2004 || Seminar on Vaiṣṇava Songs and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.1.1 || Kṛṣṇa-kathā deśa

A 2004 seminar by Jaya Pataka Swami (YouTube) explaining devotional practice centered on Guru and the six Goswamis, with exegetical commentary on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (Priyavrata chapter) about how a householder can remain Krishna-conscious. The speaker contrasts household (grihastha) life and renunciation, stresses association with devotees, daily sadhana, and transforming family duties into service to Krishna; he gives practical pastoral guidance (phases of life, rules for taking sannyasa) and contemporary examples including preaching challenges in the Middle East.
By mercy of Krishna we get Guru. How many of you know English? How many know English? Actually you know. You know English. The red sari there. Beyond the yellow sari, there's a red sari. Do you know English? After putting together who does the learning and all the different gaming things that we need to remember in our devotional. You're giving me a mercy through all these things. Then it goes to the six Goswami. This is very important now from here on six Go Swamis are the very dear servants of Lord Chaitanya. Why these six Go Swamis? They are very special because they remove all obstacles. Just like we think Ganesh is Vignesha in some places Guru is also Vignesh. He takes away the Vignas. Vigna Vinashak Narasingadev is Vigna Vinashak. And for devotees, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu get up to them. The six Go Sauvigns. They remove obstacles. How many of you have any obstacles in your spiritual life? Anyone? The dust from their lotus feet is my five types of food. So Panchakar Aharhai, Oscar Punch, Prakar Ahara, Duli Mera. I want to serve you see the lotus feet and live in association with the devotees for their Charan Sedi. To serve their lotus feet. Charan means lotus feet. Pada Padma very happy to serve, you know, life after life. That's his intention here. This is very important for us because serving an association of devotees is very important. Because devotees have different outlook on life. We get more strength in the association with motives. So they do different. Let's go to the program at the hall. Let's have some spiritual Prashada. So that association, also that appreciation. They know that to serve Krishna in association with devotee that's like being in spiritual world. They reveal Radhakrishna's eternal pastimes. What they're doing Ashtaka in Leela. When Krishna is going, when he goes to Radhakunda, when he goes to Govardhan, when he goes to Suryakunda. When he goes Jo Kyakya Karma, Kishta Kika Lila, Abkhachobi, Ganta, Andamay, Ashta Jo Prahar Lilah. Because it's all scattered like Brahma Vaibacha, Puran has something, this Puran has something, that Puran. So none of us have the time to study all the Puranas and piece it together. They took it all together and put it. This is what's going on. Plus through their own realization and some secrets revealed to them they get a full picture that's why we are very indebted to them. So I'm chanting Ananda Bolohari. There's a special ecstasy. This verse is very ecstatic. When you say it you feel so happy. Sam fix our mind. So I said so now time things are developing. He's saying that I'm worshipping Vrindavan in great happiness, chanting the holy names. I'm meditating on the lotus leader Guru Vaishnava. Then he says Sri Guru Vaishnava Pada Padma Kuriyas. I simply desire the service of the Guru and the Vaiavas Gordous feet Guru Vaishnavaka Charam Seva as us under name my Mama Sankir. This type of meditation and prayer sung in a more of a quick, quick templ. I don't know all the not so much of a bachelor singer for the lack of time. But these are. These Bhajans have very deep meanings. Manusha Janamapaya Rahakrishna Bhajaya Bhaji Janiya Samya Misha Kainu. Knowingly I ate poison. John Bush gave this kind. John Bush came this higher There. What is that? Poison. Poison of materialistic life. Materialistic life poisons our spiritual life. Of course you can say that spiritual life poisons the material life. Once you get a taste for spiritual life then you can go on with material life. But you are not so much affected anymore. Botik Jagatra Jivan Jabi Sukai Kabi John Bush Book Sa Sam Maybe the door can be hit open. Then it doesn't work unless the door is open. R.A. now the secretary. All great saints, why did King Piurata who was a great self realized devotee of the Lord remain in household life which is the root cause of the bondage of karma pruitive activities and which defeats the mission of human life. Report by Srila Prabhupada in the fourth canto Srila Sukadev Goswami explains that Narada Muni perfectly instructed King Priyavatta about the mission of human life. The mission of human life is to realize oneself and then grant you to go back home back to Ganath. Sisterada Muni instructed the king fully on his subject. Why