Guṅḍicā Mārjanam Cleansing of the Guṅḍicā Temple [Gurvaṣṭakam]

Devotees: All glories to Prabhupāda! Jāyate Prabhupāda! Jaya!

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṅa. [Hindi with Indian woman, chuckles] All right. Hare Kṛṣṅa. So? There is no space for the... So we require bigger space. Hare Kṛṣṅa. Oh, Govinda dāsī has come? [chuckles] When you have arrived?

Govinda dāsī: About one o'clock.

Prabhupāda: Oh. That's nice. Hare Kṛṣṅa.

Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṅa.

Prabhupāda: That's all right.

[aside:] You can keep it. That's all right.

So Lord Caitanya's sampradāya. [laughter] That is my joy, that we have now a sampradāya, a party of Lord Caitanya in the Western country. That is my success. That's all. I have no value—insignificant—but somehow or other you cooperated, and you are still cooperating, as Lord Caitanya's sampradāya. That is my life. Thank you very much.

[begins leading Gurvaṣṭakam, kīrtana, playing kartāls; ecstatic kīrtana follows]

vande 'haṁ śrī-guroḥ śrī-yuta-pada-kamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṅavāṁś ca śrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṅa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam sādvaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṅa-caitanya-devaṁ śrī-rādhā-kṛṣṅa-pādān saha-gaṅa-lalitā-śrī-viśākhānvitāṁś ca

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master and of all the other preceptors on the path of devotional service. I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaiṣṅavas and unto the six Gosvāmīs, including Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Jīva Gosvāmī and their associates. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Advaita Ācārya Prabhu, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and all His devotees, headed by Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura. I then offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṅa, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṅī and all the gopīs, headed by Lalitā and Viśākhā.]

nama oṁ viṣṅu-pādāya kṛṣṅa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale śrīmate bhaktisiddhānta-sarasvatīti nāmine

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, who is very dear to Lord Kṛṣṅa, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.]

namas te gaura-vāṅī-śrī-mūrtaye dīna-tāriṅe rūpānuga-viruddhāpasiddhānta-dhvānta-hāriṅe

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto you, who are the personified teachings of Lord Caitanya. You are the deliverer of the fallen souls. You do not tolerate any statement which is against the teachings of devotional service enunciated by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.]

saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka- trāṅāya kāruṅya-ghanāghanatvam prāptasya kalyāṅa-guṅārṅavasya vande guroḥ śrī-caraṅāravindam

[The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the ocean of mercy. Just as a cloud pours water on a forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master delivers the materially afflicted world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is an ocean of auspicious qualities.]

mahāprabhoḥ kīrtana-nṛtya-gīta- vāditra-mādyan-manaso rasena romāñca-kampāśru-taraṅga-bhājo vande guroḥ śrī-caraṅāravindam

[Chanting the holy name, dancing in ecstasy, singing, and playing musical instruments, the spiritual master is always gladdened by the saṅkīrtana movement of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Because he is relishing the mellows of pure devotion within his mind, sometimes his hair stands on end, he feels quivering in his body, and tears flow from his eyes like waves. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.]

śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā- śṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārjanādau yuktasya bhaktāṁś ca niyuñjato 'pi vande guroḥ śrī-caraṅāravindam

[The spiritual master is always engaged in the temple worship of Śrī Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṅa. He also engages his disciples in such worship. They dress the Deities in beautiful clothes and ornaments, clean Their temple, and perform other similar worship of the Lord. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.]

catur-vidha-śrī-bhagavat-prasāda- svādv-anna-tṛptān hari-bhakta-saṅghān kṛtvaiva tṛptiṁ bhajataḥ sadaiva vande guroḥ śrī-caraṅāravindam

[The spiritual master is always offering Kṛṣṅa four kinds of delicious food [analyzed as that which is licked, chewed, drunk, and sucked]. When the spiritual master sees that the devotees are satisfied by eating bhagavat-prasāda, he is satisfied. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.]

