19990112 Speaking For Asianet TV

The following is a speaking to Asianet TV by His Hoiness Jayapatākā Swami on January 12th 1999 in Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Thank you very much  for coming here tonight and visiting us to the Hare Kṛṣṇa centre Tiruvanantapuram, our Founder Acharya His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada he has explained that this modern world is a aimless society because they  don't actually  know where they are headed  but our society is admired with many unfulfilled aspirations therefore he was very concerned how to help society, how to actually  save the people from this situation, when He arrived in Australia many years ago, there are so many people said that you are coming from a poor country India why did they come to take class, and He told the newsmen I am not come here to take anything from you I come to save you from cat and dogs life they were surprised how can you call our life a cat and Dogs life, and he said that basically what is the cats and dogs doing eating, you are eating, also cat and dogs eating in the street, you are eating in Hotel, they are sleeping, cat and dogs sleep in the street, on the beach you are sleeping in bed in a building, sleeping is the same, you are fighting, they  cats and dogs have clans and teeth, you are using missiles, and rockets and you are procreating so  cats and dogs having sex anywhere, human beings are may be having in their house, or whatever but at least the four activities  all that human beings are doing there is no higher purpose to life, that is being said human life is simply became a sophisticated animal life. But how come anyone be satisfied being simply a sophisticated animal. So Prabhupada said I have come here to show you that there is higher purpose to life, then they appreciated that the swamiji has come here, to make improvement in our life, but now we have seen in the world that ancient rishis on India had taught that we are not this body we are the spirit soul within the body, living force, but in the world how many of the world leaders, how many of the world thinkers, really understand that they are something beyond the body and how many think that they are simply body, that if we analyze we can see that entire state of the world today they is a very very urgent need for spiritual leadership in the world, which is the  nature  people are combination of body mind and spirit, and  if we only see the physical needs, all the physical and intellectual needs we should know the spiritual needs unless the society is going to suffer, and we see various kinds of dangers, war zones, in reality we have seen, everyday in the newspaper  we are seen mass   degradation of leaders around the world, lack of spiritual prospective, we have seen that natures incurable diseases like AIDS which are spread due to uncontrollable material desires  then other dangers like Y2K, that 2000 year we don’t know what's going to happen, actually people need to have a more deeper dependence upon their own spiritual nature upon God, upon Kṛṣṇa, and in order to achieve that we found we need to have a  universal vision the whole Kṛṣṇa Conscious movement is based upon universal vision that there is only one God, and  all the religions of the world worshiping the one God is it more religious to work together, in a theological unity to actually spread an awareness amongst all the people about the purpose of life the spiritual purpose of life.  then human life naturally becomes balanced if we don't realize that our soldier on this planet in this life is just a step to our entrance into the eternity, then we can lead a whole life in a enthuse way and find ourselves in the same predicament again in the next life, so it is very important that we have to understand that the real human quest is side by side the material quest as well as spiritual quest to re-establish our relationship with God.  With our relationship with all the people who are parts of God also into a wonderful harmonious situation. we are seeing the world today the ecological imbalances we also move over the colder regions which are convention in life with a excessive ultraviolet rays and I visit to Argentina, and Chilly this year, I found that this is

