So our business is... Because we are preparing ourselves to preach Krsna consciousness, we must be qualified to get the power of attorney. Sometimes we speak that "I'll preach." What you will preach? First of all get the power of attorney; then preach. Preaching is not so easy that anyone and anyone can preach without... Krsna-sakti vina nahe nama pracarana. So to get that power of attorney one has to qualify himself, not that the power of attorney is hanging in the tree and you can take it. No. So how this power of attorney can be achieved? That is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. You are singing daily day, daily guru. Now, today is guru-purnima. Especially we should understand what is the power of attorney. Anyone can recite this verse, sri-guru-carana?

Prabodhananda Sarasvati, he has made one poetry, kaivalyam narakayate. Kaivalya means to merge into the Brahman existenceno difference, oneness. That is called kaivalya. So for a Vaisnava the kaivalya is as good as the hell. Prabhodananda Sarasvati said, kaivalyam narakayate. This kaivalya.... No Vaisnava will say, "Now I am going to merge into the existence," no, because they hate it as hell. Kaivalyam narakayate. Then? Heavenly planets? Tridasa-pur akasa-puspayate. Tridasa-pur means the heaven, where so many millions of demigods live. They consider, Vaisnava consider as akasa-puspa, will o' the wisp, phantasmagoria. It has no value. Akasa-puspayate. That means karmi, jnanis. Jnanis, they are after liberation, merging into the existence, Brahman existence, kaivalya. The Vaisnava thinks, "Oh, this achievement is as good as one who goes to the hell." Then? Heavenly planet? Karmis? They might have pious activities. They want to go to the heavenly planet. So Vaisnava says that "What is this heavenly planet? It is phantasmagoria. It has no..." Actually it is so. Then yogi? The yogi's main business is to control the senses. That is real yoga. Yoga indriya-samyamah. Controlling the senses so that mind can be in a peaceful condition... Without controlling your senses, mind cannot be. Then you can apply this mind for meditation. If the mind is agitated, what is this nonsense meditation? First of all control the mind; then think of meditation. Dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa. We have to meditate with the mind. But if the mind is agitated, where is the question of meditation? It is all bogus. So for a yogi the first business is yama-niyama, asana, pranayama, dhyana, dharana, pratyahara-asta, astanga-yoga. Then one's mind is controlled. Then dhyanavasthita. Then he can remain in trance, always thinking of Visnu. That is yoga. So first thing is to control the mind, control the senses.

So that is also, I mean to say, declined by a devotee. He says that durdanta indriya-kala-sarpa-patali protkhata-damstrayate. The senses are just like venomous serpent, always agitating. And as soon as one sense touches another sense, then the spiritual life is finished. Just like the serpent, if he touches even little, immediately your life is finished, similarly, our senses are very strong, just like as strong as the serpent, uncontrollable. So why it is so dangerous? Because it has got the fang. He has got fang, poison. But there are physicians, in the Ayurvedic physician. They know. They capture snakes and they take away the fang for making medicine. They are also used as medicine. So if the poison teeth is broken, then it is not more dangerous, no more dangerous. It may have very big hood, but one knows that his poison teeth is taken away, he is not afraid. It may be very fearful to the children, but a grown-up man who knows his poison teeth is no longer there, he is not afraid. In Bengal he is called visnai kulama cakra (?): "There is no poison, and you have got a very big hood."

So how it is possible? First thing is kaivalyam narakayate tridasa-pur akasa-puspayate, and durdanta indriya-kala-sarpa-patali protkhata damstrayate. How it is possible? Now, visvam sukhayate. This material is miserable for everyone. For a devotee it is not at all miserable. Sukhayate. In this New York City there are so many skyscraper buildings. Bring all of them and compare our happiness. See practically. Here is a skyscraper building, and there are others. And call them and ask them, "Are you happy like us?" So we can turn this whole world like that. Visvam purnam sukhayate. It is possible. Everyone is hankering, working so hard day and night, and there is fire brigade, "gon-gon-gon-gon." It is going on. (laughter) This is life. That is not happiness. Here is happiness. Come here, sit down, and you'll find happiness. Practical. If is practical. So if you expand this Krsna consciousness movement, you'll find whole world full of happiness. Visvam purnam sukhayate. How it is possible? Yat-karunya-kataksa-vaibhavavatam gauram eva stumah. It is possible simply by the mercy glance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. If He simply glances over anybody, then the whole thing happens.

So Caitanya Mahaprabhu is giving, empowering Sanatana Gosvami. So we should follow. Narottama dasa Thakura says, ei chai gosai yar, taro mui das: "I am servant of that person who has followed the six Gosvamis."

So Sanatana Gosvami is teaching us... Krsna-sakti dhara tumi, jana tattva-bhava [Cc. Madhya 20.105]. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is affirming that "You are authorized by Krsna. Therefore you have come for My help. My mission is to preach Krsna consciousness..." So He is Krsna Himself, but He posing as a devotee. Therefore He is saying that "By the grace of Krsna, you are empowered, so you have come to Me to help Me. You are asking. That is very good on your part because," jani, "you know everything." Dardhya lagi' puche sadhura svabhava. A sadhu, a saintly person, although he knows everything, still he remains very humble and tries to confirm from the higher authorities, "I think this is right. Is it not right?" He knows it is all right, but still, he waits for the higher authority to confirm it. So this is the relationship, Sanatana Gosvami and Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Study all of them very nicely and be advanced in Krsna consciousness.

Thank you. (end)