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