did he again enter houseful life which is the main cause of material bondage? Maharaja Parishit was greatly astonished and King Priyarata remained in household life. Especially since he was not only a self healing soul but also a first class devotee of the Lord. A devotee actually has no traction for household life. But surprisingly people enjoy household Life very much. One may argue, why is it wrong to enjoy household life? The implies that in household life one becomes bound to by the results of virtual activities. The essence of household life is sense enjoyment, and as long as one engrosses his mind working hard for sense enjoyment, one becomes bound by the reactions of fruit to activities. This ignorance of self realization is the greatest defeat in human life. The human form of life is especially meant for getting out of the bondage of fruitive activities. But as long as one is forgetful of his life's mission and acts like an ordinary animal, eating, sleeping, waiting and fainting, he must continue his conditional life of material existence. Such a life is called Swarupa vismiti, forgetfulness of one's real constitutional position. Therefore, in Vedic civilization one is trained in the very beginning of life as a Brahmacharya. A Brahmacharya must execute austerities and refrain from sex indulgence. Therefore, if one is completely trained in the principles of Brahmacharya, he generally does not enter household life. He is then called a Nai stikhi or Naishtika which indicates total sadness. King Bishop was thus astonished that the great King Priyarata, although training the principles of Naishtika Vincarya, entered household life. The words Bhagavata Atmarama are very significant in this verse. If one is self satisfying as is, the supreme personality is called Bhagavata atmarama. There are different kinds of satisfaction. Karmis are satisfied in their fruit tube activities, genis are satisfied to merge into the effulgence of Ramani, and devotees are satisfied to engage in this Lord's service. The Lord is self satisfied because he is fully opulent, and one who is satisfied by serving him is called Bhagavata atma Rama Manushreshu. Out of many thousands of persons, one many and rather in an endeavor for liberation of many thousands of persons attempting to become liberated, one may achieve liberation from the anxieties of material existence and become self satisfied. Even that satisfaction, however, is not the ultimate satisfaction. The Gyanis and the Kaimis have desires as do the yogis, but devotees have no desires. Satisfaction in the service of the Lord is called Akama, freedom from desire and this is the ultimate satisfaction. Therefore, Maharaj Brickshad inquired, how could one who was fully satisfied on the highest platform dissatisfied with family life? The word Prabhav in this verse is also significant. When one is satisfied in family life, he is doomed because he must already have forgotten his relationship with the Lord. Maharaj describes how the activities of family life implicate one more and more Atma Patam Vihaan Lakupam Household life is like a dark well. If one calls into this world, his spiritual death is assured. Apriyavatta Maharaj remain the liberated Paramahamsa even within family life is described in the very next verse. Next verse. Devotees are certainly liberated persons therefore are greatest of the Brahmanas. They cannot possibly be absorbed. Family of theories so this is the this Canto, first chapter, first verse and second verse. So Priya Varta Maharaj was the son of Swayambhuamanu. He, as a disciple of Narana Muni, has been practicing his devotional service and become very advanced. So he was able to be totally absorbed and fish as a prince of Ramachari. His father asked him to take over the ruling of the worlds. Then he was concerned that maybe I'll get diverted from my spiritual path if I had to take up all these family affairs. So then in order to counter and then he was not quite a Although he can't refuse his father, at the same time he wanted to be sure that this was the right thing to do. So this chapter is actually the discussion where Brahmadev comes down and preaches to King Priya brother Prince Priya Bracha on how he can remain Ka conscious in the grass to live and how he can rule the world and still not be diverted from his devotion service. So this is very relevant because here most people are grihastes or probably planning to be grihast and not one already. And it's also the verses we read today highlight that grasshop life without Ka consciousness is very dangerous. I know I met one man who came to me and said, Samsara Prabhudharma household life is supreme Dharma. But they said that you cannot find these things anywhere in any shastra. Rather saying that Vihasa life is of course it's much more responsible than someone who is just like a bachelor and not taking any responsibility. At the same time, it's very much entangling any material fruitive