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Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.25.02
Bombay, November 2, 1974
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Nitai: "Saunaka continued: There is
no one who knows more than the Supreme Lord Himself. No one is more worshipable
or more mature a yogi than He. He is therefore the master of the Vedas, and to
hear about Him always is the actual pleasure of the senses."
Prabhupada:
na hy asya varsmanah pumsam
varimnah sarva-yoginam
visrutau sruta-devasya
bhuri trpyanti me 'savah
[SB 3.25.2]
So we have been discussing about the incarnation of Kapiladeva, devahuti-putra Kapiladeva, the propounder of Sankhya-yoga. So in the previous verse He has been explained as bhagavan atma-mayaya. Bhagavan... Bhaga means opulence, and van means "one who possesses." Bhagavat-sabda. In Sanskrit, when the meaning is "one possesses," then these pratyayas are used, vat-pratyaya, mat-pratyaya. So the real word is bhagavat-sabda, and the first word is bhagavan. So bhaga means opulence. So all the opulences are there in Bhagavan. It is said in the Vedas,
nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam
eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman
(Katha Upanisad 2.2.13)
What is that Bhagavan's opulences? This is: eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. Bhagavan, singular number, and nityo nityanam, and nityanam, plural number.
So these jivas, we, we are plural number. Jiva-bhagah sa vijneyah sa canantyaya kalpate. How many jivas are there, there is no limit. Nobody can count. Ananta. Ananta means you cannot get the limit, that "So many millions or so many thousands." No. You cannot count. So all these jivas, we, living entities, we are being maintained by that one. This is the Vedic information. Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. Just like we maintain our family. One man is earning, and he is maintaining his family, wife, children, servants, dependents, workers, so many. Similarly, that one, Bhagavan, is maintaining all the living entities. You do not know how many there are. In Africa there are millions of elephants. They are also eating forty kg's at one time. So that, they are also being maintained. And the small ant, that is also being maintained. There are 8,400,000 forms of different bodies. Who is maintaining them? Maintaining, Bhagavan, that ekah. Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. That is a fact. So why He'll not maintain us? Especially those who are devotees, who have taken shelter at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, leaving aside everything simply for His service.
Just like in our Krsna consciousness movement. We have got more than one hundred centers. And one center... We were just reading from the statement of Nava Bharata Times how they are well managed. But we have no business. We have no source of income. That is the only source of income -- Krsna's shelter. Samasrita ye pada-pallava-plavam. Therefore sastra says that "You take shelter of Krsna." Krsna comes also to say the same truth. Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. He never said that "You do this and do that. Then I shall give you for your maintenance." No. Aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami: "Not only I shall give maintenance, but I shall protect you from the resultant action of sinful life." So much assurance is there. So sastra also says, tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatam upary adhah [SB 1.5.18]. Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovidah. Kovida means intelligent, very intelligent person. So what should he try for? Tasyaiva hetoh: to get shelter at the lotus feet of Krsna. Human life should only endeavor how to get in touch of the lotus feet of Krsna. That should be the only one business.
Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatam upary adhah [SB 1.5.18]. (aside:) Let them sit down. Upary adhah. Upari adhah. Upari means higher planetary system. There are seven planetary system. This is in the middle. We are in the Bhurloka. Those who are chanting gayatri-mantra, om bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi... So there are fourteen planetary systems within one universe. So we living entities, we are wandering in different types of forms of body and in different planets. That we are... According to our karma, sometimes down, sometimes up, in this way we are wandering. Therefore sastra says, "Just like you are wandering in this way, your business is how to become materially happy, how to satisfy your senses. But don't do that. Don't do that." Then? What shall I do? Tasyaiva hetoh. "How to understand Krsna -- for that purpose you should endeavor." Then how shall I eat? "No, that eating and sleeping, the business of the body, that is already arranged. That is already arranged. You don't have to work for it." Kalena sarvatra gabhira-ramhasa. Tal labhyate duhkhavad anyatah sukham. Our endeavor is to achieve happiness. That is our struggle for existence.
