(1)
sarva-śāstrābdhi-pīyūṣa sarva-vedaika-sat-phala
sarva-siddhānta-ratnāḍhya sarva-lokaika-dṛk-prada
(2)
sarva-bhāgavata-prāṇa śrīmad-bhāgavata-prabho
kali-dhvāntoditāditya śrī-kṛṣṇa-parivartita
(3)
paramānanda-pāṭhāya prema-varṣy-akṣarāya te
sarvadā sarva-sevyāya śrī-kṛṣṇāya namo'stu me
(4)
mad-eka-bandho mat-sańgin mad-guro man-mahā-dhana
man-nistāraka mad-bhāgya mad-ānanda namo'stu te
(5)
asādhu-sādhutā-dāyin atinīcocca-tākara
hā na muñca kadācin māḿ premṇā hṛt-kaṇṭhayoḥ sphura
TRANSLATION
1-2) O Srimad-Bhagavatam, O nectar churned form the ocean of all the Vedic scriptures, O most prominent transcendental fruit of all the Vedas, O you who are enriched with the jewels of all spiritual philosophical conclusions, O you who grant spiritual vision to all the people of the world; O life-breath of the Vaisnava devotees, O Lord, You are the sun which has arisen to dispel the darkness of the Kali yuga. You are actually Krsna Who has returned (among us).
3) O Srimad-Bhagavatam, I offer respectful obeisances unto You. By reading you one attains transcendental bliss, for Your syllables rain pure love of God upon the reader. You are always to be served by everyone, for you are an incarnation of Krsna.
4) O Srimad-Bhagavatam, O my only friend, O my companion, O my teacher, O my great wealth, O my deliverer, O my good fortune, O my bliss, I offer respectful obeisancesunto you.
5) O Srimad-Bhagavatam, O giver of saintliness to the unsaintly, O uplifter of the very fallen, please do not ever leave me. Please become manifested upon my heart and my throat, accompanied by pure love of Krsna.
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Prabhupada:
kledanam pindanam trptih
prananapyayanondanam
tapapanodo bhuyastvam
ambhaso vrttayas tu imah
[SB 3.26.43]
So this is analysis of water. So many things can be performed by water. Everything is being analytically studied. Ksitir ap tejo marud vyoma. So... But one thing important in this verse is that tapa apanodah, refreshing, refreshing. When you are thirsty, you drink water. Immediately your thirst is satiated and you feel a fresh pleasure. So in the Bhagavad-gita Krsna says that this qualification of the water, tapa apanodah... What is that verse? Apo 'ham...
Devotees: Raso 'ham...
Prabhupada: Raso 'ham. Raso 'ham apsu kaunteya prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh [Bg. 7.8]. So this satisfaction... Actually, our satisfaction can be revived only with relationship of Krsna, revival of our relationship with Krsna. That is santi. Just like Dhruva Maharaja, when he came in contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead... He was hankering after material opulence, kingdom, a better kingdom than his father, than his grandfather. That was his ambition. As a child, he was insulted by his stepmother. So actually when he saw Visnu, Lord Visnu, he was so satisfied that he said, svamin krtartho 'smi varam na yace: [Cc. Madhya 22.42] "Now I have no more hankering."
So this is also one tapa. In this material world we are suffering so many varieties of tapa. Tapan vindanti maithunyam agaram ajhah.(?) It is simply full of tapa. Tapa means heat, and tapa means unbearable, miserable condition. Therefore from tapa... It comes from tapa, tapasya. Tapasya means voluntarily accepting some unfavorable condition. Of course, the soul is not affected by any favorable or unfavorable condition. Asango 'yam purusah. Actually, it has no connection with the favorable, unfavorable condition. It is simply abhinivesa. The mind being affected by the material contamination, we are suffering so-called miserable condition of life. It is due to the mind. Otherwise, as it is said, one man is satisfied in a very poor condition of life, and another man is not satisfied even in the best opulent condition of life. Why? It is due to the mind. It is due to the mind.
So therefore whole process of spiritual life or peaceful life... Spiritual life is peaceful life. Material life is not peaceful life. Ahankara-vimudhatma. There are so many varieties of desires in material life. Therefore one cannot be peaceful. That is not possible. But when one enters into spiritual life... Spiritual life means to revive our spiritual consciousness or Krsna consciousness. Then we can become happy. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita. Three things, if we learn... What are those three things?
bhoktaram yajna-tapasam
sarva-loka-mahesvaram
suhrdam sarva-bhutanam
jnatva mam santim rcchati
[Bg. 5.29]
Santi. If we learn these three things, then we'll get santi. Santi, that is clearly explained in Caitanya-caritamrta also. It is said in the Bhagavad-gita, Krsna says, jnatva mam. "Me," Krsna says-person. Just like "Give me."
So Krsna says, jnatva mam. What is that? So we have to know Krsna, that He is actually enjoyer. Master and servant. If the servant knows that "In this house my master is the proprietor. He is the enjoyer. I am simply servant," then he is peaceful. But if he artificially tries to become the master although he is servant there, then there is all disturbance. So here our miserable conditions are caused by our thinking that "I am the proprietor. I am the owner. I am the enjoyer." One becomes to owner, proprietor, because he wants to enjoy. So this is our disease. Actually, we are servant of Krsna. Jivera svarupa haya nitya-krsna-dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. This is our original position. We are servant, even in this condition. But we are servant of maya, illusion -- means we are servant of our lusty desires, kama, krodha, anger, lobha, greediness, moha, illusion, so many, mada, madness. We are servant of these propensities. We are not master. When you become master of these sense gratification processes, then you are svami.
That is the position of svami. Svami means master. Gosvami. Gosvami means this controller of the senses. Go means senses. So svami or gosvami means one who has control over the senses or one who has control over the mind. The mind is very restless. The whole yogic process is meant for controlling the mind because unless you control the mind, the mind will volumes and volumes of desires, hundreds, thousands, millions. And you have to satisfy them. Then where is santi? You have to satisfy the master. Who has become your master? Mind. Then you are disturbed. There cannot be any peace. And mind has got many millions of desires. Therefore, when you can control over the mind, that mind desires something and you have to control, "No, you cannot do it," then you become a svami. Svami, these sannyasis, they are given the title "svami" or "gosvami" because the sannyasis are supposed to control over the mind, over the senses. Therefore they are called svami. Otherwise, not svami but servant. If you are controlled by the mind, then you are servant, and if you are controller of the mind, then you are svami, the same person.
So how you can become svami? Because we are falsely thinking that "I am the proprietor. I am the enjoyer. I am the leader. I am the friend of my family, my society, my nation," so many ways, you have to convert these things. Suhrdam sarva-bhutanam [Bg. 5.29]. Krsna says that "I am the friend of everyone." But we are taking the place of Krsna, leadership. I am declaring to my countrymen, to my follower, that "I am your friend." So actually, I cannot be friend because I do not know what is the goal of life. I cannot lead them properly. Some immediate convenience we can offer, and people, being less intelligent, they are after immediate profit. It is called preyas. Just like if you say to a small child, "Don't go to school. Please come and play with me," he would like to play with his friend. That is immediate profit. But if you ask him to go to the school, that is remote profit. That is called sreyas. And preyas. Preyas me ans immediate profit. Two young men, if one friend says to the other friend, "Oh, let us go to the cinema," that is very palatable. And if he says, "Let us go to this meeting in Hare Krsna Land," that is not very palatable. This is the distinction between sreyas and preyas. Nihsreyasaya. Nihsreyasaya means ultimate goal of life, ultimate profit of life.
So ultimate profit of life is to go back to home, back to Godhead. Because we are suffering on account of separation from God. This is our cause of suffering. Instead of becoming servant of God we have become the servant of senses. That is the cause of our suffering. Therefore three things, if we can understand thoroughly, that Krsna, or God, is the proprietor and enjoyer of the whole universe or creation and... Bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram [Bg. 5.29]. He is the proprietor of all universal planets, and suhrdam sarva-bhutanam, and He is the real friend of everyone. Jnatva, "One who knows," Krsna says, mam, "Me, then he gets santi." Otherwise, there cannot be any santi. In the Caitanya-caritamrta also it is confirmed that
krsna-bhakta -- niskama, ataeva 'santa'
bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kami -- sakali 'asanta'
[Cc. Madhya 19.149]
Krsna-bhakta, one who is fully Krsna conscious, he is santa. He is fully confident. Krsna consciousness or God consciousness, he is fully confident that "Krsna, I have surrendered to Krsna. I have taken shelter of Krsna, and He has promised, aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami [Bg. 18.66]. Then where is the cause of my anxiety?" Therefore he can become... He has understood Krsna, the Supreme Personality, almighty, all-powerful, full of all opulences. "So if he has taken my charge, then where is my anxiety?" That is santi. That is santi. And so long we are taking shelter of maya, asat, which will not stay...
Suppose we are taking shelter, child is taking shelter of the father, mother, or the citizens is taking shelter of the state, of the government. So one has to to take shelter of something else for protection, for security. But they are not actually security. Therefore we are always full of anxiety. You may be a citizen of a great state like United States of America. But you are not without any anxiety because that shelter is not sufficient. That will not stay. Just like recently in America they had to dethrone Mr. Nixon because they were not free from anxiety. So you cannot become free from anxiety by taking shelter of anything material. That is not possible. Sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat [SB 7.5.5]. Asat and sat. Sat means eternal, and asat means temporary. So we are eternal. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. We are not annihilated after the annihilation or destruction of this body. Therefore we have to take shelter of the eternal. Then we'll be happy. And so long we shall take shelter of the temporary thing, asat, this material world, material society, friendship, love, state, community, nation -- anything you take, they are not permanent -- so you cannot be happy. But if you take shelter for security at the lotus feet of the Supreme, then you are actually secure.
Sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat. Asad-grahat. Asad means this material world. It will not stay. Just like this material body. It will not stay -- everyone knows; it has a beginning, birth -- it stays for some time, it transforms some other bodies as children, then it becomes old, dwindling, and then finished. These are six different transformation of the material world. But it is temporary, asat. But there is another life, where there is no transformation: eternal. Nityah sasvato 'yam na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. That is spiritual world. So that spiritual world, we have no information, but we have got little experience. Spiritual world means complete peaceful, santi. Bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram, jnatva mam santim rcchati [Bg. 5.29]. Therefore it is compulsory business of our life to understand God, or Krsna, if you want santi. Jnatva mam santim rcchati. If you want santi, then you have to know God, what is God, not vague idea, actually. Jnatva mam santim rcchati. You have to know.
Now, the position is how to know God. How to know God. So God know, it is very easy. If you don't chant... Suppose if I say that "By chanting Hare Krsna mantra you will know God," you may think that "Why shall I chant Hare Krsna mantra? I belong to different religion. Why shall I chant this Hindus' Hare Krsna mantra?" Then all right, you do not chant Hare Krsna mantra, but you try to understand God in your daily life. What is that? That satisfaction by drinking water. Raso 'ham apsu kaunteya [Bg. 7.8]. Everyone drinks water. Either you become Hindu, Muslim, Christian, you have to drink water. And after drinking water, when you feel satisfaction, as it is said, tapa apanodah, the tiresomeness immediately annihilated, immediately diminished, satisfies, so that satisfaction is Krsna, or God. Krsna says. So you haven't got to search out Krsna anywhere. Krsna is within you, God is within you, but still if you are doubtful, then God says, Krsna says, "You try to understand Me in this way, tapa apanodah, the water." Everyone drinks water, very easy. So raso 'ham apsu kaunteya. Then the beginning, if you do not do anything... Just I am trying to convince you about the easy process of bhakti-yoga. Anyone, everyone, at any place, any condition of life, he can become a bhakta. Ahaituky apratihata. This is first-class religion, to become devotee of God. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje [SB 1.2.6]. Bhakti... When you... Bhakti means loving service. When you develop your dormant love for Krsna and you begin to serve Him, that is called bhakti.
So this bhakti is the first-class religion, Paro dharma. All other different kinds of religious systems, they are material. "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," "I am Buddhist" -- these are all material designation. Actually, it is not dharma. Just like gold. Gold cannot be Hindu gold, Christian gold, Muslim gold. Gold is gold. There is no question of Hindu gold or Muslim gold. Similarly, dharma, dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam [SB 6.3.19]. Dharma means relationship with God. So human being in any society, any part of the world, there is a consciousness or sense of understanding God. The method may be different; that is another thing. But the idea is how to know God. Just like Christians, they say, "O God, give us our daily bread." So there is relationship. Muslim they say, allah akbar, "God is great." So in Hindu-conception generally say, param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg. 10.12]. So any sense you say, there is relationship with God. So unless you revive your relationship with God which is dormant, there is no santi. There cannot be any santi. So try to understand God.
Therefore Krsna is canvassing that "If you do not take this process, that process, you simply, while drinking water, you think of Me: 'Here is Krsna. Here is Krsna.' " As it is said here, tapa apanodah. Everyone drinks water, so everyone can remember Krsna, or God, if you simply learn this art, that "While drinking water, while I feel satisfaction, I must know, 'Here is God.' " Your devotional life immediately begins, without any education, without any enlightenment. Even a child can... If you teach the child that "When you drink water, you think of God..." Of course, one must have some knowledge what is God. So that according to different status of life... So here from Bhagavad-gita or Bhagavata we understand, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam [SB 1.3.28]. So Krsna is here in the temple. Krsna is in my room in picture. So that is also not difficult. How easy it is, just try to understand, that if drinking water and if I think, "Here is Krsna," and I have seen Krsna in the temple, I have seen Krsna in my room, my father has shown me, "Here is Krsna," then where is the difficulty? And if you think Krsna like that -- "Here is Krsna" -- that is the beginning of spiritual life. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam [SB 7.5.23], memorizing.
So we request everyone to come to the temple because he will have the impression what is Krsna, how He looks. Here is Krsna. It is not imagination. Don't think it is imagination, we have imagined some form. Just like the Mayavadis say, "It is imagination." No. It is fact. Because this Krsna, this form of Krsna, the our forefathers or acaryas they have seen when Krsna was present on this planet. And there are many, many old temples. The same feature of Krsna, two hands, playing on the flute, and anywhere you will see Krsna He has got this flute. Because that is His most beloved, favorite instrument. That is stated in the sastra, not imagination. Venum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksam barhavatamsam asita... [Bs. 5.30]. In the Vedic language it is said that Krsna, He has got a flute in His hand. He likes to play on flute. Venum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksam barhavatamsam asitambuda-sundarangam [Bs. 5.30]. Barhavatamsa means the peacock. He likes peacock feather. These symptoms are described in the Vedic literature, and when Krsna was present on this earth, the same feature was there. So this picture, this photo, or this statue of Krsna, this arca-murti, is not different from the original Krsna.
So if you simply come here, take the impression of Krsna and think of Krsna while drinking water, you become a devotee. Is it very difficult job? Very easy. Anyone can do. Anyone can do. Patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati [Bg. 9.26]. Then, if you develop... This is santa rasa. Then, when you develop your santa-rasa, then there is dasya-rasa. Dasya-rasa means that you want to serve Him. That is further development. "Here is God. No, why not...?" Therefore, according to the Vedic principle, whoever comes to the temple, he brings something to offer to Krsna. Not that He requires huge amount of money. No. You must offer something. What is that? Krsna says, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati. Krsna is not in want, but if you give something to Krsna, that is for your benefit. If Krsna accepts something from you, then your life becomes successful. So... "But I have no money. What can I offer to Krsna?" Oh, that is not the fact. We have got money for going to cinema, and you have no money to bring one flower for Krsna. This is denial. This is denial. Krsna does not say that "You bring one thousand dollars." No. He says, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati.
