From Sri Mayapur Chandrodaya Mandir
Date: March 1, 2017
Speaker: HH Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Goswami
Subject: Srimad Bhagavatam 7.10.23
Transcriber: Madhumati Priyasaki dd
VERSE:
pitryaṁ ca sthānam ātiṣṭha
yathoktaṁ brahmavādibhiḥ
mayy āveśya manas tāta
kuru karmāṇi mat-paraḥ
TRANSLATION:
After performing the ritualistic ceremonies, take charge of your father’s kingdom. Sit upon the throne and do not be disturbed by materialistic activities. Please keep your mind fixed upon Me. Without transgressing the injunctions of the Vedas, as a matter of formality you may perform your particular duties.
PURPORT:
When one becomes a devotee, he no longer has any duty to the Vedic regulative principles. One has many duties to perform, but if one becomes fully devoted to the Lord, he no longer has any such obligations. As stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.41):
devarṣi-bhūtāpta-nṛṇāṁ pitṝṇāṁ
na kiṅkaro nāyam ṛṇī ca rājan
sarvātmanā yaḥ śaraṇaṁ śaraṇyaṁ
gato mukundaṁ parihṛtya kartam
One who has fully surrendered to the lotus feet of the Lord is no longer a debtor to his forefathers, the great sages, human society, the common man or any living entity.
The Supreme Personality of Godhead nonetheless advised Prahlāda Mahārāja to follow the regulative principles, for since he was going to be the king, others would follow his example. Thus Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva advised Prahlāda Mahārāja to engage in his political duties so that people would become the Lord’s devotees.
yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas
tat tad evetaro janaḥ
sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute
lokas tad anuvartate
“Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.” (Bg. 3.21) One should not be attached to any materialistic activities, but a devotee may perform such activities as an example to show the common man that one should not deviate from the Vedic injunctions.
LECTURE:
These purports of Srila Prabhupada are like milking the surabi cow. You know, surabi cow milk it and so many things come out. Its juicy, I mean Srila Prabhupada purports are juicy somehow or the other when you are speaking on Srimad Bhagavatam, extra juice comes, the nectar of the self-realized souls living comments on Bhagavad Purana is relishable. In fact, that’s how the srimad bhagavad purana starts out enjoining the readers the readily swallowable nectarine juice is relishable if you are self-realized or you are beginners doesn’t matter, it’s the readily swallowable nectarine juice which we are always anxious for.
This is, this is the poetry and also the full knowledge of Srimad Bhagavatam, and so we can get that by milking the surabi cow of Srila Prabhupada purport. That’s what happens in the opening statement by Srila Prabhupada, it’s in once sense it’s a shocker I don’t know if you caught that. It’s a shocking statement. I will read it again because that’s why I like to go through these purports incumbently because that way we can milk the most out of it. We will cover the whole purport but want to make sure this extraordinarily points and then understand why this opening statements by Srila Prabhupada are shocker.
How many of you have an idea or you can remember why Srila Prabhupada’s opening statement is a shocker? How many of you here have a rough idea? Oh Jananivas has and few of you have some idea. Vaishnavis have rough idea. Obviously, I am going to read it again because, this is kali yuga and Sridhara baba sometimes said sometimes repetition is necessary. We are rather dull brained so we have to hear again. So, when we read this and dissect it like a scientist because this is science. Because this is the science, science of Krishna consciousness. When we read it dissect it then we will immediately understand, now I understand why you say it radical, because this purport flies in the face of smarta brahmins. Its snaps him in the face just in the mood of Bhakti Siddanta Sarasvati Thakur as once when Bhakti Vinod Thakur was ill and he couldn’t go for a debate or discussion on brahmins, what is Brahmanism and relationship with Vaishnavism etc, and he couldn’t go and he was ill, but Bhakti Siddanta Sarasvati Thakur was a very young man but he was already very accomplished scholar so he went in place of Bhakti Vinod Thankur and he completely smashed the mayavadis and smashed the smarta conception. Smarta conception means the brahmins who think they know everything about the vedas but miss the whole point.
Rules and regulations, you know thousands or millions of rules are regulation are always important to them but the conclusion of the siddanta the essence of vedas they cannot understand. They miss the whole point. That’s why in Bhagavad Gita Krishna says to Arjuna, “Don’t get entangled in the flowery words of vedas” then Krishna himself makes a shocking statement. Krishna makes a shocking statement. The vedas deal primarily with the modes of material nature, oh what is this. Vedas are the highest knowledge in the universe and they deal primarily with the modes of material nature. If you analyse what the vedas are, everything is there vimanas for example, flying machines, aeronautics, really aeronautics , this is known by the way by NASA they know Sanskrit literatures in the vedas they know about the secret of aeronautics and they are studying.
