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SB 7-09-03 MAY 1977-02-17 Easily Available for Devotees
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a class
on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 7th canto,
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9th chapter, text number 3,
given by His Divine Grace
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on February 17th, 1977,
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in Māyāpur, India. [splice]
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PRABHUPĀDA:
prahrādaṁ preṣayām āsa
brahmāvasthitam antike
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tāta praśamayopehi
sva-pitre kupitaṁ prabhum
[SB 7.9.3]
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So, Nṛsiṁhadeva
was very, very angry.
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Now the atheist class of men,
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who do not know what is the nature of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
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they will say, “Why God
should become angry?”
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So God, why He
should not be angry?
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God must have everything;
otherwise how He is God complete?
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Pūrṇam.
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The anger is also another
quality of living symptom.
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The stone does not become
angry because he’s stone.
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But any living being,
he becomes angry.
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That is a quality.
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And why God should
not be angry?
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They imagine God; not they have
got any factual conception of God.
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They imagine that
“God must be like this.
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God must be nonviolent.
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God must be very peaceful.”
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Why?
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Wherefrom the anger comes?
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It comes from God.
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Otherwise there is no
existence of anger.
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Everything is there.
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janmādy asya yataḥ [Bhāg.1.1.1]
That is the definition of Brahman.
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Whatever we have got in experience and
whatever we haven’t got in experience…
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We haven’t got
everything in experience.
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Just like about Nṛsiṁhadeva it is
said Lakṣmī also had no experience
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that the Lord can become half-
lion, half-man. Even Lakṣmī,
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what to speak of others. Lakṣmī, she
is constant companion of the Lord.
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So it is said, aṣruta. What is that?
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Adṛṣṭa.
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Adṛṣṭa aṣruta pūrvatvāt.
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She became afraid because she also never
saw such gigantic form and half-lion,
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half-man.
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God has so many forms: advaita
acyuta anādi ananta-rūpam [Bs. 5.33]
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Ananta-rūpam; still, advaita.
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So in the Bhāgavata it is said that
God’s incarnations are exactly
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like the waves of the river or
the sea. Nobody can count.
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You’ll be tired if you want to
count the number of waves.
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It is impossible.
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So God’s incarnations are
as many as there are waves.
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So you cannot count the waves;
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therefore you cannot understand
how many incarnations He has got.
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Even Lakṣmī, even
Anantadeva, they haven’t got.
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So our experience—very limited.
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Why should we say that “God cannot
have this, God cannot have…” like that?
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This is godlessness.
They make section.
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They say… Even in our so-
called Vedic Arya-samajhi,
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they assert that God
cannot take incarnation.
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Why?
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If God is all-powerful, then why He
shall not be able to accept incarnation?
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Therefore we should not take
lessons of God from these rascals.
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We should take lessons of God from
śāstra, from guru and from sādhu,
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one who has seen
God, tattva-darśina.
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Tad viddhi praṇipātena
paripraśnena sevayā
[Bg. 4.34]
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upadekṣyanti tad jñānam
[Bg. 4.34]
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Tad jñānam means
spiritual knowledge.
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Tad-vijñānam.
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tad-vijñānartham sa gurum evābhigacchet
samit-pāṇiḥ śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭham
[MU 1.2.12]
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So tad-vijñānam, you
cannot imagine, speculate.
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That is not possible.
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You have to learn it from a person who
is tattva-darśinaḥ, who has seen God.
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Even by seeing, you cannot… Just like
Lakṣmīdevi, she is seeing every moment,
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constant… Even
she does not know.
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Asruta-purva.
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Adrstāsruta-purva.
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So whatever we see or we do
not see, everything is there.
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Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ.
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Kṛṣṇa says: “Whatever you see,
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whatever you experience, I
am the origin of everything.”
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So anger must be there.
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How you can say that
“God should not be angry.
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God should not be like this.
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God should not…?”
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No.
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That is not fact.
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That is our inexperience.
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So Brahmā, Lord Brahmā,
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he is supposed to be the first
living being within this universe.
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Lakṣmī became afraid; Brahmā
also became very afraid.
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Therefore Brahmā requested Prahlāda
Mahārāja that “You go forward,
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my dear son, and
appease the Lord.
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You can do because for you He has
appeared in this fierceful feature.
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Your father offended Him in so many
ways by teasing you, by punishing you,
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by putting you into difficulty.
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Therefore He has
appeared in very angry.
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So you can appease
Him. We cannot.
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It is not possible.”
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prahlāda preṣayām āsa
brahma avasthita antike
[SB 7.9.3]
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So Prahlāda Mahārāja, being very exalted
devotee, he could appease the Lord.
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Bhaktyā, by bhakti, you can
control the Supreme Lord.
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That is the only way.
