rmad-Bhgavatam 1.2.

10 Vndvana, October 21, 1972

Pradyumna: Translation: "Life's desires should never be aimed at gratifying the senses. One should desire to live only because human life enables one to inquire about the Absolute Truth. This should be the goal of all works." Prabhupda: kmasya nendriya prtir lbho jveta yvat jvasya tattva-jijs nrtho ya ceha karmabhi [SB 1.2.10] So we were discussing dharma, artha, kma, moka [SB 4.8.41, Cc. di 1.90]. So we have already discussed that religiosity does not mean to gain material gain. We have already discussed, just people go to the church: "God, give us our daily bread. " Or, even in temple, they go to ask something, material gain. But actually reli giosity's not meant for that purpose. Religiosity is meant for dharmasya pavargya sya. To enter into life of religiosity means to get out of the threefold miserab le condition of life, apavarga.

So then dharmaartha, money also we want. Arthasya dharmaikntasya na kmo lbhya hi smta We want money. That's all right. But not for satisfaction of our lusty desires. Money has got its use. Just like in our Ka consciousness movement we get money also . But we are spending for spreading Ka consciousness. Our need is very great. Peopl e will be surprised what we are expending per month. We have got more than one h undred branches all over the world, and each branch, there is expenditure... In Los Angeles, we spend twenty thousand dollars per month. In New York, we spend t en thousand per..., dollars per month. Or more than that. Similarly, on the aver age, we spend not less than ten thousand dollars per each branch. But we have go t calculation. We, we are spending seventy thousand dollar, dollars per month. S o Indian exchange means seven lakhs of rupees. So we need money. And we are gett ing money a lso. In Europe, in America, the process of getting money is not the, like here, that I go to any gentleman, "Give us some donation." That is not pos sible. You cannot enter even one's house without introduction. Then you are tres passer. If you enter anyone's house without permission, he can kill you. This is the law. And every door, there is signboard: "Beware of the dogs." So it is not possible to go and beg, "Sir, give us something." But fortunately, we have publ ished books, about twenty books, four hundred pages each. And we are going on pu blishing. By Ka's grace, we are selling books, daily, twenty five thousand rupees. Therefore we are able to spend seven lakhs of rupees per month. So Ka gives. My Guru Mahrja always used to speak that "Why should you go and flatter? You should speak plain truth, without any flattering. Money will come." That wa s his conviction. And... So it is experienced. We have got very, very heavy expe nditure. But all this money collected, they are not meant for indriya-prti, not f or sense gratification. That is the significance. If we want money for sense gra tification, then, according to our destiny, we shall get. Not more than that. No body can get more. Therefore Bhgavata says, tasyaiva heto prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatm upary adha tal labhyate dukhavad anyata sukha klena sarvatra gabhra-rahas [SB1.5.18]

So far our sense gratification is concerned, we cannot get money more than what we are destined to get. Otherwise why there are so many people born with silver spoon in their mouth and somebody's born poor? And he's not getting even two tim es food, working very hard, day and night. So there is a destiny. Destiny we can not improve. That is already settled up. But you can improve your Ka consciousness. That chance is there. Therefore Bhgavata says, tasyaiva heto prayateta kovida. Those who are learned, tho se who are intelligent, they should devote the life for developing Ka consciousness . Ka consciousness is there in everyone's heart, dormantly. nitya-siddha ka-prema 'sdhya' kabhu naya ravadi-uddha-citte karaye udaya [Cc. Madhya 22.107]

