Sarve padma-palasaksah. They were very much satisfied by seeing the Visnudutas. Just like in your country they are very much satisfied by seeing your face. They have named you "bright-faced." Why? You are naturally very beautiful, but they understand, your countrymen, that you have become more beautiful by Krsna consciousness. That's a fact. (aside): You can sit down there. This is disturbing. So Krsna consciousness is so nice that naturally it will make you beautiful, not black-faced, not morosebeautiful face. That is the sign of spiritual advancement. By the face you'll understand that "Here is a man who is spiritually advanced." Pratyaksam avagamam dharmyam. This process of spiritual consciousness can be directly perceived. It is not theoretical: "Oh, I am a very great devotee." No. Simply theoretical understanding, "I am a great devotee..." From the very face it will be understood. Face is the index of mind, how you are thinking. If you are thinking of Krsna always, then your face will be beautiful. Therefore it is called pratyaksam avagamam dharmyam, direct perception. There is no theoretical. It is practical. Pratyaksyam avagamam dharmyam su-sukham.

Then to become such spiritually advanced, is it very difficult task? No. Su-sukham: very easy and very happy. How it is happy? Happy because this spiritual consciousness is developed by chanting Hare Krsna mantra. That is very pleasing. With music, with musical instrument we chant Hare Krsna mantra. There is no trouble. Even a child can take part, experience. A child also claps; he also dances. So what can be easier method than this? Any other method you take, you have to exercise, you have to tax your brain, press your nose, or so many other things. But here automatically you chant before aratrika and you become spiritually enlightened. Even the child becomes. Therefore it is susukham, very happy to execute. Susukham kartum avyayam [Bg. 9.2]. And whatever you do, little, that becomes a permanent asset, avyayam. It is never to be vanished. Even one percent of devotional service you execute, it will help you again to begin from that point.

So here is a description of the Vaikuntha-purusa. Sarve padma-palasaksah: "Your eyes are so beautiful, just like petals of the lotus flower." And pita-kauseya-vasasah. Saffron and yellow. These two kinds of colors of garments because... Those who are Mayavadis, impersonalists, they cannot understand that there is another spiritual world and there are spiritual planets, and their inhabitants, their bodily features are like this, their dress are like... Everything is there. But unfortunate persons, they cannot understand. They think everything is here. They are that kupa-manduka, frog philosophy, that the frog in the well, he cannot understand beyond that well. Similarly, these materialistic persons, frog, they cannot understand that there is a Pacific Ocean, or spiritual world. They are satisfied with this well, three-cubic-feet well. That's all. And simply imagining, "God may be like this, may be like this, may be like this, and therefore I am God." So God is so easy that "Everyone is God. God is loitering in the street as daridra. God as Narayana has become that poor, and I am so rich that I can provide Narayana also." This is going on.

So, na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah [Bg. 7.15]. Persons who are very much influenced by this materialistic way of thought, asuri-bhavam asritah, such persons are always engaged in misdeeds, duskrtina. Misdeeds. Na mam duskrtino mudhah. Why they are engaged in misdeeds? Because mudha. They do not know what is the responsibility of this human form of life. They are simply wasting their life in animal propensities, mudha. Mudha is the symbol of an ass. He does not know. The ass does not know why he is working so hard for the washerman. He carries a very heavy load, but he does not know "Why I am carrying so much heavy load?" That is the symbol of an ass. If you work so hard, you must know what benefit you are deriving out of it. But the ass does not know. Similarly, the karmis, they are very busy, very busy accumulating wealth. But he does not know what for he is doing so, why he is so laboring hard. Rsabhadeva says that this life, human form of life, is not meant for so much hard working. Nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke kastan kaman arhate vid-bhujam ye [SB 5.5.1]. Why people are taught to work so hard? Simply for morsel of bread and little sense gratification. So Rsabhadeva says that that is done by the hogs and dogs. Daily they are whole day and night working: "Where is some food? Where is some stool?" But that human form of life is meant for that purpose, working hard, so hard like hogs and dogs simply for fulfilling the belly and having sex life? No. So they should be taught for tapasya. Nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke kastan kaman arhate vid-bhujam ye tapo divyam putraka yena suddhyet [SB 5.5.1]. Rsabhadeva was advising, instructing His sons, "My dear boys, this life is meant for tapo-divyam, for spiritual realization, austerity. That should be taught."

So the Krsna consciousness movement is teaching that tapah. Tapah means you have to accept voluntarily some difficulties. Actually it is not difficulty because... Just like somebody smoking, and we are advising, "Don't smoke." The smoker may feel some inconvenience. But if he voluntarily suffers that inconvenience, that is called tapasya. Actually he will not die, but because he is practiced to so many nonsense habits, he feels difficulty to give it up. From the birth he is not a drunkard, from birth he is not a smoker, but by bad association, so-called civilized association, he becomes a drunkard, he becomes a smoker, he becomes a woman hunter, he becomes a gamblersinful life. So to advance in spiritual life one has to give up all these sinful activities; otherwise it is not possible. Some rascal says that "You can do whatever you like. It has nothing to do with your religiousness." This is nonsense. Religious life means to approach God, and God is pure. As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg. 10.12]. Pavitra. Krsna is addressed by Arjuna, pavitram. In the Upanisad it is said, Isopanisad, apapa-viddham. God cannot be infected by sinful activities. That is God's... Just like we are infected by sinful activities, God is not like that... There is Absolute. So He is always pure. So we have to make ourselves purified before we can approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So these are sinful activities: illicit sex life and meat-eating, unnecessarily killing the animals. Why should you kill animals? If God has given you so many nice foodstuffsvarieties of fruit, varieties of grain, sufficient milkwhy should you take to this obnoxious foodstuff? But it is ill luck, unfortunate. By ill association you have learned all this nonsense. So therefore one has to give up these nonsense habits. That is called tapasya. Tapo divyam [SB 5.5.1].

