Gopi Gita Part 1 – SB 10.33.1-4: “Krishna, please appear before us” (Janmashtami class)

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You can go next, yeah have the second slide, so I’ll first give a background, for this I’m going to discuss how we will go ahead with this discussion, as mentioned, I write a, you can go back, so, as mentioned I write everyday a small reflection on the Bhagavad Gita, so today morning I wrote about how the goal of spiritual life is to make spiritual life our goal, the goal of spiritual life is to make spiritual life our goal, what that means is, many people think that spiritual life is something which is an optional stress reliever, you know sometimes I have a material life and that’s the real life, and whenever I need a break from that, some people may watch movies, some people do spiritual activities, so that’s the idea people have, that is good, any way we approach spiritual life, any way we approach Krishna, that is good, but actually spiritual life can offer us much more than stress relief, it can offer us even more distress, actually, for many people in today’s society, people may not even know about Krishna, so that’s why the Janmashtami are about opportunities when they can bring Krishna into their life, because they come to know about Krishna, not just as some historical, ideological figure, but as a transcendental person, as a supreme lord, so that is the first step in spiritual life, that we bring Krishna into our life, however when Krishna descends to this world, he doesn’t descend just so that we bring him into our lives, he descends so that that is the way, but Krishna has no eternal abode in this spiritual world, and that is where we belong, and that is what we always know, although we may not know about it right now, so we all long for happiness, we all long for love, so we all long for happiness, we all long for love, and all the happiness and all the love that our heart longs for, that is fulfilled in our relationship with Krishna, so therefore Krishna descends to this world to invite us back to the eternal life of love, and when Krishna descends, he does two things, in the Bhagavad Gita, when you ask people what is the purpose why Krishna comes, they know the answer, it was 4.7 and 8 in the Bhagavad Gita, so, Krishna comes again in the Gita, what? so he comes to this channel, he comes to destroy, or to deliver his creats, and he comes to free the devotees, this is true, but these are two different things, after Narmada is established, what after that? Narmada doesn’t just mean that order is established, order is for a particular purpose,