Srimad Bhagavatam Class 1 Increasing Your Problems

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Classes on the Srimad Bhagavatam,In His Voice,and Printed words,so you can

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Classes,Notice the date,Feb 20,1.1,1,in Caracas! I think This is

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me,As now we can Hear Srila Prabhupada's words,teaching these historic Wonderful

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"Increasing Your Problems"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.1

February 20, 1975, Caracas

 

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Prabhupada: (translated into Spanish by Hrdayananda dasa)

 

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat

tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye muhyanti yat surayah

tejo-vari-mrdam yatha vinimayo yatra tri-sargo 'mrsa

dhamna svena sada nirasta-kuhakam satyam param dhimahi

[sB 1.1.1]

 

So first of all, before beginning the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the author is

offering respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The

Supreme Personality of Godhead is explained in the following four lines. The

first line is janmady asya yatah [sB 1.1.1], means Supreme Personality of

Godhead is the origin of all emanation. The human mind is inquisitive. A human

being, even a child, he enquires from his father. We have got experience

personally. Any intelligent boy, he enquires from the father. He is inquisitive.

That is human life. He enquires, "What is this, father? What is this father?"

And the father replies. So unless this enquiry is there, he is not human being.

A cat and dog cannot enquire about the origin of a thing. But a human mind is

developed in such a way that he enquires, he makes research to find out the

original cause. Just like nowadays the scientists are enquiring about the origin

of life. But unfortunately, they are finding out the original cause which is

not. Just like they are trying to research out what is the origin of life. And

there are many, many learned scientists. They think that the origin of life is

chemical combination. So that is not the fact.

 

Therefore, without being guided by authority, nobody can find out the

perfect answer of an enquiry. Even in the university level, those who are

research scholar, they are guided by three experienced professors. And when the

student's research work is admitted by the three professors, then he is awarded

the doctorate designation. So the, as I have already said, the child enquires,

"What is this, father?" Similarly, we should also enquire, "What is the origin

of this universe?" Not only universe, but any item within our experience,

naturally we are inclined... Just like here is a microphone. So an intelligent

person is inquisitive to enquire, "Who is the manufacturer of this microphone?"

Just like we enquire about a child, "Whose son he is? Who is his father?"

similarly, this is human mind, to enquire about the origin. That is the only

business of human being. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said, jivasya

tattva-jijnasa, means the jiva, means human being especially... Jiva means all

living being, but above all living beings, the human being is the most awakened

consciousness. Therefore his business is to enquire about the Absolute Truth. It

is said, jivasya tattva-jijnasa.

 

kamasya nendriya-pritir

labho jiveta yavata

jivasya tattva-jijnasa

nartho yas ceha karmabhih

[sB 1.2.10]

 

means that we have got some desires for gratifying our senses or for the

maintenance of the body. Such desires are based on four principles of bodily

demands. Every living being is busy, the lower animals and the human being, in

finding out where is food, where is shelter, where is sex and where is defense.

So they have selected four businesses: where to find out food, where to find out

shelter, where to find out sex indulgence and how to defend ourself. These

propensities are prominent both in animal and man. So these things are common

for both the animals and the human being. A dog is also searching after food; a

hog is also searching after food; a bird is also searching after food; a man is

also searching after food. Now, in the broad road so many cars are going in

seventy mile speed. What is their research? "Where is food? Where is money?" Ask

anybody who is very busy in driving car in seventy miles speed that "What is

your business?" He will answer that "I have got to take money from there. I have

to do this business." That is also money. This will be the answer. They have no

other answer. And if you ask him, "What you will do with your money?" then he

will say, "I shall live in a very nice apartment, I shall eat very nice

foodstuff, I shall have to enjoy very good sex life and I will have to defend

myself." But the Bhagavata says, or the supreme authority says, "No, this is not

your business. Because you are human being... This business is also there in the

animal life. Therefore your business is tattva-jijnasa, jivasya tattva-jijnasa.

When you are developed animal... Now you are also animal because you don't

enquire about the Absolute Truth. But you are developed, so now your business is

to enquire about the origin of everything." Your business is not to increase the

problem of the four necessities of life. By this karma or unnecessary activities

you are increasing simply problems.

 

Just like amongst the birds and beasts there is no economic problem. The

birds rise in the morning, and they chirp between themselves, and after a few

hours or minutes they go away, and they get their food. Similarly, the animals

also, they also go. Even in the jungle, they get their food. The birds and

beasts, they have got their home. The bird lives on the top of the tree very

comfortably at night without any disturbance. Similarly, the beast... Even in

the jungle there are elephants, there are tigers, there are so many others. They

have got their some place to rest. So far sex is concerned, that is also

guaranteed. The birds, when they are in the eggs, there are two eggs, one male,

one female. And you will find these birds, beasts, they are in pair. Just about

two months before, when I was in Mayapura, the two snakes, not very big, small,

were found in the lavatory, and they were also two, in pair. That means this

pair in birds and beasts, in animals, in snakes, they are found. The tiger, the

elephant, there are two. So there is no scarcity of sex also. And so far defense

is concerned, everyone is provided with nails, jaws, and wings, and everything.

