Peace Impossible
Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.29
Vrndavana, November 16, 1976
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Pradyumna: "After accepting the
feature of avadhuta, a great saintly person without material cares, Lord
Rsabhadeva passed through human society like a blind, deaf and dumb man, an idle
stone, a ghost or a madman. Although people called Him such names, He remained
silent and did not speak to anyone."
Prabhupada:
Jadandha-muka-badhira-pisaca unmadaka...
What is that other word?
Avadhuta-veso abhibhasyamano 'pi jananam grhita-mauna-vratas tusnim babhuva.
[SB 5.5.29]
So Rsabhadeva, after giving charge of the government to Bharata Maharaja, He Param bhagavata. That we have explained yesterday, that the king should be param bhagavata, not a debauch. That was the system in Vedic age, the ideal king, ideal person. If one person is educated sufficiently he can Being the executive head of the state, he can take care of the whole population because his order is supreme. That was the duty of the king, to see that things are going on nicely in order. The order is that everyone should be educated to the final goal of understanding Krsna. That is education. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyam [Bg. 15.15]. This is education. Veda means knowledge.
So there may be different types of sources of knowledge, but the means are justified by the end. What is the end of life? The end of life is to understand Krsna. If you don't like to say "Krsna" -- God. That is end of life. But these rascals, they do not know it. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31]. The general population, they do not know because they are not educated in that way. At the present moment, Kali-yuga... [break] We are educating people atheism, no God, "God is dead." In Europe, America, when I went there, the education was "God is dead." Here also, so many rascals, they have appeared as God. They are also saying, "Now, Krsna was God, but He is now dead. I am now God." Yes. They are saying publicly. And they are being accepted.
So this is going on. Therefore Krsna has defined these rascals as rascals, mudha. Na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah [Bg. 7.15]. Anyone who is not Krsna conscious or does not surrender to Krsna, you can blindly classify him in four groups: duskrtina, means most sinful; mudhah -- rascals; naradhamah -- lowest of the mankind. "No, he is M.A., Ph.D." Mayayapahrta-jnana. "What is the fault?" Because he does not accept Krsna -- finish. So we are also like other fools and rascals, but we accept this Krsna's word as final, that's all. Krsna says that these are Those who have not surrendered to Krsna, they are four classes, means most sinful, and rascal, lowest of the mankind, and although he has got university degrees, his knowledge is taken away by maya. Asurim bhavam asritah. This is asurim bhavam. And there are two classes of men -- the asura and the deva. So deva means who accepts the authority of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is deva. Devata. Visnu-bhaktah bhaved daiva asuras tad-viparyayah. Even those who are devotees of other demigods, they are also asuras, what to speak of atheist. Even Just like Ravana. He was a great devotee of Lord Siva -- everyone knows -- but he was called a raksasa. Raksasa and asura, the same thing. Hiranyakasipu, he was a great devotee of Lord Brahma. He is also called raksasa.
So one may be very educated, very good scholar in Vedic knowledge, but if he does not accept Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead... Visnu and Krsna the same. Visnu-tattva. Visnu-tattva means the category of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah. Out of false hopes, they are trying to become successful. That is not possible. Durasaya. Such kind of hope is useless hope. It will never be... Moghasa mogha-karmanah. Leaving aside Visnu and simply they are trying to become very highly learned, mogha-jnana vicetasah. So they are mogha, means their hopes will never be successful. They may go on.
So this unsuccessful life, mrtyu-samsara-vartmani [Bg. 9.3], life after life, when one actually comes on the platform of knowledge -- bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate [Bg. 7.19] -- that is the sign that here is a jnanavan. Because he has surrendered to Krsna, he has accepted Krsna, Vasudeva -- vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah [Bg. 7.19] -- he is mahatma. Mahatma does not mean that to dress like me or having a big beard and No. Vasudevah sarvam. One who has accepted Krsna as the Supreme -- param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg. 10.12] -- he is mahatma. Mahatmanas tu mam partha daivim prakrtim asritah, bhajanty ananya manaso [Bg. 9.13]. He is mahatma, not mahatma by stamping or by changing the dress. No. Mahatma means who is surrendered to the... Mahat-padam punya-yaso-murareh. Murari, Krsna's name is mahat-padam. He is mahatma.
So in this way, here is... Rsabhadeva is teaching us how we should select. Now it is the time for democracy. So Lord Rsabhadeva is teaching us that how you shall select the president or the king, Bharata Maharaja, the ideal king, parama-bhagavatam. And vairagya-laksanam paramahamsya-dharmam, and bhagavaj-jana-parayanam. These are. So democracy Sometimes I say to my American students that "Your country is opulent in every respect." Janmaisvarya-sruta-sri [SB 1.8.26], four kinds of opulences, everyone is trying for. Now everyone is trying for money, because if you get money, then, although you are born in the lowest family, chamar, bhangi, if you have got money, you'll be respectful, everything. Now there is no question of caste because everyone is lost. Kalau sudra-sambhavah. So you cannot find out who is brahmana, who is ksatriya, who is vaisya, who is sudra. Everyone is the same. Now they are trying for classless society. Classless society means sudra. So how a sudra can be equal to the brahmana, ksatriya? But if you earn money, then you are more than brahmana, you are more than a sannyasi. This is Kali-yuga. So therefore people are after money only.