When I was in Chennai, in 2004 not longer after I returned to India there was one man came and gave a presentation and said what do you like to hear about. I said I liked to hear about the vimanas or flying machines in the vedas, and so he is a Sanskrit professor, and he works for NASA. So he has a friend who is Sanskrit professor so asked him you are a Sanskrit professor why NASA has a Sanskrit professor on their staff? I mean what is it got to do with rockets and all. The answer is a lot. Because NASA, is aware the knowledge of the vedas is superior to their knowledge but they haven’t figured it out how to crack it yet because many of the ingredients required are unavailable in kali yuga. They know something very special in vedas in Sanskrit. In fact, it has been figured out by the ILET that Sanskrit is the most perfect computer programming Language, Haribol!
They figured it out, so now, the top ILET of scientists and technicians around the world some of them are programming in computers in Sanskrit. This is of course a precursor spreading OF this moving of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, because then more and more people would recognize power of vedic culture, which of course the root of this movement is to re-establish the vedic culture, Rama Rajya in modern times. That is the root of the movement re-establish Rama Rajya , the ideal kingdom of Ram where all the citizens are protected there is no adharma etc. So, they discovered Sanskrit.
I have seen, I saw on Facebook a clip of a young women who is a Sanskrit professor in UK and she was teaching Sanskrit in grammar school children. So, in UK into it. Sanskrit is in, that’s the precursor to studying Srimad Bhagavatam, isn’t it? And certainly, it is. And all the vedas beginning Upanishads.
In vedas knowledge about everything, Engineering making bridges, making how to make a dam, everything is there, electricity is there all science are there but these are material things if you want to go to heavenly planet, of course that is there. Yajnas and pujas and tantra and yantra whatever you want, it’s a desire tree primarily for fulfilling material desires.
Krishna says, that the vedas primarily deal with the modes of material nature, rise above them, Oh Arjuna, what is it? Krishna is the author of the vedas and Vyasa dev is the empowered agent. What he says raise above vedas, raise above vedas, because they deal primarily with the material nature. Then we understand what is Bhagavad Purana, because Bhagavad Purana has nothing to do with the modes of material nature, nothing whatsoever.
Then we see, if we look at the conversation between Vyasa dev and Narada Muni, Narada Muni is his guru. So, Srila Vyasa dev was feeling almost despondent after compiling all the vedas, even the Mahabharat and all the vedas. He was feeling still dissatisfied, dissatisfied and so this was detected by Narada Muni. Narada Muni, you know, tongue in cheek, Narada Muni knows everything but sometimes he will just tease his disciple and pose a question the disciple which he already knows the answer. I mean Srila Vyasadev is no small player, he is Acharya the Mahajan he was one of the great authority in the science of Krishna Consciousness, Narada Muni is also Mahajan. It is fair to say even a bigger Mahajan than Vyasa Dev, even Srila Vyasa dev was giant and a compiler of all the vedas, but yet Narada Muni is his guru, his Acharya. So Narada says to him, My dear Vyas, you just compiled all the vedas, but you seem dissatisfied, what is the problem? This is called tongue in cheek of course of course, he knows the answer but he is giving Vyasa a chance to answer might even be like a lame excuse, you know, He says well may be it is be probably I didn’t describe about the Supreme Lord. Narada says, yes you did not explain about the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then he got really heavy on him, he can do that. Guru means really heavy. He got actually heavy on srila Vyasadev, its quite insulting to think about it, such a maha Acharya Vyasa dev, yet Narada Muni is his guru and he is Mahajan also and superior to Vyasa dev, so he has right to chastise him. He said, You have misled the people, Oh what is this? Narada is accusing Vyasa dev the great Bhagavad Vyasa dev of misleading the people? This is astonishing, he just compiled all the vedas and vedas are summum bonum of knowledge of all creation what Narada Muni says but you have misled the people, my goodness? Extraordinary!
