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SB 3.1.19 Notes – 4/22/22

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 3.1.19:

  • The first and foremost duty of a pilgrim is to satisfy the Supreme Lord Hari. One should remain always absorbed in the function of pleasing the Lord. 
  • Thus sanctified by thought and action, one is able to realize the Supreme Lord by the process of a pilgrim’s journey.
  • So we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore it is our constitutional position to live with Kṛṣṇa. 
  • Take any example, any machine, the screw in the machine, a very insignificant part, but so long it is attached with the whole machine, it has got value. If one screw is lost, if you have to purchase from the market, you will have to pay some value. But the same screw, if it is not attached to the machine, it has no value. 
  • We are very insignificant spiritual spark. We are, by quality, the same because we are spirit, eternal. So we also do not die, we do not take birth. And Kṛṣṇa is also aja; we are also aja. 
  • But He is the Supreme. He is the chief leader of all living entities.
  • We require a leader. Any field of activities, we require a leader. So if we follow Kṛṣṇa, the supreme leader, then our life is successful. And if we do not follow… Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, “You rascal, you fool, mūḍha, you just follow Me. [Bg. 18.66]. This is the whole story of spiritual life.
  • So energy is controlled by the energetic. 
  • Suppose if you have got some energy, you can control it. Suppose if you have got very good energy to kill anyone or to hurt one or to beat anyone, good strength, but that strength is not beyond you. The strength is under your control. When you like, you can use it; when you do not like, you cannot use it, you do not use it.
  • Kṛṣṇa is not māyā’s, but māyā is Kṛṣṇa’s. 
  • We have to understand that way, not that Kṛṣṇa becomes enveloped or overpowered by māyā. That is wrong theory. The Māyāvādī theory is like that, that “I am Kṛṣṇa. I am God. Now I am overpowered by māyā, and as soon as I become free from māyā, again I become Kṛṣṇa.” But the question is that “If you are Kṛṣṇa, if you are God, then why you became under the control of māyā? What kind of God you are?” 
  • Just like in the English Constitution it is said that “The king can do no wrong.” So you cannot bring king under any law. Others will come—even if he is minister, he will come under the law—but the king cannot come under the law. This is the English Constitution. Similarly, God cannot be under māyā.

SB 3.1.19 TRANSLATION:

While so traversing the earth, he simply performed duties to please the Supreme Lord Hari. His occupation was pure and independent. He was constantly sanctified by taking his bath in holy places, although he was in the dress of a mendicant and had no hair dressing nor a bed on which to lie. Thus he was always unseen by his various relatives.

The first and foremost duty of a pilgrim is to satisfy the Supreme Lord Hari. While traveling as a pilgrim, one should not be worried about pleasing society. There is no need to depend on social formalities or occupation or dress. One should remain always absorbed in the function of pleasing the Lord. Thus sanctified by thought and action, one is able to realize the Supreme Lord by the process of a pilgrim’s journey.

One has to disassociate oneself from the social problems, family problems, worldly problemset.c., once has to be on the platform of KC all the time. 

What we are prepared here is – Ideal lifestyle of  Vidura.. He tried helping his family.. And when there were going crazy he left them all and 

Anyone who does not believe in God is crazy.. Disney movies, starting from Kindergarten.. 

You cannot trust anybody.. Even Disney is becoming family adverse.. Trying to destroy the purity of the children.. In having cartoons.. Socially engineer the next generation of people.. 

To become friendly to perversity.. 

SB 3.26.15

Bombay, December 24, 1974

So we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore it is our constitutional position to live with Kṛṣṇa. Just like the part and parcel of my body, this finger. Finger is the part and parcel of my body. It must live with the body; then it is active. And if you cut the finger and throw on the ground, you may call, “It is finger,” but it is useless. Unless it is in contact with the body, acting with the body… Then it is valuable. Take any example, any machine, the screw in the machine, a very insignificant part, but so long it is attached with the whole machine, it has got value. If one screw is lost, if you have to purchase from the market, you will have to pay some value. But the same screw, if it is not attached to the machine, it has no value. 

