Cooperation is greatest tapasya in material world

tubhyam mad-vicikitsayam
atma me darsito ’bahih
nalena salile mulam
puskarasya vicinvatah [SB 3.9.37]

Translation:
When you were contemplating whether there was a source to the stem of the lotus of your birth and you even entered into that stem, you could not trace out anything. But at that time I manifested My form from within.

Purport:

The Personality of Godhead can be experienced only by His causeless mercy, not by mental speculation or with the help of the material senses. Material senses cannot approach the transcendental understanding of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He can be appreciated only by submissive devotional service when He reveals Himself before the devotee. Only by love of Godhead can one know God, and not otherwise. The Personality of Godhead cannot be seen with the material eyes, but He can be seen from within by spiritual eyes opened by the ointment of love of Godhead. As long as one’s spiritual eyes are closed due to the dirty covering of matter, one cannot see the Lord. But when the dirt is removed by the process of devotional service, one can see the Lord, without a doubt. Brahma’s personal endeavor to see the root of the lotus pipe failed, but when the Lord was satisfied by his penance and devotion, He revealed Himself from within with no external endeavor.

Wonderful statement by the Lord, Krishna is wonderful and of course His statement has to be wonderful. I don't have to say this separately and He is stating this to Brahma. He has just now taken his birth and he doesn't even know the source of his birth or who has given him birth. He has some lotus there and some stem there. Does this also have some source? Does this the Lotus which is this world, whether this universe has some source, whether I myself also have some source?

Vicinvatah as you were searching, as you were looking find out the stem by yourself you are breaking your brain this way and that way, we just got speculation, you are speculating

nalena salile mulam

You even entered that nala- that stem and you kept going down into deeper into that stem but still mulam, you could not find the source of yourself. The lotus, you are searching for the source of that stem of which the lotus. You are trying to know this way, you are searching and you are trying to know but as all your attempts fail. And this is what happens all attempts, as attempts of Brahma failed who is the first person to take birth, anyone who follows in his footsteps before Lord has revealed knowledge unto him. Here is Brahma before he became realized Brahma before the knowledge was revealed unto him. By the causeless mercy of the Lord or primeval or not only the source of this existence also. He is also the source of all knowledge that exists.

tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye [SB 1.1.1]

Brahma is also described as adikavi the poet. But he was just totally blank until the time Lord revealed all the knowledge unto him. So Brahma before and Brahma after. So the people are following to this day. This happened long long time ago they don't even have a clue, how long time ago? The world was created, the universe was created, and they have their own Big Bang Theory. So Brahma's all attempts to know his own source. Who he was? ki ami? And what is this world? What is the source of this world? All his attempts, all his endeavors totally were failure.

atma me darsito ’bahih

abahi? — from within; the word sounds like outside bahih means outside, when we attach ‘a’- abahih that means beginning from somewhere to bahih outside, from within to outside. Like

abraham bhuvana loka [BG 8.16]

From Vrndavan to Durban, avrndavna from Vrndavan to somewhere- abahih from within. From within, atma me darsito ’bahi? I showed revealed unto you atma me- unto you tubhyam. To you revealed things or knowledge from within and the points being made in the purport naturally are, this is the only way to know the Lord. And of course something that had also happened in between. Brahma was looking looking trying to understand and then he had heard before Lord reveal himself to Brahma prior to that there were instructions to this Brahma. He was very Jijnasu.

athato brahma jijnasa

Brahma jijnasa. he was very curious, curious as he was running in the total darkness not knowing the source nothing. And then he had heard the words, he had heard two letters and then he put those two letters together and then it becomes a word two letter word one was ta other one was pa – ta- pa , ta-pa and then he got into business, oh! This is what I have to do. I
have to do tapasya so as he heard these words he understood oh! This is what I should be doing. He did tapasya and that was devotion service that he had performed. He had followed the instructions of the,

krishnam vande jagadgurum

The original spiritual master Krishna personally became the spiritual master of Brahma , He had become the spiritual master of Arjuna like that He is the original Spiritual master. So Brahma performed tapasya, that is devotional service. When the dirt is removed by the process of devotional service, tapa is also connected with tapa -the flame it's also explained tapatraya. So tapa the austerities create fire tapa or tapasya is fiery creates fire, Oh! He is fired up. This is when they perform tapasya of three kinds Krsna describes in Bhagavad Gita it's at physical level, vocal level and the mental level and it is purifying. The fire of tapa, it's purifying as you put gold into the fire all the impurities are removed and then gold become shining molten gold,

tapta kanchana gaurangi

Tapta kanchana, in that prayer tapta not only kanchan Gaurangi Radhe, tapta kanchan why tapta kanchan, tapata is not only pure but it is more pure brilliant than the other kind of Gold. So as ta-pa is performed,

tapo divyam putraka yena sattvam. Suddhyed
yasmad brahma-saukhyam tv anantam [SB 5.5.1]

Very famous statement and we hear this verse from Bhagavatam, this is instruction of Rsabhadeva to his sons. So Prabhupada we were his sons and daughters. He always said, “You my American boys and girls sometimes he also said European, he never said Indian boys and girls, sometimes we felt little envious, all time you my American boys and girls. So whenever I read those letters what about me? [Laughter] So we are his children, so tapo divyam putraka so this is instruction of Rsabhadev Dev
to his sons and Prabhupada to his sons and daughters, this verse was repeated more frequently, most quoted verse. Someone has done the research. So tapo divyam –he performed tapa and again divya divya tapa. I mean there is no one in the world who does
not perform tapasya, even Rickshawala or Chai!! Chai!! at the train station all day. Lots of endeavors, lots of inconvenience tapasya money money where is money, it's lots of tapasya and every endeavor there is tapasya. Austerities are there inconvenience is there but what kind of tapasya, tapo divyam. Immediately, ok you want to perform tapa make sure it is divyam- it is a transcendental tapasya.

Being in Vrndavan during month of Kartik and that has come to kind of an end. Last night devotees going on Vraja Mandal Parikrama and also performing lots of tapasya and for us that may be some kind of end but today also the beginning of the Gopis tapa. Gopis tapa starts from today. After Kartik comes Margashirsha. So in this month Hemanta next Sharad Ritu has come
to an end yesterday. In the first month of margashirsha, month after kartik Gopis they kept going every morning to Chirghat that time that ghat was not known as Chirghat but at the end of that month that became known as Chirghat because after one month endeavors and austerities going in the cold bitter early morning hours singing glories of the Lord. They would go there and they would do japa

Oh! Katyayani Devi , nandagopasutam devi patim me kuru te namah [SB 10.22.1]

Son of Nanda Maharaja may He be our husband patim mein kuru te namah , patim mein kuru te namah, they were chanting this japa and lots of austerities and Lord was pleased then that pleasure was expressed by the Lord by stealing the garments patim mein kuru te okay, here I am. So another festival is beginning which may last for another one month, Gopi's festival. So
tapasya is yasmad suddhyed.

So when tapasya is transcendental then that brings about the purification the dirt is removed by process of devotional service. You become clean. Not only clean shaved, some devotees are shaved today, shaved up, one month is over. The forest was growing now they are shaved up clean from outside and clean from inside. Inside cleaning is more important heart's cleaning soul's cleansing. So the tapasya, so the first instruction that Brahma received do tapa Tapasya tapo divyam. Rsabha Dev repeated, Srila Prabhupada is repeating one of the tapasya, it's just a thought going, so many thoughts.

Like a window of so many thoughts just floating. Kind of check keep check. But one thought kind of crossed my mind. One tapasya, austerity, is to stay together, to stay together as a family or bigger family, small family staying together is a tapasya big thing but if we could stay together and cooperate together with each other spread Krishna consciousness . This is one of the major tapasyas of this age of Kali. Get lost is a mantra in the west and America ‘get lost’ as soon as you have different ideas or other person have different idea, different idea could also there is one seminar each one is individual so having different ideas is natural. Prabhupada said, having little different idea and then there something else to be applied Unity in Diversity. You GBC men should come every year to Mayapur and one topic you should discuss every year, Prabhupada said ‘Unity in Diversity’ should be like a ongoing agenda amongst the other agenda topic, unity in Diversity, diverse nature, diverse endeavors but devotional services diverse varieties unity , see the Krishna connection , see Prabhupada connection and stay United. So this is the big challenge and takes lots of tapasya to stay together to share, to share Krishna people don't even like to share God or if your God is Krishna my God is Allah. You get lost immediately the World is divided people don't even like to share God in this age of Kali. What to speak of sharing other things so this is tapasya yes this is the challenge if we could solve.

So undergoing all kinds of tapasya divya tapasya transcendental tapasya and of course tapasya is not just sitting down as soon as we talk of tapasya this is a run around and tapasya. We are reminded of hiranyakashipu performing tapasya. He was in one place others performing tapasya in one place. The gopis they don't sit down but they are performing tapasya for
Krishna’s pleasure undergoing so many inconveniences. So this tapasya is purifying and the dirty matter is removed and one comes out clean. Mr. Clean some politicians sometimes, he is Mr. Clean according to their standards some kind of Mr. Clean. So the devotees all Mr. Or Mrs. Clean. Your went to Vrndavan, performed tapasya for one month or some days now we have come out clean, they are coming out of Vrndavan clean. Vrndavan is clean coming in contact Vrndavan which is clean pavitram we become pavitra also. Vrndavan is nondifferent from Krishna, staying there some tapasya is there, it is purifying and the result is,

brahma-saukhyam tv anantam

Unlimited joy comes as a result because we are connected with Krishna not only we get the joy unlimited joy. The source of that joy.

itidrk-sva-lilabhir ananda-kunde

Try to understand this word. You know both the words only you have to put them together ananda and kunda ,kunda like Radha Kunda this kunda, Narada kunda so many kundas are there in Vrndavan. So for Vrajvasis, by these kind of lilas of the Lord stealing butter and lila that Lord performed Damodar lila iti- thus, drk-sva- like this lilam by these lilas ananda kunde he
drowns the residents of Vrndavan in Ananda kunda, kunda that is filled with ananda. It's an ocean of bliss. Kunda full of bliss, sarovar full of ananda. So Lord was drowning everyone was swimming in the ocean of ananda. And that ocean of ananda that Vrndavan that Vrndavananda that harinam harinananda or that Krishna katha or Krishna katha ananda. That Prasad or
prasadananda. Its welcoming us is inviting us. Please come, please come I am here eternally iavailable.

So the process is Srila Prabhupada is talking of some siddhanta here. What world follows is apasiddhanta,

apasiddhanta-dhvanta-harine

Bhakti Siddhanta was known as someone who opposed Apasiddhant apa- siddhanta against siddhanta against the process, scientific process of God realization. So Prabhupada is talking about the siddhanta the process always stressing to devotional service, always stressing not only devotion while others are we find stressing devotion but Prabhupada did not stress devotion only he stressed devotional service. He did not describe or translated Bhakti as devotion but he translated Bhakti as devotional service. Devotion could be just sitting around, just sitting around that's what yogis do, yogis also sit around but time to get up as soon as you get up and then you run around for Krishna.

kayena manasa buddhya kevalair indriyair api
yoginah karma kurvanti sangam tyaktvatma-suddhaye [BG 5.11]

Krishna is clarifying, yogis perform activities with their body, with their senses, with their intelligence with their mind, kayena mansa budhya all that. So they are busy so they don't sit around when it's time for chanting of course they seat and chant and that's the best way to do, seat and chant there is time for seating also best you get out of chanting is when you seat down and chant of course if you are sleepy little bit sleepy you could get up get some passion going allow some passion transfer some passion. So devotional service is what Prabhupada always stressed. I also had the tendency of some kind of devotion when I joined I was into devotion I would like to seat down and do my devotion not always enthusiastic to take my briefcase and go down town Mumbai, Bombay making life members I would spend little extra time in the temple with my devotion doing devotion. So my president did not like this and soon he gave me the name, before Prabhupada could give me the name, he gave me the name Samadhi Das, Samadhi Das [Laughter]. So then he got me out of samadhi, he disturbed my samadhi or got me into transcendental samadhi.

So devotional service not only devotion and by that devotional service Krishna reveals more unto that candidate who is performing devotional service and the glaring example is starting with the first person, at the beginning of the creation. So what was applicable to Brahma is also applicable to each one of us. From that day one, the day two there was no different application okay this is a day three now, same application and day four or next kalpa or next yuga or this is eternal process. Lord reveals Himself unto that devotee Brahma- the same process.

cakhu-dan dilo jei, janme janme prabhu sei,
divya jnan h?de prokasita

So on behalf of that original spiritual master Sri Krishna His representative they give Cakshu dan, dan means donation. Eye donation camp, ISKCON is like a eye donation camp, doctors are eye doctors, donation camp. So caksu dan dilo jei, caksu – eyes dan donation.

janme janme prabhu sei

Because he gave me eyes I would like to serve him ‘janme janme prabhu’ I like to serve him life after life after life And if I did serve, what is the result,

divya jnan h?de prokasita

So we get the process of this devotional service. This is eye cleansing.

vishaya chariya kabe suddha ha ’be mana kabe hama herabo sri-brindabana

We are in Vrndavan, Narottam Das Thakur says Oh! When Oh! When would that day come that I will be able to stay in Vrndavan Oh! I'll be able to see Vrndavan. Yet another transcendental Vrndavan. He thought he was not seeing and he wanted vision to see Vrndavan.

kabe hame herabo Sri Vrndavan

But then he had, he knew I could see Vrndavan when I am clean vishaya chariya kabe shuddha habe mana. When my mind is clean suddha habe mana then I'll be able to see Vrindavan, it's right here again cleansing tapasya, devotional service, when we are purified then we are able to see Vrndavan . One of the famous statements of Sri Brahma.

premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva h?daye?u vilokayanti

Brahma is not only the creator, chief architect engineer of this world but he is also the first acarya. So he is teaching us,

premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena

By devotional service, tears gliding down then seeing His,

santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti

Devotees are always seeing the Lord within their hearts,

yam syamasundaram acintya-guna-svarupam

Take the note otherwise if you are not performing devotional service not understanding and following devotional service in that pure line of spiritual masters and disciples then Krishna will be acintya will be inconceivable. As He was inconceivable for Brahma outside the authority or authoritative arrangement of the Lord. He was trying to understand Lord outside or even
understand this world outside that process.

First time I read this verse immediately, when I was reading in between the lines that Brahma was trying to understand the stem which is practically the whole universe inside that stem and the scientist also trying that's how they are called astronomers going with their sputnik this is same endeavor as Brahmas first endeavor.

Brahma was going the way he goes looking, finding and the scientists are also doing exact same thing. So as Brahma, it was a total failure at the part of Brahma understanding the universe length and breadth and the source of the universe. All such attempts would be also failures. Then I was thinking, if you want to say something wrong say it in the presence of some
learned devotees. The creation should also be described as Lila to the avataras are of various kinds and then Purusha avatar and then there is Maha Vishnu, Garbhodakshayi Vishnu, Kshirodakshayi Vishnu, and they are creating this universe. From Maha Vishnu comes the whole universe and further the detail creation is done by Garbhodakshayi Vishnu and some more details are added by Kshirodakshayi Vishnu. Like lot of times there is RCC Structure of a building first and then some interior decoration and then the plumbing and then the electrification and then this and that so these three Lords, three Vishnus this is there lila and they are creative, first universe is created then more things are added and some more things are added.

So this is the Lila of Vishnu, of the Lord. So to understand this Lila and part of this knowledge will be understanding this world, understand the universe, understand the source of the universe. How it was created by the Lord and whether there are other universes also. All this could be revealed unto you as soon as you surrender unto that creator.

As soon as you

surrender unto Vishnu and Krishna then only it is possible to understand the universe or how it was created or how these universes are there and lots of other things to be known are made known. The world was created and the knowledge was created at the same time or knowledge always existed. And when the world was created knowledge was just made available. So all that
we need to know, we could know through the process of devotional service not through these so called scientific procedures. There endeavors are according to the four defects of the mundane authorities they are,

bhrama, pramada, vipralipsa, karanapatava

These are the four defects of the mundane authorities including the scientists. Bhrama- that is making mistakes, pramada – madness, illusion, vipralipsa –cheating and karanapatava –defective perception.

isvarera vakye nahi do?a ei saba (CC Adi 7.107)

According to Krishna Das Kaviraj, this is from Caitanya Caritamrita. These four defects you do not find in the vakya, the statements of the Aryas. Those who are knowledgeable, the devotees Vaisnavas the acaryas coming in the disciplic succession in them. In their statements these four flaws are not found. But they are found in all other authorities. So called authorities. So all that we need to know, human being is need to know that knowledge is made available

yannehasti na kutrachit

I came across another statement; this is Vyasdev speaking, Vyas uvacha. He says if there is anything or it's an indirect statement everything we need to know.

vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham [BG 15.15]

Everything, I have to be known by the studies of the Vedas, I am the compiler of the Vedas that is Krishna that's Vyasdev compiler. So he has included all the knowledge complete knowledge is there then he says,

Yadihasti tad anyatra

Something that is not here then it is nowhere else something that is not here, something that is not in vedas, puranas all the Vedic text compiled by Srila Vyasdeva, Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam if it is not there it is not to be find anywhere else don't even look the other way. Look beyond these sources everything you need to know is right in here. Something that is not here not to be found anywhere else not in scientific generals not in Bible not in Quran not, here not there. Everything you need to know is right here.

Just Chant Hare Krishna okay seat down seat down chant Hare Krishna and study the scriptures or hear from the scriptures and you will be knowledgeable. You will be the best scientist in the world one who knows this Science is a scientist Prabhupada was a scientist that scientist was Bhakti Siddhanta, that scientist was Baladeva Vidyabhushan was that scientist.

Sastra , sastra is called science and sastragya one who knows the sastras is a scientist. Sastragya the knower of the sastras is a scientist all our acaryas are the genuine scientists. And as soon as they begin chanting you know all about cosmology all about astronomy. Not only you know about this one universe you know all about other universes which are all around this
universe there is no other way even if you have a telescope may be you could see many things.

But everything from this universe there is no way you could see something that other universe exist. There is no way you could see. So this is Karanapatav the sense perception is defective. So the knowledge acquired by with the help of some senses or they try to make senses more powerful microscopic increase the power of the eyes and increase the power of the ear. But there is a limit ten times, hundred times, thousand times but there is a limit but there is much more still more only microscope you could use is sastra caksusa see through the eyes of the sastras. See through the eyes of Srila Prabhupada's books and then you see this is the telescope, this is the telescope you see through and you don't have to endeavor much you just chant hare Krishna dance little take prasada and better do hear Bhagavatam before prasadam, chant, dance ,little philosophy take prasada and you become most knowledgeable human being the members of the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness are most knowledgeable members on this planet. Even our new bhaktas know more than big big scientists. The truth exists you just have to accept.

sarvametadritam manye yanmaam vadasi keshava

This is the process, Arjuna said to Krishna he had been hearing now 9 chapter and this the 10th chapter. Oh! Keshava wahatever You are saying is truth and I accept it. I accept this as a truth not that you again make the experiment with the truth. We had a big politicians amongst the or saint amongst the politician in India and he wrote a book the title of the book was “My experiments with the truth.” And Prabhupada commented you don't make experiments with the truth. So Prabhupada ' you don’t make experiment with the truth you expect the truth and you become knowledgeable. So what has been given by Krishna us given to Brahma first and in that line coming down through the disciplic succession 5000 years ago there was a need to put this in writing because our memories were not good memories.

So then Vyasdev compiled these sastras they were in sanskrit or Bengali and we don't know these languages. Prabhupada was instructed in English Language you translate in English language so Prabhupada did that in English language then to us, his Guru Maharaja said in English language then our Guru Maharaja Prabhupada said in as many languages as possible including Chinese and Russian and Dutch and French and almost in 100 languages now this truth is being translated, being spoken and being remembered. This truth in Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatam, Chaitanya Charitamrita isoupanisad Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu , this knowledge was not there just some how are you ? What is the rate of this? And some health businesses and how is that planet what type of climate and this kind of nonsense and some relative knowledge here and there the whether climate, the books are all about politics, lots of politics and some kind of modern art and lot of gossip. But the truth being translated for the first time in the Known history, the history that we know, in all possible languages. Now you could hear Krishna in your own language Krishna is speaking to you in your own language otherwise the knowledge was kind of sealed or stored in sanskrit and so ahead of us is a book marathon of Srila Prabhupada.

Ahead is Book Marathon, some of you will be leaving or even if you are here. Let’s distribute this knowledge, lets distribute the truth, lets share the truth, Satya mayeva jayate and of course the only truth prevails all others after 100 years after 150 years then world comes to knows- that scientist he said but it's a bogus thing or half-truth. The Darwin in few years some people are getting fired up in few years’ time the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Darwin's whatever he proposed, whatever papers he wrote Darwin's Theory of evolution was first presented hundred and fifty years ago. In few years 150th year and the world is getting ready and you would be amazed and I am amazed. Even in India land of Bhagavatam few people they the samarta this some kind of saktavesh avatar something this Darwin, he really fooled people around the world including Indians.

