Srila Prabhupada - Bhagavad Gita 1.44 Lecture.

Srila Prabhupada Bhagavad-gita lecture. Chapter 1. Text 44. Listen full playlist, available on the channel or click the link here    • Bhagavad-gita as it is lectures.   Subscribe and get connected. #srilaprabhupada    / @srilaprabhupadayoutube   Text 44. Actually Bhagavad Gita is misunderstood. It is not fought for Arjun satisfaction that he will enjoy royal Kingdom. No. It is for Kṛṣṇa's satisfaction. Kṛṣṇa wanted fight to serve his purpose to eliminate all demons. A devotee of Kṛṣṇa does not want to commit a little harm to any living entity. Because all are Kṛṣṇa part Every living entity has got his own taste, how to love Kṛṣṇa. But the central point is to love Kṛṣṇa. Krsna has no discrimination that "Here is gopīs, beautiful girl. Therefore I shall love her more than the calf." No. Kṛṣṇa is not so partial. The living spark, the soul, is the same dimension, either within the ant or in the elephant. This dimension of the soul we have several times discussed, one ten-thousandth part of the top of the hair. By his karma, he has become a learned paṇḍita, and by his karma, he has become a dog. But within the different body, there is the soul. Of course, externally, it is not that I shall behave equally with the brāhmaṇa and the dog. That is external behavior. But internally, we should know that both the brāhmaṇa and the dog, they're a spiritual spark. This is called brahma-jñāna. Brahma-jñāna means the knowledge of spiritual self. If we want to kill anyone, any living entity, for my satisfaction, either my tongue satisfaction or any sense satisfaction, it is mahā-pāpam, great sinful act. Because they are all svajana. Happiness is beyond your material senses. Ātyantikam. That is real happiness. Real happiness means it will never end, and you will never feel satiation, that "I no more want." That is real happiness. Material happiness, there is no such thing that you will feel immediately satiation. After enjoying any material happiness a few minutes, you will feel, "Again another, again another, again another.” If the warfare in the Kurukṣetra battlefield was for Arjuna's sense satisfaction, then it was a great sin. But actually, it is not being done for Arjuna's satisfaction. It is to be done for Kṛṣṇa's satisfaction. So therefore the conclusion should be that whatever we do, if we do it for our own sense satisfaction, that is mahā-pāpam, sinful activities. But if we do the same thing for Kṛṣṇa's satisfaction, that is spiritual advancement. This is the difference. You have to change the consciousness. What you are doing? For whom you are doing? For yourself or for Kṛṣṇa? This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And that is the perfection of life. In whatever position you are, whatever you are doing, it doesn't matter. Whatever Kṛṣṇa does, it is not sinful; it is transcendental, the most pure activity. These rascals, they do not know what is Kṛṣṇa. They think Kṛṣṇa is ordinary man. "Why He is engaging Arjuna in the fighting? Why He is dancing with others' daughter and girls? These are immoral thing." Therefore this rāsa dance should not be discussed among the fools and rascals. They'll misunderstand. Although the professional reciters, they take part, whenever they speak of Bhāgavata, they immediately jump over the rāsa dance. That is not to be done. Caitanya Mahāprabhu never indulged in such thing. For mass of people He engaged Himself in saṅkīrtana. And when Kṛṣṇa's dealing with the gopīs were discussed, He was discussing amongst three selected devotees = Rāmānanda Rāya, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Śikhi Māhati. Kāma means lust. What is lust? Lust means whenever you try to satisfy your senses, that is called lust. We cannot manufacture that "I am doing for Kṛṣṇa." Then that is another misleading. Therefore we require the guidance of the spiritual master. you have to seek the mercy both of Kṛṣṇa and guru, not that you have become so advanced that you are directly in connection with Kṛṣṇa, and whatever you are doing, it is mercy. No. Don't think like that. It must be guided, it must be confirmed by guru. Inexperienced person, they should not try to teach Bhagavad-gītā to others, because he has no knowledge. This knowledge has to be received by paramparā system. Sanātana Gosvāmī has forbidden that "Don't hear anything about Kṛṣṇa from a person who is not a Vaiṣṇava.” Talks of Kṛṣṇa, they are by themselves pure. But still, it is prohibited that if it is spoken by avaiṣṇava, nondevotee, one should not hear. Should not hear. Must immediately reject. First of all, we have to see who is going to speak about Kṛṣṇa. Is it a devotee of Kṛṣṇa? Is he a Vaiṣṇava or not? If he is not, then immediately reject = "Oh, we are not going to hear from you.”