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Srimad Bhagavatham Canto 2 notes for HH Harivilas Maharaj’s classes.

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SB 2.8.1 Notes – 11/10/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.8.1

  •  Devarṣi Nārada was directly instructed by Brahmājī, who was also directly instructed by the Supreme Lord; therefore the instructions imparted by Nārada to his various disciples are as good as those of the Supreme Lord.
  • It comes down from the Lord by disciplic succession, and this transcendental knowledge is distributed to the world by this descending process.
  • The disciplic succession which strictly follows the transcendental instruction is the bona fide chain of disciplic succession, and the test for such bona fide spiritual masters is that there should be no difference between the instruction of the Lord originally imparted to His devotee and that which is imparted by the authority in the line of disciplic succession.
  • Attentive and revarant hearing is very important.
  • To remain with family and children is no disqualification for spiritual advancement of life. That is not a disqualification, because after all, one has to take his birth from the father and mother. So all great ācāryas, great spiritual leaders, after all, they have come from father and mother.
  • Caitanya Mahaprabhu said – “Whether one is a brāhmaṇa, a sannyāsī or a śūdra—regardless of what he is—he can become a spiritual master if he knows the science of Kṛṣṇa.”]
  • gṛhamedhī means he has no higher ideas or higher understanding of spiritual life. Simply living with wife and children like cats and dogs, he is called gṛhamedhī. 
  • So there are volumes of literature, magazines, newspapers, they are hearing. But when you say, “Please come here. We are reciting Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Please hear,” they will not come. When you speak of God, then they are not ready to hear. 
  • “They do not know what is self-realization.” their vision is very poor. Why? They are thinking this body as self; therefore they are very poorly thoughtful.
  • They cannot understand that they are not this body. 
  • So what is their business, those who are blind to the ātma-tattvam? Nidrayā, sleeping. They waste their life by sleeping. Or they waste their time in sex life. 
  • Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was quested by Yamarāja, “What is the most wonderful thing in this world? Can you say?” Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira immediately replied – 
  • “Every moment, every second, every day, every night, there are so many hundreds and thousands of living entities, they are going to the temple of death, or dying.” “But one who is living, he is thinking that ‘I will not die. I will live for good.’ That is the most wonderful thing in this world.”
  • They are pramatta, they are mad after the struggle for existence, although they know nothing will exist; it has come just like a flash, and it will end like a flash. Then what is the actual platform of my life, my living condition, they do not inquire. They do not inquire. So gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām.

SB 2.8.1 TRANSLATION:

King Parīkṣit inquired from Śukadeva Gosvāmī: How did Nārada Muni, whose hearers are as fortunate as those instructed by Lord Brahmā, explain the transcendental qualities of the Lord, who is without material qualities, and before whom did he speak?

Devarṣi Nārada was directly instructed by Brahmājī, who was also directly instructed by the Supreme Lord; therefore the instructions imparted by Nārada to his various disciples are as good as those of the Supreme Lord. That is the way of understanding Vedic knowledge. It comes down from the Lord by disciplic succession, and this transcendental knowledge is distributed to the world by this descending process. There is no chance, however, to receive the Vedic knowledge from mental speculators. Therefore, wherever Nārada Muni goes, he represents himself as authorized by the Lord, and his appearance is as good as that of the Supreme Lord. Similarly, the disciplic succession which strictly follows the transcendental instruction is the bona fide chain of disciplic succession, and the test for such bona fide spiritual masters is that there should be no difference between the instruction of the Lord originally imparted to His devotee and that which is imparted by the authority in the line of disciplic succession. How Nārada Muni distributed the transcendental knowledge of the Lord will be explained in later cantos.

It will appear also that the Lord existed prior to the material creation, and therefore His transcendental name, quality, etc., do not represent any material quality. Whenever, therefore, the Lord is described as aguṇa, or without any quality, it does not mean that He has no quality, but that He has no material quality, such as the modes of goodness, passion or ignorance, as the conditioned souls have. He is transcendental to all material conceptions, and thus He is described as aguṇa.

False gurus say not to read any old books, they very cleverly discard the vedic literature. They give their own speculative theories as explanations to the vedic verses.. To support their own sense gratification.  This is going on all over the place. Claiming to be a God and building followers. They say Believing in vedic literature is fantasy and believing science is the truth.. 

Lot of emphasis on how to choose a bonafide spiritual master has been given in this purport.  

When Gandhi wrote commentary on BG he said the real purpose of BG is Non violence. That shows he did not understand BG. BG is all about justifiable violence. 

Krsna gives Arjuna the eyes to see the universal form. He knows that in future there will be many who claim that they are God. To dispose them the test is they should show the universal form and they should give the eyes to the disciple to give the eyes to see the form. 

In BG 10.8 Krsna says they  – He is the source of everything. But some Vaishnavas say that everything comes from Narayana. But that is not what Krsna says. It is also confirmed that Krsna is the source by Vyasdev and Sukhdev Goswami – who say “ Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya.. “ 

We can go through a gigantic list of people giving purport to BG.. which is mere speculation. It is a very rare thing to have a bonafide spiritual master. SP came and showed who was a bonafide spiritual master. SP presented everything as it is coming from disciplic succession. If we deviate and change even one word it is a mess.. It is a very serious mistake and will have a catastrophic consequence. Prabhupada would read his own books, and he said that I did not say that. Sometimes mistakes are made. How are the mistakes made, by not hearing attentively. 

Prabhupada once said in Moscow that we should wake up at 4 o’clock and chant our rounds. The translator said that we should wake up at 4 o’ clock  and chant our rounds in the shower. The translator made a mistake by not attentively hearing. Attentive and revarant hearing is very important. In college, if a student does not pay attention properly; those types of people usually fail their test. Because the questions are noit always from the books, but they will be from the classes. Students with straight A’s always listen attentively, and read their books, hence they do well. It is not just studying the book and passing the test. 

If you want to be a bonafide devotee the information in this purport is very important. For bonafide spiritual masters, there should be no difference between the instructions of the Lord originally imparted through the disciplic succession. This is very important information if you want to become a bonafide spiritual master. 

The Defect of Modern Civilization:

SP Lecture: SB 2.1.2-5 Montreal Oct 23, 1968

https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/681023sb-montreal/

So to remain with family and children is no disqualification for spiritual advancement of life. That is not a disqualification, because after all, one has to take his birth from the father and mother. So all great ācāryas, great spiritual leaders, after all, they have come from father and mother.

So without combination of father and mother, even there is no possibility of begetting a great soul. There are many instances of great souls like Śaṅkarācārya, Lord Jesus Christ, Rāmānujācārya.Even they had no very high hereditary title, still, they came out from the gṛhasthas, father and mother.

So gṛhastha, or the householder life, is not disqualification. We should not think it that only the brahmacārīs or the sannyāsīs, they can elevate to the spiritual platform, whereas those who are living with wife and children, they cannot. No. Caitanya Mahāprabhu has clearly stated in Caitanya-caritāmṛta that,

kibā vipra, kibā śūdra, nyāsī kene naya

yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā sei ‘guru’ haya

[“Whether one is a brāhmaṇa, a sannyāsī or a śūdra—regardless of what he is—he can become a spiritual master if he knows the science of Kṛṣṇa.”]

Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “It doesn’t matter whether a person is gṛhastha or a sannyāsī or a brāhmaṇa or not brāhmaṇa. It doesn’t matter. Simply if one is Kṛṣṇa conscious, if he is elevated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he is just,” I mean to say, “eligible to become the spiritual master.” Yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā sei guru haya [Cc. Madhya 8.128].

Tattva-vettā means one who knows about the science of Kṛṣṇa. That means fully Kṛṣṇa conscious. Sei guru haya. Sei means “he.” Guru means “spiritual master.” He doesn’t say that “One has to become a sannyāsī or a brahmacārī. Then he can…” No.

But here the word is used gṛhamedhī, not gṛhastha. Gṛhastha is not condemned. If one lives in regulative principle with wife and children, so that is not disqualification. But gṛhamedhī, gṛhamedhī means he has no higher ideas or higher understanding of spiritual life. Simply living with wife and children like cats and dogs, he is called gṛhamedhī. That is the difference between these two words, gṛhamedhī and gṛhastha.

So Śukadeva Gosvāmī said that gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām. “One who does not know anything about this family life or sex life”—family life, they have taken it as sex life, that’s all—”so they have many things to hear.” Śrotavyādīni rājendra nṛṇāṁ santi sahasraśaḥ [SB 2.1.2].

[Those persons who are materially engrossed, being blind to the knowledge of ultimate truth, have many subject matters for hearing in human society, O Emperor.]

Actually, you see. People are reading so many newspapers. In big country, big cities, there are big, big volumes of newspaper, magazines. They are very much eager to learn or to hear about the current news. So hearing means śrotavyādi.

So there are volumes of volumes’ literature, magazines, newspapers, they are hearing. But when you say, “Please come here. We are reciting Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Please hear,” they will not come. They will not come. This minus. When you speak of God, then they are not ready to hear.

But if you speak of dog, that “Here is a dog’s medicine. You can maintain a dog like this, and a dog can become fatty like this,” oh, it is very scientific [indistinct]. You see? So they are called gṛhamedhīs. So they have got many subject matter to hear, but they are not agreeable to hear only one thing—about God.

Why? Now, apaśyatām ātma-tattvam [SB 2.1.2]: “They do not know what is self-realization.” Apaśyatām, cannot see; their vision is very poor. Why? They are thinking this body as self; therefore they are very poorly thoughtful. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, in another place, it is stated, yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke [SB 10.84.13].

Every day we are experiencing that “I am not this body. The body is growing. I am still there.” There are so many instances. But we cannot understand that we are not this body. Apaśyatām ātma-tattvam. Ātmā means, the ātmā… There are various meanings of ātmā. Ātmā sometimes is meant indicating this body; ātmā is sometimes indicating this mind; ātmā is soul; and ātmā, Paramātmā, the Supreme Lord. Ātma-tattvam. Tattvam means truth, philosophy, or science.

So they do not know the science of ātmā, either take it body or mind. Generally, they take it as this body. So, so far body is concerned, there are so many departments: medical department and health department and… I do not remember. There are so many departments. All these departments of knowledge, they are practically on the basis of this body.

Then higher than this, ātmā, if you take it “mind,” there are psychological department, speculation department, philosophical department, so many departments, mind. Then intellectual department. But there is no department of the ātmā, of the soul. That is the defect of the modern civilization.

“They have no information of the real ātmā, of the real position, real background of all these activities. They do not see it.” Therefore they have got many subject matter to hear about this body, about this mind, about intellectual activities, and so many things.

But because they do not know that ātmā means the self—they do not know—therefore they have got many subject matter except this one, the soul, the subject matter of soul. Apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām [SB 2.1.2]. And why they are so much ignorant? “Because they have made home as the center of activities. They do not know; neither they are educated.

It is not their fault. The system of education is faulty. They do not give any education about the ātma-tattvam. They give education that about economic development, about technological understanding, about scientific understanding of the laws of nature, and so many other things, but there is no department of knowledge to understand what is soul.

Apaśyatām. Because they do not see, they do not know, therefore they are too much attached to this body, and this body means home. And home means wife. Wife means children. Children means money. Money means society. So many things. Yes.

First thing is that this material world is existing on sex attraction. And as soon as there is combination of sex, then the next attraction is for home, for land, for children, for society, for wealth, for bank balance, and so many things. Then extend it more, society to nationality, nationality to humanity, and go on increasing, but they are not ātma-tattvam. They are all gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām, extended selfishness.

Selfishness… Just like a dog. He knows simply about his body. He won’t allow another dog to come in his boundary. That is very poor selfishness. You extend it little more, human society. There is family, wife, children. That is also extended selfishness. Then you further extend it: you have got society or nationality, consciousness of nationality. That is also still further extended selfishness.

Similarly, you extend the same propensity humanity-wise. Because we are… There is a class of men, they are very much anxious to serve the human society. But they are not anxious to serve the animal society. The animal society may be killed for the satisfaction of the human society.

Therefore, unless you come to the point of ātmā, whatever extended selfishness there is, it is selfishness. There is no, I mean to say, broadmindedness. And broadmindedness, when you come to the platform of ātmā. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam [Īśo mantra 1]

When you come to the point of God, then you see, “Oh, everything belongs to God. Everything belongs to God. Here is an animal. Here is an animal; he also as good as I am, because he is also soul.” So ātma-tattvam to be discussed, but they are not prepared. Therefore gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām.

So what is their business, those who are blind to the ātma-tattvam? So that business is described in the next verse:

So their business is very nicely explained. What is that? Nidrayā, sleeping. Sleeping. Hriyate. They waste their life by sleeping. When? At night. Nidrayā hriyate naktam. Or they waste their time in sex life. At night there are two things.

One who has no advantage of sex life, he sleeps alone. And if he has got advantage of sex life, he enjoys. So at night they waste their life in this way. Nidrayā hriyate naktaṁ vyavāyena ca vā vayaḥ [SB 2.1.3]. In this way their life is being wasted.

I don’t wish to get birth again, or I want to stop birth. Janma-mṛtyu. I want to stop death. I want to stop disease. And I want to stop old age. These are the activities, material activities, struggling against. And I am thinking that “These soldiers, or this my body or my wife, my children, will protect me,” dehāpatya-kalatrādiṣv ātma-sainyeṣv asatsv api, although I am experiencing every day that they are asat, they will not exist.

What is the most wonderful thing in this world ? 

Just like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira was quested by Yamarāja, “What is the most wonderful thing in this world? Can you say?” Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira immediately replied. What is that? Ahany ahani lokānī gacchantīha yamālayam [Mahābhārata, Vana-parva 313.116]:

[Every day, hundreds and millions of living entities go to the kingdom of death. Still, those who are remaining aspire for a permanent situation. What could be more astonishing than this?]

“Every moment, every second, every day, every night, there are so many hundreds and thousands of living entities, they are going to the temple of death, or dying.” Ahany ahani lokānī gacchantīha yamālayaṁ śeṣāḥ sthāvaram icchanti. “But one who is living, he is thinking that ‘I will not die. I will live for good.’ That is the most wonderful thing in this world.”

Brahma Jignasa – 

Nobody is taking experience that “I will have to meet death. And what is next after death? What I was before my birth? Why I am here? Why I am struggling so hard? I want to be happy. I want to be peaceful. Why there is no peace? Why there is no happiness? Why these things? Why I am put into this…?”

These are called ātma-tattvam. These are called brahma-jijñāsā. If a man is not enlightened to this point of inquiring of this “What? What I am? Wherefore I am come? What is this world? What is this body? Why I am getting old? Why I am getting diseased?” So many “whys” there are. This is called brahma-jijñāsā.

But they are pramatta, they are mad after the struggle for existence, although they know nothing will exist; it has come just like a flash, and it will end like a flash. Then what is the actual platform of my life, my living condition, they do not inquire. They do not inquire. So gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām.

No one can speak like this..only pure devotee like Srila Prabhupada can talk like this. Lemming Syndrome. HIgh school students, most of them are like zombies.. Nonsense, mundane knowledge…. Is getting into them everyday.. 

