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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Indians are not made for exploiting others. Upakāra: how people will be advanced in spiritual consciousness, how they will understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu. Because they do not know what is the aim of life. Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam (SB 5.5.5). We are born all fools and rascals, abodha-jāta, without any sense. So we require education. What is that education? Ātma-tattvam. Apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām (SB 2.1.2). If we do not culture, cultivate ātma-tattvam, then whatever we are doing, we are being defeated, that's all.
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[[Vanisource:761003 - Lecture SB 01.07.43 - Vrndavana|761003 - Lecture SB 01.07.43 - Vrndavana]]
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That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission. What is the mission of Caitanya Mahāprabhu? His mission is . . . He said,

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:bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya-janma yāra
:janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra 
:([[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.41|CC Adi 9.41]])
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Anyone who has taken birth on the land of Bhāratavarṣa . . . It is puṇya-bhūmi. And not only puṇya-bhūmi—not only Lord Rāmacandra has appeared here, not only Kṛṣṇa has appeared here, not only Lord Buddha has appeared, not only Caitanya Mahāprabhu has appeared . . . Because it is puṇya-bhūmi. Whenever the Lord appears, He comes on this land. Bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya. Therefore the human being, not the cats and dogs, must take advantage of this birth on Bhāratavarṣa and take advantage of the śāstras and make his life successful. Janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra. Indians are not made for exploiting others. Upakāra: how people will be advanced in spiritual consciousness, how they will understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu. Because they do not know what is the aim of life. Parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.5|SB 5.5.5]]). We are born all fools and rascals, abodha-jāta, without any sense. So we require education. What is that education? Ātma-tattvam. Apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām ([[Vanisource:SB 2.1.2|SB 2.1.2]]). If we do not culture, cultivate ātma-tattvam, then whatever we are doing, we are being defeated, that's all. We are being defeated. Ātma-tattvam.

That ātma-tattvam is the first instruction in the Bhagavad-gītā.

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:dehino 'smin yathā dehe
:kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
:tathā dehāntara-prāptir
:dhīras tatra na muhyati 
:([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]])
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This is ātmā, beginning. Asmin dehe. Within this body there is the soul. Dehino 'smin yathā dehe. Not this body is important. Body's nothing; it is dead matter. When Kṛṣṇa began His instruction and Arjuna was lamenting on the basis of this body: "If we kill our brothers, their wives will be widowed and they'll be bhraṣṭācāra(?), the varṇa-saṅkara will be there." Everything he was calculating on the basis of this body. All politics, sociology, they are going on the basis of this body. But Kṛṣṇa, as soon as He was accepted by Arjuna as guru . . . Śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.7 (1972)|BG 2.7]]): "Now, Kṛṣṇa, I accept You as my guru. Not as friend." Because friendly talking is useless waste of time. He accepted Him as guru. When guru speaks, you cannot argue. That is not the process. You should accept a guru who is infallible. Otherwise it is useless. He accepted guru Kṛṣṇa because Kṛṣṇa is infallible. If we accept guru, a bogus guru, then it is no benefit. Guru means Kṛṣṇa's representative. Guru, not that everyone can be guru.
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