So anywhere within this universe, you can get all these things, however poor man you may be. Patram, a little leaf, better tulasi leaf, or any leaf. Patram puspam a little flower. Phalam, little fruit, and little water, that's all. Yo me bhaktya prayacchati. Krsna, He is the bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka... [Bg. 5.29]. He is the proprietor of the all universes. So why He is asking this patram puspam phalam toyam? He is so poor? He is not poor. He is the most opulent. But if you begin to give something to Krsna, you become opulent. That is wanted. Therefore He is canvassing that "Give Me something." Yat karosi yaj juhosi yad asnasi yat tapasyasi, kurusva tad mad-arpanam [Bg. 9.27]. Because you have forgotten to give to Krsna, therefore Krsna comes down. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata [Bg. 4.7]. He canvasses, "Please give Me something," as if He is in great need of it. He is not need of it. But if you hear Krsna and if you give something to Krsna, then it is for your benefit. You will understand gradually what is your relationship with Krsna and gradually develop your Krsna consciousness. Then your life is successful. Then your life becomes peaceful.
Otherwise there is no possibility. Otherwise there is no possibility. Everyone is hankering after peace, but this is the way of attaining peace, to revive your relationship with Krsna, to engage your mind fully in the service of Krsna in the matter of understanding Krsna. And if you understand Krsna... The books are there. Bhagavad-gita is there. Srimad-Bhagavata is there. You have got your reason. You have got your knowledge. Try to understand Krsna. Then your life is successful. Janma karma ca me divyam yo janati tattvatah [Bg. 4.9]. Simply you try to understand Krsna. Then, from this asat, this temporary life which you are changing one after another, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya... [Bg. 4.9]. After giving up this body... This is also temporary body, asat, the asat. Asat means it will not stay. So after giving up this body, if you get another body... That is compulsory. Tatha dehantara-praptir dhiras tatra na muhyati [Bg. 2.13]. Dehantara-praptih there is. Just like we are getting different bodies in this life, similarly, when this body is finished, we get another body. But another body or this body, because this material body, asat. Asad-grahat, because we accept this material, temporary body, there must be suffering, klesada. Or whatever we feel pains and pleasure, that is due to this body.
So the best achievement of life is the how to stop this getting material body again. Spiritual body. That is happiness. Then you will get eternal happiness, blissful life. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. That you go to the spiritual world. There is spiritual world, as this, here, is material world. You have got material body. So if you are fit for going to the spiritual world, then you get spiritual body, same way. And spiritual body means sac-cid-ananda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1], spiritual body. Vigraha means body, and sac-cid-ananda... Sat means eternal, cit means full of knowledge, and ananda, blissful. That we want. The Krsna consciousness movement means to try to understand Krsna, very easy. If you drink water as Krsna advises, raso 'ham apsu kaunteya, that satisfaction by drinking water, that is Krsna. That's all. You think, "This is Krsna." You think that "I am drinking Krsna." Then twice, thrice, "Krsna," means you become purified. Krsna... Eka krsna-name yato papa hare, papi haya tato papa kari bare nare(?). Eka krsna, one, once chanting of Krsna, it can kill so many reaction of sinful life that you cannot do so many sinful life. A sinful man can do large amount of sinful activities. But you cannot do even.
So this process, if you adopt... Very easy. It is authenticated. We have not manufactured this. It is said in the Bhagavad-gita, raso 'ham apsu kaunteya [Bg. 7.8], "That rasa, that satisfaction by drinking water, that is I am." So why not think of Krsna like that? You drink so many times water, especially in India. You drink water and think of Krsna, you become perfect.
Thank you very much. (end)
Prabhupada:
kasayo madhuras tiktah
katv amla iti naikadha
bhautikanam vikarena
rasa eko vibhidyate
[SB 3.26.42]
Rasa, taste, is one, but it becomes varieties by different combination of bhautikanam, material elements. This is chemistry. Chemistry means mixing of different chemicals and produce another element. Just like soap. Soap is mixture of fat and soda. So fat, oil, is something else, and soda is another thing, but if you carefully mix them together, it becomes soap. So the whole world is the mixture of these five elements: ksitir ap... Fire, water... Tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayah. The Sanskrit word is tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayah. Mrd means this earth, and tejas means fire, and vari means water. You take earth mixed with water and put it into the fire; it becomes brick. Then you take another mixture; that becomes cement. And take the help of cement and take the help of brick; then construct a house.
So whole material world is nothing but tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayah, exchange of, elementary, this earth, water, and fire. The same principle here also: taste. Just like we cook the same oil, ghee, and salt and turmeric, but we prepare different preparations, hundred, two hundred preparation, simply by the process of mixing earth. So that is going on. Now, by Krsna's energy... Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. His energy is working in such subtle way, mysterious way. Therefore Krsna is known as Yogesvara. The same earth, same water, but the seed different. So one tree is coming to produce chili, another tree is coming out to produce tomato, another tree is coming out to produce mango. Different taste. Mango is sweet, tomato is sour, chili is pungent. But these things are required, varieties. Although the source is one. Source is one -- the earth -- but the earth contains all other five elements. Ksitir ap tejo vari mrd vyoma. Everything is there in the earth. Everything is there, and by the expert handling of the prakrti and behind the prakrti, Krsna, varieties of things are coming. This is Krsna consciousness, how things are coming by the handling, expert handling of Krsna. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10].
The blunt scientists, they are seeing, simply prakrti is the cause of these varieties. But that is not the fact. The fact is it is the Krsna's manipulation, mixture, mixing of the elements, and different varieties are coming out. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. Sruyate. You cannot see how Krsna is handling, but sruyate, you can understand from the sruti, by the Vedic literature, as it is said here.
kasayo madhuras tiktah
katv amla iti naikadha
bhautikanam vikarena
raso eko vibhidyate
Bhautikanam vikarena. Just like earth, water, fire, air, they are bhautika. But they are not mixing together. The original, I mean to say, manipulator is Krsna. Just like we have got experience, I have given just now experience, that oil is there. Suppose oil is acid, and soda is called alkali. The acid is there, alkali is there, but when a person comes, mix it proportionately, it becomes another product: soap. Similarly, everything is being manufactured like that, but how it is done? That is the expert handling of the Supreme Lord. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. He has got multi-energies, subtle laws, and He is working. But still, He has nothing to do Himself. That is God. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. Although He is handling... He is doing everything. Otherwise how it is possible? We have got experience. There is oil, and there is alkali, or soda, but they are not mixing together. For mixing together, you require another, living energy. Otherwise, automatically, there cannot be soap. The soap factory is there, but the manufacturer is also there.
So we have to understand in that way, that so many varieties, natural varieties, are coming out not automatically. The blind scientists, they say they are coming automatically. That is not very good sense. Nothing can come automatically. Matter cannot come together automatically. There is some machine or handling. Parasya saktir vividhaiva. He is doing that, and still, He is doing nothing. That is... Just like if I have to make soap, I have to do it or I can ask my servant to do it. I can give instruction to my assistant, servant, that "Do like this." So anyway, the background is myself. The background is neither the servant nor the ingredients. There is another example: the potter's wheel. Potter's wheel is producing earthen pots. So what is the cause? Somebody will say that "The dirt, earth, is the cause of this pot because it is made of earth." Another will say, "No, the cause is the wheel. Because the wheel is going around, therefore it is coming out." But these two causes, prakrti and pradhana, ingredients and the instrument, they are not causes. The cause is the potter. Cause is the potter. The potter is giving force going around. You have seen it. With the rod it moves like that. When the wheel is in motion, then the earth is brought into a shape of different shape of pots. Therefore material cause, remote cause, efficient cause -- they are not cause. Real cause is Krsna, sarva-karana-karanam [Bs. 5.1].
isvarah paramah krsnah
sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah
anadir adir govindah
sarva-karana-karanam
[Bs. 5.1]
So that is confirmed in the Vedic literature, Upanisad. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. His energy is working -- the same earth, the same seed, ingredient of the seed. There is variety of the seed also. Therefore Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam: [Bg 7.10] "I am the seed, seedling." The same process: there is a seed of rose tree, you put into the earth and pour water -- a rose tree will come out. And similarly, looking another, chili seed, but it will come chili. The earth is the same; water is the same. Just like on the riverside there are many trees. Their eatable is the same water, standing in the same earth, but different trees are coming out. Different taste fruit, different flower, different, all different. So therefore, the difference is there in the seed. So you cannot understand. You cannot chemically analyze the seed, small seed, but the potency is so strong, so you cannot study by your so-called physical or chemical science.
So we have to understand, as Krsna says, bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam: "I am the seed." Such subtle things, how it is coming out? In the small seed what is the chemical composition? You put the seed, sow the seed, anywhere and put little water, that tejo-vari-mrd-vinimayah, but the things are coming out differently. How the variety is possible? Therefore we cannot mix up. There is rose scent within the earth. Otherwise wherefrom the rose is getting its scent? There is. Punyo gandhah prthivyam ca. Prthivyam, on this earth, there are potency of different flavor, different taste. Now let the chemist come and take the earth and make different taste. That is not possible. That is not... Therefore you cannot simply say that prakrti is the cause of everything, no. Prakrti is there, the same water. Prakrti means earth, water, air, fire. The same water is there, the same fire is there, same water is there, and same earth is there. So why varieties are coming? You take from the water, from the earth, varieties of smell, varieties of taste. So that you cannot do. This is Krsna consciousness. We have to accept the statement of Krsna, as He says, bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam: [Bg 7.10] "I am the cause." And the sastra confirms it, sarva-karana-karanam: [Bs. 5.1] "He is the original cause of everything."
So in this way we have to study everything, and ultimately, if we come to the point of Krsna, then our knowledge is perfect. Otherwise it is imperfect. Kavibhir nirupito yad-uttamasloka-gunanuvarnanam.
idam hi pumsas tapasah srutasya va
svistasya suktasya ca buddhi-dattayoh
avicyuto 'rthah kavibhir nirupito
yad-uttamasloka-gunanuvarnanam
[SB 1.5.22]
You are scientist, very good. You are botanist, you are physist, and so many, mathematist, and so on, so on. Because these things, laws are going on. People are studying the laws of mathematics, laws of physics, laws of chemistry, laws of botany, biology. Divide into different departmental scientific knowledge. So that, do that, very good. Become, very big scientist, very big botanist. Similarly, from other point of view, pious activities, you become very noble, a man of charity or tapasya or austerities, penance, so many things in the spiritual line, jnana, yoga, karma. That's all right. As you deal with material science, you become big mathematician, chemist, physician, or lawyer, or so many, naturalist. Similarly, spiritually, you become karmi, jnani, yogi. Do that. That is not discouraged. But what for you are trying? Why you are trying to become a chemist or physist or a man of charitable disposition, educationist? Why? If I ask... If anybody asks, "Why you try to become a scientist? What is the aim of your life?" What will be the answer, possible answer? The materialist will say, "For developing civilization." Developing civilization means to, in their view, developing the process of sense gratification. That's all. But sastra says, "No, not that. That is not the aim. You become a great scientist. There is no harm. But why you should become a scientist?"
Now, sastra says that avicyutah arthah. Arthah means purpose. If somebody asks, "What is the purpose of becoming scientist? What is the purpose of becoming physicist?" so different men will give different answers: "It is meant for this purpose. It is meant for this purpose." But kavibhih, those who are actually learned, advanced learning, they have said that avicyuta. Avicyuta means without any failure, without any contradiction. You say that chemistry is required for this purpose. I say chemistry is required for this purpose. Another man says chemistry is required for this purpose. But difference of opinion. That is not accepted. Avicyuta, infallible purpose. What is that infallible purpose? Avicyutah arthah kavibhir nirupitah. Nirupita means it is already settled. You haven't got to make research anymore. Nirupita means it is already concluded. What is that? Yad-uttamasloka-gunanuvarnanam. If you can explain the activities of Krsna, Uttamasloka, how He is acting, how is the chemical process is going on under His direction, if you can write a thesis on this subject matter, that ultimately Krsna is behind that, then your this study of chemistry is perfect. Avicyutah arthah kavibhir nirupitah. Nirupita means it is concluded. No more argument. That is the purpose. That means if you are intelligent enough actually, then through any source of knowledge you come ultimately to Krsna. That mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. The Krsna says. But if by your education, if you come to the same point, that "Here is Krsna. He is in the background, sarva-karana-karanam [Bs. 5.1], cause of all causes," then that education is perfect. Otherwise it is srama eva hi kevalam. Otherwise it is simply laboring for nothing, waste of time. This is the purpose. Avicyutah arthah kavibhir nirupito yad-uttamasloka-gunanuvarnanam.
So parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. Very, very big chemistry, physical laws, mathematics -- everything is required to understand the potency of God, how He is working. Actually, everything is being done by His potency. Here the different tastes, the material is the same, but the method of mixing the material and different tastes are coming out in existence -- so how that expertly management of mixing is going on, if we can explain by our chemistry, by our mathematics, then our studying of chemistry is perfect. Then we are perfect. Idam hi pumsas tapasah srutasya va [SB 1.5.22]. Another place,
atah pumbhir dvija-srestha
varnasrama-vibhagasah
svanusthitasya dharmasya
samsiddhir hari-tosanam
[SB 1.2.13]
Hari-tosanam is the ultimate goal. Sva-karmana tam abhyarcya siddhim vindati manavah. In the Bhagavad-gita... Sva-karmana tam abhyarcya [Bg. 18.46]. You become a chemist; it doesn't matter. You become physicist, mathematician. It doesn't matter. Unfortunately, due to the Kali-yuga, as soon as one become a big chemist, doctor of chemistry, he says, "I am God. There is no need of God." As soon as the little... Svapari jala-matrena phala phariyate.(?) You'll see the small fishes. They are practically on the edge of the water and making, "fut, fut, fut." The big fishes, they are down the water. So these so-called material chemists, they are nothing, a small fish. Those who are big chemist, big scientist... Just like Professor Einstein. He used to accept how God's brain is working. He appreciated. He was a great scientist. And the ordinary scientist also, they think that "Now we are able to do everything without God. Therefore we are bigger than God." That is not fact. You are greater scientist when by your scientific knowledge you prove the existence of God and how He is working so finely that varieties of things are coming out of material nature. That is the perfection of knowledge. Otherwise svanusthitasya dharmasya samsiddhir hari-tosanam [SB 1.2.13]. Hari-tosanam. Unless Krsna sees that you are trying to glorify Him by your knowledge... Then He becomes satisfied, that "I have given him some knowledge, and he is utilizing this knowledge for My glorification. He is My devotee."
