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We should restrict all the so-called material happiness and prepare for the spiritual life, eternal life. That is a human consciousness. Otherwise you are in darkness, mudha

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"We should restrict all the so-called material happiness and prepare for the spiritual life, eternal life That is a human consciousness. Otherwise you are in darkness, mūḍha"

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Festival Lectures

We should restrict all the so-called material happiness and prepare for the spiritual life, eternal life That is a human consciousness. Otherwise you are in darkness, mūḍha. Duṣkṛtina, mūḍha, narādhama. Life is lost.

One who is in ignorance, without any knowledge of the spirit soul and identifying with this body and trying to enjoy life, he is implicated. Implicated. Life after life we change, and enjoy in different ways. What is the enjoyment? The enjoyment is eating, sleeping, sex and defense. So either you become one little insect or you become Brahmā—the same enjoyment in different forms. Therefore punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām (SB 7.5.30), repeating the same process—eating, sleeping, mating and defending. Hmm? But there is a life eternal, which is not this eating-sleeping, but another enjoyment, ānanda-cinmaya-rasa (BS 5.37). We can get it. So therefore in this life we should understand, we should be little sober, that "This is our diseased condition. I am eternal." Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20). "Why I am put into this condition of birth, death, old age and disease? This is my disease. This is not healthy condition." So one who is sober, dhīra, he understands that "This is my tuberculosis disease state." We should restrict all the so-called material happiness and prepare for the spiritual life, eternal life That is a human consciousness. Otherwise you are in darkness, mūḍha. Duṣkṛtina, mūḍha, narādhama. Life is lost.

So Kṛṣṇa has so many līlās, activities. Kṛṣṇa is not different from His activities; He is absolute. So these are the occasions we can hear about His activities. We are benefited. Therefore He plays sometimes as mīna-śarīra, as varāha-śarīra, as kūrma-śarīra. Rāmādi-mūrtiṣu-kalā niyamena. There are hundreds and thousands of incarnations. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam (BS 5.33). Just like you cannot count the waves of the river—it is going on continually—similarly, the incarnation of Kṛṣṇa is going on eternally, so many. If you take the opportunity of hearing—śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ visnoḥ (SB 7.5.23)—about Viṣṇu's līlā, activities . . . And if you simply stick to the nirakāra Brahman, what we shall hear? Therefore they fall down, these Māyāvādīs who simply take seriously the impersonal feature of Kṛṣṇa, because there is no līlā. "Brahman brahman ahaṁ brahman brahman," then how long it will go on? It will be hackneyed. But when we take to Kṛṣṇa's personal activities, there are newer, newer, newer, and multi and many . . . Then we get the opportunity of hearing Kṛṣṇa.

Page Title:We should restrict all the so-called material happiness and prepare for the spiritual life, eternal life. That is a human consciousness. Otherwise you are in darkness, mudha
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-09-21, 15:26:00
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1