Rising above by Kadamba Kanana Swami

In the age of kali, the general populace consists of two kinds of people – animals and hypocrites. Animals that are the blatantly degraded ones and hypocrites act as if they are not degraded but actually are! These are the only two classes of people will we can find in this age. Hypocrites walk around in nicely polished suits and with their snobbish noses are looking down on others that are so degraded but they too engage in so many sinful activities, hidden and secretly.

So without Krsna consciousness there is no question of not being sinful, it is not possible! One will be implicated just by social custom and social practice. Therefore in this way, everyone is on a sinful platform.

Early this morning, when they served breakfast on the plane just before we landed in Frankfurt I had a close-up smell and look at everyone being sinful. It was intense! At 4:30 instead of mangala arati there were all kinds of non-vegetarian items surrounding me! It was gross! People start the day plunging into these things thinking that it is perfectly normal!

Source:https://www.kksblog.com/2017/01/rising-above/

Prabhupada: Mayayapahrta-jnana asuram bhavam asritah. Last day we have been discussing four classes of men who come to God and four classes of men who do not come to God. The four classes of men who do not come to God, they are impious, foolish, lowest of the mankind, and their knowledge is taken away by the illusory energy and they are atheists.

na mam duskrtino mudhah
prapadyante naradhamah
mayayapahrta-jnana
asuram bhavam asritah
[Bg. 7.15]

We have discussed this point in detail. The next, that four classes of men, arto artharthi jnani ca bharatarsabha... Arto jijnasur artharthi jnani ca bharatarsa... Four classes of men who are pious but at the same time distressed, poverty-stricken, and inquirous, and inquisitive of transcendental knowledge, and jnani, and philosopher, jijnasu, inquisitive and philosopher -- these four classes of men, they come to God.

Now, so far the four classes of men who do not come to God... That means the impious, the foolish, the lowest of the mankind, whose knowledge has been taken away by the illusory energy, and the atheists. Apart from these classes of men, the four classes of men who come to God, just like arta, distressed, inquisitive, artharthi... Artharthi means poverty-stricken. And jnani means philosopher. Now, out of these four classes, Lord Krsna says, tesam jnani nitya-yukta eka-bhaktir visisyate: "Out of these four classes, men, one who is philosophically trying to understand the nature of God with devotion, with Krsna consciousness, he is visisyate."

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Adikavi dasa May 12, 2018 at 9:32pm

Prabhupada: Mayayapahrta-jnana asuram bhavam asritah. Last day we have been discussing four classes of men who come to God and four classes of men who do not come to God. The four classes of men who do not come to God, they are impious, foolish, lowest of the mankind, and their knowledge is taken away by the illusory energy and they are atheists.

na mam duskrtino mudhah
prapadyante naradhamah
mayayapahrta-jnana
asuram bhavam asritah
[Bg. 7.15]

We have discussed this point in detail. The next, that four classes of men, arto artharthi jnani ca bharatarsabha... Arto jijnasur artharthi jnani ca bharatarsa... Four classes of men who are pious but at the same time distressed, poverty-stricken, and inquirous, and inquisitive of transcendental knowledge, and jnani, and philosopher, jijnasu, inquisitive and philosopher -- these four classes of men, they come to God.

Now, so far the four classes of men who do not come to God... That means the impious, the foolish, the lowest of the mankind, whose knowledge has been taken away by the illusory energy, and the atheists. Apart from these classes of men, the four classes of men who come to God, just like arta, distressed, inquisitive, artharthi... Artharthi means poverty-stricken. And jnani means philosopher. Now, out of these four classes, Lord Krsna says, tesam jnani nitya-yukta eka-bhaktir visisyate: "Out of these four classes, men, one who is philosophically trying to understand the nature of God with devotion, with Krsna consciousness, he is visisyate."

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