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coastal area and north hemisphere ozone layer is very dangerous situation, it is affecting so much in India, although affecting to some extent. Why all this is happening? Because of very big imbalance, we take it the whole earth is our property, man's property, we just destroying it. Whether to save its God's property and we are parts of God's family. then we have to deal with the earth in much more responsible way, as for as actually I am an Indian, I am an Indian citizen and I am speaking to as an Indian that first India is a most important country in the world   Because India actually we see how its progressing in the areas of technology, and science but the whole world has some technology and science also, may be in some country even more advanced, what the really speaking to Indian for is spiritual leadership. What the real vacuum in the world is the vacuum for what actually are we actually for here, in the world its that like an amazing   situation everyone is running to do something to go somewhere but when you ask people where is the society headed? Where is the world headed, nobody knows, nobody has the clue what is the destination that we are recommended for. So in India the ancient text of India, the ancient culture vedas, are direction where actually the world should be headed back towards the spiritual relationship with development with the Supreme. We are all spiritual beings and we should come and contact with the Supreme Being. we should see that the whole world, is predominant into a very harmonious situation with nature with the ecology with the each other that can only happen  by a spiritual revival, will it be economic way the forcibly against us., whether the spiritual vision is there then it’s  possible to have actual better world that's where I see that India goal  is a primary because throughout has that vision in the whole world, unfortunately that India neglects to take up the leadership goal then the whole world is suffering for that, of course, within India now we see a lot of  communal disharmony going on, and we need to raise about that, and actually be come together, and work cooperatively, all the relationship should cooperate together and see all have a common goal, all goals to be to eradicate  ignorance of the people, and bring everyone closer to that, we should respect whatever religion some one practices,  that is the way of being closer to God and never criticize our religion what it means, Bhagavad Gita should be considered as a natural heritage devotional, instead of seeing Bhagavad Gita as a communal book we should see Bhagavad Gita as a science of the self, Bhagavad Gita was written 5000years ago, still spoken 5000 years ago before there was any of these other  communal  consideration, When Kṛṣṇa he was speaking Bhagavad Gita, we are simply revealing  what is this science of the self, what is man, what is the  nature, how we have come in this world, how we go out of the world, all these universal truth , so this is the Bhagavad Gita actually explains, of the self, in this area you can also be the  leader in sub consciousness in the science of consciousness  of self, which is something that now, big scientist in the world are considering a major frontier  of scientific  research. So India has the opportunity to become the world leader in these areas, and everyone should be proud that the  Bhagavad gita, the scientific literature and the self is come up with our country as for as the youth in India my spiritual master BhaktiVedanta Swami Prabhupada he was one person who in 1965 went from India all over the world and traded the world  impact, he traded the such an impact by bringing Indian culture to the west, to the far-east  to all the continents of the world . One Indian has such a natural impact bringing Indian culture to the hearts of millions of people around the world, one person could change the history of the world, that every Indian also has the potential to do the same, every youth in India could develop fully and have a impact on the whole world, and make that a better place in order to achieve that it is very important to them to have pride in their own heritage, the seated spiritual soul the monk, the heritage of India is something very much a part of them. What is the very need today is that India should very clear about its identity, that sometimes we have an identity crisis, who are we actually Indian? now that things are being a mother lands, people are imitating the west, but let us have, the actual identity of India in the modern world give a bit crazy. that's why Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada give us his teaching a type of meditation in the modern world , how do they control themselves, how do they maintain their spirit soul in order to get happiness while doing the normal activities, by meditating on the run, meditating as they are working a type of karma yoga, and bhakti yoga which can be applied in everyday life one can be a newspaper man, or can be a scientist or Doctor or business man or housewife and to continuously meditate  while doing their normal activity  simply by repeating the mantra which is comprises of the names of  God, before different religion , chant the different names of God, there is no harm to that, but we chant the names that given in the Upanishad,

Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

but if someone wants to chant the other name of God jihova , Allah or something that is not a problem. the point is to always be conscious about God and go on in a very positive attitude of our spiritual identify and with that allows side by side the full material development and the spiritual development , the   Ishopanishad explains that we should seek both sides the material and spiritual side and develop in that way  so that they may concerned about the youth they have an very important role to play to see that India does not lose its spirituality  because they are the future generation , keep the spiritual focus inside so the India stays on track as a world leader in spiritual and material development.  

Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

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Transcribed By: Svayam Nitāi Das

Transcribed On: 21-Sep-2020

Proof Reading By: Amrita Padma Devi Dasi

On 10/10/2020

Proff Reading By: Vecham Meghana, 10/12/2020