Devotee:
tvayi me 'nanya-visaya
matir madhu-pate 'sakrt
ratim udvahatad addha
gangevaugham udanvati
"O Lord of Madhu, as the Ganges forever flows to the sea without hindrance, let my attraction be constantly drawn unto You without being diverted to anyone else."
Prabhupada: In the previous verse, Kunti prayed that sneha-pasam imam chindhi drdham pandusu vrsnisu. She prayed, "My dear Lord, kindly cut off my attraction for the Pandu, Pandava family and Vrsni family." So by cutting off or giving up the attraction for material things, that is not sufficient. The Mayavadi philosophers, they say, brahma satyam jagan mithya: "This world is false and Brahman is truth." We also say the same thing. But what is the difference? The difference is that you are living entity. You want enjoyment. Enjoyment means varieties. Without varieties you cannot enjoy. Just like here is a flower vase. There are so many flowers. Why has God created so many colors, so many forms? They create enjoyment, variety. Variety is the mother of enjoyment. That's a common saying. The Mayavadi philosophers, they spoil the varieties, impersonalists. So what the result is? The result is aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adhah anadrta-yusmad-anghrayah [SB 10.2.32]. Bhagavata says. They labor hard. They undergo serious penances. Just like our sannyasis, they can sit down here although there are many women. So Mayavadi sannyasi will not sit down. Where there are women, they will not sit down. They are very strict. And if some, some of the Mayavadi sannyasis, if, by chance, they touch one woman someway or other, then he has to undergo some penances. Of course, a sannyasi should be very cautious about intermingling with woman. For a sannyasi... Not for a sannyasi; even for a person who is desiring to go back to home, back to Godhead...
This is our ultimate goal of life. Human form of life is meant for that purpose, that in this life we have to understand our relationship with God, sambandha, and, according to that relationship, we have to chalk our plan of working. Because we must fulfill that relationship. This is called in Sanskrit sambandha, abhidheya and prayojana. Sambandha, abhidheya, prayojana. Just like in ordinary dealings, one businessman is going to do business with another man. So, first of all, the relationship is established by some agreement. Then the transaction takes place. One is supplier, one is purchaser. Then the result is profit. Three things are there. In husband and wife, the same thing. First of all sambandha, the relationship, who will I marry, which girl, which boy. First of all plan... In the beginning... Formerly it was settled up by the parents. Still in India it is settled up by the parents. That is called sambandha. Then the marriage takes place. Then husband and wife relationship, they live together. Then there is the profit, a child. Similarly the human life is meant for reestablishing our relationship with God. In this material world... Material world means forgetfulness, forgetting our relationship with God. That is called material world. No Krsna consciousness -- that is material world. As soon as there is Krsna consciousness and acting on the basis of Krsna consciousness, it is no more material world; it is spiritual world.
So here Kuntidevi first of all desired, "Let my so much affection, love for my two families, my father's families and my father-in-law's family..." In India it is called Baper bari svasura-bari. Baper bari means father's house, and svasura-bari means father-in-law's house. So Kunti is woman, she has got relationship with two families. A man may have so many relationship, but woman, she has not, she has no facility for making more relations. That is not allowed. But at least she has got two relationships with two families. And that is her attachment. So she prays to Krsna, "Please cut off this relationship. Let me be free." Now after becoming free, then what are you going to do? That is the question. Suppose one is employed in a firm. He feels inconvenience: "This service is not very good. Let me resign it." You resign. But if you get a better service, then that resignation is all right. And if by resigning you become unemployed, no engagement, then what is the value of such resignation? What is the value of such resignation? Similarly, those who are frustrated, confused, they don't want this material world. Just like in your country, the hippies, they are frustrated, confused. You don't want... This is don't, but what you want? That is, that they do not know. That point is missing. You say, "I don't want this." But what you want? That you do not know. That want, what you want actually, that is explained by Kunti. Tvayi me ananya-visaya matir madhu-pate asakrt: "Unto You... Let my, this family relationship affection be nil, but my relationship with You become conformed, be confirmed." Tvayi me ananya-visaya. "No more attraction for anything else. Only attraction for You, Krsna."
