Todays Bhagavad Gita Class-By His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada--"Everything Belongs To God"

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"Everything Belongs To God"

73/07/15 London, Bhagavad-gita 1.15

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Pradyumna (leads chanting, etc.):

 

pancajanyam hrsikeso

devadattam dhananjayah

paundram dadhmau maha-sankham

bhima-karma vrkodarah

[bg. 1.15]

 

Translation: "Then Lord Krsna blew His conchshell named Pancajanya; Arjuna

blew his, the Devadatta; and Bhima, the voracious eater and performer of

Herculean tasks, blew his terrific conchshell named Paundram."

 

Prabhupada: So Vrkodara, Bhimasena, is advertised as voracious eater. But

he can perform Herculean task also. Just like the elephant, it eats voraciously,

but it gives service also. Similarly if we simply eat voraciously and we cannot

give any service that is not good. We must eat sumptuously and give service

also. In Bengali it is said that pete keli pithe soya (?). If one is given

sufficient food in the belly, he can carry more burden on the back. So

Bhima-karma, his activities were very Herculean, very, very, difficult tasks he

performed.

 

So everyone is named here with his task. The first name is, Krsna,

Hrsikesa. Hrsikesa. He is the master of the senses. Govinda. Go means senses.

"Who gives pleasure to the senses." So Krsna has got many names, thousands, out

of which, the Krsna name is chief, mukhya. That is described in Vedic

literature. People say God has no name. That is right. He has no particular

fixed name. But His names are there according to His different activities. Just

like His name is Devaki-nandana. Because He accepted Devaki as His mother,

therefore He is called Devaki-nandana. Similarly, He is called Nanda-nandana,

Yasoda-nandana, Vrajendra-nandana -- -in relationship with Nanda Maharaja,

Yasoda, His foster father and mother. Similarly, He is sometimes named

Partha-sarathi because He acted as the chariot driver of Arjuna. Arjuna's name

is Partha. His mother's name is Prtha, Kunti's. From Prtha, his name is Partha.

>From his father's name, Pandu, his name is Pandava. So in this way big

personalities or anyone, they should tally, the name should tally with the

activities. This is nomenclature.

In the... According to Vedic civilization, after the birth of the child,

there was name-giving ceremony, what kind of name. So that was calculated

astrologically, that what kind of name he should be given, because the name

should carry some meaning of the activities of his life. So Krsna is named here

Hrsikesa. Hrsikesa, Krsna, in the fifteenth chapter is described that He gives

direction to everyone. Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah: "I am sitting in

everyone's heart as Paramatma." Realization of the Absolute Truth are three

features, Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan.

 

vadanti tat tattva-vidas

tattvam yaj jnanam advayam

brahmeti paramatmeti

bhagavan iti sabdyate

[sB 1.2.11]

 

Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan. The same object. So the Brahman

realization is impersonal realization. Just like the sun, the sun globe, and the

sunshine. They are one, but the sunshine, realization of the sunshine, is not

realization of the sun globe. Or realization of the sun globe is not realization

of the sun god who is within the sun globe. Vivasvan. His name is Vivasvan. The

present predominating Deity in the sun planet, his name is Vivasvan. And his son

Manu is called Vaivasvata Manu. This is the age of Vaivasvata Manu. So at the...

This is very nice example, that the sunshine, the sun globe and the sun god.

They are all one, but still, the sun globe is not the person, sun god; neither

the sunshine is not the person sun, although they are one. This is called

acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, inconceivably one and different simultaneously.

 

So Brahman realization is also God realization, but it is partial. The

Supreme Lord is sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [bs. 5.1]. He is person. But He is not a

person like us. He is sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah. Isvarah paramah krsnah

sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [bs. 5.1]. Vigraha means person. So He is person,

Bhagavan. Brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate [sB 1.2.11]. Three

features, realization of the Absolute. The first realization, imperfect

realization, is impersonal Brahman. Further advanced realization -- Paramatma

realization. And ultimate realization -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

Krsna. These are the three stages.

