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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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A living entity is not puruṣa; he is prakṛti. But because he wanted to enjoy this material world, nature has given him a dress like a puruṣa, and he is falsely trying to enjoy it. This is the position. Krsna buliya jiva bhoga vancha kare (Prema-vivarta).
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[[Vanisource:740419 - Lecture BG 13.03 - Hyderabad|740419 - Lecture BG 13.03 - Hyderabad]]
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Anyway, we have to accept knowledge from the perfect person. This is the sum and substance. Unless we take knowledge from the perfect person, our knowledge is defective. Therefore Arjuna is asking, "What is this prakṛti, material nature? What is puruṣa?" Puruṣa means who is trying to exploit . . . (break) . . . he is also prakṛti. Prakṛti. Just try to understand, woman, strī. But if one strī wants to enjoy another strī, so how it is possible? That is not possible. There must be puruṣa. So puruṣa . . . these living entities, although they have dressed like puruṣa, they are not puruṣa; they are prakṛti. Jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho ([[Vanisource:BG 7.5 (1972)|BG 7.5]]). They are superior prakṛti, but not puruṣa. But they are trying to be puruṣa. This is called illusion. If a woman dresses like a man and wants to act like man, that is artificial. That is not possible. Similarly, a living entity is not puruṣa; he is prakṛti. But because he wanted to enjoy this material world, nature has given him a dress like a puruṣa, and he is falsely trying to enjoy it. This is the position. Krsna buliya jiva bhoga vancha kare (Prema-vivarta). Prakṛti cannot enjoy another prakṛti. A puruṣa can enjoy. That is also described in the Bhagavad-gītā.

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:bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ
:sarva-loka-maheśvaram
:suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
:jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati 
:([[Vanisource:BG 5.29 (1972)|BG 5.29]])
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Śānti. If you want śānti, peace of mind, peace of living condition, then you must know three things: that Kṛṣṇa is the supreme bhoktā, enjoyer . . . and we are trying to imitate Him to become enjoyer. That is false. Because if you try to capture something false, then it is simply labor. You will never achieve that thing. Or even if you achieve, you cannot be happy, because thing is false. So real bhoktā is Kṛṣṇa. Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29 (1972)|BG 5.29]]). People are after peace, śānti, but this is the śānti formula, that we must know Kṛṣṇa—the supreme enjoyer of everything. Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasām.
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