So this is wanted. This is perfection. Tvayi me ananya-visaya. Ananya-visaya. No more attraction for anything else. Only attraction for You, Krsna. So this is wanted. This is perfection. Tvayi me ananya-visaya. Ananya-visaya means ananya-bhakti, without any deviation. Twenty-four hours simply attachment for Krsna. That is wanted. Then your renouncement is perfect. If you think that this attachment and that attachment both may be made -- no. That cannot go. That will be nice, not nice. Just like you ignite fire, at the same time pour water on it. Then what will be the result? The fire will not act. Similarly, if you want to renounce... Just like the Mayavadi sannyasi says that brahma satyam jagan mithya: "Renounce this world." They lungi,(?) a loincloth, and preach, "Who is your wife? Who is your children? Who is your country?" So many things, negative way. Bhaja govindam bhaja govindam bhaja govindam mudha mate. This is very good, to preach renouncement of this world. But side by side we must have attachment for something. Otherwise, it will be..., it will not stay. Therefore we see so many sannyasis, they say brahma satyam jagan mithya. They give up, take sannyasa, but after taking sannyasa, after a few days or few years, they come back again to this material world to open hospital, philanthropic work, school. Why? If you have left this world as mithya, as false, why you are again coming to politics, to philanthropy, sociology and so on? Why you are coming again? That is bound to be. Because we are living entity, we are active. If we simply become inactive out of frustration, then it will be failure. We must engage with activities. That activity is devotional service. This is Brahman activity. The Mayavadis, they do not know.
Just like we were discussing in this beach morning about the spiritual world. Spiritual world is exactly like the material world, varieties. There is also house. There is also tree. There is also road. There is also chariot. There is... Everything is there -- but without inebriety, without inebriety. There, cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa-laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam [Bs. 5.29]. For example, just like there is tree also. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa. But they, those trees are not like this tree. Suppose you, here, you want some fruit, say mango. You go to the mango tree, you taking mango, at the same time desire, "Why not little grapes?" But this mango tree cannot supply you grapes. But in the spiritual world you are eating mango, at the same time, if you desire grapes, the same tree will supply you. This is called desire tree. And... Some ideas of the spiritual world are there in the... Just like here, for light, you require sunlight, moonlight. But in the spiritual world, there is no need of sunlight, moonlight, because everyone is effulgent. By his own light he can see everything.
Just like in krsna-lila, Krsna was stealing butter. So the neighboring friends of Yasoda-mata, was complaining... It is not complain; it was just to see the fun of Krsna. Krsna was sitting, and they were complaining. They were seeing the bodily feature, how Krsna is feeling. So other ladies complaining, "Mother Yasoda, your son comes to our house and steals butter. You see. We try to conceal them in a darkness so that this boy cannot see. But still He finds out. So better you take away all His ornaments because the jewel, light of the jewel, helps Him to find out the butter pot." So Yasoda said, "Yes, I'll do that. I'll take away all these ornaments. Yes." Then they say, "No, no, it is useless. Oh, this boy has got some effulgence of Himself. Without ornaments He can, He can also find out."
So this is the position. The transcendental body is effulgent. On account of effulgence of the transcendental body of Krsna, the whole light is there. Whatever light you are seeing, it is all borrowing light from Krsna's effulgence. That is stated in the Brahma-samhita: yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-kotisv asesa-vasudhadi-vibhuti-
So the Mayavadis, they simply see the effulgence, something impersonal, effulgence. They cannot see anything more. Just like the sunshine. In the sunshine, there are so many things. Suppose in bright sunshine, you saw one airplane is gone up, but after some time you cannot see. You cannot see. You cannot see because due to the dazzling sunshine, although the airplane is there you cannot see. Similarly, simply if we try to see the effulgence, brahmajyoti, we are unable to see inside. The Isopanisad, there is this statement that a devotee is praying to the Lord that "You wind up Your, this effulgence so that I can see You properly." So the Mayavadi philosophers, they cannot see the personal activities or the planets where Krsna is personally active. That they cannot see. Therefore Bhagavata says anadrta-yusmad-anghrayah. Because they neglected to see the lotus feet of Krsna, therefore, despite their severe penances and austerities, on account of not seeing the lotus feet of Krsna, they come back again to this material world. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah patanty adhah [SB 10.2.32].
