Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.50

Anantarām Śāstrī:

kṛṣṅaika-cetā mada-moha-vināśa-kārin kartā vrīḍa-hāsa kā prabhu prabhupāda-svāmin kāmādi doṣā paradūṣita-manda-buddheḥ sañcintayāmi caraṅau tava bhakti-hetoḥ [Prabhupāda-stotram]

Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.50. [chants word-for-word, then verse; devotees and Prabhupāda respond] [break]

tat te 'rhattama namaḥ stuti-karma-pūjāḥ karma smṛtiś caraṅayoḥśravaṅaṁ kathāyām saṁsevayā tvayi vineti ṣaḍ-aṅgayā kiṁ bhaktiṁ janaḥ paramahaṁsa-gatau labheta [SB 7.9.50]

[02:58]

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṅa: Translation: “Therefore, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, the best of all persons to whom prayers are offered, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You because without rendering six kinds of devotional service unto You—namely without offering prayers, dedicating the results of activities to You, worshiping You, always remembering Your lotus feet and hearing and speaking about Your glories—who can achieve that which is meant for the paramahaṁsas?”

Prabhupāda: [taped from a distance, indistinct from this point]

So bhakti is under the control of paramahaṁsas. Bhakti is not available in the market, [indistinct]. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has said that [indistinct] you can purchase. Eh? Kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa, rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ, krīyatāṁ yadi kuto 'pi labhyate, labh..., labhyate. Kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ [Cc Madhya 8.70]. This is the exact translation of Kṛṣṅa consciousness. We have given this name Kṛṣṅa consciousness. The exact Sanskrit [indistinct] is kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ. Matiḥ means [indistinct]. We have taken this verse. So we are distributing this. Anyone can purchase. Hmm? Rūpa Gosvāmi has advised, "Purchase and indulge." Therefore, as paupers, here we are asking everybody, “Please purchase Kṛṣṅa consciousness.” This is our business. We are also businessmen. These books, this is business. What is this business? “Please purchase Kṛṣṅa consciousness.” They are seeing that we can act in business [child crying loudly in the background; Prabhupāda says something aside] Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmi has advised that kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ. Krīyatāṁ. Again he advises everyone, “Please purchase kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ.” The reference is [indistinct], that those who are actually eager to purchase, we are giving knowledge that “Here is Kṛṣṅa bhakti: kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ, here.” There is no other [indistinct] than Kṛṣṅa bhakti. This is required.

So [indistinct] has advised to purchase, but one can enquire how it is prescribed. How it is prescribed? I want to purchase [indistinct], but how is it prescribed? Here, it is prescribed here, prescribed is here, ah, laulyam ekalaṁ api mūlyam. First of all, to purchase Kṛṣṅa consciousness, it does not require any [indistinct]. It cannot be purchased by any [indistinct]. Then, what? [indistinct] Laulyam ekalaṁ api mūlyam [Cc Madhya 8.70]: I must have Kṛṣṅa in my life. This is required. If one is very, very eager, just like Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has taught us, śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ govinda-viraheṅa me [Cc Antya 20.39]: "I do not find Govinda, therefore the whole world is bare." This is the reaction. Yugāyitaṁ nimeṣeṅa cakṣuṣā prāvṛṣāyitaṁ. This is the price for purchasing Kṛṣṅa. We have got everything given by our ācāryas. Rūpa Gosvāmi says that you purchase, then you are [indistinct] twice. And Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who rigidly purchased, this is [indistinct]. Yugāyitaṁ nimeṣeṅa, when you live one moment as twelve years. One yuga means twelve years. Yugāyitaṁ nimeṣeṅa cakṣuṣā prāvṛṣāyitaṁ: and the eyes should be filled with tears. Just like in the rainy season, torrents and torrents of rain. Yugāyitaṁ nimeṣeṅa cakṣuṣā prāvṛṣāyitaṁ. Yugāyitaṁ nimeṣeṅa, that Caitanya Mahāprabhu's [indistinct], that without Kṛṣṅa He is jumping on the sea. He has fallen in amongst the [indistinct]. You have read Caitanya-caritāmṛta where Kṛṣṅadāsa Kavirāja has explained.

So we [indistinct] in practical terms what is described by Kṛṣṅa. That is the [indistinct]. So therefore it is the [indistinct], I mean to say, paramahaṁsa-gatau labheta, gata—is [indistinct] from the paramahaṁsa. You have to serve, you have to purchase from the paramahaṁsas, not from the [indistinct]. Therefore Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says, chāḍiyā vaiṣṅava-sevā nistāra pāyeche kebā, you have to serve the paramahaṁsa. Paramo nirmatsaraḥ. Paramahaṁsa means paramo nirmatsaraḥ. No, it does not mean [indistinct]. Those who are envious, [indistinct], gosvāmis, what to speak of paramahaṁsas. Kṛṣṅa is [indistinct], He will never find out any fault with anyone, anywhere. Paramahaṁsa, why they should find fault? This material world means they are under the influence of the material nature. Here everyone has got some difference of opinion, diseased condition. Diseased condition. Just like there are varieties of diseases, similarly, everyone is in the diseased condition by the modes of material nature. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṅāni guṅaiḥ karmāṅi sarvaśaḥ [Bg 3.27].

