Prabhupada:
yasyanke sira adhaya
lokah svapiti nirvrtah
svayam dharmam adharmam va
na hi veda yatha pasuh
sa katham nyarpitatmanam
krta-maitram acetanam
visrambhaniyo bhutanam
saghrno dogdhum arhati
[SB 6.2.5-6]
Just like a child is sleeping on the lap of his mother, feeling secure, completely secure, that "I am on the lap of my mother..." Naturally a child, when it is on the lap of it's mother, he is quite comfortable, silent, feeling very secure. So in that position if the mother kills the child... It is like that, that praja and the king... The prajas... Praja means the citizens, subjects. They should be feeling so much secure that "We are under good government. There is no disturbance." Just like during the government of Maharaja Yudhisthira, they were so secure that even they had no very much anxieties. "Our king is there." The world is full of anxieties, miseries, and difficulties. So the good government means when the subjects, citizens, feel secure from all such things.
So here, yasyanke sira adhaya. Suppose I am sleeping very comfortably, feeling secure by keeping my head on your lap, yasyanke sira adhaya lokah svapiti, and dreaming very happily. Svaya dharmam adharmam va na he veda yatha pasuh. You cannot expect all men to understand what is religion and what is not religion, general mass of people. So what is the position of a person or any being who does not know to make distinction what is dharma and adharma? So they have been described. He is described as yatha pasuh. Pasuh. Pasuh means animal. An animal cannot make distinction what is right or what is wrong. That is not possible. Therefore it is said, dharmena hina pasubhih samanah: "One who is ignorant of dharma-adharma, he is no better than pasu." Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca samanyam etat pasubhih naranam. Ahara, eating. I eat, the dog eats, the cat eats. I sleep, the dog sleeps, and the cat sleeps. I have sex desire, I satisfy it. The cats and dogs also satisfy it. And I am also afraid of my enemy; the cats and dogs are also afraid of enemy. Then where is the difference between cats and dogs? The difference is that I can be trained up to become religious; the cats and dogs cannot be trained. That is the difference. Dharmena hina pasubhih samanah. So if I don't take education and enlightenment how to become religious, I do not know how to distinguish between right and wrong, then yatha pasu -- then I am as good as animal.
That is the position at the present moment, that people are not educated to distinguish or to become pious. They are not educated. They are being... Now, at the present moment, education means you learn technology and learn how to earn money, and then, after earning money, you spend it for sense gratification: eating meat, eating wine, going to the brothel, prostitute. This is modern civilization. So therefore it is the civilization of pasu, animal civilization, polished animal. It is not civilization. It is the duty of the guardian, father, guru, government or elderly relative. Everyone should be compassionate with the dependent. The father should be compassionate to the children, that "My children, they have come to me. They are now innocent. If I do not train them nicely..." What kind of training? Na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum. That is the duty of the father, of the guru, how to save the dependent from the clutches of death. This is the duty. The government also. Because death is sure. As soon as we get this material body, the death is sure.
So we are eternal spiritual spark. Krsna says that the living entity is eternal. Nityah sasvato 'yam, na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. This is the information we get from the authority, that "The living entity is eternal," nitya, sasvata, "and ever-existing, and does not die on the death or annihilation of the body." Then what is the duty of the father? What is the duty of the government? Duty of the guru? Now how to save him from this repetition of birth and death. And that is the duty. Otherwise to give some food... That also, people cannot give now. Rather, killing their children in the womb. This is Kali-yuga. Whereas it is the duty of the parents how to save the child or the son from the clutches of death, they are now killing. This is advanced civilization. This is going on all over the world. They are going to the medical man and taking help and killing the child within the womb. This is Kali-yuga.
So here it is, the same thing said, that yasyanke sira adhaya lokah svapiti nirvrtah. The child is sleeping in the womb of the mother, and the mother is killing. Then where to take shelter? Similarly, this example is that "This Ajamila, he might have committed some sins without knowledge. Now he is no more sinful because he has chanted the holy name of Narayana, and he is not to be punished." That is the purpose of the Visnuduta. "So why you are dragging him, trying to take him to Yamaraja to punish him? You do not know that he is innocent. We have to..." The real purpose is that everyone... We commit sinful activities on account of ignorance. Therefore the best humanitarian work is to give knowledge to the humanity, not that one is suffering for want of food and... If I give some food, that is good work, but that is not sufficient. I may give food; that's all right. You give. We also give prasadam free. But that does not mean simply by giving prasadam, we are silent. We give knowledge also. This is Krsna consciousness movement. Food, automatically you have to give. That is... There is no prohibition. But at the same time: knowledge. Without knowledge-giving, if he remains ignorant... Just like the same example. If you have got some children, if you don't give them education, simply feed them, that is not your proper duty. You must give knowledge.
Krsna consciousness movement is therefore giving them knowledge. The first knowledge is that we are trying to convince everyone, following the footprints of Lord Krsna, as He wanted to convince in the very beginning, that dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara [Bg. 2.13]. This is the first knowledge. One should know that he is not this body. He is spirit soul, different from this body. He is living within this body. This is called knowledge. And at the same time, he should be supplied the necessities of the body. Yavad artha-prayojanam. Nirbandhe krsna-sambandhe yukta-vairagyam ucyate. Anasaktasya visayan yatharham upayunjatah Visaya. Visaya means we need something for our sense gratification. That is allowed. We don't say that "You don't eat." No, you eat, but you eat krsna-prasadam. Don't eat anything else. Then gradually your senses will be conquered. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah [Brs. 1.2.234]. If you want to realize God, first of all you should engage your tongue in the service of the Lord. It is very astonishing that "Engaging the tongue I become perfect?" Yes. The beginning is the tongue because tongue is the greatest enemy. People are going to hell on account of being unable to control the tongue. Therefore one has to control the tongue. And controlling tongue means you engage the tongue in the service of the Lord. How? Tongue means you can speak with your tongue and you can eat with your tongue. So engage the tongue chanting Hare Krsna and preaching Krsna consciousness. This is service. And tongue wants to taste. Give him krsna-prasadam, very nice. So as soon as you engage your tongue in these two business, then naturally you become purified and your senses become also purified. Then you come to the real platform.
sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam
tat-paratvena nirmalam
hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam
bhaktir ucyate
[Cc. Madhya 19.170]
This is the bhakti, to engage the purified senses in the service of the master of senses, Hrsikesa. Hrsikesa means master. Hrsika means the senses, and isa means master. Hrsikesa. Krsna's another name is Hrsikesa.
So we have to engage our senses. It is not our senses; it is Krsna's. We have forgotten it. I am seeing with my eyes. I am very much proud I can see. But why you cannot see when you are blind? The eyes are there. Because the master has withdrawn the sight power. You can be happy with your decoration of the eyes, but you cannot see. So actually I do not see. Just like I have got this spectacle. The spectacle does not see; I am seeing. Similarly, with my eyes I am not seeing; Krsna is seeing. Because Krsna is seeing, therefore I am seeing. This is the Vedic version. You will find in Upanisad. Because the Supreme Brahman is seeing, therefore we are seeing. Because the Brahman is walking... There are many evidences. Just like this ear. Now I am hearing with this ear. You are also hearing. But when I am unconscious, this ear is there, and you call me, "Mr. Mo..., Mr. Sir, Mr. Sir," but I cannot hear. The machine is there. Why you cannot hear? Therefore the Brahman is withdrawn.
So sarvam khalv idam brahman. Everything is working because the Brahman is there. Otherwise it will not work, simply machine. This body, because the Brahman, the soul, is there, it is working. And as soon as the soul is out of this body, it is lump of matter. They are thinking the brain is working. The brain is not working. Brain is a machine. Just like typing. You are typing. The machine is not typing. You are typing. Unless there is touch of Brahman, nothing can work. So when we realize this, that is called brahma-bhutah prasannatma [Bg. 18.54], when we understand that "I am simply instrumental." That is also explained in the Bhagavad-gita. Bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani mayaya [Bg. 18.61]. Actually we are under the direction of Krsna, and he has given us this machine, this body, and we are wandering throughout the whole universe. Ei rupe brahmanda bhramite kono bhagyavan jiva. This is our position. We have got this machine, and we are wandering throughout the universe in different planets and different forms of life, and we do not know what is the aim of life.
ei rupe brahmanda bhramite kono bhagyavan jiva
guru krsna krpa paya bhakti-lata-bija
[Cc. Madhya 19.151]
In this wandering, wandering, wandering, when we come in contact with a bona fide guru, we get the seed of devotional service. That is the aim of life, how to get that. Therefore the Vedic injunction is tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet [MU 1.2.12]. You must go. Otherwise your life is useless.
So it is the duty of guru, it is the duty of father, it is the duty of the government, it is the duty of the elderly relative to educate everyone. This is human life, not that simply eating like dog and dancing like dog. This is not human civilization. So sa katham nyarpitatmanam krta-maitram acetanam. If I think that "My spiritual master is here. He will save me," and if I do not train him how to save them, then what is the use of having such spiritual master? What is the use of having such father? And what is the use of such government? There is a Bengali poetry by a Bengali Vaisnava: kaname janame sabe pita mata paya, krsna guru nahi mile bhajaha e aya.(?) As soon as you take birth, there is father. Either you take birth as a snake or you take birth as a human being, without father and mother there is no question of birth. So father and mother you will get in every birth. But krsna guru nahi mile bhajaha e aya(?): Krsna and guru will not be available in every birth. That is very important thing. You cannot get Krsna in the form of a snake or a cat and a dog, but you can get Krsna in the form as a human being.
Therefore human being, this form of human being... Labdhva sudurlabham idam bahu-sambhavante [SB 11.9.29]. After many, many millions of years we have got this human form of body. It should not be misused simply like cats and dogs. This is not success of life. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja, although he was five-years-old boy, he advised his classfriend that kaumaram acaret prajnah. He was instructing. He was a devotee. He was preaching, "My dear friend, you just become devotee of Krsna." The children protested, "Eh! We shall now play or we shall become Krsna conscious? No, no, we shall play." So Prahlada Maharaja repeatedly said, "No, no, no. Even we are children, we should not play. We should become Krsna conscious." Kaumaram acaret prajnah. If you are intelligent... Kaumaram. Kaumaram means from the childhood, from five years. Kaumaram acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha. "Why? All right, if you say that I shall become Krsna conscious, I shall become. Let us grow now." No. Durlabham manusyam janma tad api adhruvam arthadam [SB 7.6.1]. "No, no, no. Don't spoil your life in that way. It is... Although we have got this body, human form, but it is also adhruvam. It will not stay."
So before your next death you finish your Krsna consciousness. That is the real gain of life. Don't wait that "I shall become old, and when I shall become feeble -- there is no more energy -- then I shall become Krsna conscious." Of course, Krsna conscious, one can become in a moment perfect. But that is rarely done. Everyone should be taught Krsna consciousness from the very childhood. This is human civilization.
Thank you very much. Hare Krsna. (end)
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Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.2.5-6 -- Vrndavana, September 9,
1975
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