19920107 Evening Address

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The following is an Evening Address given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on January 7, 1992 – in Śrī Māyāpur, India.

Anarthas is on the level of Prema. Those are services performed on the level of Kṛṣṇa Prema. They say that even a level of power or ecstatic devotion, love of Kṛṣṇa, there is sometimes some contamination, slight 1% or 2% may come in. So when we actually realize Kṛṣṇa, realize when the level of Prema, at that point we need to perform a devotional service directly under the associate of Kṛṣṇa, Vrindavan, according to our particular Rasa. So they also explained what is Prema Bhakti. What we’re seeing is that people may be having still many contaminations, many material anartas or desires. But at the same time, they already want to perform devotional service as if they’re on the level of pure Kṛṣṇa Prema. You see, performing devotion and raga does not mean immediately performing in the original Rasa.

Even the great devotees like Shrinivasacharya and Narajam Nas Thakur Shambananda Pandit. Even though they had got special mercy from Rādhārāṇī, they were sent out to preach. They took the books to Bengal and went and had the books published and established their preaching centers in various places. Although each of them had received different kinds of mercy. Shyama Nanda got a blessing from Rahu Ravi, touching him in the forehead. And Shrinivasacharya, I believe, got the Tambula Tonar Ravi’s own mouth, Prasada of Kṛṣṇa. They all got some very special mercy from the Lord, from Rādhārāṇī. But they were also sent out to preach Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. They established temples, they distributed books, they made devotees. They increased the number of disciples of Lord Caitanya’s movement. They didn’t just stay in Vrindavan, imitating the other six Goswamis.

The six Goswamis were given a particular duty to write books and to excavate the holy places in Vrindavan. And the others were ordered to go and preach. Sometimes we get the idea that preaching is something material and sitting in Vrindavan is transcendental. We should see that both the activities depends what you’re ordered to do by your guru or what’s the need of that time, immediate time. Of the six Goswamis, Lord Caitani wanted them to excavate the holy places and write books. So they were purifying the whole universe and writing the entire Kṛṣṇa conscious. Guides from the very basic Vidhi Mar up to the perfection of faith Makti Saver. You see. So if somebody in the beginning stages wants to imitate Prem Bhakti or one is ordered by his guru that he should preach Kṛṣṇa Consciousness and deliver the world from its Māyā.

And instead they disobey the order of their guru and they want to instead imitate the Goswami saying this is how I will get Prem Bhakti by offending their guru. How they will get Prem Bhakti Rather by carrying out the orders of guru and Kṛṣṇa and Caitanya Mahāprabhu. They will get Prem Bhakti and these things will be revealed. We see most of the. I don’t know the history of every person, but what I see is most of the people that I mean, the people I know about who taken this path of Siddharthrali or gotten some special mantras and been told this is your Rasa. After a short time they end up back in the west and they get married or they to Savannah devotee. They don’t even lead a proper Bihasala. They completely discard devotional service and they end up pumping gasoline in the shell station or something.

Don’t even relay devotees. So somebody has got paid Bhakti.

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They already realized their relationship with Kṛṣṇa. There was a question of falling down. It’s not something that’s imagined. Someone has to really burn up through their devotional service, even their spontaneous service, all the tinges of Anartha. Then Kṛṣṇa reveals himself or his devotee reveals themselves to the devotee. At that point their Rasa is realized and they engage in that service. If we are to be in that Rasa, it may be a little distracting for preaching Prabhupāda. Just like he said Yu preaching Nao Samadhi later. So right now Prabhupāda really wanted us to see that Caitanya Mahathava’s movement was spread in the world. Even the other great Acharyas in our life, they also took that sacrifice of not remaining in Vrindavan or in Greece. Or we may remain in higher forms or evolve.

But the point is doing what the Guru wants us to do, what the previous Acharyas want us to do with their blessings. We get this all perfections. We don’t have to worry about it by our own endeavor giving up their instruction. Then we will just like Sadhu who didn’t really follow the orders of his Guru to read the Gītā. Instead he got so entangled in things in the air that he gave up reading the Gītā. So this is the problem. We have to be careful not to get distracted from our little service. If we want to get love of Kṛṣṇa, we have to do that by serving Kṛṣṇa as Devorti and doing what Kṛṣṇa Wants love means to do what Kṛṣṇa wants. Lord Chaitanya wants the Sankirta movement to be spread. So if we do that’s an expression of our love.

And in that love of God increasing until we get firmly established in our relationship with Kṛṣṇa irrevocably. If you try to jump the gun or try to make a shortcut at some point in time, that’s the difficulty. So we should have that faith and conviction that by carrying out the instructions, following in the footsteps of the great chariots will be able to achieve all our perfection. And preaching is not material. Preaching is a manifestation of Lord Caitanya’s own Leela. And this is a very intimate service we can do is to bring the conditioned souls back to Lord Caitanya. Otherwise, all of the associates of Lord Caitanya at different sex periods of their life, they were engaged in preaching. And sometime at a particular stage in their life, they became more absorbed in this very intimate kind of bhajan.

So our tradition is that usually the last few years of our life we really get absorbed in that bhajan. Just like Bhabhukan, when he was sick in Vrindavan, he didn’t travel. He said, okay, now it’s my near Chakra Bhaja. Now you chant very softly. And he just sat and looked at the picture of Kṛṣṇa Balaram and was deeply listening to the Bhāgavatam and meditating in the 10th canto. At the same time, he was also giving some final instructions to the disciples. And he was translating the final part of the 10th canto that he was translating. He said, now you sanyasis have to take up the work. Other preachers had to take up the work of traveling and preaching. Now I am not going to travel anymore. So this is my Nirjana bhajan. So Bhakti Divinot.

The last three years of his life, he went to the Bhakti Kutti and Purī. And there next to Haridaj Thakur Samadhi, he was doing his Nirjana bhajan when he was very old. At that time he was just preparing to go back to Ghanaian. This is a traditional succession to engage in the active preaching when we see the end is near, that we completely absorb ourselves in the internal worship of the Lord. So we shouldn’t be distracted at the beginning of our preaching.

All right.

Thank you very much.

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