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Bhaktisiddhānta Gosvāmī Mahārāja: (como naisthika brahmacārī)
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, acepta a Kṛṣṇa como Dios:
TEXTO 19
MaaYaaJaviNak-aC^àMajaDaae+aJaMaVYaYaMa( )
Na l/+YaSae MaU!d*Xaa Na$=ae Naa$yDarae YaQaa )) 19 ))
māyā-javanikācchannam
ajñādhokṣajam avyayam
na lakṣyase mūḍha-dṛśā
naṭo nāṭyadharo yathā
ajñādhokṣajam avyayam
na lakṣyase mūḍha-dṛśā
naṭo nāṭyadharo yathā
māyā
— engañadora; javanikā — cortina; ācchannam — cubierto por; ajñā —
ignorante; adhokṣajam — más allá del alcance del concepto material
(trascendental); avyayam — irreprochable; na — no; lakṣyase — observado;
mūḍha-dṛśā — por el observador necio; naṭaḥ — artista; nāṭya-dharaḥ —
vestido como un actor; yathā — como.
TRADUCCIÓN
Estando
más allá del alcance de la limitada percepción de los sentidos, Tú eres
el factor eternamente irreprochable que está cubierto por la cortina de
energía alucinante. Tú eres invisible para el observador necio, de la
misma manera en que un actor al desempeñar un papel no es reconocido.
SIGNIFICADO
En la Bhagavad-gītā, el Señor Śrī Kṛṣṇa afirma que las personas
poco inteligentes lo toman equivocadamente por un hombre ordinario como
nosotros, y que por ello lo menosprecian. Aquí, la reina Kuntī confirma
lo mismo. Las personas poco inteligentes son aquellas que se rebelan en
contra de la autoridad del Señor. Dichas personas son conocidas como asuras. Los asuras
no pueden reconocer la autoridad del Señor. Cuando el propio Señor
aparece entre nosotros como Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha o en Su forma original
de Kṛṣṇa, realiza muchos actos maravillosos que son humanamente
imposible de realizar. Como habremos de encontrar en el Décimo Canto de
esta gran obra literaria, el Señor Śrī Kṛṣṇa, incluso en los días en que
aún se hallaba en el regazo de Su madre, exhibió Sus actividades
trascendentales imposibles de realizar. Él mató a la bruja Pūtanā, pese a
que ella se untó veneno en el pecho sólo para matar al Señor. El Señor
chupó el pecho de ella tal como lo haría un bebé ordinario, y le chupó
también su propia vida. Así mismo, Él levantó la colina Govardhana, tal
como un niño levanta un hongo, y permaneció de pie continuamente durante
varios días, tan sólo para brindarles protección a los residentes de
Vṛṇdāvana. Éstas son algunas de las actividades sobrehumanas del Señor
que se describen en Escrituras védicas autoritativas, tales como los Purāṇas, Itihāsas (historias) y Upaniṣads. Él ha dado instrucciones maravillosas en la forma de la Bhagavad-gītā.
Él ha exhibido facultades maravillosas como héroe, cabeza de familia,
maestro y renunciante. Él es aceptado como la Suprema Personalidad de
Dios por personalidades muy autoritativas, tales como Vyāsa, Devala,
Asita, Nārada, Madhva, Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Jīva
Gosvāmī, Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī y todas las
demás autoridades de la línea. Él mismo ha declarado otro tanto en
muchos lugares de las Escrituras auténticas. Y aun así existe una clase
de hombres con mentalidad demoníaca, que siempre están reacios a aceptar
al Señor como la Suprema Verdad Absoluta. Esto se debe en parte a su
escaso acopio de conocimiento, y en parte a su terca obstinación, que es
el resultado de diversas fechorías realizadas en el pasado y en el
presente. Personas de esa clase no pudieron reconocer al Señor Śrī Kṛṣṇa
ni siquiera cuando Él estuvo presente ante ellos. Otra dificultad que
existe es que aquellos que dependen más de sus imperfectos sentidos, no
pueden llegar a comprender que Él es el Señor Supremo. Dichas personas
son como el científico moderno. Ellas quieren conocer todo por medio de
su conocimiento experimental. Pero no es posible conocer a la Suprema
Persona mediante el imperfecto conocimiento experimental. A Él se le
describe aquí como adhokṣaja, o que está más allá del alcance del
conocimiento experimental. Todos nuestros sentidos son imperfectos.
Nosotros decimos que lo observamos absolutamente todo, pero hemos de
admitir que únicamente podemos observar las cosas bajo ciertas
condiciones materiales, las cuales también están más allá de nuestro
control. El Señor está más allá de la observación perceptiva de los
sentidos. La reina Kuntī acepta esta deficiencia del alma condicionada,
especialmente de la poco inteligente clase femenina. Para las personas
poco inteligentes debe haber cosas tales como templos, mezquitas o
iglesias, de modo que puedan comenzar a reconocer la autoridad del Señor
y oír a las autoridades hablar de Él en esos lugares sagrados. Para los
hombres poco inteligentes, ese comienzo de la vida espiritual es
esencial, y únicamente los hombres necios censuran el establecimiento de
dichos lugares de adoración, que se requieren para elevar el nivel de
los atributos espirituales de las masas. Para las personas poco
inteligentes, el postrarse ante la autoridad del Señor, como
generalmente se hace en los templos, mezquitas o iglesias, es tan
beneficioso, como para los devotos adelantados lo es meditar en Él
mediante el servicio activo. (S.B. 1º, Cap. 8, V. 19, págs. 369-370).
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, como autor de literatura trascendental:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu es el propio Śrī
Kṛṣṇa. Sin embargo, en esa ocasión, apareció como un gran devoto del
Señor, para predicarle a la gente en general, así como también a los
religiosos y filósofos, acerca de la posición trascendental de Śrī
Kṛṣṇa, el Señor primordial y la causa de todas las causas. La esencia de
Su prédica consiste en que Śrī Kṛṣṇa, que apareció en Vrajabhūmi
(Vṛndāvana) como el hijo del rey de Vraja (Nanda Mahārāja), es la
Suprema Personalidad de Dios, y, por consiguiente, es digno de la
adoración de todos. Vṛndāvana-dhāma no es diferente del Señor, debido a
que el nombre, la fama, la forma del Señor y el lugar en que Él se
manifiesta, son todos idénticos al Señor en términos del conocimiento
absoluto. Por consiguiente, Vṛndāvana-dhāma es tan digno de adoración
como el Señor. Las doncellas de Vrajabhūmi exhibieron la más elevada
forma de adoración trascendental del Señor, en la forma de un afecto
puro por Él, y Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recomienda ese proceso como la
más excelente de todas las formas de adoración. Él acepta el Śrīmad-Bhāgavata Purāṇa como
la literatura inmaculada para entender al Señor, y predica que la meta
máxima de la vida para todos los seres humanos es la de llegar a la
etapa de prema, o de amor por Dios.
Muchos devotos de Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu como Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura, Śrī Locana dāsa Ṭhākura, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, Śrī Kavikarṇa pūra, Śrī Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī, Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, y en época más reciente, en los últimos doscientos años, Śrī Viśva-nātha Cakravartī, Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, Śrī Śyāmananda Gosvāmī, Śrī Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, Śrī Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura y, finalmente, Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura (nuestro maestro espiritual), y muchos otros grandes y renombrados eruditos y devotos del Señor, han preparado voluminosos libros y escritos acerca de la vida y preceptos del Señor. (S.B. 1º, Introduc., pág. 6).
TEXTO 17
TaSYa k-MaaR<Yaudarai<a PairGaqTaaiNa SaUiri>a" )
b]Uih Na" é[ÕDaaNaaNaa& l/Il/Yaa dDaTa" k-l/a" )) 17 ))
tasya karmāṇy udārāṇi
parigītāni sūribhiḥ
brūhi naḥ śraddadhānānāṁ
līlayā dadhataḥ kalāḥ
parigītāni sūribhiḥ
brūhi naḥ śraddadhānānāṁ
līlayā dadhataḥ kalāḥ
tasya
— Su; karmāṇi — actos trascendentales; udārāṇi — magnánimos; parigītāni
— difundidos; sūribhiḥ — por las grandes almas; brūhi — por favor; naḥ —
a nosotros; śraddadhānānām — preparados para recibir con respeto;
līlayā — pasatiempos; dadhataḥ — advenidas; kalāḥ — encarnaciones.
TRADUCCIÓN
Sus
actos trascendentales son magníficos y placenteros, y los cantan
grandes y eruditos sabios, tales como Nārada. De manera que, por favor,
háblanos, pues estamos ansiosos de oír hablar de las aventuras que Él
lleva a cabo en Sus diversas encarnaciones.
SIGNIFICADO
La
Personalidad de Dios nunca está inactivo, como sugieren algunas
personas poco inteligentes. Sus obras son magníficas y magnánimas. Todas
Sus creaciones, tanto materiales como espirituales, son maravillosas, y
contienen plena variedad. Almas liberadas, tales como Śrīla Nārada,
Vyāsa, Vālmīki, Devala, Asita, Madhva, Śrī Caitanya, Rāmānuja,
Viṣṇusvāmi, Nimbārka, Śrīdhara, Viśvanātha, Baladeva, Bhaktivinoda,
Siddhānta Sarasvati, y muchas otras almas eruditas y autorrealizadas,
las describen muy bien. Esas creaciones, tanto las materiales como las
espirituales, están llenas de opulencia, belleza y conocimiento, pero el
ámbito espiritual es más magnífico, por estar colmado de conocimiento,
bienaventuranza y eternidad. Las creaciones materiales se manifiestan
por algún tiempo como sombras pervertidas del reino espiritual, y puede
decirse que se asemejan a los cines: atraen a la gente de un calibre
poco inteligente, que es atraída por cosas falsas. Semejantes necios no
tienen información alguna acerca de la realidad, y dan por sentado que
la falsa manifestación material es lo máximo que existe. Pero hombres
más inteligentes, guiados por sabios como Vyāsa y Nārada, saben que el
eterno reino de Dios es más delicioso y grande, y que está colmado
eternamente de bienaventuranza y conocimiento. Aquellos que no están
versados en las actividades del Señor y Su reino trascendental, a veces
son favorecidos por el Señor en Sus aventuras como encarnaciones, en las
que despliega la dicha eterna que proporciona Su compañía en el reino
trascendental. Mediante esas actividades, Él atrae a las almas
condicionadas del mundo material. Algunas de esas almas condicionadas
están dedicadas al falso disfrute de los sentidos materiales, y otras
simplemente están negando la verdadera vida que tienen en el mundo
espiritual. Esas personas poco inteligentes son conocidas como karmīs, o trabajadores fruitivos, y jñānīs, o áridos especuladores mentales. Pero, por encima de estas dos clases de hombres, se halla el trascendentalista conocido como sātvat,
o el devoto, que ni se ocupa de la desenfrenada actividad material, ni
de la especulación material. Él se dedica al servicio positivo del
Señor, y en virtud de ello obtiene el más elevado beneficio espiritual,
que les es desconocido a los karmīs y jñānīs.
El Señor, como controlador supremo tanto del mundo material como del mundo espiritual, tiene diferentes encarnaciones de ilimitadas categorías. Encarnaciones tales como, Brahmā, Rudra, Manu, Pṛthu y Vyāsa son Sus encarnaciones cualitativas materiales, pero Sus encarnaciones como Rāma, Narasiṁha, Varāha y Vāmana son Sus encarnaciones trascendentales. El Señor Śrī Kṛṣṇa es el manantial de todas las encarnaciones, y, por consiguiente, Él es la causa de todas las causas. (S.B. 1º, Cap. 1, V. 17, págs. 68-69).
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, como predicador:
El Señor dejó por escrito únicamente ocho ślokas de Sus instrucciones, que se conocen como El Śikṣāṣṭaka. Todos
los demás libros de Su culto divino fueron escritos de una manera
extensa por los principales seguidores del Señor, los seis Gosvāmīs de
Vṛndāvana, y los seguidores de éstos. El culto de la filosofía Caitanya
es más rico que cualquier otro, y se admite que es la religión viviente
del día con la potencia de propagarse como el viśva-dharma, o la
religión universal. Nos complace que el asunto haya sido acogido por
algunos sabios entusiastas, tales como Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī
Mahārāja y sus discípulos. Esperamos ansiosamente los felices días del
bhāgavata-dharma, o prema-dharma, inaugurado por Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu- (S.B. 1º, Introduc., pág. 35).