What can we do  – first we have to cross the bridge and we have to convinced that this is the most important thing. Have to understand atma tattva. How do we get Atma tattva? We get atma tattva by coming to the class everyday. 

BG 13.8-12

the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease; 

Why are we forced? It is not a normal thing it is an evil. Atheists say that it is part of life. There is nothing after death. They push you go to after sense gratification. 

They are forced to repeat birth, death, old age and disease. 

The way to free yourself is to hear everyday.. 

People are committing suicide – Body, panic attacks, paranoid, drugs, It is a vicious cycle. Unless we understand that it is evil.. We will not try to come out of it/. Atheists says live to the fullest as there is only one life. 

“I did not say about Education, SP says and Bhakti Vinod Thakur said it.. I did not invent anything new.. “ Everyday there is something new and we are not making up. Prabhupada has written so much for deeper understanding of realization of this philosophy of krishna consciousness

did you ever notice the word evil in this verse? 

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SB 2.7.53 Notes – 11/09/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.53:

  • Those who are not completely free from the clutches of the Lord’s external energy should devoutly hear regularly about the activities of the Lord in relation with the external energy. They should not foolishly jump up to the activities of the Lord’s internal energy, falsely attracted by such activities as His rāsa-līlā. 
  • Factually the Lord’s activities in relation with the external energy and the internal energy are equally good. 
  • The cheap reciters of the Bhāgavatam are very much enthusiastic about the activities of the Lord’s internal potency, and the pseudodevotees, absorbed in material sense enjoyment, falsely jump to the stage of liberated souls and thus fall down deeply into the clutches of external energy.
  • A pure devotee of the Lord, therefore, must begin reading or hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the very beginning, and not from the Tenth Canto
  • We have several times been requested by some so-called devotees to take up the Tenth Canto immediately, but we have refrained from such an action because we wish to present Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as the science of Godhead and not as a sensuous understanding for the conditioned souls.
  •  By reading and hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as a scientific presentation, the conditioned souls will gradually be promoted to the higher status of transcendental knowledge after being freed from the illusory energy based on sense enjoyment.
  • All the sages and devotees of the Lord have recommended that the subject matter of art, science, philosophy, physics, chemistry, psychology and all other branches of knowledge should be wholly and solely applied in the service of the Lord. Art, literature, poetry, painting, etc., may be used in glorifying the Lord. 
  • Similarly, science and philosophy also should be applied in the service of the Lord. 
  • All “knowledge” not engaged in the service of the Lord is but nescience. 
  • Real utilization of advanced knowledge is to establish the glories of the Lord, and that is the real import. 
  • Scientific knowledge engaged in the service of the Lord, and all similar activities, are all factually hari-kīrtana, or glorification of the Lord.
  • Those who are entrapped by viṣṇu-māyā utilize advancement of knowledge for sense enjoyment. 
  • Unless one is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his material consciousness will oblige him to transfer from one body to another because he has material desires since time immemorial. 
  • The living entity, if he submits to the hearing from authoritative sources, will lose his long-cherished desire to dominate material nature, and gradually and proportionately, as he reduces his long desire to dominate, he comes to enjoy spiritual happiness. 
  • In a Vedic mantra it is said that as he becomes learned in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he proportionately relishes his eternal blissful life.

SB 2.7.53 TRANSLATION:

The Lord’s activities in association with His different energies should be described, appreciated and heard in accordance with the teachings of the Supreme Lord. If this is done regularly with devotion and respect, one is sure to get out of the illusory energy of the Lord.

Purport

The science of learning a subject matter seriously is different from the sentiments of fanatics. Fanatics or fools may consider the Lord’s activities in relation with the external energy to be useless for them, and they may falsely claim to be higher participants in the internal energy of the Lord, but factually the Lord’s activities in relation with the external energy and the internal energy are equally good. On the other hand, those who are not completely free from the clutches of the Lord’s external energy should devoutly hear regularly about the activities of the Lord in relation with the external energy. They should not foolishly jump up to the activities of the Lord’s internal energy, falsely attracted by such activities as His rāsa-līlā. The cheap reciters of the Bhāgavatam are very much enthusiastic about the activities of the Lord’s internal potency, and the pseudodevotees, absorbed in material sense enjoyment, falsely jump to the stage of liberated souls and thus fall down deeply into the clutches of external energy.

Some of them think that to hear about the pastimes of the Lord means to hear about His activities with the gopīs or about His pastimes like lifting the Govardhana Hill, and they have nothing to do with the Lord’s plenary expansions as the puruṣāvatāras and Their pastimes of the creation, maintenance or annihilation of the material worlds. But a pure devotee knows that there is no difference between the pastimes of the Lord, either in rāsa-līlā or in creation, maintenance or destruction of the material world. Rather, the descriptions of such activities of the Lord as the puruṣāvatāras are specifically meant for persons who are in the clutches of the external energy. Topics like the rāsa-līlā are meant for the liberated souls and not for the conditioned souls. The conditioned souls, therefore, must hear with appreciation and devotion the Lord’s pastimes in relationship with the external energy, and such acts are as good as the hearing of rāsa-līlā in the liberated stage. A conditioned soul should not imitate the activities of liberated souls. Lord Śrī Caitanya never indulged in hearing the rāsa-līlā with ordinary men.

In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the science of God, the first nine cantos prepare the ground for hearing the Tenth Canto. This will be further explained in the last chapter of this canto. In the Third Canto it will be more explicit. A pure devotee of the Lord, therefore, must begin reading or hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the very beginning, and not from the Tenth Canto. We have several times been requested by some so-called devotees to take up the Tenth Canto immediately, but we have refrained from such an action because we wish to present Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as the science of Godhead and not as a sensuous understanding for the conditioned souls. This is forbidden by such authorities as Śrī Brahmājī. By reading and hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as a scientific presentation, the conditioned souls will gradually be promoted to the higher status of transcendental knowledge after being freed from the illusory energy based on sense enjoyment.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Canto, Seventh Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Scheduled Incarnations with Specific Functions.”

Here is a non-equivocal explanation of why it is absolutely important to hear SB page by page and verse by verse and gradually come to the 9th canto and before hearing about the transcendental pastimes of the lord with gopis in 10th canto. 

SP says this KC movement is all about producing men of pure character. 

They are not at all by modes of material nature.. Especially passion and ignorance. The whole culture now is based on passion and ignorance. 

Diwali celebration nowadays  – food, new clothes, drinking alcohol.. No remembering of Lord Rama.. 

Science of Godhead – 

The sages of naimisharanya led by Suta Goswami and Saunaka.. They spent 1000 years trying to figure out what is the best way to help the people in Kaliyuga. Their final solution was to reading SB verse by verse page by page.. This is the solution for all the problems in Kali Yuga. 

SB 1.5.22 (all subject matters should be used in the service of the lord)

Learned circles have positively concluded that the infallible purpose of the advancement of knowledge, namely austerities, study of the Vedas, sacrifice, chanting of hymns and charity, culminates in the transcendental descriptions of the Lord, who is defined in choice poetry.

This perfection of life culminates in the realization of the Supreme Being, Viṣṇu. The śruti therefore directs that those who are actually advanced in learning should aspire for the service of Lord Viṣṇu. Unfortunately persons who are enamored by the external beauty of viṣṇu-māyā do not understand that culmination of perfection or self-realization depends on Viṣṇu. Viṣṇu-māyā means sense enjoyment, which is transient and miserable. Those who are entrapped by viṣṇu-māyā utilize advancement of knowledge for sense enjoyment. Śrī Nārada Muni has explained that all paraphernalia of the cosmic universe is but an emanation from the Lord out of His different energies because the Lord has set in motion, by His inconceivable energy, the actions and reactions of the created manifestation. They have come to be out of His energy, they rest on His energy, and after annihilation they merge into Him. Nothing is, therefore, different from Him, but at the same time the Lord is always different from them.

When advancement of knowledge is applied in the service of the Lord, the whole process becomes absolute. The Personality of Godhead and His transcendental name, fame, glory, etc., are all nondifferent from Him. Therefore, all the sages and devotees of the Lord have recommended that the subject matter of art, science, philosophy, physics, chemistry, psychology and all other branches of knowledge should be wholly and solely applied in the service of the Lord. Art, literature, poetry, painting, etc., may be used in glorifying the Lord. The fiction writers, poets and celebrated litterateurs are generally engaged in writing of sensuous subjects, but if they turn towards the service of the Lord they can describe the transcendental pastimes of the Lord. Vālmīki was a great poet, and similarly Vyāsadeva is a great writer, and both of them have absolutely engaged themselves in delineating the transcendental activities of the Lord and by doing so have become immortal. Similarly, science and philosophy also should be applied in the service of the Lord. There is no use presenting dry speculative theories for sense gratification. Philosophy and science should be engaged to establish the glory of the Lord. Advanced people are eager to understand the Absolute Truth through the medium of science, and therefore a great scientist should endeavor to prove the existence of the Lord on a scientific basis. Similarly, philosophical speculations should be utilized to establish the Supreme Truth as sentient and all-powerful. Similarly, all other branches of knowledge should always be engaged in the service of the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gītā also the same is affirmed. All “knowledge” not engaged in the service of the Lord is but nescience. Real utilization of advanced knowledge is to establish the glories of the Lord, and that is the real import. Scientific knowledge engaged in the service of the Lord, and all similar activities, are all factually hari-kīrtana, or glorification of the Lord.

KRsna is the unified field theory.. The science of Krsna is the real science. 

Science definition – the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Right there they are wrong, they are only accounting for one fourth of the creation. Science is always changing.. In real definition – science should be true in all circumstances and all times. 

SB is poetry… 

If we begin to understand where we are.. We were with Krsna originally and we voluntarily walked away.. Wonder how that happened? Any inattention in the execution of dev service can cause a fall down. 

Computer, technology.

BG 13.21 (God is the cause of our suffering)

Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world.

The different manifestations of body and senses among the living entities are due to material nature. There are 8,400,000 different species of life, and these varieties are creations of the material nature. They arise from the different sensual pleasures of the living entity, who thus desires to live in this body or that. When he is put into different bodies, he enjoys different kinds of happiness and distress. His material happiness and distress are due to his body, and not to himself as he is. In his original state there is no doubt of enjoyment; therefore that is his real state. Because of the desire to lord it over material nature, he is in the material world. In the spiritual world there is no such thing. The spiritual world is pure, but in the material world everyone is struggling hard to acquire different kinds of pleasures for the body. It might be more clear to state that this body is the effect of the senses. The senses are instruments for gratifying desire. Now, the sum total – body and instrument senses – is offered by material nature, and as will be clear in the next verse, the living entity is blessed or damned with circumstances according to his past desire and activity. According to one’s desires and activities, material nature places one in various residential quarters. The being himself is the cause of his attaining such residential quarters and his attendant enjoyment or suffering. Once placed in some particular kind of body, he comes under the control of nature because the body, being matter, acts according to the laws of nature. At that time, the living entity has no power to change that law. Suppose an entity is put into the body of a dog. As soon as he is put into the body of a dog, he must act like a dog. He cannot act otherwise. And if the living entity is put into the body of a hog, then he is forced to eat stool and act like a hog. Similarly, if the living entity is put into the body of a demigod, he must act according to his body. This is the law of nature. But in all circumstances, the Supersoul is with the individual soul. That is explained in the Vedas (Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.1.1) as follows: dvā suparṇā sayujā sakhāyaḥ. The Supreme Lord is so kind upon the living entity that He always accompanies the individual soul and in all circumstances is present as the Supersoul, or Paramātmā.

Why there are so many species – there are unlimited ways that people want sense gratification. They want to have it on the land in the water up in the air. And now Bezos wants to open a spa in the satellite.. In space. There are infinite ways of having sense gratification. People say Fish is healthy to eat.. But fish is the water filter.. Means you are eating the filter.. People are all confused.. 

There is a group of devotees in LA who were grouping together and reading the tenth canto. SP asked them to stop and not continue.. Gopibhava group.. Rasa panchadhyaya groups.. 

Right from birth a child must be trained in KC so they are armed to protect themselves. They will be shot down immediately if they are not trained. The whole culture is about producing the sense gratifiers. 

Factories, China and India have environmental catastrophes.. They are working hard producing junk products.. 

BG 13.22 (Imp verse to understand KC)

The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species.

SP in one of his last purports to SB before his leaving the body quotes this verse – BG 13.22.  Devotees should always associate with persons who are in transcendental goodness.

This verse is very important for an understanding of how the living entities transmigrate from one body to another. It is explained in the Second Chapter that the living entity is transmigrating from one body to another just as one changes dress. This change of dress is due to his attachment to material existence. As long as he is captivated by this false manifestation, he has to continue transmigrating from one body to another. Due to his desire to lord it over material nature, he is put into such undesirable circumstances. Under the influence of material desire, the entity is born sometimes as a demigod, sometimes as a man, sometimes as a beast, as a bird, as a worm, as an aquatic, as a saintly man, as a bug. This is going on. And in all cases the living entity thinks himself to be the master of his circumstances, yet he is under the influence of material nature.

Material existence – read books, internet, cell phone.. It is everywhere in all countries.. 

How he is put into such different bodies is explained here. It is due to association with the different modes of nature. One has to rise, therefore, above the three material modes and become situated in the transcendental position. That is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Unless one is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his material consciousness will oblige him to transfer from one body to another because he has material desires since time immemorial. But he has to change that conception. That change can be effected only by hearing from authoritative sources. The best example is here: Arjuna is hearing the science of God from Kṛṣṇa. HEARING – The living entity, if he submits to this hearing process, will lose his long-cherished desire to dominate material nature, and gradually and proportionately, as he reduces his long desire to dominate, he comes to enjoy spiritual happiness. In a Vedic mantra it is said that as he becomes learned in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he proportionately relishes his eternal blissful life.

Many kids say – it is boring to go to temple, play on computer, tik tok, social media, Because they are affected by maya very seriously.. Maya has attracted them with nonsense. Because their desires have become perverted.. 

To become part of the group they smoke.. Eventually they become big smokers.. 

