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Whatever we take from the material world is like bhoga Posted: 11 May 2012 02:47 PM PDT (HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, April 2012) Lecture: SB 5.12.5-6 Sometimes we see in our movement a philosophy that is developing, that a long time ago the devotees would only appreciate other devotees and the rest of the world were,'meat eating karmi demons!' Fortunately we have evolved from that platform and now actually we are having a lot of appreciation for a lot of the things that are going on out there. That's very good, of course. In another sense there are meat eating karmi demons. What can we say? It's not that we want to label the whole world like that but there certainly are such people also in the world – they do eat meat. They are only interested in sense gratification, and they are outright demons. So we can be respectful and yet not gullible and that is very interesting. We can respect everyone and try to find the good in a person without buying into everything such as whether the person is believing, writing or saying and so on. Therefore Ravindra Svarupa Dasa was once making this analogy that I remembered. He says: 'Just as we are taking bhoga, we have to take the bhoga and make it suitable for offering to Krishna. We have to cut off some parts and clean it, and with this and that; prepare it properly and then we can offer it.' So he says: 'Whatever we take from the material world (or from the material sources) is like bhoga. It has to be purified. Some parts have to be cut out and then the useful part is properly prepared and then alright we can offer it to Krishna!' I thought that, that really shed some light on our relationship with the world. Rating: 0.0/7 (0 votes cast)

You’re still a child, you never grow up Posted: 11 May 2012 10:56 AM PDT Bg 2.17, 21 mar 2012, Cape Town, South Africa. “You’re still a child, you never grow up, as long as you want to play with the material energy, then you will always be a child… If we see what children are doing, they’re cute, they’re nice, nothing wrong with them, but it is a waste of time. Children are the biggest time wasters in the universe. They do all kinds of things, like nonsense things, ridiculous things, what a waste of energy… endlessly running up, running down, running up, running down, running up, running down, for nothing. The biggest time wasters. So, playing is in a way wasting time. Building sandcastles is wasting time. Playing with the material energy, wasting time. Getting rich… richie rich, and then getting poor, poor. It goes like that. What goes up must come down, so it’s a waste of time. Trying to manipulate the material energy. Wether it is the body or not. Wether we are playing with other objects, trying to enjoy them or wether we are trying to enjoy through our body and playing with the material body, through sexual activities, then we play with the bodies. It’s playing. Playing with the material energy. So it’s a waste of time. It’s childish. When one becomes mature, one day,  then we have to stop playing and we just spend all our time in serving Krsna and then we become full.” - Kadamba Kanana Swami Rating: 0.0/7 (0 votes cast)

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