KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 3.1.20-21:
- Both the Kauravas and the Yādavas were relatives of Vidura, and Vidura heard of their extinction due to fratricidal war.
- In the greater forest of worldly transaction, the fire of war takes place because of the violent passion of the conditioned souls illusioned by the external energy.
- Such a worldly fire can be extinguished only by the water of the mercy cloud of saints, just as a forest fire can be extinguished only by rains falling from a cloud.
- What it means to be in the mode of goodness. 16 points for mode of goodness – Control of the mind and the senses, Tolerance, Discrimination, Sticking to one’s prescribed duty, Truthfulness, Mercy, Careful study of past and future (BG & SB& CC & NOD – all the understanding of vedanta sutra, mahabharata, puranas and the four vedas), Truthfulness and Mercy, Satisfaction in any condition, Generosity, Renunciation of sense gratification, Faith in spiritual masters (Siksha and Diksha guru), Charity, Simplicity, Humility.
- What is destroying culture (Sanatana Dhrama) today – Due to the Modern education, Social media, Television, Advertisement, the following are promoted – There is no God, Nothing after death, There is no absolute – everything is relative, Sense gratification is the purpose of life, Abortion – death with dignity, aid in dying, physician assited death, Gender neutrality… fluidity, LGBTQ & Transgender, Discussion in elementary schools about – sex orientation & sex education, Acceptance around the world – of planned parenthood – abortion – promoted by Margaret Sanger, False science – Big bang, Darwinism, Freud, Marx – socialism, communism, Atheism, Pornography made public, Feminism – Mixing and perverting the roles of gender – Amiya Srinivasan.. The right to sex, Internet and social media for social engineering and cultural change, Race bading in politics to divide the races – unfair use of statements of race to divide, Easy divorce – women in workforce, politics, me too, public approval, full blown women’s movement, activism, Me too movement.. Impersonalism – Ex: Hindutva by Deena Dayal Bandhu
- Materialistic Conception of life – The highest perfection of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is renunciation of the material conception of life. This state is automatically achieved by progressive Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
SB 3.1.20 TRANSLATION:
Thus, when he was in the land of Bhāratavarṣa traveling to all the places of pilgrimage, he visited Prabhāsakṣetra. At that time Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was the emperor and held the world under one military strength and one flag.
SB 3.1.21 TRANSLATION:
At the place of pilgrimage at Prabhāsa, it came to his knowledge that all his relatives had died due to violent passion, just as an entire forest burns due to fire produced by the friction of bamboos. After this he proceeded west, where the river Sarasvatī flows.
More than five thousand years ago, while Saint Vidura was traveling the earth as a pilgrim, India was known as Bhāratavarṣa, as it is known even today. The history of the world cannot give any systematic account for more than three thousand years into the past, but before that the whole world was under the flag and military strength of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, who was the emperor of the world. At present there are hundreds and thousands of flags flapping in the United Nations, but during the time of Vidura there was, by the grace of Ajita, Lord Kṛṣṇa, only one flag. The nations of the world are very eager to again have one state under one flag, but for this they must seek the favor of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who alone can help us become one worldwide nation.
SB 3.1.21 TRANSLATION:
At the place of pilgrimage at Prabhāsa, it came to his knowledge that all his relatives had died due to violent passion, just as an entire forest burns due to fire produced by the friction of bamboos. After this he proceeded west, where the river Sarasvatī flows.
Both the Kauravas and the Yādavas were relatives of Vidura, and Vidura heard of their extinction due to fratricidal war. The comparison of the friction of forest bamboos to that of passionate human societies is appropriate. The whole world is compared to a forest. At any moment there may be a flare-up of fire in the forest due to friction. No one goes to the forest to set it on fire, but due only to friction between bamboos, fire takes place and burns an entire forest. Similarly, in the greater forest of worldly transaction, the fire of war takes place because of the violent passion of the conditioned souls illusioned by the external energy. Such a worldly fire can be extinguished only by the water of the mercy cloud of saints, just as a forest fire can be extinguished only by rains falling from a cloud.
Vidura was very happy in his heart that Duryodhana insulted him. He left them and visited the holy places to purify himself from the contamination he had due to associating with people like Duryodhana..
We cannot become KC by having an easy laid back life..
Engaging in practical regular devotional service
Orienting all activities to Krsna Consciousness
Trained the people in cities to become KC
No obstacles to become Krsna Conscious today if one is willing to follow the process.
