Vedanta Psychology - Suhotra Maharaja Archives

So that’s the first stage. So that then is what everybody can be involved in. Andthat’s good and it’s perfect. But if we are going to say that that’s it, then Hamsaavatarais going to say, then you are a fool. Because He is already calling theKumaras a fool, and they are liberated souls. Because they are presenting this field ofactivities of being more important than it is, that it’s there is the mind and there isthe senses, the mind is entering the senses by seeing everything, and then when itfinds something interesting, then the senses enter the mind. So how do we breakthis, because this combination of the senses and mind is what causes materialconditioning, which is true.But at the same time, He is pointing out, you are taking this as the prominentelement. No. It’s Krsna consciousness is the prominent element. Understanding thatthe mind and the senses, their combination, if we connect that to Krsna, that’s thenever forget Krsna part. But the most important of these two is always remember. Sothat you are trying to see everything in relationship to the Lord, that’s the actualKrsna conscious platform.So that’s why when we start with this simplest form, the result’s for Krsna, we arejust thinking of Krsna and the things done for Him. So even though it’s in a verysimple form, it’s actually connected with the ultimate aspect. So now as we aresimple this will work very nicely. The difficulty comes as we become moresophisticated in Krsna consciousness.In the beginning we joined, it doesn’t matter how sophisticated you were beforejoining, we you joined you will be very simple. But as we become comfortable inspiritual life, then the tendency is your natural sophistication, in other words, what isyour conditioned nature, what are the elements of it, will naturally start to becomemanifest, not in a bad way necessarily, but it just means now in practice you canengage more elements of body, mind, and words. So sophisticated will develop.Now the problem is in developing this sophistication do you connect thatsophistication to Krsna or not? Because the very sophisticated person to use the verysimple thing, well, it’s just, the result’s for Krsna, it’s all for Krsna. That’s nice. Buthow much of their results in all the activities they are doing are connected to Krsna?That’s where then the problem comes in.The new devotee all he does is chant, take prasada, and wash pots. That’s it.There is nothing else in his mind. So therefore it works very nicely. But as now hisjob and his car, and whether we buy the Ferrari or the Lamborghini, that then issophistication. How is that connected to Krsna? And just say, oh, the results are forKrsna. He says, you don’t drive a Ferrari down the road at 200km/h and call it forKrsna, unless you got a really important meeting that you got to be there in fiveminutes, then it’s for Krsna. No, this is for your mundane sophistication. How are youconnecting that to Krsna? Not that it can’t be. That’s fine. But it has to be connected.So now this is where then Hamsa-avatara is saying, now you are an idiot. Becausenow you are simplifying things and putting yourself as the center, when it’s not you