BHAGVAT: NOTHING WITHIN THE THREE WORLDS CAN SATISFY A PERSON WHOSE SENSES ARE UNCONTROLLED, 9th July

BHAGVAT: NOTHING WITHIN THE THREE WORLDS CAN SATISFY A PERSON WHOSE SENSES ARE UNCONTROLLED.

TRANSLATION

The Personality of Godhead said: O my dear King, even the entirety of whatever there may be within the three worlds to satisfy one's senses cannot satisfy a person whose senses are uncontrolled.

PURPORT

THE MATERIAL WORLD IS AN ILLUSORY ENERGY TO DEVIATE THE LIVING ENTITIES FROM THE PATH OF SELF-REALIZATION. ANYONE WHO IS IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD IS EXTREMELY ANXIOUS TO GET MORE AND MORE THINGS FOR SENSE GRATIFICATION. ACTUALLY, HOWEVER, THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS NOT SENSE GRATIFICATION BUT SELF-REALIZATION. 

THEREFORE, THOSE WHO ARE TOO ADDICTED TO SENSE GRATIFICATION ARE ADVISED TO PRACTICE THE MYSTIC YOGA SYSTEM, OR ASHTHANGA-YOGA SYSTEM, CONSISTING OF YAMA, NIYAMA, ASANA, PRANAYAMA, PRATYAHARA AND SO ON. IN THIS WAY, ONE CAN CONTROL THE SENSES. THE PURPOSE OF CONTROLLING THE SENSES IS TO STOP ONE'S IMPLICATION IN THE CYCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH. As stated by Rshabhadeva:

"WHEN A PERSON CONSIDERS SENSE GRATIFICATION THE AIM OF LIFE, HE CERTAINLY BECOMES MAD AFTER MATERIALISTIC LIVING AND ENGAGES IN ALL KINDS OF SINFUL ACTIVITY. 

HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT DUE TO HIS PAST MISDEEDS HE HAS ALREADY RECEIVED A BODY WHICH, ALTHOUGH TEMPORARY, IS THE CAUSE OF HIS MISERY. ACTUALLY THE LIVING ENTITY SHOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN ON A MATERIAL BODY, BUT HE HAS BEEN AWARDED THE MATERIAL BODY FOR SENSE GRATIFICATION. 

Therefore I think it not befitting an intelligent man to involve himself again in the activities of sense gratification, by which he perpetually gets material bodies one after another." (Bhag. 5.5.4) 

THUS ACCORDING TO RSHABHADEVA THE HUMAN BEINGS IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD ARE JUST LIKE MADMEN ENGAGED IN ACTIVITIES WHICH THEY SHOULD NOT PERFORM BUT WHICH THEY DO PERFORM ONLY FOR SENSE GRATIFICATION. SUCH ACTIVITIES ARE NOT GOOD BECAUSE IN THIS WAY ONE CREATES ANOTHER BODY FOR HIS NEXT LIFE, AS PUNISHMENT FOR HIS NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES. 

AND AS SOON AS HE GETS ANOTHER MATERIAL BODY, HE IS PUT INTO REPEATED SUFFERING IN MATERIAL EXISTENCE. THEREFORE THE VEDIC CULTURE OR BRAHMINICAL CULTURE TEACHES ONE HOW TO BE SATISFIED WITH POSSESSING THE MINIMUM NECESSITIES IN LIFE.

To teach this highest culture, varnashrama-dharma is recommended. The aim of the varnashrama divisions—brahmana, kshatriya, vaishya, shüdra, brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa—is to train one to control the senses and be content with the bare necessities. Here Lord Vamanadeva, as an ideal brahmacari, refuses Bali Maharaja's offer to give Him anything He might want. 

