GITA-SHLOKA-4.11- ONE SHOULD WITH ALL EFFORTS TRY TO WORSHIP THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD FOR COMPLETE PERFECTION, CULMINATING IN KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS 26th July

TRANSLATION

ALL OF THEM—AS THEY SURRENDER UNTO ME—I REWARD ACCORDINGLY. EVERYONE FOLLOWS MY PATH IN ALL RESPECTS, O SON OF PARTHA.

PURPORT

EVEYONE IS SEARCHING FOR KRSNA IN THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF HIS MANIFESTATIONS.

KRSNA, THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD, IS PARTIALLY REALIZED IN HIS IMPERSONAL BRAHMAJYOTI EFFULGENCE AND AS THE ALL-PERVADING SUPERSOUL DWELLING WITHIN EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE PARTICLES OF ATOMS.

BUT KRSNA IS ONLY FULLY REALIZED BY HIS PURE DEVOTEES.

CONSEQUENTLY, KRSNA IS THE OBJECT OF EVERYONE'S REALIZATION, AND THUS ANYONE AND EVERYONE IS SATISFIED ACCORDING TO ONE'S DESIRE TO HAVE HIM.

IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL WORLD ALSO, KRSNA RECIPROCATES WITH HIS PURE DEVOTEES IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL ATTITUDE, JUST AS THE DEVOTEE WANTS HIM.

ONE DEVOTEE MAY WANT KRSNA AS SUPREME MASTER, ANOTHER AS HIS PERSONAL FRIEND, ANOTHER AS HIS SON, AND STILL ANOTHER AS HIS LOVER.

KRSNA REWARDS ALL THE DEVOTEES EQUALLY, ACCORDING TO THEIR DIFFERENT INTENSITIES OF LOVE FOR HIM.

IN THE MATERIAL WORLD, THE SAME RECIPROCATIONS OF FEELINGS ARE THERE, AND THEY ARE EQUALLY EXCHANGED BY THE LORD WITH THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF WORSHIPERS.

THE PURE DEVOTEES BOTH HERE AND IN THE TRANSCENDENTAL ABODE ASSOCIATE WITH HIM IN PERSON AND ARE ABLE TO RENDER PERSONAL SERVICE TO THE LORD AND THUS DERIVE TRANSCENDENTAL BLISS IN HIS LOVING SERVICE.

As for those who are impersonalists and who want to commit spiritual suicide by annihilating the individual existence of the living entity, Krsna helps also by absorbing them into His effulgence.

SUCH IMPERSONALISTS DO NOT AGREE TO ACCEPT THE ETERNAL, BLISSFUL PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD; CONSEQUENTLY THEY CANNOT RELISH THE BLISS OF TRANSCENDENTAL PERSONAL SERVICE TO THE LORD, HAVING EXTINGUISHED THEIR INDIVIDUALITY.

Some of them, who are not situated even in the impersonal existence, return to this material field to exhibit their dormant desires for activities.

THEY ARE NOT ADMITTED IN THE SPIRITUAL PLANETS, BUT THEY ARE AGAIN GIVEN A CHANCE TO ACT ON THE MATERIAL PLANETS.

For those who are fruitive workers, the Lord awards the desired results of their prescribed duties, as the yajnesvara; and those who are yogis seeking mystic powers are awarded such powers.

IN OTHER WORDS, EVERYONE IS DEPENDANT FOR SUCCESS UPON HIS MERCY ALONE, AND ALL KINDS OF SPIRITUAL PROCESSES ARE BUT DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SUCCESS ON THE SAME PATH.

UNLESS, THEREFORE, ONE COMES TO THE HIGHEST PERFECTION OF KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS, ALL ATTEMPTS REMAIN IMPERFECT, AS IS STATED IN THE SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM:

akamah sarva-kamo va moksa-kama udaradhih

tivrena bhakti-yogena yajeta purusam param

"WHETHER ONE IS WITHOUT DESIRE [THE CONDITION OF THE DEVOTEES], OR IS DESIROUS OF ALL FRUITIVE RESULTS, OR IS AFTER LIBERATION, ONE SHOULD WITH ALL EFFORTS TRY TO WORSHIP THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD FOR COMPLETE PERFECTION, CULMINATING IN KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS." (Bhag. 2.3.10)

TRYING TO UPLIFT ONESELF SPIRITUALLY IS UNIVERSAL RELIGION APPLICABLE FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL, ANY TIME, ANY WHERE #Blog0068

TRYING TO UPLIFT ONESELF SPIRITUALLY IS UNIVERSAL RELIGION APPLICABLE FOR EVERY INDIVIDUAL, ANY TIME, ANY WHERE 

आत्म कल्याण से बड़ा कोई धर्म नहीं है, सार्वभौमिक धर्म है आत्म कल्याण 

trying to uplift oneself spiritually is UNIVERSAL RELIGION applicable for every individual, any time, any where 

आत्म कल्याण का प्रयास, आत्म कल्याण आपके मेरे हाथ में नहीं है कल्याण तो तभी होगा, जब प्रभु चाहेंगे प्रयास आपके मेरे हाथ में है 

