Our devotional life can be finished, means may be baffled . . . those who are in devotional life, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is fortunate. This fortune can be ruined by six things. Be careful. What is that? Atyāhāra. Atyāhāra means eating more than necessity or collecting more than necessity. Āhāran. Āhāran means collecting. We require to collect some money, but we should not collect more than necessity. That we shouldn't.
Because if I get more money, then immediately māyā will pa . . . "Why don't you spend for me?" Yes. So don't collect more than . . . what you require, you collect. Or similarly, āhāra means eating. Don't eat more than necessity. Actually, we have to come to the point of nil eating, sleeping, mating and defending. And that is not possible, because we have got this body. But minimum.
So atyāhāraḥ prayāsaḥ, and too much unnecessary spoiling energy. We should not take great risk so that we have to work for it very seriously. We must accept something which can be easily done. Atyāhāraḥ prayāsaḥ, prajalpa. And prajalpa means talking nonsense. As soon as . . . this is the nature of the living entity in conditioned state. Just like as soon as the crows, they gather together, craw-craw-craw-craw-craw-craw . . . (laughter)
The frogs . . . any living entity, as soon as they will gather, they will talk all nonsense. Don't do that. We have got great assembly, we have got facility for mixing, but if you take advantage of this assembly and talk all nonsense—what is politics, what is this, what is that . . . prajalpa. That is called prajalpa.
So atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ. Niyamāgraha means not accepting the rules and regulation. Another meaning of niyamāgraha means simply blindly following the rules and regulation, but he does not know for what he is doing that. Gaḍurikā-pravāha. It is called gaḍurikā-pravāha. Everyone is doing this, but he does not understand why he is doing it. There are many stories of this gaḍurikā-pravāha. Sometimes I will tell you. So niyamāgraha.
So one, atyāhāra; two, prayāsa; three, prajalpa; and four, niyamāgraha; and fifth, laulyam, greediness; and sixth, jana-saṅgaḥ. Jana-saṅgaḥ means to associate with ordinary men, those who have no sense of Kṛṣṇa consciousness—so-called karmīs, jñānīs, yogīs. They do not understand Kṛṣṇa. Or scientist, philosopher. We should not associate with them. Because we know . . . harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ.
Anyone who does not understand what is Kṛṣṇa and what is Kṛṣṇa's service, he may be very big man in the ordinary estimation, but we don't give him any value. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ (SB 5.18.12). Because they are mental speculators. They have no value. They have their value in their own way, but according to our line of thought, they have no value.
So prajalpa . . . in this way, prajalpa, there is tendency of talking. You talk of Kṛṣṇa. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Just like we assembled together, few friends, (baby cries) we want to vibrate something. Just like the child is also vibrating. That is nature. A bird will vibrate, a beast will vibrate. So we have to vibrate the transcendental sound.
Then we shall be saved from the plundering business of the sun. This is the secret. Always talk of Kṛṣṇa, and you must know that you are saving yourself; you are not dying yourself. Because talking of Kṛṣṇa means you will understand about Kṛṣṇa. And Kṛṣṇa says: "Anyone who understands Me rightly, then after giving up this body, he comes to Me." And as soon as you go to Him, back to home, back to Godhead, your life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. That is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1).
So why should we lose this opportunity? It is most rascal, rascal person, they give up this. They do not take advantage of this, advantage of kṛṣṇa-kathā. Therefore śāstra says, smartavyaḥ satataṁ viṣṇur vismartavyo na jātucit (Bṛhat-sahasra-nāma-stotra). We shall have to remember Viṣṇu always. Everywhere, always.
- tasmād bhārata sarvātmā
- bhagavān hariḥ īśvaro
- smartavyam . . . śrotavyam kīrtitavyaś ca
- smartavyam ca nityasa
- (SB 2.1.5)
This is the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We have to hear about Kṛṣṇa, we have to chant about Kṛṣṇa, we have to memorize about Kṛṣṇa, we have to worship Kṛṣṇa. This is our movement. We are worshiping Kṛṣṇa in the temple, we are thinking of Him, we are talking about Him and we are hearing about Him. So if we live in this way . . . it does not require any monetary exchange or any high education. Everyone can hear about Kṛṣṇa.
Anyone . . . after hearing, everyone can talk about Kṛṣṇa. And while hearing and talking, he can remember about Kṛṣṇa. And everyone can worship in the temple. Where is the difficulty? By prosecuting these four principles of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you become immortal. No austerity. No austerity, no penance, no education, no riches. Simply by following these four principles, you become immortal.
So this verse is very important. Āyur harati vai puṁsām udyann astaṁ ca yann asau tasyarte yat-kṣaṇo nīta. Tasya ṛte, one who is passing time in this way, simply with kṛṣṇa-kathā, chanting also . . . if you have no time . . . if you have now spare time, don't sit idly. If there is no facility for reading books or talking about Kṛṣṇa, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare.
If you have got . . . next moment, you can interchange, read something. Always be busy with Kṛṣṇa. Then sun will not be able to kill you. You are going to live forever. This is the process.