prema and krsna nama

anadi · September 3, 2002

Krsna-prema will never come by the type of chanting Ajamila did.

For this, something more will be required.

Srila Rupa Gosvami has written:

yad-brahma-saksat-krti-nisthayapi, vinasam ayati vina na bhogaih / apaiti

nama! sphurena tat te, prarabdha-karmeti virauti vedah.

["O Nama! The Vedas

loudly declare that even without a devotee undergoing any suffering, his

prarabdha-karma (the karma which constitutes this body), which cannot be

eliminated even by resolute meditation on impersonal brahman, is at once

mitigated by Your appearance on the tongue." (Sri Krsna-Namastakam verse 4)]

What is the meaning? You should write down the meaning in your hearts.

Srila Rupa Gosvami is comparing the process of

chanting harinama and that of meditating on nirvisesa-brahma (the conception

of God without qualities). Even if one is completely absorbed, directly

realizing impersonal brahma, his prarabdha-karma will not go away.

Remember that there are two kinds of

brahma-jnana. The brahma-jnana of the Mayavadis is not jnana but it is

aparadha, an offence.

The brahma-jnana of Sukadeva Gosvami and the four Kumaras it is right, and that brahma is the rays of the toenails of Krsna.

That brahma is referred to in the verse yasya prabha prabhavato, regarding

the effulgence of Krsna. On the other hand, nirvisesavada of Sankaracarya is

very bogus.

If anyone is absorbed in that effulgence which is coming form

Krsna, what will be the result? Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda koti/

kotisv asesa-vasudhadi-vibhuti-bhinnam (Brahma-Samhita 5.40). If anyone will

meditate on that brahma, all his aprarabdha karma will be destroyed.

However, his prarabdha

karma, the results of fruitive activities that are fructifying right now in

the form of this material body, remains. The body that we have now is our

prarabdha karma, and this ! prarabdha karma will not be destroyed by

meditation on brahma.

raga · September 3, 2002

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