Krishna Movement Can't Be Killed

Krishna Movement Can't Be Killed

Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.32
Vrndavana, November 19, 1976

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Pradyumna: "When Lord Rsabhadeva saw that the general populace was very antagonistic to His execution of mystic yoga, He accepted the behavior of a python in order to counteract their opposition. Thus He stayed in one place and lay down. While lying down, He ate and drank, and He passed stool and urine and rolled in it. Indeed, He smeared His whole body with His own stool and urine so that opposing elements might not come and disturb Him."

Prabhupada: Yarhi vava sa bhagavan lokam imam yogasyaddha. [SB 5.5.32] So this is another process of yoga-siddhi, ajagara-vrtti, ajagara, python, lying down in one place, eating and passing urine, stool, everything. Ajagara-vrtti. Ajagara, the python, it lies down in one place, big, big python, sometimes covered by the earth, but still, he gets his food. Big, big animals enter into the home of the python. And the python can eat even a full horse, what to speak of other animals. But still, Krsna supplies him food. He hasn't got to go anywhere. So sometimes saintly persons, they sit down in one place. If Krsna sends him food he will eat; otherwise he will starve. In our acarya-sampradaya, Madhavendra Puri, Bilvamangala Thakura, they were doing that. In Vrndavana Bilvamangala Thakura, he was blind. He was sitting in one place, and Krsna used to come and supply him milk.

So there is no anxiety for maintenance of the body. There is no anxiety. Sastra therefore says that "Don't spoil your energy for the matter of maintenance of the body. That is already settled up." Eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. That is the Vedic injunction. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). The Supreme Lord is nitya as we are nitya. Nitya means there is no birth and death. Na jayate na mriyate va, nityah sasvato 'yam, na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. This is our constitutional position. And what is the difference between the two nityas? One is plural number and the other is singular number. The singular number nitya, or Krsna, He supplies food to everyone. Oh, whatever we require, that is already settled up. Therefore we should not spend our energy for maintenance of the body. That is not required. Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido na labhyate yad brahmatam upary adhah [SB 1.5.18]. Our human energy should be utilized only for that purpose which was not fulfilled in other lives, in the 8,400,000 different species of life, and you are changing, tatha dehantara-praptih [Bg. 2.13], by nature's law, prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani [Bg. 3.27]. According to guna and karma, we are changing our body in 8,400,000's of species and forms. That is By nature's law it is going on, and the nature's law, according to the body, one has to eat, sleep, and sense gratification and protection. At night we see so many dogs. The whole day they could not get food. At night they are crying. And there are other bodies; they are eating nicely. Even the small birds, they have got food. But this dog, they cannot get food. This is God's arrangement. They are condemned life. Otherwise others are getting food; why this body is not getting food? The hogs, they are eating stool.

So varieties of life and varieties of position, you cannot change them. That is not possible. So the theory is humanitarianism, daridra-narayana-seva... Seva. It is not seva. A poor man, you can have mercy, daya. That is allowed. Just like we distribute prasadam. That is balisesu Isvare tad-adhinesu balisesu dvisatsu ca, prema-maitri-krpa upeksa. Krpa. Those who are suffering -- innocent, they do not know how to get release from the suffering -- they are called balisa. Just like a child. A child is suffering, he does not know how to get relief; so one should take care. They should be given shelter, they should be given cloth, food. It is the duty of the parents. That is natural. So for the balisa, innocent, it is our duty to show them mercy, give them food, give them shelter, give them instruction of Krsna consciousness so that he may understand why he is here in this material world, why he is suffering. Ke ami kene amaya jape tapa traya. Everyone is suffering threefold miserable condition of life, adhyatmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika.

So the Krsna consciousness movement is meant for showing mercy to the innocent who are suffering in this material world. That is wanted. It is not daridra-narayana seva, that "I am very rich man. I am rich Narayana, and therefore I can serve the daridra-narayana." There is no question of serving. That is not. No. The fact is everyone is suffering. There is nobody... Because asad-grahat. Sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat [SB 7.5.5]. Anyone within this material..., he is suffering, full of anxieties. Even the birds and beasts, you'll find, they are full of anxiety. Why? Asad-grahat. Because he accepted this material body, which is asat, which is temporary. Asato ma sad gamah. Therefore Vedic injunction is, "Don't stay in this material existence. Come to the spiritual existence, sat." Om tat sat. This is the civilization, not to keep the people in ignorance and flatter them that "You are making very good advance." There is no advance unless one is interested in spiritual life. There is no... Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatam upary adhah [SB 1.5.18]. In this way we are wandering within this universe in different forms of life, in different planets, in different social positions, in so many varieties.

