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"Basic Principle"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.33

Mayapur, March 11, 1976

 

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Pusta Krsna: "This cosmic manifestation, the material world, is also Your

body. By Your potential energy known as kala-sakti, this total lump of matter is

agitated, and thus three modes of material nature are manifested. In this way

You become awakened from the bed of Ananta-Sesa, and from Your navel a small

transcendental seed is generated, from which the gigantic universe becomes

manifest. Exactly like the small seed of banyan tree, the lotus flower of the

cosmic manifestation is grown up."

 

Prabhupada: These verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam, they are Vedic mantras.

They're not ordinary wording, set of wording. It is not. Veda-mantra, samhita.

So every one of you must try to chant. This is required. Each verse of

Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam, they are Vedic mantras, veda-mantra. So

simply by chanting them we become purified. So every one of you... There is

diacritic marks, literation, transliteration, so everyone should try to chant

the mantra. That is very beneficial. That is kirtana. Kirtanad eva krsnasya [sB

12.3.51]. Everything is being chanted in relationship with Krsna, with reference

to Krsna.

 

So this material world is explained,

 

tasyaiva te vapur idam nija-kala-saktya

sancodita-prakrti-dharmana atma-gudham

ambhasy ananta-sayanad viramat-samadher

nabher abhut sva-kanika-vatavat mahabjam

[sB 7.9.33]

 

Vatavat mahabjam. Abjam means flower, lotus flower? Yes. So this is the

description of Garbhodakasayi Visnu. Karanodakasayi Visnu and then

Garbhodakasayi Visnu and then Ksirodakasayi Visnu, trin, three Visnus. First of

all from... I have several times explained, from Krsna, then expansion,

Balarama, then catur-vyuha, Sankarsana, Pradyumna, Aniruddha, like that. Then

Narayana, then dvitiya catur-vyuha. From dvitiya catur-vyuha, Vaikuntha,

Sankarsana, then Purusa, Purusa-avatara. These Purusas are three. In the

Bhagavad-gita Arjuna recognized Krsna as purusa. Purusam sasvatam adyam. So He's

the purusa. God is purusa, male. God is not female. Female... The sakti, that is

female, prakrti.

 

In the Bhagavad-gita also it is mentioned, prakrtir me astadha, bhinna

prakrtir me astadha. This material nature is separated energy, divided into

eight elements: earth, water, air, and fire, then ether, mind, intelligence and

ego. These are all prakrti, material. Bhinna me prakrtir astadha. Bhinna. Bhinna

means separated. There is not direct connection, but another prakrti, that is...

Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakrtim para [bg. 7.5]. This is inferior energy,

material elements, and there is superior element, prakrti. That is also prakrti.

We are prakrti. Prakrti means under the control of the purusa. That is natural.

We cannot conceive equal rights of purusa and prakrti. That is not Vedic

conception. Vedic conception is purusa, the superior, Supreme, and prakrti means

subordinate. Purusa is predominator, and prakrti is predominated. So we living

entities, we are prakrti. Falsely if we try to become purusa, that is maya. We

should remain prakrti, subservient, predominated. That is this Krsna

consciousness movement. Because generally the people are misled, thinking

himself as purusa, "I am the enjoyer." But that is not the fact. That false ego,

that "I am enjoyer," that is false ego. And real ego is "I am servant of Krsna."

So there is no necessity of giving up egotism or egoism, but it must be real. At

the present moment we are falsely thinking, "I am this body," every one of us.

There is no argument. The whole material world is going on on the basis of this

false conception that "I am this body." And because I am this body, therefore "I

am American,I am Indian." So this is false ego.

 

So from this false ego, when we come to real ego... What is that real ego?

That "I am servant of Krsna." Gopi-bhartur pada-kamalayor

dasa-dasa-dasa-dasanudasah [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. That is real ego. So our, this

Krsna consciousness movement is teaching people how to come to the real ego,

real constitutional position. The Mayavadi philosophy, they are also trying to

do that, but they're another false ego: aham brahmasmi. Aham brahmasmi -- "I am

Brahman" -- that is a fact, but I am not Supreme Brahman, Parabrahman. The

Mayavadi, they take it: "Because I am Brahman, I am Supreme Brahman." No.

Suppose you are all coming from America. You can claim that you are American,

but that does not mean you are Mr. Ford, the President. So similarly, this is

false ego. If somebody thinks, "Because I am American, therefore I am equal to

Mr. Ford," that is false. That is not... So our Krsna consciousness movement is

how to bring back these, I mean to say, insane, crazy fellows to their real

consciousness. These crazy fellows, they are thinking, "I am God,I am

master,I am this,I am that,I am prime minister,I am president." This

false ego. The real ego is, "I am servant of Krsna." That is the beginning of

Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching.

