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March 19, 2005

Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam 1.13.23

Speaker: HG Yasomatinandana Das Adhikari

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aho mahiyasi jantor jivitasa yatha bhavan

bhimapavarjitam pindam adatte grha-palavat

 

TRANSLATION: Alas, how powerful are the hopes of a

living being to

continue

his life. Verily, you are living just like a household

dog and are

eating

remnants of food given by Bhima.

 

PURPORT: A sadhu should never flatter kings or rich

men to live

comfortably

at their cost. A sadhu is to speak to the householders

about the naked

truth

of life so that they may come to their senses about

the precarious life

in

material existence. Dhrtarastra is a typical example

of an attached old

man

in household life. He had become a pauper in the true

sense, yet he

wanted

to live comfortably in the house of the Pandavas, of

whom Bhima

especially

is mentioned because personally he killed two

prominent sons of

Dhrtarastra,

namely Duryodhana and Duhsasana. These two sons were

very much dear to

him

for their notorious and nefarious activities, and

Bhima is particularly

pointed out because he killed these two pet sons. Why

was Dhrtarastra

living

there at the house of the Pandavas? Because he wanted

to continue his

life

comfortably, even at the risk of all humiliation.

Vidura, therefore,

was

astonished how powerful is the urge to continue life.

This sense of

continuing one's life indicates that a living being is

eternally a

living

entity and does not want to change his bodily

habitation. The foolish

man

does not know that a particular term of bodily

existence is awarded to

him

to undergo a term of imprisonment, and the human body

is awarded, after

many, many births and deaths, as a chance for

self-realization to go

back

home, back to Godhead. But persons like Dhrtarastra

try to make plans

to

live there in a comfortable position with profit and

interest, for they

do

not see things as they are. Dhrtarastra is blind and

continues to hope

to

live comfortably in the midst of all kinds of reverses

of life. A sadhu

like

Vidura is meant to awaken such blind persons and thus

help them go back

to

Godhead, where life is eternal. Once going there, no

one wants to come

back

to this material world of miseries. We can just

imagine how responsible

a

task is entrusted to a sadhu like Mahatma Vidura.

 

 

Srila Prabhupadi ki jai. Mahatma Vidura was preaching

to one

Dhrtarastra;

Srila Prabhupada taught millions of Dhrtarastras.

Prabhupada says in

one

purport that people in the modern world are. . . there

was one

Dhrtarastra

at that time, now practically everyone is a

Dhrtarastra. There's one

very

nice verse by Sankaracarya:

 

angam galitam palitam mundam

datanavihinam jatam tundam

vrddho yati grhitva dandam

tadapi na muncatyatapindam

 

One's bodily limbs have all become worn out, all his

hair is gone,

teeth are

all broken down, he cannot walk--he takes the stick

and barely

walks--yet he

does not give up hope against hope. He never gives up

the hope. Even to

the

last drop everyone wants to try to squeeze out sense

enjoyment. This is

the

jivitasa, desire to continue to live in the same body.

 

There is a Bhumi-gita in 12th Canto of Srimad

Bhagavatam where Mother

Earth

is singing, "Look at all these great kings are trying

to conquer me

forever

and enjoy me. How powerful is the illusory energy of

the Lord that

these

kings try to own me, and they see that so many other

kings and emperors

have

come and gone, and their accounts, stories, and

pastimes are simply

historical accounts, katha-avasesah. They simply

remain stories now:

Napolean the Great, Alexander the Great, Vikramaditya,

Candragupta

Maurya,

Yayati, Mandhata, Gaya, Khatvanga, there are many

great rajarsis who

conquered the whole world. They say that we will

control our senses,

and we

will control our ministers, and we will control our

subjects, and we

will

conquer and expand our kingdom. Then I will leave the

kingdom for my

sons

and grandsons. In this way they all make plans, and

yet nothing of them

survives."

 

Therefore this jivitasa, there is a verse called

Bhumi-gita where it

says:

 

drstvatmani jaye vyagran nrpan hasati bhur iyam

aho ma vijigisanti mrtyoh kridanaka nrpah

 

They are the toys in the hands of death, these kings,

but see how they

want

to conquer me.