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SB 2.7.51 & 52 Notes – 11/08/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.51 & 52:

  • The Bhāgavatam in a nutshell, spoken by the Personality of Godhead in about half a dozen verses, is the science of God, and it is the potent representation of the Personality of Godhead. 
  • Brahmājī received this science of Godhead from the Lord directly, and he handed over the same to Nārada, who in his turn ordered Śrīla Vyāsadeva to expand it. 
  • So the transcendental knowledge of the Supreme Lord is not mental speculation by the mundane wranglers, but is uncontaminated, eternal, perfect knowledge beyond the jurisdiction of material modes. 
  • The Bhāgavata Purāṇa is the direct incarnation of the Lord in the form of transcendental sound, and one should receive this transcendental knowledge from the bona fide representative of the Lord  in the chain of disciplic succession from the Lord to Brahmājī, from Brahmājī to Nārada, from Nārada to Vyāsa, from Vyāsadeva to Śukadeva Gosvāmī, from Śukadeva Gosvāmī to Sūta Gosvāmī. 
  • By placing King Parīkṣit in an awkward position, the incarnation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was created by the will of the Lord. 
  • Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu declared that Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the spotless sound representation of all Vedic knowledge and history.
  • Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam should be worshiped as respectfully as we worship the Lord. Thereby we can derive the ultimate blessings of the Lord through its careful and patient study. 
  • We can have all the transcendental light of the Supreme Brahman, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, from the recitation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, provided it is received through the medium of the transparent spiritual master.
  • Person Bhāgavatam is the self-realized bona fide spiritual master, and through him only can one understand the lessons of Bhāgavatam in order to receive the desired result.
  • One can derive from the study of the Bhāgavatam all benefits that are possible to be derived from the personal presence of the Lord. It carries with it all the transcendental blessings of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa that we can expect from His personal contact.
  • Unless one hears the science of Godhead from the bona fide representative of the disciplic succession, for one to understand the theme of the science of Godhead will be a difficult job.
  • It should never be heard from the professional Bhāgavatam reciters who earn their livelihood by gratifying the senses of the audience.
  • If a devotee is not intelligent enough to make progress on the path of self-realization but is sincere and devoted to the activities of devotional service, the Lord gives him a chance to make progress and ultimately attain to Him.
  • But even if a devotee does not take advantage of their literatures or of his spiritual master, if he is sincere in his devotional service he is helped by Kṛṣṇa Himself within his heart. So the sincere devotee engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot be without knowledge. The only qualification is that one carry out devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
  • No conditioned soul actually knows what is to be done and what is not to be done, but a person who acts in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is free to act because everything is prompted by Kṛṣṇa from within and confirmed by the spiritual master.
  • Krsna helps us from within as Caitya Guru and He expands Himself externally as Siksa Guru (as instructor) and diksa Guru (initiator). So the principle is that whatever you are instructed by the Caitya Guru internally may be confirmed by the instructor or initiator externally. Then your progress will be complete. 
  • Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the philosophy of devotional service and the scientific presentation of man’s relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. 
  • The ultimate goal of life is not to pass a life of irresponsibility like the animals and indulge in a polished way in the four animal principles, namely eating, sleeping, fearing and mating. For such a blind human society in the darkness of ignorance,
  • Everyone is hankering after happiness in life, but in this age the members of human society, blind as they are, do not have the proper vision that the Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of all happiness because He is the ultimate source of everything (janmādy asya yataḥ). 
  • Happiness in complete perfection without hindrance can be achieved only by our devotional relationship with Him. And it is only by His association that we can get free of distressful material existence.

SB 2.7.51 – 11/08/21

O Nārada, this science of God, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, was spoken to me in summary by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it was spoken as the accumulation of His diverse potencies. Please expand this science yourself.

ŚB 2.7.52 – 11/08/21
Please describe the science of Godhead with determination and in a manner by which it will be quite possible for the human being to develop transcendental devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead Hari, the Supersoul of every living being and the summum bonum source of all energies.

The Bhāgavatam in a nutshell, spoken by the Personality of Godhead in about half a dozen verses, which will appear ahead, is the science of God, and it is the potent representation of the Personality of Godhead. He, being absolute, is non different from the science of God, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Brahmājī received this science of Godhead from the Lord directly, and he handed over the same to Nārada, who in his turn ordered Śrīla Vyāsadeva to expand it. So the transcendental knowledge of the Supreme Lord is not mental speculation by the mundane wranglers, but is uncontaminated, eternal, perfect knowledge beyond the jurisdiction of material modes. 

BOOK INCARNATION OF THE LORD – 

The Bhāgavata Purāṇa is therefore the direct incarnation of the Lord in the form of transcendental sound, and one should receive this transcendental knowledge from the bona fide representative of the Lord in the chain of disciplic succession from the Lord to Brahmājī, from Brahmājī to Nārada, from Nārada to Vyāsa, from Vyāsadeva to Śukadeva Gosvāmī, from Śukadeva Gosvāmī to Sūta Gosvāmī. 

SB 1.3.28 (Science of God, Krsna is the original personality of Godhead)

All of the above-mentioned incarnations are either plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead. All of them appear on planets whenever there is a disturbance created by the atheists. The Lord incarnates to protect the theists.

This is a big science. This science is not in Islam, Judaism,… Only to little extent it is said in the Christianity.. As there is a messenger of the God a person.. 

The information about the lord is only there in SB and in very great detail. 

SB 1.3.40 (SB is Literary Incarnation of God)

This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the literary incarnation of God, and it is compiled by Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the incarnation of God. It is meant for the ultimate good of all people, and it is all-successful, all-blissful and all-perfect.

Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu declared that Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the spotless sound representation of all Vedic knowledge and history. There are selected histories of great devotees who are in direct contact with the Personality of Godhead. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the literary incarnation of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and is therefore nondifferent from Him. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam should be worshiped as respectfully as we worship the Lord. 

In all Muslim countries, the Hindus should not have deities, instead they should worship Srimad Bhagavatam. They should read Quran and also Srimad Bhagavatam. Sanatana Goswami, Rupa Goswami, Haridas Thakur were muslims. Haridas Thakur was born Muslim and rest of them were not. They knew parsi. They were able to convince the muslim leaders at that time to help  build the temple in Vrindavan.. Therefore if you are going to deal with people you have to know what they believe. Muslims have been in India 800 years, You have to understand what they believe. 

Thereby we can derive the ultimate blessings of the Lord through its careful and patient study. As God is all light, all bliss and all perfection, so also is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. We can have all the transcendental light of the Supreme Brahman, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, from the recitation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, provided it is received through the medium of the transparent spiritual master. Lord Caitanya’s private secretary Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī advised all intending visitors who came to see the Lord at Purī to make a study of the Bhāgavatam from the person Bhāgavatam. Person Bhāgavatam is the self-realized bona fide spiritual master, and through him only can one understand the lessons of Bhāgavatam in order to receive the desired result. One can derive from the study of the Bhāgavatam all benefits that are possible to be derived from the personal presence of the Lord. It carries with it all the transcendental blessings of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa that we can expect from His personal contact.

SB 1.18.31 (BG is the sound representative, SB is the literary incarnation)

By placing Arjuna and the Pāṇḍavas in frustration due to the intrigue of their cousin-brothers, the prelude of the Battle of Kurukṣetra was created by the Lord. This was to incarnate the sound representative of the Lord, Bhagavad-gītā. So by placing King Parīkṣit in an awkward position, the incarnation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was created by the will of the Lord. Being distressed by hunger and thirst was only a show, because the King endured much, even in the womb of his mother. He was never disturbed by the glaring heat of the brahmāstra released by Aśvatthāmā. The King’s distressed condition was certainly unprecedented. The devotees like Mahārāja Parīkṣit are powerful enough to forbear such distresses, by the will of the Lord, and they are never disturbed. The situation, in this case, was therefore all planned by the Lord.

Scriptures are not books they are incarnations of Krsna. Muslims also consider quran as not only sacred, they will burn somebody if they defile Quran.. 

The ripened fruit of the Vedic tree drops from one hand to another without being broken by falling suddenly from a high branch down to the earth. Therefore unless one hears the science of Godhead from the bona fide representative of the disciplic succession, as above mentioned, for one to understand the theme of the science of Godhead will be a difficult job.

Hearing is emphasized here more than reading. By reading you can come up with many false conclusions by reading SB. But If you hear it from genuine devotees and you ask questions, you can clear any doubts in your mind and end up with a correct understanding of SB and BG. 

SP was in Nellore and the hosts wanted to hear about Radha & Krishna they said –  We want you to tell us tonight about Radha and Krsna. You are Maha Bhagavat.. Describe Their past times. SP said He does not know. He said so because they wanted to titillate their senses by hearing those past times. They were not qualified. They wanted sense gratification. One has to be trained in the science of Krsna by reading all the first 9 cantos of SB before one hears or reads the 10th canto of SB which describe the transcendental loving affairs of the Lord. Atmavan manyate jagat.. One will project one’s own mundane concept of sex, become agitated and contaminated by it. One will not get purified by it. 

One will purify their senses by hearing SB from pure devotee.. 

It should never be heard from the professional Bhāgavatam reciters who earn their livelihood by gratifying the senses of the audience.

So we see how Krsna Himself refers to SB as the science of Godhead. We need to understand the real meaning of science.

True meaning of science – Science is the truth that is true in all places, all times and in all circumstances. 

Philosophy of devotional service is Pure devotion performed without any mixed motives. 

If you mix Clorox with Vinegar and you will die right away! Chlorine gas is produced and people will die. People die every year because of this. 

Knowledge is strength and ignorance is misery. 

ŚB 2.7.52 (Narada was instructed by his spiritual master to take the matter very seriously in a missionary spirit)

Please describe the science of Godhead with determination and in a manner by which it will be quite possible for the human being to develop transcendental devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead Hari, the Supersoul of every living being and the summum bonum source of all energies.

This verse is telling us that if you engage in devotional service without any material desire simply to please Krsna.. You should have understood BG, SB, the real purport of Vedas. SP explain in BG 10. 10, 11

BG 10.10 (Lord gives a change to one who is not able to make progress if they are sincere and devoted to the activities of Devotional service)

A person may have a bona fide spiritual master and may be attached to a spiritual organization, but if he is still not intelligent enough to make progress, then Kṛṣṇa from within gives him instructions so that he may ultimately come to Him without difficulty. The qualification is that a person always engage himself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and with love and devotion render all kinds of services. He should perform some sort of work for Kṛṣṇa, and that work should be with love. If a devotee is not intelligent enough to make progress on the path of self-realization but is sincere and devoted to the activities of devotional service, the Lord gives him a chance to make progress and ultimately attain to Him.

BG 10.11 (Dev service is the qualification to receive knowledge)

But even if a devotee does not take advantage of their literatures or of his spiritual master, if he is sincere in his devotional service he is helped by Kṛṣṇa Himself within his heart. So the sincere devotee engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot be without knowledge. The only qualification is that one carry out devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

If you come to the level of  pure devotional service with love and affection for Krsna.. Whether you are knowledgeable or not knowledgeable whether you are taking advantage of vedic knowledge or not doing it. As long as you are doing pure devotional service, Krishna will accept you and Krishna will instruct you from within (Paramatama), according to BG 18.58 verse it should be validated by the bonafide spiritual master without. 

BG 18.58 (Prompted from within by Krsna and confirmed by the spiritual master)

No conditioned soul actually knows what is to be done and what is not to be done, but a person who acts in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is free to act because everything is prompted by Kṛṣṇa from within and confirmed by the spiritual master.

SB 1.7.5 (From within and without)

Within the heart of every living being the Lord Himself as the Supersoul (Paramātmā) becomes the spiritual master, and from without He becomes the spiritual master in the shape of scriptures, saints and the initiator spiritual master.

Letter to Sivananda  May 21, 1969 (Siksha and Diksha gurus without)

He helps us from within as Caitya Guru and He expands Himself externally as Siksa Guru (as instructor) and diksa Guru (initiator). So the principle is that whatever you are instructed by the Caitya Guru internally may be confirmed by the instructor or initiator externally. Then your progress will be complete. Hope this will find you in good health. Thanking you once more.

DEVIL SPOKE VERSES TO MOHAMMED in QURAN, This raises a doubt in the validity of the quoran, Whatever is there in Quran samething is in the Tora,, Tora also depicts God as being mean.. Tora says God makes mistakes also.. Are these words spoken by God ? Did it ever say Krsna make a mistake. If he makes a mistake how can He be a God. 

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the philosophy of devotional service and the scientific presentation of man’s relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Prior to the Age of Kali there was no need for such a book of knowledge to know the Lord and His energies, but with the beginning of the Age of Kali human society gradually became influenced by four sinful principles, namely illegitimate connection with women, intoxication, gambling and unnecessary killing of animals. Because of these basic sinful acts, man gradually became forgetful of his eternal relation with God. Therefore man became blind, so to speak, to his ultimate goal of life. The ultimate goal of life is not to pass a life of irresponsibility like the animals and indulge in a polished way in the four animal principles, namely eating, sleeping, fearing and mating. For such a blind human society in the darkness of ignorance, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the torchlight to see things in proper perspective. Therefore it was necessary to describe the science of God from the very beginning, or from the very birth of the phenomenal world.

As we have already explained, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is so scientifically presented that any sincere student of this great science will be able to understand the science of God simply by reading it with attention or simply by regularly hearing it from the bona fide speaker. Everyone is hankering after happiness in life, but in this age the members of human society, blind as they are, do not have the proper vision that the Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of all happiness because He is the ultimate source of everything (janmādy asya yataḥ). Happiness in complete perfection without hindrance can be achieved only by our devotional relationship with Him. And it is only by His association that we can get free of distressful material existence. Even those who are after the enjoyment of this material world can also take shelter of the great science of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and they will be successful at the end. Nārada is therefore requested or ordered by his spiritual master to present this science with determination and in good plan. Nārada was never advised to preach the principles of Bhāgavatam to earn a livelihood; he was ordered by his spiritual master to take the matter very seriously in a missionary spirit.

SB was spoken to Brahma, Brahma to Narada, Narada to Vyasdeva, Vyasdeva to Sukhdev Goswami.. Sukh dev Goswami heard the nutshell verses but he expanded it.. 

Worshipping of SB is the deity worship.. It is an alternate way of doing deity worship. You have to ritually offer worship to SB and above all hear it.  You have to get along with Muslims,, goswamis were speaking, Urdu, Hindi, Parsi, Sanskrit. They were highly educated and they were able to get along with all kinds of people. Everybody liked them, they are extremely renounced.. If you drive around big cars, big houses and gold chains.. How did he get things, he has to be a sadhu and not a vishayi.. 

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SB 2.7.49 Notes – 11/01/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.49 TODAY (11/01/21):

  • The living entity is unborn and eternal. 
  • BG 2.30 – The living entity is not exhausted even though the material elementary body is vanquished.
  • As long as the living entity is in material existence, actions performed by him are rewarded in the next life, or even in the present life. 
  • In his spiritual life also actions are rewarded by the Lord by the five kinds of liberation. 
  • Even the impersonalist cannot achieve the desired merging into the existence of the Supreme without being favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. 
  • BG 4.11 – The Lord awards similar results, as one desires, in one’s present life. The living entities are given freedom to make their choice, and the Lord awards them accordingly.
  • The impersonalist, instead of speculating or meditating, can directly execute the routine devotional service of the Lord and thus easily obtain the desired goal.
  • BG 15.7 – The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind. 
  • Damodarastakam verse 4 – O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions, I do not pray to You for liberation, nor eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon. My only prayer is that Your childhood pastimes may constantly appear in my mind. O Lord, I don’t even want to know your features of Paramatma. I simply wish that Your childhood pastimes may ever be enacted in my heart.
  • Non violence – BG 13.8-12 – Nonviolence is generally taken to mean not killing or destroying the body, but actually nonviolence means not to put others into distress. People in general are trapped by ignorance in the material concept of life, and they perpetually suffer material pains. So unless one elevates people to spiritual knowledge, one is practicing violence. One should try his best to distribute real knowledge to the people, so that they may become enlightened and leave this material entanglement. That is nonviolence.
  • Creatio ex nihilo: the creation of matter. the position of christianity, islam and Judaism has been discussed.
  • Science of Krsna, Concept of Non Violence, What is killing if we are not killing the soul and only the body, Creation of matter from nothing, Modern education is actually ignorance.

