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Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.22-34. Los Angeles, May 27, 1972,
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Prabhupada: So today, appearance day of Lord Nrisimhadeva. Lord Nrisimhadeva appeared on this Nrisimha Caturdasi on account of His devotee, Prahlada. As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, abhyutthanam adharmasya [Bg. 4.7]. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca dushkritam, sambhavami yuge yuge [Bg. 4.8]. The Lord appears with two purposes. Paritranaya sadhunam: just to give protection and rescue the devotees, and to kill the demons, vinasaya ca dushkritam. So Prahlada Maharaja, five-years-old boy, his only fault was that he was Krishna conscious. He was devotee of Krishna. That was his only fault. And the father was so unkind to a child, even five years old. He could not excuse, \u201cOh, let this boy do whatever, chanting Hare Krishna.\u201d No. The demons are so much against God consciousness that even at his home he would not allow his own child to become God conscious. This is demoniac civili… So you\u2019ll find many critics, many enemies, because you are making progress in Krishna consciousness. So the demons are always against this Krishna consciousness movement. That is the whole history. Just like Lord Jesus Christ, he was crucified. What was his fault? He was preaching God consciousness, that\u2019s all. This society is so cruel. So Prahlada Maharaja was tortured in so many ways. The torturing methods, I think you will find as you will see in today\u2019s picture, how Prahlada Maharaja was tortured.
\nSo one day, Hiranyakasipu… After all, he was his son. Affection was there. So one day, Hiranyakasipu asked the boy,<\/p>\n
prahradanucyatam tata
\nsvadhitam kincid uttamam
\nkalenaitavatayushman
\nyad asikshad guror bhavan
\n[SB 7.5.22]\nSo he asked his son, \u201cMy dear son, what you have learned? The best thing, what you have learned from your teachers, so you kindly let me know.\u201d So Prahlada Maharaja informed that \u201cI have learned like this.\u201d What is that?<\/p>\n
sravanam kirtanam vishnoh
\nsmaranam pada-sevanam
\narcanam vandanam dasyam
\nsakhyam atma-nivedanam<\/p>\n
iti pumsarpita vishnau
\nbhaktis cen nava-lakshana
\nkriyeta bhagavaty addha
\ntan manye \u2019dhitam uttamam<\/p>\n[SB 7.5.23-24]\nTan manye \u2019dhitam uttamam: one who is engaged in the matter of hearing about Vishnu, sravanam kirtanamvishnoh. We are engaged in hearing and talking and chanting about so many things non-Vishnu. Just like you\u2019ll find thousands of, millions of different types of magazines sold in your country, in all countries. Some of the magazines are sex literature, some cinema literature, some this literature, that… So many different types. There is one paper I have seen, \u201cDiabetes Literature.\u201d There are many patients of diabetes, so they have formed a society, \u201cDiabetic Society.\u201d I have seen it. (laughter) And there are many diabetic patients, they are being hoaxed, that \u201cYou pay two dollars per year, and you get all information how to protect yourself from diabetes disease.\u201d So in America two dollars is nothing, but it is collecting millions and millions of dollars, Diabetic Society. Diabetic magazine. So that sort of hearing and chanting is not needed. We are not interested in all these magazines, because we are followers of Prahlada Maharaja. He\u2019s our acarya. He\u2019s guru. Prahlada Maharaja\u2019s guru is Narada, and Narada is also our guru. Narada is guru of Vyasadeva. So we are a branch, but the original guru is Narada, Brahma-sampradaya. So Prahlada Maharaja is also a disciple of Narada Muni. So he teaches that sravanam kirtanam vishnoh [SB 7.5.23].
\nWe have to hear and talk and chant about Vishnu. Sravanam kirtanam vishnoh smaranam pada-sevanam. To remember Him always, to worship His lotus feet, pada-sevanam. Arcanam, temple worship, to keep the Deity nicely worshiped, offer foodstuff, arati, this is called arcanam. Vandanam, offering prayers. Just like we offer prayer, govindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajami **. These are prayers. There are so many prayers. Kesava-dhrita buddha-sarira, keshava-dhrita narahari-rupa. These are all prayers. This is also part of devotional service.<\/p>\n
sravanam kirtanam vishnoh
\nsmaranam pada-sevanam
\narcanam vandanam dasyam
\nsakhyam…<\/p>\n[SB 7.5.23]\nArcanam vandanam dasyam. To be always in service of the Lord, dasyam; sakhyam, to make friendship with Him, to consider Krishna as your friend. He says… Even if I do not say that He\u2019s my friend, He says, \u201cI am friend of everyone.\u201d Suhridam sarva-bhutanam [Bg. 5.29]. He\u2019s friend of everyone. We don\u2019t want His friendship, but He wants our friendship. He wants us to go back to home, Godhead; we don\u2019t want. So He is more anxious to take us, exactly like the father is more affectionate than the son. That\u2019s a fact. So He\u2019s the supreme father. So He wants that we may be happy, and therefore He comes to show us. He sends His representative, son. He leaves behind Him books so that we may go back to home, back to Godhead. So, sakhyam. He\u2019s always sitting with me, within my heart. I am in the heart, and Paramatma is also within the heart as friend to give me advice that \u201cWhy you are bothering in this material world? Please come back to home, back to Me.\u201d This is going on. Sakhyam atma-nivedanam. Atma-nivedanam means fully surrendered. So there are examples of devotees who, sarvatma-nivedanam. Just like Bali Maharaja. He gave everything to Krishna, even his body, everything, whatever, his kingdom, money, everything.
