Bhagavad Gita Class | June 18, 2026

[00:00:00]J bra J bra Jud guru Guru Jila Guru Today narcad Maharaj key Sri Praupad key Gorp Manande Har Krishna everybody now we're going to have a Bhagodita class the dress will open again at 8:00 for the night outfit Har Krishna Yeah.

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[00:05:26]Hearted prau pada.

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[00:07:04]Um, I think it's okay. Har Krishna. Har Krishna Har Krishna um I welcome you all for our Bhagwat Gita class and I'm very grateful for this opportunity to speak today on chapter 13th verse number 34. So usually I was told that people um the speaker repeats the verses but I would prefer that if you know you have verse open so that after I'm done repeating you can also recite it after me.

[00:07:39]It's 13.34.

[00:07:44]Yeah.

[00:07:55]imami.

[00:08:09]You like to repeat?

[00:08:26]Praashi loca As Prakashi illuminates a kaha one, Krishnam the whole locom universe, Kim this, Ravi son, Chaitram this body, Shaitri the soul, Tata. Similarly Krishnam all praashi illuminates Bharata. Oh son of Bharata.

[00:09:31]Oh son of Bharata as the sun alone illuminates all this universe. So does the living entity one within the body illuminate the entire body by consciousness. Purut. Anyone would like to read the food.

[00:10:35]it. Okay. Uh thus consciousness is the proof of the presence of the soul as the sunshine or light is the proof of the presence of the sun. When the soul is present in the body, there is consciousness all over the body. And as soon as the soul has passed from the body, there is no more consciousness.

[00:10:58]This can be easily understood by any intelligent man or woman. Therefore, consciousness is not a product of combinations of matter. It is a symptom of the living entity. The consciousness of the living entity although the supreme consciousness is not supreme because the consciousness of one particular body does not share that of another body. But the super soul which is situated in all bodies is the friend of the individual soul and is conscious of all bodies. That is the difference between supreme consciousness and the individual consciousness.

[00:11:42]Har Krishna.

[00:11:43]>> Thank you.

[00:11:45]So um here propad makes a very interesting point that when the soul is present in the body there is consciousness all over the body and as soon as the soul has passed from the body there is no more consciousness. This can be easily understood by any intelligent man. So consciousness is not a product of combination of matter. A lot of times doctors when they define how you know how would you define death they would say oh the heart has stopped beating the brain has stopped functioning right you cannot breathe now or some other combinations of matter but that is not true because you can if the heart is not brea if the heart is not beating then you can do heart transplant right you can do brain transplant you can artificially pump uh oxygen carbon dioxide you can do all of that yet you cannot revive the living entity. You cannot revive the person who has just passed away. Um although we have um we have advanced science now in comparison to previous um decades but still no doctor is able to um protect or save the lives of their patient even by one second. No one is able to live or no they are they cannot make someone live one second extra. And that is how we know that life and death no one else can protect us. Only one person can protect us. You know who's always been with us. Paratma who's always there with the soul. Prad Maharaj gives an example that oh Lord I have no other protector other than you. How do I know it? Because if there was any other protector then in the presence of parents in the presence of physicians children would not die.

[00:13:33]We have no other protector. Right? If there was any other protector in the presence like parents are present, physician is present, still patients die because there is no other protector apart from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one else can save us. That's why even in third kanto um when the living entity is offering prayers from the womb, it's one of my favorite prayers. The living entity prays to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The living entity doesn't pray to um the doctors outside. Oh doctor, please save me. I'm suffering. Please take me out.

[00:14:07]No, the soul inside has now realized the reality the truth of life. And that's why the soul renders prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead because there is no other protector apart from Krishna.

[00:14:23]In fact, Shilah Bhakti Siddhan Saraswati Takur Praad used to say that um if you are sick, you should not go to see a physician.

[00:14:33]So there's a very famous example or joke that uh was prevalent in those times that um if you have a cold you know it will naturally go away in one week but if you see a physician it will go away in 7 days.

