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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Indra is very powerful controller of the rains. He has got the thunderbolt. But people do not believe this, but we believe. What is described in the Vedic literatures . . . not believe. You have to believe. This is fact. Wherefrom this thunderbolt is coming? Who is arranging for the rain? There must be some director. As in government offices or state, there are so many departmental management, similarly, in God's government there must be so many directors, so many officers. They are called demigods. Devarṣi-bhūtāpta-nṛṇāṁ pitṟṇām (SB 11.5.41).
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[[Vanisource:730808 - Lecture BG 02.08 - London|730808 - Lecture BG 02.08 - London]]
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This example is given in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that just like we have got our senses, similarly, if somebody has got different wife, so one wife is snatching him that, "You come to my room," another wife is snatching, "You come to my room." So he's perplexed. Similarly, we have got these wives, the senses. The eyes are dragging, "Please come to the cinema." The tongue is dragging, "Please come to the restaurant." The hand is driving somewhere else. The leg is driving somewhere. So our position is like that: the same man, who has got different wives and dragging him different rooms. This is our position.

So why this position? Because these wives are rivals. Here: asapatnyam. If there are many kings to claim one property, there is difficulty. And Arjuna says, avāpya bhūmāv asaptnyam ṛddham ([[Vanisource:BG 2.8 (1972)|BG 2.8]]). "Getting riches for which there is no other claimant. I am the only proprietor. Even if I get such riches," rājyam, "such kingdom," surāṇām api cādhipatyam, "Not only kingdom of this world, but also kingdom of higher planetary system . . ." These men are trying to go to the moon planet, but there is . . . that is also another kingdom. Another kingdom.

So that kingdom belongs to the higher living entities, those who are known as demigods. They are very powerful. Just like Indra. Indra is very powerful controller of the rains. He has got the thunderbolt. But people do not believe this, but we believe. What is described in the Vedic literatures . . . not believe. You have to believe. This is fact. Wherefrom this thunderbolt is coming? Who is arranging for the rain? There must be some director. As in government offices or state, there are so many departmental management, similarly, in God's government there must be so many directors, so many officers. They are called demigods. Devarṣi-bhūtāpta-nṛṇāṁ pitṟṇām ([[Vanisource:SB 11.5.41|SB 11.5.41]]).

Devatāḥ, the demigods, they are also supplying us by the order of Kṛṣṇa. Just like Indra. Indra is supplying us. Therefore Indra yajña, there is sacrifice for satisfying the different demigods. Kṛṣṇa stopped this Indra yajña, you know, Govardhana. When Nanda Mahārāja was arranging for Indra yajña, Kṛṣṇa said: "My dear father, there is no need of Indra yajña." That means anyone who is Kṛṣṇa conscious, for him, there is no need of any yajña. Especially in this age, Kali-yuga, it is very difficult to perform different types of yajña. That was possible in the Treta-yuga. Kṛte yad dhyāyato viṣṇuṁ tretāyāṁ yajato makhaiḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 12.3.52|SB 12.3.52]]). Makhaiḥ means yajña, performing yajña. Yajñārthe karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.9 (1972)|BG 3.9]]).

So these formulas, these direction, nobody is following. It is not possible in this age. Therefore the śāstra injunction is, yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanair prāyair yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ. Those who have got good brain substance, so instead of bothering with so many things, one performs saṅkīrtana-yajña. These are the statements in the śāstra.

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:kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ
:saṅgopaṅgāstra-pārṣadam
:yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ prāyair
:yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ 
:([[Vanisource:SB 11.5.32|SB 11.5.32]])
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So here, in this room especially, kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇam, here is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He is Kṛṣṇa Himself, but His complexion is akṛṣṇa, "not blackish." Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣa . . . tviṣa means by complexion. Akṛṣṇa. Yellowish. Saṅgopaṅgāstra-pārṣadam: and He's accompanied by His associates, Nityānanda Prabhu, Advaita Prabhu, śrīvāsādi gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. This is the worshipable Deity in this age. Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇa.
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