Friday, April 16, 2021

Bhagvat: through the popularizing of Hari-kirtana, or the saìkirtana movement, the brahminical culture and kshatriya government will automatically come back, and people will be extremely happy, 6th Sept

Bhagvat: through the popularizing of Hari-kirtana, or the saìkirtana movement, the brahminical culture and kshatriya government will automatically come back, and people will be extremely happy. Because the population of the modern world consists mostly of shüdras, the brahminical culture is now lost and is extremely difficult to reestablish in a proper way. Lord Chaitanya has recommended the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, which will revive brahminical culture very easily. Because of the poisonous effects of Kali-yuga, the government will adopt the policies of dasyus, or plunderers.


TRANSLATION

The basic principle of brahminical culture is to satisfy Lord Vishnu, the personification of sacrificial and ritualistic ceremonies. Lord Vishnu is the personified reservoir of all religious principles, and He is the shelter of all the demigods, the great pitäs, and the people in general. When the brähmanas are killed, no one will exist to encourage the kshatriyas to perform yajnas, and thus the demigods, not being appeased by yajna, will automatically die.


PURPORT

Since Vishnu is the central point of brahminical culture, Hiranyakasipu's plan was to kill Vishnu, for if Vishnu were killed, naturally the brahminical culture would also be lost. 


With brahminical culture lost, yajna would no longer be performed, and for want of yajna the regular distribution of rainfall would cease (yajnäd bhavati parjanyam). Thus there would be disturbances all over the world, and naturally the demigods would be defeated. From this verse we get a clear indication of how human society is disturbed when the Vedic Äryan civilization is killed and the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies performed by the brähmanas are stopped. Kalau südra-sambhavam: because the population of the modern world consists mostly of südras, the brahminical culture is now lost and is extremely difficult to reestablish in a proper way. 


Therefore Lord Chaitanya has recommended the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, which will revive brahminical culture very easily.


harer näma harer näma

harer nämaiva kevalam

kalau nästy eva nästy eva

nästy eva gatir anyathä 


Because of the increment in demoniac population, people have lost brahminical culture. Nor is there a kshatriya government. Instead, the government is a democracy in which any südra can be voted into taking up the governmental reigns and capture the power to rule. Because of the poisonous effects of Kali-yuga, the sästra (Bhäg. 12.2.13) says, dasyu-präyeshu räjasu: the government will adopt the policies of dasyus, or plunderers. Thus there will be no instructions from the brähmanas, and even if there are brahminical instructions, there will be no kshatriya rulers who can follow them. 


Aside from Satya-yuga, even formerly, in the days when demons were flourishing, Hiranyakasipu planned to destroy the brahminical culture and the kshatriya government and thus create chaos all over the world. Although in Satya-yuga this plan was very difficult to execute, in Kali-yuga, which is full of südras and demons, the brahminical culture is lost and can be revived only by the chanting of the mahä-mantra. 


Therefore the Krshna consciousness movement, or the Hare Krshna movement, has been inaugurated to revive brahminical culture very easily so that people may become happy and peaceful in this life and prepare for elevation in the next. In this regard, Srila Madhvächärya quotes this verse from the Brahmända Puräna:


"O King, the demons think that Hari, Lord Vishnu, exists because of the brähmanas and yajna, but factually Hari is the cause of everything including the brähmanas and yajna." Therefore, through the popularizing of hari-kirtana, or the saìkirtana movement, the brahminical culture and kshatriya government will automatically come back, and people will be extremely happy.