Devotee's business is to glorify. He doesn't take any credit for himself. Actually, there is nothing to be taken credit. The all credit goes to Krsna. A devotee neither claims; neither it is possible. Even he may be very, very big devotee, he will never claim any credit for his glorious activities. His glorious activities means to make Krsna glorious. That is his glorious activities, not that like the so-called materialist, he takes, wants to take the credit. No. Sva-karmana tam abhyarcya siddhim vindati manavah [Bg. 18.46]. Sva-karmana. You may be engaged in any pattern of work, any department of work. But by dint of your work you establish the existence of God, Krsna, and whatever is being done, it is being done by the expert management of Krsna. The sun is rising exactly in the time, and it is setting exactly in the time. And the temperature, according to the different season, the movement, uttarayana, daksinayana -- everything is managed so expertly under the order of the Supreme. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih [Bg. 9.10]. Don't think the sun is working so nicely automatically. No automatically. The master is there, Krsna. Yasyajnaya bhramati sambhrta-kala-cakrah. The sun is so powerful substance within this universe. There are many millions of suns. This is one sun only -- but it is carrying out the order of Krsna. Yac-caksur esa savita sakala-grahanam raja samasta-sura-murtir asesa-tejah. Asesa-tejah, unlimited light, unlimited fire, unlimited heat. Asesa. Asesa-tejah. There is no comparison with the sunlight, sun's heat. There is no comparison within this universe. Unlimited. For millions and millions of years it is, from the sun the light and heat is coming out, but there is no diminution. It is the same as it was millions of years ago, and after giving you light and heat for millions of years, the same quantity of light and heat is still there.
So if it is possible for a material thing that after giving unlimited heat and light it remains the same, similarly, the Supreme Lord, by expanding His potency, by His energy, He remains the same. He does not diminish. Purnasya purnam adaya purnam eva avasisyate [Iso Invocation]. So if we can see even a material object that the heat being emanated for many millions and millions..., it remains the same heat, it maintains the same heat, same light, why it is not possible for the Supreme? Therefore Isopanisad informs us that purnasya purnam adaya purnam eva avasisyate. If you take the whole energy of Krsna from Krsna, then still, the whole energy is there. But you will be surprised nowadays. Modern Gods... There are so many modern Gods; I do not wish to name. But one modern God, he gave his power to his disciple, and the, when he came into consciousness, then he was crying. The disciple inquired from the guru, "Why you are crying, sir?" "Now I have finished everything. I have given you everything. I have given you everything; therefore I am now finished." That is not spiritual. That is material. I have got hundred rupees. If I pay you hundred rupees, then my pocket is empty. But Krsna is not like that. Krsna can make hundreds of thousands and millions of Krsna; still, He is Krsna. That is Krsna. The potency is never exhausted. That is called purnasya purnam adaya purnam eva avasisyate [Iso Invocation].
So this imitation God will not help us. The real God. Real God,
isvarah paramah krsnah
sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah
anadir adir govindah
sarva-karana-karanam
[Bs. 5.1]
Sarva-karana-karanam, He never exhausts. He is never exhausted. It is said that,
yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya
jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah
visnur mahan sa iha yasya kala-viseso
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs. 5.48]
The millions of universes are coming out within His breathing period, and again they are annihilated when the breathing is taken inside. In this way the universes are coming out. Jagad-anda-nathah. Jagad-anda-nathah. Jagad-anda means the universe, and natha, the Lord of the universe, means Lord Brahma. So he has got a duration of life. And what is that duration of life? The breathing period of Maha-Visnu.
yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya
jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah
visnur mahan sa iha yasya kala-viseso
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs. 5.48]
That is God, that by breathing, unlimited number of universes are coming out and going in. And the duration of existence of each and every universe is the duration of life of Brahma. That we cannot calculate. Even we cannot calculate his twelve hours. So that is God. We accept such kind of God, not a little magician. No. That is not possible. We cannot accept such cheap gods. We accept Krsna, the sarva-karana-karanam [Bs. 5.1], and we want to be eternal servant. That is our actual position. Jivera svarupa haya nitya-krsna-dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. By His unlimited potency, energy, unlimited universes are coming out with unlimited number of varieties of planet, and each planet is differently situated, different atmosphere, different temperature. So in this way varieties. That is ananda. Krsna has created these varieties because He is anandamayo 'bhyasat (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12). Anandamaya. Unless there is variety...
So we are part and parcel of that variety-maker. We are also one of the varieties, jiva-sakti. We are also one of the varieties. So how we can become variety-less, nirvisesa? That is not possible. Even artificially we try to become nirvisesa, variety-less, our constitutional position is that we want variety. How it can be stopped? Therefore in the sastra it is said, the so-called Mayavadi, impersonalist, monist, aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah [SB 10.2.32], although they get up to the position of oneness, monist, but from that position they fall down. Why? Anadrta-yusmad-anghrayah. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adhah anadrta-yusmad-anghrayah [SB 10.2.32]. Because they have no information of the lotus feet of Krsna, where to enjoy ananda, anandamayo 'bhyasat (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12), and they are by nature seeking after ananda, this so-called oneness, monism, that will not please them. They will require again ananda. But because anadrta-yusmad-anghrayah, they have not worshiped Krsna's lotus feet, they come down again in this material world and worship the feet of maya. That is their position. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adhah [SB 10.2.32]. And as soon as you are engaged in the service of maya, that is your adhah patanti. Adhah patanti. As we, all these materialistic person who are within this material, you are serving maya... Everyone is serving. Nobody is without serving. But they are serving maya. So you have to transfer your service from maya to Krsna. Then your life will be successful and you will taste different varieties of prasadam perpetually and enjoy life eternally and blissfully.
Thank you very much. (end)
Prabhupada:
rupa-matrad vikurvanat
tejaso daiva-coditat
rasa-matram abhut tasmad
ambho jihva rasa-grahah
[SB 3.26.41]
How water is manufactured, that is explained here. The modern scientists, they speak of manufacturing water by combination of two gases: hydrogen, oxygen. May be true to certain extent. But from Vedic literature we understand that by the interaction of form and touch through the agency of fire maybe there is perspiration. Just like when our body becomes too much heated, there is perspiration, the water comes out, similarly, the same process we get the water, ambu. And as soon as there is water there is jihva, the sense of touch, rasa-graha, which can taste. Jihva is meant for tasting. So this is the way of physical manifestation of different ways. But on the background there is daiva-codita. Everything is coming into existence on account of superior management or superior impelling. That is the main proposition, that mayadhyaksena prakrtih [Bg. 9.10]. These things we..., physical transformation, different ways, we experience. That is the phenomenal world. But these things are taking place not automatically but daiva-coditat, by superior intervention, impelled by the superior Personality of Godhead.
So as we explained last night, every action and reaction is being completed by the superior person, Krsna. But He has got so multi-energies that He does not require... Just like we have to see so many things personally. Just like in this management of our institution sometimes we have to take personal care: "How this is being managed?" Because we have to see there may not be any discrepancies in the service of the Lord. That is our duty. But entirely, if we depend on Krsna, things will go on. But we have to depend in that way. He has got such fine machinery. The first thing is that He is seated in everyone's heart. Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah [Bg. 15.15]. So He can give instruction to perform the respective duties -- but provided there is another thing, personal consideration. The chance is given to the personal living being to take this chance but not misuse your little independence. Chance is given everyone. And Krsna's another business is: He does not interfere with the little independence given to the living being. So he must voluntarily surrender his little independence. Does not..., Krsna does not force; Krsna desires, He orders, that "You do this." Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. But He does not interfere with the little independence. That is Krsna's mercy, how He can do that. Krsna is not like us, that I give you something and again I ask you to return it. No. Whatever Krsna has given to us, that is permanent.
So He has given us little independence because we are part and parcel of Krsna. Krsna is fully independent. He does not depend on anyone. But although we have got independence to a certain extent, but under the control of maya. In the spiritual life there is also maya. That is called yoga-maya. And in the material life there is also maya. That is called maha-maya, Durga. So we, being very little... Just like small children. He is given either to the mother for taking care or to the nurse for taking care. The little child must be taken care of, either by the mother or an appointed nurse, maidservant. Similarly, we being very tiny, small, fragmental, atomic part and parcel of Krsna, although we have got all the ingredients of Krsna, still, we require protection. Just like the child and the father. The child possesses all the chemical composition of the father's body. Even if the father is diseased, the child inherits the disease also. This is a fact. Similarly, we have got all the ingredients or qualities of God in us. But in many..., in very, very small fragmental portions. Therefore, although we have got Krsna's qualities, still, we sometimes fall down. Because is very, very minute, fragmental, there is chance of being covered by something else.
So we require protection. Therefore, mahatmanas tu mam partha daivim prakrtim asritah [Bg. 9.13]. The mahatma, they are also given protection by daivi-prakrti, Krsna's maya. Therefore we chant "Hare Krsna," not alone "Krsna." Hara is Krsna's energy, so we first of all take the shelter of Krsna's energy, daivi-maya, Radharani. In Vrndavana they chant "Radha-Krsna," "Jaya Radhe." The general addressing is "Radhe," like that. So to take shelter of the daivi-maya... Mahatmanas tu mam partha daivim prakrtim asritah [Bg. 9.13]. If we take shelter of the daivi-maya, Radharani, then She will give us intelligence in such a way that we can take shelter of Krsna perfectly. So daivi-maya asritah, as soon as we become under the shelter of daivi-maya, then our business becomes bhajanty ananya-manasah, simply serving Krsna, no other business. And in the material world so long we are under the protection of maha-maya we have got many things to serve. Bahu-sakha hy anantas ca buddhayo 'vyavasayinam. When we are under the care of daivi-maya, then our only business is to serve Krsna. That is our original constitutional position, Krsna-dasa. As we have several times given this example, the part and parcel of my body, the finger, it is always serving the whole body according to the order, similarly, as part and parcel of God, Krsna, our only business is to serve Him. Whatever we have got in possession...
Now it is explained by Kapiladeva, how things are developing, everything. This evening we were discussing. Here it is said that jihva ambhah. They are coming out by interaction of touch sensation, the fire. In this way everything is emanating. Janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. The original source is Krsna. Aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate [Bg. 10.8]. This is the real science. Everything is coming from Him. So whatever we possess, the physical transformation, the gross body and the subtle mind, intelligence, everything is produced from the original source, Krsna. So same thing, when it is utilized by clear understanding, that "Everything is emanation from Krsna. Everything belongs to Krsna. So let us utilize it for Krsna's service," then we are situated in the daivi-maya. Mahatmanas tu mam partha daivim prakrtim asritah [Bg. 9.13]. This is daivi-prakrti. And the result is bhajanty ananya-manasah: "Without any deviation they are engaged, the devotees are engaged, in Krsna's service." That is the perfection of life. And in this life, so long we are in material condition, we are practicing how to be engaged in Krsna's service twenty-four hours. And when it is perfection... Tatah, tattvato jnatva.
Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita that bhaktya mam abhijanati [Bg. 18.55]. If you want to understand Krsna or if anyone wants to understand Krsna perfectly, tattvatah, in truth, then he has to understand it through bhakti, not any other process, although there are many other processes, different ways. Some so-called philosophers, they say that "We can adopt any process. It leads to the same goal." That's all right, provided you make progress. Then you'll reach to the same goal. But if you become stuck up with the process only, you do not make progress, then it does not lead to the same goal. Just like one staircase going to the fourth floor. So you cross, say, twenty-five steps. You are in a certain position. If you cross fifty steps, you are in a certain position. If you cross sixty steps... In this way, the final may be hundred steps. So unless you go to the hundredth step, the final position is not attained, although it is leading to the same goal. Therefore we have to make progress. From karma-kanda we have to learn what is the actual position of karma-kanda, why we are engaged in karma-kanda. That is called jnana. Then, coming to the jnana-kanda, then you come to the upasana-kanda. Then upasana-kanda, when you reach the highest, topmost upasana... Upasananam sarvesam visnor aradhanam param. When you become Vaisnava, when you worship Krsna, Visnu, that is the perfectional stage.
So mama vartmanuvartante manusyah partha sarvasah. Everyone is going to the same goal, but he has to make further progress. Don't think, "By karma-kanda we have come to the final stage," or "By jnana-kanda, we can, we have come to the final stage," or "By upasana-kanda, by worshiping demigods, we have come to the final stage." No. The final stage, you can come directly by bhakti, the topmost upasana. Therefore Krsna says directly, bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah [Bg. 18.55]. So bhakti process is sravanam beginning. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh [SB 7.5.23]. So we have to hear these subject matters described in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. Then we will understand how Krsna is conducting this phenomenal world. That you have to learn by hearing. Why this Bhagavatam is there? For... Yad vaisnavanam priyah. The Vaisnava will enjoy, will learn from Srimad-Bhagavatam how Krsna is working in everything. That will enlighten the devotee that how Krsna is great, by His different energies how He is working in every field of activities. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. He is present here, Krsna. He has nothing to do. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. Everything is ready. Either automatically or in order to accept service from the devotee, He is assuming that "I am dependent on you. If you dress Me, then I can be dressed." But actually that is not the fact. He is dressing Himself by giving you intelligence. Buddhi-yogam dadami tam yena mam upayanti te. Those who are desirous to serve Him, then Krsna gives him intelligence how to serve Him. He does not depend on your service. He's quite self-sufficient. But He assumes that "I am a statue of stone. I cannot dress Myself. Please dress Me." This is Krsna's mercy, to give you chance. He does not depend on you. Na tasya kar... There are many energies. Krsna is worshiped by many, many goddess of fortune. Laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam [Bs. 5.29]. So He doesn't require our service. But He agrees. He is so kind that He agrees to come here to accept our service. Therefore we must be very careful, that "Krsna has kindly consented to come here to accept our service. Now we may not do something which is not satisfactory to Him." That is devotion. That is Krsna consciousness. Always full of veneration. Don't think that "Here is a statue." Here is Krsna.
So Krsna is ready to accept our service in so many ways. Either if you cannot establish Deity, then you simply hear about Him. That is the most important thing. We do not require to establish temple everywhere. If there is possible to establish temple and serve Krsna properly according to the regulation mentioned in the sastras or instructed by the spiritual master, that is called vaidhi-bhakti. Vaidhi-bhakti. Vaidhi-bhakti means discharging devotional service under regulative principles. So without vaidhi-bhakti, you cannot jump to the raga-bhakti. Raga-bhakti is spontaneous. That does not require any regulative principles. Out of love, out of feeling anyone wants to serve Krsna. That is called..., that is gopis. All the inhabitants of Vrndavana, they did not undergo any regulative principles. But spontaneously, they are always ready to serve God, Krsna. That is called raga-bhakti. Just like to... The example... There are examples. Just like a mother, as soon as there is child, baby, she takes care. She takes care. Although she does not go to a school how to take care of a child, but automatically. Automatically she takes care. Similarly, this automatically serving Krsna, that is called raga-bhakti. That is reached by vaidhi-bhakti, by practicing. Just like formerly there was marriage, child marriage -- a small boy, a small girl. But simply by association the girl understands how to serve the husband and the husband also understand how to give protection to the wife, and mostly, the life was very pleasing, happy. From the very beginning she knows, "Here is my husband," and he knows, "Here is my wife." At least we have seen in our India. There is no question of separation. There is no question of divorce. The love is there from the very beginning. The propensity was there and immediately the object of love is there. A girl has got husband; a husband has got a wife. So the love continues spontaneously.
So from the very beginning of our life we should try to understand Krsna consciousness, love Krsna. Then automatically it becomes manifest. That is the instruction of Prahlada Maharaja. Kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. Kaumara. Kaumara means up to tenth year, five to tenth year. According to somebody, even up to fifteenth year. Anyway, during this period of life one should learn how to develop this devotional cult, dharman bhagavatan. Dharma means the laws and the instruction given by God. Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam [SB 6.3.19]. And when that is actually executed directly between, transaction between God and the devotee, that is real dharma. Dharman bhagavatan. They have different types of dharmas, but real dharma is bhagavata-dharma, what we learn from Srimad-Bhagavatam, to deal with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan. That is called bhagavatan. So children should be instructed from the very beginning of their life this bhagavata-dharma. We are attempting to do that in our Krsna consciousness movement. We have got an institution, Gurukula, at Dallas, Texas, and they are learning very nicely. Just like this child. From the very beginning he is learning bhagavata-dharma. He is offering obeisances, he is chanting, he is dancing, he is offering a flower to the spiritual master, and he is offering to the Vaisnavas. In his childish way, while playing, he is becoming accustomed to dharman bhagavatan. This is really, really human civilization, from the very beginning of life. Because if we want, we can learn like cats and dog, jumping and eating and sleeping and mating. No. That is not the business of the human life.
