That you have to search, and for which you have to undertake some voluntary penance. You are trying to get the unlimited happiness, and you are not prepared to sacrifice anything? What is that sacrifice? You have to sacrifice little time. Come here and hear this Bhagavad-gītā and chant with us. Is it very great sacrifice? And you will learn everything, just to sacrifice little time. In former days they used to sacrifice their whole life for realizing self-realization. Deva-munīndra-guhyam (CC Madhya 22.42). Even the demigods, even great saintly persons, they sacrificed everything; still, they were unsuccessful. You see?
Now, for this age, Lord Caitanya mercifully has given you so much easiest process for God realization, there is no comparison. Simply to sacrifice a little time. Śravaṇam. Simply hear. You haven't got to pay any charges. Śravaṇam. Simply you have to sit down a little patiently and hear. You'll realize it. It is such a nice thing. Lord Caitanya, therefore, recommended this process. In this age no process will help you for self-realization but this process. Sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhiḥ (SB 10.14.3).
If you be situated in whatever position you are, it doesn't matter. We are not going to enquire what you are: "Are you businessman, engineer, doctor, or police, or intelligent, or educated, non-educated, black, white?"—there is no question. No question. The only thing is that sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatām. Śruti-gatām means . . . śruti means this aural reception. You have to receive this word little submissively. Namanta eva. Don't think yourself that you are very mean, man of knowledge. Because our knowledge is very limited, so we should not be puffed up with false thinking that "I am very learned man." No. Just become a little gentle and submissive, and hear these messages from Kṛṣṇa.
Sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhiḥ. Tanu. Tanu means your body, and vāṅ means your words, and mana means mind. Just try to adjust your mind, your body, your words, and hear the Śrīmad-Bhagavad-gītā, which is spoken by the Supreme Lord, and put your arguments, put your reason, whatever you have got. Don't accept it blindly. And think over it, and then you'll see what is the result. This is . . .
So rākṣasīm. But in spite of all these facilities, the Lord says, the rākṣasīm āsurīṁ caiva, those who are rākṣasa . . . rākṣasa means almost man-eaters. Rākṣasa are called man-eaters, more than tiger. They, for their self-satisfaction, they can eat, I mean to say, even, even their own sons. You see? They are called rākṣasas. No shame. "My sense gratification should be satisfied. Never mind. You go to hell." So this is the age. So we, we create a machine that everyone comes and becomes smashed in that machine, and my sense satisfaction is there, although I'll never be happy by that sense satisfaction. This is going on.
You can know this world is now managed by the rākṣasas. Rākṣasa. They don't mind what is happening. They are prepared to sacrifice everything for fulfilling their whimsical nonsense. They are called rākṣasa. Rākṣasīm āsurīṁ caiva prakṛtiṁ mohinīṁ śritāḥ. Why they are? Now, they are very much enamored by this material beauty. Not beauty; the material civilization. So they cannot. They cannot understand. It is very difficult for them. They cannot understand. And they'll never try to understand, because they are rākṣasas. Then, who will understand God? Mahātmā.
- mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha
- daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ
- bhajanty ananya-manaso
- jñātvā bhūtādim avyayam
- (BG 9.13)
And here it . . . "Those who are mahatma . . ." Mahātmā means one who has enlarged his heart. Enlarged his heart: "Oh, everything belongs to God, and I also belong to God." He's mahātmā. Mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha: "My dear Arjuna, these mahātmās, they are not in . . . under the control of this material nature." One who can think that "Everything belongs to God, and I also belong to God. Therefore the supreme proprietor is God. Everything should be engaged in His service . . ." this is the qualification of mahātmā, broader. "God is great," and his heart is also has become great for serving the great. He's mahātmā.
Mahātmā, not a stamp, a political leader, mahātmā. Don't misunderstand. "I stamp you mahātmā by votes, and you become God. You become mahātmā," these are not accepted in Bhagavad-gītā. Mahātmā's description is there, that mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ: "He has taken the shelter of the superior, spiritual energy."