śrī-rādhikā-mādhavayor apāra- mādhurya-līlā guṅa-rūpa-nāmnām prati-kṣaṅāsvādana-lolupasya vande guroḥ śrī-caraṅāravindam

[The spiritual master is always eager to hear and chant about the unlimited conjugal pastimes of Rādhikā and Mādhava, and Their qualities, names, and forms. The spiritual master aspires to relish these at every moment. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.]

nikuñja-yūno rati-keli-siddhyai yā yālibhir yuktir apekṣaṅīyā tatrāti-dākṣyād ati-vallabhasya vande guroḥ śrī-caraṅāravindam

[The spiritual master is very dear, because he is expert in assisting the gopīs, who at different times make different tasteful arrangements for the perfection of Rādhā and Kṛṣṅa's conjugal loving affairs within the groves of Vṛndāvana. I offer my most humble obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master.]

sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair uktas tathā bhāvyata eva sadbhiḥ kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya vande guroḥ śrī-caraṅāravindam

[The spiritual master is to be honored as much as the Supreme Lord, because he is the most confidential servitor of the Lord. This is acknowledged in all revealed scriptures and followed by all authorities. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spiritual master, who is a bona fide representative of Śrī Hari [Kṛṣṅa]]

yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo yasyāprasādān na gatiḥ kuto 'pi dhyāyan stuvaṁs tasya yaśas tri-sandhyaṁ vande guroḥ śrī-caraṅāravindam

[By the mercy of the spiritual master one receives the benediction of Kṛṣṅa. Without the grace of the spiritual master, one cannot make any advancement. Therefore, I should always remember and praise the spiritual master. At least three times a day I should offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master.]

Now you chant Śrī Kṛṣṅa Caitanya. [prema-dhvani]

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It is working? [taps microphone] Huh? No.

So just one day before Ratha-yātrā there is a festival in Jagannātha Purī which is called Guṅḍicā-mārjana. Guṅḍicā-mārjana... From the Jagannātha temple, about two miles away there is another..., temple house, not exactly temple, where the Deity Jagannātha goes during this Ratha-yātrā festival, from the temple to that Guṅḍicā house. And then the deities remain there for one week and then comes back. And during that one week there are many festivals.

As I told you in this morning, this Jagannātha, He's proceeding toward Vṛndāvana. Rādhārāṅī is inviting Kṛṣṅa. Kṛṣṅa, after His childhood, pauganda-līlā, He was called by His father, His real father. Practically, He was called for killing Kaṁsa, His maternal uncle, who was giving trouble to the whole Yadu dynasty, and everyone was waiting for Kṛṣṅa.

So Kṛṣṅa appeared, and immediately He was transferred to a friend's house by His father. Vasudeva is kṣatriya, and Nanda Mahārāja is a vaiśya. Kṣatriya business is royal family, and vaiśya, they are agriculturist, traders, krsi-go-raksya, and protection of cows. These three business, livelihood of the vaiśya. Kṛṣi-go-rakṣya-vāṅijyam [Bg 18.44].

Farming, cow protection and business are the qualities of work for the vaiśyas, and for the śūdras there is labor and service to others.

Kṛṣi means agriculture, and go-rakṣya, cow protection.

This is Vedic civilization. A section of people, they are engaged in different activities. Not that a man is working as a carpenter and he's called, "Come on. You have to go to Vietnam to fight." This is not very scientific. He has been trained up as a carpenter, and now he's called to fight. That is not perfect division of... The fighting is required, but there must be a class fully trained up for fighting. That is kṣatriya.

There must be a class of men simply for cultivation of spiritual knowledge. There must be a class fully for business, cow protection, agriculture. That is also required. Nothing is neglected. Just like in our body there are four parts: the mouth, the arms, the belly and the legs. So everything is required for proper upkeep of the body. Not that you ask the mouth to walk or ask the leg to eat. How it is that?

The modern civilization is defective. They do not know how to maintain society. There is therefore no peace. Especially there is want of brain. Crazy. Just like throughout the whole body, the head is the most important part of the body. If you cut your hands, you can live, but if you cut your head, you cannot live. Then whole thing is gone. Similarly, at the present moment the society is headless, a dead body, or head cracked, crazy. There is head, nonsense head. Nonsense head. What is the use of nonsense head? Therefore there is a great necessity of creating a class who will act as brain and head. That is Kṛṣṅa conscious movement.

Devotees: Jaya. All glories to Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: The whole human society is suffering for want of good brain. [break] ...created a nonsense democracy. A carpenter is called to fight? A cow slaughterer is called to preside over the meeting? What is this? One must be fit for the business. If you want to make one king, he must be just like royal, ideas, always thinking of the welfare of the citizens. Just like Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja: the whole business was how the people will be happy.