They have been studying this Darwin's Theory of evolution. That in the beginning there was amoeba what about Brahma. First person created in the world was Brahma full-fledged, he had four heads not just one celled animal or species full-fledged four headed brainy. Brahma it's the first creation, first being Brahma of course vaisnavas never believed, knowledgeable people students of Bhagavatam but others imitating the west they got into that and the Britishers they
were incharge of this country. They got that kind of education going and we also we also agree we don't understand whenever you agree like Nandi and then but then scientist are coming to realize no! No! They are talking about to the intelligent design. There is someone behind this creation and the.

So it's an intelligent design not that just happened by chance and big bang so they are coming with another theory but it is called intelligent design theory and that would last for some time which makes little sense to us because intelligence implies a personality if they keep going intelligent design. Prabhupada said oh such a beautiful flower who has made this? What an intelligent person has made this plastic flower. And then you go to the garden and you see so many beautiful flowers then you should be asking the same question what a beautiful flower which intelligent designer has made this? Krishna has made this, Krishna’s nature, Krishna has made this.

So from the intelligent theory if they could go forward they could do conclusion then that intelligence that supreme scientist is most intelligent person. So that would be the progress also so some heading in that direction is going on but then in the meantime 150 years are lost people were taught Darwin threw the light of darkness does that makes sense or no sense , he was supposed to throw some light. Prabhu could you throw some light on this meaning I am not able to see or understand this particular point or whatever please throw some light on this.

Means please explain or reveal the truth throw some light so instead of throwing some light this Darwin threw some darkness on the truth or covered the truth and in the process billions of peoples were misguided all the universities teaching all these nonsense speculation is the topic. Speculation and that’s not the way only way is perform tapasya, devotional service get connected with the knowledgeable people on this planet and they are devotees of Krishna and acaryas and the book of knowledge is Bhagavatam when the world was engulfed in the darkness of this age of Kali. Lord created Bhagavatam and it is described as brilliant as sun , Bhagavatam is brilliant more brilliant this is more brilliant than sun, brilliance of the sun. The sun would be just like a candle so that we have reached Bhagavatam we have reached Bhagavan, we have reached his abode we are very close just around the corner from the Lord it's just the matter of just sticking to this and pushing on and spreading this truth each one of us we owe this obligation you do as I did Prabhupada said. So let's make this big endeavor of spreading the truth and making people knowledgeable and happy this is the only way there is no other way there is no other way there is no other way, only way is the way to Prasadam hall [Laughter] only way.

Okay it's little late so we will stop here and you take prasada and keep coming keep coming keep coming and finally when give up your body finally come and stay here eternally is that okay. This is the way.

Krishna Balaram ki jai
Srila Prabhupada ki jai!!

Being with devotees is the success!!

When devotees have birthday parties they say may you never take birth again. That part everybody says, they make a whole song out of it which is nice. You may never take birth again happy birthday to you. You may never take birth again, that is the
goal to achieve. Hence we were singing, itna to karna swami jab prana tanse nikle

The goal our life is that, Govinda nama leke prana tanse nikle. We normally celebrate birthdays of acaryas, birthday of the Lord. The Lords birthdays are celebrated and devotees’ disappearance days are celebrated, we do not celebrate the Lord’s disappearance day as that is not welcome, the Lord is leaving us. When He comes into the world,

trailokya mangalam kuru

For the mangalya; for the auspiciousness of this world Lord appears. So we have all this; Janamastami, Radha astami, Vamana dvadasi, Nityananda trayodasi and Gaura purinima and all these appearance days we celebrate and devotees’ disappearance days, vaisnava acaryas disappearance days are also celebrated on a grander scale because when they appeared it was not known to all. No one knows what this child is going to do! But by the time of departure we know what he has done.

So the day of his departure becomes a grand celebration. Celebrating a birthday is more of a western concept solidifying the birth, solidifying the dynasty there is nothing glorious of our birth. You could sit and listen to Krsna’s birthday proceedings.

There are so many details.

vasudeva aiksata [SB 10.3.10]

Vasudeva saw four handed Krsna and He is holding all the symbols, Pitambaram He is already wearing garments. Clothing on, ornaments on as He has taken birth. Have you seen anyone take his birth like that? Devaki did not have to go to Loi Bazaar.
Lord appeared with all of those and there was a smile on His face. Vasudev saw that,

purusah prakrteh parah [SB 10.3.10]

He offered prayers to his son. The Lord’s birth is discussed again and again, devotees go to that topic of Krsna’s janma and contemplate, they hear and they relish and they take that deep in their hearts; Krsna janma leela and all the details
involved in the whole context. There is nothing glorious of our birth as such. Such and such maternity home we don’t want to remember. What happened? He is not happy? It’s your birthday. Then they say how old you are. Rishab how old are you, he is just a baby. The question is how old are you? I’m old! [Laughter] I’m five years old. Nobody asks how young are you? Again the body is just a temporary garment and this time it is this texture of clothing, this size, this shape that we have gone
through so many times.

bahuni me vyatitani janmani tava carjuna
tany aham veda sarvani na tvam vettha parantapa [BG 4.5]

We forget, aham veda! I know, I remember you have forgotten. So we forget our birth. What is more important is the soul in the body. You cannot ask the soul how old are you? There’s no question of asking, the soul is eternal and you cannot ask,
no one knows how old!

mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah
manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati [BG 15.7]

When we became amsa part and parcel of the Lord contrasting history back and say sanatanah, we are sanatana; whatever amsa we are of the Lord we are sanatana. Most importantly it’s due to us being the soul being part and parcel of the Lord. The
body is also prakriti astadha,

bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh kham mano buddhir eva ca
ahankara itiyam me bhinna prakrtir astadha [BG 7.4]

Whether it’s the body or soul both come Sri Krsna. Both are the energies of Krsna, while as the soul we are eternal. Soul that is us! So far as this bhinna prakrtir is concerned now that is us. When there is Ram nama sathya hain, then we are no
more. Every seven years every single cell in the body changes and transforms. What I am today all the particles in the body, atoms and molecules of which this body is made of not a single cell though it appears to be the same, is changing all the time. So much of input takes place there is output also. We put things in then the cells are developed and then there are the nine gates!

nava-dvare pure dehi [ BG 5.13]

We stay in a pur in a nagari, township which has nine gates and through the nine gates all of waste products or toxins are evacuated. So like that the elements in the body are in transit. They are there for sometime and then they go. Some other, when we eat, drink, smell and the air is also there and the water and food.

The body keeps developing and is ever changing also. Then there is a big change, last breath and big change. The goal is to remember Krsna and for that we have to practice all the time otherwise all that you mostly remember that will come to your
mind. You have been remembering something that you have been attached to all the time and that is what comes to mind at the time of death.

yam yam vapi smaran bhavam
tyajaty ante kalevaram
tam tam evaiti kaunteya
sada tad-bhava-bhavitah (B.G 8.6)

One person departed some time ago in India and he remembered coke-cola at the time of death. The children were saying, daddy! Daddy! Say Bhola, he was a devotee of Lord Shiva. The children and all the family members gathered around and they could see that daddy has only few more breaths to go. They were appealing daddy say Bhola. Daddy could only say coke-cola. He was so attached that he remembered coke-cola at the time of death. His foolish children, if we can call them foolish went to Haridwar. Our devotees witnessed this scene, the family members were distributing coke-cola in the banks of the Ganga at Harkipowdi. When enquired, they said our farther departed and the last thing he said was coke-cola as if that was a last wish or last will, so we are just executing the will of our farther. Maybe he went to coke-cola loka. Laughter!!!

Instead of distributing Ganga jal they distributed coke- cola. We have to get all other things out of our and heart things which are non Krsna, things which are illusory and temporary. Of all those items the body is a big factor. Everybody loves their body more than anything else. We are attached to this body. We wake up this body. Uthi uthi, someone wakes us up. Bhaktivinoda Thakur says night time we are sleeping and in the morning we wake up decorating this body day in and day out. So much care for this body, our life is centred round this body. We need to change that, from body to soul. We do sringara for the body instead of doing sringara for the Lord having deity at temple or at home. We could decorate the body of the Lord, ok! Got it? Decorate the body of the transcendental body of the Lord instead more time is spent decorating our own body.

After the Lords sringar is over the pujaris to “Govindam adi purusham tam aham bhajami.” They also show the mirror to the Lord. As the Lord is looking into the mirror the devotees are looking at the face of the Lord. When I was head pujari at the Mumbai Radha Rasabihari mandir I would show the mirror to the Lord. See, are You happy? See this, see that.

To view the expressions on the Lords face, as we would look we would then realise oh! We forgot the peacock feather and sometimes the flute. So that is yet another feeling. Show the mirror to the Lord. Let Him look into the mirror let Him see His face, that satisfaction that you get at that time is the satisfaction that the soul is getting. The other is that you decorate your body and you look into the mirror and keep looking and keep looking adjusting and changing. When I go out people are going to look at me, I want make sure I look well.

One sannyasi was explaining in Mayapur we do all this Sringar for our body, we do abhishek for our own body and then bhoga for own body and chapan bhog. What we are supposed to be doing for the Lord we do for ourselves and place the Lord on the
backburner. Whole life just round the body! This is not fair, why celebrate birthday? Soul has no birth, soul has no death, but if you are told you are going for celebration, one devotee he has written a book, saying there should be some reason to be celebrating a birthday? What has this person done between last birthday and this birthday? Has he done something outstanding? For that reason you glorify him. You congratulate him. Review the performance between last birthday and this birthday.

What have I done? I have been chanting so many rounds. Now I am chanting more rounds. Those kinds of accomplishments can be taken into consideration to glorify that devotee.

So it’s not only happy birthday but happy family! happy children. God has given and He is giving Himself now to you and everyone else. He has given you all these devotees and their association. So we should be thanking God! Thanks giving!

Thanking Krsna for the glorious human form of life. There are so many bodies and celebration of this birthday when the soul entered human form which is a rare gift hence the celebration is at this time. Otherwise cultivating Krsna Consciousness and
knowing Krsna in bodies other than that of a human is not possible. So may you live long!! Haribol!!!

In the vedic times they would say, you may see a hundred autumn seasons. Live for Krsna, live for practicing Krsna consciousness, otherwise Sukadev Goswami says:

taravah kim na jivanti
bhastrah kim na svasanty uta
na khadanti na mehanti
kim grame pasavo ’pare (S.B. 2.3.18)

The trees are there and liv e long, long lives. Long life is not the goal, taravah kim na jivanti. The blacksmith has the bellow of the blacksmith and that takes so much air in. we can’t even take in that much of air. What’s the big deal our
lungs are like a bellow, they also take air in and out but the blacksmith’s bellow is also doing the same says Sukadev Goswami. Kadanti na mehanti other animals are also kadanti, they are also eating, sleeping and if you are only eating and sleeping then what is the big deal? What have you done better than those animals or if you just live long what have you done better than those trees? If you keep breathing in and out the blacksmith’s bellow is also doing the same in the grander way. So the purpose is to utilise this life for remembering Krsna, serving Krsna and to propagate this word around.

So Priya had been doing this in Nagpur also, she was the leader of our Nagpur youth forum girls division ISKCON girls forum. They started a preaching for the young girls’ college students. She is remembered for this pioneering work she initiated in
Nagpur India and she still keeps in touch with those girls. So good, carry on and be in the midst of those devotees wherever you are here or changing countries or continents remember to always be with devotees. The old success formula is to always remain with the devotees. Lots of protection comes from that otherwise there are so many attacks. Maya is active and always in action. We need protection, so we are protected when we are with the devotees. Unknowingly we make so much progress. When you go to Kumbha – mela the destination is triveni sangam when you get off the train or bus then so many people are going. Where are they going? You do not even have to ask! Anyone coming to kumba mela they go for the bath immediately. They are going towards Ganga, Jamuna and Saraswati. All that you need to do is just be part of that crowd and that crowd will take you to the destination. Sometimes you don’t even have to walk you are giving a lift and you can float. Just be with the devotees. So by Krsna’s grace we have devotees here also in the desert dry and all that.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu is so kind and Srila Prabhupada made all these endeavours in establishing Krsna Consciousness movement and efforts of his followers like Jayapataka MaharajA and other Maharajas’ and Shri Vallabha Prabhu was initiated in the early days and he was putting ISKCON together giving it shape. By Krsna’s grace and devotees efforts the middle-east countries have resources available. Now you cannot complain. Everything you need to know, everything you need to go back to Krsna is available now and right here. Take advantage and connect others Krsna will be pleased if you do that!

Vrndavan consciousness
17 03 2018
Govardhana Eco village, Mumbai [18:02]

Nice to meet you all, you are all residents of Vrndavan dhamaa, Govardhan Eco village is a village, you all stay in the village. You are villagers, Gokulvasis are also villagers. So also jungle here, some devotees were saying we are staying in jungle, you are doing jungle mein mangal here and jungle is no more jungle that’s the idea.

Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu transformed the Jharkhand forests, it was no more ordinary forest, it
was transformed into Vrndavan, and how did He do that. By chanting

HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE
HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE

He made animals to chant and dance, we can’t do that. Could you get a tiger to dance, could you , anyone of you, they will make you dance. So the animal’s consciousness was revived, was evolved, transformed, changed and they were no more acting like animals. Looking, still looking like animals but not acting like animals. They were acting like vraja-vasis, Vrndavan vasis, Mahaprabhu was on the way to Vrndavan from Jagannath Puri, His destination is Vrndavan dhamaa.

Vrndavan Dhama ki ….jai

He always, He always wanted to go to Vrndavan that is what happened also when He received mantra from Ishwar Puri in Gaya, and as He started chanting the mantra, He was transformed and he immediately remembered Vrndavan and He was rushing towards Vrndavan, near somehow he was stopped and he was brought back to Navadvipa then again when he took sannyasa, I am, I am
free now, free liberated, taking sannyasa, renounced everything. So then again first place He thought of visiting, going to is Vrndavan, but again he was tricked by Nityananda and Advaita Acarya and he was brought to Shantipur instead, anyway and then mother, Saci, son you better stay, stay in Jagnnath Puri. So, He admits that as His headquarters Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, he never forgot Vrndavan, that sort of going to Vrndavan. I have to go to Vrndavan.

Vrindavan Dhama ki Jai…….

So finally after six years of sannyasa, He managed to get away from Jagannath Puri and devotees of Puri and He on His way to Vrndavan and His destination is Vrndavan. In the middle of his path, half way though, so whom He met, the tigers and the deer and everyone to chant and dance, He even saw the tiger and deer, they were rubbing shoulders, somehow they were walking with each other, then Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, next scene was He saw deer and tiger, they were embracing each other and next scene was He saw deer and tiger as mentioned in Caitanya Caritamrita, they were doing “allingan” and “chumban” kissing each other. So when Mahaprabhu saw that atitude of those animals and the birds, attitude towards each other, the dealing and their thoughts and consciousness. Mahaprabhu Said.

Vrindavan Dhamaa ki…. Jai

This is Vrndavan, this is Vrndavan, although He had long way to go to reach Vrndavan. But in this forest, He realised, this is, this is Vrndavan. So Consciousness of the soul makes that place is also transformed and person becomes Vrndavan vasis, He has the thought of Vrndavan and then that place becomes Vrndavan and becomes Vraja Vasi. Vrndavan consciousness, mora mana vrndavan

That was also Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s stand or His thought or prayer, dancing in front of Jagannath chariot, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He was saying to Himself, Lord was hearing that “mora mana vrndavan” My dear Lord, my mind is Vrndavan , you love to stay in Vrndavan, Lord Please stay in Vrndavan and the Gopis and Vrajavasis all attempting too, Lord is sited in the chariot and they are bringing Lord from Simhachal to Nilachal, they are bringing Lord to Vrndavan. Lord also loves to be
in Vrndavan. He also misses Vrndavan, while He is away from Vrndavan in Dwarka or other places.

So as Mahaprabhu is dancing in front of the chariot during the ratha yatra, Mahaprabhu says, “My mind is Vrndavan – mora mana Vrndavan.” Lord please reside in my mind, mind which is like Vrndavan. So the heart, the mind that is in Vrndavana Govind’s Vishram, vaisnava’s they allow Lord to reside in their heart and Lord could relax and does “Vishram in the heart, Hari Hari.
Vrindavan Dhama ki Jai….

As we chant Hare Krsna Hare Krsna, this mantra has mantra devta, you worship particular deity by chanting, reciting particular mantra, each mantra has mantra devta. What mantra do we chant?

HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE
HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE

So the deity of this mantra, devta, devtas, dev and devi of this mantra is Radha Krsna. Radha Vrindavan Bihari Lal ki jai……., they are the mantra devta. So as one chants that, whatever mantra one chants, so they attain the mantra devta, perfection is to realise mantra devta and ultimately go where those devta’s reside in their dhama. Every dhama has a dhami. Dhama- Dhami, the deity that resides in the dhama is called dhamai. So Vrndavan dhama and the dhami of Vrndavan dhama is
Radha Krsna. So as we chant the Hare Krsna maha mantra then that’s chanter destination becomes the destination where the mantra devta of that mantra resides or in fact that mantra brings us to where ever the mantra devta is residing. So Hare Krsna maha mantra, mantra devta Radha and Krsna reside in Vrndavan, so then that becomes the destination of chanter of Hare Krsna Mantra.

maya saha ramasva

The chanter of the prayer as one chants is maya saha ramasva, my dear Lord, do maya saha with me you do raman, you are Radha Raman, and you are this Raman, you are that Raman. In this bhava, in this rasa, dasya rasa, sakhya rasa, madhurya rasa in each living entity. We also have our own rasa or relationship with the Lord. So as we chant hare Krsna, this is maya saha ramasva. Each living entity could do raman with Lord. Living entity is

mac-citta mad gata prana
bodhayantah parasparam

kathayantas can mam nityam
tusyanti ca ramanti ca
(BG 10.9)

That living entity is mac-citta his consciousness is glued to Krsna, his lotus feet mad gata prana, kathayantas can mam nityam as he hears katha of the Lord, glories of the Lord, kathayantas can mam nityam tusyanti ca ramanti ca He is satisfied, fully satisfied tusyanti ca ramanti ca he is doing raman, he is running to the Lord and Lord is running to the soul also. Both are running towards each other dealing with each other.

Hari Hari.

So this mahamantra could make us fully conscious of Radha Krsna, fully conscious of our relationship with Radha Krsna, could revived or hold consciousness and finally, ultimately bring us back to Vrndavan.

Vrndavan dhama ki ..jai

Ya, that is the purpose of this International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Prabhupada always talked about going back to home, back to home, we are going. Devotees in the west they sing a song on guitar, we are going back to home and then Iskcon is the boat. Srila Prabhupada is the captain of the boat. Is everyone jumping into the boat, we are going back to home, back to Vrndavan. So as the holy name, Caitanya Mahaprabhu said “My name will be chanted in very town, in very village.” So as soon as one gets the name, as soon as one receives the holy name, his journey towards Vrndavan begins right then and there. In fact even in this life they make the goal, every chanter of the holy name, then he makes plan I will go, I want to go for Mayapur Festival, I want to go for Vrndavan festival. From nama to dhama, nama to dhama, nama to dhama. So nama brings
us to dhama. Nama makes us eligible, qualified, purified, eligible to go to Vrndavan, enter Vrndavan and stay in Vrndavan, this eligibility is also attained, achieved by chanting of Hare Krsna.

HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE
HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE

Gets the shelter of Krsna’s lotus feet.
namasraya kori jatan tumi and naam vina kichu nahika ara cauddha bhuvana majhe. We also realise that there is nothing, nothing better than this nama in the entire creation of cauddha bhuvana in fourteen planetary system, makes Vrndavan special destination and that living entity chants Hare Krsna maha mantra purely offencelessly, he gets closer and closer and closer towards Lord’s lotus feet and finally returns to Vrndavan.

Vrindavan Dhama ki ………..jai.

So we have Vrndavan here also, the deities have appeared, deities are the Lord. So when Lord appears infact dhama appears before Lord appears. The Lord has appeared in the form of Gauranga and Radha Vrndavan Bihari, then there dhama is also here. Lord always resides in His dhama.

Wherever Lord is that is His dhama, here dhama also has appeared and then Lord has appeared. Lord has mercifully appeared here in Wada, Wada (that is name of the tehsil) right here in Wada, now this has become wadi, wadi of Shri Shri Radha Vrndavan Bihari. This is wadi, Thakur wadi and wada and there is wadi, so both are here. Acarya’s have kindly prayed to Lord to appear. His Holiness Radhanath Maharaja had prayed to the Lord personally making His appearance here. So Lord is here, all the way from Vrndavan. Lord has made this place His residence. Making more easily accessible. You could just step outside Bombay and there is

Vrndavan dhama ki …..jai
Govardhan dhama ki ….jai
Radha Kunda ki…………jai

Some Radha Kunda jala has been put into this. Is Govardhan Shilla also. So it is nondifferent. They don’t have to go all the way to Vrindavan. Mathura, Vrndavan takes long time. Then it is also takes thirty days of Vrndavan Parikarma. This place is closer and parikarma is only for seven minutes, not seven hours as of twenty one kilometres and one day as thirty days are there. So big discount for Bombay folks and one day and you are done with parikarma, dhama vasa, dhama vasi as one of the
five principles of Bhakti. So this is okay. I am thankful that I was invited and given opportunity to be the resident of this Vrndavan and do parikarma in one day.

