Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
material pangs, and our hearts are burning, but we cannot find any way
out of it." The materialistic person can also be called a tapasvi,
which means someone who is always suffering from material pains. One
can get rid of all these material pains only when he takes shelter of
the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra. This is also explained by
Narottama dasa Thakura: golokera prema-dhana, harinama-sankirtana, rati
na janmila kene taya. Narottama dasa Thakura regretted that he did not
pursue his attraction for the transcendental vibration of the Hare
Krsna mantra. The conclusion is that all persons in this material world
are suffering from material pains, and if one wants to get rid of them,
he must associate with saintly persons, pure devotees of the Lord, and
chant the maha-mantra, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. That is the only auspicious
way for materialistic persons.
Therefore Srila Narottama dasa Thakura sings: sadhu-sastra-guru-vakya,
cittete kariya aikya. If we want to become saintly persons, or if we
want to return to our original Krsna consciousness, we must associate
with sadhu (a saintly person), sastra (authoritative Vedic literature)
and guru (a bona fide spiritual master). This is the process.
Such repentance is described by Narottama dasa Thakura:
hari hari viphale janama gonainu
manusya janama paiya, radha-krsna na bhajiya,
janiya suniya visa khainu
Narottama dasa Thakura herein says that he repents for having
spoiled his human life and knowingly drunk poison. By not being Krsna
conscious, one willingly drinks the poison of material life. The
purport is that one certainly becomes addicted to sinful activities
when he becomes devoid of his good chaste wife, or when he has lost his
good sense and does not take to Krsna consciousness.
In this regard, Srila Narottama dasa Thakura states:
karma-kanda, jnana-kanda, kevala visera bhanda,
amrta baliya yeba khaya
nana yoni sada phire, kadarya bhaksana kare,
tara janma adhah-pate yaya
"Fruitive activities and mental speculation are simply cups of
poison. Whoever drinks of them, thinking them to be nectar, must
struggle very hard life after life, in different types of bodies. Such
a person eats all kinds of nonsense and becomes condemned by his
activities of so-called sense enjoyment."
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