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Material existence means full of anxieties and desires. This is the sum and 
substance of material existence. Everyone is full of anxieties. Not only 
humans. There are so many bad news than good news when we read paper or see TV. 
So spiritual life means anxiety-less. This is the difference between material 
life and spiritual life. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma [Bg. 18.54], in the 
Bhagavad-gita it is described what is spiritual life. As soon as you are 
identified with the Absolute Truth, Brahman, then symptoms will be prasannatma, 
jubilation: "Oh, I do not belong to this material world. I belong to the 
spiritual world. I am part and parcel of Krsna. Why should I suffer so many 
things?" That is jubilation. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma [Bg. 18.54]. The 
prasannatma means na socati na kanksati. He has no lamentation, no hankering. 
Here people are always full of anxieties because they have got hankering, "I 
want this. I want that." And there is lamentation. What they possess, if it is 
lost, they cry, "Oh, my things are lost." And what they do not possess, they 
hanker. So their anxiety is there, either he possesses or not possesses. This 
is material anxiety. If you have no money, then you will hanker after money, 
"How to get money, how to get money, how to get money?" And when you get money, 
then how to utilize it, how to, where to keep it, in the bank, or in the house, 
or who will take away? Somebody will take away. So where is anxiety-less? You 
possess or not possess, the real disease is anxiety. So when one becomes 
brahma-bhuta, self-realized, identified with the Absolute Truth, then he has no 
more anxiety. This is the best education, when you become anxiety-less. That is 
perfection of education. 

So when Prahlada Maharaja, in Srimad Bhagavatham, was enquired by his father 
that "What nice thing you have studied, my dear boy, in your school?" so he 
replied, "My dear father, the best education I have received, how to become 
anxiety-less." That's all. Tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam. "Not only for 
me, but for everyone. But you will not understand, my dear father, because you 
are demon number one." He is addressing his father, asura-varya, asura-varya. 
Asura means demon, and varya, varya means the first-class. He is not addressing 
his father as "My dear father," "My dear best of the atheists." Therefore his 
father was very angry, "This child, he talks with me on equal level and does 
not fear me. Kill him!" Asura. He is prepared to kill his son even, if he does 
not agree with him. You see. We are also prepared. If one is not devotee, if he 
is son, we can kill him. The same. But our is for Krsna, and the asuras is for 
himself. That is the difference. He wants to do everything for his personal 
satisfaction, and we want to do everything for Krsna's satisfaction. That is 
the difference. The same propensities are there, but when it is applied for 
Krsna, then it is purified, and when it is applied for personal self, it is 
impure. This is the difference.

So Prahlada Maharaja said, "The best education is that which makes one 
anxiety-free." That is best education. Now where is that education? Is there 
any education throughout the whole world, in so many universities, especially 
in your country there are nice, very, very... Rather, they have created so much 
anxieties that the boys, they are frustrated. They are giving up everything, 
Where is anxiety-less? They increase anxiety. Increase anxiety. Tat sadhu manye 
'sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam. "My dear father, the best of the 
asuras, I think that anyone who has accepted this material body is full of 
anxieties." Asad-grahat. Asad-grahat means..., asat means temporary. Because he 
has accepted a body which is temporary, he is full of anxieties. That is the 
real problem. We, if we want to be anxiety-less, no anxiety, then we have to 
refuse to accept this material body. Otherwise there is no possibility. All 
anxieties are due to this material body. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said, tat 
sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat.

