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Our main disease is that we are to be enjoyed by Kṛṣṇa and we are trying to be enjoyer. We are actually to be predominated by Kṛṣṇa, but we are trying to be predominator. That is our fault. Don't try to be predominator. Try to be predominated by Kṛṣṇa and you will be happy.
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[[Vanisource:710330 - Lecture BG 07.04-5 - Bombay|710330 - Lecture BG 07.04-5 - Bombay]]:
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So here Kṛṣṇa says that ''jīva-bhūta'': ''prakṛti'', not ''puruṣa''. That how the ''prakṛti'' can be enjoyer of this material world? That is not possible. That is superficial, artificial . . . (indistinct) . . . that is not fact. Therefore, our main disease is that we are to be enjoyed by Kṛṣṇa and we are trying to be enjoyer. We are actually to be predominated by Kṛṣṇa, but we are trying to be predominator. That is our fault. Don't try to be predominator. Try to be predominated by Kṛṣṇa, and you will be happy.

Just like the woman. As soon as she is under protection of a big father, a nice husband and nice elderly son, she is happy, very happy. And as soon as she independent . . . I have seen practically in Europe and America, there are so many women declared independence; they are most unhappy. I have seen it. In old age they are very, very unhappy. Young age also. They do not get a right husband, and they are very unhappy. When one young girl sees that another young girl has husband, she becomes, "Oh, so this woman, this girl, has got a husband." You see? That is the nature.

Prakṛti means to remain dependent on the supreme husband or on the supreme father. You can accept Kṛṣṇa as father. You can love Kṛṣṇa as father, as husband, as master. Dependent. Remain dependent. And Kṛṣṇa has come to teach us that natural position of the living entities. ''Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). ''Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.65 (1972)|BG 18.65]]). This is our position, not to be puffed up, that "I am God," "I am Kṛṣṇa," "Everyone is Kṛṣṇa."

This is ''māyā'', the last snare of ''māyā''. ''Māyā'' dictates that, "You become the biggest man of the world. You become the biggest, richest man of the world." And you are struggling. And there is struggle. Just like there is struggle is going on in Pakistan. The Bangladesh is trying that, "We shall be leading Pakistan." And the Western Pakistan is trying that, "We shall be leading." Nobody is leader. Actually, Kṛṣṇa is leader.

''Ceta-cetana . . . nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām, eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān'' (''Kaṭha Upaniṣad'' 2.2.13). This is the Vedic injunction. Kṛṣṇa also says clearly, ''bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram'' ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29 (1972)|BG 5.29]]). ''Bhoktā aham''. Kṛṣṇa does not say that "You are also ''bhoktā'', you living entities." He never said Arjuna that "You are ''bhoktā'', I am ''bhoktā''."

So you have to accept that position, ''prakṛti'', all dependent on Kṛṣṇa. Then Kṛṣṇa takes charge. Kṛṣṇa says, ''ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). He will give us protection. ''Kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati'' ([[Vanisource:BG 9.31 (1972)|BG 9.31]]). These are the statement of ''Bhagavad-gītā''.

So as ''prakṛti'', as dependent on Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa the supreme ''puruṣa'', if we accept this philosophy, then our life is successful. Otherwise it is simply struggle for existence. Kṛṣṇa personally . . . ''jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat'' ([[Vanisource:BG 7.5 (1972)|BG 7.5]]). The whole material world is moving due to the ''jīva-bhūta'', the living entity. This Bombay city is so important because there are so many living entities. And if something happens that all the people leave, then the big, big skyscraper will not fetch even two hundred rupees' rent.

It will be all unimportant. Similarly, the whole world, material world, is important because the ''jīva-bhūta'', who has declared himself as ''bhoktā'' falsely . . . everyone in this material world, beginning from Brahmā down to the insignificant ant, they are struggling hard. That will be explained in the Fifteenth Chapter. ''Manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati'' ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7 (1972)|BG 15.7]]): simply struggling to become equal to Kṛṣṇa, to be the ''bhoktā''.

So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to bring men in the same condition that, "You are not ''bhoktā. Bhoktā'' is Kṛṣṇa, and you become ''bhogya''. You become enjoyed, not the enjoyer. Then you will be happy."