We have several times discussed this point that the so-called scholars, politicians, and philosophers, they read Bhagavad-gita and comment in a different way. This is their foolishness. They cannot understand Bhagavad-gita. It is not possible. My Guru Maharaja used to say, "It is just licking the bottle of honey." Now you want honey. I give you one bottle, but you do not know how to taste it. You begin to lick up the bottle. Then what you will taste? If you think, "Here is the bottle of honey. Let me lick," you will not get any taste. It must be opened. But the opening key is with the devotee. You do not know how to open it. Therefore it is said, satam prasangan mama virya-samvido bhavanti hrt-karna-rasayanah [SB 3.25.25]. The devotees know how to open it, the bottle. And then they can taste. Therefore, sabhajayante mama paurusani.

In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says to Arjuna that "I am speaking to you this science of Bhagavad-gita." Imam vivasvate yogam proktavan aham avyayam [Bg. 4.1]. Idam yogam. Bhagavad-gita means bhakti-yogam. So Krsna said formerly, say, four hundred millions of years ago. Bhagavad-gita is not new. It is... First of all it was spoken to sun-god, and from the Manu's age and others' age we can calculate it is about some millions of years ago it was spoken. Imam vivasvate yogam proktavan aham avyayam [Bg. 4.1]. So Krsna said, "That very old yoga system I am speaking to you again. It is not a new thing that I am manufacturing for you. No." Everything... God is eternal and His instruction is also eternal. And the followers are also eternal. There is nothing new. Nityah sasvato 'yam puranah. Nityah sasvato 'yam puranah. Very old, but still, it is eternal and fresh. This is spiritual matter. You read Bhagavad-gita. It was spoken four hundred millions of years ago, and then again, five thousand years ago. Still, if you read Bhagavad-gita daily, you will find it fresh. You will never find it old. As Krsna is never old, advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam [Bs. 5.33]. Krsna is the Purana..., the oldest man, but nava-yauvanam ca. But He is always... See. You will find Krsna just a young boy of twenty years. Nava-yauvanam ca. So similarly, Krsna's words, everything Krsna, absolute. His name, His form, His quality, His activitiesthey are all fresh and new. Otherwise, how the devotees can glorify the same Krsna daily with greater enthusiasm? Greater enthusiasm. The more you glorify, you feel more enthusiastic to more glorify, glorify, glorify.

This is spiritual. In the material world, if you speak one thing once, twice, thrice, four times, then it becomes disgusting. But how this Hare Krsna mantra... You are chanting. You can chant twenty-four hours. It will feel fresh and enthusiasm. That is spiritual. Therefore... Therefore it is not a subject matter, this sound is not like this radio, material sound. It is also sound, but it is spiritual sound, and it is coming from the spiritual world. Just like in the material world we can release some sound. From here, it can be heard from thousands of miles, but not more than that. The spiritual sound, it is released from many, many millions and millions and trillions of miles away; still, it can be heard, provided you have got the machine to capture it. That is bhagavata-prema.

So those who have got developed love of Godhead, they can hear. As it is said in the Bhagavad-gita, Krsna says that "I am speaking to you the old message, Bhagavad-gita, which I spoke to sun-god some millions of years ago." So "Why You are speaking to me? I am not a Vedantist. I am not a sannyasi. I am not any advance in spiritual understanding." People may say. But Krsna says, "Yes. You are My bhakta." Bhakto 'si. Therefore to understand Bhagavad-gita means one has to become first of all a bhakta. The so-called nondevotee, atheist class, scholar and politician, they cannot understand. It is not possible. They cannot enter into it. The same thing, licking up the honey bottle, that's all. What you will taste? It is not possible. Therefore Krsna says,

