Sakalam eva vihāya dūrād caitanya-candra-caraṇe kurutānurāgam. "You just try to submit yourself on the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya. By His mercy you'll find that," kaivalyaṁ narakāyate, "you'll find that to become one with the Supreme, it will appear to you just like hell."
To merge into the Supreme, that is the highest ambition of the impersonalist. But if you submit yourself to the lotus feet of Caitanya-candra, then you'll find that this conception is just like hell. Kaivalyaṁ narakāyate. Naraka means hell. You'll find kaivalyam, to become one.
And tridaśa-pūrākāśa-puṣpāyate. Tri-daśa-pūra means the planets, higher planets where demigods live. Thirty-three million demigods, there are at least thirty-three million planets. Tri-daśa-pūrākāśa-puṣpāyate. They are just like phantasmagoria. The exact analogy of phantasma . . . equivalent word in Sanskrit of phantasmagoria, "which has no actual existence," is called ākāśa-puṣpa, "flower of the sky."
There is no flower in the sky, but you can say. Or in common Bengali words, "Eggs of the horse." Now, horse never gives eggs, but there are words like that. (chuckles) Just like Vivekananda has manufactured: daridra-nārāyaṇa. How Nārāyaṇa can be daridra? So it is something like horse eggs. You see?
So these words are very . . . tri-daśa-pūrākāśa-puṣpāyate. By the grace of Lord Caitanya you'll find to merge into the effulgence, to become one with the Supreme, will be considered as hell, actually. If you ask any pure devotee, "Do you want to merge into the existence, impersonal Brahman?" he'll deny. If he has got little Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he'll deny that, "What is this merging? This is hellish. We want to dance with Kṛṣṇa. Why shall I merge and lose my existence, individuality?"
And karmīs, they are trying to be elevated in the higher planets. Just like they are trying to go to the higher planets by sputniks, similarly, there are ritualistic ceremony. Yānti deva-vratā devān (BG 9.25). By performing all the ritualistic ceremonies, sacrifices, you can elevate yourself to the higher planet: yānti deva-vratā devān. That is another method. And this method also, another method, they want to go direct by machine. But that tendency is there everywhere, that "We may go to this sun planet, moon planet, this planet."
But Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, he says: (chuckling) "Oh, you are trying to go to other, higher planets by your karma, by his work? Oh, this is just like horse egg. Huh? Why should you bother yourself?" Horse egg means it has no substance. As like there is no existence of horse egg, similarly, even if you attain that higher planetary system, what do you gain by that? You don't gain anything, because the four principles of material existence will continue there also.
Birth, death, old age and disease, you cannot stop. You may live for a greater period—that is possible in higher planets. But if you are simply satisfied only by living a bigger span of life, is that very success? Just stop death. That is success. To become very strong in body, that is not success.
But either you become strong and weak, you have to die. There is no, I mean to say, excuse, because you are a strong man you will not die. Or because you are rich man you will not die. Because you are . . . no. Therefore Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī says it is just like ākāśa-puṣpa, phantasmagoria.
So this is karmī, jñānī. Jñānī wants to merge, and karmī wants higher level, higher standard of life. That is karmī's business. Karmīs give in charity just to acquire pious result out of it, so that after death he can be elevated to the Svargaloka, heavenly planet.
So Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī says: "But by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, by the mercy of Lord Caitanya, this ambition to be elevated in higher planetary system will appear to be as phantasmagoria." Ākāśa-puṣpāyate. And this is karmīs ambition, the jñānīs ambition.
Then yogīs. The yogīs' ambition is siddhi, or eight kinds of success. A yogī can become lighter than the cotton swab. He can become smaller than the atom. Aṇimā, laghimā, prāpti, siddhi, īśitā, vaśitā. There are so many yogic perfection. And that is, of course, perfection. Nobody . . . it is not very easily gone to that perfectional stage. Generally, people try by practicing yoga to control the senses and the mind. That is general practice.
So Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī says that durdānta indriya-kāla-sarpa-paṭalī protkhāta-daṁṣṭrāyate. Why you should be afraid of your senses? Why you are so much busy to try to control the senses? The senses become . . . how? Why not controlled? He says that senses are just like serpents. Durdānta indriya-kāla-sarpa-paṭalī.
These senses are just like snakes. Snakes are always dangerous, because as soon as he touches like this, immediately death. Poisonous snake. You cannot distinguish who is not poisonous. Therefore snake is always horrible. Just like the other day you found out one snake in the brahmacārīs' house.
So Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī says: "Yes, snake is very fierce and horrible. But if you know that the snake has no poison, his poison teeth has been broken . . ." Snake has also use for human being. There are expert snake charmer who take the snake and take out the poisonous teeth, and that poison is used for so many medicinal purpose. So poison is also used for human benefit if one knows.
So Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, he said these indriyas, the senses, are just like snakes. Our senses are acting just like snakes. It is, as soon as it touches, there is some danger. Sense gratification means you are creating some danger, some future danger. That's all. We should always remember.
All our troubles and miseries are due to sense gratification. They are always troublesome. The yoga system means yoga indriya-saṁyama. Yoga means controlling the senses. That is the first principle.
So Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī said that, "Yes, it is admitted that the senses are just like snakes. But if you break the poisonous teeth, then there is no danger. There is no . . . they have no more fears." A snake without poison, a child may be afraid of, "There is a snake."
But if a man knows that, "This snake is here, but there is no poisonous teeth, it is broken," then there is no question of fearfulness. Otherwise, it is ordinary, insignificant . . . just like reptile, something, or worm, or microbes.
So he said . . . so that means he answers to the jñānīs, to the yogīs, to the karmīs: durdānta indriya-kāla-sarpa-paṭalī protkhāta. Protkhāta, extracted. The teeth is extracted. Protkhāta. Protkhāta. Daṁṣṭrāyate. Daṁṣṭra means teeth. Taken away. So there is no cause of . . .
Durdānta indriya-kāla-sarpa-paṭalī protkhāta-daṁṣṭrāyate viśvaṁ pūrṇa-sukhāyate. Everyone is facing the problem of material world, so many problems. But if you take shelter of Lord Caitanya, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness . . . Lord Caitanya means Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇam (SB 11.5.32).
Lord Caitanya means Kṛṣṇa conscious. Then viśvaṁ pūrṇa, you'll find there is no problem. The world is very happy place. A devotee finds a very nice place. Just like here in New Vrindaban, those who are karmīs, oh, they'll find, "Oh, it is a nonsense place." You see? "There is no amenities, modern amenities. There is so much trouble. There is no nice bathroom. There is no water supply." But devotees, they are finding, "Oh, it is very nice place."
So just you . . . similarly, widely you take, all the karmīs, they are faced with so many problems. But a devotee, those who have taken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they have no problem. Viśvaṁ pūrṇa-sukhāyate. And vidhi-mahendrādiś ca kīṭāyate. And for them, all these big, big men may be very big to others, but for the devotees they're just like worms and germs and ordinary flies.
Just like we sometimes criticize big men. Hmm? So on what strength? That strength is because we have taken shelter of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Otherwise, any ordinary man can criticize. Just like the Consulate General in San Francisco, he was speaking to me that "Swāmījī, you have called Maharishi rascal?" "Yes. Yes. I may have called. What is that?" So the people . . . a man who is worshiped by so many people we call rascal? On what strength? The strength is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness.