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SB 2-04-01 LA 1972-06-24 Searching After Krishna
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a class on the
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 2nd canto, 4th chapter,
text number 1, given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on June 24th, 1972, in Los Angeles.
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Translation: “Sūta Gosvāmī said: Mahārāja Parīkṣit, the
son of Uttarā, after hearing the speeches of Śukadeva
Gosvāmī, which were all about the truth of the self,
applied his concentration faithfully upon Lord Kṛṣṇa.”
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PRABHUPĀDA: So here is, vacas tattvam ātmā ni
[?],…ātmā, vacas tattva, niścayam ātmā.
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Vacas tattva-niścayam ātmanaḥ [?].
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Vaiyāsaki.
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So ātma-tattva, self realization, this is required.
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So we have to approach a person like Vaiyāsaki,
Śukadeva Gosvāmī.
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Niścayam.
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Vacas tattva-niścayam.
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If you want to know positively, niścayam, without any
mistake, then you have to approach a person like
Śukadeva Gosvāmī or the paramparā system, who is
coming in disciplic succession of paramparā system.
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The paramparā system means…
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Just like we claim paramparā system from Kṛṣṇa.
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So whatever Kṛṣṇa says or He said 5,000 years ago, we
are repeating the same thing.
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That is called paramparā system.
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Not that “The world has changed.
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Scientific advancement is very great.
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Now we can interpret in this way and that way.”
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This is all nonsense.
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All nonsense.
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You cannot change a single alphabet.
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They are all unmistakable.
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They cannot be changed.
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So that is niścayam ātmanaḥ.
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If you want to know positively, what is God, then we
should take lesson from a self-realized soul who has
understood, who has seen.
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Jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ.
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Just like here it is tattva-niścayam ātmanaḥ.
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So tattvam, the truth, so one must have seen the truth,
realized the truth.
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Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet [MU 1.2.12].
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That is guru.
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Means one who has seen the truth.
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How he has seen the truth?
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Through the paramparā system.
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Kṛṣṇa said this, and then Brahmā said the same thing,
then Nārada said the same thing, Vyāsadeva said the
same thing, and then disciplic succession, Madhvācārya,
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Mādhavendra Purī, Īśvara Purī, Lord Caitanya,
Ṣaḍ-gosvāmī, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, Śrīnivāsa
Ācārya, Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, Viśvanātha Cakravartī
Ṭhākura.
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In this way.
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Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, Gaura Kiśora dāsa Bābājī,
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī.
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Then we are speaking.
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The same thing.
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Not that “Because we are modernized…
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Your modern science has changed.”
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Nothing has changed.
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It is all foolishness.
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That change is a scheduled change.
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Just like day after night.
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And again, night after day.
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Again, day after night.
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This is not change; this is a system.
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So because our poor fund of knowledge…
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Just like there are many insects.
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Their birth, death, marriage, and everything is finished
within night.
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They never see the day.
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So if they see day by chance, they will say, “Oh, it has
changed.”
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Because their experience is they have never seen day.
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Their experience with night.
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So all of a sudden, if he sees that there is daylight, “Oh,
what is this?
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Oh, the whole world has changed.”
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No.
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You have not seen.
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The so-called scientific discovery, they are seeing
something, but the next stage, they have no power to
see, and they think, when they see the next item, “Oh,
the world has changed.”
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There is no question of changing.
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It is on the process.
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Just like another example can be given: the film.
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If you see the film as it is, each picture you will see
different picture.
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But actually, it is not different.
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It is the scene.
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It is the process.
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How the hands and legs will move, the picture is made
in such a way that when it is put into the machine, you’ll
find the hands and legs are moving.
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So change…
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Sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya, sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya.
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There are three kinds of changes.
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First of all change is the sṛṣṭi.
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Sṛṣṭi means creation, creation.
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This material world…
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There was no material world.
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Simply there was spiritual world.
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Just like when all of a sudden cloud appears in the sky.
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The sky was there, the cloud has appeared.
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Similarly, this material creation is like that.
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It is just like a cloud in the vast spiritual ocean, sky.
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The sky is spiritual.
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This sky in which we are now existing, that is not
spiritual.
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Just like the sky, covered by the clouds, is the same sky,
but it is covered.
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Similarly, we are living within the covered sky, and if you
penetrate the cover, then you go to the spiritual sky.
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While going to the spiritual sky, you have to give up
your body.
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The body is a combination of five elements.
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So there is stock in the…
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This universe is covered by seven layers: earth, water,
fire, air, like that.
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When we shall be going to the spiritual sky, we have to
pass through the seven layers.
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And each layer is ten times bigger than the first.
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Suppose we pass the air layer; the next layer, the fire, is
ten times bigger.
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Then water, ten times.
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In this way, we have to pass through.
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We are so much tightly packed up.
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It is not so easy that I take a sputnik and go anywhere.
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No.
