Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that you should practice giving respect to all others and not accepting respect in return. The fact is, it’s uplifting. The ego has a diatribe going on that if you don’t assert yourself, you’ll cease to exist; your reputation will not be held, your power in the world won’t be held, and you’ll lose out on everything. If you don’t assert yourself, however—those like Mādhavendra Purī, who kept to himself and was a pure devotee of the Lord—became the most famous and sought-after, even though he didn’t want anything.

It’s paradoxical. Practically, those who don’t want anything become effective servants of the Lord, and what to speak of leaders. Prabhupāda talked about how even the pauper is proud of his penny. He said he saw an unhoused person at Howrah Station who was coveting some half-burnt firewood that he had lugged along with him, and he just noted—did Prabhupāda—that he was attached to his little domain; even though it was a paltry domain, he was proud of that, and kings are proud of theirs.

Mucukunda notes that a king rides on a big elephant with a golden saddle and is surrounded by people extolling his glories. He said, “But the same kingly body is reduced to feces just after he dies. I’ve been in such illusion that I thought, ‘Oh, I am a king.” It’s cultivation: nirmāna-moha jita-saṅga-doṣāḥ. Kṛṣṇa says to practice not being the center and sublimating the ego.

kṛṣṇa-bhakta—niṣkāma, ataeva ‘śānta’

bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī sakali ‘aśānta’

(Cc Madhya 19.149)

We get no peace when we try to put ourselves in the center, but kṛṣṇa-bhakta is niṣkāma, śānta—because he doesn’t want anything, niṣkāma ataev he certainly doesn’t want anything; he has no personal desire, only wants to serve Kṛṣṇa. This is the only respite from the storm of the false ego that pursues us to the far ends of our lives to make sure that we assert ourselves and make sure that we’re the number one in every circumstance. But devotees eschew the false ego’s demands and take shelter of being the servant of the servant.

I heard Prabhupāda this morning saying, “Everyone’s proud.” He said it’s okay to be proud that you’re a servant of Kṛṣṇa. If somebody says, “What are you, anyway?” You can say, “I’m a humble servant of Kṛṣṇa. I’m a servant of the servant of the devotees.” You can be proud of that, he said, because every emotion can be used in Kṛṣṇa’s service, and it’s purified when one thinks in terms of: “I’m not the big person; I’m the little person who serves all the big people, and the biggest person is Kṛṣṇa.”

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Not only does the Supreme Personality of Godhead enjoy the company of His devotees, but because He is unlimited, He wants to increase His devotees unlimitedly. Thus, He descends to the material world to induce the non-devotees and rebellious living entities to return home, back to Godhead. He requests them to surrender unto Him, because, unlimited as He is, He wants to increase His devotees unlimitedly."

The Kṛṣṇa Consciousness movement is an attempt to increase the number of pure devotees of the Supreme Lord more and more. It is certain that a devotee who helps in this endeavor to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes indirectly a controller of the Supreme Lord. Although the Supreme Lord is full in six opulences, He does not feel transcendental bliss without His devotees. An example that may be cited in this regard is that if a very rich man does not have sons in a family, he does not feel happiness. Indeed, sometimes a rich man adopts a son to complete his happiness. The science of transcendental bliss is known to the pure devotee. Therefore, the pure devotee is always engaged in increasing the transcendental happiness of the Lord. (SB 9.4.64)

In crafting the purposes of ISKCON, Śrīla Prabhupāda writes in the seventh purpose: "By publishing books, magazines, booklets, and distributing them, we will fulfill the aforementioned seven purposes of ISKCON."

There is a way in which saṅkīrtana gives life to an entire community, where we have growing numbers of devotees coming to sincerely hear, chant, and serve the Lord. When they are given the opportunity to participate—even in the smallest ways—in distributing books, reaching out to others, and presenting them, they become closer to Kṛṣṇa. It is an intimate service, and it brings life to the entire community. Without that experience, and without us inculcating in them the spirit of saṅkīrtana—and the spirit I have just expressed that Prabhupāda mentions in his purports—people remain in the basic condition of devotional service, kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, but they need to come to the madhyama-adhikārī platform by engaging in outreach and saṅkīrtana, and especially book distribution, it is the most practical.

So for Bhādra, it is a perfect time to express that this is not a divisions of labor. There are some people who distribute books, there are some people who don’t. It is a call to everyone to get involved. Everyone in the community can get involved—even if people have pets. The pets should be involved! They should sit down and preach to their poochie: "Dear poochie, you are going to come out with us for book distribution." Make them a backpack. Kids can go out, old people can go out, people in wheelchairs can go out. If you are blind, you can go out. If you are happy, unhappy—everyone should devise a means through which to expand the distribution of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. It is an outrageously fun activity. It brings life to the temple. It fulfills all the aforementioned principles, the six that Prabhupāda put forward.

