Bhagavad-gītā 4.2 – February 8, 1974, Vṛndāvana

Where is money? Where is money? Where is money?

Prabhupada: [indistinct] So we have explained rajarsi, the big kings just like Manu, Iksvaku coming from the sun god. The Indians, it is known that there are two kinds of ksatriya dynasty. One is coming from the sun, and another is coming from the moon. Candra-vamsa and sūrya-vamsa. So here we specially refer to the dynasty coming from Sūrya, or the sun god. So there is no question of impersonalism. Sun god is a person. He is the resident, or the predominating deity, in the sun planet, and from there descendents, Manu and Iksvaku. In this way Iksvaku dynasty is there always in the Ramayana. Maharaja Iksvaku, the forefather of Lord Ramacandra. [indistinct]

So the kings were supposed to know the science of God. This is the [indistinct]. Because the king, or the monarch, used to rule over the country and the special business of human form is to understand the science of Krsna, or the science of religion-whatever you call it-or the science of the human goal of life. That is missing. Nobody knows the science of human goal of life, the science of human birth or the science of human society. Nobody knows. They are living just like animals, cats and dogs, simply working:

This is the materialistic way of life. What is that? Divya, out of twenty-four hours, twenty hours sleeping, that is very successful: [laughter] "I have slept so much. I got the opportunity of sleeping." Divya. We have seen in Calcutta sometimes that the peons, they took their letters from the office and come out from the office and lie down in Dalhousie Street, at least four hours sleep, and then go to another office to deliver the letter. When he comes back it is enquired: "Why you took so much time?" "Oh, this man was not there, that man was not there. I had to wait"-all false. But he thought that "I have got salary and the opportunity of sleeping." This is [indistinct] This is ordinary life, that "I have got this opportunity to sleep so much." And our Vaisnava philosophy is nidrahara-viharakadi-vijitau: one who can conquer over sleeping, eating and mating, that is real victory.

The spiritual life means to conquer over these, especially sleeping, eating and mating. Then we should know that we are advancing in spiritual life. Otherwise you are still victim of maya. This is the test. You haven't got to inquire from others that whether you are making spiritual advancement. If you can test your activities, "How much I have conquered over sleeping, eating and mating?" Param drstva nivartate [Bg 2.59]

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Bhakti means advancement in spiritual understanding, paresanubhava, realizing the Supreme, and viraktir anyatra syat. Virakti means detachment for other things. Other things means ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca [Hitopadesa 25].

Four things. This is visaya. Narottama Thakura says,

You have come to Vrndavana to see, that if you have got visaya, then you are blind; you cannot see. That is not possible. Visaya chariya. Visaya means this ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca [Hitopadesa 25]: eating, sleeping, mating and defending. When… Therefore Vrndavana is meant for the paramahamsa, like the gosvamis. But we think that coming to Vrndavana we become Gosvami. But those who are thinking like that, "Simply by coming to Vrndavana I have become Gosvami," and cheating like cats and dogs, they are Vrndavana's dogs. They, such persons who want to enjoy material facilities in Vrndavana, then next life will take birth as monkey and the pig and the dog. Then? "I'm in Vrndavana. [indistinct] is false." No, it is not false. After this birth you will be delivered. But because he treated himself as cats and dogs, therefore he has to take the birth of dogs, pigs, and like that, monkeys, and then next birth. So we don't think that the Vrndavana's dogs, monkeys and pigs, they are ordinary living beings. They are also Vaisnava, but due to their animal propensity they took another life. Material nature is so strong, daivi hy esa guna-mayi [Bg 7.14]. But this one life-you see-that is there for punishment; no more. That is their advantage. Therefore you see there are many devotees in Vrndavana, but still… So this is [indistinct]. So,

We must care about this life. Visaya chariya kabe suddha. We have to cleanse our heart, completely freed from desires for visaya. That is wanted. If we actually take advantage of Vrndavana, we get the mercy. Visaya chariya kabe suddha ha'be mana. Because materialistic life means-that is explained in Bhagavatam-that nidraya hriyate naktam [SB 2.1.3]. At night they'll sleep as much as possible-ten hours, twelve hours, fifteen hours, as much as possible. Of course, there is no fifteen hours night, but as much as possible. So,

