KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.6.31 TODAY (08/12/21):
- The material energy is a potency of the Lord which is displayed in time, accepting the three qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance in the forms of Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Śiva.
- The material energy thus works under the supreme spell of His Lordship, although He is always transcendental to all such material activities.
- A rich man constructs a big house by spending his energy in the shape of resources, and similarly he destroys a big house with his resources, but the maintenance is always under his personal care.
- The Lord is the richest of the rich because He is always fully complete in six opulences. Therefore He is not required to do anything personally, but everything in the material world is carried out by His wishes and direction; therefore, the entire material manifestation is situated in Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The impersonal conception of the supreme truth is due to lack of knowledge only, and this fact is clearly explained by Brahmājī, who is supposed to be the creator of the universal affairs.
- Brahmājī is the highest authority in Vedic wisdom, and his assertion in this connection is therefore the supreme information.
- The inquiries by Nārada Muni on the basis of factual cause and effect appear very reasonable. The atheists, however, put forward many self-made theories without any touch of cause and effect.
- The manifested world, as well as the spirit soul, is still unexplained by the godless atheists through the medium of experimental knowledge, although they have put forward many theories manufactured by their fertile brains.
- Contrary to such mental speculative theories of creation, Nārada Muni wanted to know all the facts of creation in truth, and not by theories.
- Transcendental knowledge regarding the soul and the Supersoul includes knowledge of the phenomenal world and the basis of its creation.In the phenomenal world three things are factually observed by any intelligent man: the living beings, the manifest world, and the ultimate control over them.
- The intelligent man can see that neither the living entity nor the phenomenal world are creations of chance.
- The symmetry of creation and its regulative actions and reactions suggests the plan of an intelligent brain behind them, and
- By genuine inquiry one may find out the ultimate cause with the help of one who knows them factually.
- By the covering power of the material energy, the material scientist cannot look beyond the material causes, but factually, behind the material manifestations, there are adhibhūta, adhyātma and adhidaiva actions, which the conditioned soul in the mode of ignorance cannot see.
- These are the material manifestations of cause and effect and the sense of responsibility of the conditioned actors. They are, after all, manifestations of the conditioned state, and the human being’s freedom from such a conditioned state is the highest perfectional attainment.
SB 2.6.31
All the material manifestations of the universes are therefore situated in His powerful material energies, which He accepts self-sufficiently, although He is eternally without affinity for the material modes.
The question put by Nārada before Brahmā concerning the sustenance of the material creation is thus answered. Material actions and reactions, as the material scientist can superficially observe, are not basically ultimate truth in regard to creation, maintenance and destruction. The material energy is a potency of the Lord which is displayed in time, accepting the three qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance in the forms of Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Śiva. The material energy thus works under the supreme spell of His Lordship, although He is always transcendental to all such material activities. A rich man constructs a big house by spending his energy in the shape of resources, and similarly he destroys a big house by his resources, but the maintenance is always under his personal care. The Lord is the richest of the rich because He is always fully complete in six opulences. Therefore He is not required to do anything personally, but everything in the material world is carried out by His wishes and direction; therefore, the entire material manifestation is situated in Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The impersonal conception of the supreme truth is due to lack of knowledge only, and this fact is clearly explained by Brahmājī, who is supposed to be the creator of the universal affairs. Brahmājī is the highest authority in Vedic wisdom, and his assertion in this connection is therefore the supreme information.
Krishna is self-sufficient. Krishna is the cause of effect. It is impossible to understand by the materialists that Krsn is the cause and is also the effect and yet he is not affected by anything. Even the so-called devotees who do not chant sincerely and hear regularly cannot understand this. Everything belongs to Krsna. This is another incomprehensible concept for many.
After many many births one can come to knowledge and can Understand that Krsna is everything. Such a great soul is very rare. “Bahunam janma namanthe….”
If suddenly your house is burnt.. All the furniture, upholstery, utensils, papers everything will get burnt. The rug under the feet is pulled away…you get affected.
This cause and effect is explained in SB and BG
(SB 2.5.2) Cause and Effect
My dear father, please describe factually the symptoms of this manifest world. What is its background? How is it created? How is it conserved? And under whose control is all this being done?