Actually, we are in the line of Narada Muni you see, we are in the line of Vyas also because you see Narada Muni is above Sri Vyasa dev so we are following especially Narada Muni. Yes, you have misled the people he is saying the same thing in different words. But Krishna says in BG that (jai raha madhava, astasaki ki Jai) because you are always telling them material things, you are not telling them about pure devotional service. You are not telling them how to get out of the material world, You are just helping them for a better room in the hospital. You know, if you pay extra money you can get a extra fancy room with extra fancy wall paper and you know extra wide Samsung TV screen and all that, but you are in the hospital or jail. Sometimes criminals can have all facilities in the jail. So those who want to go to heavenly planets they want a better room in the jail house, Durga, Durga means jail. Everybody is worshipping Durga, Ok, fine, you are worshipping the jailor but doesn’t get you out of the jail. You might get a better room in the jail that’s what they want. They want a better room in the jail.
So, that’s like vedas, unless they know the real purpose of the vedas krishanstu bhavan swaayam and the process of devotional service. This is Krishna’s advice for Arjuna. Raise above the modes oh Arjuna, because they deal primarily with the material nature, so any kind of sense you want is there in vedas. So, NASA has figured it out others are gradually figuring out. That is the great foundation for this movement a complete 360degree change from the attitude of the British in 1800 when their attitude, Robert McCauley the minister of Education, who had jurisdiction toward India he told, “If you want to conquer people of India you have to convince them that their culture is inferior”. Do you understand? British accent, if you want to convince the people of India if you want to conquer them, then you have to convince them that their culture is inferior.
Did they do a good job of it? How many agree they did a good job of it? Hello, no opinion, you don’t know whether British did a good job of convincing India that their culture was inferior? Yes, they did. What about you Vaishnavis? Sometimes the Vaishnavis are more alert than the men you know, did they do a good job of brain washing? yes no? I hear one or two voices.
If you want to know more detail about how good their job of propaganda, misinformation and putting down the vedic culture, you want to know how good their job was, then read the biographies in the vedabase, biography of the 7th goswami, the biography of Bhakti Vinod Thakur. There it is explained about what was the mood it Calcutta which believe it or not intellectual seat of all of India in 1800, all the philosophers were, primary Philosophers were in Calcutta those days. They were two camps those that were trying to stand up and preserve the vedic culture and those who were saying, old fashion for God sake. When McCauley also took up the position, “Are you going to allow them to believe they were giants they were 8 feet tall”? you know. Yes, because they are eight feet tall, in Srimad Bhagavatam and you know what Srimad Bhagavatam, in Dwapara Yuga the size, when king Muchukunda woke up in the cave and he looked down he saw everything was smaller and he said Kali yuga has arrived, everything is very small, men were 8 feet tall but these fools can’t understand these things, you see.
So the idea is that the Bhagavad Purana is compile by Srila Vyasadeva in order to bring the student of the vedas the ultimate conclusion “Krishnastu bhavan swayam” and the uttama Bhakti , bhakti yoga is the summum bonum the best for self-realization, nothing else can beat it you see. Therefore, Narada Muni chastised you never said anything about the glories of the Supreme Lord, Vyasadev agrees,” yes, yes I could see, I know that is the problem.” He is apologetic and then that’s why Bhagavatam is about science of devotional service to Krishna and about the glories of the Vaishanvas.
But did you see until we come to the 10th canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, it’s primarily about devotional service and kings, all the way up to the 9th canto about the Manus. The sages of Naimisaranya all of them were eager to hear all these things why? Because they are maharishis they are mahabhagavad darshis, saying that kings, manus and so forth even and the interaction with great devotees like king PrachinaBharati and interaction with Narada Muni and the conversation that how he was Narada was preaching so that everyone could hear how Narada was preaching and relish even though the king couldn’t follow for the whole chapter of Srimad Bhagavatam. Narada muni is preaching to Prachina bharati using the great complicated example of the city of nine gates and everything surrounding city, and the soldiers and so forth, and the analogy, metaphor and how the city would be conquered in terms of time, old age and death. At the end the king says, “Maharaj thank you very much I appreciate your explanations unfortunately I couldn’t understand anything you said”. After the whole chapter of Srimad Bhagavatam he said, I am sorry maharaj, I didn’t get it.
We see how Srila Prabhupada is in the mood of Narada muni. So Narada Muni didn’t get upset, what you fool, you rascal you can’t understand my God its waste of my time? you know, no, no he did not react like that. So, he starts all over again explains these things, same thing in a simpler manner, that’s Vaishnava, you see that’s Vaishnava.
