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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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We, spirit soul, ahaṁ brahmāsmi, we are all Brahman, and we have nothing to do with this material world. But because we are Brahman . . . Brahman means ānandamaya.
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[[Vanisource:680829 - Lecture SB 07.09.13-14 - Montreal|680829 - Lecture SB 07.09.13-14 - Montreal]]
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Prahlāda Mahārāja is requesting Lord Nṛsiṁha that, "Now You can become peaceful, because the disturbing element, my father, is now finished." So there are two missions when Kṛṣṇa appears, incarnation: paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām ([[Vanisource:BG 4.8 (1972)|BG 4.8]]). This material world is a field of activity for the persons who have forgotten Kṛṣṇa. But there are regulative principles, Vedic knowledge. If we act according to the regulative principle, then we can enjoy. Not actually enjoy, but we think we enjoy. Because in the material world, there is nothing enjoyable for the spirit soul. Just like a fish: it is an animal of the water. It has nothing to enjoy on the land. So if, by mistake, a fish thinks that "I shall become an elephant and enjoy in the land," that is not possible.

Similarly we, spirit soul, ahaṁ brahmāsmi, we are all Brahman, and we have nothing to do with this material world. But because we are Brahman . . . Brahman means ānandamaya. Ānanda-cinmaya-rasa (Bs. 5.37). The Supreme Brahman is sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ (Bs. 5.1). And we are part and parcel of the Supreme Brahman. Therefore we are also sac-cid-ānanda, eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. But somehow or other, icchā-dveṣa-samutthena ([[Vanisource:BG 7.27 (1972)|BG 7.27]]). Icchā-dveṣa-samutthena.

The real basic principle of our materialistic life is dveṣa. Dveṣa means when we become envious of Kṛṣṇa, that "Why Kṛṣṇa shall be the supreme enjoyer?" In this world, in practical experience, we have seen that many people say that "Kṛṣṇa enjoyed rasa-līlā. Why we shall not?"

So this is . . . imitation rasa-līlā is going on in this material world, but they cannot be satisfied, because it is imitation. Just like if a female takes the part of a male and wants to imitate the enjoyment, it is simply false. Similarly, we are constitutionally female, enjoyed, prakṛti. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parā jīva-bhūtaṁ mahā-bāho ([[Vanisource:BG 7.5 (1972)|BG 7.5]]). Prakṛti means female, enjoyed.

So jīva is described in the Bhagavad-gītā as prakṛti. The first prakṛti is the material elements, eight.

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:bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ
:khaṁ buddhir mano eva ca
:aparā prakṛti me bhinnā aṣṭadhā 
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These are separated energy. But apareyam, they are inferior. Apareyam itas tu anyā parā. Besides this material nature, this dull matter, there is another nature: prakṛti, parā prakṛti, the jīva. So the real life is to be enjoyed by the Lord. Enjoyed. That means real life is to become eternal servitor. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇa-dāsa ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.108-109|CC Madhya 20.108-109]]). That is his constitutional position. But by imitation he wants to become the master. And when, iccha, when he develops that desire and envies the Lord, that "Why Kṛṣṇa shall be enjoyer? I shall be enjoyer also," this is icchā-dveṣa-samutthena sarge yānti parantapa ([[Vanisource:BG 7.27 (1972)|BG 7.27]]). Sarge means in this creation.

So any living entity who is within this material world, they have come here with that two principles—icchā, dveṣa. Icchā means they want to be happy with material enjoyment and "What is God? I am God." These two things. The whole disease is on these two principles—to denying the supremacy of the Lord and to try to be happy by material adjustment. But that is not possible. This is simply disturbing. Simply disturbing.
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