Author: JayaSri Devi Dasi

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.15

1. Those who are mixed devotees, alloyed with fruitive action or empirical philosophical speculation, require an opportune moment for quitting this body. For them the opportune moments are stated in the Bhagavad-gītā (8.23-26).
2. A person who is totally engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, and who constantly remembers Him at every step, easily obtains the mercy of the Lord by entering into His personal contact. Such Devotees do not need to seek an opportune moment to leave the present body.
3. The Lord says that for anyone who is unflinchingly devoted to Him, He is easy to attain.
4. The Lord is merciful to all. He is especially inclined toward those who always serve Him without deviation.
5. One’s memory of Kṛṣṇa is revived by chanting the mahā-mantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa. By this practice of chanting and hearing the sound vibration of the Supreme Lord, one’s ear, tongue and mind are engaged
6. The devotee can constantly think of the object of worship, the Supreme Lord, in any of His features by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. This practice will purify him, and at the end of his life, due to his constant chanting, he will be transferred to the kingdom of God. 
7. By chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa one fixes his mind always on the Supreme Lord. The mind is fickle, and therefore it is necessary to engage the mind by force to think of Kṛṣṇa.
8. The freedom from the bondage of actions is possible only in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, when one is doing everything for Kṛṣṇa. 
9. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person acts out of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore he has
   • no attraction for the results of the action. 
   • not even attached to his personal maintenance, for everything is left to Kṛṣṇa. 
   • Nor is he anxious to secure things, nor to protect things already in his possession. 
   • does his duty to the best of his ability and leaves everything to Kṛṣṇa. 
10. Such an unattached person is always free from the resultant reactions of good and bad; it is as though he were not doing anything. This is the sign of akarma, or actions without fruitive reactions. 
11. A pure devotee cannot forget the Supreme Lord for a moment, and similarly the Supreme Lord cannot forget His pure devotee for a moment.
12. This is the great blessing of the Kṛṣṇa conscious process of chanting the mahā-mantra – Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.

SB 2.2.15 TRANSLATION
O King, whenever the yogī desires to leave this planet of human beings, he should not be perplexed about the proper time or place, but should comfortably sit without being disturbed and, regulating the life air, should control the senses by the mind.

CLASS NOTES: 

DEVOTEES DO NOT NEED TO SEEK AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT TO LEAVE THE PRESENT BODY.
In the Bhagavad-gītā (8.14) it is clearly stated that a person who is totally engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, and who constantly remembers Him at every step, easily obtains the mercy of the Lord by entering into His personal contact.  Such devotees do not need to seek an opportune moment to leave the present body.

A SUCCESSFUL YOGI QUITS THE BODY AS HE LIKES

successful yogī who is able to quit his body as he likes. Such a yogī must be competent to control his senses by the mind. The mind is easily conquered simply by engaging it at the lotus feet of the Lord. Gradually, by such service, all the senses become automatically engaged in the service of the Lord. That is the way of merging into the Supreme Absolute.

(BG 8.14) QUALIFICATIONS OF PURE DEVOTEE

For one who always remembers Me without deviation, I am easy to obtain, O son of Pṛthā, because of his constant engagement in devotional service.

How to constantly remember Krsna – constant dev service – by always associating with genuine pure devotee.

the Lord says that for anyone who is unflinchingly devoted to Him, He is easy to attain.

Bhakti-yoga is very simple and pure and easy to perform. One can begin simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. The Lord is merciful to all, but as we have already explained, He is especially inclined toward those who always serve Him without deviation.

Bhakti-yoga is the system that the Gītā recommends above all others

These are qualifications of the pure devotee, for whom the Lord is most easily attainable.

 In pure bhakti-yoga, a pure devotee 

1. desires nothing but Kṛṣṇa. 
2. does not desire promotion to heavenly planets, nor does he seek oneness with the brahma-jyotir or salvation or liberation from material entanglement.
3. has no desire other than to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
4. always engages in devotional service to Kṛṣṇa in one of His various personal features.
5. meets with none of the problems that plague the practitioners of other yogas. 
6. he is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa without deviation and without considering the time or place.
7. he carries out his service anywhere and at any time without any impediments
8. can live anywhere and create the atmosphere of Vṛndāvana by his devotional service.
9. constantly remembers Kṛṣṇa and meditates upon Him “always,” “regularly,” or “every day,”
10. is always constantly engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Supreme Lord and cannot forget the Supreme Lord, and so for him the Lord is easily attained
11. The Lord helps such devotees in various ways.
12. Lord gives such a devotee sufficient intelligence so that ultimately the devotee can attain Him in His spiritual kingdom.
13. A pure devotee cannot forget the Supreme Lord for a moment, and similarly the Supreme Lord cannot forget His pure devotee for a moment.
14. This is the great blessing of the Kṛṣṇa conscious process of chanting the mahā-mantra – Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.

Here we have a positive law to free ourselves from the cycle of birth and death. Although you are still functioning in the material world you are still liberated, when you perform bhakti-yoga, because you are doing everything to please Krsna and Guru. The obstacle to performing this is false ego. Most people do not accept that someone is superior to them and accept the position of servitorship. They often say that the material world is everything then there is nothing beyond matter.  Srila Prabhupada says – “Such devotees do not need to seek an opportune moment to leave the present body. “ devotees do not have to worry about any technicalities, devotee is always thinking of Krsna and Krsna is always thinking of devotee.

(BG 8.8) IMPORTANCE OF REMEMBERING KRSNA TO ATTAIN HIM

abhyāsa-yoga-yuktena
cetasā nānya-gāminā
paramaṁ puruṣaṁ divyaṁ
yāti pārthānucintayan

He who meditates on Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, his mind constantly engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Pārtha, is sure to reach Me

In this verse, Lord Kṛṣṇa stresses the importance of remembering Him. One’s memory of Kṛṣṇa is revived by chanting the mahā-mantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa. By this practice of chanting and hearing the sound vibration of the Supreme Lord, one’s ear, tongue and mind are engaged

The devotee can constantly think of the object of worship, the Supreme Lord, in any of His features – Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, etc. – by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. This practice will purify him, and at the end of his life, due to his constant chanting, he will be transferred to the kingdom of God. 

 by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa one fixes his mind always on the Supreme Lord. The mind is fickle, and therefore it is necessary to engage the mind by force to think of Kṛṣṇa.

One example often given is that of the caterpillar that thinks of becoming a butterfly and so is transformed into a butterfly in the same life. Similarly, if we constantly think of Kṛṣṇa, it is certain that at the end of our lives we shall have the same bodily constitution as Kṛṣṇa.

If you are a devotee your duty is to help others to remember Krsna. You are supposed to do it and help others to do it. IT is very important to do chanting early in the morning. No one is there and no phone calls or distractions. Brahma muhurta is the best time to get the rounds done. (16)  Of Course they are never done. You have to chant through the day.. A Devotee can leave the body at anytime. They do not have to worry about it as long as they are always engaged in devotional service. 

(BG 4.20) EXPLAINS AKARMA
Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and independent, he performs no fruitive action, although engaged in all kinds of undertakings.

This freedom from the bondage of actions is possible only in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, when one is doing everything for Kṛṣṇa. 

A Kṛṣṇa conscious person acts out of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore he 

1. has no attraction for the results of the action. 
2. not even attached to his personal maintenance, for everything is left to Kṛṣṇa. 
3. Nor is he anxious to secure things, nor to protect things already in his possession. 
4. does his duty to the best of his ability and leaves everything to Kṛṣṇa. 

Such an unattached person is always free from the resultant reactions of good and bad; it is as though he were not doing anything. This is the sign of akarma, or actions without fruitive reactions. 

(BG 4.21) NOT AFFECTED BY SINFUL REACTIONS

Such a man of understanding acts with mind and intelligence perfectly controlled, gives up all sense of proprietorship over his possessions and acts only for the bare necessities of life. Thus working, he is not affected by sinful reactions.

A Kṛṣṇa conscious person 

1. does not expect good or bad results in his activities. 
2. His mind and intelligence are fully controlled. 
3. He knows that because he is part and parcel of the Supreme, the part played by him, as a part and parcel of the whole, is not his own activity but is only being done through him by the Supreme.
4. is always dovetailed with the supreme desire, for he has no desire for personal sense gratification
5. maintains himself by his work just to remain fit for action in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.
6.  immune to all the reactions of his endeavors.
7. he has no proprietorship even over his own body.
8. fully engaged in self-realization, has very little time to falsely possess any material object. 
9. For maintaining body and soul, he does not require unfair means of accumulating money. 
10. does not become contaminated by such material sins. 
11. is free from all reactions to his actions.

One devotee was collecting a lot of money and giving all of it to SP to build a temple in Vrindavan and he also collected money to complete the temple in India, but some of the way he was using to collect the money was illegal. Long time SP did not know that and many complaints started coming and SP questioned him and cornered him and the devotee agreed that he was engaged in illegal activities. It did not start like that but gradually it became like that. SP asked to immediately stop. The devotee continued and he ended up in jail. That was the biggest mistake he made.  For one who is honored once , dishonor is worse than death.  As long as we are under the protection of Krsna and SP by following the rules and regulations. As long we move out of that and begin to deviate, then there is no protection. 

(BG 4.22) NEVER ENTANGLED ALTHOUGH PERFORMING ACTIONS.
He who is satisfied with gain which comes of its own accord, who is free from duality and does not envy, who is steady in both success and failure, is never entangled, although performing actions.

A Kṛṣṇa conscious person

1. does not make much endeavor even to maintain his body.
2. is satisfied with gains which are obtained of their own accord
3. neither begs nor borrows, but he labors honestly as far as is in his power
4. is satisfied with whatever is obtained by his own honest labor.
5. is independent in his livelihood. 
6. does not allow anyone’s service to hamper his own service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
7. for the service of the Lord he can participate in any kind of action without being disturbed by the duality of the material world. 
8. is above duality because he does not hesitate to act in any way for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. 
9. is steady both in success and in failure.

When do we not hesitate and are ready to do anything that is necessary to do for the satisfaction of the Lord? Dualities are the ones that keep people in frenzy… 

(BG 4.23) HOW TO GET LIBERATED IN ACTION IN THIS WORLD AND IN THIS BODY AND WE CAN ALL ATTAIN THIS BY FOLLOWING SRILA PRABHUPADA’S INSTRUCTION.

The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence.

Becoming fully Kṛṣṇa conscious, 

1. one is freed from all dualities and thus is free from the contaminations of the material modes. 
2.  become liberated because he knows his constitutional position in relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and thus his mind cannot be drawn from Kṛṣṇa consciousness. 
3. whatever he does, he does for Kṛṣṇa, who is the primeval Viṣṇu. 
4. all his works are technically sacrifices because sacrifice aims at satisfying the Supreme Person, Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa.
5. The resultant reactions to all such work certainly merge into transcendence, and one does not suffer material effects.

The two English men twins who are devotees. They became devotees and Srila Prabhupada asked them to be in Mayapur and they still are there and are doing their service and they never left Mayapur… Pankajangra prabhuji & Jana Nivas prabhuji. This is mamca yo avyabhicharena – not deviate from the instructions given by guru. 

Laws of Nature – 

There are laws that govern social orders of life. One such law is described in SB 4.20.14 Being ignorant of the laws due to education and peer pressure makes us a victim of our own ignorance. 

(SB 4.20.14) LAWS OF NATURE FOR VARIOUS VARNAS

To give protection to the general mass of people who are citizens of the state is the prescribed occupational duty for a king. By acting in that way, the king in his next life shares one sixth of the result of the pious activities of the citizens. But a king or executive head of state who simply collects taxes from the citizens but does not give them proper protection as human beings has the results of his own pious activities taken away by the citizens, and in exchange for his not giving protection he becomes liable to punishment for the impious activities of his subjects.

These subtle laws of nature are unknown to the present leaders of society. Since the leaders of society have a poor fund of knowledge and the citizens in general are rogues and thieves, there cannot be an auspicious situation for human society. At the present moment the whole world is full of such an incompatible combination of state and citizens, and therefore there is constant tension, war and anxiety as an inevitable result of such social conditions.

