0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,634 Lect STO 1973-09-06 To Students--Brahma Samhita 1 00:00:15,635 --> 00:00:17,341 ANNOUNCER: The following is a lecture, 2 00:00:17,342 --> 00:00:22,597 given by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, 3 00:00:22,598 --> 00:00:43,451 recorded on the 6th of September, 1973, in Stockholm, Sweden. 4 00:00:43,452 --> 00:00:44,951 PRABHUPĀDA: It takes time. 5 00:00:44,952 --> 00:00:48,743 I have cited about a dozen only. 6 00:00:48,744 --> 00:00:52,361 Let me try to explain some of them. 7 00:00:52,362 --> 00:00:55,500 Because I have already taken much time. 8 00:00:55,501 --> 00:00:59,865 So one verse in these we find: 9 00:00:59,866 --> 00:01:08,057 advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca 10 00:01:08,058 --> 00:01:16,090 vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.33] 11 00:01:16,091 --> 00:01:21,122 The Lord is one, without a second, advaita. 12 00:01:21,123 --> 00:01:25,245 Acyuta: the Lord never falls down. 13 00:01:25,246 --> 00:01:29,138 The distinction between Lord and ourself: 14 00:01:29,139 --> 00:01:33,963 We are also eternal living entities. 15 00:01:33,964 --> 00:01:35,659 The Lord is also eternal. 16 00:01:35,660 --> 00:01:43,276 He’s also a living entity, a person, just like us, but His name is Acyuta. 17 00:01:43,277 --> 00:01:46,810 He never falls from His position. 18 00:01:46,811 --> 00:01:50,624 But we living entities: Sometimes we fall down. 19 00:01:50,625 --> 00:01:53,139 Just our material condition of life. 20 00:01:53,140 --> 00:01:55,147 This is our falldown. 21 00:01:55,148 --> 00:01:59,687 Therefore He’s called advaitam acyutam anādim. 22 00:01:59,688 --> 00:02:01,987 And He has no beginning. 23 00:02:01,988 --> 00:02:04,420 He is the beginning of everything. 24 00:02:04,421 --> 00:02:09,911 The creation is from Him, but He has no creator. 25 00:02:09,912 --> 00:02:12,507 So Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam [Bs. 5.33]. 26 00:02:12,508 --> 00:02:16,339 And He has got multi-forms. 27 00:02:16,340 --> 00:02:18,475 He can expand Himself. 28 00:02:18,476 --> 00:02:20,477 The one expansion is 29 00:02:20,478 --> 00:02:24,993 that Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd- deśe arjuna tiṣṭhati [Bg. 18.61]. 30 00:02:24,994 --> 00:02:30,126 He has expanded Himself to live with you within your heart. 31 00:02:30,127 --> 00:02:32,879 īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānām [Bg. 18.61] 32 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:37,386 Not only that: Another place it is described, 33 00:02:37,387 --> 00:02:41,200 eko ’py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi [Bs. 5.35] 34 00:02:41,201 --> 00:02:43,604 One portion of the Lord… 35 00:02:43,605 --> 00:02:46,061 That is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā: 36 00:02:46,062 --> 00:02:48,696 ekāṁśena sthito jagat [Bg. 10.42] 37 00:02:48,697 --> 00:02:51,406 Jagat means this material world. 38 00:02:51,407 --> 00:02:55,938 That is being maintained by one of His plenary portions, 39 00:02:55,939 --> 00:02:57,953 which is called Paramātmā. 40 00:02:57,954 --> 00:03:03,085 Or Garbhodakaśayī Viṣṇu, or Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. 41 00:03:03,086 --> 00:03:11,462 So, one portion of His plenary portion: He is within the material world. 42 00:03:11,463 --> 00:03:15,020 A material world means within the universe. 43 00:03:15,021 --> 00:03:19,144 Aṇḍāntara-stham; [Bs. 5.35] aṇḍa, brahmāṇḍa means this universe. 44 00:03:19,145 --> 00:03:24,517 This is not only one universe, but there are many millions of universes. 45 00:03:24,518 --> 00:03:25,808 So He’s there. 46 00:03:25,809 --> 00:03:29,187 advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam [Bs. 5.33] 47 00:03:29,188 --> 00:03:32,755 And aṇḍāntara-stham: He is within the universe. 