Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Class (1.18.21) #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Part, but the personality of Godhead Sri Krishna Brahma ji collected the water emanating from the nails of his feet in order to award it to Lord Shiva as a worshipful welcome. This very water, the Ganga, is purifying the whole universe by his divine grace. The conception of many gods in the Vedic literature, spiritually ignorant is completely wrong. The Lord is one without a second, but he expands Himself in many ways and this is confirmed in the Vedas. Such expansions of the Lord are limitless, but some of them are the living entities. The living entities are not as powerful as the Lord's plenary expansions and therefore there are two different types of expansions. Lord Brahma is generally one of the living entities and Lord Siva is divine medium between the Lord and living entities. In other words, even devas like Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva, who are the chief amongst all devas, are never equal to or greater than Lord Vishnu, the supreme personality of Godhood. The Goddess of fortune Lakshmi and all powerful devas like Brahma and Shiva are engaged in the worship of Vishnu or Lord Krishna. Therefore, who can be more powerful than Mukunda? Lord Krishna, to be factual, actually called the supreme personality of Gandhi, the Goddess of fortune Lakshmiji. Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva are not independently powerful. They are powerful as expansions of the Supreme Lord. And all of them are engaged in the transcendent loving service of the Lord. And so also are the living entities. There are four sects of worshipful devotees of the Lord and the chief amongst them are the Brahma Sampradaya, Rudra Sampradaya and Shri Sampradaya descending directly from Lord Brahma, Lord Shiva and the Goddess of fortune Lakshmi respectively. Besides the above mentioned 3 Sampradayas 3 there is the Kumara Sampradaya descending from Sanat Kumara. All of the four original Sampradayas are still scrupulously engaged in the transcendental service of the Lord up to date. And they all declare that Lord Krishna Makhana is the supreme personality of God. Him and no other personality is equal to him are greater than Him. Surya Goswami is explaining chanting the holy names of the Lord, they are considered unlimited. Where the speak of the Lord himself, the personality of Godhead Ka Vishnu is unlimited. Nobody is equal to him. How many people in this world like to get the blessing from Lakshmi Devi? What do you think? How many of you would like to get anybody who would like to get Lakshmi's blessings for plenty of money? How many of you know somebody that once livestream is blessing. His blessing also requires not in all like the sense that everybody is eager for her blessing. But she's rendering service to the Lord even if he's not interested in that service. There's that Lakshmi Devi, she's known as Chanchala. She's always not staying in one place very long. Sometimes somebody has Lakshmi and then sometimes they don't have it. You know anybody who had some money and then lost it, Many of them, many. So that's why she's oh Chanchala. She doesn't stay in one place, but she is fixed in one place. Where is that chest of the Lord? Lotus feet of the Lord said if you have Kisha then you have Lakshmi fixed. And then sometimes people say, well, why is it though that some devotees and they're not rich, some people are worshipping Shiva or some other deva and they get rich. But sometimes the Vishnu devotees are not always rich. This also explains Ka gives us according to what we need. And some devotees, they are quite happy living in a more simple way. Sometimes the Lord may give our devotee lots of opulence. But sometimes he may keep the life simple. Sometime too much opulence is also a distraction. If you have a big house, that means you have work to clean. More headaches sometimes. So always bigger and it's not always better. It's what we need, how much we need. So but if we want fortune fixed, we should worship. What's important from this verse is we can understand that there's no difference between the different forms of Vishnu. They're all one category amongst them. They may have some internal differences but from our point of view they all will go. Ashima. Sometimes I am just coming from the and they gave me some ladoos and I was bringing here. I don't know, I don't find them. Maybe somebody took that ladoo. Sorry. Let's see if we can find them again. So there Prabhupada said actually Balaji, how have you been to Tirubati? Balaji is actually name of Krishna. He's a child form of Ka. That's why the name Bala Balaji that when the devotees go there, they're all chanting Govinda. But one of the chief executive officer there, he was saying some devotee wrote on the wall in Tirumala Hare Krishna. He said, while you are writing Hare Krishna, what if you were to go on your temple and write Govinda? Very good. He's thinking that Balaji is different than Krishna. Even our Devi's name is Radha Govinda in Guruba Some people, they might think that Guru Vaiva is different. That's pretty hard. Because he's dressed as Krishna and his Balaji. They get confused. But all the same