Bhagvatam: LUST, ANGER AND GREED ARE THE CAUSES OF THE CONDITIONED SOUL'S BONDAGE IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD,7th July

Bhagvatam: LUST, ANGER AND GREED ARE THE CAUSES OF THE CONDITIONED SOUL'S BONDAGE IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD

TRANSLATION

MY DEAR KING, A SELF-SATISFIED PERSON CAN BE HAPPY EVEN WITH ONLY DRINKING WATER. HOWEVER, ONE WHO IS DRIVEN BY THE SENSES, ESPECIALLY BY THE TONGUE AND GENITALS, MUST ACCEPT THE POSITION OF A HOUSEHOLD DOG TO SATISFY HIS SENSES.

PURPORT

According to the sastras, a brahmana, or a cultured person in Krshna consciousness, will not enter anyone's service to maintain body and soul together, and especially not for satisfaction of the senses. A true brahmana is always satisfied. Even if he has nothing to eat, he can drink a little water and be satisfied. This is only a matter of practice. 

Unfortunately, however, no one is educated in how to be satisfied in self-realization. As explained above, a devotee is always satisfied because he feels the presence of the Supersoul within his heart and thinks of Him twenty-four hours a day. That is real satisfaction. A devotee is never driven by the dictations of the tongue and genitals, and thus he is never victimized by the laws of material nature.

TRANSLATION

Because of greed for the sake of the senses, the spiritual strength, education, austerity and reputation of a devotee or brahmana who is not self-satisfied dwindle, and his knowledge gradually vanishes.

TRANSLATION

The strong bodily desires and needs of a person disturbed by hunger and thirst are certainly satisfied when he eats. Similarly, if one becomes very angry, that anger is satisfied by chastisement and its reaction. But as for greed, even if a greedy person has conquered all the directions of the world or has enjoyed everything in the world, still he will not be satisfied.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita (3.37) it is stated that lust, anger and greed are the causes of the conditioned soul's bondage in this material world. Kama esha krodha esha rajo-guna-samudbhavam. 

When strong lusty desires for sense gratification are unfulfilled, one becomes angry. This anger can be satisfied when one chastises his enemy, but when there is an increase in lobha, or greed, which is the greatest enemy caused by rajo-guna, the mode of passion, how can one advance in Krshna consciousness?

If one is very greedy to enhance his Krshna consciousness, this is a great boon. Tatra laulyam ekalam mülam. This is the best path available.

DESIRES ARE OF THREE KINDS, धनैषणा, पुत्रैषणा और लोकैषणा #Blog0054

Desires are of three kinds : For 1. Money 2. Son/Daughter  3. Prestige

इच्छाएं तीन प्रकार की होती हैं, धनैषणा, पुत्रैषणा और लोकैषणा। 

सबसे पहले मनुष्य अधिकाधिक धन पाने की चाह में पागल होता है। 

धन तुम्हारे जीवन के निर्वाह का साधन है। 

धनार्जन करो, मगर धन के पीछे पागल मत हो। 

एक बात का ध्यान रखो रुपए जीवन निर्वाह का साधन है, साध्य नहीं। 

जीवन के गुजारे के लिए रुपए कमाना तो समझ में आता है, लेकिन रुपए कमाने के पीछे सारा जीवन गुजार देना समझ से परे है। 

उन्होंने कहा कि भगवान महावीर ने गृहस्थों को जो उपदेश दिया उसमें एक बात कही है। 

वह है इच्छा का परिमाण करो, एक सीमा में धन रखो। 

धन का जीवन में वही स्थान है जो कि नाव के लिए पानी का। 

जीवन निर्वाह के लिए धन उतना ही आवश्यक है जितना कि नाव को चलाने के लिए पानी। पानी के अभाव में नाव नहीं चल सकती, नाव तभी चलती है जब नीचे पानी का प्रवाह हो। 