[The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature.]

So we are [indistinct] under the influence of material nature. You can say, “But that is not for me.”

piśācī pāile yena mati-cchanna haya māyā-grasta jīvera haya se bhāva udaya [Prema-vivarta 1]

[When a living entity is conditioned by material nature, he is exactly like a person haunted by a ghost.]

Just like a person ghostly-haunted, he speaks all nonsense. Similarly, anyone who is under the influence of the three qualities of material nature, he is as good as the person ghostly-haunted, grasta jīvera haya. We cannot see on our own account, because every one of us ghostly-haunted, I mean under the influence of the material nature. It is these varieties of philosophies, varieties of [indistinct] anything, without [indistinct] varieties of material nature. So we cannot expect a sane man, so why you should be angry upon a man, or why should you blame or condemn them? This is proper Vaiṣṅava behavior. The Vaiṣṅava’s only desire is that “These people are suffering under the influence of material nature, and they are talking all nonsense. What shall I save them? Why shall I condemn them? Let them pray to Kṛṣṅa, let them become sane and [indistinct].” This is Vaiṣṅava. It is just like the physician is treating patients, and one patient is [indistinct]. But if the physician becomes angry upon the patient, then he cannot treat. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has advised to the preacher,

tṛṅād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṅunā amāninā mānadena kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ [Cc Ādi 17.31]

[One who thinks himself lower than the grass, who is more tolerant than a tree, and who does not expect personal honor yet is always prepared to give all respect to others can very easily always chant the holy name of the Lord.]

Just to become tolerant. People will break the rules [indistinct] under the influence of the material nature, and they will talk all kinds of nonsense. But we don't care, neither we complain. We never complain. [indistinct] You have to follow the paramahaṁsas. Kṛṣṅa is a property of all. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung, vaiṣṅava ṭhākura tomāra kukkura baliyā jānaha more. Just like the dog follows the master to get something. The dog does not go to any master, but he follows his master, and the master out of affection gives him food and sleep. So Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has taught us that vaiṣṅava ṭhākura tomāra kukkura baliyā jānaha more. You have to become a dog of a Vaiṣṅava. And Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says that chādiyā vaiṣṅava-sevā nistara paveche kebā: without serving the Vaiṣṅava, nobody can get out of the clutches of māyā. That is not [indistinct].

Therefore [indistinct], guru-mukha-padma-vākya, cittete koriyā aikya, ār nā koriho mane. Because if you want to have Kṛṣṅa, then guru. Guru means [indistinct] following the paramparā system. Not self-made guru, but that guru, guru-mukha-padma. [indistinct] “We are Vaiṣṅavas, but we are under the influence of māyā.” You cannot become paramahaṁsa by advertising. No, sir, that is not possible. Guru-mukha-padma-vākya, cittete koriyā aikya, that is the formula to follow the instruction of guru. [indistinct] But because he is following the words of the perfect, he is perfect. This is jñāna. [indistinct], yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo yasyāprasādān na gatiḥ kuto 'pi. This is [indistinct]. Paramahaṁsa-gatau: you have to approach a Vaiṣṅava paramahaṁsa and follow his words and instructions; then you get the result. This is [indistinct]. Otherwise [indistinct], it can be purchased very easily, provided you have got the price as it is described in the śāstras:

tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet samit-pāṅiḥ śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham [Muṅḍaka Upaniṣad 1.2.12]

[To understand these things properly, one must humbly approach, with firewood in hand, a spiritual master who is learned in the Vedas and firmly devoted to the Absolute Truth.]

Tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥśreya uttamam [SB 11.3.21].

[Therefore any person who seriously desires real happiness must seek a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of the bona fide guru is that he has realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and is able to convince others of these conclusions. Such great personalities, who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, should be understood to be bona fide spiritual masters.]

Jijñāsuḥśreya. One should not approach guru for any material purpose. That is [indistinct] not eligible to select the guru, and he is not fit for becoming disciple. Tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta jijñāsuḥśreya uttamam. [indistinct]

So, śābde pare ca niṣṅātaṁ brahmaṅy upaśamāśrayam. Guru means he is expert [indistinct], in transcendental science, [indistinct]. Then how it can be done, transcendental [indistinct]? It is very easy. That is the instruction of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Then what is that transcendental literature? Caitanya Mahāprabhu explains, yāre dekha, tāre kaha 'kṛṣṅa'-upadeśa [Cc Madhya 7.128].

[Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṅa as they are given in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land.]

That is [indistinct]. Simply you take Bhagavad-gītā, kṛṣṅa-upadeśa. That is transcendental. Śābde pare ca niṣṅātaṁ [SB 4.29.55]. One who has taken seriously, fully, śābde pare ca… Śābda means sound. Bhagavad-gītā is also sound, but it is not ordinary sound. If you take Bhagavad-gītā as ordinary sound and try to understand by your ordinarily, blunt [indistinct]. It is transcendental literature. It cannot be understood by mundane education. Therefore all these rascals who are advertising that they have great power, great politicians, great students in this and that, [indistinct]. Because they want to understand Bhagavad-gītā by the mundane knowledge, mundane education. Is it not? Therefore we cannot. Śābde pare ca niṣṅātaṁ, brahmaṅy. Then brahmaṅy upaśamāśrayam, the whole life is how to become completely fixed up in Brahman, the Supreme. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā, we are trying to be happy, peaceful. Everyone now [indistinct]. How you'll get? The process you do not follow, brahmaṅy upaśamāśrayam. So if you’re fixed up in Brahma, then,

brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām [Bg 18.54]

[And of all yogīs, he who always abides in Me with great faith, worshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.]

So if you get to the brahma-bhūtaḥstage, even if you approach a person who is [indistinct], yā niśā sarva-bhūtānāṁ tasyāṁ jāgarti saṁyamī [Bg 2.69].

[What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.]

In Bhagavad-gītā [indistinct],

tad viddhi praṅipātena paripraśnena sevayā upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ [Bg 4.34]

[Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.]

[indistinct] Tattva-darśinaḥ means one who knows what is actually the truth.

vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate [SB 1.2.11]

[Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān.]

That means one who is brahma-bhūtaḥ, one who understands the distinction between material knowledge and spiritual knowledge, you have to approach personally. Then you can understand Kṛṣṅa consciousness. [indistinct] before becoming [indistinct], tatra laulyam ekalaṁ mūlam, na labhyate janma-koṭi-sukṛtair. “Yes, I say the price is eagerness.” So anyone can say, "Oh, that is [indistinct]. Yes, I shall do it." So Rūpa Gosvāmi immediately warns us, na labhyate janma-koṭi-sukṛtair: even after millions of births and millions of past pious activities, this eagerness cannot be. It is not easy. Don't take it as [indistinct]. No, how [indistinct]? Therefore Rūpa Gosvāmi, he warns, “No, don't do that.” Just like you are eager to buy something [indistinct] in the market, janma-koṭi-sukṛtair na labhyate, but it can be, immediately. This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's favor, mercy. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Lord Kṛṣṅa's mercy, immediately within a second. How?

sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṅaṁ vraja ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ [Bg 18.66]

When Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommended Jagāi and Mādhāi that “You give up your sinful activities [indistinct] immediately.”

So we, if we are serious that to approach Kṛṣṅa and get Kṛṣṅa consciousness, and if we follow the instructions of Kṛṣṅa, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, we can become paramahaṁsa. [indistinct] Kṛṣṅa, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, then life is successful. We can make Kṛṣṅa consciousness very easily; otherwise [indistinct]. Otherwise, if you make a show [indistinct] nice favor [indistinct]. No, it does not require. [indistinct] but eternally how to get the favor of the paramahaṁsas, then you will be successful. This is the secret. Yasyātma-buddhiḥ tri-dhātuke kuṅape [SB 10.84.13].

[One who identifies his self as the inert body composed of mucus, bile and air, who assumes his wife and family are permanently his own, who thinks an earthen image or the land of his birth is worshipable, or who sees a place of pilgrimage as merely the water there, but who never identifies himself with, feels kinship with, worships or even visits those who are wise in spiritual truth—such a person is no better than a cow or an ass.]

[indistinct] in Bhagavad-gītā, vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana [Bg 2.41], [indistinct] one who is eka [indistinct] there is no difference [indistinct] This is the way you have to find out the paramahaṁsas. If you [indistinct] sincerely, follow the [indistinct], then Kṛṣṅa consciousness will be very [indistinct]. Otherwise, ananta koti, [indistinct] after many, many births, pious lives, not cats’ and dogs’ lives [indistinct]. Therefore initiation means to train the candidate to become a perfect brāhmaṅa, Vaiṣṅava. Then you can become established in Kṛṣṅa consciousness and remain in your original [indistinct].

Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya! Haribol! [end]