activities. Whenever we have any happiness in material life, that means we're getting more implicated in material suffering. So ultimately it came down to a simple formula. We have to do what the Lord wants us to do. If the Lord wants us to be a grasta, be a king or be a whatever, then we do it as the Lord wants us to do it. And that sometimes people, they come, they're already rehastas, they've already been in their family entanglement they want to leave it. The mocha tenants said don't talk about that because that's also artificial. Rather transform your ideas to life through a preaching mission. He told one we have to in Andhra Pradesh at Kurmadistan this year we went to the Kurmastan. It's about two, three hours drive from Visakhapatnam. You've heard of Visakhapatnam? So do you know why to Karma this? Yeah, it's March. You have to go on national highway. It's very close to only the Zakapa. I don't think so. I may be wrong. I got the impression that we are going north Shinkworm. But anyway, anyway, whichever way, one way or the other just it's not in the way. But I think we are going to go the opposite way towards the northern side. Towards Orissa. I think so. Because otherwise we could have gone in the other way to Vijayawada. But we had to go the other way that is called Vijayana towards Orissa side from so I have slide. Actually this very ancient temple. They say that in India in the world it's only Kurma temple. Have you ever heard of another Kurma temple? This Lord Tortoise. They keep saying Lord Tortoise. So he's got round back and forelegs, head and tail. The tail was somehow. I don't know what happened to the tail. So a big tail was given by Shankaracharya Adi Shankara. He gave a big Sudarshan Chakra shoe which is put by the tail. When you see his head and his legs you can't see. But they say the legs are underneath it like so covering some clothes that cover the legs. So this dee dee they say helps to remove the Purva Janam Kalanka. Any kind of previous birth difficulties. If anybody is facing some kind of problem from their previous birth. So you can figure out why I'm facing this problem. That type of problem is destroyed by Kundalini. Personality problems and health problems, spiritual obstacles. So Lord Chaitanya, he is famous because when he went there he had cured one leper Masudeva from leprosy. So everyone knows from the time of 500 years they all know Lord Shiva. He put his lotus footprint there. The Lord Caitanya visited here and he cured a leper. So that went handed down from father to son. See also there was one Brahmana who came to him and said I got house, I got family, I got all kinds of facilities. Wife, children, money, social status, everything. But I'm not happy. So leave everything Join you and become Sannyasi. Then Lord Chaitanya said, don't I want to hear this from you ever again. All these words should come from your mouth. This is like a monkey renunciation. You don't like what you bring. You want to renounce everything. This is not renunciation. Rather, you use your family as a base for preaching. You have your social status. You have your social everything. So now you can tell everyone you meet to chant Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna. It's amazing. See Parikshit Maharaj, she's cursed to die. What's the first thing you mean? He left his family duties, left his kingly duties. He's sitting by the side of the holy river and he's asking the sages, tell me what I can do to get liberation. Because he knows this happiness that we get in our family life isn't free. It comes with a price. It comes with the price of repeated birth and death. So somebody is really interested in their liberation that they have to somehow counteract them normally. Like if you're in the Ganama, a lot of people are Gyanis. We like Ganese, so we like Karma Khanda. But Karma Khanda anyway doesn't give liberation at all. All it gives is swargavascular, heavenly. And the Gyanis, they also, they say if you want to get liberation, you had to be a Sanyasa. It's only the Bhakti Yoga. You have examples like pure Ventra Maharaj, like Brigitte Maharaj, like Dhruva Maharaj, like Yudhisthiya Maharaj, like Upper Maharaj, people who were householders, who live with their wife and family, or like Draupadi Lady Sai Kunti come to mind. And any other great rationalities because they were engaging in devotional service as a grihasta, they could overcome. The danger that household life brings is that we are too much happy. When you find someone who says, oh, I don't need spiritual life, I'm very happy. I mean, the person is in big danger. They don't realize. What it means is that you're very happy. You're very attached to material life. You're doing all kinds of karmas, but you have to again take birth again. If you can't take birth, you're going to come back. Do not wait again, Moshe. End of life. And because of the if there's bad karmas that were performed, maybe this life you had a good birth