Todays Srimad Bhagavatam Class 1.2.21Given By His Grace Srila Prabhupada "Bound By So Many Knots"

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"Bound By So Many Knots"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.21

August 24, 1972, Los Angeles

 

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Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.)

 

bhidyate hrdaya-granthis

chidyante sarva-samsayah

ksiyante casya karmani

drsta evatmanisvare

 

Translation: "Thus the knots of the heart and all misgivings are cut to

pieces. The chain of fruitive actions, or karma, is terminated when one sees the

self as master."

 

Prabhupada: So bhidyate means cut into pieces. What is that? Knot.

Hrdaya-granthi. Hrdaya means heart, and granthi means knot. So our everyone's

heart is knot. What is that knot? The knot is sex. Pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam

etam. This is knot. The material enjoyment begins There is, everyone's heart,

man, woman... Man wants to have woman; woman wants to have man. This is

searching after. And some way or other, if they unite, the knot becomes tied up,

very strong. That is called knot. Then as soon as the knot is there, then house,

then land, then grha-ksetra-suta, children. Then friends, then money. In this

way, one after another, one after another, we become knotted in so many things.

This is called knot. Hrdaya-granthi, one after the other. Just like, to make it

tight, you give one knot, again a knot, another knot, another knot, another

knot, to make it secure. So this is our position. This material world, we are

knotted in so many ways, and we are creating more knot. In this life... (tapping

sound in background) Who is making that sound? Oh...

 

So we have to cut down this knot. We are bound up in this material life by

so many knots. So the process of cutting down, we have begun: yad anudhyasina.

What is that verse? Yad anudhyasina, yes.

 

yad anudhyasina yuktah

karma-granthi-nibandhanam

chindanti kovidas tasya

ko na kuryat katha-ratim

 

The fifteenth verse, we began, yad anudhyasina. These knots are there. The

whole world is working so hard on account of being knotted in so many ways. But

this Krsna consciousness, if you take this sword, and carefully work, then all

these knots will be cut off. You will become free. The living entity, soul, is

bound up the subtle body and gross body on account of these knots, attachment.

And different attachment. And Krsna is giving us facilities as we want. If you

want a human body, you get it. If you want animal body, you get it. If you want

tiger's body, you get it. You want Brahma's body, demigod's body, you get it.

That is going on. Prakrteh kriyamanani. You are, God is within you, and you are

hankering after something, God is noting down: "All right." Even if you forget,

He'll give you. "You wanted this facility. Now here it is. You can take." Krsna

is so kind.

 

We are being harassed by getting these different types of body and

engagement according to the body. That we can understand. We are not happy. One

after another. Because our main business is sense gratification. So we cannot

enjoy all these senses fully in one kind of body. There is some defect. Just

like we are trying to gratify our senses by flying to another planet, moon

planet. This is another sense gratification. We are meant for this planet. We

are bound up by conditions. Artificially we are trying to go there. And making

plans, so many plans: "There will be intermediate station, and the petrol will

be carried from here," and this and that. So many things. Simply spending money.

Just like childish. The child, they spoil their time and energy in certain

playing. Similarly, this is going on. Because it is a sense gratification.

That's all. Simply mere sense gratification: "Let us go, how it is, moon

planet." You have no business there. You cannot do there anything. You cannot

live there, but still, "Let us go, let us go. And spend all the money,

taxpayers' money, spend like water." This is going on.

 

So if you actually want to go to moon planet, there is clear process:

 

yanti deva-vrata devan

pitrn yanti pitr-vratah

bhutani yanti bhutejya

yanti mad-yajino 'pi mam

[bg. 9.25]

 

That Easy Journey... Long time ago, I think sometimes in 1960, so one

gentleman met me: "Sir, your book, Easy Journey... So we shall go there?Yes,

we shall go.And again I shall come back?No, no coming back." So "Then what

it is?" That means he want to sense gratification. He wants to go to moon planet

or to any planet, come back, and become boast amongst his friends, "You see, I

have gone there." (laughter) That is his business. Actually, he doesn't want to

go there, neither he has got power to go, but he wants to satisfy his senses

that "I shall go there and come back and show my chest very swollen, that 'I

have gone to the moon planet.' " Eh? That one aeronautics, he first went with

that, what is called, capsule? And he was greeted all over the world. He went to

India also. Our rascal leaders, they also greeted him. Kruschev and others.

What? "He has gone round." And it was published in the... When he was rounding,

then he was seeing, trying to see, "Where is my Russia? Where is my Moscow?" So

the attraction is here, in Moscow.

 

Just like there is a proverb. The vulture goes very high, three miles,

four miles high. It is very difficult for us to fly, single-handed. But the aim

is, "Where is a dead body?" He's looking forward, "Where is a dead body?" The

aim is, not very good. He's looking after some dead corpse to eat. That is his

business. But he has gone very high, four miles high. Similarly, all these

so-called rascal scientists, their aim is how to stuck-up in this knot of

material existence, and they are trying to become so many things. You see?

Hrdaya-granthi. Real attachment is here. Just like the hog; the real attachment

is the stool. But he's getting very fat, "Oh, I am so happy." You see? So this

is going on. Nature is very clever. Just to make you attached to stool, she

gives you certain body, type of body, hog. You become very pleased: "Oh, I am so

happy. I am living in heaven." Sometimes actually Indra, the king of heaven, he

was cursed to become a hog, and he was, he became hog. He had so many kiddies,

wife, and living in filthy place, eating stool. So Brahma came that for his

absence, the management in the heavenly kingdom is not going nice. So he came:

"Indra, now please come with me.Where shall I go to, sir?Heaven.What is

that? I cannot go. I have got responsibility. I have got my wife, my children,

and I am happy here. I do not know what is heaven."

 

So this is the attachment. Even if you say... Just like what we are, we

are doing? We are canvassing, "Please come with us, go, let us go." Just like

Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, radha-krsna bolo, sange calo, ei-matra bhikha cai. So

Bhaktivinoda Thakura says that "Kindly chant 'Radha and Krsna' and come with me.

We are going back to home, back to Godhead." Nobody is interested. "What is this

'Radha-Krsna' nonsense? We are very happy here." Knot. Even if you describe,

"Oh, here is Radha-Krsna. You see how nicely They're dressed and They enjoy.

Just see dancing here." They're... They don't care for it. "Oh, we are very

happy here. Why shall I go to Goloka Vrndavana?You will not be able to stay

here.Oh, that's all right. As long as I can stay, let me enjoy this stool."

That's all. Attachment. This is called attachment. Attachment is so strong that

even if you explain that "You will go back to home, back to Godhead. Your father

is Krsna, all-powerful. You can enjoy there blissful life, eternal life,No.

It is better here."

 

So by Krsna consciousness movement, if people take to it seriously and

become advanced... The same process, srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah [sB 1.2.17],

simply hearing about Krsna, as we are doing. Then, gradually, we come to the

platform of goodness, and the lower modes of material nature, namely ignorance

and passion, cannot disturb us. We become situated in goodness. And then,

gradually, this stage comes, evam prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti yogatah [sB

1.2.20]. You become engladdened, you become joyful, by discharging devotional

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