Transfer your inevitable service from enslaving senses to Krishna and find perfect freedom.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — September 27, 1968, Seattle 680927LE-SEATTLE [90:38 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [kīrtana] Chant. [prema-dhavani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances] [25:43] [sings] Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **. cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣalakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.29] [I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakṣmīs or gopīs.] Devotees: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. [devotees repeat twice] Thank you.
So our program is to worship the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. In this material world everyone is trying to get happiness and to get relief from distress. Two things are going on, attempt.
There are different processes. Material process is completely absurd. That is already proved. No amount of material comforts or happiness, so-called happiness, can give us the actual happiness that we are hankering.
That is not possible. Then there are different other processes also. There are three kinds of miseries due to our material conditional life: ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika, ādhidaivika [SB 6.15.25]. [The living entity in the bodily conception of life is absorbed in the body, which is a combination of the physical elements, the five senses for gathering knowledge, and the five senses of action, along with the mind. Through the mind the living entity suffers three kinds of tribulations—adhibhautika, adhidaivika and adhyātmika. Therefore this body is a source of all miseries.] Ādhyātmika means pertaining to the body and to the mind.
Just like when there is some disarrangement of the different functions of metabolism within this body, we get fever, we get some pain, headache—so many things—so these miseries are called ādhyātmika, pertaining to the body. And another part of this ādhyātmika misery is due to the mind. Suppose I have suffered a great loss, so the mind is not in good condition. So this is also suffering. So for diseased condition of the body or some mental dissatisfaction there are miseries.
Then again, ādhibhautika, sufferings offered by other living entities. Just like we are human being, we are sending millions of poor animals to the slaughterhouse daily. They cannot express. But this is called ādhibhautika, sufferings offered by other living entities. Similarly, we have to suffer also sufferings offered by other living entities.
God's law you cannot, I mean to say, supersede. So material laws, state laws, you can hide yourself, but God's law you cannot hide yourself. There are so many witnesses. The sun is your witness, the moon is your witness, the day is your witness, the night is your witness, the sky is your witness.