It Is Not Alright

[Guest guest]

594

"It Is Not Alright!"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.22

Mayapur, February 29, 1976

 

listen

 

 

--------

 

 

Dayananda: Translation: "My dear Lord, the supreme great, You have created

this material world of sixteen paraphernalia, but You are transcendental to such

material qualities, or in other words, all these material qualities are under

Your full control. You are never conquered by them. Therefore the time element

is Your representation. O my Lord, the Supreme, nobody can conquer over You, but

so far I am concerned, I am being crushed by the wheel of time, and therefore I

am surrendering fully unto You. And now, therefore, kindly take me under the

protection of Your lotus feet."

 

Prabhupada:

 

sa tvam hi nitya-vijatma-gunah sva-dhamna

kalo vasi-krta-visrjya-visarga-saktih

cakre visrstam ajayesvara sodasare

nispidyamanam upakarsa vibho prapannam

[sB 7.9.22]

 

The same thing is repeatedly reminded. Maya... We are nispidyamanam. We

are being crushed by the wheel of time with sixteen spokes. We are being

crushed. At the same time, we are thinking that we are very happy. This is

called maya. This is maya's grace, that in any condition of life, the suffering

is very, very acute, but the living entity who is suffering, he thinks, "I am

enjoying." This is called maya. You have seen that the pig eats stool. And when

we see, we say, "Ah! What is that? Oh! He is eating stool." But he's thinking

that he's enjoying. He is thinking he's enjoying. This is the covering influence

of maya, praksepatmika-sakti. Otherwise how one can suffer? The worm in the

stool is enjoying. If you take one worm from the stool and keep it aside, he'll

again go to the stool. This is maya, praksepatmika-sak..., avaranatmika-sakti,

covering. Maya-sukhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan [sB 7.9.43].

 

Prahlada Maharaja will speak in later verses that soce tato

vimukha-cetasah, maya-suhkhaya bharam udvahato vimudhan. A Vaisnava's concern

is... He sees everything. Just like any common man can understand what kind of

birth. Nana yoni bhraman kare, kadarya bhaksana kare. Very peculiar arrangement

of the maya. We see sometimes in the airplane, even Indian, they're eating the

intestine of the hog, enjoying. That is enjoying. There is a preparation called

naphi in Burma. That preparation is made... Every householder has a big jug at

the door, and any animal dies, he puts it in that. It is... The bad smell is so

strong, if one opens, that whole neighborhood will be polluted, bad smell. So

they keep it for some years, and when it is decomposed, the juice is coming,

they strain the juice and keep it in bottle. That is called naphi. And when

there is some festival, they give little, little, and people enjoy it. So, nana

yoni bhraman kare, kadarya bhaksana kare. When my Guru Maharaja was alive, we

had one temple, one of his, in Burma, in Rangoon. So when they were making puris

with nice ghee, all the inhabitants will come, "Oh! What you are doing? What you

are doing? (laughter) What you are doing? Intolerable. It is..." The flavor of

ghee was intolerable, and the flavor of naphi is tolerable.

 

So nana yoni bhraman kare, kadarja bhaksan kare. Very peculiar condition

we are in this material world. But do not think that when Krsna comes, He also

is subjected to this suffering. No. That is isita. Just like there are many

patients in the hospital, infectious disease, but that does not mean the doctors

who are treating them, they are also infectious. No. They are not infectious.

Similarly, when Krsna comes... Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata,

tadatmanam srjamy aham [bg. 4.7]. So He is not subjected to this mayic

influence. He's not subjected. Therefore it is said, tvam nitya-vijitatma-gunah.