SB 2.7.49 TRANSLATION:

The Personality of Godhead is the supreme master of everything auspicious because the results of whatever actions are performed by the living being, in either the material or spiritual existence, are awarded by the Lord. As such, He is the ultimate benefactor. Every individual living entity is unborn, and therefore even after the annihilation of the material elementary body, the living entity exists, exactly like the air within the body.

The living entity is unborn and eternal, and as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (2.30), the living entity is not exhausted even though the material elementary body is vanquished.

BG 2.30 

dehī nityam avadhyo ’yaṁ

dehe sarvasya bhārata

tasmāt sarvāṇi bhūtāni

na tvaṁ śocitum arhasi

O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body can never be slain. Therefore you need not grieve for any living being.

BG 2.12, BG 2.20, BG 2.30 – We are souls and are eternal 

As long as the living entity is in material existence, actions performed by him are rewarded in the next life, or even in the present life. 

Rewarded – good action – good result, bad action, bad result, but we are not liberated

Similarly, in his spiritual life also actions are rewarded by the Lord by the five kinds of liberation. 

Neutral relationship with the lord – Grass, trees, mountains,.. Plants, birds in goloka

Even the impersonalist cannot achieve the desired merging into the existence of the Supreme without being favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. 

No one gets anything unless Krsna sanctions it. He is the supreme Iswara, parameshwara. Whether good karma, bad karma or liberation.

It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (4.11) that the Lord awards similar results, as one desires, in one’s present life. The living entities are given freedom to make their choice, and the Lord awards them accordingly.

BG 4.11 (Lord rewards us)

ye yathā māṁ prapadyante

tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham

mama vartmānuvartante

manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ

As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.

Every sentence of the purport has sastric evidence.. We all have limited free will – we choose to follow Krsna or not follow Krsna. (BG 15.7)

BG 15.7 (Karma)

mamaivāṁśo jīva-loke

jīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ

manaḥ-ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi

prakṛti-sthāni karṣati

The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind. 

This explains karma.. The mistakes of the conditioned living being are explained in Damodarahstakam..  

Damodarastakam verse 3

Those superexcellent pastimes of Lord Krishna’s babyhood drowned the inhabitants of Gokula in pools of ecstasy. To the devotees who are attracted only to His majestic aspect of Narayana in Vaikuntha, the Lord herein reveals: “I am conquered and overwhelmed by pure loving devotion.” To the Supreme Lord, Damodara, my obeisances hundreds and hundreds of times.

Damodarastakam verse 4

O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions, I do not pray to You for liberation, nor eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon. My only prayer is that Your childhood pastimes may constantly appear in my mind. O Lord, I do not even want to know your feature of Paramatma. I simply wish that Your childhood pastimes may ever be enacted in my heart.

Devotee has no material desires… if you have a material desire you get entrapped by Maya. KC is the process of purifying the desires. It is impossible to eliminate the desires.
Modern education is actually ignorance. It just teaches people to be sense gratifiers. Maharaj asked Shanmukh what their friends talk about – Movies, Video games, Sports.. That is called sense gratification.. That is what they are meditating on all the time. What happens you will definitely be in this material world, always going to be struggling. 

Modern education is a curse – to be sense gratifiers the rest of your life. 

Christians – Daily devotionals, 24 hours devotion book, Jews have it, Muslims, have it.. They know about God. But they do not know the science of God. SP says this is the science of Krsna. 

Science of Krsna – science means what is true is in all frames of reference for all time. That is real science. What is true?  We are all subordinate to God. God has mutually contradictory activities. This is something that is not understood in other religions. Example – Krishna dancing with Gopis, Asking Arjuna to kill.. SP is presenting the Science of God. You have to read the whole SB to understand the science of God.  18,000 verse in SB. Verse a day – how many years – 50 years. You would have to spend a life time to learn the science of God. That is how complicated it is.. If you skip days, how are you going to understand this? We can never understand fully as Krsna is always expanding. It is acintya – simultaneously inconceivably one and different. We have 4 defects. The cheating propensity took place in islam, jainism, judaism. It can happen in Iskcon also, anyone who does not read SB everyday and discuss it is very easy to fall down. There are only 2 things Krsna and Maya. If you are not KC 24 hrs a day then some part of the day you are in Maya. This is science. One has to be absolutely pure, Always engage in dev service. Whether you are working, married..  There is the art of work, how you can direct everything you do in your life to Krsna. But even one material desire will destroy everything. What happens if you have hundreds of material desires? Pure dev service 24 hours a day, that was vedic culture previously.. In Ayodhya – everyone was focused on Rama. In Krsna’s time there everyone was focused on Krsna.. 

The impersonalist, instead of speculating or meditating, can directly execute the routine devotional service of the Lord and thus easily obtain the desired goal.

If you have material desires or spiritual desires, always only go to Krsna. The whole Govardhan pastime is to teach us not to worship demigods. There is no worship of Govardhan in vedas, that is what Krsna’s dad says.. But Krsna refutes and asks him to Worship Govardhan. The depth of realizations, the message  of the past time of Govardhan are fabulous, mind blowing and amazing, brilliant.  There is no difference between Krsna and Govardhan, Govardhan manifested this huge form and started honoring the prasadam with His hands.. And vrajas saw Him taking the boga.. Indra gets upset.. He gets puffed up.. But he finally get defeated. If you hear the prayers of Indra it is amazing. He did not doubt Krsn but he did not understand how a 7 year old can be more powerful than him. 

If you want to know who someone is, give them power.. Indra got puffed up, Brahma got puffed up, we get puffed up, But Krsna always prevails. He is parameshwara. 

What is actual Killing ? If we are not killing the soul and only killing the soul?

Non Violence – BG 13.8-12 – Nonviolence is generally taken to mean not killing or destroying the body, but actually nonviolence means not to put others into distress. People in general are trapped by ignorance in the material concept of life, and they perpetually suffer material pains. So unless one elevates people to spiritual knowledge, one is practicing violence. One should try his best to distribute real knowledge to the people, so that they may become enlightened and leave this material entanglement. That is nonviolence.

This is a very interesting purport. Explains things as they are. There are so many explanations of things as they are not. 

Questions of the origin of Living entities, origin of material nature for centuries. It was debated for thousands of years.. By many civilizations – ancient Greeks, other cultures, west of India..  and even in modern times. 

Many different aspects of those discussions are wrong. We can see how wrong people can be due to using their own logic and reasoning or borrowing the logic and reasoning from other cultures.. And not being associated with the pure devotees, they are unable to get the right answers for these enigmatic questions. 

Enigmatic – Difficult to interpret or understand. 

Kriyatni athanilo – God was created from nothing. Nothing comes from Nothing. 

Creation from NOthing – is the position of Christians, Islam, Jadaism. 

Creatio ex nihilo: the creation of matter

Creatio ex nihilo, in contrast to ex nihilo nihil fit, is the idea that matter is not eternal but was created by God at the initial cosmic moment.[13] In the second century a new cosmogony arose, articulated by Plotinus, that the world was an emanation from God and thus part of God. This view of creation was repugnant to Christian church fathers as well as to Arabic and Hebrew philosophers, and they forcefully argued for the otherness of God and his creation and that God created all things from nothing by the word of God.[14] The first articulation of the notion of creation ex nihilo is found in the 2nd century writing To Autocylus (2.10) authored by Theophilus of Antioch.[15] By the beginning of the 3rd century the tension was resolved and creation ex nihilo had become a fundamental tenet of Christian theology.[16] Theophilus of Antioch is the first post New Testament author to unambiguously argue for an ontological ex nihilo creation from nothing, contrasting it to the views of Plato and Lucretius who asserted clearly that matter was preexistent.[17]

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SB 2.7.47 – Part 3 Notes- 11/03/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.47 – Part 3 TODAY (11/03/21):

  • The relationship with the Lord is never broken; thus there is no grief and no fear. Such happiness is inexplicable by words, and there can be no attempt to generate such happiness by fruitive activities by arrangements and sacrifices.
  • The unbroken happiness exchanged with the Supreme Person, the Personality of Godhead as described in this verse, transcends the impersonal conception of the Upaniṣads.
  • In the Upaniṣads the description is more or less negation of the material conception of things, but this is not denial of the transcendental senses of the Supreme Lord.
  • The word śuddham indicates that the senses of the Personality of Godhead are not made of the material elements; they are all transcendental, free from all contamination of material identification. 
  • The liberated souls are not devoid of senses; otherwise there cannot be any reciprocation of unhampered spiritual happiness exchanged between them in spontaneous unbroken joy. 
  • All the senses, both of the Lord and of the devotees, are without material contamination.
  • They are beyond the material cause and effects. The illusory, material energy cannot work there, being ashamed before the Lord and His transcendental devotees. 
  • In the material world the sense activities are not without grief, but here it is clearly said that the senses of the Lord and the devotees are without any grief. 
  • There is a distinct difference between the material and spiritual senses. And one should understand it without denying the spiritual senses because of a material conception

SB 2.7.47 – 11/03/21

What is realized as the Absolute Brahman is full of unlimited bliss without grief. That is certainly the ultimate phase of the supreme enjoyer, the Personality of Godhead. He is eternally void of all disturbances and is fearless. He is complete consciousness as opposed to matter. Uncontaminated and without distinctions, He is the principle primeval cause of all causes and effects, in whom there is no sacrifice for fruitive activities and in whom the illusory energy does not stand.

SP describes this verse as  “this verse is all about the unlimited bliss without grief and it is an exposition of the unbroken happiness exchanged with Krsna”  – This verse is a very very special verse and purport. This verse is giving a window of view of the fifth dimension. There are 5 amazing dimensions of consciousness. This is explained in 13th chapter BG. BG 13.5 – called Brahma Pucham. 

BG 13.5 

As stated before, kṣetra is the field of activities, and there are two kinds of kṣetra-jña: the individual living entity and the supreme living entity. As stated in the Taittirīya Upaniṣad (2.5), brahma pucchaṁ pratiṣṭhā. There is a manifestation of the Supreme Lord’s energy known as anna-maya, dependence upon food for existence. This is a materialistic realization of the Supreme. Then, in prāṇa-maya, after realizing the Supreme Absolute Truth in food, one can realize the Absolute Truth in the living symptoms or life forms. In jñāna-maya, realization extends beyond the living symptoms to the point of thinking, feeling and willing. Then there is Brahman realization, called vijñāna-maya, in which the living entity’s mind and life symptoms are distinguished from the living entity himself. The next and supreme stage is ānanda-maya, realization of the all-blissful nature. Thus there are five stages of Brahman realization, which are called brahma puccham. 

This verse explains the Ananda maya – all blissful nature.. Unending bliss, with no grief and no fear.  It is not something based on plumbing. That is the description of the genitalia of people.. People think through this genitalia one can achieve some ecstasy. That is not how people can achieve ecstasy in the spiritual world.  Therefore hearing about Krsna’s loving pastimes with the Gopis  should not be done until one is free from the plumbing concept of sense gratification. It has nothing to do with that. What is this transcendental ecstasy? Well it is felt in the body in the spiritual body and not the material body. It is something connected through bodily movements of Krsna;s body, his eyelashes, smile, and different facial expressions. It could be in one sense like the facial and bodily expressions of BHaratanatyam dancers.. In the spiritual world, there is a spiritual body.. Spiritual senses. 

You will not get it through the plumbing.. Everyone wants the unending bliss but does not want to follow the process given to get there. 

As such, there is an unlimited flow of everlasting happiness, without the fear of its being broken as we have experienced here in the material world. The relationship with the Lord is never broken; thus there is no grief and no fear. Such happiness is inexplicable by words, and there can be no attempt to generate such happiness by fruitive activities by arrangements and sacrifices. But we must also know that happiness, unbroken happiness exchanged with the Supreme Person, the Personality of Godhead as described in this verse, transcends the impersonal conception of the Upaniṣads. 

The relationship with Krsna is never broken – We can walk away from Krsna. But HE never walks away from us. He is present as Paramatma in our heart and is always guiding us. Imagine living without grief and fear. These two things are omnipresent in the material world but not in the spiritual world. These statements in this paragraph are phenomenal.. 

Upanishads do not explain this unending bliss.. Nor is it there in the Bible or Quran.. Muslims do not agree that Jesus is the son of God, they just say he is a messenger. That is they believe cannot have children as he cannot have sex like man beings.  But that does not mean that GOD cannot have a son.  If you try to understand the supreme absolute truth with mundane logic  and reason. You will always make mistakes. Michael Angelo painted the God picture with wrinkles and grey hair. The pope told him. They do not have the correct understanding of supreme absolute truth.. Christians bury dead bodies. So there can be resurrection. Christianity has much more transcendetal stuff than Islam or Judaism.

Bin Laden’s body was thrown in the ocean. Dead bodies were wrapped in Pig skin and buried..

Anytime you say GOD cannot do this and do that then you made a mistake. 

The Television program of Maharaj – Salim and Sikh agreed that God does not have a body and does not have a son. Maharaj said – If you say God does not have Body then you are insulting God. 

In the Upaniṣads the description is more or less negation of the material conception of things, but this is not denial of the transcendental senses of the Supreme Lord. 

Atmavan manyate – you project your limitations to God. God is not like us at all. Material conceptions of life – Forgetfulness of Lord Krsna, everything that follows is ignorance. False hope of achieving material peace, happiness and love. They sugar coat it. Would you eat an ant? Would you eat chocolate covered ant.. You might eat it… This is the way they sell things. It is a trick.  This is the deception that is happening all the time.. 

Material conception of life – BOOKLET written by Maharaj??

Herein also the same is affirmed in the statement that the Supreme Lord is pure (śuddham). The word śuddham indicates that the senses of the Personality of Godhead are not made of the material elements; they are all transcendental, free from all contamination of material identification. And also the liberated souls are not devoid of senses; otherwise there cannot be any reciprocation of unhampered spiritual happiness exchanged between them in spontaneous unbroken joy. All the senses, both of the Lord and of the devotees, are without material contamination. They are so because they are beyond the material cause and effects, as clearly mentioned herein (sad-asataḥ param). The illusory, material energy cannot work there, being ashamed before the Lord and His transcendental devotees. In the material world the sense activities are not without grief, but here it is clearly said that the senses of the Lord and the devotees are without any grief. There is a distinct difference between the material and spiritual senses. And one should understand it without denying the spiritual senses because of a material conception

If the senses were only material it is not possible to transform or change them into spiritual things which they are not.  Our senses are transcendental. That is why it is possible to reagan functioning spiritual senses even in the material body..  Sanjaya is able to see what is happening in Kurukshetra.

Material world is also spiritual apara prakriti. It is Inferior spiritual energy. 

(https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/720808r1lon/)

They say that there is nothing after death. Everyday we are dying when we sleep. Then you wake up and you are there again. 

False promises of scientists – one day we will create an AI computer which loves or shows affection. 