[00:14:49]It's the same thing, right? It's the same thing. So and no one can actually heal you. If you have fever, you will have fever for seven days. Whatever medicines you take, high drugs, whatever is available in the market, you will still have that fever for 7 days.

[00:15:06]Yes, there is change in intensity that you will feel better for like 30 minutes and then again you'll feel the symptoms coming back to you. So there is no other protector. There is only Krishna. No physician even parents cannot protect us.

[00:15:23]So we must surrender to Krishna. Now the question often arises how do we do that?

[00:15:30]How how to surrender to Krishna? How to attract Krishna's heart?

[00:15:35]And um it's so easy that even children like Dhuv Maharaj and Palad Maharaj were able to do it.

[00:15:43]Bhi is not very complicated to attract Supreme Personality of Godhead's heart.

[00:15:50]Krishna's heart is not difficult at all because even children like Dhuv Maharaj and Prolad Maharaj were able to do it.

[00:15:58]What special quality they had we will discuss that because um recently I was reading the prayers of Prolad Maharaj and I found it really interesting and then it I I kind of draw drew some parallels between the mood of Prolad Maharaj and the mood of Rupow Swami. So narimala we all know narim appeared to protect to protect prolad maharaj now narima avtar is very adha you know it's very special because narimv is called avad who here knows what is the meaning of avad like nitanand prau is a dhuta what is the meaning of avad Yeah, he acts outside the social norms like Nitanand Prahu would do. So why is Naradev called Avada? Any guesses? there don't be scared to like you know just answer there can be right wrong answers but then why do you think narimv is called avad avatar but then so it's matar is fish right so what is something that narim is acting out of social norms was angry sorry He killed someone's father but so did Persuam kill so many chhatria kings right someone's brother father what is special about narimv it's >> he jumped out of pillar >> but also vadev jumped out of brahma's nose I think that is more um and lord Actually Achare gave a very interesting commentary. They say that why is Narima Aaduta? Because whenever Supreme Personality of Godhead appears, he waits for all the demigods to assemble and to worship him. But in Narimv's case, everyone was so scared. And they were standing really distant and no one wanted to come even you know like to worship narimv. So what narimv did he um killed hak kashipu and he is another name narimv has is antali that he took out the intestines and he garlanded himself because no one was coming forward to garland him. So he acted out of social norms. He killed hanakashpu and garlanded himself. No one was coming to perform um abhishek. So he drank hir kashpu's blood and then did his own abishek. So that is why he's called as a dhuta antmali. That is why narim is called antali. Someone who garlands himself. No. So whenever Krishna appears whenever the supreme personality of godhead appears all the demigods rush vade persuaram everyone rushes to garland them and to perform arati and abhishek. But in case of narim they were so scared that no one could come that >> except Prolad. Yeah we we are going to understand why Prolad was able to do and what attracted Narim's heart. So Naraduni in seventh kanto he says that dasam that everyone was standing far.

[00:19:53]Why? Because narim is sudas very difficult to approach.

[00:19:59]He's very difficult to approach. So all the demigods no one was showing up. No one was had the courage to approach narimv.

[00:20:08]How was such Lord attracted to Prolad?

[00:20:11]What one quality? What what is the quality that Prolad Maharaj had? Now we are going to discuss that because we ultimately want to approach Krishna, right? And we want to know what is that one quality that makes it easy for us to approach Lord.

[00:20:27]That quality is mentioned um in Prolad Maharaj by his own prayers when he renders his prayers. Um, one quality that you see throughout in in a lot of Vishnavas is humility.

[00:20:43]Humility.

[00:20:45]What is the meaning of humility?

[00:20:47]When you say someone is humble or someone has humility, what is the meaning of humility?

[00:21:00]They accept everything ordained by the Lord. What else?

[00:21:08]Yeah. Not expecting respect from others but respecting others.