\nSo Prahlada Maharaja says, iti pumsarpita vishnau bhaktis cen nava-lakshana. All these items means hearing. Hearing about Vishnu, chanting about Krishna, giving everything to Vishnu, offering prayers to Vishnu, offering arcana, temple worship, Vishnu. In this way Prahlada Maharaja summarizes that \u201cAnyone who is doing like this, everything about Vishnu…\u201d iti pumsarpita vishnau bhaktis cen nava-lakshana, \u201cthis nine kinds of different devotional services,\u201d kriyeta bhagavatay addha, \u201cdirectly to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,\u201d tan manye \u2019dhitam uttamam, \u201cI think he is the best learned man in the world. He is the most learned.\u201d Tan manye \u2019dhitam. \u201cHe has studied everything very nicely.\u201d Actually, that is the fact. Jnana, knowledge Knowledge means to know Krishna, God, and the Vedic injunction is, yasmin vijnate sarvam evam vijnatam bhavanti. If you understand the Supreme Lord, then you understand everything. You haven\u2019t got to study differently different subject matters. Just like we sometimes talk of science, of astronomy, economics, politics. We talk sometimes. But we are not going to, or we didn\u2019t study all the subject matter separately. But in course of our studying Krishna consciousness, we know something of everything. So Prahlada Maharaja says, tan manye adhitam uttamam: \u201cOne who is engaged in these nine kinds of devotional services directly…\u201d So Prahlada Maharaja recommends, kriyeta bhagavaty addha tan manye \u2019dhitam uttamam.<\/p>\n
nisamyaitat suta-vaco
\nhiranyakasipus tada
\nguru-putram cedam rusha
\nprasphuritadharah<\/p>\n
As soon as he heard, \u201cOh, what this nonsense boy is speaking?\u201d he became so angry that sphuritadharah. When one becomes angry, his lips vi…, I mean to say, jumps. What is called? Quiver, yes. So he became so angry that it is said, sphuritadharah. (He) immediately called his teacher. He\u2019s king… Because he thought, \u201cThe rascal teachers, they have taught him like this. I have entrusted the boy to the teachers, to brahmanas, and they have taught this Krishna consciousness. So call him. Otherwise, how is that this small boy, five years old only, he\u2019s talking just like a great saint? So call his teacher!\u201d<\/p>\n
brahma-bandho kim etat
\nte vipaksham srayatasata
\nasaram grahito balo
\nmam anadritya durmate<\/p>\n
Hiranyakasipu became bitterest enemy of Vishnu because his brother Hiranyaksha, he was killed by Vishnu taking the shape of Varaha. You know the story. Since then, Hiranyakasipu was bitterest enemy. \u201cOh, He has, Vishnu has killed my brother. So He is my greatest enemy.\u201d So he won\u2019t hear anything about Vishnu. Any Vishnu devotee, he will punish him, even his own son. That was his policy. So he immediately called him, the teachers, and addressed him,<\/p>\n
brahma-bandho kim etat te
\nvipaksham srayatasata
\nasaram grahito balo
\nmam anadritya durmate<\/p>\n
So here… Teachers are generally brahmanas. Not generally. To become teacher is the business of the brahmanas. Brahmana means they have got six kinds of… Everyone must have livelihood. This material world is that you must work; otherwise you cannot get your livelihood. That is the law, whatever you may be. So the brahmanas\u2019 means of livelihood, six things: pathana pathana yajana yajana dana pratigraha. Pathana means he must be a very learned scholar, study the Vedic literature, and must teach others also. That is brahmana\u2019s business. And in that way, whatever the disciples bring, that is his income. No salary, no contract, that \u201cIf you pay me hundred dollars or five hundred dollars weekly, then I can teach you.