 

So by stroke of some good fortune if one meets someone

like Mahatma

Vidura

it harshly knocks out our slumber, sometimes harshly

sometimes very

peacefully, humbly. "Yena kena prakarena", Prabhupada

says whatever

means

you have to employ. Once we were on a morning walk in

Vrndavana, and

Prabhupada was saying, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, simply by

seeing and

hearing him

people were chanting and dancing, tears of love were

flowing from their

eyes. He made animals chant and dance. So what am I

supposed to do, I

cannot

do anything like that. But the principle is there to

follow Sri

Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. So I have to find my method, my means to

preach and convert

and

transform the lives of the people. He walked

everywhere but that does

not

mean I have to walk everywhere. But I have to follow

the principle

"yare

dekho tare kaho krsna upadesa", so I went out in the

plane to different

mleccha countries where they never heard the Name. I

had to arrange

marriages, I had to teach them everything from

scratch."

 

Saintly persons like Prabhupada and Mahatma Vidura

they see the

opposite

person and employ the method just to deliver that

person. Srila

Prabhupada,

every morning on the Juhu beach, used to use one

gentleman, Dr. Patel,

to

put up foolish opposition arguments, all apasiddhanta,

materialistic

philosophy or some other bogus philosophies, and

Prabhupada would smash

him.

That was his utility. But we were inexperienced

devotees so we could

not

tolerate the familiarity with which he was speaking

and asking

questions

with Prabhupada. Prabhupada knew this but ignored it

and he simply used

him

to preach to us how many bogus philosophies are there

and how to defeat

them. Prabhupada would blast everybody.

 

There was some particular saint in India who used to

say you can

worship

whomever you like--Kali, Durga, Siva, Ganesh--yata

mata tata path, as

many

ways, so many conclustions. Prabhupada would blast

him. He particularly

did

not like the term "daridra-narayana". Because

Prabhupada said that

Narayana

is the husband of the goddess of fortune, to call him

daridra [poor] is

an

insult to Naryana. How can you call him

daridra-narayana when you would

not

call an ordinary materialistic leader daridra? Daridra

Prime Minister,

Daridra President, Daridra Mr. Bush. If you call Mr.

Bush and say

"Wretched

Mr. Bush, how are you?" how would he feel? So here is

Krsna, the master

of

Laksmi, the master of unlimited planets and you're

calling Him daridra,

it's

a great insult.

 

The idea is that there is Narayana in daridra also, so

you should help

and

serve daridra. So instead of serving Narayana in the

temple, go and

serve

daridra. This kind of a bogus philosophy somebody was

preaching. And

Prabhupada said "No, daridra is daridra and Narayana

is Narayana.

Narayana

is Laksmi-Narayana, Sriman Narayana. Narayana, you

serve him, and

daridra,

you may feel compassion upon him, you may be kind to

him, but do not

equate

daridra with Narayana. This is an insult to Narayana,

a devaluation of

Narayana." Prabhupada would speak like this. One

gentleman on the

morning

walk was coming every day. One day he just blew up and

he started

saying

"You're always criticising everybody, all the sadhus,

all the saints,

you're

always criticising," he started shouting like this. So

the devotees

were

ready to physically remove him but Prabhupada said

nothing. He just

kept

quiet, he let him go on blabbing for a few minutes.

Very quietly he

said,

"What can we do, we have a very difficult task. We

have to save all

these

students from so many bogus philosophies. Therefore we

have to point

this

out. We do not hate the sinner, we hate the sin. Krsna

says:

 

na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah

mayayapahrta-jnana asuram bhavam asritah

 

Those who are duskrtinas, mudhas, fools, rascals,

those whose knowledge

is

stolen by maya, they do not surrender to Me. So if one

does not

surrender to

Krsna, he comes under these four categories. We are

simply repeating

the

words of Krsna. Hare Krsna."

 

So he said like this and kept quiet for about 10

minutes as we walked

back

to the temple. Then as usual during gurupuja we were

offering flowers

to him

on the vyasasana. This man also used to come every day

for darshan. He

also

offered flowers to Prabhupada and he put his head on

Prabhupada's feet

and

starting crying like a little baby. So Prabhupada put

his hand on his

head

and said, "It's all right."