This material world is created by Him, composition of three material qualities

-- sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna -- but He does not belong to any one of

them. The Mayavadi philosophers, they think that when God comes, incarnation, He

also accepts the sattva-guna and therefore the form is there. Their conclusion

is, "The Absolute Truth is formless, so when He accepts a form of this material

world, He accepts this sattva-guna." But that is not the fact. He's above

sattva-guna even. Therefore it is said, nitya-vijita atma-gunah. Sva-dhamna. He

comes with His own spiritual energy, sva-dhamna. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam also,

in the beginning it is said, dhamna nirasta-kuhakam. Nirasta-kuhakam. Kuhakam

means illusion. So the spiritual world, there is no such illusion or these three

gunas. Therefore it is said, nirasta-kuhakam sva-dhamna. In the spiritual world

there is no influence of these three gunas. That is in this material world. So

when Krsna comes, He does not become affected or, rather, infected with these

gunas. Nirguna... That is nirguna. Nirguna guna-bhokta ca. He's bhokta. He's

bhokta or nirguna. Nirguna means spiritual guna, not material guna. When it is

said, nirguna, "nirguna" means without any material quality. That is nirguna.

 

Sa tvam hi nitya-vijitatma-gunah sva-dhamna kalo vasi-krta. Kala, the time

factor. We are under the kala, we conditioned souls, past, present future. Kala.

Kala, time. Time has got three factors: past, present, future. So what is past,

present, future for me, that may not be past, present, future for Brahma, or

that may not be past, present, future for the ant. Every... This world is

relative world. My past, present future is relative to me. My limited span of

life, say a hundred years. So before hundred years, it is past. And after

hundred years, it is future. And the present hundred years is present. But so

far Brahma is concerned, his past, present, future is different. Our forty-three

lakhs of years multiplied by one thousand -- his present day. That is his

present day. Just like we have got this present day, beginning from six-thirty

to five-thirty, that. So Brahma hasn't got such day. This six-thirty to

five-thirty, say eleven hours, and Brahma, this eleven hours means our

forty-three lakhs of years multiplied by one thousand. Sahasra-yuga-paryantam

ahar yad brahmano viduh [bg. 8.17]. So in this way, relatively... Similarly, one

ant, his one hundred years, he cannot imagine that so long period of man is one

day. So everything is relative in our condition. But for Krsna, He's eternal.

There is no such thing as past, present and future. Nityah sasvatah. We are also

of the same quality, nityah sasvatah, but under the condition of material nature

we are controlled, and this is going on by the time factor. Therefore Prahlada

Maharaja is regretting, nispidyamanam: "I am being crushed by this time factor."

But we are thinking, "It is all right." This is called ignorance. We are being

crushed under this time factor, the wheel, time wheel, with sixteen spokes,

senses. Manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati, mamaivamso jiva-bhuta

[bg. 15.7]. "These living entities," Krsna said, "they are My part and parcel."

So they should remain with Him just like the fire and the spark. Unfortunately

we have fallen down. And the result is nispidyamana, being crushed.

 

So if one is serious to be saved from this crushing process of time

factor, then they should learn from Prahlada Maharaja. Mahajano yena gatah sa

panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. That... What is that? Nispidyamana upakarsa:

"Kindly pick me up." Vibho: "You are vibhu, most powerful, the great

omnipotent.Yes, I am, all right. But why shall I pick it up?" Now, prapannam:

"Now I surrender. I rebelled against You, and I was put into this wheel of time,

and suffering one after another life. Now I have realized that I am in a

precarious condition of life." So nispidyamanam. This is called human life, when

one understands... The animal life, they do not understand what is suffering.

The cats and dogs, they are thinking they're living very happily. But in the

human life they should come to the understanding that "Actually we are not

living happily. We are being crushed by the wheel of time in so many ways."

Nispidyamanam. When this sense comes, then he is a human being. Otherwise he's

animal. If he's thinking that he's all right... That is... Ninety-nine point

nine percent people think that "I am all right." Even in the most abominable

condition of life, just like the hog and dog, still, he is thinking, "I am all

right." So long this ignorance will continue, he is simply animal.

Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma-ijya-dhih [sB

10.84.13]. This is going on. Atma-buddhih, tri-dhatuke. This body, which is made

of kapha, pitta, vayu, everyone is thinking, "I am this body." Whole world is

going on. Simply we, a few members of the Krsna consciousness movement, we are

going door to door and trying to convince them, "Sir, you are not this body."