\u201d No. There is no such contract. Teaching is free. It is the business of a brahmana to give free education to everyone. Now, it is the… Just like in our institution, I am your teacher, but there is no such contract that you have to pay me. But you pay me more than anything. So pathana pathana, that is the means of livelihood of brahmana. And kshatriya, they are kings. They can levy tax of the citizens because they are giving protection from being hurt by others. Kshatriya means one who gives protection (to) a man being hurt by others. That is the real root meaning. Kshatriya. And vaisya means they should, krishi-gorakshya-vanijyam, they should engage themselves in producing foodstuff, foodgrains, krishi, protect cows. Especially gorakshya. As the king is meant for giving protection to the man, similarly, a vaisya is supposed to give protection to the cows, or they keep cows and produce milk products. They are vaisya. And sudra, simply service. So these are the different types of employment of different kinds of social order. And a king, the king has to see that everyone is employed. Not that hundreds of people are unemployed, and government has to give welfare, subsidy. Not like that. The king\u2019s duty is that everyone is independently earning his livelihood. That is king\u2019s duty.<\/p>\n
So here the teachers are addressed here brahma-bandho. Brahma-bandho means a person who is born by a brahmana father but is not acting as a brahmana. He\u2019s called brahma-bandho, dvija-bandhu. Dvija-bandhu, one who is born of a, actually born of a brahmana father, but he\u2019s not acting as a brahmana. So Hiranyakasipu addressed the teachers brahma-bandho, not brahmana. \u201cBecause you are untrustworthy. I gave you, I entrusted you with my son to be taught, and you have taught him this Krishna consciousness. So against my will…\u201d He says practically, brahma-bandho kim etat te vipaksham srayatasata: \u201cI entrusted my child for being educated by you, and you have instigated him to speak in favor of my enemy, Vishnu? Vishnu is my enemy. How is that?\u201d Asaram grahito balo mam anadritya durmate. \u201cThis rascal boy, he does not care for me, and he has learned this Krishna consciousness, and you have taught him. How is that?\u201d<\/p>\n
santi hy asadhavo loke
\ndurmaitras chadma-vesinah
\ntesham udety agham kale
\nrogah patakinam iva<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think these demigods who are followers of Vishnu, they are coming in disguise and poisoning my son by teaching Krishna consciousness, and you did not take care of him. So what is this?\u201d Then the teachers replied,<\/p>\n
na mat-pranitam na para-pranitam
\nsuto vadaty esha tavendra-satro
\nnaisargikiyam matir asya rajan
\nniyaccha manyum kad adah sma ma nah<\/p>\n
They said, \u201cMy dear King, don\u2019t think we have taught him like this. It is not… I know, it is not our duty to teach him against your will. But his Krishna consciousness is not due to our teaching; neither somebody is coming in disguise and teaching him.\u201d Na mat-pranitam na para-pranitam. \u201cHe is neither taught by us, nor by anyone else.\u201d Suto vadaty esha tavendra-satro. Indra-satro. The enemy… The Hiranyakasipu is the enemy of the demigods; therefore he is addressed as Indra-satro. As he addressed the brahmana, brahma-bandho, so they retaliated also, that \u201cYou are enemy of the demigods.\u201d Naisargikiyam, \u201cBy nature he is doing that. We try to forbid him. We try to stop him chanting Hare Krishna, but still he\u2019s doing.\u201d Matir asya rajan niyaccha manyum kad adah sma ma. \u201cYou don\u2019t be angry upon us. We never did it.\u201d So… \u201cHe is, by his own nature he chants, he preaches, he\u2019s doing all this.\u201d<\/p>\n
gurunaivam pratiprokto
\nbhuya ahasurah sutam
\nna ced guru-mukhiyam te
\nkuto \u2019bhadrasati matih<\/p>\n
Then he again asked his son, \u201cNow I understand that your teacher has not taught you all these things. You rascal, where you have learned all this Krishna consciousness?\u201d (laughter) Abhadra. Kuto abhadrasati matih: \u201cWherefrom you got this rascal wisdom? Tell me.\u201d So this is the position, you see. Even father becomes enemy. Now, Prahlada Maharaja is replying. Prahlada Maharaja is replying,<\/p>\n
matir na krishne paratah svato va
\nmitho \u2019bhipadyeta griha-vratanam
\nadanta-gobhir visatam tamisram