So here it is said, pasyanti te me rucirany amba santah? "They can see Me, santah." Not these rascals and fools. They cannot see. Naham prakasah sarvasya yoga-maya-samavrtah [Bg. 7.25], Bhagavan says in the Bhagavad-gita that "I am not exposed to these fools and rascals, nondevotees." Why I say "fools and rascals" to the nondevotees? I am not saying; Krsna says. Na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah [Bg. 7.15]. Mudha means rascal. Mudha means rascal. And duskrtinah, duskrtinah mean always engaged in sinful activities, no restraint. They can eat everything, they can drink everything, they can do everything without any restriction. They think, "What is there in drinking and eating in the matter of religion?" That is the new invention of swamis and yogis, that "You can do everything, and still you become advanced." But that is not possible. One has to become a pure brahmana. Then why, in the Vedic civilization, a pure brahmana is so respected? Because they are symbolic representation of the Vedas. Satyam samo damas titiksa arjavam jnanam vijnanam astikyam [Bg. 18.42]. That is brahmana, who has got this qualification, satyam, who has taken the Absolute Truth as the aim of life. People, ordinary people, how they will know? Satyam saucam, very clean always, tri-sandhya-snana, taking bathing thrice. Satyam saucam samam, controlling the mind, not that "I am servant of my mind. I shall do whatever my mind dictates." These are the qualification of brahmana. Samam damam, controlling the senses. These are the symbolic representation of the Vedas.

So therefore satam prasangan, that one has to discuss about the Supreme Personality of Godhead amongst the satam, santah. Satam, santah, the same thing. Santah. Here the word is used, santah. Pasyanti me, te me rucirany amba: "Mother, they can see, santah." Santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti. In the Brahma-samhita again this word is used, santah.

When Prahlada Maharaja was offered benediction that "My dear Prahlada, you have suffered so much for Me even from your father. Now your enemies are all off. You can ask any benediction you like," Prahlada Maharaja said, "Why is this, my dear Lord? Am I a baniya, banik, that because I have suffered for You, I shall ask some benediction? No, no, don't offer me like that. Because You are the supreme powerful, whatever I want, I can get from You. And I am born in the asura families. I am inclined for this material enjoyment. So don't delude me, my dear Sir. Then I can ask You. And why shall I ask You? Because I have seen my father, so powerful even the demigods were afraid of him, and You have finished all his power within a second. So why shall I ask for these things? Kindly engage me in the service of Your servant. This much I want. I don't want anything."

Therefore a devotee never asks anything material from the Supreme Personality. As Caitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us, na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagadisa kamaye [Cc. Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4]. They are simply satisfied by glorifying the Lord. That is their only satisfaction. If they get the opportunity of glorifying the Lord, as it is said in the previous verse, that sabhajayante mama paurusani... Mama paurusani, the glorious activities of the Lord. This is the way of bhajana. Satatam kirtayanto mam yatantas ca drdha-vratah [Bg. 9.14]. This is the way of bhakti-yoga. Simply glorify this... Your glorification, so much activities... Krsna therefore comes to give advantage to the devotees for glorifying Himbecause He acts. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam [Bg. 4.8]. To kill the demons and to give protection to the sadhus, He has to work. From the very beginning of Krsna's birth, the enemies are there, demons are there. Kamsa advised his constables, "So be very careful. As soon as there is Krsna's birth, immediately inform me, and I shall kill Him." He was always thinking of Krsna, a first-class Krsna conscious, always..., but to kill Him.

Similarly, you will find there are so-called religionists. Their only purpose, so-called scholars, their only purpose is how to kill Krsna. You will find so many commentaries by the politician, by the so-called scholars, but their only aim is how to kill Krsna, how to take away Krsna from Bhagavad-gita. No mention of Bhagavad-gita..., of Krsna. They will talk so many nonsense, but they will never say that "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and He should be worshiped." They will never say. That means asuras. Asuram bhavam. Na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah, mayayapahrta-jnanah [Bg. 7.15]. "Oh, they are very big, big scholars, sir. You are talking about them as mudhah, naradhamah?" Yes. Because although they are so-called scholars, their real knowledge has been taken away. Mayayapahrta-jnanah. Why this punishment, that their knowledge has been taken away? Asuram bhavam asritah? "They are simply thinking of killing Me, that's all." How to evade krsna-bhakti, that is their whole propaganda.