When Parīkṣit Mahārāja was born, the child... It is the Vedic system as soon as a child is born, immediately expert brāhmaṅas, astrologers, are called. Automatically, they... That is called jāta-kriyā. There is a function. There are ten kinds of function. From the point of begetting a child up to the point of death, there are saṁskāras, or reformatory process. By that process a human being is made of perfect. That is called daśa-vidha-saṁskāra, ten kinds of processes.

This upanayana, this initiation, offering the sacred thread, that is also out of those ten processes. The beginning of the process is called garbhādhāna, begetting a child. It is not sex enjoyment; it is a process by which you produce nice child. If you produce nice children, then the world is peaceful. But if you produce cats and dogs, how can you expect peace and prosperity? Therefore that is a process, garbhādhāna-saṁskāra. In this way the Vedic system is the perfect process for creating civilized human being.

So that is another chapter. Our present meeting is concerned with the Ratha-yātrā. So Kṛṣṅa, He is born of a kṣatriya father. He is not born, but He appeared as the son. God is never born. Unborn. Therefore the Māyāvādī philosopher, they mistake to know Kṛṣṅa. They think that Kṛṣṅa is born, then how He can be God? But actually, Kṛṣṅa was not born from the womb of His mother. He appeared in four hands before His mother, and the mother was afraid that "My brother, Kaṁsa, was awaiting to kill God, and now God is here in four hands. Immediately he'll kill." The mother forgets that "My son, if He's God, how He can be killed?" [chuckles] But the mother's affection is always like that.

Just like Kṛṣṅa, when He was going to attack a demon as a boy, Yaśodā-mā, mother, Mother Yaśodā, would ask her husband, Nanda Mahārāja, "Why do you allow this boy to go out? Why don't you lock Him?" So that is mother's affection. The mother, Yaśodā mother, she does not know that Kṛṣṅa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then her motherly affection will be checked. Therefore she was, by yoga-māyā, she was always covered. Although Kṛṣṅa playing child just like a common child, at the same time showing that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

He was eating clay. Some friends complained to Mother Yaśodā that "You gave Him nice foodstuff, and He is eating clay." So mother called Him: "Oh, Kṛṣṅa, You are eating clay?" Kṛṣṅa said, "No, mother. They're all liars." [laughter] "Oh, Your elder brother Balarāma is also saying." "Oh, He is angry upon Me. He is angry upon Me; therefore He is also speaking lie." Then the boys still stressed, "No, mother. He has eaten clay. We have seen."

So mother said, "All right. Open Your mouth. I'll see." So Kṛṣṅa opened His mouth, and she saw the whole material cosmic manifestation. Not only Yaśodā, thousands of Yaśodā and thousands of planets, suns, moons, and everything saw. Mother's thought, "Must be something jugglery. All right. Forget. Don't do it again." [laughter]

Devotees: Haribol!

Prabhupāda: This is Kṛṣṅa, that He is playing the part of a perfect child. Mother Yaśodā ordering, "Open Your mouth. I want to see." "Yes, mother. Just see." And when he [she] saw His mouth, oh, the mother couldn't adjust[?]. That is God, that He is, by being obliged by the devotee, He is playing the part of a child, at the same time maintaining His supremacy as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is Kṛṣṅa. Not that by mystic power one becomes God. No. God is God always.

When on the lap of His mother He is God. And when His mother... On the lap of His mother, Pūtanā came to kill Him. So Kṛṣṅa sucked her breast and life also, but gave him [her] the position of mother, because Kṛṣṅa is so good that He did not take the bad side. Kṛṣṅa, how can He be envious? He's the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everyone is His part and parcel; therefore He cannot be envious to anyone. He is always kind of everyone.

So this incident, that Kṛṣṅa... Pūtanā came to kill Him by smearing poison on her breast. She thought that "The child will suck my breast and immediately die." The child sucked the breast as well as her life. But Kṛṣṅa thought that "This demon, although came to Me with a purpose to kill Me, but I have been used as her child, and she has become My mother, so she must get the position of My mother." This is Kṛṣṅa's kindness.

So try to understand Kṛṣṅa philosophy very nicely, what is God. There are so many fictitious rogues, rascals, they are presenting themselves God. Try to understand what is God. Don't be misled. Kṛṣṅas tu bhagavān svayam [SB 1.3.28].

