Now, Krsna is all-attractive.

So these are six kinds of attraction. So Bhagavan means one who is in full possession of all these attractive features, He's Bhagavan. Not any rascal loitering in the street and becomes Bhagavan. No. That is misleading. We do not know what is meant by the word bhagavan; therefore we accept any rascal as Bhagavan. Aisvaryasya samagrasya. Riches. There are many rich men in Bombay city, but nobody can claim that "I am the possessor of all the riches. All the bank money or any money there is in Bombay, that is my money." Nobody can say. But Krsna can say. Aisvaryasya samagrasya. Samagra riches, not paltry portion of it. Samagra. Aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya. Strength, influence. Viryasya. Yasasah, reputation, fame. Just like Krsna spoke this Bhagavad-gita five thousand years ago, but still it is adored all over the world. Not only in India, but all over the world. Bhagavad-gita is known in any country, irrespective of religion or faith. Everyone, any intelligent man, any scholar, any philosopher reads Bhagavad-gita. That means Krsna is so famous. Everyone knows.

So aisvaryasya. And when He was present, He showed His riches. Narada Muni wanted to see how Krsna is managing His sixteen thousand wives, 16,108 wives. So when Narada Muni came, he entered each and every palace. There were 16,108, all marble palaces, bedecked with jewels. There was no need of electricity or light at night, all the palaces were so bedecked with jewels. And the furnitures were made of ivory and gold. Opulences. The gardens were full of parijata trees. And, not only that, Narada Muni saw that Krsna was present with each and every wife and He's doing..., He was doing different types of business also. Somewhere He was sitting with His wife, children. Some..., somewhere marriage ceremony was going on of His children. Somebody... So many, all. Not one kind of engagement. So this is called opulence, riches. Not that possessing a few tolas of gold, one becomes God. No. Bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram [Bg. 5.29], suhrdam... Krsna declares that "I am the supreme enjoyer." Bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram. "I am the proprietor of the planets." That is richness. Power. So far strength and power is concerned, Krsna, when He was three months old, on the lap of His mother, He killed so many demons.

So Bhagavan does... Is not manufactured by some process. Bhagavan is Bhagavan, always Bhagavan. Either He is representing as a child, as a boy or a youth, He never becomes old. That is another feature of Bhagavan. That is another aisvarya. We want to keep our youthhood by so many ways, but Krsna is always young. Bhagavan is always young. Bhagavan never becomes old. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca [Bs. 5.33]. He's the Purana-purusam. Purana-purusam means the oldest person. Be..., because He's adyam, beginning of all purusas. Purusa means the three Purusas, VisnuMaha-Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu, Karanodakasayi Visnu. They are called Purusa. So adyam purusam. He's male, person. He's not imperson. Imperson is only His one bodily feature. So in spite of His being adyam, adi-purusam, the cause of all causes, cause of Maha-Visnu, cause of Brahma, still nava-yauvanam ca, He never becomes old, God never becomes old. That is His opulence. Aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya yasasah. Yasasah, I have already explained. He's so famous still. You cannot find in the history of the world, five thousand years ago, who appeared and still famous. You don't find. There is not a single instance within the human history. But Krsna, He appeared five thousand years ago, during the Battle of Kuruksetra, before that, and still He's famous. Not only famous in India, but He's famous all over the world. In each, every language, the "Krsna" word is there, dictionary. He's also stated as "Hindu God." But Krsna is not Hindu god or Muslim God. He's God. God is neither Hindu nor Muslim nor Christian. God is God. So Krsna is Bhagavan. Svayam Bhagavan. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam [SB 1.3.28]. There are... There may be many Bhagavans, but Krsna is the original Bhagavan.