So we should not be like that. If we want to be fixed up then, in devotional service, then, as it is advised by Kapiladeva... He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead incarnate. He says, pasyanti te me rucirany amba santah? "They can see that..." So unless God has got form, how one can see? How God can be nirakara? God is never nirakara, but He's sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah. His akara is not like us. Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [Bs. 5.1]. His form is sac-cid-ananda. This body is not sac-cid-ananda. Sat means eternal, and cit means full of knowledge, and ananda means full of bliss. So if we study, "Is our body eternal?" no, sir. It is temporary, say, fifty years, sixty years, utmost hundred years. So it is not eternal, it is not sat. Asat. Asato ma sad gama, the Vedic injunction, that "Don't keep yourself in this asat body. Just get your original sat body, eternal body." We are not interested. We are simply interested with this temporary body: "I am this body." I am not this body. I am spirit soul. I am within this body. This is knowledge. This is called siddhi. So long I am thinking, "I am this body," then I am cats and dogs. They are thinking like that. But when I know that "I am not this body. I am the spirit spark, spirit soul. I am encaged within this body," that is knowledge. That is knowledge. So those who are self-realized spirit soul, they can see.

So here it is said, pasyanti te me rucirani. Krsna is so beautiful, rucirani. Rucira means very attractive. Now, fortunately, people in Bombay say that our Deity here is more beautiful. They say there is no such Deity in Bombay city. So this is our duty, to dress Krsna in such an attractive way that people at least see that it is very beautiful. Then he becomes a devotee, simply by appreciating. Simply by appreciating, if they say, "Now the Deity worship is very nice," then they go a step forward, step forward immediately, simply by appreciation. Then other things will come gradually. Therefore the temple worship should be exactly to the routine, to the instruction of the sastra and guru and acarya, so that the worshiper in the temple as well as the visitor, both of them will benefit. They will be gradually seeing. Krsna is so kind that He has consented to appear in a way so that we can see. At the present moment we cannot see Krsna as He is spiritually embodied, sad-cid-ananda-vigrahah, because we have no eyes to see sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [Bs. 5.1]. So here is also sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah, arca-murti. It is not idol worship. The atheist class may say so, but it is not so. Those who have got eyes, they can see. Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, when He entered the temple of Jagannatha, immediately He fainted, "Oh, here is My Lord. Here is My Lord." So one has to become santah. Then one can see. But it is culture, by culture. Premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva [Bs. 5.38]. When you develop that culture, when you develop that love for Krsna, then you will see immediately and you will faint, "Oh, here is my Lord."

So prasanna-vaktra aruna-locanani. Prasanna-vaktra. Prasanna means pleasing. Somebody was talking that "Your Deity is just like trying to talk with me." Prasanna-vaktra. Yes. He is here to talk with you, but He is waiting whether you're interested to talk with Him. That's all. Krsna says that tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam, buddhi-yogam dadami tam [Bg. 10.10]. He talks, but with whom? Tesam satata-yuktanam. One who is twenty-four hours engaged with love and faith in the service of the Lord. To whom? Just like if you want to talk with some big man, then you must have qualification. Is it possible that if you want to talk with the big man here, immediately you like? No. You cannot talk. You must be fit to talk with him. Similarly, Krsna is ready to talk with you. He has come. He has descended in arca-murti to talk with you, to be visible by you. Now you make yourself ready and fit to talk with Krsna. Then He will exchange conversation. Santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti. This is possible. This is a qualification.

So rupani divyani vara-pradani. Divyani. Divya means divine. Divyani. Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, janma karma ca me divyam [Bg. 4.9]. Divyam. They are not material things. One has to see. So if you say, as it is said, sakam vacam sprhaniyam vadanti, sprhaniyam, very favorably you talk... Suppose if I say, "You have no eyes. You are blind," this is not favorable. So the nondevotees, Mayavadis, they say that God has no eyes. So it is indirectly saying, "God is blind." So if I say, "You are blind. You nonsense, you are blind," is it favorably talking? Most unfavorable. Directly insulting. So those who are talking about God, nirakarano eyes, no leg, no head, no tail, nothing, nirakarathey are simply blaspheming, not sprhaniyam. God does not want to hear such nonsense things. Therefore it is said, sakam vacam sprhaniyam vadanti. You cannot say that "Krsna is blind. Krsna is lame. Krsna has no hands. Krsna has no nothing, nothing." Indirectly saying, "Krsna has..., does not exist." This kind of addressing Krsna, nirakara, is not favorable talking with Krsna.

Favorable talkingif you want to talk with Krsna, then you must consult the Vedic literature, how Krsna is worshiped.

