I Must Love Krishna
Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.28.17
Nairobi, October 26, 1975
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Harikesa: "The Lord is eternally very
beautiful, and He is worshipable by all the inhabitants of every planet. He is
ever youthful and always eager to bestow His blessing upon His
devotees."
Prabhupada:
apicya-darsanam sasvat
sarva-loka-namaskrtam
santam vayasi kaisore
bhrtyanugraha-kataram
[SB 3.28.17]
This word is very important, bhrtyanugraha-kataram. Anugraha. Anugraha means favor. Just like the father wants to favor the son always. Father wants that "My son may become very fit, competent to take all my favors." This is father's wish. Every father, even in this material world, if father is very big man, great man, he wants that "My son also, let him become bigger than me." Is it not practical? So if God, Krsna, is the original father... Aham bija-pradah pita [Bg. 14.4], Krsna says. It is not concoction or contemplation. No. It is the fact. Krsna says,
sarva-yonisu kaunteya
sambhavanti murtayo-yah
tasam mahad yonir brahma
aham bija-pradah pita
[Bg. 14.4]
"I am the seed-giving father of all living entities." It doesn't matter in different forms. He does not say that "I am the father only of the white, not of the black." He never says. He has no such distinction: white, black, European, American, or poor, rich, bird, beast, human being. No. He does not make any discrimination. He is always ready to bestow favor as the original father. That is God.
Therefore this very word, bhrtyanugraha-kataram. "How this rascal will give up this material job and come to Me and take all My favors?" This is God's desire. And we are so obstinate, we want to take some favor from this minister, that minister, this person, that person this... Failure. Krsna says, suhrdam sarva-bhutanam: [Bg. 5.29] "I am friend of everyone." And here is the word, bhrtyanugraha-kataram. And He's very, very eager to give all His favors, and still people are not becoming Krsna conscious. Just see how rascal they are. So we say, anyone who is not Krsna conscious, he is a rascal. Is he not a rascal? He is claiming that "I am the seed-giving father of everyone," sarva-yonisu kaunteya [Bg. 14.4], "in all species of life." He does not make any discrimination, that "I am the seed-giving father of this class of men or this species of men or for the human being." No. He says, sarva-yonisu. Yoni means the form. Just like you have got your different forms. But that form doesn't matter. Form is external. But the internal is the same, spirit soul. Therefore you are seeing now a new thing in the history of the world, that the Africans and Indians and the Americans and the Europeans are dancing -- Hare Krsna. Just understand. Don't be rascal and fools, that you do not understand what is the potency of Hare Krsna mantra. If you become so rascal and fool, if you do not understand, then you are animal. Here is a practical example. How it has become possible that the white Americans, Europeans, and other colors and the black African, they have forgotten everything? When they chant Hare Krsna and dance, do they remember that "I am African," "I am American," "I am Indian"? No. Brahma-bhutah. (devotee laughs) (aside:) Why you are laughing? It is so important thing.
So this is brahma-bhutah stage.
brahma-bhutah prasannatma
na socati na kanksati
samah sarvesu bhutesu
mad-bhaktim labhate param
[Bg. 18.54]
This is brahma-bhutah stage, practical, not that "I am Brahman. I am the same God." These rascals have spoiled the whole thing. Here is brahma-bhutah stage, when you forget your material identification and you become one in connection with Krsna, that "We are all devotees, servants of Krsna. Let us enjoy, chant Hare Krsna and dance." This is brahma-bhutah stage, not that artificially smoking cigarette and he has become brahma-bhutah. He is cigarette-bhutah. Bhuta and cigarette smoker. How he is brahma-bhutah? These rascals say like that, table talks, "I am Brahman." Brahman. Doing all nonsense and he has become Brahman. Brahman he is. Everyone is Brahman, but there is no realization, neither they do know the method of realization. Brahman... Everyone is Brahman. There is no doubt about it. Because we are all minute part and parcel of Krsna, therefore if Krsna is Brahman, Parabrahman, we are also minute particle of Brahman. There is no doubt about it. Gold..., gold mine, big gold and a small particle of gold, they are qualitatively one-gold. But the gold mine is different from the gold particle. These rascals, they do not understand it. The gold particle is claiming to become the gold mine. This is Mayavada. And they are making people atheist. So 'ham. So 'ham, it is Vedic version. That is all right. "What is God, I am also the same thing." But not... "The same thing" does not mean that as God is powerful, I am also powerful. No. You are qualitatively the same thing. That's all right. But if you claim quantitatively that you are the same powerful as Krsna, then you are mistaken. Krsna can lift, when He is seven years' old boy, the whole mountain. And a seven years' boy, when he is here, he cannot even seven kilo. So you cannot compare with Krsna potencies your potency. But as Krsna, when you are out of this material conception of life, bodily concept of life, sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170], when you become purified by giving up these all designation...
