KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.6.30:
- The daityas are devotees of the demigods because they want to derive the greatest possible material facilities from them.
- The devotees of the Lord are eka-niṣṭha, or absolutely attached to the devotional service of the Lord. Therefore they have practically no time to seek the benefits of material facilities. Because of their realization of their spiritual identity, they are more concerned with spiritual emancipation than with material comforts.
- The real constitutional position of the living entity is that of subordination to the Supreme Lord, who is pure knowledge.
- When one is deluded into separation from this pure knowledge, he becomes controlled by the illusory energy and cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The illusory energy is manifested in the duality of desire and hate. Due to desire and hate, the ignorant person wants to become one with the Supreme Lord and envies Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Pure devotees, who are not deluded or contaminated by desire and hate, can understand that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appears by His internal potencies, but those who are deluded by duality and nescience think that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is created by material energies. This is their misfortune.
- Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, “This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife.” These are the dualities of delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- One who learns these techniques of swimming over the ocean of nescience, he goes back to home, back to Godhead. The swimming process, according to Vedic instruction, is called sacrifice, charity and penance. One who does not take to this swimming process, he becomes drowned.
- In the Bhagavad-gita this is stated iccha dyesa samutthena . . . svarge yanti parantapa which means deluded by desire to enjoy the material world and becoming envious of Krishna, one comes to this material world. (Bhagavad-gita, 7/27). So read our literature profusely and you will get sufficient knowledge.
- As a father is always sorry for the son is out of home, similarly Krishna is not very happy on account of so many bewildered fallen souls in the material world. He therefore comes personally to ask them to surrender again to Him.
- But the conditioned soul is so much illusioned that it is very hard to make him surrender to Krishna. Therefore each and every one of us, if we can give service to Krishna by making another man surrender to Krishna, then He will very much appreciate that service and that is our gain. Try to follow this principle and preach vigorously to your best capacity and everything will be alright. Don’t worry.
SB 2.6.30
Thereafter, the Manus, the fathers of mankind, the great sages, the forefathers, the learned scholars, the Daityas and mankind performed sacrifices meant to please the Supreme Lord.
The daityas are devotees of the demigods because they want to derive the greatest possible material facilities from them. The devotees of the Lord are eka-niṣṭha, or absolutely attached to the devotional service of the Lord. Therefore they have practically no time to seek the benefits of material facilities. Because of their realization of their spiritual identity, they are more concerned with spiritual emancipation than with material comforts.
SP is making stak differentiation ber materially afflicted conditional devotees and the pure devotees who have no conditions in serving the lord. They are asking to please the lord.
The word devotee is a very exalted position.
Someone to become a pure devotee is a very rare thing.
“Manushyanam sahasreshu..kaschit… “ [ BG 7.3]
Most people if they do something they want either remuneration or recognition. For example a husband should dutifully serve his wife and children, even if their children and wife are not nice to him.
There is a sense of duty in devotion service and after a certain point it goes from regulated duty to spontaneous love for the lord. The love and devotion is even more savory to Krsna. By that Krsna naturally obliges and reciprocates with the devotee.
Spiritual identity – we are part and parcel of Krsna. We are an eternal soul, we cannot change that either.
We are liberated from the degrading effects of nervousness and hatred for the lord.
State of delusion – you believe something that is never true and based on that you act.
Example – Buying cigarettes and energy drinks, lottery tickets, beef jerkys, are these needed for the good of you, but still you buy…
BG 7.27
O scion of Bharata, O conqueror of the foe, all living entities are born into delusion, bewildered by dualities arisen from desire and hate.
Alternate Translation – (Letter to Upendra)
In the Bhagavad-gita this is stated iccha dvesa samutthena . . . svarge yanti parantapa which means deluded by desire to enjoy the material world and becoming envious of Krishna, one comes to this material world. (Bhagavad-gita, 7.27). So read our literature profusely and you will get sufficient knowledge
Famous story of liquid beauty – Young man approaches a beautiful woman and says he wants to marry her. The woman says you do not know who I am and why do you want to marry. She asks him to come back after a week. In that week she was throwing up and passing stool and collecting all that in the pit and she became weak and old. Beauty is skin deep. Skin is may be not even a quarter of an inch. Bhind the skin is the blood, veins, stool,… It is illusory. The guy came back and was shocked to see the lady and asked where is all the beauty and did not want to marry her.
