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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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Kṛṣṇa and the living entity, they are very intimately connected—like father and son, or friend and friend, or master and servant, like that. We are very much intimately connected. But because we have forgotten our intimate relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and trying to become happy in this material world, therefore we have to undergo so much tribulations. This is the position.
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[[Vanisource:731129 - Lecture SB 01.15.01 - New York|731129 - Lecture SB 01.15.01 - New York]]
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We want to be happy with so many ideas. Everyone is making his own idea, "Now this is the . . ." But the rascals, they do not know that what is the actual process for getting happiness. That is Kṛṣṇa. That they do not know. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁ durāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]). You, you can see in your country, they are trying so many things, so many skyscraper buildings, so many motorcars, so many big, big cities, but there is no happiness. Because they do not know what is missing. That missing point we are giving. Here is, "You take Kṛṣṇa and you will be happy."

This is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Kṛṣṇa and the living entity, they are very intimately connected—like father and son, or friend and friend, or master and servant, like that. We are very much intimately connected. But because we have forgotten our intimate relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and trying to become happy in this material world, therefore we have to undergo so much tribulations. This is the position. Kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vañcha kare (Prema-vivarta 6.2).

We living entities, we are trying to become happy within this material world. Why you are in the material world? Why not in the spiritual world? The spiritual world, nobody can become the enjoyer, bhokta. That is only Supreme, bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva . . . ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29 (1972)|BG 5.29]]). There is no mistake. There are also living entities, but they know perfectly well that real enjoyer, proprietor, is Kṛṣṇa. That is spiritual kingdom. Similarly, even in this material world, if we understand perfectly well that we are not enjoyer, Kṛṣṇa is enjoyer, then that is spiritual world. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to convince everyone that we, we are not enjoyer; enjoyer is Kṛṣṇa. Just like this whole body, the enjoyer is the stomach, and the hands and legs and eyes and ears and brains and everything, these should be engaged to find out the enjoyable things and put it in the stomach. This is natural. Similarly, we are part and parcel of God, or Kṛṣṇa. We are not enjoyer.

In every religion it is accepted. Just like in Christian religion also it is said: "O God, give us our daily bread." Bread, we cannot manufacture. It must come from God. That is Vedic also, version: nityo nityānāṁ cetanaṣ cetanānām eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). God, or Kṛṣṇa, He gives everything, necessities of life, as you like, but if you accept your enjoyable things as you like, then you'll become entangled. But if you accept things to be enjoyed by you, tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā ([[Vanisource:ISO 1|ISO 1]]), as Kṛṣṇa offers you, then you'll become happy. If you make, just like a diseased patient, if he wants to enjoy life in his own whimsical way, he'll continue his disease.

But if he accepts the modes of life according to the direction of the physician, then he becomes free from. So there are two methods: pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Pravṛtti means, "I have got inclination to eat this or to enjoy this. Why not? I shall do it. I have got my freedom." "But you have no freedom, sir. You are simply . . ." That is māyā. You have no freedom. We get experience, suppose there is very nice palatable food. If I think, "Let me eat as much as possible," then next day I will have to starve. Immediately dysentery or indigestion.

So you cannot violate the laws of Kṛṣṇa, or laws of nature. That is not possible. You are not at all independent. Because these rascals, they'll not understand this. They are always thinking, "We are independent." That is the cause of all unhappiness. Nobody is independent. How you can be independent? Nobody is independent, neither you can be independent, neither nobody is independent. That factual. Who is independent? Here you are sitting, so many boys and girls, who can say, "I am independent of everything"? No. Nobody can say. So this is our mistake, and by misusing our independence we are suffering in this material world in so many ways. That has to be reformed. That has to be checked. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
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