 

Next day, Prabhupada said "Now, we don't want to talk.

We will simply

quietly walk. Bring Krsna book with you and we'll read

Krsna book on

the

beach." So we were walking from one end to another we

were reading

Krsna

book for almost 45 minutes. . . . It was very

auspicious. He tried his

best

to use the danda, when he saw that this man is too

foolish to

understand,

then he just withdrew, retreated. Prabhupada was so

expert. He never

ever

spoiled a person. He never left a bad impression on a

person. He was

very

careful of everyone's tender creeper of devotional

service and he did

not

want to hurt. If anyone offered him anything he would

take it even if

he

could not use. And anyone could come and he would try

to preach. . .

however

less intelligent man was there, Prabhupada would give

him a full dose

of

mercy.

 

This is why the spiritual master or the pure devotees

are called most

merciful:

 

vanca kalpatarubhyas ca krpa sindhubhya eva ca

patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namah

 

Mahatma Vidura is very merciful to Dhrtarastra.

Dhrtarastra was very

fortunate to have Vidura as his friend. He had another

misfortune and

that

was that he was envious of the Pandavas. Envious of

Pandavas means

envious

of Krsna also because Krsna liked the Pandavas. His

misfortune was that

he

was envious of the devotees of the Lord, that is the

greatest

misfortune

anyone can have. That was his problem. But because he

was a part of

Krsna's

pastimes, lilas, he was kind of an associate, parsada,

of Krsna. He was

functioning for Krsna's pleasure to expand Krsna's

lila and to help

Krsna's

mission of establishing dharma. By acting as an

example of adharma he

was

helping Krsna to establish "yato dharma tato jaya",

wherever there is

dharma

there is victory. So therefore he was also awarded

this wonderful

association of Vidura. Vidura, like Sukadeva Gosvami,

did not mince any

words. Sukadeva Goswami says:

 

cirani kim pathi na santi disanti bhiksam. . .

kasmad bhajanti kavayo dhana-durmadandhan

 

Are there the not rags lying in the ground? Aren't the

trees giving

shelter?

Aren't there the caves for inhabitation? Why should a

saintly person,

those

who are learned men, why should they worship or

glorify intoxicated

people,

intoxicated with power or riches.

 

Dhrtarastra as long as he had some power, in spite of

good association

of

Vidura, he could not be gotten out. But he always

asked Vidura for help

and

Vidura always gave him the right advice, but he could

not take it

because

that power of intoxication was there. So when that

power was gone, now

he's

eligible to understand Vidura.

 

This is very significant. In the 11th Canto there is a

verse by a

prostitute, Pingala. The brahmana avadhuta had 24

gurus and one of them

was

Pingala, a prostitute. She was waiting for a customer

in the night,

"This

man will come, oh, he went away. This man will come. .

.. ." Like that

she

was counting, waiting, someone will come. But

everybody just came and

passed. Three or four hours she waited and waited like

this. Then

finally

she said "Oh, what a fool I am! I am waiting for these

human beings

made of

flesh and bone, mucus, bile and air, urine and stool.

I'm waiting for

these

bodies which are perishable, full of lust, anger, and

greed. If I

would

wait so intently upon the Supreme Lord then my whole

life will be

successful

forever." Then she said "Oh, it was so nice that my

hope was

frustrated."

 

nairasyam paramam sukham asa hi paramam duhkham

 

The frustration in life is the highest happiness and

the material hope,

optimism, is a great misery because it leads one on to

the material

life

like the carrot dangled in front of a donkey. That's

why the whole

modern

education and the whole modern environment is

condemned by Bhaktivinoda

Thakura:

 

jada-vidya jata, mayara vaibhava,

tomara bhajane badha

moha janamiya, anitya samsare,

jivake koraye gadha

 

All this materialistic knowledge is the glittering

glare of Maya and it

is

an obstacle to Your worship. It creates an illusory

attraction for the

material world and makes a donkey out of a living

being. Sei gadha

ho'ye, "I

became a donkey like this and this same burden I

carried on for a long

time,

my dear Krsna. Now old age has approached, and nothing

feels good.

