Todays Srimad-Bhagavatam Class By His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada "Don't Be Carried Away By Maya"

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"Don't Be Carried Away By Maya"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.15

September 20, 1972, Los Angeles

 

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Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.)

 

rupam sa jagrhe matsyam

caksusodadhi-samplave

navy aropya mahi-mayyam

apad vaivasvatam manum

 

Translation: "When there was a complete inundation after the period of the

Caksusa Manu and the whole world was deep within water, the Lord accepted the

form of a fish and protected Vaivasvata Manu, keeping him up on a boat."

 

Prabhupada: So here is history also. This Vedic history is not that for

one thousand years or two thousand years. No, not like that. One period. One

millennium, Brahma's one day, it is millions and millions of years. So just like

there is night after day, day after night, similarly, the Brahma's day, Brahma's

night, that is calculated. And one Brahma's day. You know, that is described in

the Bhagavad-gita. Sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmano viduh [bg. 8.17]. So

Brahma's one day means one thousand times of the yugas. The yugas means the

Satya-yuga, Kali-yuga, and..., Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga, and Kali-yuga. So

Satya-yuga's duration is about 1800,000's of years. The next, Treta-yuga,

duration about 1200,000's of years. And then Dvapara-yuga, 800,000's of years,

solar years.

 

We are calculating the years, the time also relative. That is the latest

theory of the scientists, law of relativity. My hundred years and Brahma's

hundred years and an ant's hundred years, a germ's hundred years, they are not

the same. Similarly time calculation, if you go in the upper planetary system,

that time calculation is different. Just like in modern age, the sputnik age,

they are flying sputnik. The first sputnik flight, they circumambulated this

earth three times in one twenty-five hour and minutes. And they saw that there

is night and day. Here in this planet our night and day experience is

twenty-four hours. But as soon as you leave this planet, you fly in a different

speed, there is three times night and day in one hour and minutes. So similarly

everyone lives hundred years, but that hundred years are all relative. An ant's

hundred years and man's hundred years is not the same. Similarly, a man's

hundred years and a demigod's hundred years not the same. In different planetary

system the time is... Similarly, if you go still up and up, the time is

relative.

 

So we are calculating our three thousand years, four thousand years in our

system. That three thousand or four thousand years, as soon as you go little up,

it become one hour, twenty-five minutes. So Brahma's one day is different. But

it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita... You know, who are reading Bhagavad...

Sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmano viduh [bg. 8.17]. You try to understand

Brahma's one day equal to our one thousand times of the yugas. And the yugas, as

I have already explained... The Satya-yuga, 1800,000's of years; Treta-yuga,

1200,000's of years. In the Satya-yuga people used to live for 100,000's of

years. Valmiki Muni, he practiced yoga for 60,000's of years. So unless one has

got 100,000's of years duration of life, how he could practice 60,000's of

years? So we should understand, everything is relative. This is called relative

world. Relativity, law of relativity.

 

So Brahma's one day means 4300,000's of years of our calculation.

Forty-three hundred thousands of years, little more. That is Brahma's one day.

And in that one day, 4300,000's of years, there are fourteen manus changing. So

these are described here. The manu, Caksusa Manu, Vaivasvata Manu. There are

fourteen manus. So the calculation is in one day of Brahma, ah, in one month of

Brahma, there are about five thousand manus. So this calculation is taken in the

duration of manu's life.

 

The Bhagavad-gita says,

 

imam vivasvate yogam

proktavan aham avyayam

vivasvan manave praha

manur iksvakave 'bravit

[bg. 4.1]

 

So this is the parampara system. So here it is, Vaivasvata Manu. What is

text number? Fifteen. Here it is. Vaivasvata Manu. So this Vaivasvata Manu means

at the present moment the president of the sun planet is called Vivasvan. His

name is Vivasvan. And because his son Manu... Vivasvan manave praha... The

Bhagavad-gita was spoken long, long ago by Krsna to the sun-god, Vivasvan.

