20260117 - Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.23.40-41

Earlier.

Okay, So this morning we're reading from Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 3 titled the Status Quo. Chapter 23 titled Devahuti's Lamentation Text Twin Text 40. Translation Satisfied by his wife, he enjoyed in that aerial mansion not only on Mount Meru, but in different gardens known as Vaishrambaka, Surasana, Nandana, Pushpa Badraka and Chaitra Rathya and by the Manasa Sarovara Lake.

Can you show the translation again? Tiny mandar merusanandana pushpa bhadrako.

Text 41 Brajmanena kamagena mahi Yasa Vaimanikan. Yatan nilah. Translation he traveled in that way through the various planets as the air passes uncontrolled in every direction. Coursing through the air in that great and splendid aerial mansion which could fly at his will, he surpassed even the demigods.

Actualist numbers.

By his divine grace. AC Bhaktiveda Swami. The planets occupied by the demigods are restricted to their own orbits. But Kardama Muni by his yogic power could travel all over the different directions of the universe without restriction. The living entities who are within the universe are called conditioned souls. That is, they are not free to move everywhere. We are inhabitants of this earthly globe. We cannot move freely to other planets. In the modern age, man is trying to go to other planets, but so far he has been unsuccessful. It is not possible to travel to any other planets because by the laws of nature even the demigods cannot move from one planet to another. But Kardama Muni by his yogic power could surpass the strength of the demigods and travel in space in all directions. The comparison here is very suitable. The word Yata Anilaha indicate that as the air is free to move anywhere without restriction, so Kardama Muni unrestrictedly traveled in all directions of the universe.

Jata nilah shabdati ingit karaje bayu jamuni.

Krishna krishna hare

hare.

Langay.

On my 14th day, there it is.

So now I have finished seven days of my 14 days therapy.

Until then I had to be in this kind of isolated situation.

So till then I have to be in this kind of isolated situation.

We can learn many nice things from these verses.

We can learn many nice things from these verses.

One thing is that he was a very strict

One thing is that Kardama Muni was a very strict Brahmachari.

And of course he was at the time of Swayambhav.

Of course he was at the Time of Swayambhuvamanu. And Devahuti was the princess and she was the daughter of Swayambhuba Manu Among

Devahuti Mata Chilan Rajkanna.

So she wanted to marry Karma because he was a great yogi.

She wanted to marry Kardama Muni because he was a great yogi.

Therefore his daughter to Kardamamuni. And Shayam Bhubhu Manu knew that Kardavamuni wanted to enter into the householder life.

So Karma wanted to experience what was the material happiness.

So Kardama Muni wanted to experience what was the material happiness.

All this is on legitimate course of action.

So this is a very legitimate course of action.

He was a very renounced

and after his marriage he was a very renounced Grihasta also.

And devotee also accepted different types of austerities and penances.

So then after using his he was meditating for a long time. He had obtained the mystic powers.

Since he was meditating for a long time he had obtained mystic powers.

Had his wife made of the Venezuela. Maidens, bathe her and massage massaged her.

So he had his wife bathe in the Bindu sarovara and many Gandharva maidens made her bathe and massaged her.

So Devahoti had regained her previous beauty.

So Devahuti had a great regained her previous great beauty.

So then. His wife enjoyed the material happiness in his aerial mansion.

So then Kardama Muni and his wife enjoyed material happiness in this aerial mansion. That was said to be better than the Devas.

He went to various silence and all over the universe.

So he went to various gardens all over the universe.

Eventually he produced children.

So then eventually he produced children.

His idea was rather enjoying the house alive. He would take sannyas.

His idea was after enjoying his Grihasta life he would take Sannyas,

Krishna conscious children and his special characteristics. Voysishto was that he was always Krishna conscious.

He was always in control of his atma and how he was self realized. He was Krishna conscious.

He was always in control of his atma. He was self realized. He was Krishna conscious.

Oh, I won't talk about the future. Oh, you'll hear about that later.

I won't talk about the future. You're going to hear about it later.

We're in a different situation.

We are in a different situation. We are in Kali Yuga.

Our day to day lifespan is less than even a hundred years.

70 years or so.

I don't know, maybe 70 years or so. I don't know.

Why the insurance companies.

Yeah, life insurance companies. They calculate how long people live.

So one should understand this principle of how one can become a Vaishnava or a Vaishnavi.

The is not.

Davi Varnashram is not exactly the way people think.

And say that a housewife, she cooks, but she always moved to Krishna. She does Archie, she translates Bhagavad Gita clean the household.

A lady in the house may cook an offer to Krishna, do arati, chant Japa and way and do various kinds of household activities like this.

