So therefore, unless you come to Krsna consciousness, whatever you are acting in your daily life, it is sinful. And you are becoming complicated, involved. This is the... Padam padam yad vipadam [SB 10.14.58]. This world is so made that in every step you are creating some dangerous position. Padam padam yad vipadam. This material world is like that.

Bhunjate te tv agham papa ye pacanty atma-karanat [Bg. 3.13]. Generally, people, they cook for themselves nice, palatable foodstuffs for eating and enjoying. But they do not know that they are eating all sinful reactions. Bhunjate te tv agham papa ye pacanty atma-karanat. What is the difference between this house and the next house? Here we cook for Krsna, not for ourselves. Therefore we are being saved. Otherwise, if you don't cook for Krsna, if you cook for yourself, then it is, in the Bhagavad-gita it is said, bhunjate te tv agham papa ye pacanty atma-karanat.

So these things are to be learned... Anye ajanantah. People, generally, they do not know that they are in a dangerous position, this material life. Dangerous position means now you may think that "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am this," "I am that," "I am Birla," "I am big man," but after death, you have to accept another body. Tyaktva deham... Tatha dehantara-praptih [Bg. 2.13]. There is dehantara. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. (aside:) Call them to sit down.

You are not dead simply by annihilation of the body. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. Nityah sasvato 'yam. You are nitya, sasvata. Na jayate na mriyate. You have no birth, no death. The birth and death is simply changing body. Just like we have changed so many bodies. I was a child. But the child body is no longer to be seen. That does not mean I am dead. I had my body of a child. That body is now finished. There is no such body. You can see in photograph your body, childhood body, but where is that body? That body is gone. So body gone, but you are living. Where is the difficulty to understand? And Krsna says, na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. The body being lost, the person is not lost. The person is living. Exactly.

Just like I was a young man like you. I was also very beautiful at that time. But where is that body? But that body is gone, but that does not mean I am dead. Similarly, when this body, this old body, when it will be not workable, the machine will not act, so I or you, every one of us will have to change. Suppose your car is going on. Somehow or other the car stops. Then you take another car and continue your journey. The car stops to work does not mean that the man who is in the car, he also stops. No. He continues. Therefore it is said in the Bhagavad-gita, na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. Your work is not stopped. You are transferred to another body. And because we have to work with this body in this material world,... Just like car is already ready. You can...

But this car, next car, is not ready, but it will have to be manufactured. How? You have to enter into the particular type of mother, and the mother's material ingredients will help you to manufacture a particular type of car, or body. The body is also a car, a machine. It is said in the Bhagavad-gita, bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani mayaya [Bg. 18.61]. Yantra. It has been said as yantra, a machine. This is just like machine. And we can perceive that. As soon as some part of the machine is slackened or not in order, that is your diseased condition. You cannot work.

So this we must... Dangerous position means that we should not be very much satisfied or rest assured that "I am in very secure position because I am American or I am this, I am that." You are not in secure position. At any moment, this car, this body, functioning will stop, and you have to change. So therefore we do not know what kind of change is going there. It may be very nice change, or it may be very bad change. So therefore it is very dangerous position. It is very dangerous. You do not know. You have to know. You can know that if you follow the shastric injunctions in the Bhagavad-gita. You do now know "what kind of body I am going to get next life," but you can know from Bhagavad-gita. You cannot speculate, but you can know from Bhagavad-gita. The Bhagavad-gita says,

You have seen the Hindus. They offer oblations to the forefathers. So they will go the Pitrloka. Yanti bhutejya bhutani. And those who are ordinary, materialistic persons, they remain in this world. And mad-yajino 'pi yanti mam. "And those who are Krsna conscious, they will come to Me." Krsna says. So why not become Krsna conscious and go directly back to home, back to Godhead? This is our mission. You have to prepare for the next life.

So there are so many different types of next life. Beginning from Brahmaloka down to the... Abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino 'rjuna [Bg. 8.16]. So why should we try for making a better position within this material world? Why? Why should we waste our time like that? We have seen that to occupy the post of president, Mr. Nixon, how much he had to work in the beginning. I was at that time in America. He was advertising, "America needs now Nixon." So he had to spend millions and millions of dollars, so many cliques and so many intricacies, political... But it is gone, the presidency. Somehow or other. And now he is dragged down. Now he's offered position.

So similarly, going to the higher planetary system, you have to undergo so many austerities, penances... Or even if you can go to the Brahmaloka or Brahman effulgence... Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adhah [SB 10.2.32]. There is no security in any place. But Krsna says, yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama: [Bg. 15.6] "But you can go at a place wherefrom you haven't got to return. That is My param dhama." So why not that? Mad-yajino 'pi yanti mam [Bg. 9.25]. So if you worship Krsna... The simple thing... Krsna has agreed to take your service. Because you cannot see Krsna physically. You can see. This Krsna, when He's present in, this murti, Deity, He's physically present. Because you cannot work without Krsna's being physically present. Krsna is everything.

