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Srimad Bhagavatam
4
18
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Austin, TX, USA
17 February 2023
Sankarshan Das Adhikari:
Srimad Bhagavatam, 4, 18, 22
tathāhayo dandaśūkāḥ
sarpā nāgāś ca takṣakam
vidhāya vatsaṁ duduhur
bila-pātre viṣaṁ payaḥ
tathā — similarly; ahayaḥ — snakes without hoods; dandaśūkāḥ — scorpions; sarpāḥ — cobras; nāgāḥ — big snakes; ca — and; takṣakam — Takṣaka, chief of the snakes; vidhāya — making; vatsam — calf; duduhuḥ — milked out; bila-pātre — in the pot of snake holes; viṣam — poison; payaḥ — as milk.
Translation and Purport by His Divine Grace, Om Vishnu-pada paramahamsa parivrajakacharya ashtottara-shata Shri Srimad A. C. Bhaktivedanta Tri-dandi Goswami Maharaja Prabhupada Ki Jaya!
Thereafter cobras and snakes without hoods, large snakes, scorpions and many other poisonous animals took poison out of the planet earth as their milk and kept this poison in snake holes. They made a calf out of Takṣaka.
Purport.
Within this material world there are various types of living entities, and the different types of reptiles and scorpions mentioned in this verse are also provided with their sustenance by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The point is that everyone is taking his eatables from the planet earth. According to one’s association with the material qualities, one develops a certain type of character. Payaḥ-pānaṁ bhujaṅgānām: if one feeds a serpent milk, the snake will simply increase his venom. However, if one supplies milk to a talented sage or saint, the sage will develop finer brain tissues by which he can contemplate higher, spiritual life. Thus the Lord is supplying everyone food, but according to the living entity’s association with the modes of material nature, the living entity develops his specific character.
vande ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaishnavams ca
sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam tam sa jivam
sadvaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam krishna-caitanya-devam
sri-radha-krishna-padan saha-gana-lalita- sri-visakhanvitams ca
nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
namas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracarine
nirvisesha-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine
So, I am especially enlivened by this statement that Prabhupada made here, however if one supplies milk to a talented sage or saint, the sage will develop finer brain tissues of which he can contemplate higher spiritual life. Reminds me how Prabhupada instituted in ISKCON of hot milk prasadam. In the material worls, you know, little babies we would fed milk, but big girls we basically gave up milk. But then when Prabhupada came and taught us how to be devotees, he had us all drinking the hot milk in the evening. That was the standard in the ISKCON Ashrams. Hot milk in the evening, hot milk prasadam. This milk is very crisp. When I drink the milk I often think how horrible it is that they are killing the cows. So we really have to beg Krishna that we can put a stop to these meticulous slaughterhouses killing our mothers. Here we are, we give up the best knock of our first mother, we take the best knock of our second mother. So how, we wouldn't think of killing our first mother would we? How we can kill our second mother? I mean it's ungodly. So we have to put a stop to these slaughterhouses. It's very important that we give proper respect to the cow. Prabhupad very much sympathize cow protection. He established cow protection communities also. Very important thing, cow protection.
So developing finer brain tissues for what purpose? Contemplating higher spiritual life. What does higher spiritual life mean? Well, first of all it means spiritual life is higher. That's one thing. Spiritual life is higher, material life is lower. So how does one actually develop spiritual life? By drinking milk, prasadam, hot milk prasadam, but then you also drink in the teachings of Bhagavatam, Bhagavad Gita, Chaitanya Charitamirta, etc. Hearing, hearing, hearing, hearing, what do you do after hearing? Then you chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. This way actually the brain becomes so charged with bhakti. Right now our brain is charged with lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion and envy. That's what our minds are polluted by. The brain is an instrument, very close. The mind is there but the brain is on the gross level and the mind is on the subtle level but they are very closely connected, the brain and the mind. So we want to keep our brain in very good condition by drinking the milk, put our mind in very good condition by hearing about Krishna, talking about Krishna, meditating on Krishna, that amazing personality of Krishna. He appeared, amazing how he appeared 5000 years ago, How he manifested in the prison of Kamsa, you can imagine. He was born in a prison. Krishna appeared within a prison. Amazing pastimes. All these demons came to kill him. Puthana came. Krishna was also into drinking milk. She put poison on her breast. Suddenly he would suck her breast and put poison. But Krishna was not affected by the poison, he sucked out her life. She was screaming, child leave me, leave me, leave me. So that was it, finished.
