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SB 1-07-22 VRN 1976-09-18 Material Advancement-Suffering
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ANNOUNCER: Next is a class on
the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 1st canto,
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7th chapter, text number 22,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on September 18th,
1976, in Vṛndāvana, India.
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PRABHUPĀDA: arjuna uvāca
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kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā-bāho
bhaktānām abhayaṅkara
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tvam eko dahyamānānām
apavargo ’si saṁsṛteḥ
[SB 1.7.22]
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Saṁsṛteḥ.
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This material world is called
saṁsṛti: continuously suffering.
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That we cannot understand.
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This is called ignorance.
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Continuously suffering.
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They are thinking,
“We are very happy.”
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But this material world means
continuously suffering.
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So one living entity is dying, and his
gross body is left and the subtle body,
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mind, intelligence, ego:
carrying him in another body
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through the semina of the father
to the womb of the mother.
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Then it is placed, and
the body again forms,
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and when the body is
formed, then he comes out.
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And within the womb of the
mother there is so much suffering.
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We know that.
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Many times we have discussed.
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And coming, from the very moment, the
child is crying, there is inconveniences.
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So many things he cannot express.
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In this way, within the
womb there is suffering,
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out of the womb there is suffering.
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Then growing, child or baby or
boy, there are so many sufferings.
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Then young man—suppose he becomes
family man—then earn for the family.
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That is also suffering.
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Then old man, disease, inability, many,
many thoughts, that is also suffering.
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And again death is suffering.
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At the time of death nobody
knows what will happen.
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Recently one of our
Godbrothers has died.
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He was suffering that he…
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Some glucose food was being
supplied through the nose,
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and with that… What is called?
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Taking out the…?
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That [is] also another suffering.
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Forcibly taking out the urine.
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Cannot speak anything.
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So this is suffering.
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This is called saṁsṛti.
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We are so foolish we do not know that
this material existence is suffering.
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They are simply
struggle for existence.
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manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi
prakṛti-sthāni karṣati
[Bg. 15.7]
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Simply a struggle.
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There is no happiness.
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But these foolish persons:
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They do not know that there is
suffering and how to stop this suffering.
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That is real problem.
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janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-
duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam
[Bg. 13.9]
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Intelligent persons should always keep in
view that “These are my real sufferings.”
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Not that “Temporary I have got some
misunderstanding with some friend,
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or temporary I do not get some
nice food, and therefore suffering.”
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These sufferings are extra, but real
suffering is this: Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi.
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So suffering and suff… Therefore
material existence is called saṁsṛti.
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Saṁsāra.
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So, therefore we read every
day from the Gurvaṣṭaka:
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saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka
[Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura]
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This saṁsāra—this material
existence—is just like dāvānala.
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Dāvānala means forest fire.
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Forest… In the forest nobody goes to
set fire, but it takes place automatically.
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Even if you don’t
want, it will come.
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This is saṁsāra.
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And in your country: Nice city, New York
City, but every moment there is fire.
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Dung-dung-dung-dung-
dung-dung-dung-dung.
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Why?
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Very nice city, big
city, big roads, big…
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But there is suffering.
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Who wants this fire?
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But government has to make
arrangement for fire brigade,
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and because it is great nation,
very prosperous nation,
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there is very constantly,
very frequently there is fire.
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Frequently.
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You won’t find such
fire in India, at least.
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We have no such experience that
every moment there is fire brigade.
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Is it not?
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I am exaggerating?
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Huh?
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You see.
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We have got so
many cities in India,
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but we don’t have such arrangement
that constantly, twenty-four hours:
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Dung-dung-dung-dung-
dung-dung-dung-dung.
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At least we haven’t got.
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Less suffering, because
we are not so advanced.
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The more materially you become
advanced, the more suffering.
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daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī
mama māyā…
[Bg. 7.14]
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These rascals, they do not know.
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Saṁsṛti.
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Therefore, here we see that:
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tvam eko dahyamānānām
apavargo ’si saṁsṛteḥ
[SB 1.7.22]
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This is Kṛṣṇa.
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Arjuna is mahājana.
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He is a mahājana.
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He [is] directly Kṛṣṇa’s friend.
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He knows what is Kṛṣṇa.
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Therefore he submitted
that, “Kṛṣṇa, it is perplexity.
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I do not like to fight, and You are
asking me repeatedly to fight.
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So it is very awkward position.
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I cannot understand.”
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kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ
[Bg. 2.7]
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“I have been infected with kārpaṇya-
doṣa, and kṣatriya, I am in the battlefield.
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It is my duty to fight,
but I am declining.”
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That is: kārpaṇya-
doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ.
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“My nature, svabhāva, is to
fight, but I am avoiding this.
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So therefore my position is
not good, I can understand.
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Therefore, śiṣyas te ’haṁ śādhi
māṁ tvāṁ prapannam [Bg. 2.7].
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I accept You as my
spiritual master.
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You… I am surrendered, prapannam.
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You kindly instruct, śādhi mām.”
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This is beginning
of Bhagavad-gītā.
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Arjuna knows that for this saṁsṛti:
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For this suffering of the material
world, only Kṛṣṇa is the savior.
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Only Kṛṣṇa.
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Tvam ekaḥ: “Only You;
not anybody else.”
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Nobody can.
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And He also… Kṛṣṇa
also says: mām ekam.
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“Rascal, mām ekam.”
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This same eka.
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Arjuna says tvam ekaḥ,
and Kṛṣṇa says mām ekam.
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The same purpose.
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This is to be learned—
that eka: “Only Kṛṣṇa.”
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Kṛṣṇaika-śaraṇam.
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That is wanted.
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Simply took shelter…
take shelter of Kṛṣṇa.
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That will save you
from this saṁsṛti.
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Apavarga. [splice]
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So if you take shelter of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus
feet, then abhayaṅkara: No more fear.
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No more fear.
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And so long you do
not do it, then saṁsṛti.
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Therefore Kṛṣṇa… Arjuna says,
tvam eko dahyamānānām
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apavargo ’si abhayaṅkara [SB
1.7.22]; thank you very much.
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