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Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.36 Mayapur, March 14, 1976 download  flash player   Take a test Pusta Krsna: "Then Lord Brahma could see You possessing thousands and thousands of faces, legs, heads, hands, eyes, noses, and ears. You were decorated with varieties of ornaments and weapons and very nicely dressed. Seeing You as Lord Visnu with Your transcendental symptoms and form, Your legs extending to the lower planets, Lord Brahma achieved transcendental bliss." Prabhupada: evam sahasra-vadananghri-sirah-karoru- nasadya-karna-nayana abharanayudhadhyam mayamayam sad-upalaksita-sannivesam drstva maha-purusam apa mudam virincah  [SB 7.9.36]

So in the previous verse we understood that Lord Brahma executed severe austerity for hundreds of years just to become purified. Tivra-tapasa parisuddha-bhavah. Bhava, situation, or nature, bhava, nature also... So we have a bhava, nature, at the present moment which is not real bhava. We have acquired this bhava on account of long, long years' material association. But this bhava can be changed. That is spiritual. Sri Rupa Gosvami also says bhava, and another place, in Bhagavad-gita, it is said, budha bhava-samanvitah, bhava [Bg. 10.8].

So at the present moment we have got a bhava: "I am this. I am that. I belong to this family. I belong to this nation." Bhava is ecstasy, and everyone is overwhelmed with such kind of ecstasy. The politicians, they think that we are simply wasting time in chanting and dancing. "They have no sense how to improve the position of the country." They do not like because they are in different bhava. But we are trying to change that bhava. The bhava must be there. The whole Krsna consciousness movement is to purify the bhava. Bhava. That is stated here. Parisuddha-bhava. We are not negativating everything. We are simply changing from material bhava to spiritual bhava. That's all. Here is a big building, but there are many other hundreds and thousands of big building in this district or in this country. But here the bhava is changed. The bhava is changed. In your country there are many big, big skyscraper buildings. In comparison to those buildings, this is nothing. But still, you have come, spending thousands of dollars here, to change the bhava. That is the... That is required. Otherwise you American boys and girls, you have no business to come here to see this big building. No. To change the bhava, that requires. That is very important thing.

So,

sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam
tat-paratvena nirmalam
hrsikena hrsikesa-
sevanam bhaktir ucyate
 [Cc. Madhya 19.170]

Hrsikesa-sevanam. That bhava is changed. Bhakti means to change the bhava. At the present moment we are in a different bhava. It has to be cleansed, parisuddha-bhava. Prakrsta-rupena or parisuddha, clarified, cleansed bhava. We have nothing to reject. Simply we have to change the bhava. Budha bhava-samanvitah.

aham sarvasya prabhavo
mattah sarvam pravartate
iti matva bhajante mam
budha bhava-samanvitah
 [Bg. 10.8]

Budha, those who are intelligent, budha... Bodha. Bodha means intelligence, knowledge, and budha, those who have got knowledge. So this is knowledge.

So Brahma, Lord Brahma, began austerity to change the bhava. He is the first created living being. How much great he is. But because he came into this material world... He is coming from Visnu, atma-yoni. Not only Brahma, every one of us, we are coming from Visnu. Every one of us, like the small sparks of fire, we are coming from the big fire. That's a fact. But as soon as we come to this material world, our, that quality, fiery quality, extinguished. Therefore we have to revive the fiery quality, change of bhava. Parisuddha-bhava. As soon as I come... The same example: the big fire and there are sparks, small fire. We are not big fire; we are small, sparklike. The spark, so long it is with the fire, it is very beautiful. The fire is also beautiful, and the spark is also beautiful. And if by chance the fire falls down, the small... The big fire never falls down. Therefore Krsna is acyuta. He never falls down. If He comes in this material world, He does not fall down. Etad isanam isasya. This is His all-powerful. He comes also in this material world. He says, tadatmanam srjamy aham. Paritranaya. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, tadatmanam srjami [Bg. 4.7]. He also comes, but He does not fall down. We fall down.

The Mayavadi philosopher cannot understand this. They think that anyone who comes in this material world, he falls under the influence of maya. That is right for the small living entities, as we are. That is not correct for the Supreme. Therefore they misunderstand Krsna in His activities, especially when He dances with the gopis. Therefore a neophyte person should not try to understand Krsna's dancing with the gopis immediately, because they do not know Krsna. So here if we do something against the moral principles, we are liable to be punished. But Krsna, about Krsna it is stated in the Isopanisad, apapa-viddham. You know this. Apapa-viddham. (aside:) Who is that? He does not become affected by any papa, apapa-viddham. That is His nature. Etad isanam isasya. Just like we go into the fire -- we become burned into ashes. But there are some others, not... We cannot see, but if Krsna enters... Yes, there are many. Just like in the forest fire all the Vrndavana inhabitants they became very much afraid of the forest fire, Vrndavana, the cows and the cowherd boys and inhabitants. But they had no other means how to stop. They began to pray to Krsna, "Krsna, save us." So Krsna swallowed up the fire. That is Krsna. That is the difference between Krsna and ourself. So this difference of Krsna and Krsna's greatness we can see when we have purified ourself, tivra-tapasa parisuddha-bhavah. Then it is possible. That is... The whole bhakti system means tivra-tapasa parisuddha-bhavah.