Can the computer love someone, express affection? They can program the computer. Does that mean the computer loves you. All you need to do is to take the battery off the computer and it will no longer say the  love you phrases. Just like if there is no Sun then everything dies away. The sun has be pouring out unlimited energy 

The senses in the material world are surcharged with material ignorance. In every way, the authorities have recommended purification of the senses from the material conception. In the material world the senses are manipulated for individual and personal satisfaction, whereas in the spiritual world the senses are properly used for the purpose for which they were originally meant, namely the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord. Such sensual activities are natural, and therefore sense gratification there is uninterrupted and unbroken by material contamination because the senses are spiritually purified. And such satisfaction of the senses is equally shared by the transcendental reciprocators. Since the activities are unlimited and constantly increasing, there is no scope for material attempts or artificial arrangements. Such happiness of transcendental quality is called brahma-saukhyam, which will be clearly described in the Fifth Canto.

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SB 2.7.47  – Part 2 Notes – 11/02/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.47  – Part 2 TODAY (11/02/21):

  • The Supreme Lord is the Supreme Soul of everything, and therefore in the supreme conception affection is realized.
  • The conception of affection is due to the relationship of soul to soul. 
  • A father is affectionate to his son because there is some relationship of nearness between the son and the father. But that sort of affection in the material world is full of limitations. 
  • When the Personality of Godhead is met, the fullness of affection becomes manifested because of the reality of the affectionate relationship. 
  • He is not the object of affection by material tinges of body and mind, but He is the full, naked, uncontaminated object of affection for all living entities because He is the Supersoul, or Paramātmā, within everyone’s heart. 
  • In the liberated state of affairs, the full-fledged affection for the Lord is awakened.
  • Real affection – If someone teaches you how to stop suffering and attain an eternal body and go back to Godhead, then that is real affection. 
  • How Britishers destroyed the Faith and culture of India was discussed today.
  • Lord Macaulay was sent to report how Indians can be governed nicely. So he reported that if you keep the Indians as Indians, you will never be able to govern them, because they are superior. You make propaganda that they are inferior, and they will imitate you. 
  • Britishers simply made propaganda that “Whatever you have got in India, this is all allegory, fiction. These śāstras are nothing. But now you are learning from us England’s work in India. That is your real… You are becoming civilized now.
  •  This propaganda is the cause of India’s cultural falldown. “England’s work in India.” That was a compulsory reading book in the schools. And in that book, it was simply stated that “We are uncivilized and since the Britishers have come, we are becoming civilized.”
  • So the so-called Indian-educated, they took it seriously. Just like our Bon Mahārāja = English way of living, with fork and… Yes. He has taken it seriously. He is under impression, “Whatever is foreign.” In this way Indian culture was killed. 
  • The Muhammadans, they had no such idea. They wanted to rule over, that’s all. And the money was not going to outside. They were spending lavishly—in India. The money was in India, but these people, they’re dispersing all the money, jewels and everything valuable, outside India. So they became poverty-stricken, and culturally conquered. 

SB 2.7.47 – 11/02/21

What is realized as the Absolute Brahman is full of unlimited bliss without grief. That is certainly the ultimate phase of the supreme enjoyer, the Personality of Godhead. He is eternally void of all disturbances and is fearless. He is complete consciousness as opposed to matter. Uncontaminated and without distinctions, He is the principle primeval cause of all causes and effects, in whom there is no sacrifice for fruitive activities and in whom the illusory energy does not stand.

The Supreme Lord is the Supreme Soul of everything, and therefore in the supreme conception affection is realized. The conception of affection is due to the relationship of soul to soul. A father is affectionate to his son because there is some relationship of nearness between the son and the father. But that sort of affection in the material world is full of limitations. When the Personality of Godhead is met, the fullness of affection becomes manifested because of the reality of the affectionate relationship. He is not the object of affection by material tinges of body and mind, but He is the full, naked, uncontaminated object of affection for all living entities because He is the Supersoul, or Paramātmā, within everyone’s heart. In the liberated state of affairs, the full-fledged affection for the Lord is awakened.

The Supreme Lord is present as paramatma in everyone’s heart. What is real affection and the facsimile of real affection. What we are seeing here is not the real thing. It is just like a shadow.. The shadow indicates that there is a real thing somewhere. What we see here is the shadow perverted reflection. Whenever we see anything in relationship with Krsna we will see the new thing.  The affection between father and son is a bodily relationship. Under a state of illusion we only want ignorance. Most of the relations in the material world is body to body and not soul to soul. 

Without understanding the difference between body and soul there is no spiritual progress.  Inebrity – (Habitual intoxication) starts when one accepts the illusion as real. 

Real affection – If someone teaches you how to stop suffering and attain an eternal body and go back to Godhead, then that is real affection. 

Example – One person;s father passed away and his lesson to him before leaving his body, after living 80 years of life –  no one can take education from you and your family from you.  This is bodily instruction and it is false and not the Truth.

Education – Drona; Family – Bhishma – these are the greatest impediments for one to progress in a spiritual path. 

Tinges – color slightly.. SP is belittling to the extreme point. 

BG 13.8-12 – we are not against family

As for detachment from children, wife and home, it is not meant that one should have no feeling for these. They are natural objects of affection. But when they are not favorable to spiritual progress, then one should not be attached to them. The best process for making the home pleasant is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If one is in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he can make his home very happy, because this process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is very easy. One need only chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, accept the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Kṛṣṇa, have some discussion on books like Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and engage oneself in Deity worship. These four things will make one happy. One should train the members of his family in this way. The family members can sit down morning and evening and chant together Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. If one can mold his family life in this way to develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness, following these four principles, then there is no need to change from family life to renounced life. 

What is real knowledge? It is explained in BG 13.8-12. Real Knowledge is when one knows that the body is different from the Soul. There is a soul and supreme soul in every body and the relationship between the soul and the super soul.. Today they do not believe that there is a soul. “Psychology today” well written article by a man called Lanza.. He talks about the modern concept of soul..  “Soul is treated as a poetic synonym for the mind.  Soul can be learnt by studying the functioning of the soul… “What is wisdom – Vijnana – you understand the relation between atma and paramatma and understand that everything is coming from Krsna.. And engaging in devotional service is real wisdom. Definition of wisdom is so shallow and incomplete and SRILA PRABHUPADA defines words in his texts, 

TRANSCRIPT – (https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/720928mwla/)

Morning Walk LA 1972, LA

Prabhupāda: Yes, propaganda. That is the cause of India’s cultural falldown. These Britishers simply made propaganda that “Whatever you have got in India, this is all allegory, fiction. These śāstras are nothing. But now you are learning from us England’s work in India. That is your real… You are becoming civilized now.

Otherwise, you are in the utopia, and all these śāstras, throw it out.” Because that was Lord Macaulay’s policy.Lord Macaulay was sent to report how Indians can be governed nicely. So he reported that if you keep the Indians as Indians, you will never be able to govern them, because they are superior. You make propaganda that they are inferior, and they will imitate you, and then you can… That they did.

Jayatīrtha: The Indians would never be able to compete on the Britishers’ platform.

Prabhupāda: No. It was under the British rule, from the childhood they are subjected to the propaganda. We read one book, small book, by M. Ghose. The subject matter was “England’s work in India.” That was a compulsory reading book in the schools. And in that book, it was simply stated that “We are uncivilized and since the Britishers have come, we are becoming civilized.” This is the subject matter of that book, “England’s work in India.” So everything Indian… The Jawaharlal is the typical example—“Everything Indian is bad.” That was his philosophy. Gandhi was trying to get the Indians back to village. His philosophy was that these capitalists, they are exploiting these poor men, so all these poor men, they should go back to village and be satisfied with the village economy, not to come out. Actually that’s a very nice program. But as soon as Gandhi died, or he was killed, the whole program was changed—industrialization, and attract the poor man, and let them live in wretched condition of city life. Gandhi’s policy was to make them happy by agriculture in the village, produce their own cloth, not in the mill but in charka.

Jayatīrtha: Spinning wheel.

Prabhupāda: Spinning wheel, they were spinning thread. Simple life and moralist. No drinking of ghee… tea, no smoking, and raghupati rāghava rāja rāma. This was his program. Hindu-Muslim unity. But all his programs failed. He died very dissatisfied.

Jayatīrtha: Why did they fail?

Prabhupāda: Because his disciples, they had a different program. They wanted politics like the Western countries. They did not want… Just like all the politician, they do not want anything good for the people. They simply want to make some money for their expenses. That’s all. This is the whole policy of the modern diplomats and politicians. They do not know; you go to hell. Other way, in your country you see so many young men are frustrated.

HOW BRITISHERS BREAK DOWN INDIA 

https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/760803r2nmr

ROOM Conversation

Date: Aug. 3, 1976

Harikeśa: Tomatoes don’t grow in India?

Prabhupāda: No. It was imported. Because it was imported, they would not touch. These mill cloth, because they were imported, it would…, no gentleman will touch. No religious function would allow to use mill-made cloth. And so far medicine is concerned, they would never touch it. This is the difficulty. Then Macaulay sent a confidential report that if you want to keep Indians as Indian, you’ll never be able to do like that. Then they will gradually introduce all this nonsense—drinking tea, drinking wine. “You are uncivilized. Whatever British are doing, they are civilized way.” England’s work in India. And they were given facilities, those who were English-educated. In this way, they first of all tried to make the whole Indian population Anglici… Not possible to all. At least, those who are educated. So the so-called Indian-educated, they took it seriously. Just like our Bon Mahārāja = English way of living, with fork and… Yes. He has taken it seriously. He is under impression, “Whatever is foreign.” In this way Indian culture was killed. The Muhammadans, they had no such idea. They wanted to rule over, that’s all. And the money was not going to outside. They were spending lavishly—in India. The money was in India, but these people, they’re dispersing all the money, jewels and everything valuable, outside India. So they became poverty-stricken, and culturally conquered. 

Bon Maharaj  – the first disciple of BhaktiSiddhanta Saraswati Thakur..who was sent to London to preach. BSST funded him 700 rupees to go to London. He stayed there for 4 years and then came back not even making one disciple and then told BSST that his process did not work and insulted him. Bon Maharaj was the same level as Aurobindo. He was very sophisticated and was number 1 disciple until that disaster. He was very philosophical, highly educated in British education system.. That caused the failure.

People are thinking that there are no rules. That is how ignorant that people became. This is all due to Brahmanas not educating the masses. 

Meat eating is a norm mainstream for many Hindus. They attend muslim functions so they can get to eat meat. The culture got degraded. 

We are all having corruption due to the education we had, but by hearing everyday the corruption is decreasing. One has to be willing to do this.

Muslims are straight and they tell you.. But Britsh are very scary they got into the minds of Indians and destroyed the faith of the Indians in Scriptures and their culture.

BG 8.9 (Krsna is present as supreme soul in every living entity and atom)

As the Supreme, He can enter into the atom and into the heart of the smallest and control him as the Supersoul. Although so small, He is still all-pervading and is maintaining everything. By Him all these planetary systems are sustained. We often wonder how these big planets are floating in the air. It is stated here that the Supreme Lord, by His inconceivable energy, is sustaining all these big planets and systems of galaxies. The word acintya (“inconceivable”) is very significant in this connection. God’s energy is beyond our conception, beyond our thinking jurisdiction, and is therefore called inconceivable (acintya). Who can argue this point? He pervades this material world and yet is beyond it. We cannot comprehend even this material world, which is insignificant compared to the spiritual world – so how can we comprehend what is beyond? Acintya means that which is beyond this material world, that which our argument, logic and philosophical speculation cannot touch, that which is inconceivable. Therefore intelligent persons, avoiding useless argument and speculation, should accept what is stated in scriptures like the Vedas, Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and follow the principles they set down. This will lead one to understanding.

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SB 2.7.46 Notes -10/31/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.46 TODAY (10/31/21):

  • In the Bhagavad-gītā (18.66) the Lord asked Arjuna to surrender unto Him, and persons unwilling to do so question where God is and to whom they should surrender.
  • The answer is – The Personality of Godhead may not be present before one’s eyes, but if one is sincere in wanting such guidance the Lord will send a bona fide person who can guide one properly back home, back to Godhead. 
  • There is no need of material qualifications for making progress on the path of spiritual realization. 
  • BG 9.32 (everyone has a chance) – O son of Pṛthā, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth – women, vaiśyas [merchants] and śūdras [workers] – can attain the supreme destination.
  • In the devotional service of the Lord the only qualification required is surrender. Surrendering oneself is in one’s own hand. If one likes, he can surrender immediately, without delay, and that begins his spiritual life.
  • The association of those born in sinful families is not accepted by the higher classes. But the process of devotional service is so strong that the pure devotee of the Supreme Lord can enable people of all the lower classes to attain the highest perfection of life. 
  • This is possible only when one takes shelter of Kṛṣṇa. The word vyapāśritya means – one has to take shelter completely of Kṛṣṇa. Then one can become much greater than great jñānīs and yogīs.
  • The bona fide representative of God is as good as God Himself. Or, in other words, the loving representative of the Lord is more kind and more easy to approach.
  • A sinful soul cannot approach the Lord directly, but such a sinful man can very easily approach a pure devotee of the Lord.
  • If one agrees to put himself under the guidance of such a devotee of the Lord, he can also understand the science of God and can also become like the transcendental pure devotee of the Lord and thus get his liberation back to Godhead, back home for eternal happiness.
  • So realization of the science of Godhead and relief from the unnecessary, useless struggle for existence are not at all difficult for the willing candidate.
  • But they are very difficult for persons who are not surrendered souls but only simple, profitless speculators.
  • A person without Kṛṣṇa consciousness acts according to the concept of the material body and senses, but a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness acts according to the knowledge that the body is the property of Kṛṣṇa and should therefore be engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa.

SB 2.7.46 TRANSLATION:

Surrendered souls, even from groups leading sinful lives, such as women, the laborer class, the mountaineers and the Siberians, or even the birds and beasts, can also know about the science of Godhead and become liberated from the clutches of the illusory energy by surrendering unto the pure devotees of the Lord and by following in their footsteps in devotional service.

Sometimes there are inquiries as to how one can surrender unto the Supreme Lord. In the Bhagavad-gītā (18.66) the Lord asked Arjuna to surrender unto Him, and therefore persons unwilling to do so question where God is and to whom they should surrender. The answer to such questions or inquiries is given herein very properly. The Personality of Godhead may not be present before one’s eyes, but if one is sincere in wanting such guidance the Lord will send a bona fide person who can guide one properly back home, back to Godhead. There is no need of material qualifications for making progress on the path of spiritual realization. In the material world, when one accepts some particular type of service, he is required to possess some particular type of qualification also. Without this one is unfit for such service. But in the devotional service of the Lord the only qualification required is surrender. Surrendering oneself is in one’s own hand. If one likes, he can surrender immediately, without delay, and that begins his spiritual life. The bona fide representative of God is as good as God Himself. Or, in other words, the loving representative of the Lord is more kind and more easy to approach. A sinful soul cannot approach the Lord directly, but such a sinful man can very easily approach a pure devotee of the Lord. And if one agrees to put himself under the guidance of such a devotee of the Lord, he can also understand the science of God and can also become like the transcendental pure devotee of the Lord and thus get his liberation back to Godhead, back home for eternal happiness.

