KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.4.6 :
- For every unknown thing, we have to learn and inquire from a learned personality.
- The spiritual master, therefore, must be one who is sarva-jña.
- All inquiries on God which are unknown to the disciple may be made from the qualified spiritual master.
- Maharaj Praikshit already knows that everything we see is born out of the energy of the Lord. So, he wanted to know the process of creation.
- Foolish people say that creative energy is independent and acts automatically, as electrical energy works. But the intelligent man knows that even the electrical energy is generated by an expert engineer in the localized powerhouse, and thus the energy is distributed everywhere under the resident engineer’s supervision.
- It is clearly said there that material energy is a manifestation of one of many such energies of the Supreme (parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate).
- The so-called scholars and philosophers of the world may, by mental speculation, present so many utopian theories about the impersonal creation of the universe, but an intelligent devotee of the Lord, by studying the Bhagavad-gītā, can know that behind the creation is the hand of the Supreme Lord, just as in the generating electrical powerhouse there is the resident engineer.
- The research scholar finds out the cause and the effect of everything, but research scholars as great as Brahmā, Śiva, Indra and many other demigods are sometimes bewildered by seeing the wonderful creative energy of the Lord, so what to speak of the tiny mundane scholars dealing in petty things.
- One can compare the long duration of life of the inhabitants of Brahmā’s planet, which is inconceivable to the inhabitants of this planet earth, to the categorical value of the brain of Brahmājī, also inconceivable to any great scientist of this planet.
- And with such high brainpower, Brahmājī admits Lord Kṛṣṇa to be the supreme cause of all causes. But persons with tiny brains within this petty planet earth think of the Lord as one of them.
- Persons with a poor fund of knowledge do not know this, and therefore they have the audacity to deride Him because He comes before us by His causeless mercy occasionally as a human being.
- The Lord is not like a human being. He is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, or the Absolute Personality of Godhead, and there is no difference between His body and His soul. He is both the power and the powerful.
- Mahārāja Parīkṣit did not ask his spiritual master, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, to narrate Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes in Vṛndāvana; he wanted to hear first about the creation of the Lord.
- Neither the king nor the great speaker of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Sukhdev Goswami jumped up like the organizers of Bhāgavatam; both of them proceeded systematically so that both future readers and hearers might take lessons from the example of the procedure of reciting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
- Those who are under the control of the external energy of the Lord, or in other words those who are in the material world, must, first of all, know how the external energy of the Lord is working under the direction of the Supreme Personality, and afterward one may try to enter into the activities of His internal energy.
- The author of Caitanya-caritāmṛta has warned the neophyte devotees to be seriously on guard against the pitfall of neglecting knowledge about Kṛṣṇa in regard to how great He is. Only when one knows Lord Kṛṣṇa’s greatness can one firmly put one’s unflinching faith in Him; otherwise, like the common man, even the great leaders of men will mistake Lord Kṛṣṇa for one of the many demigods, or a historical personality, or a myth only.
- The transcendental pastimes of the Lord in Vṛndāvana, or even at Dvārakā, are relishable for persons who have already qualified themselves in advanced spiritual techniques, and the common man may be able to attain to such a plane by the gradual process of service and inquiries.
- Therefore , the neophyte devotee, instead of jumping at once to the platform of transcendental pastimes presented by the internal energy of the Lord, may know how great the Supreme Lord is by inquiring about the process of His creative energy.
SB 2.4.6 TRANSLATION
I beg to know from you how the Personality of Godhead, by His personal energies, creates these phenomenal universes as they are, which are inconceivable even to the great demigods.
CLASS NOTES:
FOR EVERY UNKNOWN THING, WE HAVE TO LEARN AND INQUIRE FROM A LEARNED PERSONALITY.
The question of creation is also one of such inquiries to be made to the right person. The spiritual master, therefore, must be one who is sarva-jña, as stated hereinbefore in connection with Śukadeva Gosvāmī. Thus all inquiries on God which are unknown to the disciple may be made from the qualified spiritual master, and here the practical example is set by Mahārāja Parīkṣit
MAHARAJ PRAIKSHIT ALREADY KNOWS THAT EVERYTHING WE SEE IS BORN OUT OF THE ENERGY OF THE LORD. SO, HE WANTED TO KNOW THE PROCESS OF CREATION.
