Prabhupada, Hyderabad, April 11, 1975: […] Generally there are three types of material nature, three qualities: sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. Now, you multiply these three by three: it becomes nine. And again you multiply nine by nine: it becomes eighty-one.
It is mixture. Here these gunas, the qualities, are not pure. They are mixed up. Just like color mixing. Originally there are three colors: red, yellow and blue. And you mix it… Those who are color expert, they can display many thousands of colors.
So similarly, in the nature’s way there are different colors or different gunas, and every one of us, we have got a particular type of guna with different desires, different plans, different so many things. Now, in the human form of life, you have got the chance to discriminate yourself or separate yourself from these colorful different species of life.
That is the main duty of human form of life. Labdhva sudurlabham idam bahu-sambhavante. We do not know, we have forgotten that how many species of life we have come through, transmigrating from one after another. Therefore this human form of life is called labdhva sudurlabham idam bahu-sambhavante. After many, many births… We should not misuse it. Very responsible life. Full Lecture
pamho agtACBSP,
thank you for posting this scientific article on the colors! There is a story regarding colors when SRILA PRABHUPADA used to reside in Prayaga as a grhastha by opening a pharmacy called Prayaga.
Once HIS sannyasa guru, HH Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava maharaj came to visit SRILA PRABHUPADA at Prayaga and while they were preaching a famous solicitor who wanted to talk with SRILA PRABHUPADA and HH Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava maharaj came for a visit with the archbishop of the area who was learned in logic argument.
HH Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Maharaj told him you can ask me any question and the bishop said i know that SRI KRSNA is black, why you worship a black person? And Maharaja answered him it’s a good question, black means without color, the scientists say that black color is beyond any color.
Colors is synonym of material things therefore Krsna is black because black means without color. Krsna doesn’t have any color therefore we worship Krsna because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, beyond the three gunas. All the demigods and other living entities are within the three gunas that’s why we don’t worship anybody else – only black color.
The black color is so powerful that it absorbs all the others colors, white, green, red, blue, yellow, etc… all of them will become black by mixing together.
Therefore those who practice krsna bhakti by worshipping krsna will find themselves aloof from maya samsara. You also should try to worship Krsna.
The bishop then asked, i know you worship also Gaura, why you worship someone who has color? The priest thought this was a good question and wanted to hear the answer.
HH Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Maharaj smiled and told him when all the various colors get mixed the color we get will be golden therefore GAURA is also situated beyond the colors.
All colors are serving the black color, Krsna. SRIMATI RADHARANI has a golden color and Krsna adobted the beauty of SRIMATI RADHARANI, therefore that black color became Gaura. The solicitor then said, if we keep to hear from you we become all devotees.
SRILA PRABHUPADA used to preach alot in Prayaga by meeting important people due to HIS pharmacy activities. SRILA PRABHUPADA chose HH Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Maharaj as friend and sannyasa guru because the former was very learned in sastric arguments.
All akarvika qualities are serving SRI SRI RADHA KRSNA therefore we just keep serving by chanting Hare Krsna all life long to make sure we get situated beyond all the 81 gunas coming from the colors, blue,red and yellow,
thank you for your association agtys
ys a.c seva das haribol
You prabhus should try and follow this:
PURPORT
It is a qualification of a Vaiṣṇava that he is adoṣa-darśī: he never sees others’ faults. Of course, every human being has both good qualities and faults. Therefore it is said, saj-janā guṇam icchanti doṣam icchanti pāmarāḥ: everyone has a combination of faults and glories. But a Vaiṣṇava, a sober man, accepts only a man’s glories and not his faults, for flies seek sores whereas honeybees seek honey. Haridāsa Paṇḍita never found fault with a Vaiṣṇava but considered only his good qualities. (Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta ādi-līlā 8.62)
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Rama dasa.