Brahmana or something. If you don't do even the good karmas like previously, people at least in household life, they did their karmas, they did their satkarma kriyas. So as a result, every time they could get another good birth. But now people are not even thinking that I got a good job in Infosys or in some company and this is because of my hard work and my good education. They don't see that this is because of their karma, that from previous life they could get the opportunity to have a good education, meditation, have the opportunity to get a good body, so that everyone can walk behind the video camera, give them a space, that it's not a common thing. There's lots of people in this world who don't have a good education, who don't have a big salary. Many of our devotees, they are struggling, working hard and don't have that same opportunity. Why did somebody get ahead and somebody didn't? No, the Karmis are not the materialistic people. They think it's just because of our hard work. But even in America you have poor people also. It's not like the American dream includes within it a lot of suffering people. Also, there's no social support. I would say the American dream is probably more relevant, more, you could say the Australian dream or the New Zealand dream or the Swedish dream, where even a poor person can get medical treatment. In America, they don't have any subsidized medicines unless you get under some special category of Medicare. And a poor person doesn't get the medical treatment they need. It doesn't exist. It's very difficult. There's no social. It's not a socialistic state. It's totally nebulistic. So a lot of people are suffering everywhere in the world. Even people have all of a need. It doesn't mean that they don't suffer. So how we get how much happiness, how much distress, how much success? It says good karmas from previous life, charity given pujas performed different kinds of sad karmas that were performed that gave a good birth, they give good education, they give a good good morning with a certain capacity to it. They get all this kind of freedom from disease. And the lack of those things are due to less karmas. So somebody is not doing any karma in this life, not doing any charity, not doing any right kind of charity. Some people do charity, which is maybe they're distributing fish to the Cambodian refugees or something. Or something. They're actually doing a bad karma because they're responsible for killing the fish. So they should do the right kind of karma. But even if they do good karma, they get a good birth. That's all doesn't mean with moksha for Gana they can study Gana and all that. But they won't get the liberation until they are free from the family life. According to Shankaracharya, if you take his point of view. So that's why actually the Bhakti yoga is so important. Everybody needs to do Bhakti Yoga giving in charity to Ka but also practicing every day our daily activities as offering to Ka. This is what I said. Some people call it too religious. When most people say too religious they think that they're going to take birth again. It's not too religious. It's actually what we need. We need to have a regular sadhana, a regular practice of devotional service. And that is somebody's that's there for the grihastas as well as the vairagis, the nagrihastas type of devotional service where we different. But that's why this Priya Rata whole chapter is very important. Because at face value like preacher just say well he's a grihasti. So from a very superficial point of view he's thinking that well he's enjoying grastis life, he's having children, he's a king, he's having money, he's all these things. So he's entangled. See but that's obviously. I mean even a great devotee like Parikshit is not fully clear about the greatness of devotional service. Because generally people are trained in karma and gyan, maybe little Yoga Bhakti is a very confidential practice. Even Parikshit Maharaj is such a great devotee. He is asking such questions. Even his parents are so great, his grandparents the Pandavas. But he has also this doubt. So this chapter reveals actually how the or to buy the practical his devotee yoga by carrying out the order of Krishna. He didn't want to be married. Actually he's resisting, he's questioning his father is not dangerous for me. Sometimes you get a situation where in a family one of the children doesn't want to get married, doesn't want to be involved. In our family where they want to do devotional service, it's quite rare. But that happens occasionally. Then the parents, they try to pressure the child. Because normally if someone doesn't want to get married, it's not good. Maybe they'll have some illicit relationship. Maybe they'll have some love marriage later. Better to find a good girl that will be able to create a good family. This is the normal logic. It was quite reasonable logic. Actually, but from the traditional point of view, and I mean, I respect