0 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,473 SB 1-07-22 VRN 1976-09-18 Material Advancement-Suffering 1 00:00:01,474 --> 00:00:05,225 ANNOUNCER: Next is a class on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 1st canto, 2 00:00:05,226 --> 00:00:07,750 7th chapter, text number 22, 3 00:00:07,751 --> 00:00:13,563 given by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, 4 00:00:13,564 --> 00:00:20,528 recorded on September 18th, 1976, in Vṛndāvana, India. 5 00:00:20,529 --> 00:00:22,531 PRABHUPĀDA: arjuna uvāca 6 00:00:22,532 --> 00:00:28,539 kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā-bāho bhaktānām abhayaṅkara 7 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:35,906 tvam eko dahyamānānām apavargo ’si saṁsṛteḥ [SB 1.7.22] 8 00:00:35,907 --> 00:00:37,790 Saṁsṛteḥ. 9 00:00:37,791 --> 00:00:53,090 This material world is called saṁsṛti: continuously suffering. 10 00:00:53,091 --> 00:00:55,612 That we cannot understand. 11 00:00:55,613 --> 00:00:57,832 This is called ignorance. 12 00:00:57,833 --> 00:01:02,407 Continuously suffering. 13 00:01:02,408 --> 00:01:05,473 They are thinking, “We are very happy.” 14 00:01:05,474 --> 00:01:13,052 But this material world means continuously suffering. 15 00:01:13,053 --> 00:01:26,631 So one living entity is dying, and his gross body is left and the subtle body, 16 00:01:26,632 --> 00:01:35,527 mind, intelligence, ego: carrying him in another body 17 00:01:35,528 --> 00:01:42,425 through the semina of the father to the womb of the mother. 18 00:01:42,426 --> 00:01:50,109 Then it is placed, and the body again forms, 19 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:55,950 and when the body is formed, then he comes out. 20 00:01:55,951 --> 00:02:00,176 And within the womb of the mother there is so much suffering. 21 00:02:00,177 --> 00:02:01,554 We know that. 22 00:02:01,555 --> 00:02:03,907 Many times we have discussed. 23 00:02:03,908 --> 00:02:11,493 And coming, from the very moment, the child is crying, there is inconveniences. 24 00:02:11,494 --> 00:02:15,350 So many things he cannot express. 25 00:02:15,351 --> 00:02:19,085 In this way, within the womb there is suffering, 26 00:02:19,086 --> 00:02:22,047 out of the womb there is suffering. 27 00:02:22,048 --> 00:02:30,655 Then growing, child or baby or boy, there are so many sufferings. 28 00:02:30,656 --> 00:02:40,070 Then young man—suppose he becomes family man—then earn for the family. 29 00:02:40,071 --> 00:02:41,915 That is also suffering. 30 00:02:41,916 --> 00:02:51,659 Then old man, disease, inability, many, many thoughts, that is also suffering. 31 00:02:51,660 --> 00:02:56,201 And again death is suffering. 32 00:02:56,202 --> 00:03:01,147 At the time of death nobody knows what will happen. 33 00:03:01,148 --> 00:03:06,143 Recently one of our Godbrothers has died. 34 00:03:06,144 --> 00:03:10,612 He was suffering that he… 35 00:03:10,613 --> 00:03:16,216 Some glucose food was being supplied through the nose, 36 00:03:16,217 --> 00:03:21,948 and with that… What is called? 37 00:03:21,949 --> 00:03:23,778 Taking out the…? 38 00:03:23,779 --> 00:03:27,181 That [is] also another suffering. 39 00:03:27,182 --> 00:03:30,755 Forcibly taking out the urine. 40 00:03:30,756 --> 00:03:32,895 Cannot speak anything. 41 00:03:32,896 --> 00:03:34,403 So this is suffering. 42 00:03:34,404 --> 00:03:37,304 This is called saṁsṛti. 43 00:03:37,305 --> 00:03:45,108 We are so foolish we do not know that this material existence is suffering. 