And she chants the holy names of the Lord in kirtan. And she also distributes books. She comes to the temple and she greets the deities. She worships Srila Prabhupada then Guru Puja and she worships her own spiritual master.

So.

She is a Vaishnavi, she's not a woman.

And they just don't do their housework, try to satisfy their husband. They'll take on a house, mother birth and maybe the higher birth, man birth or something.

According to Varnashram, if a woman takes care of the house, serves her husband, then in her next life she may take a higher birth. The birth as a man or so on.

He Destroyed. In the 18th chapter Arjuna Chachria Right for me.

In the 18th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna instructed Arjuna, don't fight as a Kshatriya, fight for me. If a Kshatriya dies in the battle, he goes to heaven. If he wins, he gets a kingdom.

So he will go back.

But Arjuna, he is fighting for Krishna, so he would go back to the spiritual world.

It can be anyone. Even if a person is a farmer, a Vaishya, a person in the shudra and he is. Or if he is doing some farming, if he is doing it for Krishna, then he will go back to the spiritual world with Krishna.

Where Krishna is, we have to keep our consciousness. We are doing as Raghuru and Krishna.

We have to keep it in our consciousness that we are doing it for Guru and for Krishna.

All time.

This is something that Srila Prabhupada told us that his guru Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur was by his side all the time.

We don't have to like these only problems with the what they call it modern situation and all you are.

There may be so many problems with the modern situation in Kaliuga Adonika.

Gender equality,

gender equality, various things.

Reverse all those things.

We can't reverse all those things.

And we don't want to real estate

caste system and we don't want to re establish a caste system.

China.

We want that everybody becomes Ka Consciousness.

Dentist Amar America I have a disciple in America who is a dentist.

And she was recognized as the best dentist in her state.

And she was. She was recognized as the best dentist in her state.

The best.

The very best.

Maybe not her interest.

So the traditional Varnashrama people may say, no, she's a cook. This is not her interest.

It's hard to be Krishna. That's really what we want to do.

It's hard to be Krishna conscious. That's what we want to really want them to be.

Krishna consciousness.

Was saying how his Guru was all by his side. So last few days I've been thinking like that.

So Srila Prabhupada was saying how his guru was always by his side. So the past few days I have been thinking like that. And like.

And by this I am getting a lot of happiness, bliss. So I want all the devotees to think that I am acting for Krishna, I am working for Krishna, and I am working for Krishna's pleasure. I am working for the pleasure of the spiritual master. And if I do it like this, then my life will become successful.

I mean, we are doing it generally like this, but I'm not trying to do it mechanically without thinking.

We may be trying to do like this, but we may be doing it mechanically without thinking.

And we actually consciously alter our every action to Ka. And we're all. You're all bhakti yogis. Bhakti yogis.

So if we offer all our activities consciously to Krishna, you're all bhakti yogis and bhakti yoginis.

So, You know, can preach to everyone that whatever they are, people may have different desires, different ideas. So they should be.

We can preach this, that everyone, whatever they are, they may have different desires, different ideas, but they can all be Krishna conscious. Always think of me, become my devotee, worship me and offer your homage unto me. Thus you will come to me without fail. I promise you this because you are my very dear friend.

So not trying to promote Brahman culture, Kaja culture, we're trying to promote Christian consciousness.

We are not trying to promote Brahmin culture, Kshatriya culture, Vaishya culture. We are trying to promote Krishna consciousness.

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Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear. So Varnashram Dharma, Kshatriya Dharma, whatever Dharma Is there abandon all of them. And just surrender to Krishna.

The real diary of Varnishana.

That is the real type of varnishram.

Whatever we do, we will do it for Krishna's pleasure. We will do it for the pleasure of our spiritual master.

Brown or some particular thing. But they have a desire to work or tradition of activity. Another tithe of activity. Tithe of activity.

So Srila Prabhupada was saying that if you're born in a certain caste and if you have desire to perform a different kind of activity.

Konobactija john mohai.

In this modern world even the head of our nation, head of state, our lady like in.

In the modern world we may have a head of a nation, head of a state, a lady,

Someone is a prime minister or someone is a Chief Minister etc. I go to different hospitals and I see that the doctors there, many of them are ladies.

Some of our like ladies are chartered accountants and then make two lives a month.

Some of our ladies are chartered accountants and they make 2 lakhs a month.

So we just want them to be.

So we just want them to be Krishna conscious.

Ladies as an example.

I'm just giving ladies as an example.

And man or woman we want everyone to chant har Krishna. We are think about Krishna to their service to their activity for Krishna.

The point is that whether man or woman we want everyone to be Krishna conscious to think about Krishna to do their activities for Krishna.

He was a great Yogiyoga something like that. But he was always Krishna conscious.

