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People, they do not know that Krsna consciousness business is essential, imperative. We must take to it. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnu. They do not know it. Durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah. Out of false hope they are trying to be happy materially

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"People, they do not know that Kṛṣṇa consciousness business is essential, imperative. We must take to it. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu" |"They do not know it. Durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ" |"Out of false hope they are trying to be happy materially"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Here in New Vrindavan we are trying to establish an ideal life—plain living and advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is real business. People, they do not know that Kṛṣṇa consciousness business is essential, imperative. We must take to it. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu (SB 7.5.31). They do not know it. Durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ (SB 7.5.31). Out of false hope they are trying to be happy materially. Bahir-artha-māninaḥ. Bahir means external. External means this body. I am soul; I am within this body. Dehino 'smin yathā dehe (BG 2.13). So, real I am within the body, but because we are misled, we are thinking, "I am the body." Just like this shirt and coat, if I think, "I am this shirt, I am this coat," that is misleading. Actually no, I am within the shirt and coat.

Yesterday our Pradyumna was speaking about the description of the factory. For some money they are going to the factory, hellish life. But money required, never mind hellish life. Going underneath the mine, at any moment the mine may collapse, and we risk life. Especially here it is given that taskaraḥ sevako vaṇik. Taskaraḥ means thieves. They risk their life, enter into the house of another rich man, and he can shoot him immediately, there is dog—so many—but he risks his life for money. Taskaraḥ. Taskaraḥ means thieves, burglars, they risk their life. And sevaka. Sevaka, as soon as we become servant of some materialistic person, he'll extract, as much as possible, service in the factory. That is also very risky. We are not happy, sevaka. And vaṇik. Vaṇik means merchants. Sa vai vaṇik. They also risk their life. In European colonization, how much they risked life. When the Americans came here, how much they risked their life. So because you require money, we have to risk our life in so many ways. So the best thing is that we have to minimize our wants. We should be satisfied with the yāvad artha-prayojana, as little as possible. Not that we shall starve. That is not recommended. But don't increase.

So here in New Vrindavan we are trying to establish an ideal life—plain living and advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is real business. People, they do not know that Kṛṣṇa consciousness business is essential, imperative. We must take to it. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu (SB 7.5.31). They do not know it. Durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ (SB 7.5.31). Out of false hope they are trying to be happy materially. Bahir-artha-māninaḥ. Bahir means external. External means this body. I am soul; I am within this body. Dehino 'smin yathā dehe (BG 2.13). So, real I am within the body, but because we are misled, we are thinking, "I am the body." Just like this shirt and coat, if I think, "I am this shirt, I am this coat," that is misleading. Actually no, I am within the shirt and coat. So this requires knowledge. We get this knowledge that this body is not all in all. There is soul. As soon as the soul is out of the body, it is a lump of matter. But in spite of all our experience we are interested only with this body. This is called ignorance. This is called ignorance. We know, we are seeing every day, we are reading in the śāstra everything, but still we are attached to this body and sense gratification, and that is spoiling our life. We should be interested as spirit soul, ahaṁ brahmāsmi. As soul, my business is how to get out of this entanglement of repetition of birth and death and be situated in our original, spiritual life, where eternal life, blissful life. That is our aim should be.

Page Title:People, they do not know that Krsna consciousness business is essential, imperative. We must take to it. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnu. They do not know it. Durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah. Out of false hope they are trying to be happy materially
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-01, 09:57:27
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1