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If you go on dancing in the club and eating in the club, then gradually you become diseased materially. And the same dancing and same eating here, you become spiritually advanced. So nothing has to be stopped. Simply it has to be changed by the direction of an expert physician. That's all.
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[[Vanisource:690109 - Lecture BG 04.19-25 - Los Angeles|690109 - Lecture BG 04.19-25 - Los Angeles]]
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Sometimes . . . in India, of course, out of our greediness we take too much milk products—khīr and sweet rice and burfī, pranāl, so many. So if you take too much milk then there is possibility of . . . (indistinct) . . . disorder of the bowel. Ghee. Therefore when you go the physician he will give you some medicine, and he will ask you to take this medicine with yogurt. Now what is this yogurt? This yogurt is also milk preparation. Now you can doubt, "How is that? My disorder of bowel is due to taking too much milk preparation. How it will be cured by yogurt?" So this is the way. The yogurt is a . . . although milk preparation, its action is different.

Similarly, you will find that these boys and girls acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, what they are doing? They have rented a nice house which is called temple. They are cooking there, eating there, dancing and singing. The outsider they will say: "What is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness? They are living in the nice house and they are eating very nicely, dancing, singing. What is the difference? We also do that. We go to the club and eat very nicely and dance also. What is the difference?" There is the difference. What is that difference? The one milk preparation causes disorder, another milk preparation cures. This is practical. Another milk preparation cures you.

If you go on dancing in the club and eating in the club, then gradually you become diseased materially. And the same dancing and same eating here, you become spiritually advanced. So nothing has to be stopped. Simply it has to be changed by the direction of an expert physician. That's all. As the expert physician gives you yogurt mixed with some medicine—actually, medicine is just to bluff the patient—actually, the yogurt will act—so similarly, we have to do everything.

But because it is mixed up with that medicine of Kṛṣṇa consciousness it will cure your material disease. That is the process. Because it is mixed up with some medicine which is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness, therefore your dancing, your eating, your loving affairs—all, whatever you want there is, but it is well-treated. It will not entangle you. It will give more and more enlightenment of spiritual understanding. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Yes.

Devotee: "This process is generally known as yajña, or activities simply meant for the satisfaction of Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the more the activities of the material world are performed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or for Viṣṇu only, the more the atmosphere becomes spiritualized by complete absorption. Brahman means spiritual. The Lord is spiritual, and the rays of His transcendental body are called brahma-jyotir, His spiritual effulgence. Everything that exists is situated in that brahma-jyotir. And when the jyoti is covered by the illusion of māyā, or sense gratification, it is called material."

Prabhupāda: Now, this is the difference between material and spiritual. Try to understand. Just like in the sunshine there is cloud. That cloudy atmosphere is not very good. But when there is bright sunshine you say, congratulate your friend, "Oh, today is very nice day." But the sunshine is always there. The cloud also is an interaction of the sunshine. The cloud is nothing, but due to excessive heat it absorbs water from the sea or anywhere else, and it becomes gas and it stands in the sunshine. But it does not cover all the sunshine.

Similarly, Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the original consciousness. As soon as it is clouded by material consciousness . . . what is that material consciousness? That "It is mine. It is for my sense gratification." That is material consciousness. And if you keep yourself always intact that everything is for Kṛṣṇa, then there is no cloud. The cloud is material. Actually there is no material existence. Just like cloud appears in the sky, it remains temporary for a few day or few hours and again disappears. We do not know where that cloud has gone. Similarly, material consciousness is the covering of the spirit soul. So as soon as this covering is taken away the bright sunshine is there, the cloud. As soon as the cloud is gone, the bright sunshine is there. Then everything is sunshine, light.

Similarly, as soon as this consciousness, material consciousness that everything belongs for my satisfaction, sense gratification . . . that is material. And if you are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is spiritual. The things does not change. Simply the consciousness changes. Just like the sunshine does not change; simply the cloud changes. It appears and disappears. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]).

So if you keep yourself always in bright sunshine . . . just like if you go above the cloud, as you have experience by plane journey that you go above the cloud and there you will find simply sunshine, no more cloud, no more cloud. So just keep yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and this cloud of material existence will disappear, or you will be above; even you can see them, that will not affect you. This is the process.
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