Every Ashram and varna is subject to laws of nature. Not only should we follow the rules of our ashram, but we also have to follow the rules of Varna. If a person wants to be a vysya  – he should engage in cow protection and give respect to Brahmanas and Vaishnavas. Today we are seeing famine, natural disturbance, sinful activity in the name of secularity and democracy… because leaders are not taking the responsibility of making everyone KC.

The laws of nature cannot be ignored as they are given By Krsna himself. And we have to learn these things and teach people who there is so much violence, pestilence…
It is the trickle down philosophy – if leaders, teachers, parents do no to know i

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.14

1. The real purpose of life is to make contact with the Lord and be engaged in His service. That is the natural position of living entities.
2.  The Lord wants all living entities, who are His parts and parcels, to live with Him in the transcendental world, and for enlightening conditioned souls in the material world, all the Vedas and the revealed scriptures are there — expressly to recall the conditioned souls back home, back to Godhead. 
3. Unfortunately, the conditioned living entities, although suffering continually the threefold miseries of conditioned life, are not very serious about going back to Godhead. It is due to  their misguided way of living, complicated by sins and virtues.
4. Some way or other, one must try to reestablish one’s forgotten relation with the Lord if one at all desires to gain real happiness in life, and to reclaim his natural unfettered condition.
5. For the less intelligent beginners, meditation on the impersonal feature, the virāṭ-rūpa, or universal form of the Lord, will gradually qualify one to rise to understanding of personal feature of the lord. 
6. One is advised herewith to meditate upon the virāṭ-rūpa, in order to understand how the different planets, seas, mountains, rivers, birds, beasts, human beings, demigods and all that we can conceive are but different parts and limbs of the Lord’s virāṭ form.
7. As soon as such meditation begins, one develops one’s godly qualities and the whole world appears to be a happy and peaceful residence for all the people of the world.
8. Without such meditation on God, either personal or impersonal, all good qualities of the human being become covered with misconceptions regarding his constitutional position, and without such advanced knowledge, the whole world becomes a hell for the human being.
9. The material world is not a fit place for living entities because they are spiritually one with the Lord and in the material world the living entities become conditioned by the laws of the material world.
10. There are 2 sets of laws we have to follow. The first set is the laws set by Krsna. It is called Dharma, when we violate we entangle in birth and death. The second set of law is social laws set by the government which is imperfect and they are changing. We are obliged to follow them.
11. The Laws of Nature are all given by Krsna in Bhagavad Gita.

SB 2.2.14 TRANSLATION: 

Unless the gross materialist develops a sense of loving service unto the Supreme Lord, the seer of both the transcendental and material worlds, he should remember or meditate upon the universal form of the Lord at the end of his prescribed duties.

CLASS NOTES: 

THE LORD WANTS ALL LIVING ENTITIES, WHO ARE HIS PARTS AND PARCELS, TO LIVE WITH HIM IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL WORLD, and for enlightening conditioned souls in the material world, all the Vedas and the revealed scriptures are there — expressly to recall the conditioned souls back home, back to Godhead. Unfortunately, the conditioned living entities, although suffering continually the threefold miseries of conditioned life, are not very serious about going back to Godhead. It is due to  their misguided way of living, complicated by sins and virtues. Some of them who are virtuous by deeds begin to reestablish the lost relation with the Lord, but they are unable to understand the personal feature of the Lord. 

THE REAL PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE LORD AND BE ENGAGED IN HIS SERVICE. THAT IS THE NATURAL POSITION OF LIVING ENTITIES.

 But those who are impersonalists and are unable to render any loving service to the Lord have been advised to meditate upon His impersonal feature, the virāṭ-rūpa, or universal form. Some way or other, one must try to reestablish one’s forgotten relation with the Lord if one at all desires to gain real happiness in life, and to reclaim his natural unfettered condition. For the less intelligent beginners, meditation on the impersonal feature, the virāṭ-rūpa, or universal form of the Lord, will gradually qualify one to rise to personal contact. One is advised herewith to meditate upon the virāṭ-rūpa specified in the previous chapters in order to understand how the different planets, seas, mountains, rivers, birds, beasts, human beings, demigods and all that we can conceive are but different parts and limbs of the Lord’s virāṭ form. This sort of thinking is also a type of meditation on the Absolute Truth, and as soon as such meditation begins, one develops one’s godly qualities and the whole world appears to be a happy and peaceful residence for all the people of the world. Without such meditation on God, either personal or impersonal, all good qualities of the human being become covered with misconceptions regarding his constitutional position, and without such advanced knowledge, the whole world becomes a hell for the human being.

This is a very important purport. IT EXPLAINS WHAT IS OUR REAL position in the material world. We are here because we voluntarily chose to be separate from Krsna. That is why we are put in this world to be an enjoyer and controller.  But such an activity is destined for failure. It is the law of nature Everyone will fail in the process of being an enjoyer and a dominator and an exploiter of material nature and people. When we say the law of nature it is something that is insurmountable, we can never be successful, but people do not want to accept their failure and they want to keep on trying. Just like Rukmini’s brother, he would play chess with Krsna, every time he fails he would say he won… after some time it became intolerable and Krsna punishes him. This obstinacy keeps people in the material world birth after birth. 

The Supreme Lord is the ultimate beneficiary and enjoyer of all worlds, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (5.29). The material world is not a fit place for living entities because they are spiritually one with the Lord and in the material world the living entities become conditioned by the laws of the material world.

There are 2 sets of law we have to follow. First set is the laws set by Krsna. It is called Dharma, when we violate we entangle in birth and death. The second set of law is social laws set by the government which are imperfect and they are changing. We are obliged to follow them.

LAWS SET BY KRSNA (LAWS OF NATURE)

1. BG 3.9 – Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed; otherwise work causes bondage in this material world.  (Bondage means to come under the modes of material nature and you are forced to do things.)Therefore, O son of Kuntī, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain free from bondage.
2. SB 5.5.4 -6 – “People are mad after sense gratification, and they do not know that this present body, which is full of miseries, is a result of one’s fruitive activities in the past. Although this body is temporary, it is always giving one trouble in many ways. Therefore, to act for sense gratification is not good. One is considered to be a failure in life as long as he makes no inquiry about his real identity. As long as he does not know his real identity, he has to work for fruitive results for sense gratification, and as long as one is engrossed in the consciousness of sense gratification one has to transmigrate from one body to another. Although the mind may be engrossed in fruitive activities and influenced by ignorance, one must develop a love for devotional service to Vāsudeva. Only then can one have the opportunity to get out of the bondage of material existence.” (As long as we are mad after sense gratification, we do not understand the purpose of having the material body and how to use it. It is not our natural state to have material body. Body is full of miseries.)
3. BG 8.16 – From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kuntī, never takes birth again. (The myth that one can be happy by going to higher planets….How are you going to learn these laws only by reading BG)
4. BG 8.6 – Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, O son of Kuntī, that state he will attain without fail. The process of changing one’s nature at the critical moment of death is here explained. 
5. BG 16.10 – Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent.(Only engaged in impermanent activities, acts of sense gratification, resulting in perversion…extreme moral ethical degradation…)
6. BG 16.19 – Those who are envious and mischievous, who are the lowest among men, I perpetually cast into the ocean of material existence, into various demoniac species of life.  
   1. In this verse it is clearly indicated that the placing of a particular individual soul in a particular body is the prerogative of the supreme will. 
   1. The demoniac person may not agree to accept the supremacy of the Lord, and it is a fact that he may act according to his own whims, but his next birth will depend upon the decision of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and not on himself. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Third Canto, it is stated that an individual soul, after his death, is put into the womb of a mother where he gets a particular type of body under the supervision of superior power. Therefore in the material existence we find so many species of life – animals, insects, men, and so on. All are arranged by the superior power. They are not accidental. As for the demoniac, it is clearly said here that they are perpetually put into the wombs of demons, and thus they continue to be envious, the lowest of mankind. Such demoniac species of men are held to be always full of lust, always violent and hateful and always unclean. The many kinds of hunters in the jungle are considered to belong to the demoniac species of life.
7. BG 16.20 – Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, O son of Kuntī, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they sink down to the most abominable type of existence.Is there any hope for these demons – only sadhu sanga, a pure devotee can give mercy to the worst demon.. Krsna also gives a demo mercy by killing them – hiranyakasipu, ravana.. 
8. BG 16.23 – He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination.
9. BG 5.22 – An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kuntī, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. The more one is addicted to material pleasures, the more he is entrapped by material miseries.
10. BG 6.8 – A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogī [or mystic] when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transcendence and is self-controlled. He sees everything – whether it be pebbles, stones or gold – as the same.
11. BG 4.31 – O best of the Kuru dynasty, without sacrifice one can never live happily on this planet or in this life: what then of the next? (Sacrifice – is sacrificing sense gratification inorder to have time and energy for KC activities)
12. BG 4.40 –But ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed scriptures do not attain God consciousness; they fall down. For the doubting soul there is happiness neither in this world nor in the next.In school, they teach you to doubt everything, in a sense they call it socratic method. Socrates would go around and meet people and ask do you know what humility is? Socrates would ask some questions and that person would agree that he does not really know about humility… then he would say let su research and find out more about humility. That degraded and became you question everything, including God. If you deny the existence of  God you deny the existence of yourself.. Doubting all the time is a disease… Can you doubt the fact that you have mother and father. In the same way can you doubt.. That there is a supreme Father.. 
13. BG 4.5 – The Personality of Godhead said: Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!
    1. You forget past life that is the law of nature. If you remember you will be forced to take KC, to give you the freedom of choice you forget.. 
14. BG 3.37 – The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world.
    1. Lust is something we all have, by education, bad education, by conceit, false pride, misconceptions..  lust is the greatest enemy of the living entity, and it is lust only which induces the pure living entity to remain entangled in the material world. Lust means excessive material desire, perversion which is uncontrollable desire.. 

Right from the beginning material education misleads the children. They teach that there is is only material body and there is no soul and there is no spiritual world and there is no GOD. They teach everything on this basis and so everything they teach is false. The kids are made to believe this, and they are taught to do the best to enjoy as there is only one life. This concept is glorified in the movies, social media – Sense gratification… The kids become cursed to work hard for sense gratification through their lives.  They get the curse of Sisyphus… because of the material education and they will continue in this cycle of birth and death…

Body is a place of suffering. Pains, failing of organs, wounds of the body, viruses…