Designation... What is that designation? "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," "I am African," "I am Indian," "I am European," "I am woman," "I am man," so many designations. So you have to give up these designation. You have to give up these designation. "Then, if I'll not remain African, then I'll become Indian?" No. That is also designation. "I am Hindu. I become Muslim?" No, that is also designation. You have to become purified. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. All kinds of designations. (child cries) (aside:) This child may be... All kind of designations. You have to give up this designation that "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," "I am African." No, no designation. Simply become pure Brahman, then pratijane. That is called pratijane, not that "I remain a Christian," "I remain a Hindu," "I remain black," "I am white," and "I am Brahman." No, not that. You have to give up your designation. That requires practice. And that practice means this, param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam. Simply by chanting, you'll be purified. Ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Go on chanting Hare Krsna. And the beginning will be ceto-darpana-marjanam, because we have got our heart. Everyone -- we are living entity -- we have got heart that is full with dirty things. That dirty things is "I am this, I am that, I am that, I am that," that dirty things. So we have to cleanse these dirty things, that "I am European," "I am American," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am this," "I am that." These are all dirty things. You have to simply think, "I am eternal servant of Krsna." Jivera 'svarupa' haya-nitya krsna dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. When you think like that, that "I am eternal servant of Krsna," then all these dirty things will automatically vanish.
That is brahma-bhutah stage. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma [Bg. 18.54]. As soon as you become realized soul, that "My position is that I am eternal servant of Krsna." I am nobody's servant. But if one becomes Krsna's servant, he becomes everyone's servant. That is the Krsna consciousness. Why you are trying to preach Krsna consciousness all over the world? Because we have accepted this principle, that "I am Krsna's servant. Krsna wants to deliver these rascals from this misconception of life, so let me do something for Krsna." This is Krsna consciousness. And if you are servant of Krsna, if you actually realize, then you have to do something on behalf of Krsna, what Krsna wants. The first-class servant of he when he serves the master without asking for it. If he understands that "Master is now in need of this thing," if he brings it, oh, first-class servant. He's first-class servant because he knows the master wants it.
So Krsna wanted as Krsna that "All these rascals may give up their so foolish engagements and surrender unto Me." Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam [Bg. 18.66]. That was Krsna's last word in the Bhagavad-gita. Krsna wants this, that "These rascals they are suffering in this material condition of life, three miserable condition, and still, they are so rascal, they do not come to their senses. Still, they want to remain servant of maya. So let Me directly say, 'You rascal, give up all this engagement. Surrender unto Me.' " That is Krsna. But they will not do it. "Why shall I surrender? I have got so many things. I have got my nation, I have got my family, I have got my this, I have got Why shall I surrender to You? Give up everything?" Such a rascal, cannot be convinced any way. Whole world is servant of somebody, but he declines to become servant of Krsna. This is the disease, material disease. He will remain servant of thousands and millions of establishment and person, but he will disagree. As soon as Krsna says that "You give up. You become My servant," "No, no. Why can I? Why shall I do?" This is materialist.
