Iccha-dvesa-samutthena. The real basic principle of our materialistic life is dvesa. Dvesa means when we become envious of Krsna, that "Why Krsna shall be the supreme enjoyer?" In this world, in practical experience, we have seen that many people say that "Krsna enjoyed rasa-lila. Why we shall not?" So this is, imitation rasa-lila is going on in this material world, but they cannot be satisfied because it is imitation. Just like if a female takes the part of a male and wants to imitate the enjoyment, it is simply false. Similarly, we are constitutionally female, enjoyed, prakrti. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said, apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakrtim para jiva-bhutam maha-baho [Bg. 7.5]. Prakrti means female, enjoyed. So jiva is described in the Bhagavad-gita as prakrti. The first prakrti is the material elements, eight.

So any living entity who is within this material world, they have come here with that two principlesiccha, dvesa. Iccha means they want to be happy with material enjoyment and "What is God? I am God." These two things. The whole disease is on these two principlesdenying the supremacy of the Lord and to try to be happy by material adjustment. But that is not possible. This is simply disturbing. Simply disturbing. Therefore Rupa Gosvami has mentioned in his Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu that,

So Prahlada Maharaja said, "My dear Lord, now the, my father who was atheist and always disturbing... These demigods, they are Your devotees. They are not disturbing elements." Brahmadayo vayam ivesa. Brahmadayo. "All these demigods standing here, headed by Brahma, they are not like us, like demonic persons like my father and his associates. So You can now be peaceful. Don't show Your anger."

So do you think that sadhu, those who are sadhu, they are pleased when a person is killed? Not ordinary person. He is giving very nice example. Modeta sadhur api vrscika sarpa-hatya [SB 7.9.14]. Vrscika means scorpion and sarpa means snake. Naturally, whenever a scorpion is found or a snake is out, every man is prepared to kill it. Every man. "Oh, here is a snake. Kill it." When I was in Allahabad, in my bed there was a snake. I do not know how it came, but I informed to the servants, and they came with all stick immediately. So when the bed seat was taken away, it was under the, I mean to say, quilt. So that snake was there, and from the face of the snake I could understand that she was, it was so afraid. He could understand that "Now I'm going to be killed by so many people. They have come." So I told them that "Don't kill this poor fellow. Better take it and send it to the forest." But they took it away, but I later on understood they killed it. So once I saw in our Mayapur, Lord Caitanya's birthplace, so a snake was going, a black snake with... In Bengal there are many snakes. So my Guru Maharaja was on the upstair and everyone asked the permission whether this should be killed. He said immediately, "Yes. He should be killed." So at that time I thought that "How Guru Maharaja ordered for killing the snake?" Then, after so many years, when I began to read Bhagavatam and came to this passage, Prahlada Maharaja assertion, modeta sadhur api vrscika sarpa-hatya, then I thought that "My Guru Maharaja did right thing." Here also, modeta. Even a sadhu. Then why a sadhu is pleased when a sarpa, a scorpion, or snake is killed? The reason is that these two kinds of creatures, they bite innocent persons without any fault. Without any fault. Or for little fault. The venomous snake. Immediately. By nature they are so angry and so envious that they feel pleasure if somebody is bitten and immediately die. That is their nature. Therefore killing a snake and scorpion means to save it from so many sinful activities. Because it is nature. It will kill so many persons, so many animals, because its nature is innocent person, bite innocent person, kill him. So if there is seen by killing another, it will continue. Better to kill it to stop its sinful activities. That is the reason here it is said, modeta sadhur api.

So the asuras, the atheists, are just like vrscika and sarpa, scorpion. Without any reason they occupy somebody's country, somebody's place, and kill somebody. This is going on. In the Manu-samhita it is stated that when a king hangs some murderer it is a great favor to him. It is a great favor to him. In every country, in every civilization, the punishment is "Life for life." If you have killed somebody, then you shall be killed. And it is supported in Manu-samhita that when the king orders that a murderer should be killed, that is a favor to him. Because if he is not killed, then the sinful activities, reaction, will continue, and the next birth he'll suffer. But if he's killed in this life, then all his sinful activities finished. He'll have no more to suffer the reaction. So it is friendly action. Similarly a vrscika or a sarpa, a scorpion or a snake, if it is killed that means to save it from further, I mean to say, sinful activities. Therefore sadhu, it is said by Brahma, I mean to..., Prahlada Maharaja, that modeta sadhur api vrscika sarpa-hatya [SB 7.9.14]. Yata artho 'yam manusya ca asura sadhunam santosam santosartham arti hatah (?). Sridhara Swami is annotating that this killing of Nrsimha, here, uh, this killing by Nrsimhadeva of Hiranyakasipu was for the pleasure of the saintly persons. Was for the pleasure of the saintly persons. Nanu anyesam vadhena sadhu kim modeta.

