Are all svakiya relationships in this world false?
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The parakhya is the reality in the sense that Ultimately Actually Krishna Whatever he wants For reciprocating love That is what happens in the spiritual world And the spiritual world is eternal reality Now in this world it just Occurs illusion in the sense that Actually I may say that these are my children This is my family But actually they don’t belong to us Their relationship is there Right now it is temporary So Now The temporary can be approached In two ways One is the temporary can be rejected Or dismissed That is one way of looking at it Another way of looking at it Temporary is important while it exists So You see The Bhagavad Gita itself is more dynamic Krishna tells Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita 2.13 That you are not the body of the soul And right in the next two words Krishna refers to Arjuna by two names Which are both related with the world Matras, Parasharati, Kaunte So Kaunte In Bharata Bharata is the descendant of Bharata Kaunte is the son of Kunti If you are not your body then how are you the descendant of Bharata How are you the Son of Kunti See there is Philosophically It is true that we are not the body But while we are living in the world The body’s reality is also reality So Prabhupada explains that by force That actually Krishna is Prabhupada says that Belonging to a respectable Dynasty brings responsibility to act Respectfully So the idea is that One Understand that I am the soul But acting at the level of the soul is not easy And If any material designation Can inspire us to Act Dharmically Then that is Uncool to do So for example Tolerate is not easy But Arjuna you are Son of a great queen You can do great things So the idea is The material if it comes in the way of the spiritual It has to reject it But the material If it can assist us in the spiritual Krishna Prabhupada would do that When for example he brought his American disciples to India During the first Pandal festival The whole world sees Americans As the leaders of the world Now what is the use of you all being Americans Unless you do something special for Krishna Prabhupada’s classes told him you are not an American But the function is that The body is telepathic The same Prabhupada When he is speaking to Indians In Hindi he says Bhagavad Gita is an Indian text But to teach Bhagavad Gita in India We have to bring foreigners You learn Bhagavad Gita And you teach There is a lot of market Actually India Bhagavad Gita is an Indian book But you Indians are not teaching it Suppose India had to bring foreigners to teach it But you learn it, you teach it And there is a big market all over So what is Prabhupada doing If the Indian identity is favorable for bhakti Prabhupada is using it So From the ultimate spiritual perspective The relationships of this world The relationships of this world They are to be given But while living in this world They can be important They can be useful So we use it If it can be used I have a relationship And that relationship makes me responsible And that relationship helps me to function in a proper way Then that relationship becomes useful And we can use it So ultimately no one belongs to me That is true But while practicing, while living in this world If it is favorable for bhakti You should act according to the nature of that relationship Or that relationship So just looking at the epitome of