20240802 Śrī Caitanya Śikṣāmṛta 1.5. Inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānanda-mādhavam śrī caitanya īśvaram
Harihi oṁ tat sat

First shower — Fifth stream

Inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference

TEXT: By the useless endeavor of αdvαitα-vādα, ultimately nothing happens, but only that there is a belief of imaginary living entity and world.

Jayapataka Swami: [video started abruptly] And we engaged her to take part in the chanting, and she said how is it so nice? After doing all kinds of austerities. So here in just a few days I am getting lot of happiness. So she thought that there must be something wrong. In Māyāvādī camp she did austerities. So it was very hard to advance. So, here, she in a short time she got so much bliss.

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Note: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.14.4:

śreyaḥ-sṛtiṁ bhaktim udasya te vibho
kliśyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye
teṣām asau kleśala eva śiṣyate
nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām

“My dear Lord, devotional service unto You is the best path for self-realization. If someone gives up that path and engages in the cultivation of speculative knowledge, he will simply undergo a troublesome process and will not achieve his desired result. As a person who beats an empty husk of wheat cannot get grain, one who simply speculates cannot achieve self-realization. His only gain is trouble.”

TEXT: It is true that in the pure pαriṇāmα-vādα, by Kṛṣṇa’s will, the world of living entities and the material world has happened. The creation is not imaginary. But then since it is destroyed again by Kṛṣṇa’s desire, the world is called temporary. Despite creating and entering the world, the supreme Lord who is spiritual in nature, remains eternally separate in His form as Kṛṣṇa who is independent and who is served by His full spiritual energy.

Note: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.34:

yathā mahānti bhūtāni
bhūteṣūccāvaceṣv anu
praviṣṭāny apraviṣṭān
tathā teṣu na teṣv aham

“O Brahmā, please know that the universal elements enter into the cosmos and at the same time do not enter into the cosmos; similarly, I Myself also exist within everything created, and at the same time I am outside of everything.”

TEXT: Those who can know this wonderful tattva, only they are able to taste the Kṛṣṇa’s unlimited opulence and sweetness. This is the true relationship of the living entity and Kṛṣṇa. The relation of the living entities with the perishable world is of temporary travelers. Yuktα-vαirāgyα is the proper action of mutual relation of living entity and matter. As long as this type of intelligence of the relationship of temporary and permanent does not arise, then the proper activities of the conditioned living entities do not arise.

Jayapataka Swami: So, [audio break] because of māyā we identify with our material body. And therefore, we go after many births. If we understand the appearance and the actions of Lord Kṛṣṇa are divine, then we do not take birth again in this material world. (My voice is really bad).

Any questions?

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