19820726 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.3

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The following is a lecture given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on July 26, 1982 – in Chennai, India. The lecture begins with a reading from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.3.

Hari rāma hari ramon. J. 3 chapter 5 canto 3 janasya kṛṣṇa. Anugrahoyeha. Of the common man Kṛṣṇa from the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa the Mukhasya of the one who has turned his face against the Lord by the influence of external energy. Adharma One who is engaged in your religion. A one who is always unhappy. Due to being compassionate. Get the flies off me. In this world. Charanti Wonder Noonan Certainly Bhutani persons Bhavyani Great Philanthropic Souls Janardhanasya of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Translation by His Divine grace to the AC Bhakti Vedānta Swami Prabhupāda O my Lord, Great philanthropic souls travel on the earth on behalf of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to show compassion to the fallen souls who are adverse to the sense of subordination to the Lord.

O my Lord, Great Philanthropic soul To be obedient to the wishes of the Supreme Lord is the natural position of every living entity. But due only to past misdeeds, a living being becomes adverse to the sense of subordination to the Lord and suffers all the miseries of material existence. No one has anything to do but render devotional service to the Supreme Lord. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Therefore, any activity other than transcendental loving service to the Lord is more or less a rebellious action against the supreme will. All fruitive activity, empirical philosophy and mysticism are more or less against the sense of subordination to the Lord. And any living entity engaged in such rebellious activity is more or less condemned by the laws of material nature which work under the subordination of the Lord.

Great Analoi devotees of the Lord are compassionate towards the fallen and therefore they travel all over the world with the mission of bringing souls back to Godhead, back to home. Sajir devotees of the Lord carry the message of Godhead in order to deliver the fallen souls. And therefore the common man who is bewildered by the influence of the external energy of the Lord should avail himself of their associations. Thus interpret the purport of text 4, chapter the Bhaktivedanta purports of text 3, chapter 5, canto 3. Bidura is asking questions of the great Sage Maitreya. And here in the question, he’s describing how the Lord disseminates His mercy to unfortunate fallen souls. And also showing us the symptoms of material nature or the materially inclined souls. They are adverse to the sense of subordination to the Lord.

This adversity to being subordinate to Kṛṣṇa takes its expression in many different ways. We see that throughout society people in the modern world, they are becoming more and more in an enjoying spirit. In that enjoying spirit they’re only thinking how to satisfy their self, their senses, how to satisfy their family’s senses, how to satisfy their state’s senses, how to satisfy the nation’s senses, how to satisfy the human senses at the expense of other divisions and other categories. No one has got that universal vision. The one with universal vision is this great philanthropic soul who is going and disseminating transcendental knowledge about Kṛṣṇa. Just to give some examples. You see, it’s not at all unusual to see, just like we have seen in the newspapers recently, that one type of family, just like there’s Harijans and Jadavs and Madhavs and whatever different categories are there.

And even in one village there were two types of Brahmanas of different family origin. And the one type of Brāhmaṇa was competing against the other for who would be the star Punch or the elected head of the village. So the one who was a sitting sire Punch for so many years was defeated by the other one. And a woman was elected as the SAR Punch. But then from the defeated group they came over and chopped up the woman and about 10 people. And this way the family quarrel is going on, even causing murder and death. So this is showing how one is thinking that for my family I can give up my life, I have to do so many things. But they’re willing to kill the other families. Same thing. Even in America they have this, what they call clans, big families.

And sometimes due to an insult that was done hundred years before, the Klan are still fighting in Italy, the same thing they got the mafia clan. The mafia families, they’re fighting for so long that no one can remember what was the original cause. They’re still going on fighting. Is it a fact? It’s still going on. So this is family unit, of course, is a nice thing. But just to be family conscious itself is not the goal because that itself may create so many other families to suffer. Then we have, just like india, state consciousness. Who is responsible? I can’t say. But within the past few years now all these states are becoming state conscious. Bengali conscious, Tamila, Nadu conscious, Kannada conscious.