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, libera al Autor:
TEXTO 29
Wv& raJaa ivdure<aaNauJaeNa
Pa[jac+aubaeRiDaTa AaJaMaq!" )
i^tva Svezu òehPaaXaaNd]i!Manae
iNaê§-aMa >a]aTa*SaNdiXaRTaaßa )) 29 ))
evaṁ rājā vidureṇānujena
prajñā-cakṣur bodhita ājamīḍhaḥ
chittvā sveṣu sneha-pāśān draḍhimno
niścakrāma bhrātṛ-sandarśitādhvā
prajñā-cakṣur bodhita ājamīḍhaḥ
chittvā sveṣu sneha-pāśān draḍhimno
niścakrāma bhrātṛ-sandarśitādhvā
evam
— así pues; rājā — el rey Dhṛtarāṣṭra; vidureṇa anujena — por Vidura,
su hermano menor; prajñā — conocimiento introspectivo; cakṣuḥ — ojos;
bodhitaḥ — siendo entendido; ājamīḍhaḥ — Dhṛtarāṣṭra, vástago de la
familia de Ajamīḍha; chittvā — rompiendo; sveṣu — en relación con los
parientes; sneha-pāśān — la fuerte red del afecto; draḍhimnaḥ — por la
tenacidad; niścakrāma — salió; bhrātṛ — por su hermano; sandarśita — en
dirección a; adhvā — la senda de la liberación.
TRADUCCIÓN
Entonces,
Mahārāja Dhṛtarāṣṭra, el vástago de la familia de Ajamīḍha, firmemente
convencido por el conocimiento introspectivo (prajñā), rompió al
instante la fuerte red del afecto familiar, mediante su resuelta
determinación. Así pues, de inmediato se fue del hogar para emprender el
camino de la liberación, tal como se lo indicó Vidura, su hermano
menor.
SIGNIFICADO
El Señor Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, el gran predicador de los principios del Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, ha recalcado la importancia de relacionarse con sādhus,
o devotos puros del Señor. Él dijo que por el hecho de relacionarse un
solo momento con un devoto puro, uno puede lograr la absoluta
perfección. No nos avergüenza admitir que de este hecho tuvimos
experiencia en nuestra vida real. Si Su Divina Gracia Śrīmad
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja no nos hubiera favorecido con
nuestro primer encuentro de sólo unos cuantos minutos, nos habría
resultado imposible aceptar esta enorme tarea de exponer el Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
en inglés *1 . De no haberlo visto en ese oportuno momento, me hubiera
podido convertir en un gran magnate de los negocios, pero nunca hubiera
podido recorrer la senda de la liberación y dedicarme al verdadero
servicio del Señor bajo las instrucciones de Su Divina Gracia. Y aquí
hay otro ejemplo práctico por obra de la relación de Vidura con
Dhṛtarāṣṭra. Mahārāja Dhṛtarāṣṭra estaba bien atrapado en una red de
afectos relacionados con la política, la economía y el apego familiar, e
hizo todo lo que estaba a su alcance para lograr el mal llamado éxito
en los proyectos que planeó, pero fracasó de principio a fin en lo que
se refiere a sus actividades materiales. Y aun así, pese a su vida de
fracasos, logró el mayor de todos los éxitos en la autorrealización,
gracias a las instrucciones contundentes de un devoto puro del Señor,
que es el símbolo típico de un sādhu. Las Escrituras estipulan, por lo tanto, que uno debe relacionarse únicamente con sādhus, rechazando todas las demás clases de compañías, y gracias a eso se tendrán suficientes oportunidades de oír hablar a los sādhus,
quienes pueden cortar en pedazos los vínculos del afecto ilusorio del
mundo material. Es un hecho que el mundo material es una gran ilusión,
porque, en un momento, todo parece ser una realidad tangible, pero un
momento después todo se evapora, como la enérgica espuma del mar o como
una nube en el cielo. Sin duda que una nube en el cielo parece ser una
realidad, porque causa la lluvia, y debido a las lluvias aparecen
muchísimas cosas verdes temporales; pero, en fin de cuentas, todo
desaparece a su debido tiempo, es decir, la nube, la lluvia y la verde
vegetación. Mas, el cielo permanece, y las variedades que hay en el
cielo, o las luminarias, también permanecen por siempre. De igual modo,
la Verdad Absoluta, que es como el cielo, permanece eternamente, y la
temporal nube de la ilusión va y viene. Los seres vivientes ignorantes
son atraídos por la nube temporal, pero los hombres inteligentes están
más interesados en el cielo eterno con toda su variedad. (S.B. 1º, Cap. 13, V. 29, págs. 653-655).
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, maestro espiritual del autor:
TEXTO 30
Sa Wz l/aeke- iv:YaaTa" Parqi+aidiTa YaTPa[>au" )
PaUv| d*íMaNauDYaaYaNa( Parq+aeTa NareiZvh )) 30 ))
sa eṣa loke vikhyātaḥ
parīkṣid iti yat prabhuḥ
pūrvaṁ dṛṣṭam anudhyāyan
parīkṣeta nareṣv iha
parīkṣid iti yat prabhuḥ
pūrvaṁ dṛṣṭam anudhyāyan
parīkṣeta nareṣv iha
saḥ — él; eṣaḥ — en este; loke — mundo; vikhyātaḥ — famoso; parīkṣit — aquel que examina; iti — así pues; yat — que; prabhuḥ — ¡oh, Rey mío!; pūrvam — antes; dṛṣṭam — visto; anudhyāyan — contemplando constantemente; parīkṣeta — examinará; nareṣu — a cada hombre; iha — aquí.
TRADUCCIÓN
Así
pues, su hijo se volvería famoso en el mundo con el nombre de Parīkṣit
(el examinador), porque llegaría a examinar a todos los seres humanos,
en su búsqueda de aquella personalidad que vio antes de nacer. De ese
modo, llegaría a contemplar al Señor constantemente.
SIGNIFICADO
Mahārāja
Parīkṣit, por lo afortunado que era, obtuvo una impresión del Señor
incluso en el vientre de su madre, y por eso su meditación en el Señor
estaba constantemente consigo. Una vez que la impresión de la forma
trascendental del Señor se fija en la mente de uno, jamás se lo puede
olvidar, bajo ninguna circunstancia. Después de salir del vientre, el
niño Parīkṣit tenía el hábito de examinar a todo el que se encontraba,
para ver si era o no la misma personalidad que vio por primera vez en el
vientre. Pero nadie podía ser igual ni más atractivo que el Señor, y,
debido a eso, nunca aceptó a nadie. Sin embargo, el Señor estaba
constantemente con él en virtud de ese examen, y, en consecuencia,
Mahārāja Parīkṣit siempre se hallaba dedicado al servicio devocional del
Señor, mediante el recuerdo.
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī señala en relación con esto que, si a cada niño se le inculca una impresión del Señor desde su misma infancia, sin duda que se volverá un gran devoto del Señor, tal como Mahārāja Parīkṣit. Puede que un niño no sea tan afortunado como Mahārāja Parīkṣit y por eso no tenga la oportunidad de ver al Señor en el vientre de su madre, pero aun así puede volverse igual de afortunado, si sus padres lo desean. Mi propia vida es un ejemplo práctico de esto. Mi padre era un devoto puro del Señor, y cuando yo tenía tan sólo cuatro o cinco años de edad, me dio un par de formas de Rādhā y Kṛṣṇa. A modo de juego, yo solía adorar esas Deidades junto con mi hermana, y solía imitar las ceremonias de un templo vecino de Rādhā-Govinda. Por el hecho de visitar constantemente ese templo vecino y copiar las ceremonias al jugar con mis propias Deidades, se desarrolló en mí una atracción natural por el Señor. Mi padre solía observar en casa todas las ceremonias que eran apropiadas para mi posición. Más adelante, esas actividades se suspendieron debido a mi asociación en las escuelas y universidades, y perdí la práctica por completo. Pero en mi juventud, cuando conocía a mi maestro espiritual, Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, reviví de nuevo mi antigua costumbre, y las mismas Deidades de juego se convirtieron en mis Deidades venerables, bajo la debida regulación. Esto lo seguí hasta que abandoné las relaciones familiares, y me siento complacido de que mi generoso padre me diera la primera impresión, que Su Divina Gracia transformó luego en servicio devocional regulativo. Mahārāja Prahlāda también aconsejó que desde los albores de la infancia se inculcaran dichas impresiones de una relación divina, pues, de lo contrario, uno podía perder la oportunidad que se tiene en la forma humana de vida, la cual es muy valiosa, aunque sea tan temporal como otras. (S.B. 1º, Cap. 12, V. 30, págs. 610-611).
(1874-1936)
El “abuelo” de la Sociedad Internacional para la Conciencia de Kṛṣṇa;
el maestro espiritual de Su Divina Gracia A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupāda. (1º)
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Prabhupāda: El maestro espiritual de Su Divina Gracia A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda. (Bg).
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura: (1874-1937)
Maestro espiritual de Su Divina Gracia A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupāda y, por lo tanto, abuelo espiritual del actual movimiento para
la conciencia de Kṛṣṇa. Poderoso predicador que fundó sesenta y cuatro
misiones en la India (4º-2ª). //(1874-1936) El “abuelo” de la Sociedad
Internacional para la Conciencia de Kṛṣṇa; el maestro espiritual de Su
Divina Gracia A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda (1º).
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, Śrīla:
Srila Bhaktisidhantha Sarasvati Thakur
Sus Libros:
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Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada
Shrimad Bhagavatam and Vaisnava Cult
Introduction to the book
"Sree Krishna Chaitanya"
Nam Bhajan
(The Science of Chanting the Holy Names of Krishna)
Search For Truth
Spiritual Means and Ends
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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
In Honor of His Disappearance Day
by Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
Vrndavana, India: 1991
Srila Sarasvati Thakura knew that he would soon be going to his Master,
and therefore he gave some final instructions to his disciples. Our
Guru-Maharaja was there, as were Gosvami Maharaja (a prominent
disciple), Kunja Bihari prabhu, Bhakti Vilasa Tirtha Maharaja and
others. He told those in attendance, "I am unhappy. I have come for a
mission – to give the things that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to give.
He has ordered me to give the teachings of vipralambha (the mood of
separation for Radha and Krsna) and gopi-prema. He ordered me to teach
the reasons He came to this world, and to share His gifts.
"However, most of my time was spent in cutting the 'jungles' of
mayavada, sahajiya-vada, sakhi-bheki and all other non-devotional ideas.
If there is a mayavada jungle, the seeds of bhakti will not sprout. I
therefore had to cut so many jungles, and still there are so many
jungles left throughout the world. Most of my time was spent in
clarifying philosophical points."
Saying this, his mood changed and his face became reddish. Then he spoke the following verse:
Saying this, his mood changed and his face became reddish. Then he spoke the following verse:
yasyah kadapi vasanancala-khelanottha-Srila Prabhupada Sarasvati Thakura then explained how Krsna is obedient to Srimati Radhika He said, "There is a nice verse by Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami:"
dhanyati-dhanya-pavanena krtartha-mani
yogindra-durgama-gatir madhusudano 'pi
tasya namo 'stu vrsabhanu-bhuvo dise 'pi ["Obeisances to the direction that faces Sri Vrsabhanu's daughter. When the breeze coming from that direction playfully moves the edge of His garment, Lord Krsna, who cannot be attained by even the kings of the yogis, thinks that His life has now become a great success."
(Sri Radha-rasa-suddha-nidhi, text 2)]
smara-vilasita-talpe jalpa-lilam analpam
krama-krti-parihinam bibhrati tena sardham
mitha iva parirambharambha-vrttaika-varsma
ksanam api mama radhe netram anandaya tvam ["O Radha, who without going anywhere else stays on the couch of amorous pastimes, talking for a long time with Lord Krsna and embracing Him so strongly that Your two forms appear to become one, please, for even a moment, delight my eyes."
(Sri Stavavali, Sri Sri Prema-purabhidha-stotra, text 4)]
"Sri Krsna is very obedient to Srimati Radhika. She is always full of
pride, because Krsna is Hers. She has madiya-mayi-bhava, which means
that She always thinks, "Krsna is Mine." Candravali has the mood of
tadiya-bhava: "I am Krsna's." Krsna is controlled by Radhika only,
because of Her madiya-bhava.
Srimati Radhika is svadina-bhartrika. This means Sri Krsna is controlled
by Her. Svadina bhartrika is of two kinds: maitri and sakhya. Madiya
and tadiya are two parts of madhurya-rasa or paramour love, and they are
each divided into two parts: maitri-mood and sakhya-mood. When love is
slackened by sincerely requesting something, as in a prayer, that is
called maitri. When priti (love) becomes prominent and prayer becomes
secondary, that type of svadina-bhartrika is called sakhya. Candravali
becomes svadina-bhartrika with maitri as the prominent mood (bhava),
whereas Radhika becomes svadina-bhartrika with sakhya-bhava. At that
time, Srimati Radhika can order anything She likes from Krsna, and He
will carry out those orders – He will do so even if He gets a hint of an
order. He will always be ready to carry out an order, even if there is
only a hint of it. Regarding Candravali's order however, He will only
carry out Her prominent orders; she must tell Him what she wants. In
this way, Radhika is most prominent among all the gopis."
Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was ordered by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to help all devotees understand that Srimati Radhika is the most powerful among all the gopis, and that in order to become Her dasi (maidservant), we will have to become rupanuga. Without being rupanuga – without the guidance of Sri Rupa-manjari – we cannot serve Radhika.
Sri Krsna's priya-narma sakhas (His most intimate of cowherd friends) like Subala and Sridama are inclined towards Srimati Radhika. They are pleased when Radhika and Krsna meet. There are also some priya-narma-sakhas who facilitate Candravali's relationship with Krsna, but Prabhupada Sarasvati Thakura was greatly inclined to Srimati Radhika, in favor of rupanuga. He was rupanuga. He wanted to distribute this idea of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: we want to be the servant of Sri Rupa-manjari, so that we can serve Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, not Candravali and others.
Srila Sarasvati Thakura's idea was to preach rupanuga-bhakti. Actually it was not to preach it, for rupanuga is not preached. His idea was to inspire devotees for this service to Srimati Radhika. At the end of his manifest stay in this world, however, he told his followers, "I could not do this, so I am unhappy. You should all gather and come under the shelter of asraya-tattva (the principle of the pure devotee – the reservoir of love for Krsna). Who is asraya-tattva? Guru is asraya-tattva. Living in such shelter, you should serve the Divine Couple Sri Sri Radha and Krsna under the guidance of Sri Rupa-manjari." This was the root motive for all his activities – to give this to the world.
Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was ordered by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to help all devotees understand that Srimati Radhika is the most powerful among all the gopis, and that in order to become Her dasi (maidservant), we will have to become rupanuga. Without being rupanuga – without the guidance of Sri Rupa-manjari – we cannot serve Radhika.
Sri Krsna's priya-narma sakhas (His most intimate of cowherd friends) like Subala and Sridama are inclined towards Srimati Radhika. They are pleased when Radhika and Krsna meet. There are also some priya-narma-sakhas who facilitate Candravali's relationship with Krsna, but Prabhupada Sarasvati Thakura was greatly inclined to Srimati Radhika, in favor of rupanuga. He was rupanuga. He wanted to distribute this idea of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: we want to be the servant of Sri Rupa-manjari, so that we can serve Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, not Candravali and others.
Srila Sarasvati Thakura's idea was to preach rupanuga-bhakti. Actually it was not to preach it, for rupanuga is not preached. His idea was to inspire devotees for this service to Srimati Radhika. At the end of his manifest stay in this world, however, he told his followers, "I could not do this, so I am unhappy. You should all gather and come under the shelter of asraya-tattva (the principle of the pure devotee – the reservoir of love for Krsna). Who is asraya-tattva? Guru is asraya-tattva. Living in such shelter, you should serve the Divine Couple Sri Sri Radha and Krsna under the guidance of Sri Rupa-manjari." This was the root motive for all his activities – to give this to the world.
He continued, "For this I have given great suffering to so many persons.
I have snatched their educated and very qualified boys and girls, and
brought them in this line. Therefore they became furious with me. Also, a
certain group (samaja) in Navadvipa and Vrndavana made a movement
against me. They could not understand my ideas, and they became opposed
to me. The day will come, however, when they will realize that I have
done something good, for society and for the individuals in society. I
have done something good for everyone's welfare. Later they will regret
that they opposed me. They will repent for this.
"So you should serve Radha and Krsna under the shelter of guru-tattva. Don't quarrel. Don't think you will be happy by collecting worldly possessions. You may be lacking so many things, but accumulating worldly possessions and positions will not make you happy. The fruit of having attained a human body is not the fulfillment of useless material ambitions. Besides these desires, we also have various kinds of diseases and our minds are disturbed with many worries. Leave them all.
"Fix an ultimate goal for your life. Decide where you will have to go and what you will have to do, so that your soul will be happy. Don't go towards material enterprises. One day this mundane body will become old and, poisoned by many diseases, it will then be finished. Yet, at that time, if you have given your body to Krsna for His service, your life will be a success. Offer this very wretched body to Krsna."
"Please try to understand my view. Do not quarrel among yourselves over useless worldly values. Always keep in mind what I have told you."
Then he left this world.
At that time our Guru Maharaja, Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, was present. Bhakti-vilasa Tirtha Maharaja was also present there, and at that time he had not yet taken sannyasa. He was managing all the affairs in all the Mathas at that time. He proposed that our Prabhupada should be cremated in Calcutta, at the burning ghata (crematorium place) at Karatala. Our Guru-Maharaja opposed this and said, "I request you not to take him. We will take the transcendental body of our Prabhupada to Mayapura, where he used to do his bhajana. And he will continue to do his bhajana, for he is still alive. He will be in samadhi. [*See endnote 1] We will erect a Samadhi-mandira there. Then, living there with his Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he will guide us forever."
"So you should serve Radha and Krsna under the shelter of guru-tattva. Don't quarrel. Don't think you will be happy by collecting worldly possessions. You may be lacking so many things, but accumulating worldly possessions and positions will not make you happy. The fruit of having attained a human body is not the fulfillment of useless material ambitions. Besides these desires, we also have various kinds of diseases and our minds are disturbed with many worries. Leave them all.
"Fix an ultimate goal for your life. Decide where you will have to go and what you will have to do, so that your soul will be happy. Don't go towards material enterprises. One day this mundane body will become old and, poisoned by many diseases, it will then be finished. Yet, at that time, if you have given your body to Krsna for His service, your life will be a success. Offer this very wretched body to Krsna."
"Please try to understand my view. Do not quarrel among yourselves over useless worldly values. Always keep in mind what I have told you."
Then he left this world.
At that time our Guru Maharaja, Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, was present. Bhakti-vilasa Tirtha Maharaja was also present there, and at that time he had not yet taken sannyasa. He was managing all the affairs in all the Mathas at that time. He proposed that our Prabhupada should be cremated in Calcutta, at the burning ghata (crematorium place) at Karatala. Our Guru-Maharaja opposed this and said, "I request you not to take him. We will take the transcendental body of our Prabhupada to Mayapura, where he used to do his bhajana. And he will continue to do his bhajana, for he is still alive. He will be in samadhi. [*See endnote 1] We will erect a Samadhi-mandira there. Then, living there with his Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he will guide us forever."
When those who had the idea that Srila Prabhupada's transcendental body
should be cremated opposed again, Guru Maharaja became furious. Standing
by his divine body, He very boldly said, "You cannot take him to
Karatala. I will personally stop whoever is doing so." He then arranged a
train from Calcutta, (from where Prabhupada left the world) to
Krsna-nagara. Around the first of January, in the morning, several
thousand persons went with his transcendental body to Mayapura. Then, in
the evening they carried his body to the area where the Samadhi is now
situated, and they performed kirtana throughout the night. With the
assistance of many young boys, our Guru-maharaja dug that Samadhi. He
managed the entire separation festival, just as I did for your
Prabhupada Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja here in Vrndavana. He
anointed the body with fragrant oils and put his Gurudeva in samadhi
there.
Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura preached the teachings of Lord Caitanya throughout India in no time. He also sent Bon Maharaja, Tirtha Maharaja and Gosvami Maharaja to the Western countries. Preaching did not advance as he wanted, however. He called for Bon Maharaja to return from England and told him, "We do not want to take anything from the Western countries. We have no need to take anything from them. Simply give them what I have told to you – we only want to give the same bhakti-bhava that Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given. Do not follow the habits of the Western civilization of eat, drink and be merry, as Vivekananda did."
He became somewhat apprehensive. Then he sent Gosvami Maharaja, and after that he ordered Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja to do it. Srila Swami Maharaja then performed a miracle. Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was so pleased to know that he has performed this task, and all of you are completing his task.
May Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada be merciful to
all of us today. May he inspire pure bhakti in our hearts, so that we
can practice and distribute this to others.
Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura preached the teachings of Lord Caitanya throughout India in no time. He also sent Bon Maharaja, Tirtha Maharaja and Gosvami Maharaja to the Western countries. Preaching did not advance as he wanted, however. He called for Bon Maharaja to return from England and told him, "We do not want to take anything from the Western countries. We have no need to take anything from them. Simply give them what I have told to you – we only want to give the same bhakti-bhava that Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given. Do not follow the habits of the Western civilization of eat, drink and be merry, as Vivekananda did."
He became somewhat apprehensive. Then he sent Gosvami Maharaja, and after that he ordered Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja to do it. Srila Swami Maharaja then performed a miracle. Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was so pleased to know that he has performed this task, and all of you are completing his task.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada (right)
and Sri Vinoda-bihari Brahmacari (second from left).
*ENDNOTE 1:"At the time of his divine departure from this world, Parama-pujyapada Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja ordered me, “You should serve me in my taking samadhi.” He knew the meaning and significance of entering samadhi, and what should be done at that time. Samadhi is a Sanskrit word consisting of the two syllables: sama-dhi. Sama means “the same” and dhi means “intelligence”. It means that the pure devotee who is departing from this world is entering the same level, same position and same mood as the personal associates of his worshipful deity – with equal intelligence, equal beauty and equal qualities. He is serving properly according to his own svarupa (constitutional form). Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja’s worshipful deity is Srimati Radhika, and he is serving Her under the guidance of Her personal associates, the manjaris, headed by Sri Rupa Manjari."(Srila Narayana Maharaja; ISKCON's Juhu Beach Temple in Bombay –1993)
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was born in the holy pilgrimage
place of Jagannatha Puri to Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, a great Vaisnava
acarya in the line of succession coming from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Although employed as a government magistrate, Srila Bhaktivinoda worked
tirelessly to establish the teachings of Lord Chaitanya in India. He
envisioned a worldwide spiritual movement and prayed for a son to help
him achieve his dream.
On February 6, 1874, in the sacred pilgrimage town of Jagannath Puri,
where Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura served as superintendent of the famous
Jagannatha temple, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta appeared in this world. He was
given the name Bimala Prasada. At the age of seven, Bimala Prasada had
memorized the more than seven hundred Sanskrit verses of the Bhagavad-gita
and could speak illuminating commentaries upon them. Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakura, the author of many important books and other
writings on Gaudiya Vaisnava philosophy, trained his son in printing and
proofreading.
By the time he was twenty-five years old, Bimala Prasada had acquired an
impressive reputation as a
scholar of Sanskrit, mathematics, and astronomy. His astronomical
treatise, Surya-siddhanta, won him the title
Siddhanta Sarasvati in recognition of his immense learning. In 1905,
following the advice of his father,
Siddhanta Sarasvati accepted spiritual initiation from Srila
Gaurakishora dasa Babaji. Although Srila
Gaurakishora dasa Babaji was illiterate, he was renowned throughout the
continent as a great saint and Vaisnava acarya. Siddhanta Sarasvati,
although a great scholar, exhibited humility and dedication in the
presence of Srila Gaurakishora. Satisfied with such humility and
dedication of his highly educated disciple, Srila
Gaurakishora gave Siddhanta Sarasvati his full blessings and requested
him to "preach the Absolute Truth and
keep aside all other work." Upon the disappearance of Srila Bhaktivinoda
Thakura in 1914, Siddhanta
Sarasvati became editor of his father's journal, Sajjana-tosani, and
founded the Bhagawat Press for the
publication of Gaudiya Vaisnava literature. In 1918 Siddhanta Sarasvati
accepted the renounced order of
spiritual life, assuming the title Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Goswami Maharaja. For purposes of propagating
Gaudiya Vaisnavism throughout India, he organized the Gaudiya Math, with
sixty-four branches throughout the
country. The headquarters of his mission, the Chaitanya Gaudiya Math, is
located in Sridhama Mayapura, the
birthplace of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta adjusted ancient traditions to conform with
technological and social conditions of the
twentieth century. He considered the printing press a most effective
means of spreading this message throughout
the world and was himself the author of many important translations,
commentaries, and philosophical essays. He was the first spiritual
teacher in this line to allow his renounced preachers (sannyasis)
to wear Western
clothes and travel in modern conveyances rather that on foot. Throughout
the 1930s, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
expanded and increased his missionary work and succeeded in
reestablishing Gaudiya Vaisnavism as the leading force in Indian
spiritual life.
