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mean it’s going to happen. So that means we are supposed to make the endeavor.That’s the whole point.As we mentioned in this grammatical example, the soul is connected to the wholeprocess of the interaction of the nouns by being connected to the verb. The soul isnot the controller, the soul is not the enjoyer, the soul is not the field of activity, it’snot the place of the activity, it’s not the result of the activity, it’s not the cause of theactivity, and the action itself is not us either. So that means the soul is not any of thenouns or verbs. But its connection with this process is to assist the verb in theinteraction of the nouns. So that is our position. So that means action is important.So without action nothing will happen. But that’s spiritual action. It’s materialinaction, it’s spiritual action.So that’s then the position, it’s by an activity that you are actually going toaccomplish this consciousness. Because you are going to do it. You can say I amservant of Krsna, but if you just stand there, the pots don’t get washed, so it’s nicethat you identified as Krsna’s servant, that’s good, but that’s called sambandha. Butthere service is called abhideya. So until you get in there and wash those pots it’s notabhideya. Thinking I am servant of Krsna is preliminaries to, but is not actually theactivity.Mother Yasoda is attracted to Krsna as a child, she loves Him as a child, but itdoesn’t stop there, she performs service constantly that Krsna is her child. There isnot a time when she is not doing that. So these others are experiences of thatattraction and love for Krsna, but it’s always expressed. The gopis are attracted byKrsna’s flute, they think of Him in their love for Him, then having gotten fromsambandha to prayojana, from thinking to feeling, then willing they go out to therasa dance. The gopis then they think, how cute is Krsna, and then they’ll go overand say something, do something, feed him. So in other words, these things are theimpetus, the uddipana, which makes us want to do service. So in the bhava thevibhava aspect then generates this interest based on the natural relationship. But it’sstill action is the essential principle.So the difficulty is due to ignorance we tend to think that by doing nothingeverything is going to happen nicely. I’ll just sit here and I will enjoy. I’ll sit here, donothing, I will control everything, and I will sit here and do nothing and enjoyeverything. When we are dealing with dead matter, generally we won’t agree withthis. We’ll say, well, that won’t get you the money, that won’t get you this and that.True. But we apply this very, very nicely in relationships. I’ll just sit here and theother party in the relationship is going to actually do everything. So this is then abreakdown. This is where the illusion comes in.It’s because when it comes to things then we can identify very nicely as thecontroller and enjoyer, because the brick doesn’t give us lip, we picked it up wrong,dropped it, broke off a corner, it doesn’t not talk to us for three days. So thereforethen we go on in our ignorance, and only if we think, well, that was stupid, then we’llslowly, because we want the brick to look nice, so we won’t drop it. But it’s all about