People are cutting themselves off from Krsna.. In India there are so many atheists..

We are useless if we are not acting as the part and parcel of Krsna.. serving Krsna… We will have perverted ideas..

If we have to make an agreement with someone we have to write it down, notarized.. Legally. 

People are walking around preaching atheism.. If we follow them we become useless.. 

This war in Ukraine.. Is completely a waste.. The USA is mandating Ukraine through Nato. 

Crazy idea is to expand Nato right upto the border of Russia. 

The US took advantage when the Soviet Union collapsed. The USA was the only superpower.. The US started mandating things.. 

You want to know what someone is like – give them power. 

When SP left the planet – They started acting as acharyas, divided the world into 11 parts and started initiating ppl in those areas and they were not bother each other – 1977 – 1986,  They engaged in illicit sex, head cut off… obviously it looked like a disaster.. 

They imitated SP and did not follow him.. 

A clerk in Po can make you wait for a long time.. 

There is more bribery in the US than in India too.. It happens in the higher level 

HIllary is engaging in Treason and still is getting away.. 

CHEATING RELIGIONS – 

Body oriented churches — Armenian church in black neighborhood.. 

A black guy walked into the church.. They said it is not for you.. You should go to your church.. That is so race oriented. 

Russian orthodox church, Black muslims, ppl are willing to fight till the last minute.

Similarly, we are very insignificant spiritual spark. We are, by quality, the same because we are spirit, eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20]. Na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācit. So we also do not die, we do not take birth. And Kṛṣṇa is also: ajo ‘pi sann avyayātmā bhūtānām īśvaro ‘pi san. He is also aja; we are also aja. But He is bhūtānām īśvaraḥ. Bhūtānām, all the living entities, He is the Supreme. Nityo nityānām. Nityo nityānām. He is the chief, leader.

We require a leader. Any field of activities, we require a leader. Suppose for getting independence, we had to follow one leader, Mahatma Gandhi. Therefore for guidance we require a leader. And the supreme leader is Kṛṣṇa. So if we follow Kṛṣṇa, the supreme leader, then our life is successful. And if we do not follow… Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, “You rascal, you fool, mūḍha, you just follow Me.” Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. This is the whole story of spiritual life. Kṛṣṇa is the supreme leader. He is also a living being, He is also person like you and me, but He is ṣaḍ-aiśvarya-pūrṇa. Therefore He is called Bhagavān. We cannot be called Bhagavān because our power is very limited, not pūrṇa. Therefore we become saguṇa. Kṛṣṇa does not become saguṇa. The Māyāvāda theory, that God, when He incarnates, He becomes saguṇa, that is wrong theory. Here it is said that brahmaṇaḥ saguṇasya ha. Saguṇasya brahmaṇaḥ, these twenty-five elements, they cover him, that means the living entity who has come in this material world. But Kapiladeva or Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, He is not saguṇa; He is always nirguṇa. Nirguṇa guṇa ca. In… The Bhagavān says in the Bhagavad-gītā, “Although He is nirguṇa, but He is the controller of the guṇas.” Kṛṣṇa is not controlled. Mama māyā guṇamayī. Kṛṣṇa says, daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā [Bg. 7.14]. Mama māyā: “This māyā, this energy, is My energy.” So energy is controlled by the energetic. Suppose if you have got some energy, you can control it. Suppose if you have got very good energy to kill anyone or to hurt one or to beat anyone, good strength, but that strength is not beyond you. The strength is under your control. When you like, you can use it; when you do not like, you cannot use it, you do not use it.

Saguna Brahman – Living entity 

Nirguna Brahman – Krishna 

When SP preaches is talking about the philosophy.. 