person is the different leelas, different forms of the same person. So there are two categories. There's Jiva Tattva and then there's Vishnu Tattva. There's other Tattvas. To now discuss these two main ones. We are the Jiva Tattva, we're very small like atoms. And Vishnu Tattva, he is unlimited Anantha. So actually we can never become Vishnu. Some Ayubadis, they say that we can become God. We can all become Narayana. But none of the Vaishnava Acharyas accept this. Whether Advaita, Sistha, Dwaita, Advaita, Visudhatvaita or whether Achintya, lela, lela Tatma. All the different philosophical understandings of the Vedanta Sutra and Absolute Truth. Nobody except for the Advaita Devadis accept that we are one with the Lord. We are one indifferent or uniquely one or two great Daladis, one Guancher. But we're never absolutely one. That's why they call that those who say that we can become God. We are Mayavadis. They say that we are actually all God and we are covered by Maya. Therefore we forgot that we're God. And when you remove the Maya, then you realize that you're God. So that's called Mayava remove the. They also use the name Mayavah. They don't take it a bad name. But the funny thing is, if Maya is covering Bhagavan, then Maya must be bigger than Bhagavan. And if Maya is bigger than Bhagavan, then Maya must be God. Here it says God is one without a second, AKA Btnasthi. So there's a contradiction here and there. Philosophy. I think all of you have flown from your home country to this place, right? Sometime it may be raining or cloud covering. Then you go on a plane and you go above the clouds. Then you see there all the clouds like white carpet and the sun shining. You've probably seen that when you flew sometime. So because this cloud may be bigger than the earth, it can cover some portion of the earth. Maybe not even the whole earth, but some portion. But the cloud is not bigger than the sun. Even this earth is infinite, decimal compared to the size of the sun. How many billion cell earths can fit in the sun? Vishnu, he cannot be covered by Maya. We can be covered by Maya because we are small. We can be covered by this cloud or the sun can. So Krishna is like the sun. Krishna, Surya sama, Mayahoyangar Jaha Krishna, Taha Maya Nahi Alika. Krishna is like the sun and Maya is like the darkness. Wherever there is Ka, there is no Maya, no nations. So this idea that Ka has become colored, this is the wrong idea. We are not Krishna. We are infinitesimal parts of Ka. We are the Jiva Shakti. Krishna says Mama Ivanksa, Jiva, Lor, Gajiva, Bhutas and Agnon. The Jivas are my part and parcel eternally. Eternally means forever eternal. Never before was it different. Never will it be different in the future. We are always the Lord's part. So how the part can become the whole? This is the Confucian. So we should be very clear. We can never become God. We are already one of God's energies. And if we understand Krishna, then we can appreciate his unlimited glories. And we can get that energy and the potency or that power from him to do so many wonderful things. Just like Hanuman can lift mountains getting the blessing from our grandma. Just like there are so many. Every Jiva Shakti, every one of us is an individual. We are not aware of what's going on in other people's bodies. We know what's going on in our body. But Ka, he's aware of what's going on everybody body. That's his unlimited potency. His origin of the Paramatma. Paramatma is also his Vishnu Tattva. So you have Jiva Shakti and Vishnu Jiva Tattva and Vishnu Tattva. Then you have also another category called Shakti Tattva. Shakti Tattva is an expansion of Ka for serving Krishna. But the Shaktis are not able to fall down there. The origin of Shakti is origin of the Maya Shakti. So Maya cannot put this Shakti Katwa under illusion. Madharani, Lakshmi, these are Shakti Tattva, the Brahma mentioned here. One other unique category called Shiva Chakra. Shiva is a link between the living entities and the supreme Lord. For like we worship Panchitatva, Chaitanya, Nithyananda, Advaita, Gadhaas. Lord Chaitanya is Krishna himself. He's the original personality of God and he's the original Narayana, the original Vishnu Tattva. His immediate expansion is Balaram who has appeared as Nithinanda. The Mahavishnu incarnation is Advaita Goswami. He also didn't have the time to respond. The Daita Vishnu Tantra Dityananda who is the expansion for Chaitamya's original. Then on the other side you have Gadar Har Prabhu expansion of Radharani. He's a Shakti Tattva and Narada Muni is Kama Srivas Thakur, he's a Jiva Tattva. So all of Ista Tattvas are the same person but in different Leelas, different forms. When Arashinadeva appeared out of the pillar and half man have a human form the Lakshmi knew this is my husband. But she was also a bit frightened because she never saw her husband so angry. Babalji has a pastime. He comes as Shrinivas and as Shrinivas he was staying away from Vaikuntha for some time. Say maybe there was some disagreement with Vajmi. Don't remember all the background but somehow he was there. He took shelter. He took his place in the Thiru Mala hills in Tirupati. There he met one Kumari called Padmavati and he asked for her a hand in merits. He didn't have