Prabhupada: ...authorized is Sukadeva Gosvami. You haven't got to sit here.

evaṁ te bhagavad-duta
yamadutabhibhaṣitam
upadharyatha tan rajan
pratyahur naya-kovidaḥ;
[SB 6.2.1]

So the speeches of the Yamaduta, assistants of Yamaraja, was thus finished, arguments. The argument was that "This man, Ajamila, born of a brahmaṇa father, although acquired all qualification... He was qualified brahmaṇa, not simply born of a brahmaṇa father, but qualified brahmaṇa, with full knowledge of Vedic instruction, nice character, very gentle and silent and offering respects to elderly persons, spiritual master, father. In this way he was perfect brahmaṇa. But due to his contact with a prostitute he lost his all good qualification. And later on, he had to earn money by hook and crook, and thus he degraded more and more, and therefore his sinful activities are now responsible for his punishment, and we shall take him to the court of Yamaraja." That was the summary of the speech of the Yamaduta. Evaṁ te bhagavad-duta yamadutabhibhaṣitam.

So after finishing that speech, the bhagavad-duta... So there are bhagavad-duta also, assistants, servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There are two kinds of servants: the maya's servant and Krṣṇa's servant. Nobody is master. That is illusion. Everyone is servant. Every living entity is a servant. As enunciated by Caitanya Mahaprabhu, jivera svarupa haya nitya-krṣṇa-dasa: [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109] "The real constitutional position of the living entity is eternal servant of Krṣṇa." When he does not render service to Krṣṇa, under false prestige... Just like somebody says, "The Vaiṣṇava religion is slave mentality." "Vaiṣṇava religion is slave mentality. They want to be servant." But the rascals do not that (think) "What you have gained by master mentality?" You are simply servant of your senses. But they criticize that Vaiṣṇava is a slave men. Everyone is slave. Somebody is slave of the senses, and somebody is slave of Krṣṇa. Nobody is master. That is illusion. Kamadinaṁ kati na katidha palita durnidesaḥ;. The slaves of the senses, they are following the dictation of the senses, and abominable activities they are doing. Just like Ajamila. He was a brahmaṇa. He was a slave of Narayaṇa, a slave of Krṣṇa, brahmaṇa Vaiṣṇava. Brahmaṇa means... A brahmaṇa, qualified brahmaṇa, means he is a Vaiṣṇava. Tad viṣṇoḥ; paramaṁ padaṁ pasyanti sada surayaḥ;. Sura. Brahmaṇas' another name is sura. So those who are suras, those who are demigods, they are Vaiṣṇava. They are always ready to render service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But by false prestige, when one tries to become master... Krṣṇa-bahirmukha haña bhoga vañcha kare. A master is supposed to be the supreme enjoyer of the establishment. But actually nobody is the enjoyer. Krṣṇa is the only enjoyer. Bhoktaraṁ yajña-tapasaṁ sarva-loka-mahesvaram [Bg. 5.29]. He is the proprietor. So when we forget this relationship with Krṣṇa, that "I am eternal servant of Krṣṇa," then he becomes servant of the senses, or maya. So by becoming servant of the senses he follows the dictation of the master senses and goes down to the darkest region of illusion and becomes subject to the punishment of Yamaraja. This is the substance.

So intelligent persons... That we find, the statements of a brahmaṇa, that he says, "My dear Lord, I was so long servant of my senses and I followed their dictation even though it was very, very abominable." Sometimes our conscience bids, "Don't do this," but due to our lust and greediness we do something which is abominable. Krṣṇa is there within our heart. He also gives sometimes dictation, "Don't do it"; still, we do. So kamadinaṁ kati na katidha palita durnidesaḥ;. If the master says something "You do it," if it is good, that's all right. But if it is bad, even though I have to do because I have accepted the servitude, oh, that is very abominable. That is sudras. According to Vedic principle, the sudras... Sudra-karma svabhava-jam. The sudras are meant for obeying the orders of the master. So sometimes it happens; the master says, "You do this, you do that," which is not very good. The servant has to act. So the intelligent brahmaṇa says, "My dear Lord, I have served the senses in so many ways, even though abominable. But, I find, still they are not satisfied, and neither the senses are very kind to me. Because I have served so faithfully, still they are dictating and I am doing." This is my position. So now I have got good sense, that if I am destined to serve, then why not Krṣṇa? Why shall I serve the senses? If my position is to serve..." (aside:) Don't do that. "If my position is to serve, and by serving the senses I am going to the darkest regions of darkness, oh, why shall I serve the senses?"