So if anyone writes any signboard in anything but the local language, then they will have to take the black tar and cross off all the English, all the Hindi, all other language. So each state is doing. They’re not thinking that when they go to the next state they also won’t be able to read the Kannada or the Telugu or the Oriya or whatever. They’re only thinking in their state. Somehow they’re being bewildered. So there’s no common lingua franca being allowed india, either English or Hindi or anything that at least you were in one language. You can read all these sign boards around the country. No, that’s not allowed. Because of this state consciousness that’s developed. This is all you see. Kali Yuga symptoms, which is simply creating division. Kali Yuga means divide and rule. It means dissension, quarrel.

So to have a quarrel, you have to have this division. When there’s no division, where is the question of quarrel? There have to be separate interests. Then only the separate interests can quarrel with each other. So this is the nature of Kali Yuga to create all these divisions. So in the state level we can see how this language thing has become such. Just recently, Karnataka also passed some law. Even there’s only 29, 30 people, a million people in Karnataka. Their people may have to go all over India, but they’re thinking that no, all these signs have to be like this in this way rather than the original. Even those people who carved out this idea about India and constitution and everything, what they had, that there would be some type of system where there would be some homogeneous cooperation.

You can already see that the divisions are beginning. Divisions again are already beginning. So this state consciousness is also just another form of limited selfishness. Just extend it over to one state and then you fight against the other states, the national within the nation we have so many countries. The one country is fighting against another country. Iraq and Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Britain, Australia, India, Pakistan, Russia, America. This nationalism all over the world is being promoted very strong. But in every field, due to this nationalism, they want to fight against other nations. National pride means the national wars against other nations. This is what’s coming about. So as a result, in spite of this big promotion to create nationalism in sports, in politics, in war, in every area, as a result of that, the world is simply becoming more and more divided.

And one nation is thinking of its own interest and sacrificing the interest of another same thing. These so called humanitarians, they don’t think twice about eating beef or eating pig meat or any other type of meat. Although they talk about humanitarianism, they don’t think about animals being slaughtered, that they don’t even think so. This humanitarianism is also imperfect. So in every category, if you study, you see that all these people who are glorified, the heroes of the state of Tamil Nadu will be the enemy number one in the state of some other state the hero of Russia will be enemy number one in America or China this is what’s going on. But in his own place, he’s the hero. So all these selfless dedicated heroes even of humanity are considered by the total universal perspective to be also enemies, also demons.

Unless a person actually accepts the supreme personality of Godhead’s will and takes a subordinate role beneath that will without misconceptions then he’s always working at arvs with the material nature because the material nature is working subordinate to Kṛṣṇa the material nature is working subordinate with Kṛṣṇa that means anyone who’s not subordinate to Kṛṣṇa must be working against the material nature which means that their activities are bound to fail. No one can overcome this powerful material energy. In this material world this material energy is supreme. Sometimes they have the Durga Pūjā where you see that Durga Devī is pictured killing the Maisha Shur, that buffalo demon and he is putting the. She is putting the trident right into his heart. Well, she’s riding on the tiger. She rides tiger or lion? Tiger. You don’t even know English when you’re talking so. Different form.

She’s got both tiger and lion both you either get bit by the tiger or lion bite tastes the same. So while the buffalo demon is being grabbed, I mean they’re stabbed by that tree sewer trident, he’s also getting bit by the lion or tiger whatever it may be so he’s in a very precarious situation. The Prabhupāda explained that Durga is known also as mother she’s known as Ma Amma. So she’s also known as mother because she’s the mother of all the created beings how she’s killing her own child? My sister is also the demon but she’s also the son only of her how she can kill her own son?

This is described that she’s not such a mother that even your person is a demon and just praying to her and let me do all nonsense and create so many miseries to other of your children and you just give me your Ashir badas or your blessings. She’s not that type. If someone’s a demon creating problem for others, going against the will of God, will of Kṛṣṇa then she’s the first to put that demon into difficulty. And what is that Trisur? What is that trident has significance Adyatmik Ādi Bhotik Ādi Dhaivik 3 top or 3 type of miseries are being given to those demons. Anyone who is trying to work against the desire and will of the Lord who is trying to resist being subordinate to the Lord is forced to suffer the atmic pain from their own mind and body.