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.13

1. The ultimate purpose of meditation is the purification of one’s intelligence. (becoming detached from sense gratification)
2. The process of meditation recommended in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is not to fix one’s attention on something impersonal or void. 
3. The meditation should concentrate on the Person of the Supreme Godhead, either in His virāṭ-rūpa, the gigantic universal form, or in His sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, as described in the scriptures.
4. One can practice meditating upon the authorized Deity, concentrating his mind on the lotus feet of the Lord and gradually rising higher and higher, up to His smiling face.
5. According to the Bhāgavata school, the Lord’s rāsa dancing is the smiling face of the Lord. We shall not jump at once to understand the Lord’s pastimes in the rāsa dance.
6. It is better to practice concentrating our attention by offering flowers and tulasī to the lotus feet of the Lord. In this way, we gradually become purified by the arcanā process. 
7. The more one concentrates on the transcendental form of the Lord, either on the lotus feet, the calves, the thighs or the chest, the more one becomes purified.
8. Our intelligence in the present conditioned state of life is impure due to being engaged in sense gratification. The result of meditation on the transcendental form of the Lord will be manifested by one’s detachment from sense gratification. 
9. Those who are too engrossed in sense gratification cannot be allowed to participate in arcanā or to touch the transcendental form of the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu Deities. For them it is better to meditate upon the gigantic virāṭ-rūpa of the Lord. 
10. Because the impersonalists and the voidists are not sufficiently purified in their spiritual activities, arcanā is not meant for them.
11. Śraddhā is the beginning of everything. Śraddhā means firm faith, with conviction, “Yes, if I surrender to Kṛṣṇa, then all my business will be perfect, all my spiritual life will be perfect.” 
12. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is enacted just to create little faith in Kṛṣṇa. Then the person whom we are trying to help, his business is to associate with sādhu. If we can associate with real sādhu, which means real devotee, unadulterated devotee, then the recommendation is that simply by associating with sādhu all perfection will come.
13. If anyone actually seriously associates with sādhu, the next stage will be bhajana-kriyā: how to worship. [BG10.9] Devotees of the Supreme Lord are twenty-four hours daily engaged in glorifying the qualities and pastimes of the Supreme Lord. Their hearts and souls are constantly submerged in Kṛṣṇa, and they take pleasure in discussing Him with other devotees.
14. Then anartha. Anartha means unnecessary things. We have practiced so many unnecessary things in our life. These things when they are too much strong, that becomes sinful life. Modern civilization is simply meant for creating unnecessary necessities of life. That’s all.
15. Anitya means this temporary life, but in this temporary life we are addicted to so many unnecessary things, and we are forgetting our real business = how to go to home, back to home, back to Godhead.
16. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura laments… He was a great, responsible government officer, magistrate, but a great devotee of the Lord, and he’s one of the ācāryas, So he writes about his own experience that jaḍa-bidyā yata, māyāra vaibhava, tomāra bhajane bādhā: the more we make advancement in the temporary materialistic comforts, the more we become implicated in unnecessary things, and they are all impediments for making progress in spiritual life. That is his opinion.
17. By the association of sādhu, one can achieve advancement in spiritual life. And in all śāstras, it is recommended that associate.
18. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that asat-saṅga-tyāga ei vaiṣṇava-ācāra [Cc. Madhya 22.87]. For those who are interested in spiritual life, or to become a devotee, the first business is to give up the association of bad elements. 

SB 2.2.13 TRANSLATION

The process of meditation should begin from the lotus feet of the Lord and progress to His smiling face. The meditation should be concentrated upon the lotus feet, then the calves, then the thighs, and in this way higher and higher. The more the mind becomes fixed upon the different parts of the limbs, one after another, the more the intelligence becomes purified.

CLASS NOTES: 

THE MEDITATION SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON THE PERSON OF THE SUPREME GODHEAD, 

The process of meditation recommended in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is not to fix one’s attention on something impersonal or void. The meditation should concentrate on the Person of the Supreme Godhead, either in His virāṭ-rūpa, the gigantic universal form, or in His sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, as described in the scriptures. One can practice meditating upon the authorized Deity, concentrating his mind on the lotus feet of the Lord and gradually rising higher and higher, up to His smiling face. According to the Bhāgavata school, the Lord’s rāsa dancing is the smiling face of the Lord. We shall not jump at once to understand the Lord’s pastimes in the rāsa dance.

We have heard the word gradually many many times in the Srila Prabhupada purports. One cannot jump to the Rasa dance directly. Once SP was in Nellore in someone’s home. After the lecture, he was in his room and a couple came to him in the night and asked him about the rasa Lila of Radha and Krsna and SP said that I cannot tell you as I cannot understand them. In other words, he refused it. This is very confidential, this is not to be discussed with everyone. Ramananda rai says if I am saying something about the past time it is because you are saying it through me…

ONE SHOULD PURIFY ONESELF BY THE ARCHANA PROCESS

It is better to practice concentrating our attention by offering flowers and tulasī to the lotus feet of the Lord. In this way, we gradually become purified by the arcanā process. We dress the Lord, bathe Him, etc., and all these transcendental activities help us purify our existence. When we reach the higher standard of purification, if we see the smiling face of the Lord or hear the rāsa dance pastimes of the Lord, then we can relish His activities.

THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF MEDITATION IS THE PURIFICATION OF ONE’S INTELLIGENCE. 

The more one concentrates on the transcendental form of the Lord, either on the lotus feet, the calves, the thighs or the chest, the more one becomes purified. Our intelligence in the present conditioned state of life is impure due to being engaged in sense gratification. The result of meditation on the transcendental form of the Lord will be manifested by one’s detachment from sense gratification. Therefore, the ultimate purpose of meditation is the purification of one’s intelligence. (becoming detached from sense gratification)

The purpose of meditation is not to improves one’s health and engage in better sex… It is unbelievable how much they deviated from the meaning of meditation. Relaxation diminished stress… All these materials purposes for meditation. We have to relearn the meaning of the words… by studying Krsna’s texts and Prabhupada’s purports. 

Those who are too engrossed in sense gratification cannot be allowed to participate in arcanā or to touch the transcendental form of the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu Deities. 

For them it is better to meditate upon the gigantic virāṭ-rūpa of the Lord. The impersonalists and the voidists are therefore recommended to meditate upon the universal form of the Lord, whereas the devotees are recommended to meditate on the Deity worship in the temple. Because the impersonalists and the voidists are not sufficiently purified in their spiritual activities, arcanā is not meant for them.

Ex: A person of the street very fallen, he came to temple and he followed regulations, for year and half and he got initiated and he started deity worship and however, he continued to have secret relationships and finally got aids and then parts of body fell. It is not good to take up deity worship without getting purified of sense gratification. 

BG 6.46
A yogī is greater than the ascetic, greater than the empiricist and greater than the fruitive worker. Therefore, O Arjuna, in all circumstances, be a yogī.

The highest amongst all these yogis is the person who has great faith in the lord

BG 6.47
And of all yogīs, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me within himself and renders transcendental loving service to Me – he is the most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all. That is My opinion.

1. Has great faith
2. Always follows Lord’s instructions
3. Always thinks of the Lord, Guru and Krsna
4. Always renders loving devotionals service

So the conclusion is,
yoginām api sarveṣāṁ
mad-gatenāntar-ātmanā
śraddhāvān bhajate yo māṁ
sa me yuktatamo mataḥ

ŚRADDHĀ IS THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING.

śraddhā, respect. If you have no respect for Kṛṣṇa, if you have no faith in Kṛṣṇa, there is no advancement of spiritual life or yoga life. Therefore it is said śraddhāvān. 

The beginning of spiritual life is śraddhā, faith, Śraddhā means firm faith.
So unless one has got faith. Why one should consider himself that “I must be completely surrendered to Kṛṣṇa,” unless one has got faith? Therefore faith is the beginning. 

And to create faith, Kṛṣṇa has explained about Himself in the whole Bhagavad-gītā. So one who is fortunate, after reading Bhagavad-gītā thoroughly, he’ll have a strong faith in Kṛṣṇa. If you have failed to achieve this status of faith, then there is no question of progress.

 Śraddhā means firm faith, with conviction, “Yes, if I surrender to Kṛṣṇa, then all my business will be perfect, all my spiritual life will be perfect.” 

SADHU SANGA

then next stage is sādhu-saṅga [Cc. Madhya 22.83]. If one wants to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, if he has developed a little faith in it, the next stage is to associate with sādhu.

AND WHO IS SĀDHU? 

So sādhu means very tolerant. 

A sādhu, the first qualification is he must be a staunch devotee of Kṛṣṇa.  Therefore sādhu-saṅga means to associate with devotees, those who are devotees of Kṛṣṇa. That is sādhu-saṅga. Sādhu-saṅga is very important. If we can associate with real sādhu, which means real devotee, unadulterated devotee, then the recommendation is that simply by associating with sādhu all perfection will come.

this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is enacted just to create little faith in Kṛṣṇa. Then the person whom we are trying to help, his business is to associate with sādhu. 

SB 3.25.25
In the association of pure devotees, discussion of the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very pleasing and satisfying to the ear and the heart. By cultivating such knowledge one gradually becomes advanced on the path of liberation, and thereafter he is freed, and his attraction becomes fixed. Then real devotion and devotional service begin.

BHAJANA KRIYA
So the śraddhā is required. Then sādhu-saṅga [Cc. Madhya 22.83], then bhajana-kriyā. If anyone actually seriously associates with sādhu, the next stage will be bhajana-kriyā: how to worship.

BG 10.9
The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me.

Pure devotees, whose characteristics are mentioned here, engage themselves fully in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Their minds cannot be diverted from the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. Their talks are solely on transcendental subjects. The symptoms of the pure devotees are described in this verse specifically. Devotees of the Supreme Lord are twenty-four hours daily engaged in glorifying the qualities and pastimes of the Supreme Lord. Their hearts and souls are constantly submerged in Kṛṣṇa, and they take pleasure in discussing Him with other devotees.

ANARTHA NIVRITTI
Bhajana-kriyā. Tataḥ anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt. Then anartha. Anartha means unnecessary things. We have practiced so many unnecessary things in our life. That unnecessary things, when they are too much strong, that becomes sinful life. The modern civilization is simply meant for creating unnecessary necessities of life. That’s all.

THE MORE WE ARE ADVANCING IN SO-CALLED MATERIAL CIVILIZATION, WE ARE MORE BECOMING FAR AWAY FROM GOD.

The more we are advancing in so-called material civilization, we are more becoming far away from God. Therefore Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung, jaḍa-bidyā yata.. –  the material education, they are simply paraphernalia of this illusory energy, māyāra vaibhava. And the effect of this advancement of material civilization means stopping one’s relationship with God.

Anitya means this temporary life, but in this temporary life we are addicted to so many unnecessary things, and we are forgetting our real business = how to go to home, back to home, back to Godhead.

Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura laments… He was a great, responsible government officer, magistrate, but a great devotee of the Lord, and he’s one of the ācāryas, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. So he writes about his own experience that jaḍa-bidyā yata, māyāra vaibhava, tomāra bhajane bādhā: the more we make advancement in the temporary materialistic comforts, the more we become implicated in unnecessary things, and they are all impediments for making progress in spiritual life. That is his opinion.

And that’s a fact. We have seen in Western countries, they are still more materially advanced, but spiritually they are dull, block-headed, spiritually. Very difficult to convince them spiritually. So sādhu-saṅga [Cc. Madhya 22.83], by the association of sādhu one can achieve advancement in spiritual life. And in all śāstras, it is recommended that associate.

GIVE UP ASSOCIATION WITH BAD ELEMENTS.ASAT EKA STRĪ-SAṄGĪ,

What are the bad elements? That is also explained by Caitanya Mahāprabhu. A devotee asked Him that what should be the behavior of a person who is spiritually inclined or Vaiṣṇava. Spiritually inclined means Vaiṣṇava.

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that asat-saṅga-tyāga ei vaiṣṇava-ācāra [Cc. Madhya 22.87]. Those who are interested in spiritual life, or to become a devotee, the first business is to give up the association of bad elements.

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.8 TODAY (04/07/21): 

1. The all-pervading Personality of Godhead resides as Paramātmā in the heart of each and every living entity.
2.  The measurement of the localized Personality of Godhead is estimated to expand from the ring finger to the end of the thumb, more or less eight inches. 
3. The form of the Lord described in this verse with distribution of different symbols — beginning from the lower right hand up and down to the lower left hand with lotus, wheel of a chariot, conchshell and club respectively — is called Janārdana, or the plenary portion of the Lord who controls the general mass. 
4. There are 24 other forms of the Lord with varied situations of the symbols of lotus, conchshell, etc., and they are differently known as Puruṣottama, Acyuta, Narasiṁha, Trivikrama, Hṛṣīkeśa, Keśava, Mādhava, Aniruddha, Pradyumna, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Śrīdhara, Vāsudeva, Dāmodara, Janārdana, Nārāyaṇa, Hari, Padmanābha, Vāmana, Madhusūdana, Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu-mūrti, Adhokṣaja and Upendra.
5. There are many other hundreds and scores of different forms of the Lord, and each and every one of them has a particular planet in the spiritual sky, of which this material sky is only a fragmental offshoot. 
6. The Lord exists as puruṣa, or the male enjoyer, although there is no comparing Him to any male form in the material world. But all such forms are Advaita, nondifferent from one another, and each of them is eternally young. 
7. Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.
8. The poet William Wordsworth wrote the beautiful poem entitled “The Rainbow”. The last two lines of the poem are gems of poetic wisdom: “The child is the father of the Man;
   And I could wish my days to be, Bound each to other by natural piety.”
9. Wordsworth describes what he learned and experienced in his childhood guided as an adult to experience a continuum of natural piety. This implies that in the future, he may also be bonded with others whose “natural piety” is the quality of religious devotion for God.
10. Natural piety every day becomes a reality if we follow the culture of acting for the welfare of others by teaching them the inestimable value of love and devotion to God. This is expressed in the Sanskrit proverb “Para Upakara – do good for the benefit of all”.
11. What is the highest good one can do? It is to gift a person with the highest truth of reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. The highest truth is our eternal relationship with God (Krishna) which uproots all suffering and raises one to a permanent life of eternity, bliss, and knowledge. 
12. It begins by learning to do good deeds for the welfare of all by getting relatives and friends holy gifts. “Dadati pratigrhnati…”
13. All humanity practices this “Give and Take” custom in an impure way. If they can be trained to do this “Give and Take” policy in a spiritual way, the whole world can transform into the Kingdom of God on Earth.

