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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>General Lectures</h3>
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This is called māyā. But that stool, urine, muscle, brains, and intestines are so nicely decorated that it can attract you. It has got a full attraction, both for the boys and the girls. Bhāgavata has done nice that the illusion of this world is that attraction. What is that attraction? False attraction. The man is attracted by woman, woman is attracted by man. And the business is going on. Especially in this country, I see the girls are attracting by their bodily features in so many ways. You see? So similarly boys are attracting girls by so many features, especially by nice motorcar and so many things.
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[[Vanisource:680626 - Lecture - Montreal|Lecture -- June 26, 1968, Montreal]]:
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So the original platform that, "I am not this body," then every relationship becomes false, illusion. This is stated in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', how this illusion develops. The illusion develops because it is the kingdom of ''māyā''. ''Māyā'' is attracting us. What is that attracting force? That attracting force is for man, woman; and for woman, man. This is attractive. This whole world is going on, not only in the human society but in dog society, cat society, hog society, bird society—everywhere—the woman is attractive for man, and man is attractive for woman. This is ''māyā''. This is ''māyā''. 

So ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavata'' says that this attractive feature is pulling on this material existence. Therefore the training is how to detract. In the beginning, the ''brahmacārī'' training is given because to know that this body, woman body, is actually not attractive. What is this attractive? This is made of flesh and blood. Similarly for woman, if I analyze the man's body or woman's, what is there? Flesh and blood. But that flesh and blood is very attractive? 

That story, perhaps I have enunciated, that beauty was kept in a pot? Do you remember? Huh? I may repeat that story again, that one girl was very beautiful, and one boy was after him (her). But in India, the boys and girls are not allowed to mix freely unless they are husband and wife. So this girl was married, but she was not very rich. But that boy was very rich, and he was after her. He was always proposing her. And she became perplexed, that "He is rich man. If I don't agree, then he may do some harm to my husband, to me."

So she made a plan that, "All right. I agree to your proposal. You come to my house in such-and-such night. I'll be engaged with you." Oh, he was very . . . in the meantime, he took some purgative pill, strong. So for six, seven days, she simply purged out all the beauty in vomiting and in passing stool. So those vomits and stools were kept in two pots. And naturally, if you pass stool for one day, your feature becomes immediately ugly. That is a fact. So she passed stool and vomiting seven days. Naturally, she became very ugly. 

So when the boy came, she was sitting there on the door. The boy was asking, "Where is such-and-such girl?" She said: "Yes, I am. I am here." "No, you are not her. Oh, she is so beautiful, and you are so ugly." "No, I am the same girl." "Why you have become so ugly?" "Because I have extracted my beauty." "Where is that?" "Just see in these two pots. (laughter) So if you like, you can enjoy this beauty." (laughter)

So actually, if we dissect our body, then the beauty things, they are within—some stool, some urine, some intestines, some brains, some muscles, some blood. These will be found. This is called ''māyā''. But that stool, urine, muscle, brains and intestines are so nicely decorated that it has attraction. It has got a full attraction, both for the boys and the girls.

''Bhāgavata'' has said nice that the illusion of this world is that attraction. What is that attraction? False attraction. The man is attracted by woman, one woman is attracted by man. And the business is going on. Especially in this country, I see the girls are attracting by their bodily features in so many ways. You see? So similarly, boys are attracting girls by so many features, especially by nice motorcar and so many things. 

So in every society, according to the standard of living, according . . . these attractive features are going on—in birds, beasts . . . and when they are united . . . everyone is trying to attract others. A girl is trying to attract another boy, the boy is trying to attract another girl. These attracting features is going on. And as soon as they are actually attracted and joined together, the illusion becomes doubly knotted. ''Tayor mitha hṛdaya-granthim āhur'' ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.8|SB 5.5.8]]). ''Hṛdaya-granthim'' means everything is within the heart. 

If I study, "Oh, what is this attraction?" if I understand how it is simply combination of blood, stool and urine and intestine and muscle and skin and hair and nails, then if I study philosophically, so what is there? Have I got any attraction for all these things? No. So it is all false. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that ''ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam'' ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.12|CC Antya 20.12, Śikṣāṣṭaka 1]]), that if we clarify our heart, then we become liberated. So this Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting process is clarifying.
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