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So here is Krishna. From sastric evidences, by His opulences, by His power... BecauseBhagavan means full of six opulences. Aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya yasasah sriyah(Visnu Purana 6.5.47). He must be the richest. He must be the strongest. He must bethe most famous. He must be the most beautiful. He must be the great renouncer. Inthis way, that is the definition of God. So that definition is confirmed by Lord Brahma:isvarah paramah Krishnah [Bs. 5.1]. Isvara means controller. Unless one is powerful,how he can control? So every one of us is little, a small controller. Somebody controlsin his office. Somebody controls in his family life. Somebody controls a few factories.There are controllers. But nobody can say that "I am the supreme controller." That isnot possible. The supreme controller is Krishna.So this Krishna consciousness movement means we are trying link up our connectionwith the supreme controller. We do not wish to become the controller. We want to becontrolled—but by the supreme controller, not by others. That is our proposition. Justlike generally, one who is in service, he hankers after government service. Because it isnatural conclusion that "If I have to serve somebody, why a petty merchant? Why nottake government service?" So that is our proposition, that we have to serve. Wecannot do but serve. Any one of us. That is our constitutional position. Any one of us,we are sitting here, we are servant. Every one of us is servant. So our proposition isthat you are servant in any case. Why not become servant of God? That is ourproposition. That is Krishna consciousness movement.So kamadinam kati na katidha palita durnidesah. We are servant of our senses, kamakrodha-moha-matsarya,all these. By, dictated by our lusty desires, we do anythingwhich is abominable. Tesam kati na katidha palita durnidesah. So we are servant,everyone. Therefore, Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, jivera svarupa haya nitya-Krishnadasa[Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. Our real constitutional position is that we are eternalservant of God, Krishna. That is our position. But in this material condition of life, everyone of us is trying to become the master. That is the struggle for existence. Everyone istrying: "I shall become the master. I shall become the Supreme." But our position isservant. So this is called illusion. I am not master. I am servant. But I am trying tobecome master artificially. That is struggle for existence. And mukti means, liberationmeans, when you give up this wrong idea that "I am master," and try to become theservant of the Supreme. That is called liberation. Liberation does not mean that afterliberation we'll have a big, gigantic form or so many hands, so many legs. Liberationmeans to become liberated from the wrong consciousness. That is liberation. Thewrong consciousness is that "I am master." So we have to change this consciousness.That is Krishna consciousness movement. One has to understand thoroughly that he'snot master. He's servant. He's completely dependent on the supreme will. If we do notsurrender unto the supreme will, then we have to surrender unto the will of maya. Wehave to remain a servant. If we don't..., reject service, or servitude of the Supreme6 www.folknet.in
Lord, then we have to become the servant of the senses. That is maya. Actually, that isgoing on. The whole world is serving different types of senses. Senses are one, thesame, but they have got different desires. So they are servant of different desires.Now the Krishna consciousness movement is... It is not manufactured by us. We get itfrom Bhagavad-gita: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66].Krishna says that "You give up all these nonsense desires. You surrender unto Me."That is the whole purpose of Bhagavad-gita. We are dictated by different types ofdesires, which is dictated by maya, and we want to become master falsely. This iscalled illusion. This is called maya.Actually, you are not master. How we can become master? Because we may be veryscientifically advanced. We may manufacture very wonderful machine and weapon,but after all, we are subjected to the rules of maya: janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkhadosanudarsanam[Bg. 13.9]. You cannot get out of these four principles of maya'smachinery janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi. Therefore the sane man, who is actually learned,he surrenders to Krishna. Bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate [Bg.7.19]. Actually when one becomes wise, he surrenders to Krishna. Jnanavan mamprapadyate. Otherwise, who is Krishna? "I am as good as Krishna. I am God." That ismaya. That is not actually knowledge. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said, ye 'nye'ravindaksa vimukta-maninah. They are thinking that they have become liberated,become Narayana, or God. Maninah, they are thinking like that. Actually, they are not,because they're subjected to the rules of the material nature. They cannot get out ofthese clutches. Who can get out of these clutches? Mam eva ye prapadyante. Krishnasays, "Anyone who surrenders unto Me..."daivi hy esa gunamayimama maya duratyayamam eva ye prapadyantemayam etam taranti te[Bg. 7.14]So therefore this Krishna consciousness movement is very pious movement, the most,the most glorious welfare activities. And we are preaching this movement all over theworld. Just to place Krishna... Our only ambition is that to place Krishna as theSupreme Personality of Godhead. That is our proposition. We don't want to becomeKrishna, but we want to become the most obedient servant of Krishna. That is ourproposition. So we invite everyone, from all parts of the world, and they are coming,they are joining. So in India Krishna appeared. India has got a special advantage tounderstand Krishna, and the Indians neglect it. That's a great misfortune, but we7 www.folknet.in
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