Srila Prabhupad ki …jai
Nitai Gaur premanande hari haribol.

The auspicious Kartik masa begins
23 10 2010
Chowpatty
Occasion: 1 st day of Kartik

Time to go back, just to stay in the mood of Damodara. Is that the mood? Damodara mood, Damodara month beginning today? Haribol! Or yesterday?

Actually, today is technically the first day of Kartik pratipada. Yesterday was purnima. Last night, we were dancing, you were dancing. Certainly, Radha Gopinath was dancing, not only with Radha Rani, with millions of Gopis. It’s a rasa dance, famous rasa dance night.

Did you offer sweet rice? No, not in the morning for mangal arati bhoga, last night, on the rooftop, somewhere? So that the sun rays would get in there. Whenever the Gopis were tired, they would relish some of that sweet rice. Did you do that? Yes. So where is the sweet rice? [laughter].

In Krsna Balarama temple, right after mangal arati, we all rush to the pots of sweet rice. There is enough for everybody. Deenabandhu Prabhu makes announcement: “Sweetrice!

Special sweetrice!”

So that was, not just was, still is last night’s pastime. It did not last for one of our nights. It lasted for how long? Entire night of Brahma. Did He stop? Has the rasa dance stopped now? No, Still on. Krsna appears once in a day of Brahma. And how long He dances in rasa? Whole night of Brahma. While that rasa which comes from rasa, the mellow of conjugal love. Yet, this morning that rasa is on and we are celebrating yet another rasa here, vatsalya rasa. That was the rasa, the mellow, relationship between the Gopis and Krsna, Radha and Krsna and this one is between Yashoda and Krsna, residents of Braja and Krsna.

As I am talking, you are realising that I am not going to do the verse on the board. That is what I meant; let’s stay in the mood that we have just created a little bit by singing Damodarashtak. We can condense this mood, every day for the next thirty days. And for all the time to come. Not that after thirty days we stop and do something else.

There is also an understanding. The most attractive pastime of the Lord is the childhood pastimes. Also, madhurya rasa is topmost. Krsna is rasaraj. He is the king of all the rasas. He
is the source.

raso vai saha

He is the source of all the rasas, and He is the enjoyer also of all the rasas. To do that, of course, there has to be reciprocation between Him and His devotees. So, varieties of rasas, varieties of devotees. Varieties of spices of life. Krsna spices His life.

This pastime Damodara lila , has taken place in the month of Kartik on the day of Diwali.

sri-suka uvaca
ekada g?ha-dasisu
?yasoda nanda-gehini
karmantara-niyuktasu

?nirmamantha svayam dadhi S.B 10.9.1

This is how the pastime gets described by Sukdhev Goswami in the 10 th canto. He says ekad? – once upon a time. So that once upon a time was the day of Diwali. So that is during Kartik. The special rasa dance is from the day before, well just the night before Kartik. Govardhan puja is in this month of Kartik. Bahula-ashtami and the appearance day of Radha Kunda are also in the month of Kartik. Gopashtami- Krsna becomes a cowherd boy. He was a calf-herd boy and then He becomes a cow-herd boy and then He became cowherd. And likewise, there are full of festivals this month. Srila Prabhupada also chose to enter the Lord’s pastimes during this month.

Did I miss anything? This is also called uraja. Uraja vrat. What is uraja? Energy. And this energy is Radha Rani. This is also Radha Damodara. Not only Yashoda Damodara but also, Radha Damodara pastimes.

Srila Prabhupada stayed at Radha Damodara. Radha Damodara ki.. Jay! I remember the first time ever I went to Vrndavan was during Kartik. From Juhu we went and arrived at Mathura station. The first donga ride I had was from Mathura station to Radha Damodara temple. As we arrived, we took darsana. The first deity I had darsana of was Radha Damodara.

Beautiful! Then right after darsana of the deities, we rushed into Srila Prabhupada’s quarters. It was during early morning hours that we had arrived. Srila Prabhupada was there by himself in a very small room. There was not even room for all this asana, if we were to place this asana, just maybe six inches. Tall, cushion, something in the back. Srila Prabhupada sat very
humbly and powerfully at the same time. So, we had darsana. Devotees from Bombay were sitting around. Some in the front, some on the side. I was sitting right in the front.

Srila Prabhupada was talking and getting reports of Juhu Bombay and he was also looking at us, moving his head like a camera. But whenever his glance fell on me, he would stop, before he moved again. And when he was coming back then he would stop. So, I was wondering.

Why was that? Whether I did not have tilaka on, or the buttons were open, I was trying to understand why I was getting Srila Prabhupada’s attention and then it went on, until he said, “STOP IT!” Then I realised what it was. Those days when I would hear with attention then I used to do this. [Demonstrates shaking his leg] You have probably seen people do this. This
was getting his attention.

Then I stopped. I never did that again. So that was my first instruction in fact from Srila Prabhupada: “Stop it.”

We had great good fortune being with Srila Prabhupada in the month of Kartik. This was in 1972. Other devotes had come from different parts of the world. Maybe forty-fifty devotees. It was the first Vrndavan festival being held. With those forty-fifty devotees, we thought so many devotees.

In 1973, I had come to get gayatri mantra- brahminical initiation. So, it was just me and Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada asked me “How many visitors come, in Juhu?” I said: “Lots of visitors come.” Srila Prabhupada said: “How many?” I said: “Fifty-sixty visitors come.” Prabhupada said: “So many!” So, fifty -sixty was so many. Now fifty-sixty visitors enter every minute. [Laughter]

So that Kartik festival was new to us. Everything was new. Vrndavan was new. Gurudas asked: “So what are we supposed to be doing?” Srila Prabhupada said: “Nothing much. Just chant twenty-four hours a day.”

This month is considered to help in mantra siddhi – achieving perfection in chanting the holy names of the Lord. So, a lot of devotees come to Vrndavan also and they do a lot of chanting during this month. There are a lot of blessings of Radha Rani also. They come and do uraja vrata. You are sitting here as if Bombay does not exist. You are in another world. It’s a concrete jungle. We are in the forest also here. It’s also Vrndavan. So many youths are also here. How many youths? I know some of you are young at heart. Under thirty. If you are under thirty raise your hand. Oh! You are not! Are you thirty-five? Oh, you are over thirty-five! I was trying to include you [laughter].

Times have changed. Youth are going to the temple during early morning hours. This wasn’t happening for some time. So, times have changed. Everyone used to think when we get old, religion was for those who fail,failure. Only turning to God when there is some difficulty. After enjoying this life and the body and the senses and then the body gets rotten and then swaha. We want to enjoy it. Useless! When we get old, we will do. Now, we think: “What’s the hurry?” So that attitude is changing. Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s movement is causing that change. We are very happy that the youth are stepping forward. Anyway, no one is old or young. This is again Dvandva.

dvandvatito vimatsarah [ Bg 4.22]

Srila Prabhupada’s disciple, Pancadravida swami said to Srila Prabhupada when he was sick “I am a young man. Could I offer my youth to you so that you could live longer? So that you may live, I don’t mind if I have to leave.” {Meaning his body} And that time Prabhupada said. “You are not young. I am not old.”

I’ll explain. One reporter said: “Swamiji, why are you offering sannyasa to your young disciples? It should be for the old.”

Srila Prabhupada asked, “What is your definition of old?” Reporter: “One who is about to die is old.” Srila Prabhupada said: “Well I am old. I am seventy five – eighty years old. My disciples are twenty-five, thirty years old. Yet, is there a guarantee that they will not die before me?” Do you understand what he is trying to say? Many of them did die.

So, one who is about to die is old. Who is not about to die? Anyone here? We take birth with a death certificate. Here it goes, guaranteed. One thing guaranteed. If you are looking for a guarantee, one thing is certain, as sure as death.

What happened? We wanted to stay in the mood of Yashoda Damodara. Because of not having enough time I thought I would not do the Bhagavatam verse and just talk something about Damodara or Damodarastak. So, I will sing one song. You have probably heard. This is balakrsna, Yashoda Nandana. Yeah, so that will bring us back into the mood again of the childhood pastimes. So many of them. Stealing butter. Makhan choris. It’s a very favourite pastime for the Lord and devotees also. There are so many, unlimited pastimes.

Like a wave, day and night, waves in the ocean.

So, this is in Gokul and it is night-time, or late in the evening. Yashoda is sitting in the courtyard of Nanda bhavan. Krsna is on the lap of mother Yashoda.

Yashoda cha maha bhaga.

Yashoda is very very fortunate. Krsna is lying where? On the lap of mother Yashoda. Then when Krsna looked up. What did he see? The moon. He thought this is some kind of a toy and he wanted to have that toy. Children think in terms of playing and eating. These two things they like the most. How to play with anything, any object, or eat it. The Lord is acting like a child of this world. That way He is hiding His identity. He is the creator of the moon. He knows what it is, yet He is playing ignorant.

maiya, chanda khilona laiyo

Please give me that toy, the moon and if you don’t give me, I will roll on the ground, but not lie on your lap because you are not giving me the toy. So, hurry up.

Surbhi ko paiya – If you do not give me that toy. I will not drink Surabhi’s milk anymore. What will you drink? Coka cola? [Laughter]

Lord Krsna also asked: “Why is Balarama’s sikha big one? My sikha is very tiny.” Yashoda: “Because Balrama drinks milk. If you drink, then you will also have a bigger sikha.” Now He says: “I will not drink milk! I don’t care for my sikha!” Still, Yashoda is not taking any action. Yashoda proposes that there is a toy shop here. He says: “No, no, that one!” As Yashoda has not fulfilled his desire, He says “I will tell everyone!” Yashoda: “What will you tell?” Lord Krsna: “That I am the son of Nanda Maharaja.”

Yashoda: “That’s nice. You are the son of Nanda Maharaja! There’s no problem. You may make that announcement.” Lord Krsna: “I will also tell them that I am not your son! So, you better hurry up.”

Like ultimatum. Krsna steals butter after He wakes up, right? He is already up. Now someone says I should wake Gopal up. Maybe in another brahmanda it’s time to wake Him up, while He has already stolen lots of butter in another brahmanda.

Creation of Lord is His Lila.

2008 Vrindavan [1:4:36]

So this morning we are reading from Srimad Bhagavatam canto 3 chapter 26
text number 60 th , which is a short purport so we’ll move onto the next one also.

So please repeat,
ksut-pipase tatah syatam
samudras tv etayor abhut
athasya hrdayam bhinnam
hrdayan mana utthitam.

Translation and purport by Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada ki jai!
Next grew feelings of hunger and thirst, and in their wake came the manifestation of the oceans. Then a heart became manifest, and in the wake of the heart the mind appeared. The ocean is considered to be the presiding deity of the abdomen, where the feelings of hunger and thirst originate.

In the abdomen, not in the mind. Hunger and thirst has origin in the abdomen, we get signals from the mind but mind is not independent, it’s coming from abdomen. There are connections.

When there is an irregularity in hunger and thirst, one is advised, according to ayurvedic treatment, to take a bath in the ocean. Now you know the treatment.
Okay, that’s the end of that purport.

So, text 61,
manasas candrama jato
buddhir buddher giram patih
ahankaras tato rudras
cittam caityas tato ’bhavat.

Translation, purport by Srila Prabhupada.

After the mind, the moon appeared. Intelligence appeared next, and after intelligence, Lord Brahma appeared. Then the false ego appeared and then Lord siva, and after the appearance of Lord siva came consciousness and the deity presiding over consciousness. The moon appeared after the appearance of the mind. The moon, there’s only one moon. Lord is also moon. Krishna Candra, Rama Chandra, Caitanya Chandra. There’s a little talk about that coming up here in this purport. But Chandra mentioned here by Kapila Muni is the moon in the sky. The moon appeared after the appearance of the mind, and this indicates that the moon is the presiding deity of mind. Something in the body is appearing, some part. Then its predominating deity appears, out there in the universe. We’ll be talking about that in a minute, but quickly, the creation is called Brahman and the body is called pinda. Whatever is in Brahman, there’s also in the pinda corresponding manifestations.

Similarly, Lord Brahma, appearing after intelligence, is the presiding deity of intelligence, and Lord siva, who appears after false ego, is the presiding deity of false ego. In other words, it is indicated that the moon- god is in the mode of goodness, whereas Lord Brahma is in the mode of passion and Lord siva is in the mode of ignorance. The appearance of consciousness after appearance of false ego indicates that, from the beginning, the material consciousness is under the mode of ignorance and that one therefore has to purify himself by purifying his consciousness.

This purificatory process is called Krsna consciousness. As soon as the consciousness is purified, the false ego disappears. Identification of the body with the self is called false identification, or false ego. Lord Caitanya confirms this in His siksastaka. He states that the first result of chanting the maha-mantra, Hare Krsna, is that dirt is cleared from the consciousness, or the mirror of the mind, and then at once the blazing fire of material existence is over.

Did you get that? Don’t sleep. You may miss some very important points.

The blazing fire of material existence is due to false ego, but as soon as the false ego is removed, one can understand his real identity. At that point he is actually liberated from the clutches of maya. As soon as one is freed from the clutches of false ego, his intelligence also becomes purified, and then his mind is always engaged upon the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everything is there in one purport. Purport is complete in itself.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared on the full-moon day as Gauracandra, or the spotless transcendental moon. The material moon has spots on it, but on the transcendental moon, Gauracandra, there are no spots. In order to fix the purified mind in the service of the Supreme Lord, one has to worship the spotless moon, Gauracandra. Those who are materially passionate or those who want to exhibit their intelligence for material advancement in life are generally worshipers of Lord Brahma, and the persons who are in the gross ignorance of identifying with the body worship Lord siva. Materialists like Hiranyakasipu and Ravana are worshipers of Lord Brahma or Lord siva, but Prahlada and other devotees in service of Krsna consciousness worship the Supreme Lord, the

Personality of Godhead. Sri Krishna Balarama ki jai!

So, this is, probably you’re in Vrndavan during kartik and expecting some rasa-lila kind of topics, but don’t be disappointed. This will also lead to that one. First thing first, first thing first then comes the next thing. So, this is the first thing in the Bhagavatam. This is also lila, creation, the fundamental principles of material nature, spoken by Lord Kapiladev, spoken to his own mother, certainly Kapila wouldn’t be wasting his time.

It’s important, it is essential to know the Lord and not just dancing, playing his flute but in the old context of the creation, where we fit into, but we want to get out of this existence, entanglement of this existence.

We have to understand how we are bound before we understand how Yashoda bound Krishna. That’s nice to relish those pastimes of Damodhar, but let us first understand how we are bound, what is binding us. If something has tied you down, sometimes rope, the rope is tied around here or whatever, before you try to untie that knot, what do you do? First take a close look, you look from here, this way that way, where should I start? Untying the knot, this knot okay now and then what is next?

Or what is next? and you understand how that rope has bound you. Before you begin untying that knot. So, same principle applies, what is binding me? Before how I could become free from bond. That is kind of subject-matter of the third canto of Bhagavatam or earlier canto before we go to ukhala bhandan lila, ukhala bhandan, bhandan, Krishna was bound to the mortar ukhala,

atha te sampravaksyami tattvanam laksanam prthak [SB 3.26.1]

This is how the, we are in text 60 th , the very first verse of this chapter says; “my dear mother”, atha te sampravaksyami, “I will now speak to you”. Sampravaksyami, thoroughly, in detail, I will give you, provide you all the details. Sampravaksyami tattvanam laksanam prthak, the elements, material existence, which is binding, so you will know the symptoms, you will understand those elements and their functions.

yad viditva vimucyeta purusah prakrtair gunaih [SB 3.26.1]
prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah
ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate [BG 3.27]

Lord says, Bhagavad Gita, that is Bhagavad Gita just something introductory and you want to find explanation, purport to Bhagavad Gita is the Bhagavatam. Bhagavad Gita is a verse or text, Bhagavatam is the purport, explanation.

prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah

Everyone is bound, everyone is bound by the three modes of material nature.

prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani, gunaih karmani sarvasah,

all our activities are controlled by gunaih, guna, again the ropes of the material nature, they are making us dance. We do not see those ropes, they have been mentioned in this chapter, presiding deities are there. Each and every part of our body gross and subtle as my hand is moving, I hope in Vrndavan, demigods have no control, it is said. The Demigods have no access, although they have full charge over the material existence, but in Vrndavan they cannot even pick up speck of dust from one spot and place it on another.

So, purusah prakrtair gunaih, so by knowing the symptoms, the activities of the gunas of the material nature, vimucyeta, one becomes vimucyeta, becomes free. So, before the discourse, this is the purpose stated, “Why am I going to talk to you? All that I will be talking to you at great length and full details, my purpose is this.” Lord says, Kapila Muni,

yad viditva vimucyeta

One becomes free, you become mukta then you become bhakta then you could sit down and relish the pastimes of the Lord. Not while you are being bothered, the whole agitation going on and you are not taking care of it. Not subdued the mind and not attained the intelligence.

dadami buddhi-yogam

Intelligence coming directly from the Lord, yena mam upayanti te and that intelligence, Lord says, then my devotee will use that intelligence to come to me, not to exploit this material existence and try to exploit, enjoy, isvaro ‘ham with that spirit.

ksut-pipase tatah syatam

Thirst and hunger has become manifest, tatah syatam, after something. So, this verse, what has been stated in the beginning verse, has connection with the ending of the previous verse.
udaram nirabhidyata, then appeared an abdomen, verse 59 said, then appeared the abdomen, udaram nirabhidyata, tatah, so from once there was abdomen, ksut-pipase, there was thirst and hunger and then samudras, the ocean, presiding deity.

hrdayam bhinnam hrdayan mana utthitam,

then the heart became manifest and hrdayan from hrda, mana utthitam, heart and mind. manasas candrama jato then when there’s mind presiding deity, mind the moon. Then intelligence, then giram patih, the Brahma is born.

ahankaras tatah then false ego. rudras cittam rudra is born tatah 'bhavat. And this kind, what could living entity with teeny brain, Prabhupada would say, teeny brain, tiny brain, what could they understand? The subject-matter which could be described as acintya and could just keep it aside, it’s not for me, you know, acintya, inconceivable. But something something, not that Kapila muni has said everything here but something that human beings possible could grasp has been presented and then you also have to be sort of devotee to even understand this, to assimilate this information, not just accumulate but assimilate. Assimilation is yet another level, not you put the food inside but then it has to be digested, assimilated into energy that you could use for functioning.

All that has been said here, it’s not just information technology here that is going on in this world today. Information technology, but there’s no transformation. Lots of information no transformation but this information is another nature, meant to change, transform us, transform our character, our whole paradigm shift, leading to not only studying the principles of material nature but then the source of this nature or Whose nature is it?

Prabhupada would say, “Whose nature is it? So, by knowing this nature, it could lead a natural life, leading to a spiritual life. That’s the natural life, not, life in this world, without Krishna consciousness it may be some kind of simple life or natural living but if it is not Krishna conscious living, then it is not again natural, it is artificial, material. So, spiritual life is the natural ultimate and natural life.

So, purusa, virat-purusa has been talked about and from virat-purusa, and from virat-purusa, the two other virat-purusas are coming. All the living entities are purusas and the demigods are purusas. The dead matter cannot move by itself, if I leave this watch, it will stay there unless some living force picks it up and places it in another place or some strong wind could also come, you don’t see who’s behind the wind. There are demigods, some demigod behind the wind and he could blow my watch. It’s either that some living force, living entity can move the nature, the dead matter.

So, living entities at our level whatever different moments we manage, again, we are not free, we move things, we move ourselves or something moves us. But then we are not independent in our movements unless the demigods are right behind or right with us, above us. Then again, demigods are also not free to move. There’s someone above them and that is Supreme Personality of Godhead who declares again in Bhagavad Gita;

mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [BG 9.10]

Supreme Personality of Godhead is the superintendent. He’s moving the matter through demigods and the living entities. He is in charge. He is the boss and there’s no one above Him. But, I was talking early. All that is in the Brahman, in the universe, that is also in the little universe of our body.
So, there is Brahmanda and the body is called pinda.

pinde pinde matirbhinaa

You heard? Or some say munde munde matirbhinna. Munde, every head has a matir- Intelligence, ideas, concepts, bhinna.

munde munde matir bhinna

Each munde or it’s also called pinda. Matirbhinna,

ya matir sa gatir

What kind of matir you have, that kind of gatir you achieve, what kind of destination you achieve. So, matir and gatir, so first matir. munde munde matirbhinna There’s different ideas to exploitation, enjoyment and then you go different directions. Brahman?a bhramite, they’re going round and round, enjoy this enjoy that, your gatir, your destination, anyway is complicating things. So, the munde and pinda, that’s what we’re talking. This body, munda, pinda is body. Munda, pinda, this body and all that is in the universe gets into the body, pindanam, there’s a word called pindanam, we’re just looking at the dictionary meaning; coagulation, coagulation, the word called coagulation. In chemistry laboratory, with the use of electrons, there’s some kind of solution and electrons specially alum, they all get attracted to these and they become, they all get together and form kind of a hard substance or body, all that is in the solution, some particular elements they come together and they form a pinda, pindanam, coagulation. So, all that is in the universe from Brahmanda it comes and forms a pinda, forms a body, so there’s something that has come up in this chapter. What we have in the body there’s corresponding existence of it in the universe and its predominating deity. We have abdomen inside and the ocean connection, like that. Everything has a connection around us or in the universe and demigods in charge and ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

This is kind of sankhya yoga and sankhya points, brings us to the origin of all these elements and that is aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate, again Bhagavad Gita, aham sarvasya prabhavo. Lord is source of all that exists, spiritual as well as the material existence. To how this world was created. The whole cosmos and cosmology is very major, one of the ten unanswered questions, they say, “How the world was created?

