1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:10,299 ANNOUNCER: The following is a class on the Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, 2nd chapter, text number 3, 2 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:18,899 given by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, recorded on August 3 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:27,299 4, 1973 in London, England. Pradyumna: Translation: “O son of Pṛthā, do 4 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:32,499 not yield to this degrading impotence. It does not become you. Give up such petty weakness 5 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:46,599 of heart and arise, O chastiser of the enemy.” PRABHUPĀDA: So Bhagavān, 6 00:00:46,600 --> 00:01:00,599 Kṛṣṇa, is encouraging, kśūdraṁ hṛdaya-daurbalyam. “For a kṣatriya to speak like that, ‘No no, 7 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:09,599 I cannot kill my kinsmen. I am giving my weapons,’ this is weakness, cowardice. Why you 8 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:18,099 are all this nonsense doing?” Kśūdraṁ hṛdaya-daurbalyam. “This kind of compassion, giving 9 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:29,199 up your duty as a kṣatriya, it is simply weakness of the heart. It has no meaning.” Klaibyaṁ ma 10 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:38,699 sma gamaḥ pārtha naitat tvayy upapadyate. “Especially for you. You are My friend. What people 11 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:53,599 will say? So give up this weakness of the heart and uttiṣṭha, stand up, take courage.” So just see 12 00:01:53,600 --> 00:02:07,599 how Kṛṣṇa is inducing Arjuna to fight. People are very much ignorant and they sometimes 13 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:19,199 criticize that “Kṛṣṇa is exciting Arjuna. He is very gentleman, nonviolent, and Kṛṣṇa is exciting 14 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:32,699 him to fight.” This is called jaḍa- darśana. Jaḍa-darśana. Jaḍa- darśana means material vision. 15 00:02:32,700 --> 00:02:41,699 Therefore śāstra says, ataḥ śrī- kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [BRS. 1.2.234]. 16 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:56,999 Śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi. We become in touch with Kṛṣṇa by chanting His name, Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is the 17 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:08,499 beginning of our connection with Kṛṣṇa. Nāmādi. So śāstra says, ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi. Ādi means 18 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:13,699 beginning. So we have no connection with 19 00:03:13,700 --> 00:03:24,099 Kṛṣṇa. But if we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, immediately our first chance to contact Kṛṣṇa 20 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:34,899 begins. So it has to be practiced. Not that immediately I realize Kṛṣṇa. That is not… Of course, if 21 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:47,799 one is advanced, it is possible immediately. So śrī-kṛṣṇa- nāmādi. Nāma means name. So 22 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:59,399 Kṛṣṇa is not only name. Ādi, that is the beginning, but form, activities. Just like śravanaṁ 23 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:08,999 kīrtanam. So śravanaṁ kīrtanam, glorifying or describing about Kṛṣṇa… So He has got His form. 24 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:22,899 So nāma means name, and then, rūpa means form. Nāma, rūpa… Līlā means pastimes; guṇa means 25 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:35,499 quality; entourage, his associates; all these… Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved [BRS. 1.2.234]. Na 26 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:46,699 bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ. By ordinary senses we cannot understand… Either Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s 27 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:58,899 name… We are hearing our, through the aural reception, Kṛṣṇa’s name, but if we keep our 28 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:06,699 ear without purification… Of course, by hearing, it will be purified. We have to help. Help 29 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:19,599 means to avoid the offenses, ten kinds of offenses. So in this way we shall help the purificatory 30 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:29,299 process. Just like if I want to ignite fire, so I must help the igniting process by drying the 31 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:39,199 wood. It will very soon get fire. Similarly, simply chanting, that will help us also. It will take time. 32 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:49,899 But if we avoid the offenses, then it will be very quickly purified. The action will be there. 