So realization of the science of Godhead and relief from the unnecessary, useless struggle for existence are not at all difficult for the willing candidate. But they are very difficult for persons who are not surrendered souls but only simple, profitless speculators.

It gives hope to everybody, it does not exclude anyone. The preexisting ideas in the mind will trigger a false or negative thoughts 

Women when they read this they dont like it. As they are tainted by the false conception of feminism.

Chip on your  shoulder.. Elementary school – false concepts.. to have an angry or unpleasant attitude or way of behaving caused by a belief that one has been treated unfairly in the past

How you do things is culture. 

Sleep is ignorance.. The more time you are in ignorance then it is hard to get out of it.. 

If you get trapped in the eating , sleeping, mating and defending? Then you will not have time and also desire for KC. 

 Siberians, or even the birds and beasts – all of them can get liberated. 

BG 9.32 (everyone has a chance)

O son of Pṛthā, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth – women, vaiśyas [merchants] and śūdras [workers] – can attain the supreme destination.

There is nothing wrong with this verse, but due to False education and prejudices people find faults in it. 

Pre existing ideas that are planted in mind – teachers, politicians, 

Devotee should not involve in politics..politics created hatred, enemies, animosity.

When in doubt ask your siksha and disksha gurus. 

Any idea that one gets has to be validated and checked with 

False ideas are being propagated – social media, movies, TV shows, … 

Inorder to be part of the social group – or not get ostricized kids succumb. 

Even the worst people can become the best – the secret is – association of pure devotees. 

Good Association, good gurus, good activities – stepping stones for success. 

If you get a false idea in your mind that can ruin your life. 

Who you are is defined by what you let into the 9 wholes in your body. 

The more the junk you put into to the body it spoils your blood. 

We have to be careful about what goes in our eyes and the ears. 

Bad association – your friendly Neighbors putting their trash into the house. After sometime you have to move out of the house. 

Trolling in the internet – manipulation..

It is clearly declared here by the Supreme Lord that in devotional service there is no distinction between the lower and higher classes of people. In the material conception of life there are such divisions, but for a person engaged in transcendental devotional service to the Lord there are not. Everyone is eligible for the supreme destination. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.4.18) it is stated that even the lowest, who are called caṇḍālas (dog-eaters), can be purified by association with a pure devotee. Therefore devotional service and the guidance of a pure devotee are so strong that there is no discrimination between the lower and higher classes of men; anyone can take to it. The most simple man taking shelter of the pure devotee can be purified by proper guidance. According to the different modes of material nature, men are classified in the mode of goodness (brāhmaṇas), the mode of passion (kṣatriyas, or administrators), the mixed modes of passion and ignorance (vaiśyas, or merchants), and the mode of ignorance (śūdras, or workers). Those lower than them are called caṇḍālas, and they are born in sinful families. Generally, the association of those born in sinful families is not accepted by the higher classes. But the process of devotional service is so strong that the pure devotee of the Supreme Lord can enable people of all the lower classes to attain the highest perfection of life. This is possible only when one takes shelter of Kṛṣṇa. As indicated here by the word vyapāśritya, one has to take shelter completely of Kṛṣṇa. Then one can become much greater than great jñānīs and yogīs.

Material life puts you in anxiety. In Internet kids are put through the anxiety by the trolls. 

Without knowledge of Krsna one will remain in struggle for existence.

Pushing for academic excellence – can ruin a kid 

What ruin kids – Internet, Social groups, 

Therefore it is very important to know what is real education. 

BG 5.10 

One who performs his duty without attachment, surrendering the results unto the Supreme Lord, is unaffected by sinful action, as the lotus leaf is untouched by water.

 In the Īśopaniṣad it is said that everything is related to the Supreme Brahman, or Kṛṣṇa, and thus everything belongs to Him only. One who knows perfectly well that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa, that He is the proprietor of everything and that, therefore, everything is engaged in the service of the Lord, naturally has nothing to do with the results of his activities, whether virtuous or sinful. Even one’s material body, being a gift of the Lord for carrying out a particular type of action, can be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is then beyond contamination by sinful reactions, exactly as the lotus leaf, though remaining in the water, is not wet. The Lord also says in the Gītā (3.30), mayi sarvāṇi karmāṇi sannyasya: “Resign all works unto Me [Kṛṣṇa].” The conclusion is that a person without Kṛṣṇa consciousness acts according to the concept of the material body and senses, but a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness acts according to the knowledge that the body is the property of Kṛṣṇa and should therefore be engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa.

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SB 2.7.43-45 Notes – 10/30/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.43-45 TODAY (10/30/21):

  • All the great devotees of the Lord, as mentioned above, who flourished in the past or present, and all the devotees of the Lord who will come in the future, are aware of the different potencies of the Lord along with the potency of His name, quality, pastimes, entourage, personality, etc.
  • And how do they know? Certainly it is not by mental speculation, nor by any attempt by dint of limited instruments of knowledge. 
  • In the Upaniṣads it is clearly said that the Supreme Personality of Godhead can never be known simply by working very hard and taxing the good brain, nor can He be known simply by mental speculation and jugglery of words. The Lord is knowable only by one who is a surrendered soul.
  • The fruitless spoiling of energy by pursuing the path of experimental knowledge must be given up. One should gain knowledge by surrendering unto the Lord and by acknowledging the authority of the persons mentioned in this verse. 
  • The Lord is unlimited and, by the grace of the yoga-māyā, helps the surrendered soul to know Him proportionately with the advance of one’s surrender.
  • Kṛṣṇa’s another name is caitya-guru. Caitya-guru means “the guru who is sitting within your heart.” Caitya-guru. But He does not speak to anyone. He speaks to everyone, but only the devotee can hear. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:
  • Unless you are a devotee, unless you are constantly engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, He will not speak to you. He speaks, but you cannot hear. You have no ears to hear Him. 
  • Unless there is mercy of Kṛṣṇa, there is no possibility of understanding Kṛṣṇa. By your these blunt material senses you cannot understand what is the name of Kṛṣṇa, nāmādi.
  •  When you are engaged in the loving service of the Lord, beginning with your tongue, sevonmukhe hi jihvādau, by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and taking prasādam, in this way, gradually, when you will be purified, you will understand what is Kṛṣṇa. He will reveal. Kṛṣṇa reveals. 
  • Nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yogamāyā-samāvṛtaḥ [Bg. 7.25]. For others, He is covered with yogamāyā’s curtain, but for the devotees, He is open.
  •  When Kṛṣṇa was present there were only a few people who could understand Him to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was manifest only to His devotees as the reservoir of all pleasure. But to others, to unintelligent nondevotees, He was covered by His internal potency.
  • If you simply study Veda, you will never be able to understand Kṛṣṇa. Therefore so many so-called Vedāntists, they do not know what is Kṛṣṇa. They consider Kṛṣṇa as ordinary human being. 
  • If you want to understand Kṛṣṇa in truth, then you will have to accept this process, bhakti. Kṛṣṇa never says that “By jñāna, by yoga, by karma you can understand.” No.
  • One should not sleep more than necessary, eat more than necessary and one should only have sex in marriage to beget nice children, Kṛṣṇa conscious children, according to śāstra, that sex life is not forbidden.
  • In this way we have to mold our life if we are actually interested to become free from this janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam

SB 2.7.43-45 TRANSLATION:

O Nārada, although the potencies of the Lord are unknowable and immeasurable, still, because we are all surrendered souls, we know how He acts through yoga-māyā potencies. And, similarly, the potencies of the Lord are also known to the all-powerful Śiva, the great king of the atheist family, namely Prahlāda Mahārāja, Svāyambhuva Manu, his wife Śatarūpā, his sons and daughters like Priyavrata, Uttānapāda, Ākūti, Devahūti and Prasūti, Prācīnabarhi, Ṛbhu, Aṅga the father of Vena, Mahārāja Dhruva, Ikṣvāku, Aila, Mucukunda, Mahārāja Janaka, Gādhi, Raghu, Ambarīṣa, Sagara, Gaya, Nāhuṣa, Māndhātā, Alarka, Śatadhanve, Anu, Rantideva, Bhīṣma, Bali, Amūrttaraya, Dilīpa, Saubhari, Utaṅka, Śibi, Devala, Pippalāda, Sārasvata, Uddhava, Parāśara, Bhūriṣeṇa, Vibhīṣaṇa, Hanumān, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Arjuna, Ārṣṭiṣeṇa, Vidura, Śrutadeva, etc.

All the great devotees of the Lord, as mentioned above, who flourished in the past or present, and all the devotees of the Lord who will come in the future, are aware of the different potencies of the Lord along with the potency of His name, quality, pastimes, entourage, personality, etc. And how do they know? Certainly it is not by mental speculation, nor by any attempt by dint of limited instruments of knowledge. By the limited instruments of knowledge (either the senses or the material instruments like microscopes and telescopes) one cannot even fully know the Lord’s material potencies, which are manifested before our eyes. For example there are many millions and billions of planets far, far beyond the scientist’s calculation. But these are only the manifestations of the Lord’s material energy. What can the scientist hope to know of the spiritual potency of the Lord by such material efforts? Mental speculations, by adding some dozens of “if’s” and “maybe’s,” cannot aid the advancement of knowledge — on the contrary, such mental speculations will only end in despair by dismissing the case abruptly and declaring the nonexistence of God. The sane person, therefore, ceases to speculate on subjects beyond the jurisdiction of his tiny brain, and as a matter of course he tries to learn to surrender unto the Supreme Lord, who alone can lead one to the platform of real knowledge. In the Upaniṣads it is clearly said that the Supreme Personality of Godhead can never be known simply by working very hard and taxing the good brain, nor can He be known simply by mental speculation and jugglery of words. The Lord is knowable only by one who is a surrendered soul. Herein Brahmājī, the greatest of all material living beings, acknowledges this truth. Therefore, the fruitless spoiling of energy by pursuing the path of experimental knowledge must be given up. One should gain knowledge by surrendering unto the Lord and by acknowledging the authority of the persons mentioned herein. The Lord is unlimited and, by the grace of the yoga-māyā, helps the surrendered soul to know Him proportionately with the advance of one’s surrender.

Yoga maya potencies – Sometimes revelaas Krsna and sometimes hides Krsna. She does this in the material world and spiritual world. Hence we should always pray Hiranmayena patrena.. ISO 15 & 16. We should not be dazzled by the BJ and we should know that is the illumination coming from the body of Krsna..

Source of everything – there is always a source,. The transcendental source of everything is Krsna’s body.. 

Highest knowledge – Krishna’s body, past times

What should be the study – KRSNA is the study for all of us. BG & SB by Krsna..should be studied everyday.. 

In kali yuga – People are lazy, forgetful, they think the more they sleep the more they are happy 

Lecture  – SB 2.1.3 (https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/731106sbdel)

If you want to know the Supreme, then you have to hear from Him. Just like about Kṛṣṇa, we have to hear from Him. Kṛṣṇa is speaking Bhagavad-gītā. Kṛṣṇa is speaking everything. All Vedic knowledge is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is speaking. How Kṛṣṇa is speaking? That is mentioned in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam = tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye [SB 1.1.1]. Kṛṣṇa spoke to Brahmā. Ādi-kavi means Brahmā. He spoke to him. But if somebody says, “Brahmā…, when Brahmā was born from the lotus flower, there was nobody there. So how he could hear from anybody?” therefore Bhāgavata says, tene brahma hṛdā. Hṛdā means “through the heart.” Through the heart he was educated. Therefore Kṛṣṇa’s another name is caitya-guru. Caitya-guru means “the guru who is sitting within your heart.” Caitya-guru. But He does not speak to anyone. He speaks to everyone, but only the devotee can hear. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:

teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ

bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam

dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ

yena mām upayānti te

[Bg. 10.10]

Unless you are a devotee, unless you are constantly engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, He will not speak to you. He speaks, but you cannot hear. You have no ears to hear Him. That is not possible. Kṛṣṇa is speaking. Just like Kṛṣṇa is speaking in the Bhagavad-gītā, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. It is open speaking, but who is hearing? Nobody is hearing. Nobody is hearing. They have got their own conception of life.

Secularism in India, is not supporting the country’s own  religion Hindusim, favors Islam and Chritianilty.. 

Example – Prof Nassir BIn is openly making a statement that India will be destroyed very soon.. Why is this happening all the time, because Brahmanas have degraded and not preaching the correct message of the vedic scriputures which is to know Krsna. 

Therefore, unless there is mercy of Kṛṣṇa, there is no possibility of understanding Kṛṣṇa. Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ [Cc. Madhya 17.136]. By your these blunt material senses you cannot understand what is the name of Kṛṣṇa, nāmādi.

Guest: [Hindi]

Prabhupāda: That’s all right. Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi.

[aside:] That’s all right. Why you are bothering?

Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ. In these blunt material senses you cannot understand what is this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. It requires purification of the senses, when you will understand what is Kṛṣṇa’s name, nāmādi, what is Kṛṣṇa’s form, what is Kṛṣṇa’s quality, what is Kṛṣṇa’s entourage, what is Kṛṣṇa’s pastime. You cannot understand. How you will be understanding? Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ. When you are engaged in the loving service of the Lord, beginning with your tongue, sevonmukhe hi jihvādau, by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and taking prasādam, in this way, gradually, when you will be purified, you will understand what is Kṛṣṇa. He will reveal. Kṛṣṇa reveals. Nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yogamāyā-samāvṛtaḥ [Bg. 7.25]. For others, He is covered with yogamāyā’s curtain, but for the devotees, He is open.

BG 10.12, BG 10.15, BG 18.76, BG 18.77, 18.78 – Arjuna is saying that KRsna is the Supreme personality of Godhead. Many places in BG Krsna, Arjuna and Sanjaya are saying that Krsna is the supreme.

BG 18.76: 

O King, as I repeatedly recall this wondrous and holy dialogue between Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, I take pleasure, being thrilled at every moment.

BG 18.77: 

O King, as I remember the wonderful form of Lord Kṛṣṇa, I am struck with wonder more and more, and I rejoice again and again.

BG 18.78

Wherever there is Kṛṣṇa, the master of all mystics, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality. That is my opinion. 


We have two weapons – Harinaam Sankirtan, Prasadam.. Once they get purified…. The third weapon is Hearing BG & SB everyday.. 

BG 7.25

I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My internal potency, and therefore they do not know that I am unborn and infallible.

It may be argued that since Kṛṣṇa was visible to everyone when He was present on this earth, how can it be said that He is not manifest to everyone? But actually He was not manifest to everyone. When Kṛṣṇa was present there were only a few people who could understand Him to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the assembly of Kurus, when Śiśupāla spoke against Kṛṣṇa’s being elected president of the assembly, Bhīṣma supported Him and proclaimed Him to be the Supreme God. Similarly, the Pāṇḍavas and a few others knew that He was the Supreme, but not everyone. He was not revealed to the nondevotees and the common man. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa says that but for His pure devotees, all men consider Him to be like themselves. He was manifest only to His devotees as the reservoir of all pleasure. But to others, to unintelligent nondevotees, He was covered by His internal potency.

