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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG1335GenevaJune61974_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="377" link="Lecture on BG 13.35 -- Geneva, June 6, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.35 -- Geneva, June 6, 1974">
<div class="heading">So now it is your choice. This body is given to you. Now you make your choice whether you want to have, in this material world, better facilities, better duration of life, or if you want to degrade yourself to the animal life, or if you want to go to Kṛṣṇaloka, everything, whatever you want, you can get. And this is the chance, this human form of body. You make your choice. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram iti abhidhīyate (BG 13.2). It is just like the land of cultivation. Now you cultivate.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.35 -- Geneva, June 6, 1974|Lecture on BG 13.35 -- Geneva, June 6, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The same thing. If you desire, you can promote yourself to the higher—that is within the material world—higher planetary system for better comfort of life, better, long duration of life. That you can go. Yānti deva-vratā devān.</p>
<p>Just like if you come to Europe... At least... Of course, we are different men. We are preaching. But other Indians, they come, they come here by dressing like European, European coat, pant. So just we have to arrange for going to another country, passport, visa and dress and so many things. Similarly, if you want to go to the planets of the demigods, you have to prepare yourself. Yānti deva-vratā devān ([[Vanisource:BG 9.25|BG 9.25]]). Deva-vratāḥ, they can go. Similarly, pitṛ-vratāḥ, they can go Pitṛloka. There are other planets. And bhūtejyāḥ, if you want to remain here, then you become nationalist and this, that, so many...</p>
<p>"And if you like, you can go to Me also." Mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām. Those who are trying to promote themselves in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, Kṛṣṇa says mad-yājinaḥ, "Those who are worshiping Me, they come to Me." So now it is your choice. This body is given to you. Now you make your choice whether you want to have, in this material world, better facilities, better duration of life, or if you want to degrade yourself to the animal life, or if you want to go to Kṛṣṇaloka, everything, whatever you want, you can get. And this is the chance, this human form of body. You make your choice. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram iti abhidhīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 13.2|BG 13.2]]). It is just like the land of cultivation. Now you cultivate.</p>
:idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya
:kṣetram ity abhidhīyate
:etad yo vetti taṁ prāhuḥ
:kṣetra-jñaḥ iti tad-vidaḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 13.2|BG 13.2]])
<p>And... Just like the land and the proprietor of land. The proprietor of the land knows that "This is my land." It is not "I land." That is ignorance. So people are taking this, that "I am this body." That is ignorance. If they know, if one knows that "I am not this body; I am proprietor of this body, I'll have to work with this body for my future," then that is knowledge. Etad yo vetti kṣetra-jña, knower, one who knows. That is the beginning of knowledge. Then Kṛṣṇa says,</p>
:kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi
:sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata
:kṣetra-kṣetra-jñayor jñānaṁ
:yat taj jñānaṁ mataṁ mama
:([[Vanisource:BG 13.3|BG 13.3]])
<p>Kṛṣṇa is giving His opinion, the Supreme Authority, that "If you want to know, if you want to be in knowledge, this is knowledge." What is that? "That this body, you are not this body; you are the owner of the body.</p>
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