We are the lucky ones, because somehow or other this service has landed on our heads, and somehow or other, we have got this number of 100,008. I don’t know how it happened. It just happened by chance, just like the universe all came together by chance. So, here we are, and this is it. And now it is go time, because we only have a few months left, and if we lean into this, it is going to happen.

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Śāstra Maṇḍala is an organization we started specifically to make a pipeline for those who want the Gosvāmī literatures, and we've been advertising for this over the last year or so. We have over 1,000 members.

This helps us to predict how many volumes we're going to need to print, because when you print a set with five books, it's a big investment. So, we want to be very clear about that. In fact, just in earnest, now, today we're starting to recruit those who want to join Śāstra Maṇḍala. If you're in Śāstra Maṇḍala—before we have our annual general meeting coming up in a few weeks—that's when we're going to decide how many to print.

That's why he (Mayank Prabhu) is saying it's really important to get in now. Sign up, get in, and then you're in that pipeline. So, those who want it should be in the Śāstra Maṇḍala. Those who want it, and they're not in it, may or may not get one. And that goes for all the other books that are coming out. We have Jaiva-dharma ready to come out; there's several other books. We have a long list, and this is an ongoing project from the BBT to bring these out in a pristine condition.

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Attention is where everything begins. It's our asset. May I go out on a limb and say it's our main asset? Or even further to the tip of the limb: it's our only asset. We get to choose where to place our attention. Attention management is what determines the direction of our life. In fact, a student of mine made me a beautiful sign for my birthday, and I have it hanging outside my office here on the wall. It says, "Where attention goes, energy flows." It's something I come back to again and again as a great reminder every time I walk in my room: where attention goes, energy flows. So that's why we say here, attention is where everything begins.

In the Bhagavad-gītā, there is a beautiful verse in which Kṛṣṇa says, "yānti..."—you can go certain places. How do you do it? You place your attention there, and we're free to move about the universe. There are destinations beyond the universe. Can you go there? Yes. How do you do it? You move your attention in that direction. How do you know about it? Well, there are channels through which information comes about other universes, other planets. In fact, the first book my teacher wrote before he came to America is called Easy Journey to Other Planets. That caught my attention. I was in high school, and I thought, "That's a good idea. I would like to take an easy journey to another planet." It's not fantastical; it's reality. We move here, there, and everywhere because of our attention.

So, this is a practice. Listening with rapt attention. As homework, if I may be so bold: try noticing how you attend to a subject matter. Notice. For instance, every night my wife and I get together to read. We read out loud and listen to one another reading. I find it a very bonding kind of practice and edifying, especially at the end of the day.

I notice that there are different modes I can listen in as she's reading. I can drift off to other subjects, and then I'll have to go back and say, "What did you just read? Can you read that again?" Or, I can lean in. (0:12:28)

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Lord Caitanya has said that in this age no one needs to change his position, but one should give up the endeavor to understand the Absolute Truth by speculative reasoning. One should learn to become the servant of those who are in knowledge of the Supreme Lord. If one is fortunate enough to take shelter of a pure devotee, hear from him about self-realization and follow in his footsteps, one will be gradually elevated to the position of a pure devotee. In this verse particularly, the process of hearing is strongly recommended, and this is very appropriate. Although the common man is often not as capable as so-called philosophers, faithful hearing from an authoritative person will help one transcend this material existence and go back to Godhead, back to home. (BG 13.26,purport)

And, of course, in the purport, Prabhupāda is referring to Lord Brahmā, who in the Tenth Canto, 14th Chapter, says:

jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva

jīvanti san-mukharitāṁ bhavadīya-vārtām

sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhir

ye prāyaśo ’jita jito ’py asi tais tri-lokyām

This verse was spoken by Lord Brahmā, who is an intellectual. In fact he studied the Vedas three times. How many here have studied all the Vedas three times, or the Bhagavad-gītā, for that matter? So, he had studied them three times. He is smart enough to take on the duties of recreating the material world when it comes into being. Of course, he is a devotee. He met Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana. We know the pastime of how Kṛṣṇa had bewildered him—the Brahmā-vimohana-līlā. He was bewildered by the mystic power of Kṛṣṇa.

When Brahmā had stolen away the calves and cowherd friends, Kṛṣṇa re-manifested them exactly as they were before. So, there were two sets: one that Brahmā had stolen, and the ones that were now marching around town. After seeing that all of them were emanations from Kṛṣṇa, and realizing that this little cowherd boy, who was eating with His left hand, was not to be trifled with—that He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead—he offered these prayers.