But that was amazing. You see, all the demons they just, they were like merging into Brahman. She became a mother of Krishna in the spiritual world. She came as a mother. So the mother is very dear. A demon came as a mother but she had a special boon that the other demons didn't get. So just see how important mother is. Mother Earth and the Mother is very important in Vedic culture. Father and the Mother. Prabhupad was very fortunate. He was born the father of Gaur Mohan De. The father was a pure devotee. Can you imagine being born in the family of a pure devotee? You see, what a great benediction. Chris, you'd have to be very highly qualified. To get such a birth, you have to be very highly qualified. Not by accident. Somebody is born in the family of the Pure Devotees. It's all by our previous activities, by whatever mentality we had, we left our previous body, that's why we got this one. So that's why you want to cultivate the mentality of Krishna consciousness. How to be completely absorbed in Krishna consciousness 24 hours a day. Engage your mind always in thinking of Me.
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam
ātmānaṁ mat-parāyaṇaḥ
Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me. So we don't want to water it down, we want to keep it pure, exactly as Prabhupada had given to us. If we mix in sense gratification, It pollutes the whole thing.
There's a very nice prayer I wanted to share with you. This is actually a song by Narottam Das Tarkur. This shows how we can cultivate Krishna Consciousness within our heart. It's amazing that this is called Vipralamba seva, serving in separation. Actually love in meaning is very sweet but in separation it becomes even more intense. The pain of separation enhances the feelings of love. Even in the chair brothers concept, when I was a little kid there was a popular song on the radio called Sealed with a Kiss. Because he was away from his girlfriend, it had been a long and lonely summer. And they said every day I send you letters sealed with a kiss. So the idea of love and separation becomes more intense. So Narottam has written a very nice song on this connection. It goes like this. I'll give you the translation too.
'gaurāṅga' bolite habe pulaka-śarīra
'hari hari' bolite nayane ba' be nīra
When will that opportune moment come to me? When there will be shivering of the body as soon as I chant Lord Garanga's name. And after shivering while chanting Hare Krishna, when will there be tears pouring down from my eyes? He is thanking for the awakening of pure love of God within his heart when his body will shiver chanting Gauranga and chanting Hare Krishna, the tears come pouring down. He is wondering when will that day come to me? When will that day come? Then he says,
āra kabe nitāi-cānder koruṇā hoibe
saṁsāra-bāsanā mora kabe tuccha ha'be
And then he says, And when will Lord Nithyananda bestow his causeless mercy upon me so that my desire for material enjoyment will become very insignificant? When will that day come? When will I get that mercy of Lord Nithyananda so all my material desires become zero. When will that day come? When will that day come? He's hankering, hankering, hankering. When oh when will that day come?
viṣaya chāriyā kabe śuddha ha 'be mana
kabe hāma herabo śrī-bṛndābana
When my mind is completely purified, being free from material anxieties and desires, then I should be able to understand Vrndavana and the conjugal love of Radha and Krishna and then my spiritual life will be successful.
What does it mean to understand Vrindavan? It's a conflict. What does it mean to understand Vrindavan? We go to Vrindavan, Guru Mataji and I've been going there every year, practically every year we go to Vrindavan. What does it mean to understand Vrindavan? I am not just, you know, an interesting place for pilgrims. A lot of things happening in the kirtans and classes. You got to go deep, deep, deep and actually understand Vrindavan is non-different from Sri Krishna. And that Krishna's pastimes are still happening there right now for those who are eyes that see them. This is how you actually understand Vrndavana. Then he continues,
rūpa-raghunātha-pade hoibe ākuti
kabe hāma bujhabo se jugala-pīriti
When shall I be very much eager to study the books loved by the six Goswamis? One has to learn the conjugal loving affairs of Radha and Krishna in the teachings of these Six Goswamis. So for us, this kind of what we can say, why are you not very eager to study the books of Srila Prabhupada? Why not become very, very eager to study the books of Srila Prabhupada, so I can understand what is the science, I can truly understand what is the science of Krishna consciousness. Right now I have no attraction, I just want to go to sleep. But when will that day come when I spit at the thought of sleeping and I just want to go deep, deep, deep into these books of Srila Prabhupada. When will that day come, this fallen rascal, so I can get out of Maya and actually develop a taste for reading these books. This is the mood of Narottam. To see this mood and how we can train ourselves to cultivate this kind of a mood. Then he concludes his wonderful bhajan.
