Everything working Systematically...by Chance

Everything working Systematically...by Chance

Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.32
Honolulu, May 31, 1976

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Pradyumna: "When the order carriers of Yamaraja, the son of the sun-god, were thus forbidden, they replied, 'Who are you, sirs, to have the audacity to challenge the jurisdiction of Yamaraja?' "

Prabhupada:

ucur nisedhitas tams te
vaivasvata-purahsarah
ke yuyam pratiseddharo
dharma-rajasya sasanam
 [SB 6.1.32]

So there is sasana. Sasana means government. Sas-dhatu I have several times explained. Sas-dhatu means ruling. Sas-dhatu. From sas-dhatu the word has come, sasana. There are many other words. From sas-dhatu is sastra. And from sas-dhatu, sastra. From sas-dhatu, sasanam. The Sanskrit words are coined from the dhatu verb. So sas-dhatu means ruling. So there is ruling. You cannot think that you are independent. There is government. If you disobey the ruling, the government has got police department, and if you are still disobedient there will be military department. You cannot disobey the rulings of the government. Similarly, this government, God's government, there are so many things -- government officers, department rulings. Don't think that there was a chunk and immediately there was... Nonsense. It is not chunk. (laughs) It is regular government. Just like we have here a small place. In Hawaii you have got so many government officers, rulers. And do you think such a vast (indistinct) is manifested and there is no ruling? Just see how poor thought. There is ruling. Don't think all of a sudden that... Any sane man can understand that things are being carried systematically -- the seasonal changes, the seasonal fruits and flowers, the sunrise, the moonrise, the birds, death, old age, disease, everything systematically. And is that happening by chance? Why by chance one does not live forever? There is no such chance, sir. There is ruling. You cannot say, "Now here is a chance the man has not died." Where is that chance? Why do you speak of nonsense chance? It is not chance. It is ruling. You must die. However, utopianly says, "Now we shall live." Oh, that is not. There is ruler.

So the Yamaraja is in charge of ruling of the sinful persons. Dharmasya sasanam. Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam [SB 6.3.19]. Dharma means the laws of God. It is not a sentiment thing, "I believe." You believe or not believe, what does it matter? You believe or not believe in the government laws -- it must (indistinct). Similarly, the so-called philosophers, they simply concoct idea, "I believe. I believe." Whatever you believe, that is your business, but the ruling of the Supreme Lord must go on. You cannot check it. You cannot avoid it. You can go on with your believe or not believe. That is not the business. So Yamaraja is in charge of punishing according to the gravity of sinful activities. He's meant for punishing. That is just like superintendent of police or something like that, big officer, inspector general of the police department or the minister in charge of law and order. Everything is there in imitation, yato va imani bhutani jayante, janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. Wherefrom you get this idea? There must be minister in charge of law and order. Where you get this idea? The idea is there from the original government. And there is the director or the minister in charge of law and order. The Yamaraja is minister in charge. They say it is mythology, it is man's creation. How it is man's creation? Things are going on. In the sastra it is said,

yac-caksur esa savita sakala-grahanam
raja samasta-sura-murtir asesa-tejah
yasyajnaya bhramati sambhrta-kala-cakro
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

Savita, the sun, you, those who are initiated, so om bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi. That savita, the sun, they (indistinct) from the sun. What is that? Yac-caksur esa, this is God's eyes. As soon as there is sunlight, you see everything. You cannot avoid His eyes. You think that "Nobody's here. Let me steal this." No. Immediately recorded. At night the moon is there. There are so many witnesses. And the Supreme Personality of Godhead is also witnessing within. So we cannot escape His witnessing. He's witnessing from inside, from outside. So how He's escape your sinful activities? No. That is not possible.