So we are being educated in that way, foolish education. And we shall select. When we come to the election we select a person like me. That has been described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, that sva-vid-varahostra-kharaih samstutah purusah pasuh [SB 2.3.19]. This election, we are selecting another person. He is also like me. I am a pasu. How can I select a person who is not pasu? Therefore if you want good government, then -- this is democratic age -- then you must be good. You must know who is good. Then you can elect: "Here is good man." Otherwise, sva-vid-varahostra-kharaih samstutah purusah pasuh. Srila Jiva Gosvami has said that these so-called leaders, they are big pasu. I am pasu, and he's a big pasu. What can I select? I cannot find out Bharata Maharaja, parama-bhagavatam, bhagavaj-jana-priya. Hm? Bhagavaj-jana-parayanam. Nobody likes bhagavaj-jana. "These people are always speaking of God. It is brainwash." This is the modern "It is brainwash." In Europe and America they are now combining to oppose this Hare Krsna movement, that we are brainwashing him, controlling the mind by hypnotism. That is the charge against us. We are placed in the court also in many cases. So this is "What is this nonsense, bhagavaj-jana-parayanam, Bhagavan, Krsna? This is simply a sophistry," they say. Even a big scholar say. When Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66], a big scholar, he has remarked, "This is sophistry."
So this is the age. So everyone is trying to be happy. That happiness is not possible. That peace is not possible unless you have got a leader or king like Bharata Maharaja, after whose name this planet is called Bharatavarsa, this Bharata Maharaja. So we have to find out such leader. Then everything will be adjusted. It is the... Now we are speaking of secular state. Secular state does not mean people will become godless. No. Secular state means that no religious preference. "Because you are Hindu, therefore we shall give you more preference than the Muhammadan" -- no. Secular state means that the state should see that everyone is strictly following his religious principle. That is secular state. If you are Hindu or varnasrami, then you must follow the principles of how one is a brahmana, how one is a ksatriya. Hinduism, this is a foreign word. Real principle is varnasrama-dharma. Varnasramacaravata purusena parah puman visnur aradhyate [Cc. Madhya 8.58]. This is the aim of life, how to worship Visnu. That is explained, and that is the training of this varnasrama-dharma.
Sri Ramananda Raya quoted this when Caitanya Mahaprabhu inquired from him what is sadhya-sadhana. "What is the business of the human society and what is the aim of human society?" This was the question put forward by Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He first of all quoted varnasrama. The human society begins when there is varnasrama-dharma. Otherwise it is animal society. There is no human society. That is beginning of human society, brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya. Krsna says, catur-varnyam maya srstam [Bg. 4.13]. My Guru Maharaja also wanted to establish daiva-varnasrama. Yes. There must be the human society, not this, daiva-varnasrama, not this asuric varnasrama. Asuric varnasrama... Just like Ravana. He was also son of a brahmana, but he was rejected, that "You are not brahmana; you are raksasa because you do not care for Bhagavan Ramacandra." So this is the verdict of the sastra. So therefore daiva-varnasrama. Varnasrama should be established on the principles of devata, to make people devata. Devata means visnu bhaktah bhaved daiva asuras tad-viparyayah. Unless one is not a Vaisnava, he cannot be a devata. He cannot be a civilized man.
It is said in the sastra that sat-karma-nipuno vipro mantra-tantra-visaradah. The brahmana, he knows the brahminical business, sat-karma, means pathana pathana yajana yajana dana pratigraha. A brahmana must be very learned scholar, pathana, and he shall make others also good scholar. The brahmana is the teacher. That is brahmana's business. Pathana pathana yajana yajana. He must be a good worshiper of the Supreme Lord, and he must teach others how to become brahmana, how to worship. Yajana yajana. And dana pratigraha. Brahmana, Vaisnava Still the world is going on. At least in India the brahmana Vaisnavas, they are given charities without any hesitation. Because that mentality is still existing in India, so somebody is taking advantage of it. Unnecessarily they are changing dress and begging and making money. No. So dana pratigraha. Therefore a brahmana, as soon as there is excess money, he would immediately spend it for Krsna. Dana pratigraha. He will charity. He'll make charity. He'll distribute prasadam. He'll not keep money for future. No. Dana pratigraha. So even one is perfect brahmana like that, yajana yajana pathana pathana dana pratigraha, and mantra-tantra-visaradah... So if he is actually learned scholar, he must be very expert in quoting, chanting the Vedic mantra, Vedic hymns. That is the sign that he has read something. He has studied Vedas. So mantra-tantra-visaradah. So avaisnavo gurur na sa syat. One disqualification: if he is not a Vaisnava, then he cannot become guru. Forgive him, immediately. Sad vaisnavah sva-paco guruh. Svapaca means dog-eaters. If one is coming from the family of dog-eaters In India the dog-eaters are considered the lowest of the society, candala. But if he is a Vaisnava, then he can become guru. It doesn't matter. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu also supports this.
yei bhaje sei bada, abhakta-hina, chara
krsna-bhajane nahi jati-kuladi-vicara
[Cc. Antya 4.67]
This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu said to begin.
So here are the examples in the sastras, that Bharata Maharaja, elected or selected, nominated by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Rsabhadeva... And He retired, avadhuta-vesa. Avadhuta-vesa means He is no more within the social community. Just like the word nirgrantha... Kurvanty ahaitukim bhaktim ittham-bhuta-guno harih. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has explained this word nirgrantha. Nirgrantha means one who has no granthi, no tight knot with this material world. And the another meaning, one who has no connection with grantha, nirgrantha. So there are two classes of men. One is foolish rascal, no education. He is called also nirgrantha, and another person who has no connection with this material world, he is also nirgrantha. So here the sign of Rsabhadeva, He became just like a madman, a deaf and dumb, a rascal, a fool, a ghost. But He is not madman. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is... Apparently it may look like that, but He is Supreme Personality of Godhead. He has no connection, either you call Him deaf and dumb, fool, rascal, whatever you call. You can call. Trnad api sunicena. He has no connection with this body. This is avadhuta-vesa. When one, no more he has got any connection with this material body, he is avadhuta-vesa.
Thank you very much. (end)
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