Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.

Oṁ namo bhagavate
vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads
chanting of verse, etc.]
jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam
idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ
yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo 'nyaj
jñātavyam avaśiṣyate
[Bg. 7.2]
[break] [00:46]
"I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge, both
phenomenal and noumenal, by knowing which there shall remain
nothing further to be known."

Prabhupāda:
jñānaṁ te 'haṁ sa-vijñānam
idaṁ vakṣyāmy aśeṣataḥ
yaj jñātvā neha bhūyo 'nyaj
jñātavyam avaśiṣyate
[Bg. 7.2]
So Kṛṣṇa is personally speaking about Himself as we understood in
the previous verse, that asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ yathā jñāsyasi
tac chṛṇu [Bg. 7.1].
” श्रीभगवानुवाच
मय्यासक्तमनाः पार्थ योगं युञ्जन्मदाश्रयः |
असंशयं समग्रं मां यथा ज्ञास्यसि तच्छृणु || १ ||”
अनुवाद
श्रीभगवान् ने कहा – हे पृथापुत्र! अब सुनो कि तुम किस तरह मेरी भावना से पूर्ण
होकर और मन को मुझमें आसक्त करके योगाभ्यास करते हुए मुझे पूर्णतया संशयरहित
जान सकते हो |
Asaṁśayam, without any doubt. If we speculate about God, that will
never be sufficient. Not even we can touch the precincts of the
knowledge. If we want knowledge without any doubt, asaṁśayam,
samagram, and complete, then we must hear from God Himself. This
is very easy to understand. By hypothesis, by speculation, you cannot
understand anything. It must be known scientifically, and this science
can be understood if a person knows the science. So who can know
God better than God Himself?
Therefore our process is---we have repeatedly explained this---that we
do not speculate about God. Just like there are so many others,
theosophists and theologists, they're speculating what is God. They
don't accept... God personally explaining, they would not accept. They
would simply speculate. This is their disease. When God is explaining
Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā... Rather, they will mislead the readings
of the Bhagavad-gītā in different interpretation, but they will not
accept what is being taught by God Himself. This is their misfortune.
"Why shall I accept Kṛṣṇa as God?" Although He has proved Himself
when He was present by the qualification which God needs...
To become God is not easy thing. There are some qualification,
yesterday we discussed, that He must be the richest, He must be the
most powerful, He must be the most famous, He must be the most
learned, He must be the most beautiful, and He must be the most
renounced. This is the definition of God. A poor man, begging from
door to door, he cannot become God, as it is misconceived, daridra-
nārāyaṇa. Why Nārāyaṇa can be daridra? What is this nonsense? He
is the richest. He is the richest. And why He can..., He will
be daridra? The argument is forwarded that "God is everyone's heart;
therefore everyone is God." What is this argument? Everyone's heart,
God is there. God said, īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna
tiṣṭhati [Bg. 18.61].
“ईश्र्वरः सर्वभूतानां हृद्देशेऽर्जुन तिष्ठति |
भ्रामयन्सर्वभूतानि यन्त्रारुढ़ानि मायया || ६१ ||”
अनुवाद
हे अर्जुन! परमेश्र्वर प्रत्येक जीव के हृदय में स्थित हैं और भौतिक शक्ति से
निर्मित यन्त्र में सवार की भाँति बैठे समस्त जीवों को अपनी माया से घुमा
(भरमा) रहे हैं |
Where God says that because īśvara, the Supreme Being, is situated
in everyone's heart, therefore everyone is God? What is this
argument? Where Kṛṣṇa says that because īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati, therefore everyone is God? Is that very sound
argument?
So this is going on. They do not know what is God, and still, there are
so many incarnations of God. And foolish people accept that "Here is
an incarnation of God." He does not know what is God, and he
accepts, "Here is incarnation." We do not do so. If there is incarnation
of God... That is mentioned in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Their activities
are mentioned, wonderful activities. We accept Lord Rāmacandra as
God, Lord Kṛṣṇa as God, Caitanya Mahāprabhu as God, because They
are mentioned in the śāstras, all the incarnations, even this age. One
may say that "Lord Rāmacandra is accepted God, Lord Kṛṣṇa is also
accepted, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He is the greatest devotee of
God, but..." There are some persons in the Nimbārka-sampradāya,
they put this argument. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu's name is there in
the śāstra, many Upaniṣads, especially in the Śrīmad-
Bhāgavatam, that in the Kali-yuga this incarnation of God should be
worshiped. What is that description?
kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ
sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam
yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair
yajanti hi sumedhasaḥ
[SB 11.5.32]
Clearly Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣā akṛṣṇam. He is
Kṛṣṇa. Or kṛṣṇaṁ varṇayati, iti kṛṣṇa-varṇam. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, the
most authoritative ācārya of our sampradāya, he has explained like
this. Kṛṣṇa-varṇam means always chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇaṁ
varṇayati, describing Kṛṣṇa, "Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa." This is
description of Kṛṣṇa, addressing Kṛṣṇa. So therefore kṛṣṇa-
varṇam, or varṇam means category, just like brāhmaṇa-varṇa,
kṣatriya-varṇa. So in that way kṛṣṇa-varṇa means He is Kṛṣṇa, in the
category of Kṛṣṇa. Either you take this meaning or that
meaning, kṛṣṇa-varṇam. But Kṛṣṇa is black, and He is tviṣā, by the
complexion, akṛṣṇa. Akṛṣṇa means not Kṛṣṇa. Now, there are so many
colors. So everything is akṛṣṇa. That color, all the colors are mixed
together, it becomes black. Otherwise there are many different colors.
So akṛṣṇa means different color, "not kṛṣṇa," not black. So what is the
actual? That we have to refer to śāstra again, that Kṛṣṇa, in how many
categories of color He appears? That is stated in
the Bhāgavatam. When Kṛṣṇa was born, then Gargamuni was
calculating about His horoscope, and he said to Nanda Mahārāja that
"This your child..." Idānīṁ kṛṣṇatāṁ gataḥ. Śuklo raktas tathā pīta
idānīṁ kṛṣṇatāṁ gataḥ [SB 10.8.13]
आसन् वर्णास्त्रयो ह्यस्य गृह्णतोऽनुयुगं तनू: ।
शुक्लो रक्तस्तथा पीत इदानीं कृष्णतां गत: ॥ १३ ॥
Your son Kṛṣṇa appears as an incarnation in every millennium.
In the past, He assumed three different colors — white, red and
yellow — and now He has appeared in a blackish color. [In
another Dvāpara-yuga, He appeared (as Lord Rāmacandra) in the
color of śuka, a parrot. All such incarnations have now assembled
in Kṛṣṇa.]
= "Your child had formerly white color." White color... Sometimes
some critics criticize us that "Kṛṣṇa everywhere, He is black. Why in
your temple white?" But it is said that śukla, śuklo raktas tathā pīta
idānīṁ kṛṣṇatāṁ gataḥ: "Your son had other colors also, white and
red and yellow, and now He has assumed blackish color."
So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, tviṣā akṛṣṇam. He is not blackish. Then He
must be other form---śukla, rakta or pīta. So He assumed
the pīta, yellowish color. Therefore tviṣā akṛṣṇam. Tviṣā means by
complexion. So kṛṣṇa-varṇam, kṛṣṇaṁ varṇayati, iti kṛṣṇa-
varṇam, or kṛṣṇa iti kṛṣṇa-varṇam, and tviṣā, by complexion, akṛṣṇa,
pīta, idānīṁ pīta-varṇam. Pīta-varṇa
gaura, golden avatāra. And sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam: He is always
surrounded by associates, specially by Śrī Advaita, Gadādhara,
Śrīvāsādi. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, He is Kṛṣṇa, then Nityānanda, then
Advaita, then Gadādhara, then Śrīvāsa, and many other devotees
always followed. That is the life of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Wherever He went, many followers chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, plus these
principal associates were with Him. Therefore sāṅgopāṅgāstra-
pārṣa... And these sāṅga upāṅga were His astra. Astra. Astra means
weapon.
God advents for two purposes. What are the two
purposes? Paritrāṇāya sādhūnām [Bg. 4.8] = just to give relief and
deliver the devotees. The devotees are always anxious to see God, so
God comes down to give relief to the devotee, being present before
them. Paritrāṇāya sādhūnām. Another = vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām, to
annihilate the demons. So there..., for annihilating, for killing, you
require weapons. Kṛṣṇa has His weapon, sudarśana-cakra. Lord
Rāmacandra has His weapon, bow and arrow. What is the weapon of
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu? Sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam. His associates
are His weapons. This is astra. Because in the Kali-yuga they are so
fallen, even they are demons, they are third-class, fourth-class
demons. [laughter] [laughs] So they need not be killed. They are
already killed. Their mode of life, their atmosphere, they are always
dead. Just like we see so many demons. So what is there to kill them?
