So in this Kali-yuga the duration of life, the span of life will be gradually reduced. Memory will be reduced. Strength will be reduced. Mercifulness will be reduced. In this way... Now, it is a age of reduction. Not increasing. So prayenalpayusah kalau asmin yuge janah. People in this age are of short span of life. And manda. Manda means all faulty. All slow. Manda, two meaning. Either you take slow... Actually they are manda. Manda means faulty. So many faults. And slow means slow in spiritual realization. Slow. The human form of life is meant for spiritual realization. That is the distinction between human form of life and animal form of life. The animals are not interested, or they do not know what is spiritual life. But the human form of life with developed consciousness is meant for understanding our identification. Athato brahma jijnasa. This human form of life is meant for inquiring about our spiritual identity. That is real business. So in that line of thought we are manda. Manda means very slow. "All right. We shall take it later on. Now I have got strength. Let me enjoy senses. Then we shall see later on." That is called manda. Not serious.

But spiritual life is essential, it is very serious subject matter, that I am covered by this material body, and I am changing one after another. And I do not know what the next change is going to happen, either cat or dog or tree. We are not at all interested. You see? There is no such education in the university, the transmigration of the soul, the eternity of the soul, what is the aim of life. Therefore, mandah sumanda-matayah. Sumanda-mati. Their philosophy is still more bad. You see? They are simply thinking on the bodily concept of life. Asses' philosophy, dogs' philosophy, frogs' philosophy. This is going on. And they are passing on as philosopher. Frog philosophy we have discussed in our Back to Godhead. A frog is informed, "Oh, there is Atlantic Ocean. What is that?" "A very big span of water." So he is calculating how big. He is in the three feet. He thinks, "Maybe four feet." "No, very..." "Five." "No, very big." "Six." Go on, five, four, six, seven, millions. Where is your calculation? Similarly, these speculators, they are thinking, "God? I am God. He may be like me. He and me. All right." "No, you are not God." "All right. God may be little more than me. Little more intelligent." (laughter) This is frog philosophy. And when they hear, yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah [Bs. 5.48], all the universes are coming out in the breathing period of Maha-Visnu, and that Maha-Visnu is partial representation of Krsna, "These are all stories." Even they are informed about the capacity of God, they take it as story. This is the position.

Therefore sumanda-matayah. Their philosophy, their opinion, they are all condemned. Mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagyah [SB 1.1.10]. Mostly unfortunate. Mostly. They cannot get even the primary necessities of life, eating, sleeping, mating and defending. Even in your country, the British Empire, the Empress Queen, oh, so many people are lying on the street. Manda-bhagyah. Unfortunate. They can get all the facilities of life, but because unfortunate, they are lying on the street. In America, such a big nation, with everything complete, no scarcity, so many hippies. Manda-bhagyah. Unfortunate. If one is unfortunate, you cannot make him correct. Condemned. You cannot check one's unfortunateness. If one's unfortunate position can be changed, that is only by Krsna consciousness. There is no other way. You cannot make any philanthropic work and change the fortune of any person. No. That is not possible. Tavad tanu-bhrtam tvad-upeksitanam. These are very nicely discussed. Balasya neha saranam nrsimha, pitarau nrsimha. It is not that because a child has got his father and mother, he is happy, he should be happy. No. In spite of rich father and mother, he must be unhappy. Just like these hippies. In spite of they have parents, they have grandparents, they are all very rich, but they are lying on the street. I have seen. Torn clothes, this, why? Means condemned. Condemned by God. Tvad-upeksitanam.

So simply by having rich father and mother does not mean that he'll be happy. No. If he is unfortunate, in spite of having rich father and mother, he'll be unhappy. Balasya neha saranam pitarau nrsimha nartasya cagadam udanvati majjato nauh. Artasya, one who is suffering from disease, it is not that because he is given the help of good physician and first-class medicine he'll be cured. No. There is no guarantee. There is no guarantee. We have seen. First-class medicine, first-class physician employed for curing one..., but he dies. So we have manufactured so many counteracting. The scientists, they are very much proud that "We are now manufacturing counteracting medicine." But where is your counteracting medicine for stopping death and disease? Disease is happening. You cannot make, manufacture any medicine that one tablet I take, I shall never be diseased or I shall never die. That is not possible. You are manufacturing some medicine for some disease. All right, that disease is cured, but another disease is there. Huh? Just like in India there are malaria or some disease. In your country there is cancer. Rich disease. You are rich men. That disease is also very rich. (laughter) India, poverty stricken, they suffer only a little malaria. That's all. Oh, you are rich. You have got cancer. There is no cure. That's all. Finished. This is actually to be studied.