Let’s say someone wants to say – “Today I don’t want to study anything BG, I want to watch super bowl, don’t want to chant, they want to miss their service, due to enviousness of Krsna and Themselves and attachment to sense gratification, they become like that that is not eka nishta.
Due to nervousness, they stop their service – Eka nishta – means one is very very dedicated to serving their lord. They cannot waste one minute without serving the lord.
The real constitutional position of the living entity is that of subordination to the Supreme Lord, who is pure knowledge. When one is deluded into separation from this pure knowledge, he becomes controlled by the illusory energy and cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The illusory energy is manifested in the duality of desire and hate. Due to desire and hate, the ignorant person wants to become one with the Supreme Lord and envies Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Everywhere people are competing with each other for sense gratification. Everywhere there is hatred. One political party hates another. Sometimes there is road rage, Sports team supporters they hate each other,.
Pure devotees, who are not deluded or contaminated by desire and hate, can understand that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appears by His internal potencies, but those who are deluded by duality and nescience think that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is created by material energies. This is their misfortune. Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, “This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife.” These are the dualities of delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Wow it is pretty heavy purport by SP, bit this is the truth. All you have to do is read the news you will see the many examples he is mentioning here. Unending competition for sense gratifications, When there is desire and if it is not fulfilled there is frustration – hatred, violence, verbal or physical.
Letter to Upendra –
As a father is always sorry for the son is out of home, similarly Krishna is not very happy on account of so many bewildered fallen souls in the material world. He therefore comes personally to ask them to surrender again to Him. But the conditioned soul is so much illusioned that it is very hard to make him surrender to Krishna. Therefore each and every one of us, if we can give service to Krishna by making another man surrender to Krishna, then He will very much appreciate that service and that is our gain. Try to follow this principle and preach vigorously to your best capacity and everything will be alright. Don’t worry.
SP message – to please Krsna go and preach and try and convince people to become devotees.
So far your question, the soul is fundamentally pure but he has an aptitude to come to the impure state of material contamination. He is therefore called tatastha or marginal. He has got the liberty of staying within the pure state or becoming contaminated. That is his choice. This marginal point can be understood in this way; just like you are standing on the shore of the sea. So you can remain on the land or sometimes you can jump into the water to enjoy as you will see on the beaches. So many young boys are enjoying. But that is dangerous at the same time. One who does not know swimming expertly well he may become drowned. Similarly the soul from the spiritual platform sometimes jumps over the material ocean of nescience. The Vedic knowledge gives him specific instruction how to swim over but if he is a rascal, he does not take the instruction through the bona fide representative, the spiritual master, and he becomes drowned. That is the position. The Vedic instruction is so nice that the soul, when he jumps over this material ocean, the Vedic instruction teaches him how to swim and come back again to the shore. This swimming process, according to Vedic instruction, is called sacrifice, charity and penance. One who learns these techniques of swimming over the ocean of nescience, he goes back to home, back to Godhead. One who does not take to this swimming process, he becomes drowned. In the Bhagavad-gita this is stated iccha dyesa samutthena . . . svarge yanti parantapa which means deluded by desire to enjoy the material world and becoming envious of Krishna, one comes to this material world. (Bhagavad-gita, 7/27). So read our literature profusely and you will get sufficient knowledge.
This was SP instructing a disciple who has many questions and doubts. Although he rendered a lot of service, that disciple fell down.
Being deluded by material attraction
We have to become Ekanistha – not interested in sense gratification. only interested in pleasing guru and krsna, then we are not trapped by dualities of desire and hatred.
Why did some of the disciples of SP fell down –
It starts with not following the regulative principles strictly and attentively…
When you do not follow the regulative principles strictly maya will enter, you will start becoming attracted to the glitter of the material world and we think we can be happier by breaking the rules than following. That puts an end to the devotional service. They can easily break the rules.
Any time even after you practice for 20 years when you are not attentive to the rules you will fall down. any inattentiveness can lead to a fall down. You have to be very detail oriented in the devotional service. They always stay in the association of the devotees who are also detail oriented to correct when a mistake is made. Others who are not into details they don’t want to get corrected and always associate with others who are like them. I dont point yours and you don’t point mine.
Parents who never correct their kids, kids grew up to become hippies, Spare the rod and spoil the child. Parent has the responsibility to correct the child and the guru has the responsibility to correct the disciple.
In the flights – you see these magazines with nice pictures.. telling you to go to a destination and attracting you to go to that place. Glitter of the Material sense gratification is like that.