Transcription & Editing : Atul Krishna Dasa, Ashim Krishna Dasa, Nimesh, Ranga Radhika Dasi and Ramananda Raya Dasa

THE FOLLOWING IS A CLASS GIVEN BY HIS HOLINESS BHAKTI CHARU SWAMI ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 15TH 2010, AT ISKCON UJJAIN
What is today topic? Who remembers? How many we have covered so far?Out of six we covered only two – dainya and atmanivedan. So, what isthe third one? Third one is, very good, goptritve varan.  Saranagati,surrender to Krishna has six angas, six limbs or six steps, six aspectsthat we discussed the other day. First day, when we were introducingthe topic, dainya, atma-nivedana, goptritwe barana abasya rokhibe krsnabiswasa palana; bhakti-anukula-matra karjera swikarabhakti-pratikula-bhava barjanangikara  Humility, surrender of the self– atmanivedam, goptrite varan – accepting Krishna as the only shelter,accepting Krishna as the Lord and master. So, in this chapter also,Bhaktivinoda Thakur wrote many songs.  Many means, in this chapterBhaktivinoda Thakur wrote six songs. We have selected just one. It goeslike: ki jani ki bale, tomara dhamete, hoinu saranagata – I do not knowdue to what good fortune bole always means “strength”, with whatstrength. But it actually means due to what good fortune I have takenshelter of Your lotus feet. I have come to your shelter. The onlyreason is that, tumi doya-moy, patita-pabana, I do not know how I cameto your shelter. But You are most merciful tumi doya-moy, patita-pabana– You are delivering the fallen souls. Patita-tarane rata. You arealways engaged in delivering the fallen souls. Patita-tarane rata. Sothat is,  I do not know how I came to take shelter of Your lotus feet,but You are very merciful, You are the most merciful. You are thedeliverer of the fallen souls and You are always engaged in saving,rescuing the fallen souls and since You have seen that I am so fallen,You have delivered me. Bharasa amara, ei matro natha.   Bharasa amarameans my only hope is only this.   bharasa amara, ei matro natha tumito karuna-moya.  My only hope is that that your are very merciful. tabadoya-patra, nahi mora sama, abasya ghucabe bhoya.  There is no one asdeserving a candidate as I am. Taba doya-patra I am the candidate foryour mercy. Nahi mora sama, no one is there as deserving as I am,abasya ghucabe bhoya, I am confident that you will free me from myfearful condition. You will surely drive away all fear.amare tarite,kaharo sakati, abani-bhitore nahi  – In order to deliver me, kaharosakati no one has the strength, abani-bhitore nahi – no one has thestrength in this abani, abani means the earth planet. In the entireplanet there is no one who has the strength to deliver me. Doyalathakura! ghusana tomara, adhama pamare trahi.  But, my merciful Lord,ghusana tomara – You have broadcasted, You have announced that You willdeliver the fallen souls.  No one else has the power to deliver me, omy merciful Lord. By Your
declaration kindly deliver this vile and lowly sinner. Doyala thakura!ghusana tomara, adhama pamare trahi.  You will deliver the fallensouls.  Sakala chariya, giving up everything, asiyachi ami , I havecome, tomara carane natha, at Your lotus feet, my dear Lord. Sakalachariya, asiyachi ami, tomara carane natha, ami nitya-dasa, tumipalayita, tumi gopta, jagannatha!  I am, ami nitya dasa , I am Youreternal servant and, tumi palayita,  You are my protector, you are mymaintainer, tumi gopta, jagannatha,  You are my Lord and master, Youare the Lord of the Universe. I am Your eternal servant and You are myprotector and maintainer, o Lord of the Universe.  tomara sakala, amimatro dasa, amara taribe tumi Everything is Yours, tomara sakala,everything belongs to You. I am merely a servant. Certainly, that Youwill deliver me. tomara carana, korinu barana, amara nahi to ami Nowthat, I have accepted Your lotus feet.  I am not mine any more, amaranahi to ami,  I do not belong to me anymore, I have become Yours.Bhakativinoda,  kandiya sarana, loyeche tomara paya.  BhaktivinodThakur, crying, has taking shelter at Your lotus feet. khomi aparadha,name ruci diya, palana korohe taya.  Forgiving his offences, name rucidiya, and by giving him the taste of the holy names, and, khomiaparadha, name ruci diya please, You maintain him. So, BhaktivinodaThakur is appealing to Krishna that with tears in my eyes, kandiyasarana, loyeche tomara paya,  Bhaktivinoda has now taken shelter atYour lotus feet, please, forgive him for all his offences and give himthe taste for the Holy Names. name ruci diya, palana korohe taya,maintain him, please. So, this is how we have to accept Krishna as theLord and master. Who is your Lord and master? Sri Krishna. That is themain understanding.

