M. in Calcutta - Part3 - 2.5 mins

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Jai Sri Guru-sri-charana-aravindaya
Jai Sri Ram!

M. (to Kartik) -- Yes Doctor, which verse of the Gita?

Kartik --(Gita VII : 14) 

M. also began to repeat with him. The Doctor knows the whole Gita by heart.

M (to the bhaktas) -- Just see. The Lord says: My maya is uncrossable, that is, it is almost impossible to cross over. But then by taking refuge in Me alone it is possible to go beyond maya, that is to conquer the world, to subjugate nature. This is only possible by His grace. Impossible otherwise. Entrapped by the five elements, Brahman weeps and laments.

Taking up a body, the internal lust, anger and greed, and external grief, suffering and poverty -- all are inevitable. Prakriti must play its role. Thakur suffered from cancer for ten months. Ah! what a tribulation! Why this suffering? To teach humanity; to take a body is to entail all this. Once, under the bakul tree he felt the sex urge. So he said to the Mother, `If this happens Ma, I shall pass the knife over my throat.' Just see, even such an avatara, even he feels lustful, suffers from disease. One day, Thakur said, `I saw the flower of pumpkin in a dream.' A bhakta said, `May I bring it for you to eat?' He answered, `No. So much worthless trash do I see in dream.' Just see, taking up a body, even the avatara does everything just like a human-being -- sees pumpkin and gourd in dream. This is what is called: `Entrapped by the five elements, Brahman weeps and laments.' But even then God has to be sought after.