Please my

dear Krsna, now let me take shelter of Your lotus

feet!" Srila

Bhaktivinoda

Thakur sings a song like this:

 

vidyara vilase, katainu kala,

parama sahase ami

 

I spent my time in the pastimes of scholarship with

great adventure and

enthusiasm. I never worshipped You, my dear Krsna, and

now I have

become

old.

 

He is actually painting the picture of people like

Dhrtarastra, or

people

like us, who are hoping against hope that we will

enjoy till the last

minute

of our life. King Mucukunda explains the plight of

life of all people

in the

material world. He says, "My dear Lord, I was

worshipped as a king. And

people used to come and say "Naradeva!" and they would

offer me

obeisances.

I was intoxicated by my power and my domain and I

wasted my whole life,

never recognizing You. You are always waiting as

Bhagavan Kala, to grab

the

living entity, to eat away the living entity like the

snake is ever

alert to

catch a mouse. Similarly, I was wasting away time and

at the end I

never

recognized that your form of Kala is waiting to devour

me. All these

great

kings conquered all directions. Then the kings that

were equal to him

start

falling at his feet and praying to him. But actually

when they go to

their

inner chambers, to the women, they dance like animals

in their hands.

So

this body which is simply ultimately going to end up

as a worm, as ash,

as a

bug, is now being addressed as "Naradeva", is now

being decorated with

golden ornaments and carried around on big elephants.

In this way, a

man

never understands the ultimate futility of life and

wastes away his

life."

 

So Lord Caitanya is so kind. When Raghunatha Dasa

Goswami finally ran

away

from his home and came to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,

Caitanya Mahaprabhu

became very happy. Actually Raghunatha was the son of

a billionaire in

those

days, landlord. In those days his father and uncle

earned 400,000

rupees a

year. They collected 120,000 tax of which 800,000 they

gave to the

king, and

400,000 they enjoyed. One rupee in those days is like

1000 rupees

today. You

could buy 20 kgs of ghee with one rupee. Now it's 200

rupees a kilo.

 

Raghunatha was like princely demigod, his wife was as

beautiful as an

apsara, and he was the only son between two brothers.

He was the heart

and

soul of their family, but his heart was not into the

family, he wanted

to

run away to Lord Caitanya. So when Sri Caitanya

Mahaprabhu came he went

to

Him and said "Please pull me out." Lord Caitanya said,

"Very soon Krsna

will

pull you out, not now. You go and live like a woman

who has a lover

other

than her husband, ulta(?) unchaste woman. She's very

careful her

husband

doesn't find out she has a lover so she serves the

husband nicely.

Similarly

you should engage in material activities even though

your heart is

surrendered to Krsna so your parents won't detect you

are going to run

away."

 

The parents knew this son is going to run away so they

had put about

ten

different watchmen around him. Even when he went to

clean or pass stool

there were people watching him all day and night. His

mother was always

telling the father "You better watch him, he's going

to run away,

better tie

him up, lock him in the room." The father said "All

this wealth and a

wife

as beautiful as an apsara has not tied this boy, what

will all these

other

things do, how will these other things tie him up?

This boy is blessed

by

Caitanya Mahaprabhu so sooner or later he's going to

go." He knew that.

 

In the meantime Lord Nityananda came to a nearby town

and Raghunatha

Das was

so shy and modest and saintly, he offered obeisances

to Nityananda from

a

distance. And Nityananda said "Hey, thief, why are you

hiding from Me,

come

here!" So he brought him and forcibly put his foot on

Raghunatha's head

and

in this way He blessed him and said, "Raghunatha, for

Me and My

associates

and all the brahmanas here, arrange dahi and chira

festival."

 

So in Panihati Raghunatha Das Goswami immediately

arranged a huge

festival

in which very nicely spiced dahi-chira with cardamon

and bananas and

camphor, very delicious preparation he prepared along

with many other

items

and he fed thousands of people there and pleased Lord

Nityananda on

that

day. Actually Caitanya Mahaprabhu also came and sat

down with

Nityananda

Prabhu and He also ate. So both the Prabhus ate and at

the end

Raghunatha

told Raghava Pandit, "Please tell the Lord to somehow

or other deliver

me

from these shackles of household life and please give

me the shade of

the

lotus feet of Lord Caitanya." So Lord Nityananda told

Raghunatha "Today

Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu came and participated in our

dancing and chanting.