So immediately things are recorded and, at the time of death, just as in the previous verse, we studied, vikarsato 'ntar hrdayad. Antar hrdayad, in the core of the heart the individual soul and the Supersoul is there, and Yamaraja will take, his order carriers will take the, not the heart, but the soul. The heart of the body, that is made of this material element, that will lie down here. But the soul may be taken by arrangement. This is very, very subtle arrangement, and these rascals, they do not know how things are going on. They are imagining, "I think it is like this and that." There is no value of this "I believe," "I think," "I conjecture." You can do that, but things are going on. The government is very, very strong. Little deviation from the law, you'll be punished. Little deviation. Nature's law, they are so systematically set up that automatically... Just like the same example I've given: you'll infect some disease, automatically you'll have to suffer from the disease. Not that somebody's come to ask you that "You have infected this disease. Now you have to suffer from this." No. The machine is so perfect that as you have infected this disease... This is practically we know. So all of a sudden one gets cholera. So the doctor says that you are very bilious, or cholera (indistinct). So nature's law is so perfect. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya [Bg. 7.14]. You cannot escape. Suppose you can eat two ounce, and if you eat four ounce, then you have to starve three days. This is the law. "There's some very palatable dishes. Now eat, let me eat it to my satisfaction," and you'll overeat. No. The nature's law is that you have to starve for three days. Next eating will be after three days.

So this way nature's law is acting. And what is this nature's law? Nature's law means a system, a machine. Just like in this government there is system. You cannot violate. "Keep to the right!" "Stop here, red light!" You must have to stop. "I'm governor." "Never mind, you stop." This is law. You cannot say that "I am governor," "I am Mr. Ford" or "Mr. Rockefeller," "Why shall I stop my car?" No, it is government law. You must stop. So this is practical going on. How you can violate the nature's law? It is not possible. Nature's law is so strict, a little deviation will put you into suffering. This is going on. That is Yamaraja. And if you violate more and more and more, then you suffer more and more and more. This is the law. You cannot escape. So that is fixed up. But as there is some exceptional cases... Just like one has committed murder, so by law he must be hanged. By law. That is the general law everywhere, all over the world: life for life. So similarly, in the God's law there is no such thing that if you kill a human being you'll be killed, and if you kill an animal you won't be killed. That is imperfect law, man-made law. Therefore Jesus Christ said, "Thou shall not kill." No question of... They have modified, "This killing means murdering." Christ does not say. What is your proof that if you committed mistake, a mistake, instead of writing "Thou shall not commit murder," here is written, "Thou shall not kill," general. Otherwise Christ has no intelligence. He cannot use the proper word. But you are misusing the order of Lord Christ.

So you are suffering. You are maintaining so many slaughterhouses, and when it will be mature, there will be war, the wholesale murder. Finished. One atom bomb -- finished. You'll have to suffer. Don't think that "Innocent animals, they cannot protest. Let us kill and eat." No. You'll be also punished. Wait for accumulation of your sinful activities, and there will be war, and the America will drop the atom bomb, and Russia will be finished. Both will be finished. Go on now enjoying. It takes time. Just like even if you infect some disease, it takes time. Not that immediately you infect, and immediately the disease is there. No. It takes a week's time or so. What is called? A quarantine, quarantine...

Devotee: Period of incubation.

Prabhupada: Ha? Incubation. So from Africa, if anyone goes anywhere, they require yellow fever injection. So if you haven't got yellow fever injection, then even in the airport, there is arrangement, you have to wait in the quarantine area for six days. You'll not be allowed. So this is... As you have got the laws and the punishment in this government, so why do you think there is no punishment and there is no God? This is utopian. Don't think like that. Utopian. There is God, there is his government, there are his agents, there are witnesses, and... Otherwise why there are different varieties of life? Different varieties of life. Why? Eight million, four hundred thousand species of life. Everyone is a living being. The trees are living being, the fishes are living being, the ants are living being, the mosquitos are living being, and the human being also living being, the demigods also living being, the cats, dogs -- everyone is living being. It is simply in different dresses. They're living beings. But why they are situated in different position? According to karma, punished.

So we should be very careful. This is... This human form of life is a chance to make your choice, whether you are to go on being punished like this in different forms of life or whether you shall go back to home, back to Godhead. Here is the chance. Manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye [Bg. 7.3]. Out of many millions and millions of persons, one is intelligent enough, he can inquire that "Why I am suffering?" Everyone is suffering. That's a fact. Only the rascals, they think, "We're enjoying." Everyone is suffering. This is a place for suffering. Duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15], Krsna says, who has created this place. It is a place of suffering. Every moment you are suffering due to this body, due to the mind, due to the suffering imposed by other living entities. The mosquito will bite, the flies will disturb you, the bugs are there, and then the dogs will bark unnecessarily. You are passing, and his business is barking. Ha? "Bow! Bow! Bow!" (laughter) So this is also suffering. You don't like the next door the dog is barking. So in this way, if you are sober man, you don't want all this suffering, but it is imposed upon you. How do you think that you are living very happy? This is foolishness. It is not... This place, either a-brahma-bhuvanal lokan punar avartino... Wherever you go, you read from the sastra, the demigods, they're supposed to be very happy in the upper planetary systems -- they are also not in happiness. There is fight between the demons and the demigods and so on, so on. The same politics, same (indistinct), the same..., so many things. Here in the small scale, just like two birds, they fight also. You've seen them. So their fighting you neglect. But your fighting -- there is atom bomb. And similarly there is fighting in upper planets also.

