June 4, 1969 Initiation NV – Bhagavan and krishna-bhamini marriage.

Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma [SB 5.5.4]. Vikarma means the actions which we should not have done. Why? Yad indriya-prītaya āpṛṇoti. Indriya, indriya means sense. Prītaya means satisfaction. Simply for the satisfaction of the senses. If one is philosopher, he can understand, “Why we should be so much busy for sense gratification?”

Now we can give one example. Everyone is trying, working hard for his sense gratification. Nobody is trying… Suppose if I say that “I want to satisfy my senses in this way. Will you kindly work for it?” Nobody will… “Oh, why I shall work for you? You can work for your own satisfaction.” Nobody will.

So if that is the position, that I want to satisfy my senses—whether the senses are mine? That they do not know. What are the senses? The senses means this body. If this body actually belongs to me, then of course there is meaning that I satisfy my senses of this body. But if we philosophically see whether this body belongs to me…

It is very doubtful whether this body belongs to me, because I have got this body from my father and mother. So it may belong to my father and mother.

Or if I am a slave, then it may belong to my master.
Or even if I am not slave, because I belong to some state, this body belongs to the state.
Immediately if the state calls, “Come on. You sacrifice your body in the Vietnam,” oh, you have to do that.

So in this way, if you analytically study, you’ll see the body does not belong to you. Then why should you be so much dexterous to satisfy?

Just try to understand. I am NOT interested to satisfy the senses of YOUR body; I am interested to satisfy the senses of my body. But if this body does not belong to me, then why should we be so much expert in satisfying the senses?

Therefore they are called pramattaḥ, intensely intoxicated. That is philosophical vision that “This body does not belong to me.” Therefore Kṛṣṇa’s name is Hṛṣīkeśa.

I am claiming this hand “my hand,” but as soon as it is paralyzed, it is no more my hand; it is physician’s hand or Kṛṣṇa’s hand or somebody’s hand. In this way we have to study. This is called philosophical vision. So Bhāgavata says they are mad after sense gratification, as a result of which he’s getting different types of body.

Because body does not belong to him. Just like if you pay different types of rents, you get different types of apartment. If you pay nicely, you get very good apartment in New York, in Fifth Avenue or something like that. Or if you cannot pay, then… Similarly, we are getting this apartment, body, under different condition. So we should understand that we have to get such a nice body that no more we’ll have to change. That should be the destination of one’s progress. That they do not know.

So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is just to put before this bewildered human society what is the destination of his life. The destination is… Everywhere in Vedic literature we’ll find. Just like Bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa, is saying in the Bhagavad-gītā, in the Tenth Chapter,

mām upetya kaunteya
duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam
nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ
saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