Sastra says, tal labhyate duhkhavat. Duhkhavat means... Just like we don't want anything unhappy or miserable condition of life, but we get it. We don't endeavor for it. Nobody says, "Let there be fire in my house. Let my child die." Nobody aspires these things. Everyone thinks that "My child may live. There may not be any danger. I'll get so much money." Nobody thinks of the opposite. But the opposite number comes. The catastrophes come. You don't pray for it. You don't go to the temple for praying, "My Lord, let there be fire in my house." Nobody goes. He goes for something better. So sastra says that "Which you do not pray for, still, it comes, duhkhavat, without your invitation, similarly, whatever happiness you'll have to enjoy, that will also come." Tal labhyate duhkhavad anyatah sukham. Therefore the conclusion is that "Don't try for your so-called happiness or so-called distress. Try to achieve that position where you can understand Krsna and get shelter at His lotus feet." This is human endeavor. Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatam upary adhah [SB 1.5.18]. Upary adhah.
Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu says to Rupa Gosvami,
ei rupe brahmanda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva
guru-krsna-krpaya paya bhakti-lata-bija
[Cc. Madhya 19.151]
We are wandering in this way, up and down, brahmanda bhramite. Brahmanda bhramite kona bhagyavan jiva. If one is fortunate, he can get the information of devotional service to Krsna. He gets this information. So this assembly, this Krsna consciousness movement, is an attempt to make people fortunate. From the unfortunate position, to become fortunate. Everyone is unfortunate, at least in this age. Mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagyah [SB 1.1.10]. Now see everyone. Everywhere, there is simply problems. There is simply problem. One problem in one country, another problem in another country. There is strife, there is government... There is... Even the president, and he is also, has to meet so many problems. At the end he has to be dragged down. Now he's going to die in the hospital. What to speak of others. The problem, only problem. Therefore everyone is unfortunate. This is the conclusion. You may think that "I am very fortunate." President Nixon was thinking, "I am very fortunate. I have become the President of United States." But now he's realizing, "I am the most unfortunate."
So this is for everyone. Don't think that "Only the culprit is President Nixon, and we are, I am very safe." There is a Bengali proverb: ghunte pore gobar hase.(?) Gobar means cow dung, and ghunte means... What is called in English? The dried cow dung. So dried cow dung is used for fuel. So when the dry cow dung is being burned into the oven, the safe oven is laughing, "Oh, you are being burned. I am in safe side." (laughter) He does not know that when he'll be dry, he'll be put into the fire also. So we are laughing that "President Nixon is in trouble. I am very safe. I have got so much bank balance." No, nobody's safe. They... As like the same, cow dung soft. When it will be dried up, it will be put into the fire. And that dryness will come to everyone. That is a fact. What is that? Death. You may be safe at the present, for a few years, but you cannot avoid death. "As sure as death." And what is the result of death? The same. As the president is taken out from his position, everything, all honor, all money all..., even life, similarly, at the time of death Krsna says, mrtyuh sarva-haras ca aham: "I come as death and plunder everything, whatever you have got." Your bank balance, your skyscraper building, your nice wife, your children -- you have to give up. You cannot say, "My dear death, kindly give me some time. Let me adjust." "No adjustment. Immediately get out."
So foolish people, they do not know what is the miserable condition of this material life. Therefore Krsna says real knowledge is janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi [Bg. 13.9], to know that "However great I may be, these four principles of miserable condition of life, there are." It is existing in the Brahmaloka, in the Patalaloka, everywhere, sarvatra. Gabhira-ramhasa. Tal labhyate duhkhavad anyatah sukham kalena sarvatra gabhira-ramhasa. In the due course of time. This is the most wonderful thing. That is, that was questioned by Dharmaraja to Maharaja Yudhisthira, that "What is the most wonderful thing in this world?" He said, ahany ahani bhutani gacchantiha yamalayam: "Every moment so many people are dying." Sesah sthavaram icchanti kim ascaryam atah param: "But those who are living, he thinks that 'My friend has died, but I will live forever.' " No. The same thing. The soft cow dung will be dried up, and the same condition.
