The Master Disease

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"The Master Disease"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.24

Mayapur, March 2, 1976

 

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Dayananda: "My dear Lord, now I am completely experienced about worldly

opulences enjoyed by all the living entities beginning from Lord Brahma down to

the ant, the so-called mystic power and other material enjoyments like long

duration of life, etc. Being completely experienced in them I do not wish to

possess them. My dear Lord, therefore I request You to get me in touch with Your

pure devotee and the service of him as sincere servant."

 

Prabhupada:

 

tasmad amus tanu-bhrtam aham asiso 'jna

ayuh sriyam vibhavam aindriyam avirincyat

necchami te vilulitan uruvikramena

kalatmanopanaya mam nija-bhrtya-parsvam

[sB 7.9.24]

 

This is intelligence. The karmis, they are trying to enjoy life by

increasing the duration of life. The modern scientists, they are trying that

there will be no more death. They think like that foolishly, that by scientific

methods, the duration of life will be increased. Everyone is trying that. Nobody

wants to become old. If you ask any old man, "What is your age?" he'll decrease

it. He'll say... He is eighty years old, he'll say, "I am sixty years" or

"sixty-five." That means he wants to live for long duration of life. That is the

intention. Nobody wants to die. But still... They cannot do anything. Still,

they are trying. One Marwari gentleman, at the age of seventy or eighty years

old, he went to somewhere in Germany for undergoing surgical operation of the

gland so that he can continue his sex life. Many monkeys are exported from India

to Western countries for taking away the sexual glands, they know, hormone or

something like, and replace it to man so that in old age they can enjoy sex.

Perhaps you know all these things. So this attempt is going on, how to keep

young and how to enjoy life. But nature will not allow. You may try your best.

Nature's law is there. They forget that. And nature will not allow us to live

here or to remain as young for all the years of life. It is not possible. But

they're trying for that.

 

In this way, when one is experienced that these things are not possible,

that is knowledge. We cannot increase our duration of life. We cannot increase

our vitality of life. We cannot increase even our opulence than what we are

destined to enjoy. Everyone... Karmana daiva-netrena [sB 3.31.1]. Just like here

it is said, vibhavam aindriyam avirincyat. Virinci means Lord Brahma. So

beginning from Brahma... "A.A," this word, is used, this affix is used, with

this meaning of beginning. So here in this material world Brahma is also a

materialist, Brahma, what to speak of ourselves, Brahma, who is directly

appointed the creator of this universe by the grace of God. Why he is in this

material world? Because he has got some desire that "I shall be the master of a

brahmanda." Just like everyone is trying to become the master of his house or

the society or the community or the country. Just like in your country so many

people are trying to become the President. Everywhere, everyone is trying to

become master. It doesn't matter it is a small circle or big circle. This is

material disease. So Brahma is also trying to become the master of this

universe. The same mentality is there. Hiranyakasipu underwent severe penances.

Why? To become the master of the world. This is the material disease. Krsna

bhuliya jiva bhoga-vancha kare. So this bhoga-vancha are different degrees. One

man is satisfied having a family, three, four men. He thinks, "I have become

master." But other is not satisfied. Other wants, "No, no. Why a family? I must

be master of a society or a community or a nation." So Brahma is also the same

thing, same degree -- not same degree; different degree -- but the desire is how

to become master. That disease is there. We are trying to be... Disease is

disease. That...

 

Some of you have seen that my friend, Dr. Bose. I have said many times

that when he was student, so one professor, he -- in those days medical

professors were Englishmen -- he said in the class that "In our country,

seventy-five percent of the students, they are infected with syphilis." So this

doctor, he was a student. He said in the class, "Oh, horrible." So that

professor said, "Why you are saying "horrible"? In your country eighty percent,

ninety percent, they are infected with malaria, and they are in syphilis. So

what is the difference? Why you make...? As a medical man, why should you make

difference that 'This disease is better than that disease'? Disease is disease."

Actually that is the fact. You say that "We are suffering from malaria. It is

better than to suffer from syphilis." No. Disease is disease. Similarly, either

Brahma or the ant, the disease is how to become master. This is the disease.

Therefore, to cure this disease, Krsna comes to cure this disease, to say

plainly, "Rascal, you are not master; you are servant. Surrender unto Me." This

is the cure of disease. If one agrees that "No more," ara nare bapa (?), "No

more trying for becoming master," that is the cure of disease.

 

Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, as Prahlada Maharaja says, nija

bhrtya-parsvam: [sB 7.9.24] "Engage me as the servant of Your servant." The same

thing Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, gopi-bhartur pada-kamalayor dasa-dasa-anudasah.

