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	Prabhupāda: . . . I spoke in Hindi. Now today I speak in English. If required I shall again speak in Hindi tomorrow. In this way, alternatively.		'''Prabhupāda:''' . . . I spoke in Hindi. Now today I speak in English. If required I shall again speak in Hindi tomorrow. In this way, alternatively.

	So we are worshiping Kṛṣṇa. His simple business is, as we have described, Rādhā-Mādhava, He is lover of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Kṛṣṇa means lover. This very word ''Kṛṣṇa'' means "all-attractive." You can attract by your love, not by anything else. Therefore His name is Kṛṣṇa. I have read one book, ''Aquarian Gospel'', among the Christians. In that book it is said that the word ''Christ'' has come from the word ''Christo. Christo'', it is a Greek word, and the meaning of ''Christo'' is "lover," "anointed." So I think the word ''Christ'' is ''apabhraṁśa'' of ''Christo'', and ''Christo'' . . . in India still, if one's name is Kṛṣṇa, we call him Kriṣṭa, or sometimes Keṣṭa. My younger brother, his name was Kṛṣṇa. So in family we were calling him "Keṣṭa." That is very current. So actually ''love'', the word ''love'', has come from ''Kṛṣṇa''. That is a fact. Therefore you will see always Kṛṣṇa always with Rādhārāṇī. We worship Kṛṣṇa—Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa, Sītā-Rāma. This is Vaiṣṇava's worshipable Deity. We do not worship alone God. We Vaiṣṇava, we want to see Kṛṣṇa and His energy, potency. That is Vedic system.		So we are worshiping Kṛṣṇa. His simple business is, as we have described, Rādhā-Mādhava, He is lover of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Kṛṣṇa means lover. This very word ''Kṛṣṇa'' means "all-attractive." You can attract by your love, not by anything else. Therefore His name is Kṛṣṇa. I have read one book, ''Aquarian Gospel'', among the Christians. In that book it is said that the word ''Christ'' has come from the word ''Christo. Christo'', it is a Greek word, and the meaning of ''Christo'' is "lover," "anointed." So I think the word ''Christ'' is ''apabhraṁśa'' of ''Christo'', and ''Christo'' . . . in India still, if one's name is Kṛṣṇa, we call him Kriṣṭa, or sometimes Keṣṭa. My younger brother, his name was Kṛṣṇa. So in family we were calling him "Keṣṭa." That is very current. So actually ''love'', the word ''love'', has come from ''Kṛṣṇa''. That is a fact. Therefore you will see always Kṛṣṇa always with Rādhārāṇī. We worship Kṛṣṇa—Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa, Sītā-Rāma. This is Vaiṣṇava's worshipable Deity. We do not worship alone God. We Vaiṣṇava, we want to see Kṛṣṇa and His energy, potency. That is Vedic system.

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	:''parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate''		:''parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate''
	:''svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca''		:''svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca''
	:(''Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad'' 6.8, [[CC Madhya 13.65\|CC Madhya 13.65, purport]])		:(Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8, [[CC Madhya 13.65\|CC Madhya 13.65, purport]])