So if we simply become renouncer, that will not help us. Then again we shall become enjoyer, so-called enjoyer. That is like pendulum, balancing, tak, tak, this way, this way. If you simply become this side, renouncer, then again we go to that side, enjoyer... So here is the remedy. If you want really detachment from this material world, you must increase your attachment for Krsna consciousness. Otherwise this kind of so-called renouncement will not help you. That is a fact. Therefore Kuntidevi is praying, tvayi me ananya-visaya, "without any diversion." That is the definition given by Rupa Gosvami of bhakti. Anyabhilasita-sunyam: [BRS 1.1.11] no other desire. Anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam [Madhya 19.167]. Anyabhilasita-sunyam. Here in this material world, some of them are jnanis, some of them are karmis. Karmis means fools, unnecessarily working very, very hard -- they are karmis. And jnanis, when he's little elevated, he thinks, "So what for I am working so hard? I don't require so many things. Still why am I accumulating so much money, so much food, so much prestige?" when he becomes jnani. That is jnani.
So therefore bhakti is beyond karma and jnana. Anyabhilasita. The karma, jnana, if there is another, other desires also, that should be also nil, no desire. That is called desirelessness. But desirelessness can be possible when you desire to serve Krsna. Otherwise, that is not possible. Therefore, bhakti means we should be desireless in the matter of jnana, karma, or any other thing. Attach... Without any attachment. But we must have attachment for Krsna. Then it will stay. Anukulyena krsnanusilanam. That attachment, anusilanam, cultivation of Krsna consciousness, anukulyena... Anukulyena means favorably: "How Krsna will be satisfied?" That is favorable Krsna consciousness. Simply always thinking of Krsna... Just like the gopis. Their Krsna consciousness is perfect because they had no other desire except trying to please Krsna. That is perfection. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommended: ramya kacid upasana vraja-vadhu-vargena ya kalpita. There is no better process of worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead than the method adopted by the gopis.
The gopis had no other desire. Simply their desire was how to satisfy Krsna, all the gopis. The elderly gopis, Yasoda-mata and her friends, elderly gopas, Nanda Maharaja, his brother, his friends, and of the same age, the boys and girls of Vrndavana who were of the same age -- everyone, even the cows, even the flowers even the fruits, even the water in Vrndavana... Because everything is spiritual there. Nothing is material. That we should understand, spiritual and material. Material means they have no living symptoms, and spiritual means have all the living symptoms. So here, although a tree is also a living entity, and there also the tree is living entity, but here the living symptoms are absent. Or why the tree? Even a human being. A human being is also a living entity, and they're also devotees, they're also living entities. But here, the real symptoms of life -- means Krsna consciousness -- is absent. And there, the real symptoms of living condition -- Krsna consciousness -- is very, very much. There is no other consciousness except Krsna consciousness. And that is spiritual.
So similarly, even in this material world, if you simply increase your Krsna consciousness, then you are also in the spiritual world. Just like in this temple. In this temple we are living, we are living in the spiritual world. Because here there is no other business than Krsna consciousness. There is no other engagement. Although it is practiced just like apprentice... This Deity worship, sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam vandanam dasyam [SB 7.5.23], so many engagements. But it is on account of Krsna. Therefore those who are strictly following the regulations of Krsna consciousness, he's living in the spiritual world. He's not in the material world. Just like we are not living in Los Angeles; we are living in Vaikuntha. Yes. That's a fact. It is consciousness. The consciousness... I can give you another example. Just like in this seat there is a bug. But the bug and myself sitting on the same place, but because the bug has no consciousness, therefore he is bug, and I have got consciousness, I am your spiritual master. But we are sitting in the same place. Sitting in the same place. Because the bug has not developed his consciousness, he remains a bug, and one who has developed the consciousness, therefore he becomes spiritual master. But the position is the... Similarly either you remain in the material world or, spiritual, there is no question, if your Krsna consciousness is very strong, then you are not in the material world. You are not in the material world.