33 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:54,499 So ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [BRS. 34 00:05:54,500 --> 00:06:00,299 1.2.234]. So this behavior of Kṛṣṇa, how ordinary men can understand? Because they have 35 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:10,999 got their ordinary senses, therefore they mistake. Why Kṛṣṇa? Even Kṛṣṇa’s devotee, 36 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:21,899 Vaiṣṇava. That is also stated. Vaiṣṇavera kriyā mūdra vijñeha nā bujhaya. Even a Vaiṣṇava 37 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:32,199 ācārya, what he is doing, even the most expert intelligent man cannot understand why he is 38 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:45,399 doing this. Therefore we should not try to imitate the higher authorities, but we have to follow 39 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:58,899 the order, injunction, given by the higher authorities. It is not possible. Kṛṣṇa is exciting Arjuna 40 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:09,899 to fight. That does not mean we can also do that, excite, no. That will be immoral. For Kṛṣṇa it is 41 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:15,399 not immoral. Whatever He is doing… God is good, He is all- good. We should accept it. 42 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:24,799 Whatever He is doing, that is all- good. This is one side. And whatever I am doing without 43 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:32,999 authority’s order, this is all bad. He does not require any order from anyone else. Īśvaraḥ 44 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:39,599 paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ [Bs. 5.1]. He is the supreme controller. He does not require anyone’s instruction. 45 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:51,999 Whatever He does, it is perfect. This is Kṛṣṇa understanding. And not that I have to study Kṛṣṇa in 46 00:07:52,000 --> 00:08:01,899 my own way. Kṛṣṇa is not subjected to your examination or your test. He is above all. He is 47 00:08:01,900 --> 00:08:12,899 transcendent. Therefore those who have not the transcendental vision, they misunderstand Kṛṣṇa. 48 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:21,399 Here He is directly enticing, klaibyaṁ ma sma gamaḥ pārtha 49 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:28,399 naitat tvayy upapadyate kśūdraṁ hṛdaya-daurbalyaṁ taktvottiṣṭha parantapa 50 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,899 Parantapa is, this word, very word, is used that “You are a 51 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:40,899 kṣatriya, you are king. Your business is to chastise the mischief mongers. That is your 52 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:52,199 business. You cannot excuse the mischief monger.” Formerly the kings were so… The king himself 53 00:08:52,200 --> 00:09:02,299 used to judge. A criminal was brought before the king, and if the king thought it wise, he 54 00:09:02,300 --> 00:09:11,899 would take his own sword, immediately cut his head. That was the duty of king. Even not 55 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:24,499 many, about hundred years ago in Kashmir, the king, as soon as a thief was caught, he would be 56 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:32,299 brought before the king, and if he is proved that he was a thief, he has stolen, immediately the 57 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:41,999 king will cut off his hands personally, chopped off. Even hundred years ago. So all other 58 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:48,299 thieves warned, “This is your punishment.” So there was no thiefing. There was no stealing, 59 00:09:48,300 --> 00:09:57,199 no burglary in Kashmir. Even somebody lost something on the road, it will lie down. Nobody will 60 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:07,099 touch it. The order was, king’s order was, “If something is lying down on the street uncared for, 61 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:13,699 you cannot touch it. The man who has left it, he would come; he will collect. You cannot take.” 62 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:22,599 Even hundred years ago. So this capital punishment is required. Nowadays the capital 63 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:31,399 punishment is excused. Murderers are not hanged. This is all mistake, all rascaldom. A 64 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:39,599 murderer must be killed. No mercy. Why a human killer? Even an animal killer should be 65 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:46,299 immediately hanged? That is kingdom. The king should be so strict. 66 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:57,699 So this sympathy is like Arjuna’s sympathy. The sympathy… Now 67 00:10:57,700 --> 00:11:05,299 the state is sympathizing with the murderer not to be killed. This is Arjuna. That is hṛdaya- 68 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:14,199 daurbalyam. That is not duty. One has to discharge the duty ordered by the superior authority 69 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:22,499 very strictly, without any consideration. So these are weakness of the heart, this kind 70 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:32,599 of sympathy. But ordinary person will not understand. Therefore to understand Kṛṣṇa, one requires 71 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:42,199 special senses, special senses, not ordinary senses. Special senses means you have to pluck your 72 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:51,299 eyes and you have to put another eyes? No. You have to purify. Tat- paratvena nirmalam. Just like if 73 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:58,899 you have got some disease in the eyes, you apply medicine, and when it is clear, you can see 74 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:07,499 clearly everything; similarly, with these blunt senses, we cannot understand what is Kṛṣṇa. 