SB 2.2.8 TRANSLATION: 

Others conceive of the Personality of Godhead residing within the body in the region of the heart and measuring only eight inches, with four hands carrying a lotus, a wheel of a chariot, a conchshell and a club respectively.

CLASS NOTES: 

MEASUREMENT OF PARAMATMA & THIS FORM IS CALLED JANARDHANA

The all-pervading Personality of Godhead resides as Paramātmā in the heart of each and every living entity. The measurement of the localized Personality of Godhead is estimated to expand from the ring finger to the end of the thumb, more or less eight inches. The form of the Lord described in this verse with distribution of different symbols — beginning from the lower right hand up and down to the lower left hand with lotus, wheel of a chariot, conchshell and club respectively — is called Janārdana, or the plenary portion of the Lord who controls the general mass. 

DIFFERENT FORMS OF THE LORD 

There are many other forms of the Lord with varied situations of the symbols of lotus, conchshell, etc., and they are differently known as Puruṣottama, Acyuta, Narasiṁha, Trivikrama, Hṛṣīkeśa, Keśava, Mādhava, Aniruddha, Pradyumna, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Śrīdhara, Vāsudeva, Dāmodara, Janārdana, Nārāyaṇa, Hari, Padmanābha, Vāmana, Madhusūdana, Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu-mūrti, Adhokṣaja and Upendra. These twenty-four forms of the localized Personality of Godhead are worshiped in different parts of the planetary system, and in each system there is an incarnation of the Lord having a different Vaikuṇṭha planet in the spiritual sky, which is called the paravyoma.

There are many other hundreds and scores of different forms of the Lord, and each and every one of them has a particular planet in the spiritual sky, of which this material sky is only a fragmental offshoot. The Lord exists as puruṣa, or the male enjoyer, although there is no comparing Him to any male form in the material world. But all such forms are advaita, nondifferent from one another, and each of them is eternally young. The young Lord with four hands is nicely decorated, as described below.

Now we are going to learn about the description of paramatma. He is an expansion of Ksirodakasayi -> Garbodakasayi ->Maha Vishnu….
Maha Vishnu is engaged in the yoga nidra.
It is quite a gigantic scope for individuals to understand therefore they think it is some mythology or fantasy. This is the reality and the Supreme Lord is Krsna.
All these details are described by Lord Chaitanya to Rupa & Sanatana Gosawami.
Can people understand by their own? No they cannot. They cannot understand that they are the soul. To understand the soul you have to hear BG, SB. Krishna explains about soul as the first spiritual instruction in BG. 

(SB 2.2.5) ONE MUST RENDER SERVICE UNTO THE SUPERSOUL SITUATED IN ONE’S OWN HEART
Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.

This very important information. If we understand it our life is changed. 

THE CHILD IS THE FATHER OF THE MAN

The poet William Wordsworth wrote the beautiful poem entitled “The Rainbow”. The last two lines of the poem are gems of poetic wisdom:

“The child is the father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be,
Bound each to other by natural piety.”

Wordsworth describes what he learned and experienced in his childhood guided as an adult to experience a continuum of natural piety. This implies that in the future, he may also be bonded with others whose “natural piety” is the quality of religious devotion for God.

NATURAL PIETY – “PARA UPAKARA – DO GOOD FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL”.
Natural piety every day becomes a reality if we follow the culture of acting for the welfare of others by teaching them the inestimable value of love and devotion to God. This is expressed in the Sanskrit proverb “Para Upakara – do good for the benefit of all”.

WHAT IS THE HIGHEST GOOD ONE CAN DO? 

It is to gift a person with the highest truth of reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. The highest truth is our eternal relationship with God (Krishna) which uproots all suffering and raises one to a permanent life of eternity, bliss, and knowledge. It begins by learning to do good deeds for the welfare of all by getting relatives and friends holy gifts.

There are 6 ways to express love:

1. Giving charity to devotees
2. Accepting from devotees whatever they may offer
3. Opening one’s mind to devotees
4. Inquiring from them about confidential service of the Lord
5. Honoring Prasada or spiritual food, given by devotees
6. Feeding devotees with Prasada

This is a “Give and Take” policy that can be extended to all people beginning by devotees who always practice giving Prasada to receptive persons + gradually instruct how they can give in return according to the above-mentioned 6 exchanges of spiritual love.

All humanity practices this “Give and Take” custom in an impure way. If they can be trained to do this “Give and Take” policy in a spiritual way, the whole world can transform into the Kingdom of God on Earth.

If we learn KC in childhood, every day in our life will be KC. It is happily learned. It can’t be forced. How can it be happily learned? It has to become natural habits that the whole family does together. Waking up early, chanting, singing, eating prasadam, reading scriptures..  

“Susukkam khartum avyayam”… it is pleasurable and happy. There is singing dancing, gift-giving, and gift-taking. Temple is for these six forms of loving exchange. If done properly the whole culture of giving and taking is established. 

(BG 9.2) PUREST KNOWLEDGE

pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ
su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam
This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed.

If a child respects parents, he will very easily respect guru and Krsna. If a child does not respect parents then they keep their distance from guru and Krsna and get attracted to demoniac persons. How did Srila Prabhupada establish his authority? He offered prasadam with love and affection. In the beginning, he was distributing pieces of apple as prasadam as he had no money… later on chapatis, dal sabzi, he taught them how to cook, chanting, dancing, and feasting as first things… later philosophy

(NOI 4) SIX TYPES OF EXCHANGES

dadāti pratigṛhṇāti
guhyam ākhyāti pṛcchati
bhuṅkte bhojayate caiva
ṣaḍ-vidhaṁ prīti-lakṣaṇam

Offering gifts in charity, accepting charitable gifts, revealing one’s mind in confidence, inquiring confidentially, accepting prasāda, and offering prasāda are the six symptoms of love shared by one devotee and another.

Once the person becomes interested and purified by these exchanges, one can be taught the highest knowledge – 

(BG 13.19) PERFECT KNOWLEDGE CAN BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE UNALLOYED DEVOTEES OF THE LORD DIRECTLY. OTHERS ARE UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND.
Thus the field of activities [the body], knowledge and the knowable have been summarily described by Me. Only My devotees can understand this thoroughly and thus attain to My nature.

The Lord has described in summary the body, knowledge, and the knowable. This knowledge is of three things: the knower, the knowable, and the process of knowing. Combined, these are called vijñāna, or the science of knowledge. Perfect knowledge can be understood by the unalloyed devotees of the Lord directly. Others are unable to understand. The monists say that at the ultimate stage these three items become one, but the devotees do not accept this. Knowledge and development of knowledge mean understanding oneself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We are being led by material consciousness, but as soon as we transfer all consciousness to Kṛṣṇa’s activities and realize that Kṛṣṇa is everything, then we attain real knowledge. In other words, knowledge is nothing but the preliminary stage of understanding devotional service perfectly. In the Fifteenth Chapter, this will be very clearly explained.

Once the trust is established you teach the knowledge. The actual way to learn about the body is by reading Bhagavad Gita. 
Knowledge – Knower, knowable., the process of knowing
Knowledge – 20 points
Knowable – Krishna and his expansion


verses 13.8 through 13.12 – describe the process of knowledge for understanding both types of the knower of the field of activities, namely the soul and the Supersoul.
Verse 13.13 through 13.18 – describe the soul and the Supreme Lord, or the Supersoul

It is especially described here that only the unalloyed devotees of the Lord can understand these three items clearly. So for these devotees, Bhagavad-gītā is fully useful; it is they who can attain the supreme goal, the nature of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. In other words, only devotees, and not others, can understand Bhagavad-gītā and derive the desired result.

Srila Prabhupada made devotees everywhere – Australia, Africa, Armenia, turkey… This process works and is reproducible – It is real science.

We are trying to bring people to KC. This all begins by give and take. Once the person trusts you they believe in whatever you say. How to gain the trust of a person – through affection & giving.
Exchanging gifts in developing a relationship.
Once they are a little bit purified, they can go directly to Krsna Consciousness.
This is the way to preach….

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.7

1. The materialists are always worshiping some minor demigods,In the Vedas, it is said that persons who are attached to demigods to the exclusion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are like the animals who follow the herdsman even though they are taken to the slaughterhouse.
2. The materialists, like animals, also do not know how they are being misdirected by neglecting the transcendental thought of the Supreme Person. They are always worshiping some minor demigods, although this is condemned in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.20). 
3. As long as a person is illusioned by material gains, he petitions the respective demigods to draw some particular benefit which is, after all, illusory and nonpermanent. 
4. No one can remain vacant of thought. It is said that an idle brain is a devil’s workshop because a person who cannot think in the right way must think of something which may bring about disaster. 
5. The enlightened transcendentalist is not captivated by such illusory things; therefore he is always absorbed in the transcendental thought of the Supreme in different stages of realization, namely Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān.
6. Intelligent persons who can see properly may look into the general conditions of the living entities who are wandering in the cycle of the 8,400,000 species of life, as well as in different classes of human beings.
7. It is said that there is an everlasting belt of water called the River Vaitaraṇī at the entrance of the Plutonic planet of Yamarāja, who punishes sinners in different manners. After being subjected to such sufferings, a sinner is awarded a particular species of life according to his deeds in the past. Some of them are in heaven, and some of them are in hell. Some of them are brāhmaṇas, and some of them are misers
8. But no one is happy in this material world, and all of them are either class A, B or C prisoners suffering because of their own deeds.
9. The Lord is impartial to all circumstances of the sufferings of the living entities, but to one who takes shelter at His lotus feet, the Lord gives proper protection, and He takes such a living entity back home, back to Himself.

SB 2.2.7 TRANSLATION

Who else but the gross materialists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only, seeing the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering as the consequence of accruing the result of their own work?

CLASS NOTES:

THE MATERIALISTS ARE ALWAYS WORSHIPING SOME MINOR DEMIGODS,

In the Vedas, it is said that persons who are attached to demigods to the exclusion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are like the animals who follow the herdsman even though they are taken to the slaughterhouse.

The materialists, like animals, also do not know how they are being misdirected by neglecting the transcendental thought of the Supreme Person. No one can remain vacant of thought. It is said that an idle brain is a devil’s workshop because a person who cannot think in the right way must think of something which may bring about disaster. 

The materialists are always worshiping some minor demigods, although this is condemned in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.20). As long as a person is illusioned by material gains, he petitions the respective demigods to draw some particular benefit which is, after all, illusory and nonpermanent. 

THE ENLIGHTENED TRANSCENDENTALIST IS NOT CAPTIVATED BY SUCH ILLUSORY THINGS;
therefore he is always absorbed in the transcendental thought of the Supreme in different stages of realization, namely Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. In the previous verse it is suggested that one should think of the Supersoul, which is one step higher than the impersonal thought of Brahman, as it was suggested in the case of contemplating the virāṭ-rūpa of the Personality of Godhead. 

