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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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So if you want controlling the material nature, then you have to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is stated, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te (BG 7.14). Otherwise you are carried by māyā. You may be very big prime minister or anything, but as soon as māyā will dictate, "Please vacate your post and go away," you become a dog. You have to become. How you can challenge prakṛti? That is not possible. Because karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa (SB 3.31.1). Your next body will be offered to you. Therefore the atheist class man, this shudder, there is next life. Because his life is sinful, if there is next life, he will be punished, he will be put into abominable condition of life. He does not like to think like that, but that does not mean that he escape.
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[[Vanisource:741127 - Lecture SB 03.25.27 - Bombay|741127 - Lecture SB 03.25.27 - Bombay]]
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In the previous verse we have discussed ṛjubhir yoga-mārgaiḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 3.25.26|SB 3.25.26]]). Ṛju, very simple method. Ṛju means very simple. Everyone can perform it. Susukhaṁ kartum avyayam ([[Vanisource:BG 9.2 (1972)|BG 9.2]]), in the Bhagavad-gītā. Very happy. If you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and dance, it is very happy thing. And by dancing, dancing, as soon as you become hungry, take prasādam, ready. So where is the trouble? Therefore it is ṛjubhir yoga-mārgaiḥ. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice there is no trouble only. And another thing is that there is great hope. Everything we are doing under the spell of māyā, we do not know where we are going, what is the ultimate aim. We do not know. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni. We are under the spell of māyā, driven by the guṇas. You must accept. If you don't take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and give it ourselves on the waves of māyā, then we do not know where we are going. The Caitanya . . . Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura says, māyār bośe, jāccho bhese', khāccho hābuḍubu bhāi. Just like a straw in the waves of the ocean or the river, it is fully under the control of the waves—sometimes diving, sometimes coming out, sometimes going this way, going that. Our position is like that. We do not know that prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27 (1972)|BG 3.27]]). Under the material nature we are being carried by the waves of material nature, and you do not know where you are going, because you have no control.

So if you want controlling the material nature, then you have to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is stated, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). Otherwise you are carried by māyā. You may be very big prime minister or anything, but as soon as māyā will dictate, "Please vacate your post and go away," you become a dog. You have to become. How you can challenge prakṛti? That is not possible. Because karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]). Your next body will be offered to you. Therefore the atheist class man, this shudder, there is next life. Because his life is sinful, if there is next life, he will be punished, he will be put into abominable condition of life. He does not like to think like that, but that does not mean that he escape. There is a Bengali proverb that gaye gumakhale . . . (indistinct) . . . that one body, one person, he thought that "I have done so much sinful activities that Yamarāja will come and capture me and punish me. So what is the way to avoid him?" So he thought that, "Let me smear over my body stool so he'll not touch me." (laughing)
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