According to their capacity, they can defend also. So in this way, so far our

four necessities of life required, it is already arranged by the laws of nature.

So we, means the living entity, or the soul, we are wandering throughout the

whole universe in different types of bodies. And because we are part and parcel

of God, our four necessities of life, namely the food, shelter, sex and defense,

that is already provided. So for these four things we need not work very hard.

Because they are available even in the animal life, birds life, beasts life,

lower form of life, and why not in human life? Therefore the sastra says,

 

tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido

na labhyate yad bhramatam upary adhah

tal labhyate duhkhavad anyatah sukham

kalena sarvatra gabhira-ramhasa

 

They say that "So far these necessities of life are concerned, they are

ready, supplied." In any life, either in human life or in birds and beasts,

lower animal, trees, plants, that is ready. Therefore we should not waste our

time for these things, but we should be ready to enquire about the Absolute

Truth. So human intelligence is there to enquire about the Absolute Truth. So

they have got better developed consciousness or intelligence than the lower

animals. So that higher intelligence should be utilized for enquiring about the

Absolute Truth. So that is... Vedanta-sutra says, janmady asya yatah [sB 1.1.1],

athato brahma jijnasa. This life, human life, is not meant for wasting time for

adjusting how to get better food, better shelter, better sex and better defense.

So the human intelligence is that when one thinks that "If these necessities of

body are ready even for the animals and beasts and birds, then why not it is

ready for me?" It is ready for the human being also. That is a fact. We see when

human being are uncivilized, the ready food is there. They live in the jungle.

There is fruit ready for eating. Everything is ready there. They do not know how

to produce food, the uncivilized man. They eat some animal. They eat some fruit.

This is already ready. So uncivilized man, who cannot produce food, even for

him, there is food ready. Similarly, the civilized human being, for him also the

food can be improved. Just like he can produce from the field, agriculture, so

many food grains, varieties of food grains he can produce. So these things are

already there. There is no need of extra time for developing how to eat nicely,

how to sleep nicely. One should be satisfied like the animals. They are

satisfied with their position. They are not agitated. Similarly, we should be

satisfied whatever is available automatically by the gift of nature or by God.

 

Nature has given us the opportunity now to enquire about the Absolute

Truth. And what is that Absolute Truth? Because this is our only enquiry, that

"What is the Absolute Truth, or the origin of everything?" Therefore in the

Srimad-Bhagavatam, first of all the obeisances or the respect is offered to

Vasudeva. Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya means "I offer my respectful obeisances

to Lord Vasudeva, or Krsna." This Srimad-Bhagavatam is being presented by

Vyasadeva, the most exalted personality, the guru, Vyasa guru or Vedavyasa, for

the all advanced spiritually conscious men. The spiritual master is called,

therefore, representative of Vyasa, Vyasadeva. Therefore, on the birthday of

spiritual master, it is said, Vyasa-puja. So this understanding, that Vasudeva

is the origin of everything, is available in human life. It is said, therefore,

in the Bhagavad-gita,

 

bahunam janmanam ante

jnanavan mam prapadyate

vasudevah sarvam iti

sa mahatma sudurlabhah

[bg. 7.19]

 

means... We are researching. The scientist is researching, the philosopher

is researching, everyone is researching, but researching in their own way.

Therefore it takes time to understand what is the original source of everything.

So in the Bhagavad-gita it is said, Krsna said, that

 

aham sarvasya prabhavo

mattah sarvam pravartate

iti matva bhajante mam

budha bhava-samanvitah

[bg. 10.8]

 

Krsna says, God directly says, that "I am the origin of everything." Aham

sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate [bg. 10.8]. "Everything emanates from

Me." Iti matva, "When one understands this," budha, "a learned person," bhajante

mam drdha-vratah, "he engages himself fully in Krsna consciousness." So Krsna is

the origin of everything, but it takes little time, according to the position of

the man, to understand it. This is a fact, that Krsna is the origin of

everything, but the intelligent man can understand it very easily. Therefore he

takes to Krsna consciousness. And those who are not intelligent, he tries to

understand whether Krsna is the origin of everything, therefore it takes some

time. Therefore persons who are making research what is the origin of

everything, they are also learned scholars, but because they are doing in their

own way, therefore it takes many, many births to understand that Krsna is the

origin of everything.