that. But there are some cases where someone is really spiritually advanced and they're not inclined. This case happened with one of the very rich families in India. One of the billionaire families is the son. He wanted to become a devotee at one point. And actually the parents flipped out with his only son. The only son. He was really tough. Sometimes the youngest son or son get away with was the only son. Then their parents, you know, they did all the all plugs they pulled and they stopped the boy that no, you absolutely can't do anymore devotion also. But he was very nice devotee. And then, okay, so they succeeded to turn him away from Krishna a little bit. But then he knows. Then the other thing happened, you see that he had practiced more bhai. Usually 90% even they practice devotionals. Or they usually get married. Not 90, 99, 98, 99%. Anyway, they get married. But after some preparation in this case, the parents flipped out. They didn't let him go to the temple much. Then he sent him off somewhere. Then he got into love with some girl. The parents didn't like that girl either. They said, you can't marry them. Signing the boat to her boy and a girl, they can suicide together. And then their parents, they're devastated. What have we done? They're over trying to control every step in their life. Control, control, control. Finally they finished. Then they realized had he let him be devoted, everything would have happened a totally different way. Maybe we were wrong. He was a good boy. He was a spiritually inclined boy. We didn't let him follow what his calling was, his aspiration and the true course. Whether he'd be married or not. Like Krishna would have seen that would have done videos. But he had a calling at that time. And we block it then, okay, then we put him in warm ayah. He had not had fall down kind of every step that we could majesto. We donated many things in the main office. I don't want to mention the family. That's a very private thing. But they're very well known family. This is a family you see in the newspaper almost every day in India. It's one of the top 10 big families in India. So you face these things all the time. Sometimes somebody wants to become devotee and live in the temple. You see, they become. Then later, after some time they realize what their nature is, whether it's better for them. Because what we advise the Kali Yuga. We don't want people to become sannyasis. Sannyas is not recommended. But someone takes on training as a Brahmachari when they're unmarried isn't a bad thing. If they have inclination, then they can take that training. Then at some point in their progress they decide whether they want to remain as a Brahmachari or they want to get married. As I said, most people they offer marriage gets a bit secure. But this time now they marry a Ka Conscious girl and the girl runs also a good husband. That's Ka Conscious. They try to create a Ka Conscious family. So that's the situation that happened with Sikaramuni Vadeva Houthi. He realized that I need to go through the Grihasta experience before I can do other phases of renunciation or anything. I need to experience that. I need to go through that. So he got married to Devahuti who was the daughter of the same Samarivan. And this is the son of Saimuru Rahman. So now he wants to get that he should not lend his Sai Raman himself. But to now he's getting older. He wants now to go into Maniprashtra, to go into the more retired life. Sahin needs his son to take up the load as the king. The son he is spiritually inclined to what to do. So they can't. That is not forcing him. They convince him. That's the whole secret. You force somebody. They're not convinced. They have to convince them what's the right thing in this case they are convinced him to become a Grihasta and how he can be saved. Because now even the father, the son is not accepting what the father says. There's a clash here, father and son disagreement. Father wants you that you should become a householder. Son is saying, what about my spiritual life? Will I take leave safe? So Prabhupada Dev himself is going to come down and instruct Priya Ranta. We're getting the top authority in the universe coming. Because being a Mono is not a small thing. It's like being Indra, being Manu. Very big post. So really what's happening in Priyarunta is becoming one of the Manus. Something like that. He's taking a very major role in the universe. I don't know if he's becoming Mondo or is becoming head of the whole planet. But something very significant. Millions of people are going to be depending on his guidance and management. So whole planet. So Brahma comes down and instructs him and his instructions are really relevant for all of us. Even now as a Sannyasi we have to deal. We're not like that type of sannyasi. Karma Sannyasi is totally forbidden in this Kali yuga. Going off in the forest and just doing renunciation. Even we who are so called sannyasis, we take vow of