[00:21:15]Yeah. No false ego.

[00:21:18]But all of that is a result of humility.

[00:21:21]Having no false ego is a result of humility. Respecting others is a result of humility. Right? What actually is the quality? What brings that quality of humility is Not feeling qualified.

[00:21:35]>> Not feeling qualified. Exactly. To understand that you are completely helpless and hopeless in this material world without Krishna.

[00:21:46]And that is what you see in Prolad Maharaj's prayers when no one was able to approach Narimv.

[00:21:53]So Brahma kind of pushes Prolad forward that because Narimv appeared for you. So you now go and pacify narimv.

[00:22:03]So the first prayer that Praad Maharaj offers is that how is it possible for me who have been born in a family of assuras to offer suitable prayers to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even until now all the demigods headed by Lord Brahma and all saintly persons could not satisfy the Lord by streams of excellent word.

[00:22:45]Although such persons are very qualified being in the mode of goodness then what is to be said of me I am not at all qualified.

[00:22:55]So Prolad Maharaj he was one of the Mahajans right he was a disciple of Naraduni he is so free from envy that he's actually rendering a prayer that may everyone be happy although his own father is trying to kill him yet he's rendering a prayer that may everyone be happy may everyone be non envious of each other he's so qualified but what is he doing despite having so many qualifications he's focusing on one disqualification that he has that I am born in the family of assuras harra jati and in material world despite having so many qualif disqualifications we try to focus on one qualification if at all we have it that two we don't fully possess right sometimes people are like oh I'm very honest that is the only good qualification that I But you have so many disqualifications.

[00:23:57]The mood of pure devotey is completely different. Prolad Maharaj had so many qualifications but he what is he presenting in front of Lord is his disqualification that I am not at all qualified.

[00:24:15]The second pillar we are going to discuss but then I want to draw some parallels um between Prolad Maharaj's prayers and the prayers of uh Rup and Sanatan Gowami when they meet Chhatananya Maha Prabhu it's really nice because Rup and Sanatan Gowami they had to serve a Muslim king why because that Muslim king said that if you will not serve me I will kill all the brahmanas of your village I will kill all the brahmanas. And that is why Rup and Sanatan Gowami started serving Hussein Sha.

[00:24:54]And when they saw Maha Prabhu, what prayers they are rendering is that oh sir, we belong to the lowest class of men.

[00:25:13]and our associates and employment are also of the lowest type. Therefore, we cannot introduce ourselves to you. We feel very much ashamed standing here before you.

[00:25:28]The next prayer that they say it's one level and now they go deeper. They are like Adamita Amidui that we are we too are millions and millions of times inferior to Jagay and Madai.

[00:25:49]We are more degraded, fallen and sulfun than they were.

[00:25:55]And there are more prayers.

[00:26:06]Actually, we belong to the cast of meateers because we are servants of meateers.

[00:26:12]Indeed, our activities are exactly like those of the meateers because we always associate with such people. We are inical towards the cows and brahmanas and they had to serve nawab hussein sha to protect brahmanas.

[00:26:30]They weren't serving him out of greed out of um you know heavy packages that we you know see people no they weren't serving Nawab Hussein out of greed they were serving Nab Hussein to protect other brahmanas and what is Mahaprabu's reply to this is amazing and it is something that I often repeat in my lectures Maha Prabhu replies after hearing their prayers he says That my dear Sakara Malik from this day your names will be changed to Shilah Rup and Shri Sanatan Gowami. Now please abandon your humility for my heart is breaking to see you so humble.

[00:27:26]Right? We take a lot of pride in calling ourselves rupanoga right that we follow the mood of rupow swami that's what rupanoggas right we follow rupow swami not physically but we follow his mood right we take a lot of pride in calling ourselves rupanoga but this is the actual mood of rub gowami and I often reply I often repeat it in my lectures that the Humility of Rupam and Sanatan Gowami broke Chetananya Maha Prabhu's heart. But our lack of humility breaks Chetananya Maha Prabhu's heart.