He

ate this prasad, He's very pleased with you and very

soon you will be

delivered." By the grace of Nityananda then he got the

opportunity.

 

Narottama Das Thakur says:

 

ara kabe nitaicanda karuna karibe

samsara-vasana mora kabe tuccha habe

 

visaya chadiya kabe suddha habe mana

kabe hama heraba sri-vrndavana

 

When will the day come when Nityananda will be

merciful upon me, when

will

my mind be purified, when will I give up sense

gratification, when will

I

actually see Vrindavana?

 

We may live in Vrndavana but unless we have given up

materialistic

hopes and

desires we cannot see Vrndavana. We cannot stay in

Vrndavana by

purchasing

some piece of land or purchasing a house, we can only

stay in Vrndavana

by

purified mind, by the grace of Lord Nityananda.

Nityananda Prabhu

awarded

the same benediction to Krsnadas Kaviraja: "Go to

Vrndavana and stay

there

in the association of Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami."

 

Similarly Jiva Goswami also came to surrender to

Nityananda Prabhu who

told

him "Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given your family

Vrndavana. Your

uncles

are all staying in Vrndavana and they are serving the

Lord there so you

go

to Vrndavana and serve the Lord there and the Lord

will fulfill all

that you

desire."

 

Krsnadas Kaviraja Goswami says "It was by the grace of

Nityananda that

I got

the lotus feet of Rupa and Raghunatha, by the grace of

Nityananda that

I had

darshan of Radha Madan Mohan, Radha Govinda, Radha

Gopinatha. It is by

His

grace I'm able to associate with the great saintly

devotees there and

hear

the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So he

attributed all his

success,

finally writing Caitanya Caritamrta also, to

Nityananda Prabhu.

 

Similarly Vrndavana Das Thakur also attributes all his

success to

Nityananda

Prabhu. He says by the grace of Nityananda Prabhu he

has been able to

write

Caitanya-bhagavat. Krsnadas Kaviraja says:

 

krsna-lila bhagavate kahe veda-vyasa

caitanya-lilara vyasa-vrndavana-dasa

 

Vrndavana Das is the actual Vyasadeva of

Caitanya-lila. In fact

Caitanya-lila is so wonderful, so sweet, that there

are more verses of

Caitanya Mahaprabhu's pastimes than Krsna's pastimes.

Krsna's pastimes

are

there in Srimad Bhagavatam in 90 chapters. But there

are two full

volumes--in Caitanya-caritamrta alone there are 11,000

verses--and in

Caitanya Bhagavat another 10000 verses. So we can

spend our whole life

simply studying Caitanya Mahaprabhu's pastimes,

Nityananda Prabhu's

pastimes.

 

At then end of writing Caitanya Bhagavat, Vrndavana

Das Thakur became

so

ecstatic writing the pastimes of Lord Nityananda.

Nityananda Prabhu was

told

by Caitanya Mahaprabhu to go to Bengal and distribute

love of God

there. So

he started going to Bengal along with His personal

associates and all

of

them were maddened in love of Krsna, they had lost all

their external

consciousness. While going to Bengal they would

sometimes go ten miles

off

to the eastern side, simply chanting and dancing. And

then they would

ask

somebody "Which way is Bengal, which way is Nadia,

Navadvipa?" And the

man

would say "Oh, you've come ten miles this way. You

have to go the other

way." Then they would walk back and go ten miles the

other way. And

again

ask. "Oh, you've come back ten miles too far!"

 

Like that they were simply intoxicated. One devotee

just stood still

for

nine hours, holding a flute, and others were just

climbing the trees

and

jumping from one branch to another. They would

sometimes jump on a

really

thin branch, and still it would not collapse and fall.

It is said that

when

He came to Raghava Pandit's house at Panihati, He

stayed there for

three

months. And for three months everybody was just

immersed in ecstasy.