Why tapasya? Divyam: for spiritual realization. Why it is necessary? Tapo divyam yena suddhyet sattva. Your existence will be purified because... Just like in diseased condition we cannot relish very palatable foodstuff. A man, jaundice, suffering from jaundice, if you give him something just like candy, sugar candy, he'll taste it as bitter because he is suffering from jaundice. But sugar candy is not bitter. Similarly, in our diseased condition, this material body, actually you cannot taste real happiness. That is not possible. Therefore we have to cure the disease. Bhagavad-gita therefore says curing the disease means janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-dosa..., klesa-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]. Those who are actually advancing in spiritual life, they should always keep in front that "We may advance in so many things, but these four thingsbirth, death, old age, and diseasecannot be solved by our so-called material advancement of science." And Bhagavad-gita points out that you should always keep these four principles of misery in front. Then you'll be able to advance in spiritual path. And if you become callous"Oh, death takes place. What is that?" Why you should die? You are not subjected to death. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. Even after the destruction of this body you do not die. "Then why should I accept this material body?" This is intelligence. This is science. "I do not want to be old. Why I become old?" Nityah sasvato 'yam. Because the living entity is eternal, so why he should become old? Krsna never becomes old. Krsna's picture you have never seen old. Similarly, you also cannot become old.

So these questions do not arise. They are simply, I mean to say, engrossed with animal propensitieseating, sleeping, mating, and defendingas if these are the problems. These are no problems. We have created these problems. Eating is no problem. The animals, they do not endeavor for doing some work for eating. Eating is already there. The birds, beasts are eating. Similarly, human body, eating is there. For example, we are, these forty heads, we are traveling. So eating is already there. Before our coming, our Padubhai(?) has arranged for our eating. So why should we think for eating? So, but actually that is the fact. There is no problem of eating. They have created this problem. God has given enough food. In America they throw away foodstuff in the ocean. You see. This is nonsense. Because they have no Krsna consciousness, they do not know that these food grains belong to Krsna. He has sent. So instead of throwing in the ocean, it should be dispatched to the countries where there is scarcity. There cannot be any scarcity. Purnam idam [Isopanisad, Invocation]. Everything created by God is sufficiently purnam. Purnat purnam. It is... There is arrangement of raining; there is arrangement of producing. We simply, so-called rascals, so-called politicians, they have created all this trouble for their political ambition. Just like our politicians created the Pakistan and Hindustan. So all the foodstuff is there in Pakistan. Rice is in East Bengal and wheat is in East Pakistan. So this Hindustan is in shortage, in short of wheat and rice. So this is the creation of the politicians. By God's arrangement everything is complete. Therefore you have to change the whole consciousness of the people if you want to be happy. That is Krsna consciousness.

Thank you very much. Hare Krsna. [break]

So in the modern education there is no department for inquiring about atma-tattvam. And they are proud of advancement of learning. But Bhagavata says, parabhava: "These are all defeat." They do not know what is atma, what is atma-tattva. They are identifying, "I am this body." "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am Gujarati," "I am Bengali," "I am this," "I am that." Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke, sa eva go-kharah [SB 10.84.13]. Anyone who identifies himself with this body, he is nothing but ass and cow. And that is going on. We are fighting, nations and nations, community and community, religious party and religious partybecause due to the misidentification of body. Therefore Krsna consciousness begins when one is above this bodily concept of life. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. These are upadhis, designations. So these Krsna conscious boys and girls, they are no longer thinking that "I am American," "I am Canadian," "I am French," "I am German." No. "I am Indian." No. They know certainly that "I am part and parcel of Krsna. I am eternally servant of Krsna." And that is our real identity. That is Krsna consciousness. They are no more interested to be identified as American or European. And this is knowledge. And this is mukti. If one is under the misconception that "I am American," "I am Indian," then how there is mukti? There is no mukti. Mukti means svarupena avasthiti, to stay in his own constitutional position. That is called mukti.

So this movement is very important movement. Everyone should seriously study and execute this. Don't be carried away by the illusory ideas of material existence. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. It is very easy. If you simply chant this Hare Krsna mantra, Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]immediately all the misconception within your heart will be cleansed. This is misconception: "I am this body." "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am brahmana," "I am Gujarati," "I am Bengali." These are all misconceptions. You are part and parcel of God, Krsna. That is your identity. So that can be realized. The easiest process is this chanting Hare... Ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam. And next stage is that the blazing fire of this material existence will be extinguished immediately. Here in our disciples you'll find Americans, Europeans, Japanese, Africans. They are all absorbed in Krsna thoughts, chanting Hare Krsna. They have lost all these misgivings, upadhi, designations, nonsense designations. The nonsense designation is the cause of their bondage. So let us realize that we are not this, not this. We are eternally... Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately says, gives to you the highest philosophy, jivera svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. Tatastha-sakti jata acintya bhedabheda-prakasa. In two lines He has given the whole idea of jiva-tattva. Jivera svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa. You can explain in so many books these two lines. The real identity of the living entity is that he is eternal servant of Krsna.