jīv jāgo jīv jāgo gauracānda bole
kota nidrā jāo māyā-piśācīra kole
Bhajan
THE SLEEPING SOUL
“Why you are sleeping on the lap of this māyā, illusory energy? Why you are sleeping?” Jīv jāgo jīv jāgo gauracānda bole. “get up.” Caitanya Mahāprabhu, is asking everyone, “Wake up!” The same dreaming. “Wake up.” Then immediately the whole hallucination will go.
“How long you shall go on sleeping on the lap of the witches, māyā?” Bhajibo boliyā ese saṁsāra-bhitare: “In the womb of your mother you promised that this life you shall engage in the matter of developing your Kṛṣṇa consciousness.” Bhuliyā rohile tumi avidyāra bhare: “But you are forgotten everything under the spell of illusory energy.” Actually, when the child remains within the womb of his mother, packed up in airtight bag, at the age of seven months within the womb, when he develops his consciousness, he feels very uncomfortable, and the fortunate baby prays to God, “Please relieve me from this awkward position, and this life I shall fully engage myself in developing my God consciousness or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.”
So Lord Caitanya is trying to wake up all children of māyā, nature’s son, to wake up. The similar instruction is in the Vedic Upaniṣad. Uttiṣṭhata jāgrata. The advice is that “Everyone should now wake up. They should not sleep under the spell of illusion, material nature. This human form of body must be utilized.” The same thing Lord Caitanya is speaking in ordinary songs, jīv jāgo, jīv jāgo, gauracānda bole: “All living entities wake up. Don’t miss this opportunity.” Kota nidrā jāo māyā-piśācīra: “How long you shall remain asleep in this way, under the spell of māyā? This is the opportunity. Don’t sleep.” (Wake Up Sleeping Souls)
WHY PEOPLE ARE IN SLEEP
by Mohini Devi Dasi
In answer to Amar Puri’s questions:
Why people are in sleep ?
The same why the followers of Fiskcon’s Leaders …. Goroos are in sleep ?
What can or can not be done ? Any WHY ……. so many why ?
How to wake people up to the reality is taking place right before our eyes ?
These are the matters and/or concerns need immediate attention. Isn’t it ?
S.B. 5.11.12 Jada Bharata Instructs King Rahugana
The eternally conditioned soul is eternally conditioned because he is controlled by the mind. The conditioned state and liberated state are compared to the sleeping, unconscious state and the awakened state. Those who are sleeping and unconscious are eternally conditioned, but those who are awake understand that they are eternally part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Therefore even in this material world, they engage in Kṛṣṇa’s service. As confirmed by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī: īhā yasya harer dāsye. If one takes to Kṛṣṇa’s service, he is liberated, even though he appears to be a conditioned soul within the material world. Jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate. In any condition, one is to be considered liberated if his only business is to serve Kṛṣṇa.
KRSNA BOOK CH/ 54 Krsna Defeats All The Princes
“Consciousness of material existence can be compared to sleeping and dreaming. When a man sleeps, he dreams of many nonfactual happenings, and as a result of dreaming he becomes subjected to different kinds of distress and happiness. Similarly, when person is in the dreaming condition of material consciousness, he suffers the effects of accepting a body and giving it up again in material existence. Opposite to this material consciousness is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In other words, when a man is elevated to the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness he becomes free from this false conception of life.”
In this way, Śrī Balarāma instructed them in spiritual knowledge. He addressed His sister-in-law thus: “Sweet, smiling Rukmiṇī, do not be aggrieved by false motives caused by ignorance. Due to false notions only one becomes unhappy, but this unhappiness is immediately removed by discussing the philosophy of actual life. Be happy on that platform only.”
KRSNA BOOK CH/ 87 Prayers by the personified Vedas
My dear Lord, it is imperative that the living entities be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, always rendering devotional service by prescribed methods such as hearing and chanting and executing Your orders. If a person is not engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service, it is useless for him to exhibit the symptoms of life. Generally it is accepted that if a person is breathing he is alive. But a person without Kṛṣṇa consciousness may be compared to a bellows in a blacksmith’s shop. The big bellows is a bag of skin which exhales and inhales air, and a human being who is simply living within the bag of skin and bones without taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and loving devotional service is no better than the bellows. Similarly, a nondevotee’s long duration of life is compared to the long existence of a tree, his voracious eating capacity is compared to the eating of dogs and hogs, and his enjoyment in sex life is compared to that of hogs and goats.
S.B. 3.9.12 Brahma’s Prayers for Creative Energy
Now a question arises: If the Lord is sitting in the hearts of nondevotees, why are they not moved to become devotees? It may be answered that the stubborn nondevotees are like the barren land or alkaline field, where no agricultural activities can be successful. As part and parcel of the Lord, every individual living entity has a minute quantity of independence, and by misuse of this minute independence, the nondevotees commit offense after offense, to both the Lord and His pure devotees engaged in missionary work. As a result of such acts, they become as barren as an alkaline field, where there is no strength to produce.
S.B.3.19.36 The Killing of the Demon Hiranyaksa
What grateful soul is there who would not render his loving service to such a great master as the Personality of Godhead? The Lord can be easily pleased by spotless devotees who resort exclusively to Him for protection, though the unrighteous man finds it difficult to propitiate Him.