How it came into existence?” There’s no answer to this question and if there are answers and explanations that exist, that is right here, the third canto of Bhagavatam. You find some astronomy also in the fifth canto of Bhagavatam. Bhagavatam is answer to all the questions. Otherwise without the help of this knowledge, the sabda, sound coming from the Lord, this knowledge coming from the Lord, how could possibly living entities understand something that happened billions of years ago? We could only speculate and that is, a speculation is, one speculation called big bang, some big bang and some kind of explosion took place but then who was there to explode it? Someone was there to become the cause of the explosion. All these terrorist are doing explosions, let this one took place, in our song we heard. There may not be a remote somewhere there pushing button, someone behind. You may not see so there is nothing automatic in this world, there’s nothing automatic. When we do not see someone, we do not see the cause or hand involved then say, oh it’s automatic but there’s nothing automatic. If you find out go deeper, reverse back the connection you will see ultimately there’s person behind, even beyond behind this big bang, there’s mahatattva and the glancing upon that mass, the matter and creating agitation and the living entities entering bodies and the whole Mahavisnu, more universes and garbhodaka-sayi Visnu entering each universe and then Ks?rodakasay?-Visnu entering each of those atoms, “I am in the anda in Brahmanda” and that is garbhodaka-sayi Visnu. […] the atom.

andantara-stha-paramanu- chayantara-stham [Brahma Samita]

I am within the atom also. Kana kana may bhagvaan, in every anu parmanu there’s a Lord, so He is in smallest unit of the universe, He is there and in whole brahman He is there as kind of a soul in that universal body in the form of Garbhodaka-sayi Visnu. He is described, Lord is described, “Where is Lord present?” Lord is present “otam protam.”
Lord’s existence is described as otam protam, like in a cloth, the threads are this and that way, there are threads everywhere in a cloth, this way, that way. So Lord is everywhere

andantara-stha-paramanu- chayantara-stham.

So, this speculation trying to avoid God, “We don’t need God because I am God.” isvaro ‘ham, that’s the idea. Then you forget this sastras, gita, bhagavat because they talk of some other God and who has seen and all that and the reasoning. It’s the faith and reason, “Oh these are just blind followers, this religionist”. We are another party and we are reasoning party, we want to reason, we want to see the proof of everything before we accept. So, this has always existed but in the modern times, this maybe started whenever this industrial civilisation, so-called western civilisation came into existence, that who was, he wanted to come to India Columbus, same time as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was exploring the Gauracandra mentioned in this port, He was going within deeper and was talking about going within, realising the soul and going within to the Supersoul. This fellow, he wanted to come to India but he went to the other direction and he found the land of opportunities, land of opportunity, which is now melting down, economic melt-down.

So, it started some 500 years ago, when they got into another economy. There was agrarian economy in this world headed by Nanda Maharaja in Gokul, he was a leader of the agrarian community, vaisya community. Nandaraja or Brajaraj and they knew and that was being followed in the vedic times. Economy is based on the land and the cows; who is wealthy?

One who has more cows. More land. That person is a wealthy person, not who has more nuts and bolts. And when you’re hungry you cannot do the deep frying of nuts and bolts in your petrol and use some of them for your breakfast and when you’re hungry. So, that’s the kind of material, so industrial civilisation and industrial economy was created with that faithlessness came into existence, show me. Then gradually this, the state and religion was separated prior to that, the rajarsis existed, evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh What I am talking to you Arjun, this is learned in parampara and the first party to learn this are the rajarsi, the saintly kings. The saints and the kings, this used to be the team because saints had, or the kings had association of the saints or guidance counselling so those rajas were rajarsi, saintly kings. They worked as a team, state, the administration, the kingdom, the king and the advisors, the vidvan, the pandit, the scholars, the brahmanas, vaisnavas, they work together. But then at some point, this was separated, state and religion, secular state. Even India went for this with great pride following the example of the modern civilisation of the west, India adopted this as part of their constitution in 1947, our secular state, we are now separating religion from, we don’t have a worry, “We only take care of the secular needs of the population. We only take care of the roti kapada makan.” They talk about. Roti? You know roti? Chapati.

Kapada- clothes, makan-housing. “This is our concern. Beyond that? It’s not our business. We are secular state. We don’t want to interfere with religion or be partial to this religion and closer to this one and at distant from that one. No no, we are neutral, we are secular. Let the religion go to whatever hell.” The communism also has sprung up out of this. That has again origin. The capitalism did not work. They tried few hundred years capitalism. That experiment was total failure then the world was looking for something else to try we could try. Okay let’s go for communism, “All the country it belongs to us. And we will just enjoy it together; there is no one above us, no no.” God, forget. Did you go to the church? Yes, we did.
Did you ask for something? Yes. What for, what did you ask for? Oh!

Bread, oh God give us daily bread. Did He give you? No, He did not give. Now pray to the communist.” Oh! Communist come and give us the daily bread and they used to have this truckloads of bread, Prabhupada used to talk about this, and then they were handing out the bread. “Just see, you went to the church, you prayed to God for your daily bread, He’s not giving you but as soon as you prayed to us, wasn’t there bread immediately available?” So, systematically they were trying to kill the remaining faith of remaining people. Faith in God. We are just communists.

But then the day arrived and they used the cranes and they were lifting statues of Lennon, from wherever they were stationed, they lifting and they’re dumping into the gut of our oceans. Lennon, he was the leader.

“You have your leader, we have our leader.” Prabhupada. He was in Moscow “You have your leader Lennon, we have our leader Krishna. You have your communism, we have our communism, Bhagavat says everything belongs to the Lord, isavasyam idam sarvam. Not that everything belongs to us now. We are the Russians, the owners of this land who will enjoy it together, we share it but we will not share nothing with God.

It’s also the year of Darwin. This year or next year, they’re getting ready, 100 or 200. 200 anniversary of Darwin, Darwin’s theory of evolution which is being dumped already and some people still getting ready for a grand celebration of the bi-centennial of the father of evolution. Who starts, in the beginning there was amoeba and Bhagavatam says in the beginning there was a Brahma. Amoeba and then gradually there’s no intelligence, least intelligent being came into existence and there was evolution and further evolution. Prabhupada made so many jokes about this and he had his boot on the faces of the scientists. He wouldn’t like to just kick them bare feet but with a boot on and give a kick. So, the most intelligent, Brahma intelligence, we’re seeing connection here. The most intelligent, the most evolved, even four-headed, not just one head that was the first one to take birth, four-headed person has taken birth. This is the fact, this is history. In the beginning, Brahma was there not amoeba and then evolution and then monkeys and then monkeys. They walk on their hind legs then four legs. So, he explains how the monkeys started kind of rising. And the hind limbs or legs remained the legs but the fore limbs, they became the hands. The tail of the monkey went inside [laughter] and then he was a fully-fledged. So, one party says we are ancestors of monkeys, Bhagavatam says we are ancestors of Brahma. From Brahma’s mind comes manu and manusyas come from manu.

See all this distraction, side-tracking, just avoid the Lord, just avoid the Lord, so that we could remain the Lord, so we could remain the isvaras. So asura sampradaya, devi sampradaya that’s the topic of the Bhagavad Gita, divine and demoniac, those parties have always existed. But more now in number in this age of kali. But they are also not independent of the Lord, the Lord’s arrangement. They are influenced by the forgetfulness which is a creation of the Lord. Forgetfulness, remembrance is creation of the Lord.

Forgetfulness is creation of the Lord. It comes from the Lord;

sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam

From me, I am situated in the heart as Supersoul and from Me comes knowledge, remembrance and forgetfulness. See if someone has forgotten God because they wish to forget so God arranges, okay you would love to forget Him? “I can arrange. You would like to forget? Sure. I can make all the, give you lots of logic and arguments. I will equip with you lot of logic and argument so you could be satisfied. Be convinced of no existence of God and then you could enjoy because if God exists then He is going to interfere with my enjoyment then God is going to be talking about, oh this is a pious activity and this is a sinful activity. If you’re fine you go to Swarga, if you’re sinful, you go to hell. Oh this God is going to be talking, He is going to be reminding me. I am going to be feeling guilty. I want to just throw all of this, be free and just jump in the middle of feeling free.”

So, you could be. Forgetfulness could cover over you and you could boldly “God does not exist! God does not exist!” who is saying this? God is telling him, “Go ahead, go ahead say it. God does not exist.” This is a text, purport also, a little more purport. Write the books, give talks, “God does not exist.” But who is telling him God does not exist. God tells him.
This kind of ignorance is also creation of God. Human beings have not create ignorance, it exists. As we were hearing yesterday from Vayasaki prabhu. Prabhupada said I am equal to everyone, my mercy is equal to everyone but this Visnujana prabhu has taken more of that mercy, its equally available. So, it depends what you take, how much you take. It is available. Both things are also available. Krishna consciousness is also available, illusory consciousness, illusory is also available. What do you go for? Choice is yours. You’re on the beach, you could enter the ocean, you could go to the land, you could come to temple. you could go to cinema house, both things are there. Is someone in there? Who is it?

So, the little child came to the door. “Is your father here?” “Oh! Let me check.” The child goes all over big house, looking for her father. “Daddy, daddy, you know your friend has come. Father was not interested. So, he says “Tell him that I am not here.” The child back to the door and tells “You know my father said that he is not here.” My father said… God does not exist. Who said? God said, God said that He does not exist. You want to be convinced that way so that arrangement is also there. So this kind of party nastik, astik party is also described. Asti means He is, astik astik, He is. He exists! He exists! Astik! Astik! So one who accepts His existence is called astiko. And one who thinks oh no He doesn’t exist, nastiko. Deva asura eva ca, devatas and asuras. The Krishna conscious party and the other party. And sure there was a time all those who knew reading and writing, only thing that they read throughout their lives was sastras. There was nothing else to read, they didn’t feel there was anything else outside sastra the need to read. Everything was in there.

Vedas and puranas and Vedantasutra and Gita and Bhagavat. This is all that they read and all the studies were based on just the sastras. A verb in Sanskrit called sas meaning ruling over or administration, rule, sas. So, the sastras used to rule the life. Guide the lives of people. Sastras or based on the sastras, then the kings would rule. They would get all their mantra from mantri. Mantri, minister. Why were they called mantris? Because they had mantras. “Minister, minister, mantriji mantri.” “You know this happened, what should I do?” “Here’s a mantra.” And they were so smart, realised, well-versed. Immediately they would come with some mantra. They had a mantra, they had a sloka for different folks, different slokas. For every occasion they had some mantra. So, one who provided mantra, they were called mantris. And mantra came from the sastras. So, kings had sastra and sastra. This is how also, the rule. Sastra, scriptures and sastra. Those who do not follow the sastra, those who want to go against the sastra, okay here comes the sastra. Here comes some kind of weapon. But when using of the sastra was based on the…the sastra was based on sastra. When to use sastra, when to use weapon, when not to use the weapon. This was all guided by the sastra, by the scriptures and by learned, wise, impartial personalities. They would go give these advise to the kings.

dharmo rakshati rakshitah

So, by protecting religion, those who protect religion, that religion in turn protects them. Dharmo rakshati rakshitah. You protect religion that religion will protect you. So, kings, they would protect that religion. They were protectors of that religion. And then they knew then their citizens would be protected always upheld the principles of religion. Always upheld the principles of Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavatam and that was all that taught. All these kulagurus, Sandipani muni. Every school was a Vidyapeeth. Every school was a Vidyapitha. And every teacher was some rushi, some muni. So, that has. So, starting somewhere around five years.

Big deviation, big distraction and a big way distancing from the Vedic thought. Vedic lifestyle, Vedic version but the results are a total failure that’s what Prabhupada said. Modern civilisation is total failure. Seven days, Prabhupada spoke on this topic, in ’77 his last lecture series in Bombay, everyday he spoke, “Modern civilisation, total failure. Only alternative is Krishna consciousness.” Maybe to a lot of us, it was not obvious, thirty years ago when Prabhupada was speaking but he was foreseeing but now it is more than clear to more people, if they’re doing fine their mundane affairs or whatever even happily living, good health, good this, good family, good whatever. Even that they cannot manage.

Bad health, most sick country in the world is America, most sick nation on the planet is America. When I read that kind of survey result, when I heard, I was not surprised. Because we all know. They also are very proud, land of opportunities. The bhoga, the bhogis on the planet. Most bhoga is done in America. Whole bhoga is taught by the western world and then they went even further west. They were only in Europe and then Columbus found the land and they moved further west and they became western.

Distancing from the eastern part. Just opposite of the east is the west so a big turn around and they tried it. 500 years, this has been tried and failure. Splitting of the families can’t even, no peace of mind, can’t digest what they eat, cannot sleep, can buy very expensive beds but they can’t sleep at night. They can purchase lots of food but when it is cooked, they tell the servants “You eat, no hunger.” The big bosses have their cooks or their cook. When the offering is ready to be offered to the bosses, bosses have no hunger, you eat. So, they have nice appetite, the workers and the cooks eat. And there’s terrorism, and this and that and pollution, air pollution, mind pollution. Everything is polluted. “Don’t breathe, close your nose.” when the instructions come in, I know in Los Angeles when the pollution is kind if bad, they close the schools and they “don’t go out, don’t send your children to the street, stay indoors, there’s very bad pollution.” So, one day they will say, stop breathing using the television communication.

They have all these means. So, mind’s predominating deity is the moon. From moon comes oja one who has ojas is called Ojasvi He kind of creates, his mind is healthy and creates an aura around him and he could defend all the attacks of different sorts of different concepts, different this, that, could shield himself from all those. If he has nice mind, clean mind, pure mind-ojasvi, tejasvi. So, for vaisnavas, they go even beyond the mind, candra. They go to the moon or the Caitanya candra, He is spotless and He was given process of chanting of,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hara Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

He is spotless and anyone who chants Hare Krishna, his mind also would become spotless, ceto darpana marjanam and that’s the protection. Krishna consciousness then you could protect yourself, So, Caitanya candra when He appeared, this moon in the sky, he covered his face cos he knew that another moon which is spotless moon He is appearing. So, this moon in the sky was thinking oh my face has so many spots, how could I show my face with all black spots, let me cover my face. So, he appeared with his face covered, with the skills of the moon eclipse, comments are given like that. The moon, he didn’t want to show his face,

candra koti chandra jini vadana ujjwala

That moon has brilliant face like a thousand moon effulgence is emanating from His face, from His personality. But look at my face, I don’t want anyone to look at, so many spots, I hide my face. So, he hid his face with the pretense of, this is moon eclipse, you know moon eclipse. So, both candras. Two candras appeared at the same time, as moon was rising in the east on the horizon. Caitanya candra also took birth, appearance of candra in Mayapur, Yogapeeth.

So, we have both the candra in the sky at our disposal and we have yet another candra, best of all the candras, Caitanya candra and we could just take shelter of Him, take shelter of something that He has delivered to the world, the holy name and He also, Caitanya candra took great interests in these sastras. Srimad Bhagavatam pramanam amalam, He says. Srimad Bhagavatam pramanam amalam. Srimad Bhagavatam is authority because it is a spotless purana, it is amalam, it is a spotless purana. So, then that purana has been given to us by Srila Prabhupada. And hundreds and thousands of devotees are already convinced about the contents and they have kicked Darwin out of their mind long time ago and the theories.

Anyway hate the sin, not the sinner. Don’t have to that Darwin committed some kind of sin by proposing something anti-Bhagavat, against Bhagavad, conclusion of Bhagavat. There was no need. But the words are no we don’t know how the world was created, could someone supply theory. So, then speculation came up. But then the stories of Bhagavatam, they will not look beyond Bhagavat. There are more and more students and followers of this Bhagavat, person also like Prabhupada, goswamis of Vrndavan, they wouldn’t think twice. This is it. So, as we distribute Bhagavatm more, sets of Bhagavatam more and more people read then immediately everything lese is out. Doesn’t fit into the picture, doesn’t make sense. So, this is most intelligible, most intelligent approach, information. In fact, history as we said. Coming from Kapiladev so with the spreading of Krishna consciousness and with more and more distribution of this knowledge, this Bhagavatam, all the darkness will disappear. Where there is sun, there is no darkness.

Krishna-surya sama maya haya andhakara.

So, the world was thinking, we don’t know how the world was created, let’s find out. There’s no need to do experiments with the truth. The truth exists. You don’t make experiments with the truth. Someone tried to do that then Prabhupada founded also Bhaktivedanta institute with a very important task cos scientists are gurus these days. For most of the people, scientists are gurus who cares for the gurus or scientists are. Prabhupada wanted his devotee, his disciples, scientist disciples to prove Krishna is the supreme scientist and life comes from life and not from matter and all these. The creation. And then his vision was this planetarium in Mayapur. Not only we install deities and we have this and that but part of the temple complex, planetarium.

Challenging the modern scientific approach and so-called science. Challenging the whole science, of course Krishna is challenging. On behalf of Krishna, his pure devotee, Srila Prabhupada challenged. Alright, we are overtime,
Grantharaj Srimad Bhagavatam ki jai!

Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Jagannath ratha yatra
0308 2019
Los Angeles
Occasion: Day before ratha yatra

You’ll are so serious. Relax! What is today? Don’t say it’s Saturday! It is the day before

Jagannath ratha yatra. Jagannath ratha yatra mahotsav ki..jai!. Tomorrow is ratha yatra here. In Jagannath Puri, the day before ratha yatra there is darsana of Jagannath. Here we are getting darsana tomorrow. We have been praying and crying

“Jagannath svami nayana-patha-gami bhavatu me”
You are singing and praying: “Oh Jagannath! nayana patha- gami bhavatu me”.

Bhavatu – You become. Patha – path and nayana are eyes. Oh! Lord you become visible on the path of my eyes. I am looking here; this is the path of my eyes. Now this is the path, nayan pathi gami wherever my eyes go, eyesight goes to see, see something, oh Lord you be there, wherever I look.

yato yato yami tato Narsimha

Wherever I go O Lord Narsimha, you be there. That’s the idea. So, we have been praying. So here, we have to wait for another day. Could we manage? Could we survive another day? I am sure the Lord is also anxious to see the devotees. So, the day before ratha yatra in Jagannath Puri the Lord gives darsana. That day also has a name.

That day is also a festival, Netrutsava! Festival for the eyes or feast for the eyes. Netrutsava. The devotees have been fasting for a long time now. For two weeks they have been fasting
and they are very very eager to have darsana again of Jagannath and then Jagannath gives darsana on this day. Then that day becomes from fasting to feasting. Feast for eyes. And devotees see the Lord on that day to their hearts content.

I am remembering one such day. I was in Jagannath Puri for the first time ever. That was in 1977. I had never ever seen Jagannath. You can imagine how anxious I was to see Jagannath and it wasn’t just myself. We had a BBT travelling sankirtana party. Rameshwara Prabhu reminds me of the BBT traveling party. We had gone to Jagannath Puri traveling and distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books. We arrived the day before ratha yatra and we wanted to go in for darsana of Jagannath.

“Jay! Jagannath”. We were shouting as we entered. I was kind of a brand-new sannyasi. We had some brahmacaris with me and we entered simhadwara. Have you heard that term? Lion Gate. There are different gates, four gates. So, this is the eastern gate and we had a few more gates to go through before we could get darsana. As we were trying to enter the next gate, we were stopped by the pandas. They stretched their arms out: “You can’t go!.” I said: “What! We can’t go for darsana?” They had found out that this was an ISKCON team. And those days they didn’t like ISKCON, even these days they don’t like so much. I was the leader there, so I was asking: “Why can’t I go?”

“You are born Christian and these ISKCON people have converted you. Now you have become Hindu. ISKCON converted you. “

I don’t know if they had a dream or something. They found out. The tug of war continued. And we were kind of defeated. They were well-built pandas. We were tiny austere sannyasis and brahmacaris. So finally, they picked us up. Literally, they picked us up and placed us outside simha dwara. So, when we were there, looking around, one prabhu was missing. He was Riksharaj. If you know Riksharaj. He played sitar also. So, he also wanted to join our team. He was born Christian and he wanted darsana. He looked different. He was of a different complexion. Like Shesha Prabhu. So, it was easy for him to sneak in. While we were battling, he took a detour and he entered. Most of the pandas were battling with us therefore there was no one to guard the other temple gates. So, as we were looking around for Riksharaj, there he comes from inside the temple and he says:

“Maharaja, caran tulsi for you!” He managed to even get tulsi. “Pujari gave tulsi for you.” Hari Hari! So, we took darsana of Riksharaj. Because he had taken darsana of Jagannath and
we touched him. We embraced him because he had taken in Jagannath.

