Don’t remain in this Darkness

Prabhupada, Nairobi, November 1, 1975: […] We experience every moment. If there was no sun, then what is the value of this world? We have got good experience. In the Western countries where there is no sun, it is hell, simply hell, simply hell without sun. All the condemned countries are devoid of sunlight. This morning we were speaking that London, it is without sunlight practically throughout the whole year. Long ago, in 1969, in the television, the television man asked me that, “Where is hell?” and “It is here in London.” That was published in the paper. There is such a… And always dark and always moist and always so cold. So this is hell. Why you have to search out hell? Here is hell. Simply you bring money from outside, exploiting others, and construct big, big building. It is little attractive. People come here as tourist. Otherwise who comes here to see the hell? So actually that is the…

So anyone’s heart is always clouded with ignorance and rubbish knowledge. If you want to drive away this knowledge… Ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya. This ignorance… This material world is tama. A Vedic injunction is tamasi ma: “Don’t remain in this darkness.” If there is light, why we shall remain in the darkness? That is intelligence. If there is light, why should we rot in the darkness? So there is light. Jyotir gamah, brahmajyoti. Jyotir gamah, Brahman. That Brahman world go, not this material world. Yasya prabha [Bs. 5.40]. What is that Brahman world? The Brahman world means where there is complete effulgence, bodily rays of Krsna. That is Brahman world. Just like here the bodily rays of the sun makes it clear, so brilliant, what we can see. Then what is the sunshine? It is the bodily rays of the sun. Why don’t you believe that? The example is there, you learn. If a material thing like the sun globe or the sun-god, he has got so much bodily effulgence that it is keeping lighted all over the universe, just imagine what is the bodily brilliance of Krsna.

That is described in the sastra. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad- anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. Krsna’s body is bluish or blackish; therefore you see the sky bluish because the rays in the spiritual world is effulgence, bluish effulgence, and that is being reflected through the sky. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. His bodily light is being reflected in millions and trillions of universes. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti. Jagad-anda [Bs. 5.40]. Jagad-anda means… Anda, it is round. Anda means egg shape. We don’t say it is flat. Sastra never says, “Flat.” Then you correct, “No, no, it is not flat. It is round.” This is sastra. Long, long years, in the beginning, it was called round, anda. Goloka, go, Goloka, Bhurloka. Goloka means round. Goloka Vrndavana. Everything is round. So jagad-anda. Anda, anda means egg shape. Jagad-anda-koti. The each and every universe is egg shape; it is covered. So yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti kotisu [Bs. 5.40]. And each and every universe, kotisu… In each, not that in one universe. We see so many universes, one universe, but there are many millions of universes. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti kotisu asesa-vasudhadi bhinnam [Bs. 5.40]. And in each and every universe there are so many planets, asesa, you cannot count—unlimited—in one universe, and there are millions of universes. What is your material knowledge? What do you know? You are trying to go to the moon planet. That is also you committing mistake. And what about the millions of universes?

Therefore our knowledge is very, very limited, poor. Poor fund of knowledge, and still we are proud.

Full Lecture: http://prabhupadabooks.com/classes/sb/3/28/21/nairobi/november/01/1975