PURPORT Every living entity, especially persons in the human race, must feel grateful for the benedictions offered by the grace of the Supreme Lord. Anyone, therefore, with a simple heart of gratefulness must be Kṛṣṇa conscious and offer devotional service to the Lord. Those who are actually thieves and rogues do not recognize or acknowledge the benedictions offered to them by the Supreme Lord, and they cannot render Him devotional service. Ungrateful persons are those who do not understand how much benefit they are deriving by the arrangement of the Lord. They enjoy the sunshine and moonshine, and they get water free of charge, yet they do not feel grateful, but simply go on enjoying these gifts of the Lord. Therefore, they must be called thieves and rogues.
S.B. 6.1.44 The History Of The Life Of Ajamila, the Yamadutas continue:
O inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha, you are sinless, but those within this material world are all karmīs, whether acting piously or impiously. Both kinds of action are possible for them because they are contaminated by the three modes of nature and must act accordingly. One who has accepted a material body cannot be inactive, and sinful action is inevitable for one acting under the modes of material nature. Therefore all the living entities within this material world are punishable.
PURPORT …Because men manufacture their own way of acting without reference to the Vedas, therefore all of them commit sinful actions and are punishable…
THE SAME WHY ARE FOLLOWERS OF FISKCON…. GOOROOS IN SLEEP ?
S.B. 3.19. 37 The Killing of the Demon Hiranyaksa
O brāhmaṇas, anyone who hears, chants, or takes pleasure in the wonderful narration of the killing of the Hiraṇyākṣa demon by the Lord, who appeared as the first boar in order to deliver the world, is at once relieved of the results of sinful activities, even the killing of a brāhmaṇa.
PURPORT – Since the Personality of Godhead is in the absolute position, there is no difference between His pastimes and His personality. Anyone who hears about the pastimes of the Lord associates with the Lord directly, and one who associates directly with the Lord is certainly freed from all sinful activities, even to the extent of the killing of a brāhmaṇa, which is considered the most sinful activity in the material world. One should be very eager to hear about the activities of the Lord from the bona fide source, the pure devotee. If one simply gives aural reception to the narration and accepts the glories of the Lord, then he is qualified.
The impersonalist philosophers cannot understand the activities of the Lord. They think that all His activities are māyā; therefore they are called Māyāvādīs. Since everything to them is māyā, these narrations are not for them. Some impersonalists are reluctant to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, although many of them are now taking an interest in it just for monetary gain. Actually, however, they have no faith. On the contrary, they describe it in their own way. We should not hear, therefore, from the Māyāvādīs. We have to hear from Sūta Gosvāmī or Maitreya, who actually present the narrations as they are, and only then can we relish the pastimes of the Lord; otherwise the effects on the neophyte audience will be poisonous.
S.B. 1.12.28 Birth Of Emperor Pariksit
Material knowledge means ignorance of the knowledge of one’s own self. Philosophy means to seek after the right knowledge of one’s own self, or the knowledge of self-realization. Without self-realization, philosophy is dry speculation or a waste of time and energy. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam gives the right knowledge of one’s own self, and by hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam one can get free from material attachment and enter into the kingdom of fearlessness. This material world is fearfulness. Its prisoners are always fearful as within a prison house. In the prison house no one can violate the jail rules and regulations, and violating the rules means another term for extension of prison life. Similarly, we in this material existence are always fearful. This fearfulness is called anxiety. Everyone in the material life, in all species and varieties of life, is full of anxieties, either by breaking or without breaking the laws of nature. Liberation, or mukti, means getting relief from these constant anxieties. This is possible only when the anxiety is changed to the devotional service of the Lord. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam gives us the chance to change the quality of anxiety from matter to spirit. This is done in the association of a learned philosopher like the self-realized Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the great son of Śrī Vyāsadeva. Mahārāja Parīkṣit, after receiving warning of his death, took advantage of this opportunity by association with Śukadeva Gosvāmī and achieved the desired result.
There is a sort of imitation of this reciting and hearing of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by professional men, and their foolish audience thinks that they will get free from the clutches of material attachment and attain the life of fearlessness. Such imitative hearing of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is a caricature only, and one should not be misled by such a performance of bhāgavatam saptāha undertaken by ridiculous greedy fellows to maintain an establishment of material enjoyment.
WHAT CAN BE DONE ?
KRSNA BOOK CH.14/ Prayers offered by Lord Brahma
“The best process of understanding You is to submissively give up the speculative process and try to hear about You, either from Yourself as You have given statements in the Bhagavad-gītā and many similar Vedic literatures, or from a realized devotee who has taken shelter at Your lotus feet. One has to hear from a devotee without speculation. One does not even need to change his worldly position; he simply has to hear Your message. Although You are not understandable by the material senses, simply by hearing about You, one can gradually conquer the nescience of misunderstanding. By Your own grace only, You become revealed to a devotee. You are unconquerable by any other means. Speculative knowledge without any trace of devotional service is simply a useless waste of time in search for You. Devotional service is so important that even a little attempt can raise one to the highest perfectional platform. One should not, therefore, neglect this auspicious process of devotional service and take to the speculative method. By the speculative method one may gain partial knowledge of Your cosmic manifestation, but it is not possible to understand You, the origin of everything. The attempt of persons who are interested only in speculative knowledge is simply wasted labor, like the labor of a person who attempts to gain something by beating the empty husk of a rice paddy. A little quantity of paddy can be husked by the grinding wheel, and one can gain some grains of rice, but if the skin of the paddy is already beaten by the grinding wheel, there is no further gain in beating the husk. It is simply useless labor.
