Todays Srimad-Bhagavatam Class "Cutting The Knots Of Karma"Srila Prabhupada August 18, 1972, Los Angeles

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"Cutting The Knots Of Karma"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.15

August 18, 1972, Los Angeles

 

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Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.)

 

yad anudhyasina yuktah

karma-granthi-nibandhanam

chindanti kovidas tasya

ko na kuryat katha-ratim

 

Prabhupada: In London, they used to put a blackboard and write the verse

so everyone could see and chant. You may arrange like that. In big letters, so

that they will hear the sound and see. It is practical. All right, word meaning.

 

Pradyumna: (reads synonyms) Translation: "With sword in hand, intelligent

men cut through the labyrinthine knots of reactionary work, or karma, by

remembering the Lord. Therefore, who will not pay attention to His message?"

 

Prabhupada: So knot. We have experience... (microphone adjusted) Do it

nicely. Karma-granthi. Granthi means knot. So... Just like a man, if it is tied

very strongly with ropes, hand and legs, he cannot move independently,

similarly, we are tied up by the laws of material nature. Material nature. Just

like we, when we become criminal, we become... We are always bound up by the

laws of the state; either criminal or civil, it doesn't matter. But criminal is

more strong. When we are under criminal laws, then it becomes very painful. We

cannot violate the state laws, either criminal or civil; it doesn't matter. But

if we violate the civil law, there is no such strong punishment, but if we

violate the criminal laws, then it is very strong.

 

Similarly, we living entities, those who are conditioned by this body...

This body itself is a punishment. That, these rascal people, they do not know.

They are trying to enjoy this body. The body, there are senses... So they are

satisfied... The same thing. Just like hog. He has forgotten that he has got a

body of hog so that he is bound to eat stool and live in a filthy place, but

because he has got the facility of sense gratification with other female hogs --

never mind whether sister, mother or daughter -- he is happy. This hog's life.

The hog is satisfied. It doesn't matter. We are seeing that what is the

abominable condition, in a filthy place, he is eating stool. We are conscious

that what is the condition of his life, but he is very happy. "Oh," you see,

"what a very nice, happy, very life. I am eating very nicely the first-class

food and having sex without any restriction. This is life."

 

So this is called maya. Praksepatmika-sakti, covering. Avaranatmika-sakti,

praksepatmika-sakti. There are two kinds of energy of material, maya. One is

avaranatmi..., ignorance. One is living very condemned life; still, he's

thinking, "I am very happy." Or "We are all right." So that is called

avaranatmika, covered. Real knowledge is covered. And another sakti is

praksepatmika. Praksepatmika means if anyone tries to get out of this... Suppose

our students are coming to Krsna consciousness, somebody is coming to us, maya

will dictate, "Oh, why you are coming here? There are so many restrictions and

so rules and regulations. Better give it up.Why, yes, what is this nonsense?

Give it up." This is called praksepatmika. Maya is dragging. Because the more

one is sinful, the more one is miscreant, the more one is the lowest of the

mankind, he, maya will not allow: "Oh, why this rascal is here? He must suffer

under me for more..., some times more; then he may be allowed." That is maya's

business. Thankless business. Just like police. Police is nobody's enemy, but

when criminal, they punish like that, put him in the jail and beats him with a

rod. That is the business of maya, thankless. Nobody will thank police. When

police beats, nobody will, "Thank you very much." No. Nobody is happy.

Similarly, maya's business is very thankless task, but she is engaged by the

supreme authority to punish.

 

 

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