New Vrindavana, 1972 - SB. 1.2.6 - Part 4 - (DVD 9)

SUBTITLES FOR SP01-01-SB 1.2.6 NV 72

[01:25]sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje ahaituky apratihata yayatma suprasidati

[06:01]So, word meaing.

[06:10]sah-that;

[06:18]vai-certainly;

[06:21]pumsam-for mankind;

[06:25]parah-sublime;

[06:29]dharmah-occupation;

[06:32]yatah-by which;

[06:36]bhaktih-devotional service;

[06:40]adhoksaje-unto the Transcendence;

[06:45]ahaituki-causeless;

[06:49]apratihata-unbroken;

[06:54]yaya-by which;

[06:57]atma-the self;

[07:00]suprasidati-completely satisfied.

[07:05]Translation: The supreme occupation or dharma for all humanity is that by which

[07:11]men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord.

[07:15]Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted in order to completely satisfy the self.

[07:22]So sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje ahaituky apratihata yayatma suprasidati

[07:48]Everyone is seeking satisfaction, atyantiksu.

[08:01]Everyone is struggling for existence for the ultimate happiness.

[08:10]But in this material world, although they are thinking by possessing material wealth

[08:25]they will be satisfied, but that is not the fact.

[08:32]For example in your country, you have got sufficient material opulence

[08:42]than other countries but still there is no satisfaction.

[08:49]In spite of all good arrangement for material enjoyment,

[09:00]enough food, enough…, nice apartment, motor cars, roads,

[09:10]and very good arrangement for freedom in sex,

[09:18]and good arrangement for defence also-everything is complete-

[09:25]but still, people are dissatisfied, confused,

[09:31]and younger generation, they are turning to hippies, protest, or dissatisfied

[09:43]because they are not happy. I have several times cited the example that in Los Angeles,

[09:51]when I was taking my morning walk in Beverly Hills,

[09:58]many hippies were coming out from a very respectable house.

[10:03]It appeared that his father, he was (indistinct), a very nice car also,

[10:10]but the dress was hippie. So there is a protest against the so-called material arrangement,

[10:23]they do not like.

[10:26]Actually we cannot be happy by material prosperity, that is a fact.

[10:35]That is also stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam.

[10:42]Prahlada Maharaja says to his atheistic father…

[10:47]His father was Hiranyakasipu.

[10:50]Hiranya means gold and kasipu means soft bed, cushion.

[11:01]That is material civilization. They want very soft bed, and the bed companion,

[11:09]and sufficient bank balance, money. That is another meaning of Hiranyakasipu.

[11:17]So he was not happy also. Hiranyakasipu was not happy-

[11:30]at least he was not happy that his son Prahlada was becoming a devotee of the Lord,

[11:38]which he did not like. So he inquired from his son that

[11:51]“How you are feeling? You are a small boy, child,

[11:57]how you are feeling so much comfortable despite all my threatening.

[12:05]So what is your actual asset?” So he replied, “My dear father,

[12:16]na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [Bhag. 7.5.31].

[12:24]Foolish persons, they do not know that their ultimate goal of happiness is Visnu,

[12:32]God, the Supreme Lord.” Durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah.

[12:39]Durasaya, dur, hope against hope, they’re hoping something

[12:49]which is never to be fulfilled. What is that?

[12:53]Durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah.

[12:57]Bahir-artha, bahir means external, artha means interest.

[13:06]So those who do not know that the ultimate goal of happiness is Visnu,

[13:17]they think that by adjustment of this external world…

[13:24]Because we have got external and internal.

[13:27]Externally we are this body. Internally we are soul.

[13:36]Everyone can understand that I am not this body, I am soul.

[13:44]I am covered by this body and as soon as I go away from this body,

[13:51]the body has no meaning. It may be a very important soul’s body,

[14:02]a great scientist’s body, but the body is not the scientist, the soul is the scientist.

[14:11]The body is instrumental.

[14:16]Just like I want to catch something, so the hand is my instrument.

[14:22]Therefore in Sanskrit word, these different parts of the body, limbs,

[14:33]they are called karana. Karana means, karana means action, acting,

[14:40]by which we act, karana. So na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [Bhag. 7.5.31],

[14:55]we are now illusioned under the concept of this body.

[15:01]That is also described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam,

[15:04]yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke [SB 10.84.13],

[15:08]atma-buddhih kunape, kunape means bag.

[15:13]This is a bag of bones, and muscles, and skin, and blood.

[15:19]Actually when we dissect this body, what do we find?

[15:26]A lump of bone, skin, and blood, intestines, and blood, pus, nothing else.

[15:37]So kunape tri-dhatuke, these things are manufactured by three dhatus,

[15:49]elements, kapha, pitta, vayu. Kapha mucus, pitta bile, and air.

[16:03]These things manufacturing. These things are going on.

[16:06]After eating, these three things are being manufactured,

[16:14]and if they are in adjustment, parallel, then body is healthy,

[16:22]and if there is more or less, then there is disease.

