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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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If there is any difficulty to understand, we may consult persons who are in the understanding. We may consult books. We may consult authorities. That we can do because enquiry is always allowed. Tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā (BG 4.34). The, I mean to say, the transcendental enquiry is never forbidden.
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[[Vanisource:660729 - Lecture BG 04.13-14 - New York|660729 - Lecture BG 04.13-14 - New York]]
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Just like we are acting something. Anything we are doing, there is some reaction. There is some reaction. In every action there is some reaction. Just like I am speaking here.

This vibration is being recorded all over the universe, this sound vibration. You know the radio message, how it is transmitted in the modern world. Similarly, as I am speaking, so whatever I am doing, that is immediately recorded and there will be some reaction. Just like the sound vibration, it reacts who has got some radio machine, there is reacting, similarly, every, any action, either good action or bad action, it will have reaction. That is the law of nature. You cannot be free from the reaction of my action.

But here Kṛṣṇa says, na māṁ karmāṇi limpanti. There is no reaction of the activities of Kṛṣṇa. Just like Kṛṣṇa was commanding over Arjuna in the battlefield of Kurukṣetra, and practically He was ordering that "You must fight. You must kill the enemy." Now, this act of Kṛṣṇa's has no reaction on Him. One should understand it. Na māṁ karmāṇi limpanti.

If there is any difficulty to understand, we may consult persons who are in the understanding. We may consult books. We may consult authorities. That we can do because enquiry is always allowed. Tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]]). The, I mean to say, the transcendental enquiry is never forbidden. With sincere purpose, one can make enquiry. But fact is this. If I cannot understand in my present condition, that is my misunderstanding. But the fact is this, that Kṛṣṇa, when He comes, He is not any . . . like any one of us. He's transcendental. Neither any act which He does, it has got reaction. And He says, na me karma-phale spṛhā: "I have no desire for any fruitive activities."

Just like we want to do something. Suppose I want to do some business. And what is the idea? Because I want to make some profit out of the business, and if there is sufficient profit, I shall be gainer, I shall be rich man, I shall be able to enjoy life and so on, so on, so many things, I have got background. So I have my desires whenever I do something. We conditioned souls, whenever we do something, there is some desire behind it. And what is that desire? For enjoyment. That's all.

But Kṛṣṇa says, na me karma-phale spṛhā. Because He has nothing to desire. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is full with everything. Now, sometimes Kṛṣṇa is misunderstood that Kṛṣṇa, in His boyhood, He had so many girlfriends. Perhaps you may know, who has written, gone through Kṛṣṇa's life. Or in His youthhood, He married sixteen thousand wives. This is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. He had 16, 108 wives. So sometimes who does not understand Kṛṣṇa, they think, "Oh, Kṛṣṇa was so sensuous. Oh, He kept sixteen thousand wives." No. That is not the fact. What was the fact? The fact is Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Lord . . .

We have got different relationship with the Supreme Lord constitutionally, every one of us. The relationship, as we experience in this material world . . . just like you are my brother, or she is my sister, or he is my father, he is my, so many relationship we have got. So all these relationships are calculated into five. There are . . . practically, there are twelve relationships. Seven relationships are contra, against. Just like you are my enemy. I want to kill you; you want to kill me.

That is also one of the relationships, but this is contra. This is not favorable. This is called vivarta. Hāsya, something I see in you, I begin to laugh, or something you see in me, you begin to laugh. So there are different . . . altogether, there are twelve relationships in every activities of our life. Out of that, five relationships is very favorable. What is that? Not five exactly, but . . . yes, five.

Just like I am sitting here on this dais. So I have got some relationship. What is that relationship? That this dais is giving me service silently. There is relationship. I am comfortably sitting here. So this is one relationship. The next relationship is that one wants to serve me or I want to serve him. Out of love, I want . . . oh. Just like some of you: "Swāmījī, I have brought some fruits for you." This is out of love. That means you want to serve me. So this relationship with the dais and that relationship, who comes, and brings forth some fruit for me, that is higher. That is called dāsya, or friendship. So the silent relationship, the servitude relationship, the friendly relationship, then paternal relationship, then conjugal relationship.

So these relationships which we find here in this material world, they are reflections of the original relationship with Kṛṣṇa. Because in the Vedānta-sūtra you find, janmādy asya yataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]): "Everything, whichever you find in this material world, that is born from the Absolute Truth." So in the Absolute Truth there is the relationships, these relationships which we are experiencing here.
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