KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.1.22
- The dirty things in the heart of a conditioned soul are the root cause of all troubles for him.
- A conditioned soul is surrounded by the manifold miseries of material existence, but on account of his gross ignorance, he is unable to remove the troubles due to dirty things in the heart, accumulated during the long prison life in the material world.
- The living entity is actually meant to serve the will of the Supreme Lord, but on account of the dirty things in the heart, he likes to serve his concocted desires.
- These desires, instead of giving him any peace of mind, create new problems and thus bind him to the cycle of repeated birth and death. (merry go round of misery)
- These dirty things of fruitive work and empiric philosophy can be removed only by the association with the Supreme Lord.
- Devotees are associating with the Supreme Lord through chanting, hearing, book distribution, preaching etc.
- The Lord, being omnipotent, can offer His association by His inconceivable potencies.
- Thus persons who are unable to pin their faith on the personal feature of the Absolute are given a chance to associate with His virāṭ-rūpa, or the cosmic impersonal feature of the Lord. Even the conception of His impersonal cosmic feature helps the conditioned soul to associate with the Lord indirectly and thus gradually rise to the stage of personal contact.
- For the benefit of men who are unable to accept the Lord in His personal eternal form, Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī how to fix the mind on Him to remove the dirty things in one’s mind.
- All these dirty things have been carried over millions and millions of births the living entity has taken. It is understandable that many unclean things have entered into the mind and also the heart. The mind receives the impressions from all the senses and keeps them in the memory. So it is important to learn what is right and what is wrong, what is acceptable, not acceptable, “pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca”This is education.
- When a person makes a vow of four regulative principles, it is the beginning of knowledge. What is to be done and what is not to be done.
- It is the responsibility of the parents to protect the children as long as they are under their tutelage (up to 16 yrs). It is very important to make sure that their minds are not crowded with dirty things. We need to educate the children about what is right and what is wrong. The body has 9 holes. Who we are is determined by what we let in those nine holes. See no evil, hear no evil, smell no evil, eat no evil ….. Closing the gates for these unholy things is the first thing kids should learn. (BG 18.30) is the pedagogy of KC that parents need to teach kids.
- One who does not know the scriptural directions becomes entangled in the actions and reactions of work. Understanding which discriminates by intelligence is situated in the mode of goodness.
SB 2.1.22 TRANSLATION:
The fortunate King Parīkṣit, inquiring further, said: O brāhmaṇa, please describe in full detail how and where the mind has to be applied and how the conception can be fixed so that the dirty things in a person’s mind can be removed.
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DIRTY DESIRES BIND LIVING ENTITIES TO THE REPEATED CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH
The dirty things in the heart of a conditioned soul are the root cause of all troubles for him. A conditioned soul is surrounded by the manifold miseries of material existence, but on account of his gross ignorance, he is unable to remove the troubles due to dirty things in the heart, accumulated during the long prison life in the material world. He is actually meant to serve the will of the Supreme Lord, but on account of the dirty things in the heart, he likes to serve his concocted desires. These desires, instead of giving him any peace of mind, create new problems and thus bind him to the cycle of repeated birth and death.
THESE DIRTY THINGS OF FRUITIVE WORK AND EMPIRIC PHILOSOPHY CAN BE REMOVED ONLY BY ASSOCIATION WITH THE SUPREME LORD.
The Lord, being omnipotent, can offer His association by His inconceivable potencies. Thus persons who are unable to pin their faith on the personal feature of the Absolute are given a chance to associate with His virāṭ-rūpa, or the cosmic impersonal feature of the Lord. The cosmic impersonal feature of the Lord is a feature of His unlimited potencies. Since the potent and potencies are identical, even the conception of His impersonal cosmic feature helps the conditioned soul to associate with the Lord indirectly and thus gradually rise to the stage of personal contact.
MAHĀRĀJA PARĪKṢIT WAS ALREADY DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH THE PERSONAL FEATURE OF THE LORD ŚRĪ KṚṢṆA, AND AS SUCH HE HAD NO NEED TO INQUIRE FROM ŚUKADEVA GOSVĀMĪ
about where and how to apply the mind in the impersonal virāṭ-rūpa of the Lord. But he inquired after a detailed description of the matter for the benefit of others, who are unable to conceive of the transcendental personal feature of the Lord as the form of eternity, knowledge and bliss.
