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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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According to the time, according to circumstances . . . therefore the Vedic principle has got garbhādhāna-saṁskāra. To beget a child, it requires also reformation—time, mentality, situation. So . . . not like cats and dogs. So creating the background very nicely, sattva-guṇa, they will beget a child. That child will come, some great man, now great devotee. So everything has got the material relationship, how to do it. That is śāstra. You do it, but follow the śāstric injunction. So the śāstric injunction, so far is concerned, as it is said here, that is sāttvikī, rājasī, tāmasī.
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Everyone is getting a particular type of body. So one may say: "This body is very nice," "This body is not so nice," and "This body is very good." So why it is so? Because according to the association of the material nature. After all, the living entity falls down from the spiritual world. Just like Jaya-Vijaya. There is possibility, if you do not stick to the spiritual principle, even if you are in Vaikuṇṭha you will fall down, what to speak of this material world? Because in the Vaikuṇṭha, or in the spiritual world, no contaminated soul can stay there. He will fall down.

Now, when the spirit soul falls down? Just like Jaya-Vijaya. Jaya-Vijaya became asura. They fell down from Vaikuṇṭha. But they became asuras under the circumstances. That is mentioned, I was reading Bhāgavata, the Kaśyapa Ṛṣi, his wife . . . Diti? What is the name of? Anyway, she was very lusty during the sandhyā, just at the point of evening, the day's passing. So she wanted sex with her husband. He said: "No, this is not the time. This is not the time." But she was so lusty she obliged the husband to have sex life with her, and the result was two asuras was born. We have to take so much care. You see? According to the time, according to circumstances . . . therefore the Vedic principle has got garbhādhāna-saṁskāra. To beget a child, it requires also reformation—time, mentality, situation. So . . . not like cats and dogs. So creating the background very nicely, sattva-guṇa, they will beget a child. That child will come, some great man, now great devotee. So everything has got the material relationship, how to do it. That is śāstra. You do it, but follow the śāstric injunction.

So the śāstric injunction, so far is concerned, as it is said here, that is sāttvikī, rājasī, tāmasī. The example is: just like the same fire spark is falling down from the blazing fire . . . you have seen the sparks. There are sparks, fire sparks, with the blazing fire. Now, the sparks sometimes fall down outside the fire. Take the fire as spiritual world, and the spark is in the spiritual world, within the fire, but sometimes it falls down. Now, when it falls down it comes in the material world and . . . now what kind of falldown it is? Now, the spark may fall down in dry grass. As soon as it falls down in dry grass, there is chance of igniting fire in the dry grass—sattva-guṇa. That is sattva-guṇa. And if the fire spark falls down on the ground, then for some time it looks like fiery, but again it becomes extinguished. That is rajo-guṇa. And if the fire sparks falls down in water—immediately finished, no more fire. So that is the distinction, the tamo-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and sattva-guṇa. So those who are in the tamo-guṇa, they are hopeless. They can do something, waste time, but being in the tamo-guṇa, just like the spark being in the water . . . water and fire, they are two opposite. So if one remains in tamo-guṇa, he has no chance of coming out to become fire again. There is no chance.

So therefore the process is to bring from the tamo-guṇa to rajo-guṇa, and from rajo-guṇa to sattva-guṇa, and then surpass sattva-guṇa. That is spiritual platform. This is the way. So if you stick to the tamo-guṇa principle, then there is no hope of spiritual realization. There is only hope of becoming hogs and dogs and like that. Their life is finished. So those who are trying to come to the platform of spiritual realization, God realization, they must stick to the sattva-guṇa principle. Otherwise it is hopeless. It is not hopeless—nothing is hopeless—it will take very, very long time.
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