	The Supreme Absolute Truth, He has nothing to do. He has nothing to do. ''Na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate''. He has nothing to do. Everything is being done by His potencies. Just like a big man, a big business man, or a big, the president of the state, he personally does not do anything. But his energies, his secretaries and others, they do everything. He simply signs or gives sanction. So this is the fact. God has nothing to do. Everything is being done very nicely by His energies. Just like the sunshine or the sun planet is one of the energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the whole material world is being conducted very nicely by the sunshine. This is scientific. Due to the sunshine, all the planets, they are rotating in their prescribed orbit, and nobody is colliding with one another. Everything is going nicely, sunshine. Due to sunshine, the seasonal changes are taking place, and the varieties of trees, plants are growing. Everything is going on. The moon is also working under sunshine. And due to the moon, there are waves in the sea. There are changes of the ebb tide and flow tide. So one energy of the sunshine is doing so much things.		The Supreme Absolute Truth, He has nothing to do. He has nothing to do. ''Na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate''. He has nothing to do. Everything is being done by His potencies. Just like a big man, a big business man, or a big, the president of the state, he personally does not do anything. But his energies, his secretaries and others, they do everything. He simply signs or gives sanction. So this is the fact. God has nothing to do. Everything is being done very nicely by His energies. Just like the sunshine or the sun planet is one of the energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the whole material world is being conducted very nicely by the sunshine. This is scientific. Due to the sunshine, all the planets, they are rotating in their prescribed orbit, and nobody is colliding with one another. Everything is going nicely, sunshine. Due to sunshine, the seasonal changes are taking place, and the varieties of trees, plants are growing. Everything is going on. The moon is also working under sunshine. And due to the moon, there are waves in the sea. There are changes of the ebb tide and flow tide. So one energy of the sunshine is doing so much things.

	So ''parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate'' (''Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad'' 6.8, [[CC Madhya 13.65\|CC Madhya 13.65, purport]]). His energies are working so nicely that ''svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca''. ''Svabhāva. Svabhāva'' means natural. Just like a rose flower is coming into existence, very nicely painted, very nicely colored, very nicely flavored. So it requires brain. How you can say that it has been done automatically? No. There is brain. That is said in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'': ''mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram'' ([[BG 9.10 (1972)\|BG 9.10]]). The nature is working under His direction. But His direction is so complete that it appears to us as it is being done automatically. Not automatic. There is brain behind it. Just like nowadays there are so many mechanical invention. You just push one button and things come, as we see in the airplane, there are simply . . . the pilot is working simply by pushing some buttons, and such a big, gigantic plane is floating in the sky. We can understand. The television, simply by pushing one button . . . so if materially it is so much advanced, perfection is possible, you can just imagine spiritually how much it is perfectly possible.		So ''parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate'' (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8, [[CC Madhya 13.65\|CC Madhya 13.65, purport]]). His energies are working so nicely that ''svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca''. ''Svabhāva. Svabhāva'' means natural. Just like a rose flower is coming into existence, very nicely painted, very nicely colored, very nicely flavored. So it requires brain. How you can say that it has been done automatically? No. There is brain. That is said in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'': ''mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram'' ([[BG 9.10 (1972)\|BG 9.10]]). The nature is working under His direction. But His direction is so complete that it appears to us as it is being done automatically. Not automatic. There is brain behind it. Just like nowadays there are so many mechanical invention. You just push one button and things come, as we see in the airplane, there are simply . . . the pilot is working simply by pushing some buttons, and such a big, gigantic plane is floating in the sky. We can understand. The television, simply by pushing one button . . . so if materially it is so much advanced, perfection is possible, you can just imagine spiritually how much it is perfectly possible.

	So this perfection of love . . . we are also after love. A young man is after love, a young boy is after love. So wherefrom this love comes? Because originally the love is there in Kṛṣṇa. That is the version of the ''Vedānta-sūtra. Janmādy asya yataḥ'' ([[SB 1.1.1\|SB 1.1.1]]). ''Yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante'' (''Taittirīya Upaniṣad'' 3.1). So this loving affair has come from the Supreme Absolute Truth, but it is pervertedly reflected only. Pervertedly reflected. ''Yatra tri-sargaḥ amṛṣā.'' Here in the material world we are simply seeing the perverted reflection of the spiritual world. Therefore in ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' it is said, in the beginning:		So this perfection of love . . . we are also after love. A young man is after love, a young boy is after love. So wherefrom this love comes? Because originally the love is there in Kṛṣṇa. That is the version of the ''Vedānta-sūtra. Janmādy asya yataḥ'' ([[SB 1.1.1\|SB 1.1.1]]). ''Yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante'' (Taittirīya Upaniṣad 3.1). So this loving affair has come from the Supreme Absolute Truth, but it is pervertedly reflected only. Pervertedly reflected. ''Yatra tri-sargaḥ amṛṣā.'' Here in the material world we are simply seeing the perverted reflection of the spiritual world. Therefore in ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' it is said, in the beginning:

	:''janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ''		:''janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ''
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	So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is just to teach people not to be allured by the illusory so-called water and love or anything. There is one reality: ''satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi'' ([[SB 1.1.1\|SB 1.1.1]]). Just try to come to the real reality. Don't be entrapped by the false reality. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness move . . . we are entrapped by the false reality, ''māyā. Māyā-mṛgaṁ dayitayepsitam anvadhāvat'' ([[SB 11.5.34\|SB 11.5.34]]). ''Māyā'' . . . just like the deer, he runs over the false water in the desert. But the water goes ahead more and more, and the poor animal, without finding water, dies. But a sane man does not go. A sane man knows that reflection of water is not water. But that does not mean . . . because there is no water in the desert, it does not mean that there is no water. The water is there, but not in the desert. That is knowledge.		So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is just to teach people not to be allured by the illusory so-called water and love or anything. There is one reality: ''satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi'' ([[SB 1.1.1\|SB 1.1.1]]). Just try to come to the real reality. Don't be entrapped by the false reality. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness move . . . we are entrapped by the false reality, ''māyā. Māyā-mṛgaṁ dayitayepsitam anvadhāvat'' ([[SB 11.5.34\|SB 11.5.34]]). ''Māyā'' . . . just like the deer, he runs over the false water in the desert. But the water goes ahead more and more, and the poor animal, without finding water, dies. But a sane man does not go. A sane man knows that reflection of water is not water. But that does not mean . . . because there is no water in the desert, it does not mean that there is no water. The water is there, but not in the desert. That is knowledge.

	Therefore we were discussing last night this verse, ''jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā. Jīvasya'', every living entity, should be inquisitive to know where is real pleasure. Because we are hunting after pleasure, everyone. ''Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt'' (''Vedānta-sūtra'' 1.1.12). Because we are by nature ''ānandamaya'', because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. ''Mamaivāṁśaḥ'', Kṛṣṇa says. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is ''sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha'' (Bs. 5.1). ''Sat, cit, ānanda''. He is personified, ''sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha. Vigraha'' means person or the form, transcendental form, of ''sac-cid-ānanda. Sat'' means eternity, and ''cit'' means knowledge, and ''ānanda'', pleasure. His body is ''sac-cid-ānanda.'' But our body is not ''sac-cid-ānanda'', this present body, the material body. It is neither ''sat'', because it is temporary; therefore it is not ''sat''. And ''cit''. Oh, we are ignorant in so many things. There is no knowledge. ''Abodha-jāta''. This body means ignorance. This material body means ignorance. ''Abodha-jāta''.		Therefore we were discussing last night this verse, ''jīvasya tattva-jijñāsā. Jīvasya'', every living entity, should be inquisitive to know where is real pleasure. Because we are hunting after pleasure, everyone. ''Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt'' (Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.12). Because we are by nature ''ānandamaya'', because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. ''Mamaivāṁśaḥ'', Kṛṣṇa says. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is ''sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha'' (Bs. 5.1). ''Sat, cit, ānanda''. He is personified, ''sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha. Vigraha'' means person or the form, transcendental form, of ''sac-cid-ānanda. Sat'' means eternity, and ''cit'' means knowledge, and ''ānanda'', pleasure. His body is ''sac-cid-ānanda.'' But our body is not ''sac-cid-ānanda'', this present body, the material body. It is neither ''sat'', because it is temporary; therefore it is not ''sat''. And ''cit''. Oh, we are ignorant in so many things. There is no knowledge. ''Abodha-jāta''. This body means ignorance. This material body means ignorance. ''Abodha-jāta''.