Intelligent persons who can see properly may look into the general conditions of the living entities who are wandering in the cycle of the 8,400,000 species of life, as well as in different classes of human beings. It is said that there is an everlasting belt of water called the River Vaitaraṇī at the entrance of the Plutonic planet of Yamarāja, who punishes sinners in different manners. After being subjected to such sufferings, a sinner is awarded a particular species of life according to his deeds in the past. Such living entities as are punished by Yamarāja are seen in different varieties of conditioned life. Some of them are in heaven, and some of them are in hell. Some of them are brāhmaṇas, and some of them are misers. But no one is happy in this material world, and all of them are either class A, B or C prisoners suffering because of their own deeds.

The Lord is impartial to all circumstances of the sufferings of the living entities, but to one who takes shelter at His lotus feet, the Lord gives proper protection, and He takes such a living entity back home, back to Himself.

If you weigh through the whole nonsense that is there in this world, then you can see the absolute truth. Lord Ramachandra says anyone who comes to me and bows I accept them.  People come to America – Material profit and sense gratification. They leave India, every country in the world to have American dream.
Why should we stay in the cycle of birth and death? Why don’t we understand what happened to us previously and what is going to happen in the future and come out of this cycle?  “Similarly, because we are all part and parcel of the Lord, the Lord is always affectionate to us, and He always tries to get us back home, back to Godhead. But we, the conditioned souls, do not care for Him and run instead of after the illusory bodily connections.
We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth. Actually we are hankering after Him as the child seeks the mother. And to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we need not go anywhere else, because the Lord is within our hearts.”  What is ignorance – “Nasato vidyate… “ We are living with the dreams of the things taht are no longer there.  Here we have a chance to come in contact with SB, BG, Srila Prabhupada and disciplic succession. Why ignore this? We have to become serious.


The dilemma of being attached to material gain leads one to the worship of Demi Gods. They think that I do not want to go to Krsna he takes everything away from me, he wants me to think of him all the time and serve Him. I do not want to serve Him. I want to make money and have sense gratification. Correlation between wanting material success and material profit and worshiping demigods. In Iskcon there was one devotee who asked Prabhupada about worshiping  Ganesha. He was making money in questionable ways. He was attached to it.
People think let me go to Ganesha, Shiva, Durga and get what they want. It is true that you will get some material benefits if you worship demigods. If a 10 year child has 10 dollars in his pocket where did he get it from. He got it from his father. Krishna gives them to demi Gods and they give it to the people who worship them… The demigods do not own anything; they get things from Krsna. The dramatic difference between devotee and nondevotee.
Akbar went to Rajasthan and he felt very thirsty. He approached a farmer and asked for water. He asked do you know who I am?  The farmer said I do not. I know that you are a person who is thirsty and I need to help you with  water. Akbar said you can come to Delhi if you need any help. One summer there was a severe drought and no water and people are in difficulty. The farmer goes to Delhi to meet Akbar. Akbar goes to prayer. After prayer he comes to the farmer. The farmer tells him I came to ask you something, you yourself are asking from God and I will pray to God and ask him and saying that he leaves.
There are millions of misconceptions in this material world. There are many things that are causing sufferings.  “Who else but the gross materialists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only” “What does it mean by non permanent names – We discussed about  “World of names” in previous verses. SB 2.2.3 “The whole material creation is a jugglery of names; in fact, it is nothing but a bewildering creation of matter. “
“seeing the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering as the consequence of accruing the result of their own work?” This river is the Vaitarani river surrounded by Yamaraj. There are different perceptions of it in different sections of Vedas. It is very interesting. People offer a cow when people die they do not know… everything becomes diluted and people just do things out of custom and not of knowledge.

When a child is not properly engaged by the parents. They give phone, tv, computer. The child exposed to the millions of nonsense people in this world. “No one can remain vacant of thought. It is said that an idle brain is a devil’s workshop because a person who cannot think in the right way must think of something which may bring about disaster.” We want kids to be engaged in the right way. One is “ One who does good is never overcome by evil” “Paraupakar” “Tamasoma jyothirgamayi… “ “Leave the ignorance and come to light” …

Unless we fill the child’s mind with positive things in their childhood. “The child is the father of man” Whatever the child learns in their childhood, that will remain with them through their life. The process in when the child is 5 years old, goes to the Guru in gurukul. The guru trains the child in education. The british stopped all that and gave the english education in schools and no vedas and only scientific pedagogy. We end up in this non permanent names – Black holes, big bang, point of infinite density. Can you ever see them or even get near them. You will die. Mathematics is a specialized language. Few equations only few people in the entire world know. This is all to confuse people to make an elite class of people and everyone else is excluded. This elite class will take advantage of others who do not know these names.. i

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.6

1. A living being’s constitutional position is to render service, but in the atmosphere of māyā, or illusion, or the conditional state of existence, the conditioned soul seeks the service of illusion. 
2. A conditioned soul works in the service of his temporary body, bodily relatives like the wife and children, and the necessary paraphernalia for maintaining the body and bodily relations, such as the house, land, wealth, society and country, but he does not know that all such renderings of service are totally illusory. 
3. If we want to end the cause of our conditioned life, we must take to the worship of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is present in everyone’s heart by His natural affection for all living beings, who are actually the parts and parcels of the Lord (Bg. 18.61).
4. The Lord is always affectionate to us, and He always tries to get us back home, back to Godhead. Because we are all part and parcel of the Lord, the Lord is always affectionate to us, and He always tries to get us back home, back to Godhead. But we, the conditioned souls, do not care for Him and run instead of after the illusory bodily connections.
5. We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth.  
6. Actually, we are hankering after Him as the child seeks the mother. And to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we need not go anywhere else, because the Lord is within our hearts
7. Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence
8. A Godless Civilization artificially increases the conditions of life, and existence becomes intolerable for everyone. 
9. The foolish leaders of a godless civilization try to devise various plans to bring about peace and prosperity in the godless world under a patent trademark of materialism, and because such attempts are illusory only, the people elect incompetent, blind leaders, one after another, who are incapable of offering solutions.
10. If we want at all to end this anomaly of a godless civilization, we must follow the principles of revealed scriptures like the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and follow the instruction of a person like Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī who has no attraction for material gain.
11. In Bhāgavatam it is confirmed: āsurī nāma paścād dvāḥ. In other words, the population on the western side is interested in an asuric civilization, that is, a materialistic way of life. 
12. Lord Caitanya wanted this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to be preached on the western side of the world so that people addicted to sense gratification might be benefited by His teachings. 

SB 2.2.6 TRANSLATION: 

Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.

CLASS NOTES: 

EVERY LIVING CREATURE IS ENGAGING IN THE SERVICE OF SOMETHING ELSE.
 A living being’s constitutional position is to render service, but in the atmosphere of māyā, or illusion, or the conditional state of existence, the conditioned soul seeks the service of illusion. A conditioned soul works in the service of his temporary body, bodily relatives like the wife and children, and the necessary paraphernalia for maintaining the body and bodily relations, such as the house, land, wealth, society and country, but he does not know that all such renderings of service are totally illusory. 

THIS MATERIAL WORLD IS ITSELF AN ILLUSION,

like a mirage in the desert. In the desert there is an illusion of water, and the foolish animals become entrapped by such an illusion and run after water in the desert, although there is no water at all. But because there is no water in the desert, one does not conclude that there is no water at all. The intelligent person knows well that there is certainly water, water in the seas and oceans, but such vast reservoirs of water are far, far away from the desert. One should therefore search for water in the vicinity of seas and oceans and not in the desert.

EVERY ONE OF US IS SEARCHING AFTER REAL HAPPINESS IN LIFE,
namely eternal life, eternal or unlimited knowledge and unending blissful life. But foolish people who have no knowledge of the substance search after the reality of life in the illusion. This material body does not endure eternally, and everything in relation with this temporary body, such as the wife, children, society and country, also changes along with the change of body. This is called saṁsāra, or repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. 

WE WOULD LIKE TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR ALL THESE PROBLEMS OF LIFE, BUT WE DO NOT KNOW THE WAY. 

Herein it is suggested that anyone who wants to make an end to these miseries of life, namely repetition of birth, death, disease and old age, must take to this process of worshiping the Supreme Lord and not others, as it is also ultimately suggested in the Bhagavad-gītā (18.65). If we at all want to end the cause of our conditioned life, we must take to the worship of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is present in everyone’s heart by His natural affection for all living beings, who are actually the parts and parcels of the Lord (Bg. 18.61).

THE LORD IS ALWAYS AFFECTIONATE TO US, AND HE ALWAYS TRIES TO GET US BACK HOME, BACK TO GODHEAD.

The baby in the lap of his mother is naturally attached to the mother, and the mother is attached to the child. But when the child grows up and becomes overwhelmed by circumstances, he gradually becomes detached from the mother, although the mother always expects some sort of service from the grown-up child and is equally affectionate toward her child, even though the child is forgetful. Similarly, because we are all part and parcel of the Lord, the Lord is always affectionate to us, and He always tries to get us back home, back to Godhead. But we, the conditioned souls, do not care for Him and run instead after the illusory bodily connections. We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth.  Actually we are hankering after Him as the child seeks the mother. And to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we need not go anywhere else, because the Lord is within our hearts. This does not suggest, however, that we should not go to the places of worship, namely the temples, churches and mosques. Such holy places of worship are also occupied by the Lord because the Lord is omnipresent.

GODLESS CIVILIZATION
For the common man these holy places are centers of learning about the science of God. When the temples are devoid of activities, the people in general become uninterested in such places, and consequently the mass of people gradually become godless, and a godless civilization is the result. Such a hellish civilization artificially increases the conditions of life, and existence becomes intolerable for everyone. The foolish leaders of a godless civilization try to devise various plans to bring about peace and prosperity in the godless world under a patent trademark of materialism, and because such attempts are illusory only, the people elect incompetent, blind leaders, one after another, who are incapable of offering solutions.

If we want at all to end this anomaly of a godless civilization, we must follow the principles of revealed scriptures like the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and follow the instruction of a person like Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī who has no attraction for material gain.

You cannot attract people if you have a motive for material gain. You have to be nirmama nirahankara. Then you have to be an effective preacher. Srila Prabhupada never thought he was Hindu, therefore he was able to spread the movement all over the world successfully. He had disciples in Africa, Australia, Japan and China. This is a very important purport, you should think carefully, You cannot understand it unless you compare it with secular humanism. 

How the present society is away from the principles recommended in SB. To understand the start difference we need to read SB 4.25.5. This history of Puranjana is allegorical. It is not true, it is a story that helps us understand the reality. Fable uses animals to make a point. Allegory uses humans to make a point. Both are stories trying to indicate the happenings in the world.

SB 4.25.52
On the western side was a gate named Āsurī. Through that gate King Purañjana used to go to the city of Grāmaka, accompanied by his friend Durmada.

 The word viṣaya refers to the four bodily necessities of life — eating, sleeping, mating and defending. The word durmadena may be analyzed in this way: dur means duṣṭa, or “sinful,” and mada means “madness.” Every living entity who is in contact with material nature is called mada, or mad. It is said:

When a person is haunted, he becomes practically insane. When one is in an insane condition, he speaks all kinds of nonsense. Thus to become engaged in sense gratification, one has to accept a friend who is durmada, or badly affected by the material disease.

the more one goes to the western side, the more he will find people disinterested in spiritual life. He will find them behaving against the Vedic standards. Because of this, people living in the West are more addicted to sense gratification. In this Bhāgavatam it is confirmed: āsurī nāma paścād dvāḥ. In other words, the population on the western side is interested in an asuric civilization, that is, a materialistic way of life. Lord Caitanya consequently wanted this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to be preached on the western side of the world so that people addicted to sense gratification might be benefited by His teachings.

That is a preamble to what we are going to hear now. That is humanism –

Do humanists believe in God?
They believe in science and proof and try to live a morally good life.