Jay! Jagannath! I thought that this was a lila of Jagannath. So that was my first encounter with Jagannath Puri and Jagannath on ratha yatra day. Then we had to wait for another day, like here we have to wait for another day. So, we must have the right mood for ratha yatra day.

I have been asked to read from Caitanya Caritamrita. Today is the climax and what we are asked to read is the pastime on the actual ratha yatra day.

Jaganath ratha yatra mahotsava ki..Jay!
Just to set the scene before we read Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya 14.

So, on ratha yatra day, In Jagannath Puri, Jagannath walks out of His residence, His temple. Their walking out pastime is called Pandu Vijay. Remember, we kind of see the pandas. They tie ropes around the waist of Jagannath. With 10, 20 or 50 of them on one side and they lift Him and place Him forward, lift Him and place Him forward. They do not just lift Him and place Him on the chariot. No, that doesn’t happen. They let the Lord walk. The idea is that Lord is walking. He is walking and climbing and getting on the chariot. It is a very beautiful scene. Then on ratha yatra day in 1977, and many more occasions we were there to witness. There is a big crowd and what do you end up seeing? I was strategically placed at the right location at the right time. A few years ago, when there was navakalevara. Nava – new. Kalevara- body or form. The Lord’s daru brahma. Daru is wood. The wood He is made up of is Brahma, Daru Brahma. He gets a new form, new body every twelve years. So that happened a few years ago and I was in the courtyard. I managed to enter the courtyard. I was there and I think as soon as the Lord was stepping out of the temple, His glance fell upon me and I saw Jagannath. The meeting of eyes. I hope it was a meeting of hearts also. I want to think like that. A nice darsana, Jagannath Swami ki… Jay!! So that’s Pandu Vijay. The Lord walks out of the temple, onto the street and onto the chariot then He takes His seat onto the throne.

Sri Krsna Caitanyaa Mahaprabhu ki…Jay!! He used to be there. Not that He is not there now. During his prakat lila, the Lord attended ratha yatra. Eighteen times Lord Caitanya attended ratha yatra mahotsava and as the Lord would take His seat on the chariot, Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu would arrive, offering His full dandavats to Jagannath Swami. Then He would stand in front of the deity and He would offer prayers to Jagannath.

jayati jayati devo devaki-nandano 'sau
jayati jayati ko vrsni-vamSa-pradipah
jayati jayati megha-Syamalah komalango
jayati jayati prthvi-bhara-naSo mukundah

(CC. Madhya 13.78)
This is one of the many prayers the Lord will offer which are listed in Caitanya Caritamrita. So, this is very special. All glories to Jagannath! All glories!

jayati jayati devo – You are Dev. Jagannath Dev. devaki-nandano 'sau – You are none other than Devaki Nandana.
vrsni-vamSa-pradipah – You are Krsna, appeared in Vrsni dynasty. You are deepa, you are lamp.

All glories to You, Jagannath!
jayati jayati – All glories to Jagannath

megha-Syamalah komalango- What kind of Jagannath are you? Megha shyamala. You are Shyamaal, Your complexion is of the monsoon clouds. And to touch You – You are very soft.

prthvi-bhara-naSo mukundah- You destroyed the extra burden of the earth and hence You are Mukundah – Liberator. You liberated Prithvi.

Then different devotees arrived from everywhere to Jagannath Puri. From west Bengal from east Bengal, from Kuling-gram, from Shantipur. Right? All of you have come from somewhere. Next door, next block, from Alachua and so on. So, in Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s days, they would get divided into several kirtana parties. Kirtana mandalis- kirtana parties “And you will be leading in this group, And you Vishvambar, you are leading this group , and you will dance in that group and Vaisheshika prabhu will be the lead dancer in this group and Rameshwar Prabhu you will dance in another group.” The kirtana was out of this world. When these parties were arriving, entering Jagannath Puri, King Prataprudra was reminded. He had climbed up on the rooftop of his palace and Sarvabhaum Bhattacarya was with him and Gopinath Acarya, I think, was also there. All these kirtana parties were new to King Prataprudra.

“Oh, who is that there, with the beard? Oh! Advaitacarya!”
“And that with the blue dhothi, who is that one? Oh, that is Nityananda.”

King Prataprudra said: “You know, I have heard many kirtans, so many times in the past. Same mantra, same mridanga and kartals. This kirtana is different. What is this kirtana?”

And he was told this is prem nama. This kirtana is Prem nama. Its offence-less chanting. It is pure chanting. That is how King Prataprudra was introduced to this kirtana. So kirtans are on. Seven parties are chanting and dancing and Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu had seen Prataprudra.

Today what we are supposed to be reading is about Prataprudra. He is the hero of today’s theme or topic. We are just setting the scene. Hari Hari!

So, Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu had seen King Prataprudra with a broom in his hand and sweeping the street in front of Jagannath’s cart. And that had amazed Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu and He was pleased also, highly pleased and He made up His mind. There is nothing wrong with meeting King Prataprudra.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu did not want to meet at first. It went on for several months or years that Mahaprabhu was not going to meet the King.

“No no no no! King Prataprudra and I have to meet. I have made up my mind. I said no! Forget it. And if you appeal to Me one more time, I will leave the town. I will go away.” So, the Lord had warned all those. Sarvabhaum and others. But today He saw King Prataprudra with broom in hand and He changed His mind towards King Prataprudra, and later on, He would be seeing him, touching him and embracing him. But before that, the topic for us is the meeting which is going to take place in Jagannath Vallabha garden on the way to Gundica temple.

So, before that happens Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu started giving darsana to King Prataprudra. Exclusively to King Prataprudra. What was that darsana? When King Prataprudra was looking around, he saw Caitanya Mahaprabhu in all the kirtana mandalis.

Yet, the kirtaniyas in the different parties were thinking:

“He is only with us. We must be very special. He is in our party. He is in our party!” That was not the case. Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu was dancing in all the parties. Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu bestowed very special mercy upon King Prataprudra and he was able to see Caitanya Mahaprabhu dancing in ALL the parties. Ok then, down the road as kirtana is happening, Caitanya Mahaprabhu is chanting and dancing in front of Jagannath also. Jagannath is Krsna and Caitanya Mahaprabhu is there as Radha Rani. Radha rani in Him, is in action. Krsna is also in Him. They are two in one, right? Krsna takes back seat, and Radha Rani is in the forefront and interfacing with Jagannath as,

radha-bhava-dyuti-suvalitam naumi krsna-svarupam [CC adi 1.5]

The Svarupa of Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu is radha-bhava-dyuti-suvalitam radha-bhava- Radhas emotions Dyuti – the complexion like Radha Rani also. So, that Sri Krsna Caitanya Radha Krsna nahi anya. Now He is Radha rani and They are having pastimes during ratha yatra. Hari Hari! And you know ratha yatra festival is a festival of Vraja vasis. Vrndavan vasis. Those that are pulling the chariot, they are residents of Vrndavan, or they are in the mood of Vrajavasis. They are meeting after a very long time.

Vraja vasis had met Dwarkavasis in Kuruksetra and Vrajavasis had gone to meet and see Krsna in Kuruksetra. He had come from Dwarka and they had a plan. “This time as we see Him. We will bring Him back to Vrndavan. We will drag Him back to Vrndavan! He may be seated on the chariot. We will pull the chariot. We will get rid of the horses. You, horses, get out! We will become the horses! We will pull the chariot and bring the Lord back to Vrindavana. “

So Jagannath ratha yatra, this is what is happening. Jagannath Puri temple is like Dwarka or even Kuruksetra and Gundica temple is Vrndavan. All those that is pulling the chariot are
residents of Vrndavan. And they are bringing Krsna back to Vrndavan.

Lord Caitanya is talking, praying. “mora mana Vrndavan. My mind is Vrndavan. Oh Jagannath! Please, make your residence in my mind. You were away from my mind or my heart. I invite you back into your home, my minds home, into my heart.” mora mana Vrndavan.

So Caitanya Mahaprabhu was chanting and dancing and dancing and dancing. It was very special. There is a description of the dance as uddanda nrtya [CC Madhya 13.82]

The Lord will fly high into the sky, and then He will crash, fall. And Nityananda prabhu is keeping watch. Before the crash He must be there to catch or to support. Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda moving like lightning. Caitanya Mahaprabhu sometimes goes moving round and round. The tears from is eyes, not just drops, but what? Shower! All around will get drenched or wet with the showers of Sri Krsna Caitanyaa Mahaprabhu. So then, time for uphala bhoga. On the way to Gundica, and it is time for the Lords offering. He is a big eater, Jagannath. The pujari doesn’t give a little plate. Tons of food is offered. This we have seen. So, time for uphala bhoga of Lord Jagannath. Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu has entered the garden. He is lying down with his eyes closed. You remember? The Lord had made up His mind to do what? To see, give darsana. Meet King Prataprudra.

That’s all that the Lord had to do. Just desire! Then He has His Shakthi’s. Lila shaktis , jnana shaktis, all the shaktis, they get into desire. We also call her yoga maya. So, preparations were made for that meeting to take place. Caitanya Mahaprabhu was lying down and everyone told King Prataprudra. “This is the time. This is the time. Go, go go!”

So, he had taken out his crown and his sword. He put on vaisnava robes and he approached Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

sarvabhauma-upadeSe chadi’ raja-veSa
ekala vaisnava-veSe karila praveSa

[CC Madhya 14.5]

chadi raja-veSa. He gave up raja vesa – Kings royal dress. With vaisnava vesa he does pravesa. With vaisnava attire, he enters the garden.

saba-bhaktera ajna nila yoda-hata hana
prabhu-pada dhari’ pade sahasa kariya

Maharaja Prataprudra was so humble that with folded hands he first took permission from all the devotees. Then, with great courage, he fell down and touched the lotus feet of the Lord.

[CC Madhya 14.6]

ankhi mudi’ prabhu preme bhumite Sayana
nrpati naipunye kare pada-samvahana

As Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu lay on the raised platform with His eyes closed in ecstatic love and emotion, the King very expertly began to massage His legs.

[CC Madhya 14.7]

rasa-lilara Sloka padi’ karena stavana
“Jayati te ’dhikam” adhyaya karena pa?hana

The King began to recite verses about the rasa-lila from Srimad-Bhagavatam. He recited the chapter beginning with the words “Jayati te ’dhikam.”

[CC Madhya 14.8]

So, this is Gopi gita King Prataprudra starts recitation of Gopi gita This is the gita for the occasion. Corresponding the emotion of Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu this is a befitting song or gita. Gopi gita. To nourish, to arouse and nourish His feelings, emotions of Radha bhava, Gopi bhava, the Gopis have expressed their bhava, their emotion, in that gita and through ratha yatra Caitanya Mahaprabhu is in that mood. So, King Prataprudra is reciting that Gopi gita.

Sunite Sunite prabhura santosa apara
‘bala, bala’ bali’ prabhu bale bara bara

[CC Madhya 14.9]

When Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu heard these verses, he was pleased beyond limits and he said again and again “Go on reciting, go on reciting".

“tava kathamrtam” Sloka raja ye padila
u?hi’ premaveSe prabhu alingana kaila

As soon as the King recited the verse beginning with the words “tava kathamrtam,” the Lord arose in ecstatic love and embraced him.

[CC Madhya 14.10]

Hari Hari! Are you seeing? Watch the scene. Audio has to become video.

Upon hearing the verses recited by the King, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “You have given Me invaluable gems, but I have nothing to give you in return. Therefore, I am simply embracing you.”

– CC Madhya 14.11

Simply embracing! Not enough? The Lord is feeling grateful for what this reciter of Gopi gita has done. He doesn’t even have a clue, of who this person is. No idea. Mahaprabhu had His eyes closed. And this person had come and started massaging and reciting Gopi gita. And the Lord is satisfied and feeling grateful. Just taking and taking is not a good policy, you also
have to give in return. Then Mahaprabhu is thinking,

“I should also give something in return to this person who is singing.” Then Mahaprabhu started thinking “I am just a bikshuka, ek dandi bikshuka. I have nothing to give in return. I have empty pockets; I don’t even have pockets. The kind of garments I wear, I don’t even have pockets. What could I give?” So, thinking like this, he started getting up with his arms stretched. He said: “You know, I have nothing to give. But if you don’t mind, could you accept my embrace? If you don’t mind. Is it ok?” Saying so, the Lord gave a deep embrace to King Prataprudra. King Prataprudra Ki…Jay!! Is that enough? If the Lord was to embrace you, would you like it? Would you say that’s all? For all that I have done for you, only embrace?

Sri Rama had also offered his embrace to Hanuman when Hanuman had just returned from Lanka with good news of Sita. When Rama heard that news, Rama was so pleased and He wanted to reward Hanuman for what Hanuman had done. Then Rama was thinking “I am just a vanvasi. I am just a forest dweller. If I was in Ayodhya I could have given him a big gift, big reward. Yet, this is not the case. I am in the forest.” So, then the Lord asked: “Could I embrace you?” saying so, the Lord embraced Hanuman. “Well done! Well done Hanuman!” Have u seen that photograph of Rama embracing Hanuman? No! How come? You missed it! Quite a famous photograph, taken with a selfie! [Laughs]

eta bali’ sei Sloka pade bara bara
dui-janara ange kampa, netre jala-dhara

After saying this, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu began to recite the same verse again and again. Both the King and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were trembling, and tears were flowing from their eyes.

CC Madhya 14.12

Then they were reciting which verse again and again?
tava kathamrtam tapta-jivanam
kavibhir iditam kalmasapaham
Sravana-mangalam Srimad-atatam
bhuvi grnanti ye bhurida janah

My Lord, the nectar of Your words and the descriptions of Your activities are the life and soul of those who are always aggrieved in this material world. These narrations are transmitted by exalted personalities, and they eradicate all sinful reactions. Whoever hears these narrations attains all good fortune. These narrations are broadcast all over the world and are filled with spiritual power. Those who spread the message of Godhead are certainly the most munificent welfare workers.

[CC Madhya 14.13]

‘bhurida’ ‘bhurida’ bali’ kare alingana
inho nahi jane, — ihon haya kon jana

After reciting this verse, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately embraced the King and cried, “You are the most munificent! You are the most munificent!” At this point Sri Caitanyaa
Mahaprabhu did not know who the King was.

[CC Madhya 14.14]

purva-seva dekhi’ tanre krpa upajila
anusandhana vina krpa-prasada karila

Shri Caitanyaa Mahaprabhu’s mercy was aroused because of the King’s previous service therefore, without even asking who he was, the Lord immediately bestowed his mercy upon him.

[CC Madhya 14.15]

I think we will stop here.
Jagannath swami Ki.. Jay!
Caitanya Caritamrita Ki .. Jay!

Remembrance and knowledge comes from Krsna

Vrndavana [58:11]

Srimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is chapter 15th text 15
sarvasya caha? hrdi sannivisto, mattah smrtir jnanam apohana? ca, vedais ca
sarvair aham eva vedyo, vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham
Translation and purport by Srila Prabhupada ki jai.

I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge

and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas am I to be known; indeed I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas

Purport:

The Supreme Lord is situated as Paramatma in everyone's heart, and it is from Him that all activities are initiated. The living entity forgets everything of his past life, but he has to act according to the direction of the Supreme Lord, who is witness to all his work. Therefore he begins his work according to his past deeds. Required knowledge is supplied to him, and remembrance is given to him, and he forgets, also, about his past life. Thus, the Lord is not only all-pervading; He is also localized in every individual heart. He awards the different fruitive results. He is not only worshipable as the impersonal Brahman, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the localized Paramatma, but as the form of the incarnation of the Vedas as well. The Vedas give the right direction to the people so that they can properly mold their lives and come back to Godhead, back to home. The Vedas offer knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and Krsna in His incarnation as Vyasadeva is the compiler of the Vedanta-sutra. The commentation on the Vedanta-sutra by Vyasadeva in the Srimad-Bhagavatam gives the real understanding of Vedanta-sutra. The Supreme Lord is so full that for the deliverance of the conditioned soul He is the supplier and digester of foodstuff, the witness of his activity, the giver of knowledge in the form of Vedas and as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, the teacher of the Bhagavad-gita. He is worshipable by the conditioned soul. Thus God is all-good; God is all-merciful.

Antahpravistah sasta jananam. The living entity forgets as soon as he quits his present body, but he begins his work again, initiated by the Supreme Lord.

Although he forgets, the Lord gives him the intelligence to renew his work where he ended his last life. So not only does a living entity enjoy or suffer in this world

according to the dictation from the Supreme Lord situated locally in the heart, but he receives the opportunity to understand Vedas from Him. If one is serious to understand the Vedic knowledge, then Krsna gives the required intelligence. Why does He present the Vedic knowledge for understanding? Because a living entity individually needs to understand Krsna. Vedic literature confirms this: yo 'sau sarvair vedair giyate. In all Vedic literature, beginning from the four Vedas, Vedanta-sutra and the Upanisads and Puranas, the glories of the Supreme Lord are celebrated. By performing Vedic rituals, discussing the Vedic philosophy and worshiping the Lord in devotional service, He is attained. Therefore the purpose of the Vedas is to understand Krsna. The Vedas give us direction to understand Krsna and the process of understanding. The ultimate goal is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Vedanta-sutra confirms this in the following words: tat tu samanvayat. One can attain perfection by understanding Vedic literature, and one can understand his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead by
performing the different processes. Thus one can approach Him and at the end attain the supreme goal, who is no other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this verse, however, the purpose of the Vedas, the understanding of the Vedas and the goal of Vedas are clearly defined.

So He is everything we are nothing. He is everything. He is this He is that.
aham vaisvanaro bhutva
praninam deham asritah
pranapana-samayuktah
pacamy annam catur-vidham [BG 15.14]

That we were reading yesterday, I am the fire of digestion in every living body, and I am the air of life, outgoing and incoming, by which I digest the four kinds of foodstuff. I digest caturvidham, catur-vidha-sri-bhagavat-prasada [ Guru Astakam verse no.4]

That caturvidham, four kinds of annam pacami I digest? Let me digest it. Let me digest. We should be saying let Lord digest it, you know. Not that I digest. I don’t digest. It is Lord who has to digest. We could do some yajna, may be? Well, ya, we could do some yajna. And then what happens? Then there are rains, from the rains comes the grains so again. 'Hari sarvatra giyate' that is mentioned here. Lord is glorified. So we glorify the Lord that is yajna, sankirtana yajna or sometimes svaha, svaha, svaha. There also He says I am the ghee, I'm this, I'm that. And there is yajna, all the ingredients of that yajna, that's me. So you have performed and yo that yajna.

And then there is, annad bhavanti bh?tani, parjanyad anna-sambhavah [BG 3.14]

There is anna and then you eat that but then again, you cannot digest it yourself. You need help to digest food that is in you. And again once it is digested, you just need to get that out there are other arrangements in the body, other demigods are doing different things, controlling different parts of your body, different areas and so He is, He is there throughout.

And in this verse from Him come knowledge, from Him comes remembrance, from Him comes forgetfulness also. And He is the one 'sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto' and situated. It's translated here as I'm situated in the hearts of all the living entities. So 'sannivisto' 'vis' means to enter, Lord enters and then He is situated there. And 'sannivisto' means nicely samya prakare na 'sannivisto'. Once He gets there He is there, He is there to stay, not that temporarily He is there or He is in and out. That's not the case, sannivisto. He is there, or He situates Himself nicely in the hearts of all the living entities.

Our life is either is full of remembrance or full of forgetfulness. So He has control over all our thoughts, knowledge, remembrance, forgetfulness. I found the definition of remembrance: that aspect of knowledge, which seeks out sensations of objects previously experienced. Remembrance has something to do with the past, and you perform some activity or some aspect of knowledge. And you seek out sensations of the objects or persons previously experienced or this could be the remembrance of this material world. And we are forgotten. And Lord is there to remind us. Srila Prabhupada few times has mentioned in the purport that we give up the bodies so we die and there's another life but then where to continue we don't know.

But Lord makes, the present lives connection with the previous one, where we ended from there we continue, we go to sleep and we get up in the morning and we continue exactly kind of where we had stopped or ended last night. So, death is a kind of long sleep is a different kind of sleep. And you get up and you begin but how do you begin, someone is giving you a dictation, someone is reminding you and you continue. So that's one thing in relationship with this body and material worlds some things you are reminded of that is remembrance and you continue your life here.

But this remembrance is not only in connection with this world and this body but, but as Krishna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaj? -ma? namaskuru [BG 9.34] Remember Me, remember Me? Do you remember Me? So, also the previous experience we were with Krishna in the past long, long long ago we were with the Lord and then there were dealings, and there were experiences and remembrances, staying up, you are reminded again of those your interactions with the Lord, your dealings, your rasa all that with the Lord. What did the gopis do? Mainly they know two things. One is to remember and other one is remember.