44 00:03:45,109 --> 00:03:48,006 They are simply struggle for existence. 45 00:03:48,007 --> 00:03:51,775 manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati [Bg. 15.7] 46 00:03:51,776 --> 00:03:53,880 Simply a struggle. 47 00:03:53,881 --> 00:03:55,881 There is no happiness. 48 00:03:55,882 --> 00:03:57,091 But these foolish persons: 49 00:03:57,092 --> 00:04:06,759 They do not know that there is suffering and how to stop this suffering. 50 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,057 That is real problem. 51 00:04:09,058 --> 00:04:12,730 janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi- duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9] 52 00:04:12,731 --> 00:04:19,844 Intelligent persons should always keep in view that “These are my real sufferings.” 53 00:04:19,845 --> 00:04:26,389 Not that “Temporary I have got some misunderstanding with some friend, 54 00:04:26,390 --> 00:04:32,125 or temporary I do not get some nice food, and therefore suffering.” 55 00:04:32,126 --> 00:04:38,345 These sufferings are extra, but real suffering is this: Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi. 56 00:04:38,346 --> 00:04:45,400 So suffering and suff… Therefore material existence is called saṁsṛti. 57 00:04:45,401 --> 00:04:48,403 Saṁsāra. 58 00:04:48,404 --> 00:04:57,591 So, therefore we read every day from the Gurvaṣṭaka: 59 00:04:57,592 --> 00:05:01,044 saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka [Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura] 60 00:05:01,045 --> 00:05:07,656 This saṁsāra—this material existence—is just like dāvānala. 61 00:05:07,657 --> 00:05:10,806 Dāvānala means forest fire. 62 00:05:10,807 --> 00:05:17,603 Forest… In the forest nobody goes to set fire, but it takes place automatically. 63 00:05:17,604 --> 00:05:21,712 Even if you don’t want, it will come. 64 00:05:21,713 --> 00:05:24,421 This is saṁsāra. 65 00:05:24,422 --> 00:05:32,611 And in your country: Nice city, New York City, but every moment there is fire. 66 00:05:32,612 --> 00:05:35,598 Dung-dung-dung-dung- dung-dung-dung-dung. 67 00:05:35,599 --> 00:05:38,260 Why? 68 00:05:38,261 --> 00:05:41,684 Very nice city, big city, big roads, big… 69 00:05:41,685 --> 00:05:43,818 But there is suffering. 70 00:05:43,819 --> 00:05:45,628 Who wants this fire? 71 00:05:45,629 --> 00:05:49,924 But government has to make arrangement for fire brigade, 72 00:05:49,925 --> 00:05:56,305 and because it is great nation, very prosperous nation, 73 00:05:56,306 --> 00:06:02,146 there is very constantly, very frequently there is fire. 74 00:06:02,147 --> 00:06:03,052 Frequently. 75 00:06:03,053 --> 00:06:07,623 You won’t find such fire in India, at least. 76 00:06:07,624 --> 00:06:12,873 We have no such experience that every moment there is fire brigade. 77 00:06:12,874 --> 00:06:14,568 Is it not? 78 00:06:14,569 --> 00:06:16,475 I am exaggerating? 79 00:06:16,476 --> 00:06:18,264 Huh? 80 00:06:18,265 --> 00:06:19,439 You see. 81 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,877 We have got so many cities in India, 82 00:06:23,878 --> 00:06:28,052 but we don’t have such arrangement that constantly, twenty-four hours: 83 00:06:28,053 --> 00:06:31,058 Dung-dung-dung-dung- dung-dung-dung-dung. 84 00:06:31,059 --> 00:06:32,770 At least we haven’t got. 85 00:06:32,771 --> 00:06:37,560 Less suffering, because we are not so advanced. 86 00:06:37,561 --> 00:06:42,267 The more materially you become advanced, the more suffering. 