Near the beginning of his prayers, jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva, says: "Give up trying to understand God by your own power." And sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhir says: "Submissively hear in the association of devotees about Kṛṣṇa." From that, one will come to this superior form of devotional service, which means that Kṛṣṇa is conquered by your love and submission. Ajita jito —the Ajita (the unconquerable) becomes jita (conquered); it means He is conquered by love.

So, how can one come to that position? Not by erudite scholarship, but by humbly and submissively hearing from those who have knowledge, as Prabhupāda points out here, and being submissive in one’s service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So, there is such a thing as submissive hearing. There is also an argumentative state of mind. Of course it doesn’t mean that we can’t discuss the siddhānta thoroughly, threadbare.

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Anugraha, which we translate oftentimes as mercy, literally means someone who grabs you and takes you in the right direction—brings you along, doesn't leave you behind. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught that Kṛṣṇa not only can become known, or that He reveals Himself through the process of bhakti, but He also takes us by the hand and brings us to our eternal position in the spiritual world.

So, chanting is a communion with Kṛṣṇa, because He is non-different from His name. Therefore, when we’re chanting Kṛṣṇa’s names, we’re worshiping Him by our tongue—āsyenedam upāsya (Śrī Nāmāṣṭaka verse 6), which means āsya means the mouth or the opening of the mouth, and āsyenedam is in the instrumental case, which means that we’re using our mouth to upāsya, which means to worship Kṛṣṇa. By that process, Kṛṣṇa extends Himself to us, reveals Himself to us, and brings us along—anugraha.

So, chanting is a very natural process, because if anyone has had any experience here in the material world and has at any time felt helpless, confused, or—I’m thinking of a third, anyone want to offer? Disturbed?—then there’s a natural sense of calling out: "Please help me." So, we can take it that this is a very personal connection with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, by repeating His names and the mantra: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare refers to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of God, and also His eternal consort, His female counterpart. The two go together, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa; they’re the perfect whole in two, and so everything’s complete within the mantra. All perfection can be achieved by chanting the mantra, and here we are, in the middle of Silicon Valley, practicing the age-old process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa so feel free to call out to Kṛṣṇa when you chant. "Please engage me in your service, and please save me from this ocean of material existence."

I have noticed that in the Kali Yuga, although the last pillar supposedly is truthfulness, that seems to have been eroding quite quickly. I have noticed, however, that oftentimes people make public statements in a political setting, but then, when they’re under deposition, they completely change their story because they know that in deposition under oath, you’re liable for telling the truth and can be held accountable for it.

Well, those brave souls who are accepting initiation are putting themselves under scrutiny. Freedom requires responsibility.

rāga-dveṣa-vimuktais tu

viṣayān indriyaiś caran

ātma-vaśyair vidheyātmā

prasādam adhigacchati

Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad Gītā (BG 2.64), "If you want to be free, you have to take responsibility. You have to be vigilant to maintain freedom." Supposedly, one of our statesmen—although it may be apocryphal—said this about maintaining freedom in democracy: It requires vigilance.

So today, as you take your vows, you’re making a stand against the eons of living in darkness and prevaricating in speech, and taking the path of the saints.

mahat-sevāṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes

tamo-dvāraṁ yoṣitāṁ saṅgi-saṅgam

mahāntas te sama-cittāḥ praśāntā

vimanyavaḥ suhṛdaḥ sādhavo ye

Those who follow the saints, Ṛṣabhadeva (SB 5.5.2) says can enter into the door of liberation by following the footsteps of the great souls. So the chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is what the great liberated souls do and what they advocate for. And today, when you take vows in front of the devotees, in front of Śrīla Prabhupāda and Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta, in front of your guru-varga, then you’re taking responsibility for your advancement.

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I gave you this example the other day of a visceral experience I had because a member of our congregation—a mother, had lost her child who was six years old. He had suffered a heart attack and was not revivable. She came to take counsel and solace. She brought with her a little bag that had some money in it; it came from her child’s piggy bank. He had been saving that money to do something for Kṛṣṇa, and she had brought it to us and handed it over and said, "Please, would you engage this for the benefit of my departed son, who was six years old? This is all he had, as far as money goes."

When my wife and I took that into our possession, we considered it sacred. There was no conception that we would stop on the way home and buy a snow cone with it. The idea of enjoying the material world is equally as odious to a person who has understood reality—that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa (bhoktāraṃ yajña-tapasāṃ). It’s all meant to be engaged in His service.