Vivasvan. They are trying to understand the historical dates. So how you can

understand the historical date? It is beyond your calculation. You cannot

calculate even one Brahma's day. And in Brahma's one day there are fourteen

manus. So it is beyond your brain substance. You can have some idea.

 

Now here it is said Vaivasvata Manu. Vaivasvata Manu. There are different

manus. Just like first of all it is said Caksusa Manu. Similarly, next it is

said Vaivasvata Manu. So this Vaivasvata Manu is the son of sun-god. There are

two kinds of ksatriya families within this planet: one coming from the moon and

the other is coming from the sun. The first person, I mean to say, first father

of this ksatriya family from sun, his first son is manu. And his name is

Vaivasvata Manu. Because he is the son of Vivasvan, therefore his father's name

is also added. In India the system is still that when a man will give you name,

the first name is his own name, the second name is his father's name, and the

third name is his village name. So that by three names he will understand that

"This man is the son of such and such gentleman and coming from such and such

village." Complete name. Just like when we give our identification, we give our

own name, our father's name and address. That is complete identification. So

still, not in everywhere, in almost all provinces of India, the system is still

current. State..., especially in Maharastra province. Maharastra province, they

exactly will give you his own name his father's name, and his village name.

 

So here also, Vaivasvata Manu. Vaivasvata Manu means the son of the

gentleman whose name is Vivasvan. He is the president of this solar world, of

the sun, sun planet. There is also president. You have got your president here.

Why not in the sun planet? Why...? How can you deny with teeny knowledge that

there is no life, there is no city, there is no...? Simply you go on smoking

ganja and telling anything, but the fact is different. The fact is different.

>From common sense we can understand that this is a planet made of five elements:

earth, water, fire, air, and ether. So this whole material world is made of

these five elements. Somewhere, some portion is very prominent. Here the earth

is very prominent. Similarly, in the sun planet the fire is very prominent. But

there are five elements. Nothing is made... Just like if you go to a fireplace,

there the temperature is different, but the fireplace is made of these five

elements: earth, water, air, fire, ether. Nothing but.

 

Therefore if we study Bhagavad-gita very carefully, you understand

everything. A little brain required. Just like we can... Just you, when you go

to the oven, fire, fireplace, that fireplace, the stove... What is the stove?

The stove is made of these five elements, earth, water, fire, air, but there the

fire is very prominent. Therefore you cannot touch it. You do not go there.

Similarly, sun planet is not very wonderful thing. It is also made of the same

ingredients as it is made here in this planet, because the whole material world

is made of these five elements. But there the fire element is very prominent.

Therefore we are thinking, "How one can live there?" How one can cook in the

kitchen when the fire is so hot? It is possible. Just like you can see in the

water. You cannot live in the water, but there are thousands and millions of

living entities. They are very comfortably living. The same living entities, you

bring on the land, they cannot live. But you can live.

 

So it is, God's creation is like that. According to karma, there are

different species of forms of life, but they have got all facilities to live.

That is God's creation. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [bg. 9.10].

The direction is there, that this living entity wanted a body to swim in the sea

very jubilantly, so now he has got the body of a fish. So let him live very

peacefully. That is God's mercy. You take very much pleasure with that surf...

What is called, in the sea?

 

Devotee: Surfboard.

 

Prabhupada: Surfboard? Yes. (laughter) So if you increase your engage...,

"How I shall be swimming and enjoy this sport all day and night?" then Krsna

will give you the body of a fish. (laughter) Yes. He is very kind. And you will

very nicely live in the sea, always swimming without any difficulty. Every life.

As you increase your propensity for a certain type of activities, nature is

ready immediately: "Take this body. Why you are anxious? Take this body."

Similarly, if you become anxious to have a body like Krsna, that is also ready.

Now it is your choice. If you like, you take the body of a fish, or if you like,

you take the body of sac-cid-ananda-vigraha [bs. 5.1], eternal, blissful

knowledge.So we are trying to give that body.---------------------------

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