Similarly, the example is given in the Visnu Purana,

But He has got so many other businesses, so many. He has to... Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah. Krsna says that "I am situated in everyone's heart." And mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca: [Bg. 15.15] "And through Me the living entity is getting intelligence, remembrance." So just see how much busy He is. Everyone's heart, isvarah paramah... Isvarah sarva...

There is a common saying that "Not a blade of grass can move without the sanction of God." Actually, that is the fact. Everyone has got different propensities, and he cannot do it without the sanction of God. This is God's business. Just see. Ananta-koti, innumerable jiva, and He has to give sanction and see his business and witness, also give the result. He is witness, and He has to give the result also. Because he is doing independently, he must enjoy or suffer the activities. That is going on. Karmana daiva-netrena. He has to give different types of body. Suppose I want to eat everythingnever mind how much nonsense and nuisance it is. There are so many men, they eat everything. So he has to be offered the body of a pig, no discrimination, even stool accepted. So who is giving this body? Daiva-netrena, by superior observation. Krsna is seeing that "This living entity wants a body so that he can eat anything up to stool." So He has to judge; He has to give. Karmana daiva-netrena jantur dehopapattaye [SB 3.31.1].

So we are getting different types of body according to the... Krsna does not give directly, but He is the Supreme Lord. He has nothing to do. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. This is the Vedic information. He has nothing to do. Simply His order is sufficient. That is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita:

But spiritual conception is different. Spiritual conception is stated in the Vedas, purnasya purnam adaya purnam eva avasisyate [Iso Invocation]. Krsna is purna, and He has expanded Himself in so many ways, so many potencies, so many forms, but still, He is Krsna. That is Krsna. You cannot think that "Because Krsna is expanded in so many forms and so many ways, therefore He is finished. There is no more Krsna. This form of Krsna is maya." No. That is Krsna, that Krsna can expand Himself... Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam [Bs. 5.33]. Ananta-rupam: you cannot count even. We are also forms of Krsna, vibhinnamsa. Everything is Krsna's form. That pantheism, they take it that "Krsna's... Everything is Krsna's form. Then where is Krsna?" No. Krsna is still Krsna. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca [Bs. 5.33]. He's still adyam, purusam adyam. Govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami **. He still remains adi. So how He has expanded? That is stated here, bhagavan atma-mayaya: by His internal potency. Bhagavan atma-mayaya. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport].

The example is given: just that the sun is localized in one place, but he is managing the whole universal affair by his heat and light. That is potency. That does not mean... For time immemorial, sun is supplying unlimited quantity of heat and light all over the universe day and night. There is no stoppage. It is not that sun's heat and light has been stopped because it is night. It is night for us, but his heat and light is being distributed. It is distributed. But still, has the sun has diminished by a small quantity? If it is possible even for the material thing... Sun is nothing but an insignificant material thing. There are millions of suns, millions and trillions of suns. That is admitted even by modern science. So this sun is only an insignificant portion of the sun category. This universe is the smallest. There are many big, big universes, and each and every universe, there is sun, there is moon, there is other things. And all these universes combined together is one fourth energy of Krsna. Ekamsena sthito jagat.

When Arjuna wanted to know about Krsna's potencies, vibhuti... He said... He says in so many ways. Then, at last, He summarized,

There are so many things to understand the science of Krsna. Therefore Krsna says that yatatam api siddhanam kascid vetti mam tattvatah. There are many siddhas. We are not siddhas. We are trying to be siddhas. Manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye [Bg. 7.3]. Not all. Just like here the bhakti-yoga is going on, how to become siddha. But who is interested? In Bombay there are millions of people, but who is interested? Therefore Krsna says, manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye: "There are millions and millions of human beings, but out of them, one may be interested to become siddha." And if one is siddha... Yatatam api siddhanam [Bg. 7.3]. And although siddhas, those who are actually siddhas, they are trying to understand Krsna, kascit, out of... Some. Out of them, somebody may be knowing Krsna. Therefore the Krsna science is not so easy. It is not so easy. So therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised, yei krsna-tattva-vetta sei guru haya [Cc. Madhya 8.128]. Yei krsna-tattva-vetta. Any person who knows the science of Krsna, he is guru, not others. Yei krsna-tattva-vetta, sei guru haya.