At the end of that third chapter of the Gītā, Arjuna asks, "How to overcome lust?" Kṛṣṇa ends the chapter by saying:

evam buddhi-paraṃ buddhvā

saṃstabhyātmānam ātmanā

jahi śatruṃ mahā-bāho

kāma-rūpaṃ durāsadam

He says that you should fortify your intelligence. With your intelligence because he said there is a hierarchy: the senses are above the objects, the mind is above the senses, the intelligence is above the mind. So, how do you do that? The way you purify your intellect so you don't do stupid things is by reading the Bhagavad-gītā; that's what it's there for. Everyone ignores the Bhagavad-gītā, and they say, "Give me some rasa-tattva." Nothing against rasa-tattva ; we keep it above our heads, way up there. But the Bhagavad-gītā is where we live, and Kṛṣṇa answers all questions categorically.

And then, if you want the nuance of the categories, then you read the whole Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Caitanya-caritāmṛta about 108 times—the whole, each one of them—and then you are dissuaded from touching anything in this material world unless you have the intention of offering it to Kṛṣṇa.

kurvan nirantaraṁ karma

loko 'yam anuvartate

tenaiva karmaṇā dhyāyan

māṁ parāṁ bhaktim icchati (BS 5.61)

This is the whole idea Kṛṣṇa mentions in the five ślokas at the end of the Brahma-saṃhitā. This is the answer to your question Kṛṣṇa gives to Brahmā at the end of the Brahma-saṃhitā. He said everyone has to work; all living entities are engaged in work, can't stop it. Therefore, he said everything you do, you should do with the spirit of devotion to offer to Kṛṣṇa.

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When I sang this song at the very place where Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura had performed his worship of Śrī Śrī Gaura-Gadādhara, the devotees were dancing and spinning, and my very close friend and worldwide-famous kīrtaniyā Havi Prabhu came up to me privately and said, “Vaiś, this is such a somber song by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. He’s talking about the jīva soul and its sojourn in the material world from a time before anyone can trace—except for Kṛṣṇa. The soul has been in the material world and transmigrates from one body to the next.

We know from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, from Kapila-deva to Devahūti, and also Caitanya Mahāprabhu speaking to Śacī-mātā, that the soul within the womb, at a particular time of the development of its material body, becomes aware: "I’m again enclosed in a womb." As Kapila-deva explains to his mother, the soul within the womb who is very fortunate becomes aware of his circumstance begins to pray: "Please, let me stay here, because as soon as I come out of the womb, I’ll be captured again by Māyā."

In the Eleventh Canto of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Haṃsa-avatāra of Kṛṣṇa tells the four Kumāras that this is inevitable, because the senses of the living being in the material body are embedded within the sense objects, and the sense objects of the material world are embedded within the mind of every conditioned soul. Therefore, it’s inevitable. Then, when the soul comes out of the womb, he is again captured and goes on as if in a dream, thinking, ‘This is my life,’ and wanders like this endlessly from one body to the next.

How will the soul be extricated from this endless suffering in the material world? So, he told me, ‘You should use another tune to indicate the sobriety of this moment of the soul calling out.’ This is a tune that Prabhupāda used to sing beseechingly, as you can tell from his voice, calling out to Kṛṣṇa. And after this morning’s class by Saccidānanda Mahārāja, we can remember the importance of the time we have. We all have an āyu (lifespan), only we don’t know when it’s going to end. We have to take advantage now and remember our time in the womb, promising Kṛṣṇa, "If You get me out of this one, I’ll definitely worship You." So now's the time.

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As Akrūra in his prayers to Kṛṣṇa on the way to Vṛndāvan said, "We’re like logs floating endlessly in the river, but there will be a time that we come to the shore." For those who have met a Vaiṣṇav, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākur says, "Just as when you see the light on the horizon heralding the sunrise, then you know you’re about to see the sun."

And for anyone in this world, he says, who has taken sādhu-saṅga—has met a true sādhu, one who has no other interest in life except to serve Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Nityānanda and spread the Saṅkīrtan movement all over the world—then it is absolutely 100% certain that you will see Kṛṣṇa face to face.

When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would leave His domicile and go out into the world, He would always take shelter of Kṛṣṇa on His way, and we can too. Many of us are leaving today, going back to our homes, so let us together sing the song that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself sang when He went back on the road to go out to save more conditioned souls by spreading the holy name. And that’s what we’re all going to do when we walk out this door, right? Everybody say "yes!"

And when I get to zero, you’re going to raise your hands in the air and do the only thing that the soul really wants to do, which is to say "Kṛṣṇa". From the bottom of your heart. Reach up towards Goloka Vṛndāvan and call out to Kṛṣṇa with all your heart, so that the vibration runs through the steel beams of this entire building, out onto the street, and covers not just New Orleans but Louisiana, and starts to migrate down into the other states in the South, and then bounces off the ocean and goes back to the North, and then all the way to California, and then across the ocean into Europe and Russia, all the way to Antarctica, all over China and Asia—3, 2, 1!

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