SB 5.18.9: May there be good fortune throughout the universe, and may all envious persons be pacified. May all living entities become calm by practicing bhakti-yoga, for by accepting devotional service they will think of each other's welfare. Therefore let us all engage in the service of the supreme transcendence, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and always remain absorbed in thought of Him.

SB 5.18.10: My dear Lord, we pray that we may never feel attraction for the prison of family life, consisting of home, wife, children, friends, bank balance, relatives and so on. If we do have some attachment, let it be for devotees, whose only dear friend is Kṛṣṇa. A person who is actually self-realized and who has controlled his mind is perfectly satisfied with the bare necessities of life. He does not try to gratify his senses. Such a person quickly advances in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whereas others, who are too attached to material things, find advancement very difficult.

SB 5.18.11: By associating with persons for whom the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Mukunda, is the all in all, one can hear of His powerful activities and soon come to understand them. The activities of Mukunda are so potent that simply by hearing of them one immediately associates with the Lord. For a person who constantly and very eagerly hears narrations of the Lord's powerful activities, the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead in the form of sound vibrations, enters within his heart and cleanses it of all contamination. On the other hand, although bathing in the Ganges diminishes bodily contaminations and infections, this process and the process of visiting holy places can cleanse the heart only after a long time. Therefore who is the sane man who will not associate with devotees to quickly perfect his life?

Root Cause of All Problems:

1. To identify and spot the problems in the world is not very difficult. There are innumerable number of problems that one can list out. But to find the root cause of the problems is what is important.

2. Unless the root cause of all problems is identified, it is not possible to provide permanent solution to the problems of the world.  The root cause of all the problems is envy.

3. Envy means when there's someone higher in position than me, I either want to grow above them or push them down from their position and when there's somone lower than me, I have to keep them there always. Material word means I envy upon you and you envy upon me. We are also envious of our own family members, children that we dont allow them to attain God consciousness.

4. Our constitutional position is to be a servant of the Lord. The position of Krishna or the Supreme Lord's position is so high that having seen Him in that position we envied upon Him and wanted to take that position. Right at that moment we got into dualities of Desire(to enjoy separately) and Hatred(of Krishna being in that high position) and fell down from the spiritual world and get caught in the cycle of material miseries of birth , death, disease, oldage.

5. We not only envied the Supreme Lord but our fellow beings, our siblings. We are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord also envy upon our own self and that way we are not allowing ourselves to get back to the natural state of being servant of the Lord.

6. People say I dont envy upon anyone and say that I am only engage in charity, friendship kindness etc. Krishna say 'bhoktaram yajya tapasam..' I am the enjoyer, the controller of all the planetary systems,  the well-wisher and friend of all beings. When we say I want to make friends with everyone and I am caring everyone in the world, we are trying to take the position of Krishna which is impossible.

7. The material desires are with us in our mind(heart) life after life after life...Over and over again and again we have been trying to enjoy the matter in various ways. This is our heart disease which cannot be cured by any medicine or even by death. Because the same mind goes to the next life and have to suffer with the disease of envy at heart.

8. Our material desires are compared to demons. And Prahlad Maharaj prays on behalf of the residents of Hari Varsa. He does not have these material desires but he takes the position of representing the residents of the place of Hari-Varsa.

9. The material desires especially the lust is compared to fire. Fire burns everything to ashes. To fulfill the desires of lust is to feed the fire. A cute small 6 inch fire will keep crying and asking feed me, feed me. If a child is hungry it will cry and when we give some food to eat, it will calm down. But this fire when we fuel with two pieces of wood it will consume that and grow bigger and ask for 4 pieces of wood, 8 pieces of wood and finally it will consume the whole house if it is fed.

10. The practitioners of Jnana Yoga thinks that fire is the problem so lets get rid of the fire. Lets get rid of the material desire which has been burning us all these while. So their renunciation is not very easy and again it is sure that the material desires flow in the mind like rivers gushing into the Ocean. 

11. The rivers are always having waves and it cannot be stopped by any artificial means. Our minds are also disturbed by the incessant flow of material desires all the time and causing us to get trapped into this world(rebirth, death, disease, oldage) by its further reactions.

