In this way, this human form of life is very valuable. The more we are engaged in these animal propensities, more we waste our valuable life. That we should know. The more we decrease these animal propensities... The animal propensities means eating, sleeping, sex life and defense. So just see. The whole human civilization, how they are wasting their time in animal civilization. It is very serious thing, to be thought of by serious, thoughtful men, that "What we are doing as human being? Eating, sleeping and sex life and defending, that is done by cats and dogs. What extra things we are doing?" That is thoughtfulness. The extra thing is here, worshiping Radha-Krsna. This is wanted. This is extra thing. Therefore, those who are intelligent and fed up with this eating, sleeping, sex life and defense, they take Krsna consciousness very seriously. They get something. "Yes, there is some..."

So this is our night's business. And day's business is to earn money. Without earning money, the night's business will not go very nicely. Therefore money we must have. Diva carthehaya rajan. And as soon as we get money, kutumba-bharanena va, then those who are responsible, householders... But at the present moment, the civilization has so advanced that even though, even they have no responsibility for maintaining family. This is advancement. Even formerly, although they were engaged in eating, sleeping, mating, still, they had some responsibility to maintain family. Family means to get one's self married and take charge of the wife and children and... That is grhastha life. All grha... Even the grhamedhis, they used to do that. But at the present moment, because it is Kali-yuga, that if he can maintain a family, namely, wife and some children, he'll be considered as great hero. He's a big hero: "Oh, he's maintaining a family."

In America, when I was first there in New York, so one lady, she had a son. So according to our Indian method, I asked that her, that lady, elderly, that "Why don't you get your son married?" She said, "I have no objection. If he can maintain his family, let him marry." Then I could understand that he, although America is so rich, that they are not even main..., able to maintain the family. This is civilization. Although they are advertised so much, becoming very, very rich, but they're unable to maintain the family. I was surprised. I thought that in India, although, still, although they are very much advertised as poverty-stricken, still, they maintain their family. Even a worker, ordinary worker... I have seen in Ahmedabad one, what is, thela man. What is called? Who pushes that hand cart.

Then the next verse says,

How he's happy? Now deha. Deha means this body. He thinks, "I have got this strong body, very stout and strong body; by exercising, by yogic practice, I have become very strong." So what is that strength? Will you not die? "Yes, I'll die, but after few years." So he is very much fond of his deha, sarira, deha. And apatya... (aside:) Why don't you...? It is working or not? Why this big humbug? (laughter) If it is not working...

There(fore) Prahlada Maharaja said to his class friends... Prahlada Maharaja was a great devotee. He learned spiritual knowledge from Narada from the womb of his mother. So he decided that "I shall live a spiritual life." So although he was king's son, a very powerful king's son, he was not interested anything with spiritual, er, material. He decided. So from the childhood, he was trying to preach Krsna consciousness. Where he should get opportunity? He was a child of five years old, and king's son, locked up within the palace. So he was taking opportunity in the school. As soon as he go to the school, and the teachers are out, he'll stand up on the bench and speak of Krsna consciousness. A five-year-... You have seen the picture. So he was advising, "My dear friends"they were all five years, four years old"now take to Krsna consciousness." Kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha: [SB 7.6.1] "This kaumara, this age, from the very beginning of life, you take to Krsna consciousness." He was advising. They, they were all asuras. They were asking, "Why Krsna consciousness? Let us play now, jump like monkey." So he was not... "No, no. Let us take to Krsna consciousness." "Now, why we should take Krsna consciousness?" Now, durlabham manusam janma: "Oh, it is very valuable. This human form of life is very valuable." Because in this life only you can become Krsna conscious, not in the body of cats and dogs. That is not possible. Or trees.

