Dharma Sthapana

Om Ajñāna Te Mirandasya, Jñānānājana Śavakaya, Chakṣurunilitaṁ yena, Tasmae Śrī Puravenamah. E Krishna Karuna Sindho Dina Bandho Jagat Pate Gopisha Gopika Kanta Rada Kanta Namastude Taktakanchan Gaurangi Radhe Vrindavaneshwari Vrishavana Sute Devi Pranamani Hari Priyemi Shri Krishna Chaitanya Prabunitananda Shri Advaita Gada Thara Shiva Sati Gaur Bhakta Vrinda Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Thank you. Yahai to be. So I will, I was asked to speak on the topic of Dharma Samstapan, how to establish Dharma in this society. Samasarika Ndana Yoga Avasataka It's a very important topic because we see all over the world that Dharma, the Vedic Dharma, is suffering a lot of the onslaughts of different adharmic religions. In Mahabharata, there is a definition of Dharma. Dharma, what is Dharma? Dharma is dharana samyuktam. Dharma, this is the set of rules which make the society stable. stable. It's the culture of sustainability. So what we can see in the modern world is that the modern culture which is spreading all over the world, specifically Western culture, is totally unsustainable. It's actually very unstable in its core and destructive in all its manifestations. Vedic culture was existing for thousands of years and it gave stability to people and the society was very stable. Modern culture has completely suicidal course which is called progress or advancement of civilization in this culture. So actually to establish Dharma is the only way to save the humanity. Humanity now is in the path of destruction. There is ecological crisis, there is social crisis, there is family crisis, there is demographic crisis, there is economic crisis, there is huge moral crisis. You know, the whole society is in a critical condition. And British historian Arthur Toynbee, he said that if humanity will not take the Hindu way of life, it will perish, it will destroy itself. So, establishing Dharma is not an option, it's a necessity. It's a dire necessity of human civilization. And the sooner people of this world understand this fact, the better it will be. But unfortunately, we see that very few people understand this. Of course we can see all over the world there is a spread of yoga as opposed to modern ways of maintaining health. There is a spread of Ayurveda as opposed to modern medicine. It is definitely gaining momentum all over the place in America and Western countries. But unfortunately all these modern Western followers of yoga, Ayurveda and other Vedic sciences they only take advantage of these sciences they exploit these sciences instead of taking the totality of vedi culture and ultimately to adopt the philosophy which which will change their heart. Because ultimately what is destroying the world, the greed which is within the heart of people, is the causal factor of destruction, total destruction of the world. Spiritual practices which are developed in Vedic culture, they can change the heart of people, they can relieve the heart of people from Kama, Krodha, Loba, Mohamada and Matsariya, from the six enemies of the human beings. But if people just do some external yoga or even come to Kerala to take Ayurvedic treatment, it's not going to change their heart. To change the heart, you need to adopt the totality of Vedic culture and the basis, the foundation of Vedic culture is Vedic philosophy, Vedanta philosophy or you know, six schools of philosophy, which helps you to understand the proper value system. For thousands of years Vedic culture was extremely stable and even Even 1000 years of Muslim rules didn't change the society so much. But then after British came to India, they adopted a very vicious method to destroy Vedi culture. They actually destroyed the Vedic system of education. The culture reproduces itself through the media of education, especially when you educate little children. What is going on under the name of education, even in modern India, is actually ignorance, which is promoted and pushed by Britishers. All this Western educational system is very much prominent in India, unfortunately. And you can only mean something in the society if you have this so-called educational diploma, which actually was the device introduced by the Britishers into the Indian culture, which ultimately destroyed the culture. How Dharma, how Vedic culture maintained itself because of the education and education was centered in the temples. Temples were not primarily the places of ritual and worship. They were primarily the places of education where educated people would give free education to the children. You know, if you look even in Muslim religion, you know, they have this madrase everywhere. When I was traveling in Kerala, early in the morning, 6 o'clock in the morning or 6.30 in the morning, I saw all these children and they before going to school, they go to madrase to get the spiritual education. But I didn't see Hindu children going to Hindu educational institutions before going to school. You know, education is called education because it changes the heart of the people, it changes the mind of the people, it changes their outlook and relationship to the world. If we really want to reestablish Dharma and put it on a very strong footing, There is no other way than to try to restore the Vedic system of education. It actually