19920125 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.1

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The following is a lecture given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on January 25, 1992 – in Bangalore, India. The lecture begins with a reading from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.1.

Religion should use the human form of body from the very beginning of life, in other words, from the tender age of childhood, to practice the activities of devotional service, giving up all other engagements. The human body is most never achieved and although temporary like other bodies, it is meaningful because in human life one can perform devotional service. Even a slight amount of sincere devotional service can give one complete perfection performed by our founder Altaria his Divine grace to the 82 bhakti giddha swami da upa who is working in his God. The whole purpose of Vedic civilization and of reading the Vedas is to attain the perfect stage of devotional service in the human form of life according to the Vedic system.

Therefore, from the very beginning of life, the Brahmacharyika system is introduced so that from one’s early childhood, from the age of 5 years, one can practice modifying one’s human activities so as to engage perfectly in devotional service, as confirmed in Bhagavad Gītā 240. Translation from Gītā Even a little adventure on this path can protect one from the most dangerous tidings of fear. End of translation Modern civilization, not referring to the verdicts of Vedic literature, is so cruel to the members of human society that instead of teaching children to become Brahmacharities, it teaches the mothers to kill their children even in the womb, on the plea of hurting the increase of population. And if by chance the child is faith, he is educated only for sense gratification. Gradually, throughout the entire world, human society is losing interest in the perfection of life.

Indeed, men are living like cats and dogs, spoiling the creation of the human life by actually preparing this man’s hiring again to the degraded species among the 8,400,000 forms of life. The Kṛṣṇa Consciousness movement is anxious to serve human society by teaching people to perform devotional service which can save a human being from being degraded again to animal life. As already stated by Prahas Maharaj, exists. Sakya Matam in all the schools, colleges and universities and at home. All children and groups should be taught to hear about the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In other words, they should be taught to hear the instructions of Bhagavad Gītā to put them into practice in their life and thus to become strong devotional service free from fear of being devoted to animal life. Following the Bhagavad Karma has been made extremely easy in this age of Kali.

The Shastra says Haryana Harenama mani vaki vam. One need only chant the Harisha Muhammad. Everyone engaged in the practice of chanting, the Harish Shah will be completely cleansed from the core of this heart and be saved from the cycles of birth and death. Here in Bangalore, IN the 510th year of our Lord Shaitan Mahathabu, the 20th year of January. So I am very pleased to greet all of our parents and children and other visitors who have come here today. But especially the participants of the various competitions and chants regarding Kṛṣṇa work. As we can see here from the sacred words of the Śrīmad. Training the children and the youth in spiritual principles in harmony. Dharma is the most important aspect of human life. The Vedic civilization which india valued human life because human life revealed results which other birth could not give.

Vedic understanding of the universe of light very broad that every living creature and God the Aha has got this whole. The Vedic literatures explain about evolution for 5,000 years and more. But they describe the evolution of consciousness that the Ātmā every mind intelligence are going to the various species of life, to the process of Buddha, Chandra or reincarnation. And after going through 8,400,000 species. The last 400,000 species of life are the human species. And in a new way for the life. More intelligence is given than in the animal forms of hiding. Even if animals have more intelligence, that is not correct. Just like there was one lady, she was a fishinger. She was cooking every in her kitchen and the cat was sitting outside watching.

When the lady went inside the house for a minute, the cat ran and grabbed the fish and stole it and ran off. That means that cat was planning where the leaves will go away. I was still a fish in Hutch. That means it was very clever, but only for how to get the food. So in this world we class we have to get ahead in the world we have to compete and get good grades so we can get a high salary. We can get ahead in business. This all right. But this is nothing special for human beings. Already that competition is still in animal species. The cats and dogs are also competing how to get foods. So what is human life meant for?

Not only to think of these things, these are ordinary, but some the main thing which has to be considered is how we can achieve God. How we can achieve full perfection of life. In this human form of life. We can get free from the repetition of birth and death. We can end the cycle of reincarnation and go back to the Paradrahma, back to the spiritual world. We can go back to Kṛṣṇa. Why did Kṛṣṇa come down to this world? He did not come down like we came down. We come down As a visionary, this world is known as Durga. Durga is also the controlling deity of this world. Durga is very difficult to get out of and God means a prison to Durga. Very difficult mission. And the deity of this material world is worthy.

So we are finding it very difficult to get out of the material world by any material means. But Kṛṣṇa is coming down this way sometimes. Rashtrapati is coming and visiting a prison house. He is feeling pardoned. When the centennial of Arbita was there for instance, because America was in a position in Kar during the freedom movement at that time, the Astra party or the government we had to engage in that prison where A was staying. And as a token he freed all the prisoners, said our belongers in this prison. And this is the centennial. So you’re all free. So some of the eastern comes. The Lord comes here and he is wanting to see all of you. So he came 5,000 years ago to show his Leela that there’s a better life, there’s a better world after this.

So we should lead our life in such a way that we go back to Kṛṣṇa as doing devotional service includes everything. When we say don’t work for sense gratification. This is what is our goal in life. Normally people think the only happiness is the happiness we experience with our senses. What we see on TV and in the cinema, what we can taste, what we can smell. This is giving us the good and bad feelings. So that happiness is the happiness of life. This is the ordinary idea, but mirage is the animals, they are also seeing. They are seeing, they are smelling, their touching, their hearing. So their sensations are also their animal kingdom. Why is it so important to a human being? Is it only to hear, smell, taste and feel? For instance, we can only see certain things. An eagle, the vulture.