Prahlada Maharaja therefore says, kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. "Why? Why bhagavata-dharma so important that I have to learn from the beginning of my life?" Now, durlabham manusam janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam: "This human life is very rarely obtained, durlabham." Dur means "very difficult." After many, many births, bahunam janmanam ante [Bg. 7.19], this human form, after evolution, we have got. Durlabham, with great difficulty we have got it. That, why it is important? Now it is arthadam. Arthadam. Artha means meaningful or riches or something wealth. Arthadam, you can achieve arthadam. So that arthadam, although adhruvam... You can say, "What is the difference between human life and dog's life? They are all temporary. Why you are giving so much stress on human life, the same business: eating, sleeping, sex life, and defense? So why you are giving more importance to the human life?" Now, arthadam. Yad apy adhruvam, nonpermanent, it is arthadam. Arthadam means to achieve the goal of your life. So we should not misuse it. We should teach our children to become bhagavatam, person bhagavatam, by reading Srimad-Bhagavatam.
So we are teaching from the very beginning Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, and they are learning. That is the way. If you simply learn Srimad-Bhagavatam, you get so much knowledge how things are developing, how tongue is developing, how the taste is developing, how touch is developing, how fire is working, how heat is working; from the interaction of heat and touch, how things are devel... Everything is explained there. Physical and spiritual, everything is there. So this is bhagavata-dharma, to study Srimad-Bhagavatam very carefully. Everything is... Every knowledge is there. Kim va parair isvarah. There is no need of reading any other book. Kim va paraih, in the beginning it is said. Why? Sadyo hrdy avarudhyate isvarah. The perfection of life is to understand God. So by reading Srimad-Bhagavatam, sadyah, immediately, hrdy avarudhyate isvarah: "The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by simply reading Bhagavatam... He is already there, but immediately He is realized." That is perfection of life.
So Bhagavata is so powerful that nityam bhagavata-sevaya: we have to read Srimad-Bhagavatam daily and twenty-four hours. That is the injunction: nityam. Nityam means always. So our members especially, I mean to say, those who are inmates, they, and those who are becoming members, ordinary member or patron member, we are giving them books. Please read them carefully. Don't take books that "I am member. It is my duty to take books and keep it in the almirah." No. Read it thoroughly. Nityam bhagavata-sevaya. By regular reading of Srimad-Bhagavatam, then our this material contamination becomes vanquished. Nasta-prayesu. Nasta-prayesv abhadresu nityam bhagavata-sevaya [SB 1.2.18]. As soon as it begins to diminish, then it will diminish finally, and then you will be situated in your pure, original constitutional position, Krsna consciousness. Bhakti-yogatah. Evam prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogatah [SB 1.2.20]. By cleansing the heart we become prasanna-manasah, very jubilant. Bhagavad-bhakti-yogatah. Therefore this bhagavata-dharma should be practiced from the very beginning of life, and it should be studied. We have got so many books. One can read... Whatever already we have got, books, one can read for fifty years continually and get new enlightenment one after another.
So bhagavata means the complete knowledge. Bhagavata, from bhagavan it is called bhagavata. From bhagavat-sabda it is called bhagavata. So in the association of bhagavata, devotees, if we read Srimad-Bhagavatam... Sajatiya snigdhasya. Sajatiya means people thinking in the same way. So that means devotees who are interested in bhagavad-bhakti, to understand Bhagavan, they should read Srimad-Bhagavatam in the association. We should have regular classes. Just like school and colleges, eight hour, six hour. Be engaged always in reading Srimad-Bhagavatam, discussing amongst yourself. Then you'll make progress. Otherwise, if you take it as an official routine work... You should take as routine work, but with consciousness that "We have to learn something," not simply attending the class, but to learn something. In this way make your life successful. Because after all, everything is being done, daiva-coditat, impelled by the Supreme Person. The Supreme Person is behind everything. So in the association of devotees, if we read Srimad-Bhagavatam regularly, then your, our, material contamination will be dissolved, and our spiritual consciousness will come out, and that will make our life successful.
Thank you very much. (end)
mat-prana-raksanam ananta pitur vadhas ca
manye sva-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum
khadgam pragrhya yad avocad asad-vidhitsus
tvam isvaro mad-aparo 'vatu kam harami
[SB 7.9.29]
So before Hiranyakasipu was killed by His Lordship Nrsimhadeva, Prahlada Maharaja never addressed his father as "father," pituh. Now, after his death, he is addressing, pituh, "my father." Because before his death he was demon. Everyone knows. But if a demon is killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes liberated, either demon or anyone. Demons are generally killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They enter into the impersonal Brahman. Therefore there is a verse -- I don't remember exactly now -- that "The monist and the demons, they go to the same place, impersonal Brahman." And what to speak of devotees? Devotees never enter to that impersonal Brahman. Devotees enter directly in the Vaikuntha planet. Mam eti. Mam eti. Krsna said, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti [Bg. 4.9]. Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhamam paramam mama [Bg. 15.6]. If you enter the Vaikuntha planets... There are innumerable Vaikuntha planets, and above them there is the Goloka Vrndavana planet, Krsnaloka. So in either of them, if you enter, then that is not impersonal. Personal. Impersonal Brahman is outside. Although impersonal Brahman is also spiritual existence, but it is outside the Vaikuntha planets. So the demons and the impersonalists, they cannot enter into the Vaikuntha planet. And because they cannot enter into the Vaikuntha planet, they again fall down, again fall down in this material world. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adho 'nadrta-yusmad-anghrayah [SB 10.2.32]. Patanty adhah. Adhah means in this material world. Those who are impersonalists, they may enter into the Brahman effulgence, aruhya krcchrena, with severe execution of penance and austerities. The Mayavadis, they perform severe austerity. Those who are actually Brahmavadis, their mode of life is very, very strict and severe also. So even after severe penances and austerities one enters into the Brahman effulgence, there is no security. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah [SB 10.2.32]. Why they come down? Now, anadrta-yusmad-anghrayah: "Because they did not get the information about Your lotus feet." That means person. When we speak of "feet" or "hand" that means the Supreme Person, a person. But they do not accept the person. That is their difficulty. They'll never accept that the Absolute Truth is person. Therefore they fall down again and again. Bhutva bhutva praliyate [Bg. 8.19].
So Prahlada Maharaja says, mat-prana-raksanam ananta pitur vadhas ca. The two things are there. When Krsna incarnates there are two things. What are they? Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam [Bg. 4.8]. Two things. So here two things are being done. One thing is to save Prahlada Maharaja, paritranaya sadhunam, and another thing is vinasaya ca duskrtam yuge yuge sambhavami. So actually vinasaya ca duskrtam, it doesn't require the presence of the Supreme Lord. The nature's arrangement is so strong that anyone can be finished within a second, anyone. There is no need of Krsna's taking so much trouble to come here. But He comes especially for deliverance of the devotee, bhakta-vatsala, and side work, to kill the demons. That is not His business. The Maya, Durgadevi, is sufficiently powerful to kill any demon within a second. There is no difficulty. Simply by ordering Maya... Or Maya does not wait the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. She can understand what the Lord wants. Simply little indication, she can kill hundreds and thousands of demons in one stroke. Srsti-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-saktir eka chayeva yasya bhuvanani vibharti durga [Bs. 5.44]. Srsti-sthiti-pralaya. She can do that.
So it is not the business of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to come to take this botheration. But why Lord Nrsimhadeva appeared? He appeared... One thing is that mat-prana-raksanam. This is one business. Another business was this. What is that? Sva-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum. Sva-bhrtya. Brahma is bhrtya, servant of Krsna. So he did something very, I mean to say, obnoxious by offering all the benediction to Hiranyakasipu. He was a very cunning materialist. First of all he asked for becoming immortal, but when he learned that that is not possible, then he thought, "I am very intelligent diplomat. I can screw out my fulfillment of desire in a indirect way." So all these people in this material world, they have got a cheating propensity. Out of four deficiency, one deficiency is cheating. Every wants... One wants to cheat his fellow man, man or beast, everyone. Even the dog, cats, they are also. You know the story. The dog wanted to take another flesh from the mouth of another dog, reflection, and he lost both. So this cheating, this misuse of intelligence, is going on, but that is never successful. It will never be successful because Krsna is always more than you. If you are a cheater, but Krsna can cheat you more than what you know. That Krsna knows. Otherwise how Krsna can be...? "God is great." So if you want to cheat Krsna, He can cheat you more than what you know. So that is not possible. Therefore this Hiranyakasipu thought himself to be very intelligent and wanted to cheat Krsna and His servant, but he was cheated actually.
Therefore he said that tad-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum. Rsi-vakya. Even the devotee or the servant of Krsna says something, even it is wrong, Krsna upholds this. Kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati [Bg. 9.31]. So even it is wrongly done, still, Krsna fulfills because He thinks that "My servant has promised; it must be fulfilled." Therefore Prahlada Maharaja, in the previous verse he has said, tava bhrtya-parsva. So to serve the servant of Krsna is better than to serve directly Krsna, because if the servant of Krsna promises something, if the servant of Krsna says, "I'll take you to Krsnaloka," you must go there. Even Krsna cannot do that. He can... I mean to say that He does not say very easily. But if a servant... Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah **. Therefore our philosophy is to please the servant of God, tad-bhrtya, bhrtyasya bhrtya. Then it is very nice. The success is...
So here it is said that sva-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum. So Brahma gave him benediction. He asked, "Sir, I'll not die at night." "Yes, that's all right." "I'll not die in daytime." "That's all right." "I'll not die in the sky," "That's all right." "On the land." "That's all right." "On the water." "That's all right." "No animal can kill me." "That's all right." "No man can." "That's all right." So he thought, "Now I am secure. There is no death." But Krsna is so intelligent that He killed him not at night, not in day, not in the sky, not on the land, not on the water, not by animal, not by man -- all things, rtam, yes, everything kept. Still, he was killed. He was killed in the evening, which you cannot say it is day or night. He was killed on the lap of the Lord. You cannot say it is sky, land or water. He did not kill him with the open weapon, but He killed with His nails. In this way you'll find that He kept everything intact, what benediction was given by Lord Brahma, rtam vidhatum. "Yes." At last, of course, He little chastised Brahma that "You should not give such benediction in future. This is botheration for Me." (laughter) But still, He kept His servant's promise intact. The demon was also killed, and the promise given by, a benediction given by Brahma, everything... That is the action of the Supreme Personality. In one stroke He is doing so many things. He's saving Prahlada Maharaja, He's killing Hiranyakasipu, He's keeping intact the promise of Brahma -- everything. That is God's intelligence. Our intelligence, however diplomat we may be, if we want to do anything, another thing is not managed nicely. But Krsna... That is called all potency. When He does something, in a moment He can adjust everything. Even opposite actions, He can adjust. That is Krsna. Therefore He's called all-powerful. We cannot do that.
So mat-prana-raksanam ananta pitur vadhas ca manye sva-bhrtya-rsi-vakyam rtam vidhatum: "So Your incarnation is there for fulfilling so many objects. And especially, there was challenge by my father, taking his sword." Khadgam pragrhya yad avocad asad-vidhitsuh. Asad-vidhitsuh: "I shall kill you." This is asat-vidhitsuh, to say like that, "I shall kill you." Nobody can kill anyone. This is asat. "I shall give you. I shall kill you. I shall protect you" -- no, you cannot do anything. Balasya neha saranam pitarau. Nobody can do anything unless it is sanctioned by God. You don't promise anything. Therefore a devotee always says, "If Krsna desires, it will be done." That is the fact. That is the fact. So when Hiranyakasipu was very much proud, unnecessarily challenging Prahlada that "You are not accepting my philosophy that I am God. You are searching after another God. All right, let me kill you and I'll see how your God can give you protection..." That was his challenge. Yes. So Prahlada Maharaja knew it, that "Unless Krsna desires, you cannot kill me." Therefore it is asat-vidhi. If one is very much proud and challenges the authority of the Supreme, that is asat; that is not sat. Rakhe krsna mare ke, mare krsna rakhe ke. Prahlada Maharaja knew it, that "You may challenge me, but I know you cannot kill me." He was confident devotee. "All right, "I am also challenging. I am standing here. Let me be killed by you." So that is not possible. Asad-vidhitsus mad-aparo 'vatu kam harami. And so it was challenged by the Hiranyakasipu that "You are searching after another God than me. Now I shall kill you. Let me see how another God..." This is demonic. The demonic means atheist and unnecessarily, falsely, very much proud of their knowledge. This is demonic. This morning as I was talking, the so-called scientists, they are falsely proud and challenge, "There is no God. Everything..." That is demonic. So in the Kali-yuga the demonic spirit is very very prominent. Everyone is thinking, "I am God." So it is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy to cure all these madmen. Madmen.
pisaci paile yena mati-cchanna haya
mayar grasta jivera haya se dasa udaya
Pisaci, ghost-haunted. A man is ghost-haunted; he speaks all nonsense. So in this age, Kali-yuga, they are mostly like that. They speak all nonsense. So we should be careful not to accept their proposal. We shall stick to Krsna consciousness. We shall accept what Krsna says and reject everything. Then we'll be saved.
Thank you very much. (end)
Prabhupada:
evam janam nipatitam prabhavahi-kupe
kamabhikamam anu yah prapatan prasangat
krtvatmasat surarsina bhagavan grhitah
so 'ham katham nu visrje tava bhrtya-sevam
[SB 7.9.28]
So this is Vaisnava paddhati. Tava bhrtya-sevam. Vaisnava does not approach Krsna directly. That is not Vaisnava. This is impudency. You cannot approach Krsna. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us, gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasa-dasanudasah [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. This is the process. You have to... As you have to receive the perfect knowledge by the parampara system -- imam vivasvate yogam proktavan aham avyayam [Bg. 4.1] -- similarly, you have to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the parampara system.
sri-caitanya-mano-'bhistam
sthapitam yena bhu-tale
svayam rupah kada mahyam
dadati sva-padantikam
[When will Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada, who has established within this material world the mission to fulfill the desire of Lord Caitanya, give me shelter under his lotus feet?]
We have to approach in that way. Sri-caitanya-mano 'bhistam. The Gosvamis, they established the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Therefore we have to receive the mercy of the six Gosvamis, and we have to receive the mercy of the six Gosvamis through my spiritual master. Bhrtyasya bhrtyah. Narottama dasa Thakura says, rupa-raghunatha pade, haibe akuti, kabe hama bujhabo, sri yugala-piriti. Narottama dasa Thakura, he is also acarya. He is speaking, "When I shall be eager to serve the lotus feet of Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami," rupa-raghunatha-pade, "six Gosvamis, beginning from Rupa Gosvami to Raghunatha dasa Gosvami?" Sri-rupa sanatana bhatta-raghunatha, sri-jiva gopala-bhatta dasa-raghunatha.