So this is not our life. Our life is to regain our spiritual consciousness, revive our spiritual existence. And for this purpose we must endeavor. Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovidah. Kovidah means one who is intelligent. Otherwise, those who are not intelligent, they think that "I have got this life. I shall enjoy sense gratification," and "There is no life after death." Krsna says, tatha dehantara-praptih [Bg. 2.13], but these rascals will say, "No, there is no life." So therefore Krsna has said, "Mudhas, rascals, they do not accept what I am speaking in this Bhagavad-gita." Na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah [Bg. 7.15]. They got the chance of understanding Krsna, but they do not know. And the so-called rascal leaders, they are also misleading them, that "There was no Battle of Kuruksetra. There was no instruction like that. It is all mythology, and we can utilize it for our political purposes but it has no value. I can interpret in my own way; you can interpret in your own way. Actually, this instruction has no value." Yata mata tata patha. "You can interpret in your own way; I can interpret..." In this way things are going on. This is the position.

Therefore our movement is being checked in the Western countries that this is a brainwash movement. Brainwash movement, that we are injecting some ideas by psychology, mental control, and our people they are taking to it, and it is spreading like epidemic. How to check it? Therefore they are now taking action how to stop this Hare Krsna movement in Europe and America. They are trying. Of course, we are not afraid of this attempt. They will never be successful, rest assured, because we are pushing Krsna consciousness. Krsna was attempted to be killed from the very beginning of His life. That is the nature of this material world, "How to kill God," "God is dead." This is their attempt. So from the life of Krsna we can understand that so many attempts were made by the demons and the raksasas to kill Krsna, but actually Krsna killed them all. So if you are sincere, if you follow the principles and push on this Krsna consciousness movement, nobody can kill you. You'll go forward, rest assured. We are not going to be killed. That they are perceiving, that this movement is spreading like epidemic, and the young men of Europe and America, they're taking seriously. Professor Stillson Judah already has given his conclusion that "This movement is not going to stop. It will go on." That's a fact. Krsna cannot be killed, neither His movement cannot be killed. Rather, those who are attempting to kill, they will be killed. But we must be very sincere, serious, follow the regulative principle and chant Hare Krsna mantra as you have been taught. Follow this principle boldly, and there is no fear.

So Rsabhadeva is Krsna. So He became disturbed while walking on the street. He is not disturbed, but it is instruction that "If you are disturbed, you feel disturbed in this way, so you adopt this way. You sit down." Similarly, if they are disturbing too much, so we can sit down in one place and chant Hare Krsna. There is no difficulty. And Krsna will send you all necessities. Tesam nityabhiyuktanam yoga-ksemam vahamy aham [Bg. 9.22]. He promises. Krsna cannot say anything lie. He is perfect. So if there is actually impediments to push on this movement -- people disturb too much -- never mind. You sit down in one place and still go on preaching. Yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. People will come still in India. Why India? In your country also, if saintly person goes, they come. That is the practice in everywhere. So you can sit down and still preach. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission. Amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa. Ei desa means where you are sitting, where you are living, any place. And sit down. Amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. And But try to deliver these innocent persons who are suffering.

Everyone is suffering. That should be the motto. Do not sit idly, eat and sleep. No. Either loitering, wandering... I know, our men in Krsna consciousness, they are bold enough. They have sometimes been, I mean to say, beaten in the airport. But still, they are so straightforward, suffering from the police, from the public. And Rsabhadeva was sometimes bitten on his body, urine, pass urine on his body, so much. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Rsabhadeva. So He is teaching us that for the ultimate benefit of life you prepare yourself to suffer all kinds of tribulations. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given this instruction:

trnad api sunicena
taror api sahisnuna
amanina manadena
kirtaniyah sada...

You should not give up your preaching work. Kirtaniyah sada harih [Cc. Adi 17.31]. If there are tribulations, as Rsabhadeva He is Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vaikuntha, and He has no suffering.