They are already killed. They have no life. So this killing process in
Kali-yuga is to kill their demonic propensities. And how to kill that
demonic propensities? By spreading Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. This
is astra. Otherwise to kill them is not... By life, it is not difficult. One
slap is sufficient. You don't require other weapon. But real Kṛṣṇa
comes to kill or to give protection---because He is Absolute, it is the
same thing. If He is killing some demons, He is giving him protection.
He stops his demonic activities further, to implicate himself in more
trouble. Therefore when Kṛṣṇa kills one demon, that means He saves
him. He saves him. The Absolute; this is Absolute. Either He protects
His devotee or kills the demon, the result is the same. Therefore He is
called Absolute.
So in this age, Kali-yuga, to kill the demons means to stop their
demonic activities by the astra, kīrtana, hari-saṅkīrtana, which is
spread by His associates. Nityānanda Prabhu, Advaita
Prabhu, Śrīvāsa-ādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda, they are going door to door,
country to country, city to city, and saving the demons from being
implicated more and more in material existence. Therefore this is
the astra. Astra means the killing. Real purpose... The living entity is
eternal. How he can be killed? Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg.
2.20]. So to kill means to kill his demonic nature. Otherwise how he
can be killed? Ya imam... There is a verse that anyone who knows that
the living entity is never killed and... A living entity does not kill
anyone; neither a living entity is ever killed. One who knows this, he
knows. So that is the position. So killing does not mean that killing the
living entity. That is not possible. Na jāyate na mriyate vā. Killing
means to kill his demonic activities. Stop. Killing means stop acting.
So sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam. This is the description of the God,
Kṛṣṇa, in this age. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ
tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam [SB 11.5.32]. And how to
worship Him? What is the process? Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ. That's all.
You keep Caitanya Mahāprabhu's Deity and chant and dance---your
life is successful. So easy. We are worshiping Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. That is
very difficult. But if we keep Caitanya Mahāprabhu with His
associates, this Pañca-tattva, Gaura-Nitāi, Gaura-Gadādhara, or Pañca-
tattva, and worship Him according to the śāstra description...
The śāstra description is yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ. This is yajña. Life is
meant for performing yajña. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, yajñārthe
karma. You are very busy. Yes, you should be busy always, twenty-
four hours. For what purpose? Yajñārthe, not for your sense
gratification. That is devotional life. Yajñārthe karma. Karma. We are
not dull matter. We have got our flexible hands and legs to work.
People think that "These Kṛṣṇa conscious men, Hare Kṛṣṇa people,
they are escaping." What is that, escaping?
Devotee: Escapist.
Prabhupāda: We are not escaping. We are practically taking the real
activities. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate [Bg. 2.59].
“विषया विनिवर्तन्ते निराहारस्य देहिनः |
रसवर्जं रसोऽप्यस्य परं दृष्ट्वा निवर्तते || ५९ ||”
अनुवाद
देहधारी जीव इन्द्रियभोग से भले ही निवृत्त हो जाय पर उसमें इन्द्रियभोगों की
इच्छा बनी रहती है | लेकिन उत्तम रस के अनुभव होने से ऐसे कार्यों को बन्द करने
पर वह भक्ति में स्थिर हो जाता है |
Although people see that we do not work, we do not go to the factory,
we do not to the mine, we do not go to the so many, so many things,
or professional. We do not become lawyer, engineer. They say that we
are escaping. No. You see we are always busy, twenty-four hours
busy. I am old man of eighty years; still, I am busy. I am traveling all
over the world, writing book at night, talking with visitors, and so
many things. You can see. So where we are escaping? We are the most
responsible worker. So the... What is the difference? The difference is
all people are engaged for sense gratification; we are engaged for
satisfying Kṛṣṇa. But activities are there.