So we have to go through the Gosvamis and the parampara system. Then we can understand. Rupa-raghunatha pade, haibe akuti, kabe hama bujhabo, sri yugala-piriti. Generally some professional men, they chant Radha-krsna-pranaya-vikrtir. That is not the way. You cannot understand the loving affairs of Radha and Krsna without understanding the path given by the Gosvamis. If you surpass in this way, avoid the way of approaching Radha-Krsna by reading Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, The Nectar of Devotion, the Teachings of Lord Caitanya -- all of a sudden if you become an upstart to understand Radha-Krsna love -- then you'll misunderstand. That is the way. And people, they try to understand Radha-Krsna love affairs, jumping all of a sudden. This is not the way. One should be very much eager to understand. Radha-krsna-pranaya-vikrtir ahladini saktir asmad ekatmanav api deha-bhedam gatau tau, sri caitanya-prakatam adhuna tad-dvayam caikyam aptam radha-krsna-bhava-dyuti. There is a... This is the verse by Jiva Gosvami that "Radha-Krsna is one. Radharani is the pleasure potency of Krsna." Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate sva-bhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. Krsna is the Supreme Being. When He wants to enjoy pleasure, no material things can supply that. That is not possible. He expands His own energy, and by His own energy He gets the pleasure. So Radharani is not ordinary, as the sahajiyas, those who take Radha-Krsna love affair very easily... No. Then you'll misunderstand. Radha-krsna-pranaya-vikrtir ahladini saktih. It is the expansion of pleasure potency of Krsna.
So this science one has to learn from the authorities, Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami and others. Then it is possible to understand what is loving affairs of Radha-Krsna.
rupa-raghunatha pade rahu mora asa
prarthana koroye sada narottamo das
We should not jump over. There are so many literatures. They place Radharani as ordinary baladar(?) woman because they do not understand. So therefore Sanatana Gosvami has forbidden strictly that avaisnava-mukhodgirnam puta-hari-kathamrtam, sravanam na kartavyam: "Don't hear from the professional men who are not situated in the Vaisnava behavior." One must be..., behavior in Vaisnava. Sadacara-sampannah. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has warned that "Don't mix it with Vaisnava who is not well trained up, well behaved." You can offer him respect. A Vaisnava offers respect even to the ant. That is another thing. But he has warned, "Don't mix with them, these professional, so-called Vaisnava, sahajiyas." This is warned. Avaisnava-mukhodgirnam puta-hari-kathamrtam, sravanam na kartavyam: "You should not hear." "Eh? Huh? What is the wrong there? The Krsna-katha is there." No, Krsna-katha is there just like milk is there, but if it is touched by the lips of a serpent, it is no more to be taken. It has become poison. Unless one is situated as pure Vaisnava in his dealing, in his behavior, inside and outside, he should not become a preacher because it will not be effective, neither one should hear from such person. But people in general, they can not understand, but those who are preaching, they must be very sincere, the same way. Rupa-raghunatha pade, haibe akuti. They should read the literatures, the instruction, just like Upadesamrta, The Nectar of Instruction. We should follow, strictly follow. Then prthivim sa sisyat. Then you'll be able to preach and make disciples all over the world. This is the injunction. That is called gosvami. Don't be cheap preacher, cheap guru. No, no. That is not good. It is not possible.
So Prahlada Maharaja is one of the mahajana, authorities. How he has gotten this authority? Here it is said, so 'ham katham nu visrje tava bhrtya-sevam. So everyone must have his position by giving service to the spiritual master. And who is spiritual master? Tava bhrtya, who is a servant of Krsna.
yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado
yasyaprasadad na gatih kuto 'pi
kintu prabhor yah priya eva tasya
Guru is described, yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah: "By the mercy of guru one can achieve the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Yasya prasada. Yasya aprasadat: "If guru is not pleased, then he has no place." Na gatih kuto 'pi.
saksad dharitvena samasta-sastrair
uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih
kintu prabhor yah priya eva tasya
Why the spiritual master position is so great? Because he is very, very confidential servant of Krsna; therefore his position is so great.
So this is the process. Tava bhrtya-seva. We have to... Adau gurvasrayam. First beginning of Vaisnava life is to accept guru, spiritual master, adau gurvasrayam, then other things. Because who will teach you? So we have to approach a pure Vaisnava as spiritual master, follow his instruction. And what is his instruction? His instruction is as he was instructed by his spiritual master. He does not invent instruction. This is instruction. The pure Vaisnava, he does not invent anything new. Yare dekha tare kaha krsna upadesa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that "You all, every one of you become guru, everyone." Amara ajnaya guru hana tara ei desa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. Wherever you are living, it doesn't require that you have to travel all over the world. If you have no such capacity, it doesn't matter. You remain wherever you are, but you become a guru. "How I become a guru?" Yare dekha tare kaha krsna upadesa: [Cc. Madhya 7.128] "Very simple thing. You instruct only what is instructed by Krsna. That's all." Don't invent. Don't become overintelligent. Remain a poor fool. Guru more murkha dekhi sasana, korila sasana [Cc. Adi 7.71]. Caitanya Mahaprabhu also presenting Himself as a great fool because He says, "My Guru Maharaja found Me a great fool." He was a fool? He was Krsna Himself. But one should remain always a fool before Guru Maharaja. That is progress. If he thinks, "I know more than my Guru Maharaja," then he's fallen. Yasyaprasadad na gatih kuto 'pi. Then he is finished. So we should always remain a fool before the spiritual master, even though one is incarnation, not that "I am incarnation; therefore I have become God." No. Even if you are incarnation, you should remain a humble servant. That is that, tava bhrtya-sevam. Prahlada Maharaja is... Daityanam prahlado 'smi. The Supreme Personality of Godhead incarnates in different societies, different platforms, and He says, "Amongst the Daityas..." Amongst the Daityas, there are also devotees. So prahlado 'smi. Prahlada Maharaja is saktyavesavatara, but still, he says that katham nu visrje tava bhrtya-sevam: "How can I give up this service?" Prahlada Maharaja does not say, "My Lord, Nrsimhadeva, I am now so competent. Give me Your service directly." No. Tava bhrtya-sevam: "First of all give me the opportunity to serve Your servant." This is Vaisnavism.
So why it is required to serve Vaisnava? If you want to get relief from this conditional life, then you have to serve Vaisnavas. Chadiya vaisnava seva, nistara payeche keba. This is the... "Who has got," I mean to say, "liberty from this entanglement of material existence" -- chadiya vaisnava seva -- "if you do not serve a pure Vaisnava?" Mahat-sevam dvaram ahur vimukteh [SB 5.5.2]. This is everywhere. If you want liberation from this material entanglement, then you must take to mahat-sevam dvaram ahur vimukteh [SB 5.5.2]. You must. There is no alternative. Tasmad gurum prapadyeta jijnasuh sreya uttamam [SB 11.3.21]. "If you are actually interested to inquire about the transcendental subject matter, you must accept a guru." Tasmad gurum prapadyeta.
tad viddhi pranipatena
pariprasnena sevaya
upadeksyanti tad jnanam
jnaninas tattva-darsinam
[Bg. 4.34]
So these are the ways. You cannot understand by your erudite scholarship what is Krsna. It is not possible. Then Krsna would have instructed Bhagavad-gita to..., finding out a very great Vedantist. No. Krsna found Arjuna. What was Arjuna? Arjuna was a grhastha. Arjuna was a ksatriya, and although a soldier... A soldier is not expected to become a Vedantist. We recruit soldiers not from the Vedantists' group. One who can fight, one who has got strength -- we recruit soldier. So Arjuna was not very qualified in that way to understand Bhagavad-gita or instruction, but Krsna said, "Yes, I will speak, speak to you. This Bhagavad-gita, the parampara is lost, so I shall again speak the old thing to you." "Why to me?" Bhakto 'si priyo 'si me: [Bg. 4.3] "Because you are My bhakta. You are My priya." So by scholarship one cannot understand Bhagavad-gita. That is not possible. One must become a servant of the servant of Krsna [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. Then one can understand what is Bhagavad-gita. Otherwise it (is) not possible.
So evam janam nipatitam prabhavahi-kupe. Ahi kupa. Ahi means the serpent. So we have got these serpents surrounded by us, surrounded, all round. What are the serpents? The senses. Everyone, we are in the dark well surrounded by serpents, this body. Bhaktivinoda Thakura has sung this song, sarira avidya-jal, jadendriya tahe kala. Kala means serpents, kala-sarpa. Kala-sarpa, it can bite at any moment and finish you. We are being bitten every moment. It is Krsna's grace that we are living. Otherwise our senses are so dangerous that it can bring me down at any moment, kala-sarpa. There are many places, kala-sarpa-patali protkhata-damstrayate. One devotee says, "Yes, I am surrounded by kala-sarpa, the serpent, that's nice, but I can break the teeth." But if kala-sarpa is the... What is called, that? Fangs? If they are broken -- they are taken out -- they are no more dangerous. Dangerous. They are dangerous so long the fangs are there. So protkhata-damstrayate. Sri Prabhodananda Sarasvati said, kala-sarpa-patali protkhata-damstrayate: "Yes, I have got my kala-sarpas, but by the grace of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, I have broken the fangs, so it is no more fearful." How it is possible? By the mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu it is possible. Just like you can break the fangs of the... There are expert snake charmer. Because this poison is required for some medicinal purpose, so they take it out. Then it is useless. But they again grow. The body is so made of the snake, even if you take once the fangs, again it grows. That is stated here, that how it is possible? Kamabhikamam anu yah prapatan prasangat. Once it may be broken, but if you have bad association, then again it will grow. Kamabhikamam. One kama, one lusty desire, produces another lusty desire. In this way, one after another, this is going on. That is the cause of our repeated birth and death. Bhutva bhutva praliyate [Bg. 8.19]. So therefore, if we want to enter into bhakti platform, then we should give up this. Anyabhilasita-sunyam. Anyabhilasita-sunyam [Brs. 1.1.11].
So "How it can be zero? I am a living being. How it can be zero? I am always thinking, planning. I have got so many desires," they say. One who does not know what is the position of a living being, they say that "Give up desires. Desireless." That is not possible. Desirelessness is not possible. Because I am a living being, I must desire. Therefore desires may be purified. That is wanted. You cannot make the desires zero. That is not possible. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. Now our desires are there according to my designated position. "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim. Why shall I take Krsna consciousness?" Because I am designated, I have taken this designation, "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian." Therefore we cannot take Krsna consciousness. "Oh, this is... Krsna is Hindu God. Krsna is Indian. Why shall I take Krsna?" No. "You have to be desireless" means you have to purify your this false understanding that "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," "I am Indian," "I am this." This has to be purified. One has to understand that "I am gopi-bhartur pada-kamalayor dasa. I am the servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna [Cc. Madhya 13.80]." That is purification. Then desire. Then you'll not desire anything except Krsna's service. That is perfection. When you come to that platform, that you desire nothing but to serve Krsna, always, twenty-four hours, then you are liberated. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. Then you become nirmalam, without any material tinge. In that position only, hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate. Then... My senses will be there; not that I become senseless nonsense. No. My senses are there. They will act. They'll act for simply to serve Krsna. That is wanted. So that can be possible when you are trained up by the servant of Krsna. Otherwise it is not possible.
Thank you very much. (end)
"Jealousy-It's Cause and Cure" BY SRILA PRABHUPADA.
Prabhupada:
naisa paravara-matir bhavato nanu syat
jantor yathatma-suhrdo jagatas tathapi
samsevaya surataror iva te prasadah
sevanurupam udayo na paravaratvam
[SB 7.9.27]
It is very important verse. Discrimination. Sometimes the atheist class demons, they say, "Why God has made somebody so opulent and why somebody so poor?" This is the general question. Perhaps you have met, eh? So that is being solved. Paravaratvam. Para means better, and apara means inferior. Superior and inferior. There are two things, superior and inferior, everywhere, but in the eyes of God, Krsna, there is no such thing, superior or inferior. He's superior, and everything is superior. This should be understood. There is no such discrimination that "Here is a devotee, so he's superior, and here is a nondevotee, he's inferior." That is not God's discrimination. That is your discrimination. If you like to remain as inferior, you can remain. God has given you independence. And if you like to become superior, you can become superior. It is not God's discrimination; it is your discrimination. Mind this verse very carefully. Krsna says that "You fully become dependent upon Me, and I shall give you full protection." This is superiority. As soon as I fully surrender to the supreme superior, Krsna, then my position is immediately superior. And if I don't do that, then I remain inferior.
There is a verse in the Bhagavad-gita, ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham: [Bg. 4.11] "It is up to you to... If you surrender cent percent, then I am also fully cent percent for you." But if you have got discrimination -- "Certain percentage for my wife, certain percentage for my children, certain percentage for my country, certain percent...," so on, so on, so on, so on, ultimately, "Zero for God" -- then God is also zero. It is up to you. But if you take God -- "You are my everything" -- then He is also for you, everything. It is up to you. Paravaratvam. He does not discriminate. You discriminate. There are many persons, they come to Vrndavana, and whatever they have earned throughout the whole life, so they give everything to the wife and children and make contract that "I am going to Vrndavana. You send me at least two hundred rupees for my expenditure." "And what about two lakhs and crores?" "Oh, that is yours. The two lakhs and crores, what I have earned, that is for you, my dear children, my dear wife, and you give me two hundred for God. So I am going to Vrndavana." So Krsna is very intelligent: "All right, I am also for you two hundred. (laughter) I am also for you two hundred." Ye yatha mam... This is the meaning, real meaning. Ye yatha mam prapadya... Krsna is for you. It is called... What is called the exact word? Responsive cooperation. "If you have surrendered to Me cent percent, then I respond cent percent. If you have surrendered twenty-five percent, then I respond twenty-five percent." This is the position.
So Prahlada Maharaja knows it, that naisa paravara-matir bhavato: "You have no such thing as discriminating." So one may say that "I may... I am foolish, I may not surrender to Krsna cent percent, but why He is not kind cent percent?" So that is Krsna's discrimination. Why He should? He can... He can become cent percent, but He does not do so. That means Krsna is sentient; He is not impersonal. Don't think that whatever you are doing, Krsna cannot see. In the Deity room, if you think that "This Deity is made of brass. Whatever nonsense I can do, He does not see," no, He can see everything. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti pasyanti panti kalayanti. He sees. You rascal, you do not know how Krsna sees. You think that "He has these brass-made eyes. He cannot see. I can do all nonsense with..." No. That is not. He can see everything. Pasyanti panti. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti. He can see with His lotus feet. He can see with His hand. We can see simply with our eyes, but Krsna can see with all the... Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti. You have seen. Krsna is playing the flute. The fingers are open. A finger touching: "What you are doing?" We do not know the fingers can also see. But this is absolute. Krsna can use His any energy, any power, any part of the body, for anything else. This is Krsna. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti.
