The purpose of the story of King Puranjana is to have an objective look at what is going on with us while we are trying to enjoy material life in this body. The developed intelligence of a human being gives us this privilege. We don’t use this privilege often enough to disengage ourselves from material experience. If we study this story of King Puranjana very carefully, we will experience that I am not this body and it will not become just a lofty slogan, it will become our own experience. It will give us the constant position of the witness. I am not really experiencing what is going on in my body, I am just a witness of it.

If we are established in this position of witness there will be no impressions, because the impressions are left by all experiences which we have only when we identify with this experience and give them an emotional rating. It may be a negative or positive emotional rating. Negative emotional rating leaves deeper impressions in our consciousness. Samskaras create vasana, vasana creates a new personality. We can break this vicious circle of birth and death with the help of Krisna consciousness.

The power or taraka sakti is invested in the Holy name. You can start experiencing the real taste after reaching the stage of saksi bhava. The essence of "Srimad-Bhagavatam" is to instill faith in the power of the Holy name in our heart.

If you want to be less proud, control your tongue. The tongue robs us from the spiritual experience. The only way to control the tongue is to speak about Krisna.

Questions:

1. You had an opportunity to collect more upadhis than anybody else. How do you deal with this? How did You become humble?
2. How to deal with happiness and distress when they arise?
3. How do you deal with dramatic upadhis?