Our love for Ka is there already. But it is covered. It is covered. By the influenc e of the modes of material nature, it is covered. So this Ka consciousness movement is nothing but discovering Ka consciousness. It is already there. But we are givin g chance to the people for hearing about Ka. That's all. All these European, Americ an boys and girls who have joined, they have simply been given the chance of hea ring. Ceto-darpaa-mrjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Actually, if the people are given cha nce to hear this Hare Ka mah-mantra, para vijayate r-ka-sakrtanam, then gradual things within his heart becomes cleared, and he can understand what is Ka. This is the process. We do not ask anybody that "You become Hindu or you become so and s o ." We simply ask, "Please come and chant with us." This is our program. I bega n my chanting in New York in a park, Tompkinson Square. Those who are old studen ts... Here is Acyutnanda. He's one of the old students. He first of all came and danced. He and Brahmnanda. So that is the beginning. He knows what was the beginn ing. I was sitting underneath a tree like this, and no khol. It was some dundubh i. And I was playing on it from two to five, three hours, chanting. And these yo ung boys and girls with their dogs, with their children, they began to dance. Ye s. That was the beginning. Gradually, they became student. Here is... Where is o ur Hayagrva Prabhu? Devotee: He's over here, rla Prabhupda. Prabhupda:Yes. He's Professor Howard Wheeler. He also met me on the street, but h e could not find out a guru. He returned back. Then, when I was going on a stree t, he found me, and he began to join. In this way, we developed. First of all in New York. Then San Francisco. Then Montreal. So now we have got more than one h undred branches all over the world. So simply by this chanting... And we are kno wn as "Hare Krishna People." Wherever we go, people say "Here are the Hare Krish na People." They respect because we follow strictly the four principles: no illi cit sex, no gambling, no intoxication, and no meat-eating. They respect. They be come surprised how we can avoid.

So here it is stated, kmasya nendriya prti. So long we have this body, we have to e at, we have to sleep, we have to enjoy senses, and we have to defend. hra-nidr-bhay a-maithuna. These are bodily necessities of life. And they are called kma. So kma is allowed. Ka says in the Bhagavad-gt, dharma-aviruddha kmo 'smi: "Which is not aga t religious principles, that sort of kma is allowed." But not for sense gratifica tion. You can marry. You can beget children. That's all right. But you cannot en joy sex for enjoyment, for simply enjoyment. No. That is not allowed. You eat, y ou sleep, you have sex life, you defend. Nothing is forbidden in the stra, but you must know the aim of your life. The aim of your life is tattva-jijs. You should no t forget that. Therefore the Vedic system is so organized that people may satisf y the bodily necessities of life, at the same time, he may progress in Ka conscious ness for understanding the Absolute Truth. That is Vedic system. Not one-sided. There is sufficient concession for our sense gratification, but we should not fo rget our real business of life, athto brahma jijs.

This brahma-jijs is explained here as tattva-jijs, the same thing. Jvasya tattva-jij s human life... Athto brahma jijs means this human life is made for inquiring about the Absolute Truth. Just like Santana Gosvm, he inquired from Caitanya Mahprabhu, ke mi kene mya jre tpa-traya, "Who am I?" This is also brahma-jijs. Because I am part parcel of Brahman, the Absolute Truth, so I must know myself. So that is the beg inning of brahma-jijs. Just like Bhagavad-gt begins... Ka is teaching Arjuna that " re not this body. You are Brahman." Dehino 'smin yath dehe kaumra yauvana jar [Bg. 2. 13]. Asmin dehe, in this body, there is the proprietor of the body. So that is t he beginning of brahma-jijs. "Who am I?" Ke mi. And without knowing myself, I cannot understand what is Ka. If I, without knowing myself, I try to understand Ka, then I hall misunderstand. Avajnanti m mh mnu tanum ritam [Bg. 9.11]. I shall consider lso a man like me. Maybe a better man or stronger man or richer man. That's all. " Because they have no conception of the spiritual identity of self, therefore t hey misunderstand Ka as ordinary man. So we cannot understand Brahman or God or Parabrahman, Supersoul, without unders tanding the nature of myself. This is called tattva-jijs. So jvasya tattva-jijs. We uld work. Everyone is working, but they are working for sense gratification. Esp ecially in the Western countries. Not only Western countries, Eastern, everywher e. Their aim is how to satisfy or gratify the senses more and more. This is thei r aim. But that is not the li..., aim of life. The aim of life, especially in th e human form of life... We are coming to this human form of life through the evo lutionary process, gradual evolutionary process of 8,400,000 species of life, an d this is the opportunity to understand "What I am, what is God, and what is our relationship with Him?" If we miss this opportunity, then we are committing sui cide. Again I..., we're going back in the cycle of birth and death, and we do no t know when again we shall come to this form of human body. So we should not mis use this human form of body. Therefore Narottama dsa hkura sings, hari hari biphale janama goinu manuya-janama piy rdh-ka n bhajiy jniy uniy bia khinu "Knowingly, I am drinking poison. I have heard that this life is meant for under standing for Absolute Truth, but I am spoiling my life in the business of sense gratification. So therefore I am drinking poison knowingly." Just like somebody takes poison knowingly, that "I, I must die." But he wants to end. So that is no t our aim of life. We should properly utilize the opportunity given by nature, g iven by God. That is required.

