Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.35
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Vrndavana, November 22, 1976

Pradyumna:

iti nana-yoga-caryacarano bhagavan kaivalya-patir rsabho ’virata-parama-mahanandanubhava atmani sarvesam bhutanam atma-bhute bhagavati vasudeva atmano ’vyavadhanananta-rodara-bhavena siddha-samastartha-paripurno yogaisvaryani vaihayasa-mano-javantardhana-parakaya-pravesa-dura-grahanadini yadrcchayopagatani nanjasa nrpa hrdayenabhyanandat

“Translation: O King Pariksit, just to show all the yogis the mystic process, Lord Rsabhadeva, the partial expansion of Lord Krsna, performed wonderful activities. Actually He was the master of liberation and was fully absorbed in transcendental bliss, which increased a thousandfold. Lord Krsna, Vasudeva, the son of Vasudeva, is the original source of Lord Rsabhadeva. There is no difference in Their constitution, and consequently Lord Rsabhadeva awakened the loving symptoms of crying, laughing and shivering. He was always absorbed in transcendental love. Due to this, all mystic powers automatically approached Him, such as the ability to travel in outer space at the speed of mind, to appear and disappear, to enter the bodies of others, and to see things far, far away. Although He could do all this, He did not exercise these powers.”

Prabhupada: Iti nana-yoga-caryacarano bhagavan. So Bhagavan’s another name is mahat-pada. Mahat-pada means whatever wonderful things are there, that is resting at His lotus feet. Samasrita ye pada-pallava-plavam mahat-padam punya-yaso murareh. Samasrita, if you take shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, bhagavan, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam: Krsna is the origin of all manifestation of Bhagavan, Visnu-tattva. Krsna is the origin of Visnu-tattva. Aham sarvasya prabhavah. Visnu-tattva is also originated from Krsna. Govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami **. He’s the adi-purusa. And Krsna was accepted in the Bhagavad-gita, purusam adyam. Param brahma param dhama [Bg. 10.12] So everything is there in Krsna. Samasrita ye pada-pallava-plavam mahat-padam punya-yaso murareh. All this manifestation of cosmic creation, that is from the mahat-tattva. That mahat-tattva is resting within the dust of the lotus feet of mahat-padam punya-yaso murareh. So if one takes shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna, then this bhava-samudra, the vast ocean of birth and death…

This material world is called bhava-samudra. Bhava means the repetition of birth and death. Bhutva bhutva praliyate. This is called bhava. And that is like a samudra, great ocean. We can see by practical experience this outer space, the sky. You cannot have any limitation where it is beginning, where is end. Although we can see within our experience, but still, we cannot calculate. In our childhood we used to present a problem before our friends, that eka tala sukuri gunte pare na vyapare (?). Now, one plateful of betel nuts, but nobody can count. The betel nut You can see the sky is within your experience, but how many stars and planets are there, till now nobody has been able to count. It is unlimited. This is only one universe. There are millions and millions, universes. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagadanda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. Within the brahmajyoti there are innumerable koti, jagadanda-koti. And some of the portion is called material; some portion is called spiritual sky, paravyoma. But the whole spiritual and material sky is full of different planets, and each planet is full of living entities. Janakirna. This very word is used, janakirna, not vacant as these rascals are calculating that it is full of dust. (screeching noise—aside:) What is that? It is full of dust and rocks. (sounds of children playing) (aside:) Ask them to be… Nothing is full of dust. Dust is there, as well as living entities are also there. Janakirna. This is God’s creation.

And this material world, ananta-koti-brahmanda, that is material. And Krsna says ekamsena sthito jagat. This is only one part manifestation of the creation. Three-fourths part is this paravyoma.

yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-kotisv asesa-vasudhadi vibhuti-bhinnam tad brahma niskalam anantam asesa-bhutam govindam adi-purusam… [Bs. 5.40]

So this is Krsna’s opulence. We do not know what is actually opulence. Aisvaryasya samagrasya. What is Krsna’s opulence, it is impossible to calculate. It is said that Ananta, Anantadeva, Sesasayi Anantadeva, He has got thousands and thousands of hoods, and He is chanting, describing about Krsna, in ananta, unlimited mouths, for unlimited time. It is still unable. Advaitam acyutam ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca [Bs. 5.33] This is yogic power. Therefore it is said, nana-yoga-caryacaranam: “All yogic perfection is there.”

yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana sraddhavan bhajate yo mam sa me yuktatamo… [Bg. 6.47]

That is first-class yogi. You want yogic power, mystic power, but if you keep Krsna within your core of heart, naturally by the grace of Krsna, you can perform all… Not the devotee can perform. Devotee is simply dependent on Krsna. But Krsna can perform unlimited mystic powers through His devotee.

