Srila Prabhupada - Bhagavad Gita 1.23 Lecture

Srila Prabhupada Bhagavad-gita lecture. Chapter 1. Text 23. Listen full playlist, available on the channel or click the link here    • Bhagavad-gita as it is lectures.   Subscribe and get connected.    / @srilaprabhupadayoutube   Text 23 Simply be satisfied with what you get. Do not encroach others property. This is peace formula. Everything is of Kṛṣṇa, so whatever you get by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa be happy with that. You cannot change your destiny simply by endeavour. Whatever is destined, happiness and distress. All will come. Four principle of human activities. Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksh. Beginning is dharma. Dharma does not mean some kind of faith, religion. Dharma means to obey supreme, obedience to god. You are interested to eat food for which you work so hard. And that is foolishness. Because it is already destined to you. You do not waste time working hard. These kind of people all are asses. You cannot get more than what is destined to you. That is not possible. Then everyone would have been big big man. The effects of pious activity, is to get nice opulence. But that is material. Simply to know is useless. You have to apply. Controlling the senses, truthful, clean, full of knowledge, believing in the śāstra and God, and vijñānam, practical application of knowledge in life. That is brahmical principle. Try to understand Kṛṣṇa in truth, not vaguely. These are the qualification of persons who do not surrender to Kṛṣṇa = miscreants, mischievous, sinful, mūḍha, rascal, asses, narādhama, lowest of the mankind. These are the qualification. So they are all durbuddhi. Simply by trying; not perfectly. Even imperfectly. Because he is endeavoring to understand Kṛṣṇa, that very activity will make him liberated. That very activity. It is not possible to understand Kṛṣṇa. He is so great, unlimited. How we can understand Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa cannot understand Himself. How we can ? We cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. But still, whatever Kṛṣṇa says about Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā, if we accept so much, then we immediately become fit for going back to Godhead, back to home. Perfect knowledge of god is a bhagavan feature. Not brahman or paramatma. In bhagavan feature there is bliss, ananda. In brahman feature there is eternity and in paramatma it is knowledge. Join with Kṛṣṇa and you will get ananda. Whatever you have got by pious or impious activities, that you cannot change. It is not possible. But you can change your position, this material position, by Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That you can change. Other things you cannot change. If you are white, you cannot become black, or if you are black, you cannot become white. That is not possible. But you can become first-class Kṛṣṇa conscious person. Either you are black or white, it doesn't matter. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This life I will not let it go uselessly like cats and dogs. Let me utilize it for Kṛṣṇa consciousness.