Therefore Krsna came as Krsna's servant. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Krsnaya krsna caitanya-namne gaura-tvise namah. Namo maha-vadanyaya krsna-prema-pradaya te [Cc. Madhya 19.53]. Rupa Gosvami understood. When he first saw Caitanya Mahaprabhu he offered his respect in this way, namo maha-vadanyaya: "the most munificent, charitably disposed incarnation." Why? Krsna-prema-pradaya te: "People cannot understand Krsna, but You are so merciful, You are giving direct love of Krsna." When there is question of love? Unless I understand you fully -- what kind of man you are, what is your position -- you also understand, when we find of the same category or same..., then there is question of love. So people do not understand what is Krsna. How they will love Krsna? It is not possible. Manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye [Bg. 7.3]. Out of many, many millions of persons, somebody may try to become perfect. They do not know how to become perfect. They remain cats and dogs, simply engaged in eating, sleeping, mating and defending. That's all. They are cats and dogs. They are not human being. What is the difference between cats and dogs and human being? Human being is also interested. So long this body is there, we are interested in eating, sleeping, mating or de... But that is not our main business. Our main business is how to understand God and love Him. That is our main business.
sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatma suprasidati
[SB 1.2.6]
This is the business. We are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, this, that. They are all third class, cheating religion. What is real religion? That is religion which teaches how to love God. That is religion. Yato bhaktir adhoksaje. That is first-class religion. It doesn't matter whether it is Hindu religion, Muslim religion or Christian religion. If it teaches how to become lover of God, then it is first-class. And what for this love? Ahaituki: "without any cause." People love somebody else to get some return. No. Ahaituki: "without any expectation of return." Anyabhilasita-sunyam [Brs. 1.1.11].
Just like these European, American or African boys. They have joined this Krsna con... They have not come here for some material progress. No. They have not come here. Others may come. You can say, "The Africans are poor. They have come." No. Nobody has come for material profit. What about the Europeans, Americans? They are not poor. They have got enough money. Why they are after Krsna consciousness, after me? I am not rich man. No. That is called ahaituki, without any motive. Nobody. "Krsna is my lovable, worshipable. I shall worship Krsna." This is wanted. Ahaituky apratihata. And if you have got this intention, that "Krsna is my Lord. I must love Krsna. I must learn how to love Him," then apratihata -- no material condition can check it. Either you become American or African, black and white or this or that, nothing can check you. You can go on -- if it is motiveless. This is wanted.
So I am very glad that you are trying to capture what is real Krsna consciousness. And this is the only process. Think always... Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam [Bg. 18.65]. Think always, "Krsna is my Lord." That is thinking. This thinking should be always. It doesn't cost anything. If you think, "Here is Krsna. He is my Lord," what does it cost? And where is the loss? There is no loss, but the gain is enormous if you simply think of Krsna. Man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah. And who will engage his mind in Krsna unless he is a devotee? How you become devotee? Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada... [SB 7.5.23]. This sravanam kirtanam. Simply hear about Krsna, chant about Krsna. Then you become automatically. You don't require any education. Simply sit down and hear about Krsna. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh. Not other subject matter. Visnu or Krsna. Srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-kirtanah [SB 1.2.17]. If you do not understand, if you simply hear the chanting, you become pious. You become pious.
So this is the simplest method how to make life sublime and superb, this Krsna consciousness movement. And here it is said that apicya-darsanam sasvat sarva-loka-namaskrtam. Sarva-loka-namaskrtam. It is not that Krsna is worshipable by the devotees. He is worshipable by the nondevotees also. But how the nondevotees are worship How Krsna is worshiped by the nondevotees? They do not want to worship Krsna. How he makes...? He doesn't want. That's all right. But nature will oblige him to worship. How he can escape the laws of nature? Krsna will come before you as death, and you have to worship Him. Krsna says, mrtyuh sarva-haras caham [Bg. 10.34]. If you do not take advantage of worshiping Krsna within your lifetime, Krsna will come, just like Nrsimhadeva came to Hiranyakasipu: "You rascal, now do you think that you are independent? Do you think?" Immediately finished, within a second.
So if you don't worship Krsna during your lifetime, then you have to worship at the time of your death, and He will take away all your possession. Therefore He is worshipable by everyone, devotee and nondevotee. The devotee take advantage of this life and worship Him, and the rascal, fools, demons, they are forced to worship Krsna at the time of death. Therefore it is called sarva-loka-namaskrtam. You have to worship Him. You cannot escape, you rascal. If you escape, then the time will come -- He will take you, He'll take everything, all your possession, and the nature will give you the body of a dog. Just go on, barking, for so many years. This is the law of nature. You cannot stop it. It is not possible. You better take to Krsna consciousness and worship as sane man, as nice gentleman. Then your life is successful.
Thank you very much. (end)
© 2001 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International
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