Kardama Muni was a great yogi in Satya Yuga or so. But he was always Krishna conscious.

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and he became the father of Vishnu avatar. Kapila Dev among tiny.

Royal villa is situated. But I didn't. I wasn't able to hear about it.

I wanted to see the Gangar Sagar Mela where the mela is situated but. But I wasn't able to hear about.

So about a man. That's not stressed. I heard a little bit after all this ceremony. All this was kingdoms nine on Krishna.

Maybe this is not stressed enough but I was reading how Kardam Muni had always kept his mind on Krishna.

Here Srila Prabhupada gives the example of Kardama Muni and Devahuti and that he has compared it to a spiritual master and disciple. The disciple should serve the spiritual master like Devahuti has served her husband.

So Kardama Muni he wanted to experience material life.

So that his renunciation would be complete.

So that his renunciation would be complete.

So. We were seeing that some of our advanced elderly devotees are running into Maya because they haven't really experienced Magellan enjoyment.

We are seeing that some of our elderly Vaishnavas they are falling into Maya because they haven't experienced material enjoyment.

Was a real strict Naishtika Brahmachari complete celibate.

But it sounds devotee not very sure. I'm still thinking maybe I missed something. Rather. Although the Donald Rajasarya Grihashta Rana Rajdhas,

if some devotee is feeling that maybe I missed something, then it's better to follow the normal process of Brahmachari Grahasta Vanaprastha and Sannyas.

Didn't do so because he directly entered into the renounced order of life Sannyasa from his Brahmacharya life.

So he was someone being like that, sitting very facet and being a Brahmachari. Look back, thinking otherwise experience life then.

So Brahmacharis should be fixed up like that. But if you are, there should be no thinking back. But if someone is not sure and are thinking about it, then they should take up. Then they should maybe take go through the normal course of Grahasta life.

Prabhupada would say that everybody has got the right to engage in devotional service to Krishna. Therefore we should endeavor for this.

We want to see what Qualia works like to do, whether to do that for Krishna.

We would like to see what quality of work someone would like to do and they can do that for Krishna.

I had a disciple of the businessman. He said I had to go. He wanted to leave everything and Pujari.

I have a businessman. I would. I have a disciple who's a businessman. And he said that I want to leave everything and go and become a Pujari.

So that I can go back to Godhead.

So that I can go back to Godhead.

So I was telling him that if you do business and if you do it for Krishna as a Vaishya, if you do it for Krishna, you can also go back home, back to God, to Krishna's planet. Oh, woody walton. He was telling that you have a lot of projects, you have the TOVP to complete. You have so many other places where a lot of money is required.

So make some money for herself.

So he wants to make some money for Krishna.

So whatever one does, they can do that for Krishna. That's the success.

So whatever one can do, one can do that for Krishna. That is the success.

Billions of dollars. What is the use? It was Dr. Krishna, to take birth again and again in the entire world.

One may have millions of dollars, but millions, billions of. One may have billions of dollars, but what is the use if it is not used for the service of Krishna? He may have to be born again and again in the material world and take birth again and again.

To make everyone Krishna conscious.

We want to make everyone Krishna conscious.

We don't care what they're doing, but they should do it for Krishna.

We don't care what they're doing. We want the we but they should do it for Krishna Krishna.

Thank you.

Thank you. He has a program to do Vaishnava Seva. So Srila Prabhupada told me once,

okay,

there's a poster here and.

People here can put the camera and show that tech.

People here can turn the camera and show that. Can say it once in Mayapur. Srila Prabhupada told us that the devotees in the Gaudiya mat are experts at taking care of devotees and guests. But we are not yet so expert. And he said you should take care. Should take nice care of devotees and guests. Feed them nice prasadam, give them personal attention and ask them how they are doing and what they need. Srila Prabhupada told this to me personally.

Ambra,

Anyone who would like to hold in this holy care process, please not care. They can conduct.

So anyone who would like to take care in this Vaishnava seva process in the service of devotees, they can contact Panchajanya Das. He has different programs. 3 day Saver Blessings Sponsor. 3 day of full service for one devotee. Rupees 2400 weekly Seva Blessings Sponsor. 1 week of full service for one Devotee. 6,300 Rupees monthly Seva Blessings Sponsor. 1 month of full service for one devoteE. Rupees 25,000 yearly Seva Blessings Sponsor. 1 year of full service for one devoteE. 1 lakh 80,000 Rupees. Or someone can do some physical seva.

Now the GBC Asia and the festival is coming up.

Now the GBC annual meeting and the festival is coming up.

We should deal with all our people, our visitors, our guests, our leaders. Very nice way.

So we should deal with all our visitors, guests and our leaders in a very nice way.

Hare krishna.