rūpa-raghunātha-pade rahu mora āśa
prārthanā koroye sadā narottama-dāsa
Narottama Dāsa always longs to remain at the lotus feet of Śrīla Rūpa and Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmīs. So for us, I always remain at the lotus feet of my beloved spiritual master. That's my desire, always remain at his lotus feet. That is the mood for the disciple.
Not that well, my Guru is a little bit too heavy, this other Guru is a little more loose, I think I'll switch Gurus. Because this Guru is, my Guru Maharaj is too heavy, He's always chastise me for doing this wrong and that wrong. Better to find a Guru who always flatter me, become his disciple, switch Guru. No, that's not the mood. I might remain always at the lotus feet of my beloved spiritual master. That is the mood of Narottam. When will that day come? Right now, I just want to run here and there after sense gratification. When will I actually come to that point? I just want to remain completely planted, devoted to my Guru Maharaj. With no desire but to please him, by my every thought, word and deed in all times, places and circumstances. So we have a lot to learn from Narottam, a lot to learn from him. How to cultivate the mood, how to get out of Maya. Stop being such idiots, such rascals, you know. Eating, sleeping, mating and defending is our only business. When will that day come when we can actually wake up? So this is the great mercy of Srila Prabhupada, how he came here with such great austerity to begin this movement. As I have been many times saying, he didn't even think he would be successful. But I must make the endeavor because this is the order of my spiritual master. This night I've been ordered to make our, Prabhupad personally ordered me to make our Austin Center a grand success, a direct order from Prabhupada to me. So whether it was successful or not, it doesn't matter in one's end. What matters is that we continue to endeavor to make it a success. And if we have that endeavor, that mood of Prabhupada, then there is no limit to what amazing things can happen. But our endeavor is to please Srila Prabhupada by making this Austin Center a grand success. We ask all of our listeners who are tuned in to do whatever you can to help us because there are many obstacles and we try to push forward in Krishna Consciousness movement. There are many, many obstacles. Let us all work together, all of my disciples, let us all work together to make this Austin Center a wonderful grand success. So the Prabhuapad ought to be pleased that we carried out this order successfully to make our Austin Center a grand success.
So just consider how Prabhupad came, started this movement in New York City, then San Francisco. I don't remember the third, I don't know the third center, but It's just amazing how it took off like a rocket, really, really amazing. This is the, Prabhupad actually was blessed by the special mercy of Lord Chaitanya and Srila Bhakti Sarnath Saraswati. That's how he was able to be successful, you see, because He didn't come like these charlatan gurus, I am God, you are God, we are all God. Can you imagine? Can you imagine they teach this bogus thing? People think, oh Swamiji is so enlightened. He says, I am God, you are God, We are all God. I mean just see how people are being so much cheated in this level. So we have to defeat all these cheaters, all these rascals. We have to defeat all these rants and people who want to water down Prabhupada's teachings also with sense gratification. We have to be very strong and very determined to be strictly following the teachings of the beloved spiritual master Srila Prabhupada and establish them as the standard knowledge to be taught in every school, every university, every college, every home to have these books in every body, in every home, in every county, in every village, in this whole planet should have Prabhupada's books in their home. Should be chanting Hare Krishna mantra on the Japa beads and having kirtan. This is the way we want to establish. We want to make Krishna consciousness a world religion, universally accepted as a world religion.
