20200621 The Bound Soul Takes Different Types of Births According to Its Different Fruitive Reactions

The following is the reading from the new Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on 21st June 2020 in Śrīdhāma Māyāpur, India.

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram
Hariḥ oṁ tat sat!

Introduction: So today is the disappearance day of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and Śrī Gadādhara Prabhu. So, we were just having a meeting also, the Sārasvata Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Saṅga, and various Swamiji’s and all the advanced Vaiṣṇavas are glorifying Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. We cannot meet together, so we are having a Zoom meeting.

We would also like to take this opportunity to remind you to please pray for His Holiness Bhakti Cāru Swami, that if the Lord pleases, he may quickly come to his good health. We also want to remind you that tonight we will have a special meeting at 8.15 pm, talk with the CDM, Congregational Development Ministry, and we will be discussing about Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. Also, day after tomorrow, there will be the virtual Ratha-yātrā around the world. please register yourself www.mercyonwheel.com depending on the most registration received we will give that many numbers of rathas. We were expecting 1000s of registration from Bangladesh, but so far only a small number, a few hundreds have registered. So, more people from other countries like the UK. So today we will continue with the Caitanya book, the dead son of Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita, he is now talking by the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Chapter:

The Bound Soul Takes Different Types of Births According to
Its Different Fruitive Reactions.

Śokaśātana, The Dispelling of Grief

pūrṇa-cid-ānanda tumi, tomāra cit-kaṇa āmi,
svabhāvataḥāmi tuyā dāsa
parama svatantra tumi, tuyā paratantra āmi,
tuyā pada chāḍi' sarva-nāśa

Translation: The dead son continued, “You, dear Lord, are completely full in transcendental bliss. I am simply a tiny conscious particle of You; therefore, by nature I am Your eternal servant. Only You are supremely independent, whereas I am totally dependent on You.Indeed, neglecting Your lotus feet, I have now become completely ruined.”

Jayapatākā Swami: This is a special poetry composed by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, which is explaining the pastime as it is going on. So, we are very grateful to Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, that he has so nicely expressed what the dead son of Śrīvāsa is saying.

Śokaśātana The Dispelling of Grief

svatantra ha’ye yakhana, māyā prati kainu mana,
sva-svabhāva chāḍila āmāya
prapaṣce māyāra bandhe, paḍinu karmera dhandhe,
karma-cakre āmāre phelāya

Translation: As soon as I chose to be independent of Your Lordship, I became inclined toward māyā’s illusory benefits.Thus, I have given up my natural spiritual characteristics. Falling down due to the dazzling bewilderment of fruitive gain, I have become captured by māyā within this mundane world. Now as a result I am being forcibly thrown into the revolving wheel of binding fruitive actions and reactions.

Jayapatākā Swami: So the spirit soul was brought back to the dead body of Śrīvāsa’s son Gopāla, and now he is speaking from a transcendental platform, and he is explaining, how we are the individual spirit souls, who have fallen into the material world, having rejected Kṛṣṇa, and instead we are attracted by the different allurements of the illusory energy, and that by different fruitive activities, we get different fruitive results. So, that’s what the soul of the dead son of Śrīvāsa is lamenting, “Why, I have turned my face away from Kṛṣṇa, and I ruined my life, being completely taken away by the influence of the illusory energy.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa 25.60

śiśu bale,—“e dehete yateka divasa
nirbandha āchila bhuṣjilāṅa sei rasa

Jayapatākā Swami: The dead child said, “As long as I was ordained to stay in this body, I remained here and enjoyed, as long as I was destined to live in this body.”

Śokaśātana, The Dispelling of Grief

māyā tava icchā-mate, bāṅdhe more e jagate,
adṛṣṭa nirbandha lauha-kare
sei ta’ nirbandha more, ane śrīvāsera ghare,
putra-rūpe mālinī-jaṭhare

Translation: “Thus, I am bound up by māyā in this world according to Your will, being firmly clenched in the iron-like grip of my predestined fate. And according to this fate, I have now come into Śrīvāsa’s home by taking birth as the son of Mālinī.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So the son is describing how he has taken birth by the laws of karma, by the will of the Lord, and he has come as the son of Mālinī and Śrīvāsa, but now he is forced to leave.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa 25.61

nirbandha ghucila, āra rahite nā pāri
ebe calilāṅa anya nirbandhita-puri

Jayapatākā Swami: My allotted time, my destined time, is over, now I am not able to remain in this body any longer, and now I am going to another predestined body.

Purport (by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura): “I cannot stay longer than I was destined by the will of the Lord to live as the son of Śrīvāsa. Therefore, I will certainly accept a body that is suitable for the place I am destined to go.”

Through the child’s mouth, Śrī Gaurasundara revealed to the people of the world the philosophy of reincarnation. The gross and subtle bodies are not eternal. The spirit soul accepts these gross and subtle bodies as coverings and when required is later forced to give them up. The living entity’s acceptance of gross and subtle bodies and his wandering on the gross and subtle platforms result from the influence of identifying himself as the doer and the activities he performs. The spirit soul never wanders on the platforms of karma and jñana. The two abodes of sense enjoyment and liberation are never suitable dwelling places for the existence of the spirit soul. Everyone does not have the good fortune of attaining the association of Śrī Gaurasundara and His associates, therefore thirst for sense gratification or liberation and aversion to the service of the Supreme Lord are found within human nature.