[16:27]Well, according to the Ayur-vedic-that is also Veda-

[16:31]ayur means span of life, and Veda means knowledge.

[16:37]That is called Ayur-veda. So this Vedic knowledge of the span of life is very simple.

[16:48]They don’t require pathological laboratory, clinic, no.

[16:55]They require simply to study these three elements,

[17:00]kapha, pitta, vayu. And they, their science is to feel the pulse.

[17:07]You know, every one of you, that the pulse is moving tick, tick, tick, tick, like this.

[17:15] So they know the science: by feeling the beating of the pulse,

[17:20]they can understand what is the position of these three elements, kapha, pitta, vayu.

[17:26]And by that position, constellation, they…

[17:34]In the Ayur-veda, sastra veda, there are, the symptoms, with the…

[17:39]These veins are moving like this, heart is moving like this, beating like this,

[17:46]then the position is this. As soon as they understand the position is this,

[17:53]they verify the symptoms. They enquire from the patient, “Do you feel like this?

[17:58]Do you feel like this?” If he says, “Yes,” then it is confirmed.

[18:02]The inner things, how the pulse is beating, and the symptoms are confirmed,

[18:13]then the medicine is ready. Immediately take the medicine.

[18:17]Very simple.

[18:20]And formerly every brahmana used to learn these two sciences,

[18:29]Ayur-veda and Jyotir-veda. Jyotir-veda means astronomy…,

[18:36]astrology not astronomy. Because any other, the less intelligent than brahmanas,

[18:49]the ksatriyas, the vaisyas, the sudras, they would need the brahmanas for health and future.

[18:58]Everyone is very inquisitive to learn what is future, what is going to happen next,

[19:06]and everyone is concerned with the health.

[19:10]So brahmanas, they would simply advise about health and the future,

[19:19]so that is their profession and people give them eatables,

[19:25]cloth, so they have nothing to do for working outside.

[19:29]Anyway this is a long story.

[19:33]So this body is a bag of the three elements,

[19:39]yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke [SB 10.84.13].

[19:43](baby cries) Take baby out.

[20:02]So Bhagavata says yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke,

[20:07]I am not this body. This is a vehicle. Just like we ride on a car,

[20:16]drive car, so I am not this car. Similarly, this is a yantra, car,

[20:26]mechanical car. Krsna or God has given me this car, I wanted it.

[20:33]That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita,

[20:38]isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese ‘rjuna tisthati [Bg. 18.61].

[20:43]“My dear Arjuna, the Lord as Paramatma is sitting in everyone’s heart,”

[20:52]bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani mayaya [Bg. 18.61],

[20:58]“and He is giving chance to the living entity to travel, to wander,”

[21:06]sarva-bhutani, “all over the universe.” Yantrarudhani mayaya,

[21:12]riding on a car, driving a car given by the material nature.

[21:22]So actual our position is that I am soul, I have been given a nice car-

[21:33]it is not a nice car but as soon as we get a car, however rotten it may be,

[21:39]we think that it is very nice, (laughter) and identify with that car.

[21:47]“I have got this car, I have got that car.”

[21:50] One forgets if one drives a very costly car, he forgets himself that he is a poor man.

[22:01]He thinks that “I am this car.” This is identification.

[22:08]So yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke

[22:11]sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih [SB 10.84.13].

[22:14]One who thinks this body as himself, as self, and bodily relations, sva-dhih,

[22:26]“They are my own, my brother, my family, my nation, my community, my society,”

[22:37]so many things, my, I and mine Misconception of “I”

[22:43]as this body and misconception of “my” in relationship with body.

[22:49]Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke

[22:53]sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih [SB 10.84.13].

[22:57]Bhauma ijya-dhih, bhumi, bhumi means land. Ijya-dhih, ijya means worshipable.

[23:08]So at the present moment it is very strong, the conceit that “I am this body,”

[23:15]and “I am American,” and “I am Indian,” “I am European,”

[23:19]“I am Hindu,” “I am Muslim,” “I am brahmana,” “I am ksatriya,”

[23:24]“I am sudra,” “I am this, those…,” so many.

[23:27]This is very strong and bhauma ijya-dhih, that because

[23:36] I am identifying to a certain type of body, and wherefrom the body has come out,

[23:42]the land is worshipable. That is nationalism. So yasyatma-buddhih kunape

[23:51]tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih [SB 10.84.13],

[23:55]yat-tirtha-buddhih salile, and tirtha, place of pilgrimage.

[24:04]We go, we take bath in the river, like the Christians,

[24:09]they take bath in the Jordan River, or Hindus,

[24:13]they go to Hardwar, take bath in the Ganges, or Vrndavana,

[24:17]they take bath. But they think by taking bath in that water, his job is finished.

[24:25]No. Actually the job is to go to such pilgrimages, holy places,

[24:33]to find out experience spiritually advanced men.

[24:40]Because many spiritually advanced men, they live there.

