect.

I was hoping they’re very practical. That’s what I found a very practical application of the provide program. What’s the program?

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