enough money for the doctor. He borrowed some money from Kuwair and others. And that's why all the people are still paying back the debt for the Lord. So then Lakshmi came and said what are you doing marrying somebody else. She was also angry. But then later was explained that actually this is Parmalati is the Chaya Sita. You know about Chayasita that when Ram was having his pastimes then a Sita was abducted by Ravana. So Ravana is a Rakshasa. How he can touch life and Goddess of fortune who is shut in that blood. So when Ravana came then that time the real Sita was taken by Armidev in kept and one double Sita or shadow Sita she was put in a place just like they're saying that Saddam Hussein has many doubles. They don't know whether that film was him or some double. Someone who looked like him on the television was on an ambulance of five directors. So or some movie star may have some double to do the stunts. Because they don't want to risk some very expensive movie star. Just like recently we saw one some star got run over by a jeep or something. So this is dangerous. Some of these stunts, not all the actors do the stunts so they have a double. So Lashmi also for being kidnapped by Rava she has one double. You can call it like that or Chaya Sita. She gets tortured by the females and she sent me Asoka go for The Leela. Then when they do the Agni Pariksha, when Sita is freed that time Army Bey takes back the child Sita and gives Tahril Sita. The Shakti Tatta has only one purpose, to serve the Lord. They don't have any other purpose. So apparently he with Sachaya Sita got a blessing from Lakshmi and Narayan. And sometimes in Kali Yuga she can marry the Lord and serve him. So this Padma Bhati is supposed to be the Chayasita. That's why she could not marry the Lord. So she's does these kind of services. Not too much is spoken this suspension as Lord Chaitanya there was one devotee, he was feeling very bad. How is it that Sita could be grabbed by this demon Rama? He couldn't tolerate that. And then there was a big doubt about that. And Lord Chaitanya found this verse where it said actually it was a Chayat's also in Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Leela. Since he also coming in Kali Yoga he also married a child Sita. That's Lakshmi Priya. So sometimes they work together. Then when he was preaching in East Bengal then she was bit by a snake and she left. Then he married again to Vishnu Priya. She is the real Sita. Sometimes we worship Lord Caitanya with six arms. Four Krishna's arms, four Ram's arms and the golden arms. It is saying that so all the Leelas are connected. So Mayapur at the birthplace of Lord Chaitanya. There's a deity there. Lord Chaitanya with Lakshmi Priya and Vishnu Priya, Chaya Sita and me real Sita. So I was thinking whether we should also have Balanchi with Padmavati and Lashmi. No deity uneven Parmavati and Shrinivas together in Tirumala. I'm taking this and tell you what you think might be interesting also maybe we have Raghavinda already. So Radha and Krishna, they come down and they perform this pastime. Or sometimes some expansion of our Ravi comes. So being the supreme Lord is something very special. Not anybody can be supreme Lord. Supreme Lord is always the Lord. We should never think that I can become God. We should think think I can become servant of Lord. We're always the eternal servant of the Lord. That's our special part. We're the part of the Lord. So if you understand these different categories of personalities in the spiritual situation. And you can see how everything fits in. Sometimes people say you feed the Dirudya Narayana. Many times it's popular to say Feeding the poor is the Dirid Narayana Seva Vishwa Prabhupada. He didn't like this term. How Nirayana can become Diridrayan is Lakshmi Pati. So how is it you made the Lakshmi Patri rich or poor? How the master or the Goddess of Fortune can become poor? Because in Maya Bhadi is saying everyone's Narayana. So these are the poor Narayanas and others the rich Narayana. But everyone is not Narayana. And everyone. Everyone is the servant of Narayana. Everyone is the part of Narayana. Because of these misconceptions, people they don't develop the proper attitude to Ka. And if they don't have the proper understanding attitude then that devotion to Astra to them. How we can have devotion if we think that I am that person? I'm worshipping God because I am Lord. I met one Shankaracharya in India at Jagannath Puri many years ago in 1971, something like that. So we had some discussion and I asked. He had a beautiful Panchaloha, Ranha, Krishna deities. So then I said that you are worshipping Ramayan Krishna. So you are a devotee. But then he said no, you see, I worship Radha and Krishna. I am worshipping myself. I am Radha and Krishna. I was surprised. How? Not so much surprised. Because this was what Shankaracharyas propagate that they are God. But I said Radha and Krishna are very beautiful. They need a Yogana. They are always young and fresh and sin. But you are an old gentleman. So how you can say you are Raja and Krishna? This obvious difference. He said this is my Leela. This is my pastime. I said that pastime everyone is doing. I see here in a group few elderly people also. So you're also doing