 

So in this way of material research, one will come to the conclusion, if

he is really a research scholar that vasudevah sarvam iti [bg. 7.19]. But those

who are more purified, instead of making research, he immediately accepts that

Krsna is the origin of everything. So just to understand Krsna, Krsna is

explaining Himself in the Bhagavad-gita. So if one is fortunate, if one is

intelligent, if he accepts Krsna's version -- Krsna says at last, sarva-dharman

parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [bg. 18.66] -- he accepts it. So one who has

accepted Krsna as the supreme source, Absolute Truth, for them, this

Srimad-Bhagavatam is there. Here it is beginning, om namo bhagavate vasudevaya,

means "I offer my respectful obeisances to You, Krsna, because I surrender unto

You." One who is fortunate, he immediately accepts Krsna's version,

sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [bg. 18.66], but one who is

unfortunate or less intelligent, he makes research work for many, many births,

and then he will come to the same conclusion, vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma

sudurlabhah [bg. 7.19]. So you accept Krsna in both ways, either on good

faith... As Krsna says that aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah,

"Don't worry. I shall give you all protection, you surrender unto Me." If you

take this immediately, then you become liberated. And if you don't take, then

make research work of Krsna. Ultimately you will come to this conclusion,

vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah [bg. 7.19].

 

If you say, "I can't believe it, Krsna, Krsna is the origin of

everything," that is of course your business, your independence. Then you wait

for many, many births, bahunam janmanam ante [bg. 7.19]. You come to the same

conclusion. But because you have denied, you have to wait for many, many births.

You have to come to this conclusion because He is the origin of everything,

sarva-karana-karanam [bs. 5.1]. So there is no other second or alternative. You

have (to) come to that conclusion. But if you don't accept now, you will have to

wait for many, many births. But even that, if you are intelligent enough and if

you have to accept because Krsna says blindly, that is also good. Just like

gold. Gold, you accept blindly or by chemical examination, the gold is the same.

So if you are scientist, if you say that "First of all I shall test whether it

is gold and chemical composition and other ingredients. Then I will accept you"

....And somebody says, "No, my father says it is gold. My Guru Maharaja says it

is gold. Well, so many acaryas says it is gold," then you accept it, gold. So

one accepts gold by the authoritative statement of the superiors, and one

accepts gold by chemical analysis. So one who accepts by the authority's

statement, he is more advanced. He immediately gets the gold immediately. And

those who are awaiting for chemical examination, they will get it. They will

also know, but it will take time.

 

So in this Bhagavad-gita, Krsna Himself explains Himself, analytical

study, and Vyasadeva presents Srimad-Bhagavatam, "Here is God, Krsna." Om namo

bhagavate vasudevaya. Now it is up to you to take it or reject it. That is your

business, but things are ready for acceptance. So everyone is searching after

what is God. Somebody says, "There is no God." Somebody says, "God is dead."

Somebody, "Something, something," but no. God is neither dead nor the action,

action that "There is no God" -- both of them foolishness. God is not dead;

neither we are dead. Because we are part and parcel of God. So if God is alive,

then part and parcel are alive. Just like if my body is alive, the finger is

alive, because finger is part and parcel of my body, similarly, if God is alive,

we are alive. And because we are now in material condition of life, therefore we

do not understand what is God and what is our aim. Therefore it is called

ajnana, ignorance. Therefore one who dissipates this ignorance, he is called

guru.

 

ajnana-timirandhasya

jnananjana-salakaya

caksur unmilitam yena

tasmai sri-gurave namah

 

The guru means he gives light to the persons who are living in darkness.

So that is the motto in our Back to Godhead paper, that "Godhead is light, and

nescience is darkness. Where there is God, there is no nescience." So Krsna or

God or light, the same thing. If you take to Krsna consciousness, there will be

no more ignorance. Just like here there is light, electric light. There is no

darkness. The darkness is there, but when there is light, darkness automatically

goes away. Similarly, if you take to Krsna consciousness, then darkness of life

immediately goes away. And that is required in human life. The animal life means

full of darkness, and the human life, although full of darkness, it can be

dissipated. So our request is -- we are pushing this Krsna consciousness

movement everywhere all over the world -- just to drive away the darkness of

ignorance and come to the light of knowledge. So this center is open for this

purpose. I request you, all of you, to take advantage of this Krsna

consciousness movement and be enlightened and be happy in your life. Thank you

very much. [break]

 

Hrdayananda: (translating question:) There are many religions that speak

of the light. How can we know we are actually facing the real light?

 

Prabhupada: Light is to be realized personally. Light... Just like this

room is dark. When there is light, it doesn't require to be enquired, "Is it

light?" You personally perceive it is light. Just like you are hungry and

foodstuff is given to you and when your hunger is satisfied, appetite is

appeased, then you naturally you feel, "Yes, I am satisfied." You don't require

to enquire anyone. Therefore it is called self-realization. Automatically you

realize. You don't require to enquire. This is the process. [break]

 

Hrdayananda: ...that in the spiritual path everyone has to be married.

 

Prabhupada: No, not necessarily. If you can remain without marrying, it is

better. But because you cannot, you become bachelor daddy, therefore you must

marry. (laughter) Please don't become bachelor daddy. (laughter) This is most

sinful life. (end)

 

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