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SB 6-01-24 HON 1976-05-24 Trade the Dark Well for VRN Forest
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a
class on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,
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6th canto, 1st chapter,
text number 24,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 24th of May,
1976, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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PRABHUPĀDA: So he was engaged
in maintaining the family.
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Everyone is engaged like that;
cats and dogs also do that.
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It is not very extraordinary thing.
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Sometimes they
say, “It is my duty.”
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Yes, it is duty, but the prime duty
is to solve the real problems:
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how to stop mṛtyu, janma-mṛtyu-
jarā-vyādhi, [Bg 13.9] that we forget.
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Minor duties we take priority.
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That is the present situation.
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They do not know that
there is life after death,
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and according to our karma,
we are getting the next life.
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This morning we were
discussing, Kṛṣṇa is always ready.
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Automatically it is going on.
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kāraṇaṁ guṇa saṅgo ’sya
[Bg 13.22]
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As you desire according
to the contamination,
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of different modes of material nature,
immediately the body’s ready.
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Immediately after death.
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So everyone is engaged in so-called
duties, but forget the real duty.
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This is called māyā.
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By the spell of māyā we forget what is the
objective of life, what is the aim of life.
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This is called māyā.
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We are thinking
this is our duty, no.
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Real duty in the human form
of life, is here is a chance,
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whether you want to go to back
to home, back to Godhead,
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or again you want to go to hell,
the repetition of birth and death.
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That is your choice.
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Otherwise why there are so many
scriptures, religious system,
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all over the world?
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It is not only in India.
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According to the capacity
of understanding,
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in every civilized human society
there is a system called religion.
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It may be Hindu religion, Christian
religion or Buddha religion—
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these are major religious systems—
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but the aim is how to make a solution
of the problems of life, that is all…
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But because they do not
seriously discuss nowadays,
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the religious propensity tendency
of the human society decreasing.
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It has become a also
money-making business.
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The priestly order, they think “As others
make some money by working hard,
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by professional or by doing
some business or working,
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so we shall also earn some money,
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by showing the church or
the temple or the mosque.”
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They have taken it like that.
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Therefore people have lost faith
in religion; this is the reason.
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Because those who are in charge
of the religious department,
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the brāhmaṇas, those who
are in charge of religion,
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the priestly order or the mawlānās
[Muslim priests] or the brāhmaṇas,
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they’re the same
order, their duty is,
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to keep people enlightened in the
real mission of life; that is their duty.
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But if they’re also doing the
same thing, sense gratification,
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how long they can cheat others?
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Therefore people have lost faith
in religion; this is the position.
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But that is not good.
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Because the system of religion has become
polluted, we should not give up religion.
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That is our prime duty.
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karamayi tasya eka bhūṣesya
[?]
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What is the difference
between animal and man?
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The animal has no religion.
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They have no religion.
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Eating, sleeping, sex and defense.
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āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca
sāmānyam etat.
[Hitopadeśa 25]
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This is very easy to understand.
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The dog is eating; I am eating.
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Dog is sleeping; I am sleeping.
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Dog is enjoying sex; I
am also enjoying sex.
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Dog is also afraid; I am also afraid.
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So what is the difference
between dog and me?
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The only difference is that dog
has no religion; I have got religion.
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So if I give up religion, life of
religiosity, then I am equal to,
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dharmeṇa hīnāḥ paśubhiḥ samānāḥ
[Hitopadeśa 25]
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So this Ajāmila, on account of
bad association with prostitute,
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he lost his character and
he became thief, cheater,
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somehow or other
being punished.
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So in this way,
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while he was maintaining his children
and family, then the time of death came.
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That will not wait, that “I have
not finished my duty, family duty.
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Please wait few years more.”
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“Oh, that is not possible.”
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So kālo… Atyagāt.
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kālo atyagāt mahān rājan
aṣṭāśīti āyuṣaḥ samāḥ
[SB 6.1.23]
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He became very old, eighty-
eight years old, aṣṭaśīti.
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Aṣṭa means eight, aśīti
means eighty-eight.
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In this way, aṣṭāśītyā
āyuṣaḥ samāḥ. [SB 6.1.23]
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So at that time he had ten sons.
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tasya pravayasaḥ putrāḥ
[SB 6.1.24]
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He begot so many
children, number is ten.
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So putra, how many?
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Daśa ten, ten children he had.
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teṣāṁ tu yaḥ avamaḥ
[SB 6.1.24]
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Out of the ten sons, the youngest son,
teṣāṁ tu yaḥ avamaḥ bālaḥ, [SB 6.1.24]
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the child, nārāyaṇaḥ nāmnā,
he kept the name Nārāyaṇa.
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Nārāyaṇa dāsa, just like we
give name to an initiate.
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So this is his great fortune.
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He gave the youngest
son the name Nārāyaṇa.
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Naturally father, mother becomes
affectionate to the youngest baby.
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So by way of calling the young
child, he was chanting “Nārāyaṇa.”
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This is very good system, that if you keep
the name of your children, Nārāyaṇa,
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Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, then you will get
some chance to chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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Therefore in India
still the system is,
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they keep some name which
is with reference to Kṛṣṇa.
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He has got thousands of names,
so you can keep one name,
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so that you have the opportunity
of repeating, chanting,
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the holy name of the Lord.
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So, bālaḥ nārāyaṇaḥ sakṛt, pitroḥ
ca dayitaṁ bhṛśam. [break] [splice]
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Nirīkṣamāṇa tat līlām;
and the child is walking,
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the child is doing something,
coming to the mother, capturing.
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This līlā, this pastime,
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nirīkṣamāṇaḥ tan līlā mumude [SB
6.1.25] it was very, very pleasing.