	That is stated in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'': ''parābhavas tāvad abodha-jātaḥ'' ([[SB 5.5.5\|SB 5.5.5]]). ''Abodha-jāta'' means the embodiment of ignorance. We do not know so many things. In our own body . . . I am claiming, "It is my body," but I do not know how the body is working, how we are taking food, how it is being transferred into different secretions, then the secretion is going to the heart. And we know something by the medical science, but it is not perfect. Medical science fails. Although I am claiming . . . I do not know, at least. The physician may know, the medical man may know, but I am claiming, "I am this body," but I do not know how it is working. Therefore we are all ''abodha-jāta. Abodha-jāta.''		That is stated in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'': ''parābhavas tāvad abodha-jātaḥ'' ([[SB 5.5.5\|SB 5.5.5]]). ''Abodha-jāta'' means the embodiment of ignorance. We do not know so many things. In our own body . . . I am claiming, "It is my body," but I do not know how the body is working, how we are taking food, how it is being transferred into different secretions, then the secretion is going to the heart. And we know something by the medical science, but it is not perfect. Medical science fails. Although I am claiming . . . I do not know, at least. The physician may know, the medical man may know, but I am claiming, "I am this body," but I do not know how it is working. Therefore we are all ''abodha-jāta. Abodha-jāta.''
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	:''sad-vaiṣṇavaḥ śva-paco guruḥ''		:''sad-vaiṣṇavaḥ śva-paco guruḥ''
	:(''Padma Purāṇa'')		:(Padma Purāṇa)

	''Sad-vaiṣṇava.'' One has to become Vaiṣṇava. Vaiṣṇava means one who is a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore Kṛṣṇa instructed Arjuna. He said, ''bhakto 'si priyo 'si'' ([[BG 4.3 (1972)\|BG 4.3]]): "Because you are My ''bhakta'', therefore I am talking to you." So ''guru'' means a Vaiṣṇava. He must be a representative of Kṛṣṇa.		''Sad-vaiṣṇava.'' One has to become Vaiṣṇava. Vaiṣṇava means one who is a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore Kṛṣṇa instructed Arjuna. He said, ''bhakto 'si priyo 'si'' ([[BG 4.3 (1972)\|BG 4.3]]): "Because you are My ''bhakta'', therefore I am talking to you." So ''guru'' means a Vaiṣṇava. He must be a representative of Kṛṣṇa.
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	''Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam'' ([[CC Madhya 19.170\|CC Madhya 19.170]]). We have to purify the senses. Now I am thinking, "This hand is my hand" or "This hand is my society's hand," "my family's hand" or "my nation's hand," "my community's hand." ''Upādhi'', designation. But actually, this hand belongs to Kṛṣṇa, and therefore this hand should be used for Kṛṣṇa's purpose, not for anything else. That is called ''sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam''. Purify. Actually that. Therefore Kṛṣṇa's name is Hṛṣīkeśa. When these senses are purified, then with that purified senses, ''hṛṣīkeṇa—hṛṣīkeṇa'' means senses, by these senses—''hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate'' ([[CC Madhya 19.170\|CC Madhya 19.170]]). This is ''bhakti''.		''Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam'' ([[CC Madhya 19.170\|CC Madhya 19.170]]). We have to purify the senses. Now I am thinking, "This hand is my hand" or "This hand is my society's hand," "my family's hand" or "my nation's hand," "my community's hand." ''Upādhi'', designation. But actually, this hand belongs to Kṛṣṇa, and therefore this hand should be used for Kṛṣṇa's purpose, not for anything else. That is called ''sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam''. Purify. Actually that. Therefore Kṛṣṇa's name is Hṛṣīkeśa. When these senses are purified, then with that purified senses, ''hṛṣīkeṇa—hṛṣīkeṇa'' means senses, by these senses—''hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate'' ([[CC Madhya 19.170\|CC Madhya 19.170]]). This is ''bhakti''.