S.B.3.19.38 The killing of the Demon Hiranyaksa
This most sacred narrative confers extraordinary merit, wealth, fame, longevity, and all the objects of one’s desire. On the field of battle it promotes the strength of one’s vital organs and organs of action. One who listens to it at the last moment of his life is transferred to the supreme abode of the Lord, O dear Śaunaka.
PURPORT – Devotees are generally attracted by the narratives of the pastimes of the Lord, and even though they do not prosecute austerities or meditation, this very process of hearing attentively about the pastimes of the Lord will endow them with innumerable benefits, such as wealth, fame, longevity and other desirable aims of life. If one continues to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is full of narratives of the pastimes of the Lord, at the end of this life, one is sure to be transferred to the eternal, transcendental abode of the Lord. Thus hearers are benefited both ultimately and for as long as they are in the material world. That is the supreme, sublime result of engaging in devotional service. The beginning of devotional service is to spare some time and listen to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatamfrom the right source. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu also recommended five items of devotional service, namely to serve the devotees of the Lord, to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, to worship the Deity of the Lord and to live in a place of pilgrimage. Just performing these five activities can deliver one from the miserable condition of material life.
WHAT CANNOT BE DONE ?
KRSNA BOOK CH/ 38 Akrura’s Arrival in Vrndhavan
After Akrūra was thus properly received and seated, Nanda Mahārāja, the foster father of Kṛṣṇa, said, ”My dear Akrūra, what shall I inquire from you? I know that you are being protected by Kaṁsa, who is most cruel and demoniac. His protection is just like the slaughterhouse keeper’s protection of animals he will kill in the future. Kaṁsa is so selfish that he has killed the sons of his own sister, so how can I honestly believe that he is protecting the citizens of Mathurā?“ This statement is most significant. If the political or executive heads of the state are simply interested in themselves, they can never look after the welfare of the citizens.
KRSNA BOOK CH/ 86 The Kidnapping Of Subhadra
and Lord Krsna’s Visiting Srutadeva and Bahulasva
The instruction we receive from this incident is that King Bahulāśva and Śrutadeva the brāhmaṇa were accepted by the Lord on the same level because both were pure devotees. This is the real qualification for being recognized by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because it has become the fashion of this age to become falsely proud of having taken birth in the family of a kṣatriya or of a brāhmaṇa, we see persons without any qualification other than birth claiming to be a brāhmaṇa or kṣatriya or vaiśya. But as it is stated in the scriptures, kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ: ”In this age of Kali, everyone is a śūdra.“ This is because there is no performance of the purificatory processes known as saṁskāras, which begin from the time of the mother’s pregnancy and continue up to the point of the individual’s death. No one can be classified as a member of a particular caste, especially of a higher caste–brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya–simply by birthright. If one is not purified by the process of the seed-giving ceremony, or garbhādhāna-saṁskāra, he is immediately classified amongst the śūdras, because only the śūdras do not undergo this purificatory process. Sex life without the purificatory process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is merely the seed-giving process of the śūdras or the animals. But Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the highest perfection, by which everyone can come to the platform of a Vaiṣṇava. This includes having all the qualifications of a brāhmaṇa. The Vaiṣṇavas are trained to become freed from the four kinds of sinful activities–illicit sex, indulgence in intoxicants, gambling, and eating animal foodstuffs. No one can be on the brahminical platform without having these preliminary qualifications, and without becoming a qualified brāhmaṇa, one cannot become a pure devotee.
HOW TO WAKE UP PEOPLE TO THE REALITY
TAKING PLACE RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES ?
S.B.6.12.13 Vrtrasura Instructing Indra
Just as a person not inclined to die must nonetheless give up his longevity, opulence, fame and everything else at the time of death, so, at the appointed time of victory, one can gain all these when the Supreme Lord awards them by His mercy.
PURPORT – It is not good to be falsely puffed up, saying that by one’s own effort one has become opulent, learned, beautiful and so on. All such good fortune is achieved through the mercy of the Lord. From another point of view, no one wants to die, and no one wants to be poor or ugly. Therefore, why does the living entity, against his will, receive such unwanted troubles? It is due to the mercy or chastisement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that one gains or loses everything material. No one is independent; everyone is dependent on the mercy or chastisement of the Supreme Lord. There is a common saying in Bengal that the Lord has ten hands. This means that He has control everywhere—in the eight directions and up and down. If He wants to take everything away from us with His ten hands, we cannot protect anything with our two hands. Similarly, if He wants to bestow benedictions upon us with His ten hands, we cannot factually receive them all with our two hands; in other words, the benedictions exceed our ambitions. The conclusion is that even though we do not wish to be separated from our possessions, sometimes the Lord forcibly takes them from us; and sometimes He showers such benedictions upon us that we are unable to receive them all. Therefore either in opulence or in distress we are not independent; everything is dependent on the sweet will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
S.B. 6.12.14
Since everything is dependent on the will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one should be equipoised in fame and defamation, victory and defeat, life and death. In their effects, represented as happiness and distress, one should maintain oneself in equilibrium, without anxiety.
S.B. 6.12.15
One who knows that the three qualities—goodness, passion and ignorance—are not qualities of the soul but qualities of material nature, and who knows that the pure soul is simply an observer of the actions and reactions of these qualities, should be understood to be a liberated person. He is not bound by these qualities.