यदि पानी नाव में चला गया तो उसे डूबने से कोई नहीं बचा सकता। 

इसी प्रकार धन का साधन के रूप में जीवन भर उपयोग करो, साध्य नहीं बनने देना। 

यदि धन को साध्य बना डाला तो जीवन की नौका में पानी भर जाएगा और वह डूब जाएगी। 

कोई कितना भी धन जोड़ ले पर खाएगा दो रोटी ही, सोना-चांदी जोड़ लें, लेकिन सोने की रोटी थोड़ी ही खाएगा, रोटी तो अनाज की ही खाई जाती है। 

वह मनुष्य उतना ही अधिक दु:खी है, जिसके मन में जितनी अधिक तृष्णा है।

Man’s happiness is inversely proportional to his desires.

Money is only a means to an end. Money is not an end in itself. 

Money is like water for a boat - money is required but only so much that life’s boat can move (as without water, boat cannot move) but if water is allowed to come into the boat, the boat sinks.

BUT ALL THESE DESIRES ARE WORTHLESS AGAINST DIVINE DESIRE TO MEET LORD & ONLY THEN CAN ONE COME OUT OF THIS WORLDLY CYCLE OF BIRTH DEATH, OLD AGE & DISEASE & THIS IS WISDOM.

  

GITA SHLOKA 3.32: THOSE WHO DISREGARD GITA TEACHINGS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED BEREFT OF ALL KNOWLEDGE, BEFOOLED, AND DOOMED TO IGNORANCE AND BONDAGE,6TH JULY

GITA SHLOKA 3.32: THOSE WHO DISREGARD GITA  TEACHINGS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED BEREFT OF ALL KNOWLEDGE, BEFOOLED, AND DOOMED TO IGNORANCE AND BONDAGE.

TRANSLATION

BUT THOSE WHO, OUT OF ENVY, DISREGARD THESE TEACHINGS AND DO NOT PRACTICE THEM REGULARLY, ARE TO BE CONSIDERED BEREFT OF ALL KNOWLEDGE, BEFOOLED, AND DOOMED TO IGNORANCE AND BONDAGE.

PURPORT

THE FLAW OF NOT BEING KRSNA CONSCIOUS IS CLEARLY STATED HEREIN

AS THERE IS PUNISHMENT FOR DISOBEDIENCE TO THE ORDER OF THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE HEAD, SO THERE IS CERTAINLY PUNISHMENT FOR THE DISOBEDIENCE OF THE ORDER OF THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD

A DISOBEDIENT PERSON, HOWEVER GREAT HE MAY BE, IS IGNORANT OF HIS OWN SELF, OF THE SUPREME BRAHMAN, AND PARAMATMA AND THE PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD, DUE TO A VACANT HEART

THEREFORE THERE IS NO HOPE OF PERFECTION OF LIFE FOR HIM.

Bhagvatam: ASPIRANTS IN SPIRITUALITY ARE ADVISED TO GIVE UP ALL ENVY OF OTHER LIVING ENTITIES INCLUDING KILLING OF ANIMALS, EITHER IN THE NAME OF RELIGION OR FOR FOOD, 5th July

Bhagvatam:  ASPIRANTS IN SPIRITUALITY ARE ADVISED TO GIVE UP ALL ENVY OF OTHER LIVING ENTITIES INCLUDING KILLING OF ANIMALS, EITHER IN THE NAME OF RELIGION OR FOR FOOD

TRANSLATION

PERSONS WHO WANT TO ADVANCE IN SUPERIOR RELIGION ARE ADVISED TO GIVE UP ALL ENVY OF OTHER LIVING ENTITIES, WHETHER IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE BODY, WORDS OR MIND. THERE IS NO RELIGION SUPERIOR TO THIS.

TRANSLATION

BECAUSE OF AN AWAKENING OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE, THOSE WHO ARE INTELLIGENT IN REGARD TO SACRIFICE, WHO ARE ACTUALLY AWARE OF RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES AND WHO ARE FREE FROM MATERIAL DESIRES, CONTROL THE SELF IN THE FIRE OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE, OR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH. THEY MAY GIVE UP THE PROCESS OF RITUALISTIC CEREMONIES.

