SB 7-06-17 NV 1976-07-01 Material Entrapment
ANNOUNCER: Next is a class, on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 7th canto,
6th chapter, text number 17-18,
given by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on July 1st, 1976, at the New Vrindavan Farm Community.
PRADYUMNA: [leads chanting, etc.] “Translation:
My dear friends, O sons of the demons,
it is certain that no one bereft of knowledge
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
has been able to liberate himself
from material bondage at any time or in any country.
Rather, those bereft of knowledge of the Lord are bound by the material laws.
They are factually addicted to sense gratification, and their target is women.
Indeed, they are actually playthings in the hands of attractive women.
Victimized by such a conception of life, they become surrounded by children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren,
and thus they are shackled to material bondage.
Those who are very much addicted to this conception of life are called demons.
Therefore, although you are sons of demons,
keep aloof from such persons
and take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Nārāyaṇa, the origin of all demigods,
because the ultimate goal for the devotees of Nārāyaṇa
is liberation from the bondage of material existence.”
PRABHUPĀDA: Yato na kaścit kva ca kutracid vā
dīnaḥ svam ātmānam alam samarthaḥ
vimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra- krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo visargaḥ
tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu
upeta nārāyaṇam ādi-devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito ’pavargaḥ [?].
So visargaḥ and apavargaḥ.
Visargaḥ means creation.
So the important fact is that if we are attached to the material world,
maybe very minute quantity, then there will be visargaḥ.
Visargaḥ means creation.
We’ll have to accept another body.
Unless you are completely pure… Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam.
Śūnyam means zero.
Anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam
ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā [BRS 1.1.11].
So the back to home back to Godhead, we are trying.
That is our ambition.
But if we have got a little propensity for material enjoyment, then…
We may get very better position in the material world, in the Svargaloka,
heavenly planet.
The description of heavenly planet is given also in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Very, very opulent, we cannot imagine even how they are opulent.
The roads are made of pearls, diamonds, coral, the roads are made of like that.
And at the same time, no sinful man is admitted there.
Everyone highly elevated, pious, there is no crookedness.
There is no enviousness.
So many… You’ll find this description in the Eighth Canto, of Svargaloka.
There are… Everything we cannot imagine even.
But that is also within this material world.
Within this material world.
Yānti deva-vratā devān [Bg. 9.25].
We can go there if we want to go.
Just like they are trying, the modern so-called scientist,
to go to the moon planet, Mars.
According to śāstra, these planets are bedecked with such descriptive facilities.
They are also within the heavenly planets.
But these rascals are going, and they find nobody there,
and they take some dust and come back.
This is their success.
They do not know that they cannot enter even there.
They are not meant for ordinary persons.
At least those who are sinless, very straightforward, not envious.
So anyway, even if we go,
ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino ’rjuna… [Bg. 8.16].
It is stated in the Bhagavad- gītā, this is Svargaloka.
And above that… Bhūr, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ.
You have got the Gāyatrī,
oṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ tat savitur vareṇyaṁ bhargo devasya [?].
There are other higher planets also: Svargaloka, Janaloka, Tapoloka,
Maharloka, Satyaloka, Brahmaloka.
There are fourteen status of different planetary systems.
Catur-daśa-bhuvana.
And the topmost is the Brahmaloka.
So even if you go there, there is no relief.
Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ punar āvartino ’rjuna [Bg. 8.16].
You have to come back again.
Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja is very serious that visargaḥ, stop this visargaḥ.
Go back, directly to Kṛṣṇa.
Don’t go even in this, any planetary system within this material world.
We have got description of this planetary system,
but there is also fight between the demons and the daityas.
There is also not peace.
There is struggle for existence.
Sometimes one party is gaining above another party,
and sometimes one’s kingdom is attacked by another party,
the demons attacking demigod’s cities.
They are attacking.
The struggle for existence you’ll find everywhere.
Ā-brahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ [?].
Therefore a devotee is not interested anywhere within this material world,
however very opulent it may be.
There may be roads and instead of the stone—diamonds, coral.
That does not attract.
They are not interested.
They are interested to go to Vṛndāvana and become a grass there.
This is devotee.