Lord – Supreme energetic

Living entity – Subordinate energetic

Pyramids were made with people alone.. No machines

BG 4.6 

Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.

Therefore this māyā, this material world, saguṇa, that is also Kṛṣṇa’s energy. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā [Bg. 7.14]. Kṛṣṇa is not māyā’s, but māyā is Kṛṣṇa’s. We have to understand that way, not that Kṛṣṇa becomes enveloped or overpowered by māyā. That is wrong theory. The Māyāvādī theory is like that, that “I am Kṛṣṇa. I am God. Now I am overpowered by māyā, and as soon as I become free from māyā, again I become Kṛṣṇa.” But the question is that “If you are Kṛṣṇa, if you are God, then why you became under the control of māyā? What kind of God you are?” Just like in the English Constitution it is said that “The king can do no wrong.” So you cannot bring king under any law. Others will come—even if he is minister, he will come under the law—but the king cannot come under the law. This is the English Constitution. Similarly, God cannot be under māyā. Others, everyone under the…

BG 7.14 – is the solution to all problems

BG 18.66 – Surrender unto me abandon all cheating religions.. 

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SB 2.10.36 Notes – 3/10/22

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.10.36 :

  • One should be intelligent enough to know His activities in truth and not be biased to conclude that He descends to the material world by accepting a form created by material nature.
  • Although the forms and activities of the Lord appear to be the same as those of a conditioned soul, they are supernatural and impossible for the conditioned soul to do.
  • The Lord is never affected by the activities which He apparently performs by His different incarnations and personalities, nor does He have any desire to achieve success by fruitive activities. 
  • The Lord is full by His different potencies of wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation, and thus He has no reason for physical exertion like the conditioned soul. 
  • Therefore an intelligent person who can distinguish between the transcendental activities of the Lord and the activities of the conditioned souls is also not bound by the reactions of activities.
  • BG 4.6 – Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.
  • The Lord has spoken about the peculiarity of His birth: although He may appear like an ordinary person, He remembers everything of His many, many past “births,” whereas a common man cannot remember what he has done even a few hours before.
  • The Lord says that He appears in His own body. He does not change His body, as the common living entity changes from one body to another. 
  •  Kṛṣṇa appears in this material world in His original eternal form, with two hands, holding a flute. He appears exactly in His eternal body, uncontaminated by this material world.
  •  He never grows old like us, although He is the oldest person in the whole creation – past, present and future. Neither His body nor His intelligence ever deteriorates or changes. 
  • Lord Kṛṣṇa’s appearance and disappearance are completely different from that of any ordinary, common living entity, it is evident that He is eternal, blissful knowledge by His internal potency – and He is never contaminated by material nature. 
  • His appearance in His original eternal form is His causeless mercy, bestowed upon the living entities so that they can concentrate on the Supreme Lord as He is, and not on mental concoctions or imaginations, which the impersonalist wrongly thinks the Lord’s forms to be.
  • He is the Lord of all living entities because He performs wonderful and superhuman activities while He is on this earth. Therefore, the Lord is always the same Absolute Truth and is without differentiation between His form and self, or between His quality and body.
  • BG 2.47 – You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
  • Arjuna was advised by the Lord to fight as a matter of duty without attachment to the result. His nonparticipation in the battle is another side of attachment. Such attachment never leads one to the path of salvation. 
  • Any attachment, positive or negative, is cause for bondage. Inaction is sinful. Therefore, fighting as a matter of duty was the only auspicious path of salvation for Arjuna.

SB 2.10.36 TRANSLATION:

He, the Personality of Godhead, manifests Himself in a transcendental form, being the subject of His transcendental name, quality, pastimes, entourage and transcendental variegatedness. Although He is unaffected by all such activities, He appears to be so engaged.