So Krsna can see within our mind how much we are surrendered and how much we are after material enjoyment. Therefore the best thing is we have to make zero. Anyabhilasita-sunyam [Brs. 1.1.11]. Sunyam means zero. Unless we make everything zero, simply Krsna fact... Krsna is only fact, and everything zero. Without Krsna, everything zero. Just like one is one and, zero is zero, but when zero is added with one, it becomes ten immediately, ten times, similarly, this material world is zero, and Krsna is one. If you want to enjoy the material world by your own effort, it will always prove zero. You'll never be satisfied. But you add this zero by the side of Krsna -- you enjoy like anything, ten times. Ten times. With zero, it is zero, But when it is added with Krsna, it is ten times. Just see practically. Our Krsna consciousness movement was started with forty rupees. Now that forty rupees or something added with Krsna, it has become forty crores. You see practically. When I started for your country, I came to Mayapur. I offered my obeisances to my spiritual master, then I went. At that time I had no money even to purchase the ticket. And after that, I have come with forty crores. This is the secret. Ye yatha mam prapadyante [Bg. 4.11]. If you fully surrender to Krsna, then Krsna is there. You have to learn how to take from Krsna. Of course, a devotee is never desirous to take anything from Krsna. He wants to give only. This is pure devotee. A pure devotee wants, "Krsna, whatever little I have got, You take it, everything." And Krsna says, "Yes, because you have given your everything, even up to your life, I'll also give you My everything to you." This is Krsna.
So Krsna has no discrimination, but it is up to us to know how to take from Krsna. Just like the example is given here that samsevaya surataror iva. Surataror iva. Surataroh means the desire tree. It is described in the Brahma-samhita, desire tree. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa [Bs. 5.29]. That is kalpa-vrksa. Kalpa-vrksa means... You have no experience. We have no experience. Kalpa-vrksa, there is in the higher planetary system and especially in the Vaikuntha world. There are, trees are kalpa-vrksa, because everything is spiritual; nothing is dead. Here you can take some fruits or flower from a particular tree, but there, if you like, you ask kachori and samosa from a tree -- you get. But we have no idea what is surataroh, what is kalpa-vrksa. Whatever you desire, you'll get it. Surabhih, surabhir abhipal... The cows are surabhi. Here you have got limitation. You can milk morning and evening to a certain extent, but there the cows are surabhi. Surabhi means you can milk as many times as you like, and as much milk as you want, you can take it. But these things are there. But we have no information. We are struggling here. Manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati [Bg. 15.7]. Because we are fools and rascals, we are trying to make some adjustment here. That is not possible. It is duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15]. This is maya. We are trying to be happy in this material... It will never be possible. But these fools and rascals, they do not know. They are making big, big plans how to become happy, how to become, "In our country, in our home, in our society, in our family," and so on, so on, so on. This means we are simply becoming entangled. Ato grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittair janasya moho 'yam, aham moha [SB 5.5.8], illusion. It will never be possible. Therefore, the conclusion is, we should fully surrender, cent percent to Krsna, and then we become happy. Samsevaya surataror iva te prasadah.
The example is: just like the desire tree, kalpa-vrksa. It can fulfill any desire, any desire. We have got so many desires. Krsna can fulfill all the desires. Please surrender to Krsna. This is the process.
akamah sarva-kamo va
moksa-kama udara-dhih
tivrena bhakti-yogena
yajeta paramam purusah
[SB 2.3.10]
We go here and there for fulfilling our desire, but if we are fully surrendered to Krsna, all our desires will be fulfilled sitting at home. We haven't got to go here and there. Therefore it is said, surataror iva te prasadah. And how it is? Sevanurupa. This is... This is the secret. If you are engaged cent percent in service, sevanu..., anurupam. It is proportion to your service. You cannot order Krsna, "Give me this." That is not possible. He is not your servant. Krsna cannot become anyone's servant, "Krsna, give me this, give me that." Krsna's not your servant. He's not order-supplier. His order you should supply. Then you can take. You don't make Krsna your order supplier. That is mistake. Therefore anyabhilasita-sunyam [Brs. 1.1.11], pure devotion means first of all you learn not to order Krsna, "Krsna, give me this, give me that, give me that." Don't bother Krsna. That is the beginning of spiritual life. Anyabhilasita-sunyam [Cc. Madhya 19.167]. You prepare to carry out every order of Krsna. Then it is spiritual life. Don't make Krsna your order-supplier. You become order-supplier of Krsna.
Therefore it is said that sevanurupa. If you learn how to give service to Krsna cent percent, then you get everything, everything, without asking. Krsna knows everything, what is required for you. Just like a father knows what is the necessity of the child. The child never begs, "Father, give me this, give me that." No. He's simply dependent on parents. The parent knows. Similarly, if we become cent percent dependent and serve Him faithfully under His order or His representative's order, then the success is sure. Sevanurupa. Sevanurupam udayo. Udayo: "It becomes manifest." Just like the sun is rising in the sky. It is not by your order. It is rising by his own way. You cannot say that "My dear sun, please immediately come to the medium (meridian?) and make it noon." "No, I am not your servant. I shall rise according to my principle." So similarly, if you cannot order even the sun, a creation of God, or anything according to your order, then how you can order Krsna? This is foolishness. Don't order Krsna. Try to serve Krsna. Then you'll be successful. Sevanurupam udayo na paravaratvam. Krsna has no discrimination that you are inferior; therefore His favor is not bestowed upon you. This is foolishness. Don't become envious of somebody who is getting Krsna's favor. Krsna is favoring him because he has served. You serve; you'll get favor. This is God. Krsna has no discrimination that one is getting more opulence, more success; another is rotting. That is not Krsna's; it is your discrimination. You wanted some rotten things; you get it. You wanted some stone and wood, you take it. But if somebody wanted to serve -- "I have given Him service" -- all right, you serve. This is paravara... Not paravaratvam, it is foolishness, that "Krsna has favored him so much. I not favored." You become just eligible to be favored, then you'll be favored. This is the process. Na paravaratvam. He has no such discrimination. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah [Brs. 1.2.234].
Therefore the principle is sevanurupam. Always remember this, as it is said here, Prahlada Maharaja. Prasada... Krsna is always ready to give you prasada, all favor. Why not? Without doing something, you are getting so much favor. Without Krsna's favor you cannot live even for a moment. He's so kind. Even the cats and dogs, they are also getting Krsna's favor. Eko hi vidadhati bahunam kaman. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam... Eh? Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). Krsna is so kind that He is supplying stool to the hog because he wants to eat it. He wants to eat. He has desire: "Give me facility for eating stool." "Give me favor, facility, to drink fresh blood." "All right, you take the suitable body. You want fresh blood? I'll... You get the tiger's body, the nails and the claws and the teeth. As soon as touches you, immediately all blood sucking." So He has delivered: "All right, take this facility." But what is the advantage of this facility? The facility is... You know. The tigers, they do not get food every day. He has got the facility to suck blood, but... All the implements he has got, but there is no chance. Because every animal knows, "In that part of the forest there is tiger," they do not go, so he starves. He starves. You'll find so many rich men, they have got enough money, but they cannot eat more. They cannot eat more.
So this kind of facilities, it is our foolishness. It is not facility. That is punishment. Real facility is how to serve Krsna. That is real facility. So we should always ask, beg. That is the Caitanya Mahaprabhu's instruction.
na dhanam na janam na sundarim
kavitam va jagadisa kamaye
mama janmani janmanisvare
bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki
[Cc. Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4]
This facility we should always ask: "Krsna, I don't want any facility of this material world. I am not worth to serve You; still, I am begging. Give me this facility so that I can get the chance to serve You." That is life's success.
Thank you very much. (end)
"Krishna's Touch" BY SRILA PRABHUPADA.
Prabhupada:
kvaham rajah-prabhava isa tamo 'dhike 'smin
jatah suretara-kule kva tavanukampa
na brahmano na tu bhavasya na vai ramaya
yan me 'rpitah sirasi padma-karah prasadah
[SB 7.9.26]
This is the position. Prahlada Maharaja, humbly submitting, because he is Vaisnava, that "What is my position? My position is that I am born of rajas-tamo-guna." This birth takes place according to quality we acquire. Just like I was rebuking that toilet. This is so nasty, tamo-guna, and if I have no response to such tamo-guna place, that means I am also of that quality. Just like fire and fire, there is no reaction, but in fire and water there is reaction. Between fire and fire there is no reaction, but fire and water there is reaction. Similarly, sattva-guna -- sattva-guna, there is no reaction. Tamo-guna -- tamo-guna there is no reaction. It is... In English it is called incompatible. When different qualities, there is reaction, chemical reaction, acid and alkaline. Acid and acid, you mix; there is no reaction. But acid and alkaline, if you mix, there will be effervescence immediately. So karanam guna-sango asya sad-asad-janma-yonisu [Bg. 13.22]. If one is developing tamo-guna, then, if he becomes, he becomes a pig next life, there is no reaction. He'll be very glad that "I am pig," "I am dog." There is no reaction. But if one is sattva-guna, then he cannot tolerate. Immediately obnoxious: "Oh, such a nasty condition." So I am very sorry there was no reaction in such nasty toilet room. And you are getting sacred thread, the quality of brahmana, sattva-guna. It is very regrettable. Nobody reacted.
So this is the position, that unless we...
tada rajas-tamo-bhavah
kama-lobhadayas ca ye
ceta etair anaviddham
sthitam sattve prasidati
[SB 1.2.19]
We have to curb down these rago-guna, tamo-guna; otherwise there is no improvement. If a person in Krsna consciousness is found, no reaction in rajo-guna, tamo-guna, then he's a dull stone. It is not improving. It is simply showbottle. So showbottle will not act help, Tada rajas-tamo-bhavah. This prescription is there. If one develops Krsna consciousness, then it is to be understood that he has surpassed sattva-guna, the brahminical qualification. Why we offer sacred thread to a person who is coming from very, very low family? Because it is to be understood by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, by following the regulative principle, he has already come to the platform of sattva-guna. But if it is a false thing, there is no need of second initiation. There must be. One must come. This, our process, is "Don't do this. Do this: Chant Hare Krsna mantra sixteen rounds, and don't do this -- no illicit sex, no meat-eating." That means he's becoming purified. He's becoming purified from the rotten condition of rajo-guna and tamo-guna. But if he does not, then there should be no second initiation. This should be the rule.
So, so Prahlada Maharaja is claiming. He's not neither in rajo-guna, tamo-guna, sattva-guna. He's Vaisnava; he's transcendental. Sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]. He's on the brahma-bhutah stage, on the spiritual platform. Otherwise how Krsna touching? Krsna is param-pavitrah. Param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg. 10.12]. He cannot touch a rajas-tamas-bhava. No. That is not possible. When Lord Nrsimhadeva touched his head, either by His touching he's already purified, or because he's purified, therefore Lord touched his head. This is the conclusion. So he is purified, but as a Vaisnava, he is placing himself in the platform of rajas-tamo-bhavah [SB 1.2.19]. The whole world, at least in this age, Kali-yuga, these two qualities, mostly tamo-guna, and little rajo-guna, that's all, but no sattva-guna. No sattva-guna. Therefore people cannot understand what is Krsna consciousness. They cannot understand. Rajas-tamo-bhavah, ceta etair anaviddha. Therefore we have to purify ourself. The prescription is there, very simple thing, to become purified, srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-kirtanah [SB 1.2.17]. If we simply recite all these mantras... The Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita, all these slokas, they're all mantras, just like as good as Hare Krsna mantra. There is no difference. So if we hear... That is the prescription given by Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and we are trying to introduce this. Our so many centers, we are inviting people in so many ways so that they can hear. This class is meant for that. It is not that everyone will understand each word, but simply if he hears, it will be beneficial, the mantra. Simply if one hears Hare Krsna mantra chanting, he'll be purified. If he hears this mantra, a verse from Bhagavad-gita, a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam, attentively, even he does not understand the meaning, the purport, still, he'll get benefit. That is the way. So we must hear.
So Prahlada Maharaja is saying, rajah-prabhava: "My dear Lord, Isa, my, this body, I have got this body from father and mother. They belong to the low-grade family." Suretara. Sura itara. Sura means high-class family, demigods, brahmana. That is called sura. And itara means low grade. So suretara-kule: "Because I am born... because everything is being done very perfectly by the laws of material nature. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [Bg. 3.27]. Prakrti, nature, is working. If you develop a kind of quality... There are three qualities: sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. So if you develop sattva-guna, then your body gradually will be sattva-guna-ized. Sattva-guna, the goodness... The body will be purified and become good. Good, bad, and via media, three kinds. So that is the process. Krsna consciousness movement means everything is being gradually developed into goodness. And at last, to surpass goodness... Here in this material world the goodness may be contaminated with the other qualities, but in the spiritual world it is so good... It is called suddha-sattva. There is no contamination, there is no tinge of rajo-guna and tamo-guna. That is spiritual quality. So Krsna consciousness can be possible in perfectness when we are above the quality of goodness. Above. Sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. 14.26]. One who has surpassed the three qualities and has come to the spiritual platform, then it is called cinmaya. Cit means spiritual, and maya... These word, mayat-pratyaya, these are used when it is in great extent, in large quality. That is mayat. And vikarat. Vikara means transformed. Just like gold. Pure gold, you transform into a finger ring -- this is also gold. This is called vikararthe. Gold has become now a ring. And another meaning is that suppose it is made of iron or other base metal, but it is covered with gold, large quantity. That is called adhikarthe because a quantity of gold is there. That is not all gold, but there is gold, covered. So in two meanings, the mayat-pratyaya is there. So similarly, cinmaya. Cinmaya means if you cultivate spiritual knowledge in large quantity, then your body is no more material. It is spiritualized. Cinmaya. Therefore great saintly person's body, after demise it is not burned; it is buried, samadhi, because it is cinmaya. So adikarthe mayat-pratyaya and vikararthe... So a Vaisnava, his body is cinmaya, is cinmaya body.
So Prahlada Maharaja says that "My body is in large quantity this rajo-guna, tamo-guna. So it is not possible for me to approach You, My Lord. Because You are suddha-sattva and I am in the material contamination, how it is possible that You shall touch my head? It is simply Your causeless mercy." This is appreciation. "Otherwise how it is possible? You cannot touch this nasty quality of rajo-guna, tamo-guna. My body is made by my father and mother. They belong to the nasty rajo-guna, tamo-guna quality. So it is not possible that You'll touch my body, but You have done it. You have placed Your lotus hand on my head. It is simply Your causeless mercy. Otherwise I am not fit for this. So, and I... You are so merciful that this mercy You did not offer to Lord Brahma even." Brahma is supposed to be the supreme creature within this material world, Brahma. He's the first created creature, and he's called Svayambhu. He's not born of any material father and mother but directly came through the lotus stem which is growing from the navel of Visnu. So he's not ordinary person. He's not ordinary person. He's not... Therefore he's known as Svayambhu. We are not svayambhu. We are begotten by father and grown up by mother. We are not self-sufficient. But Brahma is called Svayambhu because he is not born of any material father and mother. So "He did not get this mercy. Although Brahma's position is so exalted, still, my Lord, he did not get this opportunity."
Na brahmano na tu bhavasya. Bhava means Lord Siva. Lord Siva's position is also very exalted, more than Brahma. Lord Siva is in between Lord Visnu and living entity. We are living entity. So Lord Siva is not ordinary living entity. Brahma is ordinary living entity, but very pious, exalted. But Lord Siva is more than Brahma. "So he also could not get this mercy." Na vai ramaya. Ramaya means Laksmi, the goddess of fortune. (S)he always remains with Narayana. She is not... She's... Her position is more than Lord Brahma or Lord Siva. She is Narayana in a different energy only. Radha-krsna-pranaya-vikrtir ahladini saktih. She is the manifestation of the pleasure potency of the Lord. The Lord has got unlimited potencies, parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. So one of the potency is Radharani or Laksmi or Sita. They are equal. There is no difference. Radha-krsna-pranaya-vikrtir ahladini-saktir asmat. These loving affairs between Radharani and Krsna or Narayana and Laksmi or Sita and Rama, they are both of them the same. One is potency; another is potent. That is the difference, potent and potency. So "Such Rama, the goddess of fortune, she also could not get this compassionate mercy or causeless mercy." So he's feeling proud that "You are so affectionate to Your devotee." Therefore Lord's name is bhakta-vatsala. He can offer to His bhakta any position, more than Himself. Just like mother Yasoda. She is bhakta, and Lord has given her the position for punishing Him. Mother Yasoda is threatening Krsna that "Krsna, You were very naughty. Now I shall bind You." So Krsna, out of being afraid, was crying. So Krsna has given the position to the bhakta that "You chastise Me. I'll accept it." This is bhakta's position. This is Krsna's causeless mercy. He can do that.