Therefore Prahlada Maharaja advising, kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha. Dharma... "So we are, we are pursuing some kind of dharma, Hindu, Muslim or Christian." No, dharman bhagavatan. That dharma which teaches you how to love God. That dharma. That is first-class dharma. Otherwise, you stamp over "I am Christian," and do all nonsense; "I am Hindu," and do all nonsense. This will not help, simply by stamping. So many Christian gentlemen I meet. They cannot understand even Christianity that Lord Jesus Christ said, "Thou shalt not kill," and they are very busy simply in killing business. And still, they're Christians. First of all, let us see who is a Christian. Similarly, every religion, simply by rubber stamp, "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," but they do not know what is religion. They do not know. Therefore (in) the Bhagavatam you'll find religion, religious person, who is a religious person first-class religion? Religious person means who has learned to love God. That is religious person. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje, ahaituky aprati... [SB 1.2.6]. And this religion is universal. To love God, you don't require any education, don't require any rubber stamp. God is one, and you are part and parcel of God. You try to love. You have got the loving propensity. You love God, and you'll be satisfied, you'll be happy. Everyone is trying to love God, somebody else. Love is not alone. Love must be two. So that two, Krsna and myself, that is called love. Not that...

Impersonalists, they do not know what is love. Because he's one. Their philosophy is oneness. So how there can be love, one? Is it possible? Have you got any such experience? Love means one? No. Love means two. There must be two, the lover and the beloved. So lover... Krsna is already lover. He's so lover of you that He's trying to get you back. That is Krsna's attempt. "Please, My dear boy, or My dear friend, My dear servant..." Any way, as we are related, He's after us.

So therefore sastra says that "This human life is not meant for becoming a hog." Nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke kastan kaman arhate vid-bhujam ye [SB 5.5.1]. You are working so hard, day and night, very busy, going this side, that side, this side, that side, and getting money, and leading a life like hog. What is this civilization? This is not civilization. Then what is civilization? That is also said, tapo divyam putraka yena suddhyet sattvam [SB 5.5.1]. This is Rsabhadeva's instruction to His sons. "My dear boys, this life, this human form of life, is not meant for wasting like hogs and dogs, but tapasya, just have little restraint. Don't become hogs and dogs." What is that restraint? Just like we are prescribing, no illicit sex. No illicit sex. Sex is not stopped. Sex is there. But no illicit sex. Illicit sexunnecessary sex life. Sex life is meant for human beings. There is regulation. Sex life is meant for producing nice children, that's all, not for sense enjoyment. Therefore one is trained as brahmacari from the very beginning.

The brahmacari means no sex life. No sex life. Even the guru... Sometimes guru... Mostly in a school, the teachers, they were householders. It is restricted, "If the guru has a young wife, you should not go to carry out her order." It is restricted. This is brahmacari life, voluntarily accepting hardship for making life successful. That is brahmacari life. And then married life. Married life. When the... Brahmacari is meant for the boys, not for the girls. Girls, they are to be married. A brahmacari may remain unmarried for life, but according to Vedic civilization, a girl must be married. As soon as... Before the age of attaining puberty, it is the duty of the father, or if she has no father, it is the duty of the elder brother to get her married somehow or other. (laughter) Give her in responsibility to another young man. This is the duty. Yes. This is the duty. So therefore... Female population is always bigger than the male population. Then you can ask, "Where so many husbands?" Therefore polygamy was allowed. And the kings, the ksatriyas who had money and who had very nice strength also, they used to marry more than one wife. You'll find all the ksatriyas... Even Krsna, the best ksatriya, He married 16,108 wives. Wholesale. (laughter) Yes.

So Krsna, as ksatriya, proved how much strong He was, how much able He was, that He married sixteen thousand wives, and for each wife, separate establishment, separate servants, separate house, separate palace. Everything separate. Not that "I marry only. Therefore I have no responsibility." Not like that. That is Krsna, ideal. He married 16,108, but He had 16,108 palaces, big big palace. And palace all made of nice, what is called, marble, and decorated with jewels. The... Krsna's house, there was no need of this light. The jewels were glittering. These are description in the Bhagavata. And the furnitures were married of ivory. That is Krsna's house. And the garden, compound, parijata flower. Then is that sufficient? A woman will be satisfied simply with this palace, nice palace, and...? No. He expanded Himself into 16,108 Krsnas. Each and every wife is able to receive her husband individually. So anyway, you cannot imitate Krsna, neither you can do like that, neither you can marry sixteen thousand, but you can marrythat is Vedic civilizationmore than one wife. Because every female must be married, so where are so many husbands? So therefore polygamy was allowed, but the man who marries, he must be able to maintain the wife very nicely. That is Hindu, or Vedic civilization. That is kutumba, kutumba-bharana, maintaining the family.