Now some people want to chant Allah, that's ok. Or they want to chant Jehovah. These are also names of God. So if they want to chant, if they are Muslim they want to chant Allah. Let them chant Allah and give up sinful activities. No meat eating, no illicit sex, no intoxication, gambling. This is Lord Chaitanya's movement. Nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktiḥ
There are hundreds and thousands of names of the Lord. We don't say that everybody has to chant Hare Krishna, but this chanting Hare Krishna will establish, the more it's done, will establish this principle of chanting the holy names of God according to your own tradition, that's all right. So we want to encourage everybody to come to this level of chanting the holy names of God in the regular basis.
harer nāma harer nāma
harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā
Chant the holy name, chant the holy name, chant the holy name, there is no other alternative, there is no other alternative, there is no other alternative for salvatization in this wicked age of Kali. It's a wicked age, it's shocking how degraded it is. I was mentioning yesterday, 60 mass shootings this year already. In 6 weeks, 60 mass shootings in the US, already 60. Can you imagine? So degraded. Unbelievably degraded. Millions of babies are being murdered, legally murdered through abortion. I mean, it's just unbelievable how demonic and hellish an atmosphere it's become. So we want to bring back Vedic culture. We want to bring back Vedic culture in every town and every village so this planet can become like it was during the reign of Mahabharata, Maharaj Bharat. That's how the atmosphere is going to be established on this planet. So at least we can establish it in our own hearts. At least within our own hearts we can establish pure love of God. Then, to whatever extent we have awakened pure love of God in our heart, to that extent we will have the potency for revolutionizing this planet. Conquer your mind, conquer the world. The more you conquer your mind, the more you become empowered to establish Krishna consciousness movement on this planet. It is amazing how much potency is there when one actually becomes a pure devotee of Krishna. As I have many times quoted, saj-jana, durjana, paṅgu, jaḍa, andha-gaṇa prema.. no, that is a different verse. Let's see. As I go. Let's see.
janmāntara-sahasreṣu yasya syād buddhir īdṛśī
dāso ’haṁ vāsudevasya sarvāḻ lokān samuddharet.
After many, many lifetimes, after many, many, many births, one actually becomes awakened that I am the eternal servant of Krishna, He can deliver all the worlds, not only this universe but all the universes of the whole material world. Can you imagine being so powerful? There are an infinite number of universes in this material world. Just imagine the power to deliver all living entities in the infinite universes. But that is available if one becomes fully awakened in Krishna consciousness. So we should endeavor like anything to become more and more awakened, to get out of the influence of tamo guna, rajo, even sattva guna. We want to go beyond these material modes and come to shuddh sattva, pure goodness. Goodness is good, but material goodness is mixed with passion and ignorance, not pure. Goodness is very good, that's why it's called goodness. But material goodness is not purely good, it's mixed with passion and ignorance. So we want to come to the level of shuddha satva, pure goodness, pure bhakti, pure devotional service is the only way to come to pure goodness.
Even the Mayavadi is merging in the Brahman and there is still tinge of desire to be the Supreme. That is the problem of Mayavadi philosophy. What is that verse goes?
panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo
vāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānām
so 'py asti yat-prapada-sīmny avicintya-tattve
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, only the tip of the toe of whose lotus feet is approached by the yogīs who aspire after the transcendental and betake themselves to prāṇāyāma by drilling the respiration; or by the jñānīs who try to find out the nondifferentiated Brahman by the process of elimination of the mundane, extending over thousands of millions of years.
So you can imagine over thousands of millions of years trying to finally merge into Brahman but then patanthi and ho they fall back into material existence. After some time in nirvana they fall down again. So impersonal Brahman liberation is not worth it. It takes thousands of millions of years to get it and then you can't even keep it. Because its artificial position. You are not the Brahman. You are not the Lord. You are not the Oneness. Our philosophy is Achintya Bheda Abheda Tattva, the Absolute Truth. We don't say the Absolute Truth is one, we say the Absolute Truth is simultaneously, inconceivably one and different. Achintya Bheda Abheda Tattva. That's our philosophy. We go beyond this Mayavadi conception of oneness. We go beyond the oneness to the transcendental two-ness. You say, well, oneness wouldn't be good. There's perfect peace in oneness, right? There's no conflicts. There's nobody to have any conflicts. So Oneness would be the best thing, they say. But no, wait a minute. In oneness there is no love. Would you like to live in a world without any love? A loveless world where there is no love? Love requires two, Krishna and you. So Mayavadi philosophy is embracing a reality where love cannot exist, a loveless existence.