Only remember and remember or we say remember, and they know only one thing remember and not forget, meaning remember, right? Actually they know only one thing they don't know two things. Remembrance and forgetfulness, but forget, not forgetfulness, not forgetting means remember. So only thing they do is remember, they remember all the time. So, 'man mana bhava' so remember Me.

So remembering, remembering Krishna, remember, I don't know how the word remember word from what Latin root or how it is formed may be you know, but just by seeing this word 're' remember, I'm reminded myself. So there's some connection with the past. Remember, remember, this kind of reminding us remember, remember, something with the past, so forget Yeah, there's some space here. So, remembrance and forgetfulness of this material existence, this is just the dvandva day and night and this and that in and out and man and a woman and sukha and dukha. So, likewise another kind of dvandva duality of his existence is remembrance and forgetfulness, remembrance and forgetfulness, remembrance and forgetfulness. But the goal is to go beyond this remembrance and beyond the forgetfulness of this world, what you would like to do remember things of this world? Or you would like to forget things of this world, which would you like to do? Forget? Or remember, forget then what happens you forget, I think this half, the half the battle is won, may be you are forgetting, forgetting things of this world. So you want to go beyond. Well, something like that, I was trying to remembers and forget, go beyond that. And then that is remembrance of Krishna. And that is a perfection of our lives. To remember, Krishna, mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca. This verse, from Me comes knowledge, from Me comes remembrance, from Me comes forgetfulness, but we wish that we get remembrance of knowledge about Krishna, remembrance of Krishna and the forgetfulness of this material existence and material. Then there is forgetfulness of God, people have forgotten God so much that some people boldly declare that God does not exist. You come across some people like that? I mean, some of you were like that. It's possible, other day some person said that to me, I was such a fellow. Not only we forget God, but we declare that He does not exist. Isn't that amazing thing.

Lord here says, I'm seated in the heart of the living entity. So between heart and mouth it’s not less than one foot nine inches away. People say God does not exist, but He is, God is just there. God does not exist. God is right there. God does not exist. God does not exist. So those who say God does not exist, this is forgetfulness. Isn’t it? So total forgetfulness of God and they declare that God does not exist. Not good. In the beginning, we said He is cause of all causes. Seems that He is everywhere. He's controlling our every affair, every move that we make, He is there, He is a cause. If that is the case and if someone is making the big statement, that God does not exist, who's making this statement? If we close our eyes and boldly say God says that He does not exist, simple answer infact, who says that God does not exist? Infact this God who says, Okay, go ahead. Go ahead and say, be happy that I do not exist or God does not exist. Hello, hello, hello someone is knocking at the door. Son, a little boy opens the door. Is your daddy here, I would like to see him, a little boy goes in to find his
daddy. But his daddy is not interested to meet that fellow at the door, his friend but he is not interested. And he tells his son, please go tell my friend that I am not here. And innocent and straightforward child runs back to the door. And he says my daddy said: What did he say? He is not here. My daddy said “My daddy said he's not here. He's not there.” Who said? Daddy said. What did he say? He is not here. So, God does not exist, God does not exist who is saying this. God is saying you like to say so. Go ahead. I can also give you some arguments, some mirch masala. Some spicing if you want to do some logic, some argument is all there. He could prove and be convinced that I do not exist. And this is a forgetfulness part, 'mattah smrtir' that is remembrance, 'jnanam' that is knowledge. 'apohanam ca’ that is forgetfulness, from Him comes forgetfulness. It cannot be that God exists.

In one man, regular person he has a vision he has eyes he's seeing the sun and next to him there's a blind man, the blind man declares the sun does not exist, the sun does not exist I say sun does not exist. What is the value? Who says sun does not exist? The blind man says sun does not exist so what is the value of that statement? Person next to him with good eyesight he is seeing the sun right there, someone is remembering someone is seeing.

"santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti" [BS text 38] Lord says here that I'm- I'm in
the heart of all the living entities 'sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto' I'm in the heart of all the living entities "suhrda? sarva-bh?tana? [ BG 5.29] as Krishna says in the fifth chapter 'suhrda? sarva-bh?tana?' I am in suhrdam, I'm in the heart I'm a friend well-wisher I'm in the heart of living entity.

"hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati" [BG 18.61]

'hrd-dese' Arjun, oh Arjun tisthati. I reside in hrd-dese, dese means country, Bharat dese, this dese, German dese, that dese this says is I stay in a country called heart,

hrd-dese "?svarah sarva-bh?tana? hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati" [BG 18.61]

So, oh Arjun I stay in the heart or the country called heart and hearts of all living entities I stay I reside. So, residing here in Vrndavan and hearing or knowing about Krishna's rasa dance pastimes. During that past time Krishna expands Himself as many gopis those many Krishna’s and probably you are thinking how fortunate are those gopis. Krishna expands Himself and He's with each gopi, one gopi one Krishna, one gopi one Krishna, one gopi one Krishna, one gopi one Krishna. Well, here the story is not much different. One living entity one Krishna, one living entity one Krishna, one living entity one Krishna, one living entity, as many living entities are there. There's many Krishna, are those many expansions of Krishna are in the hearts of all those living entities. How? Then think Krishna is partial partiality, only for gopis, He's expanding, but what about me, you know, me? What about me? So as he expands Himself and His each gopi dances with each living entity, is residing. Every other family member, if you say, my dear wife or husband, you know, in next life. I may, who knows, I may end up becoming this or that hog or dog. You would like to join me? Dear wife or dear husband will say, see you later just now coming. But the Lord He will accompany you there. He'll be there wherever you go. Who is more kind? Who is your friend? Who is closest to you? Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna is that friend, He never leaves you alone.

He is always with you. Friend in need is friend indeed. He is always with us. So that's kind of half the story here in this verse.
There is other part "vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham" [BG 15.15] aham.

So not only He is there as a supersoul, in hearts of all the living entities, from Him comes knowledge, remembrance, forgetfulness the forgetfulness, there are already a lot of things. But in the top of that is also 'vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo.’ That He appears, I was reading, looking at the commentary that said, Lord appears as Badrayan. So Lord appears as Vyasadev and He sets standard of knowledge. All that we need to know is, is there in the Vedas, the vast body of knowledge, 'vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo', and in fact, Lord says here you study the Vedas, what for? 'aham vedyo' I am to be known so He appears as Vyasadev, He creates whole body of knowledge Vedas and then Puranas, Vedanta Sutra, of course talks here. Vedanta karoti, so the creator, compiler of the Vedanta, Lord is the doer, compiler of the Vedas and Vedanta. The end of knowledge, the conclusion of the knowledge and conclusion of knowledge is the Lord. The acquired knowledge and the conclusion of that is pointing, fingers are pointed towards the Lord. You study the sastras, Vedas and Puranas and Srila Prabhupada is quoting "yo sau'sarvair vedair giyate" [Gopala- tapani Upanisad confirms]. In all the Vedic literature beginning from four Vedas, Vedanta Sutra and Upanisads and Puranas. The glories of the Supreme Lord are celebrated "Harih sarvatra giyate", adav, madhye, ante [CC Adi 7.131]

'Harih sarvatra giyate', adav in the beginning, madhye in the middle ante at the 'end harih sarvatra giyate'. harih sarvatra everywhere He is glorified "vasudevah sarvam iti" [ BG 7.19]

So when you come to that conclusion, 'vasudevah sarvam' yes, yes. Now I have come to conclusion. 'vasudevah sarvam'. "bah?na? janmanam ante" [BG 7.19]

Right? You spent so many lifetimes, lifetime after lifetime and studying sastras, Vedantas and now you have become jnanavan means you have become full of knowledge. So what is how much you have to know? Krishna says elsewhere Bhagavad Gita with 'Vasudevah sarvam' quote and quote, in English quote and quote, 'Vasudeh sarvam iti' this much. How much you have to know 'Vasudevah sarvam', Vasudevah is all in all. This is Vedanta this is being jnanavan, full of knowledge. This place is full of knowledge. How? What does he know? 'Vasudevah sarvam'. He has found out, he has come to conclusion 'Vasudevah sarvam' that much he knows 'Vasudevah sarvam', Vasudeva is all in all. That's Vedanta. 'vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo' I'm to be known by the studies of the Vedas, the Puranas. But if you have only found out Brahma in Varanasi, Caitanya Mahaprabhu went to Varanasi and air, that atmosphere was filled with Brahma Brahma, aham Brahmasi, Brahma, Brahma.

sarva? khalv ida? brahma

Everything is Brahma, ekam eva adhvitheyam only one adhvitheyam, there's no one else. This is the language they are talking everywhere Brahma, Brahma, Brahma, Brahma. And they are proud of their studies of Vedanta ' vedant vakyasu sada ramantah' they say.

' Kaupeenavantah khalu bhágyavantah khalo bhagyavantah' . We are very fortunate, we wear only kaupeen, we are kind of vairagi's. We wear only kaupeen and we are very fortunate. And what do we do?

'vedanta vakyasu sada ramantah'

We are studying Vedanta all the time. 'Vedanta vakyasu sada ramantah' so they are studying Vedanta. But not coming to the right conclusions. They're only going up to Brahma. But what about Paramatma as mentioned here, 'sarvair aham vedyo' or 'sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto "brahmeti paramatmeti, bhagvan iti sabdyate" [SB 1.2.11].

They only go up to Brahman and they think that they are very fortunate. They study vyakran, grammar, and all that, but they missed the boat. They certainly missed the flight that goes back to home, merge into some kind of Brahman and get lost and suffer more. Although Shankaracharya was there to propagate impersonalism, that task was given to him by the Lord. While he was in Varanasi, the same Varanasi there was very elderly person, old fellow infact, that he was still studying the vyakran and the grammar and he was remembering sutras and he was doing he was so much absorbed in that Shankaracharya, noticed that old fellow and you're still only studying grammar, you should move forward, use this knowledge of vyakran to study Vedanta and find out the ultimate reality.

Anyways, his words he said, 'bhaja govindam, bhaja govindam, bhaja govindam mudha mate' You fool ‘bhaja govindam’ you worship Govinda.

prapte sannihite khalu marane nahi nahi raksati dukrin karane

Part of vyakran-grammar called dukrin karane. So when are you going to worship Govinda? Bhaja Govinda, so they spend their time studying grammar all life or even if they finish that and get to study they only claim that they're studying Vedanta but they don't come to the right conclusion. They're very badly influenced by the advait, the monism that philosophy. But its very fortunate to be, to come in contact with vaisnava and that parampara, evam parampara praptam then 'vedais sarvair aham eva vedyo' then there is Bhakti Vedanta, Bhakti and Vedanta, end of Vedanta is you take to bhakti life or life of devotional
service.

Anyway, I think we should be winding up also. And just one last so many nice wonderful points here in this verse and the purport and you could spend days talking, hearing understanding and not getting up not leaving until we have understood, the close the doors and windows and not leave this room till we really understand. You understand. So many points, one verse is enough to understand Krishna. You don't even have to understand whole Bhagavad Gita one verse. We're good at this and there's one verse and not even the whole verse sarvasya caha? hrdi sannivisto.' Just one fourth of the verse, Lord is situated in the hearts of all living entities. All living entities include me the entity; I'm also one of those entities. I am not an exception, in my heart also, Lord is residing. So to understand, to realize that God resides in my heart. It's good to know right? This is good to know that Lord loves you. God exists and God loves you. Who loves you? God loves you. He should be loving you. Because you are very dear to Him. He loves you. What good is someone around the corner loves you there's one thing and then God loves you which one you would like? Whose love you care for? God loves you, you like that? God loves you He exists in my heart and He loves you and He likes you and He's looking for you and He's wanting you back home and that's why He's sitting in your heart trying to get rid of any obstacles, so that you could clear the path and go forward.

In Sanskrit, in Sruti mantra 'Antah-pravistah sasta jananam' [BG 15.15 Purport]

'antah-pravistah' Lord enters the heart of all the living entities. And then it becomes sasta jananam. Of all the living entities, He becomes sasta, means to control or regulator. So, He enters us and He becomes regulator, 'sasta jananam' of all of us. So, He could allow Him to control you with some other ideas or own ideas and then Lord creates the facility. He alone enables the jivas to enjoy in the material world. So, there's one thing He does or is one of the key purposes of creation to enable the jivas to enjoy the material world, another one is He, He enables jivas to get liberation or to get Him get up to Him. So, He is doing these two functions. So if we could allow Him not interfere but allow Him so that He enables us dictates us, He regulates us in a fashion so that we get to Him, we outreach Him.

Everything is Vedanta, everything is the works of Vyasadeva and something that is not in Vyasadev's compilation it is not to be found anywhere else. It is a statement like that, I forgot the Sanskrit of that says, something that is not found in the Vedas the verse compilation of Srila Vyasadeva if it is not there it is nowhere else. But whatever wherever we find the truth that is already included and works out Srila Vyasadeva plus much more plus something that is not found anywhere else is found in in the compilations of Srila Vyasadeva. So we have all of that, He is within us, within the heart and guiding us and then from outside. All this literature is also created. And then it also sends His representatives

[sakshad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair [ Sri Sri Guru Astakam verse7]

and all that. And they help us to understand those, those Vedas of sastras. In so many ways, God facilitates, Krishna facilitates, facilitates our liberations or our going back home.

Okay, any questions or any comments?

Devotee 1: Knowledge and forgetfulness He's controlling everything, then? What is our role? We don't have to do anything because He's doing everything? We will think about Krishna. That's all. We don't have. Means nothing is there in our hands. It is all in His power. So why should we think about anything, we should only think about Krishna. We can't do anything without His consent. If He allows us to do whatever we want to do then we can do, it is not in our hand we can't use our brain, we can't use our mind.

Maharaja: Good, please do that. You have come to the right conclusion. Do that, just remember Him. Let all the nonsense stop and let the truth prevail. And let that truth guide us in our wanderings. And we will be heading back home, straight back home.

Devotee 2: What is the gap between remembrance and knowledge because there were three aspects you mentioned? Knowledge, remembrance and forgetfulness, and remembrance and forgetfulness was separate from knowledge. If we understand then how do we connect, knowledge with remembering? Maharaja: Remembering knowledge is remembrance and absence of it is forgetfulness. God exists, is a knowledge God exists. It's called astik the person who knows who access that, that God exists, this is a knowledge, the body of knowledge. And then remembrance is that you have experienced or you have interaction from the past with the Lord and you knew the truth or knowledge, you're full of knowledge. Now that is to be revived. And that is a remembrance or reminder, reminder of the knowledge and reminder of the facts. Something exists God exists and remembrance. Remember, remember my friends remember my friend? Who is that friend, did I ever meet Him? How did He look like? We spend a few minutes and reminding and remembering and the knowledge that from the past of my friend, my friend is revived. And you remember something like that? Okay.

Devotee 2: Thank you very much Maharaja for your eloquent discourse. You talked about going to back, that back to Godhead, there is a stage called a prema bhakti where tears come from your eyes and you dance like a madman. And that kind of stage very, very rare to achieve. Is prema bhakti a pre-requisite to going to back to Godhead?

Guru Maharaja: Things kind of happen faster, during the last moments, when you are facing the last moments ‘ante narayana.’ When ‘ante’ is there things are happening faster and there may not be long spans of where that candidate has visible sadhana. He doesn't perform visible sadhana. So there may not be visible, or no time or years or months for him to exhibit or display or even experience the astavikaras or the bhavas trembling of the bodies and perspiration and tears and stand and last moments as person closes his eyes and is leaving. Things move very, very fast. And he's going through a lot of things. Lot of things are cleared and cleansed enabling him of course this is mercy of the Lord and the prayers of the Vaisnavas and spiritual master and all those factors. So prema bhakti it's not a new thing to the soul again. As we're talking of remembrance, remembrance is that aspect of knowledge which seeks out sensations of the objects previously experienced. God loves you and soul loves God also, soul loves Krishna. It's only misdirected. We put our love in wrong place, wrong person and we end up giving our hearts and lives to so many undesirable. So, living entity has love for the Lord and living entity has experienced the prema for the Lord in the past, highest bhava and prema. So, it is that is to be revived.

Seeking out those sensations previously experienced or you may not, we may not have opportunity to see others symptoms of their love for the Lord. It is also kind of private personal affair. And that also could be explained, the devotees could not display but conceal their symptoms and their love for the Lord not make a public display. But they are there not showing or exhibiting that they are there and that Bhagavatam says, I could only paraphrase; I think in that verse there "taravah ki? na j?vanti, bhastrah ki? na svasanty uta" [SB 2.3.18]

Do not the trees live long life and as mentioned that ‘What good is long life?’ just what should I say, just the fully Krishna conscious life briefly practiced, briefly experienced; briefly even momentarily experienced is far better than a long life.

Ajamil was the first was Namabhasa and chanting was not pure then he was transferred to Haridwar and he continued to practice for a little longer and the next time Visnudutas were there first time they did not bring him back home because he was lacking, there was some shortcoming, shortfall. Then he was allowed to practice for a little longer and then he made up then another time there was a landing of the vehicle from the another world and he was given a lift right back to home. So certainly full development of love of God, full development of Krishna Consciousness has to be there that's the prerequisite for,

"ya? ya? vapi smaran bhava? tyajaty ante kalevaram ta? tam evaiti kaunteya sada tad-bhava-bhavitah"[ BG 8.6]

So even for a moment if you experience that love of Godhead and then as said forever you are with it. When you are in that situation and that last moment comes, you don't look for help from outside “where's my family doctor? And where is this and that or my family members mummy,daddy,son” and then he’s lost, then he will stay behind. He's already stuck but he has cut all the bonds and strings attached and is begging “they say you’ll remember when you're in trouble you remember God more than otherwise you remember”; normally you don't ["vipadah santu tah sasvat" SB 1.8.25]

that is why the smart lady Kunti says, “Oh

God please keep sending the trouble, let there be calamities because when they come, I'm going to run to you and when that happens ["apunar bhava- darsanam"SB1.8.25] then I don't have to take the birth again.

So the toughest calamity kind of situation is when death is there so that's when and how Ajamil you know Narayan, Narayan and luckily he said Narayan and he did not say Tinku or Chinku or Pinku or… he said Narayan and Narayan Dutas appeared and but you know he was helpless. He was helpless, helpless. So if it is “Hey Krishna hey Govinda” not that let me help myself and Draupadi is battling with Dushyasan with both the hands and tug of war and then only with one hand let me help myself you know, at least a little bit that also wasn't working out but when there was full 'meri doli tere hath' then Krishna appeared.

So those moments, not look for any external help and face Lord and pray to the Lord and all that, that happens and lot of things are going to happen that time. And he will make a lot of progress. And he will end up going back to Godhead or this will get there close, close to that. Okay may Krishna be with you, you are in Vrndavan.

Krishna Balaram Ki Jai
Srila Prabhupad Ki Jai

Gaur premanande hari hari bol

Real Work of Varnas and Pastime of Dhruva Maharaja

MAURITIUS [18.29]

evam vidho brahmacari
vanaprastho yatir grhi
caran vidita-vijnanah
param brahmadhigacchati (SB 7.12.16)

TRANSLATION: By practicing in this way, whether one be in the brahmacari-asrama, grhastha-asrama, vanaprastha-asrama or sannyasa-asrama, one must always realize the all-pervading presence of the Supreme Lord, for in this way it is possible to understand the Absolute Truth. Purport: This is the beginning of self-realization. One must first understand how Brahman is present everywhere and how He is acting. This education is called brahma-jijnasa and is the real concern of human life. Without such knowledge, one cannot claim to be a human being; rather, he remains in the animal kingdom. As it is said, sa eva go-kharah: without such knowledge, one is no better than a cow or an ass.

So, the common business for everyone regardless of his varna or asrama, situation, the common business is to realise all-pervading presence of the Supreme Lord. The person may be in brahmacari, vanaprastha, sannyasa or g?hastha-asrama, occupation is same for everyone. One decides of course, each varna, each asrama, some prescribed duties are there. The Brahman is worshiping, studying and teaching. Then

Kshatriya, kshata trayate iti kshatriya

Kshat is getting wounded, wound or hurt. So, Kshatriya is that person who protects others or citizens from getting hurt, the citizens are fighting amongst each other for nothing. So he intervenes, he has his forces in place to make sure that there is no ill fighting, unnecessarily there is no killing, not getting wounded, no quarrel. There is also hurt, it hurts right? It hurts more, they say if someone is using knife, he hasn’t killed the person but wounded the person, so that wound gets healed within a week or two, or month or two and it is finished. But if one insults someone, someone’s tongue is very sharp like a razor, not under control, then he hurts someone by talking in insulting way and there is a wound in the mind. If person gets wounded, there is hurt. Like Dhruva Maharaja was hurt. His Step Mother Suruchi had to say something,

“Oh! You wish to be the Prince, it’s too late baba, you have not taken birth in my womb, you can’t have this throne. Forget it.”.

That was a big insult for Dhruva Maharaja. And Prabhupada says specially Kshatriya cannot sense such Insult. So, Dhruva Maharaja being a son of a Kshatriya himself, he took this very seriously. So, the mother was trying to pacify, put some bandage on the wound caused by step mother of Dhruva Maharaja. But she could not see that he is deeply hurt, wounded just by the words. Words are sharper. The other kind of wound gets healed. Wound caused by whatever knife or stick or gun or nails. So that is not exactly the point. The point is talking of duty of Kshatriya and the meaning Ksha-tryia, triya who protects others or citizens from getting hurt, getting wounded. And he maintains law and order. He is the administrator- Kshatriya.