Sannyasa is very respectable position. Still it is honored in India. Anyone where a sannyasi goes, at least in the villages, they offer respectful obeisances and gives all kinds of comforts, still now. According to sastra, it is said if a sannyasi is not offered respect or duly honored, the punishment is the man should fast at least one day. This is Vedic system. But there are many sannyasis taking advantage of this, so we are not concerned. Neither Caitanya Mahaprabhu was a false sannyasi. He was real sannyasi. And he was also real grhastha, Ramananda Raya. So he was feeling little hesitation. To encourage him, Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately said, "No, no. Why you are feeling hesitation? Why you are feeling inferior? You are guru." "Now, how I am guru?" "Yei krsna-tattva-vetta, sei guru haya [Cc. Madhya 8.128]." Because to become a knower of Krsna is not ordinary position. Yatatam api siddhanam kascid vetti mam tattvatah [Bg. 7.3]. One who has known Krsna is not ordinary man. Yatatam api siddhanam [Bg. 7.3]. He is above all the siddhas even. "So why you are hesitating? You know krsna-tattva; therefore I am asking from you." So this is the position.

So this Krsna consciousness movement means that training the people who come to us to make him far, far above than the siddhas, far, far above than the siddhas. And it is very easily one can become. One can hold this position of guru, who is... Guru means who is above the siddhas. Krsna-tattva-vetta. Yei krsna-tattva-vetta, sei guru haya [Cc. Madhya 8.128]. One cannot become guru unless he knows krsna-tattva. Not ordinary man. The yogis, the karmis, the jnanis, they cannot become guru. That is not sanctioned, because even one is jnani, he has to learn Krsna after many, many births; not in one life, but many, many life. If he persists to understand what is the Absolute Truth by his jnana method, by his speculative method, then still he will have to change many, many births. Then one day he may be fortunate. If he comes in contact with a devotee, then it may be possible for him to understand Krsna.

That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita: bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate [Bg. 7.19]. Who is prapadyate? Who surrenders to Krsna. Unless one understands Krsna perfectly, why one should surrender? Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. Big, big scholars they, "It is too much," they say. "It is too much. Krsna is demanding, mam ekam saranam vraja. This is too much." This is not too much; this is the real position. If he is actually advanced in his knowledge... Bahunam janmanam ante [Bg. 7.19]. That is not attainable in one life. If he persists in knowledge, understanding of the Absolute Truth, then, after many, many births, when he is actually in knowledge, then he surrenders to Krsna. Vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah [Bg. 7.19]. That kind of mahatma... You will find so many mahatmas simply by changing the dress. Not that kind of mahatma. Sa mahatma sudurlabhah. It is very difficult to find out such mahatmas, but there are. If one is fortunate, he can meet such mahatma, and his life becomes successful. Sa mahatma sudurlabhah.

So Caitanya Mahaprabhu has made the thing very easy, very, very easy. Therefore His name is Patita-pavana. Patita-pavana. Patita means fallen, and pavana means purify. Caitanya Mahaprabhu's... Therefore we follow Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. We first of all sing or chant,

So this is the position. Because he does not know who is guru and how to learn Bhagavad-gita, therefore he is frustrated. Krsna says,

So how outsiders will accept? If the outsider is requested, "Sir, you do not smoke," very small thing, then "Swamiji is not very good. He puts so many restriction." And if somebody says, "No, no, you can drink, you can eat anything. It does not...," then he is very liberal. He is very liberal. So we are first of all putting these restriction: no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling. Intoxication up to drinking tea and smoking cigarette, you have to give up. Anyone who comes to become my disciple, this is my first proposal, that "If you agree, then you come." It is not that you can do anything nonsense you like, and you become my disciple. No. Because one cannot understand Krsna unless he is restricted from the sinful activities. And these are the basic principle of sinful activities: illicit sex, and meat-eating, gambling, and intoxication. These are the four pillars of sinful life. And the whole world is addicted to these four things.

