MW BOM 1975-11-24 No Rain-Chant
ANNOUNCER: The following is a morning walk conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on the 24th of November, 1975, in Bombay, India.
PRABHUPĀDA: And therefore they’re suffering.
The whole world is suffering on this misconception.
The horse also.
As soon as he gets one… somebody on his back he become jubilant immediately.
This is the nature.
jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya—kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’ [Cc. Madhya 20.108]
Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Jaya.
Jaya. [break]
…vantam eva caran nirāntaraṁ prasanta-niḥśeṣa-mano-rathāntaram
kadāham aikāntika-nitya-kiṅkaraḥ praharsayīśyāmi sanātha-jīvitam [Stotra-ratna 43]
This is Vaiṣṇava aspiration.
bhavantam evānucaran nirantaraḥ: [Stotra-ratna 43]
“Twenty-four hours simply carrying Your orders.”
And you can do it.
“But it is not possible.”
The mind is checking.
praśānta-niḥśeṣa-manorathāntaraḥ [Stotra-ratna 43]
Unless one’s mind is fixed up, he cannot become servant of God.
kadāham aikāntika-nitya-kiṅkaraḥ [Stotra-ratna 43]
“In this way, when I shall be absolutely Your servant and live very joyfully…”
That “I have got my master.”
This is Yamunacārya’s verse.
bhavantam evānucaran nirantaraḥ praśānta-niḥśeṣa-manorathāntaraḥ
kadāham aikāntika-nitya-kiṅkaraḥ praharṣayiṣyāmi sanātha-jīvitam [Stotra-ratna 43]
DR. PATEL: Sanātha-jīva.
They are all anātha-jīvita.
Yes; everyone is independence and anātha.
There is nātha, but he’ll not recognize.
Anātha-jīvita.
bhavantam evānucaran nirantaraḥ praśānta… [Stotra-ratna 43]
So we are educating people how to become sanātha-jīvitam.
Live on your master’s…
Everyone is living at the cost of master, but foolishly.
ahāṅkara-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate [Bg. 3.27]
They are living at the cost of the master, but they will not accept.
This is the disease. [break]
…natural life: Sanātha-jīvitam; from the birth the child is sanātha—parents.
Where is the possibility of living independently?
That’s not possible.
Yamunācārya was śiṣya or guru of Rāmānujācārya?
- Rāmānujācārya was guru or śiṣya? Guru. - Yes, guru.
I think Viṣṇuswami was his śiṣya, eh?
No; Viṣṇuswami- sampradāya [is] different.
That is Rudra-sampradāya.
And Rāmānujācārya is Śrī-sampradāya.
The Vallabhācāryas: They belong to Viṣṇu-sampradāya.
We belong to Madhva-sampradāya.
Four ācāryas.
YAŚOMATĪNANDANA: Who was the originator of Śrī-sampradāya?
- Hmm? Lakṣmīji. - Who was before it?
Pāda-sevanam.
śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam [SB 7.5.23]
Lakṣmīji is always engaged in massaging the feet of Lord Viṣṇu.
- Rāmānujācārya is the biggest in line? - Ahh; yes.
Hare Kṛṣṇa; jaya. [splice]
…thinking, “I am English dog,” and he is thinking, “I am…” And the man is thinking…
The man is also thinking like that.
What is the difference?
They both… both are animals.
yasyātmā buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke [SB 10.84.13]
That’s right; we have got a dvija, dvija-karma kriya.
Dvijā-karma-kriya or what do you call it?
- All the… All are born as animal. - Saṁskāra.
- Saṁskārād bhaved dvijaḥ. - Saṁskāra, yes.
Dvija-saṁskāra.
That saṁskāra is now stopped; therefore, all of them are animals.
Yes. [break]
The murgis, [chickens] they are in the cowshed?
That man who is looking after cows; he must be keeping.
For andha [eggs]?
For everything.
- They… Even the… - Murgis.
Nowadays this meat-eating has become very widespread in India.
Even brāhmaṇas are eating meat, huh?
I don’t mean those who have gone to Europe or America and come back,
but a… others… people who are staying here even, hmm?
Extremely common.
That is the sign that in very near future there will be no food grains.
That is the sign.
There will be no rice, no wheat.
Main food grain.
Already in Bombay it’s six, seven rupees per kilo: rice.
Ācchā?
No, no. now… now rice will be very much down.
In Gujarat it is two rupees.
I bought some land here and sown the rice.
We are going to get about eight hundred or a thousand mounds of rice.
And then we sown the field it was sixty rupees, rice.
Today it is thirty-two rupees.
It is coming down.
The crop is very good… Very good everywhere, all over India this year.
- Because there was sufficient rain. - Very good rain; yes.
Gujarat will be more than self-sufficient.
It is already the richest part of this country.
Parjanyāt.
parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ annād bhavati bhūtāni [Bg. 3.14]
It is…
It is a cycle.
Perform yajña and everything will come.
They stopped yajña…
Therefore harināma-yajña.
- This is the yajña. - Viṣṇu… Viṣṇur vai yajñaḥ.
- Viṣṇu Himself is yajña. - Hm. [break]
DEVOTEE: …who are saying
that it is because of our chanting twenty-four hours a day
there is more rain this year.
In Hyderabad they also say.
Six or seven years there was no rain.
Now it is raining.
This is practical. [break]
…yanti bhūtāni.
DEVOTEE IN DISTANCE: Haribol! - Hare Kṛṣṇa; jaya.
- Who is that; [indistinct]? - Yes. [splice]
Not for sense gratification.
Then you will suffer.
They are all working for sense gratification; not Yajñārthe.
yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ
tad-arthaṁ karma kaunteya mukta-saṅgaḥ samācara [Bg. 3.9]
But here, sir, parjanyād anna sambhavaḥ [Bg 3.14].
There,
annād bhavanti bhūtāni yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ [Bg 3.14]
karma brahmodbhavaṁ viddhi brahmākṣara-samudbhavam [Bg 3.15]
That means karma as ordained by the scriptures, brahmodbhavam.
Yes, that is karma.
Otherwise vikarma.
But they are doing vikarma.
nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma yad indriya-prītaya āpṛṇoti [SB 5.5.4]
This is vikarma: Anyone working hard day and night for sense gratification.
That means sinful: Vikarma.
And if you don’t do the ordained [indistinct] akarma.
- No. - It is akarma.
Karma means according to the śāstra’s direction.
But if you don’t do that, that becomes akarma.
Vikarma.
[Hindi] Akarma means…
- [Hindi] - Akarma [indistinct]; yes.
Akarma means no resultant action.
When it is done for Viṣṇu…
- Then it becomes akarma… Akarma. - Akarma.
But the… The akarma… A the…
This bhāṣya of Rāmānujācārya: He say akarma means knowledge.
- Yes. - And karma means…
- Knowledge…
That is knowledge that, “I have to work for Viṣṇu;” that is knowledge.
- Akarma means knowledge. [indistinct] - Yes.
Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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