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VIDURA IS THE BULL FROM HEAVEN.

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Channel: RALPHLAURINO · 2007 · Travel & Events

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PROTECTACOW SANCTUARY 3.12.07
So generally, in this material world, everyone is using the senses for sense gratification. That's all. That is their bondage. That is maya, illusion. And when he comes to Krsna consciousness, purified, when he understands that actually these senses are meant for satisfying Krsna, then he's liberated person, mukta. Mukta-purusa. Liberated person. Iha yasya harer dasye karmana manasa vaca. When one comes to this position,
   that "My senses are meant for serving the master of the senses, Hrsikesa..." The master of the senses are, is sitting within your heart. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said, sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah: "I am seated in everyone's heart." Mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca: "From Me remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness is coming." So why that? Because Krsna is so merciful, if I want to use my senses in a certain way, not my senses... It is Krsna's, given. So Krsna gives the chance: "All right, utilize it." Suppose I have got tongue. If I want, "Krsna, I want to eat stool. I want to taste stool," "Yes," Krsna will say. "Yes, you take this body of hog, and eat stool." The master is there, Krsna.
   Therefore Krsna says, mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca. He gives you the body, reminds you, "My dear living entity, you wanted to eat stool? Now you have got a proper body. Now utilize. Here is stool also." Similarly, if you want to become demigod, that also Krsna gives you chance. Anything... There are 8,400,000 forms of life. If you want to engage your senses in any type of body, Krsna is giving you: "Come on. Here is the body. You take." But we become exasperated by using our senses. Ultimately we become senseless. Therefore Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja: "Don't do like this. Your senses are meant for serving Me. So you are misusing it. By misusing, you are being entrapped in different types of body; therefore to get relief from this tedious business of accepting one body and giving it up, again another body, again another... To continue this material existence, if you give up this process of sense gratification and surrender unto Me, then you are saved." This is Krsna consciousness.
   So at the present moment, our senses are contaminated. I am thinking, "I am American, so my senses should be utilized for the service of my country, my society, my nation." Big, big leaders, big, big so many things. So the real concept is that "I am American, so my senses are American senses. So it must be utilized for America." Similarly Indians thinking, others are thinking. But none of them do know it that senses belong to Krsna. This is ignorance. No intelligence. They are thinking for the time being, that these senses, upadhi, designated... American senses, Indian senses, African senses. No. This is called maya. It is covered. Therefore bhakti means sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam. When your senses will be uncontaminated with all these designations, that is the beginning of bhakti. If I think, "I am American. Why shall I take Krsna consciousness? It is Hindu God," that is foolishness. If I think "I am Muhammadan," "I am Christian," then you are gone. But if we purify the senses that "I am spirit soul. The Supreme Spirit Soul is Krsna. I am part and parcel of Krsna; therefore it is my duty to serve Krsna," then you become free immediately. Immediately. You are no more American, Indian or African or this or that. You are Krsna-ized, Krsna conscious. That is wanted. 
SB 1.8.23 LECTURE

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