Does it mean that those who are saintly persons, they take pleasure in other's killing? They try to stop killing. Even animal killing they want to stop. How it is that, they take pleasure in another's killing? Nanu anyesam vadhena sadhu kim modeta tatra ha vrscikadeh. Not all. A... Persons, living creatures like the scorpion and serpents. Not all. Everything has got exception. So a sadhu, a saintly person, a righteous person, a religious person, will never be happy by other's killing. But killing of persons like scorpion and serpent... And the Canakya Pandita says that a person who has envious nature, he's more dangerous than the serpent. Canakya Pandita has enunciated that sarpah krurah khalah krurah. There are two envious creatures: one is the snake, and another, a man envious, unnecessarily envious of others. So sarpat kruratarah khalah. That man, envious, he's dangerous, more dangerous than the snake. Why more dangerous? Mantrausadhi-vasah sarpah khalah kena nivaryate. You can subdue a snake by herbs and by chanting particular type of mantra. There are many snake charmers in India, by mantra they can charm the snakes. But a person who is envious, you cannot pacify him in any way. Therefore sarpah kruratarah khalah. Just like Jesus Christ was crucified by some envious persons. Even the Roman judge denied that "This man should not be... There is no such fault." But because they were envious, they were persistent, "Yes, he should be crucified." So this is the nature of envious person. Therefore killing of envious persons like Hiranyakasipu... Unnecessarily... He was a child. Prahlada Maharaja was a child, innocent child. And his son, and youngest son. And his only fault was that he was chanting Hare Krsna. And this person was after him, giving him all kinds of trouble. Just see the nature of the envious person. He doesn't care even his son, a child, a devotee. "Oh, this boy must be tortured. This boy must be tortured because he is Krsna conscious." "This man must be crucified because he is preaching God consciousness." This is the nature of envious persons. More dangerous. Therefore their killing is the pleasure for the saintly persons. Modeta sadhur api vrscika sarpa-hatya. So Prahlada Maharaja was glad that his father was killed. So tatraha (reads commentary) vrscikadeh parapadraka karina anyathaiva jatina kutra vadhena tasyaiva tad bhadram jatam (?). It is good for it because he is stopped creating nuisance. Creating. If he's stopped, then it is a great benefit for him because his nature is to become envious and torture others. Therefore to kill such person is a great welfare act for him. Tad bhadram yatram eti and sadhur api modeta. And sadhu, saintly persons are also glad. (reads commentary) Tarhi bahunam sukhavaham tam amum krodham na tyajami ceti praha lokas ca nirmitteh prakta-santi-pratinirjanti samhara pratiksante (?).

So Prahlada Maharaja is requesting, "Now, my Lord, Your business is finished, and by Your, this action, all saintly persons are pleased. So You can become now peaceful." Lokas ca nirvrtim itah pratiyanti sarve rupam nrsimha vibhayaya janah smaranti. "Now people are praying that Nrsimhadeva, Nrsimhadeva is to protect the devotees." Just like a lion. A lion is ferocious to other animals, but he is not ferocious to the cubs. He's very affectionate father, mother, although it is lion. So the cubs, they haven't got to be afraid of the lion. So Prahlada Maharaja says that "My dear Lord, I am not asking You to be peaceful. Don't think that I have become afraid of You." He's so confident. "He is my Lord." He has come in the appearance, in this ghastly appearance, half lion and so big, and He's groaning like anything. So he knows that "He is my Lord. He's same Krsna." Narayana-parah sarve na kutascana bibhyati [SB 6.17.28]. One who is elevated in Krsna consciousness, he is not disturbed in the greatest, facing greatest danger.