that Leela. Growing old Leela. Lord Chaitanya advises us not to listen to the impersonalists. Do they say so many offensive things? They can justify whatever they say. They can just speculate something. How the person can say I'm rather than Krishna. So they can say so when you hear things like that, you know Vishnu is very offensive. God is one without a second. Not anybody can become that. Nine brothers like that. So much confusion has come in the gap of religion in Astronatan Dharma. Many people are bewildered actually what is their relationship? Who is Krishna? Who is the supreme Lord? One of our life members from Bangalore. He's Swami by title. He's a Grihastal that is entitled Swami. So he became a life member and got a set of Prabhupada's books But he put them on his bookshelf he didn't read them one name after three years of being light member he saw Bhagavad Gita he took it out and said what is this book? And he started to read it. Then he realized this is very clear. Krishna is supreme personality. Everything is coming to me. Eternal blissful knowledge. So so many verses are there. Shiva Purana also says Ka supreme. All the Vedas is saying that. Not that we are saying it because we're Hare Krishna when we say no, we're saying it because Scott Scripture says it I try to sleep Allwash South India Tamil Nadu they declared it Madhwacharya declared it Even Shankaracharya himself the wisdom of Sangadi Shankar he says Narayana Parodakt Narayana is transcendental to the hinter in personal the other two he also glorified Sri Bhagavad Gita but so many other things he said when he was preaching as he was given a sign which Shiva was told by Vishnu you spread covered Buddhism to bring the people back to the veils. So when all the people were converted to Buddhist he brought them back by preaching Mayavad so it was easy to bring them from Buddhism to Mayavad to directly bring them back to the personality of God who did too big a jungle. But now we need to bring the people back from Mayavad to the Vaishyava understanding Elm. That's what Chaitanya Mahabhar's movement is meant for. Everyone needs to become very expert how to defeat the Mayavadis how to convince someone who is ruled by Mayavas and come to the person who I got someone like very much conditioned them. Don't waste too much time on it but at least you know that defend yourself and know how to explain the things to an open person. It's actually very simple concept, very simple question how weak God can be covered by illusion. An illusion that must be bigger than God. So why has God? Why is God? The philosophy doesn't make any sense if you really think about it. Those who understood that philosophy they have to short circuit a few of their wires in order to come to that conclusion. So it's very. Sometimes you try to talk with them and they don't understand because they rewired their logsik but if you get them to chant Hare Ka and serve Ka then eventually they can understand. Most people believe in this impersonal reality in Bhagavatam it explains here the word is Bhagavan Paramatva and the Brahman. These three forms and of the three, Bhagavan is the complete form. Anyway all the forms are Bhagavani, the Vishnu, Tattva. It's all the same personality but in different form and different moods. Braha, Matsya, Kurma, Narasimha, Ramachandra. The origin of all the avatars is Kaayam, Krishnasu, Bhagavan, Swayam. But very importantly understand this is what's called as Sambandha. What is our relationship? So there's three levels, Sambandha, Avideya and Prayojan. Sambandha is our relationship with the absolute truth. Avideya is how we act in that relationship. Just like you can say if there's a husband, say there's a wife. She said yes, my duty is to serve the family. But she doesn't cook, she doesn't clean, she doesn't do anything. She just sits there and said I'm here to serve. I'm here to serve. Like a broken brain recording what is the use of that? You want wounded? Or if the husband says I'm here to care for the family, he doesn't work, he doesn't bring any money home. He just said yeah, I'm going to do it one day. So Abhideya means putting that concept into the practice. We understand we're the servant of the Lord and how we do the service, that's abhide. But first we should be clear what is my relationship with Ka? How do I feel? Entirely in this material world if somebody is working at hijab, he knows who's the boss, who's all the different hierarchy, the different bosses, the different supervisors and all the people he has to deal with. If he doesn't know who's who in his workplace then he may get into some false Buddhist. There was one employee and he started to argue with the top boss. Very soon he was not an employee anymore. His visa was cancelled and he was begged. So just in our ordinary life we have to know who's who if you're in the politics. And they have to know who's the MLA and the MP and who's the party boss and who's the general, the power brokers and the palette and all the whole structure is. So in a spiritual life we need to know who's who. So we know that Krishna is supreme personality of God and he has his expansions like Balaram, Maha Vishnu, Paramatma. Ananta Sesha is also expansion of Vishnu. Sesha means alas, he is