Just like Uddhava, as soon as he entered Vṛndāvana,
he immediately fell down on the road
thinking that “On this street Kṛṣṇa has walked,
His friends have walked, there are footprints.”
So this is the ambition of a devotee.
They are not interested for diamond roads or pearl roads. No.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja says that “If you, my dear daitya friends…”
He was talking with his friends.
They were born of daitya families.
Daitya family means, daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu.
Daitya means those who are materially attached, simply for sense gratification.
They, that is the distinction between the daityas and devas.
The devas, they are also in sense gratification,
but they are devotees at the same time.
Not pure devotees.
Their devotion is for material opulence.
They want something, return.
Kṛṣṇa is also prepared. Kṛṣṇa takes sides of them.
So if you want to enjoy material world,
that also you can get by becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious, Kṛṣṇa is so pleased, so kind.
Therefore śāstra recommends:
Akāmaḥ sarva-kāmo vā mokṣa-kāma udāra-dhīḥ
tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena yajeta puruṣaṁ param [Bhāg. 2.3.10].
Even if you have got desire to enjoy within this material world,
still you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Kṛṣṇa will satisfy you.
He’ll give you.
There is no need of doing something else for your material enjoyment.
If you want… Because we can not give up material enjoyment.
We have been habituated since time immemorial, many life after many life,
simply for sense gratification.
It is not very easy to give up the idea.
Therefore śāstra says even if you have got idea of sense gratification,
still you take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Don’t try it otherwise.
Just like the devatās.
They have got facilities for all sense gratification.
Sense gratification means udara-upastha-jihvā, jihvā,
this tongue and the belly and the genitals.
This is the prime sense gratificatory sources.
Very palatable dishes, fill up the belly as much as possible, and then enjoy sex.
This is material.
In the spiritual world these things are absent.
In the material world these things are very prominent.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja warns his friends
that if we become attached to this sense gratification,
then vimocituṁ kāma-dṛśāṁ vihāra- krīḍā-mṛgo yan-nigaḍo visargaḥ [?].
Nigaḍo, nigaḍo means the root, the root cause of accepting the material body.
These things are sense gratification.
Tato vidūrāt, from distant place.
Tato vidūrāt parihṛtya daityā [?].
“My dear friends, although you are born of daitya family,
I am also born”—his father is also daitya.
Daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu: “give up their…”
Asat-saṅga-tyāga ei vaiṣṇava ācāra [?]. The same thing.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu also said.
Who is a Vaiṣṇava?
Vaiṣṇava, He immediately explained, that Vaiṣṇava, what is the duty of Vaiṣṇava?
Some devotee asked Caitanya Mahāprabhu,
“Sir, what is the duty of a Vaiṣṇava?”
So He immediately replied in two lines, asat-saṅga-tyāga ei vaiṣṇava ācāra [?]:
“To give up the company of materialistic persons.”
Then the next question may be “Who is materialistic?”
Asat eka ’strī-saṅgī [?]: “One who is attached to woman, he is asat.”
And kṛṣṇa-bhakta āra, “And one who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.”
So we have to give up.
So there is therefore regulative principle.
At least, no illicit sex.
Get yourself married, live like a gentleman,
take responsibility, then gradually you’ll be able to give up this sex desire.
Unless we give up this sex desire, completely unagitated,
there is no possibility of stopping this repetition of material birth—birth,
death, old age and disease. That is not possible.
Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja advises daityeṣu saṅgaṁ viṣayātmakeṣu:
“Don’t associate with…” Asat-saṅga, the same thing, as Caitanya Mahāprabhu…
Asat-saṅga-tyāga ei vaiṣṇava ācāra [?].
This is Vaiṣṇava’s business.
Don’t take any opportunity of asat, those who are materially attached.
It is very difficult association.
Then it is possible upeta nārāyaṇam ādi- devaṁ sa mukta-saṅgair iṣito ’pavargaḥ [?].
Therefore association is very, sajjati siddhāśaye [indistinct].
Those who are engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional service,
make your association with them. [splice]
Kṛṣṇa consciousness means fully become detached with this material enjoyment,
simply become engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s service.
Your life will be successful.
Thank you very much [end]
Subtitles by Gaurāṅga Sundara Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com