So these things are going on, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest. This is nice theory. So here, anywhere you go... Just like your America is the richest country. Do you think there is happiness, there is no fighting, there is no disease, there is no death? No. Everything's there as it is in other countries, poverty-stricken countries. So you cannot avoid. The birth... Krsna says, "Birth, death, old age and disease, these are your problems." Janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]. Does it mean that these sufferings of birth, death and old age and disease, there is none in America or in other, moon planet? No. There is also same. Neither in greater portion, proportion. So there is stringent laws of the material nature everywhere, and there is God behind him, behind the nature. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. Everything is going on under the direction of the supreme controller, and these are officers, just like Yamaraja, strictly following the regulative principles, the order of sun-god.

So this Ajamila... We have already described his life -- cheating, roguism and prostitute-hunter and so many things, that is his life. So he's subjected to the punishment, to be punished by the Yamaraja. So his order carriers have come to take him away. But, in the meantime, the Visnudutas came and asked them, "No. Don't touch him. Don't touch him." So they were surprised: "What is this?" Therefore they are asking, ke yuyam pratiseddharo dharma-rajasya sasanam: "Who are you, interfering with government's law? Who are you?" They are surprising. "Nobody has checked us." Just like police... They come... Police comes to somebody's house, everyone knows there is some business, serious business. Who will ask the police, "Why you are entering here?" No. Nobody has right. (indistinct) But why this punishment? Just to save him from so many other punishments. That is the law in Manu-samhita, that a murderer is killed, then his all sinful activities, reaction of life, finishes by that killing, by that hanging. Otherwise next life he has to suffer so many things. So when the king orders a murderer to be killed, it is his mercy. It is his mercy. Because he saves him from so many other entanglement. Better kill him so that his sinful reaction is finished. Similarly, Yamaraja, the sinful man taken to the Yamaraja, he is put into suffering, the same principle as a prisoner. He has to suffer for a time, six months or one year or sometimes more than that, just to atone for his sinful activities. So nobody can check. You can imagine that "There is no God, there is no Yamaraja, there is no punishment. Let me do." That is your fancy. But it is not the fact. Fact is, if we commit some sin we must suffer from it, and there is nobody in the world who can check it.

Thank you very much. (end)

 

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"All Problems Are Illusion"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.6
Geneva, May 31, 1974

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Nitai: Translation: "The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this. Therefore the learned Vyasadeva compiled this Vedic literature, which is in relation to the Supreme Truth."

Prabhupada: Anarthopasamam saksat. Anartha means... Artha means which is essential, artha. So anartha means just the opposite. So our present material condition is that we have increased some unwanted things, anartha. Therefore we have been entangled. Just like yesterday I was speaking with that president. He was thinking the problem of economics. And what is the problem? There is no problem. Anywhere, any part of the world, you live, you just have some land, and some animals. Animals means cow. Other animals also, you can keep. There is no harm. But cows must be there, animals. And you cannot destroy the cows. If you want to eat meat... That is the Indian system. Indian system, for meat-eaters, there is concession. Just like for sex life there is concession, similarly, for meat-eater also, there is concession. And for drunkards there is concession. Not impractical. Supposing one is drunkard, meat-eater, if I say all of a sudden, "Stop it," if he is not sober, he will not accept it. Just like in India there was prohibition. Gandhi, by his sentiment... There was no, I mean to say, education. He wanted to make all of a sudden stop. So there was illicit drinking. Illicit manufacture of wine increased so much that government saw that "We are losing the excise duty. These people are distilling illicit liquor." So now government, to save money, now they are manufacturing and inducing people, "All right, you go on drinking."

So unless we are sober, for stopping one kind of unwanted thing, we have to introduce another. This is karma-kanda-vicara. If you have to raise, erect, a very high skyscraper building, then for the materials, you have to dig somewhere to make it a lake. You take it from there and put it here. This is karma. You cannot manufacture. Suppose a high skyscraper building you have constructed. The another place you have taken out something. The stock is the same, conservation of the energy. You cannot increase the stock. That is not possible.

So in this way we have been entangled. This is called anartha. Therefore that gentleman was... "If we take everyone..." That is not possible. Everyone is not going to take Krsna consciousness. That is not possible. But he was thinking that, that "If we..." Sometimes they put this argument, that "If everyone becomes Krsna conscious, who will look after this business, that business?" That will be looked after. Don't bother. The sudra class, they will take care. The brahmana class, they will take advantage, and the sudra class, they will work hard. Just like we are taking advantage of this microphone for Krsna, but we are not going to manufacture this. That is not our business. Let the sudras do it. Sudras will be there. They will do it. This is called ajagara-vrtti. Ajagara-vrtti means that the mouse, they make a hole in the field for his living comfortably. You know? You have seen the holes in the field? And the ajagara, the big snake, they take advantage of this holes. They enter into it and eat the mouse, and live comfortably. So the mouse makes the comfortable place for the snake. The snake business is to enter and live comfortably. So our business is like that. You sudras, you make all the advantages, and we take simply, go there. (laughter) That's all. That is our business. You construct house, nice house, and we enter. That's all. That George Harrison paid for that house. We enter, that's all. We do not care for this fifty-five lakhs, how to earn. No. That is Krsna's policy. Let the less intelligent class of men work hard and the higher intelligent class of men take advantage of it. That's all.

So... But after all, it is anartha. To increase too much of these necessities of life, that is anartha. That is not required. But we have now increased the so many unwanted things, and we have been entangled. So... But Sukadeva Gosvami says that to minimize this anartha, one has to take to bhakti-yoga. Anartha. Anarthopasamam saksat. Just like the other man came yesterday. They have created the anartha, hippie problem and drugs, intoxication problem. Now they want to subside it. They have come to our center for give some advice. But our advice is the same: anarthopasamam saksad bhakti-yogam. Begin chanting. What did he say? Did he accept our formula or not?

Yogesvara: He was reluctant.

Prabhupada: Just see. He will not accept. He will come to consult you, but if you say something which is already formulated by him, then they will accept. That means you have to say his formula, yes, then he will accept. He has already some formula, and if you say, "Yes, it is good," then you are a very good man. And if you say something else, then I reluctant. You see? This is going on. Actually, it is said in the sastra.

So for all these anarthas, the only means is bhakti-yoga. Sravanam. Bhakti-yoga means sravanam kirtanam. Let everyone, all over the world, give chance to the people of this sravanam kirtanam. All the problems of the world will be solved. That's a fact. Anarthopasamam saksat. Directly you'll have. And you can realize from your own life how many, how much anarthas were accompanying with you. Now they are all subsided. Saksat. What is the means? This chanting. Now you enjoyed chanting, dancing. But people will not take to it. This is the only means. Because you have been attracted by chanting Hare Krsna mantra and dancing, you are no more interested. This morning time, in every house, you can go. Either they are sleeping or they are drinking bed tea, without washing mouth, and all the germs are going within the tea, and they are being infected within the intestines, and they are getting so many diseases. But they will not understand. But here, and the bhakti-yogam, everyone rises early in the morning and then washes himself, takes bath, becomes cleansed, and chant Hare Krsna mantra, read book. This is bhakti-yoga. Automatically everything will be... Hygienic principle, health question, economic question, and social, political -- everything will be solved. It is not joking. Anarthopasamam saksad bhakti-yogam adhoksaje.

Why the anartha is created? How? That is explained in the previous verse.

yaya sammohito jiva
atmanam tri-gunatmakam
paro 'pi manute 'nartham
tat-krtam cabhipadyate

Vyasadeva, under the instruction...[break] Everything is possible simply by bhakti-yoga. So bhakti-yogena, by the means of bhakti-yoga, his mind was cleansed. Bhakti-yogena manasi samyak pranihite 'male. The mind became completely cleansed. The whole trouble is our mind, our consciousness, unclean. So Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given us the sankirtana movement for cleansing the heart, the consciousness, the mind.