So evam sahasra-vadana. Sahasra-vadana. This virat-rupa. This is mayamayam. Krsna's virat-rupa is another feature. His real rupa or form is dvi-bhuja-muralidhara, two hands. That is His original form. There is in the Brahma-samhita,

venum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksam
barhavatamsam asitambuda-sundarangam
kandarpa-koti-kamaniya-visesa-sobham
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
 [Bs. 5.30]

That is Krsna's real form. Venum kvanantam: "He is playing on flute." But here it is said that sahasra-vadananghri-sirah-karoru. Here Brahma saw He has got many sahasra... What is that? Sahasra-vadana, faces, anghri. As soon as there is face, as soon as there is one face, there must be two legs, two hands. So He appeared before Brahma with thousands of faces. So similarly, number of hands and legs must increase proportionately. So Lord Brahma saw Him in His virata-rupam, virat-rupam. Krsna, Brahman, Brahman, Para-brahman. Para-brahman means the great, the great. And He is Para-brahman. Nobody is greater than Him. So if anyone wants to see Krsna in His Para-brahman rupa, then He exhibits His virat-rupa. Just like Arjuna saw virat-rupa, the same. But that is not His natural form. That is mayamayam. Because one... Suppose one wants to see God and he is not very advanced. Even if he's advanced, sometimes we want to see the superior in His great opulence.

But the Vrndavana-vasi, they are so affectionate, so attached to Krsna, they do not want. They do not want to know what is God. They simply want Krsna, to love. This is Vrndavana. There is no necessity. Krsna manifested in so many ways big, big activities in Vrndavana, killing daily almost a demon. But still, the Vrndavana-vasi did not accept Him as the Supreme Lord. They thought that some demigod has appeared. They did not know that He is the Supreme Lord. That is another maya, yoga-maya. If the Vrndavana-vasi saw Krsna that He is the Supreme Lord, then they could not love Him so nicely, because too much opulent conception diminishes natural love. Therefore in the Vrndavana there is no such exhibition of Krsna's form. But in the material world, just to convince Brahma that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He appeared, sahasra vadananghri-sirah-karoru-nasadya-karna-nayanabharanaya-a yudhadhyam. Not only many faces, many ears, many legs, but each of them very nicely decorated. You have seen the picture of Lord Visnu, very decorated, very much decorated. But you'll see Krsna, He is decorated with the Vrndavana flowers. That is Krsna's real form. He does not appear with many hands, many ornaments, many... No. Simple boy.

So yasoda-nandana gopi-jana-ranjana yamuna-tira... What is that?

Devotees: Vana-cari.

Prabhupada: Yes. That is Krsna. Krsna is always yasoda-nandana. He is always ready to be chastised by mother Yasoda, by the gopis, and sometimes by His friends. That is Vrndavana Krsna. That is real Krsna; that is real God. And this form of God as Brahma saw, virat-rupa, that is mayamayam. Because Brahma, such exalted person, he was meant for creating this universe, he becomes bewildered, seeing Krsna as a cowherd boy. That was also exhibited. When Brahma understood that "A cowherd boy in Vrndavana is said to be the Supreme Lord, Krsna, my master," so he also examined whether Krsna, that boy, was his master. He took away His calves and cowherd boys for a second, and he saw that Krsna has expanded Himself to so many cows and calves and cowherd boys. Then he submitted. Similarly, Indra also wanted to examine Him. So everyone... Siva-virinci-nutam [SB 11.5.33]. Yatra muhyanti surayah. So even Lord Brahma, Lord Indra, and others, big, big demigods, they become bewildered to understand Krsna. So Brahma saw the virat-rupa. Mayamayam sad-upalaksita-sannivesam drstva maha-purusam apa mudam virincah. But when he saw the Lord, he was very, very happy.

So our... Pure Vaisnava, they do not want to see even Krsna. They are satisfied with the service of Krsna. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's philosophy. Aslisya va pada-ratam pinastu mam marma-hatam karotu va. Marma-hatam karotu va [Cc. Antya 20.47]. A pure Vaisnava, he simply always expects, "When that time will come, Krsna will be pleased to accept me?" Otherwise he is not very hasty. But he is interested with the service. That is pure Vaisnava. A pure Vaisnava can go to the hell for serving Krsna, but he is not aspirant for his personal comfort. Any condition... Mama janmani janmanisvare. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching. Janmani janmanisvare bhavatad bhaktir ahaituki tvayi. Na dhanam na janam na sundarim kavitam va jagadisa kamaye [Cc. Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4]. Aslisya va pada-ratam pinastu mam marma-hatam karotu va. So this Krsna consciousness movement is very great movement, more valuable than the conception of Lord Siva or Lord Brahma, because it is given by Krsna personally, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So do not try to see Krsna in His virat form. Simply try to serve Him in humble position. Then your life will be successful.

Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya! (end)

 

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