\npunah punas carvita-carvananam<\/p>\n[SB 7.5.30]\n\u201cMy dear father, don\u2019t be afraid. It is not a thing to be taught.\u201d Matir na krishne. \u201cNobody can become Krishna conscious,\u201d matir na krishne parato, \u201cbeing taught by others,\u201d matir na krishne paratah svato va, \u201cor by mental speculation or thinking oneself,\u201d mitho \u2019bhipadyeta, \u201cor by making conference meeting, religious meeting, conference.\u201d No. Three things. One thing is to learn Krishna consciousness by speculative method, self-realization. Just like so many people are very much interested that \u201cWhy shall I go to a guru? I can realize myself. I shall meditate.\u201d So that is called svatah. And paratah means by others\u2019 instruction. And mitho, mitho means by assembly. So who? Now, griha-vratanam. If one is griha-vrata… There are two things: grihastha and griha-vrata, or grihamedhi. \u201cSo those who are griha-vrata…\u201d because he is pointing out his father\u2019s position, that he\u2019s griha-vrata. He has no other business. He simply wants to get money, hiranya. Hiranya means gold, and kasipu, a nice apartment. That\u2019s all. So he says that griha-vratanam, \u201cIf one makes it his point to remain in a comfortable home life, for him, either by speculation or by teaching or by meeting, he\u2019ll never develop Krishna consciousness.\u201d Griha-vratanam. Then what is their position? Now, adanta-gobhir visatam tamishram: \u201cThey are unable to control their senses, and as such, they are entering into the darkest region of material existence.\u201d Punah punas carvita-carvananam: [SB 7.5.30] \u201cTheir only business is chewing the chewed.\u201d They have no other ways. Griha-vratanam, those who want to be happy materially, actually they are chewing the chewed. Material happiness means sex life, ultimate, utmost, topmost happiness. So people are simply trying to, how to utilize this sex life in so many ways, in pictures and in… I do not wish to discuss. In dancing, in club, in so many ways. Because they cannot control the senses. The same thing, same thing, the same sex life in different way. Sometimes a naked dance, sometimes in this way, sometimes in that way. Therefore it is called punah punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30]. I have heard that some people go to Florida and they spend fifty thousand dollars per week for organizing naked dance. So naked woman he has seen so many times, but still he spends more money to see it in a different way. That is called punah punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30], \u201cchewing the chewed.\u201d So persons who are too much attached to sense gratification, and they have made it their conclusion that \u201cWe shall be happy within our family life or this social life…\u201d Vidyapati sings, tatala saikate vari-bindu sama suto-mita-ramani-samaj(?). Our society means… Society, friendship, and love. There must be woman, must be children, suto-mita-ramani-samaje. So there is some pleasure, undoubtedly. Otherwise, why people are working so hard to stick to this position? Vidyapati sings that tatala saikate vari-bindu sama suto-mita-ramani-samaj(?). There is undoubtedly some pleasure, but that pleasure is so insignificant that it can be compared: a drop of water on the desert. Desert, if you want to utilize desert to make it a garden or productive field, you have to pour water. The whole ocean water you have to pour there. Now, if somebody says, \u201cAll right, you want water. Now take this one drop water,\u201d then what it will do? Similarly, our heart is hankering after so many things. We are hankering… Actually we are hankering after Krishna, but we do not know. We are trying to satisfy our hankering in so many ways in material life. Actually we are hankering after Krishna. Just like a small child, it is crying. It cannot express, but it is wanting the mother\u2019s breast feeding. So you cannot stop him crying unless it is transferred to the mother. Similarly, actually we love Krishna. That is a fact. Because we love Krishna… Therefore you, who did not hear even the name of Krishna, say, four or five years ago, why you after so much Krishna? This is the proof, that actually we are after Krishna. This Krishna consciousness movement is being accepted in Western countries by the younger generation. Why? Because every one of us, we love Krishna. But it is now covered by maya. We have to simply take out the covering, maya; then we are Krishna conscious.