So this Krsna consciousness movement means we have to give up this nonsense idea

of becoming master. This is Krsna consciousness. We have to learn how to become

servant. Not only servant, servant of the servant, servant of the... That is

cure [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said, "So I have understood

all this nonsense of becoming master. My father also tried to become master. So

this knowledge, now I am perfect. There is no use of becoming master. Better, if

You kindly want to give me some benediction, kindly make me the servant of Your

servant." This is benediction. So one who has learned to become the servant of

Krsna's servant, he is perfect. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, trnad api

sunicena taror api sahisnuna. A servant has to tolerate. Tolerate. Servant,

sometimes master orders so many things, so he becomes disturbed. But still, he

has to execute and tolerate. That is perfection. Here in India still, when a

person goes to marry, so his... This is a custom. His mothers ask the

bridegroom, "My dear son, where you are going?" He replies, "Mother, I am going

to bring one maidservant for you." This is the system. "Mother, I am going to

bring one maidservant for you." That means "My wife, your daughter-in-law, will

serve you as your maidservant." This is Vedic civilization.

 

When Krsna with His sixteen thousand wives went to Hastinapura, so

Draupadi... It is natural between woman and woman, they talk about their

husband. That is natural. So Draupadi was inquiring from each and every wife of

Krsna. Not all of them. It is impossible, sixteen thousand. At least the

principal queens, beginning from... What is the end called?(?) Rukmini, yes. So

every one of them were describing their marriage ceremony, that "My..." Rukmini

explained that "My father wanted to hand over me to Krsna, but my elder brother,

he did not agree. He wanted to get me married with Sisupala. So I did not like

this idea. I wrote Krsna a private letter, that 'I have dedicated my life to

You, but this is the situation. Please come and kidnap me.' So in this way Krsna

kidnapped me and made me His maidservant." The queen's daughter, king's

daughter... Everyone of them were king's daughter. They were not ordinary person

daughter. But they wanted to become maidservant of Krsna. This is the idea, to

become servant and to become maidservant. This is ideal of human civilization.

The every woman should try to become maidservant of her husband, and every man

should try to become the hundred times servant of Krsna. This is Indian

civilization, not that "Husband and wife, we are equal rights." That, in Europe,

America, the movement is going on, "Equal rights." That is not Vedic

civilization. Vedic civilization is the husband should be a sincere servant of

Krsna, and the wife should be a sincere maidservant of the husband.

 

Therefore here it is said, upanaya mam nija-bhrtya-parsvam [sB 7.9.24].

This is the best association. When Narada Muni is describing how the man should

behave, how the woman should behave... We are discussing now in our tape

dictaphone. You'll hear that. That there is no such thing to become master. It

is useless. You cannot become master. Ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate

[bg. 3.27]. You cannot become master. Jivera svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa [Cc.

Madhya 20.108-109]. Either man or woman, everyone is servant of Krsna. We have

to be trained up in that platform, how to become the best servant, not only

servant directly, but servants, of the servant. This is called parampara

servant. My spiritual master is the servant of his spiritual master, and I am

also servant of my spiritual master. Similarly, we think "servant of the

servant." There is no question of becoming... This is material disease [Cc.

Madhya 13.80].

 

krsna bhuliya jiva bhoga vancha kare

pasate maya tare japatiya dhare

 

As soon as we become puffed up -- "Now I shall become master. I shall be

simply giving order. I shall not follow anyone" -- that is maya.

 

So that disease is going on beginning from Brahma down to the ant.

Prahlada Maharaja has understood this so-called false prestigious position of

becoming a master. He says that "I am quite aware of this false thing. Kindly

engage me..." Nija-bhrtya-parsvam. Nija-bhrtya-parsvam means just like

apprentice. Apprentice, one apprentice is engaged to one expert man. By and by,

the apprentice learns how to do the things. Therefore he says,

nija-bhrtya-parsvam. "Not that immediately I become very expert servant, but let

me..." Our this institution is for that purpose. If somebody comes here, the

free hotel and free sleeping accommodation, then his coming to this association

is useless. He must learn how to serve. Nija-bhrtya-parsvam. Those who are

serving, the... One should learn from him how he's serving twenty-four hours;

then our joining this institution will be successful. And if we take it that

"Here is an institution where we can have free hotel, free living and free sense

gratification," then the whole institution will be spoiled. Be careful. All the

GBC's, they should be careful that this mentality may not increase. Everyone

should be very eager to serve, to learn how to serve. Nija-bhrtya-parsvam, Then

life will be successful.

 

Thank you very much. (end)

 

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Sri Caitanya mahaprabhu prayed:

 

nAhaM vipro na ca nara-patir nApi vaizyo na zUdro

nAhaM varNI na ca gRha-patir no vana-stho yatir vA

kintu prodyan nikhila-paramAnanda-pUrNAmRtAbdher

gopI-bhartuH pada-kamalayor dAsa-dAsAnudAsaH

 

(PadyAvalI 63)

 

"I am not a learned brahmana, nor

a men-ruling kshatriya nor

a business man like the vaisya, nor

am I a meager servant like the sudra.

 

I do not belong among the different social classes of varnas,

neither am I a married householder grihastha, nor a retired

vanaprastha nor a renounced sannyasi.