PURPORT – As the Lord explains in Bhagavad-Gita 18.54 :
“One who is transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman and becomes fully joyful. He never laments or desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me.” When one attains self-realization, the brahma-bhūta stage, one knows that whatever happens during his life is due to the contamination of the modes of material nature. The living being, the pure soul, has nothing to do with these modes. In the midst of the hurricane of the material world, everything changes very quickly, but if one remains silent and simply observes the actions and reactions of the hurricane, he is understood to be liberated. The real qualification of the liberated soul is that he remains Kṛṣṇa conscious, undisturbed by the actions and reactions of the material energy. Such a liberated person is always jubilant. He never laments or aspires for anything. Since everything is supplied by the Supreme Lord, the living entity, being fully dependent on Him, should not protest or accept anything in terms of his personal sense gratification; rather, he should receive everything as the mercy of the Lord and remain steady in all circumstances.
FINAL EXPLANATION
Bhagavad-Gita 7.30
This Seventh Chapter particularly explains how one can become a fully Kṛṣṇa conscious person. The beginning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is association of persons who are Kṛṣṇa conscious. Such association is spiritual and puts one directly in touch with the Supreme Lord, and, by His grace, one can understand Kṛṣṇa to be the Supreme God. At the same time one can really understand the constitutional position of the living entity and how the living entity forgets Kṛṣṇa and becomes entangled in material activities. By gradual development of Kṛṣṇa consciousness in good association, the living entity can understand that due to forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa he has become conditioned by the laws of material nature. He can also understand that this human form of life is an opportunity to regain Kṛṣṇa consciousness and that it should be fully utilized to attain the causeless mercy of the Supreme Lord.
Many subjects have been discussed in this chapter: the man in distress, the inquisitive man, the man in want of material necessities, knowledge of Brahman, knowledge of Paramātmā, liberation from birth, death and diseases, and worship of the Supreme Lord. However, he who is actually elevated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not care for the different processes. He simply directly engages himself in activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness and thereby factually attains his constitutional position as eternal servitor of Lord Kṛṣṇa. In such a situation he takes pleasure in hearing and glorifying the Supreme Lord in pure devotional service. He is convinced that by doing so, all his objectives will be fulfilled. This determined faith is called dṛḍha-vrata, and it is the beginning of bhakti-yoga or transcendental loving service. That is the verdict of all scriptures. This Seventh Chapter of the Gītā is the substance of that conviction.
FAITH IS DEVELOPED BY ASSOCIATION WITH DEVOTEES
Bhagavata-Gita 8.28
Hearing the Gītā from devotees, not from mental speculators, is called faith. Through association of devotees, one is placed in devotional service, and by this service Kṛṣṇa’s activities, form, pastimes, name, etc., become clear, and all misgivings are dispelled. Then once doubts are removed, the study of the Gītā becomes extremely pleasurable, and one develops a taste and feeling for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In the advanced stage, one falls completely in love with Kṛṣṇa, and that is the beginning of the highest perfectional stage of life which prepares the devotee’s transferral to Kṛṣṇa’s abode in the spiritual sky, Goloka Vṛndāvana, where the devotee enters into eternal happiness.
Bhagavad-Gita 13.35
…A faithful person should at first have some good association to hear of God and thus gradually become enlightened…
Bhagavad-Gita 15.20
While performing devotional service in the association of pure devotees in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there are certain things which require to be vanquished altogether. The most important thing one has to surmount is weakness of the heart. The first falldown is caused by the desire to lord it over material nature. Thus one gives up the transcendental loving service of the Supreme Lord. The second weakness of the heart is that as one increases the propensity of lording it over material nature, he becomes attached to matter and the possession of matter. The problems of material existence are due to these weaknesses of the heart.
CONCLUSION:
What has not been achieved the last 50 years, will not be achieved now under the present circumstances. What has been achieved, original book distribution individually, preaching individually, small preaching Centres individually, online preaching via, for example, this wonderful website etc…, will be possible to maintain and PERSONAL ASSOCIATION with other devotees has to increase again, seeing one another on a screen is not the same. What Srila Prabhupada accomplished cannot be repeated, we can only endeavour to come up to standard ourselves and be a good example for the people around us.
S.B. 6.1.44 The History Of The Life Of Ajamila, the Yamadutas continue:
O inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha, you are sinless, but those within this material world are all karmīs, whether acting piously or impiously. Both kinds of action are possible for them because they are contaminated by the three modes of nature and must act accordingly. One who has accepted a material body cannot be inactive, and sinful action is inevitable for one acting under the modes of material nature. Therefore all the living entities within this material world are punishable.
PURPORT …Because men manufacture their own way of acting without reference to the Vedas, therefore all of them commit sinful actions and are punishable…
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Note: this above verse is very instructive. In ISKCON the sannyasa stage was to be the stage where Karma(fruitive activity) could be given up so there would be no resultant material birth. Karma IS the reason for our birh in this material world. It IS the reason that Yamaraja punishes the soul. Here Srila Prabhupada wanted -all- the money engaged in Krsna’s service so there would be no resultant karma:
“If you yourself take the royalty it will be personal interest in money and trade, and this will deviate your principle of sannyasa. Sannyasi means he is in renounced order and lives by begging alms for the bare necessities of life. It is not good to make trade to get money for personal expenditure. If the royalty is given to the BBT, we will keep a separate account from this royalty and necessary expenditures for your preaching may be supplied from the BBT.”
Letter to: Revatinandana
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Los Angeles
9 January, 1974
74-01-09
London
My dear Revatinandana Swami,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter Jan. 4, 1974 with the enclosed cookbook.