So here is the opportunity. Ka is there. Ka is speaking. Not that Ka is not presen resent by His words. Ka is absolute. There is no difference between Ka and His words. The Bhagavad-gt As It Is, they're the words of Ka. When you read Bhagavad-gt, you sh d know that you are talking with Ka directly: ka-kath. Caitanya Mahprabhu therefore ses, yre dekha tre kaha ka-upadea [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. Ka-upadea, ka-kath, thi d all over the world. My Guru Mahrja used to say that "I don't find any scarcity w ithin this w orld, except Ka consciousness." Exc... Actually, that is the fact. The re is no scarcity all over the world. In India there may be scarcity, but outsid e India still there are so much vacant places, especially in Africa, in America, in Australia, in New Zealand, that ten times of the population of the whole wor ld can be fed. Still. There is so much potency of producing food grains, milk, a nd other things. Profusely. In America, they throw away so many grains and veget ables daily. It is simply mismanagement. Otherwise, there is no question of scar city or poverty. There is no question. It is simply propaganda. Because they can not manage, the foolish people, they present the population has increased and th e foodstuff is not properly supplied. Foodstuff is always sufficient. But when t here are demons, the supply is restricted by nature.

That we get information from Pthu Mahrja's history. When there was scarcity, Pthu Ma hrja wanted to kill the earthly god, or Pthv. But she replied that "I have restricte d supply on account of demons, because they are not actually executing the purpo se of life, Ka consciousness. Therefore I have restricted." So the more people beco me non-Ka conscious, materially conscious, the more there will be restriction of fo odstuff. In the rmad-Bhgavatam, in the Twelfth Canto, it is stated that the end of Kali-yuga there will be no grain supply. Wheat, rice and milk and sugar will not be available. Now it is available still, because still people are little Ka consci ous. For them only. But gradually, the things will deteriorate so much so that a lmost all supplies will be stopped.