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jaraṭho bhṛśam
[SB 6.1.25]
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In this way,
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bhuñjānaḥ prapiban sa kalam
bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ
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bhojayan pāyayan mūḍho
na vedāgatam antakam
[SB 6.1.26]
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He was very busy in enjoying the
child’s, how you would say, pastimes,
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and feeding him and taking him; in
this way he was very much pleased,
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“My life will go like this.”
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But the time of death came.
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bhojayan pāyayan mūḍho
na vedāgatam antakam
[SB 6.1.26]
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Antakam means
the last day of life.
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Antakam means death.
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So death is called māyā.
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You are thinking,
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“Now I have arranged everything,
things are going very nicely.
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Now I’m very happy.”
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But, all of a sudden,
the death comes.
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That you cannot
avoid; all of a sudden.
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That is…
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Death is described in
the Bhagavad-gītā.
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What is that death?
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That death is Kṛṣṇa, ūrdhva.
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That is stated in
the Bhagavad-gītā:
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mṛtyu sarva-haraś ca aham
[Bg 10.34]
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That means death will come, your all
asset, your so-called children, your family,
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your bank balance, your friends,
your country, your leadership,
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your pride and
everything will be taken.
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That will be taken by Kṛṣṇa.
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The atheist class who
does not believe in God,
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he’ll see God at the end of life
when he cannot do anything.
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But before that, if he sees
God, then his life is saved.
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tattva dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mam eti so 'rjuna
[Bg. 4.9]
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But that he’ll not
accept, “What is God?
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I don’t care for… There is no God.”
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“All right, wait, God will come.”
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And at that time he said
that the Hiraṇyakaśipu,
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he always defied the son’s, the
small child, five-years-old boy,
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his only fault was he was
chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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And even the father, what to
speak of others, he became saved.
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So don’t think that
Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
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will go without any difficult;
there will be so many difficulties.
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Even your father will be angry.
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This is the history.
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So this father, Hiraṇyakaśipu,
he defied God:
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“Who is God?
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I am God.
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You, take my anger.”
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The child said, “My dear
father, you are not God.”
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He would never, never
address his father as “father.”
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He addressed him “the
best of the asuras.”
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“My dear best of the asuras,”
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tat sādhu manye asura-vārya dehinām
[SB 7.5.5]
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After all, the relationship
is father and son.
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So one day the father took him,
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“My dear son, what you have learned,
the best thing, from your teachers?
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Tell me.”
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“Yes, I’ll tell you.”
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“What is that?”
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tat sādhu manye asura-varya
[SB 7.5.5]
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He never addressed “father.”
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“O the best of the asuras.”
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Asura-vārya means
“the best of the asura.”
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Tad sādhu manye: “I think
that is very good thing.”
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“What is that?”
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tad sādhu manye asura-vārya dehināṁ
sadā samudvigna-dhiyām asad-grahāt
[SB 7.5.5]
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“All these people, they’re
simply full of anxieties.”
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That’s a fact.
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Who is not full of anxieties?
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Those who are in this material world,
who can say, “No, I have no anxiety?”
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That is not possible.
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Either you become President Nixon or
in the street beggar, there is anxiety.
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At any moment danger will come.
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They're busy.
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So the child said, “My
dear best of the asuras,
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I think that is the best thing,
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for the persons who have accepted
this material body, asad grahā…”
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Why anxiety?
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The anxiety is because
this material body.
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I am thinking of “I may be hot.”
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Oh, what’s that hot?
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The hot means body.
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The soul is never hurt; soul is eternal:
na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20].
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That they do not know.
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They think this body:
“I am this body.
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So I’ll be hurt, I’ll die, I’ll this,”
and so on and so many.
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Simply anxiety: “How I
shall protect my body?
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How I shall protect my
bodily relationship?”
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Everything in connection
with the body.
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Everything asat.
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The body’s asat,
perishable, or temporary.
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So whatever you have got in
relationship with this body
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—my country, my society, my bank
balance, my money, my wife, children
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—everything in the body, they
are also asat, temporary.
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So they are very, very
anxiety, tat sādhu manye.
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So “I want to relieve
them from this anxiety.”
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What is that?
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tad sādhu manye asura-vārya dehināṁ
sadā samudvigna-dhiyām asad-grahāt
[SB 7.5.5]
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Then, what you advise?
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hitvātmā-pātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpam
[SB 7.5.5]
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He’s fallen in this dark region
of black well, this family life.
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hitvātmā-pātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpam
[SB 7.5.5]
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Gṛha, we can take this material
world, even up to the sky,
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that is also another bondage,
either in society, or in country,
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or in this body, or within
this material universe—
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wherever you want—that
is andha-kūpa, dark well.
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So he advises, “Give up this darkness,”
hitvātmā-pātam, “because it will kill you.”
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In this dark well you’ll be killed.
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Just like, the dark well, we are put
into the dark well, you’ll be killed.
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hitvātmā pātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpaṁ
vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta
[SB 7.5.5]
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That is the first… You should give up
this dark well and go to the forest.
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Vanam, come to Vṛndāvana.
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Vanam means forest.
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We have constructed very
nice temple, come there.
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And,
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vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta
[SB 7.5.5]
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Vanaṁ gato means to come to
the forest; so what is business?
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The business is to
take shelter of Kṛṣṇa.
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Then, he’ll be free
from all these things.
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Vanaṁ gato yad, otherwise like monkey,
descendants of monkey, if you go…
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The monkeys are in the forest, but
they do not take shelter of Hari.
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So their simply going
to the forest is no use.
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One has to take shelter
of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.
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vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśraya
[SB 7.5.5]
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Therefore Kṛṣṇa has
made this Vṛndāvana.
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Anyone goes there, he gets
shelter of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet,
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and his life becomes successful.
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Thank you very much.
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