I know you are a very good cook and I can understand that you have found the books useful for distribution. I have no objection to your printing it with the name “Revatinandana Swami’s Cookbook”, but the royalty should go to the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Just as I am publishing Bhagavad-gita As It Is with Macmillan Co. but the royalty is going to the BBT. I think this method is appropriate. If you yourself take the royalty it will be personal interest in money and trade, and this will deviate your principle of sannyasa. Sannyasi means he is in renounced order and lives by begging alms for the bare necessities of life. It is not good to make trade to get money for personal expenditure. If the royalty is given to the BBT, we will keep a separate account from this royalty and necessary expenditures for your preaching may be supplied from the BBT.
Mukunda das has sent me a pamphlet in which the pictures are objectionable. The name of the place at Letchmore Heath we have already named Bhaktivedanta Manor, European Center of ISKCON. He has printed “Gokula Vrindaban”. In the last picture there is a cowhead like a slaughterhouse cow with t-lock on. I have sent him a telegram to stop it and a detailed letter will follow to Mukunda. The telegram reads as follows: “Pamphlet picture most objectionable. Stop immediately. Letter follows.” Please see that this is stopped by Mukunda.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
N.B. Regarding taking snuff, I myself take it sometimes at night because I am working at night on my books, and sometimes I become dizzy. But it is not for you to take. You should not imitate this, neither you work like me at night.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/letters/los_angeles/january/09/1974/revatinandana
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TEXT 1
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ
kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ
sa sannyāsī ca yogī ca
na niragnir na cākriyaḥ
SYNONYMS
śrī bhagavān uvāca—the Lord said; anāśritaḥ—without shelter; karma-phalam—the result of work; kāryam—obligatory; karma—work; karoti—performs; yaḥ—one who; saḥ—he; sannyāsī—in the renounced order; ca—also; yogī—mystic; ca—also; na—not; nir—without; agniḥ—fire; na—nor; ca—also; akriyaḥ—without duty.
TRANSLATION
The Blessed Lord said: One who is unattached to the fruits of his work and who works as he is obligated is in the renounced order of life, and he is the true mystic: not he who lights no fire and performs no work.
PURPORT
In this chapter the Lord explains that the process of the eightfold yoga system is a means to control the mind and the senses. However, this is very difficult for people in general to perform, especially in the age of Kali. Although the eightfold yoga system is recommended in this chapter, the Lord emphasizes that the process of karma-yoga, or acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is better. Everyone acts in this world to maintain his family and their paraphernalia, but no one is working without some self-interest, some personal gratification, be it concentrated or extended. The criterion of perfection is to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and not with a view to enjoying the fruits of work. To act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the duty of every living entity because all are constitutionally parts and parcels of the Supreme. The parts of the body work for the satisfaction of the whole body. The limbs of the body do not act for self-satisfaction but for the satisfaction of the complete whole. Similarly, the living entity who acts for satisfaction of the supreme whole and not for personal satisfaction is the perfect sannyāsī, the perfect yogī.
The sannyāsīs sometimes artificially think that they have become liberated from all material duties, and therefore they cease to perform agnihotra yajñas (fire sacrifices), but actually they are self-interested because their goal is becoming one with the impersonal Brahman. Such a desire is greater than any material desire, but it is not without self-interest. Similarly, the mystic yogī who practices the yoga system with half-open eyes, ceasing all material activities, desires some satisfaction for his personal self. But a person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for the satisfaction of the whole, without self-interest. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no desire for self-satisfaction. His criterion of success is the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, and thus he is the perfect sannyāsī, or perfect yogī. Lord Caitanya, the highest perfectional symbol of renunciation, prays in this way:
na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ kavitāṁ vā jagadīśa kāmaye.
mama janmani janmanīśvare bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi.
“O Almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor to enjoy beautiful women. Nor do I want any number of followers. What I want only is the causeless mercy of Your devotional service in my life, birth after birth.”
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Prabhupāda: Sannyāsa means that finishing all material desires. The sannyāsa means, real sannyāsa, means no more material desires. It is the beginning of spiritual life. Etāṁ sa āsthāya parātma-niṣṭhā. Parātmā, Bhagavān… To completely devote one’s life for service of the Lord. There are āśramas, four āśramas: brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha, and sannyāsa. So sannyāsa means everything sacrificed for Kṛṣṇa’s sake. Anāśrita-karma-phalaṁ kāryaṁ karoti yaḥ, sa sannyāsī. Anyone who is working without any aspiration for resultant action…. Our sannyāsīs, they work very hard, preach, they collect money—but not a single farthing for himself.
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Note: karma(fruitive activity) has to be given up for one who is serious about getting liberation:
TRANSLATION
The King replied: O great soul, Nārada, my intelligence is entangled in fruitive activities; therefore I do not know the ultimate goal of life. Kindly instruct me in pure knowledge so that I can get out of the entanglement of fruitive activities.
PURPORT
Śrī Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has sung:
sat-saṅga chāḍi’ kainu asate vilāsa
te-kāraṇe lāgila ye karma-bandha-phāṅsa
As long as a person is entangled in fruitive activities, he is bound to accept one body after another. This is called karma-bandha-phāṅsa—entanglement in fruitive activities. It does not matter whether one is engaged in pious or impious activities, for both are causes for further entanglement in material bodies. By pious activities one can take birth in a rich family and get a good education and a beautiful body, but this does not mean that the distresses of life are ultimately eliminated. In the Western countries it is not unusual for one to take birth in a rich aristocratic family, nor is it unusual for one to have a good education and a very beautiful body, but this does not mean that Westerners are free from the distresses of life.