This morning someone, someone means Sudeshna devi dasi came to me,today is her birthday. So, we will celebrate it also in the evening.So, she came to offer obeisances to me and She was telling me that shecan’t remember. She reads but can’t remember. I have seen this problemwith many devotees. They try to memories verses but they can’t andespecially when we become old, our memory becomes weak. When we areyoung men, we can memorize things very quickly.  That is why it isimportant that when we are young, we are trained to memorize. Anyway,so I was telling her that you have to memorize only three things, youhave to remember only three things.  All of us have to remember onlythree things. Those three things are- Krsna is the Supreme Personalityof  Godhead, we are his eternal servant. Krsna is the supremepersonality of Godhead and you are his servant and your main business,your only business is to serve Him.  Since you are his servant, whatshould you do? Go for a walk? If you are his servant, then you have toserve Him. That is the relationship between servant and master. Is itvery difficult to remember these three things? If you can rememberthese three things and if you can mold your life according to thisunderstanding, you will, you will achieve your perfection, spiritualperfection. If you can leave of body with this understanding, yet if atthe time of death, we can remember these three things – Krsna is God, Iam his servant and my business is to serve Him. So does it need thebrain of a rocket scientist? Or anybody, even a child can rememberthese? How many of you can remember this ? [In reply devotees answeredaffirmative and gurumaharaj said]Very good.  So now live lead your lifewith this understanding – Krsna is the Lord and Master. That is what weare discussing here today. Who is your Lord and Master? Why? Is itdifficult to understand why Krsna is our Lord and Master? Who is theLord? Who owns. Lord means the owner. So who owns everything? Who ownseverything, who knows? Those who really know, raise both of your handsand say Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare RamaRama Rama Hare Hare.

So now, tell me who is your Lord and Master? Who owns everything?Krsna [one devotee replied].And if He is the master of everything, thenis He my master also? Is He your Master also? So just remember that Heis your Lord and Master. If you remember that He is your Lord andMaster will it be difficult to surrender to him or if you don’t knowthat He is your Lord and Master, Will it be easy to surrender to Him?Will it be easy? It’ll be very difficult because your question will bewhy should I surrender to Krsna? Why should you surrender to Krsna? Letus consider a simple consideration. How many of you are working in anoffice or under some body? Ok. So you have a boss. Right? Those who areworking you have a boss. How many of you have boss? Ok. Now why do youaccept him as your boss? Why? Boss means what? The English word bossmeans master. Isn’t it? So why did you accept him as your boss? Simpleconsideration is because at the end of month, he gives you money? If hedidn’t give you money, will you accept him as your boss? No. So becausehe gives you money and you think you need money, so you have acceptedhim or that company as your lord and master. Right? So now considerwhat he is giving you?   Your boss is giving you? What does he giveyou? He gives you some money and why do you need money?  If I ask youwhy do you need money? You will say to buy food. You need money to buyfood. Right? Now who is giving the food?  Who is giving the food? Let’sconsider how does the food come. You may say, the food is there in theshop. And you have to go and the shopkeeper owns the food. So you paythe shopkeeper the money and you get the food. But did the shopkeeperreally produce the food? Who produced the food? The farmer produced thefood. And how did the farmer produce the food? What did he do? Heprepared the land and he sowed the seed. And from the seed the plantscame. Did the farmer produce the seed in his laboratory? Who producedthe seed? Krsna. And only seed will not do. You have to plant the seedonto the land. Whose land is it? Krsna’s land.  Only planting the seedwill not do, you need water. And where did the water come from? Fromrain. So did the farmer produce the rain? Who produced the rain? Krsna.Just rain is not enough. You need the sunrays also to make the plantgrow. Who created the sun? Krsna. Even sun is not enough. It was themoon rays that actually moon is full of nectar. And through the raysmoon actually sends the nectar that goes into the plant that comes outinto the form of fruits or grains. So who produced the moon?  Krsna[devotees repliedloudly].So who is providing us the food? Krsna[devotees replied]. What is the most important factor for being alive? Air to breath [devotees replied mildly].Air to breath. And who issupplying the air? Is somebody supplying the air or is it in theatmosphere? You may say ” air, air nobody supplying, it’s there”.  Ok,if it is there, then let us consider – we are taking oxygen. What arewe inhaling and what are we exhaling? What we are doing? We are givingcarbon-di-oxide. We So it is for ,So many people, so many animals, somany birds, so many reptiles-they are all breathing oxygen and given oncarbon-dioxide. So what do the happen naturally? Wouldn’t theatmosphere become filled with carbon-dioxide? But did it happen? Whynot? The trees are taking carbon-dioxide.  Trees and plants are givingout oxygen.  Did somebody make this arrangement or it just happened bychance? Somebody must have make the arrangement. Who made thearrangemnent? Who is maintaining you? Krsna [devotees replied].So thatis the thing. Gopta means the maintainer.  So the one who ismaintaining you, He is the Lord, right? So if you only recognize thatKrishna is your maintainer and then only, just as it says tumipalayita, “You are the maintainer,” and, “You are the Jagannath, Youare the Lord of the universe.” So that is how we have tosystematically, scientifically understand that Krishna is our Lord andmaster. That is the meaning of practicing devotional service.  We arepracticing devotional service for what? To become a servant of Krishna,that is the only purpose of our devotional service. Now, we don’trealise that we are the servant, because for so many lifetimes we havebeen thinking that we are the Lord and Master. Because we are sostupid, we don’t think deeply enough. We simply thought, “Oh I have gotso much, I am so qualified, I have so much money, so I am the Lord andmaster.” But it never occurred to us that if Krishna didn’t supply thefood, we would be dead long time ago. If Krishna didn’t supply the air,we would have been dead long time ago.