This is Krsna’s activity. A devotee never takes the credit of any wonderful thing. But it is a fact. What wonderful thing we can play? Krsna can do that. Therefore His name is nana-yoga-caryacarano bhagavan kaivalya-patih. Kaivalya-patih. Kevaladvaitavadi, Mayavadi philosophers, they think that kaivalya, to become one, one… Just like if you fly in the sky, after going long distance we cannot see you. It appears that you are no longer existing, you have mixed up, you have become one with the sky. But actually it is not the fact. That is not one with God. I cannot see you. The example is given: just like a green bird enters into a green tree. So it appears that the tree has become, the bird has become one with the tree, no more separate existence. No. It appears like that. Actually that is not the fact. The fact is that the bird, green bird, existing with the green tree, but due to my defect in the eyes I am seeing it has become one.

Actually it is not so. Every individual living entity is always individual. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gita. The Krsna said to Arjuna, “My dear Arjuna, we are individuals. In the past we were individuals, at the present we are individuals, and in the future we shall continue to be individuals.” There is no question of oneness. Oneness means to agree to serve Krsna. That is oneness. There is no disobedience, “Whatever You say, I accept”—that is oneness. Anukulyena krsnanusilanam. That is oneness. At the present moment we differ. We make differences. “Here is the opinion of the American. Here is the opinion of Indian. Here is the opinion of the German. Here is the opinion of the sudra, and so on, so on. So here means disagreement, always disagreement. Because I am envious of you, you are envious of me, so how there can be agreement? So wherefrom this enviousness has begun? Because we are envious of Krsna. Because we are envious of Krsna—“Why Krsna become God? I am also God.” This is the beginning of enviousness, this rascaldom, that “Why Krsna shall become alone God?” He said, mam ekam saranam. “Why Krsna alone?” They say, the rascal philosophers say, ‘This is sophistry. It is demanding too much. Mam ekam saranam vraja. Why? Why shall I accept You as the Supreme?” This enviousness begins. This is the beginning of envy.

So we become envious, each other. I am envious of you, you are envious of me. So this Krsna consciousness is not meant for the envious persons. It is meant for very liberal, panditah sama-darsinah.

vidya-vinaya-sampanne brahmane gavi hastini suni caiva sva-pake ca panditah sama-darsinah [Bg. 5.18]

One who has become sama-darsinah, he is perfectly learned. And that is very difficult. It is meant for them. Dharmah projjhita-kaitavo atra paramo nirmatsaranam. It is not meant for such bhangi (?), one who thinks that “My Hinduism is better than your Muhammadanism,” or he thinks, “My Muhammadanism is better than your Hinduism.” The matsaratam, it is in religious platform… There is matsara. That matsarata dharma, that kind of religious system… Just like there are everywhere the same thing. In Ireland the fighting is going on between the Protestants and the Catholics. Is it not? Going on continuously. Now it has become so dangerous that you cannot walk on the street. At any moment there will be bombs. Last time when I was in London I had the experience. All of a sudden our car was diverted. The police came: “There is bomb. You cannot go there.” So this is going on. In London, in Germany, and other places it has become a terrible place. At any moment there can be bomb. And what is the bombing? The fight between the Catholics and the Roman Catholics and Protestants. Just like we have got experience, Pakistan and India, in 1947. Calcutta itself became divided into two, Pakistan and Hindustan. Nobody was going. There is one big road, Chitpoor Road. So up to Hanson Road, it is Hindustan, and after that, it is Pakistan. The Pakistanis did not dare to come to this side.

So this is matsara. The matsarata, enviousness, that is the nature of this material world. Therefore Krsna consciousness, krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita-matih, it is very, very rare. Rupa Gosvami said, “This rare thing, if you can purchase, do it immediately wherever available.” Krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita-matih kriyatam yadi kuto ’pi labhyate: “If it is available, if you can purchase it, you do it.” “So purchase it? I can try, but what price I have to pay?” Tatra laulyam ekalam mulyam: “The price is simply you must be very, very eager to have it. That’s all.” “Oh, that I can do. It is not very difficult. I am so much eager after money, after woman, and so I shall transfer.” So Krsna…, Rupa Gosvami says, “No, no. It is not so easy.”

krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita matih kriyatam yadi kuto ’pi labhyate tatra laulyam ekalam mulyam na labhyate janma-kotibhis sukrtibhih…

Janma-koti sukrtibhih. If you become pious… Because pious is the good position. Yesam anta-gatam papam jananam punya-karmanam. So to become pious is good because there is hope of understanding Krsna. Otherwise, if you remain impious, na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah [Bg. 7.15] If you remain sinful, then you’ll remain always rascal. You’ll never understand Krsna. You’ll never understand. Therefore we must try to become pious. And that pious means no sinful activities. Therefore we proscribe four sinful things, the pillars of sinful life: no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling—four pillars. If you break these four pillars from the very beginning of your spiritual life, then you stand on the platform. But if your, these four pillars are there, you stand on a false platform, not on the spiritual platform. That is yogic siddhi. Yesam anta-gatam papam jananam.