Link to this page: https://prabhupadabooks.com/sb/4/25/5
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Note: what Srila Prabhupada wanted was ALL be free from the RESULTANT fruitive activity. Thus, this, would enable all to be out of the jurisdiction of Yamaraja’s punishment. But as we see from ISKCON history the Anti Ritvik CROOKS,DEMONS ATHIESTS disobeyed Srila Prabhupada (PURE VAISNAVA BRAHMANA). Now, the consequences of karma (fruitive acts) STEALING Srila Prabhupada’s disciples, driving away devotees, usurping his properties, changing his books will be VERY VERY VERY severe punishment Yamaraja will give:
A PERSON WHO TAKES AWAY PROPERTY WHICH HAS EITHER BEEN AWARDED TO A BRAHMANA OR GIVEN AWAY BY HIM IS CONDEMNED TO LIVE FOR AT LEAST 60,000 YEARS AS MISERABLY AS AN INSECT IN STOOL
KB 64 The Story of King Nrga
Lord Krsna continued: “If some foolish king who is puffed up by his wealth, prestige and power wants to usurp a brahmana’s property, it should be understood that such a king is clearing his path to hell; he does not know how much he has to suffer for such unwise action. If someone takes away the property of a very liberal brahmana who is encumbered by a large dependent family, then such a usurper is put into the hell known as Kumbhipaka; not only is he put into this hell, but his family members also have to accept such a miserable condition of life. A PERSON WHO TAKES AWAY PROPERTY WHICH HAS EITHER BEEN AWARDED TO A BRAHMANA OR GIVEN AWAY BY HIM IS CONDEMNED TO LIVE FOR AT LEAST 60,000 YEARS AS MISERABLY AS AN INSECT IN STOOL. Therefore I instruct you, all My boys and relatives present here, do not, even by mistake, take the possession of a brahmana and thereby pollute your whole family. If someone even wishes to possess such property, let alone attempts to take it away by force, the duration of his life will be reduced. He will be defeated by his enemies, and after being bereft of his royal position, when he gives up his body he will become a serpent. A serpant gives trouble to all other living entities. My dear boys and relatives, I therefore advise you that even if a brahmana becomes angry with you and calls you by ill names or cuts you, still you should not retaliate. On the contrary, you should smile, tolerate him and offer your respects to the brahmana. You know very well that even I Myself offer My obeisances to the brahmanas with great respect three times daily. You should therefore follow My instruction and example. I shall not forgive anyone who does not follow them, and I shall punish him. You should learn from the example of King Nrga that even if someone unknowingly usurps the property of a brahmana, he is put into a miserable condition of life.”
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Note: the Anti Ritvik CROOKS DEMONS ATHIESTS think they can escape. But the FACT is:
“But actually he’s enjoying the effects of his past something pious. Now he’s happy, but that effect of the impious activities, that is in stock. It will come out in due course of time.”
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Prabhupāda: Kūṭa-stha-bīja, prārabdha… Like that. This is, these are the… Our effects. Just like we can understand in the modern… Just like if you infect some disease, it becomes immediately kūṭa-stha. Kūṭa-stha means stocked. In due course of time, it will come out, manifest. Similarly, we are acting so many sinful activities. Sometimes they complain that “This man is committing so many sinful activities, but he’s happy.” But actually he’s enjoying the effects of his past something pious. Now he’s happy, but that effect of the impious activities, that is in stock. It will come out in due course of time. That is called kūṭa-stha. Kūṭa-stha phalonmukha, prārabdha. These are the Sanskrit language. That is being explained here.
Dear Learned Readers,
PAMHO.
It is indeed a human material nature to be with the like minded people who leads further to the like minded Leaders, a group of people for certain Position, Adoration and Distinction. To achieve PAD it needs a facade preferably a well known, accepted and recognized one.
So, the Leaders in the Iskcon being ambitious and personally motivated, they have it all available to them and they grabbed everything through deception of all sorts as soon as Srila Prabhupada’s manifested Lila ended. They are fully aware of what they are doing simply for PAD. Rest is the history which speaks itself.
How can then any one wakeup a person who is already awake but fully intoxicated on account of the PAD enjoying on account of cheating seemingly in SLEEP with their followers asleep?
That is what I was actually referring to in my question, Mohini dd.
Hare Krishna. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Pamho agtacbsp, the Srimad bhagavatam say that without the permission of upadrastanumanta the sleeping soul can’t never wake up,may be was better to keep sleeping since things never going as we want but as Sri krsna want because HE is the proprietor of everything , we are just part and parcel of that supreme will and have not choice but to dance as HE wish,that’s why the demons don’t like Sri krsna and His devotees, never mind because if Sri krsna is with us we don’t care who is against us. Just trying to never forget Sri krsna because Sri krsna smarana it’s a exalted position to be reach by chanting Sri harinam sankirtanam agtacbsp ys haribol
This conclusion is the height of arrogance indeed an insult to the legacy of Srila Prabhupada and all the previous acharyas. ” What Srila Prabhupada achieved cannot be repeated we can only endeavor to come up to the standard ourselves and be a good example to the people around us”
This is a clever conclusion designed to infect the minds of any reader that what took place has come to an end. Now the writer must use original shastra from Srila Prabhupada to PROVE that what was achieved in the beginning not only by Srila Prabhupada but also by his followers, disciples and passersby who assisted in establishing Lord Caitanya’s movement was a short blip in history. Who said that what Lord Caitanya the Supreme Personality of Godhead achieved cannot be repeated? The writer did, as Srila Prabhupada is the direct representative of Lord Caitanya. There are still 9,500 years of the Lords golden age to be completed
and someone would dare to say that any aspect of this movement cannot be achieved again now or in the future? NONSENSE!! Stand up or get out of the way.