This is our relationship. We are eternal servant of Krsna. Therefore Krsna is asking here: mayy asakta. We are eternally related with Krsna, but now, under the influence of this material energy or illusory, external energy, we have forgotten Krsna. Therefore Krsna says that "You have to divert your attention, attachment, to Me." Mayy asakta. Mayi. Krsna says mayi. Mayy asakta. Mayy asakta-manah. Mind has to be always fixed up in Krsna. This yoga has to be practiced. As Maharaja Ambarisa did: sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayoh [SB 9.4.18]. He always... He was a great emperor. He had many business, political and maintenance of the kingdom. He was always busy, great emperor of the whole world, but still he fixed up his mind always on the lotus feet of Krsna. That is called krsna-asakti. Krsna-asakti. Mayi, mayy asakta-manah. Mind has to be fixed with Krsna. The process is very simple. Process is very simple. Everyone, at home, in any condition of life, he can fix up his mind in Krsna. Our mind has to be fixed in something, because mind is never vacant. It is always fixed up or attached to some, something. Not for a second our mind is vacant. So this vacancy has to be filled up by the presence of Krsna. That is perfect yoga.

In the last chapter... We are speaking from the Seventh Chapter. In the last chapter, Sixth Chapter, Krsna said:

That faith begins... In the Bhagavad-gita, the Krsna is creating that faith, personally. He's speaking about Himself to create your faith. Krsna says that "You are searching after the Supreme." Krsna says, aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate [Bg. 10.8]. Aham adir hi devanam [Bg 10.2]. So in this way Krsna... Not advertising Himself, but He is presenting Himself. Because He comes down to establish real religious system. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata [Bg. 4.7]. Dharma-samsthapanarthaya. He has come. He came to establish real religious principle. Real religious principle means to accept the codes of Krsna. Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam [SB 6.3.19]. Nobody can create religious principle. A man cannot create. That is not possible. Any religious system which is created by man, that is not religion. Religion means what is created by God. That is religion. Dharmam tu saksat. Saksat mean directly. So this Bhagavad-gita is real religion, because it is directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead for the benefit of the whole human society. And Krsna says also that "If you have got any other faith, religion. you give it up." Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam [Bg. 18.66]. Only one. God is one; religion is one. The process of religion is one, and the activity, who is in God-relationship, his activity's also one. That is oneness. There cannot be any different activities. Therefore Krsna is teaching mayy asakta-manah.

So how to increase your attachment? We have got attachment in so many other things. We have got attachment for the body, we have got attachment for the family, we have got attachment for the society, country. Or... So many things. But Krsna says, mayy asakta-manah. That is yoga. That is perfect yoga. And to perform that yoga, Krsna says, mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah. One has to take shelter of Krsna. You cannot practice krsna-yoga by taking shelter of anything else. You have to take shelter of Krsna. Just like in the Fourth Chapter, Krsna says that:

This is, this age is Vaivasvata Manu age. There are so many things we have to learn, but we are neglecting. In one day of Brahma, there are fourteen Manus, and each Manu's age is forty-three lakhs of years multiplied by seventy-two. So now it is the age of Vaivasvata Manu. This is the, out of the fourteenth Manu, this is the seventh Manu. It is going on. So this age is called Manu. Manu, the father of the humankind. Manusya. There is Manu-samhita, to give direction to the people, how to act, how to live. That is Manu-samhita. So in this way, we have to learn the philosophy of Krsna which is directly spoken by Krsna, not interpreted by anyone. That is Krsna philosophy. If it is interpreted, or misinterpreted by some so-called scholar... We cannot accept them scholar who misdirect people by misinterpretation of Bhagavad-gita. That is not very good. Otherwise why people are so much misdirected? Because the so-called scholars and philosophers, they have misdirected. They have tried to kill Krsna from Bhagavad-gita and push forward their own rascal philosophy. So that is not good. We have to learn Bhagavad-gita directly from Krsna. That is mayy asakta. That is real Bhagavad... Because Krsna, Krsna says evam parampara praptam imam rajarsayo viduh [Bg. 4.2]. By the parampara system, all the great kings, rajarsayah, they understood Bhagavad-gita. So we have to accept the Bhagavad-gita by the parampara system. Not we manufacture our own interpretation. That is not Bhagavad-gita. That is misusing the Bhagavad-gita.