Whenever there is a need of material creation, the transcendental Personality of Godhead accepts forms in the material world for creation, maintenance and destruction. One should be intelligent enough to know His activities in truth and not be biased to conclude that He descends to the material world by accepting a form created by material nature. Any form accepted from the material nature has its affection for everything done in the material world. A conditioned soul who accepts a material form for undergoing a certain term of material activities is subjected to the laws of matter. But here in this verse it is clearly stated that although the forms and activities of the Lord appear to be the same as those of a conditioned soul, they are supernatural and impossible for the conditioned soul. He, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is always unaffected by such activities. In the Bhagavad-gītā (4.14) the Lord says:

The Lord is never affected by the activities which He apparently performs by His different incarnations and personalities, nor does He have any desire to achieve success by fruitive activities. The Lord is full by His different potencies of wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation, and thus He has no reason for physical exertion like the conditioned soul. Therefore an intelligent person who can distinguish between the transcendental activities of the Lord and the activities of the conditioned souls is also not bound by the reactions of activities. The Lord as Viṣṇu, Brahmā and Śiva conducts the three modes of material nature. From Viṣṇu is born Brahmā, and from Brahmā is born Śiva. Sometimes Brahmā is a separated part of Viṣṇu, and sometimes Brahmā is Viṣṇu Himself. Thus Brahmā creates the different species of life all over the universe, which means that the Lord creates the whole manifestation either by Himself or through the agency of His authorized deputies.

Only when someone has given up the false hopes of succes in material life can understand this. 

Success in spiritual world is diametrically opposite to the success in material life. 

One of the first things that Brahma creates is – 5 types of ignorance to keep people flummoxed. To keep them convinced that they material concept of life is the truth.. 

  1. Envious of God
  2. Considering death to be ultimate – Andha Tamisra 
  3. Not knowing anything about soul  – 
  4. Illusioned by the bodily conception of life – I, me and mine syndrome – Moha 
  5. Crazily engaged in sense gratification -Maha moha

5 types of ignorance are being taught in the school in a subtle way, In movies, philosophical books, news, TV shows, Ads..  It is unbelievable. 

Kids are not supposed to interrupt elders when they are speaking and Kids have no business in talking about nonsense. 

Lots of news how to conquer death and not become old.. 

BG 4.6 

Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.

The Lord has spoken about the peculiarity of His birth: although He may appear like an ordinary person, 

