Everyone should be interested to inquire, athato brahma jijnasa, or tattva-jijnasa: What is the aim of life? What is the Absolute Truth? So children should be educated also from the very beginning

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

What is the difficulty? But there is no chance. There is no chance. The Bhāgavata says that if you cannot train your children to become free from birth and death, don't beget. Pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syāt, na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum (SB 5.5.18). That is contraceptive. Don't beget child or go enjoy sex, sense gratification, and use some contraceptive method. No. The determination should be that, "I am a human being, so I must have a child who must be a human being." What is that human being? To jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā (SB 1.2.10). Here it is, I have discussed with you last night. Tattva-jijñāsā. Everyone should be interested to inquire, athāto brahma jijñāsā, or tattva-jijñāsā: What is the aim of life? What is the Absolute Truth? So children should be educated also from the very beginning. This little child, he, she can also distinguish what is Kṛṣṇa, what is māyā. If she is offered something which is not interest . . . not in connection with our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, she says: "It is māyā," "He is karmī." Like that.

740424 - Lecture SB 01.02.10 - Hyderabad

Dṛḍha-vratāḥ: firm determination. That kind of devotional life is possible only when one is completely free from the resultant action of sinful activity. Yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ. Anta-gataṁ: one who has finished. We are suffering and enjoying, in this life. So what we are enjoying, that is due to our pious activities in the past. Just like in our daily business, if you have to take some money from somebody, that is your income; and if you have to pay somebody, that is your expenditure. Two things are going on. You cannot expect here, in this material world, simply income. There must be expenditure. So two things, they are known as sukha and dukha. Sukha means "happiness" and dukha means "distress." So as Prahlāda Mahārāja says, that this sukha and dukha, happiness and distress, is already destined. As soon as I get a certain type of body, my life's happiness and distresses are fixed up. That's all. You cannot change it. That is called destiny. But the atma, although within, encaged within this body, is always separated, apart from. Just like I can give you so many examples, that a dog, the body is dog's body; it must live as dog. But even a dog can be made a devotee. It doesn't matter. Because he has got the body of a dog it does not mean that he cannot be made a devotee. It can be trained. As you train the dog how to bite others at night, so you can train the dog also how to become devotee. Therefore this is training. This child is being trained up. From the beginning of his birth he's in the association of devotees.So if it is possible for one child, many thousands and millions of children can be taught in the devotion. What is the difficulty? But there is no chance. There is no chance. The Bhāgavata says that if you cannot train your children to become free from birth and death, don't beget. Pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syāt, na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum (SB 5.5.18). That is contraceptive. Don't beget child or go enjoy sex, sense gratification, and use some contraceptive method. No. The determination should be that, "I am a human being, so I must have a child who must be a human being." What is that human being? To jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā (SB 1.2.10). Here it is, I have discussed with you last night. Tattva-jijñāsā. Everyone should be interested to inquire, athāto brahma jijñāsā, or tattva-jijñāsā: What is the aim of life? What is the Absolute Truth?So children should be educated also from the very beginning. This little child, he, she can also distinguish what is Kṛṣṇa, what is māyā. If she is offered something which is not interest . . . not in connection with our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, she says: "It is māyā," "He is karmī." Like that. She has learned all these words. Of course, she is child, but if training is there . . . fortunately, in our childhood also we got a good father; we were also trained. So this is wanted: jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā (SB 1.2.10). Anyone can be trained. It is not that because one who is born in India and in the family of a brāhmin, therefore he can be trained in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, not others. No. That is not a fact. Anyone can do, any part of the world. Kṛṣṇa does not say that, "Only the Indians are My very beloved living entities," or "The brāhmins are the beloved entities." Kṛṣṇa does not say. Kṛṣṇa says,sarva-yoniṣu kaunteyasambhavanti mūrtayaḥ(BG 14.4)"In all species of life, including animals, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pita: the material nature is the mother, and I am the seed-giving father." Kṛṣṇa claims.So Kṛṣṇa is for everyone. We have impressed this philosophy to the Westerners, and they have taken it. So that Kṛṣṇa is neither Indian nor Hindu. Kṛṣṇa is God. He is for everyone. God is neither Hindu nor Muslim nor Christian. God is God. And anyone who wants to approach God, he must also forget himself that he is Hindu, he is Muslim, he is Christian, he is this and that.sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁtat-paratvena nirmalam(CC Madhya 19.170)One has to become purified by being freed from all these designations that, "I am this. I am . . ." These designations are regarding reference with this body. It has nothing to do with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, God consciousness. Therefore Sūta Gosvāmī says:sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmoyato bhaktir adhokṣajeahaituky apratihatāyayātmā samprasīdati(SB 1.2.6)Samprasīdati. Sama bhuvena prasīdati. Fully satisfied. If we want full satisfaction, sarvātmā . . . just like if you take bath in the river or in the sea, it is very refreshing. You cannot have such refreshing feeling while taking bath in a tub of water. If you just jump in the river, sarvātma-snapanaṁ. So when you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then yayātmā samprasīdati. Sam means samba, "fully." Simply by coming to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one becomes fully satisfied. Yasmin vijñāte sarvam evaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati (Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.3). And if you simply understand Kṛṣṇa, then you understand everything. Yasmin tuṣṭe jagat tuṣṭam. If you have satisfied Kṛṣṇa, then the whole world is satisfied. These are the principles.