So Vyasadeva, under the instruction of his spiritual master Narada, he meditated in bhakti-yoga, and he saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Apasyat purusam purnam. Purnam means complete. So we are also purusa, living entities. Purusa means enjoyer. So we are trying to enjoy, but we are incomplete, not complete. We have got so much desire to enjoy, but we cannot because we are incomplete. There are... That song sung by Vidyapati, that tatala saikate vari-bindu-sama. Tatala saikate. In hot sand beach you require so much water. But if somebody says, "Yes, I will supply water." "Give me some water." "No, one drop." So that will not satisfy me. So we have got so many desires. That cannot be fulfilled by so-called material advancement of life. It is not possible. So Vyasadeva saw the purnam purusam. Purnam purusam mayam ca tad-apasrayam. And he saw maya also, but maya is not conquering over him. Because Krsna is purnam, maya cannot conquer. In full light there cannot be darkness. Any amount of darkness, you put before the sunshine, there is no possibility... It cannot stand. Within the sun globe, within the orbit of the sun, any amount of... Because the sun globe is so big and the orbit is so big that the whole universal darkness you bring there, there will be no darkness. Just imagine. It is not imagine; it is fact. The universal darkness, all the darkness of the universe, you bring before the sun, it will not effect. It cannot effect. Because the sun is full light. It is not that imitation light. Here we have got this imitation light. The big amount of cloud is there. Immediately it will be dark. But sunlight is full light. Similarly, Krsna is purna-purusam. The Mayavadi philosophers, they think that when Krsna comes, He reduces His energy; therefore He also becomes covered by maya. This is called Mayavada. Mayavada means the maya has covered everything; so maya has covered Krsna also. This is Mayavada philosophy. "Because maya has covered me, you and everyone, therefore maya has covered Krsna. Unless Krsna or the Absolute Truth, Brahman, becomes covered by maya, he cannot form." This is Mayavada philosophy. As we have taken form, because the prakrti, material nature, has helped us to take this form, similarly, their philosophy is, even the Absolute Truth, Brahman, He incarnates, He accepts a body of this material nature.

But that is not the fact. Krsna said, sambhavamy atma-mayaya: [Bg. 4.6] "I am not external energy. I come in My own energy." And the Mayavadi philosophers, they do not understand. Avajananti mam mudhah. Therefore they have been described as mudhah, asses, fools, rascals. Avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam: [Bg. 9.11] "Because I have come here in the form of a human being, they take it for acceptance that ‘Krsna is another human being.' " But that is not fact. Here, if one sees Krsna through bhakti-yoga as Vyasadeva saw, bhakti-yogena manasi... Mind must be saturated with bhakti-yoga. Then you can see the Supreme Person purnam, not affected by maya. Apasyat purusam purnam. And so far maya is concerned, although maya is very influential, that's all right... Apasrayam: standing at the background, cannot come in front. Just like the same example: the darkness cannot come in front of... You stand before, facing your mouth towards the sun. The darkness will be the background, not in front. Similarly, the darkness, maya, cannot stand before Krsna. She is always behind. Mayam ca tad-apasrayam.

Now, this maya, this maya cannot cover Krsna, but we become covered. Therefore in the next verse it is said, yaya sammohito jivah. That maya which is so influential that she has extended her influence over all the living entities... Yaya sammohitah, bewildered. We living entities, we are bewildered. So especially those who have not taken to Krsna consciousness, they are bewildered. They are thinking this material world is everything. And therefore they have got some problem, simply problem. He was thinking, that gentleman was thinking, "How this economic problem...?" Because he was in maya. But had he been in bhakti-yoga, then he could understand there is no problem at all. There is no problem. It is simply maya. It is simply illusion. There is no problem. All problems are solved. You can practically see. We have got a hundred branches, we have no problem, because Krsna is there. So our traveling each time, lakhs of rupees, I am traveling. But one man cannot see once in life London or New York from India. I see four times in a year. So I have no problem -- because Krsna is there. We are spending lakhs and lakhs of rupees, but wherefrom the money is coming? Krsna is sending. We have no problem. Now we have spent in Bombay eighteen, twenty lakhs of rupees. People are surprised. It is fifty lakhs' worth property. People are surprised; some of them are very envious. And if you come, you will find it is very, very fine place. It is just like a paradise garden. Twenty thousand square yards. And we have got six buildings.