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bhaktyā maṁ abhijānāti
[Bg. 18.55]
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The understanding is also through bhakti,
and through bhakti you can control God.
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vedeṣu durlabha adurlabha ātmā-bhaktau
[Bs. 5.33]
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You cannot understand
God by studying Vedas.
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Vedeṣu durlabha.
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Adurlabha ātmā-bhaktau.
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But for His devotees, He is
very, very easily available.
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Therefore bhakti
is the only source.
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Bhaktyām ekayā grāhyam.
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Only through bhakti
you can approach,
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you can talk with God on
equal level just like friend.
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The cowherd boys, they were treating
Kṛṣṇa on the same status: “Kṛṣṇa is like us.”
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But they loved Kṛṣṇa
very, very intensely.
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That is their qualification.
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Therefore Kṛṣṇa sometimes agreed to
take the cowherd boys on His shoulder.
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So this is the… Kṛṣṇa wants that, that “My
bhakta… Be My bhakta and control Me.
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Everyone worships Me
with awe and veneration.
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I want somebody should come
forward and control Me.”
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That He wants.
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Therefore He has accepted
mother Yaśodā to control Him.
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How God can be controlled?
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Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ [Bs. 5.1].
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He’s the supreme controller.
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Who can control Him?
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It is not possible.
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But He agrees to be controlled
by His pure devotee.
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He agrees, “Yes, mother, you
control Me. You bind Me.
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You show Me your stick so that I may
be afraid.” So everything is there.
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Don’t think that God is zero. No.
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Śūnyavādi.
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Everything.
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janmādy asya yataḥ
Athāto brahma jijñāsā
[Vs 1.1.1-2]
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You are inquiring about Brahman.
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paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma
pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān
[Bg. 10.12]
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So there must be anger, not that
God should be always peaceful.
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But the difference is His anger and His
peaceful attitude produces the same result.
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Prahlāda Mahārāja, a devotee,
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He is very satisfied with Prahlāda
Mahārāja and He is very much dissatisfied
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with his father, but result is the
same: both of them got liberation.
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Although a devotee becomes associate
whereas the demon who is killed by God,
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he does not become an
associate… He is not qualified.
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But he enters into the
spiritual kingdom.
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He gets liberation from
this material bondage.
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So why a devotee should take the
same position? Therefore, māṁ eti.
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tato māṁ tattvato jñātvā
viśate tad-anantaram
[Bg 18.55]
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They viśate, enters, enters
in the spiritual kingdom.
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Everyone who is
liberated, he is entered.
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brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
na śocati na kāṅkṣati
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samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
mad-bhaktiṁ labhate…
[Bg. 18.54]
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But those who are devotees, they
are allowed to enter into the planet,
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Vaikuṇṭha planet or
Goloka Vṛndāvana planet.
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In this way one gets
his original position.
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But if we do not take to bhakti, then we
may enter into the Brahman effulgence,
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but there is chance
of falling down.
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āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ
patanty adho ’nādṛta-yusmad-aṅghrayaḥ
[SB 10.2.32]
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So those who are impersonalist, they
may enter into the spiritual kingdom.
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That is called paraṁ padaṁ.
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padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadāṁ na teṣām
[10.14.58]
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But there is also
chance of fall down.
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Āruhya kṛcchreṇa.
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After severe austerities and penances one
can enter into the Brahman effulgence.
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But unless one gets information
of the paraṁ padaṁ—
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samāśritā ye pada pallava plavam
[SB 10.14.58]
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there is chance of falling down.
In the material world there is
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bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate
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But in spiritual also, if you enter
into the spiritual kingdom,
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from there also… Even
sometimes it so happens.
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Of course, that is by God’s desire.
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Just like Jaya-Vijaya.
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They were personal associates.
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But the explanation is Kṛṣṇa wanted that
“They should go…, the Hiraṇyakaśipu…,
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these two, Jaya-Vijaya,
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they should go to the material
world, and I must fight with them.”
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Because that fighting, to become
angry, that tendency is there.
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Where He will exhibit?
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In the Vaikuṇṭha there is no chance
of exhibiting this anger and fighting.
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That is not possible.
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Therefore He induces His devotee
to “Go to the material world
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and become My
enemy, and I shall fight.
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I shall become angry,”
because in the Vaikuṇṭha,
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spiritual kingdom,
there is no chance.
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Everyone is serving;
everyone is friendly.
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Some relation… Where is
the question of fighting?
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But fighting spirit is
there; anger is there.
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Where He shall exhibit?
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And therefore Kṛṣṇa
incarnates, He becomes angry,
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and a devotee becomes enemy,
and this is Kṛṣṇa-līlā, nitya-līlā.
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It is going on.
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Thank you very much
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