So the fact is that we do not require to, I mean to say, endeavor for finding ou t food. The food is already there. Jvasya tattva-jijs. We should sit down tightly, d epending on Ka... That we have already explained, that this Ka consciousness movement is going on. We have got heavy expenditure, but Ka is supplying. This is a fact. No ne of our boys and girls, they go to office or to factory or they earn. The... I n Los Angeles, our neighborhood men, they're very envious. They say, "How you ma intain such huge establishment and you do not work?" They cannot dream that with out working one can eat. Yes. So here the fact, jvasya tattva-jijs nrtho ya ceha karm bhi. It is not that you have to work very hard. The... Everywhere in the rmad-Bhgava tam, that is the instruction. In one place, in the Fifth Chapter of Fifth Canto, while &# 7779;abhadeva was instructing His boys, He also said, nham, nya deho dehabhj nloke kan kmn arhate vi-bhuj ye [SB 5.5.1]. This human form of body is not king hard like the dogs and the hogs for simply for sense gratification; it is m eant for tapo divya putrak yena uddhyet [SB 5.5.1]. The human life is meant for tap asya, self-realization, tattva-jijs. That is the basic principle of Vedic civilizat ion. In the Vedic, in Mahbhrata, we don't find there is any industrial development or t rade development. No. Nothing like that. Why Mahbhrata? Even two hundred years ago , before the British advent, there was no industry all over the India. And they were happy. So it is not that simply by increasing your fruitive activities, kar mabhi, you can become happy. No, that is not possible. If you simply restrict you rself for life, inquiring about the Absolute Truth, then you'll be happy. Jvasya tattva-jijs. That is, that is the only business of the human form of life and not w orking hard like asses and cows. Sa eva go-kara. These examples are there in the. .. I was giving the example while coming. Who was there? That this ass... Ass, o ne ass was going. So the ass, he can eat grass anywhere. There are so many grass es. But he's thinking that "Unless I work very hard, the washerman will not give me grass." You see? Th is is ass intelligence. Everything is there. Why ass? Th ere are elephants. In Africa there are millions of elephants. They're eating at the, at one time, at least eighty-two pounds, but they are supplied food.

So there is no question of... This is all political propaganda: "There is no foo d. There is increase of population." Nothing. Everything, Ka can provided. Eko bahn y vidadhti kmn nityo nityn cetana cetannm (Kaha Upaniad 2.2.13). The Supreme Lord reme nitya, eternal, and we are all dependent upon Him. Nityo nityn cetana cetannm. A d that one singular number of nitya, Ka, bahn vidadhti kmn. So Ka has provided od. There is no necessity, necessity of becoming anxious, "Where is food? Where is food?" Every arrangement is there. Our only business is how to develop Ka consci ousness, how to know Ka. And if you simply in truth, if we try to understand Ka, our ll problems are solved. Especially this problem, this repetition of birth and de ath. This is solved. Tyaktv deha punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. And that is the main problem. So our request is that everyone may take to Ka consciousness movement without any h esitation. This is authorized movement and approved movement, and people are acc epting all over the world. Unfortunately, in India, they are lacking. I must adm it that as the younger generation from other countries, they're enthusiastically join, or joining, our Indian youths are not joining in that way. But we require

so many preachers, so many young men, to preach all over the world this sublime movement, Ka consciousness. People are accepting. Even in Africa, who are supposed to be uncivilized, they are also accepting. Everywhere. There is no impediment. Ahaituky apratihat. People are chanting Hare Ka mantra. You'll be surprised to know that I was going from London to Nairobi, Africa, and our plane stopped for fort y-five minutes in Athens, and as soon as we dropped down, some young men there, in Athens, Greece, they immediately beg an to chant, "Hare Ka, Hare Ka, Hare Ka."

So the Hare Ka movement is, or Ka consciousness movement is now well spread all over he world. The framework is there. So anyone can go and preach this Ka consciousness movement very easily and people will take it. Recently I'm coming from Manila, Philippines. There also, they're dog-eaters. But still they took part in Ka conscio usness movement, chanted, and we were very much encouraged. In the last meeting. .. We held our meeting in the hotel, big hall, very nice hall, and all young men came, and they chanted and danced with us, purchased our books, and here are... The organizer is Sudm-vipra Ma..., Gosvm Mahrja is present here. He has gone there o ly six months, and within six months, he has organized so nicely that wherever w e go, the young generation, especially, they chant, "Hare Ka!"

So the purport is that this Hare Ka movement has got great potency. Everywhere, all over the world. Therefore Caitanya Mahprabhu said, pthivte che yata nagardi grma. He did not say in vain. There was meaning. Simply we have to take the opportunity, the blessings of Caitanya Mahprabhu, and try our best. The people will be happy, and we shall be happy. That is the meaning of jvasya tattva-jijs nrtho ya ceha karmab i. Thank you very much. (end) http://krishnaonline.com.br/Srimad-Bhagavatam%201.2.10_vrindavana_10_21_72.html