75 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:18,599 Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ. As śrī- kṛṣṇasya nāmādau, Kṛṣṇa’s name, 76 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:25,499 form, quality, etc., is not understand by these blunt senses, so how it is to be done? 77 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:33,999 Now, sevonmukhe hi jihvādau. Again jihvādau, beginning from the tongue, controlling the 78 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:45,699 tongue. Just see it is something peculiar, that you have to understand Kṛṣṇa by controlling 79 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:54,999 the tongue? This is something wonderful. How is that? I have to control my tongue to understand 80 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:04,199 Kṛṣṇa? But it is, the śāstra injunction is there: sevonmukhe hi jihvādau. Jihvā means tongue. 81 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:13,299 So in order to see Kṛṣṇa, in order to understand Kṛṣṇa, the first business is to control your 82 00:13:13,300 --> 00:13:25,099 tongue. Therefore we say, don’t take meat, don’t take liquor. Because it is controlling the 83 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:36,999 tongue. The tongue is the most strong enemy as sense, as perverted sense. And these 84 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:44,999 rascals they say, “No, you can eat whatever you like. It has nothing to do with religion.” But Vedic 85 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:53,749 śāstra says, “You rascal, first of all control your tongue. Then you can understand what is God.” 86 00:13:53,750 --> 00:14:00,849 So this is called Vedic injunction—perfect. If you control your tongue, then you control 87 00:14:00,850 --> 00:14:08,099 your belly, then you control your genital. Rūpa Gosvāmī gives instruction, 88 00:14:08,100 --> 00:14:15,949 vāco-vegaṁ manaso krodha- vegam jihvāvegam udaropastha- vegam etān vegān yo viṣaheta 89 00:14:15,950 --> 00:14:24,799 dhīraḥ sarvām apīmāṁ sa pṛthiviṁ sa śiṣyāt. This is instruction, that anyone 90 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:38,299 who has become competent to control the tongue, to control the mind, to control the anger, to 91 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:47,799 control the belly and control the genital…, if six kind of control is there, he is fit for becoming 92 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:56,399 spiritual master; he can make disciples all over the world. And if you cannot control your tongue, 93 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:06,799 if you cannot control your anger, control your mental concoction, then how you can become even a 94 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:12,999 spiritual master? That is not possible. Pṛthiviṁ sa śiṣyāt. One who did… That is called gosvāmī, 95 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:20,099 gosvāmī or svāmī, master of the senses. Master of controlling these six kinds. 96 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:26,599 So beginning is the jihvā. Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam 97 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:35,399 eva sphuraty adaḥ. Sevā. The tongue can be engaged in the service of the Lord. How? You 98 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:43,499 chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, always glorify. Vācāṁsi vaikuṇṭha- guṇānuvarṇane. Vācāṁsi, means 99 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:52,299 talking. Talking is the business of tongue, and tasting is the business of tongue. So you 100 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:59,499 engage the tongue in the service of the Lord by glorifying. Whenever… You take a vow that 101 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:08,499 “Whenever I shall speak, I shall simply speak, glorifying Kṛṣṇa, nothing more.” That is tongue 102 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:17,699 control. If you don’t allow your tongue to speak anything nonsense, grāmya-kathā… We 103 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:25,799 sometimes sit together. We talk so many nonsense. That should be controlled. “Now I have 104 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:32,099 engaged my tongue for the service of the Lord, so we shall not talk anything of sense 105 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:39,799 gratification.” This is controlling the tongue. “I cannot eat anything which is not offered to 106 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:47,999 Kṛṣṇa.” This is controlling the tongue. So these are small techniques, but it has got great, 107 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:58,199 great value so that Kṛṣṇa will be pleased, the austerity, and He will reveal. You cannot understand. 