It requires – Lifestyle adjustment, initiation, regularly engaged in devotional service, being trained constantly in more and more skills of KC, like deity worship, sankirtan, preaching,
Four principles given by Srila Prabhupada –
Books are the basis, Preaching is the essence,,utility is the principle, purity is the force
path of least resistance,
How do we preach to muslims? – preach KC as you heard it,, if person is not willing to listen.. Then what do you do, spend more time with people who want to listen.. Than who are not willing to listen..
How do we become pure – strictly following regulative principles, chanting and gearing everyday..
The more you follow strictly the more you will be happy and peaceful
VOCAB – Segway
What it means to be in the mode of goodness. 16 points for mode of goodness
- Control of the mind and the senses
- Tolerance
- Discrimination
- Sticking to one’s prescribed duty
- Truthfulness
- Mercy
- Careful study of past and future (BG & SB& CC & NOD – all the understanding of vedanta sutra, mahabharata, puranas and the four vedas)
- Truthfulness and mercy
- Satisfaction in any condition
- Generosity
- Renunciation of sense gratification
- Faith in spiritual masters
- Charity
- Simplicity
- Humility
- Satisfaction in oneself
What is destroying culture (Sanatana Dhrama) today –
Modern education, Social media, Television, Advertisement, the following are promoted –
- There is no God
- Nothing after death
- There is no absolute everything is relative
- Sense gratification is the purpose of life
- Abortion – death with dignity, aid in dying, physician assited death,
- Gender neutrality… fluidity, LGBTQ & Transgender
- Discussion in elementary schools about – sex orientation & sex education,
- Acceptance around the world – of planned parenthood – abortion – promoted by Margaret Sanger
- False science – Big bang, darwinism, freud, Marx – socialism, communism
- Atheism
- Pornography made public
- Feminism – Mixing and perverting the roles of gender – Amiya Srinivasan.. The right to sex
- Internet and social media for social engineering and cultural change
- Race bading in politics to divide the races??? – unfair use of statement of race to divide
- Easy divorce – women in workforce, politics, me too, public approval, full blown women’s movement, activism, Me too movement..
- Impersonalism – worse of the worse.. Ex: Hindutva
Vow of marriage is the basis and social peace and equilibriu…. Children of divorced parents.. Are not trained and raised well and they create a havoc in the society.. Varna sankara…
Hindutva – Integral humanism..
Integral humanism was a set of concepts drafted by Deendayal Upadhyaya as a political program and adopted in 1965 as the official doctrine of the Jan Sangh and later BJP.[1] Upadhyaya borrowed the Gandhian principles such as sarvodaya (progress of all), swadeshi (domestic), and Gram Swaraj (village self rule) and these principles were appropriated selectively to give more importance to cultural-national values.[2]
Philosophy
It is opposed to both western capitalist individualism and Marxist socialism, though welcoming to western science.[4] It seeks a middle ground between capitalism and socialism, evaluating both systems on their respective merits, while being critical of their excesses and alienness.[5]
Four objectives of humankind
Humankind, according to Upadhyaya, had four hierarchically organized attributes of body, mind, intellect and soul which corresponded to the four universal objectives of dharma (moral duties), artha (wealth), kama (desire or satisfaction), and moksha (total liberation or ‘salvation’). While none could be ignored, dharma is the ‘basic’, and moksha the ‘ultimate’ objective of humankind and society. He claimed that the problem with both capitalist and socialist ideologies is that they only consider the needs of body and mind, and were hence based on the materialist objectives of desire and wealth.[6]
Rejection of individualism
Upadhyaya rejected social systems in which individualism ‘reigned supreme’. He also rejected communism in which individualism was ‘crushed’ as part of a ‘large heartless machine’. Society, according to Upadhyaya, rather than arising from a social contract between individuals, was fully born at its inception itself as a natural living organism with a definitive ‘national soul’ or ‘ethos’ and its needs of the social organism paralleled those of the individual.[6]
Origins
Advaita Vedanta
Upadhyaya was of the opinion that Integral Humanism followed the tradition of advaita developed by Adi Sankara. Non-dualism represented the unifying principle of every object in the universe, and of which humankind was a part. This, claimed Upadhyaya, was the essence and contribution of Indian culture.[7]
Mahatma Gandhi
Integral humanism is almost an exact paraphrase of Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of a future India. Both seek a distinctive path for India, both reject the materialism of socialism and capitalism alike, both reject the individualism of modern society in favor of a holistic, varna-dharma based community, both insist upon an infusion of religious and moral values in politics, and both seek a culturally authentic mode of modernization that preserves Hindu values.[8]
Integral humanism contains visions organized around two themes: morality in politics and swadeshi, and small-scale industrialization in economies, all Gandhian in their general thematic but distinctly Hindu nationalist. These notions revolve around the basic themes of harmony, primacy of cultural-national values, and discipline.[3][9]