On January 1, 1937, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura passed from this world.Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura (1874–1936) was the spiritual master of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
He was a lifelong celibate and a influential teacher of bhakti all over India. By all historical accounts, he was extremely intelligent and excelled in math, astronomy, Sanskrit, and other languages. The University of Calcutta offered him a chair, but he declined so that he could dedicate his life to continuing the spiritual work of his father, Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
http://www.krishna.com/bhaktisiddhanta-saraswati-thakura-0He was a lifelong celibate and a influential teacher of bhakti all over India. By all historical accounts, he was extremely intelligent and excelled in math, astronomy, Sanskrit, and other languages. The University of Calcutta offered him a chair, but he declined so that he could dedicate his life to continuing the spiritual work of his father, Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s Disappearance Day
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A Talk by Giriraj Swami December 19, 2005 San Diego
We are gathered on the most auspicious occasion of the disappearance
anniversary of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami
Maharaja Prabhupada, the spiritual master of our Srila Prabhupada. Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was born in Jagannatha Puri as the
son of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who was a magistrate and the
superintendent of the Jagannatha temple in Puri. At that time, during
the British rule, the position of magistrate was very important, and
rare for an Indian to hold.
Srila Prabhupada told us that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
was a ray of Visnu, a liberated soul sent by Krsna. He took birth in
the material world for a divine purpose, specifically to assist Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his work and to carry on his mission. Soon after
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s birth, during the Ratha-yatra, the chariot
stopped in front of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura’s house, and
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati’s mother took him onto the chariot; and a
garland from Lord Jagannatha fell directly onto the baby–blessings. (http://www.dandavats.com/?p=9142)
Día de la desaparición de Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
Una charla de Giriraj Swami 19 de diciembre de 2005 San Diego
A Talk by Giriraj Swami
Nos
hemos reunido en ocasión del aniversario de la desaparición de su
divina gracia Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja
Prabhupada, maestro espiritual de nuestro Srila Prabhupada más
auspiciosa. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
Thakura nació en Jagannatha Puri como hijo de Srila Bhaktivinoda
Thakura, que era un magistrado y el Superintendente del templo de
Jagannatha en Puri. En aquel momento, durante la dominación británica, la posición del magistrado fue muy importante y raro para un indio sostener.
Srila Prabhupada nos dijo que Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura fue un rayo de Visnu, un alma liberado enviado por Krsna. Tomó
nacimiento en el mundo material para un propósito divino,
específicamente para ayudar a Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura en su trabajo y
a realizar su misión. Poco después del
nacimiento de Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, durante el Ratha-yatra, el carro se
detuvo frente a la casa de Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, y madre de
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati lo llevó en el carro; y una guirnalda de Señor Jagannatha cayó directamente sobre el baby–blessings.
Más
tarde, como un predicador, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura fue
un gran innovador y viendo lo que se llevó a cabo sus actividades
misioneras, podemos apreciar mejor la línea en que Srila Prabhupada está
viniendo, cómo Srila Prabhupada realmente continúa en el mismo espíritu
que su guru maharaja.(http://www.dandavats.com/?p=9142)
http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/bmgs/acaryas/bhaktisiddhanta/writings.htm
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1900-1936 Colloquies With Foreigners:
Prof. Albert E. Suthers of Ohio Univeristy - Part I
Prof. Albert E. Suthers of Ohio Univeristy - Part II
Mr. Willion Henri Jan Vandor Stok of Batavia
Mrs. Nora Morell of Germany
Dr. Magnus Hirschfield of Berlin
Herr Baron H.E. Von Koeth and Herr E.G. Schulze
Prof. Dr. Stella Kramrisch, M.A., Ph.D
Professor Johans of St. Xaviers College
His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda's Appearance Day
- Los Angeles, February 7, 1969
- Gorakhpur, February 15, 1971 - SB 6.3.24
- Gorakhpur, February 15, 1971 - Evening
- Atlanta, March 2, 1975
- Māyāpur, February 21, 1976
- Māyāpur, February 8, 1977
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Prabhupāda: Hare
Kṛṣṇa. Come on. I was thinking of "Where is Jayānanda?" now immediately
he has come. (someone brings some kind of offering and Śrīla Prabhupāda
says to give it to his Guru Mahārāja) Take care it may not fall down.
(pause) All right.
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So today is the disappearance day of my Guru Mahārāja. As I told you that sādhavo jīva vā mara vā.
There was a nice story the other day I told you that a sage is giving
different kinds of blessings to different types of persons. So to a
king's son, a prince, he blessed, rāja-putra ciraṁ jīva: "You are a king's son, a prince. You live forever." And muni-putra, the son of a saintly person, he blessed him, mā jīva mā jīva: "You don't live." Rāja-putra ciraṁ muni-putra mā jīva. And sādhu, devotees, he blessed him, jīva vā mara vā: "Either you live or you die, as you like." And there was a butcher, he blessed him, mā jīva mā mara:
"You don't die, don't live." So these words are very significant. That I
have already explained, still I am explaining. A prince, he's enjoying
sense, that's all. He has got enough facility for sense enjoyment. So
his next life is hellish. Because if you indulge in sex life, then Kṛṣṇa
will give you facility to have sex life three times in an hour, just
like the pigeons, the monkeys, the sparrows, they are very sexually
strong. You have seen it. So the facility is given. So princely order,
they are after sense enjoyment. So he's blessed that "Better you live
forever, because after your death, you do not know what is going to
happen to you. You are going to get a hellish life. Better you live for
some time. Go on with your enjoyment." And muni-putra mā jīva. Brahmacārī, working under the guidance under strict disciplinary guidance, of a spiritual master, he is blessed, mā jīva,
"You better die. Because you are so trained to enter into the kingdom
of God, so why should you take so much trouble? Better you die and go
back to Godhead." Ma jīva. And a devotee he blessed, jīva va maro va: "My dear devotee, either you live or die, the same thing." And the butcher, he blessed him, ma jīva ma mara:
"You don't live, don't die." What he's to do? His living condition is
so abominable. From the morning, he has to slaughter so many animals,
see the bloodstain, the ghastly scene. That is his livelihood. So what a
horrible life this is. So "Don't live. And don't die also." Because
after death, oh, he is going to be in so much hellish condition, nobody
can describe. So both lives, living condition and death, after death,
his condition is very horrible.
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Anyway, apart from others, the devotee, for him,
appearance and disappearance the same thing. Just like when my spiritual
master appeared at Jagannātha Purī... He was the son of a very big
government officer, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura. He was magistrate, government
officer. In those days a magistrate is a big officer in the government,
practically next to governor. And Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura was in charge of
the Jagannātha temple. That is the system in Jagannātha Purī. The
manager in charge of the temple is the district magistrate. So there was
a Ratha-yātrā festival, and the car was passing in front of
Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura's house. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura's name was Kedaranath
Datta. When he was magistrate, he was known as K.N. Datta. Kedaranath
Datta. So the car stopped before his house, and at that time, Śrīla
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, a child in the lap of his mother. The
mother took the opportunity of rising on the car. He (She) was
magistrate's wife, so he (she) had the facility. Immediately, people
gave her way to go on the top of the car and place the child on the
lotus feet of Jagannātha. And there were many garlands. One garland fell
upon him, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, blessings. This was one of the...
There were so many other things.
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When he was a child two, three years old, he ate
one mango fruit which was kept for offering to the Deity. So his father
mildly rebuked him, "Oh, you have done a very wrong thing. It was meant
for Deity, and you have taken it. You should not have done it." The
child was two or three years old. He took it so seriously that never
after that he took mango. Whenever we offered him mango he said, "No, I
am offender. I cannot take mango." He was thinking like that, you see.
Never in his life he took a mango. He was thinking that "I offended in
my childhood by taking the mango of the Deity." This is the
characteristic of ācārya. They teach by their life's action that
one should be so much determined, that one should not be... A child took
the mango, there was no offense. But he took that vow.
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Another instance, in my presence. At that time, we
were also young men, and one of my Godbrothers, his name is Dr. Oul
Bihari Kapoor... He's now retired in Vṛndāvana, last time I saw him. He
was also young man, and his wife was also young. So we were sitting
together, talking with Guru Mahārāja, and the girl proposed, "My dear
master, I want to speak with you." So Guru Mahārāja said, "Yes, you can
talk whatever you like." So she said, "I want to talk with you secretly,
not in the presence of everyone." Guru Mahārāja said, "No. I cannot
talk with you secretly. You can talk in the presence of my all other
disciples." So even that girl was just like his granddaughter by age
calculation, he refused to talk with a young woman in a secret place.
These are the instances.
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So in his life he was akhaṇḍa brahmacārī.
Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura had many other sons, and he was the fifth son. And
some of his other brother also, they did not marry. And my Guru
Mahārāja, he also did not marry. From the childhood he is strict brahmacārī,
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja. And he underwent very
severe penances for starting this movement, worldwide movement. That was
his mission. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura wanted do this. He, 1896,
Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura wanted to introduce this Kṛṣṇa consciousness
movement by sending this book, Shree Chaitanya Mahāprabhu, His Life and Precepts.
Fortunately, that year was my birth year, and by Kṛṣṇa's arrangement,
we came in contact. I was born in a different family, my Guru Mahārāja
was born in a different family. Who knew that I will come to his
protection? Who knew that I would come in America? Who knew that you
American boys will come to me? These are all Kṛṣṇa's arrangement. We
cannot understand how things are taking place. In 1936... Today is ninth
December, 1938(68). That means thirty-two years ago. In Bombay, I was
then doing some business. All of a sudden, perhaps on this date,
sometimes between 9 or 10 December. At that time, Guru Mahārāja was
indisposed little, and he was staying at Jagannātha Purī, on the
seashore. So I wrote him letter, "My dear master, your other disciples, brahmacārī, sannyāsī,
they are rendering you direct service. And I am a householder. I cannot
live with you, I cannot serve you nicely. So I do not know. How can I
serve you?" Simply an idea, I was thinking of serving him, "How can I
serve him seriously?" So the reply was dated 13th December, 1936. In
that letter he wrote, "My dear such and such, I am very glad to receive
your letter. I think you should try to push our movement in English."
That was his writing. "And that will do good to you and to the people
who will help you." That was his instruction. And then in 1936, on the
31st December—that means just after writing this letter a fortnight
before his departure—he passed away. But I took that order of my
spiritual master very seriously, but I did not think that I'll have to
do such and such thing. I was at that time a householder. But this is
the arrangement of Kṛṣṇa. If we strictly try to serve the spiritual
master, his order, then Kṛṣṇa will give us all facilities. That is the
secret. Although there was no possibility, I never thought, but I took
it little seriously by studying a commentary by Viśvanātha Cakravartī
Ṭhākura on the Bhagavad-gītā. In the Bhagavad-gītā the verse vyavasāyātmikā-buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana [Bg. 2.41],
in connection with that verse, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura gives his
commentary that we should take up the words from the spiritual master as
our life and soul. We should try to carry out the instruction, the
specific instruction of the spiritual master, very rigidly, without
caring for our personal benefit or loss.
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So I tried a little bit in that spirit. So he has
given me all facilities to serve him. Things have come to this stage,
that in this old age I have come to your country, and you are also
taking this movement seriously, trying to understand it. We have got
some books now. So there is little foothold of this movement. So on this
occasion of my spiritual master's departure, as I am trying to execute
his will, similarly, I shall also request you to execute the same order
through my will. I am an old man, I can also pass away at any moment.
That is nature's law. Nobody can check it. So that is not very
astonishing, but my appeal to you on this auspicious day of the
departure of my Guru Mahārāja, that at least to some extent you have
understood the essence of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. You should try
to push it on. People are suffering for want of this consciousness. As
we daily pray about devotees,
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kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ | |||
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[I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the
Vaiṣṇava devotees of the Lord. They can fulfill the desires of everyone,
just like desire trees, and they are full of compassion for the fallen
souls.]
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A Vaiṣṇava, or devotee of Lord, his life is
dedicated for the benefit of the people. You know—most of you belong to
Christian community—how Lord Jesus Christ, he said that for your sinful
activities he has sacrificed himself. That is the determination of
devotee of the Lord. They don't care for personal comforts. Because they
love Kṛṣṇa or God, therefore they love all living entities because all
living entities are in relationship with Kṛṣṇa. So similarly you should
learn. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to become Vaiṣṇava and
feel for the suffering humanity. So to feel for the suffering humanity,
there are different angles of vision. Somebody is thinking of the
suffering of the humanity from bodily conception of life. Somebody is
trying to open hospital to give relief to the diseased condition.