Ādi Bhotik pain from other living entities and Ādi Daivik pain from the miseries which are caused by uncontrollable material forces. This is the problem that these demons are faced with. In Tamil Nadu there’s a certain section of people who have some grudge against being subordinate to God. So even they take shoes and hit God’s picture in the face. Yet now they are suffering. We’re suffering some big drought in what was previously known as the rice bowl of India. And they are begging Karnataka, Please give us 12 million Cossacks or whatever of water because we have no water. But they will pray to Karnataka, but they won’t pray to God. So Kartak is Karnataka is giving. All right, you take one Kusak, whatever they call it. This is the thing that people trying to be who are against being subordinate to the supreme personality of Godhead.

They’re put into so many miseries, even they don’t want. They’re not the controller of rain. Even in such a big advanced nation like Russia, many times they’re suffering drought. And although they’re still. I don’t know what they appear is that their enemy is supposed to be Aureka. Hard to say, but they are going to them only to buy wheat. It must be quite an embarrassing thing. So this is the situation in material world that material nature has got three types of miseries. Those who want to go against the will of God, who don’t want to be subordinate, they are forced to suffer. And the more that one is so called independent of being subordinate of God, the more one is forced to suffer these threefold miseries just by their own karmas because they’re acting against the laws of nature.

Naturally they will be put in that difficulty because nature is subordinate to Kṛṣṇa. When they are trying to be insubordinate, then naturally they will not only be going against Kṛṣṇa, they will be going against nature and. And ultimately they will be causing themselves simply so many miseries. So therefore for the common person it’s necessary to know what are the basic situation in the material world so one can act accordingly and not have to suffer all these miserable things. The second point is to know who the devotees are. That is devotees who are wandering about telling people to be subordinate to God. They are not the parasites of society. Rather they’re doing the greatest welfare work because they’re saving people from suffering this miserable situation caused by the threefold miseries of material nature. They’re freeing them from those and giving them highest benediction in life.

He was so kind that he personally came down from the spiritual world just to in a massive scale initiate the system of Sankirta, which is exactly that. Philanthropic wandering about, giving people the holy vibration, glorifying Kṛṣṇa and his holy name and creating all good fortune for people. Especially india. Because people know better. They are expected to know at least because all the sacred literatures are here. All the great souls have appeared here. This is considered to be a tir top or a pilgrimage spot even for denizens of higher material planets, even in other words, solar system or other galaxies. So in this way the people of heart are expected to know what is the purpose of life. Therefore they are forced to suffer more when they are neglecting their duties.

Just like a person in a very high position, if he is caught acting adversely to the government, he will have to suffer a greater humiliation than say an ordinary clerk ordinary person who doesn’t know much and who may act contrary to the government. He may only get some slight reprimand. So like that in the western countries, other parts of the world, they don’t know any better. They have never had Vedic culture in rememberable history. Therefore they’re not being taken to task even though they’re sinful. But India is being taken to task. The more that Indian public becomes subordinate or favorable to being subordinate to Kṛṣṇa rather than so many materialistic ideologies, automatically the situation will become favorable for living and will become rather an example for the whole world.

And actually it’s creating this example and helping the rest of the world to become spiritually conscious, which is the duty of India. Especially this Chaitanya Mahāprabhu has personally given the lesson Bharat Bhumideh, Manusha Jan, Mohilo Jar Janmasharta Kori Korahupukar. So. Just as an example, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, when he sent his preachers out, they were going door to door and preaching. Even Nithyananda Prabhu met Jaggai Madhai who were very insubordinate, envious against Kṛṣṇa. Still, Nitananda Prabhu, out of his compassion, he requested those two brothers to take up the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa. Of course the two brothers responded very violently and tried to attack Nithyananda Prabhu and Haridas Thakur, who had all they could do just to escape from being beaten or worse.

Finally, even upon the second attempt that Nithyananda made to deliver these two Brothers, the one brother hit Nithyananda on the head with a broken pot, causing also blood to flow. Caitanya Mahāprabhu came and called the Sudarshana chakra ready to kill both the brothers for their offense to Vaishnava. Nithyananda Prabhu, even though he was struck in the head, he told them that just because you have beaten me, does that mean that I won’t give you love for God? You take up the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa, lead a holy life, worship Kṛṣṇa. So in this way one of the brothers at least could understand that Nithyananda was no ordinary person. After being hit over the head with a pot, blood pouring out, he’s still talking about giving love with some astonishing and transcendental behavior.