celibacy. But apart from that, we have to deal with. We have our. Like ISKCON as a corporation, I'm really happy with the corporate directors. We had to deal with the corporate problems. We had to apply for income tax exemption and we had to turn in our annual reports. We had to see that all the branches are meeting the account procedures. If there's some disciplinary problem, we have to deal with it. We have to. So many factors that are laid planning for temples. But of course it's all direct service to ka. So that's the point is if we're doing something directly for ka, even though it might appear to be like somewhat of a mundane activity, you could be planning a factory or we're planning a temple. But that's all the same civil engineering. We're sitting and looking at blueprints and we're seeing the floor plans and the master plans and all in there. So the activity is the same. But then we're doing it for Krishna. So by doing it for Krishna, it becomes spiritualized. So how does he have to do the things for Krishna? That's the secret. You see, sometimes they do some direct things, like they're pitching and they're having a bhakti bhiksha in their house. Or they're coming to the program and listening to their classes. That's one way. Other thing is prabhupada like their words. So we're working on getting a certain income. So that income also is like kind of transferring our work into money, right? The money is the result of the work. So all the work, sum total is the money we get out of it. So a portion of that. If we're giving directly to some seva for Ka, that purifies to that extent our work. So we can never give 100%. So that if we get actually 50% of our profit of our surplus of what we don't, above what we need to just survive, then actually that's as good as the sannyasi. Normally Bihasta would give. Of course, hardly anybody give. I don't know. It's somehow a heart of catholic, what we need to. So the different ways of calculating it. Like if somebody wants to be a member of the governing body, commission. ISKCON does a great hashita. He can do it but then it says if he's working, if there's two kinds. Those who are fully dependent on iskcon, those who are partially dependent, those who are like self sufficient financially but they're working for full time, more or less for ISKCON go part time, they're doing some independent business or something. And those who are totally outside employed. So for those who are totally outside employed to be a GBC at discount the 50% they have to be spending on Krishna to show up. So 50% they're spending somehow on Krishna conscious activities of their total budget. So they can be a very exemplary Mahastas. Otherwise there's only people. We force it in Islam, we don't enforce it for other Islam. It's their voluntary what they want to do. But some formulas are given how we can be ka catches and how we can get back to God here. Of course, normally even if someone goes to the grihasta like anyway and they, the husband, wife only retire, they become like banarapastha. So then already they can sit out of the grihasta, right? But they're still living together. But as a bana prasta they take celibacy. Wow. They don't have any more relations. So till that time they reconsider grihastas. Even if some grihastas don't have relations. But they're still actively doing their businesses and managing things when they kind of retire from all that. And they're just doing preaching and they're just doing, you can say visiting holy places and that type of thing, spiritual activities. They're just guiding maybe the family business. The children are running the guide in some time. But they're not putting their hands on management. Then that's considered like a maniprostice case or in the case of still managing the business themselves. Yesterday we were at Bahrain, at Baluram Desh and there we met one Bihastan who was 74 years old. He's still managing his business, but his son is helping out. But he hasn't even helped the management of the business. He's still on the. So at 74 it's not really. It's not a manifest. Although maybe due to age some of it I don't know. So you have this kind of phases in life. Usually most people come up to many people, not most rare people might come up to Manapra. The final stage of Anaprastha is one that's quite separate from the family but still goes and visits and everything sees how things are. Then the sannyas is actually when it fully renounce the connection with the white hat. For this time, unless the wife give permission, we don't let anybody take sandhyas. It has to be something really well organized for the house. Or sometimes in one case, like Puri Maharaj, his wife died of cancer and a daughter who still said wait two, three years because you have a daughter, let her get settled. Do your family finish off all your duties as a griyastha. Then your wife is unknown. Then you can consider to take sannyas. In the beginning, the Turkmen people