The vulture is flying high and looking down for a long distance. It can see all the dead bodies. But because heterodox also is flying very high it’s only looking for the dead body. So there’s no reason to go very high in light. But we’re only looking for the temporary things. We should know what is the material world, what is the spiritual world is higher by sight. The real wise man, the real learned man, he knows both the sides, the material side and the spiritual side. But in modern institutions we are stressing only the material side. That is why the founder Acharya, he has said that in all the schools, collegeships and universities this virtual life should also be spread and in every home. Because most of the schools are secular so they may not discuss Spirits of abusive at school.

Some are doing those which are private but at least they are allowing that this competition can go on and students can study this support. So this is a very good and progressive sign because we have to understand for real human development this higher realization, higher understanding is the most essential. Many people are lazy when it comes to spiritual activities. There’s a story once about a very good and responsible father and mother. And they had good children. But these children were not good boys. They were very doggies. Their name was called Khalil. I believe. Yes. So these boys, they didn’t study in school. They were playing around, feeding in his chair. So that school expelled them. The beyond teachers killed them. They are very naughty. So the father, he was having a pitch house india and he was thinking that what is the use?

I got two children but I don’t mind anything. At least if I can teach them to come to 100 they can help me sell goods in my club. But he can’t even teach them to count to 100. So he offers any Brāhmaṇa, if you can teach my voice to count to a hundred, I will give you half the Praja for my job. So one poor Brāhmaṇa, he thought this is a chance for me to get ahead in life. Let me teach these two boys to count to 100 and then I will get half the profit from the men’s heart. Surya Brāhmaṇa he went to teach the boys but he found him very unruly. So he was with him day and night trying to teach them, but it’s very hard. So one day he was walking with them in the field. He said oh, what is that?

There were some cows raising. So one boy said it’s a cow. Really? How many legs does a cow have? The boy said 1, 2, 3. What are you doing? You’re counting in this way he teach you to count. Watch out for you count to 100. Oh sorry, I made a mistake. I was learning. They were determined I didn’t want to learn anything. So then that feature he went with the boy to the barn and there they were resting in the grass. There was some hay, the straw from the hill. So the two boys, they were fairly asleep, they were snoring. And the teacher was saying the boys are sleep very hard to teach these boys to learn anything. So he also decided to relax a little bit. Heartbeat Pretty soon the teacher was asleep. The two boys were just waking.

Kalu told Matu, look it, he’s asleep. So then they got up and they went out. When they had been expelled from the school. They took the bad habit to learn how to smoke. So they were outside and they lit a cigarette and they started to smoke. Then after smoking, they put out the cigarette and ran inside and lay down again. The teacher smelled the smoke. What’s going on? Who’s there smoking for the children. They are just waiting asleep. He went out and saw there was a cigarette and the bee and that smoke is in the air. He came in. We are horse riders smoking here. You boy is talking. They said, who? Huh? We’re sleeping. Somebody been smoking out there. So fresh. I don’t know. You’re asleep? We’re asleep. Let me saw your head. He grabbed their hands and smelled.

I smelled smoke on your hands. You have been smoking. You have been bad boy. Teacher. What a cruel world. While were sleeping, some envious person must have come and rubbed us tobacco on our finger. The gift also accused us of doing this thing. So this story was told by a chariot that there are some people they don’t want to learn even if they’re father didn’t have it. They will make some story up and say, oh, someone else must have done it. So these are the examples of what not to be. Not to be lacking. Like this Lalu and kalu. That’s what. That’s the Lalu and kalu. We don’t want any children like that who try to avoid to learn anything. But in Kali Yuga you find that spiritually people become like that normally in a materialistic environment.

If you say anything about Bhagavad Gītā, We don’t want to learn anything about them. So that’s why we’re very proud to hear the name of the Lord. And in my heart the people are so God conscious and Kṛṣṇa conscious. So spiritually are true that here they now avoided this pan of Kaliyuga and they have instead become buried Panchin about the duties as parents and children. It said that parents are the first rules for the children. In fact, Gītās the Bhagavad said that the teachers, the parents, the teachers, the guru and the king or head of state government, they have the responsibility to protect and deliver their children, their students, their disciples and their pūjā or citizens from the cycle of birth and death.

If we are not careful, in spite of having the Swedish form of life, we can again go back into the animal kingdom. The ātmā can take birth as animal. That is the worst thing. So India especially was meant that if you take birth india, it was almost guaranteed you go Back to heavenly planet or back to that spiritual world. To Swarga to me. We won’t take forever again in this continual earthly planet. That was a special thing about India. But today Nia imitating the west so that many people can take birth again in the world. That’s why we’re having population explosion. Not because there’s too many children. Because nobody’s getting liberation. They’re all coming back as human beings. So the real solution to population explosion is after this life, everyone should go back to God.

So that is why from 5 years of age on this spiritual counsel should be given to the children. And that can only come in this society from the parents. Bears of eight wants to take this initiative. And I said that if one of the children goes back to baby, then all the parents and grandparents and great great grandparents. Up to seven generations. Before and even after everyone gets moksha. If a parent thinks I won’t be able to do all the bhakti. But if you can make one of your children a bhakta, you get free tickets. Actually. There is a very good opportunity. You deliver yourself because so responsible to lead your child in the right direction to also get delivered. So far, here is the title. Everyone is devotion of service.

But after that death of his father, Narashim Hadev established Prahlad as the emperor of the Tibias. And he was installed by Lord Brahma himself. The grandson of Prahlad was Bali Maharaj. That means Prahlad also became a grihastra. He also has children. The difference and what is the ocean of service? Whatever we do as a offering to God. We do as a offering to Kṛṣṇa. One has a family. They raised a family to be God kindred. So for us, Daniel he also achieved God realization. Maybe was not as big as his grandson. But that family tradition was maintained. So this is very important. This is the most important thing. Otherwise what is the use of being a human being? If there’s nothing special we get what are the animals. This he can wear suit inside and drive that hard. This is not the profession. It.