Pradyumna: (reads synonyms, etc.)
"Translation: The goddess of fortune, Laksmiji, was requested to go before the
Lord by all the demigods present, who because of fear could not to so. But even
she had never seen such a wonderful and extraordinary form of the Lord, and thus
she could not approach Him."
Prabhupada:
saksat srih presita devair
drstva tam mahad adbhutam
adrstasruta-purvatvat
sa nopeyaya sankita
[SB 7.9.2]
So Sri, Laksmi, she is always in company with Narayana, Bhagavan. Laksmi-Narayana. Wherever Narayana there is, there is Laksmi. Aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya yassasah sriyah. Sriyah. So Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is always full in six opulence: aisvarya, riches, samagrasya, all riches... Nobody can compete with Him. Here in the material world there is competition. You have got one thousand; I have got two thousand; another man has three thousand or three millions. Nobody can say, "Here is the end. I have got money." No. That is not possible. There must be competition. Sama urdhva. Sama means "equal," and urdhva means "greater." So nobody can become equal with Narayana, and nobody can be greater than Narayana. This has become a fashion nowadays, that daridra-narayana. No. Daridra cannot be Narayana, neither Narayana can be daridra, because Narayana is always accompanied by Sri, Laksmiji. How He can be daridra? These are manufactured foolish imagination. Aparadha.
yas tu narayanam devam
brahma-rudradi-daivataih
samatvena vikseta
sa pasandi bhaved dhruvam
[Cc. Madhya 18.116]
Sastra says, yas tu narayanam devam. Narayana, the Supreme Lord... Brahma-rudradi daivataih. What to speak of daridra, even if you equalize Narayana with such big, big demigods like Brahma or like Lord Siva, if you look that "Narayana is as good as Lord Brahma or Lord Siva," samatvena vikseta sa pasandi bhaved dhruvam, immediately he's a pasandi. Pasandi means most wretched. This is the sastric injunction. Yas tu narayanam devam brahma-rudradi-daivataih samatvena.
So this has become a fashion, to equalize Narayana with everyone. So in this way India's culture has been dismantled. Narayana cannot be equal. Narayana personally says in the Bhagavad-gita, mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya [Bg. 7.7]. Another word is used: asamaurdhva. Nobody can be equal with Narayana, Visnu-tattva. No. Om tad visnoh paramam padam sada pasyanti surayah. This is Rg mantra. Visnoh padam paramam padam. Bhagavan is addressed by Arjuna, param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg. 10.12]. Paramam bhavan. So this pasandi imagination will kill one's advancement, spiritual life. Mayavada. Mayavada. So therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has strictly forbidden to associate with Mayavadi. Mayavadi bhasya sunile haya sarva-nasa: [Cc. Madhya 6.169] "Anyone who has associated with the Mayavadi, his spiritual life is finished." Sarva-nasa. Mayavadi haya krsne aparadhi. You should be very, very careful to avoid these Mayavadi rascals. There cannot be such thing as "Narayana has become daridra." It is impossible.
So Narayana is always associated with saksat srih. Sri, especially here, Sri, Laksmiji, is mentioned, that she is associated with Narayana constantly. That Sri expansion is in the Vaikunthaloka. Laksmi-sahasra sata-sambrahma sevyamanam.
cintamani prakara-sadmasu kalpa vrksa
laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam
laksmi sahasra-sata sambrahma-sevyamanam
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs. 5.29]
Not only one Sri, Laksmi, but laksmi-sahasra-sata. And they are serving the Lord, sambrahma sevyamanam. We are praying to Laksmiji with sambrahma, "Mother, give me little money. Give me little favor I may be happy." We are worshiping Sri. Still, she does not remain, Sri. Sri's another name is Cancala. Cancala, she is in this material world. Today I may be millionaire, tomorrow I may be beggar in the street. Because every opulence depends on money. So money, here nobody can have fixed up. That is not possible. That Sri which is so flickering, they are worshiping the Lord with sambrahma, with respect. Here we are thinking, "Laksmi may not go away," but there, Sri is thinking, "Krsna may not go away." That is the difference. Here we are afraid that Laksmi may go away at any moment, and they are afraid Krsna may go away. This is the difference. So such Krsna, such Narayana, how He can be daridra? This is all imagination.
So saksat sri. She is always associated. If anyone tries to separate Sri from Narayana, then he will be vanquished. The example is Ravana. Ravana wanted to separate Laksmi from Rama. This attempt is so dangerous that Ravana, instead of becoming happy... He was so-called happy, materially opulent. But as soon as he separated Laksmi from Narayana, he became vanquished with all his friend. So don't try to do that, to separate Laksmi from Narayana. She cannot be separated. But if anyone attempts like that, he'll be ruined. He'll be ruined. The example is Ravana. So at the present moment people are very much fond of sri, money. Sri-aisvarya. Sri-aisvarya. Sri-aisvarya prajepsavah. General people, they want sri, money, or beauty, beautiful woman. Sri-aisvarya, money, riches. Sri aisvarya prajepsavah. Praja. Praja means family, society, money. They want. So Sri is always hankered after, searched after. But do not try to keep Sri alone. Then you'll be ruined. This is the instruction. You do not try to keep Sri alone. Keep always with Narayana. Then you'll be happy. Keep Narayana. So those are riches, those who have got riches, rich, they should worship Narayana also with that money. Spend money. Money is meant for service of Narayana. So if you have got money, don't spoil it like Ravana, but engage it in Krsna's service. If you have got money, just spend it for very costly temple, for installing Laksmi-Narayana, Radha-Krsna, Sita-Rama, like that. Don't spoil your money in other way. Then you'll always remain rich. You'll never become poor. But as soon as you try to cheat Narayana, that "I have taken Your Laksmi," you starve. That policy is very bad.
