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When we were just in India,
at the new Kolkata airport,
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International …
[Give Me Your Blood!]
and I don’t know where the Netaji statue is right now,
but it used to be that when you cleared customs,
there was a statue of Netaji.
They just moved it to another place probably.
But, he’s this famous freedom fighter, Bengali freedom fighter,
and there’s a plaque underneath him
that Gurudev said Guru Mahārāj would quote sometimes, and it says,
“Give me your blood
and I’ll give you freedom!”
That was his slogan,
“Give me your blood and I’ll give you freedom!”
So Guru Mahārāj will say,
“These are the requirements for things within this world,
so for the ultimate thing,
a position in the ultimate reality, in Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
will less be required? Or more?”
So he introduced the concept of self-dissipation,
as when you make sandalwood pulp,
you have a grinding stone, a sandalwood stick,
you pour rosewater on the stone,
take the sandalwood stick
and start rubbing it into the stone,
and what happens?
Gradually, the sandalwood stick is dissipating.
That position is finished, but what’s happening is, this pulp,
this divinely fragrant substance is being generated
as a consequence of the self-dissipation.
That’s what Kṛṣṇa consciousness is meant to be,
that we engage ourselves, all of our energy and serving capacity,
going against the current of exploitation,
in a dedicating current,
and through self-dissipation we’re gradually converted
into a divine position.
So the karmic generating form vanishes,
muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ (SB: 2.10.6),
and the golden serving self begins to express and manifest itself.
Hare Kṛṣṇa.