So if you want to increase our attachment for Krsna, then the sraddha is the basic principle, faith. "Yes. Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Even if we don't accept Him... At least everyone accepts Krsna, the greatest personality. So that much faith is the beginning of asakti, attachment for Krsna. That little faith. Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat. Now you have to increase that faith. That increased faith means, as it is enunciated by Rupa Gosvami, adau sraddha. If you have got little faith, to increase the faith, just yourself associate with the devotees. Adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sangah [Cc. Madhya 23.14-15]. Because... Just like if you want to do some business, if you, if you want to increase the volume of business, you have to associate with business..., businessmen of the same line. Just like there are different mercantile associations, sharebroker's association, grain merchant association, oil ship merchant association. So to increase the volume of business, one has to associate with the similar persons. So if you want to increase your faith in Krsna, then you have to associate with Krsna bhaktas. Associate. Adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sangah [Cc. Madhya 23.14-15].

This sadhu means krsna-bhakta. Without becoming krsna-bhakta, according to Bhagavad-gita, nobody can become a sadhu. That is also explained in the Bhagavad-gita. Sadhur eva sa mantavyah [Bg. 9.30]. Who? Bhajate mam ananya-bhak. Api cet su-duracaro bhajate mam ananya-bhak, sadhur eva sa mantavyah [Bg. 9.30]. He's sadhu. Not that sadhu, simply like me, change the dress or having a long beard or... No. The sadhu means one who's purely devotee of the Lord. He's sadhu. Bhajate mam ananya-bhak. Without any deviation. One who has taken Krsna, the Supreme Lord, as the only worshipable, he's sadhu. Sadhavah sadhu-bhusanah. Titiksavah karunikah sadhavah sadhu-bhusanah. Ajata-satravah santah sadhavah sadhu-bhusanah [SB 3.25.21]. There, these are the definition of sadhu. Sadhu means titiksava. One who has taken Krsna as the Supreme Lord, Krsna as the Supreme Person, he has to tolerate so many thingsso many criticism, so many tribulations. Just like Prahlada Maharaja. Prahlada Maharaja had to undergo so much tribulation from the hands of his father because he became a sadhu, krsna-bhakta. The only fault was that he was a krsna-bhakta. Even the father, the atheistic father, became enemy. He wanted to kill him. You know Prahlada-caritra. If there is opportunity, we shall speak. It is horrible. Five-years-old boy, because he was chanting Hare Krsna, Narayana, the father became enemy. Titiksava. Therefore a sadhu has to become very tolerant.

Haridasa Thakura. Haridasa Thakura became a sadhu, a devotee of Krsna. He came from Muhammadan community. In those days, the Muhammadan Kazi, magistrate, called him, that "You are Muhammadan and why you are chanting Hare Krsna, the Hindu's God's name?" So he very mildly replied: "My dear sir, there are many Hindus, they have also become Muhammadans. So suppose I have become a Hindu. So what is the fault?" Oh, he become very angry, and he was ordered to be caned in seven markets. You see. So there are so many dangers. Although the time has..., is not so much polluted. People are liberated, liberal. Just like I am preaching in the Western countries. So nobody has checked, the government has not checked, because the time is not so cruel. Although in that Western country, Lord Jesus Christ was crucified.

So there is sometimes danger to become krsna-bhakta. Therefore people avoid it. At least the criticism is there. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that

So this is called increasing the sraddha, faith. Adau, adau sraddha. To increase your attachment for Krsna, the basic principle is sraddha, faith. Then the faith is created by reading Bhagavad-gita. You can understand what is Krsna. Then you can have your faith: "Oh, here is God." That much. And sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. This is the beginning of faith, that "Now I must engage myself in the devotional service of Krsna." If you decide like that, then your reading of Bhagavad... [break] ...you have simply wasted your time. You may write very, so-called scholarly comment, but you have simply wasted your time. If you have not come to the conclusion that "Now I shall engage myself in the service of Krsna..." Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. If you do that, that is the beginning of sraddha. Then other things. Mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah.

This, this has been explained by Kaviraja Krsnadasa Gosvami:

Krsna is Supreme. So by serving the Supreme, you can serve everyone.

So therefore the yajna system is recommended in the Vedic way of culture to satisfy the Supreme. Visnur aradhyate pantha nanyat tat-tosa-karanam. Varnasramacaravata.

In sastra we say:

So unless the soul is there... There are so many instances. A very nice, big machine, aeroplane, 747, but if there is no pilot, who will drive it? The machine is worthless unless there is the pilot. Similarly this is also machine, this body. Yantrarudhani mayaya [Bg. 18.61]. Isvara... [break] ...yantra... (end)