So anyway, wherever there is Sri, there is Narayana, and wherever there is Narayana, there is Sri. Therefore Narayana and Sri... Nrsimhadeva is Narayana, and Laksmi, They are constantly assoc... Therefore the devas, the demigods, when they saw that "Narayana, Nrsimhadeva, was very, very angry. Nobody can pacify Him," so they thought that "Laksmiji is personal associate, constantly with Narayana, so let her go and pacify Him." That is stated here. Saksat srih presita devair. The devas, Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and others, they requested, "Mother, you try to pacify your husband. It is not possible by us." But she also became afraid. She also became afraid. Saksat srih presita devair drstva tam mahad adbhutam. She knows that "My husband has appeared as Nrsimhadeva," but because that wonderful feature of the Lord was so fearful, she did not dare to come before Him. Why? Now, adrstasruta-purvatvat: since she also never knew that the her husband can assume the form of Nrsimhadeva. This Nrsimhadeva feature was specifically adopted for Hiranyakasipu. This is all-powerful. Hiranyakasipu took benediction from Lord Brahma that no god, demigod can kill him, no man can kill him, no animal can kill him, and so on, so on, so on. Indirectly he made a plan that nobody could kill him. And because first of all he wanted to become immortal, so Lord Brahma said that "I am not immortal. How can I give you the benediction of becoming...? That is not possible." So these raksasas, demons, they are very intelligent, duskrtina, intelligent -- but for sinful activities. That is the feature of the raksasa. So he planned something, that "Indirectly I shall take benediction from Lord Brahma in such a way that I'll remain immortal." So in order to keep Brahma's promise, Narayana appeared as Nrsimhadeva, half lion and half man. Therefore adrstasruta-purva. Even Laksmi did not see such feature of the Lord, the half man, half lion. This is Narayana or Krsna, all-powerful. He can assume any form. That is... Adrsta asruta-purva. Never saw. Although she is associated with the Narayana, but she never saw such wonderful feature of the Narayana. Therefore it is said, adrsta asruta-purvatvat sa na upeyaya sankita. Laksmiji is chaste. So sankita: she was fearful, "May be He's different person." And she is the chaste, the most chaste. How she can mix with different person? Therefore sankita. This word is used, sankita. Although she is supposed to know everything, still, she was thinking, "May not be my husband." This is the ideal chaste, chastity, that even Laksmiji, being doubtful about Visnu, she did not talk, did not approach. Sankita. This is another quality of Laksmiji. She became afraid, "He may not be Narayana." Because she's never experienced of her husband such wonderful feature, half lion and half man. So adrstasruta-purvatvat sa nopeyaya sankita.
So if we study the character of Laksmi-Narayana, then we shall cease to manufacture such words as daridra-narayana or this or that. No. We should therefore never follow this pasandi.
yas tu narayanam devam
brahmarudradi-daivataih
samatvena vikseta
sa pasandi bhaved dhruvam
[Cc. Madhya 18.116]
Pasandi means devil, or nondevotee. Abhakta hina cara. Be careful not to mix with nondevotee who imagines about God. They do not believe in God actually. This pasandi means who do not believe in God. They think that there is no God, but they simply say, "Yes, there is God, but God has no head, no tail, no mouth, nothing." And then what is God then? But these rascals say nirakara. Nirakara means there is no God. Say frankly that there is no God. Why do you say, "Yes, there is God, but He has no head, no tail, no leg, no hand"? So what is there? So this is another cheating. Those who are atheist, they say frankly, "I do not believe in God. There is no..." That we can understand. But these rascals, they say, "There is God, but nirakara." Nirakara means there is no God, but sometimes the word is used nirakara. But that nirakara does not mean God has no akara. That nirakara means that not this material akara. Isavarah paramah krsnahsac-cid-ananda vigrahah. His body is sac-cid-ananda. That is completely impossible to see within this material world. Our body is not sat. It is asat. This body which I have got now or you have got, it will remain so long this life... And when it is finished, it is finished forever. You'll never get this body again. Therefore asat.
But Krsna's body is not like that. Krsna's body is the same, sat, always the same. Krsna's another name is narakrti. Our body is imitation of Krsna's body, not that Krsna's body is imitation of our body. No. Krsna has got His body, narakrti, nara-vapu. These things are there. But that vapu is not like this asat. Our body is asat. It will not stay. His body is sac-cid-ananda. Our body is asat, acit and nirananda, just opposite. It will not stay, and there is no knowledge, acit, and there is no bliss. Always we are unhappy. So nirakara means not a body like this. His body is different. Ananda cinmaya rasa pratibhavitabhis [Bs. 5.37]. Ananda-cinmaya. Angani yasya sakalendriya vrtti-manti pasyanti panti kalayanti ciram jaganti [Bs. 5.32]. His angani, angani, parts of the body, are described, sakalendriya-vrtti-manti. I can see with my eyes. My, this special function of my, this part of the body is to see. But Krsna, sakalendriya-vrtti-manti -- He can not only see, but He can eat also. That is import. By seeing, we cannot eat, but whatever we offer, if Krsna sees, He eats also. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrtti-manti. So how we can compare Krsna's body with our body? But avajananti mam mudhah [Bg. 9.11]. Those who are rascals, they think that "Krsna has two hands, two legs; therefore I am also Krsna. I am also." So don't be misled by the rascals, pasandi. Take as there in the sastra, learn it from authorized sources, and be happy.
Thank you very much. (end)
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