Or one who has got facility for sex life, he'll [indistinct]. This is night's business. Nidraya hriyate naktam vyavayena. Vyavayena means sex life. So, and what is day's business? Diva carthehaya rajan, "My dear King, I am [indistinct]: Where is money? Where is money? Where is money?" Go to the [Indistinct] downtown and speculate and go to the exchange money, money, money. So diva carthehaya and as soon as he gets money, what does he do? Kutumba-bharanena va [SB 2.1.3]. Now I will have to purchase this thing for my wife, for my child, for my brother-spending again enjoying night, again daytime earn money and spend. This is… [Indistinct]

And what is their business? Their business is deha, maintenance of this body, deha. Apatya means changing, dehapatya-kalatra. Kalatra means wife. Dehapatya-kalatradisv. Adi, beginning from this body and then children and wife other [Indistinct] friends, relatives, and so many others dehapatya-kalatradisv. Atma-sainyesv, this is struggle for existence. This material world is struggle for fight against the laws of nature. So we require some soldiers to fight. So materialistic persons think that here are my soldiers, my good wife, my children, my friends, my nation, my countrymen, my society.

One time consider that in my childhood just like I am an old man I think sometimes where are my other, my mother, my sister is gone, my brother is gone, gone, gone-that's a fact. One's life one cannot feel but so many relatives, so many friends all gone. So at the present moment, again I am depending on my wife, children and they will also go. They themselves will be gone how they can give me protection? People are mad after this materialistic way of life. They do not know the aim of life, the aim of human mission they do know nothing. They are gone, therefore mūḍha, ajanata. These things are there. Ajanata, ajanata means one who does not know,

Lokasyajanato, these rascals they do not know. Therefore vidya. Vidya means the most learned, Veda Vyasadeva, he is so kind upon the human society that these rascals they do not know the aim of life. Therefore satvata-samhita, he has made the Vedas, Puranas, the Mahabharata, the Vedanta philosophy, explanation on Vedanta philosophy, Srimad-Bhagavatam. In Mahabharata there is Bhagavad-gita, so many, so many, because these rascals they do not know what is the aim of life.

That bhakti-yoga, Krsna says one side Krsna is giving us the lesson from the Vedic literature, Anadi-bahirmukha jiva krsna bhuli' gela [Cc Madhya 20.117]. Anadi, from time immemorial, they have forgotten Krsna, ataeva krsna veda-purana kaila [Cc Madhya 20.117]. Therefore Krsna has given us these literatures. Krsna-dvaipayana Vyasa. Vyasadeva's name is Krsna-dvaipayana Vyasa. So we should take opportunity. There must be krsna-sahga to read from these books, to understand from these books, and the correct information from these books can be had by this process that Krsna is recommending, what is that? Evam parampara-praptam. These literatures should be understood by the parampara system. Just like Krsna says I told to Vivasvan, the Sungod, he told his favorite son, Manu. Then Manu said to his favorite son, because unless the son or the disciple is not very good recipient then what is the use of talking? What is the use of talking. There must be also nice receiver. That is not parampara system. So,

These things were that same person. They were educated in the spiritual science. That was the system. Nowadays the royal college the princes go there for education but what do they learn? They are dancing and [Indistinct] but formerly there was a royal college also for educating the princes. But who were the teachers? Great saintly persons. Not ordinary persons. Great saintly persons they used to teach and then they just like the spiritual master teaches to his disciples to make him another spiritual master. Similarly the rajarsi, the kings were taught by great sages [Indistinct] Brahmins' committee, not that things were autocrat, no. In the history you don't find. All these kings were guided by a college of saintly persons, big brahmanas, very well educated. Then when they were approved, then the king was enthroned and he used to [Indistinct] not by these goats and some asses and cats and dogs.

To take [Indistinct] ordinary rascals. That means sva-viḍ-varahostra-kharaiḥ. Ordinary men what they are? They are just like dogs, viḍ-vara, the stooleating pigs. Sva-viḍ-varahostra, camels, and kharaiḥ means ass. These four nice animals have been selected. Modern population means they have all these nice animals, dogs, pigs and camels and hogs. Why they have been selected specially? They have got special qualities. So hog means the servant of the master. It is very much subordinate to the master. For the master he can do [Indistinct] and viḍ-varaha means one who has no distinction of eating anything they can eat, no discrimination what the human being should eat. Just like nowadays there is everyone is eating meat. That is not human food. So any human beings who have no discrimination is compared to a pig. Pig has no discrimination. His food is up to stool. Similarly I have several times explained. Again we are repeating. Camel means it enjoys its own blood. Actually he is eating thorns. Thorns are not very palatable stuff, but when the camel takes this thorn and chew it there is cut in the tongue and the blood comes out. He tastes his own… [break] [end]