48 00:03:32,756 --> 00:03:36,163 aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham [Bs. 5.35] 49 00:03:36,164 --> 00:03:38,751 And He is within the atom also. 50 00:03:38,752 --> 00:03:41,686 Just imagine: Expansion of God. 51 00:03:41,687 --> 00:03:44,885 So Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam 52 00:03:44,886 --> 00:03:48,231 ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca [Bs. 5.33] 53 00:03:48,232 --> 00:03:55,759 Although He’s the oldest of all, you’ll find Kṛṣṇa always a young man. 54 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:01,433 He’s, from His face, we’ll find a young boy, twenty to twenty-five years. 55 00:04:01,434 --> 00:04:05,134 nava-yauvanaṁ… vedeṣu durlabham… [Bs. 5.33] 56 00:04:05,135 --> 00:04:09,434 If you want to search out God by studying Vedas, 57 00:04:09,435 --> 00:04:11,322 it will be very difficult. 58 00:04:11,323 --> 00:04:13,879 …adurlabham ātma-bhaktau [Bs. 5.33] 59 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:18,257 But He’s very easily available from His devotee. 60 00:04:18,258 --> 00:04:20,125 This is the description. 61 00:04:20,126 --> 00:04:21,995 Then, in another place: 62 00:04:21,996 --> 00:04:29,167 ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis tābhirya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ 63 00:04:29,168 --> 00:04:33,357 goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto… [Bs. 5.37] 64 00:04:33,358 --> 00:04:34,543 The Lord… 65 00:04:34,544 --> 00:04:36,979 Everything is not material. 66 00:04:36,980 --> 00:04:39,585 That is Sac-cid-ānanda- vigraha [Bs. 5.1]. 67 00:04:39,586 --> 00:04:47,938 Kṛṣṇa is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha: His form is eternity, blissful and full of knowledge. 68 00:04:47,939 --> 00:04:53,593 So, all His paraphernalia in the Goloka Vṛndāvana: 69 00:04:53,594 --> 00:04:59,741 That is His expansion of that quality: Eternity, blissfulness and knowledge. 70 00:04:59,742 --> 00:05:03,135 ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis [Bs. 5.37] 71 00:05:03,136 --> 00:05:07,644 His gopīs, His consorts, His father, His mother, 72 00:05:07,645 --> 00:05:12,233 His friends, His trees, His flowers, His calves and cows: 73 00:05:12,234 --> 00:05:16,813 Everything is spiritual; expansion from Him. 74 00:05:16,814 --> 00:05:19,530 We are also expansion from Him. 75 00:05:19,531 --> 00:05:21,839 We are marginal potency. 76 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:24,346 And this is spiritual potency. 77 00:05:24,347 --> 00:05:26,525 So, everything expansion. 78 00:05:26,526 --> 00:05:28,920 Therefore the Vedic literatures say, 79 00:05:28,921 --> 00:05:33,898 sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma [Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1]: “Everything is Brahma.” 80 00:05:33,899 --> 00:05:40,405 We are now combination of two energies: Marginal energy and the external energy. 81 00:05:40,406 --> 00:05:45,532 But in the spiritual world, everything is only spiritual energy. 82 00:05:45,533 --> 00:05:49,669 So we are constitutionally spiritual energy. 83 00:05:49,670 --> 00:05:54,019 Somehow or other we have been entangled with this material energy. 84 00:05:54,020 --> 00:05:58,274 So, if we try in this human form of life, 85 00:05:58,275 --> 00:06:03,327 we can get out of this material energy and again go back to the spiritual energy. 86 00:06:03,328 --> 00:06:05,372 That is the opportunity. 87 00:06:05,373 --> 00:06:11,021 ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ [Bs. 5.37] 88 00:06:11,022 --> 00:06:14,698 In another śloka is to explain: 89 00:06:14,699 --> 00:06:18,218 aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti [Bs 5.32] 90 00:06:18,219 --> 00:06:25,317 The spiritual body is equally qualified for doing everything. 91 00:06:25,318 --> 00:06:30,636 Just like with our hand, we can touch only. 92 00:06:30,637 --> 00:06:33,659 We cannot do… Or we can pick up something. 93 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:39,713 But by simply having hand, or with the hand, we cannot eat. 94 00:06:39,714 --> 00:06:43,009 For eating we shall have to use this mouth. 95 00:06:43,010 --> 00:06:45,078 We have to use the stomach. 