So actually, when we come to Krsna consciousness, there is no problem. Problem is created. So long we are bewildered by maya, there is problem. Otherwise, there is no problem. Therefore it is said, yaya sammohito jivah. The jiva, or the living entities, are covered by this material encagement. He is called jiva. Jiva-bhuta. Otherwise brahma-bhuta. Otherwise Brahman. So long he is covered by this maya, he is called jiva. Sammohito jivah. But when he is not sammohita, he is not bewildered, he is Brahman. Aham brahmasmi. So being bewildered by the maya, sammohito jivah, what is his position now? Yaya sammohito jiva atmanam tri-gunatmakam. Atmanam, the soul, spirit soul, on account of his being bewildered, he is thinking that "I am depending on this material nature." Tri-gunatmakam. "I am depending on these three material qualities, sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna." Therefore, one who is strictly follow the principle, bhakti-yoga principle, he is not touched by the tri-guna. Sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]. Immediately he is in his original position, brahma-bhuta. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati [Bg. 18.54]. This is the science. And so long one is captured by maya, covered by maya, his position is sammohito jiva atmanam tri-gunatmakam. He is thinking that "I am something of this material nature." Tri-gunatmakam. Paro 'pi, although he is transcendental, spirit soul, paro 'pi manute anartham, he is thinking so many problems. Anartham. He is thinking of so many problems. Just like the gentleman came to consult, as soon as we proposed that "This is the medicine," he will not take. He... Then it can be mitigated otherwise. "They are simply trying to introduce their philosophy." He thought like that.

But that is not the fact. That is explained in the next verse. Yes. Anarthopasamam saksad bhakti-yogam adhoksaje. If you want to get out of the problems, then take to Krsna consciousness. Everything will be adjusted. This is the fact. Anarthopasamam saksad bhakti-yogam adhoksaje loka... These rascals they do not know. These rascals, mudha. Non-Krsna conscious men, they have been described as mudhah. Na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah [Bg. 7.15]. Lowest of the mankind. They will not surrender to Krsna on account of their mischievous and sinful life and being fool number one, duskrtino mudhah, and being the lowest of the mankind. And mankind means, lowest of the man... In human form of body one can understand what is Krsna, what is Krsna con..., but he will not take to this. Therefore he is called naradhama, lowest of the mankind. In the human form of body, there is a chance, but they will not take it. Therefore nar... Why they do not take it? There are so many M.A., Ph.D., D.H.C. and doctors and Nobel Prize holder. Why they do not? Mayayapahrta-jnanah. That maya has taken away his knowledge. He will not allow. He will not allow. Maya will not allow to take.

Therefore Bhagavata says, naisam matis tavad urukramanghrim sprsaty anarthapagamo yad-arthah. Apagama. Naisam matis tavad urukramanghrim. To get out of this maya's problem, one has to surrender to Krsna. Krsna says, mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te [Bg. 7.14]. It is easy process. If you surrender to Krsna, immediately you get out of all these problems. So that is not being taken. It is declared, but people have not taken. Therefore Bhagavata says that why they have not taken? Naisam matis tavad urukramanghrim. They are not accepting this proposal of Krsna, that "You surrender." Anartha. Immediately anartha will be vanquished, but they will not take it. How? Why not? They have to surrender to His devotee. Niskincananam pada-rajo 'bhisekam. Mahiyasam pada-rajo 'bhisekam niskincananam na vrnita yavat. They cannot take to Krsna consciousness unless they bow down to the dust of His devotee, to the dust of the lotus feet of... Mahiyasam pada-rajo 'bhisekam. Pada-rajah. Pada-rajah means the dust at the lotus feet of mahiyasam, the exalted devotee, niskincananam, who has nothing to do with the material world. Niskincananam na vrnita yavat. So long one does not take the dust of the lotus feet of Krsna's devotee, he cannot surrender to Krsna. That is not possible. Therefore it is the duty of the devotees to go from place to place and just give the chance to the people to take to Krsna consciousness. Then their all problems will be solved.

Thank you very much. (end)

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