It was, however, already known to Mahārāja Parīkṣit that everything we see is born out of the energy of the Lord, as we have all learned in the very beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (janmādy asya yataḥ). So Mahārāja Parīkṣit wanted to know the process of creation. The origin of creation was known to him; otherwise he would not have inquired how the Personality of Godhead, by His different energies, creates this phenomenal world. The common man also knows that the creation is made by some creator and is not created automatically.
WE HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN THE PRACTICAL WORLD WHERE A THING IS CREATED AUTOMATICALLY. MATERIAL ENERGY IS A MANIFESTATION OF ONE OF MANY SUCH ENERGIES OF THE SUPREME.
Foolish people say that creative energy is independent and acts automatically, as electrical energy works. But the intelligent man knows that even the electrical energy is generated by an expert engineer in the localized powerhouse, and thus the energy is distributed everywhere under the resident engineer’s supervision.
It is clearly said there that material energy is a manifestation of one of many such energies of the Supreme (parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate).
The so-called scholars and philosophers of the world may, by mental speculation, present so many utopian theories about the impersonal creation of the universe, but an intelligent devotee of the Lord, by studying the Bhagavad-gītā, can know that behind the creation is the hand of the Supreme Lord, just as in the generating electrical powerhouse there is the resident engineer.
The research scholar finds out the cause and the effect of everything, but research scholars as great as Brahmā, Śiva, Indra and many other demigods are sometimes bewildered by seeing the wonderful creative energy of the Lord, so what to speak of the tiny mundane scholars dealing in petty things.
As There Are Differences In The Living Conditions Of Different Planets Of The Universe, And As One Planet Is Superior To Others, The Brains Of The Living Entities In Those Respective Planets Are Also Of Different Categorical Values.
As stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, one can compare the long duration of life of the inhabitants of Brahmā’s planet, which is inconceivable to the inhabitants of this planet earth, to the categorical value of the brain of Brahmājī, also inconceivable to any great scientist of this planet. And with such high brain power, even Brahmājī has described in his great saṁhitā (Brahma-saṁhitā 5.1) as follows:
īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
“There are many personalities possessing the qualities of Bhagavān, but Kṛṣṇa is the supreme because none can excel Him. He is the Supreme Person, and His body is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. He is the primeval Lord Govinda and the cause of all causes.”
BRAHMĀJĪ ADMITS LORD KṚṢṆA TO BE THE SUPREME CAUSE OF ALL CAUSES. BUT PERSONS WITH TINY BRAINS WITHIN THIS PETTY PLANET EARTH THINK OF THE LORD AS ONE OF THEM.
Thus when the Lord says in the Bhagavad-gītā that He (Lord Kṛṣṇa) is all in all, the speculative philosophers and the mundane wranglers deride Him, and the Lord regretfully says:
“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be.” (Bg. 9.11)
PERSONS WITH A POOR FUND OF KNOWLEDGE DO NOT KNOW THIS, AND THEREFORE THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO DERIDE HIM BECAUSE HE COMES BEFORE US BY HIS CAUSELESS MERCY OCCASIONALLY AS A HUMAN BEING.
The Lord is not like a human being. He is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha or the Absolute Personality of Godhead, and there is no difference between His body and His soul. He is both the power and the powerful.
MAHĀRĀJA PARĪKṢIT DID NOT ASK HIS SPIRITUAL MASTER, ŚUKADEVA GOSVĀMĪ, TO NARRATE LORD KṚṢṆA’S PASTIMES IN VṚNDĀVANA; HE WANTED TO HEAR FIRST ABOUT THE CREATION OF THE LORD. ŚUKADEVA GOSVĀMĪ DID NOT SAY THAT THE KING SHOULD HEAR ABOUT THE DIRECT TRANSCENDENTAL PASTIMES OF THE LORD.
The time was very short, and naturally, Śukadeva Gosvāmī could have gone directly to the Tenth Canto to make a shortcut of the whole thing, as generally done by the professional reciters. But neither the King nor the great speaker of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam jumped up like the organizers of Bhāgavatam; both of them proceeded systematically so that both future readers and hearers might take lessons from the example of the procedure of reciting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Those who are under the control of the external energy of the Lord, or in other words those who are in the material world, must, first of all, know how the external energy of the Lord is working under the direction of the Supreme Personality, and afterward one may try to enter into the activities of His internal energy.
DURGĀ-DEVĪ IS BUT THE SHADOW ENERGY OF THE LORD.
