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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Where is the opportunity of understanding the self? The whole night is engaged either in sleeping or in sex life, and the whole day is engaged where to get money and where to purchase things. That's all. Day and night. But I have got this human form of life, so important. I have to know myself, but I do not get my time. They do not get time. If this meeting would have been a political leader's meeting, giving all kinds of false hope, millions or billions of people would have come. But because it is a meeting for understanding ātma-tattva, or self-realization, nobody will be interested. This is our position.
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[[Vanisource:710913 - Lecture SB 02.01.02 - Mombasa|710913 - Lecture SB 02.01.02 - Mombasa]]
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Life is not finished by this body. It is a chance. It is a chance only. Just like you are going somewhere and you . . . on the way you find so many stations, some of them not very good and some of them very nice. Similarly, this human form of life is a station of our journey. We have begun our journey since we separated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead to become happy without God's connection. Therefore our journey has begun, we do not know when it has begun, but it is going on through different species of life. Dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]). Dehāntara means one body after, one body after, one body after it is going.

So here in this human form of body is a chance. Lower than this human form of life you cannot understand self, ātma-tattva. It is not possible. But you can understand in this human form of life what is ātma-tattva. If you miss this chance, if you do not work to understand what is ātma-tattva, what is self, what is Superself, what is the spiritual world, how things are going—so many things you have to know—if you don't know, if you don't try to know, then you are missing the point. And missing the point, we are busy.

So how we are busy? That is described in the next verse. How? Nidrayā hriyate naktam. We are spoiling our life by sleeping. Nidrayā hryate naktaṁ vyavāyena ca vā vayaḥ, or by sex. At night we have got two business: one who has no facility for sex, he takes some pill and sleeps very soundly. That is . . . or one who has got sex facility, he enjoys. So that is stated here. Nidrayā hryate naktaṁ vyavāyena ca vā vayaḥ. Then at daytime, what is the business at day?

Diva cārthehayā rājan. And during daytime, there is business, "Where is money? Where is money? Where is money?" Divā cārthehayā rājan kuṭumba-bharaṇena vā. And as soon as one gets money, then go to the storehouse, purchase things for my wife, for my children, for me, for this, that. So this is the activities of the materialistic person. Just five thousand years ago these two lines are there in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and just see how it is happening, developing. This is called śastra.

So where is the opportunity of understanding the self? The whole night is engaged either in sleeping or in sex life, and the whole day is engaged where to get money and where to purchase things. That's all. Day and night. But I have got this human form of life, so important. I have to know myself, but I do not get my time. They do not get time. If this meeting would have been a political leader's meeting, giving all kinds of false hope, millions or billions of people would have come. But because it is a meeting for understanding ātma-tattva, or self-realization, nobody will be interested. This is our position.

So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is being pushed in unfavorable circumstance. Nobody is willing . . . (indistinct) . . . unless he is very, very intelligent man. We cannot get immediately members of the society like the political parties get or the trader parties they get.

We have to canvass from door to door, "My dear sir, why you are forgetting yourself? Kindly try to understand. Here is a book, Bhagavad-gītā; try to understand. Here is book, Teachings of Lord Caitanya." So our task is very strenuous. Sometimes they become angry, dissatisfied, "Why you are bothering me?" But we have to do it, because we have dedicated our life to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, we have to do it. Kṛṣṇa comes to do this business Himself.
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