हम प्रभु से कल्याण कराना चाहते हैं, बिना प्रयास के 

we all want to get God's grace, without making any effort

अभी दो पांच महीना हुआ नहीं भजन करते और भजन के परिणाम की चिंता है 

it's hardly been 2-5 months since we started bhajans & we are worried that good result has not followed

ये तो भगवान की हम पर बहुत बड़ी कृपा है कि आपको अपनी पूर्व जन्मों की यात्रा स्मरण नहीं है 

it is God's extreme grace that we do not remember trajectory of our countless past births 

जैसे जैसे भजन करते हैं, जैसे जैसे अंतर्मन निर्मल होता है, जैसे जैसे मन का मुकुर (दर्पण, mirror) साफ़ होता है और जीव को अपने अस्तित्व का पूर्ण रूपेण बोध होता है 

as we go on bhajan path, our conscience gets clearer, more & more cleaned off the thick layers of "dust “(sins/habit of being away from even talk of God) & we start getting true overall picture of our real existential constitutional situation

जिसने जीवन में भजन का आरम्भ कर दिया है आत्म कल्याण के लिए, भगवत प्राप्ति के लिए, भगवत अनुराग प्राप्ति के लिए 

whoever has started treading the path of bhajan, for self upliftment spiritually, only for getting love of God... 

वो इतना तो विश्वास रखे कि उस पर भगवान की कृपा दृष्टि तो है 

he must rest assured that he is definitely a recipient of God's grace 

वो भगवान की कृपा दृष्टि में है, तभी जीवन में ये क्षण आया है 

& only due to God's benevolence on him, such an auspicious period has come in his life

संसार के एक से एक क्षुद्र से क्षुद्र प्रलोभन में इतनी सामर्थ है, कि वो आपको अनंत काल तक बांधे रख सकता है अपने साथ 

otherwise, the world's smallest & meanest of pleasures have such a potency that it can keep on "binding “you for ages & ages of repeated births 

इसीलिए भगवान कहते हैं "मम (Mine) माया दुरत्यया” 

hard to traverse, very difficult to cross over

कितने कितने कितने जन्मों से संसार भोगा है, (for innumerable births, we've been indulging deep in the meanest of wordly pleasures) 

और जितना भजन आप और मैं करते हैं या कर रहें हैं ,उतना तो कैसा है जैसे खारे पानी के कुँए में आप एक चुटकी मीठा डाल दें, 

& the extent of bhajan that we do is like mixing a spoon of sugar in the well full of brackish water

उससे क्या होगा, जल तो मीठा नहीं होगा, 

"ऐसी भक्ति करे, बहुकाल” 

with this, the well water cannot get sweet/potable - so the extent of bhajans has to be over a very long period, to have any positive effect) 

WHOEVER LISTENS TO GOD's KATHA, IS ACTUALLY PERFORMING A GIGANTIC YAGNA #Blog0067

whoever listens to God's katha, is actually performing a gigantic yagna

आप केवल सुनिए, सुनने का प्रयास करिये, इतना तो आप से अपेक्षित है, भई आप को चल कर तो सत्संग में आना होगा 

you are only supposed to listen, at least this much is expected of you - to come to Satsang

आप कहेंगे कि TV में कथा देख लेंगे

you say that the same can be watched in TV also

TV की कथा TV की गंगा जैसी है, दर्शन तो हो जाता है, स्मरण भी हो जाता है 

TV katha is like seeing Ganga in TV, though you can see it & you can recall it 

लेकिन गंगा की जो शीतलता है, गंगा की जो पवित्रता है, गंगा की जो निर्मलता है 

but coolness of Ganga, its purity & its Transparency/Pureness/Whiteness/ Openness power cannot be felt on TV

तन का ताप ,गंगा जी का चित्र देख कर दूर नहीं होता, उसके लिए तो गंगा जी का प्रकट रूप से सेवन करना चाहिए 

the body heat cannot be extinguished by only seeing Ganga on TV but you have to actually take a dip in it

जब आप कथा श्रवण करते हैं, तो भगवान आपके ह्रदय में अपना स्थान बनाते हैं 

when you listen attentively & lovingly to God's katha, God positions Himself in your heart 

कथा सुनने बैठिये ऐसे की आपको प्रभु को अपने ह्रदय में आसन देना है 

your attitude while listening to katha should be with sincere intent to make way for God to seat Himself in your heart 

जो श्रवण कर रहा है ,वो बहुत बड़ा यज्ञ कर रहा है 

whoever listens to God's katha, is actually performing a gigantic yagna

BHAGVAT EVERY DEVOTEE IN KRSHNA CONSCIOUSNESS SHOULD ALWAYS BE AFRAID OF THE COMMON MAN ENGAGED IN PURSUING MATERIAL PROSPERITY. SUCH A PERSON IS DESCRIBED AS PRAMATTA, A MADMAN CHASING THE WILL-O'-THE-WISP  25TH JULY

TRANSLATION

Only by providence have I been forcibly brought under Your lotus feet and deprived of all my opulence. Because of the illusion created by temporary opulence, people in general, who live under material conditions, facing accidental death at every moment, do not understand that this life is temporary. Only by providence have I been saved from that condition.