Somebody is trying to distribute foodstuff in poverty-stricken countries
or places. These things are certainly very nice, but actual suffering
of the humanity is due to lack of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. These bodily
sufferings, they are temporary; neither they can be checked by the laws
of nature. Suppose if you give some distribution of foodstuff in some
poverty-stricken country, that does not mean that this help makes
solution of the whole problem. The real beneficial work is to invoke
every person to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As soon as he comes to Kṛṣṇa
consciousness... The same example, as I have given several times, that a
rich man's son is loitering in the street, forgetting his father's
opulence and property. And somebody, out of sympathy, giving him some
food. But other person comes to him and says, "Oh, my dear boy, I know
you. You are the son of such and such rich man. Why you are loitering in
the street? Come on, I shall take you to your father." So if that
gentleman takes that loitering boy to his father, the father is glad,
and the boy inherits his father's property, and his whole problem of
life becomes solved. This is a crude example. Similarly, all living
entities, they are loitering within this universe in different bodies,
in different planets, and from time immemorial, without knowing that he
belongs to the kingdom of God, he is the direct son of Kṛṣṇa and God,
that Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor of everything, and he can enjoy his
father's property, and these problems of material conditioned life
automatically solved. Just like if you become a rich man, if you can
possess millions of dollars, then your poverty is automatically solved.
Similarly, if you become Kṛṣṇa conscious and if you act in that way,
then all other problems in the material conditional life—solved.
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So this is such a nice movement. Ahaṁ tvaṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ [Bg. 18.66]. The Bhagavad-gītā
says, the Lord says, people's sufferings are due to his sinful
activities. Ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of sinful activity. Just
like a man does not know. Suppose a foreigner like me comes in America
and he does not know... Because in India... Just like in your country,
the car is driven from the right side; in India, I've seen in London
also, the car is driven from the left side. So suppose he does not know,
he drives the car on the left side and incurs some accident, and he is
taken by the police custody. And if he says, "Sir, I did not know that
here the car is driven from the right side," that does not make him
excused. The law will punish him. So ignorance is the cause of breaking
the law or sinful activities. And as soon as you commit some sinful
activity, you have to suffer the result. So the whole world is in
ignorance, and due to ignorance he's complicated in so many actions and
reactions, either good or bad. There is nothing good within this
material world; everything is bad. So we have manufactured something
good and something bad. Here... Because in the Bhagavad-gītā we understand this place is duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam [Bg. 8.15].
This place is for misery. So how you can say, in miserable condition,
how you can say that "This is good" or "This is bad." Everything is bad.
So those persons who do not know—the material, conditional life—they
manufacture something, "This is good, this is bad," because they do not
know everything here is bad, nothing good. One should be very much
pessimistic of this material world. Then he can make advance in
spiritual life. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam [Bg. 8.15].
This place is full of miseries, and if you study analytically, you'll
find simply miserable condition. Therefore the whole problem is that we
should give up our material conditional life, and in Kṛṣṇa consciousness
we should try to elevate ourself to the spiritual platform and thereby
be promoted to the kingdom of Godhead, yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāmaṁ paramaṁ mama [Bg. 15.6], where going, nobody comes back to this miserable world. And that is the supreme abode of the Lord.
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So there are description in the Bhagavad-gītā.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is authorized, very important.
Now, you American boys and girls who have taken to this movement, please
take it more seriously and... That is the mission of Lord Caitanya and
my Guru Mahārāja, and we are also trying to execute the will by
disciplic succession. You have come forward to help me. I shall request
you all that I shall go away, but you shall live. Don't give up pushing
on this movement, and you'll be blessed by Lord Caitanya and His Divine
Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Goswami Prabhupāda.
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Devotee: When your
spiritual master was a little boy, did, was he, um, did he do things
like Lord Caitanya did like when He went to the, um, like when Lord
Caitanya went to the water and all girls were asking for...
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Prabhupāda: No, he
was not so much naughty. (laughs) My Guru Mahārāja was very gentle boy.
Yes. Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very naughty boy. Yes. (laughs) And Kṛṣṇa
was also very naughty boy. (pause) Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. (kīrtana-Viṣṇujana leads, Śrīla Prabhupāda chants along) I have brought prasādam for you. Take. (long pause as prasādam is served out and devotees chant japa) Can stop it? (end)
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His Divine Grace
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda's Disappearance Day, Lecture — Bombay, December 22, 1975 | |||
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Prabhupāda:
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pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca
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Na śaucaṁ nāpi cācāro na satyaṁ teṣu vidyate. This is a verse from the Sixteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā, where the Lord is describing the symptoms of the demons. Pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca. Pravṛtti means inclination, inclined. And nivṛtti
means disinclined. So there are two things within this material world.
Our inclination is to enjoy the senses. This is general. Everyone within
this material world, even the animals, birds, beasts, human being or
more elevated than human beings, the demigods, kinnaras, or the,
many other higher types of living entities... There are different grades
of living entities-8,400,000 different bodies. So what is their pravṛtti, inclination? The inclination is attraction of man and woman. This is the central point of attraction. Puṁsāṁ striyaḥ maithuni-bhāvam etad: the whole material world is existing on this point—sex, man and woman. So this is pravṛtti-mārga, and nivṛtti-mārga: just to stop it. This is called nivṛtti-mārga.
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We are within this material world on account of this pravṛtti, sense enjoyment. Those who are inclined to sense enjoyment and do not care to know what is the aim of life, they are called asuras.
And those who are trying to avoid the entanglement of this material
life and revive the whole original life... Whole original life means
Kṛṣṇa conscious life. Because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, our
original consciousness is that "I have got intimate relationship with
Kṛṣṇa as His part and parcel." That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. And the, my
conception is the bodily conception, that "I am this body. I am born in
this country; therefore I belong to this nation, I belong to this
community, I belong to this family, I belong to this species," this is
called pravṛtti-mārga. This is scientific division, pravṛtti-mārga and nivṛtti-mārga.
Why the scientific? Because it is the fact. Science means fact. I am
not this body. I am spirit soul. That is, just like a man suffering from
some disease, so that is not his normal life to suffer from some
disease. Normal life is to keep healthy life, no disease. That is normal
life. So in order to keep to the normal life, we must know how to cure
the disease. Just like when you have got fever, you go to the doctor, he
says, advises "You do this" and "You do not do this." The "do not do
this" means nivṛtti-mārga, and "do this," pravṛtti-mārga.
If you are serious to cure your disease, then you must know what you
should do and what you should not do. But just like a man, a very
foolish man, he is suffering from disease but he does not know how to
cure the disease, what to do and what not to do, similarly an
animal-like man, a two-legged man, he does not know what to do and what
not to do. This is explained here.
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Pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca, janā, pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca, janā na vidur āsurāḥ [Bg. 16.7]. Janā, there are two kinds of men, asura and daiva. Daiva āsurā eva ca. There are two all throughout the whole universe, there are two classes of men: one is called daiva, and one is called āsura. One who knows his relationship with God, he is called daiva, and one who does not know, just like animal, they are called āsura. There is no particular caste or creed, that here is a caste of āsura, caste of daiva. No. Anyone who knows what is God and his relationship with God, sambandha, and then works according to that relation, and achieve the goal of life, he is called daiva, or devatā. And one who does not know this, what is the goal of life, what is God, what is my relationship with God, he is āsura.
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So, Kṛṣṇa has described everything, in the Bhagavad-gītā,
and today, this night, we are trying to explain the mission of Kṛṣṇa,
because the same mission is being carried out by us beginning from
Brahmā, and today is a special day, the disappearance day of my Guru
Mahārāja, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Goswami. So these ācāryas, they come and they go, that is not like ordinary birth and death. It is called prakaṭa, aprakaṭa, āvirbhāva, tirobhāva. So even ordinarily nobody takes birth and nobody dies, na jāyate na mrīyate vā kadācit, so what to speak of the ācāryas,
or Bhagavān. Nobody, a living entity, a living being... God is the
supreme living being, and we are subordinate living beings. Both of us,
we are living beings, so what is the difference between the two kinds of
living beings? The difference is that the one, God, or Kṛṣṇa, He
maintains all the other living beings. And we are being maintained. This
is the difference. Eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. The plural
number living entities, we are plural number, in different species of
life, but we are maintained by the Supreme Being.
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So this is our relationship. If we understand this relationship, eko bahūnāṁ yo vidadhāti kāmān,
that is our real understanding. Just like in your office or in a
factory, there is a proprietor, he is maintaining so many workers, so
many clerks. And what is your duty? To serve him. So similarly, if the
Supreme Being, the supreme proprietor, as Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā,
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If the factory man knows that he is not the
proprietor, he is not the enjoyer of the profit—the enjoyer of the
profit is the proprietor of the factory, and we are worker—then there is
peace. And if the workers fight amongst themselves, that "I am the
proprietor," falsely, then there is chaos. There is no production,
chaos. Similarly, if we fight ourselves, amongst ourselves, that "I am
proprietor of India; you are proprietor of America; you are proprietor
of Germany," this is false conception of life. Real proprietor is Kṛṣṇa.
If we know this, bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasam... Kṛṣṇa says that "Bhokta, I am bhokta, I am the enjoyer." Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasaṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram [Bg. 5.29],
"I am the final proprietor, or the supreme proprietor," that's a fact;
then there is peace. This is our relationship, that we are part and
parcel. We are not non-important: the factory is going on, or the whole
world is going on, on account of the living entities. Apareyam itas tu vidhi me prakṛtiṁ parā. Kṛṣṇa says that "Beyond this material energy," bhūmir āpo' nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā [Bg. 7.4], "these eight kinds of prakṛti, they are my separated energy. But there is another kind of superior energy," yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat [Bg. 7.5]. Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakṛtim. Just
like same example: in the factory there are ingredients and there are
workers. So the ingredients are compared with the material energy, bhūmir āpo' nalo vāyuḥ. They are also the property of the workers, because they are living being, jīva bhūtaḥ mahā-bāho yayedam dhāryate jagat, those who are working for development of this material world. The same example.
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So this is knowledge. We should understand that
everything belonging to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, nothing is
manufactured by us, so He is the proprietor; but because we are His
sons, we have got the legal right to enjoy the property of the father.
That is all right; that is real communism. This is actual understanding
of communism: everything belongs to God. Just like the Communists, they
are thinking everything belongs to the state, and the citizens must work
and enjoy. So our philosophy is the same. Only difference is that they
are, what is called, ignorantly accepting the state is the proprietor.
No. If they accept God is the proprietor, Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor, then
Communism is very perfect. That is missing. That is missing. Actually,
God is the proprietor. What is the state? That is artificial. This
state, American state, or African state, Russian state, these are
artificial. Actually the land belongs to God. We are demark: this is
India, this is Russia, this is America. That is the beginning of
spiritual education, to understand this fact:
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īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvaṁ
yat kiñcid jagatyāṁ jagat tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā mā gṛdha kasyasvid dhanam [Īśo mantra 1] | |||
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This is the real understanding. Everything belongs to God—īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam—everything, and tena tyaktena bhuñjithā, whatever He gives you as prasādam... Just like our principle is that we are working for Kṛṣṇa, this is real philosophy. Every one of us, one who is offering ārati,
he is also working for Kṛṣṇa, and one who is building this
construction, temple, he is also working for Kṛṣṇa. So as worker for
Kṛṣṇa there is no distinction. Variety. Variety of service.
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So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means variety
of service to the Supreme. The example is just like, the varieties of
different parts of the body: the head is there, the hand is there, the
brain is there, the leg is there. The head cannot work like the leg,
neither the leg can work like the brain. The hand cannot work the belly,
or belly cannot work like the hand. Varieties. Similarly, there are
varieties of service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and if we
serve Kṛṣṇa with our varieties, sa karmaṇā manasā vācā, then it
is everything peaceful. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We do not
want to stop the varieties. Varieties must be there. We are not nirveśeṣa-vādī,
impersonalist. No. We are completely personalist. Kṛṣṇa is person,
Rādhārāṇī is person, the devotees are person, the demigods are person,
the cats person, the dogs person, the cows person, the calves person.
But what is the meaning of Vṛndāvana? Vṛndāvana means everyone—the
father and mother of Kṛṣṇa, Nanda Mahārāja, Yaśodāmāyī, the gopīs,
the girlfriends of Kṛṣṇa, Rādhārāṇī and others, and the cowherd boys,
and the cows, the calfs, the trees, the flowers, the fruits, the water.
Everyone is for serving Kṛṣṇa. This is Vṛndāvana. Vṛndāvana means there
is variety, and varieties of service and everything for Kṛṣṇa. That is
Vṛndāvana.
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So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is
educating that the varieties of service should be concentrated for the
satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa. That is pravṛtti, and what is not satisfying Kṛṣṇa, against the... [break]
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Anukūlyasya saṅkalpaḥ pratikūlyasya varjanam. This is called surrender. Surrender means that Kṛṣṇa is asking sarva-dharmān parityayja mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja.
What is the surrender means? Surrender means "Kṛṣṇa, I am surrendering
unto You. I was acting whimsically, by the dictation of my different
senses." Kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mātsarya, like that. Na kāmādīnāṁ katidha na katidhā pālitā durnideśa. The śāstra says, you should not steal-an example. But I am stealing. Why? Na kāmādīnāṁ katidha na katidhā pālitā durnideśa.