	So ''tattva-jijñāsā.'' Everyone should be inquisitive to inquire about the value of life, not like cats and dogs, no inquiry, simply . . . we go, walk, walking in the morning. We see so many nice bungalows—they are sleeping, as if the sleeping will save him. No. ''Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna'' (''Hitopadeśa'' 25), these four things, they are thinking that these four things will save him. No. Now you are situated in a very nice bungalow, very good income, very good wife and children. But any moment you can be kicked out of this situation, and you have to accept another body which is not very comfortable. This is nature's law. This is ''tattva-jijñāsā''. If we simply foolishly think, "Now I am very secure," that is God, dog . . . (break) . . . Vṛndāvana, They were ministers in the government of Nawab Hussain Shah. But when they lived in Vṛndāvana, about their life it is stated by Śrīnivāsa Ācārya, ''nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau.'' These things, ''nidrā, āhāra, vihāra. Nidrā'' means sleeping, ''āhāra'' means eating and ''vihāra'' means sense gratification. So ''nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau,'' conquered. Conquer. We have to conquer. This is called ''jitendriya''.		So ''tattva-jijñāsā.'' Everyone should be inquisitive to inquire about the value of life, not like cats and dogs, no inquiry, simply . . . we go, walk, walking in the morning. We see so many nice bungalows—they are sleeping, as if the sleeping will save him. No. ''Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna'' (Hitopadeśa 25), these four things, they are thinking that these four things will save him. No. Now you are situated in a very nice bungalow, very good income, very good wife and children. But any moment you can be kicked out of this situation, and you have to accept another body which is not very comfortable. This is nature's law. This is ''tattva-jijñāsā''. If we simply foolishly think, "Now I am very secure," that is God, dog . . . (break) . . . Vṛndāvana, They were ministers in the government of Nawab Hussain Shah. But when they lived in Vṛndāvana, about their life it is stated by Śrīnivāsa Ācārya, ''nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau.'' These things, ''nidrā, āhāra, vihāra. Nidrā'' means sleeping, ''āhāra'' means eating and ''vihāra'' means sense gratification. So ''nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau,'' conquered. Conquer. We have to conquer. This is called ''jitendriya''.

	So ''tattva-jijñāsā''. This life is meant for ''tattva-jijñāsā.'' Not a single moment should be wasted if we actually want to save ourself. But we do not know what is saving. We do not know; even we do not understand the very first instruction of ''Bhagavad-gītā'': ''tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ'' ([[BG 2.13 (1972)\|BG 2.13]]). A sane person should be inquisitive: "Now, I was a child; I got a baby's body. Now, from baby's body, youth's body. From youth's body, now I've got this old, old-age body. Then what is next? What is next?" This should be natural inquiry. And the answer is there in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' in the beginning, ''tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ'': "You'll have to accept another body." The ''nāstika'', they say that "There is no . . . no more life." Just like Professor Kotovsky, when I was in Moscow, he said, "Swāmījī, after the annihilation of the body, there is nothing. Everything finished." Just see. Now, Kṛṣṇa says that ''na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre'' ([[BG 2.20 (1972)\|BG 2.20]]). ''Na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācin na hanyate''. Now, shall I accept Professor Kotovsky's statement or Kṛṣṇa's statement? Which shall I accept?		So ''tattva-jijñāsā''. This life is meant for ''tattva-jijñāsā.'' Not a single moment should be wasted if we actually want to save ourself. But we do not know what is saving. We do not know; even we do not understand the very first instruction of ''Bhagavad-gītā'': ''tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ'' ([[BG 2.13 (1972)\|BG 2.13]]). A sane person should be inquisitive: "Now, I was a child; I got a baby's body. Now, from baby's body, youth's body. From youth's body, now I've got this old, old-age body. Then what is next? What is next?" This should be natural inquiry. And the answer is there in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' in the beginning, ''tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ'': "You'll have to accept another body." The ''nāstika'', they say that "There is no . . . no more life." Just like Professor Kotovsky, when I was in Moscow, he said, "Swāmījī, after the annihilation of the body, there is nothing. Everything finished." Just see. Now, Kṛṣṇa says that ''na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre'' ([[BG 2.20 (1972)\|BG 2.20]]). ''Na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācin na hanyate''. Now, shall I accept Professor Kotovsky's statement or Kṛṣṇa's statement? Which shall I accept?