[00:28:08]Their humility broke his heart. But imagine if Chatan Mahaprau is watching you like you know fighting with Vnavas and our lack of humility breaks his heart every second.

[00:28:21]So we should be ashamed before calling ourselves rupanugas if we are actually not following the mood of rupow swami.

[00:28:30]There's a very close associate of Chetanam Maha Prabhu in his very famous book prevat jagdan pandit he says that saying that gorami gorami molina they're just saying chhattanam prabhu is mine or I am chhattananya maha prabhu's these words don't matter but do you actually follow chhattananya prabu's mood that is what matters I can come to you and I can say oh I love you but But I don't do anything to fix my relationship with you. Then do I actually love you?

[00:29:07]Say a person beats his wife every day and then he's like, "Oh, I love you so much." And he still beats his wife.

[00:29:14]Will you someone in their sane mind will conclude that this person actually loves his wife? No. He's not doing anything to correct that action.

[00:29:24]So similarly every day by words we try to convince Krishna oh you are my worshippable lord but are we doing anything about it are we prioritizing him no usually like if I'm speaking about myself not attacking anyone here so we are not doing anything to prioritize him and Krishna is not a difficult person to please he is not a difficult person to You don't need any qualification. You just need bacti.

[00:29:58]You just need bacti. You just need little bit of love. That's all.

[00:30:05]When Putina wanted to kill Krishna, you know um the achar comment that Krishna sometimes he mostly he looks at the intention but Putna wanted she had the whole intention. And she wholeheartedly wanted to kill Krishna. But when she came to kill Krishna, Krishna just saw two things. That she is wearing the clothes of Rajasis and she's dared to offer him something.

[00:30:34]Who's more merciful than Krishna? No one. I was having a discussion with Narimaru Prau that imagine if someone want tried to kill your children and then comes and says sorry I'll never do it again.

[00:30:49]Will you be able to forgive him? Never.

[00:30:52]Right? You would want to shoot kill that person. But Indra tried to kill all the vajasis. The cows, the parents, Krishna's siblings, Krishna's friends, Krishna's girlfriends, everyone.

[00:31:05]But when Indra asked for forgiveness, Krishna was like, "Okay, never do it again."

[00:31:10]So quick to forgive. Right? Krishna is not a difficult person to please. He's very simple. He just needs you to act in a humble way. That's all.

[00:31:23]By is not difficult at all. If five year old kid like Duv Maharaj and Prolad Maharaj can do it, anyone can do it.

[00:31:31]We just complicate our own situation.

[00:31:35]We want to hold on to Krishna but we don't want to let go hold let go of matter.

[00:31:43]Right? We want to we want Krishna but we also want our relatives. We want to be we want to have equal attachments towards everyone.

[00:31:53]That is not fair.

[00:31:56]So it's so simple like look at Rup and Sonatan Gowami's mood. They're so humble. They they never once said oh we did this to protect Brahmanas.

[00:32:10]No, we we are Malayas because we have been serving Malaas. Although they were reading Bhagwatam every day, right? They were reading, they were chanting, they created another Vawan.

[00:32:24]They were constantly remembering the Lord yet they were like we are Malayas.

[00:32:33]So that is what attracts the heart of Supreme Personality of God. It humility.

[00:32:37]It's that simple.

[00:32:40]having that humility.

[00:32:47]So going back to Pratad Maharaj's prayers, the first pillar of humility was that it despite he had so many qualifications, he focused on one disqualification that he had and the other prayer was um yeah when he says that oh my lord oh supreme because I was born in a family full of hellish material qualities of passion and ignorance what is my position?

[00:33:14]And what is to be said of your causeless mercy which was never offered even to Brahma, Lord Shiva or the goddess of fortune Lakshmi? You never put your lotus hand upon their heads but you have put it upon mine.

