So we must know that whatever we possess, whatever we are seeing, these are all dream, temporary. Therefore if we become engrossed with the temporary things, so-called socialism, nationalism, family-ism or this-ism, that-ism, and waste our time, without cultivating Krsna consciousness, then that is called srama eva hi kevalam (SB 1.2.8), simply wasting our time, creating another body. Our own business is that we should know that "I am not this dream. I am fact, spiritual fact. So I have got a different business." That is called spiritual life. That is spiritual life, when we understand that "I am Brahman. I am not this matter." Brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54). That time we shall be joyful. Because we are afflicted with so many changes of the material features, and we are sorry and happy, being afflicted by all these external activities, but when we understand rightly that "I am not concerned with all these things," then we become joyful. "Oh, I have no responsibility. Nothing, I have nothing to do with all these things." Brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati (BG 18.54). At that time, you can feel that every living entity is exactly like you. It doesn't matter whether he is a learned brahmana, whether he's a dog, whether he is a candala, whether he's an elephant.
We are not concerned with...
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Page Title: | We are not concerned with... |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Serene |
Created: | 13 of Mar, 2013 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=23, Con=11, Let=18 |
No. of Quotes: | 52 |