So bhagavad-duta. The bhagavad-duta means they are in right constitutional position. So you all become bhagavad-duta, bhagavad-duta, messenger of God. That is perfection of life. Otherwise you shall be obliged to become the servant of the senses. Go-dasa and gosvami. The bhagavad-dutas are gosvami, and the servants of the senses are go-dasa. Unfortunately the go-dasas are claiming to be gosvamis. That is the cause of falldown of Indian Vedic civilization. One has to become gosvami. Gosvami means refuse to follow the dictation of the senses. Simply he has to follow the dictation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That dictation comes through the parampara system. Krṣṇa dictated Arjuna, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekaṁ saraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. If you follow Arjuna, then you (are) in directly contact with Krṣṇa. There is no difficulty. The dictation comes through disciplic succession. Now Krṣṇa is teaching to His disciple, Arjuna. Arjuna accepted, siṣyas te 'ham: [Bg. 2.7] "Just now I become Your disciple." Siṣya means one who voluntarily accepts the ruling of a spiritual master. He is called siṣya. Nobody wants to follow the dictation of others—that is another independent nature of living entity—but when one voluntarily agrees to serve the dictation of the spiritual master..., means to follow the dictation of Krṣṇa... Acaryaṁ maṁ vijaniyat. Krṣṇa says, "Acarya is My self." Navamanyeta karhicit: "Never disobey." Na martya-buddhyasuyeta: "And do not think him as ordinary person and become envious of his position." Then there is fall down. Acaryaṁ maṁ vijaniyan navamanyeta karhicit, na martya-buddhyasuyeta [SB 11.17.27].

So this dictation of Krṣṇa comes through the disciplic success, and if we follow the instruction of acarya, or spiritual master, then we are directly following the orders of Krṣṇa, and thus I become a bhagavad-duta. No more I am the duta or the follower of the dictation of my senses. And one who is bhagavad-duta, he is called gosvami, just like Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami. Whose life is dedicated to follow the dictation of Krṣṇa, they are gosvami. Gosvami is not a caste title, just like it has become in India. Gosvami... Rupa Gosvami was a minister. He was rejected by the brahmaṇa society, but Caitanya Mahaprabhu made him gosvami. He is the original gosvami. Why? Because he gave up the dictation of Nawab Shah but he followed the dictation of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Therefore he became gosvami, prabhupada. He became prabhupada. Prabhupada means the title or the respect which is given to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is called... Prabhu means master and pada means maryada, or the respect or the distinction. So bhagavad-duta, those who are strictly following the dictation of Krṣṇa under strict disciplinary chain of disciplic succession, he is Krṣṇa's representative and he should be given all the respect. Sakṣad-dharitvena samasta-sastraiḥ;. That is the verdict of all sastras.

And those who are actually Vaiṣṇava, they follow this instruction.

evaṁ te bhagavad-duta
yamadutabhibhaṣitam
upadharyatha tan rajan
pratyahur naya-kovidaḥ;
[SB 6.2.1]

Naya-kovidaḥ;. Naya-kovidaḥ; means nyaya-nipuṇa. Bhagavad-dutas, those who are gosvamis, they place everything with nyaya, or logic. Their instructions are not blind, dogmatic. Naya-kovidaḥ;. Everything, what is said by Krṣṇa or His representative, they are not dogmas. Those who are not representative of Krṣṇa, they will say simply dogmas. Just like in every religion there is a dogma. But in bhagavata religion, bhagavata-dharma, there is no dogma. Caitanya Mahaprabhu's bhagavata-dharma, the Caitanya-caritamrta's author, Krṣṇadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, says, therefore, that caitanyera dayara katha karaha vicara. Vicara means you just try to understand the gift of Lord Caitanya by logic, vicara. Don't follow blindly. Following blindly something, that is not good. That will not stay. But one should take everything with logic. But the servants of God, they put everything in logic. Caitanyera dayara katha karaha vicara. If you study the Caitanya's philosophy with logic and argument... Don't go by sentiment. The so-called missionary, they're simply bogus propaganda without any logic. Without any logic. Just like some missionary people are propagating a man to become God. How a man can become God? There must be evidences how God incarnates. Not that somebody by worshiping a demigod becomes God. So many false propaganda is going on. That is not logical at all. So one should be intelligent to understand the philosophy of Krṣṇa or philosophy of Lord Caitanya with logic and argument. Don't follow blindly. But once you accept, you cannot argue. You have to accept blindly. But before accepting, you take to logic. But when you accept, then don't go back. Then that is falldown. Naya-kovidaḥ;.