108 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:05,299 You cannot see Kṛṣṇa. You cannot order Kṛṣṇa, “Kṛṣṇa, please come, dancing with flute. I 109 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:16,599 shall see You.” This is order. Kṛṣṇa is not subjected to your order. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu 110 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:24,199 gives us instruction, aśliṣya vā pāda-ratāṁ pinastu māṁ marma-hatāṁ karotu vā 111 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:34,799 adarśanam. Adarśanam. Everyone wants to see Kṛṣṇa, a devotee, but a pure devotee says that “No, 112 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:43,799 if you don’t like to see me, that’s all right. You can break my heart. I may always pray to see You. But 113 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:51,899 You do not come and break my heart, that is also accepted. Still, I shall worship You.” This is pure 114 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:59,099 devotion. Not that “I have asked Kṛṣṇa to come before me dancing. He did not come. So I 115 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:09,299 give up this nonsense. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is no value.” Not like that. This is 116 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:19,599 Rādhārāṇī’s attitude. So Kṛṣṇa left Vṛndāvana. All the gopīs, they passed their days simply crying 117 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:29,099 for Kṛṣṇa, but never condemned Kṛṣṇa. Whenever somebody came… Kṛṣṇa also was thinking of 118 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:36,299 them because gopīs are the greatest devotees, topmost devotees. There is no comparison 119 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:45,199 with the devotion of the gopīs. Therefore Kṛṣṇa was always obliged to them. Kṛṣṇa said to 120 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:53,099 the gopīs that “You have to be satisfied with your own business. I cannot return you anything for 121 00:18:53,100 --> 00:19:08,899 your love.” Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme, the all-powerful, He was unable to repay the debts for the gopīs. 122 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:15,399 Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, ramyā kācid upāsanā vraja- vadhu-vargeṇa yā kalpitā. There 123 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:23,599 is no more better worship than what was conceived by the gopīs. So gopīs are the topmost 124 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:32,299 devotees. And amongst the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the topmost. Therefore Śrīmatī 125 00:19:32,300 --> 00:19:38,199 Rādhārāṇī is greater than Kṛṣṇa. So this is Gauḍīya-Vaiṣṇava 126 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:49,399 philosophy. It requires time. So the activities of Kṛṣṇa, the rascals, if they simply see that “Kṛṣṇa is 127 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:59,099 enticing Arjuna to fight; therefore Kṛṣṇa is immoral,” that is, means wrong vision. You have to see 128 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:08,599 Kṛṣṇa with separate eyes. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, janma karma me 129 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:18,699 divyaṁ ca. Divyam. These transcendental activities of Kṛṣṇa, if anyone can understand, simply 130 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:26,999 if anyone can understand, then he becomes liberated immediately. Liberated. Not 131 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:35,899 liberated ordinary liberation, but for going back to home, back to Godhead. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar 132 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:42,499 janma naiti mām eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. The greatest liberation. There are different types of 133 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:58,799 liberation also. Sāyujya sārūpya sārṣṭi sālokya sāyujya…. Five kinds of liberation. So sāyujya means to 134 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:03,399 merge into the existence, Brahman, brahma-laya (merging in the impersonal). That is also 135 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:11,799 liberation. The Māyāvādīs or the jnani sampradāya, they want to merge into the existence, 136 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:20,499 Brahman existence. That is also mukti. That is called sāyujya- mukti. But for a devotee, this 137 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:35,499 sāyujya-mukti is just like hell. Kaivalyaṁ narakāyate. So for Vaiṣṇava, kaivalyam, to, monism, 138 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:45,399 to merge into the existence of the Supreme, is compared with hell. Kaivalyaṁ narakāyate tri- 139 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:54,199 daśa-pūr ākāśa-puṣpāyate. And the karmīs… Jñānīs are anxious to merge into the existence of the 140 00:21:54,200 --> 00:22:00,599 Brahman effulgence, and the karmīs, their highest aim is how to be elevated in the higher 141 