purpose to get pure knowledge

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So this is the process of... Loka-srastuḥ sūtika-dhama dhatuḥ. Dhatu. Dhatu means one who creates. So Brahma is the secondary creator. Krsna, or Visnu, He creates the situation. Then He gives him a seat, that lotus-flower like, and when he was puzzled... In the beginning, everything was dark. He could not understand "Wherefrom I am coming? What is my duty? Why I am sitting here?" When he was puzzled, then from within there was dictation that "You meditate. Tapaḥ: you undergo austerities. Then you'll gradually understand." So even Brahma, the first creature of this creation, he had to meditate-"Why I am here, and what is the purpose of my coming here?" So we are also this, in the same position. We are the, I mean to say, dynasty expansion of Brahma. Brahma's son is Manu, or this sun-god. Manusya. Manusya means coming from Manu; therefore we are called manusya. So the same process: we are born ignorant, born ignorant. Human life is the chance to dissipate this ignorance, and that requires tapasya, not to live like cats and dogs, frivolous life. That will not help us. Tapaḥ. Tapo divyam yena putraka suddhyet sattva [SB 5.5.1], that human life is meant for tapasya, austerities, not to live extravagant life, irresponsible life, like cats and dogs. No. That is not human life. That is animal life. So therefore sastra says that you undergo austerities. Then your existence will be purified, and then pure knowledge you will get, and you will understand what is your position, why you are in this material world, why you are suffering the threefold miseries, why you are obliged to die, why you are obliged to become old man. So many things you have to learn. But if we learn like cats and dogs, then we spoil our life. (More...)

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