I know I should not steal; therefore I go to somebody's house very
secretly, or push my hand very secretly in one's pocket. I know that I
should not do this, but I am forced to do it. Why? I am dictated by my
lusty desire. So I am become servant of my six senses. Manaḥ saṣṭhanīndriyāni prakṛti-sthāni karṣati [Bg. 15.7]. This is our position. Na manina kulya...
Everyone knows. A thief knows if he commits theft he'll be punished,
either by the police or by the laws of God. Everyone knows, but he still
commits theft. Why? He is dictated by the lusty desires.
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So pravṛtti means we are dictated by our kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mātsarya, and we should agree to be dictated by Kṛṣṇa, that's all. That is intelligent. Pravṛtti, nivṛtti. Our pravṛtti
is to abide by the dictation of the senses, and when we learn not to
abide by the dictation of the senses but to abide by the orders of Kṛṣṇa
or His representative, then your life is successful. This teaching,
this learning, means Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is not difficult. Everyone
can do it. Simply he has to change: instead of being dictated by the
senses, one should be dictated by Kṛṣṇa. That requires qualification.
Kṛṣṇa is there, in everyone's heart. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati [Bg. 18.61]. Kṛṣṇa is not far away, but you have to search out where is Kṛṣṇa within your heart. That is called yoga. Dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ [SB 12.13.1]. Yoginaḥ,
those who are trying to understand Kṛṣṇa by the yoga process... The
yoga means controlling the senses. Without controlling the senses you
cannot practice any yoga. Nowadays it has become a fashion, meditation
yoga, but that is not bona fide. That is not only (not) bona-fide; that
is farce. Real yoga is controlling the senses and concentrating the mind
to the Supreme Person. Dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ [SB 12.13.1]. That is the... And farce yogi is going like that. And Kṛṣṇa says also in the Bhagavad-gītā,
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He is first class yogi. Who? "Always thinking of Me.
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He is first-class yogi." So we are teaching our
students to become the first-class yogi. Not these yogis to reduce fat.
No. That is not required. Yogi means who is always seeing Kṛṣṇa within
the heart. Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru [Bg. 18.65]. This is first-class yogi, bhakta-yogī. Twenty-four hours, satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ [Bg. 9.14]. Satataṁ kīrtayanto mām: you have to fix up your mind in Kṛṣṇa by the process of chanting His glories, satataṁ kīrtayanto mām [Bg. 9.14], not otherwise. Mām, Kṛṣṇa.
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So people do not understand this, what he should do, what he should not do. Pravṛtti, nivṛtti. Because he cannot distinguish, therefore he is asura. Asura-demons,
or atheist. So if you analyze the modern... [break] This Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement is so nice that it is invented..., not invented;
it is there in the Vedic literatures. Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He has
given us this process of realizing Kṛṣṇa and becoming expert in
understanding what we should do and what we should not do, pravṛtti nivṛtti. And therefore if we know that we should not do this, we should do this, then we become immediately devatā. And if you do not know what we should do and what we should not do, then we remain asura. It is not that because one is asura, he cannot become a devatā. The asura can become devatā, provided he knows these two things: pravṛtti and nivṛtti.
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So pravṛtti we have got, just like we have got tendency-cent percent person has it at the present moment—to smoke. This is pravṛtti. But we say don't smoke, nivṛtti. And if we drink, that is pravṛtti.
Everyone, even the ant, he is also drunkard. They have scientifically
studied, the ants are very much fond of intoxication; therefore they eat
sugar. In sugar there is liquor, so the... Loke bhāvāya nisamadhya sevā nityasta yanto. Every living entity has got this tendency, bhāvāya. Bhāvāya means sex life; amīṣa, meat-eating; and mada, liquor. Natural tendency. Therefore the country where these things are indulged without any restriction, that is asura, the country of the asura.
So especially in the Western countries, and now we have also learned.
In India, either Hindus or Musselman, drinking was a sin. Now we have
got very easily available liquor. Every door there is shop, and every
door there is meat shop. So India, there was time that they were all devatās; now we are imitating the asuras. On the other hand, the boys and girls from the asuric country, they are becoming the devotee, devatā. So there is no exclusive right for a country to become devatā or demon. A demon can be turned into the devatā and devatā can be turned into demon, provided he does not follow this pravṛtti and nivṛtti, what is pravṛtti-mārga. Pravṛtti-sambhūtānāṁ nivṛtti tu mahābalam. That is life. "I want to smoke; I have got tendency to smoke," pravṛtti. This is pravṛtti; everyone has got. But if you can stop it, then your life is successful. Nivṛtti.
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Therefore this nivṛtti means tapasya.
If I am habituated to smoke, if I am habituated to illicit sex life, if
I am habituated to intoxication and gambling, etc., this is my pravṛtti. But if we can stop it by practice, that is called tapasya. And human life is meant for tapasya. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddyeta satyam [SB 5.5.1]. Ṛṣabhadeva's instruction: "My dear sons, you practice tapasya." The human life is meant for tapasya. "I have got tendency to do this, but that will not help me, that will degraded me." So tapasya means instead of being degraded, be elevated. This is called tapasya. Tapo divyam. This human life is meant for this purpose, to practice tapasya, or to practice nivṛtti. Then our life is successful. Tapo divyam. Why tapasya, why nivṛtti? Yena śuddhyena sattva. Sattva means here existence is impure. Impure means that you are eternal, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20],
you do not die after the annihilation of this body, but I am subjected
to repetition of birth and death, in different species of life. This is
my disease. It is not pure condition of life. Pure condition of life as
it is stated in Bhagavad-gītā, yad gatvā na nirvartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama.
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[break] ...Vaikuṇṭhaloka, Kṛṣṇa's loka, then you get your original, eternal sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ [Bs. 5.1], live there eternally. Just like in Vṛndāvana they are always with Kṛṣṇa enjoying life. This is nivṛtti-mārga.
So there is a life, eternal life, very blissful life, full of
knowledge. If you want to go back to that life, back to home, back to
Godhead, then you must practice this pravṛtti, nivṛtti-mārga.
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So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is teaching this pravṛtti-mārga, nivṛtti-mārga, both. "You do not do this" or "You do this." "Do this" means rise early in the morning, maṅgala-āratrika.
Of course, you must sleep, but not sleep like cats and dogs, animals.
Simply sleeping means waste of time. The more you reduce sleeping, then
you become perfect. Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau **. All the gosvāmīs in Vṛndāvana, they conquered over these things. What is these things? Nidrā, sleeping; āhāra, eating; and vihāra, and sense pleasure. This is called sannyāsa life, reducing sleeping, reducing eating. This is pravṛtti-mārga. We
think "If I can eat voraciously like an elephant, then my life is
successful." No. That is not success of life. If you can do without any
food, that is successful. That is success. This is called nivṛtti-mārga, but that is not practical; therefore if we promise that we shall not eat anything which is not offered to Kṛṣṇa, that is tapasya. If you don't go to the restaurant and eat anything nonsense, that is pravṛtti. But if you want to stop that restaurant-going, then you take Kṛṣṇa prasādam; kṛṣṇa borā dayā moy kori bāre jihvā joy sva-prasāda-anna dilo bhāi. Kṛṣṇa is ready, so many nice, palatable dishes; you take and stop this restaurant-going. This is Kṛṣṇa's mercy. Patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati [Bg. 9.26]. Kṛṣṇa does not say "Bring something from the restaurant" or this or that. He says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati:
anything, little leaf, little flower, little water. Kṛṣṇa is not
hungry, but Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He has come to you, so that you can
touch Him, you can dress Him, you can decorate Him, you can offer Him,
you can live with Him as servant, as friend, as son, as lover. In so
many ways, Kṛṣṇa is giving you chance.
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So the kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, in the beginning... It is not that kaniṣṭha,
beginning, if anyone immediately becomes so advanced. It is not
advancement; it is foolishness. Just like somebody, they declare that
"Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. Why should we go to the temple?" Then if Kṛṣṇa is
everywhere, He is not in the temple? Huh? What is this argument? If
Kṛṣṇa is everywhere, He is also in the temple. But in the temple I
worship directly, and what is the utility? Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. I am not
so advanced that I can see everywhere Kṛṣṇa. Who can see Kṛṣṇa
everywhere? That is very advanced stage. Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti [Bs. 5.38].
If you become so advanced that you cannot live without Kṛṣṇa for a
moment, then Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. Where is that training? Where is that
advancement? Even if I advise, try to meditate, I meditate upon my wife,
upon my children, on my business. This is not the stage of seeing Kṛṣṇa
everywhere. That requires training. That requires advanced knowledge. Prema. Kṛṣṇa is so kind, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante [Bg. 4.11].
If a devotee cannot live for a moment without seeing Kṛṣṇa, he is
visible... A devotee... Not for the neophyte devotee. So there are
different stages.
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So this is not fact that Kṛṣṇa is within your mind;
therefore you should not got to the temple, you have become so
advanced. No. Better... [break] ...śilā-dhīr. Do not consider
that "Here is a stone Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa is everything. Stone is also Kṛṣṇa;
simply you have to be qualified how to talk with stone Kṛṣṇa. That is
your qualification. You have to qualify yourself; otherwise Kṛṣṇa is
stone, Kṛṣṇa is water, Kṛṣṇa is sky, Kṛṣṇa is everything. So this is the
philosophy. Kṛṣṇa says bhūmir āpo' nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca: [Bg. 7.4]
"I am everything." That's a fact. So why do you say there is stone
Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa is everything, if you have got the eyes to see, you can see
Kṛṣṇa everywhere and everything.
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So this is the beginning. Therefore you require pravṛtti and nivṛtti to
understand how you should think, how you should live, how you should
eat, how you should sleep. This training is required. Why it is
required? Because to get out of this material bondage, where the birth,
death, old age and disease is compulsory. If you want to avoid this,
because you are eternal, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20], why don't you think that "If I am eternal, why am I accepting birth, death, old age, and disease?" This is intelligence. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. This is Vedānta-sūtra. Now we should enquire how we can get out of this material entanglement.
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So my Guru Mahārāja, in the paramparā system, Kṛṣṇa comes also, that yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata [Bg. 4.7]. This is dharmasya glānir. One does not know what is his duty, aim of life—everyone. Ninety-nine point nine percent, this is dharmasya glanīr, dharmasya glānir. Tadātmānam sṛjāmy aham:
to teach the rascal people to understand what is his duty, what is his
aim of life. So not only Kṛṣṇa comes, but also His representatives also
come. Kṛṣṇa is so kind, He leaves book, He leaves representative, and He
comes Himself. In so many ways He is trying to give us the benefit. Asura: we do not take the advantage, and continually suffer, mūḍhā janmani janmani [Bg. 16.20],
birth after birth we suffer. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so
beneficial that He wants to benefit the whole human society how to stop
this process of repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. So my
Guru Mahārāja also came for this purpose, and we are also trying to
follow his footsteps, and we are teaching our disciple to do the same
thing. Evaṁ paramparā prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo vidhuḥ [Bg. 4.2].
So this is not a new movement, or some invented "ism". It is old, at
least four, five thousand years. What Kṛṣṇa spoke, the other followers
also spoke the same thing, and we are also speaking the same thing. It
is up to you to take advantage of it or not.
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Next: His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Disappearance Day, Lecture -- Hyderabad, December 10, 1976Disciples of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja
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The disciples of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī
Gosvāmī Mahārāja are all Godbrothers, and although there are some
differences of opinion, and although we are not acting conjointly, every
one of us is spreading this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement according to
his own capacity and producing many disciples to spread it all over the
world.
SB 4.28.31, Purport:
Among
Vaiṣṇavas there may be some difference of opinion due to everyone's
personal identity, but despite all personal differences, the cult of
Kṛṣṇa consciousness must go on. We can see that under the instructions
of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī
Mahārāja began preaching the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in an
organized way within the past hundred years. The disciples of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja
are all Godbrothers, and although there are some differences of
opinion, and although we are not acting conjointly, every one of us is
spreading this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement according to his own
capacity and producing many disciples to spread it all over the world.
As far as we are concerned, we have already started the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness, and many thousands of Europeans and
Americans have joined this movement. Indeed, it is spreading like
wildfire. The cult of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, based on the nine principles
of devotional service (śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam/
arcanaṁ vandanaṁ dāsyaṁ sakhyam ātma-nivedanam (SB 7.5.23)), will never be stopped. It will go on without distinction of caste, creed, color or country. No one can check it.
We have actually seen that one of the disciples of
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura wanted to enjoy the property of his
spiritual master, and the spiritual master, being merciful toward him,
gave him the temporary property, but not the power to preach the cult of
Caitanya Mahāprabhu all over the world.