What is meant by secular ethics?
Secular ethics is a branch of moral philosophy in which ethics is based solely on human faculties such as logic, empathy, reason or moral intuition, and not derived from belief in supernatural revelation or guidance—the source of ethics in many religions.
Arohapanta – Ascending knowledge – moral, logic,,, this is diametrically opposite to KC.
BG 10.10
Tesam satata yuktanam, bhajatam priti puravakam… To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.
This is a revelation, this is not academic

Is secular humanism a religion?
What is the difference between atheist and secular humanism?
An atheist does not believe in God; a secular humanist need not necessarily be non-believer in God. Atheism is simply the absence of belief in God; secular humanism is a worldview, and a way of life. An atheist would reject the idea of God; a secular humanist believes God is not necessary to be moral.Sep 27, 2017

Difference between Athiests and Secular Humanists?
An atheist does not believe in God; a secular humanist need not necessarily be non-believer in God. Atheism is simply the absence of belief in God; secular humanism is a worldview, and a way of life. An atheist would reject the idea of God; a secular humanist believes God is not necessary to be moral. An atheist believes religion is a human intervention to frighten human beings to remain moral and ethical; A secular humanist does not subscribe to this view.

Secular humanism education

Rejects God and the transcendental existence. This is the basis for this education
India’s secularism and western secularism
Let’s compare to what SP is saying – Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotence. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.

How to define secular humanism?
All the speculation came over 2000 year period. This is the basis of education today. Prabhupada is diametrically opposed to it. SP says – “We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth. “ This is completely opposite to Humanism, humanism says man should completely dependant on himself and not any extraterrestrial or transcendental things… SP is addressing the issue spiritually. Aristotle said the man is the measure. SP is saying – by studying yourself you can understand the creation and God.
SP is saying – “And to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we need not go anywhere else, because the Lord is within our hearts. This does not suggest, however, that we should not go to the places of worship, namely the temples, churches, and mosques. Such holy places of worship are also occupied by the Lord because the Lord is omnipresent.” You do not have to look outside for God, you go inside.

Lord Caitanya – he never stopped people from being a Muslim. But they are attracted to chanting the holy name of the lord. The greeks and western philosophers contaminated the idea of Man is the measure by saying there is no God. Atheists try to do is the atheist synchronism –
Gandhi’s artificial unity did not work. The real unity is we all emanate from the supreme personality of Godhead. People call him Allah, Jesus…
If you put Krsna into the picture all makes sense.

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.6

1. Every one of us is searching after real happiness in life, namely eternal life, eternal or unlimited knowledge and unending blissful life.
2. But foolish people who have no knowledge of the substance search after the reality of life in the illusion. A living being’s constitutional position is to render service, but in the atmosphere of māyā, or illusion, or the conditional state of existence, the conditioned soul seeks the service of illusion.
3. This material body does not endure eternally, and everything in relation with this temporary body, such as the wife, children, society and country, also changes along with the change of body. This is called saṁsāra, or repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. 
4. We would like to find a solution for all these problems of life, but we do not know the way. It is suggested that anyone who wants to make an end to these miseries of life, namely repetition of birth, death, disease and old age, must take to this process of worshiping the Supreme Lord and not others.
5. If we at all want to end the cause of our conditioned life, we must take to the worship of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is present in everyone’s heart by His natural affection for all living beings, who are actually the parts and parcels of the Lord. (BG 18.65)
6. Because we are all part and parcel of the Lord, the Lord is always affectionate to us, and He always tries to get us back home, back to Godhead. But we, the conditioned souls, do not care for Him and run instead after the illusory bodily connections. We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth.  
7. Actually we are hankering after Him as the child seeks the mother. And to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we need not go anywhere else, because the Lord is within our hearts.
8. Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.
9. If we are in the conception that “I am this body and the body is everything,” then we are no better that the cats and dogs. So this is a movement to raise people from the platform of cats’ and dogs’ life. It is little difficult, but we have to do it. That is our mission, Caitanya Mahāprabhu = para-upakāra. They’re living like cats and dogs—do something good for them so that they may live like actual human beings. 
10. People are so much deeply merged into this ignorance, it is very, very difficult to raise them from this ignorance. This is our task. The first business is to convince him that “Your life continues.” Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20].But it is very difficult for the modern man to understand as they have been so poorly educated. But this is the first beginning of knowledge.
11. The modern education is how to eat nicely, how to sleep nicely, how to have sex nicely, how to defend nice. And that is the business of the animals. They know how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex, and how to defend. So the extra intelligence of human being is making a royal edition of eating, sleeping, sex and defense. 
12. The modern civilization is deluxe edition of animal life. That’s all. They do not know what is the aim of life.
13. Because they are in darkness, all rascals, mūḍha. Nābhijānāti. They do not know anything. And they’re puffed up by their false education, They do not know how nature’s law is working. Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted this, para upakāra. They are in darkness, tamasi. Bring them in the light = tamasi mā jyotir gamaḥ
14. The mission is Indians must be very, very merciful to all outsiders, born in…, out of India. That is India’s mission. Because they are in darkness, Enlighten them, giving them jyotir gamaḥ-tamasi mā:
15. Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41]. First of all, make your life successful by Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then do good to others.
16. Lord Caitanya consequently wanted this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to be preached on the western side of the world so that people addicted to sense gratification might be benefited by His teachings.

SB 2.2.6 TRANSLATION: 

Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.

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CLASS NOTES: 

In BG(18.61), the Supreme Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the all-pervading omnipresent Supersoul. Therefore one who is a yogī can worship only Him because He is the substance and not illusion.

This idea of substance and category is a big topic in philosophy. Actually real substance os everything is Krsna. It is not the length, breadth and depth. He is present in avery atom as Paramatma. Krishna is the substance and not illusion. Philosophers think the temporary objects or illusory objects as the substance. That is the vision of materialists. Whereas the vision of the devotee is the real substance which is eternally present everywhere that is Krsna. Yogi here means not gymnastic yogi, but bhakti yogi. Every living creature is engaged in the service of Him. Devotees are identified by their service – doing good to others. That is the main theme of Lord Caitanya. SP has written that Lord Caitanya as the model of paraupakar. Famous verse – 

A CONDITIONED SOUL WORKS IN THE SERVICE OF HIS TEMPORARY BODY, WHICH IS ILLUSORY 

A living being’s constitutional position is to render service, but in the atmosphere of māyā, or illusion, or the conditional state of existence, the conditioned soul seeks the service of illusion. A conditioned soul works in the service of his temporary body, bodily relatives like the wife and children, and the necessary paraphernalia for maintaining the body and bodily relations, such as the house, land, wealth, society and country, but he does not know that all such renderings of service are totally illusory. 

EVERY ONE OF US IS SEARCHING AFTER REAL HAPPINESS IN LIFE, NAMELY ETERNAL LIFE, ETERNAL OR UNLIMITED KNOWLEDGE AND UNENDING BLISSFUL LIFE. 

But foolish people who have no knowledge of the substance search after the reality of life in the illusion. This material body does not endure eternally, and everything in relation with this temporary body, such as the wife, children, society and country, also changes along with the change of body. This is called saṁsāra, or repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. 

WE WOULD LIKE TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR ALL THESE PROBLEMS OF LIFE, BUT WE DO NOT KNOW THE WAY. 

Herein it is suggested that anyone who wants to make an end to these miseries of life, namely repetition of birth, death, disease and old age, must take to this process of worshiping the Supreme Lord and not others.  it is also ultimately suggested in the Bhagavad-gītā (18.65). If we at all want to end the cause of our conditioned life, we must take to the worship of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is present in everyone’s heart by His natural affection for all living beings, who are actually the parts and parcels of the Lord (Bg. 18.61).

 LORD IS ALWAYS AFFECTIONATE TO US, AND HE ALWAYS TRIES TO GET US BACK HOME, BACK TO GODHEAD. 

because we are all part and parcel of the Lord, the Lord is always affectionate to us, and He always tries to get us back home, back to Godhead. But we, the conditioned souls, do not care for Him and run instead after the illusory bodily connections. We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth.  Actually we are hankering after Him as the child seeks the mother. And to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we need not go anywhere else, because the Lord is within our hearts. This does not suggest, however, that we should not go to the places of worship, namely the temples, churches and mosques. Such holy places of worship are also occupied by the Lord because the Lord is omnipresent.

GODLESS CIVILIZATION

When the temples are devoid of activities, the people in general become uninterested in such places, and consequently the mass of people gradually become godless, and a godless civilization is the result. Such a hellish civilization artificially increases the conditions of life, and existence becomes intolerable for everyone. The foolish leaders of a godless civilization try to devise various plans to bring about peace and prosperity in the godless world under a patent trademark of materialism, and because such attempts are illusory only, the people elect incompetent, blind leaders, one after another, who are incapable of offering solutions. If we want at all to end this anomaly of a godless civilization, we must follow the principles of revealed scriptures like the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and follow the instruction of a person like Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī who has no attraction for material gain.

Srila Prabhupada is harping on the point that one who is attached to the family affairs is entangled forever. The importance of being celebate until 24 years is because one cannot learn anything of value when they are engaged in sense gratification. They are learning to ve sense gratifiers. Because it is based on humanism.

Humanism – an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
Lets eliminate everything spiritual. This is the basic foundation of Education. It does not mention anything about God. Humans do not need God they just need their own reasoning and logic. They are over and over again they are saying there is no GOD and human
Humanistic education (also called person-centered education) is an approach to education based on the work of humanistic psychologists, most notably Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.
 If we at all want to end the cause of our conditioned life, we must take to the worship of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is present in everyone’s heart by His natural affection for all living beings, who are actually the parts and parcels of the Lord (Bg. 18.61).
We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth.
This one statement right there should be taught to every child….
SP is waging war against atheistic philosophy, mayavadi philosophy and secular humanism….
Is Secular humanism athiest
Secular humanism pedagody basis of modern education
All this is based on Speculation. John lock is one of the biggest speculator. He wrote the constitution.

PARAUPAKAR

CC ADI 9.41
bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya janma yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra

As devotees of Lord Caitanya we are meant to do good to others and not exploit them. BG is not just for Hindus. It is for everyone. He is supreme and speaking to everyone and He is not exclusively Hindu. 

That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission. Paścimera loka saba mūḍha anācāra [Cc. Ādi 10.89] = “The Western peoples, they are mūḍhas and anācāras.” So this mission is paropakāra, to give them knowledge and how to become civilized. This is the mission.

The first step to preach anyone is to – convince people that they are not the body they are soul. BG 2.20

Yes. So this is the platform of ignorance. And people are so much deeply merged into this ignorance, it is very, very difficult to raise them from this ignorance. This is our task. The first business is to convince him that “Your life continues.” Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20].

But it is very difficult for the modern man to understand. They have been so poorly educated that it is very difficult. But this is the first beginning of knowledge. And if we are in the conception that “I am this body and the body is everything,” then we are no better that the cats and dogs. So this is a movement to raise people from the platform of cats’ and dogs’ life. It is little difficult, but we have to do it. That is our mission, Caitanya Mahāprabhu = para-upakāra. They’re living like cats and dogs—do something good for them so that they may live like actual human beings. This is our...Everyone should help this movement, prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā [SB 10.22.35], by sacrificing life, artha, money, and intelligence. So you have moved among the higher circle. 

CAITANYA MAHĀPRABHU WANTED THIS, PARA UPAKĀRA. THEY ARE IN DARKNESS, TAMASI. BRING THEM IN THE LIGHT = TAMASI MĀ JYOTIR GAMAḤ.

This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, para-upakāra. It is not the business of the Indian people to exploit others. The mission is they must be very, very merciful to all outsiders, born in…, out of India. That is India’s mission. Because they are in darkness; they do not know. So instead of… Enlighten them, giving them jyotir gamaḥ-tamasi mā: “Don’t remain in darkness.” So we are imitating them. This is not India’s good fortune. We should not imitate. That is not very good civilization. That is…, this has been described as asuric civilization in the Bhagavad-gītā. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu, they do not know. Anyway, although they do not know, they are accepting now. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so potential that they are accepting. That is upakāra.

Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41]. First of all, make your life successful by Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then do good to others.

THE MODERN CIVILIZATION IS DELUXE EDITION OF ANIMAL LIFE. THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS THE AIM OF LIFE. MODERN EDUCATION IS HOW TO EAT NICELY, HOW TO SLEEP NICELY, HOW TO HAVE SEX NICELY, HOW TO DEFEND NICE. AND THAT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE ANIMALS.

But the things are different. Both the parents and the children, all of them are going again in the cycle of birth and death and wasting the opportunity of getting a human body. This is modern civilization. They do not know this science. They are kept in darkness. This is so-called education. Mūḍho ‘yaṁ nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ paramaṁ mama [Bg. 7.25]. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi… They do not know what is the destination of life. In darkness. There is no education practically. The modern education is how to eat nicely, how to sleep nicely, how to have sex nicely, how to defend nice. And that is the business of the animals. They know how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex, and how to defend. So the extra intelligence of human being is making a royal edition of eating, sleeping, sex and defense. That’s all. What is called? What is called? Deluxe edition. The modern civilization is deluxe edition of animal life. That’s all. Animal-deluxe edition. That’s all. They do not know what is the aim of life.

THEY ARE IN DARKNESS, PUFFED UP BY THEIR FALSE EDUCATION

Because they are in darkness, all rascals, mūḍha. Nābhijānāti. They do not know anything. And they’re puffed up by their false education, false knowledge. Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā. “Huh! I have no ambition.” Vimūḍhātmā. Kartāham iti manyate. They do not know how nature’s law is working. Do they not know?

HUMAN LIFE IS MEANT FOR PAROPAKĀRA. 

So as you are Life Member, you should study our, this philosophy. Life Members, they are given books. And preach this, and save this human… That is the duty. Paropakāra. Human life is meant for paropakāra. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission.

bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra
[Cc. Ādi 9.41]

INDIA’S MISSION IS TO DO PARAUPAKAR (PREACH KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS) TO WESTERENERS WHO ARE IN IGNORANCE.

This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, para-upakāra. It is not the business of the Indian people to exploit others. The mission is they must be very, very merciful to all outsiders, born in…, out of India. That is India’s mission. Because they are in darkness; they do not know. So instead of… Enlighten them, giving them jyotir gamaḥ-tamasi mā: “Don’t remain in darkness.” So we are imitating them. This is not India’s good fortune. We should not imitate. That is not very good civilization. That is…, this has been described as asuric civilization in the Bhagavad-gītā. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu, they do not know. Anyway, although they do not know, they are accepting now. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so potential that they are accepting. That is upakāra. Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted this, para upakāra. They are in darkness, tamasi. Bring them in the light = tamasi mā jyotir gamaḥ.

(SB 4.25.52)
On the western side was a gate named Āsurī. Through that gate King Purañjana used to go to the city of Grāmaka, accompanied by his friend Durmada.

LORD CAITANYA CONSEQUENTLY WANTED THIS KṚṢṆA CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT TO BE PREACHED ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE WORLD SO THAT PEOPLE ADDICTED TO SENSE GRATIFICATION MIGHT BE BENEFITED BY HIS TEACHINGS.

Staying in the west and preaching is Lord Caitanya’s instruction. That is why Bhakti Siddhanta Prabhupada instructed SP to go to west and preach. Srila Prabhupada did exactly what his Guru instructed him. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.5

1. The renounced order of life is never meant for begging or living at the cost of others as a parasite.
2. The first duty of a person in the renounced order of life is to contribute some literary work for the benefit of the human being in order to give him realized direction toward self-realization.
3. Amongst the other duties in the renounced order of life of Śrīla Sanātana, Śrīla Rūpa and the other Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana, the foremost duty discharged by them was to hold learned discourses amongst themselves at Sevākuñja, Vṛndāvana. For the benefit of all in human society, they left behind them immense literatures of transcendental importance.
4. Those who cannot give any contribution should not go to the householders for food, for such mendicants asking bread from the householders are an insult to the highest order. Śukadeva Gosvāmī gave this warning especially for those mendicants who adopt this line of profession to solve their economic problems. Such mendicants are in abundance in the Age of Kali.
5. When a man becomes a mendicant willfully or by circumstances,
   • he must be of firm faith and conviction that the Supreme Lord is the maintainer of all living beings everywhere in the universe. Why, then, would He neglect the maintenance of a surrendered soul who is cent-percent engaged in the service of the Lord? A common master looks to the necessities of his servant, so how much more would the all-powerful, all-opulent Supreme Lord look after the necessities of life for a fully surrendered soul. 
   • He will accept a simple small loincloth without asking anyone to give it in charity.He simply salvages it from the rejected torn cloth thrown in the street.
   • When he is hungry he may go to a magnanimous tree that drops fruits, and when he is thirsty he may drink water from the flowing river. 
   • He does not require to live in a comfortable house but should find a cave in the hills and not be afraid of jungle animals, keeping faith in God, who lives in everyone’s heart
   • He should always live alone, without company, and he must be fearless.
6. According to the regulations of the sanātana-dharma institution, one is trained from the beginning to depend fully on the protection of the Lord in all circumstances. Everyone can become a fearless and honest person if his very existence is purified by discharging the prescribed duty for each and every order of life. 
7. A human being is required to accumulate daivī sampat, or spiritual assets; otherwise, the next alternative, āsurī sampat, or material assets, will overcome him disproportionately, and thus one will be forced into the entanglement of different miseries of the material world.
8. Lord Krsna says Arjuna had divine qualities because he was considering the pros and cons and he was not acting under the influence of anger, false prestige or harshness.
9. Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu. 
10. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.

SB 2.2.45 TRANSLATION: 

Are there no torn clothes lying on the common road? Do the trees, which exist for maintaining others, no longer give alms in charity? Do the rivers, being dried up, no longer supply water to the thirsty? Are the caves of the mountains now closed? Or above all, does the Almighty Lord not protect the fully surrendered souls? Why then do the learned sages go to flatter those who are intoxicated by hard-earned wealth?

CLASS NOTES: 

RENOUNCED ORDER OF LIFE

The renounced order of life is never meant for begging or living at the cost of others as a parasite. The renounced order is meant for contributing something substantial to society and not depending on the earnings of the householders.  In the sanātana-dharma institution, alms-giving to the mendicant is part of a householder’s duty, and it is advised in the scriptures that the householders should treat the mendicants as their family children and should provide them with food, clothing, etc., without being asked. Pseudomendicants, therefore, should not take advantage of the charitable disposition of the faithful householders

RENOUNCED ORDER OF LIFE DUTIES 

The duty of a person in the renounced order of life is to 

1. To contribute some literary work for the benefit of the human being in order to give him realized direction toward self-realization.
2. Example – Rupa Goswami and Sanatana Goswami 

WHO CANNOT GIVE ANY CONTRIBUTION SHOULD NOT GO TO THE HOUSEHOLDERS FOR FOOD,

However, those who cannot give any contribution should not go to the householders for food, for such mendicants asking for bread from the householders are an insult to the highest order. Śukadeva Gosvāmī gave this warning especially for those mendicants who adopt this line of profession to solve their economic problems. Such mendicants are in abundance in the Age of Kali. 

When a man becomes a mendicant willfully or by circumstances

1. He must be of firm faith and conviction that the Supreme Lord is the maintainer of all living beings everywhere in the universe.
2. Why, then, would He neglect the maintenance of a surrendered soul who is cent-percent engaged in the service of the Lord? A common master looks to the necessities of his servant, so how much more would the all-powerful, all-opulent Supreme Lord look after the necessities of life for a fully surrendered soul. 
3. He will accept a simple small loincloth without asking anyone to give it in charity.He simply salvages it from the rejected torn cloth thrown in the street.
4. When he is hungry he may go to a magnanimous tree that drops fruits, and when he is thirsty he may drink water from the flowing river. 
5. He does not require to live in a comfortable house but should find a cave in the hills and not be afraid of jungle animals, keeping faith in God, who lives in everyone’s heart
6. He should always live alone, without company, and he must be fearless.

THE LORD MAY DICTATE TO TIGERS AND OTHER JUNGLE ANIMALS NOT TO DISTURB HIS DEVOTEE.

Haridāsa Ṭhākura, a great devotee of Lord Śrī Caitanya, used to live in such a cave, and by chance a great venomous snake was a copartner of the cave. Some admirer of Ṭhākura Haridāsa who had to visit the Ṭhākura every day feared the snake and suggested that the Ṭhākura leave that place. Because his devotees were afraid of the snake and they were regularly visiting the cave, Ṭhākura Haridāsa agreed to the proposal on their account. But as soon as this was settled, the snake actually crawled out of its hole in the cave before everyone present and left the cave for good. By the dictation of the Lord, who lived also within the heart of the snake, the snake gave preference to Haridāsa and decided to leave the place and not disturb him. So this is a tangible example of how the Lord gives protection to a bona fide devotee like Ṭhākura Haridāsa. 

ACCORDING TO THE REGULATIONS OF THE SANĀTANA-DHARMA INSTITUTION, ONE IS TRAINED FROM THE BEGINNING TO DEPEND FULLY ON THE PROTECTION OF THE LORD IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. 

The path of renunciation is recommended for acceptance by one who is fully accomplished and fully purified in his existence. This stage is described also in the Bhagavad-gītā (16.5) as daivī sampat. A human being is required to accumulate daivī sampat, or spiritual assets; otherwise, the next alternative, āsurī sampat, or material assets, will overcome him disproportionately, and thus one will be forced into the entanglement of different miseries of the material world.

 A SANNYĀSĪ SHOULD ALWAYS LIVE ALONE, WITHOUT COMPANY, AND HE MUST BE FEARLESS.

He should never be afraid of living alone, although he is never alone. The Lord is residing in everyone’s heart, and unless one is purified by the prescribed process, one will feel that he is alone. But a man in the renounced order of life must be purified by the process; thus he will feel the presence of the Lord everywhere and will have nothing to fear (such as being without any company). Everyone can become a fearless and honest person if his very existence is purified by discharging the prescribed duty for each and every order of life. One can become fixed in one’s prescribed duty by faithful aural reception of Vedic instructions and assimilation of the essence of Vedic knowledge by devotional service to the Lord.

A very nice explanation of a self sufficiency of a devotee. A devotee does not have to be a stooge of a rich person and praise them for his existence and maintenance. He knows that the LORD is the supreme maintainer and he is all opulent. Lord promises that he will provides what the devotee lacks and preserves what devotee has.
When the child is 5 years old, the parents take the child to the Guru and they are educated to be renounced, live simply, serving master, hearing the scriptures. Child is the father of the man. What the child learns in the early age they will maintain it throughout their life. If they are taught of simple austerities, life of brahmachari..
Even if they get married they will not become teh slaves of sense gratification.
Krsna tells Arjuna – you were born with transcendental qualities.

(BG 16.5)The transcendental qualities are conducive to liberation, whereas the demoniac qualities make for bondage. Do not worry, O son of Pāṇḍu, for you are born with the divine qualities.

Lord Kṛṣṇa encouraged Arjuna by telling him that he was not born with demoniac qualities. His involvement in the fight was not demoniac, because he was considering the pros and cons. (Demons will not do that) . He was considering whether respectable persons such as Bhīṣma and Droṇa should be killed or not, so he was not acting under the influence of anger, false prestige or harshness. (This is very important point)

Paraupakar – doing good to others, not exploiting others, transcendental qualities of a devotee. Hazrat Ali was fighting a war against enemies. He knocked one person down and he was about to kill him. He spit on his face. He paused and cleaned his face. The enemy asked why dont you kill me. He said, I became angry so I will not kill you. As long as he was doing the duty of pleasing Allah, I will kill, but now my anger came in, and this is not acting as per my duty and he does not kill the enemy. Major difference between a devotee and demon. Devotee is regulated. Demons are not regulated. Therefore what happens to such people, they become entangled in self interested activities, like more and more money and ignore the duties of trying to go back to godhead.

