LecturePrabhupada's first evening class was based on Chapter 13 of Bhagavad-gita, verses 22-24. Prabhupada explained how, out of ignorance, the living entities in the material world were claiming to be the enjoyer, purusa, when in actual fact they were prakrti, the enjoyed. Ultimately, Krsna was the supreme enjoyer."Just like in this temple. Who is the enjoyer? Krsna is the enjoyer. We are helping in Krsna's enjoyment. Krsna will eat something very nice. Our business is to prepare it nicely and offer to Krsna. He is the enjoyer. He is enjoying His flute in the company of Srimati Radharani. So His very position is enjoyer and we are His servants. We don't claim that we are on an equal level with Krsna. That is not our philosophy. We claim to be servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna. This is our position."Srila Prabhupada glanced lovingly at the altar: "Krsna has become your guest. Just like you have brought Krsna here. He is very kind. Because you are devotees, you want to serve Krsna, so Krsna has come in your temple in a form which you can very easily serve. Krsna does not require your service, but He is so kind that He is accepting your service. You are bathing the Deity, you are dressing the Deity, offering flowers, garlands, and whatever preparations you can make, you are offering Krsna. So Krsna has accepted your service in a form which you can handle. That is His energy. And if you want to serve Krsna in His gigantic form, His universal form, you do not know where to catch Him. That is not possible."The secret of real enjoyment, Prabhupada concluded, was allowing oneself to be enjoyed by Krsna. "The devotees are always anxious, 'Here, Krsna is the enjoyer, and we are the enjoyed'. So our business is to see how I am being enjoyed by Krsna, by serving Him. This is devotion, this is Krsna consciousness. So long you want to enjoy this material world, you are in the material world. And as soon as you offer yourself to be enjoyed by Krsna as servant, according to His order you serve, then immediately you are in the spiritual world. So you can become in the material world or the spiritual world as you desire. If you want to remain in the spiritual world, this temple is the spiritual world. We are not living in Melbourne. This temple is not Melbourne. It is Vaikuntha. It is Vrndavana."-------To make up for Dipak's disappointing attempts at lunch, Srila Prabhupada asked him to make urad dal kacauris that night. While Prabhupada spoke at the temple, Dipak stayed back at the house to prepare them. After soaking, grinding and spicing the filling, and preparing the pastry, Dipak cooked a big plate of the flaky, golden-brown delicacies the way Srila Prabhupada liked them: cooked once in hot ghee to puff them, then cooled and re-cooked a second time until they turned reddish. Srila Prabhupada enjoyed the crisp pastries with their tasty filling very much, and ate a few with mango pickle and hot milk.- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu
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