12. In conclusion it is not possible to stop the waves of the river by anyone by their endeavor of self alone. So Prahlad Maharaj admits this fact and is praying to Lord Nrsimhadev to enter into his heart and rip of the demons of the material desires with His sharp nails and long teeth. When the tides of the Ocean rise above the waves of the river, the river is overflooded and the tides are high above the waves of the river. The tides of the ocean are compared to the desires to perform devotional service and to stay in Krishna consciousness and the waves of river to the material desires.

13. Home, wife, children, friends, bank balance, relatives which a materialistic person considers as those that protect are fallible soldiers because they cannot protect one's self from death. Only the holy names of the Lord can protect. No one else can protect anyone in this world.

14. Lord Nrsimhadev is asking Prahlada Maharaj to ask for boon that he is ready to offer anything. Prahlad maharaj says that he is not having any business with the Lord for he is completely satisfied in the relationship that he is the servant and the Lord his master always. If at all if the Lord wants to give some benediction he is requesting the Lord to give the benediction that he always wants to get detached from mundane people and always wants to get attached to the devotees of the Lord. Because the devotees are always dear to the Lord and the Lord is dear to His devotees.

15. We have to refrain associating with the mundane people because  by associating with them we will get all the bad qualities like accumulating wealth that is more than required, eating more than required, committing sinful activities. When one is not purified in the activities of eating(by eating only the remnants of the offered food), sleeping(when the actions in day are pure, the dreams will also be pure), mating(by only using it for procreation), fearing(not undergoing too much hardships to worry about the future and taking shelter of too many artificial fallible soldiers. The whole material civilization is fearing the future of economy getting crashed because they lack faith in Krishna. Insurance, Stock market all are based on the fear of future)

16. The whole economy is based on the false things of just papers. Actually it should be based on grains and agriculture. Even gold cannot be eaten. Today's world is based on the competitive sense gratification and oppression. People are oppressed by excessive tax and the economy of paper based civilization is false and it might crash anytime. 

17. There's no poverty for anything in this world but for Krishna consciousness. The living entities are like child, they are trapped in the fruitive activities and they dont know how to get rid of the cycle of birth and death. They werent able to solve the problems of birth and death and so they dont even talk about that. Why do we fear death? We have been dying billions of times and deep down inside our hearts we all know that we will have to take birth again and so there's so much fear for death. We can see that when children have their vacation , they say they dont know what to do? Mother asks play outside tennis, watch tv, swim, play chess etc. The kids get bored of all this and they say they have already done everything in the past. There's nothing in this world that gives us the satisfaction for the soul in this world. We have tried everything in every nook and corner of this world, but no satisfaction. Only the topics concerning the Lord are the ones which will satisfy the heart of the conditioned souls. 

18. So we have to give the conditioned souls an opportunity to free themselves. This is the duty of everyone born in the Bharata Varsha. It is the Order of Lord Caitanya. No one in this material universe knows the solution to the problems. Every living entity is suffering with the same problems of envy in the whole of this material universe.

19. When one begins to associate with the Lord, one attains the perfect state of being, full of bliss, intelligent, because the Lord is all knowledgeable, blissful and perfect. To associate with the Lord one has to associate with His devotees. There are two things person Bhagavata and book Bhagavata. Book Bhagavata - Literary incarnation of the Lord. By serving the person Bhagavata one attains the love for Krishna and association with Krishna. Krishna says one who is my devotee is not actually a devotee but the one who is a devotee of My devotee is a real  devotee. Reading Srimad Bhagavatam is direclty associating with the Lord in the literary form and can keep one away from all contamination and make oneself happy.

20. None of the charitable work, hospitals, schools can give satisfaction for the soul and liberate the souls trapped under material conditioning. Actually educating the conditioned souls about their trapped condition is real welfare activity. Ahimsa also means not tolerating the violence in front of us. If someone is running at full speed to the edges of a hill in fron of us, we should be stopping them from doing so. Otherwise we are also consider an accomplice in the crime. 

All glories to HG.Prithusrava Prabhu and Danakeli mataji for giving their association and mercy by visiting Omaha and enlightening us. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

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