the last expansion. So the difference between the powerhouse and the electricity, we are all expansion from Shakti. Lord is Shakti Ma the source of the energy. Some of our devotees here working in electric power ministry, they're providing the Shakti. See, all this electricity is coming. You can say that is the powerhouse. Is it correct? Somebody, the light is coming must be the powerhouse. From the powerhouse electricity comes and it's making the light go. But it's not the powerhouse. Electricity is running through the wires there. But it's not the same as the powerhouse. From the powerhouse so many millions of lights are going on. So Krishna Shakti Mahara, he is the powerhouse and he has got varieties or energies. Satra Satrapano Shadow explained this. There are so many kinds of energies. Some are for doing work, some are for giving strength. Different kinds of shaktis the Lord has from Samhita. Durga has described that she is like the shadow of Yeshua. That just like the shadow moves with the hand, she moves with the will of Vishnu. The Lord wants to create, she creates. He wants to destroy, she destroys, she executes. But he decides what should be done. Some people here, they want to have an executive post. They all sit and they make the decision, okay, do it. But then there are some people who are doing the implementation. Maybe some of you are in executive position. And some of you are in the execution of positions here. So like Krishna is supreme executive, right? He has many assisting executives. The Shaktis are the one who do the implement. Amongst the Shaktis she has also many assistants. But through her all that things are happening in the material world and in the spiritual world. There's Yoga, Maya, this word Sunday and Brahmasi. Just like the shadow is moving with the hand. Durgas moving according to the will of the Lord. So she is another type of Shaktita. This is Bahiranga Shakti, internal and external. So Lord Chaitanya and the Chaitanya Charamidra. He discusses these different asterisks. It's also written in the Chaitanya and the teachings of Lord Chaitanya. Here and there there's things I discuss. So we need to know the relationship of everybody. Once you know the relationship, then you should act accordingly. So Guru is a kind of representative of the Lord. He is an external manifestation. But he is not God. But he is the intimate servitor of the Lord. Because he is serving the Lord very confidentially. Therefore he is given respect like we respect the Lord. He may offer him Irati or bath his feet or do some other types of seva for Guru. Through observing the Guru then Ka also accepts. When the Guru is not God but he is a kind of. He is a very dear confidential servant of the Lord. Therefore the Lord accepts service offered to the Guru. That's his kindness. So if we are very clear, sometimes you have a misunderstanding who's who in the spiritual light then you start making offenses. Here this verse Sutra Goswami is saying who can be worthy of the name of the supreme Lord. But the personality of Gandhi is Shri Krishi. Very clear point here. Who is worthy, who else is worthy? Nobody else is worthy as much as Krishna is worthy. There are so many things. All the devas are the same. Thank God there's some people they propagate J. Kali say Krishna. Kali and Krishna same thing. Now Kali, Kali sat in Akrishna Shaktima. There are some common features. Some oneness is there. But there's also different. Kali is not completely the same as Krishna. Some things are because she's also coming from Krishna. This type of propagation is. Or they are saying that all the devas are these things. I was saying how this Mr. Swami in Bengaluru, he read the book then he realized Krishna is supreme. Vaya. Got it? He came and told me. You see Sahai Bhutnakar Swami, I want to tell you something. I'm a Brahmana by birth and I know all the prayers. I know Sri Sukta, I know Devi Sukta, I know Sahsa. I know that Vishnu Sustranham. I know that so many. What do you call it? Purusha Sukta. You know all the prayers. I go. But I never knew one thing. I never know who is really Bhagavad. So in my Puja room I put all the pictures. So that way I won't dish out on anybody. One of them is Bhagawan. So there will be Shiva Durga, there will be Kali, there will be Ganesh, there will be Morgan. There will be other different Vishnu Ram, there will be Krishna, there will be Maharishi, there will be Narayana. But actually who's who, how they work with each other, what's the actual structure? Even though he knows all the by heart, he knows all the Suktas. So this thing nobody could explain. When I read Prabhupada's book Bhagavad Gita as it is then I could understand for the first time in my life. And I'm now over 50 so I now understand who is actually supreme personality God. This is the problem that we're facing today. For many people that don't Have a clear idea who Krishna is. So Sudha Goswami is very clear. No one is qualified to receive the title Bhagawan Supreme Personality. Down here, more than fish, this is authoritative. So one of the things that devotees need to do is understand how everything is related to each other. This cover of the Srimad Bhagavatam is really fantastic. This is what Prabhupada designed this