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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Our point is: just try to study this life, how much painful it is. This is the human body, and what to speak of the dog's body, cat's body? You study very minutely, you'll find, from the beginning of my life in the womb of my mother up to the death point, simply miseries. Simply miseries. Simply. Duḥkhalayam aśāśvatam (BG 8.15). Kṛṣṇa said that this material life is duḥkhālayam, simply full of miseries. But under the spell of māyā we are thinking that we are very happy. That's not the fact. Therefore human life is a chance to get out of this miserable condition. That should be the aim of life: how to get out of this miserable condition of life.
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[[Vanisource:760518 - Lecture SB 06.01.18 - Honolulu|760518 - Lecture SB 06.01.18 - Honolulu]]
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Our point is: just try to study this life, how much painful it is. This is the human body, and what to speak of the dog's body, cat's body? You study very minutely, you'll find, from the beginning of my life in the womb of my mother up to the death point, simply miseries. Simply miseries. Simply. Duḥkhalayam aśāśvatam ([[Vanisource:BG 8.15 (1972)|BG 8.15]]). Kṛṣṇa said that this material life is duḥkhālayam, simply full of miseries. But under the spell of māyā we are thinking that we are very happy. That's not the fact. Therefore human life is a chance to get out of this miserable condition. That should be the aim of life: how to get out of this miserable condition of life. That requires knowledge how we are suffering, how it can be mitigated. The sufferings will be ended . . . the same thing: unless you become law-abiding to the laws given by God, you'll suffer. That is nature's way. The same principle: unless you become lawful, the police will give you punishment. Similarly, material nature, that is explained in Bhagavad-gītā, puruṣaḥ prakṛti-stho 'pi bhuṅkte tad-guṇān ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22 (1972)|BG 13.22]]). We are suffering because in the material there are threefold miseries generally: adhyātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika. That is permanent. Besides that, extra miserable condition due to the age, due to the climate, due to the condition of life. So we have to study these things. Why . . . this human life begins when he begins to say "Why?" Keno . . . (indistinct) . . . "Why we are suffering?"

So there are different methods how to get out of the suffering condition, karmī, jñānī, yogī. But ultimate, very easy process is, if you become a devotee, if you become engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then it is very easy. Kṣemo 'kuto-bhayaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.17|SB 6.1.17]]). Then your prosperity, your auspicity, is guaranteed. Kṣemo 'kuto-bhayaḥ. Akuto-bhayaḥ means "without any fear." You can keep yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness as it is prescribed. Then your life is secure, akuto-bhayaḥ. Therefore no more fear. Because why? Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]): "If you become surrendered unto Me and if you keep yourself under My instruction, then I'll give you protection." Therefore it is said, akuto-bhayam. Then your character will be formed, you'll become . . . you'll manifest your all good qualities simply by becoming nārāyaṇa-parāyaṇa. And so far atonement . . . we began this atonement. So atonement is concerned, here it is said, prāyaścittāni cīrṇāni nārāyaṇa-parāṅmukham. You can have some atonement, but if you are bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, so this purification will not be complete. How? Rājendra surā-kumbham ivāpagāḥ. According to Vedic civilization, a pot in which wine was kept, it is impure forever. It is impure forever. You cannot use for any other purpose, it is so abominable. If you think that "This bottle contained wine. Now wine is finished. Wash it, then it becomes pure," then according to Vedic civilization wine is so impure that even the pot in which wine was kept, it will never become pure. Surā-kumbham. These examples outsider cannot understand, but it is said in the śāstra.
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