Anyway, so the vedas deal with 3 modes of material nature, So, Bhagavatam has nothing to do with three modes of material nature though we can learn about modes of nature from the Srimad Bhagavatam. We learn all about it, we even learn about the devotional service mixed with the modes of material nature, we know about that. All throughout the sastra devotional service is described as transcendental and devotional service is described as having nothing to do with the modes of material nature. Right? Yes? How many of you agree? Most?
Are you reading Srila Prabhupada books, hello. Vaishnavais do you agree, the sastra mostly describe devotional service has nothing to do with modes of material nature? Right? Yes? How many of you agree? How many of you disagree? Look, this is Vaishnava sport, you know, right here in Navadvip dam formally in the time of Mahaprabhu, when he was Nimai Pandit all the greatest philosophers around the world, the world in those days meant India, not America. Srila Prabhupada said nobody went to America the red Indians and Jungle. No body went to America, the Europe was Wikings ones and you have seen the pictures and the Asian cults in UK the cults ancient tribes the Germanic tribes ancient tribes wearing animal skin and all these, what was going oj in Europe these days, before the predecessor golden age of the king as a result of Mahaprabhu lotus feet touching the ground the renaissance or the cultural renewal in Europe took place because Mahaprabhu was on this planet.
By his lotus feet touching the planet the researches of cultural civilization in Europe. Nobody knows that. Even the devotees don’t think about that. So anyways, so the idea is that this bhagavad is transcendental it has nothing to do with the material nature. But the chapter there devotional service mixed with modes of material nature. So, I want the answer to that question. Why sastra says devotional service is transcendental, here we have a chapter in the Srimad Bhagavatam. It says whole chapter about the devotional service mixed with modes of material nature.
So, I personally asked Srila Prabhupada about this, morning walk Detroit 1975, in a park in Detroit. So I asked Srila Prabhupada, In Bhagavatam in the 3rd canto in whole chapter it says devotional mixed with the modes of mat nature, does that apply to your disciples? So, I want to be very specific I want to avoid, because he is talking about devotional service mixed devotional service does it apply to your disciple I asked. Then he dropped the bomb on me exploded on, a bomb on my face you know, Boom, he said, it depends who you consider to be my disciples. Oh, Oh, in 1975 up until that time, devotees were sentimentalist, foolish, they got to sit before the fire, get a spiritual name, wear neck beads, and you know chant Hare Krishna, eat prasadam, and so forth and so on, that you are disciple. But to me, personally, Prabhupada is making it clear, it depends who you consider to be my disciple. He did not consider by 1975 so many of his initiates following nonsense, they were not disciples. He made crystal clear to me personally. So many 100s of years initiates were not his disciple but 1975.
They were so many weirdest thing going on wife swapping, this thing and that thing and so many initiated devotees were turning to intoxication, so many not chanting 16 rounds, so many not getting up early in the morning that’s not disciple. Disciple means who follows the disciple, it’s in the title disciple who follow the discipline of Acharya they are disciples, those who don’t follow they are not disciples they are initiates.
So, large portion of our movement today consists of initiates and not disciples, who is watching cinema, who is going regularly to non-devotee restaurants, like in India. I have been in India for 23 years now and so if you ask congregation member for a donation, say you want 20,000 Rupees donation, Well you know this is not good the time money is tight and so many excuses. But that same man, this is what the Indians told me, you are in Indian body, this is what the prabhus told me that in an Indian extended family you know because giant extended families in India so fathers side of the family, mothers side of the family, grandma or great cousins aunties, chacha you know and all these different personalities and children everything they go out to dinner at a five star hotel and then go to the cinema, and some initiated devotees are doing this also fact!
Not just non-devotees and then they blow out 10,00 rupees, when you ask for donation they say, Well, money is tight. This is what the prabhus tell me. That sound right to you prabhu? Yes, see here is the confirmation. So 10,000 rupees they blow out going to five star hotel eating food cooked by non-devotees these are not disciples, that’s an issue.
Karma goes to guru if the guru is still alive, karma goes to guru if you eat food cooked by non-devotees the karma goes to guru. The sinful reaction goes to guru. And you get a due also of course. If you go into a five-star hotel and open the curton behind the scenes, who the cooks are. Some fat guy, smoking cigarette with the filthy dirty lungi on, goes passes stool and come back and doesn’t even wash his hands and start cooking, and you eat it this is going on. This is going on.
