First Lesson-Who Am I

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"First Lesson-Who Am I"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.31

Mayapur, March 9, 1976

 

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Pusta Krsna: "My dear Lordship, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the

whole cosmic creation is caused by You, and the cosmic manifestation is the

effect of Your energy. Although the whole cosmic creation is Yourself, still,

You keep Yourself aloof from it. The conception of 'my' and 'yours' is certainly

a kind of illusion, maya. Because everything is emanating from You, it is not

different from You. The manifestation is also not different from You, and the

annihilation is also caused by You. In this connection, the example is of the

seed and the tree, or the subtle cause and the gross manifestation."

 

Prabhupada:

 

tvam va idam sad-asad isa bhavams tato 'nyo

maya yad atma-para-buddhir iyam hy apartha

yad yasya janma nidhanam sthitir iksanam ca

tad vaitad eva vasukalavad asti-tarvoh

[sB 7.9.31]

 

Cause and effect, sad-asad. One disappears, the cause appears, disappears,

and the effect comes into being. The very good example is given here,

asti-tarvoh. Asti means seed, and the... From the asti, from the seed, a big

banyan tree comes out. At that time the asti, the seed, disappears. A tree is

manifestation, so this is example of sad-asat. Asti, the seed, disappears, and

the tree is manifest. So the creation of God is like that. Therefore, in the

Bhagavad-gita it is said, bijo 'ham sarva-bhutanam [bg 7.10]. Bija, asti, or

seed, He is the root cause of everything. One seed, a small seed, grain, and

hundreds of thousands trees coming out of it, and in each tree there are

millions of fruits, and each fruit, there are hundreds and thousands of seeds.

Again, from the seed, the same creation, hundreds and thousands, millions and

millions. This is God's intelligence, how from one source so many varieties are

coming out. Again, when annihilation takes place, they again go into the

original seed, Krsna. Yanti mamikam, it is said. It's coming out.

 

yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya

jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah

visnur mahan sa iha yasya kala-viseso

govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

[bs. 5.48]

 

This material creation is done by Maha-Visnu. Maha-Visnu. The original

Visnu, Krsna, He has nothing to do. Na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. Original

God -- isvarah paramah krsnah [bs. 5.1] -- He is simply playing on flute and

enjoying the company of Srimati Radharani. He has nothing to do. And how things

are taking place? Creation, He's the creator? By expansion, svamsa. From Krsna

the expansion is Balarama; from Balarama the expansion is Sankarsana, then

Aniruddha, Pradyumna, like that, then Narayana, then again Sankarsana,

Pradyumna, Aniruddha, dvitiya-catur-vyuha. From this Sankarsana, Maha-Visnu.

Therefore Maha-Visnu is described, kala-visesah. Yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam

athavalambya jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah, sa iha yasya kala-viseso

[bs. 5.48]. This Maha-Visnu, from whom, by His breathing only, millions and

trillions of universes are coming, and each universe there is a Brahma,

jagad-anda-nathah. Just like in this universe there is one Brahma. He creates

again so many demigods, animals, human beings in each universe. Again we create

so many also. Each of us, although we are very insignificant, still in the

history we find one man begets hundreds of children.

 

So this is creation. This is Krsna's creation, how things are going on.

But original seed is Krsna. Sarva-karana-karanam. Isvarah paramah krsnah

sat-cit-ananda-vigrahah, anadih [bs. 5.1]. He has no karana. He is not coming

out of any seed. Anadi. Anadi means there is no beginning. He is eternal.

Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [bs. 5.1].

Sat-cit-ananda-vigrahah. So there is no creator of Krsna, but Krsna is the

creator of everything. That is called isvarah paramah, the Supreme. Everyone may

be isvara-partially. Isvara means controller. So every one of us, we are more or

less little controller. We sometimes control some little children or some

disciples or some kingdom. So everyone may be controller. They are very much

fond of becoming God. God means controller. So everyone can become... He is.

Krsna has given. Because we are part and parcel of Krsna, so the quality of

controlling must be there. Although very insignificant part and parcel of Krsna,

still, the power of controlling is there, very minute quantity. This is

understanding. Svamsa vibhinamsa. Everyone... Visnu-tattva is also Krsna's amsa,

part and parcel. Yasya kala-visesah. Kala-visesah means part, part of the part.

Kala, amsa, and amsa's amsa, that's called kala-viseso. So that kala-visesa,

Krsna, Maha-Visnu, He's creating millions and millions of universes. So just

imagine what is the creative power of Krsna.