before he went to America. But it really gives a simple graphical presentation. The whole picture. What is the existence? This is the unlimited Paradhyom, Brahma, Jyoti everywhere amongst that Parabdyom these are the different Vaikuntha planets. This big planet here in the shape of a lotus is Galob, Vrindavan, Dalan. There's Ganakrishna and the cow, her boys and Lord Chaitanya is all here. One side is everything there. This little area here is either sobbing the hope little area here with a big Vishnu floating. This is the material world. Material world is very small part of the total picture. The prison house. How much space does prison house take in? Probably inside it is pretty big, right? Whoever lives, that's what their world is. But who's outside the prison house? You might not even know where it is. Unless you unfortunately have to find out. So we are here in this prison house. This is actually rehabilitation center. So one of these universes here is blown up. It's too hard for you all to see, but there's a big bubble here that shows like Arbo, Dakshaya, Vishnu. And from his navel there's a little tiny hair Brahmadi. And he's creating everything. And here's Lakshmi rubbing the feet out of the garlic in this cover. You take the time, you can read it. I think there's explanation here in the. In this part here. It explains here what's what gives a nice explanation. What is this existence according to the Vedas? Prabhupada tried to make it very easy for us to understand. Other artists can further develop on the theme. But it's a really nice concept. Can we understand Master? He's the supreme Lord and I am his servant. Once he said why? Until somebody understands that they become peaceful people want peace in the world. And everybody understood there one supreme Lord who's well wished of everyone, a friend of everyone. One person taking everyone's puja, worship, prayers, no one's cards and so on and so forth. One supreme Lord. He has different forms, but he's one. So in this verse they speak about Brahma is the vista is not Mistotata normally is that Jiva tattoo. Shiva is in between. Then you have all these other personalities. Indra, Varuna, Mayurdev and so on. They're all Jiva tattvas position. If you want, you can also become one of them. You can become a deva. I told that story. I told them last time. One time here before I was meeting any new people about the glories of the 18th chapter Bahavir. Once Indra was seated in his capital city. And that time the capital was called on the side of the mount Mehru Amaravati. That means deathless place, right? Nobody dies. Russia is not 10% accurate but they live a long time. So there he was seated on his throne in all the devas offering him respect, singing his voice. They're having Indra puja, Indra glories. Someone's reciting how Indra Nehru performed a hundred Aswamedi yajnas. You're such a aswamedi. You're charitable, you're kind, you're wonderful. It's part of our culture to praise people. It reminds them of all the good things they're supposed to do. Which is what they've already been doing. Then all of a sudden in this royal court, there's so many people there. So many Apsaras and Rishis and Devas higher planet. Then there's two Vishnu gutas appeared on the scene with one Brahmana from our planet. So Indra, he got off his throne till we seek as Vishnu dhoot. You've heard of rashtra dhoot? Right next to our here we have the Indian Rashtra dhoot. So this dhoot means what? Messenger. Ambassador. Messenger. So Vishnu dud are the messengers of Vishnu. So since they are coming, he knows Vishnu is my boss. He is supreme lord. So immediately Indra Godam to receive the messenger. We don't know why they have come but they are coming from the supreme. So we shall offer them respect. Probably during the time of the imperial British empire when the viceroys or when some ambassador came from the emperor of England to the different subordinate kings, they probably also received them with a lot of respect. Although protocol they are lower but they are representing. So they have to give some respect. So anyway those days are gone. So then Indra got off his throne. And then these Vishnu duttras came. But they walked right up to Indra, walked right by him, took that brahmana and put him on the throne of Indra. And he became transformed and became Indra. Indra Deva. Jai Indra Dev. So then Indra actually now he realized I just got laid off. You know, he was Indra. Now he now no Indra there. Now everybody is glorifying him. Like they say, long live the king. The king is dead. Long live the king. No king. Well, he's not dead, but he's no longer in the throne of Idaho. And he asks you people what to do if the supreme lord, you know, someone might be here. The head of the operations in this country and maybe a branch office from some other country. Then from the head office they send from top executive Dom and they come and they say hello, thank you very much by the way. Now this is the new branch manager for this country. And what you can do, Go to labor court. But anyway, there was no universal labor coordinator. Indra. Indra, I can't fight with Vishnu. So but he thought why I lost my job. I did so much pious activity. And this person, I don't see it in