So why this is happening? You may manufacture, you may invent so many nice things, counteracting all this suffering, but if you are neglected by Krsna, no counteraction will save you. Tavad tanu-bhrtam tvad-upeksitanam. If one is neglected by God, he cannot be saved. There is no... That is not possible. So which point we were discussing?

Therefore Krsna is canvassing, yat karosi yaj juhosi yad asnasi yat tapasyasi yad dadasi yat kurusva tad mad-arpanam [Bg. 9.27]. Yat karosi. Everyone is engaged in some work. Yat karosi. Everyone they're engaged in performing sacrifices... Juhosi. Everyone is liking to give in charity. He has got some money; he wants to make some charity. Dadasi yat. Everyone is eating. Yad asnasi. [break] That is Krsna. If you give me a plate, thinking that "Guru Maharaja will keep some prasadam," I eat everything. (laughter) That's all. No prasadam. You see? You are cheated. But Krsna will not cheat. Krsna will eat everything and you still keep everything. So where is your loss? Why don't you offer to Krsna? Why in the temple? Everyone can do it at home. Everyone is eating. Why not offer to Krsna? That is Krsna consciousness. Is it very difficult?

But the difficulty is that Krsna does not eat all nonsense. And one has to eat all nonsense. So therefore they are not... They are afraid of becoming Krsna conscious. Yes. Because they'll be forbidden. Krsna said, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati [Bg. 9.26]. Krsna is limiting. He can eat everything. He can... Just like in Vrndavana, He swallowed the fire. So for Krsna to eat meat is not very difficult job. He can eat, because He is Krsna, all-powerful. But He has prescribed, that "Give Me this foodstuff." Just like if you call me at your house, you'll ask me, "What can I offer you?" So similarly, we have called Krsna, "Krsna, please come and stay with us in this temple." So therefore we must give Him food what He wants. Not whimsically. And it is clearly stated, Krsna says, "All right. Give me patram puspam phalam toyam." Patram, vegetables; phalam, fruits; toyam, milk, water. In this way. Krsna says, "You give Me this." So you give Him. And Krsna says, "If it is offered with faith and love, I eat. I eat."

Krsna is saying, lying, that He does not...? He eats. But we do not know how He is eating. That is a spiritual process. That is answered in the Brahma-samhita. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti pasyanti panti kalayanti ciram jaganti [Bs. 5.32]. He has got... Because He is omnipotent. Every part of His body has got all the potencies of other parts of the body. Therefore you offer with faith and love to Krsna, Krsna, simply by seeing, He can eat. Because angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti. We can see with our eyes. We cannot eat with our eyes, but Krsna can eat with His eyes, and He can see with His tongue. He can hear with His hair. That is Krsna. Omnipotency. We say all this, "omnipotency." How He is omnipotent, when you discuss, then we fail. This is omnipotency. Every part of His body has got the potency of other part. That is Krsna. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti pasyanti panti kalayanti ciram jaganti [Bs. 5.32]. Why? Ananda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya. Because His body is not this body, this material body. Ananda-cinmaya. Therefore don't think that "Here is Krsna, stone." No. Because stone is also part of His body. So this is the philosophy of Krsna. One has to learn. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti. So this is not stone worship. It is Krsna, personally present. We should worship Krsna, as He is personally present. Not with... If you think that it is stone, then it is aparadha, offense. Arcye sila-dhir gurusu nara-matih. To think of the Deity, worshipable Deity, as stone or wood, to think of the spiritual master as ordinary human being, these are not allowed. Then he is not making progress.

So in this way, this naimisa-yajna... Svargaya lokaya. They performed yajna. That is our only business, to perform yajna. So in this Krsna consciousness movement, because everything is being done for Krsna, it is simply yajna. Nothing else. It is not karma. When it is karma, you are bound up by the results of karma. But if you perform yajna, you are not bound up. Karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhajam [Bs. 5.54]. Bhakti-bhajam, those who are engaged in devotional service, they have no more any karma. Karma means if you do something then it will have reaction, either good or bad. But here, because everything is done for Krsna, I haven't got to enjoy or suffer for the resultant action. Karmany evadhikaras te ma phalesu... This is philosophy.

Thank you very much. (end)