So Prahlada Maharaja is appreciating that "I am worthless. I have no qualification." That should be the position of the bhaktas always. Never we should think that "I have become a big bhakta." No. Caitanya-caritamrta author says humbly, purisera kita haite muni se laghistha: [Cc. Adi 5.205] "I am lower than the worm in the stool." Does it mean that he is actually? No. But he's feeling like that. An advanced devotee, they're always so humble and meek, they always think of himself as worthless. And still, the Lord is so kind and favorable. That is His causeless mercy, that "I am not qualified, I am not worthy of this facility." This is the humbleness. Kvaham rajah-prabhava isa tamo 'dhike 'smin. "Not only I am influenced by rajo-guna, but mostly, seventy-five percent, I am infested with tamo-guna." Adhika. Akhika means "in larger quantity." And there is no question of sattva-guna. Adhika 'smin jatah sure... "Otherwise why I am born in this family?" That is the test. Now they are... By force they are trying to be equal. Of course, in this age everyone is sudra. That is an... Otherwise lowborn means this differentiation of different low qualities. By nature it will give. I have several times explained that as you infect a certain type of contaminous disease, you get that, you suffer from that. So the brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, then antaja, (?) candala, mean, so many, kirata, huna, pulinda, pulkasa, abhira, sumbha -- so many, low-grade, low-grade, low-grade, low-grade, low-grade. Then why this low-grade birth? That is due to this karanam guna-sango 'sya [Bg. 13.22]. In the Bhagavad-gita it says. It is due to our association with low-grade qualities.
Therefore the human life should be very cautious that we may not be contaminated by low-grade qualities. There are so many rules and regulations, but it is very very difficult to follow. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has recommended, just to remain purified, "Chant Hare Krsna." Harer nama harer nama harer nama eva kevalam, kalau nasty eva nasty eva [Cc. Adi 17.21]. You cannot... Otherwise you cannot purify. So kirtaniyah sada harih [Cc. Adi 17.31]. We should always chant Hare Krsna mantra. Then we'll gradually be spiritualized, cinmaya, spiritualized. Then our life will be successful.
Thank you very much. (end)
tasmad amus tanu-bhrtam aham asiso 'jna
ayuh sriyam vibhavam aindriyam avirincyat
necchami te vilulitan uruvikramena
kalatmanopanaya mam nija-bhrtya-parsvam
[SB 7.9.24]
This is intelligence. The karmis, they are trying to enjoy life by increasing the duration of life. The modern scientists, they are trying that there will be no more death. They think like that foolishly, that by scientific methods, the duration of life will be increased. Everyone is trying that. Nobody wants to become old. If you ask any old man, "What is your age?" he'll decrease it. He'll say... He is eighty years old, he'll say, "I am sixty years" or "sixty-five." That means he wants to live for long duration of life. That is the intention. Nobody wants to die. But still... They cannot do anything. Still, they are trying. One Marwari gentleman, at the age of seventy or eighty years old, he went to somewhere in Germany for undergoing surgical operation of the gland so that he can continue his sex life. Many monkeys are exported from India to Western countries for taking away the sexual glands, they know, hormone or something like, and replace it to man so that in old age they can enjoy sex. Perhaps you know all these things. So this attempt is going on, how to keep young and how to enjoy life. But nature will not allow. You may try your best. Nature's law is there. They forget that. And nature will not allow us to live here or to remain as young for all the years of life. It is not possible. But they're trying for that.
In this way, when one is experienced that these things are not possible, that is knowledge. We cannot increase our duration of life. We cannot increase our vitality of life. We cannot increase even our opulence than what we are destined to enjoy. Everyone... Karmana daiva-netrena [SB 3.31.1]. Just like here it is said, vibhavam aindriyam avirincyat. Virinci means Lord Brahma. So beginning from Brahma... "A." "A," this word, is used, this affix is used, with this meaning of beginning. So here in this material world Brahma is also a materialist, Brahma, what to speak of ourselves, Brahma, who is directly appointed the creator of this universe by the grace of God. Why he is in this material world? Because he has got some desire that "I shall be the master of a brahmanda." Just like everyone is trying to become the master of his house or the society or the community or the country. Just like in your country so many people are trying to become the President. Everywhere, everyone is trying to become master. It doesn't matter it is a small circle or big circle. This is material disease. So Brahma is also trying to become the master of this universe. The same mentality is there. Hiranyakasipu underwent severe penances. Why? To become the master of the world. This is the material disease. Krsna bhuliya jiva bhoga-vancha kare. So this bhoga-vancha are different degrees. One man is satisfied having a family, three, four men. He thinks, "I have become master." But other is not satisfied. Other wants, "No, no. Why a family? I must be master of a society or a community or a nation." So Brahma is also the same thing, same degree -- not same degree; different degree -- but the desire is how to become master. That disease is there. We are trying to be... Disease is disease. That...
Some of you have seen that my friend, Dr. Bose. I have said many times that when he was student, so one professor, he -- in those days medical professors were Englishmen -- he said in the class that "In our country, seventy-five percent of the students, they are infected with syphilis." So this doctor, he was a student. He said in the class, "Oh, horrible." So that professor said, "Why you are saying "horrible"? In your country eighty percent, ninety percent, they are infected with malaria, and they are in syphilis. So what is the difference? Why you make...? As a medical man, why should you make difference that 'This disease is better than that disease'? Disease is disease." Actually that is the fact. You say that "We are suffering from malaria. It is better than to suffer from syphilis." No. Disease is disease. Similarly, either Brahma or the ant, the disease is how to become master. This is the disease. Therefore, to cure this disease, Krsna comes to cure this disease, to say plainly, "Rascal, you are not master; you are servant. Surrender unto Me." This is the cure of disease. If one agrees that "No more," ara nare bapa (?), "No more trying for becoming master," that is the cure of disease.
Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, as Prahlada Maharaja says, nija bhrtya-parsvam: [SB 7.9.24] "Engage me as the servant of Your servant." The same thing Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, gopi-bhartur pada-kamalayor dasa-dasa-anudasah. So this Krsna consciousness movement means we have to give up this nonsense idea of becoming master. This is Krsna consciousness. We have to learn how to become servant. Not only servant, servant of the servant, servant of the... That is cure [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said, "So I have understood all this nonsense of becoming master. My father also tried to become master. So this knowledge, now I am perfect. There is no use of becoming master. Better, if You kindly want to give me some benediction, kindly make me the servant of Your servant." This is benediction. So one who has learned to become the servant of Krsna's servant, he is perfect. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, trnad api sunicena taror api sahisnuna. A servant has to tolerate. Tolerate. Servant, sometimes master orders so many things, so he becomes disturbed. But still, he has to execute and tolerate. That is perfection. Here in India still, when a person goes to marry, so his... This is a custom. His mothers ask the bridegroom, "My dear son, where you are going?" He replies, "Mother, I am going to bring one maidservant for you." This is the system. "Mother, I am going to bring one maidservant for you." That means "My wife, your daughter-in-law, will serve you as your maidservant." This is Vedic civilization.
When Krsna with His sixteen thousand wives went to Hastinapura, so Draupadi... It is natural between woman and woman, they talk about their husband. That is natural. So Draupadi was inquiring from each and every wife of Krsna. Not all of them. It is impossible, sixteen thousand. At least the principal queens, beginning from... What is the end called?(?) Rukmini, yes. So every one of them were describing their marriage ceremony, that "My..." Rukmini explained that "My father wanted to hand over me to Krsna, but my elder brother, he did not agree. He wanted to get me married with Sisupala. So I did not like this idea. I wrote Krsna a private letter, that 'I have dedicated my life to You, but this is the situation. Please come and kidnap me.' So in this way Krsna kidnapped me and made me His maidservant." The queen's daughter, king's daughter... Everyone of them were king's daughter. They were not ordinary person daughter. But they wanted to become maidservant of Krsna. This is the idea, to become servant and to become maidservant. This is ideal of human civilization. The every woman should try to become maidservant of her husband, and every man should try to become the hundred times servant of Krsna. This is Indian civilization, not that "Husband and wife, we are equal rights." That, in Europe, America, the movement is going on, "Equal rights." That is not Vedic civilization. Vedic civilization is the husband should be a sincere servant of Krsna, and the wife should be a sincere maidservant of the husband.
Therefore here it is said, upanaya mam nija-bhrtya-parsvam [SB 7.9.24]. This is the best association. When Narada Muni is describing how the man should behave, how the woman should behave... We are discussing now in our tape dictaphone. You'll hear that. That there is no such thing to become master. It is useless. You cannot become master. Ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate [Bg. 3.27]. You cannot become master. Jivera svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. Either man or woman, everyone is servant of Krsna. We have to be trained up in that platform, how to become the best servant, not only servant directly, but servants, of the servant. This is called parampara servant. My spiritual master is the servant of his spiritual master, and I am also servant of my spiritual master. Similarly, we think "servant of the servant." There is no question of becoming... This is material disease [Cc. Madhya 13.80].
krsna bhuliya jiva bhoga vancha kare
pasate maya tare japatiya dhare
As soon as we become puffed up -- "Now I shall become master. I shall be simply giving order. I shall not follow anyone" -- that is maya.
So that disease is going on beginning from Brahma down to the ant. Prahlada Maharaja has understood this so-called false prestigious position of becoming a master. He says that "I am quite aware of this false thing. Kindly engage me..." Nija-bhrtya-parsvam. Nija-bhrtya-parsvam means just like apprentice. Apprentice, one apprentice is engaged to one expert man. By and by, the apprentice learns how to do the things. Therefore he says, nija-bhrtya-parsvam. "Not that immediately I become very expert servant, but let me..." Our this institution is for that purpose. If somebody comes here, the free hotel and free sleeping accommodation, then his coming to this association is useless. He must learn how to serve. Nija-bhrtya-parsvam. Those who are serving, the... One should learn from him how he's serving twenty-four hours; then our joining this institution will be successful. And if we take it that "Here is an institution where we can have free hotel, free living and free sense gratification," then the whole institution will be spoiled. Be careful. All the GBC's, they should be careful that this mentality may not increase. Everyone should be very eager to serve, to learn how to serve. Nija-bhrtya-parsvam, Then life will be successful.
Thank you very much. (end)
Prabhupada:
drsta maya divi vibho 'khila-dhisnya-panam
ayuh sriyo vibhava icchati yan jano 'yam
ye 'smat pituh kupita-hasa-vijrmbhita-bhru-
visphurjitena lulitah sa tu te nirastah
[SB 7.9.23]
So this is experience, drsta... Everyone has experience what is the situation of this material world. Every day we have seen big, big leaders, ministers. Just like in the history of the world there were so many big, big men -- Hitler, Napoleon, this Churchill, Gandhi, Nehru. But all their powers, position, in one minute it becomes vanquished. There is no question... They are so proud, they do not believe in God, but when the death comes, they cannot argue anything. The death orders, "Immediately vacate" -- finished. You have to vacate. At that time their power, opulence, position -- nothing can help. So Krsna says, therefore... The atheist class of men who do not believe in God, decry the authority of God, for them... Of course, everyone dies, but for them, mrtyuh sarva-haras caham: [Bg. 10.34] Krsna comes as death and takes away everything in their possession. But foolish persons, they do not see still. God says, Krsna says, that "This death I am." Still they'll not. And it is a fact. When Krsna comes as death, as Hiranyakasipu, he was atheist, did not believe in God, but when God, Nrsimhadeva came, then he was vanquished, everything, within a second. Nirastah. Sa tu te nirastah.
So we have to see like that, the omnipotency, the power of Krsna, how it is working. But the difficulty is that we are so foolish, pasyann api na pasyati. Although we are having daily experience, still, we do not see. This is is position.
dehapatya-kalatradisu
(atma-sainyesv) asatsv api
pramatta tasya nidhanam
pasyann api na pasyati
[SB 2.1.4]
We are making our plan that "I shall be happy in this way. I have got this body, so let me make this body very strong, go in the beach and run on the beach to make the body very strong." There are so many other methods to keep the body very strong. Deha, apatya. Maintain the children very nicely. Dehapatya-kalatra, wife. Decorate the wife very nicely. "In this way I shall be happy. Let me keep my body fit, let my children grow very nicely, wife be decorated with ornaments, with sari, and I will see and will be happy." No. You cannot remain. Even if you arrange like that, you cannot remain. Krsna says, "One day I shall come as death, and not only I shall take you out of the scene, but I shall take away all your possessions." Mrtyuh sarva-haras caham [Bg. 10.34].
So Prahlada Maharaja, although a child only, but because he is devotee, he experienced. He's experienced that "My father was so strong that even the denizens of heavenly planets, Indra, Candra, Varuna and others, they are all afraid of Hiranyakasipu. If by austerity, penance, he got so much power that even the chiefs of the higher planetary system, they were afraid of..." Vijrmbhita-bhru. "Hiranyakasipu will stare his eyes and move his eyebrow. The other demigods, they'll be afraid, such powerful." Ye asmat pituh. Ye, the chiefs of the higher planetary system, they have got very long duration of life. In the higher planetary system, everyone has got hundred years maximum period of life, but as I was explaining, everything is relative. The ant's hundred years of life is not equal to my hundred years of life. It is relative. Similarly, the demigods' hundred years of life is not equal to our hundred years of life. Everything relative -- speed. Just like when the sputniks... In the beginning the sput, sputniks were in the outer space. Generally, to go around the world, it takes twenty-five hours. But because the speed was greater, so the sputnik surrounded the whole world in one hour, twenty-five minutes.
So in the higher planetary system, the time, everything is relative. This is relative world. So these demigods, their one day equal to our six months. Our six months equal to their one day. Such one day, then thirty days, one month; then twelve months, one year. Such ten thousand years, their duration of life. Such ten thousand years. So just imagine what is their duration of... Ayuh. And so far strength is concerned, that, the Indra is in charge of thunderbolt, so when Indra throws the the thunderbolts to scatter the cloud, we have experience how terrible sound it is. So they have got so long duration of life, strength, administrative power and so many things. Still, they were afraid of Hiranyakasipu, still... In spite of possessing so much big, big possessions. Akhila-dhisnya-panam ayuh sriyo vibhava. And everyone, icchati, everyone desires. "If I could live so many years like Brahma" -- everyone is aspiring. Therefore they want to be promoted to the higher planetary system for which they perform yajna to be promoted. In this life they struggle, the karmis. They struggle to become prime minister and Birla and this and that. And again, for the next life, they make provision. Therefore they want to give some charity, yajna-dana-ta... Yajna, performing yajna. Yajna-dana-ta... Tapasya. Hiranyakasipu also underwent severe type of austerity, and he got benediction from Brahma that "You'll not be killed by any man, any demigod, any animal. You'll not be killed in the sky or the water or the land," so many ways. But Brahma did not give him the benediction of becoming immortal. He first of all wanted, "Make me immortal." So "That is not possible because I am... Myself is not immortal. How can I give you?" So he took indirectly how to become immortal. And by austerity he got all these powers so that even the demigods were afraid of him.