This is the problem. Now somehow or other, we have come in contact with this 
material body. We, "I am not this material body, you are not this material... 
We are soul." That realization required, that "I am not this material body. 
Therefore I am not Indian, I am not white, I am not black. I am pure soul." 
Aham brahmasmi. This is the real business of human society. Athato brahma 
jijnasa. The swine is enquiring, "Where is stool? Where is stool? Where is 
stool?" But a human being is also engaged for that purpose, "Where is stool?" 
or "Where is food?" Stool is his food, and we are also, whole day and night 
with motorcar going this or, "Where is food? Where is food?" Diva carthehaya 
rajan kutumba-bharanena va [SB 2.1.3]. The whole day is spent, so many 
motorcars going this way and that way. What is the business? "Where is money? 
Where is food? Where is shelter?" And as soon as you get shelter, money, and 
food, kutumba-bharanena va. Then "How to feed my children, how to feed my wife, 
how to feed my country, how to..., society?" That's all. This is anxiety. This 
is anxiety. They... Nidraya hriyate naktam. At night they want to become 
anxiety-less by sleeping or by sex life. They want to forget anxiety. This is 
their business. Nidraya hriyate naktam. They think that "If I sleep, then I 
shall be... Let me drink so at night there will be very deep sleep." That is 
not possible. You dream very ferocious dream, you are dreaming. 
So these are not the methods. Method is, here it is recommended by Arjuna, 
vasudeva-anudhyanam. Anudhyanam. Anu means constantly, and dhyanam means 
meditation. They have manufactured so many meditation -- without Vasudeva. That 
so-called transcendental meditation club and yogasana, but go there, what you 
meditate upon? Zero. That is there. They cannot say, "What is that meditation? 
And where is that transcendental meditation?" No rascal will be able to 
explain. But they'll call big, big words, "Transcendental meditation." And what 
is that transcendental meditation? Please explain. "Oh, that cannot be 
explained." You see. Is it not? But we have got (indistinct), 
vasudeva-anudhyanam. You just say. Vasudevanghry-anudhyana-paribrmhita-ramhasa. 
Here is Vasudeva, Krsna. You come here and see, very minutely, how Vasudeva is 
dressed nicely, how He is playing on His flute, how He is situated with His 
eternal consort, Srimati Radharani, how He is enjoying her company. So nice 
thing for meditation. But why you are after zero? Just see the rascaldom. Here 
is such nice object for meditation, and they are trying to meditate upon zero. 
Therefore Bhagavad-gita says, klesah adhikataras tesam avyaktasakta-cetasam. 
Klesa, that "Trouble is more." We can meditate upon Krsna, immediately. We are 
constantly seeing Krsna here. So as soon as I close my eyes, I see Krsna. That 
is not very difficult. Anything you see, you'll be able to immediately have the 
form within your heart, immediately. So there is no difficulty, but they will 
create some difficult task. Therefore Bhagavad-gita (says), klesah adhikataras 
tesam. To fix up the mind on Vasudeva, or Visnu, that is also difficult. But 
those who are trying to fix up their mind on zero, their position is more 
difficult, adhikataram. Adhikataram means more.

So people are voluntarily accepting some nonsense method, and they are not 
happy. That is their misfortune. Misfortune. Naradhama. The, everything is 
there, but because they do not know... Duskrtina, naradhama. Duskrtina, 
duskrtina means misfortunate, or always engaged in sinful activities. They'll 
not meditate upon Vasudeva; they'll meditate on something, some color, some 
zero, or something like that. We do not know what kind of meditation there is. 
But real meditation, recommended in the Vedas, dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa 
pasyanti yam yoginah [SB 12.13.1]. Yogi. Yogis see the Supreme Personality of 
Godhead by meditation. Meditation, dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa, mind is 
absorbed in the Supreme Personality. That is the real process of yoga system 
and meditation -- to see the form of Visnu. Dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa, 
this is the recommended process, standard recommended process.

So here, if you simply think of Krsna -- Krsna recommends also that, man-mana 
bhava mad-bhaktah. This Krsna consciousness movement is nothing, just to train 
people how to think of Krsna and how to become devotee of Krsna. That's all. So 
you may become devotee... But you will become devotee. If you think of Krsna, 
naturally you will become devotee. So... But think of Krsna, is it very 
difficult task? Very simple, very easy, even a child can do it. Here is Krsna. 
You can think of. So you go on thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, you will 
be attached. You will be attached. You will be attached. Adau sraddha tatah 
sadhu-sangah. And thinking of Krsna in association of the devotees. Not alone, 
then you will go to hell. Alone will not do. Association is so strong that 
anyone who is coming to our association, we..., not that we are everyone 
teaching, but by association, he wants to become devotee. By association, 
automatically. So the association is so powerful. Therefore Narottama dasa 
Thakura says,

tandera carana-sevi-bhakta-sane vasa
janame janame haya ei abhilasa

He is praying, "My dear Lord, this is my ambition, birth after birth." What is 
that? "That to be engaged in the service of the acarya guru, and in the 
association of devotees. This is perfection." Janame janame haya ei: "This is 
my desire. I don't want to stop my birth, but simply I want that I may take 
birth -- it doesn't matter -- but bhakta-sane vasa, let me live with the 
devotees and chant your Names always. My only prayer is that this should be the 
ultimate aim of my life.



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