[00:33:29]What is the second qualification? That he acknowledges the fact you know he's not being um he's not completely disregarding that he doesn't have any qualities.

[00:33:42]He's saying I have qualities but it is because of your causeless mercy that I have qualities.

[00:33:48]So what are the two pillars of humility is first despite having many qualifications you focus on one disqualification and you try to improve it and second is that even if you have some qualification you kind of direct it to supreme personality of godhead or his devotees. It is because of them I'm like this.

[00:34:11]It is because of them I'm like this.

[00:34:14]Once Shilap Praad um was one one of his disciples was telling him oh praad you are so great you opened 108 more than 100 temples around the world right your spiritual master wasn't able to open like he sent some disciples but he wasn't able to open that so you are I think you are greater than your spiritual master and Shilapra replied he said the place where I wasn't even able able to make one wish there in India that place my spiritual master opened 64 matas. So the place where I completely failed there he had a huge army of devotees. So no I'm not greater than my spiritual master.

[00:35:04]So that's what attracts supreme personality of God in his heart. Nothing else nothing else can attract his heart.

[00:35:11]There's a prayer by Rub Gowami and I really like it. Um um let me see if I can find it and like when I'm discussing this verse every time that prayer is coming to my mind but I want to find the whole uh prayer Row Swami writes mentions in Yeah. Yes.

[00:35:33]In his book he says Madhava that there was this one hunter who became a devotey. So what acharan what pious activities he did right from a hunter you cannot expect any pious activities. He's killing people he's killing animals. So he had no pious activities what is dhua's age nothing or what is vidya gajendra what is the vidya what is the um academia of gajendra did he go to college to study all these bacti shastra and then he became a devotey no kubaya kimnam what was kubja kubja's root or was she famous no she wasn't even beautiful kim sudha What was Sudhama's wealth? He had no wealth.

[00:36:44]What was Vidur's wamsha? Did he belong to a Brahman family? No. He was son of a maid, right? He had no proper wamsha.

[00:36:57]What was courage? He was imprisoned by his own son.

[00:37:02]So all of this he's saying because Krishna doesn't care about all of this.

[00:37:09]Only one thing you can satisfy Krishna with no other quality is required Madhava.

[00:37:19]He's biomad.

[00:37:22]He just likes your bacti.

[00:37:30]Okay.

[00:37:31]So that is the mood of Prolad Maharaj and that is the mood of um all our acharas that was shap mood having that humble heart. What is the best place to store ice cream in?

[00:37:47]Freezer, right? What will happen if you leave ice cream outside in the sun?

[00:37:53]What?

[00:37:56]It will melt, right? It will go bad, right? Similarly, there's a proper environment for our bacti, right? Like for plants, you need proper environment. If it's too cold, the plants will die. If it's too hot, the plants will die. What is the perfect environment for that bacti creeper is humility in your heart.

[00:38:23]That is like a freezer which acts for your ice cream. That is like the perfect environmental condition for your pty creeper, for your plant of bakti. If you don't have that humility, then there is no pakti. Then we shouldn't call ourselves rupanogas because we are not following the mood of shilar rupami.

[00:38:44]We are not following the mood of shria praupad.

[00:38:47]It is that simple.

[00:38:50]And Krishna is that simple.

[00:38:54]Krishna is that simple. There's one temple in Kipuram.

[00:38:58]The name of that temple is uh it was earlier Vishnu but now the name has changed. What happened? There was this like we have six gowamis in south India they have 12 alvwars like 12 alvwar.

[00:39:13]So one of them is tirumal shahi alwar and thumal shahi alwar had a servant.

[00:39:21]That servant once when he was worshiping the lord he didn't offer he didn't notice the king was standing right besides him. So they he didn't offer proper respects to the king.

[00:39:36]So the king banished him that you leave Kipuram by tonight and the person the servant was like okay I will leave Kipuram if you if the king doesn't want me here then I'll leave. So he's leaving and he goes to see Tumul Shai Albar and he's saying that no the king has punished me so I'll take your leave. I'm leaving Kipuram.

