20181010 Second Talk Post Surgery

Mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram

Harihi oṁ tat sat

So, after spending more than a month in Intensive Care Unit in Chennai. They have released us to this pious household. And everyone executing our spiritual practices from here. 

One thing which we realize, how the individual sprit soul is covered by material energy. There are five gross bodies and three subtle bodies. So we are identifying artificially with these external bodies. So, although we are not able achieve satisfaction, this is all the only reality that we know. So people think that somehow using the senses they are going to achieve happiness, and it is true – a little happiness. But it is not sufficient to satisfy one. So, a man has particular hormones; lady has hormones, animals has hormones – so they are naturally influenced by these hormones. And in this way, even though one may not have any previous desire, just by the presence of the opposite gender it aggravate the hormones and one thus entrapped in this material world. There is no change or like an ordinary prison. But one is illusioned and thinking that they are the body. 

In the Bhāgavatam, in the story of King Purañjana, one time he was born as a king, next time born as a queen. And accordingly, the hormones were given to him; so that naturally one would feel. So like this we are seeing how the varṇāśrama system, it meant to classify people according to their varṇāśrama activities and qualities. Someone was commenting to Prabhupāda, that the warriors were also kṣatriyas. But Prabhupāda said, “No! They are śūdras. They are working for the salaries. They are not doing for any higher purpose.” So according to our nature what body we have, we are acting as brāhmaṇas or kṣatriyas or vaiśyas. Most people in the modern age are acting as śūdras. Somebody gets a minimum wage; someone gets high salary. But they are not the owner. So they are śūdras. So these realizations are very interesting. Tomorrow, I will tell about the dream that I had. But for now my voice is failing; I will just end here.