\nThat is explained in the Caitanya-caritamrita,<\/p>\n
nitya-siddha krishna-bhakti \u2018sadhya\u2019 kabhu naya
\nsravanadi-suddha-citte karaye udaya<\/p>\n
That Krishna consciousness is not an artificial thing, that we are making some propaganda on Krishna consciousness, publishing some books, magazines, and our preachers are going place to place. No, there are so many propaganda is going on. But they are not so effective. And our, what means we have got to make propaganda? We simply make this propaganda, \u201cPlease chant Hare Krishna.\u201d That\u2019s all. Of course, we do sincerely. So if we propagate sincerely and seriously, as Caitanya Mahaprabhu has ordered, yare dekha, tare kaha \u2018krishna\u2019 upadesa… [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. We must be sincere. Then, if we canvass, \u201cPlease chant Hare Krishna,\u201d it will be effective. It will be effective. The business is not very serious or very difficult. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, yare dekha, tare kaha \u2018krishna\u2019… \u201cAnyone you meet, you simply request him about hearing about Krishna.\u201d So… But if one is so much covered by materialistic enjoyment, it takes little time. It takes little time. Otherwise, automatically there is love for Krishna, and sravanadi-suddha-citte…<\/p>\n
Therefore Prahlada Maharaja says, sravanam. If we hear about Krishna constantly, through realized souls, not professional\u2014if we hear, satam prasangan mama virya-samvido [SB 3.25.25]\u2014then automatically, our dormant Krishna consciousness come out. So Prahlada Maharaja says, therefore, that \u201cThose who are determined to become happy within this material world, they cannot be raised to Krishna consciousness either by personal teaching or by making conference or by mental speculation.\u201d That is not possible, because he is determined. So our duty is that we should know that in the materialistic way of life we shall never be happy. This is called knowledge. And vairagya. So this vairagya and knowledge is not so easy. Prahlada Maharaja says, adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram: it is not possible. That means he assures his father, \u201cDon\u2019t be worried. You will never be Krishna conscious. (laughter) Because your only aim is to stick to home and money and women. Therefore rest assured, you\u2019ll not be … It is not that a person like you will be raised to Krishna consciousness.\u201d Then? How you have done? The next question should be: Why they are sticking to this materialistic way of life? That is answered by Prahlada, na te viduh svartha-gatim hi vishnum [SB 7.5.31]. \u201cThese persons, those who are so much materially attached, they do not know the ultimate goal of life is Vishnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vishnu.\u201d That is actually the ultimate goal of life. We are here in this material world, forgetting Krishna, to enjoy, to lord it over the material nature. Everyone is trying to become the lord, master of material… That is struggle. Nobody can become lord or master of this material world. But that struggle to become master, they are taking it happiness. They are taking it happiness. That is the nature of persons who are influenced by the modes of passion. They\u2019ll work hard, and that will, they will take it is very good, pleasing. Because they do not know that the… Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi vishnum durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah [SB 7.5.31]. They are hoping against hope to become happy within this material world. That is the whole history. Take the history, any history, modern history. There are so many empires: the Roman Empire, the Carthaginian Empire, the Greek Empire, the British Empire recently, Hitler\u2019s Nazism, and so many. For some time they become very powerful. Just like Hiranyakasipu, he\u2019s now very powerful. He\u2019s thinking, \u201cNobody can…\u201d Now today he\u2019ll be killed. Kesava-dhrita narahari rupa is coming. So this demonic civilization will never be successful. That\u2019s a fact. But they are so fool, they do not see even historical evidences. So many empires failed. The Roman Empire failed, the British Empire failed. Still, somebody is trying to create another empire, another, different empire. Just like your President Nixon, he\u2019s trying to influence all other nations under his control. Why? Of course, I should not speak all these things. There may be criticism. But that is the way, going on. That is the way. We can understand. We can understand politics, economics, everything, but we do not bother about. But our aim is that this way of life, to increase materially happiness, it will never be successful. That is our conclusion. We are not fools that we have given up everything for advance in Krishna consciousness. Because we know that this, this way we shall never be happy. It is not possible. That is explained by Prahlada Maharaja. These rascal people who are so much materially attached… Krishna also says in the Bhagavad-gita,
\nbhogaisvarya-prasaktanam
\ntayapahrita-cetasam
\nvyavasayatmika buddhih
\nsamadhau na nigacchati<\/p>\n[Bg. 2.44]\nThose who are too much attached, bhoga, material enjoyment, aisvarya, material opulence … Bhogaisvarya-prasaktanam tayapahrita-cetasam. Persons whose heart has been misled by this kind of civilization, they cannot take to Krishna consciousness. Therefore to become too much materially opulent is a disqualification for attaining Krishna consciousness. It is a disqualification. Because they don\u2019t care. Just like in our temple, not very rich men, they are coming, because they (say,) \u201cWhat is this nonsense, Krishna consciousness? We have got everything. These boys, they haven\u2019t got to eat anything; therefore they are chanting Hare Krishna on the street. That\u2019s all.\u201d They think like that. \u201cThey\u2019re needy. All right, they are needy. Give them some money.\u201d That\u2019s all. They don\u2019t like to take anything from us because the same business, matir na krishne paratah svato va. They\u2019ll never understand, because their aim is grha-vratanam. They want to be happy… Although they are seeing there is no happiness, they never can be happy, still… This is called punah punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30], chewing the chewed. One, the sugarcane, is chewed by somebody. It is thrown away. And if somebody else comes and chew it again, what juice he will have it? So punah punas carvita… Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi vishnum [SB 7.5.31]. Durasaya ye durasaya vishaya vasi (reads Sanskrit commentary) tantraya karanam te hi vishnum na viduh. Tatra hetu svasminn eva arthe purushartha yesham tesham gatim gramyam. Na tu te \u2019pi guru pati syat vishnu jnasyasi tatra bhak bahir vishaye bahavo yesham te bahir arthas tann eva guru tena mantra silam yesham te.<\/p>\n
