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| So by God's arrangement, everything is there. Everything. Pūrṇam idam. Pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate ([[Vanisource:ISO Invocation|Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Invocation]]). Everything is complete in this world. There is no scarcity. We have simply created scarcity by our mismanagement. But if we take up the laws as they are prescribed in the scriptures and live peacefully, there is no scarcity. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that in this world there is no scarcity by the arrangement of God. But the only scarcity is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. People are not Kṛṣṇa conscious. They're materially conscious. They're sensually conscious. That has to be changed. So Ṛṣabhadeva says that to satisfy our senses, that is also available in the life of a hog. Kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye ([[Vanisource:ISO Invocation|Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Invocation]]). Viḍ-bhujam, a animal who eats stool, viḍ-bhujam. That means the hog. The hog is also an animal, a living entity, and you'll find that it is working whole day, wherever there is stool, simply searching out. Research work—where there is stool. Because he has been made into that abominable condition of life that he is eating stool, he, still... Like Arabia, simply desert, sand. So for them, they can kill some animal and eat, because they cannot die for want of food. But here, in America, you have got sufficient foodstuff. Why should you kill animals? You have got sufficient grains, sufficient fruit, sufficient milk, and is it very nice thing that you take milk from the cow, who is your mother, and kill at the same time? Is that very good reason? | | So by God's arrangement, everything is there. Everything. ''Pūrṇam idam''. ''Pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate'' ([[Vanisource:ISO Invocation|Īśopaniṣad, Invocation]]). |
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| | Everything is complete in this world. There is no scarcity. We have simply created scarcity by our mismanagement. But if we take up the laws as they are prescribed in the scriptures and live peacefully, there is no scarcity. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that in this world there is no scarcity by the arrangement of God. But the only scarcity is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. People are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, they're materially conscious—they're sensually conscious. That has to be changed. |
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| | So Ṛṣabhadeva says that to satisfy our senses, that is also available in the life of a hog. ''Kaṣṭān kāmān arhate yad viḍ-bhujāṁ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). |
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| | ''Viḍ-bhujam'', a animal who eats stool, ''viḍ-bhujam''. That means the hog. The hog is also an animal, a living entity, and you'll find that it is working whole day, wherever there is stool, simply searching out. Research work—"Where there is stool?" Because he has been made into that abominable condition of life that he is eating stool, he, still, he has to find out, "Where is stool? Where is stool?" You see? |
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| | So there are different grades of life. So does it mean that we shall live a life like a hog while we have got this human form of body? Just try to understand. The hog is eating stool, which is rejected by everyone. And still, he is searching that out, "Where is that stool?" You see? And it is called research work. So we should not make our life complicated like the hog. And what is the aim of his life, the hog? The aim of his life is sex. The hogs and . . . especially hogs and goats, they're very sexually influenced. The hog does not discriminate. The monkeys, they do not discriminate—mother, sister or anyone—they must have sex. |
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| | So especially mentioned here: not like hog. Don't live like hog. This is the instruction of Ṛṣabhadeva. This human form of life is not meant for living like a hog. Then what it is for? That is stated in the next line, ''tapo divyam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]): "My dear boys, this life is meant for ''tapasya''." ''Tapasya'' means restraining your senses. That is. That is human life. That is human civilization. The more you restrain your senses from its activities, the more you're advanced, civilized, advanced in life. ''Tapasya''. ''Tapasya means'' . . . ''tapa'', ''tapa'', from ''tap'', ''tapa'' comes. ''Tapa'' means temperature. |
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| So Ṛṣabhadeva says, kaṣṭān kāmān. Just try to under... We are not criticizing the modern method of living. Of course, automatically it becomes criticized. But we are speaking from the śāstras. He says, Ṛṣabhadeva says, kaṣṭān kāmān. For your sense gratification do not arrange something very dangerous or very tiresome, laborsome. Make your life simplified. That is allotted by Kṛṣṇa. We have got a place, New Vrindaban, in West Virginia. With little effort, they produce so much vegetables that they cannot eat, they cannot finish. They cannot finish. So God has given us land, God has given us producing experience. So wherever you live, it doesn't matter, if you have got a little some pain. So that pain is called tapasya. Voluntarily accepting little pain. Tapo divyam [[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]] . And what for that pains taking? Divyam, for realizing the Absolute Truth. Not for that... Just like a student is working very hard to find out the possibilities of nuclear weapon. That is also tapasya. But what is that? For finding out some means to kill the human society. That sort of tapasya is not required. Tapo divyam. | | So if I restrain my senses, because we are, from time immemorial, we have been practiced to indulge our senses for gratification, and in the human form of life, because we have to control the senses, it sometimes gives us some pains. "I am accustomed to do something, but my spiritual master said . . . just like in this country I say that you cannot take meat, you cannot smoke. So all my students, they were accustomed to this habit, but by my order they have restrained. In the beginning there is some pain. |
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| So you may answer that "Why shall I take so much pains for realizing the Absolute? I can take some pains here for material acquisition, I shall be happy here. I do not..." That answer is also given. Tapo divyam... Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyet [[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]] . "My dear boys, you just take to this austerity, life of austerity, for realizing the Absolute, by which your existence will be purified." We began... Because we require this human form of life is meant for being purified. So just like a diabetic patient is advised by the physician not to take so many things—not to take sugar, not to take this, not to take this—that prohibition is meant for his curing. Similarly, here also, if we accept some voluntary pains in giving up our sense gratificatory process, then our existence will be purified. Tapo divyam. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvam [[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]] . Sattvam means your existence. Yena sattvaṁ śuddhyet. Śuddhyet means becomes purified. Then you may ask "What is the result?" "Suppose if I purify by your prescription." Śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyam anantam. Because if you purify your existence, then you get unlimited pleasure. Your life is, you are finding out where is pleasure. That is ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt ( Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12) . Every living entities is fit for enjoying because he's part and parcel of God. Because he part and parcel, he's also enjoyer, although in the minute quantity. But he can enjoy in association with God. So in order to enter into the association of God, he has to purify himself. Yasmād brahma-sau... Brahma, brahma-saukhyam. Brahma means the unlimited or spiritual. Spiritual means unlimited, unending, eternal—the greatest. These are some of the meanings of brahma. | | So that pain is called ''tapasya'', voluntarily accepting little pain. ''Tapo divyam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). And what for that pains taking? ''Divyam'', for realizing the Absolute Truth. Not for that . . . just like a student is working very hard to find out the possibilities of nuclear weapon. That is also ''tapasya''. But what is that? For finding out some means to kill the human society. That sort of ''tapasya'' is not required, like Rāvaṇa's ''tapasya'' or Hiraṇyakaśipu's ''tapasya''. ''Tapasya'' . . . here it is especially mentioned that you accept, voluntarily accept some pain for realizing the Absolute. ''Tapo divyam''. |
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