The inquiries by Nārada Muni on the basis of factual cause and effect appear very reasonable. The atheists, however, put forward many self-made theories without any touch of cause and effect. The manifested world, as well as the spirit soul, is still unexplained by the godless atheists through the medium of experimental knowledge, although they have put forward many theories manufactured by their fertile brains. Contrary to such mental speculative theories of creation, however, Nārada Muni wanted to know all the facts of creation in truth, and not by theories.
Darwin’s theory, Unified field theory, Big Bang Theory, Theory of evolution, Economic theories, Social theories..theory means are not verified in all cases. Scientists and philosophers only have theories.
Unified field theory is Krsna is the cause of everything. Everything is His energies – Internal, external and marginal theories.
Transcendental knowledge regarding the soul and the Supersoul includes knowledge of the phenomenal world and the basis of its creation.
- In the phenomenal world three things are factually observed by any intelligent man: the living beings, the manifest world, and the ultimate control over them.
- The intelligent man can see that neither the living entity nor the phenomenal world are creations of chance.
- The symmetry of creation and its regulative actions and reactions suggests the plan of an intelligent brain behind them, and
- by genuine inquiry one may find out the ultimate cause with the help of one who knows them factually.
SB 2.5.19
These three modes of material nature, being further manifested as matter, knowledge and activities, put the eternally transcendental living entity under conditions of cause and effect and make him responsible for such activities.
Krishna is both cause and effect. He is self-sufficient. We are completely dependant, hence the cause and effect is binding and bewildering us. We are victims of dualities of cause and effect/
Because they are between the internal and external potencies, the eternally transcendental living entities are called the marginal potency of the Lord. Factually, the living entities are not meant to be so conditioned by material energy, but due to their being affected (influenced) by the false sense of lording it over the material energy, they come under the influence of such potency and thus become conditioned by the three modes of material nature.
False ego is summarized as I me and mine.. You cant have this, this is mine, nothing is I me and mine and everything belongs to Krsna.
This external energy of the Lord covers up the pure knowledge of the living entity’s eternally existing with Him, but the covering is so constant that it appears that the conditioned soul is eternally ignorant. Such is the wonderful action of māyā, or external energy manifested as if materially produced. By the covering power of the material energy, the material scientist cannot look beyond the material causes, but factually, behind the material manifestations, there are adhibhūta, adhyātma and adhidaiva actions, which the conditioned soul in the mode of ignorance cannot see.
- the adhibhūta manifestation entails repetitions of births and deaths with old age and diseases,
- the adhyātma manifestation conditions the spirit soul, and
- the adhidaiva manifestation is the controlling system.
These are the material manifestations of cause and effect and the sense of responsibility of the conditioned actors. They are, after all, manifestations of the conditioned state, and the human being’s freedom from such a conditioned state is the highest perfectional attainment.
Mayavadis just reject everything. Vaishnavas are connecting everything with Krsna. Mayavadis philosophy is another theory is another philosophy that
We should be like Narada Muni, don’t tell any theories give me the facts.
Many other verses which explain the cause and effect –
SB 2.6.33
SB 2.5.19-25
SB 2.5.69-72
BG 5.10
BG 13.13, 13.5
Even Einstein, the smartest brain in this world, could not finish the unified theory.
With an “IF” you can put the entire city of paris into a wine bottle. IF is speculation.
If you break the law you are forcibly put in the jail. We are put in the material world like that.
Human form is meant for Yajna, Dana and Tapa.. It is not meant for sense gratification.
The biggest thing we have to give up is – This body is mine, children are mine, Aham mameti…
Unless you give up that concept of I, Mine, me…
Everything belongs to the Lord. Use everything in the service of the lord.
There are falsities in everything. Even the smartest in the world did not understand that God exists. He could not finish the unified field theory.
One time an Indian man asked – What if we assume there is no GOd. to SP. SP said just stop, this is nonsense. He stopped him from even asking the question.
Whenever you start a question with IF you dont know what you are talking about.