19820831 Arrival Address

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The following is an Arrival Address given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on August 31, 1982 – in Miami, USA.

Feeling very fortunate to be here. The association of the devotees on this auspicious day of Braha, The occasion of Radasi. Actually. For the. You know, from the 11th canto translated by Śrīla also Yogī that great devotees like Prahlad, they are always eligible to see the Lord. And similarly the Lord is always present. Those who are fortunate, who are blessed by the Lord because of their devotional service, they’re able to see Him. Similarly, in Avatvda, the place of Lord Chaitanya, his birthplace and place of pastimes, there’s also a special place where Baraha as always his eternal pastimes in Navalidam, each part you find all the different Vaikunthas and holy Dharmas. They all have their part within the Navadvid, within the 16 Krosha, 32 miles of Navaddy Dham, same size as Vrindavan.

You can find Vaikuṇṭha, Kashi Bhomati, Naveri. You can find Payag. You can also find Pushkar. You can find all the Mobardhan, Mahara, Shyamakunda. All the different holy places are there. So there’s one island that’s called Kuladui Kol is another name for Baraha. There it is described that when Varāha lifted the earth and then when he gave the final blow kick that killed Hiranyaksha he put one foot on the ground with the other foot. He doesn’t have to be on the ground, but it was a desire. He put one foot on the ground. Of course he was flying in the sky. But just one foot he put down, kicked Hiranyaksha and killed him. The place where he put his lotus foot on the ground was like full of deep. And now. So there was a devotee of Parah.

He did Tapasya there for a long time. And then he was able to see Lord Caitanya and also see the form of Braha in that form there in Avadrip Dham. Actually we’re discussing with the Sankirta devotees. You know that how Lord Caitanya is the source of all the incarnations. So they’re all within him. One time how he suddenly was hearing the thousand names of Vishnu when heard the name of Nara Singh and he became ready. He just became absorbed in the mood of Nara Shingha and he jumped up and started roaring and he just picked up a club and he ran out on the street in the mood of Narasinga that let me kill all the demons. All the people were seeing Lord Chetanya in this mood, carrying roaring and they became frightened and ran away.

When Lord Chetanya saw them running then he came from his internal ecstatic consciousness to a little more external awareness. And he thought, no, this is not good to cause fear in all these people. So similarly one time Lord Caitanya went to the house of Maradi Gupto and he used to cheat Marathi go to dislike Ramachandra with love and affectionately treat Hanuman. In fact, when Lord Caitanya was showing his Mah Prakash when he was in the mood of Kṛṣṇa and showing the devotees what was their eternal relationship with him at that time he took on the form of Ramachandra. And then Muradi Gupta took on the form of Hanuman. When Mardi Gupta saw himself that he was Hanumat and that Lord Caitanya was not different from Śrī Ramachandra, he became overwhelmed and he just became stunned and he fainted there.

When he came back to consciousness again, he was Mr. Nanai Gupta. So like that Lord Chaitanya, he was very affectionately always treating Varali Gupta. He went to his house and somehow there suddenly he also became inspired. Maybe it was Brahad Vadasi. For any reason he became inspired and he started to say Sukha Sukkah, Great hog. And he suddenly he became in the form of Raha. He showed a four armed form, the forearm form of Raha. And he just became ecstatic and he started to run. The devotees were just astounded. Didn’t expect Lord Caitanya to assume the form of Braha so suddenly. And they bowed down and started to offer their obeisances and respects. At that time various demigods started to offer their prayers. Lord Caitanya, he was completely absorbed in that ecstasy. And there was a huge water pot.

And so then Lord Chaitanya just went and with his nose, you see, he just went and picked up that water pot. And it was not ordinary in this water. This is about 8ft tall and 4ft wide. Must be half ton of water. And he lifted that up and was balancing. And the devotees of he was completely in the mood of just lifting up the earth from the holy place. So then somehow another Lord Chaitanya came into external consciousness. And then he started a big Sankirt down with all the vision devotees. And I started to chant. So this human life is very short. We come here empty handed. We have to go empty handed.