When Krsna said, paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam, sambhavami yuge yuge... [Bg. 4.8]. He comes for two business. First business is paritranaya sadhunam. The sadhus, the santas, or the devotees, they are always, I mean to say, given trouble by this atheistic class of men. So therefore they have no other means. They simply think of Krsna. Just like Prahlada Maharaja. Even his father was giving him trouble, so much trouble that he was..., he wanted to kill him somehow or other. So they... Here, the santas, they come. They have to suffer so much trouble by the demons. Therefore we have already discussed that verse that, what is that? Titiksavah karunikah [SB 3.25.21]. A santa means he has to suffer. Just see in the Western countries the Lord Jesus Christ. He was preaching about God, God consciousness. That was the only fault, and he was crucified. Just see. He was crucified. The state ordered him to be crucified because he is talking. Similarly, Hiranyakasipu, his five-years-old body, he was talking only of Krsna, Narayana. So therefore his father became enemy. He was trying in so many ways to kill him. This is the very old story, that if you become a devotee, you must be prepared to be put into miserable condition by the demons. That is their business. Asuram bhavam asritah [Bg. 7.15]. Asuras... Just like even Krsna, even God Himself, He was attempted to be killed by Kamsa. Not only that, He engaged so many demons, Putana, Aghasura, Bakasura, Mahisasura, so many asuras. But Krsna is always Krsna. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam [Bg. 4.8]. He is able to finish these duskrtas or the asuras by His omnipotency. That He can do. But the asuras are always... Their only business is to give trouble to God and His devotee.

Therefore it is advised, titiksavah karunikah suhrdah sarva-dehinam [SB 3.25.21]. A devotee should be so advanced that in spite of being troubled by the asuras, he should tolerate, titiksavah, and still, he should be kind upon him, not that "This man is talking against me, against God. Therefore I shall be angry and drive him away." No. Titiksavah karunikah. Everyone in this material world, more or less, they are asuras, atheists. So if you want to preach, then you have to learn tolerance and speak in such a way that these asura can become also devotee. That is the business.

So here it is said that sakam vacam sprhaniyam vadanti. So we should pray in such a way Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, sprhaniyam. Don't think He is dead stone. That is the conclusion of the atheist class of men. No, dead, no. You talk in such a way that He will be pleased upon you. He will be pleased. He is pleased, He is satisfied in Himself, but He wants to see that you are also talking about Him pleasingly. That's all. Therefore He comes. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam [Bg. 4.8]. You talk unpleasingly or pleasingly; it doesn't matter to Krsna. But if you talk pleasingly, then you become benefited. You become benefited. So therefore there are stotra. Therefore Krsna's another name is Uttamasloka. Uttamasloka mean He is worshiped, God is worshiped, by the best selected words, not patchy words. No. All selected words. So you will find in so many prayers, not only in our Vedic scripture and other scripture also, in Bible, in Koran, the prayer. Prayer is also devotion. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam, arcanam vandanam dasyam [SB 7.5.23]. Vandanam, this vandanam. The Christians and the Muhammadans, they offer vandanam. Although they do not worship the Deity, but they offer prayers to the Lord. That is also good. That is also bhakti.

Arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-ni... There are nine different processes. So you accept all of them or some of them or at least one. Then your life is successful. Sprhayanti. Very selected words. You surrender to Him, but don't talk things which does not please Him. You don't say that "God is formless. God has no eyes, no leg, no head." These things are there. Just like in the Vedas it is said, apani-pado javano grahita, that "He has no hand, but He can accept your offerings." But if He has no hand, then how He can offer your offerings, er, how He can accept your offerings? He has His hand, but not like our hand. He can extend His hand millions of miles. Just like Krsna leaves His Goloka, Goloka Vrndavana. That planet is many millions and trillions of miles away. But He can accept what you offer. That is Krsna's hand, not like Your hand, three feet, no. Therefore sometimes in the Vedas it is said that "God has no hand." That means He has no this material hand. But He can accept your offerings. That means He has got hand, but that is a different type. That is explained, sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [Bs. 5.1].

So in this way we have to study the science of God, the science of Krsna. Then our life will be successful. And tyaktva deham punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. And if we can understand Krsna's activities, Krsna's form, Krsna's quality, then we become fit for going back to home, back to Godhead. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam e... [Bg. 4.9].

Thank you very much. Hare Krsna. (end)