[00:39:59]So tumal shai al said well if my servant is not here then what will I do in kiburam let me follow you. So the servant starts walking and Thirumal Shai Alwar is following him and then Tirumal Shai Alwar turns back looks at the Vishnu dity and says well my servant is going I am your servant I am going what are you going to do staying here you also come and Vishnu at less out of the gre and starts following Tmal Shaiwar and everyone you know is in shock under they start offering puja arati but they see that lord is going towards the direction in some towards other village so they try to stop him the king comes oh my lord why are you leaving kipuram this is your home this is your place he said my servant is leaving I cannot stay here so the king then goes to thirman shaywar that please stay here whatever you need I'll give what whatever you need I'll provide please stay here don't don't leave kipuram Shalvar is like well my servant is leaving I cannot stay. So the king then goes to the servant says that don't don't go said you asked me to go you punished me said no I take back I take it back just stay here just stay here please I I I and ask for forgiveness.

[00:41:25]So that dity of Vishnu is called Vishnu Vishnu. That whatever you will say he follows.

[00:41:36]If you tell him that you know I'm leaving come on leave. He will start following you. Vishnu Krishna is that simple.

[00:41:48]>> Yeah I cannot repeat it but is what I have heard that famous story.

[00:41:55]So that that is how simple Krishna is.

[00:41:59]So you don't need elaborate prayers.

[00:42:02]You don't need elaborate offerings.

[00:42:05]You just need a simple heart. That's all it takes. It is so simple that kids like Dhuv Maharaj and Prolad Maharaj can achieve.

[00:42:15]It's so simple to attract Krishna's heart.

[00:42:22]It's about time.

[00:42:24]If anyone has any comments, questions, anything then we can any realizations anyone wants to share.

[00:42:39]>> Har Krishna mate just >> you go pro first.

[00:42:46]>> So very wonderful class and your Bhagwatam class are also amazing. So my question is like though it is nice to take inspiration from Pulad Maharaj and Dur Maharaj saying that they were kids and you know and they attracted Krishna by their bi but we have the history of their lifetimes also previous lifetimes where you know once Pulhad Maharaj was having a walk with the nursing Dv and he saw a big huge mountain of bones then he asked like what is that then nursing said this is your bones like you had done so many austerities So then you know this episode happen that you become a pratad maharaj.

[00:43:23]>> Yeah.

[00:43:23]>> So how to understand that you know >> and other other question probably that's a common question everybody would have that can you give some tips to develop this humility?

[00:43:35]>> Thank you.

[00:43:36]>> Practical tips.

[00:43:37]>> Yes. So um austerities. Yes, definitely like that whole past times um is centered around how many how many lifetime Prolad Maharaj spent you know doing performing austerity to get to that point but actually if austerity doesn't lead to humility then what is the use of that austerity right like people might take up nala fasting not that I'm against nala fasting but people might take up like really difficult fasts right But if they are not able to let go of um if they're not able to develop that quality of humility then what is the benefit? So not necessarily that austerity will lead to humility.

[00:44:26]That is not something written in stone.

[00:44:28]It's not a progression that austerity will definitely lead to humility.

[00:44:33]Humility is something that you have to anyways separately cultivate. And praad said that one lifetime is enough.

[00:44:41]Right? One lifetime is enough.

[00:44:44]We have so many examples, you know, we have so many locata especially of people who were most degraded people but they became devotees and they left their bodies thinking about Krishna. One lifetime is enough if you have that simplicity, humility in your heart.