viṣṇuduta ucuḥ;
aho kaṣṭaṁ dharma-drsam
adharmaḥ; sprsate sabham
yatradaṇḍyeṣv apapeṣu
daṇḍo yair dhriyate vrtha

Now, he is regretting that "If the court is contaminated..." Court, everyone goes to the court to receive justice. But if the court is itself polluted, then how people will live? That has become the practice in the Kali-yuga. Anardhyena nyaya-rahitam.(?) In Kali-yuga, if you have no money, then you will not be able to get justice. Anardhyena nyaya-rahitam. As soon as you go to the court, immediately you'll have to appoint a pleader and pay him at least seventy-five rupees and then stamp duty, this and that, so many things—then bribe. Then bribe. You give bribe to this man, you give bribe to that man. Suppose you actually want some money from somebody. He has taken money, he is not paying, or something else. So you have to push good money after bad money. So money which is due from others—he is not paying—that has become a bad money. Good money means which is in your hand. That is good money. And if you are simply speculating that "I shall get this money from that person. I shall get this money from...," that is bad money. So there is an English proverb, perhaps you know all, "To push good money after bad money." So therefore sometimes intelligent persons, they do not go to the court because he knows that money which is not being paid... Before entering into agreement you should be very clever so that your money may not be bad money which you are advancing. But if somehow or other it has become bad money, don't try to put good money. Let that bad money go to hell. So better nowadays not to go to the court as far as possible. But you should deal with people in such a way... Just like I was advising you, just find out a respectable transporter, because the time is very bad. Otherwise it will become a bad money. You go for cheap thing, that "He will carry my goods free," but he will throw it away. Somebody will take away. Then your whole profit is gone. You should be very careful. And if you have to go to court, then it is still more bad. You see?

So we have to be very careful. The age is very bad, the Kali-yuga. You are experiencing. We have to simply take shelter of Krṣṇa and always cry,

krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, he!
krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, he!
krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, rakṣa mam!
krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, pahi mam!
krṣṇa, kesava, krṣṇa, kesava, krṣṇa, kesava, rakṣa mam!
rama raghava, rama raghava, rama raghava, pahi mam!

Like that, as Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught us. The time is very dangerous. And still, in this dangerous time... Just like in epidemic condition where every people is being contaminated and dying, still, the doctors appointed by the government, they have to go into the epidemic area and try to treat the person and save them. Our duty is like that. The whole atmosphere is epidemic, whole atmosphere, this Kali-yuga. And still, by the superior orders we have to preach this Krṣṇa consciousness movement. Therefore our only shelter is Krṣṇa. Krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, krṣṇa, rakṣa mam. Very dangerous position. The foolish people, they are thinking that "We are very happy and we are very safe." But nobody is safe. Nobody is safe. So we have to deal with persons very carefully, and at the same time, we have to push our missionary activities. Aho kaṣṭaṁ dharma-drsam.

So they are saying, dharma-drsaṁ sabham, sabha, sabham adharmaḥ; sprsate: "If in the court of justice these false things are bribing and without money nobody can get justice, these things happen, it becomes very troublesome."

aho kaṣṭaṁ dharma-drsam
adharmaḥ; sprsate sabham
yatradaṇḍyeṣv apapeṣu
daṇḍo yair dhriyate vrtha

Sabhaṁ yatra sabhayam, vaidharma dhigbhiḥ; esam tan saha.(?) "If the people who are administering justice, they become irreligious, impious, oh, how troublesome situation!" is the first acclamation. Then he says,

prajanaṁ pitaro ye ca
sastaraḥ; sadhavaḥ; samaḥ;
yadi syat teṣu vaiṣamyaṁ
kaṁ yanti saraṇaṁ prajaḥ;

"The citizens, they are just like innocent children, and the government is to be supposed as the father. So small children, they are completely dependent on father with full faith: 'My father is there. My mother is there.' And if the father and mother become contaminated, then where is the position of the children?" If the whole government is polluted, then what is the position of the citizens? Just see. There is so-called government, millions of rupees they are spending and taking salary, government house, but the praja, they have no security for their life income. Just see the position. So that is said here. Prajanaṁ pitaro ye ca sastaraḥ; sadhavaḥ; samaḥ;. How impartial they should be, how competent they should be to give protection to the citizens. And if they are polluted, if they are incapable and such government is there, then it is just like... Yadi syat teṣu vaiṣamyaṁ kaṁ yanti saraṇaṁ prajaḥ;. Then what is the condition of the citizens? Where they will go for protection?