anything. So then he went and prayed to Vishnu. I said that I was my service. I was serving you as an Indra. So Vishnu, you cannot directly go and talk to Vishnu but you can communicate with him at the side of the ocean of milk. Since he was a deva, he could go there and he could communicate. So Vishnu said, why, what is your said? I've been serving you as the Indra and I'm trying to run the universe for your service. But now there's someone else has taken my place and I lost my service. So I just wondered why I lost my service because I did so much at Tapasya. I climbed the Himalaya mountains. I planted trees in the roadside and I dot wells for the thirsty people. And I did, you know, puja for Meenakshi Navy and for Lord Shiva. I did so many things. I bathed in the ocean. So for this person, I didn't do any of these things. So why he has my position and why I'm honored by my service. So then Vishnu said, actually whatever you did is something really, you know, super. Any like a dry fruit on a plant. Nothing very big and juicy or anything very special, very minimal. Somehow you did these things and you got the position. But actually this Brahmana, he got the position because he pleased me very much. So then that ex Indra, he asked what did he do that he pleased you so much? The Mishna said every day he would chant 5 verses from Bhagavad Gita. 18th chapter. So then the ex Hinda is thinking how I lost everything. I am climbing himalayas and planting trees and doing asumedas and so many. And reading five verses from Gita every day. And Lord is pleased with him and me he is not pleased. We may have an idea. This is very important thing we should do. But while it's pleasing to Krishna, that's what's important. The Krishna may be much more pleased if you read Bhagavad Gita every day than if you plant a tree. When you plant million trees, there's also Punya Karma. But reading Gita is more than Punya. That's directly serving Ka. So it's a different category. So then that Ex Indra, he thought, okay, if the Lord is pleased with Bhagavad Git 18th chapter, then I want to do that. So he took human form and came on this planet. And he found out a guru. You see, for our spiritual life we want to do something right? Then we should have a guru. Otherwise maybe we'll make mistakes and we'll do the wrong thing and we'll waste our time. You don't want to do trial and error for spiritual life. The science is all trial and error. Now they have trying and error SARS disease. They don't know. One doctor was trying and he got sick while experimenting and he died. So trial and error means it's risky. No, but that's our empirical way. We'll do. We'll come up with a theory. We'll try it like this. They'll have to try thousand of times before they find what is the thing that cures it. So we don't want to risk like that with our spiritual life. That we'll try and try guessing and we may never get the right. So that's why we have Guru Parampara. We have a system that's given. So we go to someone who knows what is the system, who has learned it from his guru. We learn from him. And this way we are assured we'll be successful. Tomorrow morning at 6 in the morning, some devotees are taking initiation. Isn't it keeping up this Guru Parambara system? So we follow this system here also the Ex Indra, he wanted to find a guru who can probably teach him the 18th chapter Bhagavad Gita. So he'll know it right from the beginning, not waste any time. So he found one Ka temple. He took shelter of some guru and he learned the 18th chapter Bhagavad Gita in the proper way. Then every day wi fi verse, he chant the whole chapter. If Lord is pleased with 18th chapter every day 18th chapter, he will chant it. There is Nothing else to do but please the Lord. So after chanting like this for some time then these two Vishnu dutnas came back to Exhindra. They said, Lord has sent us. He is pleased with you. So now what do you want? You can have what you want. Do you want to be Indra Again they ask you how many of you will take it? Take back Indrashiv. Tempting, right? That's why his whole complaint he lost his Indrashiva. Now you should do that's the offering. Take it back if you want. But then he said no, I was there. I already did that. Now I realized that more important than being in Christ to please the Lord if I can directly personally serve the Lord in the spiritual world for me that's more important. Anyway, Indra, every day of Brahma There are 14 Indras. They may think Amaravati but every they have about thousand Yugas. So ,thousand yugas is 14 indras. That's about 74 yuga cycles. One indra is there quite a long time. But there's a limit. And again new Indra. But if you are serving Krishna as virtual world is eternal. No beginning going eternally. So that's his prayer. He wanted to serve the Lord. So then he was taken back to the spiritual world where he got his eternal spiritual form. So this how pleasing the Lord is really the most important thing. We can do things that please the Lord. We have to learn from that Guru. We have to learn from the scripture. What are the things that please the Lord more? Those things directly connected with him are more pleasing to Him. Serving his devotees, serving the Guru, serving Radharani, serving the holy