[00:45:04]So not necessarily you need to perform a lot of penences. you know you have to you must have so many lives and you must have you know lived so many years performing penences because your maturity I I remember someone saying this and I like it a lot. Your maturity in Krishna consciousness is not measured by how many years you have spent in Krishna consciousness. It is measured by how much time you spend being absorbed in Krishna thinking about Krishna. So not necessarily like like you see sutwami. Sutwami was youngest right? He was young in front of chaakadi rishi he was not a proper brahana and he was actually youngest because when all of the rishies are asking him to speak they also say bad that we we bless you because you are younger to us in age but now tell us about Krishna.

[00:46:03]So not necessarily it's not required.

[00:46:04]It's not necessary that you must spend a lot of lifetimes doing penences because not necessarily all austerities will lead to humility. You have to just spend one lifetime cultivating that humility.

[00:46:16]That's the practice and it is more difficult than all these lifetimes you know trying to do austerities.

[00:46:23]That is why one example you see is of uh Haridas Takur and the other example Vishwamitra.

[00:46:33]Who was doing more intense austerities?

[00:46:35]who was performing more intense austerity for but like for some background I tell you that Vishwamitra used to sit in a fire and then meditate on whatever like whatever he was meditating on Vishuvitra right but when mana came he couldn't resist but when Haridas Takur who was not performing as severe austerities as Vishvitra Maya Dvi herself comes trying to distract him from bacti he's not distracted right so not necess it doesn't depend on the lifetime of austerities that you perform yes this one lifetime is enough one lifetime of humility is enough it is actually enough so that is the answer to your first question and practical tips to develop that humility honestly because I don't have humility So it will be quite duplicitous of me to um tell you you know like a blind man cannot lead another blind man. But what I've heard from um senior devotees is that serving Vishnavas is one way you can develop humility and serving humble Vishnavas is one way you can by their association you can develop humility.

[00:47:57]My guru Marajal used to say used to repeat the sentence a lot that if you associate with dancers you'll become a dancer. If you associate with kanas you'll become a kita but if you actually associate with humble vishnavas you'll become a humble vishnav.

[00:48:15]So association, you had a question.

[00:48:26]>> Any other questions, comments?

[00:48:33]>> Sometimes it feels like when you say, "Oh, it's just it's very simple to attract."

[00:48:39]>> Yeah.

[00:48:41]>> Krishna's heart. Then like like with myself I think oh I don't have to do a big thing for praopad I just have to be a simple devotey >> and then that may like be a a trick to not do more for the mission so to speak you think oh I just you know you can back it can make a backfire kind of thing >> what would you say to help me with that >> that's that's a nice question so I what I feel is um we used to do this exercise as kids. So you raise your both arms.

[00:49:20]Um catch hold of your left hand from using your right hand. Okay. Now separate. Now catch hold of your right hand using your left hand. Perfect.

[00:49:31]Separate. Now catch hold of your left hand using your left hand.

[00:49:35]You cannot do it. Can you do it? No.

[00:49:37]>> No. So there can only be one guru. Our mind cannot be our guru either our mind can be our guru but then it's like our left hand catching our left hand our right hand trying to catch our right hand so that is why we need spiritual master you know he will tell us what is best of best for us.

[00:49:58]So either your mind can be your guru or your um spiritual master can be your guru. So when your guru is actually your guru then whatever instruction he has may to expand the mission or whatever services he has given you then that should be your life and goal but at the same time all this go hand inhand with developing that quality of humility all these instruction it's not like either this or that it's together so that is a must that quality of humility you have to develop while doing other services.

[00:50:34]I hope it helps Rosie.

[00:50:38]Any other questions?

[00:50:49]>> Har Krishna. We just want to uh thank so much uh Duty Gopi Pu for the wonderful class and she has been visiting Dallas last few days with her husband Vishnu Anandant and uh we pray that they can come back to Dallas many times and give us more of their association and um she is a you know um one wonderful speaker on many topics and been um learning shastras and Sanskrit from you know young age and um a disciple of his grace katu prabu who has given her an instruction to preach and so we hope that she'll make Dallas one of her um you know preaching destination for many many years to come Krishna.

[00:51:28]>> Thank you. Thank you J