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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureExcerptMontrealJuly201968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="12" link="Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, July 20, 1968" link_text="Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, July 20, 1968">
<div class="heading">This is the greatest service to the human society, to get out them from the darkness of ignorance. That is the greatest gift.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, July 20, 1968|Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, July 20, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we have to find out our eternal life, our eternal activities, our eternal place, and eternal bliss. Those things are explained in the Bhagavad-gītā and further explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And that is, we are moving as Kṛṣṇa consciousness... (break) A sane man should take very serious view of this movement and it should be pushed all over the world. Otherwise you remain in darkness. You never become guḍākeśa. You remain in guḍāka. Never īśa. Guḍāka-īśa, guḍākeśa. Guḍāka means darkness, and īśa means master. So you remain in guḍāka, but not guḍākeśa. So if you want to become guḍākeśa, master of this ignorance, then surrender to Kṛṣṇa. You'll get it.</p>
:daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī
:mama māyā duratyayā
:mām eva ye prapadante
:māyām etāṁ taranti te
:([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]])
<p>"It is very difficult to surmount this darkness of ignorance, but anyone who surrenders unto Me, he immediately surmounts."</p>
<p>So this is the greatest service to the human society, to get out them from the darkness of ignorance. That is the greatest gift. If you put him into the darkness... Suppose a man is suffering from disease and he is asking, "Sir, I am very hungry. Give me some food." If you give him some rasagullā or some very nice foodstuff, neither he cannot eat, neither he can enjoy. And by supplying such things you are making him more and more diseased. You have to cure the disease. Then give him. That's right. So there is no curing process. Simply sense gratification. I want to satisfy my senses, and if somebody talks about my sense gratification, oh, I receive him very nicely. You see? And as soon as one says that "You are diseased. You cannot satisfy your senses without restriction. Then you will continue your disease," "Oh, this is not good. This doctor is not good." This is going on. You want to be cheated; therefore there are..., so many cheaters are coming. Just like this Maharishi came. "Yes, enjoy your senses. Enjoy. Simply pay me thirty-five dollars. I give you some mantra." People gave him thousand, millions of dollars, and at the end both of them became dissatisfied. He said, "It is failure," and who were followers, they left him. So what is the use of? Don't try to be cheated. If you want to be cheated, then Kṛṣṇa will send you some cheater.</p>
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