[All of the above-mentioned incarnations are either plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṅa is the original Personality of Godhead. All of them appear on planets whenever there is a disturbance created by the atheists. The Lord incarnates to protect the theists.]

There is no other God except Kṛṣṅa. Therefore Kṛṣṅa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, mām ekam [Bg 18.66]

[Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.]

"Only unto Me surrender." And He has proved Himself that He is God. There are many so-called gods, but they have not proved that they are God. No. God is one, and that is Kṛṣṅa.

So this Kṛṣṅa, Lord Kṛṣṅa, when He was called by His father... People generally did not know that Kṛṣṅa is Vasudeva's son, but later on it was disclosed by talkings, one after another. Then, when the fact was disclosed, then Kamsa arranged for a wrestling match, and Kṛṣṅa was called to fight. That you will read in our Kṛṣṅa book. It's a long story.

Similarly, Kṛṣṅa went to His father's house, and He came to Kurukṣetra in the chariot. This is Ratha-yātrā. And Rādhārāṅī and the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, their only business was... After Kṛṣṅa departed from Vṛndāvana to Mathurā and He never returned... Once He returned. So Mother Yaśodā, the cowherd boys and the gopīs, they lost their life and vital force. So they were simply crying and weeping. That was their business.

So Kṛṣṅa sent sometimes Uddhava to pacify them, that "I am coming very soon after finishing My business." So when they got this opportunity that "Kṛṣṅa has come to Kurukṣetra with His brother, sister, father. So let us go and see..." So they went to Kurukṣetra to see Kṛṣṅa. Whenever they got some opportunity, they wanted to see.

Just like these cowherds boys, when there was Battle of Kurukṣetra near Delhi... Vṛndāvana is not far away from Delhi. It is about ninety miles. So they went to see Kṛṣṅa in the charioteer fighting dress. They were astonished. They thought that "Kṛṣṅa is our friend, cowherd boy. How is that, He is in the chariot, fighting?" So they became astonished. So this is the pastimes of Vṛndāvana.

So similarly, when the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana went to see Lord Kṛṣṅa, Jagannātha... Kṛṣṅa means Jagannātha. Jagat. Jagat means this world, and nātha means master, or proprietor. So Kṛṣṅa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram [Bg 5.29]

[The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries.]

"I am the proprietor of all the planets." Therefore He is Jagannātha. Jagannātha means the proprietor of all the world, all the planets. So the Vṛndāvana inhabitants went to see Kṛṣṅa, because their life was Kṛṣṅa. They did not know anything except Kṛṣṅa. So that was the opportunity.

So it was the request of Rādhārāṅī to Kṛṣṅa, "My dear Kṛṣṅa, You are the same Kṛṣṅa; I am the same Rādhārāṅī. We are meeting, but We are not meeting in the same place. Here You are just like a royal king, with chariots, with soldiers, with Your ministers, secretaries. And there in Vṛndāvana You were a cowherd boy, and We used to meet in the jungles, in the bushes. So I want to take You there. Then I will be happy."

So that sentiment was expressed by Lord Caitanya, because Lord Caitanya's worship was in the mood of Rādhārāṅī.

rādhā kṛṣṅa-praṅaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau [Cc Ādi 1.5]

[The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṅa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṅa are one in Their identity, previously They separated Themselves. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṅa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṅī although He is Kṛṣṅa Himself.]

Try to understand Kṛṣṅa philosophy. It is the sublime philosophy and, I mean to say, culture. If you are fort... Those who are fortunate, they have come to this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement. Their life is successful. No doubt about it.

So this philosophy, that Kṛṣṅa... Rādhā-kṛṣṅa-praṅaya-vikṛtir. The love affairs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṅa, what is this? Is this a play like the young girl and young boy? Of course. It is just like that. It appears, and actually it is so. But it is not this play of this material world of a young boy and a young girl. No. It is the pastime of the Supreme Lord with His āhlādinī potency. Āhlādinī. Rādhā-kṛṣṅa-praṅaya-vikṛtir āhlādinī-śaktir.

Just like in this material world there are three qualities: sattva-guṅa, rajo-guṅa, tamo-guṅa. Similarly, in the spiritual world there are three, I mean to say, potencies. These qualities are also potencies. Samvit, sandinī, and..., what is the other? Samvit, sandini..., ahlādinī. Samvit, sandinī, āhlādinī. So the āhlādinī potency is Kṛṣṅa. This has been very much scholarly discussed by Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī.