Haridasa Thakura, he was beaten in twenty-one bazaars regular with cane because he was Muhammadan, and in those days the Muhammadan kingdom was going on, Pathan ruling. So the Kazi, he saw that one Muhammadan, he has become a devotee of Krsna. So he called him so, that "With great fortune you became a Muhammadan, and now you are taking to Hinduism? You are so unfortunate?" So he could understand that "Here is a rascal. What I shall talk with him and argue with him?" He simply said, "Sir, it is... What is the fault there? Just like so many Hindus, they sometimes become Muhammadan, and suppose if I have become a Hindu, what is the wrong there?" So the Kazi took it very seriously: "Oh, you are answering? All right. Order him that you beat this man in twenty-one..., cane, caning." So Haridasa Thakura was beaten in public market. The idea was that beating, he would die. But he did not die. Then the, I mean to say, men who were given in charge to beat him, they became afraid, that "If this man is not dead, then the Kazi will take us very seriously that we have not beaten him seriously." So they began to flatter him, "Sir, unless you die, we'll be dead. Our life is in great danger." So Haridasa Thakura made a show of death, and he was brought before the Kazi that "Here, the body is dead."

So sometimes this kind of tribulation are there. Jesus Christ, what was his fault? He was preaching about God, or Krsna. That was his fault and he was crucified. So this is the world. This is the world. As soon as you become... This is maya's arrangement. Maya, as soon as she sees that "This man is going out of my hand," she'll put so many tribulations, and we have to tolerate them.

trnad api sunicena
taror api sahisnuna
amanina manadena
kirtaniyah sada harih
 [Cc. Adi 17.31]

But you cannot stop kirtana. That is not possible.

So you should learn from the... Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186], learn from the mahajana. Mahajana means the devotees. Mahajana. Mahajana is also addressed in India to the baniers, means the mercantile class, mahajana. The brahmana is addressed as pandita, and the ksatriya is addressed as thakura, and the vaisyas are addressed as mahajana, and the sudras are addressed as chaudhuri. This is Indian etiquette. So we are not talking of this banier mahajana. Mahajanas are described in the sastra, twelve mahajana:

svayambhur naradah sambhuh
kumarah kapilo manuh
prahlado janako bhismo
balir vaiyasakir vayam
 [SB 6.3.20]

So they are twelve mahajanas, and we have to follow these mahajanas. The Rsabhadeva is also mahajana, and the greatest mahajana is Krsna. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). Jana, jana means life, and mahajana, the supreme person. So mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. Don't argue unnecessarily. Tarko 'pratisthah srutayo vibhinna. You cannot come to conclusion by this method or that method. Just try to follow. Sadhu-marga-anugamanam, adau gurv-asrayam sad-dharma-prccha, sadhu-marganugamanam. We have to follow the footprints of great saintly persons, devotees, mahajana. Here is Rsabhadeva. But in the Kali-yuga it is not possible to imitate ajagara-vrtti. It is not possible because we are already so weak. Mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagya hy upadrutah [SB 1.1.10]. This is our position. We are very unfortunate. Every one of us, we are very bad, mandah, bad habits. So it is not possible to imitate Rsabhadeva or Haridasa Thakura. Don't imitate but try to follow. Anusarana. Anukarana is not good. Anukarana means false imitation. That is called anukarana. And anusarana means to follow. Try to follow as far as possible.

So we have got good opportunity to follow Caitanya Mahaprabhu. That is intelligence. Yajnaih sankirtana-prayair yajanti hi su-medhasah [SB 11.5.32]. There is no need of unnecessarily accepting tribulation which is impossible in this age, when we are so much disturbed. We are already dead, just like animals. Therefore it is a special concession:

kaler dosa-nidhe rajann
hy asti eko mahan gunah
kirtanad eva krsnasya
 mukta-sangah param...
 [SB 12.3.51]

Simply try to chant Hare Krsna mantra very sincerely, without any offense. Then... It is not possible to imitate or even follow Rsabhadeva's process of self-realization. In the Kali-yuga it is not possible. But as it is recommended in the sastra, as Rsabhadeva in his another incarnation, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He is teaching, kalau nasty eva nasty eva nasty eva gatir anyatha. Harer nama harer nama harer namaiva kevalam [Cc. Adi 17.21]. Chant Hare Krsna and you will get perfection.

Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya! (end)

 

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