And then Vaishya: krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam [Bg. 18.44]

Krsi- does farming, lot of farms in Mauritius, When Prabhupada was here wherever he goes, to Australia to America, to other continents. He saw so much land is laying vacant, why not use it? Grow some food. But of course, people are not interested. They would rather work in the industry, factory. So

krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam

Such a nice duty, do farming, take care of the cows, a little trading, some extra grains share with others and get something in return. So, these are prescribed duties of different members of different asramas and then there are varnas. These are varnas. We just talked about varnas.

And then asramas:

Brahmacari, what does brahmacari do? He studies, brahmacari’s primary business or occupation is, he is a student under a teacher, He has a teacher and he's learning, studying as Krishna studied at Sandipani Muni’s asrama. Right? That is the understanding.

brahmacari gurukule vasan danto guror hitam [SB 7.12.1]

Brahmacari goes to the asrama of a Guru, he stays there. Dasa-vat- as a menial servant he resided there, N?ca?- very humble way he stays. Krishna stayed very humbly, he was sleeping on the floor, he was begging, going and doing madhukari in the morning. So brahmacari’s do such things. He is studying and guror hitam …….. vasan danto guror hitam For the benefit of Guru, for the service of Guru, for the pleasure of Guru he is functioning.

Srila Prabhupada even adds, he says if Guru forgets he has done so much, begged alms, collected madhukari and other duties. Once Krishna was told by Gurupatni, “Hey go get some wood, firewood. I would cook for all the boys in the asrama there is no firewood”. The there was no gases, they had to use firewood. So, Krishna and Sudama had to go, get the firewood, they had to go to the forest. So, this is all guror hitam. So brahmacari.

Then Grhastha , what is the main thing Grhastha is doing? Dana, charity. He is the only person who is the householder, and who is also money holder. Brahmacari has no money, vanaprastha may carry something but he may also depend on the mercy of the Lord as he travels and sannyasi, no money.

Jaya! Krishna Balarama ki Jaya

So, the only person who is the householder and also the money holder. So, he is doing charity. He is maintaining others. Taking care of his family, family maintenance. But, not just a bodily maintenance, Soul Maintenance. He is also maintaining soul. Otherwise why maintain? What’s the difference?

Prabhupada is pointing that out, animal Kingdom. Without such knowledge, one cannot claim to be human being. If person doesn't belong to any varna, any asrama. Fine, you are ready for Sannyasa, go for grhastha asrama but you don’t even belong to Grhastha asrama. Just by staying in griha, just because you have house, wife and children. That doesn't constitute, that doesn’t become an asrama. You may be grhastha but not necessarily a grhastha asrama. That’s the difference. So, difference that we know, we have heard, he is

grhamedhi, yan maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham. [SB 7.9.45]

All that he's doing is tuccha? very low. Something that you spit at. grhamedhi-sukham hi

tuccha? So grhamedhi is that person who is addicted to sex life and he is attached. So that is

what Prabhupada is talking, Without the knowledge of such knowledge. At the beginning four varnas and asramas, it begins with self-realization and one must understand how Brahman is present everywhere and how he is acting, and this education is called brahma jijnasa and that is real concern of human life, without such knowledge one cannot claim to be human being.

So, take care of family, Fine but, you have to first know who your family is, who your wife is? Who your child is? Do you know? Most of you know. But I am addressing them, those who don’t know who is your wife? It is difficult to understand how could soul be your wife? But the real person is a soul. If soul leaves the body, then that body is no more your wife. Immediately, “Get out, get her out!!” otherwise it will begin smelling so bad. Right? So as soon as the soul leaves the body, the body is useless, you burn the body. Then you realize, then you cry, “Oh, she was right her, oh no now how I am going to survive. She is gone”. So That’s the soul that is gone.

Krsna’s idea is beneficial to everyone

Mayapur [46:55]

Reading from Bhagavad  Gita , Chapter 2 text number 9. Bhagavad Gita was said in morning and we are hearing in the evening.  We are seeing the Lord, we are seeing the Lord. You have all seen, where is He? So we all like to see Him.  We all like to see Him and it is very important that we hear Him. People like to see Him but not hear Him.  But we should come to the temple, to see the Lord and to hear the Lord.  So we have seen Him, He is standing right before our eyes, please all take darsana. Please look, look, look.

jai shri shri radha madhav asta sakhis vrinda ki… jai

In fact we will see Him more by hearing Him.  The way to see the Lord is not with the eyes but in fact with the ears.  We see more with the ears than with our eyes.  So you all, I mean we also are visitors besides all are ISKCON devotees sitting here.  We have some guests also with us.  So we welcome them all, welcome devotees and guests also.  As we said that Krsna spoke Bhagavad Gita in the morning, not this morning, but 5000 years ago in Kurukshetra.  He spoke Bhagavad Gita during early morning hours. You all agree, understand the meaning that he spoke in the morning, not during lunch or after his dinner? He spoke in the morning;sun was rising in the east.  Army had already arrived and there were two camps; the Pandhava camp and Kaurava camp. And then as is the rule for dharma yudha, at sun rise they commence the battle and it goes all day long and then at sunset, fullstop.

So that particular morning, it was also day ofekadasi, Mokshada, name also there of that ekadasi, Mokshadaekadasi.  So we know who spoke, where He spoke, what time He spoke, what did He speak, everything is very clear.  So here in the  temple every day we read, one verse, one slok, one statement of the Lord.  So in fact, Krsna begins His speech, His dialogue, His conversation with Arjunaa in the second chapter of Bhagavad Gita.

First chapter of Bhagavad Gita is  also Bhagavad Gita, but it is not technically song of Krsna, Arjuna and others have spoken more in the first chapter. Then Sanjay also speaks, makes his comments.Three parties were listening to Bhagavad Gita, at the same time, simultaneously.Arjuna was, of course, it is meant for Arjuna, it’s also meant for you and as Krsna dialogue was happening  inKuruksetra, Sanjay also was able to hear in Hastinapur at the same time.  Doordarsana, Doorvani, television.  So these are the two parties and the third one there was a tree, not far from where Krsna and Arjuna, the dialogue was on, settled in a chariot and very next to , very close to the chariot.  There was a tree, that tree is still there.  You go and see that tree even today, the tree is standing.  Even tree has become immortal by the hearing of Bhagavad Gita and what to speak of us.  So Sanjay is also one of the speakers or communicator of Bhagavad Gita.  So today’s verse is spoken by Sanjay Uvaca.  So please repeat after me.

sanjaya uvaca
evam uktva hrsikesam
gudakesah paran tapah
na yotsya iti govindam
uktva tusnim babhuva ha [BG 2.9]

Sanjayahuvaca – Sanjaya said; evam – thus; uktva – speaking; hrsikesam – unto krsna, the master of the senses; gudakesah – Arjuna, the master of curbing ignorance; Param-tapah – the chastiser of the enimes; nayotsya – I shall not fight; iti – thus; govindam – unto krsna, the giver of pleasure to the senses; uktva – saying; tusnim – silent; babhuva – became; ha – certainly.

Translation

Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus, Arjuna, chastiser of enemies, told Krsna, “Govinda, I shall not fight,” and fell silent.

Purport

Dhrtarastra must have been very glad to understand that Arjuna was not going to fight and was instead leaving the battlefield for the begging profession.  But Sanjaya disappointed him again in relating that Arjuna was competent to kill his enemies [paran-tapah].  Although Arjuna was, for the time being, overwhelmed with false grief due to family affection, he surrendered unto Krsna, the supreme spiritual master, as a disciple.  This indicated that he would soon be free from the false lamentation resulting from family affection and would be enlightened with perfect knowledge of self- realization, or Krsna consciousness, and would then surely fight.  Thus Dhrtarastra’s joy would be frustrated, since Arjuna would be enlightened by Krsna and would fight to the end.

Arjuna said, ‘nayotsya’,  I shall not fight and he is addressing “Govinda” O Govinda, I shall not fight.  He said this much and ‘tusnimbabhuva’ and he became quite or silent, felt silent, that’s  good news for Dhrtarastra that Arjuna is not gone fight.  O! That is wonderful, that is what I was looking for.  Arjuna is not going to fight, my children would be spared or they would become victorious, if Arjuna did not fight. But in this verse, Sanjaya as he is talking to Dhrtarastra, he is describing Arjuna as “parantapah.”He is the chastiser of the enemies and Srila Prabhupada in purport is pointing out, temporarily he has been over whelmed by this affection, family affection, family ties, moha, illusion, but as he would be listening to Krishna, becoming his disciple, and then coming out and then he would be chastising, fighting, killing enemies and becoming victorious.

So Arjuna had come on the scene with determination to fight in the beginning seated in a very special chariot.

svetair hayair yukte mahati syandane sthitau [BG 1.14]

The first chapter says that the white horses were pulling the ‘mahatisyandane’ very special, expensive, nicely carved chariot. ´madhavah pandavas caiva’[BG 1.14]and in that chariot two personalities are sitting Madhava and Pandava and this Pandava is Arjuna.divyau sankhau pradadmatuh[ BG 1.14]and soon both of them, they blew their transcendental conch shells.  Krsna blew His conch shell called Pancajanya  and the name of Arjuna’s conch shell Devadattadhanan-jayah.  Devadatta was the name of the conch shell and the names of other pandava’s conch shells is also mentioned.  So Arjuna was very much eager to fight.  So before beginning of fight, he was desirous to see his enemies, please show me who they are? Who do they think they are, they want to fight with me.  Please bring by chariot forward.

senayor ubayor madhye

ratham sthapaya me cyuta[BG 1.21]

Arjuna says, “senayor ubayor madhye” in between two armies “rathamsthapaya” please get my chariot situated in between two armies.  So immediately, here Parthasarthi, Lord has become the Chariot driver of his devotee. In His left hand He has ropes of the reins of the horses. Lord is having whip in His right hand.  So He already started moving chariot forward.  Soon the chariot was in between two armies, closer to the enemy camp, enemies and Arjuna is seeing who has come, who has assembled, that time as Arjuna is observing the army, enemy camp, enemies.  Krishna says “pasya”see, just see,

pasyaitan samavetan kurun iti [BG 1.25]

All those who have assembled here are none but the Kuru’s , Lord is giving some hint to Arjuna, oh you wanted to see just see, who has come to fight with you or you have to fight  with Kuru’s they are Kuru’s , you are also Kuru’s, same family, wake up Arjuna.

So not only Arjuna is seeing but Lord is also showing, getting his attention, just see, just see, Kuru’s have come to fight with you, same family.  So by seeing and by hearing the whole chemistry inside, within has changed, changes very fast, very quickly.  Now his blood was boiling, take my chariot, he was getting ready, sharpening his arrows, or his wanted to see, but now as he has seen and heard from Krsna also just five words.

pasyaitan samavetan kurun

Just four five words, these are the only words Krsna speaks in first chapter of Bhagavad Gita nothing more nothing less. Then Arjuna begins trembling, his body shaking, sidanti mama gatrani[BG1.28]my body is trembling, mukham ca parisusyati [BG 1.28]my mouth is drying up, gandivam sramsate hastat [BG 1.29]GandivhaDhanush, the bow is slipping right out of my hands. Could you fight if you are shaking, can you fight? No,  you have to be very steady, focused, motionless. So many things are happening in his mind, all body are there and then Arjuna is also thinking, he is expressing himself now.

sreyo nupasyami hatvasva-janam ahave [ BG 1.31]

I don’t see any benefit, no sreyo, no long term benefit, really killing hatva sva-janama havein this horrible battle, killing our own family members, I don’t see any benefit and I am not interested.

na kankse vijayam Krsna nacarajyam sukhani ca [BG 1.31]

Krsna I think he is making himself very clear, I don’t want kingdom, no happiness, I am not interested in this and then Arjuna keeps talking more and more and more.  So many concerns, what about this dharma, what about jati dharma, what about kula dharma, what about this, what about that.So many dharmas, so many concerns, so many issues.

So with each additional idea that he presents, he is deviating more, he is more and more deviation.  This is a way to go but with each idea is turning away from Lord’s idea and soon he would be hundred eighty degrees and this is where is the verse, tusnim babhuva.  I am not going to fight. This fighting, this was Lord’s idea, Lord’s desire, Lord’s plan.

paritranaya sadhunam
vinasaya ca duskrtam
dharma samsthapanarthaya
sambhavami yuge yuge
[BG 4.8]

I appeared, this is the purpose for which I appeared, this is dharma yuddha and this is meant to establish dharma and to protect the devotees like you Pandava’s  and kill the miscreants.  This is the vision of the Lord, the purpose of His advent.  But now Arjuna is not showing any interest in plan or vision or desire of the Lord. Narsimha dev ki Jai.

So earlier also, at the end of first chapter, Arjuna kind of he sits down, making it clear that I am not going to fight.  Sometimes you see the bulls or the he buffalo  pulling the cart  and big load and in summer season and it is hard for him to pull.  Sometimes the farmer is feeding the he buffalo, he is trying to push or pull the bull try to move it forward but when the he buffalo doesn’t want to move and he wants to make it very clear.  What does he do? He sits down and makes it very clear statement.   Okay this is it.  Now you know my dear farmer, I am not going to  move.  So the last statement of the first chapter was very similar also and also spoken by Sanjaya.

evam uktvarjunah sankhye
rathopastha upavisat
visrjya sa-saram capam
soka samvigna manasah
[BG 1.46]

Sanjay said,

Arjuna having this spoken on battle field, cast aside his  bows and arrows and sat down on the chariot,  his mind was over whelmed with grief.  So as Arjuna was talking to the Lord and what about this, what about this dharma, what about this, he was thinking that probably he is going to convince Him, He will be convinced.  So Arjuna was expecting yes, yes, yes, that is fine, what you say is exactly right.  Arjuna, I agree with you, forget this battle, let’s have breakfast, stop this. That is as Arjuna was talking and talking and talking in the first chapter.  It is like Arjuna Gita, not Bhagavad Gita so much ArjunaGeet, song of Arjuna, statement of Arjuna he was thinking oh this didn’t work, say something more now, for sure this statement will be convincing the Lord. So if not this, that one, probably Lord would say okay, okay that is fine, forget this battle and let’s go have the breakfast.  So Arjuna is sitting in the chariot making it very clear that he is not going to fight.  In fact Arjuna begins,

asru purnakuleksanam [BG 2.1]

He is in tears, Arjuna is in tears, could you imagine Arjuna, Arjuna is full of compassion and depressed in mind.  His eyes full of tears and now the second chapter, second verse.  This is where Krsna begins, officially begins talking.  The first thing that the Krsna had to say was, first thing that Krsna wanted to say, probably Arjuna was expecting that the Lord is going to praise my statement,  and appreciate what I have said congratulations, well done, well spokenArjuna, that was not the case. In fact Lord said

kutas tva kasmalam idam [ BG 2.2]

kutastva where from kutas tva kasmalam idam all that you have spoken that idam kasmalam, all this is rubbish, okay where is the dustbin, where is the dustbin, it should be dumped in the dustbin.  So this is Lord’s comment, it is comment on all that Arjuna had to say and Arjuna was thinking now, I am speaking now something very intelligent, very social concerns, this issues, that issues, family, tradition and this must be.  In fact when people read first chapter they hear Arjuna speak or they read what Arjuna has to say, they kind of agree with Arjuna.  Forget all other people probably when you read for first time.  I use to, I remember when I was reading, understanding the first chapter Arjuna statement this makes sense.  That’s right, you are right on Arjuna, yes go on speaking I was kind of what a man.

Arjunaki jai

Lord doesn’t say Arjunaki jai, not thumbs up and then a little more statement then Arjuna again speaks and he becomes silent, quite.  That is today’s verse and then towards the end of Bhagavad Gita, Lord is talking, concluding.  sarva-dharman what parityajya give up this varieties of religion, varieties of religion.  Why, why he is talking of this. sarva-dharmanwhat is connection of this, why Krsna has to say sarva-dharman, Arjuna you, sarva-dharman partityajya [BG 18.66]

Give up all varieties of religion, all thoughts, all this concerns, all this isms, all this why?  Is this in Bhagavad Gita context or in some other connections, right here in the first chapter, all the dharma’s. Some of the dharma’s, Arjuna has mentioned, what about this dharma, what about this, what about this.  Lord said, give it up these thoughts and accept my dharma, accept my dharma, not your dharma.  Give this up , this is all gambling, this is all mental speculation and gambling.  It is not only lottery and this and that as gambling but it is a bigger gambling, speculation.

I think, according to me, Arjuna this is according to me.  Arjuna is talking in the first chapter.  My opinion, Arjuna is talking in the first chapter and Krsna says give it up.

So the first word in the Bhagavad Gita is, what is the first word in Bhagavad Gita, dharma, the first world is dharma and last word is mama,  last word is mama, first word is dharma put it together, that is dharma, mama dharma my dharma, my law, law of the Lord that is dharma, that’s religion. Gita is dharma, so you have other ideas, accept Krsna’s ideas, original idea, for everybody, living entity and the society, the family and the country for the humanity and living entity like that.

Topic : Vrndavan is source of all Dhama.

Place : Vrndavan

Indradyumna Maharaja was talking to almost all of you. Some additional English devotees now have arrived, as others also are listening to him. He narrated Damodara lila to all of you, most of you. That lila brings the listener to Gokul. That pastime took place on deepavali day which is in just few days. I didn’t finish, you continue the pastime. Some other day, then I started that Badri Narayan, Narayan, Narayan. So from Gokul to Badri Narayan, Badrikasram, Vaisnav’s, Gaudiya Vaisnav’s there worship able Lord is aradhyo bhagvan vrajesa tanaya, vrajesa tanaya son of Nanda Maharaja and there worship able abode is tad dhama Vrndavanam where vrajesa tanaya appears, their minds are always fixed, Vaisnav’s, Gaudiaya Vaisnav’s, Brajavasis mind is always fixed on Krishna. They know nothing, no one else but there Radhanath. na parah no one else.

sri chaitanya mahaprabhor matam idam tatradarah na parah (Caitanya-matta-manjusa by Srila

Viswanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Worship vrajesa tanaya He like to reside in, or visit to or parikarma of Vrndavan and their ideal, the hero’s the devotees, whose examples they follows, those devotees are the Gopis.

vraja-vadhu-vargena va kalpita

That aradhana is the best aradhana, the best mode of worship and which scripture do they study, they study Srimad Bhagavatam,

srimad bhagavatam amalam puranam

Srimad Bhagavatam is amal, it is spotless puran and the goal of their life is prema pumartho mahan, the love of Godhead Prema, Pancham purushartha, they don’t compromise , no dharma, artha, kama, moksha, they spit at it, they only care for prema pumartho mahan. So that is what has been taught to us by Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu and then, we are here, we are still here at Badrikasram, knowing all this, we come, we still come to Badrik-asram, every, every follower of the Sanatan dharma, every Hindu aspires to go at least once in his life, he has to go to Badrik-asram. Them his life is, kind of perfect, then he is pacified, satisfied. Otherwise he has some agitation. No, no, I haven’t been to Badrik-asram. Oh! That, what kind of Hindu, santaniya am I, I have to go to Badrik-asram. So was also the desire, an aspiration of Nanda Maharaja and Yashoda. I
am sure, you have been hearing from last couple of days that, it was a wish of Nanda Baba, it was the wish of Yashoda and the elderly gopas and gopi, they wanted to go to Badrik-asram. So as the darling of Yashoda, he came to know that this is the wish of elderly. His elderly parents and other elderly brajavasis, they would like to go on pilgrimage to one on to Badrikasram, then Lord says, yes, yes I will bring you, just follow me. This way, this way, that way, this way and finally this Krishna and Balaram were leading the parikarma, the procession, the shobha yatra, the parikrama party, where did they end up. They end up here

Badrik-asram dhamaa… ki jai.

Badrik-asram dhama ki jai.

And Nanda Yashoda offer their pranams, obeisances to Nara-Narayan rishi and other presents here, Kuber is also here and well that time Uddhav was not here, he once asked later on to come here or if you think of previous kalap then , if similar instruction was given by Sri Krishna to Uddhav, you should go and reside at Badrik-asram. In that case Uddhav also was very much here, they all had been thinking that this, this is Narayan, that had been protecting our son. So many calamities, so many demons and terrorist had been coming and attacking and every time our child was protected by who, who was the protector,

Namo Narayan, Narayanah Namah ! Namah, Namo Namah!

