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Nobody is thinking that "I am increasing the requisites of the body, but I am not this body; I am soul. What is the requisition of the soul?" they have forgotten. Real interest they have forgotten

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Nobody is thinking that "I am increasing the requisites of the body, but I am not this body; I am soul. What is the requisition of the soul?" This is . . . (indistinct) . . . they have forgotten. Real interest they have forgotten. The superficial interest.

If I study, "Oh, what is this attraction?" if I understand how it is simply combination of blood, stool and urine and intestine and muscle and skin and hair and nails, then if I study philosophically, so what is there? Have I got any attraction for all these things? No. So it is all false. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam (CC Antya 20.12, Śikṣāṣṭaka 1), that if we clarify our heart, then we become liberated. So this Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting process is clarifying. So tayor mitha hṛdaya-granthim āhur. As soon as a man and woman is combined together, that means the knot of material attraction becomes doubly tightened. Then they want apartment, gṛha. Ato gṛha-kṣetra. Kṣetra means . . . of course, nowadays everyone is seeking after employment, but formerly nobody . . . there was no industry, no big business. Everyone has to produce something, foodstuff, out of the kṣetra, field.

So if you become a family man you must have some source of income. That source of income is land, as Rāyarāma was explaining you. Actually the land is the source of income. If you can utilize the land, then there is everything stocked there. This same example can be given: this American land was lying vacant, but since the Europeans took possession of that, at least they have exploited the resources. So everything was on the land. So land is really property. So gṛha-kṣetra, apartment, land.

Gṛha-kṣetra-suta. As soon as they have married, they require . . . they at least desire to have a child. At least, the girl wants. Although now the process is different, but the hankering is that girls, women, they want child. That is sentiment. Ato gṛha-kṣetra-suta āpta. Āpta means relatives. Gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair (SB 5.5.8). Vittair means wealth, some bank balance. In this way go on increasing. Janasya moho 'yam. This is the moha; this is illusion.

So this illusion is so strong that we are going on increasing, increasing, increasing, increasing. Nobody is thinking that "I am increasing the requisites of the body, but I am not this body; I am soul. What is the requisition of the soul?" This is . . . (indistinct) . . . they have forgotten. Real interest they have forgotten. The superficial interest. The same example can be given: just like if you simply soap your shirt and coat and do not take care of your real body, or do not feed your body, then how long we shall exist?

My Guru Mahārāja used to give one nice example that a man was drowning. Another man came that, "I shall save this man." So he jumped on the water, and when coming out of the water he brought the shirt and coat, "Now I have saved the man." The social service, or any service which is going on, that is saving the shirt and coat. Nobody is serving the soul. That is the mistake of modern civilization. There are many hospitals to cure the bodily diseases, but there is no hospital to cure the disease of the soul.

Page Title:Nobody is thinking that "I am increasing the requisites of the body, but I am not this body; I am soul. What is the requisition of the soul?" they have forgotten. Real interest they have forgotten
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-12-21, 13:07:56
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1