Todays Srimad-Bhagavatam Class 1.2.20 By His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada "Spiritual Life Means Joyfulness"

[Guest guest]

text-047

"Spiritual Life Means Joyfulness"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.20

October 31, 1972, Vrndavana

 

listen

 

 

--------

 

 

Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.)

 

evam prasanna-manaso

bhagavad-bhakti-yogatah

bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam

mukta-sangasya jayate

[sB 1.2.20]

 

"Thus established in the mode of goodness, the man rejuvenated by loving

service to the Lord gains liberation from material association, or mukti, and

comes to know scientifically of the Personality of Godhead."

 

Prabhupada:

 

evam prasanna-manaso

bhagavad-bhakti-yogatah

bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam

mukta-sangasya jayate

[sB 1.2.20]

 

So the Absolute Truth is scientific knowledge. It is not sentiment -- "I

accept somebody as God by votes." That is not bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam. One must

know what is the definition of God. It is not that somebody comes forward with a

long beard and says, "I am God," and we rascals accept him as God. No, not like

that. It is vijnanam. Vijnana means science. Without scientific knowledge, one

cannot understand what is God. Bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam. And who can understand

this vijnana, this scientific knowledge? Mukta-sangasya. One who is liberated

from the contamination of the three modes of material nature, he can understand.

 

Those who are contaminated with tamo-guna, rajo-guna, they can create

their own God. There are different types of "God" also. In one sense everyone is

God. God means the controller. So everyone is to some extent a controller. But

as I have explained several times, real controller means who is not controlled

by others. That is God. If I am controlled by the material nature, daivi hy esa

gunamayi mama maya duratyaya... [bg. 7.14]. Birth, death, old age and disease,

if I am controlled by these conditions of nature, then how I can become God? God

is never controlled. Therefore one who can understand God must be free from the

contamination of this material nature. Mukta-sangasya.

 

This is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita:

 

brahma-bhutah prasannatma

na socati na kanksati

samah sarvesu bhutesu

mad-bhaktim labhate param

[bg. 18.54]

 

When one has realized Brahman, prasannatma, prasannatma, brahma-bhutah

prasannatma... Here also it is said, evam prasanna-manasah. The same thing you

will find everywhere. There cannot be any contradiction. Prasanna-manasa and

prasannatma, the same thing. So how one can become prasannatma or

prasanna-manasa? That is described here. Bhagavad-bhakti-yogatah. Evam

prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogatah [sB 1.2.20]. If you accept

bhagavad-bhakti-yoga, devotional service to the Lord, you shall be

prasanna-manasa. You shall be always feeling jolly. If I am not jolly, if I am

not prasanna-manasa, that means maya has attacked me. A bhagavad-bhakta shall

never be aprasanna, not joyful. Always joyful. If he is actually in contact with

Krsna, how he can become morose? No. If he is morose, if he is unhappy, that

means maya has attacked him. This is the test.

 

Therefore Rupa Gosvami says, utsaha. We shall be always enthusiastic. But

we cannot become enthusiastic artificially. There must be bhagavad-bhakti-yoga.

Just like these visitors in the temple, see how much enthusiastic they are. They

are rising early in the morning, going to take bath in the Yamuna, and they are

visiting so many temples, especially this Damodara temple, because it is

Damodara month. And from five o'clock or before that, three o'clock, they are

enthusiastic. They are not sleeping very nicely. That means lack of

bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. It is maya. So you must be very careful. Test. If we

cannot rise early in the morning, that means we are under the clutches of maya.

This is the test.

 

Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore

says---------------------------

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

I cut this Class Short,

 

SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ OR HEAR THE REST OF THIS CLASS GO TO

 

http://www.prabhupadavani.org/Bhagavatam/text/047.html

 

WHERE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO HEAR FROM THE LOTUS LIPS OF SRILA

PRABHUPADA,,THE REST OF THE CLASS I TOOK OUT FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE,

 

Your servant ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Jaya Kesava dasa

 

 

Please look at "Wonders of Krsna"Home page,which is very nice to

understand the foundations of Krsna Conscousness,Please use the INDEX to vist

different parts of Vaisnava understanding-,Appearance of Krsna,Who is

Guru,Reincarnation,Lord Jaganath,Lord Rama,Ect,

http://www.geocities.com/krsnajoe

Your Servant,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Jaya Kesava

Dasa

 

This Class is used with Permission of

 

the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

International 2005

 

 

 

 

 

HOME

 

© 2001 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with permission.