Obeisances again and again, thank you dear Lord for protecting our son, protecting our children, you are so kind, so Lord Krishna didn’t want parents to leave Vrndavan, so are we going to say, he created, He created Badrik-asram as integral part of Braja Mandal. They also wanted to go and take a holy dip in Ganga, you heard about that, yes, you heard, so then the Krishna take them to Haridwar or to Mayapur, so many, Ganga flows all over. So, no, no, no, you don’t have to go, please come. This Ganga is also here, please follow me and Krishna took his parents to ‘Mansi Ganga”. This is another reason, another day I don’t know, Maharaja was explaining why Mansi Ganga, what was the reason of the manifestation of Mansi Ganga. In Bhadravan, one day calf was killed. Oh you are sinner, you are sinner, now you had to take a dip in Ganga. So Krishna didn’t want to go to Haridwar, or to Hrishikesh or to Prayag Raj, or to Kanpur or to other places where you could go and take a holy dip in Ganga. He didn’t want to go, so he created Ganga from his mind, “Mansi Ganga”, then he took bath, so this is one reason, given why or how come Mansi Ganga was created, came into existence and there is another reason is that the parents wanted to take the holy dip, “Ganga snana”, so Krishna says okay, no, no, you don’t have to go. Ganga is here, Jamuna is here, Saraswati is here and then,

gange ca yamune caive
godaavari sarasvati
narmade sindhu kaaveri
jalesmin sannidhim kuru

While taking bath every pious, religious Hindu, well if he knows some mantras, he chants this mantra. Oh rivers, oh Ganga, oh Yamuna, oh Saraswati, Godavari, Narmada, Kaveri, Sindhu, please come, where I am. I wish to take bath, could I have this sacred opportunity of bathing in your holy water. Oh you different rivers. So he invokes, he invites, he remembers and those river appear. “M. So, all the rivers are flowing through Braja, all the holy tirtha’s are in Braja. In Radha Kunda, Shayam Kunda all the holy rivers are there. Krishna and Radha they had proposed to each other, no, no you had to take bath, go take bathe, don’t touch me. Radha Rani says, stay away, go take bath first and then he had to take bath in Ganga, Yamuna, all the rivers, he had to travel all over the universe, all over the planet and then comes back and he take after taking bath. So then as Krishna was, kind of thinking , but the holy rivers and holy kunda’s , not only he had to take bath in holy rivers but all the sacred kunda’s he had to take bath first and then you come. So quite a task, this would take time.

How much time, forever, you take time forever, so many Kaunda’s, so many holy rivers. So holy kaunda’s and Holy Rivers they appear before Krishna. Oh ! We are here, we are here. Oh who are you, I am Ganga, I am Yamuna, I am Saraswati, I am this Kunda, I am that Kunda, all the Kaunda’s were there. They are begging, so Krishna had make a kunda, the Shayam Kunda and now all this rivers were there. Kaunda’s from all over the universe, all over the planet and then Krishna took his bath and then Krishna said, you accused me, this is very false accusation. You know I killed that demon, bull demon, he was harassing all residents of Braja. The ladies were having miscarriages, yes by thinking of this demon or as he would walk, the earth would tremble and everyone was in great fear. Just to help the residents of Braja, I killed the demon. But you accused me for such a false accusation. You have committed a sin by accusing me, so now you should go take bath in all the rivers, all the Kunda’s until that no touching me. no, no, no, no, I say no.

So then Radha Rani was thinking and gopis “Oh! We also were party to the same accusation, Radha Rani was just spokesperson, she was only speaking on behalf of us, we also had the same idea. So then what to do?” Then all the gopis they started bringing water, first of all they started digging their own kunda. They broke their bangles and with their bangles they started digging, round bangle cut into half, so they all have bangles or they are breaking their more bangles and they are trying to dig. So finally kunda was there and this was to be filled with sacred waters so then they got the pots, clay pots from somewhere and all the way to the Mansi Ganga, they are filling the pot and they were handing it to the next Gopi , the next Gopi, next gopi, next gopi, the gopi that was standing on the bank of Radha kunda was pouring that water into the Radha kunda huge big kunda and they are just filling up with pots and pouring. This was taking them forever, taking long time. So then the water in the Shyam kunda, they are very kind, we are seeing you, what you are going through. So could we help you, if you wish, we could help and then finally Radha Rani gave the nod, gave the green signal okay go ahead. And the waters from Shyam kunda, they poured into Radha kunda, Radha kunda was full and Radha Rani jumped in and so did the gopis and the both the parties were now free from the sin committed and they are friends again and they had good time again as usual, so they always find some reason to get angry with and find fault with. So this was one of those reasons.

So all this kunda’s Haribol. Sri Krishna Caitanya, we thought fighting goes on only in Delhi or in London, but where ever you go fighting continues, accompanies you. So Badrik-asram dhamaa is here, all the hamas are part of Vrndavan. Is that okay, that statement, you can accept, you can live with it, can you digest it. All the dhamaas, all the tirtha’s are in Brajs. As all the incarnations are, where are they? All the forms of

ramadi-murtisu kala niemane tisthan [Brahma samita 12]

Where are they, what is their source? Krishna is the source.

aham sarvasya prabhavo
mattah sarvam pravartate
iti matva bhajant mam
budha bhava samanvitah (BG 10.8)

‘iti matva’ accepting this much, thinking so much, how much? That Krishna is source is everything, aham sarvasya prabhavo yes mattah sarvam pravartate, that everything, Krishna is source of all the incarnations. He is source of all the incarnations. Srila Prabhupada has given the title to one of the chapters in Bhagavatam 3 rd Chapter of the first canto is entitled as “Krishna is source of all incarnation.” So if Krishna is source of all incarnations likewise, Vrndavan is source of all the tirtha’s, all the dhamaas. So when you worship Krishna, you have worshipped all incarnations like you go to the root of the tree.

prapayanti bhujo pa shakha, shakha, upshakha, the branches, sub branches, branches they are all satisfied by pouring water at the roots.

yatha mula nesihanane, yatha mula nesihanane

By pouring water on the root of the tree, the trunk, all the branches are satisfied. So Krishna from Krishna branch out so many incarnations, so Krishna is a source, you worship Him. He is aradhyo Bhagavan vrajsa tanayas, you have worshipped all the incarnations. Okay, so keep that aside for a moment. Now let us come to the dhamaa and then when we do parikarma of Vrndavan dhamaa and Vrndavan is source of all the dhamaa, all dhamaas are part of Vrndavan. This is a mother, like also Sanskrit is mother of all languages. Sanskrit language is mother of all the other languages. So this Vrndavan dhamaa, Braja mandal dhamaa is source of all the, all the dhamaas. Including Badrik-asram, Badrik asram is here, In few days will go to Kedarnath, Kedarnath is here, you name dhama and that is very much part of Braja mandal. Sometimes we say two in one, two in one radio and tape recorder two in one, sometimes three in one but in this case all in one. All dhamaas in one dhamaa, you do parikarma of Vrndavan dhamaa and you have done parikarma of all the dhamaas. Not only on this planet but all other planets, if there are any dhamaas you are completed your parikarma, you don’t have to do any more parikarma. Haribol, Haribol.

Is that good news? Haribol. So we say this is ultimate, this is ultimate parikarma, this is ultimate experience that you do parikarma of Braja mandal. One time there was a conference, big conference in Prayag Raj and all the tirtha’s they are invited to attend that conference, they had some issues to deal with so all tirtha’s of this universe, from this planet had come and there they had a big list and they are saying the name, yes Kedarnath here – yes, Badrinath – yes, this nath, this dhamaa, Rameshwar – yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Vrndavan – Oh! Vrndavan is not here. Is Vrndavan here? They are calling second time. Vrndavan, is Vrndavan here? Is this announcement loud and clear, very loud and very clear but because Vrndavan was not in the audience, in that conference, naturally there was no response. Every other dhamaa was saying Haribol, Hare Krishna and yes sir, yes sir, yes madam, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But when Vrndavan, no response. So when they found out that Vrndavan was not attending the conference. All the members become very furious. What does Vrndavan think, we have left also very important businesses and have come for this very important conference here, but Vrndavan is not here.

Very angry, so what to do. So they all resolved that we should all go, we should all personally go to Vrndavan and chastise, teach some lessons to Vrndavan. So that Vrndavan would never ever think of missing future meetings, future conferences. So they all started, all the dhamaas, they started their journey from Prayag Raj. They are person. Dhamaas are also persons. They have different forms, they have different vehicles and they started their journey and they are travelling and travelling and travelling and they had got very close to Vrndavan dhamaa.

Vrndavan dhama ki Jai

The cooling effect, the cooling effect of Vrndavan, the effulgence of Vrndavan, the fragrance of Vrndavan, the opulence of Vrndavan was amazing. They were just amazed, stunned by seeing and as they were getting closer and closer and closer and they were right there at the outskirts of Vrndavan and by seeing the beauty, opulence of Vrndavan, the purity of Vrndavan, the residents of Vrndavan, the devotion of the devotees of Vrndavan and Yamuna of Vrndavan and Govardhan of Vrndavan, the cows of Vrndavan, everything of Vrndavan was so pleasing, so amazing, simply wonderful, this was the first hand experience of each and every one of those tirtha’s. They had come with idea of chastising this Vrndavan dhamaa but there was no question , there was no question of chastisement They all collectively, they all fell flat at the feet of Vrndavan dhamaa and started begging for forgiveness, please forgive, please forgive O dhamaa, please Vrndavan dhamaa, we are sinful in our thought, we thought you are just one of us. We didn’t realised your exalted position, Oh Vrndavan please forgive us. Oh Vrndavan, Oh Vrndavan so they, Vrndavan didn’t have to say nothing, but just being in Vrndavan, near Vrndavan around Vrndavan, all those tirtha’s they
realised, very distinguished position of Vrndavan, the exalted position of Vrndavan.

mattah parataram nanyat
kincid asti dhanan-jaya (BG 7.7)

No one is equal to Krishna, no one is above Krishna likewise. This is also the position of Vrndavan dhama. No dhama is equal to Vrndavan, no dhama is but superior to Vrndavan. This is the top most dhama, complete dhama, complete dhama. All Dhamas, all tirtha’s are here, very much here and if they are out there, they are just extension counters; they are just expansion of this dhama. So we are here at Badrik-asram dhama as Krishna has brought his parents to Badrik-asram and made their life easy, they didn’t have to go to other. Badrik-asram or Krishna’s idea, His devotees, not only Himself but His devotees also, they don’t have to leave Vrndavan. Vrndavan is Puranam. Vrndavan is complete. Its complete, nothing is lacking, nothing is missing. Everything is here in Vrndavan. So Krishna has made that provision He didn’t arrange this not only for His parents but for all of us. So by coming to this Badrik-asram, we also derive the full benefit of Badrik-asram tirtha yatra. By doing this one Braja mandal parikarma, you get benefit of doing all tirtha yatra’s all over the world. So I think you went on the tour yesterday or today, or today this morning. Maharaja must have taken you around Badrik-asram. Everything is here, things may not be very clear, fully visible to our eyes, our senses are imperfect and we make mistakes and like that we are in illusion and cheating propencity is there.

So with all this faults and flaws, we are just reading that bhrama is there, the pramada is there, vipralipsa is there,  aranapatava. So we still try to see something, something. We try to show, someone is trying to show, someone is trying to see and as combination of the two, we end up seeing, we had to be satisfied, but of course intellectually and spiritually we understand that. Oh! Yes whether we see or we don’t see, things are here. All those places are here, all those manifestations are there. Badri-Narayana of course he is very visible, very much clear and that’s most important. This Badrik-asram dhama is known for Narayan who resides here. Narayan stays here and who worships this Narayan and who is worshipper of Narayan here. Narada Muni worships Narayan in Badrik-asram. When we talk of Narayan , Narayan is worship able deity of Bharat Varsha. There are nine Varsha’s. There are sapta divipas and nine varsha’s. This is in Bhagavatam again more difficult to understand this.

So Bharat doesn’t include, now we think that kind of map, Sri Lanka at the bottom, that is Bharat as you have seen the ad Govt. Of India writes “BHARAT”, but then we said no, no, 5000 years ago Bharat was all over the planet but that is also incomplete information or knowledge. Bharat includes so many planets; it is a big huge space and region with. So that, all that Bharats worship able deity is Narayan and in each of these varsha’s there is a worship able deity. In Varsha there is Ram as a worship able deity, Narsimha as a worship able deity where this Narsimha is being worshipped with worshiper, Prahlad Maharaja is worshipper. Where Ram is worshipped, who is the worshipper, Hanuman is worshipper, like that. Nine Varhsa’s, nine objects of worship and nine worshippers. So for Bharat Varsha Narayan is the deity Lord to be worshipped and worshipper is Narada Muni. So this is Narada Muni worships here. Badri Narayan , Badrik-asram is the headquarters of Narada Muni. Each one of you have someone of us have our have our headquarters. What are your headquarters, someone says Delhi, someone says Moscow and someone says Pandharpur.

Someone says this, someone says that and Narada Muni’s headquarters are Badrik-asram and Narada Muni travels far and wide, everywhere all over the Universe, into Lord’s dhama and back, into the universe and back into Badrik-asram. So that why, that is not the only name that he chants. Narada Muni is also part of Vrndavan other day, part of Vrndavan other day. We were talking, must be talking in Hindi, Narada Kunda, very close to Kusum Sarovar. At Narada Kunda, Narada muni is residing there also and he wrote his Narada Bhakti Sutra’s there. Narada Muni is residing here. Uddhav also was staying there on the bank of Kusum Sarovar. Yes, yes, remember Uddhav is staying at the bank of Kusum Sarovar in the form of creepers. So Narada residing there, Narada residing here. Uddhav residing there, at the bank of Kusum Sarovar and he is also residing here. So Narada Muni , he chants.

narad muni bajaye veena

Lord Himself gave this vena to Narada Muni. Lord gave Him vena and using that vena, adjustment, adjustment is going on, tuning, then he plays. His vena is divya, transcendental, sacred vena, very special instrument, he plays and sings glories of Radha Raman and then officially he is , he is worshipper of Narayan and he travels and he gives Narayan to everybody, he gives Narayan to everybody, hence his name is “Narada’’ Narada, da means giver, giver of Narayan is Narada Muni, he travels everywhere, chants the glories of Narayan, Narayan, Narayan, Narayan, Narayan, Narayan Hari Hari.

Hari Hari, that part is also there. No, no we did that Narayan, Narayan Hari, Haribol. So he is chanting and Badrik-asram is also place of Vyasadeva.

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
where was this prayer compiled, this is how is bhagavatam begins with .
om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

Oh! You are tried, so where all scriptures, all the Vedic text are compiled in Badrik-asram, by Srila Vyasadeva, Purana’s, Mahabharta, Vedant Sutra and Bhagavad Gita is part of Mahabharta and finally Srimad Bhagavatam also was compiled in Badrik asram. So today, did you see ‘Vyas Guffa’. Cave of Vyasadeva, it is there, it has to be there. So, we happen to go, we happen to go to Badrik asram, the other one, this is manifestation, the expansion, extension one. So on top of Himalayan mountain, this also top of, all this, you realise, all this mountains are, which mountains are this. The Himalayan mountains what does Krishna say about Himalayan in Bhagavad Gita.

sthavaranam himalayah [BG 10.25]

of all the immovable, immovable bodies, I am Himalaya mountain. So this Himalayan Mountain is not different from the Lord. Lord is Himalaya, sthavaranam himalayah. So as we are travelling to Badrikasram, we were noticing three things redominantly, as we were looking around, what we are seeing, Himalaya, where ever you see, where ever you look, what is there. Himalayan mountain. Okay now look down, there is river Ganga. Most of the path on the way to Badrik-asram is right on the banks of river Ganga, lots of the path. So as we look down, there is Ganga and what is Ganga? Krishna again says in Bhagavad Gita tenth chapter,

srotasam asmi jahnavi [10.31]

Of all the rivers, flowing waters, He is Jahnavi, He is Ganga. So Ganga is manifestation of Krishna and as you are looking up what was it? Clouds, you don’t see clouds there, clouds are down there, when you go to Badrik-asram, lot of time, you are above the clouds. Okay there are no clouds. ahhh peacocks, go keep going, you come closer to stars, day time moon, sun, what is sun? Krishna’s eyes.

So this three things were very very dominant, look around, Himalayan mountain, that’s the Lord, looking down, that is river flowing Ganga, look up, there is sun. This is a kind of Virat Rupa or something, huge, big and gigantic but as you are climbing up and up and up, another experience. I am sure that it is not only my experience but others also feeling that we are going higher, in our consciousness. Some kind of lifting up the consciousness was there because when you go up there everything is sacred, everything is pure, clean, so many caves of the sages and because you are going to Badrik-asram and you are going, you are going, going, going, you are going away from your back stores, Agra, Bhopal and Mumbai. You are going away, you are going away from material existence, so this very sacred idea of India going towards North. Where did five Pandav’s, when they wanted to retire, where did they go, they went in the Northern direction. They left Hastinapur, they went in northern, there is a Badrik-asram there, Himalayan mountain, caves, sages and bees, you know there is no “hasso and Basso” of cities, so even now, even now as you go you have another experience. I am sure as you are coming here, same thing, let us compare, coming here to Badrik-asram, similar experience you go higher, you are going closer, go higher means you are getting closer.

So Badrik-asram is very special experience. So in 1977 in month of October, I was there in Badrik-asram, I went few more time but first time ever I went to Badrik-asram was in 1977, October and then end of October, what do you think was going on that time, that was month of Kartik and what was Prabhupada doing, where was he, what was happening with him. This end of October 1977, Prabhupada was in Vrndavan, Prabhupada was bed ridden, Prabhupada was very very sick, ill. So and we were, we were travelling party that distributed Srila Prabhupada books and the name of our party was “Narada Muni Travelling Sankirtana Party” so because this was name of our Sankirtana party we thought of visiting Narada Muni’s headquarters. He resides there, so we went to get his blessing and then we visited the cave of Vyasa Dev and as we return to Vrndavan, we were very anxious to, as we had left for Badrik-asram, travelling, we were distributing books, we knew Prabhupada was not well. Prabhupad awas not well and as we were up there, we had this feeling, no, no, we must go back, where to go back. Find out, how is Prabhupad’s health, so we all rush back to Vrndavan and then we had opportunity to see Srila Prabhupada, because if someone was distributing books Prabhupada always anxious to hear the book scores and reports. So he was very anxious so we were allowed to go in and as we sat Prabhupada was lying on his bed and the members of our Narada Muni travelling Sankirtana party, was sat around Prabhupada and as I was giving report of our travelling party. This is very deep spiritual experience for me and I can’t get into the whole experience but ya what I reported to Prabhupada was that, we were in Badrik-asram and we visited Srila Vyasadeva’s cave and we showed Srila Prabhupad’s Bhagavad Gita to Srila Vyasadeva. I was reporting to Prabhupad, I said your Bhagavad Gita we showed it to Srila Vyasadeva, was little humorous we of narrating this or reporting this because I was thinking, we were thinking yes because we visited the cave of Vyasadeva, we were carrying Srila Prabhupad’s Bhagavad Gita, we didn’t see Srila Vyasadeva, but for sure he was seeing us and seeing us carrying Srila Prabhupad’s Bhagavad Gita. So I think we had all the reason to say Prabhupada, Prabhupada we visited Vyasadeva cave and we showed your Bhagavad Gita to Srila Vyasadeva and we were trying to glorify Srila Prabhupada in some ways appreciate Prabhupada in some ways and find some reason to appreciate Prabhupada and I was trying to make this kind of connection, showed your Bhagavad Gita to Srila Vyasadeva and Prabhupada.

In those days Prabhupada little, very little, so he was just, we saw the expression on his face, he was pleased to hear that his Bhagavad Gita was seen by Vyasadeva. We are just watching, reading his face, expressions on his face and by seeing Prabhupada pleased, we were pleased and so that time we also mention several things, it is long get together, Prabhupada was we were last to happen half an hour, forty five minutes, we were sitting, talking to Srila Prabhupada and this was like about
one week before Srila Prabhupad’s departure, about a week before 14 th November and I happen to mention, I happen to mention that we also visited Bhima Brij, Bhima ka pull, Bhima ka pull, so this is a famous spot near Badrik-asram. Five Pandav’s and Draupadi and a dog. This was a party that was heading towards north and on the way up there, up above there, one by one they were leaving there bodies.

First Draupadi, then Nakul, Sahadev, Arjuna and Bhima. So place where Bhima left his body, departed. So we, I happen to mention that yes we also visited that place and one of my God Brother heard this and he didn’t like my reporting, that part of the report. Later on, not in front of Prabhupada but as we walked he rebuked me, he chastised me for this. According to him, it was not necessary to report the departure of Bhima and because Prabhupada was always thinking to departing and he thought maybe I was giving some idea, I was giving Prabhupada that was his thinking, that god brother’s thinking. So then that day, we will talk some other day, some other time. Prabhupada wanted to go on a pilgrimage and he wanted us to organise ox cart for him and the destination was Govardhan and to there on Govardhan Puja day and anyway because I had this experience of bullock cart Prabhupad has asked me to do this Bullock cart Padayatra. We had done it for Prabhupada pleasure from Vrndavan to Mayapur and beyond in 1976, also 1977 beginning. So he, I was involved making arrangement for Prabhupada to go on pilgrimage to start to begin with, we could do it as a trail run, do Govardhan first and if it works out then do more extensive pilgrimage of Braja. But that never worked out why it didn’t work out etc, we may talk some another time we will stop here now.