So because you cannot see Krsna otherwise, therefore Krsna has appeared before you just like a stone statue. Because you cannot see Krsna, without His becoming a stone statue or wooden statue. That is Krsna's mercy. But that does not mean Krsna is stone. Krsna is everything. So mad-yajinah. To accept your worship, Krsna is here. Don't consider that "Here is a stone Deity." No, He's Krsna. He has agreed. Because mad-yajinah. Krsna say "One who worships Me..." Now, ordinarily, where is Krsna? We don't find. Therefore Krsna is available in this form. Krsna is so kind, that "You take Me. You offer Me service." Mad-yajinah. "I will accept." We should worship Krsna in that spirit, not that "We are worshiping a stone. He cannot see. Let me do all nonsense in the Deity room." No. He is seeing. Don't be so much cunning. He's more cunning than you. You see. He can see.

Just like in that story, the old brahmana and the young brahmana, Saksi-gopala. Saksi-gopala. So the young man came to Krsna in Vrndavana, "Sir, You have to go to give witness because the old man is not keeping his promise." So Krsna said to the young devotee that "How you are proposing that I shall go? Can a stone Deity, He can walk? Do you think?" He said, "Yes, if the stone Deity can speak, He can walk also." (laughter) So devotee is so strong. So Krsna had to... "Yes, I'll go." First of all, He wanted to avoid. Then when He saw that "He's not ordinary devotee," He said, "All right, I'll go." So He came from Vrndavana to Kataka.

So don't think that He's stone Deity. Saksad vrajendra-nandana: "Directly Krsna." But He is available to my capacity of understanding Him. Not that He is different from the original Krsna. [break] Krsna's name, Krsna's form, Krsna's quality, Krsna's pastimes, everything absolute. You're chanting Hare Krsna mantra. It does not mean that it is a sound only. It is Krsna personally. You are in direct touch with Krsna when you chant Hare Krsna. This is realization. This is Krsna consciousness.

So how one can learn? Therefore it is said here, anye, anyebhyah... What is that?

So it is our duty to preach, to broadcast the message of Bhagavad-gita as far as possible. That is our duty. It is not that it is a formality. It is not formality. It is our duty. Because Krsna, we have accepted... We are eternally servant of Krsna. That we forgot. Now, in this life, we have surrendered to Krsna and accepted His service. "Krsna, so long I forgot. I am Your eternal servant, but I forgot. Now, in this life, I can understand. Therefore I surrender unto You." This is our life. Krsna consciousness people means this is, that "Krsna, I forgot You. I forgot my relationship with You. But now I have come to know that I am Your eternal servant. Therefore engage me."

I am also serving. I am not here master. In the material world everyone is servant: servant of the family, servant of the community, servant of the nation, servant. Everyone is servant. Nobody is master. But what kind of servant? No, servant of my senses. The summary is... I am servant of the society, servant of the family, servant of so many things. The summary is I am servant of my senses. Because I want sense enjoyment, therefore I become servant of my wife. Actually, this is the position. I accept one woman as my wifethe real meaning is that I accept to become her servant. If I cannot satisfy her nicely then she'll rebel. So I want to satisfy her senses. Then my sons, my daughters, even my servants. Nowadays, servants, you keep, you pay, but if he's dissatisfied, he immediately resigns. So you have to flatter him so he may not go away.

So in this way we are servants; we are never master. But by illusion we cannot understand. Why one takes the responsibility of family life, servants of so many items? Because I want to satisfy my senses. Therefore I am servant of nobody, but I am servant of my senses. This is the position. So when I forget to become servant of Krsna, then I become servant of my senses. My position as servant remains the same. Again, if I give up the servitude of my senses and accept the servitude of Krsna, then I am liberated. This is the position. Servant you have to do, remain. Kama... The servant of kamadinam kati na katidha palita durnidesah. One who is intelligent, he comes to the senses and he understands that "I had been servant of kama, krodha, lobha, moha, matsarya, like that. So I have served them, but nobody is satisfied. Nobody is satisfied. [break] ...tesam na trapa na karuna jata... They are not satisfied. You go on serving. Even Mahatma Gandhi. He was serving his country, but he was killed by his countrymen. It is a fact. So you cannot satisfy. Who can give more service than Mahatma Gandhi. But the, what was the return? The return was that his countrymen killed him. This is the return. You go on serving your senses in the name of your country, society, family... They'll never be satisfied. And as soon as there is possibility, they'll kill you. So why should you be so much serious about serving other than Krsna? That is sense. Better serve Krsna. Then you'll learn. What is the result?

Thank you very much. (end)