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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div class="heading">We should take care of this so that we may not come back again to this Kali-yuga. (laughter) You see? This life should be utilized. Now we are conscious, Kṛṣṇa conscious. It should be so utilized that no more coming back to United States of America and no more coming back of this condemned earthly planet. That should be the aim.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.318-329 -- New York, December 22, 1966|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.318-329 -- New York, December 22, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Now, there are four ''yugas''. Each ''yuga'' is divided into four: Satya, Tretā, Dvāpara, Kali. This is the Kali, this age we are passing. Similarly, these four ''yugas'', such thousand four ''yugas'', when passed away, then one twelve hours of Brahmā is finished, when such thousand four ''yugas'' passes away. So ''satya-tretā-dvāpara-kali-yugera gaṇana''.

So each ''yuga'' is divided into four. Satya-yuga is about eighteen ''lakhs''. Eighteen ''lakhs'' means 1,800,000's of years. That is Satya-yuga, 1,800,000's. And the next ''yuga'', Tretā, is 1,200,000's of years; and the next ''yuga'', Dvāpara, 800,000's of years; and this Kali-yuga is 400,000's of years, 427,000's of years . . . er, 32,000's of years Out of that, five thousands of years we have already passed. Now there is balance: 427,000 years, there is balance of this Kali-yuga. And the symptoms of Kali-yuga we have already seen, how it is.

So the more we will pass this Kali-yuga, the symptoms will be more acute, intolerable. So we should care. We should take care of this so that we may not come back again to this Kali-yuga. (laughter) You see? This life should be utilized. Now we are conscious, Kṛṣṇa conscious. It should be so utilized that no more coming back to United States of America and no more coming back of this condemned earthly planet. That should be the aim. ''Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama'' ([[Vanisource:BG 15.6 (1972)|BG 15.6]]).

We have to be determined to go back to Godhead, to Kṛṣṇa, where going nobody will come to this condemned place. One should know that this is a condemned place. Unless one is fully convinced that this is a place condemned, one cannot make progress. If he is satisfied with this condemned condition . . . just like these (chuckles) Bowery Street men, they are lying on the footpath. They are satisfied. Condemned condition, but they are satisfied. We should not be satisfied in that way. That is very wretched condition.

So we are all in wretched condition under the grip of material nature, always suffering threefold miseries. So we should be conscious. Unless we are conscious about this fact, then our human life is spoiled. They say that, "You spiritualist, you are very pessimistic." Yes. He should be pessimistic. There is no question of being optimistic. Where is the optimistic view?

So unless one becomes very much pessimistic of this material world . . . actually, they are, but they want to forget. Somebody is trying to forget it by liquor, somebody is trying to forget by LSD, and somebody is marijuana, or ''gañja''. But that forgetness will not save you. You have to actually forget it that, "This is a condemned place." And you cannot forget this unless you have got ideal place before you. Therefore this ''śruti-pramāṇa'', the Vedic knowledge, will give you, "Here is your ideal place: Kṛṣṇa. Come back to Kṛṣṇa. Try for it. Try your best for this." That is the life. That is human life. And unless one is not conscious to this platform, he is defeated.

''Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jātaḥ''. We are born ignorant. And if we are educated more, more, more into the platform of ignorance, then our life is all defeat, ''parābhava. Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.5|SB 5.5.5]]).

So long one is not awakened to spiritual consciousness . . . "What I am? Why I am suffering? Is there any remedy? How I can save me?"—these questions should arise. This is called ''brahma-jijñāsa''.

The ''Vedānta-sūtra'' explains this ''brahma-jijñāsa''. ''Athāto brahma jijñāsā. Athāto'': "Now. Now it is the time for you to enquire about your Brahman realization, of your Brahman life." That Brahman life begins when we understand that, "I am not this material body. I am spirit soul." That is ''brahma-jñāna''. And one who has got this knowledge, he is ''brāhmaṇa''. He is ''brahmin''. One who has actually attained this knowledge, that "I am not this body; I am spirit soul," that is ''brahma-jñāna''.

Now, simply to have ''brahma-jñāna'' is not sufficient. When you act like Brahman, that is called Vaiṣṇava. That is Vaiṣṇava. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. To understand yourself, that you are not this body, you are Brahman, and when you act factually in that Brahman stage, that is called ''bhakti''. ''Bhakti''. That is explained in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'':

:''māṁ ca (yo) 'vyabhicāreṇa''
:''bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate''
:''sa guṇān samatītyaitān''
:''brahma-bhūyāya kalpate''
:([[Vanisource:BG 14.26 (1972)|BG 14.26]])

So as soon as you begin your activities in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you at once come to the stage of Brahman. And the more you execute functions for satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, the more you realize yourself and more you are well situated in spiritual life. And ''kaunteya prati'' . . . I was discussing. ''Kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati'' ([[Vanisource:BG 9.31 (1972)|BG 9.31]]).

The Lord declares through Arjuna, "My dear Arjuna, declare it to all the world that anyone who is My devotee, he will never be destroyed." So we should take up this Kṛṣṇa consciousness very seriously and try to execute it thoroughly under the guidance of the ''śruti-pramāṇa''. The Vedic literatures are there. Everything is there. We should utilize it.</p>
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