SB 5.18.22, Purport:
The
material opulences a person obtains by offering prayers to the goddess
Durgā are temporary. As described in Bhagavad-gītā (7.23), antavat tu
phalaṁ teṣāṁ tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām: men of meager intelligence
desire temporary happiness. We have actually seen that one of the disciples of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura
wanted to enjoy the property of his spiritual master, and the spiritual
master, being merciful toward him, gave him the temporary property, but
not the power to preach the cult of Caitanya Mahāprabhu all over the
world. That special mercy of the power to preach is given to a devotee
who does not want anything material from his spiritual master but wants
only to serve him. The story of the demon Rāvaṇa illustrates this point.
Although Rāvaṇa tried to abduct the goddess of fortune Sītādevī from
the custody of Lord Rāmacandra, he could not possibly do so. The
Sītādevī he forcibly took with him was not the original Sītādevī, but an
expansion of māyā, or Durgādevī. As a result, instead of winning the
favor of the real goddess of fortune, Rāvaṇa and his whole family were
vanquished by the power of Durgādevī
(sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā (Bs. 5.44)).
There are many disciples of Bhaktisiddhānta
Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, but to judge who is actually his disciple, to divide
the useful from the useless, one must measure the activities of such
disciples in executing the will of the spiritual master.
CC Adi 12.12, Translation and Purport:
Paddy is mixed with straw at first, and one must fan it to separate the paddy from the straw.
This example given by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja
Gosvāmī is very appropriate. In the case of the Gauḍīya Maṭha members,
one can apply a similar process. There are many disciples of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura,
but to judge who is actually his disciple, to divide the useful from
the useless, one must measure the activities of such disciples in
executing the will of the spiritual master. Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī
Ṭhākura tried his best to spread the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to
countries outside India. When he was present he patronized the disciples
to go outside India to preach the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, but
they were unsuccessful because within their minds they were not actually
serious about preaching His cult in foreign countries; they simply
wanted to take credit for having gone to foreign lands and utilize this
recognition in India by advertising themselves as repatriated preachers.
Many svāmīs have adopted this hypocritical means of preaching for the
last eighty years or more, but no one could preach the real cult of
Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world. They merely came back to India
falsely advertising that they had converted all the foreigners to the
ideas of Vedānta or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and then they collected funds
in India and lived satisfied lives of material comfort. As one fans
paddy to separate the real paddy from useless straw, by accepting the
criterion recommended by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī one can very easily
understand who is a genuine world-preacher and who is useless.
German. Yes.
Morning Walk -- June 15, 1976, Detroit:
Prabhupāda: That is already known. Further?
Makhanlāl: They want to go to Mars and Saturn now.Prabhupāda: Why? Moon finished? Simply by taking dust? And still the government is going to pay for Mars and Venus?
Devotee (1): They all do favors for each other. The government contracts big construction companies to build military bases for them. And then in turn they all have engagement, they all feed each other, like that. We met one boy in Houston, his grandfather was a disciple of Bhaktisiddhānta.
Prabhupāda: Indian?
Devotee (1): Yes. No, he is not Indian, he was German.
Prabhupāda: German. Yes.
Devotee (1): His grandfather was German, he was raised in Germany.
Prabhupāda: Yes, we had two German Godbrothers. One is that Sadānanda. Another was Bon something.
Hari-śauri: He was initiated?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
And the Bon Mahārāja is his follower. He's in name a disciple of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, but he's a servant of Vivekananda.
Morning Walk -- July 10, 1976, New York:
Prabhupāda:
He has got some international name. So he says that "It's great fortune
I have met you." He's now realizing his mistakes. He has still some
respect for Vivekananda; that I did not disturb; he might misunderstand.
Actually this Vivekananda rascal, what he has done? What is his
contribution?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You always add on "rascal" whenever you mention his name.Prabhupāda: No, no, what he has done? He has ruined the Vedic culture.
Hari-śauri: Completely misrepresented it.
Prabhupāda: And the Bon Mahārāja is his follower. He's in name a disciple of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, but he's a servant of Vivekananda.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He's very similar to him.
Prabhupāda: He's a great appreciator of Vivekananda. He has put in his curriculum Vivekananda philosophy, Gandhi philosophy. Rascal, what philosophy they have got?
Hari-śauri: He mentioned all the nonsense people. He put a circular out, he mentioned Rama Tirtha, Vivekananda, all these nonsense.
Prabhupāda: Now I am convinced he's a rascal. He's nothing but a great rascal. My Guru Mahārāja rejected him. Therefore he was called back, rascal, he used to say like that, banamānuṣa. Banamānuṣa.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Bon?
Prabhupāda: His name is Bon Mahārāja, and my Guru Mahārāja used to say banamānuṣa. Banamānuṣa means the gorilla. (laughter) He is black also like gorilla. He has given so much trouble to Guru Mahārāja.
Our proposition is you take direction from Kṛṣṇa
and His representative. That's all. That will help you. Try to
understand this point. Our system, paramparā system, is that I am just
like disciple of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī. I don't say that I am
liberated. I am conditioned. But because I am following the instruction
of Bhaktisiddhānta, I'm liberated. This is the distinction between
conditioned and liberated.
Morning Walk -- January 4, 1977, Bombay:
Girirāja: That he's not going to give any more public lectures and he's not going to give any more advice to any institutions.
Prabhupāda: But, now he's thinking that it is useless. Otherwise why
he would say like that? And mokṣa? He's going to try for mokṣa?Girirāja: Yes. He's saying that by reducing these activities he wants to get mokṣa.
Prabhupāda: So, our point is that if he was not on the platform of mokṣa, liberation, why did he waste his time by spoiling himself and for spoiling others? Now he has come to his senses, it is good, but it is to be understood that he simply spoiled his time and spoiled others' career by misleading them. Thus, without being liberated, nobody can guide anyone. That is useless. That is andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ (SB 7.5.31). If you have no eyes, then how can you lead others? If you are blind and they are blind, then what is the use of becoming their leaders? Actually all the so-called leaders and scholars, they are blind themselves and they have become big, big leader. That is the misfortune of the present life. And, therefore, our proposition is you take direction from Kṛṣṇa and His representative. That's all. That will help you. Try to understand this point. Our system, paramparā system, is that I am just like disciple of Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī. I don't say that I am liberated. I am conditioned. But because I am following the instruction of Bhaktisiddhānta, I'm liberated. This is the distinction between conditioned and liberated. When one is under the direction of a liberated person... The same thing: Electricity. The copper is not electricity, but when it is charged with electricity, if it is touched, that is electricity. And, similarly, this paramparā system, the electricity is going. If you cut the paramparā system, then there is no electricity. Therefore it is stressed so much. Sa kāleneha mahatā yogo naṣṭaḥ parantapa. The electricity is lost. These people, they do not know. Now at the fag end of life, they are thinking, if intelligent person, that "What I have done actually?" If one has sense, he should come to this understanding. By cutting some, what is that? Dead trees? The civil disobedience began by cutting dead trees. Is it not? Vinoda Bhave, he began his leadership forty years ago by cutting... Gandhi also, civil disobedience. So this kind of leadership might have been little enthusiasm for the time being, but actually what people gain by that, such leadership?
Dr. Patel: Anta-kāle 'pi brahma-nirānanda. He thinks that way, that in last moment he is, come to that stage, he will be ...
Prabhupāda: That is very good, but we should know also that so long, whatever he has done, that is from the blind platform, so nobody has gained anything. And if it was on the real platform, then svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt. So kṛṣṇa-bhakti is such nice thing that even a little... There are many places it is confirmed that even a person in kṛṣṇa-bhakti stage falls down, being immature, what is the loss there? Bhāgavata... What is the loss there?
As a bona fide disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, and because I am trying my best to fulfill
His holy desire in the matter of preaching work in this part of the
world, I have got the right to ask from you a plot of land for this
purpose. Now it is up to you to cooperate with me.
Letter to Tirtha Maharaja -- Los Angeles 7 February, 1969:
Besides
the above book, my following books are also selling all over America
and Europe: Srimad-Bhagavatam (6 volumes), Teachings of Lord Caitanya,
Transcendental Meditation Explained, Easy Journey to Other Planets,
Isopanisad, Brahma Samhita, and Nectar of Devotion. I shall send you a
copy of Teachings of Lord Caitanya as soon as I get copies from Japan in
March, 1969. Also, Sripada Sadananda Swami (Earnest Shulze) has sent
his congratulations to me through one of his disciples thinking of my
successful preaching in America, Canada, and Europe.
Please, therefore, encourage me by your cooperation. Don't try to
suppress me without mentioning anything about our efforts in your
pamphlet. This will not satisfy Srila Prabhupada. Please, therefore, try
to present the abovementioned facts before the Patrons in the session
meeting, and induce them to cooperate with this movement in the Western
World.I am now Permanent Resident or Immigrant in the USA, so there is no need of my Visa, Passport, or P Form trouble for me. I can come and go from India without any formalities. If you simply cooperate with me, I can render some service to the fulfillment of the transcendental desire of Srila Prabhupada and Bhaktivinode Thakura.
The summary is that you may kindly give me a plot of land in the Sri Caitanya Math for the proposed building. If you want to lay down the foundation stone for this building during the Jubilee celebration, I am prepared to send you the required money for this special purpose. Or else, on your approval of this scheme, I may at once go to India along with some of my American and European disciples to do the needful. As a bona fide disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, and because I am trying my best to fulfill His holy desire in the matter of preaching work in this part of the world, I have got the right to ask from you a plot of land for this purpose. Now it is up to you to cooperate with me.
I shall be very glad to receive your reply to this letter. On receipt of your favorable reply, I may start immediately for India to take part in the matter of the foundation stone of the building during the Jubilee celebration.
So far as your question about controversy amongst
the disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, that is a
fact. But this controversy is not material. Just like in a national
program, different political parties are sometimes in conflict and make
propaganda against each other, but their central point is always service
to the country.
Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Los Angeles 28 July, 1969:
Regarding
Lord Jagannatha, He is the unfinished carved form of Krishna. One king
named Indradyumna wanted to establish a Jagannatha temple some thousands
of years ago, but while the Deities were being carved by the heavenly
carpenter, Visva Karma, the king was in too much haste, and he
established the half-finished Deities in the temple. Jagannatha means
the Lord of the universe. That is Krishna. Krishna as the only one Lord
of everything is confirmed in the Brahma Samhita, Srimad-Bhagavatam,
Bhagavad-gita, Caitanya Caritamrta, and all Vedic literature. Rathayatra
is celebrating the occasion when Lord Krishna, or Lord Jagannatha
attended one religious functional occasion in Kuruksetra along with His
elder brother and younger sister in a big chariot. So far as your
question about controversy amongst the disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja,
that is a fact. But this controversy is not material. Just like in a
national program, different political parties are sometimes in conflict
and make propaganda against each other, but their central point is
always service to the country. Similarly, amongst the disciples of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
there may be some controversy, but the central point is how to preach
the mission of His Divine Grace. If the central point is fixed up then
there is no harm in such controversy. Every individual being must have
his opinion; that is the significance of individuality, but all such
differences of opinions must coincide in Krishna. In the battlefield of
Kuruksetra were Arjuna and Bhisma who were fighting with one another,
and because Krishna was on the side of Arjuna, sometimes Bhisma pierced
the body of Krishna also with arrows. But still they remained the
greatest devotees of the Lord, and Krishna accepted the friendship of
Arjuna just as He accepted the inimical arrows of Bhisma in the same
loving spirit. So you do not be disturbed by such controversial points.
Better you engage your mind very seriously in the matter of the service
entrusted upon you. That will make you progressive in Krishna
Consciousness.
Life of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur (1874 – 1937), was a preacher of
Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout India in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century. He was born as Bimal Prasad Dutta in the seaside
pilgrimage town of Jagannath Puri, Orissa, India. His father was the
Vaishnava scholar Bhaktivinoda Thakur, the first to present the
teachings of Chaitanyite Vaishnavism to the English speaking world.
In 1918, Siddhanta Sarasvati accepted the renounced order of spiritual
life, assuming the title Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami
Maharaja. For the purpose of propagating Krishna-bhakti throughout
India, he organized the Gaudiya Math, with sixty-four branches
throughout the country. The headquarters of his mission, the Caitanya
Gaudiya Math, was located in Sridhama Mayapur, the birthplace of Lord
Caitanya.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur is also the
spiritual master of world renowned A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
who at the age of 69 came to America to fulfil the admonition of his
guru, and within a short span of 12 years established 108 centres world
wide, and made "Hare Krishna" a household term in the USA, translated
texts into English and gave purports to various Sanskrit Vedic texts
such as the Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam - allowing thousands to
benefit from learning these valuable ancient teachings.
At the
age of only seven Bimala Prasad Datta, had memorized all seven hundred
verses of the Bhagavad-gita and could explain each one.