 

So when He is Hrsikesa, it is His Paramatma feature. As it is stated in

the Bhagavad-gita,

 

isvarah sarva-bhutanam

hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati

bhramayan sarva-bhutani

yantrarudhani mayaya

[bg. 18.61]

 

Isvara, the Supreme Lord, Krsna. Isvara means the Supreme, isvara means

controller. But the supreme controller is Krsna. Isvarah paramah krsnah [bs.

5.1]. Control everyone of us, we are controller. We control our family, our

society, our business, our factory. There are different kinds of controller. So

in that sense everyone is isvara, but different types of isvara. But the supreme

isvara.... Supreme means nobody controls Him, but He controls everyone. That is

Supreme. Here we are controller, but we are also controlled, somebody else,

superior than me. Therefore we cannot be called supreme controller. Supreme

controller is Krsna.

 

When Krsna was present on this planet, nobody could control Krsna, but He

controlled everyone. Nobody could control Krsna. So therefore the great saintly

persons, even Brahma, they have decided, that isvarah paramah krsnah: [bs. 5.1]

"The Supreme controller is Krsna." He controls even Brahma, adi-kavaye. In the

Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said, tene brahma hrda adi-kavaye. Tene, He instructed

Brahma sabda-brahma, Vedic knowledge, hrda, through heart. That is Hrsikesa. You

can argue that "Brahma was the first creature within this universe. So how he

could be instructed by somebody else?" No. The somebody else is always there

within the heart, Hrsikesa. Hrsikesa means controller. Sarvasya caham... Krsna

says in the Bhagavad-gita, sarvasya, in the fifteenth chapter, sarvasya ca aham

hrdi sannivistah: "I am sitting in everyone's heart." Mattah smrtir jnanam

apohanam ca: [bg. 15.15] "From Me, one remembers and one forgets also." Forgets

also. If you want to forget Krsna, so Krsna will give you such intelligence that

you will forget Him forever. Ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham

[bg. 4.11].

 

So the atheist class, demon class, they want to forget Krsna. So Krsna

gives him such intelligence that he can speak of atheism so many volumes. But he

is getting that intelligence from Krsna. Krsna gives everyone the chance that

"Whatever you want to do, you can do. I will give you intelligence. So if you

want to become atheist, then I will give you intelligence how to become

first-class atheist, like Hiranyakasipu, Ravana, Kamsa. And if you want to

become devotee, then I will give you intelligence also in that way."

Buddhi-yogam dadami tam yena mam upayanti te. Tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam

priti-purvakam [bg. 10.10]. Anyone who is engaged in His service with love and

affection, tesam, not all, not all... Because not all, not everyone wants to

serve Him. Everyone wants to become God, imitator. Imitation. Therefore they

say, "Why Krsna shall be alone God? I am God." You are God. That's all right.

But you are not the Supreme God. Why you forget that? You may be a God at home

of your wife, but when you go to your office, you are not god; your master is

god. He directs you to do something; you have to do it.

 

So we may claim that "Every one of us, we are God," but nobody can claim

that "We are supreme; I am Supreme God." That is not possible. That can, Krsna

can claim only. Mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya: [bg. 7.7] "My

dear Dhananjaya, there is no more superior personality than Me." And He proved

it. So God cannot be manufactured. God is God. Krsna, when He was three months

old on the lap of His mother, still, He was God. He could kill the Putana. So

God cannot be manufactured by so-called meditation and mystic power. You can get

some of the insignificant powers of God, but simply, but you do not know how

much powerful is God. That you do not know. Therefore when a person gets little

power, he thinks that he has become God. He does not know how much powerful God

is.

 

So therefore sastra says that "You may be god in your own atmosphere, in

your own jurisdiction. You may think that you are God." And everyone thinks like

that. "But the Supreme God is Krsna." Eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. In the

Upanisads it is said that God is also a person like me, you. Nityo nityanam

cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). But His personality is different from

your personality, from my personality. What is that difference? Eko yo bahunam

vidadhati kaman: "He supplies all the necessities of all other personalities."

That is the difference. God is supplying us food. This conception is there in

the Bible, "God, give us our daily bread." This is nice. Accepting that you are

getting all supplies from God, this is sukrti, this is punyavat.