Svamin krtartho 'smi varam na yace [Cc. Madhya 22.42]. Dhruva Maharaja said, "My dear Lord..." Here also you'll see. It was in the previous... When Prahlada Maharaja was offered to take benediction from the Lord, he refused. He said that, "My Lord, I am not a merchant that I am Your devotee for some material gain." This will be explained. So a devotee who is in pure Krsna consciousness, he is satisfied with that consciousness only. Ahaituki. He has no other reason, "Oh, I am trying to become Krsna conscious because I want such and such thing." He has no demand. Simply that consciousness is sufficient. It is so pleasing. It is so satisfying that yasmin sthite, if one is actually situated in Krsna consciousness, then gurunapi duhkhena na vicalyate. Just see the Prahlada Maharaja. He is... So devastating incidences are taking place, when all the demigods have become afraid and his father is killed and very ghastly appearance and the lion form incarnation of the Lord is groaning. But he is not afraid. He's not at all afraid. Yasmin sthite gurunapi duhkhena na vicalyate [Bg. 6.20-23].

So next verse will be discussed sometimes later on because I am leaving this place tomorrow. So tomorrow, of course, Radhastami, we shall have meetings in daytime. And... Of course, those devotees are present, please come tomorrow, Radhastami. Try to understand the Radha's position in relationship with Krsna. This Krsna consciousness movement is very nice. Try to understand it in so many ways. We have got immense literature. If lifelong we try to understand, there is sufficient stock. It is not hackneyed. You'll get nava-navayaman. Newer and newer things you'll get, experience. Anandambudhi-vardhanam. And the more and more you get relish in Krsna consciousness, your transcendental pleasure becomes more and more appreciated. It is so nice. Anandambudhi-vardhanam. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said, ambudhi... Ambudhi means ocean. In the ordinary course, the ocean does not increase. If ocean would have increased, then there would..., so many towns would have been washed away. Sometimes it happens of course, temporarily. But anandambudhi. The spiritual ocean is so nice that it increased, and the enjoyer of that ananda, he also increases. Brhanatyat. Brahma life is that brhatya-brhanatyat. It is the greatest; still, it has the potency of expanding more and more. It is very inconceivable. If something is the greatest, superlative, then what is beyond superlative? Still, there is beyond superlative. Anandambudhi-vardhanam. So Srimad-Bhagavatam is so nice, transcendental literature that anywhere you sit down, chant Hare Krsna, as the Gosvamis used to do it... Nama-gana-natibhih kalavasani-krtau. They were passing their time chanting, dancing, and reading Srimad-Bhagavatam, writing on it. So far the bodily necessities are concerned, they were not very important things for them. They forgot. Spiritual life is so nice.

So fortunately, one of our students, he has taken a very large tract of land in West Virginia to develop a society like that, that simple life, eat simple things, grains, vegetables, fruits, milk, and save your time for advancing in Krsna consciousness. Don't be implicated in the ugra-karma. Modern civilization is implicated in ugra-karmavast machinery, everything complicated. The government complicated, the society complicated, economics rule complicated, foreign exchange complicated. Everything has become complicated. So Narottama dasa Thakura has sung very nice song. Satsanga chari kainu asatye vilas, ei karane lagila more karma bandha-phansa. Because we have given up Krsna consciousness, therefore we have been entangled in the different varieties of material activities. Now we have to simplify it. The Krsna consciousness movement is to simplify, to save the valuable life, to save the time of valuable life. This human form of life is very valuable. Bahunam janmanam ante [Bg. 7.19]. After many, many births we have got this important life. So we have to save our time to utilize it for Krsna consciousness. That should... So far we have got this material body, we want to maintain it. The body and souls live together. That is all right. For that, Krsna has given every chance. Anywhere you sit down, you have got land and cow. You produce something and cow's milk. That is sufficient for maintenance. So let us try to make an attempt to organize a New Vrindaban scheme, and I shall request all my students to develop this idea and show a good example to this Western part of the world where people are always engaged in ugra-karma, asuric-karma. Things are becoming very implicated, complicated.

Thank you very much. Any question?