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Bhagavad-gītā 18.67 — December 10, 1972, Ahmedabad 721210BG-AHMEDABAD [51:29 Minutes] Bg-18.67_721210BG-AHMEDABAD Prabhupāda: idaṁ te nātapaskāya nābhaktāya kadācana na cāśuśruṣave vācyaṁ na ca māṁ yo 'bhyasūyati [Bg. 18.67] So we were discussing this verse yesterday. So there are persons abhyasūyati, envious of Kṛṣṇa. Envious. Who is envious of Kṛṣṇa?
Demons. Just like Kaṁsa: always making plan how to kill Kṛṣṇa. As soon as he heard that his eighth son of his sister Devakī would kill him, as soon as he heard this prophecy, he become a determined enemy of Kṛṣṇa. He was always thinking of Kṛṣṇa.
That is also Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but he was thinking in a different way. Prātikūlyena. Ānukūlyasya saṅkalpaḥ prātikūlyaṁ vivarjanam. This devotional service means to accept favorable and reject unfavorable. This is called śaraṇāgati.
Surrender means to accept favorable things, how I can make progress towards Kṛṣṇa, and prātikūlya, pratikūla means rejecting unfavorable things which are not very congenial for my progress to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Rakṣayiṣyaty iti viśvāsa-pālanam: and to have firm faith that "Kṛṣṇa will give me protection. Kṛṣṇa will give me protection." Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ [Bg. 18.66] So to have firm faith in the statement of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, "I'll give you protection from the resultant action of all sinful activities." We must know that anyone who are..., anyone who is in this material world—more or less sinful.
Without being sinful, nobody exists in this material world. Just like yesterday we visited the Savarmati jail. So all the prisoners who are there, it is to be understood they are all sinful, or criminals. Otherwise, how they are put into the jail? So this material world is jail.
You cannot have freedom here. It is not possible. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā [Bg. 7.14]. And the superintendent of jail is Durgā-devī.
You have seen the many..., there are many worshiper of Goddess Durgā. She is the superintendent of this jail. Durgā. Durgā means fort. So this material world is just like a fort, and the predominating deity is the Durgā-devī.