So he started to request his other brother to just surrender and that he committed a grave mistake. That Nithyananda Prabhu was no ordinary person and now they were in a grave danger. When Nitya Nanda being hurt reached Lord Caitanya, he came and was ready to kill the two brothers with his Sudarshan which had come from the spiritual world. That time Lord Caitanya, in his anger he forgot that he was devotee because he’s Kṛṣṇa playing the part of the devotee. When heard Nithyananda was struck, he was no longer thinking that I am the devotee. He was simply thinking as Kṛṣṇa that my devotee needs protection. He forgot other Leela and other parts that he was playing at that time.

And just in the mood of Kṛṣṇa, he came there calling his Sudarshan which immediately came from the spiritual world and was ready to cut down his two brothers only by the intervention of Nithyanandapuram. Reminding Lord Caitanyamya that you have come as a mercy avatar. You have not come as Kṛṣṇa to kill all the demons. If you start killing all the miscreants in Kali Yuga, there will be no one left. Now two. But that time there was two Jagae Madhai. Now how many? You can’t count how many fit the similar category drunkards and ruffians. So then the two brothers, they also fell down and requested to be delivered. So Lord Caitanya agreed that I will deliver you. I will forgive you on the request of Nityānanda Prabhu only if you promise never to do these type of miscreant activities anymore. So they agreed.

They were sent to the Ganges, they took their bath and they came back and received Hari Naam initiation. And after that they were very strictly following chanting daily over 1 lakh of names, 64 rounds and doing Sankirta. And people were coming from a long way to have their holy Darshana. You see, not like here. You read in the paper some decade surrender. She’s wearing is inspector of police uniform. And he’s surrendering with his submachine gun and newspaper articles. And you can see that no question of subordination. In a very proud and pompous way, he’s surrendering to the like a movie set. There’s no change of heart. Simply some show God knows what reason he’s doing. Not like that. Actually, Jaga Ahmadi were worse dacoits. No equivalent. Even today they are hard to find someone of their level so cruel.

Even they are born in a good Brahmin family. They became worst dacoits, worst criminals. But they were totally changed by Nithyananda and by Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Totally changed. What is the use? All these prisons, they’re not changing anyone. So in those days, Allah also had enough vision that if such a criminal was turned into Ishadhu, then the law would also leave aside. Now what criminals are being turned into Sadhu. Even the good people are turning into criminals. So therefore we need the special mercy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu Nityānanda that his people are becoming more and more demonic, more and more unsubmissive to Kṛṣṇa. Rather, they should become more and more purified by the mercy of Lord Caitanya. So that requires people to take part in the Sankirtan movement of Lord Caitanya to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa to spread this message. Just as it says here.

Great philanthropic souls travel on the earth on behalf of the supreme personality of Godhead to show compassion to the fallen souls who are adverse to the sense of subordination to the Lord. In other words, the great philanthropic souls travel on the earth on behalf of C. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the supreme personality of Godhead, to show compassion to the fallen souls by giving them Hari Nam Sankirtan, making them accept a sense of subordination to the Lord. That in Kali Yuga you can see it just in that sense, by this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa. Automatically a person chants. Even some people say, I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in. We don’t mind. You don’t have to believe. You just chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. He said, all right. If I can be an atheist and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, I don’t mind. No, no, you be an atheist.

Just chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. So he’s chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, he’s feeling happy. Then he comes and said that what is this Hare Kṛṣṇa? He said, what’s the names of God? No, but I didn’t believe in God. I was ready. But then how you’re feeling happiness. Then maybe I should believe in God. You see, in the west, because no one knows what is Hare Kṛṣṇa. You just tell. You just chant. Never mind what it is. But india, if you say someone chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, the atheist, he knows. No, no. Kṛṣṇa means God. I won’t chant. This is this way. That’s one difficulty here that even atheists are chanting in the West. Because this is Yoga, this is mantra. You go on chanting and you see what effect even a person. But I don’t believe in God. You don’t have to believe anything. You just chant.