	Of course, according to our Vedic civilization, we have to accept the authority. All our ''ācāryas'', those who are practically conducting the Vedic civilization or Hindu civilization—Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Śaṅkarācārya—everything, everyone says there is life. Śaṅkarācārya says, ''bālās tāvat krīḍāsaktaḥ'': "Oh, the boys . . ." He is going as a ''sannyāsī'', passing through the street. He sees, ''bālās tāvat krīḍāsaktaḥ'': "Oh, the boys are engaged in playing." ''Bālās tāvat krīḍāsaktaḥ.'' "And the young men, they are after young girls." ''Bālās tāvat krīḍāsaktaḥ'', and ''vṛddhāś tāvat cintā-magnāḥ, taruṇās tāvat taruṇī-raktāḥ'' (''Bhaja Govindam'' 7). I am just forgetting the words. ''Taruṇa'' means young man. Young man, he is after some young girl, or young girl is after some young man. So childhood is being spoiled by playing, and youthhood is being spoiled by searching after the opposite sex, and old man, ''vṛddhās tāvat cintā-magnāḥ,'' and old man is thinking, "Now I could not do so, I could not situate this boy into right position. The girl is still unmarried. Now I am going to die." So many things, thoughts. ''Parame brahmaṇi ko 'pi na lagnāḥ'' . . . (''Bhaja Govindam'' 7) . "And nobody is interested with Para-brahman."		Of course, according to our Vedic civilization, we have to accept the authority. All our ''ācāryas'', those who are practically conducting the Vedic civilization or Hindu civilization—Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Śaṅkarācārya—everything, everyone says there is life. Śaṅkarācārya says, ''bālās tāvat krīḍāsaktaḥ'': "Oh, the boys . . ." He is going as a ''sannyāsī'', passing through the street. He sees, ''bālās tāvat krīḍāsaktaḥ'': "Oh, the boys are engaged in playing." ''Bālās tāvat krīḍāsaktaḥ.'' "And the young men, they are after young girls." ''Bālās tāvat krīḍāsaktaḥ'', and ''vṛddhāś tāvat cintā-magnāḥ, taruṇās tāvat taruṇī-raktāḥ'' (Bhaja Govindam 7). I am just forgetting the words. ''Taruṇa'' means young man. Young man, he is after some young girl, or young girl is after some young man. So childhood is being spoiled by playing, and youthhood is being spoiled by searching after the opposite sex, and old man, ''vṛddhās tāvat cintā-magnāḥ,'' and old man is thinking, "Now I could not do so, I could not situate this boy into right position. The girl is still unmarried. Now I am going to die." So many things, thoughts. ''Parame brahmaṇi ko 'pi na lagnāḥ'' . . . (Bhaja Govindam 7) . "And nobody is interested with Para-brahman."

	This is the world. He is thinking of so many things for others' benefit. He does not know his own benefit, that after death he is going to change his body. He has to accept another body. His chapter will begin a new history. "Now, what kind of body I am going to accept?" That he does not know. Therefore he is called ''abodha-jāta'', fools. So therefore in his ignorance, whatever he is doing, ''parābhava'', simply defeat. Simply defeat.		This is the world. He is thinking of so many things for others' benefit. He does not know his own benefit, that after death he is going to change his body. He has to accept another body. His chapter will begin a new history. "Now, what kind of body I am going to accept?" That he does not know. Therefore he is called ''abodha-jāta'', fools. So therefore in his ignorance, whatever he is doing, ''parābhava'', simply defeat. Simply defeat.

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