But as much as we can meditate on the pastimes of the Lord, engage in serving the Lord Helping the innocent people to come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then our life becomes successful. So this is a great opportunity that when these special days come, we can meditate on the Lord’s pastimes. Prabhupāda said that of course Kṛṣṇa is his Hayat. So on the days of the Leela avatars, we meditate on all the avatars. Leela avatars like Braha, Vamanathi, Ketu, Raman, so many there. Matsya, Karma. You meditate on them. Braha. Of course. He has lifted up the earth from the filthy place. So like that we can pray to him that just as he killed that demon Hiram Yaksha, similarly the demon that’s within us, what is that demon? That Asura. That is the desire to enjoy this material world.

If we want to enjoy this material world, then that means that we are captured by Māyā. And everyone in this material world, generally speaking is only thinking how do they enjoy their senses, how to enjoy the world? And thus they are being kicked. Kṛṣṇa Bule Sage Banad hi. They suffer so much because they turn their face away from Kṛṣṇa. They become materialistic and they’re simply thinking how to enjoy their senses. So Māyā says, come and enjoy and she kicks. So that is the dima that enjoying spirit enjoy instead. What do we want, Sevab? We want serving spirit, Lord Chaitanya. What did he pray? I am the servant of the servant of that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the master of the Gopīs. So that is the real mood that we want. Serving mood. How to serve, how to cooperate together for satisfying the spiritual master.

Giving up all personal consideration and taking the spirit of surrender, spirit of service. That is only possible if we take the advice of Lord Caitanya to Nada Bisha. Nice. To be more humble than the straw in the street, more tolerant than the tree. Always ready to offer all respect unto others and not desire respect for oneself. Thus one can always chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare Harry. So we can pray to Lord Braha to just kick out the demon from us. And just as he picked up that mother earth from the filthy place, if he would be so merciful, when that day will be that he will pick up our consciousness from all the meditation on these transient, illusory, you see, thoughts of the material world. This temporary, you can call it filth for the example.

And again we turn it back to our constitutional position in pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Just as he returned the earth back to its orbit, back to its position. Similarly, by his mercy, if he returns our consciousness back to pure Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. Then what more can we ask? That will be the greatest benediction. So we pray upon Lord Nitāi Gor and their mood as Brahat to kindly show their mercy. They are all merciful and we are both fallen and need their mercy that they can fix us up and just a small particle of dust at the lotus feet. Back in our constitutional position as the eternal servant of their servant. Servant. Okay, any questions? Is vomit or. So for Vamina we should put something in Brahman. You’d obviously always talk about all the different incarnation. Anyone? Bhavana the brow.

Because we don’t want to give anyone any too much special credit. Except for Kṛṣṇa because he’s the Swayam Bhagavān. So Vaminath, we can also pray. What is our prayer to Vamanadeva? Of course. Bhamana Dev. He humbled Bali Maharaj and his wife came forward and prayed that please forgive my husband. You see, he’s very foolish. And she said like that. Actually he deserves everything. This is your mercy upon him that you. He was so proud and you humbled him so like that. Of course Bhavana Dev rejected that. He said no, that is no doubt my mercy. But that is not the greatest mercy. Greater than that mercy is when the devotee has all type of opulence, all type of abilities, all type of facilities. But he does not become proud. He does not think this is my. This is due to my effort.

This is due to some quality that I have. But he thinks this is simply due to the causeless mercy of Kṛṣṇa or causeless mercy of Guru. So that consciousness that Brahma Nadeva was talking about, that consciousness we can always hanker for and pray that he may bless us. That we may always be able to in sadness as well as in happiness be fixed simply under the shelter of his lotus feet. Babana Advana said there’s not an island for Bamina but the Bamina is there somewhere in Nabaditna also. Every pastime is there in Nabaditna. Exactly where Bamuna Dev situated. He doesn’t have the whole island to himself. It just has one place. So I think there’s going to be a darshan tonight. The charity Dave. Double header. So then.