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KKS 05/10/08KKS Lecture Transcript -Caitanya Caritamrita 4.182

30th June 2002 parT 5+BHAGAVAD GITA7.9

12TH MAY 1997 PART1

CC4.182 PART 5

The demigods they are veryintelligent, they have the mercy of

Krishna, thats how he could

know, he was not under

yogamaya, but Nanda Maharaja,

he was under the influence of

yogamaya, he could not know.

Even when he saw that, he was

thinking well, I think Varuna is

just bowing down to Krishna because He is so wonderful,

anybody would bow down toKrishna. I bow down to Krishna

too, He is so nicelike that.

Prabhupada did give this teachings

of Lord Chaitanya as a summary

so to read in one time is ok to just

understand that this is also a part

of Krishna Consciousness. There

is reading it once and there is

really getting into it and reading itall the time and all the time

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specifically the rasic sections, then

you go overboard .but the initial

books that are recommended to

read are of course the Bhagavad

Gita, Nectar of Instruction, SriIsopanisad, the first fourteen

chapters of Nectar of Devotion,

the first fourteen chapters are very

very important, they are the basic

outline of what we are doing, so

one can read that and yes it is

recommended to read Bhagavatam

and generally the Chaitanya

Caritamrita is read after one hasthoroughly studied Srimad

Bhagavatam

Devotees asks question:..Is it goodto legalize drugs?

Maharaja: You can come up withall kinds of material arrangements,

you know, but why we have

anything to do with that, its not a

question for us.. is it good to

legalize drugs or not? Thats for

the government. Our answer is

the only thing that is good in

Holland is no gambling, no meat

eating, fish or eggs, no

intoxication and no illicit sex,

thats our answer to that question.

We dont give any other answers,

we just have one. So Thanks verymuch. Srila Prabhupada Ki Jaya!

Start of next lecture below

BHAGAVAD GITA7.9

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12TH MAY 1997PART1

I am the original fragrance of

the earth, and I am the heat in fire.Iam the life of all that lives, and I

am the penances of all ascetics

Maharaja reads the purport

Invocations

In the Chaitanya Caritamrita we

find the introduction and in the

introduction in the Chaitanya

Caritamrita it is described that

Chaitanya, the word Chaitanya

means the living force and

Caritamrita actually, amrita means

the opposite of mrita or death so it

means death less or that which is

eternal and carita means the

description so it is really the

description of the living force inimmortality.

That is the meaning of these

particular words of these words, of

these words Caitanya Caritamrita.

So Srila Prabhupada then

continues to explain and says in

this world there is nothing that is

alive in its self.

Symptoms of life are symptoms of

movement and ultimately the

living being is that gives the

movement to any particular thingtherefore without the living force

there is no movement and the

original movement within the

material world is the living force

of the Supreme Lord. Therefore

the Supreme Lord He is known as

all pervading. In the Srimad

Bhagavatam it begins immediately

to establish the nature of thesupreme Lord..sanskritwhichmeans that Lord Krishna is the

origin of everything and anything

that exists.

Immediately the Srimad

Bhagavatam in the very first verse

explains the transcendental nature

of the Supreme Lord who

transforms Himself in differentenergies but He, the Original

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Person remains the same

although everything is finding its

origin in Him, its separate from

Him at the same time yet He

remains with it as all pervadingand still inspite of that He is svarat

independent He is not effected by

anything.

So in this way we see immediately

a description of the Supreme Lord

how He is the life force of

everything in the material worldand how its all His energy and He

is fully conscious of it and He is

separate from it at the same time.

So this is the entire philosophy of

Krishna Consciousness in a nut

shell. And the living entitiies are

also the energy of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead and

therefore they are also able to givelife to different forms of dead

matter, but that life is not

displaying immortality in this

world because here at least

seemingly we are subject to death.

In the spiritual world we are

eternally residing in an eternal

body and there immortality is

fully manifest of course the soul is

always immortal ,anyway, theliving entity also in this world has

its original nature but that original

nature is now covered.

The original nature of the living

entity is called swarup or the

original identity, so its very

difficult to understand what ones

original swarup maybe, because it

maybe completely different from

the nature that he has developed

according to the modes of nature

for example it might be that, wellwhat according to what we

associate with that we will

develop certain qualities just like

when you get born in Italy you

better get to love tomatoes or else

you know theres not much

chance for survival youll starve,

in the same way if you start

associating with sailors you willend up with tattoos , sooner or

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later you will have tattoos on your

arm so according to who you are

associating with you are

developing a certain nature and a

certain quality. So we might seefor an example that a sailor may

be a really tough guy but theres

absolute no guarantee that that

toughness has got anything to do

with his real nature, his real

nature, his transcendental nature

his swarup may be of a complete

different nature infact he might be

a gopi for all that matters in hiseternal swarup but in this material

world walking around, this big

heavy dude with anchors on him

and too many male hormones due

to association with the material

energy so therefore it is very

difficult to understand what that

transcendental nature iswe will

therefore also not dwell on in it

too much -what would our

transcendental nature be that

would be too difficult actually we

are simply engaging our

conditioned nature, although it is a

temporary nature ..but we engage

that in the service of the Supreme

Lord

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