THE NONDEVOTEE CLASS OF MEN CANNOT THINK OF THE PERSONAL FEATURE OF THE LORD.
Because of their poor fund of knowledge, the personal form of the Lord, like Rāma or Kṛṣṇa, is completely revolting to them. They have a poor estimation of the potency of the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gītā (9.11) it is explained by the Lord Himself that people with a poor fund of knowledge deride the supreme personality of the Lord, taking Him to be a common man. Such men are ignorant of the inconceivable potency of the Lord. By the inconceivable potency of the Lord, He can move in human society or any other society of living beings and yet remain the same omnipotent Lord, without deviating in the slightest from His transcendental position. So, for the benefit of men who are unable to accept the Lord in His personal eternal form, Mahārāja Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī how to fix the mind on Him in the beginning, and the Gosvāmī replied in detail as follows.
To have passed through many many many births and deaths in many many different species and finally come to the human form of life, it is understandable that many unclean things have entered into our mind and also our heart. Minds does 2 functions, it receives the impressions or experiences from the other 5 senses and keeps them in the memory. If the senses are engaged in gross sense gratification, our memory space becomes full of dirty things. Therefore Parents protect the children from dirty things when they are under their tutelage. Up to 16 yrs old. So that they don’t crowd their mind with unclean dirty things. It is harder and harder these days. As we have social media. Therefore it is very important – One should learn what is right and what is wrong, what is acceptable, not acceptable, what we can offer and not offer to Krsna. This is education. This is the fundamental education every kid should learn. This is the absolute level of understanding. Unless we teach them we are not responsible parents.
BG 18.30
pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca
kāryākārye bhayābhaye
bandhaṁ mokṣaṁ ca yā vetti
buddhiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī
O son of Pṛthā, that understanding by which one knows what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, what is to be feared and what is not to be feared, what is binding and what is liberating, is in the mode of goodness.
Performing actions in terms of the directions of the scriptures is called pravṛtti, or executing actions that deserve to be performed. And actions which are not so directed are not to be performed. One who does not know the scriptural directions becomes entangled in the actions and reactions of work. Understanding which discriminates by intelligence is situated in the mode of goodness.
To build up the intelligence of a child. It begins with the understanding of what should be done and what should not be done. When a person makes a vow to follow the four regulative principles, it is the beginning of knowledge. What is to be done and what is not to be done. Unless we teach our kids these principles of what needs to be done and what not to be done they are not educated. When kids are introduced to alien nonsense in the schools and society, they will be able to discriminate, if they learn what is right and what is wrong. Education is not simply learning facts. Being able to discriminate between what is Krsna Conscious and what is not. The body has 9 holes. (2 eyes, mouth, 2 ears, genital, anus) Who we are is determined by what we let in, in those nine holes. See no evil, hear no evil, smell no evil, eat no evil ….. .
Closing the gates for these unholy things is the first things kids should learn. It should be the pedagogy. Pedagogy – method, and practice of teaching especially as an academic subject or a theoretical subject.
When your neighbor comes and puts all the trash in your house even though your house is new the house becomes trash and you cannot stay in it anymore..This is how the minds of the children get dirty by theirs education and association. (Big bang,,,, ). Whatever you learn in the youth will stay with you for life. “Child is the father of a Man” Right away kids should learn Pravrittim ca nivrittam ca…. what should be done, what should not be done…. This is an important verse to form the Krsna Consciousness Pedagogy.
Empiric – things that can be perceived only by the senses. Senses are imperfect and limited. Example – Flying to India and through the window of the plane and how much of the Atlantic ocean can you see?
All these space explorations are a waste of money.
We are associating with the lord – by chanting, by hearing, by distributing books, preaching to people. This is the difference between devotee and nondevotee. Nondevotees go to movies, pubs etc., Those persons who are unable to pin their faith are directed towards the Virat rupa, as they can relate more to the higher energy, they cannot relate to a little boy is the cause of all causes and source of everything.
Very interesting purport, SP develops a theme from one verse to another….
Paramatma is present in every atom.