 

If one, anyone says, "Oh, what God? We are creating our own food." Just

like the Communist says. They are duskrtina, rascals. But if anyone even goes to

the church and temple for asking something to God, he is pious. At least, he has

approached God. So one day when he will be advanced devotee, he will not ask any

more. He knows that "Why shall I bother God? He is supplying everyone food, so

why shall I ask Him food? My food is also there. Let me serve Him." That is his

higher intelligence. That is higher intelligence, that "Why shall I ask food

from God? God is supplying food to the cats, dogs, ants, elephants, and I want

little food, he will not supply me? And especially when I engage myself in His

service? Ordinary man pays to his servant, and I shall starve if I am engaged in

the service of God?" This is intelligence. This is intelligence. "Why shall I

bother God? If He likes, I will starve. That doesn't matter. But I must engage

myself in the service of the Lord." This is intelligence. Bahunam janmanam ante

jnanavan mam prapadyate [bg. 7.19]. This intelligence comes after many, many

births of endeavoring for self-realization. It is not easily comes.

 

So there is no question of scarcity for devotee. Just like this morning I

was discussing with a gentleman. So a devotee is not in need of everything. Why

he should be? He cannot be. Even one who is not devotee, if he is getting

supplies from God, how is it that the devotee will not get? Just like the

government. The government, although there is prisonhouse, the government

supplies the food. Not that because they have gone to the prisonhouse, they are

starving. Rather, those who are unemployed, they prefer prisonhouse, that

without any service, they will get free food.

 

So anyone within this material world, they are prisoners. Bhramayan

yantrarudhani mayaya. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati [bg.

18.61]. Isvara, the Supreme Lord Krsna as Hrsikesa, He is sitting in everyone's

heart as Paramatma, and He is guiding. This is confirmed in the Vedas that two

birds are sitting on one tree. These two birds, one is Krsna and another, the

living entity, Paramatma and jivatma. The jivatma is eating the fruit, and

Paramatma is simply becoming witness. Anumanta upadrasta. Paramatma is seeing,

Hrsikesa is seeing that you are doing this. So we may forget what nuisance we

had done in our last life, but Paramatma is there, witness; you have to get a

body according to your work. Karmana daiva-netrena [sB 3.31.1]. You are working,

that is being witnessed by the Paramatma. And He is also giving advice. Because

we have forgotten Krsna, we have rebelled against Krsna. We want to act

according to our whims.

 

Just like a child wants to do something according to his whims. Father

checks him, "My dear child, do not do this." But if he likes, if he persists,

father says, "All right, you do it." This is the position. The Hrsikesa,

Paramatma, He is always guiding us, but we do not accept His guidance. This is

our position. Arjuna has accepted Krsna, that "I shall be guided by You.

Although You'll not fight." Therefore here it is said, Hrsikesa, He's guiding

Arjuna. The hrsika means the senses. Hrsika-isa. Isa means Lord, master, isvara

or isa. So Hrsikesa. Actually, He is the master of the senses. In the

Bhagavad-gita you will find. In the Eleventh Chapter it is said, sarvatah

pani-padam tat, "God has His hands and legs all over the universe." What is

that? This, our hand, our legs, this is God's hands, God's leg. He is the

master. I am claiming, "This is my hand," but as soon as God withdraws the power

of your hand, it is paralyzed, you cannot repair. Therefore the real proprietor

is Krsna. You are not proprietor. You have been given the facility to use it,

for..., use it not for your sense gratification, but for the satisfaction of the

Lord. Then your life is perfect. Because the things belongs to Krsna. He is

Hrsikesa. He is the master. Just like we are sitting in this house. Somebody has

given us. Similarly, everything belongs to God. This is self-realization. My

body belongs to God, my mind belongs to God, my intelligence belongs to God, I

am spirit soul, I am part and parcel of God. Therefore everything belongs

to...Isavasyam idam sarvam [iso mantra 1]. Everything belongs to God. So if you

don't use it for God, that is called demonism. And if you use it for God, that

is devotion. That's all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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One must realize that "Everything belongs to God; nothing belongs to me.

Even this body is given to me by God. "Why a different body? The different body

is... God gives us different body according to our karma. So bhakti means you

utilize your energy for Krsna. Then your life is perfect. Thank you very much.

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