  • He remembers everything of His many, many past “births,” whereas a common man cannot remember what he has done even a few hours before. If someone is asked what he did exactly at the same time one day earlier, it would be very difficult for a common man to answer immediately. He would surely have to dredge his memory to recall what he was doing exactly at the same time one day before. And yet, men often dare claim to be God, or Kṛṣṇa. One should not be misled by such meaningless claims. Then again, the Lord explains His prakṛti, or His form. Prakṛti means “nature,” as well as svarūpa, or “one’s own form.” 
  • The Lord says that He appears in His own body. He does not change His body, as the common living entity changes from one body to another. The conditioned soul may have one kind of body in the present birth, but he has a different body in the next birth. In the material world, the living entity has no fixed body but transmigrates from one body to another. The Lord, however, does not do so. Whenever He appears, He does so in the same original body, by His internal potency. In other words, Kṛṣṇa appears in this material world in His original eternal form, with two hands, holding a flute. He appears exactly in His eternal body, uncontaminated by this material world. Although He appears in the same transcendental body and is Lord of the universe, it still appears that He takes His birth like an ordinary living entity. 
  • And although His body does not deteriorate like a material body, it still appears that Lord Kṛṣṇa grows from childhood to boyhood and from boyhood to youth. But astonishingly enough He never ages beyond youth. At the time of the Battle of Kurukṣetra, He had many grandchildren at home; or, in other words, He had sufficiently aged by material calculations. Still He looked just like a young man twenty or twenty-five years old. We never see a picture of Kṛṣṇa in old age because He never grows old like us, although He is the oldest person in the whole creation – past, present and future. Neither His body nor His intelligence ever deteriorates or changes. Therefore, it is clear that in spite of His being in the material world, He is the same unborn, eternal form of bliss and knowledge, changeless in His transcendental body and intelligence. 
  • Factually, His appearance and disappearance are like the sun’s rising, moving before us and then disappearing from our eyesight. When the sun is out of sight, we think that the sun has set, and when the sun is before our eyes, we think that the sun is on the horizon. Actually, the sun is always in its fixed position, but owing to our defective, insufficient senses, we calculate the appearance and disappearance of the sun in the sky. And because Lord Kṛṣṇa’s appearance and disappearance are completely different from that of any ordinary, common living entity, it is evident that He is eternal, blissful knowledge by His internal potency – and He is never contaminated by material nature. 
  • The Vedas also confirm that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is unborn yet He still appears to take His birth in multimanifestations. The Vedic supplementary literatures also confirm that even though the Lord appears to be taking His birth, He is still without change of body. In the Bhāgavatam, He appears before His mother as Nārāyaṇa, with four hands and the decorations of the six kinds of full opulences. His appearance in His original eternal form is His causeless mercy, bestowed upon the living entities so that they can concentrate on the Supreme Lord as He is, and not on mental concoctions or imaginations, which the impersonalist wrongly thinks the Lord’s forms to be. The word māyā, or ātma-māyā, refers to the Lord’s causeless mercy, according to the Viśva-kośa dictionary. 
  • The Lord is conscious of all of His previous appearances and disappearances, but a common living entity forgets everything about his past body as soon as he gets another body. He is the Lord of all living entities because He performs wonderful and superhuman activities while He is on this earth. Therefore, the Lord is always the same Absolute Truth and is without differentiation between His form and self, or between His quality and body. A question may now be raised as to why the Lord appears and disappears in this world. This is explained in the next verse.

Shankaracharya stopped the worship of 365 deities  365 days. He limited to 5 deities. Mohammed limited to one. 

Diametrically 

Recalcitrant

Bewildered

Dredge 

Flummoxed

Unfathomable

Capricious

BG 2.47 

You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.

There are three considerations here: prescribed duties, capricious work, and inaction. Prescribed duties are activities enjoined in terms of one’s acquired modes of material nature. Capricious work means actions without the sanction of authority, and inaction means not performing one’s prescribed duties. The Lord advised that Arjuna not be inactive, but that he perform his prescribed duty without being attached to the result. One who is attached to the result of his work is also the cause of the action. Thus he is the enjoyer or sufferer of the result of such actions.

As far as prescribed duties are concerned, they can be fitted into three subdivisions, namely routine work, emergency work and desired activities. Routine work performed as an obligation in terms of the scriptural injunctions, without desire for results, is action in the mode of goodness. Work with results becomes the cause of bondage; therefore such work is not auspicious. Everyone has his proprietary right in regard to prescribed duties, but should act without attachment to the result; such disinterested obligatory duties doubtlessly lead one to the path of liberation.

Arjuna was therefore advised by the Lord to fight as a matter of duty without attachment to the result. His nonparticipation in the battle is another side of attachment. Such attachment never leads one to the path of salvation. Any attachment, positive or negative, is cause for bondage. Inaction is sinful. Therefore, fighting as a matter of duty was the only auspicious path of salvation for Arjuna.

False interpretation of Karma mimamsa – You work hard you will automatically get results for sure. This is a false premise. One should know that the ultimate result is Krsna. 

We have to learn to be satisfied with what Krsna has given us and live simple life. 

The results depend on –

Depends of Karma

Quality of the service – Example SP started with nothing 

Story of a SP devotee who is waiting to write a book with a friend so he can preach. Why write another book, when SP has already written all the books and all you need is any one of SP books to make devotes. 

Being Negligent in following the rules and regulations, Chanting, associating with and becoming too close to materialistic people, Becoming angry,, makes even the most senior and advanced devotees fall down.