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KKS Lecture Transcript -Caitanya Caritamrita 4.182
30th June 2002 parT 5+
BHAGAVAD GITA7.9
12TH MAY 1997 PART1
CC4.182 PART 5
The demigods they are very anybody would bow down to
intelligent, they have the mercy of Krishna. I bow down to Krishna
Krishna, that’s how he could too, He is so nice…like that.
know, he was not under Prabhupada did give this teachings
yogamaya, but Nanda Maharaja, of Lord Chaitanya as a summary
he was under the influence of so to read in one time is ok to just
yogamaya, he could not know. understand that this is also a part
Even when he saw that, he was of Krishna Consciousness. There
thinking well, I think Varuna is is reading it once and there is
just bowing down to Krishna really getting into it and reading it
because He is so wonderful, all the time and all the time
specifically the rasic sections, then
you go overboard .…but the initial
books that are recommended to
read are of course the Bhagavad
Gita, Nectar of Instruction, Sri
Isopanisad, the first fourteen
chapters of Nectar of Devotion,
the first fourteen chapters are very
very important, they are the basic
outline of what we are doing, so
one can read that… and yes it is
recommended to read Bhagavatam
and generally the Chaitanya
Caritamrita is read after one has
thoroughly studied Srimad
Bhagavatam…… ………………
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Devotees asks question:..Is it good
to legalize drugs?
Maharaja: You can come up with
all kinds of material arrangements,
you know, but why we have
anything to do with that, it’s not a
question for us.. is it good to
legalize drugs or not? That’s for
the government. Our answer is
the only thing that is good in
Holland is no gambling, no meat
eating, fish or eggs, no
intoxication and no illicit sex,
that’s our answer to that question.
We don’t give any other answers,
we just have one. So Thanks very
much. Srila Prabhupada Ki Jaya!
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BHAGAVAD GITA7.9
12TH MAY 1997 this world there is nothing that is
alive in its self.
PART1
“I am the original fragrance of
the earth, and I am the heat in fire.
Iam the life of all that lives, and I
am the penances of all ascetics”
Maharaja reads the purport
Invocations
Symptoms of life are symptoms of
In the Chaitanya Caritamrita we movement and ultimately the
find the introduction and in the living being is that gives the
introduction in the Chaitanya movement to any particular thing
Caritamrita it is described that therefore without the living force
Chaitanya, the word Chaitanya there is no movement and the
means the living force and original movement within the
Caritamrita actually, amrita means material world is the living force
the opposite of mrita or death so it of the Supreme Lord. Therefore
means death less or that which is the Supreme Lord He is known as
eternal and carita means the all pervading. In the Srimad
description… so it is really the Bhagavatam it begins immediately
description of the living force in to establish the nature of the
immortality. supreme Lord…..sanskrit…which
means that Lord Krishna is the
origin of everything and anything
that exists.
Immediately the Srimad
That is the meaning of these
Bhagavatam in the very first verse
particular words of these words, of
explains the transcendental nature
these words Caitanya Caritamrita.
of the Supreme Lord who
So Srila Prabhupada then
transforms Himself in different
continues to explain and says in
energies but He, the Original
Person remains the same… In the spiritual world we are
although everything is finding its eternally residing in an eternal
origin in Him, it’s separate from body and there immortality is
Him at the same time yet He fully manifest of course the soul is
remains with it as all pervading always immortal ,anyway, the
and still inspite of that He is svarat living entity also in this world has
independent He is not effected by its original nature but that original
anything. nature is now covered.
So in this way we see immediately
a description of the Supreme Lord
how He is the life force of
everything in the material world
and how its all His energy and He The original nature of the living
is fully conscious of it and He is entity is called swarup or the
separate from it at the same time. original identity, so its very
So this is the entire philosophy of difficult to understand what ones
Krishna Consciousness in a nut original swarup maybe, because it
shell. And the living entitiies are maybe completely different from
also the energy of the Supreme the nature that he has developed
Personality of Godhead and according to the modes of nature
therefore they are also able to give for example it might be that, well
life to different forms of dead what according to what we
matter, but that life is not associate with that we will
displaying immortality in this develop certain qualities just like
world because here at least when you get born in Italy you
seemingly we are subject to death. better get to love tomatoes or else
you know ther’es not much
chance for survival you’ll starve,
in the same way if you start
associating with sailors you will
end up with tattoos , sooner or
later you will have tattoos on your
arm so according to who you are
associating with you are
developing a certain nature and a
certain quality. So we might see
for an example that a sailor may
be a really tough guy but there’s
absolute no guarantee that that
toughness has got anything to do
with his real nature, his real
nature, his transcendental nature
his swarup may be of a complete
different nature infact he might be
a gopi for all that matters in his
eternal swarup but in this material
world walking around, this big
heavy dude with anchors on him
and too many male hormones due
to association with the material
energy so therefore it is very
difficult to understand what that
transcendental nature is…we will
therefore also not dwell on in it
too much -what would our
transcendental nature be that
would be too difficult actually we
are simply engaging our
conditioned nature, although it is a
temporary nature ..but we engage
that in the service of the Supreme
Lord…