87 00:06:42,268 --> 00:06:44,907 daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā… [Bg. 7.14] 88 00:06:44,908 --> 00:06:47,863 These rascals, they do not know. 89 00:06:47,864 --> 00:06:49,265 Saṁsṛti. 90 00:06:49,266 --> 00:06:54,960 Therefore, here we see that: 91 00:06:54,961 --> 00:07:03,310 tvam eko dahyamānānām apavargo ’si saṁsṛteḥ [SB 1.7.22] 92 00:07:03,311 --> 00:07:05,864 This is Kṛṣṇa. 93 00:07:05,865 --> 00:07:08,471 Arjuna is mahājana. 94 00:07:08,472 --> 00:07:09,774 He is a mahājana. 95 00:07:09,775 --> 00:07:13,209 He [is] directly Kṛṣṇa’s friend. 96 00:07:13,210 --> 00:07:17,958 He knows what is Kṛṣṇa. 97 00:07:17,959 --> 00:07:24,705 Therefore he submitted that, “Kṛṣṇa, it is perplexity. 98 00:07:24,706 --> 00:07:31,591 I do not like to fight, and You are asking me repeatedly to fight. 99 00:07:31,592 --> 00:07:36,968 So it is very awkward position. 100 00:07:36,969 --> 00:07:39,717 I cannot understand.” 101 00:07:39,718 --> 00:07:44,139 kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ [Bg. 2.7] 102 00:07:44,140 --> 00:07:52,826 “I have been infected with kārpaṇya- doṣa, and kṣatriya, I am in the battlefield. 103 00:07:52,827 --> 00:07:57,342 It is my duty to fight, but I am declining.” 104 00:07:57,343 --> 00:08:00,599 That is: kārpaṇya- doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ. 105 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:06,787 “My nature, svabhāva, is to fight, but I am avoiding this. 106 00:08:06,788 --> 00:08:11,402 So therefore my position is not good, I can understand. 107 00:08:11,403 --> 00:08:15,428 Therefore, śiṣyas te ’haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam [Bg. 2.7]. 108 00:08:15,429 --> 00:08:19,930 I accept You as my spiritual master. 109 00:08:19,931 --> 00:08:23,269 You… I am surrendered, prapannam. 110 00:08:23,270 --> 00:08:25,610 You kindly instruct, śādhi mām.” 111 00:08:25,611 --> 00:08:29,435 This is beginning of Bhagavad-gītā. 112 00:08:29,436 --> 00:08:33,787 Arjuna knows that for this saṁsṛti: 113 00:08:33,788 --> 00:08:41,679 For this suffering of the material world, only Kṛṣṇa is the savior. 114 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:43,119 Only Kṛṣṇa. 115 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:49,452 Tvam ekaḥ: “Only You; not anybody else.” 116 00:08:49,453 --> 00:08:51,128 Nobody can. 117 00:08:51,129 --> 00:08:55,311 And He also… Kṛṣṇa also says: mām ekam. 118 00:08:55,312 --> 00:08:58,583 “Rascal, mām ekam.” 119 00:08:58,584 --> 00:09:01,458 This same eka. 120 00:09:01,459 --> 00:09:05,579 Arjuna says tvam ekaḥ, and Kṛṣṇa says mām ekam. 121 00:09:05,580 --> 00:09:08,538 The same purpose. 122 00:09:08,539 --> 00:09:13,146 This is to be learned— that eka: “Only Kṛṣṇa.” 123 00:09:13,147 --> 00:09:15,188 Kṛṣṇaika-śaraṇam. 124 00:09:15,189 --> 00:09:17,029 That is wanted. 125 00:09:17,030 --> 00:09:21,282 Simply took shelter… take shelter of Kṛṣṇa. 126 00:09:21,283 --> 00:09:25,263 That will save you from this saṁsṛti. 127 00:09:25,264 --> 00:09:27,309 Apavarga. [splice] 128 00:09:27,310 --> 00:09:35,042 So if you take shelter of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, then abhayaṅkara: No more fear. 129 00:09:35,043 --> 00:09:36,463 No more fear. 130 00:09:36,464 --> 00:09:40,099 And so long you do not do it, then saṁsṛti. 131 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:47,048 Therefore Kṛṣṇa… Arjuna says, tvam eko dahyamānānām 132 00:09:47,049 --> 00:09:55,516 apavargo ’si abhayaṅkara [SB 1.7.22]; thank you very much. 133 00:09:55,517 --> 00:09:55,518 Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com