15 Jan 2024 evening – Why We Are in the Material World (English) – Tepoztlan, Mexico
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Verse: kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha (CC Madhya-lila 20.117).
Krsna appears in the world in the form of Sadhu, Guru, Sastra and, in His own original form, to help in the liberation of living entities who are entangled in Maya.
To receive the Lord’s mercy it is necessary to be in sadhu-sanga.
Verse: sādhu-saṅga’, ‘sādhu-saṅga’ — sarva-śāstre kaya (CC Madhya-lila, 22.54).
To have sadhu-sanga it is necessary to have sukrti. One can obtain sukrti by different activities, for example, performing Tulasi parikrama and paying obeisances to the Deities.
Story of the little mouse that ate the ghee lamp.
Ajnata and jnata-sukrti (unconscious and conscious sukrti).
The jivas have their own power of independence, svatantra-sakti, which is why they end up getting involved with Maya and moving away from Krsna.
The different types of consciousness of living entities.
Verse: jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ (CC Madhya-lila, 20.108).
The three potencies of Krsna: cit-sakti, jiva-sakti and maya-sakti.
The process to get out of the clutches of Maya is chanting the Holy Names and doing Vaisnava-seva (listening to harikatha).
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains that we should abandon offenses and continue chanting the Holy Names to successfully reach our goal.