This is the secret. Vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau [Bs. 5.33]. If you simply study Veda, you will never be able to understand Kṛṣṇa. Therefore so many so-called Vedāntists, they do not know what is Kṛṣṇa. They consider Kṛṣṇa as ordinary human being. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam [Bg. 9.11]. So the mūḍhas, the rascals, they cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. Only the devotees. Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ [Bg. 18.55]. If you want to understand Kṛṣṇa in truth, then you will have to accept this process, bhakti. Kṛṣṇa never says that “By jñāna, by yoga, by karma you can understand.” No.

[Bg. 18.55]

These things are…

So the gṛhamedhis, as I have described last night, they are not interested, gṛhamedhis. Apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām [SB 2.1.2]. Gṛheṣu gṛha-medhinām, those who are simply attached to this bodily conception of life, they are unable to see the truth. Apaśyatām ātma-tattvam. They cannot see. Their only business is… That is described here = nidrayā hriyate naktam.

[aside:] Yes, come if you like.

Their business is, these apaśyatām ātma-tattvam [SB 2.1.2], those who are blind, those who cannot see, the ātma-tattvam, “What I am,” such persons, what is their business occupation?

That is the distinction between devotee and nondevotee. A nondevotee, he is very much happy by sleeping. We have seen it practically in Western countries. You know very well. If they can sleep twenty-four, -five hours instead of twenty-four hours, they are very happy. They think that they are getting some profit. So sleeping is also pleasure, but for the devotees, for advanced devotees, just like Gosvāmīs in Vṛndāvana, śrī-rūpa-sanātana-bhaṭṭa-raghunātha, they conquered over sleeping. Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau. Vijitau, they conquered over sleeping. That is required. Just like Arjuna is addressed, “Guḍākeśa.” He conquered over sleeping. To conquer over sleeping is the success of life, not to be servant of sleeping. That is not required. That is for the conditioned soul. Nidrayā hriyate naktam. For conditioned soul… Therefore we have to practice.

Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau. Śrī-gaurāṅga-guṇānuvarṇane śraddhā-samṛddhy-anvitau, nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau cātyanta-dīnau ca yau. This is the description of the Gosvāmīs. Rūpa Gosvāmī used to sleep generally one and half hour only. And that is also sometimes not sleeping. That is the description in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta.

So to increase sleeping is no qualification. To decrease sleeping. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca sāmānyam etat paśubhir narāṇām [Hitopadeśa 25]. Eating, sleeping, sex life and defending, these business is meant for the animals. So we have got the animal portion of our life, because we are animals. Unless we come to the Kṛṣṇa consciousness point, we are simply animals. Those who are working on the bodily concept of life whole day and night, they are simply animals. Their business is to sleep as much as possible at night. Nidrayā hriyate naktam.

Otherwise, vyavāyena ca vā vayaḥ. Vyavāya. Vyavāya means sex. Two business at night = either sex indulgence or sleep. This is ātma-tattvam apaśyatām [SB 2.1.2]. Apaśyatām. Those who are awakened to the ātma-tattva, they will simply think, “How much time I have wasted.” That is… Avyartha-kālatvam [Cc. Madhya 23.18-19]. Avyartha kā… A devotee should be always alert whether he is wasting time or utilizing time. That is devotee’s business.

So this nidrayā hriyate naktam or vyavāyena ca vā vayaḥ, this is wasting life, wasting time. It should be minimized as far as possible. This is not required. This is the bodily necessities of life. And we have to come to the spiritual platform. We have to be engaged only in spiritual activities. But those who are not interested in self-realization, there must be some engagement. There are two things = Kṛṣṇa or māyā. Just like darkness and light. Where there is Kṛṣṇa there is no darkness. Kṛṣṇa sūrya-sama, māyā andhakāra [Cc. Madhya 22.31] = “Māyā is just like darkness, and Kṛṣṇa is just like sunlight.” So as soon as there is sunlight, there is no darkness. Just like this is night.

What does it mean, night? Means there is no sunlight. Sunlight is there in other part of this globe, but here there is no sunlight; therefore it is darkness. Similarly, as soon as we are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, there is māyā, immediately. Either māyā or Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you should understand that you are in māyā. And if you are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there is no māyā. Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te [Bg. 7.14]. These are the open description. Anyone who is fully surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, he has no māyā.

Now, this does not mean that we shall completely exclude sleeping. That does not… Just like Gosvāmīs. They were liberated person, but they were also sleeping. Because we have got this body, sleeping, rest, is necessary. But we cannot neglect this body. But not that, that we shall increase the necessities of life, increase the necessities of the body. That is… Rūpa Gosvāmī has given = nirbandhaḥ kṛṣṇa-sambandhe yuktaṁ vairāgyam ucyate [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.255]. We have to, I mean to say, mold our life in such a way. What is that? Anāsaktasya viṣayān yathārham upayuñjataḥ.

This is viṣaya. Viṣaya means this āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna [Hitopadeśa 25]. This is called viṣaya. Viṣaya does not mean one who is very rich man, he is viṣayī. No. Anyone, he may be very poor man, if he is attached to this eating, sleeping, mating and defending only, he is a viṣayī. The Locana dāsa Ṭhākura says, viṣaya chāṛiyā, se rase majiyā [Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nityānander Dayā 2]. One has to gradually give up, minimize, this viṣaya. Viṣaya means āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna. Viṣaya.

So Rūpa Gosvāmī gives the instruction, anāsaktasya viṣayān. Anāsakta. Anā…, means no attachment. Sleeping required, but not for attachment. Somebody is living for sleeping, and somebody is sleeping just to give rest to the body. Similarly, eating also. Eating is not prohibited. You have to eat, because you have got this body. But not that simply for eating I am living. This is called yukta-vairāgya.

Rūpa Gosvāmī says, anāsaktasya viṣa… Don’t be attached to the viṣaya, eating, sleeping, mating, that “I have to eat so much. I have to satisfy my palate. I have to eat this thing in the restaurant.” No. You eat simply just to keep your body fit, not extra. Atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś ca prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ [NoI 2]. Don’t eat more than it is required for maintaining your body. Similarly, don’t sleep more; as much as you require for maintaining your…

Don’t have sex life more than it is required. They are allowed. Just like Kṛṣṇa says that “Sex life which is not against religious principle, that is I am.” Sex life against religion, what is that? Avaidha-strī-saṅga. Avaidha, illicit sex life, that is against religious principle. Otherwise, to get married and to beget nice children, Kṛṣṇa conscious children, according to śāstra, that sex life is not forbidden. Kṛṣṇa says. So dharmāviruddhaḥ kāma aham, “Which is not against religious principle, that kāma, that kind of lust, I am.” But not for other purposes.

In this way we have to mold our life if we are actually interested to become free from this janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9], if we actually want to get free from the repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. That is our real problem. People do not understand that this is our real problem. They are simply engaged in some temporary problem. The real problem is that “Why I am dying? In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20] = ‘The soul does not die even after the destruction of this body.’ So why my body should be destroyed?” This is real inquiry. “Why… Can I not get a permanent body which will never be destroyed?” Yes. You’ll get. You will get. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9], Kṛṣṇa says. “You will get a permanent body. After giving up this body,” tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9], “you do not get again material body.” “Then where shall I go?” Mām eti: “You come to Me.” If you go back to home, back to Kṛṣṇa, then, as Kṛṣṇa has got eternal body, never to be destroyed, similarly Kṛṣṇa has got eternal body.

Don’t think that Kṛṣṇa has got a body like us. Just like Kṛṣṇa, when it was inquired by Arjuna, Kṛṣṇa said that “This Bhagavad-gītā philosophy I spoke first of all to the sun-god.” That you have calculated, it is about 400,000,000’s of years ago He said. How does He remember? That means He does not change His body. We, we forget, because just like in our last, past birth… Now I can remember not all, but some of my incidences of my life I remember. But I do not remember anything of my past life. Death means forgetting about the past life. So because I have changed my body, I have forgotten. But anyone who does not change his body, he does not forget. And that is the proof that Kṛṣṇa…, Kṛṣṇa’s body is not ordinary body. Anyone who thinks Kṛṣṇa as one of us, he is a mūḍha. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam [Bg. 9.11]. Because He comes just like a human being, we consider that He is also a human being.

So it is a great science. Therefore Parīkṣit Mahārāja inquired about Kṛṣṇa, and Śukadeva Gosvāmī is describing, and he immediately said, varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ [SB 2.1.1] = “Your question is very glorified.” Yad loka-hitam: “It will be…” Varīyān eṣa te praśnaḥ kṛto loka-hitaṁ nṛpa.

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SB 2.7.40 Note – 10/28/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.40:

  • Even if one is able to count such atomic particles or is able to roll up the sky like one’s bedding, even then one is unable to estimate the extent of the prowess and energy of the Supreme Lord. 
  • No one is equal to the transcendentally powerful Viṣṇu. He is omnipotent, and no one is equal to or greater than Him.
  • Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakur says – A conditioned soul has to act for double functions – namely for the maintenance of the body and again for self-realization. Social status, mental development, cleanliness, austerity, nourishment and the struggle for existence are all for the maintenance of the body. The self-realization part of one’s activities is executed in one’s occupation as a devotee of the Lord, and one performs actions in that connection also. 
  • One must perform these two different functions along parallel lines, because a conditioned soul cannot give up the maintenance of his body.
  • The proportion of activities for maintenance of the body decreases, however, in proportion to the increase in devotional service. 
  • As long as the proportion of devotional service does not come to the right point, there is a chance for an occasional exhibition of worldliness. But it should be noted that such worldliness cannot continue for long because, by the grace of the Lord, such imperfections will come to an end very shortly. 
  • Therefore the path of devotional service is the only right path. If one is on the right path, even an occasional occurrence of worldliness does not hamper one in the advancement of self-realization.”
  • In the cosmos of three-fourths energy of the Lord there is neither death nor fear, and one is full of the blissful life of happiness and knowledge.
  •  In order to award the highest benefit of human life, the varṇāśrama system trains the follower to adopt the vow of celibacy beginning from the order of brahmacārī
  • A householder attached to family life can easily give up such a life of sex indulgence if he has been trained in the principles of the life of a brahmacārī. 
  • Any form of religious principles in which the followers are trained to pursue the vow of celibacy is good for the human being because only those who are trained in that way can end the miserable life of material existence.  
  • Human life is distinguished from animal life due to its heavy responsibilities. Those who are cognizant of these responsibilities and who work in that spirit are called suras (godly persons), and those who are neglectful of these responsibilities or who have no information of them are called asuras (demons).  
  • The suras always aim at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu and act accordingly. Their ways are as illuminated as the path of the sun.
  • Intelligent human beings must always remember that the soul obtains a human form after an evolution of many millions of years in the cycle of transmigration. 
  • The material world is sometimes compared to an ocean, and the human body is compared to a solid boat designed especially to cross this ocean. The Vedic scriptures and the ācāryas, or saintly teachers, are compared to expert boatmen, and the facilities of the human body are compared to favorable breezes that help the boat ply smoothly to its desired destination. 
  • If, with all these facilities, a human being does not fully utilize his life for self-realization, he must be considered ātma-hā, a killer of the soul. 
  • Why is man given a better life than that of the swine and other animals? Why is a highly placed government servant given better facilities than those of an ordinary clerk? The answer is that a highly placed officer has to discharge duties of a higher nature. Similarly, the duties human beings have to perform are higher than those of animals, who are always engaged in simply feeding their hungry stomachs. Yet the modern soul-killing civilization has only increased the problems of the hungry stomach 
  • When we approach a polished animal in the form of a modern civilized man and ask him to take interest in self-realization, he will say that he simply wants to work to satisfy his stomach and that there is no need of self-realization for a hungry man.
  • The laws of nature are so cruel, however, that despite his denunciation of the need for self-realization and his eagerness to work hard to fill his stomach, he is always threatened by unemployment. 
  • Human beings in this age have been forced to work hard like the asses and bullocks that pull carts. Some of the regions where the asuras are sent to work are revealed in this mantra of Śrī Īśopaniṣad. If a man fails to discharge his duties as a human being, he is forced to transmigrate to the asurya planets and take birth in degraded species of life to work hard in ignorance and darkness.

SB 2.7.40

Who can describe completely the prowess of Viṣṇu? Even the scientist, who might have counted the particles of the atoms of the universe, cannot do so. Because it is He only who in His form of Trivikrama moved His leg effortlessly beyond the topmost planet, Satyaloka, up to the neutral state of the three modes of material nature. And all were moved.

The highest scientific advancement of the material scientists is atomic energy. But the material scientist is not able to have an estimation of the particles of atoms contained in the whole universe. But even if one is able to count such atomic particles or is able to roll up the sky like one’s bedding, even then one is unable to estimate the extent of the prowess and energy of the Supreme Lord. He is known as Trivikrama because once, in His incarnation of Vāmana, He expanded His leg beyond the highest planetary system, Satyaloka, and reached the neutral state of the modes of nature called the covering of the material world. There are seven layers of material coverings over the material sky, and the Lord could penetrate even those coverings. With His toe He made a hole through which the water of the Causal Ocean filters into the material sky, and the current is known as the sacred Ganges, which purifies the planets of the three worlds. In other words, no one is equal to the transcendentally powerful Viṣṇu. He is omnipotent, and no one is equal to or greater than Him.

Lord Krsna has intimate relationships with His devotees. As said in BG 9th chapter. 

BG 9.30: Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination.

BG 9.31: He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.

BG 9.32: O son of Pṛthā, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth – women, vaiśyas [merchants] and śūdras [workers] – can attain the supreme destination.

BG 9.33: How much more this is so of the righteous brāhmaṇas, the devotees and the saintly kings. Therefore, having come to this temporary, miserable world, engage in loving service unto Me.

BG 9.34: Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.

This is how affectionate Krsna is. No one can what their position is obstructed from going back to Godhead. Even the lowest of mankind can go back to Godhead when they take up devotional service. 

ISO 17 (DOUBLE FUNCTIONS OF THE CONDITIONED SOUL AND THEIR PROPORTIONS)

Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura explains these verses in this way: “One should regard a devotee of Kṛṣṇa to be on the right path of the saints, even though such a devotee may seem to be su-durācāra, ‘a person of loose character.’ One should try to understand the real purport of the word su-durācāra. A conditioned soul has to act for double functions – namely for the maintenance of the body and again for self-realization. Social status, mental development, cleanliness, austerity, nourishment and the struggle for existence are all for the maintenance of the body. The self-realization part of one’s activities is executed in one’s occupation as a devotee of the Lord, and one performs actions in that connection also. One must perform these two different functions along parallel lines, because a conditioned soul cannot give up the maintenance of his body. The proportion of activities for maintenance of the body decreases, however, in proportion to the increase in devotional service. As long as the proportion of devotional service does not come to the right point, there is a chance for an occasional exhibition of worldliness. But it should be noted that such worldliness cannot continue for long because, by the grace of the Lord, such imperfections will come to an end very shortly. Therefore the path of devotional service is the only right path. If one is on the right path, even an occasional occurrence of worldliness does not hamper one in the advancement of self-realization.”