So one who is fixed up in this conclusion, that \u201cWe shall become happy with this materialistic way of life,\u201d they cannot take to Krishna consciousness. And they do not know also that our ultimate goal of life is Krishna, Vishnu. Then why it is so? Now, andha yathandhair upaniyamanas te \u2019pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhah. They have become blind. They are blind themselves, and they are also led by blind leaders. The leaders, at the present moment, leaders, they say that \u201cWhy you are going to church? Why you are going to temple? If you want your bread…\u201d Just like in Christian religion you go to church, \u201cO God, give us our daily bread.\u201d But the atheist class, they are propagating, \u201cFor bread, why you are going to church? You make industry, you make business, and you get bread.\u201d But actually… We were just talking that there are so many unemployment. Our Karandhara prabhu was… No. Who was talking? Syamasundara. Syamasundara said that the computer… What is called, computer? It can do thousands of men\u2019s business. So they have discovered this machine. That means thousands of men will be unemployed. That is actually happening in your country due to so many machines. Now, take for example, formerly… You have seen the picture, Krishna, Vrindavana picture, Krishna\u2019s father transferring Krishna. They were going on bullock carts, no motorcar. You have seen the picture. So formerly, transport was bullock carts. The cows and the bulls, the bulls were employed for agricultural purpose, for drawing the carts. So there was no necessity of motorcar. Now you have got motor, motor-tractor. You don\u2019t want the bullocks. Therefore kill them. How you can utilize them? Therefore you must have slaughterhouse to kill them. And as soon as you kill them, then you have to eat them. So this is the, I mean to say, entanglement. If you kill, then you become responsible for being killed. The subtle laws…<\/p>\n
Therefore, without knowing our ultimate goal of life is Vishnu, na te viduh svartha-gatim hi vishnum… [SB 7.5.31]. That is our interest. The human form of life is offered by nature after so much evolutionary process. Just to understand Vishnu, God, this is the only business. But instead of attending our real business, we are trying to be happy in other ways. Then you can say that \u201cIf we are engaged in real business, then how the economic question will be solved? We have to work.\u201d That\u2019s all right, you work. But work simple. Why you have invented so much botheration? Work is there. If you have cows and if you have got land, then you till the land, get grains, and there is milk, there is fruit, there is flower. Anywhere, you can live peacefully. Whole economic question is solved. And because we have forgotten, we have missed the real point, that our life is meant for God-realization. We are simply increasing botheration. Punah punas carvita. Adanta-gobhir vishatam tamisram. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanah. The leaders are blind; we are also blind. So they are advising that \u201cIf you want to solve your economic problem, why you are going to church? Why you are going to temple? Come here, increase business, industry. Take loan and start business.\u201d That\u2019s all. This is going on. But actually, the more we are trying to mislead this people… Because they are thinking it is all right. They are… That the social condition is becoming more and more grave. That\u2019s a fact. We are trying to solve one problem, but many other problems are coming because we do not know what is the ultimate goal of life. Because we are missing the real point.<\/p>\n
Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said, na te viduh svartha-gatim hi vishnum durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah [SB 7.5.31]. These rascals, they are thinking that by so-called economic development, by exploiting material resources, we shall be happy. That is not possible. The best example your country has given. You have exploited the material resources, and other countries are also following, but where is the happiness? Instead of happiness, there is \u201chippyness.\u201d (laughter) So still, they have no eyes to see that \u201cWhere we are going?\u201d Adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram punah punas carvita-carvananam [SB 7.5.30]. Because we cannot control our senses, we are driving, we are being pushed towards the darkest region of material existence, very hard to leave. Darkest region means that we are going to become animals next life. Because this is animalistic civilization. Nature gave us the opportunity to realize God, but God-realization is meant for human being. The human being, if he does not realize God, he\u2019s simply engaged in animalistic way of life\u2014eating, sleeping, mating\u2014then nature will call, \u201cAll right, sir, again become animal.\u201d Punar mushiko bhava: \u201cAgain become a mouse.\u201d You know this story? Punar mushiko bhava. There is a story. There is a very nice story. One rat, mouse, he came to a saintly person. Everyone comes to saintly person for some blessing, you see. Real blessing they don\u2019t want. Some material blessing. Real blessing, Krishna, they don\u2019t want. If you give him some blessing that \u201cYou become very rich man and…\u201d These are all very well, this. So this mouse also came and begged the saintly person, \u201cSir, I am in difficulty. If you give me some blessing?\u201d
\n\u201cWhat is that?\u201d
\n\u201cThe cat chases after me always. I\u2019m very unhappy.\u201d
\n\u201cSo what do you want?\u201d
\n\u201cNow, if you make me a cat, then I can get relief from this thing.\u201d
\n\u201cAll right, you become cat.\u201d So he became cat.