96 00:06:45,079 --> 00:06:48,126 But in the spiritual world, Kṛṣṇa: 97 00:06:48,127 --> 00:06:53,529 About Him is described: Aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti [Bs 5.32]. 98 00:06:53,530 --> 00:06:59,808 Each and every limb of Kṛṣṇa has got the potency of other limbs. 99 00:06:59,809 --> 00:07:03,490 He can eat by His eyes. 100 00:07:03,491 --> 00:07:08,670 He can hear from His eyes; anything—all the parts of the limbs. 101 00:07:08,671 --> 00:07:13,047 Because they are spiritual, you can use it for any purpose. 102 00:07:13,048 --> 00:07:19,041 This is not understandable in this material condition of life, but it is possible. 103 00:07:19,042 --> 00:07:24,970 When it is spiritually realized, it is possible; these things are there. 104 00:07:24,971 --> 00:07:31,506 aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti 105 00:07:31,507 --> 00:07:37,694 ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.32] 106 00:07:37,695 --> 00:07:43,117 So, His spiritual world—His planet, is described that: 107 00:07:43,118 --> 00:07:50,714 cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa- lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam [Bs. 5.29] 108 00:07:50,715 --> 00:07:58,019 In His planet, there are many trees, many palaces, but they’re all spiritual. 109 00:07:58,020 --> 00:08:00,833 Cintāmaṇi means spiritual. 110 00:08:00,834 --> 00:08:04,168 The houses: They’re made of touchstone. 111 00:08:04,169 --> 00:08:07,364 Just like here the houses are made of bricks and wood. 112 00:08:07,365 --> 00:08:11,273 There the houses are also spiritual. 113 00:08:11,274 --> 00:08:12,300 The touchstone: 114 00:08:12,301 --> 00:08:18,325 It is described in the śāstra that if there is any touchstone in this material world, 115 00:08:18,326 --> 00:08:22,829 the touchstone can turn the iron into gold. 116 00:08:22,830 --> 00:08:24,196 There are houses also. 117 00:08:24,197 --> 00:08:26,439 Big, big palaces, like here. 118 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:31,843 Cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa [Bs. 5.29]; the trees are kalpa-vṛkṣa. 119 00:08:31,844 --> 00:08:38,448 Kalpa-vṛkṣa means here you can get fruit: One kind of fruit from one tree. 120 00:08:38,449 --> 00:08:42,246 But there, any fruit you want, you can get any tree. 121 00:08:42,247 --> 00:08:43,519 That is spiritual. 122 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,837 Prakara-sadmasu kalpa- vṛkṣa; kalpa-vṛkṣa means that. 123 00:08:47,838 --> 00:08:50,641 And Surabhīr abhipālayantam [Bs. 5.29]. 124 00:08:50,642 --> 00:08:53,996 Kṛṣṇa is very fond of tending cows. 125 00:08:53,997 --> 00:08:55,470 And what are those cows? 126 00:08:55,471 --> 00:08:56,795 Surabhī. 127 00:08:56,796 --> 00:09:04,168 Surabhī means you can take as much milk as you like and as many times as you like. 128 00:09:04,169 --> 00:09:09,758 Here in this material world you have got cows, but you can take milk: 129 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:11,406 Limited quantity. 130 00:09:11,407 --> 00:09:13,694 And also once or twice. 131 00:09:13,695 --> 00:09:15,158 That is the difference. 132 00:09:15,159 --> 00:09:17,752 In this way, if you read Brahma-saṁhitā, 133 00:09:17,753 --> 00:09:24,577 you’ll get complete description of the spiritual world, the spiritual entities, 134 00:09:24,578 --> 00:09:27,632 the Supreme Lord, His associates, 135 00:09:27,633 --> 00:09:30,535 His country, His pastimes… 136 00:09:30,536 --> 00:09:33,178 Everything, very nicely described. 137 00:09:33,179 --> 00:09:38,871 And if we become attached to such place, then we can try, 138 00:09:38,872 --> 00:09:43,370 we can try, we can prepare ourself for going back to home, back to Godhead. 139 00:09:43,371 --> 00:09:45,132 That is the perfection of life. 140 00:09:45,133 --> 00:09:48,045 That is the mission of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. 141 00:09:48,046 --> 00:09:55,960 Thank you very much; 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