 

Therefore Prahlada Maharaja says, idam sad-asad-isa. Sad-asat, karya

karana, cause and effect. Just like you have got a cloth. Cloth is made of

cotton. So from cotton we prepare thread, and from thread we prepare cloth. So

when the cloth is there, the thread has disappeared. When the thread is there,

the cotton has disappeared. They are called sad-asat. Sat means which is

existing, and asad means which is no longer existing. So this material world is

asat. It is simply for the time being an exhibition. So we have to find out the

real existence, sanatana existence. That is Krsna. We should not be bewildered

by seeing this temporary manifestation. Anything material is temporary. It has a

date of creation. Everything, whatever you see here in the... Just like this

microphone. It has got a date of creation, it will work for some time, and then

it will go out of order, and we shall throw it in the street and again it will

disappear in the earth, because everything has come out from the earth. This is

material world. But we must find out what is the reality. We should not be

bewildered by the temporary things. Our Krsna consciousness movement is to take

the living entity from this temporary world to the spiritual world or to the

permanent world, where there is no more annihilation. It is eternal, nitya.

Nityah sasvatah.

 

So we living entities, we are eternal. This is maya, that I am thinking,

"I am this body." This is our ignorance. So the Krsna consciousness movement is

to deliver the human society from this ignorance, temporary things: "I am this

body. This is my country. This is my wife. This is my children. This is... This

is mine. This is -- aham mameti [sB 5.5.8]. I am this body, and anything in

reference with the body is mine." But actually there is no such thing. This is

called maya. Real thing is, the reality is, Krsna, Brahman, Parabrahman. All

other things... Therefore Vedic injunction is, "Don't try to remain in this

temporary situation." Asato ma sad gamah: "Don't remain this..." But we are so

ignorant, our present civilization is so foolish, that they do not know what is

sat and what is asat. They want to stay in the asat. They want to make

arrangement to stay in this asat, temporary things, forgetting that however

nicely you make arrangement in this temporary material world, you'll not be

allowed to stay. This is our ignorance. Mudha nabhijanati mam ebhyah param

avyayam. Krsna says, "These rascals, mudha, they do not know what is the

permanent stage, sanatana." That is wanted. That is human knowledge. One should

know the permanent, not be bewildered by the temporary things. That is

ignorance.

 

Therefore Prahlada Maharaja says, yad atma-para-buddhir iyam hy apartha.

This is misconception, atma-para-buddhih. Atma means "mine," and para means

"others." Where is "my" and "your"? Everything Krsna's. Hy apartha. This is

misconception. But the whole world is going on on the basis of this

atma-para-buddhih: "My country,My city,My building,My family,my, my,

my," that's all. And "my" and "your." Neither your nor mine. It is all Krsna's,

the different energies, manifestation of different energies. Just like fire.

>From fire, two energies are coming, and if we fight that this, you say, "The

light energy is mine, and the heat energy is your," that is foolishness. The

heat and light, both of them, are coming from the fire. Everything belongs to

the fire. But we are fighting: "Heat is mine, and light is your. Let us divide."

How you can divide? Parasya brahmanah saktih. Everything is manifestation of

energy. Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. We see in

the garden so many flowers, different color, different flavor, different

utility. But wherefrom it is coming? It is coming from this earth. We do not

know even how much inconceivable energies are there within this earth. We do not

know. Where is the scientist? They are very much proud of their scientific

knowledge. Let them say how many varieties of things are within this earth. They

analyze the earth. What do they find? They see only sixty percent soda bicarb.

No. There are many, many finer chemicals. Who is that rascal who can say that so

many things are there, "This is soda bicarb"? And this is scientific, that's

all. Nobody scientist; all fools and rascals, mudha. They do not know anything.

Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, "I am this." That is the actual fact. But His

energies are so, mean, manifestedly variegatedness energy. You'll find so

beautiful world. It is condemned place. Still, you see, by Krsna's energy the

world is so beautiful -- so many trees, so many flowers, so many fruits, so many

varieties of life, so many varieties of human beings. This is Krsna, varieties.

Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate sva-bhaviki... [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport].

And every energy is acting automatically. You give the seed, sow the seed on the

earth, and automatically the flower, flavor, beauty -- everything will come

automatically. There will be no... There is no question of accidents. The

so-called scientist, they cannot explain. "Accidents." Why accidents? A rose

flower seed-rose will come. Why not by accident, lemon? No. There is no such

things as accidents. This is all rascaldom. Everything is going on... Parasya

saktir vividhaiva sruyate sva-bhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca. In the energy there

is automatic knowledge and activities, and they are being manifested.

 

So Prahlada Maharaja says that "Everything, variety, is there, but..."

Tvam va idam sad-asad bhavan: "Except Yourself, to conceive anything else, that

'Beyond Krsna there is anything,' that is maya." That is maya, illusion. There

is nothing except Krsna. Therefore those who are advanced devotees, they do not

see anything, simply Krsna in everywhere. Sthavara-jangama dekhe na dekhe tara

murti, sarvatra sphuraya tanra ista-deva murti [Cc. Madhya 8.274]. A devotee

sees a tree, but he does not see the tree. He sees: "It is Krsna's energy."

Immediately he remembers Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness. When every step

you'll simple see Krsna, that is Krsna... That is possible, provided you follow

the footstep of Prahlada Maharaja. That will be possible. Or devotees. Mahajano

yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. That is the way. If you speculate

nonsensically, it will be not possible. If you follow the devotees, mahajano

yena gatah sa panthah, then you'll be successful.

 

Thank you very much. (end)

 

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