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That requires sādhana-bhajana, practice, how to give up
this encagement of seven layers and then completely
pure spirit soul, you enter into the spiritual sky.
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That is merging in the spiritual effulgence.
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Brahmajyoti.
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Then you can go further and enter into the spiritual
planets, if you are fit for that.
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Otherwise you’ll remain in the brahmajyoti.
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Nirviśeṣa, without any variety.
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Simply light.
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As the jñānīs, they want.
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But you cannot stay there.
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Because you are a living entity, you are part and parcel
of Kṛṣṇa, so actually you are trying to go to Kṛṣṇa.
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Just like a child is crying.
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The idea is that the child wants mother.
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Or mother’s breast milk.
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That is his demand.
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But sometimes we do not know.
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We try to make the child comfortable in different ways.
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Similarly, all of us are searching after Kṛṣṇa.
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That is the fact.
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Kṛṣṇa, being the Supreme, we are all, being parts and
parcels, our natural tendency is to approach Kṛṣṇa.
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Manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ.
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Mama vartmānuvartante manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ [?].
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In the Bhagavad-gītā you’ll find this.
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Mama vartmānu…
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“They are all trying to come to Me.”
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But they are being hampered by different types of
māyā.
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So the spiritual advancement means ultimately to
approach Kṛṣṇa.
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This is very nicely explained by Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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The bhakti-latā, the creeper of bhakti, is growing, but it
will go on growing, growing, growing, until the
bhakti-latā, I mean to say, catches the lotus feet of
Kṛṣṇa.
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You’ll see, the creepers they grow, they try to catch
something, small.
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As soon as they get a feeler or root, immediately, by
nature…
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Similarly, you go on increasing your bhakti creeper.
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The bhakti creeper…
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ei rūpe brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya pāya bhakti-latā-bīja
[Cc. Madhya 19.151].
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Bīja.
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Bīja means seed.
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Guru-kṛṣṇa.
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Kṛṣṇa and guru.
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When both of them are merciful, then you can get the
seed of bhakti-latā creeper.
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Mālī hañā kare sei bīja āropaṇa [Cc. Madhya 19.152].
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When you get a nice seed…
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Just like you are growing, nursing the tulasī seed very
carefully…
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Tulasī seed, that is the example of bhakti seed.
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Similarly, you have to nurse the bhakti seed by giving all
protection, watering daily.
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So what is your watering process?
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This watering process [devotees chant Hare Kṛṣṇa…]
śravaṇa-kīrtana-jale karaye secana [?].
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Mālī hañā kare sei bīja āropaṇa śravaṇa-kīrtana-jale
karaye secana [Cc. Madhya 19.152].
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You have to become a gardener and…
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Where is that Pravīṇacandra?
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He’s not here?
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Yes.
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That’s all right.
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Śravaṇa-kīrtana-jale karaye secana [?].
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Hearing.
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If you want to come to the right conclusion, then you
have to hear from persons authorized, not from the
nonsense rascals, politicians, diplomats.
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No.
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Just like here it is said, vaiyāsakeḥ.
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You have to hear from Vaiyāsaki or his representative.
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Vaiyāsaker iti vacas tattva-niścayam ātmanaḥ [?].
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If you hear from the right person, then tattva-niścayam,
then positively you can realize self.
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And if you hear from some rascals, they have no
connection with Vaiyāsaki, simply by dint of mental
speculation, interpreting, “I think this may be this,
I think this,”…
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What you are, nonsense?
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You think?
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We don’t accept such nonsense things.
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It must be positively authorized.
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As it is said here, vaiyāsaker iti vacas tattva-niścayam
ātmanaḥ [?].
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When we hear from the right person…
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tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā
upadekṣyanti te jñānaṁ jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ
[Bg. 4.34].
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Jñāna and tattva-darśī.
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Simply jñānī, simply a-b-c-d knowledge, academic
education will not help.
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You must be jñānī, at the same time, tattva-darśī.
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That tattva-darśana cannot be possible by mental
speculation.
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Ciraṁ vicinvan.
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Athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda-leśānugṛhīta
eva hi jānāti tattvaṁ bhagavan-mahimno na cānya eko
’pi ciraṁ vicinvan [?].
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Who knows the tattva?
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Athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda-leśānugṛhīta
[?].
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“One person who has got a slight benediction from Your
lotus feet.”
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Not that all.
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A slight.
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Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt [?].
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If you get a slight, a glance, then your life is perfect,
immediately.
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Not that you have to get all the mercies of the Lord.
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Even little, very insignificant part.
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That means, insignificant part, that is, Kṛṣṇa is teaching
Himself, “Just surrender.”
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So this much mercy everyone of us we can take.
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How?
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“Kṛṣṇa, I was wandering throughout the whole universe
in so many lives.
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I did not know that You are my supreme master.
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Now, from this day, I surrender unto You.”
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Kṛṣṇa is ready: Ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi [?].