Another example I often think of is the earth planet, what is thesize, shape of the earth planet? The shape of the earth planet isround, and where are we situated? Where are we situated? The earth isround and we are situated inside the earth or outside the earth? On thesurface of the earth, yes we are situated. And is the earth static oris the earth moving? Earth is moving. Now you consider a round objectand you put something here, if it moves, what will happen? The thingwill fall off. So shouldn’t we have fallen off? But did it ever happen?Did anybody ever got deflected into the space? Did it ever happen? Anddo you know with what speed earth is moving? Earth is moving almost ata speed of thousand kilometres per hour, one thousand kilometres perhour. A plane generally moves at about, at a speed of seven hundredkilometres per hour.  But can the plane catch up with the thing? Onlysupersonic planes can; like, there used to be a concord aircraft, itwas supersonic, and that could move beyond the speed of earth.Supersonic means? What is the speed of sound? No, no, not sound, themovement of earth, at what speed earth is moving? Oh no, no, I’m sorry,sound. Yeah, I’m sorry, ok [devotees reply]. In miles or kilometres?How many kilometres per hour? Ok, so the thing is around 750 kilometresor 800 kilometres and that speed is called the most, speed of sound iscalled knot, Mach, I’m sorry. And it goes into? So the concord used tomove at the speed of two Machs, about two Machs. That means aboutsixteen hundr…sixteen hundred, seventeen hundred, and that couldactually go beyond time. Like once I took a flight in concord fromParis, I left Paris to New York, I left Paris at eleven o’clock in themorning and I arrived in New York at eight o’clock in the morning. So Isaved three hours.

Anyway, so earth is moving at such a tremendous speed, can youimagine? Moving at a speed of about thousand or eleven hundredkilometres per hour? And we are situated on that, on the surface of theearth, shouldn’t we have been thrown into the space long time ago? Butdid it ever happen? Did you ever hear that somebody got thrown into thespace because the earth is moving? Why not? Because of, because of thegravitational pull. Now who created this gravity? We may say gravity,gravitational pull, but who created it? Did somebody arrange it?Krishna. So is Krishna maintaining you? Is Krishna taking care of youall the time? So if He is maintaining us, then isn’t it natural that weshould accept Him as our Lord and master? So that is the point. So thatis what we have to understand, and that’s what we have to remember. Notblindly, we should accept it, but thoughtfully, with proper intelligentanalysis and reasoning.  Ok, so now we’ll sing this song, as we justsang, we just discussed ki jani ki bale, tomara dhamete, hoinusharanagata: “I do not know with what strength I have, I do not knowdue to what good fortune I have taken shelter of You…”

Anyway, we’ll just skip the translation. Ki jani ki bale, tomaradhamete, hoinu sharanagata; tumi doya-moy, patita pavana, patita taranerata; bharasa amara, ei matra natha, tumi to karuna-moy; tavadoya-patra, nahi mora sama, avashya raksh…avashya ghuchabe bhoy; amaretarite, kaharo shakati, avani-bhitore nahi; doyala thakura! ghoshanatomara, adhama pamare trahi; sakala chadiya, asiyachi ami, tomarecharane natha! ami nitya-dasa, tumi palayita, tumi gopta, jagannatha!tomara sakala, ami matra dasa, amara taribe tumi; tomara charana,korinu varana, amara nahi to’ ami; bhakativinoda, kandiya sharana,loyeche tomara pay; kshami aparadha, name ruchi diya, palana korohe tay.

So, you’ll be able to sing with me? How many of you will be able tosing with me? Very good, how many of you want to sing with me? Thankyou. [Maharaj sings]

1.ki jani ki bale, tomara dhamete,
hoinu saranagata
tumi doya-moy, patita-pabana
patita-tarane rata
2. bharasa amara, ei matro natha!
tumi to karuna-moya
taba doya-patra, nahi mora sama,
abasya ghucabe bhoya
3.amare tarite, kaharo sakati,
abani-bhitore nahi
doyala thakura! ghusana tomara,
adhama pamare trahi
4. sakala chariya, asiyachi ami,
tomara carane natha!
ami nitya-dasa, tumi palayita,
tumi gopta, jagannatha!
5. tomara sakala, ami matro dasa,
amara taribe tumi
tomara carana, korinu barana,
amara nahi to ami
6.bhakativinoda, kandiya sarana,
loyeche tomara paya
khomi aparadha, name ruci diya,
palana korohe taya
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Jaya Srila Prabhupada! So today I won’t take any questions, and atten o’clock there will be initiation. So those who are gettinginitiation you all fast till the initiation. And those who are nottaking initiation who
are already initiated, you can go and have your breakfast. So teno’clock we will have initiation ceremony here. Hare Krishna! Thank youvery much. Gaura Premanande Hari Haribol!