(SB 7.5.31) UNLESS ONE IS A DEVOTEE OF THE LORD, ONE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE EXISTENCE OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD.

Persons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.
The general tendency is to work hard and play hard. Because when you die all is over, there is no God, there is no judgement… 

Prahlāda Mahārāja declined to accept such a seminal guru or take instruction from him. An actual guru is śrotriya, one who has heard or received perfect knowledge through paramparā, the disciplic succession. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja did not recognize a seminal spiritual master. Such spiritual masters are not at all interested in Viṣṇu. Indeed, they are hopeful of material success (bahir-artha-māninaḥ). The word bahiḥ means “external,” artha means “interest,” and mānina means “taking very seriously.” 

Unless one is a devotee of the Lord, one cannot understand the existence of the spiritual world. Gurus, teachers, who are simply interested in this material world are described in this verse as andha, blind. Such blind men may lead many other blind followers without true knowledge of material conditions, but they are not accepted by devotees like Prahlāda Mahārāja. Such blind teachers, being interested in the external, material world, are always bound by the strong ropes of material nature.

Knowledge is accumulation of facts, wisdom is how to use all these facts in service of Krsna. Both knowledge and wisdom have materialistic and spiritualistic interpretation. Unless we know the spiritualistic interpretation, it is very hard.
Example – Doctor quit his job and started a Fedex store. You do not need to go to school to open a store. The whole myth of education is misleading. Most of these things you learn in college, you do not use it in your real life. Real education is learning your language (English).
Materialistic – Wisdom is outsmarting people and coming up with ideas and selling products. That was what was taught.
Real knowledge is knowing Atma Tattva. Wisdom is using that Knowledge in service of Krsna.
Wisdom  Dictionary Definition – There is no mention of God. the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.
Anything without Krsna is half the chicken. 

What we are hearing in last 2 verses is explained in BG also –

BG 4.19
One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.

BG 4.20
Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and independent, he performs no fruitive action, although engaged in all kinds of undertakings.

PROJECT –
What are those qualities that Krsna has that we dont have. If we dont understand the difference between jiva and Bhagavan, we cannot understand the unique position of Krsna and His  transcendence.

Krishna can expand himself infinitely. Yogis can expand ten times. Each expansion of His can be doing entirely different things. These expansions of the Lord  can be present at the same time, engaging in the same place. That is something that no one can emulate.
He has Ashta Gunas besides the siddhis, these are mystic powers no one else has.

Weightless
Infinitely heavy
Ability to be there anywhere
Realize of posses anything and everything
Control whole natural forces
Create the world

Sad aiswarya: 6 opulences in full – knowledge, renunciation, beauty, fame, strength, wealth
Ashta Siddhis – Anima, lagima, mahima,  etc.,
Ashta Gunas:  Kṛṣṇa cannot be polluted by any sinful activity, Kṛṣṇa never dies, Kṛṣṇa never becomes old, Kṛṣṇa is never subject to lamentation, Kṛṣṇa is never hungry, and He is never thirsty. Whatever He desires is perfectly lawful, and whatever He decides cannot be changed by anyone. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.4

1. The necessities of life for the protection and comfort of the body must not be unnecessarily increased. Human energy is spoiled in a vain search after such illusory happiness.
2. Animals maintain healthy life even without the intelligence to build big houses & furniture. 
3. The reserve energy of human life, which is far superior to that of animals, should simply be utilized for self-realization. 
4. The advancement of human civilization must be towards the goal of establishing our lost relationship with God, which is not possible in any form of life other than the human. 
5. Self-complacence with a polished type of animal civilization geared to sense gratification is delusion, and such a “civilization” is not worthy of the name. In pursuit of such false activities, a human being is in the clutches of māyā, or illusion.
6. Great sages and saints in the days of yore were not living in palatial buildings furnished with good furniture and so-called amenities of life. They used to live in huts and groves and sit on the flat ground, and yet they have left immense treasures of high knowledge with all perfection.
7. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī were high-ranking ministers of state, but they were able to leave behind them immense writings on transcendental knowledge while residing only for one night underneath one tree.
8. So-called comforts of life are not actually helpful for progressive civilization; rather, they are detrimental to such progressive life. 
9. In the system of sanātana-dharma, of four divisions of social life and four orders of progressive realization, there are ample opportunities and sufficient directions for a happy termination of the progressive life, and the sincere followers are advised therein to accept a voluntary life of renunciation in order to achieve the desired goal of life
10. If one is not accustomed to abiding by the life of renunciation and self-abnegation from the beginning, one should try to get into the habit at a later stage of life as recommended by Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and that will help one to achieve the desired success. (Once the responsibilities in Grihastha Ashrama are done, one is strongly recommended to downsize)
11. The transcendentalist is specifically warned herewith to be fixed in mind, so that even if there is difficulty in plain living and high thinking he will not budge even an inch from his stark determination.
12.  For a transcendentalist, it is a suicidal policy to be intimately in touch with the sense gratifiers of the world, because such a policy will frustrate the ultimate gain of life.

SB 2.2.4 TRANSLATION: 
When there are ample earthly flats to lie on, what is the necessity of cots and beds? When one can use his own arms, what is the necessity of a pillow? When one can use the palms of his hands, what is the necessity of varieties of utensils? When there is ample covering or the skins of trees, what is the necessity of clothing?

CLASS NOTES: 
THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE FOR THE PROTECTION AND COMFORT OF THE BODY MUST NOT BE UNNECESSARILY INCREASED.Human energy is spoiled in a vain search after such illusory happiness. 

ANIMALS MAINTAIN HEALTHY LIFE EVEN WITHOUT BEDS, BIG HOUSES & FURNITURE

If we make a study of the general life of the animals, we can see that they have no intelligence for building big houses, furniture, and other household paraphernalia, and yet they maintain a healthy life by lying down on the open land. They do not know how to cook or prepare foodstuff, yet they still live healthy lives more easily than human being.  

THE RESERVE ENERGY OF HUMAN LIFE, WHICH IS FAR SUPERIOR TO THAT OF ANIMALS, SHOULD SIMPLY BE UTILIZED FOR SELF-REALIZATION. 
This does not mean that human civilization should revert to animal life or that the human being should live naked in the jungles without any culture, education and sense of morality. An intelligent human cannot live the life of an animal; rather, man should try to utilize his intelligence in arts and science, poetry, and philosophy. In such a way he can further the progressive march of human civilization.

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION MUST BE TOWARDS THE GOAL OF ESTABLISHING OUR LOST RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, WHICH IS NOT POSSIBLE IN ANY FORM OF LIFE OTHER THAN THE HUMAN. 

One must realize the nullity of the material phenomenon, considering it a passing phantasmagoria, and must endeavor to make a solution to the miseries of life. Self-complacence with a polished type of animal civilization geared to sense gratification is delusion, and such a “civilization” is not worthy of the name. In pursuit of such false activities, a human being is in the clutches of māyā, or illusion.

I am this body, I am from North India, we beat our wife this is our culture… This is all illusion.  Illusory false knowledge leads you to deluded stage. One time there was an announcement that water is changing on a particular date. Everyone drank the water and one guy did not. Every one became insane and except him. He is feeling lonely as he is left out. He also drinks water becomes insane and joins them.  This is called peer pressure.  This happens with the children in School. We are all living in a stage of phantasmagoria… just like a magician cuts a man and the man is split into two and he comes back as normal and jumps up and down. 
Great sages and saints in the days of yore were not living in palatial buildings furnished with good furniture and so-called amenities of life. They used to live in huts and groves and sit on the flat ground, and yet they have left immense treasures of high knowledge with all perfectionŚrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī were high-ranking ministers of state, but they were able to leave behind them immense writings on transcendental knowledge while residing only for one night underneath one tree. They did not live even two nights under the same tree, and what to speak of well-furnished rooms with modern amenities. And still they were able to give us most important literatures of self-realization. So-called comforts of life are not actually helpful for progressive civilization; rather, they are detrimental to such progressive life. 

In the system of sanātana-dharma, of four divisions of social life and four orders of progressive realization, there are ample opportunities and sufficient directions for a happy termination of the progressive life, and the sincere followers are advised therein to accept a voluntary life of renunciation in order to achieve the desired goal of life. If one is not accustomed to abiding by the life of renunciation and self-abnegation from the beginning, one should try to get into the habit at a later stage of life as recommended by Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and that will help one to achieve the desired success.
This theme is coming back over and over again in this section of SB and BG and also in Canto 1 – That is “Simple living, Higher Thinking”. “complicated Living , lower thinking”. There was a video made in Matchless gifts shop, what is Krsna Consciousness – Although KC – sitting on floor, eating prasadam, sleeping on the floor, High level although living on the low level… Materialists they live on high level but they are living low level. Amenities complicate our life. They require maintenance. People are inspired to buy things that they do not need. The promise of improved or increased sense gratification convinces them to buy all these things.
SP had one chair, one table and on the table there was deity of Chaitanya. There are two rooms, one room he had books and sit on a mat to meet people and write stuff. Another room there was a cot one table and one chair. That is how simple he lived. Books, few clothes, plate, glass.. He set an example of how to live.

He gives the example of Sanatana Goswami and Rupa Goswami, they gave everything up and lived like paupers in Vrindavan, not even sleeping under one tree for more than couple days. They were sent to Vrindavan to excavate the places of past times and to write down the past times of the lord.

There is a philosophy in ancient Greece called stoicism –  the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint. Patience forbearance, endurance, acceptance, perturbality, calmness, coolness, solidness, are some words related to Stoicism. Stoicism is a school of philosophy that hails from ancient Greece and Rome in the early parts of the 3rd century, BC. It is a philosophy of life that maximizes positive emotions, reduces negative emotions, and helps individuals to hone their virtues of character.

It talks about acceptance and patience and has elements of mundane goodness. But no mention of Krsna. It is a negative way of doing things.

Sridhara Kolavecha – Brahmana, associate of Caitanya MahaPrabhu. He would sell fruits, cups, and plates made from banana leaves. He hardly made 5 anas, half of what he made every day he would donate to worship Ganga Devi. The other half he would live with it. He had only one cloth. He would bathe every day and wear the washed dhoti. He had one broken iron pot and put water in it. Everyday Lord Caitanya would come to see him, he would steal from him and drink water from the pot. Every time he sees the sankirtan party of the lord he would jump and dance in ecstasy.

If you have a car and a big house and amenities, you need to use them in the service of Krsna under the guidance of the spiritual master – siksha and diksha gurus.

Maharaj started out as a Brahmacari – 22 yrs old. I was sleeping on the floor right infornt of the door of the toilet. I had one or 2 dotis, torn shirt, broken glasses string on one side. When I got married – car, apartment, pots and pans, second child – bigger apartment. To move in we could fit in everything in one car. 3rd child, moved in with a truck, 4th child came, bigger home, Company, Bigger home,

That is what material life is – we cannot detach. When kids grow big you can downsize and then sleep in one corner or in front of the bathroom. There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. Wisdom how to use knowledge for the positive effect. You do not get knowledge by accumulating facts. Unless you regularly hear from SB and BG and go out on sankirtan you cannot get wisdom. 
SB 2.2.3
The transcendentalist is specifically warned herewith to be fixed in mind, so that even if there is difficulty in plain living and high thinking he will not budge even an inch from his stark determination. For a transcendentalist, it is a suicidal policy to be intimately in touch with the sense gratifiers of the world, because such a policy will frustrate the ultimate gain of life.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī met Mahārāja Parīkṣit when the latter felt a necessity for such a meeting. It is the duty of a transcendentalist to help persons who desire real salvation and to support the cause of salvation. One might note that Śukadeva Gosvāmī never met Mahārāja Parīkṣit while he was ruling as a great king. For a transcendentalist, the mode of activities is explained in the next śloka.