Therefore simply renunciation, that "I give up attachment for worldly things," that is not sufficient. Simply renouncement will not help you. It may be a helping process, but that will not help you absolutely. When you increase attachment for Krsna, then this renouncement will be perfect. So make renouncement perfect, or, if you increase attachment for Krsna, automatically your attachment for this world will diminish. Two things cannot go. Our attachment... Just like a woman, if she is attached to two men, one husband, another paramour -- so two things cannot go. The attachment increases for the paramour; otherwise why she accepts a paramour? These are examples there. Although she's working at the husband's place very nicely, but the mind is there to the paramour. Because "When I shall meet him at night, this and that," you see.
So if we increase our attachment for Krsna, then the detachment or renouncement of this material world will automatically come. Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra syat [SB 11.2.42]. If we increase our attachment, then that... Kuntidevi is praying... That is also Krsna's mercy. You cannot increase your attachment for Krsna without Krsna's mercy. You cannot become devotee... Therefore we have to simply serve Krsna, sevonmukhe. By service Krsna is very satisfied. Krsna does not require anyone's service; He's perfect Himself. But if you give Him service wholeheartedly, sincerely, then by the mercy of Krsna, you'll make advancement. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah. God will reveal. You cannot see God by your these blunt eyes. That is not possible. Premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-
So we should not be very much hasty. We must wait for the mature time. The example is given that generally a woman wants a child. Now she's married, and if she thinks, "Let me have immediately a child," that is not possible. You wait. Now you are married, you have got husband, you must get a child. That's a fact. Similarly, because you have engaged yourself in Krsna consciousness, avyarthe kalatvam nama-gane sada rucih. This is called firm faith, that "Now, because I am engaged in Krsna consciousness business, so I must be able to face Krsna, face to face, see Krsna, face to face." That I must have. So don't be disappointed. Go on with your Krsna consciousness activities. Time will come when you'll see Krsna, just like Kunti is seeing, face to face. There is no doubt about it.
So here it is said, tvayi me ananya-visaya matir madhu-pate. Krsna's another name is Madhu-pati. He has got thousands name. Madhu-pati means He killed the demon Madhu. From that, Madhu-pate. What is it there here? Madhu-pate?
Devotee: "O Lord of Madhu."
Prabhupada: Madhu-pate. "O Lord of Madhu." So madhu-pate ratim, ratim udvahatad addha. The example is given very nicely. Just like river. Especially... The Krsna consciousness is not ordinary river, but it is just like Ganges. Ganges is very pure, directly connected with Krsna. So "As the river flows down towards the seas, similarly my attraction will go down incessantly to touch Your lotus feet like the Ganges." This is the prayer of our Kuntidevi. So incessantly, without any deviation, ananya-bhakti... This is called ananya-bhakti. Ananya, in the ananya-bhakti... In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated ananya-bhava, "without any deviation." Even such person is found to be little misbehaved, still he's to be considered as sadhu. That is stated by Krsna in the Bhagavad...
api cet su-duracaro
bhajate mam ananya-bhak
sadhur eva sa mantavyah
samyag vyavasito hi sah
[Bg. 9.30]
Just like sometimes our Indian friends criticize our European, American, "Oh, they are not very," I mean, what is called, "acute in the service of the Deity. There is so much mistakes, so many..." So Krsna says, "Never mind. But because his attention is to serve Me, even there is some discrepancies, he's sadhu." Sadhur eva sa mantavyah samyag vyavasito hi sah [Bg. 9.30].
So Krsna consciousness is so nice. You try to execute it to your best capacity, that's all. Even there is some mistake... Don't commit mistake intentionally. But due to my habit, past habit, I may commit some mistake. That is excused. If we fix up our mind is serving Krsna severely and seriously, then even there is some mistake... Rupa Gosvami also says that yena tena prakarena manah krsne... First of all fix up your mind to Krsna. And the other rules and regulation... Of course, they are to be followed, but in the beginning we shall try our best how to fix up our mind to the lotus feet of Krsna. Other things will automatically come corrected.
Thank you very much. (end)
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