So this eagerness to have Krsna, krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita-matih, that eagerness is even impossible—janma-koti-sukrtibhih. It is simply happened by the mercy of Krsna and His devotee. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah [Bg. 15.15]. Vedesu durlabham. Practical purpose of studying Vedas, vedanti… That vedanti means to understand Krsna. But vedesu durlabham. At the same time, it is said “It is very, very difficult to understand Krsna by becoming so- called Vedanti.” Actually Vedanta means Anta means the last word. The last work of knowledge is Krsna. Janmady asya yatah [Bhag. 1.1.1]. Aham sarvasya prabhavah. So to understand Krsna, manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye [Bg. 7.3]. But it can be done through the mercy of devotee. Vedesu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktau [Bs. 5.33]. Adurlabha. If you satisfy a pure devotee of Krsna, he can give you Krsna like this, “Take it.” Vedesu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktau [Bs. 5.33]. Bhakta can do that. Bhaktya mam abhijanati [Bg. 18.55]. You come through bhakta or come through bhakti.

So bhakti means unless you become an apprentice of a bhakta, how you can attain bhakti? That is not possible. Therefore the bhakti-marga, it is instructed by Srila Rupa Gosvami, adau gurvasrayam: “If you want bhakti, then you must accept bhakta as a guru.” Tasmad gurum prapadyeta jijnasuh sreya uttamam [SB 11.3.21]. Bhakti means uttamam. Bhakti is not the activities of this material world. Uttamam. Urd-gata-tamo hy asmat. There is no material quality. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. That is uttamam. Here, so long we are in the tama, tamasi ma. “Don’t remain in tama, envious.” Tamasi ma jyotir gama. So bhakti is uttama. When you are transcendental, above this darkness of material world, then you can accept the If you are actually interested in the uttama, something beyond this darkness of ignorance, then you accept one guru. Don’t keep a guru as a fashion to satisfy your senses: “My dear guru, can you make some gold?” “Yes.” “Oh, first-class guru.” No. That is not guru. That is your flattery. You want something according to your order—“Guru, cure my disease,” “Guru, give me some gold,” “Guru, give me this. Show me some wonderful mystic power”—that is order supplier. No, guru is not order supplier. Guru can give you the way how to have mercy of Krsna. That is guru. Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah **. Bhagavat-prasada. If you want mercy of Krsna, then you have to satisfy the devotee of Krsna. Acaryam mam vijaniyan navamanyeta karhicit [SB 11.17.27]. “Never become envious of guru.” Yasya deve para bhaktir yatha-deve tatha gurau [SU 6.23].

So this is the process. Tasmad gurum prapadyeta jijnasuh sreya uttamam [SB 11.3.21]. If you are actually interested something which is beyond this tama, this darkness of material world, then you require a guru. Otherwise it is not for you. So what is the… “Yes, I am prepared that ‘what is that guru?’ ” Tasmad… Sabde pare ca nisnatam brahmany upasamasrayam, this is guru. Sabde pare ca nisnatam: “He knows the Vedic conclusion. He knows the Vedic conclusion.” Sabde pare. There are two kinds of sounds. Just like we are speaking. This is also sound, but this is para sound, uttama sound, para-prakrti. Hare Krsna mantra is not ordinary sound. It is para-prakrti. Golokera prema-dhana hari-nama-sankirtana. Hari-nama-sankirtana is not this material sound. If you think it is material sound, you are rascal. Therefore they are wonderful. The American people have become wonderful, astonished how simply by chanting they becoming brainwashed. That is the actual fact. The rascals, they do not know how these people are giving up illicit sex, meat-eating—their life and soul, all these things. How they are giving up unless they have become mad, hearing? The hari-nama-sankirtana can do that. Yes. When Caitanya Mahaprabhu was chastised by His guru, harer nama harer nama harer nama eva kevalam [Adi 17.21], so He said that “You are rascal. You cannot read Vedanta. You chant Hare Krsna.” So Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He said, “Yes, and chanting, I have become mad.”

So this is actually the fact. But these rascals cannot calculate that how simply by chanting they are forever becoming out of home, no more return. “My dear son, come back. Take all these things.” “No, sir. I am…” This was actually proved. Our Gargamuni, his father is very rich man. He wanted to take back the son from the Hare Krsna movement. He was unable. Hardly! So many fathers. Our… So many… Not so many, few, they left this movement, but they could not stay outside. Again come. That is brainwash.

Thank you very much. (end)