Jayapatākā Swami: Therefore, it is seen that if one is averse to serving the Lord, or if he does not know about service to the Lord, and then if he is serving his senses, then he is forced by the laws of karma, to take different bodies in different situations. Therefore, it is a very great fortune if we meet a bonafide spiritual master, and we get the seed of bhakti, and then we can to grow spiritually, and get out of this material world, and serve the Lord eternally in transcendental love.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa 25.62

e dehera nirbandha gela rahite nā pāri
hena kṛpā kara yena tomā' nā pāsari

Jayapatākā Swami: So, my destined time in this body is over, I cannot stay any longer, have mercy on me, so that I cannot forget You!

Śokaśātana, The Dispelling of Grief

se nirbandha punarāya, more ebe la’ye yāya,
āmi ta’ thākite nāri āra
tava icchā su-prabala, mora icchā su-durbala,
āmi jīva akiṣcana chāra

Translation: Now, again according to my predestined fate, I must leave this place; I cannot remain here any longer, even if I wanted to. Your desire is most powerful, dear Lord, whereas my desire is most feeble, for I am simply an insignificant humble soul.

Jayapatākā Swami: Just as it states in the śāstra, the Caitanya-caritāmṛta: brahmāṇḍa brahmite kono bhāgyavān jīvaguru kṛṣṇa kṛpa pāya bhakti-latā-bīja – we are wandering from one body to the next, from one universe to another universe, we have been in the material world for so long. By the mercy of the Lord, we get the seed of devotional service, and are able to then grow our bhakti-latā, our devotional creeper.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa 25.63

ke kāhāra bāpa, prabhu, ke kāra nandana
sabe āpānāra karma karaye bhuṣjana

Jayapatākā Swami: “O my dear Lord Gaurāṅga, who is anyone’s father? And who is anyone’s son? Everyone enjoys or suffers the karma, fruits of his own activities.”

Śokaśātana, The Dispelling of Grief

yathāya pāṭhāo tumi, avaśya yāiba āmi,
kāra kebā putra pati pitājaḍera sambandha saba,
tāhā nāhi satya-lava, tumi jīvera nitya pālayitā

Translation: Wherever You send me next, oh Lord, I must certainly go to become someone’s son or husband or father. However, I know that all these material relationships do not possess even one speck of eternal truth, for only You, dear Lord, are the eternal friend and guardian of all souls.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, all these relationships in the material world, of being a father, a mother, a husband or wife, son or daughter, they are all temporary. All based on the karma of each individual, and as ordained by the Lord. So, the eternal relationship is between the individual soul and the Supreme soul. Other relationships are not eternal, at the end of the body, they may also end.

Śokaśātana, The Dispelling of Grief

saṁyoge viyoge yini, sukha-duḥkha mane gaṇi,
tava pade chāḍena āśraya
māyāra gardabha ha’ye, mājena saṁsāra la’ye,
bhaktivinodera sei bhaya

Translation: Only one who foolishly neglects the eternal shelter of Your two lotus feet considers the union and separation of all these temporary family relationships to be separation of all distress.

This just shows how much one has actually become absorbed in the bodily concept of life, being crammed, and stuffed into the womb of illusion. Hearing all these truths about the fate of the bound soul has now made Bhaktivinoda become extremely frightened.

Jayapatākā Swami: If we don’t awaken our relationship with Kṛṣṇa, then we are forced to take birth again and again, and then we think that in each life, these are the permanent relationships, and if a son or daughter dies, we feel great lamentation. But actually, these relationships are temporary, and we should awaken our eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa, that is the real essence. So, all these things were being taught by the Lord, through the mouth of this dead son of Śrīvāsa, and he is revealing these Absolute Truths. So, we should be frightened if we don’t awaken our love for Kṛṣṇa. We may be forced to take birth after birth, in material illusion. We should follow our father and our mother, because they have given us so much, but actually, the real father and mother is the one that can awakens us to our eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa, that is the duty of the mother and father. So, this chapter is very important, that we are learning the truth about transmigration of the soul or reincarnation, and the absolute nature of our relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and how these things completely dispel the grief of Mālinī, in the house of Śrīvāsa. They could understand that their son, is the eternal part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, and that actually because he left his body during the kīrtana of Lord Caitanya, he would probably go to the spiritual world, and have a suitable sat-cid-ānanda body there.

Thus, ends the chapter, The Bound Soul Takes Different Types of Births According to its Different Fruitive Reactions.

So, thank you all very much. Don’t forget to pray for His Holiness Bhakti Cāru Swami, that if it is Kṛṣṇa’s will, then he can regain his health, and please register for the virtual Ratha-yātrā, www.mercyonwheel.com Thank you! All glories to Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and Gadādhara Prabhu!