So when you engage yourself for satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa... Yajña means
satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, or Viṣṇu. Viṣṇur ārādhyate panthā nānyat-tat-
toṣa-kāraṇam [Cc. Madhya 8.58].
varṇāśramācāra-vatā
puruṣeṇa paraḥ pumān
viṣṇur ārādhyate panthā
nānyat tat-toṣa-kāraṇam
“ ‘The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, is worshiped
by the proper execution of prescribed duties in the system of
varṇa and āśrama. There is no other way to satisfy the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. One must be situated in the institution of
the four varṇas and āśramas.’ ”
This is called yajña. Yajña means worshiping Lord Viṣṇu. Tat-toṣa-
kāraṇam, acting for His satisfaction. Toṣa means satisfaction. And in
another place it is also said, ataḥ pumbhir dvija-śreṣṭhā varṇāśrama-
vibhāgaśaḥ, svanuṣṭhitasya puṁsasya..., svanuṣṭhitasya
puṁsasya... Huh?
Puṣṭa-kṛṣṇa: Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya.
Prabhupāda: Ah. Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya saṁsiddhir hari-
toṣaṇam [SB 1.2.13].
अत: पुम्भिर्द्विजश्रेष्ठा वर्णाश्रमविभागश: ।
स्वनुष्ठितस्य धर्मस्य संसिद्धिर्हरितोषणम् ॥ १३ ॥
Everyone has got different type of activities. Formerly it was divided
into four = the brāhmaṇa activity, the kṣatriya activity,
the vaiśya activity and the śūdra activity. Now it has been developed
at the present moment, so many. But if you again connect all of them,
they will come to the same categories or divisions. Some intelligent
class of men, they are working day and night about understanding
the Absolute Truth or the truth. Just like the theosophists, the
philosophers, the theologists, the scientists, so many brain worker,
they are working to discover better way of life, how the human
society should be more and more happy. So this is the work of
the brāhmaṇas. But nowadays the brain is not utilized for
understanding Brahman, but for understanding the ways of higher
standard of life, sense gratification. Anyway, that is intelligent work.
Next the administrative work. Next the productive work. And next the
worker, general worker. The same brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra.
So Bhagavad-gītā recommends that you work for Kṛṣṇa. If you are
engineer, so you use your talent how to construct a very wonderful
temple for Kṛṣṇa. That will be success of your learning
engineering. Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya. Anyone has got a particular
talent. So how to make that talent successful? Now, svanuṣṭhitasya
dharmasya saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam [SB 1.2.13]. If you are very first
class engineer, you construct such an wonderful temple for Kṛṣṇa
that people from all the world will come to see it. Then you are
successful. So any line of education, you cannot take it, but use it for
Kṛṣṇa's satisfaction. Then your education is perfect. Otherwise, śrama
eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8], simply working uselessly and waste of time.
What is this?
So yajña, that is yajña. When you work for Kṛṣṇa to satisfy Kṛṣṇa, that
is yajña. Yajña does not mean that simply by performing fire
sacrifices and offering little ghee upon it. No, that is yajña... That is
ordinary yajña, agnihotra-yajña. But the real purpose of yajña is... The
same purpose = in the fire sacrifice we offer the food grains. That
means the Supreme Lord is eating through fire. So eating is
satisfaction. So Kṛṣṇa is not satisfied only by eating. He has got other
senses also. Kṛṣṇa is not nirākāra. And Kṛṣṇa, you satisfy any sense of
Kṛṣṇa, you are successful. And He can satisfy anything through any
sense. Aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti. So this is the...,
called yajña, yajña.
So yajña has to be performed. Saha-yajñāḥ prajāḥ sṛṣṭvā [Bg. 3.10], in
the Bhagavad-gītā you will find. All the living entities were, especially
the human being, the demigods... Demigods were first created. The
seven ṛṣis, they created later on. Imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān...,
vivasvān manave prāha [Bg. 4.1].
“श्री भगवानुवाच
इमं विवस्वते योगं प्रोक्तवानहमव्ययम् |
विवस्वान्मनवे प्राह मनुरिक्ष्वाकवेऽब्रवीत् || १ ||”
अनुवाद
भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण ने कहा – मैंने इस अमर योगविद्या का उपदेश सूर्यदेव
विवस्वान् को दिया और विवस्वान् ने मनुष्यों के पिता मनु को उपदेश दिया और
मनु ने इसका उपदेश इक्ष्वाकु को दिया |
The sun-god was created, then from him, Manu came; from Manu,
Ikṣvāku came; Ikṣvāku..., in this way. So all these prajās, progeny, was
created for performing yajña. That is stated in the Bhagavad... So
everyone is meant for performing yajña. Yajñārthe karma. Everyone
should work for performing yajña. That is human life. Work very
hard. You have got tendency to work from morning, six, to night, ten
o'clock, eleven o'clock. We see. Early in the morning the road is
congested. They are going to work. But they do not know why they
are working. They know, "I am working for filling up this belly." That
they know. No, that is not the purpose of working. For filling up the
belly the animals, the ants, the cats, dogs, birds, they are also working.