They don't care for it. "I am. I am this body. I am Mr. John,I am

Englishman,I am American,I'm Indian." You say "I'm not this body." So very

difficult task. The Krsna consciousness movement, to push on, requires great

patience, perseverance, tolerance. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu's order,

 

trnad api sunicena

taror api sahisnuna

amanina manadena

kirtaniyah sada harih

[Cc. Adi 17.31]

 

So those who have taken to Krsna consciousness preaching work, they should

always know that things are not going to happen so easily. Maya is very, very

strong. Very, very strong. But still, we have to struggle against maya. It is a

declaration of war with the maya. Maya is keeping the living entities under her

control, and we are trying to save the living entity from her un... That is the

difference. Kalo vasi-krta-visrjya-visarga-saktih. This sakti, visarga-saktih,

is very, very strong, but it is under the control. Although it is very, she is

very, very strong, but she is under the control of Krsna. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih

suyate sa-caracaram [bg. 9.10]. Although prakrti is acting so wonderfully...

Very, very, I mean to say, great task she is performing, that immediately the

cloud comes. Now it is so bright. Within a second a very big, dark cloud may

come and cause devastation immediately. That is possible. These are the

wonderful activities of Maya. But still, she is under the control of the Supreme

Personality of Godhead. We see this sun so big, fourteen hundred thousand times

bigger than this earth, and you see morning, how quickly it gets up, like this,

immediately. The speed is sixteen thousand miles per second. So how it is being

happenend? Yasyajnaya bhramati sambhrta-kala-cakro govindam adi-purusam tam aham

bhaja... It is being done under the order of Govinda. So therefore He's vibhu.

He is great. But we do not know how great He is. Therefore we foolishly accept

some pretender, some fraud, as God. We do not know what is the meaning of God.

But it is going on. We are fools. Andha yathandair upaniyamanas. We are blind,

and another blind man lead us: "I am God. You are God. Everyone is God." But God

is not like that.

 

Here it is said that God is He who... Kalo

vasi-krta-visrjya-visarga-saktih: "He keeps control over the time factor and the

creative energy." That is God. God is not so cheap that you'll find here and

there. God is everywhere. That's a fact. But that is partial manifestation of

His material energy. This is... Ekamsena sthito jagat.

 

athava bahunaitena

kim jnatena tavarjuna

vistabhya aham...

ekamsena sthito jagat

[bg. 10.42]

 

He's there. Andantara-stham paramanu-cayantara-stham. He is within the

atom. So when the same God, sa tvam, He comes, the foolish persons, they think

that "Krsna is like one of us." No. Avajananti mam mudha. One who thinks like

that, that "Krsna is one of us. He is like a human being, like me or you," he is

mudha. Param bhavam ajananto [bg. 9.11]. He does not know what are the

activities of God, what He can do, what He can undo.

 

So anyway, if by reading all these literatures, explanation, given by God

Himself, we come to our senses that He is so great and so merciful, then it

becomes possible to surrender unto Him. So for a fortunate person it takes even

a second, because God Himself says,

 

sarva-dharman parityajya

mam ekam saranam vraja

aham tvam sarva-papebhyo

moksayisyami...

[bg. 18.66]

 

So if one is intelligent, he takes immediately: "Oh, it is so nice. He'll

give me all protection? Let me surrender." Business finished in one second. But

if he's a rascal, he wants to search out, make research work, then bahunam

janmanam ante [bg. 7.19]. After many many births it will take... So best thing

is, Prahlada Maharaja says, prapannam. Arjuna says, prapannam, sadhi mam

prapannam. This is wanted. Be surrendered to the lotus feet of Krsna, and be

saved from these clutches of maya.

 

Thank you very much. (end)

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.22 -- Mayapur, February 29,

1976

 

 

 

HOME

 

© 2001 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with permission.

--

This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous

content by WVNET, and is believed to be clean.