So we have to push on Krsna consciousness with great difficulty. When I went to America, I went by ship. So it stopped at the, what is that, Commonwealth Pier in Boston. So I was thinking that if "I say that 'No illicit sex, no meat-eating, and no intoxication, and no gambling,' so these people will immediately say, 'Please go home.' " (laughter) Yes. That is the position. It is... These are their daily affairs. These are their daily affairs in Western countries. And if you want to make them stop these things, they will think that "This man is lunatic." But by Krsna's grace these boys, these girls, they agreed. That is Krsna's grace. I did not expect that they will agree. In India they do not agree, and they are accustomed from childhood, from boyhood. So how they will... But Krsna's grace is so nice, Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy is so great, that they agreed, and they are pushing on this movement on this principle.

So why? This is due to the grace of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Patita-pavana. He can deliver the Jagai-Madhai. And what is the process? The process is:

Krsna is very much anxious because we are suffering and we are sons of Krsna. We are part and parcel of Krsna. He is unhappy to see that you are suffering. That is natural. If the son is suffering from ailment, the father also suffers: "How the son will be cured?" The son may not know it, but the father is suffering without having that ailment. Similarly, Krsna, the..., He is the father of all living entities. Aham bija-pradah pita. Krsna says. It is not my word, but Krsna says. Sarva-yonisu kaunteya: [Bg. 14.4] "All different forms of life." Sambhavanti, aham bija-pradah pita. So Krsna is the father of everyone, and He is very much anxious for us, to get us back. Therefore He is ordering, "You rascal, why you have created so many isms? Just surrender to Me. I will give you protection. Just surrender." Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. For this purpose He comes. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata [Bg. 4.7]. Dharma-glani, discrepancies in the matter of religious principle, glani... What is that glani? The glani is forgetfulness of God: "No God. I am God. You are God." This is glani. But this is going on as dharma. This is Kali-yuga. What is not dharma, that is going on as dharma. Dharma means to understand God. Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam [SB 6.3.19]. What is dharma? Dharma means the laws and instruction given by God. But at the present moment, what is God? "There is no God." Then where is dharma? Where is dharma?

So there is no dharma in the Kali-yuga. They are simply cheating. Therefore Bhagavata says, dharmah projjhita-kaitavah atra, atra srimad bhagavate: "In the Srimad-Bhagavatam all cheating type of religious system is kicked out." What is that cheating type? "There is no God." Then where is dharma? "Dharma means you become honest." But they do not know that nobody can become honest without Krsna consciousness. That is not possible. Harav abhaktasya kuto mahad-gunah. Anyone who is devoid of God consciousness, he cannot be gentleman. Harav abhaktasya kuto mahad-gunah.

The real problem is, Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]. Our real miserable condition of life is birth, death, old age, and disease. Where is scientific help to mitigate these miseries? There is no stoppage of birth; there is no stoppage of death; there is no stoppage of disease. You can manufacture very good medicine for disease, but you stop disease. That is not possible. So our so-called meritorious activities in scientific research and education, they have been described in the Bhagavad-gita as duskrtinah, mischievous activities. Duskrtinah. They are not actually beneficial, but they are mischievous. And why, mischievous, they are engaged, they are wasting their so much time in mischievous? Because mudhah: they do not know what is the purpose of life. They are mudhas. Na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah [Bg. 7.15]. They do not surrender to Krsna because they are naradhamah, lowest of the mankind. Why lowest of the mankind? Because this human life was given to him for understanding Krsna, and he is wasting in other way. Therefore naradhamah. "But they are so educated, university degree..." Mayayapahrta-jnanah: "Their knowledge has no meaning. It is taken away by maya." Because he does not understand Krsna, what is the use of such knowledge? Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah [Bg. 15.15]. Veda means knowledge. So if you actually advances knowledge, you must know what is Krsna. But they do not know Krsna. Rather, they are defying Krsna.

So this is going on. Therefore this Krsna consciousness movement is very, very important. Those who are intelligent, they will take to it and make his life successful.

Thank you very much. (end)