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:08,499 planetary system, Svarga-loka, where Lord Indra is there, or Brahmā is there. That is karmī’s 142 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:17,399 ambition, to go to the heaven. They all, except Vaiṣṇava philosophy, in all other literature, 143 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:25,399 all other scripture, means Christian and Mohammedan, their aim is how to be elevated to 144 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:31,099 the heaven. So heaven is described in the 145 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:40,899 Vedic literature as tri-daśa-pūr. Tri-daśa-pūr. Tri-daśa-pūr means there are 33,000,000’s of 146 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:48,399 demigods, and they have got their separate planets. This is called tri-daśa-pūr. Tri means 147 00:22:48,400 --> 00:23:00,399 three, and daśa means ten. So thirty-three or thirty. Anyway, tri- daśa-pūr ākāśa-puṣpāyate. 148 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:11,199 Ākāśa-puṣpa means something imaginary something imaginary. A flower in the sky. A flower 149 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:17,499 should be in the garden, but if somebody imagines the flower in the sky, it is something 150 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:25,899 imaginary. So for a devotee, this heavenly promotion to the heavenly planet is just like a 151 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:35,599 flower in the sky. Tri-daśa-pūr ākāśa-puṣpāyate. Kaivalyaṁ narakāyate. Jñānī and karmī. And 152 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:44,499 durdāntendriya-kāla-sarpa-paṭalī protkhāta-daṁstrāyate. Then yogi. Yogis are trying. Yogi 153 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:51,999 means yoga indriya-samyama, controlling the senses. That is yogic practice. Our senses are 154 00:23:52,000 --> 00:24:00,499 very strong. Just like we also, Vaiṣṇavas, we first of all try to control the tongue. So yogis also, 155 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:09,899 they try to control the senses, not only tongue, but all other, ten kinds of senses, by that yogis 156 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:22,299 mystic process. So why they are trying to control? Because the senses are just like serpents. A 157 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:30,899 serpent… Just like they touch anywhere, immediately something up to death. Injury 158 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:44,599 there must be up to death. This is exemplified: just our sex impulse. As soon as there is illicit sex, 159 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:51,599 there is so many difficulties. Of course, nowadays it has all become very easy. Formerly it 160 00:24:51,600 --> 00:25:01,999 was very difficulty, especially in India. Therefore a young girl was always protected, because if she 161 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:10,499 mixes with the boys, somehow or other, as soon as there is sex, she becomes pregnant. And it will be 162 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:19,899 no more possible to get her married. No. Touched by the serpent. This is… Vedic civilization 163 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:28,099 is very strict. Because the whole aim was how to go back to home, back to Godhead, not sense 164 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:36,299 gratification, eat, drink, be merry, enjoy. That is not the aim of human life. So everything was 165 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:41,899 planned with that aim. Viṣṇur aradhyate. 166 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:49,999 varṇāśramācāravatā puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān viṣṇur āradhyate panthā nānyat tat-toṣa-kāraṇam 167 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:55,299 Varṇāśrama, these brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, everyone had to 168 00:25:55,300 --> 00:26:01,499 strictly follow the rules and regulation of the particular division. A brāhmaṇa must act as 169 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:08,299 a brāhmaṇa. A kṣatriya must as… Here is the… Just Kṛṣṇa says, “You are kṣatriya; why you are talking 170 00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:17,699 all this rascal? You must!” Naitat tvayy upapadyate. “In two ways you should not do this. As a 171 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:25,199 kṣatriya you should not do this, and as My friend, you should not do this. This is your weakness.” 172 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:33,999 So this is Vedic civilization. Fight for the kṣatriya. A brāhmaṇa is not going to fight. Brāhmaṇa is 173 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:39,299 satyaḥ śamo damaḥ, he is practicing how to become peaceful, how to become clean, 174 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:48,699 how to control the senses, how to control the mind, how to become simple, how to become full 175 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:58,699 cognizant of the Vedic literature, how to apply practically in life, how to become firmly fixed up in 176 00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:07,599 conviction. These are brāhmaṇas’. Similarly, kṣatriya’s—fighting. That is necessary. Vaiśya—kṛṣi- 177 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:14,999 go-rakṣya-vāṇījyam [Bg. 18.44]. So all these strictly to be followed. Just yesterday we were 178 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:26,599 reading when Manu, Vaivasvatu Manu, came to Kardama Muni, he is receiving, “Sir, I know that 179 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:37,299 your touring means you are just…,” what is called, what is called, examining? 