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“Yes, you do it.
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I shall give you protection from all sinful resultant
action.
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Immediately.”
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A simple process.
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So this much mercy we can take, if we will.
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But we are not willing.
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We surrender to some rascal, but not to Kṛṣṇa.
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That is our position.
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We shall surrender to this man, that man, this man, this
one … Why not Kṛṣṇa?
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“No,” māyā will say.
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“No, no, no.
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What is Kṛṣṇa?
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You surrender to such big politician, big yogi, big
bluffer, cheater.
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You surrender there.”
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Māyā is always after you to bewilder you.
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Because we have forgotten Kṛṣṇa by our independence,
misusing our independence, so māyā wants to give us
some good lesson, that “Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, you are trying
to be happy.
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All right, I shall give you nice happiness.”
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This is going on.
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Therefore, māyā is very strong.
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That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā: Daivī hy eṣā
guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā [Bg. 7.14].
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You cannot get out of the clutches of māyā so easily.
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Then?
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How it is possible?
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Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te
[Bg. 7.14].
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The same thing.
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“If anyone fully surrenders unto Me, then he can get out
of the clutches of māyā.
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So here, Parīkṣit Mahārāja is fully surrendered to his
spiritual master.
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Vaiyāsaker iti vacaḥ.
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Whatever he said…
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Vaiyāsaki, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, he placed the whole thing
before him, how to concentrate one’s mind on Kṛṣṇa.
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So upadhārya matiṁ kṛṣṇe.
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Then immediately this is the result.
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If you approach a bona fide representative, then, taking
lessons from him, the result will be upadhārya matiṁ
kṛṣṇe, your surrender will be on Kṛṣṇa.
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Read the purport.
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PRADYUMNA: “The word satīm is very significant.
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This means “existing” and “chaste,” and both imports
are perfectly applicable in the case of Mahārāja Parīkṣit.
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The whole Vedic adventure is to draw one’s attention
entirely unto the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa without any
diversion, as it is instructed in the Bhagavad-gītā [15.15].
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Fortunately Mahārāja Parīkṣit had already been
attracted to the Lord from the very beginning of his
body, in the womb of his mother.
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In the womb of his mother, he was struck by the
brahmāstra atomic bomb released by Aśvatthāmā, but
by the grace of the Lord he was saved from being burnt
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by the fiery weapon, and since then the King continually
concentrated his mind upon Lord Kṛṣṇa, which made
him perfectly chaste in devotional service.
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So by natural sequence he was a chaste devotee of the
Lord, and when he further heard…”
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PRABHUPĀDA: Here, one important matter is there, that
Parīkṣit Mahārāja, while he was in the womb of his
mother, there was brahmāstra targeted on him by
Aśvatthāmā.
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And he was to be killed.
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Practically he was killed.
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His mother felt a miscarriage and immediately
approached Kṛṣṇa, that “I am feeling like this.
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The only son of the Pāṇḍava dynasty is going to be
lost.”
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So Kṛṣṇa immediately entered the womb of Uttarā and
saved the baby.
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Now, Parīkṣit Mahārāja is recognized devotee; otherwise
Kṛṣṇa would not have taken so much trouble.
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He wanted that Parīkṣit Mahārāja.
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Now, when he was cursed by a brāhmaṇa to die within
seven days, why Kṛṣṇa did not save him, or why he did
not seek Kṛṣṇa’s protection?
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This question may be raised.
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He was young man.
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He was not old man.
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He could live.
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That question was made also: “The Parīkṣit Mahārāja,
such a nice king, his life was dedicated for the welfare
of his subjects.
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So actually, his body was meant for the benefit of
others.
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Why did he leave it, did he quit it?”
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This question was there.
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Because anyone who has dedicated his body for the
service of all humanity, that is, means, that means he
has dedicated the body for Kṛṣṇa, because Kṛṣṇa, He is
suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām [Bg. 5.29].
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Suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām.
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Kṛṣṇa is the sincere friend of everyone, so one who is
trying to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that means he's
also trying to make others to feel that Kṛṣṇa is the
supreme friend.
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So that body is Kṛṣṇa's body.
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Now, why Parīkṣit Mahārāja decided that?
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He could counteract the brāhmaṇa boy.
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It was not difficult for him.
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But he did not act it counter, and he agreed to die.
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And Kṛṣṇa also, from within dictated, "Parīkṣit, now
agree to die."
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Why?
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If Parīkṣit Mahārāja was not in that position, that he
was to die within seven days, this Bhāgavata would not
have come.
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This is the purport.
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That was the purpose.
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Otherwise, he could counteract.
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He could save himself, personally or with the help of
Kṛṣṇa.
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He didn't care for any curse, but if he would not have
taken this position, this Bhāgavata would not have
come.
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It was for Parīkṣit Mahārāja.
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So we have to study in this way.
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Thank you very much.
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