They

forgot eating for three months, sleeping for three

months, all people

around

forgot their body. Even the little children around

were fasting for a

month,

simply dancing and chanting. By the grace of

Nityananda He distributed

this

love and ecstasy so intensely that the whole country

was flooded and

even

those who never chanted the name of Krsna all

developed love of Krsna,

ecstatic prema.

 

Nityananda Prabhu's pastimes are so nicely narrated in

Caitanya

Bhagavat.

Once Nityananda Prabhu wanted to wear all kinds of

ornaments so somehow

or

other His lila-sakti arranged all beautiful bracelets

and golden chains

and

he was looking like a king. One dacoit saw this sadhu,

avadhuta,

dressed so

opulently. And he said "If I rob Him, I will not have

to rob for six

months." He had a big gang of very ferocious dacoits

and planned "I

will go

to His residence in the night and when nobody is there

I'll attack Him

and

rob Him."

 

So they went and surrounded the house at night. They

were seeing these

nice

decorations of Lord Nityananda. They were thinking,

"Oh, I'll take this

bracelet, I'll take this earring," they were planning,

dreaming.

Somehow or

other there were some people coming and going in the

house. It was late

night and they started dozing and fell asleep. In the

morning the sun

rose

and they woke up. They starting blaming each other

"Oh, you fell

asleep, you

fell asleep!" So they went away came back the next

night. And then they

saw

these big muscular guards with big weapons guarding

Lord Nityananda's

house.

They were afraid, "There was nobody like this, how did

He get these,

now

what to do?" Again they went. They said "Let all these

guards go, we'll

come

back after ten days.

 

They came back after ten days and there was heavy

rain, such a heavy

rain

started, unseasonal. They were all flooded and lost

vision because it

was

dark. They fell into a ditch full of very bad worms

and reptiles and

they

were being bitten all over their skin. They were

crying "Oh, save me,

save

me, save me!" They were going through such agony. They

realized finally

that

"This Nityananda Prabhu is not an ordinary person. I'm

an idiot, I'm a

fool

trying to rob Him. I will come tomorrow and surrender

unto Him.

Tomorrow

morning I must come and surrender unto Him, O

Nityananda please have

mercy

on me, save me. Even though I wanted rob You, I am the

lowest of the

low,

please bestow Your kindness upon me."

 

Somehow or other they were able to go home. Next

morning, the leader of

the

dacoits came and fell at the feet of Lord Nityananda.

"Oh, You're so

merciful, I'm the most heinous person, I wanted to rob

You of all Your

jewels. Now by Your mercy I have come to Your shelter,

You have given

me the

right intelligence. You have accepted me, You have

appeared to deliver

all

the souls, so please deliver me." And Nityananda

Prabhu accepted him

and his

gang members and they all became devotees of Lord

Nityananda. So this

is the

special mercy of Lord Nityananda.

 

One time I was in one asrama and one senior, elderly

Gaudiya Math

member,

Srila Prabhupada's Godbrother, told me "In ISKCON

people don't

understand

much about how Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna Himself.

Therefore they

have a

separate altar for Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In our Gaudiya

Math we put

Radha

Krsna and Lord Caitanya on the same altar." I said to

him simply by

looking

at that Deity nobody will know that Gauranga is Krsna.

Prabhupada wrote

books, 17 volumes of Caitanya-caritamrta glorifying

Caitanya Mahaprabhu

and

broadcasting to the whole world, brhad-mrdanga, that

Caitanya is Krsna.

And

because he also wanted to put Nityananda, because

without the grace of

Nityananda, no one can preach the glories of Caitanya

Mahaprabhu.

Nityananda

has the power to bestow the lotus feet of Lord

Caitanya:

 

heno nitai bine bhai, radha-krsna paite nai

 

nitai na bolilo mukhe, majilo samsara-sukhe

vidya-kule ki koribe tar

 

ahankare matta hoiya, nitai-pada pasariya,

asatyere satya kori mani

 

Without the grace of Nityananda, no one can understand

Radha-Krsna's

pastimes. If one does not chant the name of

Nityananda, then he is

immersed

in material life. What is the use of his learning,

what is the use of

his

high parentage? When somebody becomes intoxicated with

pride and

forgets

Lord Nityananda he starts to believe false things to

be true, he

believes

his body to be soul and absorbs into material life.