\nSo after few days, again he comes. \u201cSir, again I am in trouble.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat is that?\u201d
\n\u201cThe dog is chasing me.\u201d (laughter) Don\u2019t laugh, hear seriously. \u201cDog is chasing me.\u201d
\n\u201cAll right, then, what do you want?\u201d
\n\u201cNow, make me a tiger.\u201d
\n\u201cAll right, you become a tiger.\u201d
\nSo when he became a tiger he was staring on the saintly person like this.
\nSo he asked, \u201cWhy you are staring upon me? You want to eat me?\u201d
\n\u201cYes.\u201d
\nSo he again curses, punar mushiko bhava: \u201cAgain you become mouse. Again you become mouse.\u201d<\/p>\n
So that is our position. We are advanced in civilization. Now we want to kill God. So we are again going to be uncivilized, to remain in the forest and to remain naked. Actually, they are practicing that: nature\u2019s way. So again they are going to be aborigines. And that is being practiced. They are going to the forest, they remain naked. So actually, punar mushiko bhava: \u201cAgain become mouse.\u201d Civilized human being means God conscious, happy life, no trouble, no enviousness, everything happy, no hard labor. Why hard labor? Everything is there. You just employ your little intelligence, you get sufficient food by grains, by fruits, by flowers, milk. There is no difficulty if we remain in our own way. So that is the difficulty, that we do not know that our ultimate goal of life is God-realization. Then God has got all arrangement. You cannot produce fruits and grains in factory. They are given by God. Why? That \u201cYou eat them and be Krishna conscious, chant Hare Krishna.\u201d But we don\u2019t want that. We want slaughterhouse, unnecessarily. Actually, if you go to the store… There are so many stores. How many stores are selling only meat? It is not possible. Ninety-nine percent fruits, vegetables, grains you are taking, and maybe a little percentage of meat. So why you cannot give up this little percentage? If you think that meat is very palatable, why don\u2019t you live on meat? Russia is also trying like that. That has become the fashion. In Moscow, it was very difficult to find out nice grains. With great difficulty Syamasundara used to spend two hours daily to secure these things.<\/p>\n
So this is the problem. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi vishnum durashsaya ye bahir-artha maninah [SB 7.5.31]. They are trying to be happy by the arrangement of these material activities. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanas te \u2019pisa-tantryam. They do not know that the material nature is so strong that you cannot get out of it unless you are prepared to suffer more and more. If you take to natural life and live peacefully and take to Krishna consciousness, that is your real life. And if you simply increase botheration and problems, then you\u2019ll have to suffer. That is the position of modern civilization. Actually, superficially we see that material advancement of material science, people have got so many machines, so many facilities. But actually, they are in trouble. Just like I gave you one example: the computer machine. It can work for thousands of men. So thousands of men means the thousands of men must be unemployed. And especially in your country, they are taking advantage of this machine because the salary is If you want to pay to the worker, a big, big salary. So they want to save. They are taking machine, and they think they will save money, so many workers. But the workers are becoming unemployed. The government has to give them welfare. The government will tax. That\u2019s all. (laughter.) Government will not give money, welfare, from government\u2019s pocket. The government will increase your taxation. So you are…, you stop payment by importing some machine, now you have to pay that money to the government. This is called entanglement. This is a crude example. I don\u2019t say that you stop all this business, but the material world is like that. You want to solve something; instead of solving, you\u2019ll create so many problems. This is material life. Because our life is not meant for solving problems and creating problems. Our life is meant for understanding God. Then everything is all right. But that you have given up.<\/p>\n
na te viduh svartha-gatim hi vishnum
\ndurasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah
\nandha yathandhair upaniyamanas
\nte \u2019pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhah<\/p>\n[SB 7.5.31]\nThey do not know that you cannot go an inch beyond the stringent laws of material nature. That is not possible.