I have a little pop question I want to ask my listeners. I have a question for you all, see if you can answer it. Why does Krishna exist? Can you answer that? Kardama Muni, why does Krishna exist? You know why Krishna exists? Can anybody explain why Krishna exists? Or is He just a myth?
Devotee: Out of his free will?
Sankarshan Das Adhikari: Yeah, that's right. He must exist. He exists because he wants to. Why is there a God? Because He wants to be there. Krishna exists because He desires to exist. And that's why He exists. And why do we exist? Why do we exist?
Devotee: Because He wants to have an infinite loving exchange.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari: Loving relationship, that's why we exist. So I was never taught this, I grew up as a Christian, I was never taught why God exists. They have no conception. They can't answer these questions. This is why Prabhupada's books are so powerful. The Christian ministers and the Jewish rabbis and the Muslims, whatever they call them, if they study Prabhupada they become very powerful and successful. Christian preachers and Jewish rabbis and they should all read Prabhupada's books. I remember I used to go to my pastor at St. Louis Presbyterian Church, the pastor's study at all these books, you see them smoking a cigar. That was his entertainment, cigar smoking, Instead of studying all these books, but the books are more exiting than any of these mental speculations. But if we can put Prabhupada's books in the hands of every Christian pastor, their Christianity becomes very nice. Because actually Christ is a pure devotee of Krishna, a pure Vaishnava. Also Mohammed, they are both pure Vaishnavas. So the Christians and the Muslims can actually understand What is the actual perfection of Lord Jesus Christ and Hajjah Muhammad? It would be a great spiritual revolution on this planet.
So maybe we have any questions. I've asked you some. Let me see if we have any questions rolling in. Let me see how many people we got here, little short today, only 59. So it's not bad. Any questions coming in from the listeners or from the listeners here locally? You're in Austin. Here we have a question from Lithuania, A question coming in. By what actions can we actually stop slaughterhouses and all this nonsense?
Preach, preach, preach, preach, preach. We're not going to go with guns and shoot all the butchers. That won't solve the problems. And that's not going to solve the problem. More butchers will come and they'll shoot us. You can't do it by force. Of course if we take over the government then we can do it by force. But how do you take over the government and democracy? You have to convince all the voters to vote only for Hare Krishna candidates. We actually, Prabhupada actually had a political party one time, it was called the In God We Trust Party. We ran a candidate in Gainesville for mayor, Amarendra Prabhu. He got a lot of votes from the non-devotees. But actually it is illegal for a church to have a political party, so Prabha had to stop it. But it was the In God We Trust Party, Prabhupada started it. So if any devotees want to do that outside of ISKCON on their own, especially some house holders, you know, want to run for, I was even thinking myself, maybe run for the mayor of Austin. Why not put myself on the ballot, you know? Why not? Why not? Why not put myself on the ballot for the mayor of Austin, and then they have a debate between all the candidates and go and preach? It's a good idea. I think I'll do that. Somebody can look up when is the next election. Actually, they're pretty agitated with the city manager. They've fined the city manager after the, other way he handled the freeze. But it'd be interesting. I'll see if I can run for the Mayor of Austin, an interesting preaching opportunity.
So any more questions coming in? We have to convince the voters to have Krishna conscious leaders. That's why book distribution, Hari Nama Sakirtan, Prasadam distribution, preach, preach, preach, preach to the world, Prabhupada. You see, that way we have to preach, preach, preach, preach, preach and convince these rascals you're not that material body. You cannot be happy material sense gratification. You can only be happy by reawakening your original loving sentiments for that all beautiful, all powerful, all renowned, all wealthy and all famous person, Bhagavan, Krishna. That's what you have to do. Vishnuratha. Is it possible to be situated in a transcendental body even if one is encased in the material body?
Yes. Absolutely.