Anyway, even though we are able to maintain a very nice group of family members, then I may be puffed up that "I am maintaining such a nice family," but that is also not very good situation. Dehapatya-kalatradisu. I am thinking, "Now I have got good home, good wife, nice children, nice bank balance. So I am safe now." No, sir, you are not safe. Dehapatya-kalatradisv atma-sainyesu [SB 2.1.4]. This world is struggle for existence. You should not think that because you have got nice wife, children, and nice nationality, or everything nice... Still, you are not safe. This is to be understood. Yes. Just like Napoleon in your country, he had many soldiers. He was fighting. He was conquering all over. And because he had very, very good military strength, he was thinking he was safe. But he was also defeated, and he had to die also, leaving all the opulences he created. So nobody's safe. You must always remember that. So here it is said, dehapatya-kalatradisv atma-sainyesv asatsv api [SB 2.1.4]. Although I know that this national strength, or this material strength, the bank balance strength and good wife and everything is there, but they'll not be able to save me. This is the intelligence. They'll not be able to save me because when death will come, nobody will be helpful to me. I'll have to go. I cannot say, "Now I have got my children, I have got so much duty, I have got this to do, this to do, this to do." No. Now your time is over. Your so-called arrangement for material happiness is now over. Now you must get out. Is it not?

So the fools, the rascals, they cannot see it. Therefore tesam pramatto nidhanam. A intelligent man will see that "What they'll do me? I will be also annihilated, and they will be also annihilated. I cannot save them, neither they cannot save me." But this is intelligence. But those who are not intelligent, for them it is said, tesam pramatto nidhanam. Pramatta, because we are mad, we are thinking that these things will save me... Pramatta. Therefore mad. So because we are... Madman cannot see. Just like a madman lies down on the street. He does not see, "Immediately, I may be killed by the motorcar, driving." But he's thinking he's safe. He is thinking, "I have ordered. Nobody can come here." A madman. We have seen in India, a madman lies down on the street. That is not in your country? But he thinks that he's safe. He's not safe. Similarly, we are, because we are mad, by the influence of maya, we are not safe. We are unsafe because at any moment, we have to die, and we have to accept a body. That also we do not understand, the modern civilization. That is the first beginning of spiritual understanding, that "I am not this body, I am the soul. Within the body, I am living, and after giving up this body, I'll have to accept another body." This is the beginning of knowledge. One who does not understand these plain, primary principles of knowledge, he's animal. He's animal. It is not my manufactured word. It is stated in the sastra that yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke [SB 10.84.13].

Kunape. Kunape means a bag. This body is a bag. What is is made of? Now, it is made of flesh, bone, marrow, and nerves, and stool, urine, and so many things, blood. So I am not this blood. I am not this urine, I am not this stool. This is the composition of the body. But one is thinking, "I am this body. I am stool. I am urine. I am blood. I am flesh. I am this and that." So there are so many big, big scientists. Take these ingredients and make an intelligent man like Napoleon or Professor Einstein. The ingredients are there. But thinking that "I am this blood, I am this flesh, I am..." Where is the scientist? If I am combination of these material things, blood, flesh, bone, and urine, stool... You, you just dissect your body. What you'll find? You'll find there is blood, there is flesh, there is nerves, there is intestines, there is stool, there is... Is that the ingredient of your so much intelligence? Who was telling that they're trying to make intelligent man in the scientific laboratory? Who was saying in the morning? Yes. So take these ingredients, and make an intelligent man. Is it possible? Then how they will do it? They are thinking like that, that this blood, this flesh, this bone, and this urine, and the stool can be, by careful combination, they can produce a very intelligent man. That is their intelligence. So therefore sastra says, yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke. If one is thinking this body is the man or the living entity...

