“this book Kṛṣṇa, he will be liberated, simply by reading this book.”
May 2, 1974 morning walk Bombay
…”regularly this book Kṛṣṇa, he will be liberated, simply by reading this book.”
In this morning walk Srila Prabhupada explains the meaning of full surrender, how only demons come to this material world, and the real meaning of transcendental anxiety or separation from Krsna
Girirāja: Another thing we were discussing yesterday is that in Goloka there are no demons.
Prabhupāda: No. There cannot be any demons. Then how it is Vaikuṇṭha? Vaikuṇṭha means without any anxiety. So the situation of anxiety is created by the demons. Therefore, when Kṛṣṇa wants to fight, He has to come down here because there is no question of fighting. There is no chance of fighting. Everyone is devotee. A devotee will never agree. But they will agree Kṛṣṇa’s fight, but here, in this field.
Girirāja: But the sentiment of anxiety or fear for Kṛṣṇa, is that sentiment in Goloka?
Prabhupāda: No. There is no such thing. That is separation. Just like gopīs, they are full of anxiety: “Oh, Kṛṣṇa has gone to the pasturing ground.” Their anxiety is there. Just like Rukmiṇī, she was thinking, “Oh, Kṛṣṇa may not give me up. He is talking in this way.” She fainted. So anxiety is there. So the anxiety is that one may not be separated from Kṛṣṇa. That is the anxiety. And actually there is no separation, but the feeling of separation out of ecstatic love. Just like one who has got love for the other person, beloved, he always thinks like that, “My beloved may not be separated from me.” This is ecstasy of love. Just like a miser man who has got much wealth, he always thinks, “My money may not be lost. My money may not be lost.” Out of his too much attachment for the money, he thinks like that. Is it not? “How shall I protect this money? How shall I protect this?” To earn money is also troublesome. To keep money also troublesome. And when it is lost, that is also troublesome. This is the position. But there is no such thing, loss, but the anxiety is there. We shall return from here? [break] …vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām. So both the sādhu and the duṣkṛtina, by Kṛṣṇa’s two activities, act differently to the devotees and to the demons. They realize. That is their achievement. By punishment, this Kāliya realized, “Oh, Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Lord.” And devotees, by out of love, they realize. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is Absolute. In either process He is realized. Mama vartmānuvartante manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ. If one is sincere, then they gradually make progress. Yes. [break] …vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām.
Girirāja: “O Lord, You have descended especially for the purpose of annihilating all kinds of disturbing elements within the world, and because You are the Absolute Truth, there is no difference between Your mercy and punishment.” [break]
Prabhupāda: …surgical operation is there, the knife is being used on the body, that means he is getting relief. It is not punishment. Hare Kṛṣṇa. (Hindi) [break]
Girirāja: Is that benefit coming in all suffering or only when it is given by Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: Yes. When there is suffering given by Kṛṣṇa… Therefore a devotee does not take seriously suffering. Tat te ‘nukampāṁ susumīkṣamāṇaḥ [SB 10.14.8]. A devotee thinks, “It is the favor of Kṛṣṇa that he has put me into suffering.” They never see suffering as suffering. It is favor of Kṛṣṇa. That is devotee’s vision. [break] It is exactly like a son who knows his father well. If the father slaps, the son never protests. He knows that “It is good for me.” Similarly, a devotee is never disturbed when there is suffering given by Kṛṣṇa. [break]
Girirāja: A karmī is suffering just the laws of…
Prabhupāda: The karmī is different. The karmī is suffering. He is suffering just like criminal is suffering. A criminal is given slap by the police. That slap, and the father is giving slap, that slap is different. Although it looks the same thing, but there is great difference.
Satsvarūpa: So there is no benefit to suffering unless it is connected with Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Yes. When Kṛṣṇa… Therefore we shall fully surrender to Kṛṣṇa. As Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura says, mārobi rākhobi yo icchā tohārā: “Now I surrender. Now if you want to maintain me, that is all right, and if You want to kill me, that is also all right.” This is surrender. It is not business, “If You maintain me, then I surrender. If You kill me, then I do not.” It is not like that. Mārobi rākhobi yo icchā tanhārā. “As You like. If You want to maintain, that is also good; if You want to kill, that is also good.” This is devotee’s view.
Satsvarūpa: Someone might say, “But if one is surrendered why should Kṛṣṇa give him trouble?”
Prabhupāda: Yes, it is because he is always free. Why do you make Kṛṣṇa dependent on your so-called goodwill, that “Kṛṣṇa must give me always pleasure”? This is sense gratification. This is sense gratification that you approach Kṛṣṇa for your comfort, sense gratification. That is not bhakti. That is sense gratification. Prahlāda Mahārāja was given suffering by his father so harshly, but he never said, “Oh, I am devotee and Kṛṣṇa giving me so much trouble? Oh! Give it up.” He never said that. Neither he asked Kṛṣṇa to come and save him. That is Kṛṣṇa-bhakti. The Pāṇḍavas. The Pāṇḍavas, they were always with Kṛṣṇa and they were suffering. They never asked Kṛṣṇa that “You are the Supreme, and why we are suffering?” Never said. Never said. That is Kṛṣṇa-bhakti.
Girirāja: “Because You are the Absolute Truth, there is no difference between Your mercy and punishment.”