Jīva Gosvāmī presents these love affairs of Kṛṣṅa and Rādhā very philosophically. His first question is that Kṛṣṅa is Paraṁ Brahman. Kṛṣṅa is Paraṁ Brahman. That is accepted by Arjuna in the Bhagavad-gītā:

paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān [Bg 10.12]

[Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty. All the great sages such as Nārada, Asita, Devala, and Vyāsa proclaim this of You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.]

Paraṁ Brahman, the Supreme Absolute Truth.

Now, in this material world there are different features of sense gratification—sattva-guṅa, rajo-guṅa, tamo-guṅa. So the gopīs and Kṛṣṅa, whether they are a loving affairs or pastimes of this world? That is his question. Just like here young boys and young girls meet together, they try to enjoy life. Whether Kṛṣṅa's līlā, Kṛṣṅa's pastimes with the gopīs, is the same thing? No. That is the philosophical presentation.

He gives the reason that Kṛṣṅa is Paraṁ Brahman. But here in this material world we see that Paraṁ Brahman, to become attached to Paraṁ Brahman or to realize Paraṁ Brahman, a person, an intelligent person, gives up everything within this world. That is the philosophy of Lord, I mean to..., Śaṅkarācārya. He says that "This world is false. Paraṁ Brahman is... Brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā. So cultivate yourself to realize Paraṁ Brahman." And his process is sannyāsa. Give up, renounce this world.

So Jīva Gosvāmī puts forward this philosophy that if for Paraṁ Brahman realization one has to give up everything material, how Paraṁ Brahman can enjoy something material? This is the question. If for realizing Paraṁ Brahman one has to give up everything material... And practically we are seeing that. Just like Śaṅkarācārya. Their renunciation, their austerity, is very, very severe. Śaṅkarācārya will not accept anybody as eligible for advancing in spiritual culture without having accepted the renounced order of life, sannyāsa. First accept sannyāsa, then talk of Absolute Truth. That is Śaṅkara-sampradāya.

We Vaiṣṅava-sampradāya, Caitanya Mahāprabhu's sampradāya, our process is little different. Although we have nothing to do with this material world, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu's sampradāya gives facility that we can make the best use of this material world. That is the difference between the Śaṅkara philosophy and Vaiṣṅava philosophy. Śaṅkara philosophy says that this world is false. We Vaiṣṅava philosopher, we say no, this world is not false, because it is emanation from the real, the absolute real. How it can be false? It has got its proper use. One who does not know its proper use, for them it is false. They are after something false.

But those who know the value of this world... Hari-sambhandhi-vastunaḥ [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.256].

[One who rejects anything without knowledge of its relationship to Kṛṣṅa is incomplete in his renunciation.]

Everything has got some connection with the Supreme Lord. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam [Īśo mantra 1].

[Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.]

Everything is in connection or has relationship with the Supreme Lord. That is our philosophy. We don't say that this speaker, microphone, is false. Why it is false? The microphone is produced out of the energy of Kṛṣṅa.

This matter, this iron or this wood, that is a production of Kṛṣṅa's energy. If Kṛṣṅa is true, Absolute Truth, then His energy is also true. And anything produced of His energy, that is also true. But as the energy is utilized for the energetic, similarly anything produced by Kṛṣṅa's energy should be utilized for Kṛṣṅa. That is our philosophy. So we don't say that false. We say reality.

Therefore in Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement we accept everything, but accept everything for service of Kṛṣṅa. Nothing for my sense gratification. That is Kṛṣṅa consciousness. We do not say that "This world is false. Give up." Why? The..., our ācāryas, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, says,

anāsaktasya viṣayān yathārham upayuñjataḥ nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṅa-sambandhe yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.255]

[When one is not attached to anything but at the same time accepts anything in relation to Kṛṣṅa, one is rightly situated above possessiveness. On the other hand, one who rejects everything without knowledge of its relationship to Kṛṣṅa is not as complete in his renunciation.]