PURPORT

People are generally very much interested in karma-kanda ritualistic ceremonies for elevation to the higher planetary systems, but when one awakens his spiritual knowledge, he becomes uninterested in such elevation and engages himself fully in jnana-yajna to find the objective of life. 

THE OBJECTIVE OF LIFE IS TO STOP COMPLETELY THE MISERIES OF BIRTH AND DEATH AND TO RETURN HOME, BACK TO GODHEAD. WHEN ONE CULTIVATES KNOWLEDGE FOR THIS PURPOSE, HE IS CONSIDERED TO BE ON A HIGHER PLATFORM THAN ONE WHO IS ENGAGED IN KARMA-YAJNA, OR FRUITIVE ACTIVITIES.

TRANSLATION

Upon seeing the person engaged in performing the sacrifice, animals meant to be sacrificed are extremely afraid, thinking, "This merciless performer of sacrifices, being ignorant of the purpose of sacrifice and being most satisfied by killing others, will surely kill us."

PURPORT

Animal sacrifice in the name of religion is current practically all over the world in every established religion. 

IT IS SAID THAT LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHEN TWELVE YEARS OLD, WAS SHOCKED TO SEE THE JEWS SACRIFICING BIRDS AND ANIMALS IN THE SYNAGOGUES AND THAT HE THEREFORE REJECTED THE JEWISH SYSTEM OF RELIGION AND STARTED THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF CHRISTIANITY, ADHERING TO THE OLD TESTAMENT COMMANDMENT "THOU SHALT NOT KILL." 

AT THE PRESENT DAY, HOWEVER, NOT ONLY ARE ANIMALS KILLED IN THE NAME OF SACRIFICE, BUT THE KILLING OF ANIMALS HAS INCREASED ENORMOUSLY BECAUSE OF THE INCREASING NUMBER OF SLAUGHTERHOUSES. SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS, EITHER FOR RELIGION OR FOR FOOD, IS MOST ABOMINABLE AND IS CONDEMNED HEREIN. UNLESS ONE IS MERCILESS, ONE CANNOT SACRIFICE ANIMALS, EITHER IN THE NAME OF RELIGION OR FOR FOOD.

Gita shloka 3.31: ONE WHO EXECUTES HIS DUTIES ACCORDING TO LORD BECOMES FREE FROM THE BONDAGE OF FRUITIVE ACTIONS,  5th  July 

TRANSLATION

ONE WHO EXECUTES HIS DUTIES ACCORDING TO MY INJUNCTIONS AND WHO FOLLOWS THIS TEACHING FAITHFULLY, WITHOUT ENVY, BECOMES FREE FROM THE BONDAGE OF FRUITIVE ACTIONS.

PURPORT

The injunction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is the essence of all Vedic wisdom, and therefore is eternally true without exception.

As the Vedas are eternal, so this truth of Krsna consciousness is also eternal.

One should have firm faith in this injunction, without envying the Lord.

There are many philosophers who write comments on the Bhagavad-gita but have no faith in Krsna.

They will never be liberated from the bondage of fruitive action.

But an ordinary man with firm faith in the eternal injunctions of the Lord, even though unable to execute such orders, becomes liberated from the bondage of the law of karma.

In the beginning of Krsna consciousness, one may not fully discharge the injunctions of the Lord, but because one is not resentful of this principle and works sincerely without consideration of defeat and hopelessness, he will surely be promoted to the stage of pure Krsna consciousness.

And when one acts in such Krsna consciousness, certainly he does not claim proprietorship over anything.

THIS CONSCIOUSNESS IS CALLED NIRMAMA, OR NOTHING IS MINE.

And, if there is any reluctance to execute such a stern order which is without consideration of so-called kinsmen in the bodily relationship, that reluctance should be thrown off; in this way one may become vigata-jvara, or without feverish mentality or lethargy.

Everyone, according to his quality and position, has a particular type of work to discharge, and all such duties may be discharged in Krsna consciousness, as described above.

That will lead one to the path of liberation.