Prabhupāda: Yes. This is to be understood. If we understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Absolute Truth, then this is understanding, that either suffering or enjoying, it is all Kṛṣṇa’s mercy. There must be some purpose. When Kṛṣṇa puts me into suffering, there must be some purpose. So we should welcome because it is Kṛṣṇa’s mercy. Tat te ‘nukampāṁ susumīkṣamāṇo bhuñjāna evātmā-kṛtaṁ vipākam [SB 10.14.8]. (Hindi) [break] “…misdeeds. It is Kṛṣṇa’s mercy that He is reforming me, slightly suffering. I would have suffered very greatly on account of my past deeds, but He is kindly accommodating me by giving little suffering. That’s all.” [break] …by the wife of Kāliya.
Girirāja: [break] “…that this creature, appearing in the body of a serpent, must have been overburdened with all kinds of sins. Otherwise how could he have the body of a serpent? Your dancing on his hoods reduces all the sinful results of actions caused by his having this body of a serpent.” [break]
Prabhupāda: ...to becomes angry by Kṛṣṇa is auspicious, auspicious. It is a very nice verse. “It is very auspicious that you have become angry upon him. He is getting salvation.” [break] ...the punishment of Kṛṣṇa, one has to execute many pious activities in his past life, just to get the punishment of Kṛṣṇa. And what to speak of love of Kṛṣṇa, how much pious activities one has to do. If for being punished by Kṛṣṇa, one has to undergo lots of pious activities in the past life, then just see, to be loved by Kṛṣṇa, how much one has to undergo pious activities. Kṛta-puṇya-puñjāḥ [SB 10.12.11]. That is described. Kṛta-puṇya-puñjāḥ. Puñja means heaps, volumes, volumes of pious activities. Then one can come to Kṛṣṇa. Yeṣām anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām. Nobody can come to Kṛṣṇa unless he has background of pious activities and one who has become freed from all sinful activities. Yeṣām anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām. This is the qualification. [break]
Girirāja: …some of our disciples, it is seems that in this life they did many sinful activities.
Prabhupāda: But because they have surrendered, all sinful activities is counteracted. Ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi [Bg. 18.66]. Anyone surrenders sincerely to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, immediately he becomes free from all reaction of sinful life. Because he is saved. Ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ: “Don’t worry.” This is the process. So however one might have done or executed so many sinful activities, if he fully surrenders to Kṛṣṇa, then everything is counteracted immediately. But not that repetition, that “I surrender to Kṛṣṇa; then again I’ll do some sinful activities and again I surrender.” This business will not be allowed. This is called nāmno balād yasya hi pāpa-buddhiḥ. That is the greatest sin, on the strength of Kṛṣṇa’s mercy, to go on repeating sinful activities. That is greatest sin. Kṛṣṇa can excuse you-ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣa…, mā śucaḥ—but you don’t make it business, that “I commit all sinful activities and surrender to Kṛṣṇa to counteract.” No, this is not good. This will not be allowed. [break] …but you cannot cheat him. Then you’ll suffer.
Girirāja: [break] “…been pleased by his undergoing all kinds of penances and austerities, and he must have executed universal welfare activities for all living creatures. The Nāga-patnīs confirmed that one cannot come in contact with Kṛṣṇa without having executed pious activities in devotional service in his previous lives.” [break]
Prabhupāda: …double feature is not understood by the Māyāvādīs. If Kṛṣṇa has created the whole, so why he should be separate? He is not separate, still separate. [break] …regularly this book Kṛṣṇa, he will be liberated, simply by reading this book.
Girirāja: [break] “…narration of the Kāliya serpent and his punishment will need fear no more the envious activities of snakes. The Lord also declared, ‘If one takes a bath in the Kāliya lake where My cowherd boyfriends and I have bathed, or if one, fasting for a day, offers oblations to the forefathers from the water of this lake, he will be relieved from all kinds of sinful reaction.’ ” [break]
Bhāgavata: ...actually are devotees or how do they become demons? Are they devotees? Obviously Kāliya is… Just like Jaya and Vijaya, they were devotees. And due to some offense, then they became demons and they fought with Kṛṣṇa to satisfy Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Anyone who is living in this material world is a demon. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Where is your mother?
Indian Lady: She is at home.
Bhāgavata: But only certain demons get to fight with Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is special demon.
Bhāgavata: So those special demons, are they are all like Jaya and Vijaya, are they all in that position?
Prabhupāda: No, not necessarily.
Pamho agtacbsp,thank you,krsna book is been always my favourite book after bhagavat gita,whatever is in saguna physical form is demoniac therefore the material world is for demons,is not the case that born from the refusal to serve krsna. Vrikodhara bhima was very powerful physically but was less powerful spiritually then his brothers I mean he was complaining with krsna about their situation then bima thought he won the battle of kuruksetra but krsna took bhima with HIM somewhere and told him bring me the sand of this well but he run straight away to krsna for protection because there was very ferocious living entity then krsna ask to bima who won the battle ME or you?and bhima immediately answer to krsna YOU.because bhima had plenty of pious activities therefore krsna forgave him.SRI-JI also don’t care about the suffering give to HER by krsna SHE say that’s the greatest happiness.yes i agreed nobody can come in contact with krsna without pious activities so maroki rakhobi is also krsna therefore a real devotee don’t care about living or dying if this is bhagavan ka iccha desire.and krsna never forget even the smallest contribution to HIS service.therefore let me die as krsna wish that’s the devotee and we can see the difference very clear between demons and devotees .agtacbsp ys haribol