“What Srila Prabhupada accomplished cannot be repeated, we can only endeavour to come up to standard ourselves and be a good example for the people around us.”
My statement refers to Srila Prabhupada as the Sampradaya-Acarya, who cannot be replaced by anybody else, that Srila Prabhupada’s original Books are the basis of Krsna consciousness for the next 10000years and that Srila Prabhupada will initiate for the next 10000 years through his original books and in this way make new disciples.
Just By Reading My Books They Are Initiated”
https://harekrsna.org/just-by-reading-my-books-they-are-initiated/
Can I make Srila Prabhupada my Guru, although he is no longer physically present?
Yes, Srila Prabhupada in an interview says he is in his books always and in so many instances he differentiates between vani seva(service) and vapu seva(service), vani seva is more important than vapu seva, vani seva is hearing from Srila Prabhupada through his books and following his instruction. Chaitya guru who is Krishna Himself sitting in everybody heart as paramatma (sarvasya chaham hridy sanivisto) will help to serve Guru. Without the mercy of Guru we can’t reach Krishna. vapu seva is the service done to a person when he is personally present on this planet, but Prabhupad says ISKCON is like his body. So if anybody want make Srila Prabhupada as Guru please serve his mission in the form of ISKCON and follow his instruction which he has given in his books doing vani seva. By reading and following his instruction Srila Prabhupada assures to any person that he will take back to godhead and in ISKCON there is a process of giving DIKSHA or initiation which is ritvik process, where anybody gets initiated in the form of yajna and formalities of chanting by a sanyasi or designated person who chants on the chanting beads and hands over to the disciple, from then onwards the formal relationship establishes with Srila Prabhupada to follow his instruction in the form of reading his books, serving his mission, hanting 16 rounds, following ekadashi, and so on. Please contact ISKCON devotees and read Srila Prabhupada books where he himself says i have given everything in my books which will help a person go back to godhead which is the goal of human life.
“Such vedanta-vadis, or the bhakti-vedantas, are impartial in distributing the transcendental knowledge of devotional service. To them no one is enemy or friend; no one is educated or uneducated. No one is especially favourable, and no one is unfavourable. The bhakti-vedantas see that the people in general are wasting time in false sensuous things. Their business is to get the ignorant mass of people to re-establish their lost relationship with the Personality of Godhead. By such endeavour, even the most forgotten soul is roused up to the sense of spiritual life, and thus being initiated by the bhakti-vedantas, the people in general gradually progress on the path of transcendental realization.” (S.B. 1.5.24)
“The chanting Hare Krishna is our main business, that is real initiation. And as you are all following my instruction, in that matter, the initiator is already there. Now the next initiation will be performed as a ceremony officially, of course that ceremony has value because the name, Holy Name, will be delivered to the student from the disciplic succession, it has got value, but in spite of that, as you are going on chanting, please go on with this business sincerely and Krishna willing, I may be coming to you very soon.” (S.P.L. Tamel Krsna, 19th September, 1968)
“After 80 years, no one can expect to live long. My life is almost ended. So you have to carry on, and these books will do everything.” (Room conversation, 18th February 1976)
Srila Prabhupada’s transcendental books are, very clearly, his arrangement for delivering the fallen souls of the world from the death knell of ignorance. Such is the potency of the Maha Bhagavata devotee Srila Prabhupada!
“But now in your temple alone you are distributing so many, so this is very, very encouraging to me. It is the perfect form of preaching. Follow the line laid down by Prahlada Maharaja and try to take every one back to home, back to Godhead. And this is done by distributing our literature. I am so much pleased upon each and every one of you for helping me this way to push on this great movement.” (S.P.L. to Vamanadeva 3/12/72)
Srila Prabhupada is the initiating acarya for the next 10.000 years, the Jagad Guru, the Sampradaya-Acarya. He is living still in sound and is most definitely spreading the holy name all around. All glories to you Srila Prabhupada!
Haribol
Thank you for more clarification.
“What Srila Prabhupada accomplished cannot be repeated, we can only endeavour to come up to standard ourselves and be a good example for the people around us.”
My statement refers to Srila Prabhupada as the Sampradaya-Acarya, who cannot be replaced by anybody else, that Srila Prabhupada’s original Books are the basis of Krsna consciousness for the next 10000years and that Srila Prabhupada will initiate for the next 10000 years through his original books and in this way make new disciples.”
Once an initial influential force is applied to a given situation it is of course understood that the beginning has been completed. If that momentum is not maintained then the appearance and reality of the original goal will falter or even cease. Srila Prabhupada warned us about that possibility. We should not rely on early successes to conclude success if the original plan is not expanded, advantages taken and followed up on daily in the manner that Srila Prabhupada laid out. He could very easily have stayed in India and just wrote his books for sale around the world. He was ordered by his guru maharaja Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada to go to the west to preach and TEACH. Srila Prabhupada’s spent years of setting the example that teaching is the goal not just putting out books. There must be follow up for the students and the inquisitive. That is our journey that should parallel how Srila Prabhupada started.
He is still directing this movement from inside this universe. Let us all give him some sincere assistance whether formerly initiated or not. Unless we get off our collective butts and give the world our kind, heartfelt personal attention while we teach them what we have understood then we will simply live out our lives in an empty echo chamber. Action in Krsna consciousness means far more than simply repeating verbally or on line to a select few. Of course there is no fault in that. It is meant for the world.