And you shall also work for filling up the belly only? Then what is the
value of your life? You should work for yajña. That is human
life. Yajñārthe karma.
"But I don't like yajña." Then karma-bandhanaḥ, they are becoming
entrapped, working under the influence of certain material modes of
nature. Therefore you are infecting that material mode of nature, and
according to the infection, you will develop the next body. Just like
according to infection you develop the disease, so this material body
is disease. That we do not understand. We are soaping this material
body, keeping it fit, but we do not know that this is disease. Anyone,
does anyone want to keep the disease and say, "My dear disease,
please live with me forever"? [laughter] Is there any intelligent man
say like that? Disease is to be cured, is to be driven away. In Hindi
they say, jara ar para okhane kha na baviya ar.[?] Means "Unwanted
guest and disease, you do not give him to eat, and he will go away."
He will go away. So any disease, you starve for few days, two days,
three days, it will go. And any unwanted guest, you don't supply him
food, he will automatically go away. So disease should not be
maintained. Disease should be cured.
So that curing medicine we have to take not to maintain this material
body. Na sādhu manye yata ātmano 'yam asann api kleśada āsa
dehaḥ [SB 5.5.4]. This is real intelligence. Everyone is trying to keep
this body, this disease, maintaining. This time, next time, next time,
next time, going on. Janma-mṛtyu-maran malam.[?] This is not your...
Disease should be cured. Therefore śāstra says,
nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma
yad indriya-prītaya āpṛṇoti
na sādhu manye yata ātmano 'yam
kleśada āsa dehaḥ asann api
[SB 5.5.4]
When a person considers sense gratification the aim of life, he
certainly becomes mad after materialistic living and engages in
all kinds of sinful activity. He does not know that due to his past
misdeeds he has already received a body which, although
temporary, is the cause of his misery. Actually the living entity
should not have taken on a material body, but he has been
awarded the material body for sense gratification. Therefore I
think it not befitting an intelligent man to involve himself again
in the activities of sense gratification by which he perpetually
gets material bodies one after another.
People are mad, and they are doing anything mischievous, sinful. And
what is the purpose? Now, just to satisfy the senses. You see? There
are so many nice foodstuff Kṛṣṇa has given---fruits, flowers, grains,
milk, butter, sugar. And you can prepare hundreds and thousands of
preparation out of it and offer to Kṛṣṇa and eat it very nicely. "No. We
must have meat." This is vikarma. Vikarma means sinful
activities. Karma, vikarma and... Tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā [Īśo mantra
1]. God has given you so many nice foodstuff. Why should you kill an
animal? Therefore Jesus Christ says, "Thou shall not kill." "Then shall I
die?" No. There are so many things. You eat, tena tyaktena, "whatever
is ordained by You," by God, Kṛṣṇa. The same thing is said. Kṛṣṇa
should have said, "Give me..." Mamsam din mam.[?] No. He
says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati [Bg.
9.26].
“पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति |
तदहं भक्तयुपहृतमश्र्नामि प्रयतात्मनः || २६ ||”
अनुवाद
यदि कोई प्रेम तथा भक्ति के साथ मुझे पत्र, पुष्प, फल या जल प्रदान करता है, तो
मैं उसे स्वीकार करता हूँ |
So this is yajña, to satisfy Kṛṣṇa. So if you offer Kṛṣṇa these things,
what He wants, you will satisfy. Yo me bhaktyā prayacchati.
Bhaktyā, with bhakti, Kṛṣṇa said. So why don't you do this? That
is yajña. Everyone can perform yajña at home, because they are
eating. Who is there who is not eating? Everyone is eating. But if you
prepare within these items, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyam, and
prepare nice varieties of foodstuff and offer to Kṛṣṇa, that
is yajña. That is yajña. And yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo mucyante sarva-
kilbiṣaiḥ [Bg. 3.13].