But Prahlada Maharaja said that "Such a big powerful demon as my father, he is also finished in one minute. One minute. And therefore..." Ye asmat pituh. The demigods were afraid of, very much afraid. Therefore when he was killed everyone became very pleased. There(fore) Prahlada Maharaja said that "Nobody is unhappy on account of death of my father." He said, modeta sadhur api vrscika-sarpa-hatya: [SB 7.9.14] "My father was exactly like scorpion and snake, so killing of such animal, living entity, is pleasing to everyone, even sadhu. Even bhaktas, they also become pleased." They do not want anyone is killed or anyone is done something harmful. Bhakta never desires. But they also take pleasure when the vrscika, the scorpion, and the snake is killed. You have got experience. There was a snake in my bathroom. So you all sadhus became very alert to kill it, (laughter) although you are sadhu. So that is natural. When there is snake, there is no question of sadhu or asadhu. Kill him. Sadhur api, very nice. Modeta sadhur api vrscika-sarpa-hatya.
So Prahlada Maharaja is Vaisnava. He could understand that "Everything in this material world, even the possession of my father, will be finished. There is no doubt. So what is the use of possessing such thing which will be finished?" Antavanta ime deha nityasyoktah saririnah [Bg. 2.18]. This is intelligent person decision, that "Everything in this material world, this body, or anything in relativity with this body will be finished." Krsna says and the devotees know it. Therefore they do not want anything of this material possession. And Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches us to develop that mentality. "Don't want anything, material possession. It is... However it may be long duration, but it will be finished. But you are eternal. Nityasyoktah saririnah. You are the owner of this body. You are eternal." So we should be searching after eternal happiness, eternal life, eternal engagement. That is success of life. And if we hanker after temporary things, that is not very good intelligence. Therefore bhakti means when one is convinced that "Anything of this material world cannot make me happy." That is... That conviction is the beginning of pure devotion. Anyabhilasita-sunyam [Brs. 1.1.11]. You have to make zero everything material. That can be possible as we advance in Krsna consciousness.
Then bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat [SB 11.2.42]. You haven't got to... The jnanis, yogis, they try to detach from this material things by speculation, by knowledge. Brahma satyam jagan mithya. By speculating, jagan mithya, "This world is false. Brahman, atma, spirit soul is satya, the truth," they do. But it is not possible. Simply by speculating, it is not possible. You have to engage yourself in bhakti.
brahma-bhutah prasannatma
na socati na kanksati
samah sarvesu bhutesu
mad-bhaktim labhate param
[Bg. 18.54]
These are the processes to reach the platform of bhakti, devotion. But if you do not stick to the devotional platform, you'll fall down. However you may try to become detached from material things, unless you are fully engaged in bhakti, then by bhakti you'll be able to realize God realization. Bhaktya mam abhijanati [Bg. 18.55]. Simply by bhakti one can understand. And as soon as one understands Krsna, then viraktir anyatra syat. Then you'll be detached. Yad avadhi mama cetah krsna-padaravinde nava-nava-dhama... When our pleasure exchange will be done between Krsna and ourself, then we shall be detached. Otherwise not. Otherwise it is not possible. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya [Bg. 7.14].
So Prahlada Maharaja is realizing that anything, material possession, it has no value. It may have some value, temporary, but there is risk also. For some temporary enjoyment, there is so many risk. The enjoyment... The highest enjoyment in the material world is sex. So for some temporary happiness we may enjoy sex, but there are many, what is called, after results. That is not very happy. Yan-maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham [SB 7.9.45]. After result is very bad. Either illicit sex or legal sex, the after result is not good. There are so many aftereffects. Even if you live... Of course, that is the Vedic training, that dharmaviruddha-kamah, sex life not against Vedic injunction. Vedic injunction is that "Do not waste your semina unnecessarily. Only you have sex life for begetting nice children, good population," that much order. So even it is done according to the Vedic principle, still, there are so many sufferings -- you have to take care of the children; you have to educate them; you have to see that they are well raised. So many. So that is also botheration. But if you can remain brahmacari, oh, you avoid this botheration.
Devotees: Jaya! Jaya Prabhupada!
Prabhupada: So trpyanti neha krpana bahu-duhkha-bhajah [SB 7.9.45]. Either illicit sex or legal sex, there are many, many sufferings. But those who are krpana, miser... Miser means one who cannot use the benefit he has got, this human form of life. They know there are so many aftereffects. Na trpyanti. They are not satisfied. Trpyanti neha krpana bahu-duhkha-bhajah kandutivan manasijam visaheta-dhirah.
So the whole Krsna consciousness movement is how to become dhira, selflessness. Then life is successful. And anyway, don't be involved, entangled, with these material things. There are... This morning we were calculating that there are... As many atoms, so many living entities are also there. Sankhya, sankhyatanam, the word. Sankhya. Sankhya means number. As many numbers of atoms are there, so many number of living entities are there, and there is struggle here. So in this human life the chance is how to get out of this material atomic combination and go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the chance. So we have to follow the examples of Prahlada Maharaja, and there are... He's mahajana. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. Let us try to follow Prahlada Maharaja's instruction and make our life successful.
Thank you very much. (end)
Prabhupada:
sa tvam hi nitya-vijatma-gunah sva-dhamna
kalo vasi-krta-visrjya-visarga-saktih
cakre visrstam ajayesvara sodasare
nispidyamanam upakarsa vibho prapannam
[SB 7.9.22]
The same thing is repeatedly reminded. Maya... We are nispidyamanam. We are being crushed by the wheel of time with sixteen spokes. We are being crushed. At the same time, we are thinking that we are very happy. This is called maya. This is maya's grace, that in any condition of life, the suffering is very, very acute, but the living entity who is suffering, he thinks, "I am enjoying." This is called maya. You have seen that the pig eats stool. And when we see, we say, "Ah! What is that? Oh! He is eating stool." But he's thinking that he's enjoying. He is thinking he's enjoying. This is the covering influence of maya, praksepatmika-sakti. Otherwise how one can suffer? The worm in the stool is enjoying. If you take one worm from the stool and keep it aside, he'll again go to the stool. This is maya, praksepatmika-sak..., avaranatmika-sakti, covering. Maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan [SB 7.9.43].
Prahlada Maharaja will speak in later verses that soce tato vimukha-cetasah, maya-suhkhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan. A Vaisnava's concern is... He sees everything. Just like any common man can understand what kind of birth. Nana yoni bhraman kare, kadarya bhaksana kare. Very peculiar arrangement of the maya. We see sometimes in the airplane, even Indian, they're eating the intestine of the hog, enjoying. That is enjoying. There is a preparation called naphi in Burma. That preparation is made... Every householder has a big jug at the door, and any animal dies, he puts it in that. It is... The bad smell is so strong, if one opens, that whole neighborhood will be polluted, bad smell. So they keep it for some years, and when it is decomposed, the juice is coming, they strain the juice and keep it in bottle. That is called naphi. And when there is some festival, they give little, little, and people enjoy it. So, nana yoni bhraman kare, kadarya bhaksana kare. When my Guru Maharaja was alive, we had one temple, one of his, in Burma, in Rangoon. So when they were making puris with nice ghee, all the inhabitants will come, "Oh! What you are doing? What you are doing? (laughter) What you are doing? Intolerable. It is..." The flavor of ghee was intolerable, and the flavor of naphi is tolerable.
So nana yoni bhraman kare, kadarja bhaksan kare. Very peculiar condition we are in this material world. But do not think that when Krsna comes, He also is subjected to this suffering. No. That is isita. Just like there are many patients in the hospital, infectious disease, but that does not mean the doctors who are treating them, they are also infectious. No. They are not infectious. Similarly, when Krsna comes... Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, tadatmanam srjamy aham [Bg. 4.7]. So He is not subjected to this mayic influence. He's not subjected. Therefore it is said, tvam nitya-vijitatma-gunah. This material world is created by Him, composition of three material qualities -- sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna -- but He does not belong to any one of them. The Mayavadi philosophers, they think that when God comes, incarnation, He also accepts the sattva-guna and therefore the form is there. Their conclusion is, "The Absolute Truth is formless, so when He accepts a form of this material world, He accepts this sattva-guna." But that is not the fact. He's above sattva-guna even. Therefore it is said, nitya-vijita atma-gunah. Sva-dhamna. He comes with His own spiritual energy, sva-dhamna. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam also, in the beginning it is said, dhamna nirasta-kuhakam. Nirasta-kuhakam. Kuhakam means illusion. So the spiritual world, there is no such illusion or these three gunas. Therefore it is said, nirasta-kuhakam sva-dhamna. In the spiritual world there is no influence of these three gunas. That is in this material world. So when Krsna comes, He does not become affected or, rather, infected with these gunas. Nirguna... That is nirguna. Nirguna guna-bhokta ca. He's bhokta. He's bhokta or nirguna. Nirguna means spiritual guna, not material guna. When it is said, nirguna, "nirguna" means without any material quality. That is nirguna.
Sa tvam hi nitya-vijitatma-gunah sva-dhamna kalo vasi-krta. Kala, the time factor. We are under the kala, we conditioned souls, past, present future. Kala. Kala, time. Time has got three factors: past, present, future. So what is past, present, future for me, that may not be past, present, future for Brahma, or that may not be past, present, future for the ant. Every... This world is relative world. My past, present future is relative to me. My limited span of life, say a hundred years. So before hundred years, it is past. And after hundred years, it is future. And the present hundred years is present. But so far Brahma is concerned, his past, present, future is different. Our forty-three lakhs of years multiplied by one thousand -- his present day. That is his present day. Just like we have got this present day, beginning from six-thirty to five-thirty, that. So Brahma hasn't got such day. This six-thirty to five-thirty, say eleven hours, and Brahma, this eleven hours means our forty-three lakhs of years multiplied by one thousand. Sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmano viduh [Bg. 8.17]. So in this way, relatively... Similarly, one ant, his one hundred years, he cannot imagine that so long period of man is one day. So everything is relative in our condition. But for Krsna, He's eternal. There is no such thing as past, present and future. Nityah sasvatah. We are also of the same quality, nityah sasvatah, but under the condition of material nature we are controlled, and this is going on by the time factor. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja is regretting, nispidyamanam: "I am being crushed by this time factor." But we are thinking, "It is all right." This is called ignorance. We are being crushed under this time factor, the wheel, time wheel, with sixteen spokes, senses. Manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati, mamaivamso jiva-bhuta [Bg. 15.7]. "These living entities," Krsna said, "they are My part and parcel." So they should remain with Him just like the fire and the spark. Unfortunately we have fallen down. And the result is nispidyamana, being crushed.
So if one is serious to be saved from this crushing process of time factor, then they should learn from Prahlada Maharaja. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. That... What is that? Nispidyamana upakarsa: "Kindly pick me up." Vibho: "You are vibhu, most powerful, the great omnipotent." "Yes, I am, all right. But why shall I pick it up?" Now, prapannam: "Now I surrender. I rebelled against You, and I was put into this wheel of time, and suffering one after another life. Now I have realized that I am in a precarious condition of life." So nispidyamanam. This is called human life, when one understands... The animal life, they do not understand what is suffering. The cats and dogs, they are thinking they're living very happily. But in the human life they should come to the understanding that "Actually we are not living happily. We are being crushed by the wheel of time in so many ways." Nispidyamanam. When this sense comes, then he is a human being. Otherwise he's animal. If he's thinking that he's all right... That is... Ninety-nine point nine percent people think that "I am all right." Even in the most abominable condition of life, just like the hog and dog, still, he is thinking, "I am all right." So long this ignorance will continue, he is simply animal. Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma-ijya-dhih [SB 10.84.13]. This is going on. Atma-buddhih, tri-dhatuke. This body, which is made of kapha, pitta, vayu, everyone is thinking, "I am this body." Whole world is going on. Simply we, a few members of the Krsna consciousness movement, we are going door to door and trying to convince them, "Sir, you are not this body." They don't care for it. "I am. I am this body. I am Mr. John," "I am Englishman," "I am American," "I'm Indian." You say "I'm not this body." So very difficult task. The Krsna consciousness movement, to push on, requires great patience, perseverance, tolerance. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu's order,
trnad api sunicena
taror api sahisnuna
amanina manadena
kirtaniyah sada harih
[Cc. Adi 17.31]
So those who have taken to Krsna consciousness preaching work, they should always know that things are not going to happen so easily. Maya is very, very strong. Very, very strong. But still, we have to struggle against maya. It is a declaration of war with the maya. Maya is keeping the living entities under her control, and we are trying to save the living entity from her un... That is the difference. Kalo vasi-krta-visrjya-visarga-saktih. This sakti, visarga-saktih, is very, very strong, but it is under the control. Although it is very, she is very, very strong, but she is under the control of Krsna. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. Although prakrti is acting so wonderfully... Very, very, I mean to say, great task she is performing, that immediately the cloud comes. Now it is so bright. Within a second a very big, dark cloud may come and cause devastation immediately. That is possible. These are the wonderful activities of Maya. But still, she is under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We see this sun so big, fourteen hundred thousand times bigger than this earth, and you see morning, how quickly it gets up, like this, immediately. The speed is sixteen thousand miles per second. So how it is being happenend? Yasyajnaya bhramati sambhrta-kala-cakro govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhaja... It is being done under the order of Govinda. So therefore He's vibhu. He is great. But we do not know how great He is. Therefore we foolishly accept some pretender, some fraud, as God. We do not know what is the meaning of God. But it is going on. We are fools. Andha yathandair upaniyamanas. We are blind, and another blind man lead us: "I am God. You are God. Everyone is God." But God is not like that.
Here it is said that God is He who... Kalo vasi-krta-visrjya-visarga-saktih: "He keeps control over the time factor and the creative energy." That is God. God is not so cheap that you'll find here and there. God is everywhere. That's a fact. But that is partial manifestation of His material energy. This is... Ekamsena sthito jagat.
athava bahunaitena
kim jnatena tavarjuna
vistabhya aham...
ekamsena sthito jagat
[Bg. 10.42]
He's there. Andantara-stham paramanu-cayantara-stham. He is within the atom. So when the same God, sa tvam, He comes, the foolish persons, they think that "Krsna is like one of us." No. Avajananti mam mudha. One who thinks like that, that "Krsna is one of us. He is like a human being, like me or you," he is mudha. Param bhavam ajananto [Bg. 9.11]. He does not know what are the activities of God, what He can do, what He can undo.
So anyway, if by reading all these literatures, explanation, given by God Himself, we come to our senses that He is so great and so merciful, then it becomes possible to surrender unto Him. So for a fortunate person it takes even a second, because God Himself says,
sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam saranam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
moksayisyami...
[Bg. 18.66]
So if one is intelligent, he takes immediately: "Oh, it is so nice. He'll give me all protection? Let me surrender." Business finished in one second. But if he's a rascal, he wants to search out, make research work, then bahunam janmanam ante [Bg. 7.19]. After many many births it will take... So best thing is, Prahlada Maharaja says, prapannam. Arjuna says, prapannam, sadhi mam prapannam. This is wanted. Be surrendered to the lotus feet of Krsna, and be saved from these clutches of maya.
Thank you very much. (end)
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