How can we be Krishna conscious by taking what is in our consciousness to Krishna?

So now, what does bring what is in our consciousness to Krishna mean? It means, it can mean two broad things. One is that when we live in the world, so there are certain internal things, internally we are attracted to certain things, and externally there are some attractive things. Now we can call the external attractive things as maya, as sense objects, and that is true, but that’s one way of looking at it.

We could call them as these external objects, we could call them as vishaya. Vishaya is sense objects. But another way of looking at this is, it is vibhuti.

It’s what Krishna talks about in the 10th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. There are many attractive things in this world, and if we can develop the vision to see that the attractiveness of these objects comes from Krishna, then this is already in our consciousness and we can connect with Krishna. So if somebody has a great interest for art or music or decoration or whatever it is that they have interest in, then those things will naturally be there in their consciousness.

And can they connect that with Krishna? Okay, so for them they can remember Krishna in many different ways, but if they have to do some art, they just get completely immersed. If they have like, they all get into some music, they get completely transported to another domain. So what is naturally in our consciousness, that could be because maybe that person grew up in a place where there was a lot of beautiful art, a lot of musical culture was there, whatever it is.

It could be externally, it could be internally. So internally, when we are internally attracted to something, we can say that that is, in a negative sense, it’s our vasana. We all have lust, anger, greed, all this.

But our internal attraction could also be the vritti that we have according to our varna. Varna means, it’s not simply category of Brahman, Kshatriya or Shiva. It’s actually the natural attraction of our consciousness to certain things.

So if we are naturally attracted to some things, then we could use those to connect with Krishna and to serve Krishna thereby. So what does this mean practically? That if we already have some natural interests or talents, so say if somebody has a lot of interest in say, architecture, then would say the interest in architecture is mundane. Or maybe they say, I like to see different architecture, but let me look at say, architecture that is connected with sacred things.

Maybe what kind of temples were built? What is the architecture in that? So the interest in architecture is already in our consciousness. We can bring it to Krishna. So to bring what is in our consciousness to Krishna, that is also one way to cultivate Krishna consciousness.

And that way, because that thing is already in our consciousness, it will be easier for us. We can very, you could say comfortably and joyfully connect with Krishna in this way. So it is important for all of us to find that.

It is important to help our children find that. I was in America and staying in one devotee’s home and I was in, America is here only. So anyway, so this is the only that the mother is a double PhD, the father is a PhD, the brilliant, you know, that those combined genes are there in their kid.

So this kid, he was 10 and he was in the, he was in the part of the American National Robotics team. Apparently, the robotics Olympiad is there. And he was going to represent America.

And I was talking with the kid, he was brilliant. And then his mother was telling me, till 5, he was very interested in Krishna. And then he discovered robots and he forgot Krishna.

So now, he was always talking about robots only. So then I was talking to the parent, then this boy came and started talking with him. And then I asked him that, when you make robots for these competitions, what kind of robots do you make? So he said that mostly it’s Amazon which is funding the robotics industry.

They want very efficient robots for packing, unpacking, transporting. They want to replace labor with robots as much as possible. So they are the main driver.

So robots with efficient movements of body. That’s what we look for. So then when I was asking a few questions about robots, it was, he was so enthusiastic.

It was like the Ganga flowing through his mouth. When my pundit asked Keshav Kashyap to glorify Ganga, he spoke 100 words spontaneously. So I felt he was so enthusiastic.

I asked him that, in these robotic competitions, do you like innovative ideas? He said, yeah, innovation is appreciated very much. Then I said, what do you think about making a robot of Krishna speaking the verses of the Gita? So he said, no, that’s not a good idea. And he walked away.

Then I continued talking with his parents. And after five minutes, he came back, you know, that’s not such a bad idea. Nobody else will think like this.

And then he said, nowadays there’s this whole emphasis on diversity and inclusivity. So I’ll think about it. Then a week later, his parents called me and he says, you know, he’s now reading the Bhagavad Gita to find out which verses will sound cool on his robot.

So the idea is that if there are some things you’re naturally attracted to, we don’t have to simply dismiss them as mundane. Sometimes we have to be a little more creative in seeing how those things can be connected with Krishna. So let’s bring what is in our consciousness to Krishna.

Thank you very much.