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KKS DAILY TEN MINUTE NECTAR

11/10/08

KKS Lecture Bhagavad Gita 12th May 1997 (PART 3)

Of course, we may not dedicateall of our time to chanting Hare

Krishna because we may haveother duties, that are assigned to

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us by our spiritual master and that

must be followed but still

amongst the associates of

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu there was

one vaishnavi who was alwayschanting and she once went to a

Bhagavatam class by a certain

speaker and even during the class

her tongue just went on

chantingHare Krishna Hare

Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare

Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare so at one point the speaker became

annoyed and he was going like

Cant you stop chanting, during

the class at least?

And she said like Actually, it is

not at all interefering with my

listening its just that my tongue

does it automatically, I cant stop

it it just chants on its own, it

cant stop it just goes on all the

time chanting and therefore my

tongue goes on chanting, what

can I do , but no mind I can carry

on listening to the Bhagavatam

very attentively , no problem

This speaker didnt appreciate it

so much and later got spiritual

difficulties because of it becauseshe was a very exalted devotee.

So it will come to this point

where one can not stop chanting,

where it automatically the tongue

keeps chanting this is the

perfection as one becomes more

and more absorbed in serving the

sankirtana movement, the taste

for chanting increases andincreases until chanting becomes

an activity which is so enlivening

that one cannot stop-so this is the

sledge hammer right, the

blacksmith hammer. It is so

powerful that anyone who comesin touch with this movement, all

his inpurities will be changed,

perfect qualities will manifest in

him and in due course of the time

all the contamination will

disappear and the true nature of

the Supreme Lord will manifest

again and a particular relationship

with the Supreme Lord willmanifest at advanced stages of

devotional service and in that way

our swarup will be returned to our

constitutional position.any

questions or comments..so

Ofcourse, theres a nine fold

process of devotional service and

we may engage in any of these

nine processes as long as they are

preceded and followed by the

chanting of the holy name, Jiva

Goswami expains, but certainly it

is important for us to deeply read

the books because within this

books we find so many

transcendental descriptions of

Krishna and they are very

enlivening and that will bring usto the transcendental platform

because the mind is compared to

the devils worshop because it is

the mind where all evil thoughts

appear and although we walk

around in holy clothes in a holy

building chanting holy names and

acting very holy that mind is not

as holy. The mind is thinking allthese devious things and of course

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we look saintly and will not speak

of these matters in too much in

public but the mind is cooking it

up all the time, devils workshop

so therefore this mind is a greatdisturbance and one must read

these books and read about

Krishna in all His aspects and in

such a way that gradually one

begins to think about these books,

not only that just reads them but

gradually that one becomes

absorbed in them and that

affermentation process begins andthat mind starts thinking about

what you have read and how does

this work and even after the

reading it still stays in the mind

and in this way gradually they

take over our thought pattern and

gradually the mind becomes

engaged in thinking of Krishna

and instead of thinkng of all kinds

of materialistic plans that lead up

to no good the mind becomes

purified so this is very important

and we have to do this otherwise

if the mind is full of impure

thoughts sooner or later we have

to act upon it, we have to act upon

it we can not because sooner or

later one has to act on it, we have

to act on it, because sooner orlater one develops some

attachmentsanskrit

one begins to dwell on things

develop some attachment for

them and gradually the mind is

pulled down to acting upon this

degraded thinking and suddenly

one may to everyones surprise

break loose in some inappropriate behaviour, in some unexpected

wild behaviour sinful behaviour

or anything like that, something

that no one had expected but

because in the mind the dwelling

was there for a long long time, soeveryone in this material world is

the same type of mind : a devils

workshop and Prabhupada said

unless we engage the mind in the

service of Krishna then there is no

way. So we must engage mind,

body and words in the service of

Krishna, the words by chanting

Hare Krishna the mind by readingthese books in particular and

making plans in service of

Krishna and our body by working

for Krishna and in that way we

will be purified and we will

gradually come to that platform

where the mind becomes less

inimical but if you are not

engaged then Sanskritmeans

women and gold, for women men

and gold right sex and gold that

is what will come up in the mind

if you dont engage it, a devils

workshop,

ok one quick question?

Devotee speaks : So mind is

telling us some crazy things and

sometimes we wander what arethese different ideas coming from

and it looks like it is a completely

different person, so can you

explain what is the nature of the

mind?

Maharaja: The mind is engaged

in thinking feeling and willing , in

the Bhagavad Gita in the 2nd

chapter vs 17 there is a

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descriptionsanskritit is

explained that the mind is just

like an ocean where a river is

coming in, and the rivers are

desires, so it is like a bigreservoir, senses are connected to

the mind and within this mind the

various impulses from the senses

are coming in,

generating so much desire and

mind has previously stored all this

previous information and can also

from the previous informationdevelop desire so thinking feeling

wiling are these functions of the

mind. And the mind is constantly

engaged in accepting and

rejecting, in weighing everything

is this good is that good is that

bad, accept this reject that so that

is the main occupation of the

mind. Now the mind is just

taking different fragrances just

like the wind that is blowing over

a paticular field, it gets a

particular fragrance due to false

ego. False ego or false

identification with matter gives us

different identities in this material

world so this false ego manifests

through the mind and will cover

the mind in a particular way andtherefore the mind has a particular

taste according to the state that

ones false ego is in. Like if one,

to stick with the sailor example, if

one in the sailor mood, ones taste

may be for heavy tobacco, beer

and whisky and you know

fightsright? And going to bars,

where as if ones false egodevelops in the mood of a poet ,

you know, all these things are

considered to be abonomible but

the same living entity may go

through all these changes. The

same living entity may be a roughsailor and in another life may

become a ballet dancer. All these

moods are coming and the false

ego in particular fragrance and

colour and the mind is then

having the standards of what is

acceptable and what is not

acceptablecont tomo