were taking sannyas very cheaply. And it was very unsuccessful. They'd go back to their families or they would be in the anxiety or too much of a shock. So now there's a whole system. Like if somebody is under 40, they have to wait something like 10 years to get sentenced. If they're over 40, it's a five year wedding, is over 50, there's a three year waiting list. Plus they had to get permission from their family. Plus they had to settle down all the family, the wife and so she's maintained properly or she's got everything settled, some pension and all that. They have to do their diagnosis like Rehaus. Then they can renounce. Not as long as the wife is of course the light. We raise them or something. That's how the picture. As long as the wife is dependent on the husband. So most people actually they stay as a grihasta. But they maybe need to really form their grihasta life. So that ka is nature. It takes a gradual practice. Especially if they're just starting new. How do they first start a few rounds and they start coming to the programs eventually. Then they go regular reading and learning mandhu sama bhakti pujas in my house. And maybe a little contribution for some ka conscious project or something. Then when they build their house back in India, when they build their residence, somehow it's good if they have the capacity, they have some facility where they can preach. Also have a preaching room. If it's a little separate, then it won't be a disturbance for the family. Sometimes people, they don't like to go to somebody's house for programs in India. It's like that one reason or another, some family food or something. They have a separate facility. Then they don't mind or it's a big hassle when people come in the house. They put their whole life on the household. So in some respects if people have a standalone house, it's lifestyle separate somehow to keep that now as a devotee, I had to continue on with my devotional service. Now being here in the Middle east is a special facility because Prabhupada said, if you're doing some kind of preaching in a difficult place like the Middle east, you get thousand times the benefit. It's like being almost feeling the holy Dharma. You get thousand times. If you're the Middle east, you get thousand times. So here there are vihastas who are doing the bhakti bhikshas in their home or taking some responsibility to organize the programs and everything. They're really doing a great sacrifice. To different degrees, some risks might have been involved. Now they. Even though a lot of those risks have been neutralized by the Bukha constitution and the support of the ministries and things of the ambassador. But still there's always some tension a little bit. Because if neighbors complain or anybody complain that there's always a problem. Someone has to be. It's not like, you know, I mean, even in the west of neighbor complaints, sometimes the police come, you know, but here, so there's a little tension. You want to do that thing. If you do it carefully, there's no problem. But you have to be careful. That's always in Shambhadev. Some of. I told them it would be very loud. People are gathering outside in front. And so finally I told the inspector, I ran from the house one night, you people are crazy. You don't know where you are. You guys are all following me and everything. And I said to them, you can't do all this thing. You have to be ready to speak, stay in here, say goodbye inside, don't follow me outside, don't do all this thing. And sure enough, some neighbor complained. And that's a very tight place, Sharia law and everything. And they stopped it, but they didn't export it. There was no permanent damage. But definitely the landlord came and said, no more program here. You're finished. So this attention always, you know, ignites people. And sometimes, especially at Bangladeshi devote, I don't want to complain, but they're very enthusiastic people. I love them, they're dear to me. But then one thing is that too much enthusiastic sometimes and they have to be very careful because their enthusiasm, sometimes they forget where we are. We have to adapt according to time, place and circumstance. But the upside is because of this tension, because of this slight danger that's there, somebody is doing that, they're also getting big benefit. They're getting thousand times of benefit. So it's a very. It doesn't come with all its perks. You know, you just like to work in the Middle east to get a bigger salary, but some downside, some upside. So when you're doing some preaching, a little bit of attention area. So there's a downside, there's upside down. Probably when you go back to MDM pitch, you'll find a one tough, you may get less credit, you won't get a thousand bonus. Thank you for watching our videos. Be sure to subscribe to our channel. We publish new videos every day. And don't forget to like and share our channel.
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