So I can remember that verse now again.
yo ’ntaḥ-sukho ’ntar-ārāmas
tathāntar-jyotir eva yaḥ
sa yogī brahma-nirvāṇaṁ
brahma-bhūto ’dhigacchati
One whose happiness is within, rejoices and is active within, and whose aim is inward, is actually the perfect mystic. He is already liberated in the supreme and ultimately he attains the supreme. This is Bhagavad Gita. So yes, you can do that. You have to become, in this way, become a perfect mystic by always fixing your mind to the lotus feet of Krishna. And you become the perfect mystic situated within your spiritual existence. Yes. Now you don't need to know what is your Rasa in the spiritual world to be completely fixed in Krishna consciousness. Some people think, well I am sure I am a Gopi or maybe I am a Gopa or this or that. Not that you have to try to speculate what you are in your liberated form. If you try to do that it is actually detrimental for your spiritual advancement. Because now you are putting a condition, Krishna I will be your devotee if I can be a Gopi. No, you can't put a condition. Krishna, whatever you want me to do, I am your sold out servant. That's the mood. If you embrace that mood, you are already situated in your transcendental body. You don't even realize that you are situated in it. Because You are living as a devotee of Krishna, not as a devotee of Maya. You are using the body, your body now is fully absorbing Krishna's services.
You only eat Prasadam, you have no business to do it. Not you are looking at pornography. Now your eyes are only meant for seeing Krishna and seeing everything in relationship with Krishna. Your ears are only meant for hearing Krishna Kata. In this way, If you fully engage your material body in Krishna consciousness 24 hours a day, you are already situated in your Transcendental body. In fact, you have Transcendentalized your material body. You have turned your material body into a Transcendental body. It is like, was Prabhupada's body material? No way. Of course it died, it got sick and old and died. But Prabhupada's body was not material, you see. It's by touching his lotus feet as good as touching Krishna's lotus feet. So You can make your material body and spiritual body by fully absorbing in Krishna consciousness. Bhakti Sunil. Oh, Saturday, May 6th. Wow, this year. Let's see if I can run. How I can run for mayor. Any requirements. See how I can get on the ballot. Check and see how I can get on the ballot. I'm going to get on the ballot right away. If I can get on it, it would be a great preaching opportunity. I wore my Tilak, Dothy, and fantastic preaching opportunity. Anything else? Everybody satisfied now, ready to become pure devotees and make the whole world Krishna conscious as soon as possible? Or do you just want to slowly, slowly, let me slowly, slowly, slowly, poco a poco, little by little, yeah Gurudev don't push me too hard, just let me stay in my Gurudev so I can have a little sense gratification. No my duty is to convince you to completely spit at the thought of sense gratification. Spit at it. All material desire zero. That's pure devotional service. All material desire zero Prabhupad said.
That is where we are going to come to that point. Someone just wrote me.. One of my E-students wrote me today, that they've been notifying that they're going to die very soon. But they said they are not able to chant. They are not able to chant Hare Krishna as they could before. But actually it should be just the opposite. You know you are dying soon, you should be more eager to chant Hare Krishna, more keen, more deeply absorbed. Why is it that, it's really strange, He must be misidentifying his material body and great anxiety about death coming. His mind is so agitated he can't peacefully chant Hare Krishna, but he has to understand this is a great blessing. I can understand due to bodily misidentification that he's having a hard time chanting right now. His mind is disturbed about losing his body. But he should be ecstatic that now I'm going to get my, now I've got this opportunity to get out of this material world and go back and be with Krishna and His transcendental pastime in the spiritual world. So you get very excited and enthusiastic and go deeper, deeper, deeper into the mantra.
Okay, so we'll go ahead and stop here. Everybody take this process seriously and make your lives unlimited and sublime. Don't cheat yourself by remaining a servant of material senses but now engage your mind, words, anger, tongue, belly, and genitals, everything fully in the service of that Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna.
Here's a question coming in. I'll answer this one. How one can remain free in this material world? By totally absorbing yourself in Krishna consciousness and turning this material world into the spiritual world by preaching, preaching, preaching, preaching.
Jai! Hare Krishna!