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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Kula-dharma, this family tradition, is not meant for the cats and dogs. If you live like cats . . . (break) . . . there is no question of family tradition. But if you live . . . want to live like human being, manuṣyāṇāṁ, then this system must be . . . (break) . . . puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān (CC Madhya 8.58). Catur-vārṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ (BG 4.13). Then society must be divided into four classes. As we have got four divisions in . . . (break) . . . brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra must be there. (break) And each one should serve according to his guṇa-karma, quality and capacity to work. Then the whole society is organized.
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[[Vanisource:730730 - Lecture BG 01.43 - London|730730 - Lecture BG 01.43 - London]]
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When you become master of the senses . . . how it is possible, master of the senses? Now, if you employ your senses always in the service of Kṛṣṇa, your senses are already controlled. Just like your tongue. Your tongue asks you, "Go to the restaurant and eat some nice thing." But if you are a Vaiṣṇava, if you have this vow that, "I shall not allow my tongue to eat anything except prasādam," it is already controlled. Gosvāmī. That means, to control the senses means to engage the senses in the service of the Lord. This is control. Otherwise, by force . . .

Just like the yogīs, they try artificially by some gymnastic. That may be possible for some time, but it is . . . there are many instances, it became . . . (break) Because by force they cannot control the senses. That is not possible. You must give better engagement. (break) By force, if you think that, "I shall control my tongue, I shall control my eyes, I shall control my genital, I shall control my belly . . ." Artificial. That may be possible for some time, but they are so strong, the senses are so strong, artificially it cannot be stopped. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā . . .

(break) . . . stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. You give the senses better engagement. Then you can control. Hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir uttamā. Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena . . . ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 19.170|CC Madhya 19.170]]). (break) You have to purify the senses. How? By engaging the senses in the ser . . . (break) . . . tat paratvena. (break) Then you will be able to purify the senses. And with purified senses, when you are engaged in the service of the Supreme, that is called bhakti.

So if we are actually human beings, manuṣyāṇāṁ . . . (break) Kula-dharma, this family tradition, is not meant for the cats and dogs. If you live like cats . . . (break) . . . there is no question of family tradition. But if you live . . . want to live like human being, manuṣyāṇāṁ, then this system must be . . . (break) . . . puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.58|CC Madhya 8.58]]). Catur-vārṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). Then society must be divided into four classes. As we have got four divisions in . . . (break) . . . brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra must be there. (break) And each one should serve according to his guṇa-karma, quality and capacity to work. Then the whole society is organized . . . (break) . . . will be perfect, there will be peace . . . (break) . . . no war, nothing of the sort, and gradually making progress back to home, back to Godhead. Otherwise it will be chaos . . . (break) . . . become at the present moment.
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