So we are part and parcel of God, every one of us. So we remain always pure, but on account of material attachment, we are suffering. This is the position. So therefore the diseased condition of our present life has to be treated. What is that treatment? To become detached. On account of attachment we are suffering. But... (aside:) You should... Outside. Detachment. So the detachment, there are many different processes of becoming detached: karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, and many other processes. But the most perfect process is bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yoga. That is stated, vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yoga-prayojitah, janayaty asu vairagyam. If one is trained up to become devotee of Vasudeva, Krsna... Vasudeva means Krsna. Vasudeve bhagavati. Vasudeva is the Supreme Personality, Bhagavan. Bhagavati. Vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogam prayojitah. If we engage ourself in the bhakti-yoga process to Vasudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then what happens? Janaty asu vairagyam. Then very soon one becomes detached. Vairagya. The bhakti-yoga means vairagya-vidya, how to become detached. That is the test. "Whether I am making progress in the bhakti-yoga?"the test is within yourself. You haven't got to take a certificate from others. How much you are becoming detached to this material world, that is the test. If you are still attached to the material pleasures, that means you are not making progress in bhakti-yoga. It is a test.

Just like bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat [SB 11.2.42]. Vairagya-vidya. Caitanya Mahaprabhu, by His example of life, He was twenty-four years, young boy, and He had a very beautiful sixteen-years-old wife, very affectionate mother. In the family, two persons, the mother and the wife, if they are very, very good, then the happy life... In the Canakya Pandita therefore said,

Similarly, the Gosvamis, they were ministers. They were not ordinary men, Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami. Practically they were governing the whole affairs of government at that time, a very exalted post. So about them also, it is written by Srinivasacarya, tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tuccha-vat. Asesa-mandala. Mandala-pati means big, big leaders, big, big leaders of the society. He was minister, so he was associating with big, big men, not ordinary men. But he gave up. He's such a position, minister, drawing high salary, and association, all the big, big men of the country or the society. But he gave them upsada tuccha-vat, that "What is the use of this?" This is called vairagya. Tyaktva turnam... Very soon. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim. Not only one, many, many big men were flattering them. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tuccha-vat. Then what he became? Bhutva dina-ganesakau karunaya kaupina-kanthasritau. They are so affectionate for the poor, suffering souls. Bhutva dina-ganesakau karunaya. So Vaisnava is very, very merciful. They are merciful to the fallen souls. Their only concern is how to deliver these fallen souls. They are under the clutches of maya, suffering. So various means adopting, just try to save them. This is Vaisnava business. Nana-sastra-vica ranaika-nipunau sad-dharma-samsthapakau lokanam hita-karinau. These Gosvamis, they were studying so many books, Vedic literature and found out the cream, how to establish... Nana-sastra-vicaranaika-nipunau sad-dharma-samstha... Sad-dharma, not cheating dharma. Dharma means religion. Real religion, sad-dharma. So the sad-dharma... As soon as we become addicted to sinful activities, then our real, constitutional position we forget, and we become mad after it and the disease increases.

So here it is suggested that "According to the disease..." Diseases, there are different types of disease. Some disease is very acute; some disease is not very important. So he suggests that tasmat pura eva ca iha papa-niskrtau yateta mrtyor avipadya atmana. You have to die. That is a fact. Nobody will live here. "As sure as death." So before death we must finish the atonement of our sinful activities. This is recommended. Pura. Tasmat pura eva iha papa-niskrtau. But nobody knows. At the present moment they do not know what is papa and how to get out of it, what is next birth. Everything is unknown at the present moment. This is the modern civilization. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu took one thing, that ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. They are in gross misunderstanding of life. So in order to cleanse their heart to understand what is the position where they are going, where they are actually, how things are going on... It is due to ignorance.

So Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that ceto-darpana-marjanam. Ceto-da... Bhava-maha-davagni-nirva... Unless we cleanse our hearts of all the dirty things that we have accumulated, then we have to continue the sufferings of this material world. But if we cleanse, we understand what is our position. The position is that we are part and parcel of God. If God is good, we are also good. Just like gold and particle of gold. If gold is valuable, the little particle, it may be less valuable, but it is valuable. It is not ordinary thing. Similarly, we living entities, mamaivamso jiva-bhuta [Bg. 15.7]. Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that "These, all these living entities, they are My part and parcels," means "as good as I am." But thing is that manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani kars... He is concocting; he is manufacturing ideas to become happy. Manah-sasthanindriyani. And with the senses he is trying to satisfy himself. But because he has no information how to become happy, manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati [Bg. 15.7]. Karsati means that is struggle for existence.

That struggle for existence is explained by different scholars and philosophers in different way. But actually there is struggle for existence and they are trying to be happy manufacturing different types of struggle for existence. The other day who was saying that they have now discovered another way of happiness. Flying in the air? Yes. Now the sufferers, or what is called?

But they are so fools and rascals, they do not know how the life is going on, how nature is working upon us. Everything is in darkness. Therefore Krsna consciousness is the only hope for human society. Only hope. It is not story; it is fact. So those who have come to Krsna consciousness, I request that take it very seriously and read the books and make progress and simply try to understand Krsna. Then everything, all problems, will be solved.

Thank you very much. (end)