Saari Bhumi Gopal Ki 22nd January 2020

22nd January 2020

Saari Bhumi Gopal Ki

Hare Krishna

ISKCON Amravati’s Temple President, Ananta Sesa Prabhu has sent a message about ISKCON Amravati’s Nama Japa Yajna. They are in need of land. So they are going to perform Nama Japa Yajna till they get land for the temple. All of you please give your best wishes. Keep on performing Nama Sankirtana Yajna all ISKCON Amravati devotees. All the land belongs to Gopal. But they are trying to claim it. They try to claim the land as their own and don’t want to give land to construct a temple. Those who don’t give land will get punished. To save oneself from it one should offer the land. We are trying to fight between me and mine, keeping the Lord away.

bhoktaram yajna-tapasam
sarva-loka-mahesvaram
suhrdam sarva-bhutanam
jnatva mam santim rcchati

Translation:
A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries. [BG 5.29]

Those who understand this will become peaceful.

Hadapsar devotees also need land. They should also do Sankirtana Yajna.
Srila Prabhupada called this 29th verse of 5th chapter the Peaceful Formula.
Those who falsely claim that land belongs to them and cannot donate the land for the construction of the temple get punished. If we want to avoid punishment, we have to understand this sloka. The Lord is the enjoyer and hence is offered everything. We should become yogi and Bhagavan is bhogi. If we don’t offer then we become rogi.

“Whatever yajna you perform offer that unto Me.”

Any activity we perform should be offered to the Lord. We should act for Yajna. Every single activity should be Yajna. Yajna means Supreme Lord. Lord is Yajna Purusha.

yajnarthat karmano ‘nyatra
loko ‘yam karma-bandhanah
tad-artham karma kaunteya
mukta-sangah samacara

Translation:
Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed; otherwise work causes bondage in this material world. Therefore, O son of Kuntī, perform your prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way you will always remain free from bondage. [BG 3.9]

All activities should be offered unto the Lord.

tad kurum madh arpan – The tongue of the Yajna is the Lord’s tongue. If we don’t act for the pleasure of the Lord then it becomes a cause of bondage. It will become a knot in our heart. Why is the Lord the enjoyer? Because everything belongs to Him.

sarva-loka-mahesvaram [BG 5.29]

Oh fools, you also belong to the Lord. I belong to the Lord. This is the right ego or aham. You start from here – ‘I belong to the Lord’. That’s the end. There shouldn’t be any false ego. I’m servant of Krsna and this is the correct and true ego. As we identify ourselves as servants of the Lord then aham is finished. Then mama also gets finished. If we don’t identify ourselves as belonging to the Lord then something remains apart. Then this false identification leads to aham brahmasmi which Srila Prabhupada calls the last snare of Maya. With manasa deho geho everything finishes. I belong to the Lord. So I’ll perform Yajna and sacrifice everything which I was considering mine. I’ll use it in the service of the Lord. Everything belongs to the Lord and it has to be utilised in the service of the Lord.

In Bengal a house is called Thakur badi. They open an account in the name of the Lord. There is then no question of mamma or me and mine. Such a person is always liberated. For such people an airplane from Vaikuntha will come. We need to be liberated in order to get back to Vaikuntha. Maya has been described in Srimad-Bhagavatam in two words ME and MINE.

Aham mamma ja iti this is Maya.
Aham + mamma + iti

Aham means ‘me’, mamma means ‘mine’, iti means ‘this much’

They say there is no peace. If you all say there is no peace, if you aspire for Bhakti,
mukti, siddhi, then you won’t be peaceful.

kṛṣṇa-bhakta–niṣkāma, ataeva ‘śānta’
bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī–sakali ‘aśānta’

Because a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is desireless, he is peaceful. Fruitive workers desire material enjoyment, jñānīs desire liberation, and yogīs desire material opulence; therefore they are all lusty and cannot be peaceful.
[Sri Caitanya-Caritamrta-Madhya 19.149]

If we understand these three things:
1.Lord is enjoyer means Bhokta.
2.Why is the Lord the enjoyer? – sarva-loka-mahesvaram. Because everything belongs to Him.
3.Our heart or supersoul. Suhrdam

“Oh all living entities. I’m your best friend”. He is giving us this information. In English we say, “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” One who helps us when in need, is our true friend. Lord isn’t our friend for namesake. He always helps when we are in need. The Biggest problem is birth, death, disease and old-age. This will go on again and again.

punarapi jananam punaripi maranam
punarapi janani jathara sayanam,
iha samsra bahudusare krpaya’ pare
Pahi murare

This is a prayer to Murari made by Sankaracarya even though he preached Mayavada. He is pleading for help. No one can help. Neither scientists, doctors nor actors. Who has the solution? This problem will keep on going. We have established our temporary army of relatives, wife…. Which Sukadev Goswami calls false as it can’t help you to get rid of 4 real problems of ‘birth, death, disease and old age’. The Lord says that only He can help. One who knows these three things will attain peace. Let there be peace. May the minds of people in Amravati experience peace! The industrialists in Amravati also want peace so make them understand how they can get peace by giving up this false claim. It is a start at least. Let there be peace in India, America,Russia and everywhere.

This is the mission of Lord Caitanya and this is the purpose of ISKCON. So instruct everyone about the teachings of Krsna. Contemplate on this. Do you want peace in Damodardesh, Hadapsar? If you want, then preach truth and do Harinama. Essence of all truth is Nama Sankirtana. Give up garbage and grab the essence. Apart from the holy name there’s nothing valuable in this 14 planetary system. Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakur said this

kṛṣṇa-nāma-sudhā koriyā pān,
jurāo bhakativinoda-prāṇ,
nāma binā kichu nāhiko āro,
caudda-bhuvana-mājhe

Translation:
Drink the pure nectar of the holy name of Krsna. There is nothing but the name to be had in the fourteen worlds. (From the Vaisnava Bhajan Udilo Aruna Puraba Bhage, Verse 8 by Bhaktivinoda Thakura)

It has filled the soul of Sri Bhaktivinoda Thakura.

Thank you
Hare Krishna