Like in India they hire, for devotee festival they hire catering company because they find it difficult to get enough devotees to cook. In America, you can’t do that it’s too expensive to hire a catering company, its too expensive. You know, it would probably cost 10 USD per plate at least to hire a catering company in America. So the devotees do the cooking and that’s the way always it was from the day one even there was 10,ooo big bhog, the devotees do the cooking. But in India, they hire catering companies. I was at one ratha yatra festival I saw a cook filthy dirty guy smoking cigarette while doing subji, these things were going on.
So the thing is that there is a distinction between the disciple and initiates. This movement has thousands and thousands of initiates they were not actually disciples. Because disciple means who follows the Acharya. Just like there are not of discussion who is a pure devotee, who follow Acharya. They could be called pure devotee.
Now again to we don’t have very much time left, so again I want to go again to Srila Prabhupada purport which triggers the discussion. “When one becomes a devotee, he no longer has any duty to the Vedic regulative principles” – this is the bomb Srila Prabhupada is dropping a bomb. One no longer has any duty to Vedic regulative principles. Because they have millions of regulative principles given in the vedas, “veda Veda rate”. We don’t follow these principles we just follow what Srila Prabhupada gave us he is founder acharyas we follow Srila Prabhupada. We are prabhupadanugas we follow founder Acharya. He cut out thousands and thousands of things he told us if I told you all the rules and regulations you will faint so many thousands so he gave us a very simple program.
Chant 16 rounds for ekadasi for example no grains which also includes you can’t use hing or asafodita for ekadasi because it has 60% rice flour. So you cant use hing or asafoetida on Ekadasi you would have to have special, Prabhupada what would we have for ekadasi?. he wanted the devotee to get the block of raisin and shave it off and powderise and use them that was Srila Prabhupada instruction. Because it was inconvenient its rarely done. That you can use it for ekadasi nothing wrong with the hing. But the problem right on the bottle it says 60% of rice flour or wheat. Right on he bottle, it says 60% and 60% is huge so we can’t use it. So, if we shave it from the block we can use it you see? So so many rules and regulations Srila Prabhupada made it simple for us. Chant 16 rounds follow he regulative principles offer everything to Krishna that you eat, “yat karosi yad asnasiyaj juhosi dadasi yat”,(BG:9.27) and chant 16 rounds Prabhupada kept is simple.
So here we see shocking statement, “when one becomes a devotee he no longer has any duty to the vedic regulative principle”. For example, many Hindus are very concerned about ancestors. Even to the point I have seen in devotee houses these days imitated devotees you go for home program and sometimes they have altar on the closet somewhere and they have picture of guru parampara and picture of iskcon pictures and pictures of favourite deities etc. And up on the wall there may be photograph of grandpa I am talking about initiated devotees, photographs of grandpa and a black and white photograph of grandpa’s bogus mayavadi guru. They don’t want to take it down. They fear they will be cursed by their dead grandpa if they take down the grandpa’s mayavadi guru.
This type of mythology is going on isn’t it? You saw it you are a preacher. You know it’s true, Yes, maharaj he says. This is India modern India. They won’t take down a photograph or painting of their grandfather ‘s bogus mayavadi guru and won’t take out of the altar for a fear that their diseased grandpa would curse them. This is going on.
But, the truth is, truth is if you offer your prasadam very nicely, if you offer your food very nicely, it pacifies the ancestors. Therefore, we don’t do separate ancestor worship, we don’t have any special day of the year worshipping the ancestors like the Hindus all over the world worshipping. We don’t do that, why? Because if you nicely offer one plate of Prasad then the benefit goes to ancestors. Not only that if you just follow the Acharya all the ancestors are delivered, millions, are you ready for that? You follow Acharya millions of ancestors on mother’s side of the family and fathers side of the family, millions of ancestors are delivered. 2 times 2 is 4 and 4 times 4 is 16 and if you multiply how many, 14 generations. 14 Generations so, you keep squaring the number its off the chart. You keep count how many millions of ancestors are delivered if you just chant, “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare”, “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare”. You know what, you are delivering millions of ancestors.
Somewhere down in hell, some ancestor is being tortured, and some you know representative of Yamaraj shows up with the piece of parchment they don’t use computers down there so a piece of parchment you see, Oh Aer you Mr Josi, “ Yes yes,(person cries”). Mr Josi, we are letting you out, Well! “Don’t tease me its not nice”, Well, No Mr. Josi I had an order from Yamaraj you will be release, Oh oh , why why why, Well because you have 10 generations after you, you have one ancestor who is engaged in pure devotion to Lord Krishna, HariBol!! Your sinful reactions are wiped out, so you can come with me now I will escort you out. “Are you joking”, No no its right here, Yamaraj’s signature is right here, you know, and he escorts him out of hell.