 

Therefore Prabhupada, as the greatest preacher,

established the glories

of

Gaura-Nitai all over the world so Nityananda's mercy

would be expanded

to

all the Jagais and Madhais of the world and they would

all be

delivered.

This is why Prabhupada established Krsna Balarama

temple in Vrndavana

because Balarama is the original guru, He's the

original preacher and

teacher. And by His grace one gets the grace of

guru-tattva and

understands

the mercy of Krsna.

 

So by our good fortune, we have received the grace of

Prabhupada who is

like

Vidura. That's an understatement--Prabhupada is like

thousands of

Vidura put

together. Because Vidura told Dhrtarastra to go, leave

home and go and

do

meditation. Dhrtarastra went and started meditating on

impersonal

Brahman.

And he passed his life way in a very auspicious way

and merged in

Transcendence. But Prabhupada saved us from the

calamity of

impersonalism.

Like he said:

 

Absolute is sentient

Thou hast proved.

Impersonal calamity

Thou hast moved.

 

This was Prabhupada's contribution,

"nirvisesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-

tarine". I never understood why Prabhupada called

pascatya-desa as

nirvisesa

sunyavadi, because nirvisesa-vada and sunya-vada went

from the East to

the

West. But it is fact that now pascatya-desa has become

completely

flooded

with nirvisesa-vada and sunya-vada. Even their concept

of God is

actually

nirvisesa-vada. Because they have no information of

God, now they are

identifying or equating God's servant as God. That's

maya. To think

that

Jesus is God, or the guru is God, is also mayavada. So

even they don't

know,

they are nirvisesa-vadis. If at all they are

Christians, most of them

don't

even believe in God.

 

So Prabhupada gave us the highest truth, the most

wonderful spiritual

life.

When Raghunatha Das went to Caitanya Mahaprabhu

finally, he ran way

from

home, then he said that "Krsna is very merciful upon

you and He has

pulled

you out of this stool pit of sense gratification. Your

father and uncle

are

the worms in the stool pit of sense gratification and

being in absorbed

in

the stool pit of sense gratification they consider it

a great

happiness. Now

Krsna has pulled you out of all this, and brought you

to His lotus

feet. You

cannot estimate enough the grace of Krsna."

 

The same mercy is extended to all of us as our hearts

are also like

Dhrtarastra. Even after hearing so many wonderful

instructions of Srila

Prabhupada, day in day out, we still don't give up the

hope against

hope. So

here in Navadvipa Dham, we pray to Prabhupada and

Gaura Nitai. This the

most

powerful place for such benediction because Caitanya

Mahaprabhu is the

only

one who can remove these desires out of our heart even

though we are

the

least qualified person. Bhaktivinoda Thakur says "You

please travel in

the

holy dhama of Navadvipa."

 

cala gaura-vanam nava-khanda-mayam

patha gaura-hares caritani muda

lutha gaura-padankita-ganga-tatam

bhaja godruma-kanana-kunja-vidhum

 

Go and wander about in this Gaura-vana, Navadvipa,

which is divided in

nine

parts. And always read the pastimes of Gaurahari. Roll

yourself in the

dust

of the banks of Ganga which are marked by the lotus

feet of Gauranga.

In

this way you worship the moon of the Godruma.

 

smara gaura-gadadhara-keli-kalam

bhava gaura-gadadhara-paksa-carah

srnu gaura-gadadhara-caru-katham

bhaja godruma-kanana-kunja-vidhum

 

Remember the wonderful pastimes of Gauranga Mahaprabhu

and Gadadhara

Prabhu

and become a party man of Gaura-Gadadhara.

 

Srila Prabhupada ki jai! Gaura-premanande, haribol!

Hare Krsna. Anybody

has

any questions or comments?

 

Hare Krsna. Sri Sri Radha Madhava ki jai. Sri Sri

Pancatattva ki jai.

Srila

Prabhupada ki jai! Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir ki

jai!

 

 

 

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