He never forgets Kṛṣṇa. And through his never forgetting Kṛṣṇa and always being his faithful servitor by following his example we reached to the platform of loving service unto Kṛṣṇa and this is . . . this is the highest perfection and this is my spiritual master's gift. And because of this I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Mahārāja.
Prabhupāda: You want to speak? Come on . . . all right.
Pradyumna: . . . (indistinct)
- om ajṣāna-timirāndhasya jṣānāṣjana-śalākayā
- cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
There is probably a movie which most people have seen, it is called, "The Wizard of Oz". And in this movie there is a young girl who goes on a trip and after . . . at the end of the movie she is asked what she learned on this trip. And she says: "I was always looking for something but I never found it. And now I know why because everything I was always looking for was always right in my own backyard. And if it wasn't in my own backyard it wasn't worth looking for anyway."
So this is the condition of all living entities is that they have everything right within themselves in their own heart. That they have all the capacity for all the knowledge whatever they could acquire in all this world and right beside them is Kṛṣṇa. And they are trying to find themselves in . . . (indistinct) . . . (break)
Prabhupāda: Spiritual master is . . . not that a particular man is spiritual master. Spiritual master is a truth. So what is that truth? The truth is saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam. The whole world is in the blaze of material pangs, threefold miseries. And a person who is authorized to deliver people from that material pangs, he is called spiritual master.
The example is given in this verse, saṁsāra-dāvānala. Dāvānala is the Sanskrit word. The English equivalent is forest fire. Just like in the forest in this part of the world there are sometimes forest fire, and government has arrangement to pour water from up. There are so many arrangement. But forest fire there is, a fact. And what is this forest fire? The forest fire . . . nobody has got any interest to set fire in the forest, but it takes place automatically.
And when the forest fire is there, all the animals within the forest, they become so much disturbed. They cannot escape. They die, especially the snakes. Because snakes are always envious, so they are first up to be burned into that forest fire. They cannot go very swiftly. Others, tigers and other beasts, they go away. But the snake, they crawl. They cannot get out. Mostly they burn.
So this example is given to this materialistic life as forest fire, because nobody wants any disturbance, but disturbance is created. Actually I am seeing, since I have come to this part of the world in 1965, so many boys are chased by the government draft board. You see? They belong to the independent nation, and formerly they are independent.