This is the sankirtan movement. Haribol!!. This is Mahaprabhu’s movement. This is Prabhupada, this is Narada Muni So one who becomes a devotee he no longer has any duty to the vedic regulative principles. You see why is that is shocking? One has many duties to perform I have described only ancestor worship. But if one becomes fully devoted, see fully devoted, that’s the thing fully devoted to Lord he no longer has any obligations. This is heavy and the smarta Brahmins and Mayavadis hate these kind of statements, hate it. They challenge immediately, but Prabhupada is very bold in the mood of Bhakti Siddanta Sarasvati Thakur, he says, if one becomes fully devoted to Lord he no longer has any obligations.
Everything is satisfied by the worship of the supreme personality of Godhead and Acharya everything all devas it is said, we don’t have to worship all the devas, we don’t have to all these vedic rituals. Thousands of any Vedic rituals we don’t have to do, we only just offer one plate of Krishna Prasad and chant 16 rounds that’s all, and try to improve the quality of Japa
So as stated in the Srimad Bhagavatam 11th canto, one who has fully surrendered, well one who has fully surrendered, that’s a catch, One who has fully surrendered to the lotus feet of the Lord, is no longer a debtor to his forefathers, the great sages, human society, a common man, or any living entity.
So fully surrendered is the heavy phrase I don’t know if there is anybody sitting here is fully surrendered, but partially surrendered to various different degrees of surrender. But still even a little bit of devotional service, can save one from most dangerous type of fears which is hell. Or going to dog body pig body. One who is fully surrendered to the lotus feet of the Lord is no longer debted to his forefathers, great sages, common man or any living entity. So, we should be as close to fully surrendered as possible. If we are not very surrendered, and we come again if we deviate, then we come again under the modes of material nature. We are not on the “brahma bhuta” platform as described in the Bhagavad Gita “brahma-bhutahprasannatma na socati na kanksati”. Now I discussed with Srila Prabhupada also the same morning walk conversation in the same park in Detroit. What about this “na socati na kansati” no hankering, and no lamentation I said, but sometimes we see that devotees may not be happy or be disturbed. Then Srila Prabhupada says something very very shocking he says they are not devotees, oh oh. Of course he meant not pure devotee not at a proper level.
Razor edge, razor’s edge its described, if we deviate from Acharya, then we are under the modes of mat nature immediately. Then other things may kick in, other obligation but if we follow Acharya then all the obligations are wiped on and things are made crystal clear. One is no longer a debtor to his forefathers the great sages, human society, common man or any living entity. That’s pretty sweeping, that’s very comprehensive. Supreme Personality of Godhead nonetheless advice Prahlad Maharaj to follow the regulative principles since he was going to be the king, the others would follow the example.
So, whatever great man does the whole world pursues, that is said in Bhagavad Gita. Thus Lord Nrsimhadev asked Prahlad Maharaj to engage in his political duties so that people would become Lord’s devotees. Of course keep in mind that Lord Nrsimhadev is talking to a 5 year old boy. He is saying to the 5 year old boy, now take over the kingdom. How does a 5-year-old boy become a king? The point is he was surrounded by careers of pure brahmins who know how to do everything. So from the time he is 5 year old, till he grows up, his advisors brhamana advisors, will be the one who will be telling him what to do and not to do and with full faith tin the sastra.
We will just complete. Here Srila Prabhupada said that in the purport whatever action the great men performs the common man follows and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts all world pursues. There is no time to discuss in depth the purport of this heavy verse of Bhagavad Gita. But this sloka doesn’t apply only to kings, gurus and sanyasis but also to fathers mothers, university professors, school teachers and everyone elder brother, and all these categories. BG 3.2, “one should not be attached to any materialistic activity but a devotee may perform such activity as an example to show the common man that one should not deviate from vedic injunction. For example a house holder in Krishna consciousness should maintain his family. From time to time when Prabhupada was in this planet, sometimes a man may want to run away from his family, or neglect his family. But Prabhupada did not allow such irresponsibility, you see.
So, one must follow the ideal example. So we are out of time, if somebody has a short question he can ask. Ok, thank you very much Jagad Guru shrila prabhupada ki jay grantaraj Srimad Bhagavatam ki jai, Shree Shree Radha Madha Asta saki ki jai sri Nrsimha Bhagavan Ki jai. Nitai Gaura Premanande! Hari Hari Bol!