You should not be attached with Kṛṣṅa's property. The karmīs are attached to the Kṛṣṅa's property. They are trying to steal, unlawfully enjoy, Kṛṣṅa's property. That is karmī. And the jñānīs, so-called jñānīs, out of ignorance trying to renounce Kṛṣṅa's property. The jñānīs, they are very much proud that they are advanced in knowledge and renouncing, but if somebody asks, "Sir, what you are renouncing?" "This world." "All right. When this world became your property that you are renouncing? [laughter]

When this world became your property?" You renounce something which you possess, but if you do not possess something, what is the meaning of your renouncement? You came here empty-handed, you live here for some times and go away. So in the beginning you are not proprietor, and when you go away you are not proprietor. Then what is the meaning of your renouncement? That is the defect.

So we don't renounce. We think..., we see that everything is given by Kṛṣṅa to us. Tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā [Īśo mantra 1].

[Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.]

Now, I... Nothing belongs to me; everything Kṛṣṅa's. Even my body, that is also Kṛṣṅa's. My mind, that is also Kṛṣṅa's. My thoughts, my speech, whatever I create, everything belongs to Kṛṣṅa. This is Kṛṣṅa philosophy, actually, that is the fact.

So this Jagannātha Ratha-yātrā is a part of this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement because Lord Caitanya preached this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement within five hundred years. Of course, Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement is not a new thing. From Bhagavad-gītā we understand it is five thousand years old, and from Bhagavad-gītā we also understand that it is five million years old.

But in the modern age this Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement, Hare Kṛṣṅa movement, was started by Lord Caitanya, and this Ratha-yātrā is part of this movement. Therefore we have introduced this Ratha-yātrā festival in our Society. And the boys and the girls, they are taking it very nicely, and it will go on.

So the Lord Caitanya was taking the part of Rādhārāṅī, when Rādhārāṅī requested Kṛṣṅa to come to Vṛndāvana. So when Lord Caitanya was before the Ratha-yātrā, He was thinking that "I am taking Kṛṣṅa to Vṛndāvana." That is His ecstasy. "I am taking Kṛṣṅa to Vṛndāvana."

So that function is observed yearly, and Kṛṣṅa, Jagannātha, goes to that Guṅḍicā. So today is Guṅḍicā-mārjana day. So Lord Caitanya personally used to wash the whole temple, along with His assistants. Hundreds of... At that time there was no hose pipe, but people used to bring water in one big, big waterpots.

So when Lord Caitanya wanted to wash the Guṅḍīca Mandir, the king of Jagannātha Purī, Mahārāja Pratāparudra... He was a great devotee of Lord Caitanya. So it was his open order to his officers that whenever Caitanya Mahāprabhu will ask for anything, it must be immediately supplied.

So during this time, about... In those days there was no railway facilities five hundred years ago, so people used to go on foot from..., especially from Bengal. And because He was staying in Orissa, there were many Oriyan-Gauḍīya. Practically Lord Caitanya's followers are the Bengalis and the Oriyas. They are generally. Because Lord Caitanya appeared in Bengal and resided..., He made His residence in Orissa. Naturally, the people of these two provinces became His devotees in large number. And still, in Orissa there are many devotees, as there are in Bengal.

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu was patronized, or... Mahārāja Pratāparudra was very powerful king. He did not allow the Muhammadans to enter into Orissa. He was so powerful. At that time whole India was occupied by the Pathans, but they could not enter in Orissa and South India. So Mahārāja Pratāparudra was very powerful king, and at the same time he was a devotee of Lord Caitanya.

So his open order was that whenever and whatever Caitanya Mahāprabhu will ask anything, it must be supplied. So on this day Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to wash that Guṅḍīca Mandir with hundreds of His followers. And they were ordered to bring water from the nearest tank. There is one tank. If you go sometimes to Jagannātha Purī, you'll see that place.

So from that tank hundreds of waterpots were brought, and first of all it was... What is called? Sweeping. The sweeping process is first of all taken. And He wanted to see all the devotees, "How much dust you have gathered." He'll see personally. "Let Me see what is the amount of your dust you have gathered by sweeping. Then I...

[break] Then I will understand that you worked very hard." So then after it is very finely, twice. First of all, once swept, then second time. Not even a small particle grain should remain. That was His order. [break]

Chant. Chant.

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[kīrtana] [prema-dhvani]

So, within this room, there is no facility for dancing. So on the Ratha-yātrā day we will have good facility for dancing.

[devotees shout "Jaya! Hari bol!"]

Oh, prasādam? Alright. Thank you.

[Prabhupāda takes some prasādam, then devotees chant as he leaves the temple] [kīrtana] [end]