That is the position now. This is called Kali-yuga. They have no other shelter. Now, these people are so frightened of their life and property; still, they cannot go to the... But it will happen in this age. Acchinna-dara-draviṇa gacchanti giri-kananam. Due to this rascal government people will be so much embarrassed that acchinna-dara-draviṇaḥ;: they will be separated from their wife, children, and money, and they will go to the forest. This will happen. They will go to the forest. Nobody wants to leave the company of wife, children, and property, but people will be forced. Just like we have seen already in the time of partition, the Muslims and Hindus. The Hindus were going away, and the Muslims were also going away. Nobody was happy, but the partition was made, and this was accepted as India's independence. This is called maya. They are going to be more dependent, more and more, and still, it was accepted as independence.

yad yad acarati sreyan
itaras tat tad ihate
sa yat pramaṇaṁ kurute
lokas tad anuvartate

If the head..., the heads of the society, whatever they do, general people follow them. Yad yad acarati sreyan. Sreyan means the leading personality. Yad yad acarati sreyan itaras tat tad ihate. And the general public, they follow them. Sa yat pramaṇaṁ kurute. What the leaders accept as good, the general public they also accept so. Sa yat pramaṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate. Pitaraḥ;. Pitr iva palakaḥ;. Now, here the government or the king is compared with the father. That is the position of father. Just like a father will never tolerate the killing of his child before him. He will give his own life. He will try to attack that person who has killed his child and give his own life: "I do not like to live." That is the position of government. But they are silent. They're silent. This is Kali-yuga. Sa yat pramaṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate.

yasyaṅke sira adhaya
lokaḥ; svapiti nirvrtaḥ;
svayaṁ dharmam adharmaṁ va
na hi veda yatha pasuḥ;

Just like if you put your head on some friend's lap and you sleep very nicely without any care, but the man on whose lap you are putting your head, if he is ungrateful—he is not faithful; he wants to cut your throat—then what is your position? This is going on.

So it is very nice discussion, very well, by the bhagavad-dutas. These are the speeches of the bhagavad-duta, not of the maya's duta. Maya-duta will say, "Oh, this is all right. This is all right." But this is the speech of the bhagavad-duta. Try to understand.

Thank you very much. Hare Krṣṇa.

Revatinandana: [break] ...the forest in Kali-yuga

Prabhupada: Just to take shelter to save their life—because one's own life is first consideration. "Self-preservation is the first law of nature." So when there is danger, people will give up their wife and property and go. Just like people are going. Yes. This will happen. In European countries also, when there was war, so many refugees. I have got one... I have heard. One Mr. McPherson, Englishman, he was known to me. He was coming to my shop. He stated that in the First World War, he was in the war, service, and some Belgium refugees came to France because Marshall Fox, he was in charge of that area, and when he was informed that so many refugees, mostly women and children, they have come, so he became so much disturbed that "Where shall I give them shelter in this warfield?" His advice was that "Blow them. Finish." So they were blown up. This is a practical... In warfield such things happen. "Who is going to take responsibility of so many women and children in this war?" They were blown up. They came to take shelter but they were blown up. Such things happen in war. Yes. Just like in your country the real policy—to continue the Vietnam—means they cannot manage these hippies, and they are trying to send them to Vietnam and kill them. That's all. That is the policy. They cannot manage. They cannot make them sane and normal condition. They have no such policy, neither they do know it. So what to do? "Blow him. We cannot manage them." Therefore they are continuing. That's all. This is the policy. Do you think? Eh? What do you think? This is my suggestion. "Unwanted persons, let them be finished." Just like this Marshall Fox did. "Unwanted refugees? Blow them." And killing and blowing, oh, this is very easy thing for the animal-eaters, for the maintainers of slaughterhouse. I hear that these Naxalites have taken to slaughterhouse to learn how to kill. Do you know that? Somebody was telling. Yes. Your husband was telling. So these Naxalites, they are taken to the slaughterhouse and they are taught how to kill. Therefore they do not care. Immediately beating by rocks, and as soon as he falls down, they go away, just like slaughterhouse. They are taught. And the military men, they are also taught like that, to become cruel. A very horrible position in this Kali-yuga. (laughter) Krṣṇa-nama koro bhai ara saba mithya. You take shelter of Krṣṇa; otherwise so many things will happen. (re: tape recorder:) So stop it. (end)

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