\nThen the next question is that how… People are not interested in Krishna consciousness, and then, they are misled by blind leaders. So how, what is the solution? That is Prahlada Maharaja saying,<\/p>\n
naisham matis tavad urukramanghrim
\nsprisaty anarthapagamo yad-arthah
\nmahiyasam pada-rajo-\u2019bhishekam
\nnishkincananam na vrinita yavat<\/p>\n
Therefore one has to take shelter of a pure devotee. That is the only solution. He says, naisham matis tavad urukramangrhim. The beginning was that \u201cThey are not interested in Krishna consciousness.\u201d Then how to become Krishna conscious if that is the solution? Then Prahlada Maharaja says, naisham matis tavad: \u201cSo long one does not approach a pure devotee,\u201d mahiyasam nishkincananam, \u201cgreat personalities, who has no more any material interest,\u201d nishkincana, \u201cand takes the dust of his lotus feet on the head…\u201d Naisham matis tavad urukramanghrim: \u201cSo long one does not approach such personality, there is no possibility of becoming Krishna conscious.\u201d Naisham matis tavad urukramanghrim. As soon as one approaches the pure devotee and takes the dust of his lotus feet and puts it on his head, immediately, anartha apagamah, he\u2019ll be freed from all this nonsense. That means he\u2019ll forget this idea that \u201cMaterially we can advance.\u201d This is the process. So we have to approach a nishkincana, who has nothing to do with this material world. His only ambition is to serve more Krishna. And if somebody approaches him and takes the dust of his lotus feet, then he can understand. Mahiyasam pada-rajo-\u2019bhishekam nishkincananam na vrinita yavat. (aside:) Our time is over? All right.<\/p>\n
So in this way Prahlada Maharaja talked with his father, and the father became more angry. Instead of taking the lesson … Murkhaya upadesa hi prakopaya na santaye. If you teach lesson to a foolish person, he\u2019ll be simply angry. He\u2019ll not take your lesson. How it is so? Payah-panam bhujanganam kevalam visha-vardhanam. If you keep a snake and if you want to make friendly behavior with him, that, \u201cMy dear snake, don\u2019t bite any more. I\u2019ll give you milk and banana. You eat here and stay here nicely,\u201d he\u2019ll not… His poison will increase, and one day he will… There is a story in the Hitopadesa: one day, one… The same thing. So payah-panam bhujanganam kevalam visha-vardhanam. So these are lessons, stories. So his father, Hiranyakasipu, became more and more angry. So one day… Because after all, son and father… The son was simple boy. So one day he said, \u201cPrahlada, I shall now kill you. I shall see how your Krishna saves you.\u201d So immediately, Prahlada was seeing to the pillars of the hall. He was king. So Hiranyakasipu asked him, \u201cIs your God, Krishna, in the pillar?\u201d He said, \u201cYes, sir. Yes, my father, He is there.\u201d So immediately, with anger he broke the pillar and Nrisimhadeva came out.
\nNow we can honor Him. (end)<\/p>\n
(Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.22-34. Los Angeles, May 27, 1972. )<\/p>\n
Srila Rupa Goswami mentions some of the benefits of worshipping a Nrsimha shalagram sila in his book, Padyavali:
\n“A tulasi leaf offered to the lotus feet of the Nrsimha shalagram sila destroys the sin of murder. Water that has washed the lotus feet of the Nrsimha shalagram sila destroys the sin of theft. Foodstuff offered to the Nrsimha shalagram sila destroys the sin of drinking liquor. Sincere surrender to the Nrsimha shalagram sila destroys the sin of adultery with the wife of the spiritual master. Association with the devotees of the Nrsimha shalagram sila destroys the sin of offenses to the devotees. This is the extraordinary glory of the Nrsimha shalagram sila.”<\/p>\n[ Srila Rupa Goswami: Padyavali, Verse 116]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So today, appearance day of Lord Nrisimhadeva. Lord Nrisimhadeva appeared on this Nrisimha Caturdasi on account of His devotee, Prahlada. As it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, abhyutthanam adharmasya [Bg. 4.7]. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca dushkritam, sambhavami yuge yuge [Bg. 4.8]. The Lord appears with two purposes. Paritranaya sadhunam: just to give protection and rescue the devotees, and to kill the demons, vinasaya ca dushkritam. So Prahlada Maharaja, five-years-old boy, his only fault was that he was Krishna conscious. He was devotee of Krishna. That was his only fault. And the father was so unkind to a child, even five years old. He could not excuse, \u201cOh, let this boy do whatever, chanting Hare Krishna.\u201d No. The demons are so much against God consciousness that even at his home he would not allow his own child to become God conscious. This is demoniac civili… So you\u2019ll find many critics, many enemies, because you are making progress in Krishna consciousness. So the demons are always against this Krishna consciousness movement. That is the whole history. Just like Lord Jesus Christ, he was crucified. What was his fault? He was preaching God consciousness, that\u2019s all. This society is so cruel. So Prahlada Maharaja was tortured in so many ways. The torturing methods, I think you will find as you will see in today\u2019s picture, how Prahlada Maharaja was tortured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95589,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85558\/revisions\/95589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hare](\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/hVfeZbt.jpg\")
By His Divine Grace A.C.B. Swami Prabhupada<\/strong><\/p>\n