One day
the boy took an unoffered mango from the room of the family Deity and
ate it. His father chastised him for it upon catching him and told him
that it was not proper Vaishnava behavior to eat food that had not first
been offered to the Lord. At that time Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati,
taking his father’s words very seriously, made a vow never to eat mango
again. Through his whole life he kept this vow very faithfully.
Whenever someone would offer him a mango he would say, “No, I cannot
take, I am a great offender”.
At the age of ten, he was
initiated by his father into the Hare Krishna mantra and a Narasimhadeva
mantra. Later on he attended a special Sanskrit college where he became
expert in Sanskrit grammar, Vedic shastra and different views of
philosophy.
Due to his lifelong celibacy he had such a clear
memory that even in his last days he could reproduce word for word any
passage of any book he had read fifty years back.
At college he
read all of the books in the library and made private studies into
higher mathematics, international history and philosophy and Vedic
astronomy. He was such a powerful debater that no one’s arguments could
stand up against his vast intellect and scholarship. At the age of
twenty-three he opened a school in Calcutta which he called Sarasvata
Chatuspathi. Many prominent and scholarly Calcutta gentlemen were among
his students. By the time he was twenty-five years old, Bimala Prasada
had acquired an impressive reputation as a scholar of Sanskrit,
mathematics, and astronomy.
In 1901 Srila Bhativinoda Thakura
requested his son to become initiated in the Gayatri mantra and accept a
spiritual master. The Thakura had one very beloved disciple, Srila
Gaurakisora dasa Babaji Maharaja, a very renowned Vaishnava saint of
Navadvipa. It was therefore he who the Thakura requested his son to take
initiation from. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura then
approached the babaji for getting initiated, but Gaurakisora dasa
Babaji, who had no disciples, out of his infinite humbleness refused to
accept such an knowledgeable pandita as Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati,
when he himself could not even write his own name. So, disappointed,
Sarasvati Thakura went back to his father and related to him what had
happened, but Thakura Bhaktivinoda sent him out again, and again Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta came back with the same news. So this time the Thakura
told his son, “Unless you take initiation from Gaurakishora dasa Babaji
your life is useless and no longer may you enter this house”. Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati then set off with great determination, and
meeting Srila Gaurakishora dasa Babaji on a bridge along the road told
him that he would jump off the bridge and kill himself if the babaji did
not accept him as a disciple. He said to him, “My father has told me
that human life is worthless without a spiritual master, so if you
refuse to accept me as your disciple I must kill myself”. Upon hearing
that and seeing the young man’s sincerity of purpose, the babaji
accepted him as his only disciple.
From that year, Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta traveled with Thakura Bhaktivinoda in his pilgrimages to
all the principle holy places in India. During this time he compiled a
Vaishnava encyclopedia named Vaisnava-manjusha. In 1900 he was staying
in Puri where he began to publicly preach the holy precepts of
Srimad-Bhagavatam. In 1904 Srila Sarasvati Thakura traveled in East
Bengal. In 1905 he travailed to the far southern provinces of India,
lecturing, preaching, writing, debating, fully absorbed in the fire of
propagating the message of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In the South he
traveled to places such as Simachalam, Madras, Tirupati, Kanchipura and
many other places of pilgrimage. His strong preaching gave him such a
reputation that his very name would strike terror into the hearts of his
philosophical opponents. The perverted and immoral so-called religious
activities of different nonsense cults and sects were doomed forever in
the presence of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.
Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada always stressed the importance of
publishing and distributing Vaishnava literature as a means of educating
the mass of ignorant humanity and in order to facilitate the printing
of books and journals he established four printing presses.
In
1918 at the age of fourty-four, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati accepted
the title Gosvami Maharaja by taking the renounced order of life,
sannyasa. On that same day he established his first Vaishnava monastery,
the Caitanya Math at Sridhama Mayapura which became his preaching
headquarters.
One time a very important gentleman approached
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada and said that your Gaudiya
Math is so nice you should open up temples in all cities of the world,
and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta replied, “My real business is to establish
temples in everyone’s heart”.
From the years 1919-1929 he was
constantly traveling all over India lecturing to crowds of thousands,
debating, destroying various bogus religious sects and performing
parikrama (walks to the holy places) with his disciples to different
sacred sites, seeking to improve and preserve them. During these travels
he installed foot-prints of Lord Caitanya in one hundred and eight
places where the Lord had traveled during His sannyasa life. At those
spots he also recorded the date when Sri Caitanya had been there.
In 1930 and 1931 a new kind of spiritual education was exhibited for
the benefit of the public and especially the illiterate masses. Srila
Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Prabhupada demonstrated the import and
teachings of the Vedic literature by means of huge exhibitions in which
pictorial representations by means of dioramas and dolls in life-like
manner were employed. These wonderful exhibitions drew at least one
hundred thousand visitors daily during a month time period.
In
1936 he was residing in Jagannatha Puri when, at the age of sixty-two,
he left this mortal world and again re-entered the loving pastimes of
Sri Sri Radha and Krishna in the sweetness of Braja Dham, the spiritual
atmosphere.
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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur (1874-1937), era un predicador de
Gaudiya Vaishnavism en toda la India a finales del siglo XIX y
principios del XX. Nació como Bimal Prasad Dutta en la ciudad de peregrinaje junto al mar de Jagannath Puri, Orissa, India. Su
padre era el erudito Vaishnava Bhaktivinoda Thakur, el primero en
presentar las enseñanzas de Chaitanyite Vaishnavism al mundo de habla
inglesa.
En
1918, Siddhanta Sarasvati aceptó la orden renunciante de la vida
espiritual, asumiendo el título Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami
Maharaja. Con el fin de propagar el Krishna
bhakti en toda la India, organizó la Gaudiya Math, con sesenta y cuatro
sucursales en todo el país. Su misión, el Caitanya Gaudiya Math, fue sede en Sridhama Mayapur, el lugar de nacimiento del Señor Caitanya.
Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati Thakur es también el maestro espiritual del mundo renombrado
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, llegados a la edad de 69 a Estados
Unidos para cumplir con la amonestación de su gurú y dentro de un lapso
corto de todo el mundo 108 centros 12 años establecido, e hizo "Hare
Krishna" un término familiar en los Estados Unidos, traducción de textos
en inglés y dio pretende a varios textos Sánscrito Védico como el
Bhagavad-Gita y el Srimad Bhagavatam - permitiendo que miles de personas
a beneficiarse del aprendizaje estas valiosas enseñanzas antiguas.
En
la edad de sólo siete Bimala Prasad Datta, había memorizado todos los
versos de setecientos del Bhagavad-Gita y podría explicar cada uno.
Un día el niño tuvo un mango unoffered desde la sala de la familia Deidad y se lo comió. Su
padre le reprendió por él a coger le y le dijo que no era correcto
comportamiento Vaishnava comer comida que no había sido ofrecido primero
al Señor. En aquel momento, Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, tomando muy en serio, palabras de su padre
hizo una promesa nunca a comer mango de nuevo. A través de toda su vida mantuvo este voto muy fielmente. Cada vez que alguien le ofreciera un mango decía, "No, yo no puedo tomar, yo soy un gran delincuente".
En los diez años, fue iniciado por su padre en el mantra Hare Krishna y un mantra de Narasimhadeva. Más
tarde asistió a un Colegio de sánscrito especial donde se convirtió en
experto en gramática sánscrita, shastra Védica y diferentes puntos de
vista de la filosofía.
Debido
a su celibato permanente tenía una memoria tan clara que incluso en sus
últimos días podría reproducir literalmente cualquier pasaje de
cualquier libro que él había leído cincuenta años atrás.
Universidad
de leer todos los libros en la biblioteca y hacer estudios privados en
matemáticas superiores, internacional de historia y filosofía y
astronomía Védica. Fue un poderoso polemista que soportaba nadie argumentos contra su gran intelecto y becas. En la edad de veintitrés años abrió una escuela en Calcuta que llamó Sarasvata Chatuspathi. Muchos prominentes y estudiante de caballeros de Calcuta fueron entre sus estudiantes. Cuando
que tenía veinticinco años, Bimala Prasada había adquirido una
reputación impresionante como un estudioso del sánscrito, matemáticas y
astronomía.
En 1901 Srila Bhativinoda Thakura pidió a su hijo se inició en el Gayatri mantra y aceptar a un maestro espiritual. El Thakura tenía un discípulo muy amado, Srila Gaurakisora dasa Babaji Maharaja, un muy famoso Santo Vaishnava de Navadvipa. Por lo tanto, quien la Thakura pidió a su hijo a tomar iniciación de. Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura se acercó entonces a babaji para
conseguir iniciado, pero Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, que no tuvo
discípulos, en su infinita humildad se negó a aceptar un pandita tan
bien informado como Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, cuando él mismo no
podría incluso escribir su propio nombre. Por lo
tanto, decepcionado, Sarasvati Thakura volvió a su padre y con lo que
había sucedido, pero Thakura Bhaktivinoda lo envió hacia fuera otra vez,
y otra vez Srila Bhaktisiddhanta volvió con la misma noticia. Así
que esta vez el Thakura dijo su hijo, "A menos que usted tome
iniciación de Gaurakishora dasa Babaji su vida es inútil y ya no puede
entrar en esta casa". Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati partió luego con gran determinación y reunión Srila
Gaurakishora dasa Babaji en un puente a lo largo de la carretera le dijo
que saltar desde el puente y suicidarse si la babaji no lo aceptara
como discípulo. Él dijo, "mi padre me ha dicho
que la vida humana es inútil sin un maestro espiritual, por lo que si te
niegas a aceptarme como su discípulo debo suicidarme". Escuchar y ver la sinceridad del joven del propósito, el babaji lo aceptó como su único discípulo.
Desde ese año, Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta viajó con Thakura Bhaktivinoda en sus peregrinaciones a
todos los lugares santos de principio en la India. Durante este tiempo él compiló una enciclopedia Vaishnava llamada Vaisnava-manjusha. En 1900 se hospedaba en Puri donde comenzó a predicar públicamente los Santos preceptos del Srimad-Bhagavatam. En 1904 Srila Sarasvati Thakura viajó en Bengala Oriental. En
1905 parió a las provincias del extremo sur de la India, conferencias,
predicaciones, escribir, debatir, absorción completamente en el fuego de
propagar el mensaje de Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu. En el sur viajó a lugares como Simachalam, Madras, Tirupati, Kanchipura y muchos otros lugares de peregrinación. Su predicación fuerte le dio tal reputación que su propio nombre pulsaría terror en los corazones de sus oponentes filosóficos. Las
actividades religiosas supuestas pervertidas e inmorales de absurdo
diferentes cultos y sectas fueron condenadas para siempre en la
presencia de Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.
Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada siempre destacó la importancia de
la publicación y distribución de literatura Vaishnava como un medio para
educar a la masa de la humanidad ignorante y para facilitar la
impresión de libros y revistas estableció cuatro prensas de impresión.
En
1918 a la edad de cuarenta y cuatro, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
aceptó el título Gosvami Maharajá tomando el orden renunciante de la
vida, sannyāsa. Ese mismo día fundó su primer
monasterio Vaishnava, la matemática Caitanya en Sridhama Mayapura que se
convirtió en la sede de su predicación.
Una
vez un caballero muy importante se acercó a Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati Prabhupada y dijo que su Gaudiya Math es tan bueno debe abrir
templos en todas las ciudades del mundo, y Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
respondió, "mi negocio real es establecer templos en el corazón de
todos".
Desde
los años 1919-1929 que él viajaba constantemente todo India
conferencias a multitudes de miles, debatiendo, destruyendo a varias
sectas religiosas falsas y realizar parikrama (paseos a los santos
lugares) con sus discípulos a diferentes sitios sagrados, tratando de
mejora y preservarlos. Durante estos viajes
instaló pie-impresiones del Señor Caitanya en ciento ocho lugares donde
el Señor había viajado durante su vida sannyāsa. En esos lugares también grabó la fecha cuando Sri Caitanya había estado allí.
En
1930 y 1931 se expuso un nuevo tipo de educación espiritual en
beneficio de la población y especialmente a las masas analfabetas. Srila
Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Prabhupada demostró la importación y las
enseñanzas de la literatura Védica por medio de grandes exposiciones en
el que las representaciones pictóricas mediante dioramas y emplearon a
muñecas de manera realista. Estas exposiciones maravillosas dibujaron al menos 100 mil visitantes diariamente durante un mes, el período de tiempo.
En
1936 residía en Jagannatha Puri cuando, a la edad de sesenta y dos,
dejó este mundo mortal y volver a entrar otra vez en los pasatiempos
amorosos de Sri Sri Radha y Krishna en la dulzura de Braja Dham, la
atmósfera espiritual.
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