HH BVPS Mahārāja: That is how illusion works. It is just one goes into the next. But it does the same thing in the other way. Means, you perform an action, and you will get a result for that action, but at the same time it will also create a desire to do that again. So if you do something wrong then the desire to do that wrong again will be there. But if you do something right, the desire to do that right will be. So if you do something for Kṛṣṇa, the desire to do that again will be there. So that’s why you keep cultivating that whenever you can. So then the desire to do right has more points than the desire to do wrong. So it is just… And that’s why association is important. Because you are inspired by them, because action comes from inspiration. So if you are in superior association, you are inspired to make that endeavor, you have faith that ‘I can do this.’
But that’s the chain that it goes, you contemplate the objects of the senses, then you will get attached. You contemplate Kṛṣṇa, you will get attached. It is the same thing, it is just being used in the negative. So attachment to family, this and that, but it is the same thing, attachment to Kṛṣṇa. Attachment is attachment. The problem is not attachment, the problem is where the attachment is directed. Identity is not the problem, desire is not the problem, activity, results, none of these are the problem. The problem is they are not direct at Kṛṣṇa. So that’s why we analyze, so we can see the difference. Otherwise the nature is that…
The feminine nature is just take religion, you have good work – good results. Bad work – bad results. But there is no distinction between that actually, one, they are two different things, and at the same time they are simultaneously one. Does that make sense? So we have to analyze. Otherwise the set thing is that good work is good, you know, ‘I serve Kṛṣṇa and I feed the poor and it is all good.’ But there is a distinction between good feeding the poor and good serving Kṛṣṇa. So one has to start to make these distinctions. Then it can go.
Because the point is, even if it is there, why does that come up? How to put someone in a different situation? In what position will one be able to engage the body, mind and words? The problem with this modern thing, why it is so, the deviant-ness of it is so great, is that one is removed from the position that one can actually make advancement in. Because ‘the truth’ is considered more important than actual service to Kṛṣṇa. Let’s say, someone is a manager. So in management they are fully absorbed, trying to think how to get everything done, they are physically engaged, they will do more as a manager, if they do something else they will take a nap and this and that. But they want to take a nap, but they got work to do. They are always talking about it, they are always this and that, they are always absorbed. And so, that is where they are going to do. Now, the problem, they get off, means, they are not doing that. So the problem is is okay, then the president, he gets involved with some lady, something like this, but that is not managing the temple. So that is his nature, is to manage, this other thing is a defect in his own character, in āśrama. So then the thing is, ‘Oh, he can’t be president.’ But now, if he is committed to being with ladies, okay, then that is a thing. But if he is not then managing is the only thing that will take him out of that hole.
In the modern thing, ‘Oh, you can’t do this, you can’t do that,’ you can’t do anything that will actually purify you. You have to sit around and lament, and that will purify you. You know what I am saying? This is just demoniac. When we say, ‘Oh, it is practical,’ or this or that, or have so many mundane excuses, but they are all at the end of the day purely mundane. They may be considerations, ‘What about the example?’ Yes, but what about the example that if you ever do anything wrong, you will not be forgiven? Who wants to take up Kṛṣṇa consciousness? Go ahead! You take up Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is great, you can go back to Godhead, solve all the problems… But if you make one mistake – man, you are damned! That’s it, finished. So then who wants to do? Before people were killing each other to be temple president. Now we have so many empty temples, no one wants to touch. Why? Because if you do anything wrong, hey, you are finished! So this is the example that is being set. Now, ‘Oh, what about the common…’ They don’t even know who the common man is. You have to come out of the room where the meeting is to meet the common man. You know what I am saying? They don’t know. They don’t know what is common, they don’t know what people are, they don’t know what relationships are, no idea. It just sounds great, but nothing has been happening for years, and the only times something happens is if somebody does what it says to do here. And if you use these modern techniques, nothing happens. They think something is happening because they are attached to the modern techniques, so it looks like it will give fruit, but it hasn’t. It’s been 15 years now, nothing. It’s like that story that Prabhupāda tells, the Himālayas was going to give birth, so everybody went and everybody is there, and then a bunch of rats came out. So this is the whole point.
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