Krishna consciousness is simply full of bliss - Nobody should become morose

Feb. 22, 2011 - PRLog -- Dayananda: Prabhupada? That was the realtor on the phone. He said he'll have the lease ready Monday.

Prabhupada: Oh, that's all right.

Baby: Jaya. (cries)

Mother: Jaya.

Prabhupada: Jaya. Jaya. Jaya. Very nice. The first vibration is jaya. (laughs) (aside:) Your article is out. You have seen it?

Upendra: No, I have not seen it. I heard that it is out.

Prabhupada: Yes. Very nice article you have... You are feeling all right?

Upendra: Oh, yes.

Prabhupada: Anandamayo 'bhyasat (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12). This Krishna consciousness is simply full of bliss. Nobody should become morose. If he's feeling morose, then it is lack of Krishna consciousness. This is the sign.

brahma-bhutah prasannatma
na socati na kanksati
samah sarvesu bhutesu
mad-bhaktim labhate param
[Bg. 18.54]

Krishna consciousness is a stage after liberation. Brahma-bhutah. Brahma-bhutah means "I am now free from all material anxieties." That is called brahma-bhutah stage. Just like a person suffering prison life for years together, and if he is given freedom, "Now you are free," how much delight he'll feel. "Oh, now I am free." You see? So that is the stage of brahma-bhutah. Prasannatma, joyful, immediately. And what is the nature of joyfulness? Na socati. Even in the great loss, there is no lamentation. And big profit, there is no jubilation, or there is no hankering. That is called brahma-bhutah stage. Equipoised.

brahma-bhutah prasannatma
na socati na kanksati
samah sarvesu bhutesu...
[Bg. 18.54]

In that stage one can see all living entities on the same understanding of spiritual identity. In another place Bhagavad-gita says, panditah sama-darsinah [Bg. 5.18]. When a man is learned he sees everyone on the same level of spiritual understanding. So when one has reached this stage, then actually Krishna consciousness begins. Mad-bhaktim labhate param.

So Krishna consciousness is so nice that it is activities of liberated stage. Everyone is trying to get liberation from these material pangs, every philosophy. Buddha philosophy, they are also trying-nirvana. Nirvana means extinguish this. So they want to make void. All these material varieties, they want to make it zero. That is Buddha philosophy. Mayavada philosophy is more or less like that. It is a second edition of Buddha philosophy. Zero, but that zero is without life. Mayavada philosophy says, "Yes, that zero, but with life." That is the mistake. If there is life, then there must be varieties. Life without variety is not possible. Dead body without variety, not life without variety. So these are the defects of all other philosophies. They're not defects, but the class of people amongst whom the philosophy was taught, they could not understand more than that. That's all. Just like a patient too much disturbed, he wants some medicine from the physician: "Please stop my disturbance. Kill me. Kill me." Sometimes they say like that: "Give me some poison, kill me. I cannot tolerate." A physician says, "Yes, there is no need of killing. I shall give you good, healthy life." He's so much impatient, "No. I cannot tolerate. Please kill me." So this Buddha philosophy, Mayavada philosophy is like that. Kill him "Kill me, please. Make me zero, void." So much frustration. So much disturbance that they want to make it zero. But our philosophy is life, real life.

But it is difficult to understand this philosophy, Krishna philosophy. Why it is difficult? That is explained, grha-vratanam. Grha-vratanam. Grha means "house." So vrata means "vow." Just like everyone, common man, anywhere, they are interested with these bodily comforts, nice apartment, nice country, nice state, confident, nice bank balance. These things are their aspiration, no more. Nothing more. First of all this body, grha. Grha means "house, living place." So I am the soul, I am living, and this body is my first living place. This is also grha. I am not this body. Just like I am living in this apartment, I am not this apartment. Similarly, I am living in this body, but I am not this body. This is the beginning of spiritual education. Unless one does not understand that "I am not this body; I am living in this body," there is no question of spiritual education. He does not know what is spiritual and material. So this misunderstanding, that "I am this body. I belong to this apartment, I belong to this society, I belong to this country, I belong to this nation, I belong to this world, I belong to this universe" -- you can expand -- that is all misunderstanding. All misunderstanding. If you say, "Oh, now I am not..." Just like big leaders, they say that "My life is for the nation." And some ordinary common man says, "Oh, my life is for my family." And a less important person, just like childlike, he is or she is for this body. That's all. So this expansion from bodily concept of life to family life, or to, from family to community life, from community to society life, or national life, or universal brotherhood life, that is very much appreciated. "Oh, this man is after universal brotherhood." These are all bogus. You see? But this is a misconception. You can expand. However you may expand, the defect will be there. Just like the so-called nationalist or humanitarist or universalist, they are packed up within the boundary of the human being. They have no expansions toward other living entities. Their national conception, that the human body should be given protection but animal body no protection... Why? They are also nationals. But they have no such idea because all these ideas are defective. There is shortcut.

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In September 1987, ISKCON Bangalore was operating from a rented house in the city with a handful of devotees.Under the leadership of the Temple President, Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa, ISKCON applied for a 7-acre hillock from the Bangalore Development Authority.