Transcend material divisions through Krishna consciousness; cooperation without devotion breeds only conflict and despair.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much...
So long we are in the material world, it is not possible to make everyone on the same standard. It is not possible, because each and every one is working under the influence of different modes of nature. Therefore there must be division, natural division. This point we have discussed. But when we transcend this material plane, then there is oneness.
There is no more division. Then how to transcend? That transcendental nature is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As soon as we become fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we are transcendental to these material modes of nature. māṃ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate [Bg 14.26] [One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman.] You'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā, in the Fourteenth Chapter: "Anyone who is fully engaged in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness activities, he is at once in the transcendental position." Brahma-bhūyāya kalpate.
We are, by nature, we are not matter. We are Brahman. Ahaṃ brahmāsmi. The propaganda of Śaìkarācārya was mainly based on this understanding, that "We should not think that we are the products of this material nature." We are not products of material nature.
It is by some accident, by freaks of nature, by misfortune or some way or other, we are now in contact with it. But actually I am spirit, Brahman. So that Brahman nature has to be invoked, has to be... We are... Actually, just like a diseased person, he has to be brought into the healthy condition of life, to cure the disease.
So just a man, when he's diseased and when he's healthy, from external feature, the same. Just like I am now healthy. So my external feature—I have got two hands and two legs and face and so many things—the same body, when I am in the diseased condition, you'll find the same hands, the same legs and mouth and everything, but the condition is different. I'll speak something nonsense because the condition has changed in the diseased condition.
Similarly, in our diseased condition... This material life is our diseased condition. So when we are in the healthy condition, that is called Brahman. That is called Brahman condition, healthy. So that Brahman condition can at once be regained as soon as we engaged ourself fully, cent percent, in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.