Lecture on Sri Nityananda Trayodasi by Srila Prabhupada

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So today, the appearance day of Nityananda Prabhu...

Nityananda Prabhu is Baladeva, Baladeva-tattva.

 

vrajendra-nandana yei,

saci-suta haila sei, balarama haila nitai

 

"Who was formerly the son of Nanda Maharaja, He has

appeared as the son of Sacidevi." Caitanya

Mahaprabhu's mother's name was Sacidevi. So Krsna...

Krsna is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and Balarama is

Nityananda Prabhu. Now... vrajendra-nandana yei,

saci-suta haila sei, balarama haila nitai. So

Balarama... In the Vedic literature it is said, nayam

atma bala-hinena labhyah; na bahuna srutena. So 'bala'

means strength. Sometimes some rascal philosophers,

they take it that 'bala' means bodily strength. They

propagate this philosophy that "Unless you are bodily

stout and strong, you cannot achieve spiritual

salvation. You must be very strong and stout and eat

meat and fight, and then you'll get next spiritual

birth" No. This bala, this strength, is different.

This is spiritual strength.

 

The difficulty of the present situation is that

actually we are moving on account of spiritual

strength, but they have no information of the

spiritual strength. They are thinking of material

strength. That is expressed here, that

 

ahankare matta hoiya,

nitai-pada pasariya,

asatyere satya kori mani

 

This is due to ahankara. Ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham

iti manyate [bg. 3.27 ]. Those who are vimudha,

especially rascal... Mudha, rascals, and vi means

visesa, visesanam, particularly. Ahankara-vimudhatma.

The same thing which is spoken in the Bhagavad- gita,

Narottama dasa Thakura says the same thing in a plain

Bengali language. Ahankare matta haiya, nitai-pada...

By the spell of maya -- ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham

iti manyate [bg. 3.27] -- they are thinking that "We

are independent. We can do whatever we like." This is

called ahankara-vimudhatma. Under false pretext, false

prestige, everyone is thinking that "We are

independent. We can find out the solution of the

problems of life by material adjustment," so on, so

on. So that is our material disease.

Ahankara-vimudhatma. Bewildered, they do not

understand that the real strength is spiritual

strength. We see daily, see daily that a very strong

man, very powerful man, very good brain, very good

scientist... So where is the strength? The strength is

atma. As soon as the atma, or the soul, goes out of

this body, so intelligent, so strong, and so many

things, that is nothing. That is the difference

between dead man and the living man. A living man is

very powerful, very good position, everything. As soon

as he lies down, he is lying down on the floor, and if

you kick him on his face, he'll not protest. So where

is that strength? The strength is gone. That is

spiritual strength. On the spiritual strength, the

body moves. Suppose you have got a very good car,

Mercedes car or Rolls Royce car. But when there is no

petrol, how the car will move? It is not possible.

There is spirit, petrol spirit. Similarly, real

strength is spiritual strength. That spiritual

strength is Balarama. Bala means strength. Therefore

we have to take shelter of the lotus feet of Balarama,

guru-tattva.

 

Balarama means guru-tattva. Balarama represents guru.

Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah. If we want to

understand Caitanya Mahaprabhu, if we want to

understand Krsna, then we must take shelter of

Balarama. Nayam atma bala-hinena labhyah. This bala-

hinena labhyah, this Vedic injunction, means "Without

the mercy of Balarama you cannot understand, you

cannot realize your spiritual identification. So that

Balarama comes as Nityananda Prabhu. Balarama haila

nitai. Therefore we must take shelter of Balarama.

That is... This song has been sung by Narottama dasa

Thakura. Nitai-pada-kamala, koti-candra-susitala. If

we take shelter of Nityananda Prabhu, then we get

peace. Koti-candra-susitala. Just like in daytime,

especially in the summer season, we become very much

exasperated. But at night, in the evening, as soon as

there is moonshine, we become very much satisfied. All

day's labor and fatigue is immediately moved. So

nitai-pada-kamala, the shade of Nityananda Prabhu's

lotus feet, is koti-candra-susitala, as pleasing as

one crore of moonshine. One moonshine gives us so much

pleasure. So if we want actually peace of mind, if we

actually want to be free from this material fatigue,

then we must take the shelter of Nityananda Prabhu.

Nityananda Prabhu is the strength, spiritual strength.

And without spiritual strength you cannot approach

Krsna. Nayam atma pravaca... Simply by talking

nonsense... Nayam atma pravacanena labhyah. If you are

a good speaker, that does not mean you'll understand,

yourself. Na medhaya: "Neither by good brain." Because

you have got very good brain you'll understand Krsna

-- no. Nayam atma pravacanena labhyo na medhaya na

bahuna srutena. If you think that you are a very good

scholar, university degree-holder, then you'll

understand -- no. This is not possible.

 

So we must have spiritual strength. That source of

spiritual strength is Balarama, Krsna's next

manifestation, prakasa- vigraha. Krsna is manifesting

Himself through Balarama. So we have to take shelter

of Nityananda Prabhu.

 

So the disease is there, but the remedy is also there.

Ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. We are

misunderstanding. The human society, they are trying

to adjust things by the United Nations, but it is not

possible. United Nations cannot do. In Melbourne I was

speaking, so I accused the United Nations, "They're

assembly of barking dogs." Because you cannot be

united on this material platform. If you keep yourself

that "I am dog,I am tiger,I am American,I am

Indian,I am brahmana,I am sudra," then there is

no question of United Nations. United Nations is

possible when sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena

nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. You have to become

purified on Krsna consciousness, not "I am American,"

not "I am Indian." No. This will not help.

 

nitai-pada-kamala,

koti-candra-susitala,

je chayay jagata juray

 

The whole world is suffering, but if you want peace,

then you take the shelter of Nityananda Prabhu.

 

heno nitai bine bhai,

radha-krsna paite nai dhrdha kori' dharo nitair pay

 

Our real aim of life -- how to go back home back to

Godhead and associate with Radha Krsna. In another

song the same author says,

 

manusya-janama paiya,

radha-krsna na bhajiya, janiya suniya bisa khainu

 

Unless you come to Radha-Krsna, you cannot get real

pleasure. If you want to dance and get pleasure, don't

dance independently. Dance with Krsna. Then you'll be

happy. The dancing is there, but dancing without

association of Krsna... Just like here, in our temple,

we are also eating, but we are eating the remnants of

foodstuff left by Krsna. That is real pleasure. It is

not that we are stopping eating. We are not stopping

eating. We are not dry philosophers. Krsna baro

doyamoy, koribare jihwa jay, swa-prasad-anna dilo

bhai. All over the world we are eating Krsna prasadam,

and we have got good experience. At least ten thousand

men and women, they are taking Krsna prasadam, but we

have no anxiety. We have no anxiety. A family consists

of a few members. They are full of anxiety how to

maintain the family. And we are maintaining a family

of ten thousand men. We have no anxiety. Just see

practically. We have no anxiety. We require thousands

and thousands of rupees for maintaining Europe,

America, a costly affair. But because we are under the

shelter of Nityananda Prabhu, Balarama, we have no

anxiety. That means material life means anxiety. You

cannot avoid anxiety if you lead a material life. Then

you will be anxious.

 

That is Prahlada Maharaja's instruction. He was asked

by his father, "My dear son, what you have learned,

the best thing from your teachers?" So he replied, "My

dear father..." He never said, "My dear father"; He

said, "My dear best of the asuras." Asura- varya. Tat

sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam. Tat sadhu manye

'sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam

asad-grahat. The whole human society is suffering, at

least suffering from one disease -- anxiety. Ask

anybody. Take one small ant and take the big elephant;

take the President of United States or take one street

beggar. Ask him, "Whether you are free from anxiety?"

Nobody will say, "No.I am full of anxiety." That's

a fact. So why they are anxiety, in, full of anxiety?

That Prahlada Maharaja had replied, sada

samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat. Because we have taken

asad- vastu, that will not exist... Everything,

whatever you have got... Our, this body will not

exist. And this is the main platform of our existence.

In the material world, so long the body is there, you

exist. So Prahlada Maharaja said that "Real solution

of problems of life is to get out of this material

condition. That is best thing in my opinion." Sada

samadvigna-dhiyam asad... That is Vedic injunction

also. Asato ma sad gamaya: "Don't live in this asat,

in this material condition." Sad gamaya: "Go to real

existence." That real existence means spiritual life.

Na hanyate hanyamane sarire [bg. 2.20]. So if we

actually want life, blissful life, then we must get

out of this material existence. That is Prahlada

Maharaja's instruction. Samudvigna-dhiyam. And if you

remain in the material existence, you must suffer some

anxiety. There is no excuse.

 

So Prahlada Maharaja advises that hitvatma-ghatam

grham andha-kupam vanam gato yad dharim asrayeta [sB

7.5.5]. If you... Real problem is anxiety. And this

anxiety will continue so long you are material

existent. Therefore the real life is to get out of

this material... Hitvatma-ghatam. Atma-ghatam.

Atma-ghatam means killing the soul. This material

civilization is killing the soul. That... They have no

information of the soul. They do not know how to

become peaceful, how to become blissful. They are

trying to be peaceful, bahir-artha-maninah, by

external material energy. They are thinking by

constructing big, big buildings, just like in

Bhubaneswar they are doing, and having good, very big,

big roads and motorcars, that is advancement of

civilization. No. That is not advancement of civili...

That is increasing their anxiety. There is no solution

of the anxiety. There is... Formerly that... I was

speaking. There was no university. The university was

in the cottage -- Vyasadeva. Vyasadeva was writing

Srimad-Bhagavatam and all the Puranas in a cottage.

The university was there. Who can produce such

literature as Vyasadeva has given? From any angle of

vision, from literary point of view, from

philosophical point of view -- everything, so perfect,

every literature, Mahabharata, Puranas, and Vedanta.

Veda-vyasa, he has given. So there was no need of

university. It required clear brain. That was to be

done by the brahminical qualifications, samo damo

titiksa arjava, jnanam-vijnanam astikyam brahma-karma

svabhava... Where is that education? This education,

technical education, how you can very nicely hammer,

this will not solve the problem. So if we want real

solution of the problems, then our duty is first of

all to take the shelter of nitai-pada-kamala. Then

we'll be happy, and we'll get moonshine, and our all

fatigue will be subsided.