Now we see the mercy of Krsna, great presence of mercy of Krsna in all states of existence,  If one is willing to hear on a regular basis. Shravanam and Kirtanam are the first 2 most important principles of nine principles of devotional service. This regular hearing is important, so that the maintenance of body is kept in right proportion. Everyone has duties.. Husband has duties to wife and wife has duties to husband… these duties have to be performed as we chose to have these duties. One is not obliged to do these duties, one can chose to remain celebate.. 

One has to remain celebate even in marriage. Sex life as per dharma is only for reproduction.. To give birth and to raise children in Krsna Consciousness and make them devotees. 

SB 2.6.20 (CELIBACY FOR THE HIGHEST BENEFIT OF HUMAN LIFE)

In order to award the highest benefit of human life, the varṇāśrama system trains the follower to adopt the vow of celibacy beginning from the order of brahmacārī. The brahmacārī life is for students who are educated to follow strictly the vow of celibacy. Youngsters who have had no taste of sex life can easily follow the vow of celibacy, and once fixed in the principle of such a life, one can very easily continue to the highest perfectional stage, attaining the kingdom of the three-fourths energy of the Lord. It is already explained that in the cosmos of three-fourths energy of the Lord there is neither death nor fear, and one is full of the blissful life of happiness and knowledge. 

If we understand that our soul is eternal and body is temporary.. We will aim to liberate the soul from the body. But, If we think that the body is the soul.. Death is inevitable and we try to overcome death. People claim that they can, bit that is false. There are laws of nature and one cannot overcome them. Even Jesus Christ died and then reseructed. One will not have the right goal. Even though one is suffering, one knows what the cause of suffering is, but still they will not stop. That is how foolish people are. 

Example – Person in the farm has motorcycle and he has a severe injury and still wants to ride the motor cycle.. 

A householder attached to family life can easily give up such a life of sex indulgence if he has been trained in the principles of the life of a brahmacārī. A householder is recommended to quit home at the end of fifty years (pañcaśordhvaṁ vanaṁ vrajet) and live a life in the forest; then, being fully detached from family affection, he may accept the order of renunciation as a sannyāsī fully engaged in the service of the Lord. Any form of religious principles in which the followers are trained to pursue the vow of celibacy is good for the human being because only those who are trained in that way can end the miserable life of material existence. The principles of nirvāṇa, as recommended by Lord Buddha, are also meant for ending the miserable life of material existence. And this process, in the highest degree, is recommended here in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, with clear perception of ideal perfection, although basically there is no difference between the process of Buddhists, Śaṅkarites and Vaiṣṇavites. For promotion to the highest status of perfection, namely freedom from birth and death, anxiety and fearfulness, not one of these processes allows the follower to break the vow of celibacy.

We came here to this material world for sense gratification – illicit sex. But there is a good news – We know what the goal of life  (Go back to Godhead) is and we have to strive for it. If we continue to live like animals – eating, sleeping, mating and defending.. Then we become atmaha.. 

Soul food – Hare Krsna Hare Krsna.. 

The householders and persons who have deliberately broken the vow of celibacy cannot enter into the kingdom of deathlessness.

ISO 3 ( ĀTMA-HĀ, A KILLER OF THE SOUL.)

The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the worlds of the faithless, full of darkness and ignorance.

Human life is distinguished from animal life due to its heavy responsibilities. Those who are cognizant of these responsibilities and who work in that spirit are called suras (godly persons), and those who are neglectful of these responsibilities or who have no information of them are called asuras (demons). 

99 percent of the population of the world is asuras based on this definition. 

All the devas are aiming for the lotus feet of the lord.. “Om tad padam.. “ that is a heavy responsibility. 

Almost every one is doing the opposite of it. 

HOW SCHOOLING CHANGES KIDS – 

Example – Whole village is crazy.. Only one person is not. But that person also drank the potion to become crazy.. This is what happens when you send your kid to the school 

A devotees kid near portland was very KC until sent to school. When he was sent to the school heforgot about chanting, deity worship and he is collecting dinosaurs – 50 of them and chanting dinosaurs.. 

Throughout the universe there are only these two types of human being. In the Ṛg Veda it is stated that the suras always aim at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu and act accordingly. Their ways are as illuminated as the path of the sun.

Intelligent human beings must always remember that the soul obtains a human form after an evolution of many millions of years in the cycle of transmigration. The material world is sometimes compared to an ocean, and the human body is compared to a solid boat designed especially to cross this ocean. The Vedic scriptures and the ācāryas, or saintly teachers, are compared to expert boatmen, and the facilities of the human body are compared to favorable breezes that help the boat ply smoothly to its desired destination. If, with all these facilities, a human being does not fully utilize his life for self-realization, he must be considered ātma-hā, a killer of the soul. Śrī Īśopaniṣad warns in clear terms that the killer of the soul is destined to enter into the darkest region of ignorance to suffer perpetually.

Why do we put our children through this or why do we put ourselves through this.. 

People make mistakes by not having hope> Many people are pessimistic and people do not want to have kids.. 

There are swine, dogs, camels, asses, etc., whose economic necessities are just as important to them as ours are to us, but the economic problems of these animals are solved only under nasty and unpleasant conditions. The human being is given all facilities for a comfortable life by the laws of nature because the human form of life is more important and valuable than animal life. Why is man given a better life than that of the swine and other animals? Why is a highly placed government servant given better facilities than those of an ordinary clerk? The answer is that a highly placed officer has to discharge duties of a higher nature. Similarly, the duties human beings have to perform are higher than those of animals, who are always engaged in simply feeding their hungry stomachs. Yet the modern soul-killing civilization has only increased the problems of the hungry stomach. When we approach a polished animal in the form of a modern civilized man and ask him to take interest in self-realization, he will say that he simply wants to work to satisfy his stomach and that there is no need of self-realization for a hungry man. The laws of nature are so cruel, however, that despite his denunciation of the need for self-realization and his eagerness to work hard to fill his stomach, he is always threatened by unemployment.

We are given this human form of life not to work hard like asses, swine and dogs but to attain the highest perfection of life. If we do not care for self-realization, the laws of nature force us to work very hard, even though we may not want to do so. Human beings in this age have been forced to work hard like the asses and bullocks that pull carts. Some of the regions where the asuras are sent to work are revealed in this mantra of Śrī Īśopaniṣad. If a man fails to discharge his duties as a human being, he is forced to transmigrate to the asurya planets and take birth in degraded species of life to work hard in ignorance and darkness.

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SB 2.7.39 Notes – 10/27/21

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.7.39:

  • The material world is created by the energy of the Lord, which is manifested in the beginning of the creation by the penance of Brahmājī, the first living being in the creation, and then there are the nine Prajāpatis, known as great sages.
  • In the stage when the creation is maintained, there are devotional service to Lord Viṣṇu, or factual religion, the different demigods, and the kings of different planets who maintain the world.
  • At last, when the creation is preparing to wind up, there is first the principle of irreligion, then Lord Śiva along with the atheists, full of anger. But all of them are but different manifestations of the Supreme Lord. 
  • Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Mahādeva (Śiva) are different incarnations of the different modes of material nature. Viṣṇu is the Lord of the mode of goodness, Brahmā is the lord of the mode of passion, and Śiva is the lord of the mode of ignorance. 
  • The birth, executed by the sex life of the father and the mother, is called animal birth. But such animal birth and progress of life on the animal principles of eating, sleeping, fearing and mating (without any scientific culture of spiritual life) is called the śūdra life or, to be more explicit, the uncultured life of the lower class of men. 
  • The governmental power of society in the Kali-yuga will be passed over to the uncultured, godless laborer classes of men, and thus the nṛdevas (or the ministers of the government) will be the vṛṣalas, or the uncultured, lower-class men of society.
  • No one can expect any peace and prosperity in a human society full of uncultured, lower classes of men. 
  • The symptoms of such uncultured social animals are already in vogue, and it is the duty of the leaders of men to take note of it and try to reform the social order by introducing the principles of twice-born men trained in the science of God consciousness. 
  • This can be done by expanding the culture of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam all over the world. 
  • Ultimately, the material creation is but a temporary manifestation meant to give the chance of liberation to the conditioned souls, who are entrapped in the material world, and one who develops the mode of goodness under the protection of Lord Viṣṇu has the greatest chance of being liberated by following the Vaiṣṇava principles and thus being promoted to the kingdom of God, no more to return to this miserable material world.

SB 2.7.39 TRANSLATION:

At the beginning of creation there are penance, myself [Brahmā] and the Prajāpatis, the great sages who generate; then, during the maintenance of the creation, there are Lord Viṣṇu, the demigods with controlling powers, and the kings of different planets. But at the end there is irreligion, and then Lord Śiva and the atheists full of anger, etc. All of them are different representative manifestations of the energy of the supreme power, the Lord.

The material world is created by the energy of the Lord, which is manifested in the beginning of the creation by the penance of Brahmājī, the first living being in the creation, and then there are the nine Prajāpatis, known as great sages. In the stage when the creation is maintained, there are devotional service to Lord Viṣṇu, or factual religion, the different demigods, and the kings of different planets who maintain the world. At last, when the creation is preparing to wind up, there is first the principle of irreligion, then Lord Śiva along with the atheists, full of anger. But all of them are but different manifestations of the Supreme Lord. Therefore Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Mahādeva (Śiva) are different incarnations of the different modes of material nature. Viṣṇu is the Lord of the mode of goodness, Brahmā is the lord of the mode of passion, and Śiva is the lord of the mode of ignorance. Ultimately, the material creation is but a temporary manifestation meant to give the chance of liberation to the conditioned souls, who are entrapped in the material world, and one who develops the mode of goodness under the protection of Lord Viṣṇu has the greatest chance of being liberated by following the Vaiṣṇava principles and thus being promoted to the kingdom of God, no more to return to this miserable material world.

All this information we are receiving in 1st and 2nd canto help us understand what is our real position in this material world. 

If we understand the vastness of Krsna we become humbled and through that humility we develop a state of pricelessness, where we don’t falsely puff up that we are the center of the universe. We understand that we are extremely insignificant in this infinite creation and our position is extremely limited. However we can get connect to Krsna who is unlimited, who is the source of everything through bhakti yoga.

Once there was a great saintly woman Shilavati . Her husband was a leper. He was in a very bad state of health. He still had a desire for sense gratification. His wife was willing to sacrifice everything to satisfy him. She was carrying him in a basket.. And passed by the mansion of a prostitute. He tells her that he wants to enjoy the prostitute. Shilavathi cleaned outside the mansion and planted a garden and took care of it everyday and cleaned it every day. The prostitute wanted to see her and ask who she was. Shilavati tells her about her husband’s wish. Prostitute asks her to get him. She decorates him and takes him to the lady. The prostitute served them food but the food was in gold dishes and the same items were in iron dishes. Do you see any difference in the taste because of the dishes. .. The prostitute tells him – your wife sacrificed her dignity and chastity to satisfy you. On the way back he was cursed by a saint – that he will die when the sun rises. Shilavati prays to the lord to stop the sunrise. Due to her chastity the sun did not rise and the universe was in chaos.. The lord sent the woman of same caliber to speak to Shilavati to draw her wish to let the sun rise. Arundati goes to convince her and the sun rises. Her husband and her walked into the fire the next day they both rejuvenated into young and beautiful living entities and go back to Heavenly planets. This story is in CC ADI lila. A very famous stories in vedas of amazing Chastity  and dedication to her husband. This is similar to Sati Savitri.. This principle of chastity, it is very important for man and woman.. If it is violated it causes disturbance in the world. All this will happen at the end of the creation. 

3rd canto – explains the creation of the material world. 

The vision of a pure devotee is he sees everything in relationship with the lord. Thus he is always Krsna Conscious. 

If he sees the tree he does not see the body of the tree, but  he sees the soul in the body of the tree and the super soul. With that spiritual vision the devotee is always in contact with Krsna. 

Creation – Brahma 

Maintenance – Vishnu

Destruction – Shiva

A married couple to maintain the family – should have regulation – if they cultivate mode of goodness (sleeping early, raising early… ), then maintaining family life will become easy. 

Maintenance is the hardest thing, harder than creation and destruction. It requires – regulative principles, steadiness, focus, self control. 

When destruction takes place – it starts with people not following regulations, violating all the divine qualities as discussed in BG 13.8-12 

  • Upward movement – 
    • Follow all the 18 points of knowledge in BG 13.8-12
    • One has to learn the value of DS. 
    • One has to accept and respect the spiritual authorities and follow their instructions and engage as much as possible in the devotional service.
    • Krishna has to be the center of their life. They have to plan their life with Krsna as the center. Then they will be liberated. 
  • Downward movement – 
    • Not training to be self controlled
    • Not having Krsna as the center.. Sense gratification as the center of life
    • This leads to Mode of passion and then Mode of ignorance, anger, violence and destruction

SB 2.7.38 

Because of the lack of training or culture in the upper section of the social orders, they are no more to be designated as the dvija-janas, or the twice-born. The significance of being twice-born has been explained in many places in these great literatures, and again one is reminded herewith that birth, executed by the sex life of the father and the mother, is called animal birth. But such animal birth and progress of life on the animal principles of eating, sleeping, fearing and mating (without any scientific culture of spiritual life) is called the śūdra life or, to be more explicit, the uncultured life of the lower class of men. 

That is what we see today.,, these things are glorified today as if they are the only sources of pleasure.. 

 It is stated herein that the governmental power of society in the Kali-yuga will be passed over to the uncultured, godless laborer classes of men, and thus the nṛdevas (or the ministers of the government) will be the vṛṣalas, or the uncultured, lower-class men of society.

All these symptoms of Kali yuga.. The end time does not happen very soon, 427,000 years and more. Imagine how bad it is going to be. It is only due to the appearance of Lord Caitanya that there is this 10,000 years of golden window that people can get out of this. After that it is going to be very very difficult. Only due to the Sankirtan movement one can be free of this influence. And having a structured life based on the principles of devotional service, one can be liberated from birth and death.. 

No one can expect any peace and prosperity in a human society full of uncultured, lower classes of men. The symptoms of such uncultured social animals are already in vogue, and it is the duty of the leaders of men to take note of it and try to reform the social order by introducing the principles of twice-born men trained in the science of God consciousness. This can be done by expanding the culture of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam all over the world. In the degraded condition of human society, the Lord incarnates as the Kalki avatāra and kills all the demonic without mercy.

Culture of SB – Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya.. It is the whole culture with Vasudeva as the center.. It is not about Indra or mata.. We should take this SB very seriously everyday and preach about it.. 

Opulent days – live frugally – frugal days – love opulently

Live minimalist.. 

Focusing our life in hearing BG and SB 

Real Purpose of material creation – “Ultimately, the material creation is but a temporary manifestation meant to give the chance of liberation to the conditioned souls, who are entrapped in the material world, and one who develops the mode of goodness under the protection of Lord Viṣṇu has the greatest chance of being liberated by following the Vaiṣṇava principles and thus being promoted to the kingdom of God, no more to return to this miserable material world.”

Q – How to see a soul in the tree? First understand intellectually. Then anything that is moving is due to the soul and the super soul. When they are not there everything is static dead.. This person is moving because soul is present and super soul.. When the person is dead – the soul has left but the super soul is still there because the body is decaying.. If you see something moving then there is a soul, at least a super soul..