So Bhagavan, Bhagavan is not like that person. Therefore it is said, bhagavan atma-mayaya. When Bhagavan... We come here to stay for some days, say fifty years or hundred years, enjoy or suffer life, but Bhagavan does not come for that purpose. Na mam karmani limpanti [Bg. 4.14]. That is stated in the previous verse. And the second verse it is further... Na hy asya varsmanah: "Nobody is greater than Him." Bhagavan means the person, nobody is greater than Him and nobody is equal to Him. That is Bhagavan. Everyone is lower. The Caitanya-caritamrta karaca says, ekale isvara krsna ara saba bhrtya [Cc. Adi 5.142]. Ara saba bhrtya. Only one master is Krsna, and others, beginning from Brahma... Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara, Indra, Candra, all these demigods... There are hundred and thousands. Thirty-three million demigods. And then this naraloka, there are so many rich men, Rockefeller, Ford, Birla and others, others... So they are bhrtyas, all servants. When Krsna will order, "My dear Mr. such and such, now give up your place. Go away," finish. So therefore they are all servants. This is the position beginning from Brahma down to the ant.
yas tv indra-gopam athavendram aho sva-karma-
bandhanurupa-phala-bhajanam atanoti
karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhajam
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs. 5.54]
Everyone is enjoying or suffering the sequence of his karma. Yas tu gopam. Indra-gopa, a small insect. It's name is indra-gopa. Beginning from this indra up to that Indra, the king of heaven, everyone is enjoying and suffering about his karma. Yas tv indra-gopam athavendram aho sva-karma. Sva-karma, one's own activities, we are creating. We are creating our next body in this life. As we have got this life as the resultant action of my past karma, similarly, I am creating another body, after death, on account of my present karma. This is going on.
So we should work in such a way that we may not get another body next life. That is wanted. That is wanted. And how it can be done? It can be done very easily. What is that? Simply try to understand Krsna. Simply try to understand Krsna. This is the simple method.
janma karma me divyam
yo janati tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti...
[Bg. 4.9]
Very simple. And to understand Krsna is very difficult? Yes, it is very difficult. But it is very easy also. How? Now, Krsna says, bhaktya mam abhijanati [Bg. 18.55]. If you become devotee of Krsna, then you understand Krsna very easily. Krsna does not say by jnana, by karma, by yoga, you can understand Him. No. That is not possible. Naham prakasah sarvasya yogamaya-samavrtah [Bg. 7.25]. He is... It is stated here that varimnah sarva-yoginam. There are many different varieties of yogis, and He is the greatest yogi. Therefore He is known as Yogesvara. Yatra yogesvaro harih [Bg. 18.78]. So He is far, far above all yogic processes. The yogic, yogis, they can show you some magic. The yogi can walk over the water. There are so many. Anima-laghima-siddhi. But see Krsna's yogic mystic power that big, big planets, they are floating in the air. Can you do that? Can you float even a small piece of stone, floating in the air? Then see... Therefore it is said here, varimnah sarva-yoginam. What yogis can, these ordinary yogis can show? Of course, we are foolish persons. If some yogi shows some mystic power, and little gold if he can manufacture, we accept him as God. But we forget the real yogi who has created millions of gold mines, floating in the air. So we Krsna conscious persons, we are not so fool that we shall accept this kind of yogi as Bhagavan. We want the foremost yogi. Varimnah sarva-yoginam. That Krsna, Yogesvara. We accept Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because why? Now, because we are trying to become devotee. And Krsna says, bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah, tato mam jnatva tattvatah... [Bg. 18.55]. That, the verse...
So very simple process. The first thing is, the problem of life is how to conquer over death. We are now accepting death as compulsory. No. Death is not compulsory. Just like to be put into the prison house is not compulsory. It is due to my work. Because I have become criminal, therefore I have been put into the jail. It is not compulsory that everyone has to go to the jail. That is not. So similarly, we living entities, our proper place is the Vaikunthaloka.
paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo
'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatanah
[Bg. 8.20]
yad gatva na nivartante
tad dhama paramam mama
[Bg. 15.6]
Everything is there. You can have eternal blissful life of knowledge, sac-cid-ananda. It is not compulsory that you shall rot in this material world. But if you like, you can go there. The easiest process. Easiest process is janma karma me divyam yo janati tattvatah. You try to understand Krsna, why He comes, what are His activities, wherefrom He comes, why He comes in the form of a human being. You try to understand, study. And Krsna is explaining Himself in the Bhagavad-gita. So where is your difficulty? God is personally explaining what He is. If you accept Bhagavad-gita as it is, then, after giving up this body, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9], no more birth and death. You get your spiritual body, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1], and happily live in the family of Krsna. Because He is also providing you here, and there also, He'll provide you with very nice preparation. As we have learned from this, what is that, Nava Bharata Times, how our people are eating preparations from milk very nicely. So back to home, back to Godhead, and eat, drink and be merry in Krsna's company. That is our process.
Thank you very much. (end)
© 2001 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International.
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