PURPORT

Bali Maharaja appreciated the actions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although all the members of the demoniac families except Prahlada Maharaja and Bali Maharaja considered Vishnu their eternal traditional enemy. As described by Bali Maharaja, Lord Vishnu was actually not the enemy of the family but the best friend of the family. 

The principle of this friendship has already been stated. Yasyaham anugrhnami harishye tad-dhanam shanaim: the Lord bestows special favor upon His devotee by taking away all his material opulences. Bali Maharaja appreciated this behavior by the Lord. Therefore he said, daivena nitam prasabham tyajita-shrim: "It is to bring me to the right platform of eternal life that You have put me into these circumstances."

ACTUALLY, EVERYONE SHOULD FEAR THE SO-CALLED SOCIETY, FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE FOR WHICH HE WORKS SO HARD ALL DAY AND NIGHT. 

AS INDICATED BY BALI MAHARAJA BY THE WORDS JANAD BHITAM, EVERY DEVOTEE IN KRSHNA CONSCIOUSNESS SHOULD ALWAYS BE AFRAID OF THE COMMON MAN ENGAGED IN PURSUING MATERIAL PROSPERITY. SUCH A PERSON IS DESCRIBED AS PRAMATTA, A MADMAN CHASING THE WILL-O'-THE-WISP. 

SUCH MEN DO NOT KNOW THAT AFTER A HARD STRUGGLE FOR LIFE ONE MUST CHANGE HIS BODY, WITH NO CERTAINTY OF WHAT KIND OF BODY HE WILL RECEIVE NEXT. THOSE WHO ARE COMPLETELY ESTABLISHED IN KRSHNA CONSCIOUS PHILOSOPHY AND WHO THEREFORE UNDERSTAND THE AIM OF LIFE WILL NEVER TAKE TO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MATERIALISTIC DOG RACE. 

BUT IF A SINCERE DEVOTEE SOMEHOW DOES FALL DOWN, THE LORD CORRECTS HIM AND SAVES HIM FROM GLIDING DOWN TO THE DARKEST REGION OF HELLISH LIFE.

THE MATERIALISTIC WAY OF LIFE IS NOTHING BUT THE REPEATED CHEWING OF THAT WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN CHEWED. ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO PROFIT IN SUCH A LIFE, PEOPLE ARE ENAMORED OF IT BECAUSE OF UNCONTROLLED SENSES. Nünam pramattam kurute vikarma. 

BECAUSE OF UNCONTROLLED SENSES, PEOPLE FULLY ENGAGE IN SINFUL ACTIVITIES BY WHICH THEY GET A BODY FULL OF SUFFERING. BALI MAHARAJA APPRECIATED HOW THE LORD HAD SAVED HIM FROM SUCH A BEWILDERED LIFE OF IGNORANCE. HE THEREFORE SAID THAT HIS INTELLIGENCE HAD BEEN STUNNED. Stabdha-matir na budhyate. 

HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD FAVORS HIS DEVOTEES BY FORCIBLY STOPPING THEIR MATERIALISTIC ACTIVITIES.

YOU ARE EITHER WALKING PURPOSELY IN RIGHT DIRECTION OR GOING HAYWIRE #Blog0066

You are either walking purposely in right direction or going haywire

एक है चलना एक है भटकना 

अगर चलना सही दिशा में हो

गंतव्य मालूम हो

तो चलने के साथ श्रम तो है

मगर प्रसन्नता भी है

मगर अगर गंतव्य (destination) मालूम नहीं 

तो श्रम (labour) तो है ही

साथ में भ्रम (illusion) भी है

जैसे दरिया में एक धारा बहती है धारा के साथ तो आदमी बह जाएगा मगर बीच में भंवर (vortex) भी आते हैं भंवर डुबा देता है

ONE THING IS WALKING – PROVIDED IT IS IN RIGHT DIRECTION, I.E., YOU KNOW THE DESTINATION, THEN ALTHOUGH IT IS A LABOUR BUT IT IS SATISFYING THAT YOU’RE NEARING THE GOAL

BUT IF DESTINATION IS NOT DECIDED, THEN NOT ONLY IS IT A USELESS LABOUR BUT ALSO A FEARFUL ILLUSION ALSO – LIKE IF YOU SIMPLY FLOW WITH THE RIVER, THOUGH IT’LL TAKE YOU SOME DISTANCE BUT SOONER OR LATER, YOU ARE LIKELY TO GET CAUGHT IN A VORTEX WHICH WILL DROWN YOU.

LIKEWISE  IF OUR GOAL OF LIFE IS FIXED (SURRENDER TO LORD) THEN LIFE BECOMES A PLEASURABLE JOURNEY – ELSE IT IS ALL A FRUITLESS LABORIOUS MEANDER WHICH WOULD LEAD ONE ONLY ONE WAY, I.E., TO LOWER SPECIES OF LIFE IN NEXT BIRTH - AS LORD SAYS I GAVE YOU THE WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO CEASE YOUR BIRTH DEATH CYCLE BUT YOU DID NOT CAPITALIZE ON THIS.