180 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:44,599 PRABHUPĀDA: Inspecting, yes. Inspecting. “Your touring means inspection whether the 181 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:50,199 varṇāśrama, whether the brāhmaṇa is doing actually as brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya is doing 182 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:56,499 actually as kṣatriya.” That is king’s touring. King’s touring not a pleasure touring at the expense 183 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:03,699 of the state to go somewhere and come back. No. He was… Sometimes in disguise the king 184 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:09,799 used to see whether this varṇāśrama-dharma is being maintained, properly being 185 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:21,799 observed, whether somebody is simply wasting time like hippies. No, that cannot be done. That 186 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:27,099 cannot be done. Now in your government there is some inspection that nobody is 187 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:35,399 employed, but unemployed. But so many things are not practically inspected. But it is the duty of the 188 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:43,799 government to see everything. Varnāśramācaravatā, everything is practicing as brāhmaṇa. Simply 189 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:51,499 by falsely becoming brāhmaṇa, falsely becoming kṣatriya—no. You must. So this was the king’s 190 00:28:51,500 --> 00:29:00,499 duty, government’s duty. Now everything is topsy-turvied. Everything is no more practical 191 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:08,199 value. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, kalau…, harer nāma harer nāma harer 192 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,499 nāmaiva kevalam kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva gatir anyathā [Adi 17.21] 193 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:19,099 It is very difficult to take us back to the original process of civilization. 194 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:26,199 So for a Vaiṣṇava, as I was explaining, the tri-daśa-pūr ākāśa-puṣpāyate 195 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:35,899 durdāntendriya-kāla-sarpa-paṭalī. So controlling the sense, that is durdānta. Durdānta means 196 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:43,999 formidable. It is very, very difficult to control the senses. Therefore the yoga process, mystic yoga 197 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:54,399 process—just to practice how to control the senses. But for a devotee… They… Just like the 198 00:29:54,400 --> 00:30:01,999 tongue, if it is engaged only in the business of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and eating only 199 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:14,599 Kṛṣṇa prasādam, the whole thing is done, perfect yogi. Perfect yogi. So for a bhakta, there is no 200 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:23,799 trouble with the senses because a bhakta knows how to engage each and every sense in the 201 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:29,899 service of the Lord. Hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam [Cc. Madhya 19.170] That is bhakti. Hṛṣīka 202 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:38,899 means the senses. When the senses are engaged only for the service of Kṛṣṇa, Hṛṣīkeśa, then 203 00:30:38,900 --> 00:30:45,599 there is no need of practicing yoga. Automatically they are locked up in the service of Kṛṣṇa. 204 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:50,499 They have no other engagement. That is the highest. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, 205 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:58,599 yoginām api sarveṣāṁ mad- gatenāntarātmanā śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ sa me 206 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:05,399 yuktatamo mataḥ [Bg. 6.47] ”A first-class yogi is he who is always thinking of Me.” Therefore 207 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:13,899 this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, if we simply chant and hear, the first-class yogi. So these 208 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:25,299 are the process. So Kṛṣṇa wants to Arjuna that “Why you are indulging in this weakness of 209 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:31,599 mind? You are under My protection. I am ordering you to fight. Why you are denying?” This 210 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:38,972 is the purport. Thank you very much.