This body's nothing but combination of these things. Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu [SB 10.84.13]. Here, just like dehapatya-kalatradi. Kalatra means wife, and thinking this body, "I am..., I am this body." And thinking also that "These, my soldiers, these, my wife, children, and friends and nationals, they will save me." Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih [SB 10.84.13]. And the land where he has taken birth... Just like everyone is thinking, "I am Frenchman," "I am Englishman," "I am Indian," "I am this," "I am that." So, so "This is my land. I must decorate this land, this Paris City, very nicely. I shall bring something from Egypt and put it here. Then..." (laughter) These nonsense things are going on. Even big, big men like Napoleon and others. And what to speak of others. So... But sastra says, yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih, yat-tirtha-buddhih. A little advanced than, than these fools and rascals, they are religious. What is that religion? "Let us go to the holy place." The Christians are going to the Jordan, and the Hindus are going to the Ganges or Yamuna. They think, "If I take my bath in this river, Jordan, or in this Ganges or in this Yamuna, then I become immediately perfect religious." Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma... [SB 10.84.13], yat-tirtha-buddhih salile. Salila means water. So they go to take bath in the water. Yat-tirtha-buddhih salile. Tirtha means place of sanctuary. So tirtha-buddhih, yat-tirtha-buddhih. Real tirtha is to find out a Krsna conscious person. That is the business. Yat-tirtha-buddhih salile na karhicij janesv abhijnesu. Janesu. Tirtha means in the holy places many saintly persons live. So if one goes to the holy place, they must find out a holy man who is living there, and take lesson from him. And that is purification. Not that I go and take bath in the water, and I become purified.

So these classes of men, who are doing like this, that "I am this body, and this birthplace is my worshipable land, yat-tirtha, and my, this wife and children, they are my protectors," in this way, everyone is thinking. "And whatever sinful activities I am doing, I shall take one bath in the Ganges or Yamuna or Jordan. Then I'll be purified." In this way, the people who are thinking, the sastra says, "You are no better than the ass and the cow." This is the certificate. Sa eva go-kharah [SB 10.84.13]. This class of thinking is simply for the animals.

So we should not think like animals. We should think like human beings. That is required. That thinking is "How to awaken my dormant love for God." That is required. That is human activity. That is there already. It is not artificial. Now, in this temple, you are all citizens of Paris city. Four or five years ago, you had no idea what is Krsna. But now you are dancing, chanting in Krsna. Why? Have I, have I given you some bribe? I brought Krsna from India, and I am making you to dance, giving you some bribe? Is it a fact? What do you think? And what is my money? I came to Western country with seven dollars. Also I have got now money, enough money. That is your money, of course, (laughs) (laughter) But why you are dancing in Krsna's name? What bribe I have given you? Can you answer, anyone of you?

So our, this Krsna consciousness movement is to purify the covering, the material covering. That... What is that purification? Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. First of all, you have to purified with the sense that you are neither American nor a Frenchman nor Englishman nor Indian nor brahmana nor ksatriyanothing of the sort. You have to... These are all designations, outward dress. You have to become free from it. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. You'll have to forget. Actually, that is happening in Krsna consciousness movement. Those who have joined, they never think that "I am American," "I am Frenchman," "I am Englishman." They are always thinking that they are servant of Krsna. This is called purification. As soon as you learn that you are neither American, nor Indian, nor this or not that... You are eternally servant of Krsna. This is purification. The more you are fixed up on this knowledge, the more you are purified. That's all.

So how this can be done? This is the process: sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam [SB 7.5.23]to hear about Krsna, to chant about Krsna, to think about Krsna, to worship Krsna, to give everything to Krsna, like that. If you practice, then you become purified. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat... [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. Then you become nirmala, without any dirty things. Then when there is no dirt, then your senses... We are not going to kill your senses. It is not possible. You have got senses. Because you are living being, you must have senses. But our process is not to stop the sense actions, but to purify the sense action. So when you are purified, then, with your senses, you can engage yourself in serving Krsna instead of serving this maya. Dehapatya-kalatradisu [SB 2.1.4]. Just like here is also family. Here the Krsna conscious family means they are not families like cats and dogs. They are family, making Krsna center. They're also family. They have got husband, wife, children, but the whole attention is to Krsna. Even a child, he is also dancing, he's also chanting. He's offering obeisances. This is Krsna consciousness.

So this movement, we should understand very clearly that there is no question (of) artificial negation. The question is purification. As soon as you become purified, and you become fully Krsna conscious, then your life is successful. That is wanted.

Thank you very much. (end)