 

Sambandha nahi jar, brtha janma gelo tar. So if you

have no connection with Nityananda Prabhu...

Nityananda means always. Nitya means always, ananda

means pleasure. This is another meaning you can draw.

So therefore, if you have no connection with

Nityananda Prabhu... Se tar: "He's simply wasting

time." Brtha means useless. Uselessly, he's wasting

time. Se pasu boro duracar. And Narottama dasa Thakura

has used very strong word. "Anyone who has no

connection with Nityananda Prabhu, he's a pasu." Sei

pasu. He's a pasu, means animal. So animal, how one

animal can get happiness? That is not possible. The

dog, from the childhood he's searching after food,

searching after food. And cannot get food. Unless a

dog has got a master, he's street dog and he's always

unhappy. So better to become a dog of Nityananda

Prabhu. Then we shall be happy. Instead of becoming

dog of so many other people... Everyone is dog.

Everyone is searching after to serve a master. But

none of them are satisfied because that is false

master. You take real master, Nityananda Prabhu.

You'll be happy. Se pasu boro duracar. He does not

know where is happiness. Where I shall become a dog?

That...

 

Our Bhaktivinoda Thakura, he has sung therefore,

 

vaisnava thakur, tomara kukkur, boliya janaha more

 

"My dear Vaisnava Thakura, kindly accept me as your

dog, as your dog. I am dog already, but I am maya's

dog. I'm not Vaisnava's dog. So kindly accept me." If

you become a Vaisnava's dog... Chadiya vaisnava seva,

nistar paiche keba. If you do not become a dog of

Vaisnava and Nityananda Prabhu... Nityananda is guru.

So if you do not become a dog of Nityananda Prabhu,

Vaisnava, or guru, there is no question of happiness.

Se sambandha nahi yar, brtha janma gelo... se pasu

boro duracar. Nitai na bolilo mukhe, majila

samsara-sukhe. He who has no connection with

Nityananda Prabhu, and he does not say, "Jaya Nitai!

Jaya Gaura!" And majilo samsara-sukhe, he thinks that

this society, family, and... "Society, friendship and

love, divinely bestowed upon man." These materialist

persons, they say like that. That is called majilo

samsara sukhe. In samsara there cannot be any sukha,

but he's attracted by that. Majilo samsara sukhe.

Vidya-kule ki koribe tar. What we'll do with

university education or born in big family or... This

will not help. This is not possible. Vidya-kule ki

karibe tar. Why they're accepting this false? Ahankare

matta hoiya, nitai-pada pasariya, asatyere satya kori

mani. On account of being misled by false prestige and

false egotism, asatyere satya kori mani, we are

accepting this body which is asat, which will not

exist. That we have taken as reality. Ahankare matta

hoiya, nitai pada pasariya. But if we take shelter of

Nityananda Prabhu, then you get the enlightenment.

Asatyere satya kori mani. Nitaiyer koruna habe, braje

radha-krsna pabe, dharo nitai-carana du'khani.

 

Therefore Narottama dasa Thakura advises that... Today

is Nityananda Prabhu's avirbhava appearance day. Let

us at least remember today nitai-pada-kamala. That is

wanted. Nitai carana satya, tahara sevaka nitya. The

reality is nitai-carana, and anyone who is servant of

Nitai...So nitaiyer carana satya, tahara sevaka nitya.

One who has become the dog of Nityananda Prabhu, he

gets his eternal life. We are eternal, but under

misconception of material identification, we are under

the subjugation of maya. Bhutva bhutva praliyate.

Tatha dehantara... It is very botheration, but they do

not know. I am going from one body to another

transmigration. And that is not guaranteed, what body.

They have no science, no knowledge about understanding

tatha dehantara, the very first instruction of

Bhagavad-gita. They are so rascals, and they are proud

of their education, their universities. This is going

on.

 

Nitai carana satya, tahara sevaka..., nitai-pada sada

koro asa. Therefore we should always expect to be

under the shelter of nitai-pada-kamala. Narottama boro

duhkhi. Narottama dasa Thakura, he's acarya. He is

presenting himself... That is acarya. Means he is not

duhkhi, but he's presenting himself as duhkhi. That is

acarya. Acaryas, they are never duhkhi. But taking the

common man's position, he says, narottama boro duhkhi.

Or, in other words, Narottama... Narottama means the

best of the human being. So here in this material

world one may be the best of the human being, very

exalted position, but everyone is duhki, unhappy.

Narottama boro duhki, nitai more koro sukhi: "Only

Nityananda can make me happy. Otherwise not possible."

Rakho ranga-caranera pasa. So today is Nityananda

Prabhu's appearance day. We shall always pray

Nityananda Prabhu, "Kindly keep me under your shelter

so that... I am very duhki; I am very unhappy. Under

the shelter of Your lotus feet I shall be happy." And

that is real happiness.

 

Thank you very much.

 

 

 

 

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