paints my heart. I am from an atheistic background. I was born in Russia. My parents were at ease. My grandparents were at ease. I have a scientific background. But I discovered this jewel, this beautiful phenomenon of Vedic culture, which is extremely rational, extremely scientific, and gives very satisfactory answers to all the questions of human mind. And it pains my heart to see how this beautiful culture is underestimated in its birth land, in the land of Bharata. The founder of ISKCON, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, he was so successful in his preaching on the West because of one reason. And the secret of his success is that he presented Vedic culture as the science, not as a religion. He explained that this is a very rational science of proper, sustainable living in this world. Sustainable relationship between people. Sustainable relationship between people and nature and everything else. So he presented it like this. And all his followers in the West, they could relate to it. They can understand that this is really the proper way, the truth, which explains how to live peacefully in this world. Vedic culture is much more rational and scientific than any other culture of the world. No Christian culture, no Muslim culture, come even close to Vedic culture. But we have to understand how to present Vedic culture as a science. Nowadays, all people, they follow science. They take science seriously. And we have Vedic science, and this Vedic science has to be reestablished, and then the educational system to teach the Vedic science has to be also introduced. If you subscribe to our channel, if you subscribe to our channel, you will see how many of you are. You will see how many of you are. So, for that, we really, you know, if we try to introduce Vedi culture as a religion, then people say, no, you have your religion, I have my religion. Why do I have to take your religion? And then there will be question of conversion, this and that. But if we understand that Vedic culture is not a religion, it's a universal science, which is true here, which is true in America, which is true all over the world, then there is no question of people rejecting it, because science is science, science is truth. If you give people the medicine, people don't care whether medicine is produced. They only care if medicine is effective or not, if it helps them to cure their disease. In a similar way, if we present veticulture as the solution to people's problem, they will not care whether it is Indian or not Indian, if they understand that this medicine for their problems work. And therefore, So, Srila Prabhupada, one of his slogans, the Samstapakacharya of Iskona, one of his slogans was, spiritual solutions to material problems. Yes, Adhyatmika Pariharanam is very important. So, we have to understand how the answers to all the problems of humanity are there in the Vedic culture. The modern culture offers material solution to spiritual problems, But the Vedic culture gives the spiritual solutions to material problems. So my only request this evening to all of you, really take this mission to the heart. One elderly sannyasi from Bengal went to America without any support, without any money, without any followers. And then he traveled all over the world eleven times and made hundreds of thousands of followers. Now in Russia alone we have hundreds of thousands of Krishna devotees, followers of Vedic culture, followers of Iskona. Just one person who took it very seriously made such an impact all over the world. I finished my talk with a few questions. a little anecdote which happened with me in probably 1999 or maybe early 2000. When I went to Rishikesh I was a part of Hindu delegation to the millennium religious dialogue, whatever it was, symposium in United Nations. And before that, Dyananda Saraswati, who was the head of Hindu delegation, he gathered all the people in Rishi Keshe in his ashram. The Indian Indian Symposium, the United Nations. Yes. So, in the break, one sadhu approached me. And all of sudden, spontaneously, he started glorifying Srila Prabhupada Sabstapakacharya of Iskona. He said, I'm the head of Gurukul. I have 400 students under my command. I teach Sanskrit them. and you know, I have some level of learning and understanding and everything. He said, but despite all of this, I couldn't make my own children, my own sons to wear dhoti. They are all virgins now. And your Srila Prabhupada went to America and he made Americans to Virudhoti. He said, by this I can see how great he is. But in reality, of course, the greatness of Srila Prabhupada was that he was completely convinced that Vedic culture is a science, is a great science which can solve all the problems of humanity. And he presented this culture as a science and therefore the success is there. So the essence of what I said is that, you know, we should appreciate this science and start teaching it all over the world, at least all over Kerala. I am sure you are already doing it, but I just wanted humbly to give this suggestion. And if I can be of any help, I am ready to help. So I am a stranger here, but I am deeply in heart. Take this Vedic culture and I am totally convinced that this is the only solution for all the problems of the world. Thank you very much. Hare Krishna.