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Prabhupāda: ...your devatā finished. But your relationship with Kṛṣṅa will never finish—nityo nityānāṁ—because you are nitya, Kṛṣṅa is nitya. That relationship, we have to reestablish that relation. That is the function of the human body. If you are simply busy with this temporary nature, then you are losing time. The temporary relationship will... Just like I came here; now, tomorrow I am going. So, say, for fortnight the relation was there. Now you'll have another relation.

Similarly, after this body I do not know what relation, what father, mother, I will get and what relation will be established. What community will be established I do not know. And then I will forget. Now those who are Indian, but suppose in his last birth he was Chinaman. He has forgotten. Now he's fighting for India's cause; if the Chinaman, is fighting for China's cause. This is disease.

Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches, jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṅa dāsa [Cc Madhya 20.108-109].

[It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Kṛṣṅa because he is the marginal energy of Kṛṣṅa and a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the Lord, like a molecular particle of sunshine or fire. Kṛṣṅa has three varieties of energy.]

We are ready to serve all the dayitas[?], but eternal servitude is Kṛṣṅa. That we have to establish. Then tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti [Bg 4.9].

[One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.]

Then, after leaving this body, he has no more to accept this material body and create another society, another family, another relationship, another atmosphere.

So because we are not Kṛṣṅa conscious, in Kṛṣṅa society, therefore we are dividing. Suppose one animal is born in India or in America. We don't take him as "My brother; he is also born in the same national." No. He kills it. He gives protection only to the animal with hands and legs, not to the animals who are four-legged. Because he is not Kṛṣṅa conscious, therefore his knowledge is imperfect.

Paṅḍitaḥ sama-darśinaḥ [Bg 5.18].

[The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṅa, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste]]

We are fighting between the different religions because there is no Kṛṣṅa religion, no eternal religion—temporary religion. "I am Christian," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim." Therefore, to solve all the problems the Kṛṣṅa consciousness: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ [Bg 18.66].

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

Take to Kṛṣṅa; everything will be solved.

So they are reading Bhagavad-gītā but they do not know this. Therefore we have to preach. For thirteen years they are attending this Bhagavad-gītā class or Gītā Bhavan, but nobody knows that this is the Gītā. This is the fact. Why? [Hindi] You tell me.

So Bhagavad-gītā as it is, we are presenting, as it is. Then it will be nice. If you understand Bhagavad-gītā as it is, then you'll be profited. If you make your irrelevant commentaries, that "Kṛṣṅa means this, and Pāṅḍava means this, and the Kurukṣetra means another thing, another thing," volumes of books and years together lecturing, what is benefit? You do not know the principles. Simply waste of time. Śrama eva hi kevalam.

dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ notpādayed ratiṁ yadi śrama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]

[The occupational activities a man performs according to his own position are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke attraction for the message of the Personality of Godhead.]

If anyone is serving the cause of his religion very perfectly, very nicely, so-called nicely, but after serving or observing the rules and regulation, one's religious principles, if he does not understand what is God and relationship with Him and does not become attracted to Kṛṣṅa, or God, then all, whatever he has done, it is simply waste of time.

So Kṛṣṅa consciousness is so nice and so important. [someone enters] Aiye. Aiye. You can make some place here. Make. Oh, you have to go? Now available. Available[?]. Yes, we are ready. Come. By who? He did not know? Then where...? [end]