[24:45]Therefore one should go such places and find out the experienced transcendentalist,

[24:53]and take lessons from him. That is really going to pilgrimage.

[24:58]Not that simply going and take bath and business finished. No. So:

[25:04]yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatradisu bhauma ijya-dhih yat-tirtha-buddhih salile na karhicij janesv abhijnesu… [SB 10.84.13]

[25:20]Abhijne, one who knows. (indistinct) we should approach person who knows things very well,

[25:29]abhijnah. Krsna is abhijnah, svarat. So similarly Krsna’s representative is also abhijnah,

[25:38]naturally. If one associates with Krsna, if one talks with Krsna, he must be very abhijnah,

[25:47]very learned, because he takes lessons from Krsna.

[25:54]Therefore Krsna’s knowledge is perfect, therefore, because he takes knowledge from Krsna,

[26:01]his knowledge is also perfect. Abhijnah. And Krsna talks.

[26:07]It is not that it is fictitious, no. Krsna-I have already said-

[26:12]that Krsna is sitting in everyone’s heart and He talks with the bona fide person.

[26:20]Just like a big man, he talks with some bona fide person,

[26:37]he doesn’t waste his time talking with nonsense. He talks, that’s a fact, but he does not talk

[26:35]with nonsense, he talks with the bona fide representative.

[26:38]How it is known? It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, tesam satata-yuktanam [Bg. 10.10].

[26:48]Who is bona fide representative? Tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam,

[26:54]buddhi-yogam dadami tam. Krsna says that “I give him intelligence.”

[27:02]To whom? Satata-yuktanam, those who are engaged twenty-four hours.

[27:11]In which way he is engaged? Bhajatam, bhajana, those who are engaged in devotional service.

[27:23]What kind of devotional service? Priti-purvakam, with love and affection.

[27:29]One who is engaged in devotional service of the Lord in love and devotion.

[27:37]What is the symptom of love? The symptom, the prime symptom,

[27:45]most important symptom of love is that the devotee wants to see that his Lord’s name,

[27:54]fame, etc. become widespread. He wants to see that “My Lord’s name be known everywhere.”

[28:05]This is love. If I love somebody, I want to see that his glories are spread all over the world.

[28:17]And Krsna also says in the Bhagavad-gita, na ca tasmat manusyesu kascit me priya-krttamah,

[28:27]anyone who preaches His glory, nobody is dearer to Him than that person.

[28:35]Everything is there in the Bhagavad-gita, how you can love,

[28:40]what are the symptoms of love, how you can please God,

[28:45]how He can talk with you, everything is there. But you have to take advantage.

[28:52]We read Bhagavad-gita, but by reading Bhagavad-gita I become a politician.

[29:00]So what kind of reading Bhagavad-gita? Politician is there, of course,

[29:09]but the real purpose of reading Bhagavad-gita is to know Krsna.

[29:15]If one is Krsna, if one knows Krsna, he knows everything.

[29:21]He knows politics, he knows economics, he knows science,

[29:25]he knows philosophy, he knows religion, he knows sociology, everything.

[29:31]Tasmin vijnate sarvam etam vijnatam bhavanti,

[29:35]that is the Vedic injunction. If you simply understand God, Krsna,

[29:41]then everything will be revealed to you because Krsna says,

[29:46]buddhi-yogam dadami tam. If Krsna gives you intelligence from within,

[29:51]who can excel Him? Nobody can excel Him. But Krsna can give you intelligence

[29:59]provided you become a devotee, or lover of Krsna.

[30:05]Tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam,

[30:09]buddhi-yogam dadami tam [Bg. 10.10].

[30:13]And what is that buddhi-yoga, what is the value of buddhi-yoga?

[30:15]That buddhi-yoga or bhakti-yoga, the value is yena mam upayanti te.

[30:23]Such buddhi-yoga, such intelligence will get him back to home, back to Godhead.

[30:31]Not that by such intelligence he will go down to hell. That is material intelligence.

[30:41]Adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram. Everything is discussed in Bhagavatam.

[30:48]For the materialist person, adanta-gobhi. Adanta means unbridled, uncontrolled.

[30:57]Go means indriya or senses. Materialistic persons, they cannot control their senses.

[31:07]They are servant of the senses, godasa. Go means indriya, and dasa means servant.

[31:15]So when you come to the position of controlling the senses, then you’ll be gosvami.

[31:23]That is gosvami. Gosvami means controlling the senses, who has completely controlled

[31:33]the senses. Svami or gosvami. Svami also means that and gosvami also means the same thing.

[31:39]Generally adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram. Uncontrolled senses, they are going.

[31:53]It is not that Krsna is sending them. He is making his own path clear, either back to home,

[32:01]back to Godhead, or glide down to the darkest region of hell. Two things are there,

[32:12]and that opportunity is in the human form of life. You can select. Krsna,

[32:21]as He inquired from Arjuna, whether “Your illusion has been dissipated now,

[32:32]after…