ground. Right? Parvati asked Siva, there are so many kinds of Puja. Which Puja is the best? Then he said, my dear Goddess, amongst all the kinds of worship, the Vishnu worship is supreme best. Except for one thing. Worshipping those persons or objects connected with the Lord is even more. Thank you. If you please Krishna's devotee. Krishna is more pleased than when you serve him. Anyway, Indra, God is blessing. We serve Bhagavad. Bhagavad is a glorious two kind. A present Bhagavad and a book Bywood. This is a book by one. You can also serve the first environment. And this way your life becomes success. I will stop here if we're going to have six o' clock initiations. And I should go any further any of this one or two question. What about Goddess? He's saying that Lakshmi, Shakti, Tatva. What about Marvati and Saraswat? So there's lashmi in the spiritual world who's a shakti? Spiritual shakti Tattva. There's some kind of expansion in the material worlds. Goddess of shiva and parvati for material purpose. So this is some kind of partial expansion. But there also within that shakti, the greatest kind of shakti there's a spiritual shakti. And material poverty is also shakti. But she's a vahiranga shakti. She's the external energy and lakshmi is the internal energy. Internal energies are those that are directly serving the lord. They have nothing to do with the material nature. Parvati's role is to keep the souls conditioned. Those who are rebellious from the lord. She keeps them forgetful of the lord and she keeps them abound in the material world. The only way we can get free from the material world is when we we give up our rebellious attitude to the lord and we develop our serving attitude. That's why bhakti is so powerful. It deals with the root cause. Just like now. They don't know exactly what's the root cause of the sars disease which is in the newspapers every day. They think they found it this one kind of coronavirus like a cold that's mutated. They think but they're still. But they don't know much about it. They don't know what can kill that bacillus or that virus, whatever. So if we know the root cause of the then you could stop it automatically. If you don't know then you're dealing with all the symptoms. Symptomatic attention which is not a sure fire cure. It's just relieving some of the symptoms. So this is normally what people are doing in material world. They're relieving some of the symptoms of their problem. But they don't go to the are root problem. You have a headache, you take an aspirin. So you get some temporary weep. But why you have a headache? Because you have an infected tooth. So even you take aspirin when aspirin effect or some painkiller. If the tooth infection is incurred that problem will remain. Risk giving some funny example. So you find what is the root of the problem. So the root of our problem, why we are here in the material world is because we are not surrendered to ka. If we surrender to ka, if we develop that attitude then we are no longer have to be here in this material world. Then everything will let us go, will be freed out by the vishnu ruth. But until then her job is to keep everybody bound up in so many ways. Society, friendship, love, Fame, infinite hate, vengeance. So many different ways of being attached to this material world by Ka consciousness. We get free from all those illusory concepts of life and we develop our natural devotion for the Lord. So Parvati is doing a very confidential service for the Lord. It's a thankless cat. That's why she is also known as Vaishnavi. Narayana is energy of the world. Other question. Yes sir. Bhagavad Gita. When we read in the beginning we say Advaita Amra Varshidi. Since Advaitam is not that proper, then why this term comes? Advaita Amrata Varshini. We have reading from the anyone has the Gita or some sister. In the beginning we speak. We also. It's not a bad word. D means dual and Advaita means non. D. So we also. We're saying we're simultaneously one and different from the Lord. Different and non different. But when we say that we are absolutely one with the Lord as we call Advaita Bharat, that doesn't mean every application of the word Advaita will be bad. What I'm saying even Advaita Vaat is bad. It's just that it's not a complete concept. They're also transcendentalists. But they are only understanding the Nirakar. They don't understand the Sakaar form of the Lord. But our great will be used thousand times in the Shastra in different applications. We want to become one with the Lord. But we don't want to merge with the Lord. We want to become one in spirit, one in consciousness, one in harmony. We want to do the things that the Lord wants us to do. In that sense, we want to be one. It's not that we want to become integrated inside the Lord and lose our individual concept Bud Vaishnavas don't want that. Hanuman was offered merge with me. He said, I am your servant, you are my master. This is the relationship I want. I don't want anything to make me forget that relationship. This is the mood of the Bhaktas. Their oneness is because of love, not because of a desire to become the Lord. They always want to be the servant or the Lord. Thank you very much. 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.