“यज्ञशिष्टाशिनः सन्तो मुच्यन्ते सर्वकिल्बिषैः
भुञ्जते ते त्वघं पापा ये पचन्त्यात्मकारणात् || १३ ||”
अनुवाद
भगवान् के भक्त सभी प्रकार के पापों से मुक्त हो जाते हैं, क्योंकि वे यज्ञ में
अर्पित किये भोजन (प्रसाद) को ही खाते हैं | अन्य लोग, जो अपनी इन्द्रियसुख के
लिए भोजन बनाते हैं, वे निश्चित रूप से पाप खाते हैं |
If you take prasādam, Kṛṣṇa will not eat everything. He will eat, and
He will leave for you also. So don't be afraid that "If I offer Kṛṣṇa, He
will take away." [laughter] Kṛṣṇa is not so hungry. Even if He is
hungry, He can eat the whole universe. So just satisfy Kṛṣṇa. "Sir, it is
all given by You, the food grains, these fruits, flowers. It is Your gift.
So You first of all taste or eat. Then I shall eat." Kṛṣṇa is very satisfied.
So we want Kṛṣṇa's satisfaction. Svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya
saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam [SB 1.2.13].
अत: पुम्भिर्द्विजश्रेष्ठा वर्णाश्रमविभागश: ।
स्वनुष्ठितस्य धर्मस्य संसिद्धिर्हरितोषणम् ॥ १३ ॥
You have cooked very nicely, and if Kṛṣṇa says, "Yes, it is very nice,"
then your cooking is perfection. Saṁsiddhir hari-toṣaṇam.
So do anything. If Kṛṣṇa is satisfied, that is yajña. That is yajña. And
one should live for that purpose. Yajñārthe karmaṇo 'nyatra loko
'yam. Work very hard, but yajñārthe. And if you work so hard like ass
and cats and dog simply for satisfying your tongue or belly or the
genital, a straight line, then you are going to hell. Yajñārthe karmaṇaḥ
anyatra karma-bandhanaḥ. Then you are becoming bound up by the
laws of nature. If you eat and sleep and act like dog, then become dog
next life. And if you act like god, then you'll get god, very easy thing.
So whatever you like, you can do. But the śāstra gives you
direction, yajñārthe. "Act, work, work hard for pleasing the Supreme
Lord." Yajñārthe. Otherwise you will be bound up in the cycle of birth
and death. Don't do it.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is teaching this education, that
perform... You cannot escape it. You cannot say that "You are
interested. You can do. We are not interested." If you are not
interested, then you are living a very risky life, because you have to
change your body. Dehāntaram. You can see. There are examples of
so many types of body. Now, suppose if you live at the risk of your life
and next life you become a tree, stand up for five thousand years in
the snow, scorching heat, scorching, blasting, and so many
disturbances, and you cannot move an inch, and people may cut
down you, your leaves, your trunk, or you; they are cutting so many...
What is that life? And if you think, "No, I am living for five thousand
years," what is the use of living such five thousand years? No. Don't
risk life. Karma-bandhanaḥ. If you don't perform yajña, if you don't
try to satisfy the Supreme Lord... Just like if you don't try to satisfy the
government, then it is your risky life. You cannot say that "I am living
very happily." Because you are cheating government or do not
following the laws of the government, that is very risky life. Similarly,
if you do not perform yajña, you cannot avoid it. Saha-yajñāḥ prajāḥ
sṛṣṭvā [Bg. 3.10].
“सहयज्ञाः प्रजाः सृष्ट्वा पुरोवाच प्रजापतिः |
अनेन प्रसविष्यध्वमेष वोऽस्तिवष्टकामधुक् || १० ||”
अनुवाद
सृष्टि के प्रारम्भ में समस्त प्राणियों के स्वामी (प्रजापति) ने विष्णु के
लिए यज्ञ सहित मनुष्यों तथा देवताओं की सन्ततियों को रचा और उनसे कहा, “तुम इस
यज्ञ से सुखी रहो क्योंकि इसके करने से तुम्हें सुखपूर्वक रहने तथा मुक्ति
प्राप्त करने के लिए समस्त वांछित वस्तुएँ प्राप्त हो सकेंगी |”
You are..., you have got this human form of life for performing yajña.
So in this age, in Kali-yuga, it is very difficult to perform
other yajña. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Kṛṣṇa, has appeared to
accept your yajña, to deliver you, and the yajña process is very easy
= yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ. That's all. Simply perform. Wherever you live,
at home or outside home, just keep a picture of Śrī Caitanya
Mahāprabhu and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra before Him. Then your
life will be successful.