 

But I am simply a loving follower of the servant maid

(Gopi) of the servants of the Lord Whose lotus feet are

the sole sustainer of the blessed cowherd maidens (Gopis),

and Who is the paramount nectarine ocean of Divine bliss!"

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!

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-VERSE 27 of Mukunda Mala Stotram by Sri Kulasekhara Alvar:

 

maj-janmana: phalamidam madhu-kaiTabhArE

mat-prArthanIya-mad-anugraha Esha Eva |

tvad-bhRtya-bhRtya-paricAraka-bhRtya-bhRtya

bhRtyasya bhRtya iti mAm smara lOka-nAtha || 27

 

"O enemy of Madhu and Kaiṭabha,

O Lord of the universe,

the perfection of my life and

the most cherished mercy

You could show me would be for

You to consider me the servant of

the servant of the servant of

the servant of the servant of

the servant of Your servant."

 

 

After highlighting the virtues of reciting the name of SrIman-

nArAyaNa, SrI kulaSEkhara retreats into a humble prayer asking for

the boon for becoming a servant of the servant who serves the servant

of the servant attendant of the servant of SrIman-nArAyaNa.

 

"Granting of this boon would fulfill my life's purpose" says SrI

kulaSEkhara.

 

Here, in one of the moving prayers full of humility, the AzhvAr asks

the Lord to accept him as the lowliest servant in His hierarchy of

servants. This type of service is known as caramAvati-dAsyam. and SrI

kulaSEkharAzhvAr follows his predecessor, SrI nammAzhvAr who asked

for such a boon in his tiruvAi-mozhi verse as follows:

 

" aDiyAr-aDiyAr tamm-aDiyAr-aDiyAr-tamakku

aDiyAr-aDiyAr tam aDiyAr-aDiyO'ngaLE "

 

 

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Jaya Sri Radhey!

 

-- In , pyari_h <no_reply> wrote:

> Sri Caitanya mahaprabhu prayed:

>

> nAhaM vipro na ca nara-patir nApi vaizyo na zUdro

> nAhaM varNI na ca gRha-patir no vana-stho yatir vA

> kintu prodyan nikhila-paramAnanda-pUrNAmRtAbdher

> gopI-bhartuH pada-kamalayor dAsa-dAsAnudAsaH

>

> (PadyAvalI 63)

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Dear Pyari h,Please Accept my humble obiesance!In my feeling You are in the

highest standerd,of loving Krsna!Jai Radhe!I only wish to follow in your

fotsteps,and become a Loving Maidservant Of the Gopies,and Dear Sweet

Radharani,Your servant,Jaya Kesava dasa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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pyari_h

Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:38 AM

Re: The Master Disease

 

 

Sri Caitanya mahaprabhu prayed:

 

nAhaM vipro na ca nara-patir nApi vaizyo na zUdro

nAhaM varNI na ca gRha-patir no vana-stho yatir vA

kintu prodyan nikhila-paramAnanda-pUrNAmRtAbdher

gopI-bhartuH pada-kamalayor dAsa-dAsAnudAsaH

 

(PadyAvalI 63)

 

"I am not a learned brahmana, nor

a men-ruling kshatriya nor

a business man like the vaisya, nor

am I a meager servant like the sudra.

 

I do not belong among the different social classes of varnas,

neither am I a married householder grihastha, nor a retired

vanaprastha nor a renounced sannyasi.

 

But I am simply a loving follower of the servant maid

(Gopi) of the servants of the Lord Whose lotus feet are

the sole sustainer of the blessed cowherd maidens (Gopis),

and Who is the paramount nectarine ocean of Divine bliss!"

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!

 

 

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My pranams to you dear Keshava dasa and appreciate your humble

service to Sri Sri Radha Krishna.

 

Being the servant of a pure devotee has been also stressed in

Scriptures.

 

In the Padma Purana, it is said:

 

ArAdhanAnAM sarvezam viSNor ArAdhanam param

tasmAt parataraM devI tadIyAnam samArcanam

 

Once, Parvati devi asked Lord Siva,

"Of all kinds of worship, whose worship is best?"

 

Then, Lord Siva told her plainly, "The worship and devotional service

of Lord Narayana, Visnu, is the highest."

 

Then Parvati became a little mortified and disappointed,

thinking, "But I am serving Siva, so I hold a lower position."

 

Then the next line came - tasmAt parataraM devI tadiyAnam samArcanam.

 

"But higher than the worship of Narayana is worship of the devotees

of Lord Narayana. That is even greater than devotion to the Lord

Himself."

 

Then, Parvati smiled, thinking, "Then I am serving the devotee of the

Lord. Siva is a devotee: vaiSNavAnam yathA zambhuH. So, I am doing

the best thing."

 

This is also confirmed by Krishna, in the Adi Purana :

 

ye me bhakta-janAH pArtha ne me bhaktas ca te janaH

mad bhaktAnAM ca ye bhaktas te me bhaktatama mataH

 

"Those who worship Me directly are not real devotees; real devotees

are those who are devoted to My devotees."

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!