You certainly could be a great teacher no doubt so I encourage you to take it up in person or on line even if it is to take on one regular student for Srila Prabhupada. Just one. With that on going success more will want to learn from “this teacher of theirs”. So what Srila Prabhupada accomplished can and is being achieved by Srila Prabhupada in a non different manner.
Take those wonderful posts that you have submitted and share them all over the world and teach Gita. The only book of hope that will save humanity on which the Hare Krsna movement is founded.
At your service
Hasti Gopala dasa
https://www.prabhupadanugas.eu/news/?p=50257
Hare Krishna.
Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 10, Chapter 2 Text 31. By Srila Prabhupada.
TEXT 31
svayaṁ samuttīrya sudustaraṁ dyuman
bhavārṇavaṁ bhīmam adabhra-sauhṛdāḥ
bhavat-padāmbhoruha-nāvam atra te
nidhāya yātāḥ sad-anugraho bhavān
SYNONYMS
svayam—personally; samuttīrya—perfectly crossing; su-dustaram—which is very difficult to cross; dyuman—O Lord, who appear exactly like the sun, illuminating the darkness of this world of ignorance; bhava-arṇavam—the ocean of nescience; bhīmam—which is extremely fierce; adabhra-sauhṛdāḥ—devotees who are incessantly friendly to the fallen souls; bhavat-pada-ambhoruha—Your lotus feet; nāvam—the boat for crossing; atra—in this world; te—they (the Vaiṣṇavas); nidhāya—leaving behind; yātāḥ—on to the ultimate destination, Vaikuṇṭha; sat-anugrahaḥ—who are always kind and merciful to the devotees; bhavān—You.
TRANSLATION
O Lord, who resembles the shining sun, You are always ready to fulfill the desire of Your devotee, and therefore You are known as a desire tree [vāñchā-kalpataru]. When ācāryas completely take shelter under Your lotus feet in order to cross the fierce ocean of nescience, they leave behind on earth the method by which they cross, and because You are very merciful to Your other devotees, You accept this method to help them.
PURPORT
This statement reveals how the merciful ācāryas and the merciful Supreme Personality of Godhead together help the serious devotee who wants to return home, back to Godhead. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in His teachings to Rūpa Gosvāmī, said:
brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja
(Cc. Madhya 19.151)
One can achieve the seed of bhakti-latā, devotional service, by the mercy of guru and Kṛṣṇa. The duty of the guru is to find the means, according to the time, the circumstances and the candidate, by which one can be induced to render devotional service, which Kṛṣṇa accepts from a candidate who wants to be successful in going back home, back to Godhead.
After wandering throughout the universe, a fortunate person within this material world seeks shelter of such a guru, or ācārya, who trains the devotee in the suitable ways to render service according to the circumstances so that the Supreme Personality of Godhead will accept the service. This makes it easier for the candidate to reach the ultimate destination. The ācārya’s duty, therefore, is to find the means by which devotees may render service according to references from śāstra. Rūpa Gosvāmī, for example, in order to help subsequent devotees, published such devotional books as Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. Thus it is the duty of the ācārya to publish books that will help future candidates take up the method of service and become eligible to return home, back to Godhead, by the mercy of the Lord.
In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement (Iskcon), this same path is being prescribed and followed.
Thus the devotees have been advised to refrain from four sinful activities—illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling—and to chant sixteen rounds a day. These are bona fide instructions.
Because in the Western countries constant chanting is not possible, one should not artificially imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura, but should follow this method. Kṛṣṇa will accept a devotee who strictly follows the regulative principles and the method prescribed in the various books and literatures published by the authorities. The ācārya gives the suitable method for crossing the ocean of nescience by accepting the boat of the Lord’s lotus feet, and if this method is strictly followed, the followers will ultimately reach the destination, by the grace of the Lord. This method is called ācārya-sampradāya. It is therefore said, sampradāya-vihīnā ye mantrās te niṣphalā matāḥ (Padma Purāṇa). The ācārya-sampradāya is strictly bona fide. Therefore one must accept the ācārya-sampradāya; otherwise one’s endeavor will be futile. Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura therefore sings:
tāṅdera caraṇa sevi bhakta sane vāsa
janame janame haya, ei abhilāṣa
One must worship the lotus feet of the ācārya and live within the society of devotees. Then one’s endeavor to cross over nescience will surely be successful.”
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What Mohini devi dasi mentions is very important.
Srila Prabhupada IS the Sampradaya Acharya, at present and for at least the next 9500 years.
This major point has been overlooked since 1977. And Srila Prabhupada should be worshiped as the Current Link Sampradaya Acharya. He is the Founder Acharya of Iskcon but His status as Sampradaya Acharya is very important. And if you read the Text 10.2.31 from Srimad Bhagavatam and Srila Prabhupada’s purport you can see how this methodology has not been followed at all in Iskcon. In fact the GBC have overlooked it by trying to replace and succeed Srila Prabhupada with the Conceptualised Physically Present Diksha Guru Theory with pretend Diksha Gurus.
The methodology that Srila Prabhupada introduced into Iskcon is called:
ACHARYA-SAMPRADAYA.
This is the method that we should ALL be following, not the diluted GBC pretend Diksha Guru methodology.
“This is the method that we should ALL be following, not the diluted GBC pretend Diksha Guru methodology.”
In other words by IRM, the bogus MASS (Multiple Acarya Successor System)!