The mundaners are mostly worshipers of Durgā-devī, the external energy of Kṛṣṇa, but they do not know that Durgā-devī is but the shadow energy of the Lord. Behind her astonishing display of material workings is the direction of the Lord, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (9.10). The Brahma-saṁhitā affirms that Durgā-śakti is working by the direction of Govinda, and without His sanction the powerful Durgā-śakti cannot move even a blade of grass. T
THE NEOPHYTE DEVOTEE, INSTEAD OF JUMPING AT ONCE TO THE PLATFORM OF TRANSCENDENTAL PASTIMES PRESENTED BY THE INTERNAL ENERGY OF THE LORD, MAY KNOW HOW GREAT THE SUPREME LORD IS BY INQUIRING ABOUT THE PROCESS OF HIS CREATIVE ENERGY.
In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta also, descriptions of the creative energy and the Lord’s hand in it are explained, and the author of Caitanya-caritāmṛta has warned the neophyte devotees to be seriously on guard against the pitfall of neglecting knowledge about Kṛṣṇa in regard to how great He is. Only when one knows Lord Kṛṣṇa’s greatness can one firmly put one’s unflinching faith in Him; otherwise, like the common man, even the great leaders of men will mistake Lord Kṛṣṇa for one of the many demigods, or a historical personality, or a myth only.
The transcendental pastimes of the Lord in Vṛndāvana, or even at Dvārakā, are relishable for persons who have already qualified themselves in advanced spiritual techniques, and the common man may be able to attain to such a plane by the gradual process of service and inquiries, as we shall see in the behavior of Mahārāja Parīkṣit.
This purport and verse are extremely important for us. Because we are trying to follow what it says. We are proceeding in a systematic way. This is the way to recite SB. It goes from beginning to 9 cantos before we hear the 10th canto. It gives us a chance to understand fully up to our limit.
Maharaj Parikshit is an examiner… is always trying to see Krsna. He knew that Krsna is the origin of everything, but not how. He is in front of Sukhdev Goswami spiritual master he wanted to ask and hear… Pariprasnena sevaye… Now we are learning how to become KC. History of SB teaches us who to be KC. It is a slow gradual procedure.. We should not jump to the intimate past times.. We become a joke… The workings of material nature has to be learned first… otherwise, we become victims… the laws of nature cannot be overcome..
Most people believe by scientific development human being becomes immortal
It is impossible to overcome material nature by material means. BG 7.14… Mama Maya duratyaya…
This is why modern education is dangerous, misleading, and is killer of the soul. There is no Krsna Katha in the universities.
There are 3 modes of material nature – goodness, passion, ignorance..
When you make a thread or rope you start with 3 strings… you twine them…you take 3 threads and make a rope… 3, 9, 27… the same way the 3 modes of material nature they get mixed that it is hard to untangle them…
Pa – Hard labor, struggle…
Pha – Phena – foam due to hard work
Bha – Bhaya – Fear
Ma – Entanglement that you cannot go
Modes of material nature is called guna… guna means rope… This is entanglement, struggle existence. You get caught up in the horrible way of life.. What happens when you have a human body and you waste human life just in sleeping, eating, mating, and defending…? One has to go through the 8.4 m species of life again…
Bitcoin – biggest fraud. Look at the anxiety people who bet on bitcoins go through…
KC is aPavarga… no hard work, no foaming, no entanglement, and no fear…
If we forget Krsna we are in APAVARGA… It is Durgajis realm…
(ISO Invocation) IF YOU WASTE YOUR HUMAN LIFE YOU WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE BIRTH AND DEATH IN THE 8.4 M SPECIES AGAIN.
Here is a chance you can become Kṛṣṇa conscious and make your life solve all problems. If not, then again go to the cycle of birth and death again, 8,400,000. It will take many, many millions of years again to come back. Just like the sunshine, you will see after twenty-four…, twelve hours, twenty-four hours, morning. Everything is a process. Process. So if you lose this opportunity of elevating yourself, then again you come to the process. Nature’s law is very strong. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī [Bg. 7.14]. The sooner you surrender to Kṛṣṇa, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te. Such a person is able to overcome this process of material nature.
The prayer of an atheist is “my only prayer is there is nothing after death…”
Everything in this nature moves in a cycle – BG 9.10 is very important… They say that there is only one energy – material energy, but it is one of the energies of the lord.
BG 9.10
mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ
sūyate sa-carācaram
hetunānena kaunteya
jagad viparivartate
This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, producing all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.
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