You put your hand in fire, you will get the effect. Even Indian atheists, if they would chant, they also get effect. But here they are too clever. No, no, I know Hare Kṛṣṇa is Dharma. I won’t do it. So then somehow, of course, they have to be tricked. So that sometimes also they’re making fun. They’re seeing the devotee and going, oh, Hare Kṛṣṇa. Making fun, joking. That way also they’re tricked into chanting. They don’t know it. When Shankazi was there, the Muslims, they were coming up and complaining against Chaitanya Maharu’s movement. Brahmins also were complaining that smarter Brahmins that Chaitanya Mahāprabhu is taking everyone, even the Muslims. Everyone is starting to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Where will our monopoly go now? The monopoly we have on society that we’re going to lose if everybody becomes Vaishnav.

Then our position in society may be hampered, our income may be cut. So they went also and complained to the Chankazi. There are always two types of Brahmanas. Liberal Brahmanas and these type of smart Brahmanas or Brahmanas who are very, they would say conservative, we would say miserly. So these two types of Brahmanas are there in society. They’re very liberal, compassionate and merciful Brahmanas who are trying to help the progressive society advance. And then there’s the type who are ready, rigid and who want to maintain some social control on the basis of simply their birthright and are not actually thinking for the benefit of the whole society. So those bigoted type Brahmin came over to the Shankazi and made complaints. Then after that the Mohammedans are coming.

So Lord Kashankazi could understand that you Mohammedans are complaining but my question is why you all are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and Hari Boa yourselves? Because when they came in, they’re all chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. They are always chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. They could say that themselves. They were chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa so many times they said, muhammad, why are you always chanting Hare Ka? They said, well, we started off cutting some jokes with his Sankirtan party, making fun and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, what is this? And by repeating those names, we couldn’t stop. It started going around and around into our brain. And now while we’re eating, while we’re sleeping, whole time only Hare Kṛṣṇa is going. I think this is some magic, some mystic thing what has happened ever since we started joking with them then now we can’t stop chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa at all.

So somehow another even people joked Hari Das Thakur. He would outwardly show very stern face when they were joking and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa because that he thought if he looked very hurt, that would encourage them to chant more even. But inside he was very happy that oh, they’re all chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. So one way or another, the devotees are very kind to get the people to chant because this is the most effective way of being subordinate to the Lord’s will. By being subordinate to the Lord’s will, then all these miserable things will end and their best good fortune is created. Just wandered around the whole world giving out this transcendental vibration to all the fallen souls, giving the greatest mercy. Therefore he is being respected as spiritual master for the whole world and as the pure representative of Kṛṣṇa.

Because everywhere he simply gave this greatest mantra for deliverance. Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Ramo Hare Ramo Hariya Any questions? Any questions? Comments. Expand the Sankirtan Activities. Festivals now we have a We’re discussing a program of Padayatra to take procession around the total route of Caitanya Mahāprabhu which must be. Several thousand kilometers. Actually, we need your technical advice. We because we want to have bullock carts which are also boats. In case we get any river we can float across, Sometimes we may have to fly them also may have to fly that you can attach balloons hot air balloon to the bullock car. The Ātmā Tattva likes the hot air balloons or helium balloon program. He was saying when landing in the village it would create a nice impression. You can airdrop the prashad. Huh?

Pantuna that’s when PAs or instead of the flat for the bullock cart that could be like a box with the thing going through box actually hanging down a little bit that completely watertight. Maybe with some Styrofoam bottom. That you can think this way. Everyone uses their intelligence according to their abilities. How to spread this lanky time movement. Raft was outboard motors. They have one of those at Hawaii. Bullocks can swim. It’s only the kite itself. When you’re going over. The bullocks can swim. We already thought that either by flare gun or by arrow. You just shoot over a nylon line and pull over the big nylon rope over. Then you can just. The bullocks can swim across. Just the danger they might get swept downstream too far. So you have the rope going across to keep them.

You can swim across as long as they don’t get swept down. But then how to get the carts over without switching sinking if it’s an empty cart. I have seen them also even pull these bamboo carts they swim across with. If they don’t have heavy steel wheels. Because the cart itself is all wood and bamboo. It floats. But if you have it loaded up with things, then. He’s already. Any other questions? When you are going to start? I like to start in November after Prabhupāda disappearance festival. Saigo celebrate. Yeah.