 

When Caitanya Mahaprabhu was approached by Sanatana Gosvami, his first

question was ke ami: "Who am I?" This is the first education, spiritual

education. And the same thing is taught in the Bhagavad-gita because Arjuna was

too much identifying himself in the bodily conception of life: "I belong to this

Kurus' family, so if I kill them, then family will be ruined. The women will be

widows, and they'll be corrupted. Then there will be unwanted children,

varna-sankara, and in this way the whole world will be hellish," and so on, so

on, so many, but beginning with the bodily conception of life. All, what was,

Arjuna was explaining to Krsna, that was... From material point of view, it is

very nice. He wanted to become nonviolent. He did not like to kill his family

members. He, rather, liked to forego his claim, that "I don't want. Let them

enjoy." But everything, from material point of view, it was very nice proposal.

But this identification with family, with nation, with community, this is all

foolishness. All foolishness.

 

So if you study this point only, you'll see the whole world is full of

fools and rascals, that's all, because everyone is identifying with his body.

There is fight, the United Nation. What is this United Nation nonsense? Assembly

of rascals and fools, that's all. (laughter) Because they have got this bodily

concept of life we can say, freely. There is no -- what is called? -- defaming.

Everyone, fools and rascals. How we can say? On the strength of Vedic knowledge.

This is our power. Otherwise how we can challenge the United Nation that "You

are all assembly of fools and rascals"? This is Vedic knowledge. We can say and

prove it, that they are all fools and rascals from the spiritual point of view

because they do not know their identification. This is the first education, to

know one's identification. That is being taught by Sanatana Gosvami and Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. He was prime minister. He knew himself, Sanatana Gosvami, that he

was prime minister of Hussain Shah and he's coming of very learned brahmana

family. He knew it. Then why he's asking, ke ami: "Who am?" This is knowledge.

This is knowledge. One has to understand himself. That is the basic principle of

spiritual life. Unless we understand who I am... You go to the spiritual master,

our first business is inquiry. That inquiry is "Who am I?" This is the... This

is the beginning of inquiry. So our, this Krsna consciousness movement is

authorized. We have printed one pamphlet, "Krsna Consciousness Movement Is

Authorized." It is not a sentiment, fanaticism. No. It is scientific,

authorized. So I am very glad that you European and American boys, you have

taken so much trouble to come here, but you'll be benefited if you come here and

try to take lessons from Caitanya Mahaprabhu as He gave it to Sanatana Gosvami.

Sanatana Gosvami inquired, "Who am I?" and He replied very simple thing: jivera

svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. This is the beginning of

our lesson, so we must understand very nicely this point.

 

So this material world is explained here: tasyaiva te vapur idam

nija-kala-saktya. Energy, Krsna's energy, prakrti. Energy means prakrti. So

parasya brahmana sakti. Eka-sthane sthitasyagner jyotsna vistarini yatha,

parasya brahmanah sakti tathaiva akhilam jagat. Then same thing we'll find in

the Vedic literature everywhere, either you read Puranas or Mahabharata, or

Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam or Vedanta-sutra. Vedanta-sutra also says

that "The origin... The Absolute Truth is origin, and everything is emanation."

So emanation and the original fact-vapur idam. Idam hi visvam bhagavan ivetarah:

"This visvam, this universe, is Bhagavan in one sense." Just like this my

finger, so that is also my body. Although it is named "finger," but it is my

body. Or even a piece of hair, that is also my body, although it is differently

named, "hair." So similarly, when you understand that every particle of this

material world is also the body of the Supreme Lord, that is Krsna

consciousness. Andantarastham paramanu-cayantara-stham. Eko 'py asau racayitum

jagad-anda-koti. So there are millions and trillions of universes, and each atom

of each universe is Krsna. That we have to understand. That is being explained

here.

 

Tasyaiva te vapur idam nija-kala-saktya sancodita-prakrti dharmana

atma-gudham. The secret, the people, they do not know. They... But Prahlada

Maharaja knows. Ambhasi. This is the beginning of creation, ambhasi. Ambhasy

ananta-sayanat. Anantadeva... Ananta faces, there are. On that Ananta-naga, the

Garbhodakasayi Visnu is lying on. So from the navel of Garbhodakasayi Visnu

there is a lotus flower, and... Vatavat-mahabjam. So, so there is Brahma, and

Brahma created other thing. So it is just like the... In previous verse it has

been explained, "Just like the seed of the fruit of the tree." Seed is the cause

of the tree, and tree is the cause of the seed. In this way the whole material

cosmic manifestation is there, and vapur idam tava te. So everything of Krsna.

Therefore a Vaisnava's, I mean to say, conception is that everything at least

Krsna's, so everything should be utilized for Krsna's benefit. This is Krsna

consciousness, not "my benefit.I also belong to Krsna, so I must be utilized

for Krsna's benefit." So in this way, if we develop our Krsna consciousness,

then we'll be benefited.

 

Thank you very much. (end)