HE SAYS THAT WITHOUT CONTENTMENT ONE COULD NOT BE HAPPY EVEN IF HE POSSESSED THE PROPERTY OF THE ENTIRE WORLD OR THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. IN HUMAN SOCIETY, THEREFORE, THE BRAHMINICAL CULTURE, KSHATRIYA CULTURE AND VAISHYA CULTURE MUST BE MAINTAINED, AND PEOPLE MUST BE TAUGHT HOW TO BE SATISFIED WITH ONLY WHAT THEY NEED. IN MODERN CIVILIZATION THERE IS NO SUCH EDUCATION; EVERYONE TRIES TO POSSESS MORE AND MORE, AND EVERYONE IS DISSATISFIED AND UNHAPPY. 

THE KRSHNA CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT IS THEREFORE ESTABLISHING VARIOUS FARMS, ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA, TO SHOW HOW TO BE HAPPY AND CONTENT WITH MINIMUM NECESSITIES OF LIFE AND TO SAVE TIME FOR SELF-REALIZATION, WHICH ONE CAN VERY EASILY ACHIEVE BY CHANTING THE MAHA-MANTRA—HARE KRSHNA, HARE KRSHNA, KRSHNA KRSHNA, HARE HARE/ HARE RAMA, HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA, HARE HARE.

GITA-SHLOKA-3.34- one should not fall under the control of senses and sense objects because they are stumbling blocks on the path of self-realization, 8th July

GITA-SHLOKA-3.34- one should not fall under the control of senses and sense objects because they are stumbling blocks on the path of self-realization

TRANSLATION

Attraction and repulsion for sense objects are felt by embodied beings, but one should not fall under the control of senses and sense objects because they are stumbling blocks on the path of self-realization.

PURPORT

Those who are in Krsna consciousness are naturally reluctant to engage in material sense gratifications.

But those who are not in such consciousness should follow the rules and regulations of the revealed scriptures.

Unrestricted sense enjoyment is the cause of material encagement, but one who follows the rules and regulations of the revealed scriptures does not become entangled by the sense objects.

For example, sex enjoyment is a necessity for the conditioned soul, and sex enjoyment is allowed under the license of marriage ties.

For example, according to scriptural injunctions, one is forbidden to engage in sex relationships with any women other than one's wife.

All other women are to be considered as one's mother.

But, in spite of such injunctions, a man is still inclined to have sex relationships with other women.

These propensities are to be curbed; otherwise they will be stumbling blocks on the path of self-realization.

As long as the material body is there, the necessities of the material body are allowed, but under rules and regulations.

And yet, we should not rely upon the control of suc

h allowances.

One has to follow those rules and regulations, unattached to them, because practice of sense gratifications under regulations may also lead one to go astray-as much as there is always the chance of an accident, even on the royal roads.

Although they may be very carefully maintained, no one can guarantee that there will be no danger even on the safest road.

The sense enjoyment spirit has been current a very long, long time, owing to material association.

Therefore, in spite of regulated sense enjoyment, there is every chance of falling down; therefore any attachment for regulated sense enjoyment must also be avoided by all means.

But action in the loving service of Krsna detaches one from all kinds of sensory activities.

Therefore, no one should try to be detached from Krsna consciousness at any stage of life.

The whole purpose of detachment from all kinds of sense attachment is ultimately to become situated on the platform of Krsna consciousness.

GITA SHLOKA 3.33 ONLY KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS HELPS ONE TO GET OUT OF THE MATERIAL ENTANGLEMENT, MAYA , 7th July

TRANSLATION

Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows his nature. What can repression accomplish?

PURPORT

Unless one is situated on the transcendental platform of Krsna consciousness, he cannot get free from the influence of the modes of material nature, as it is confirmed by the Lord in the Seventh Chapter (7.14).

Therefore, even for the most highly educated person on the mundane plane, it is impossible to get out of the entanglement of maya simply by theoretical knowledge, or by separating the soul from the body.

There are many so-called spiritualists who outwardly pose to be advanced in the science, but inwardly or privately are completely under the particular modes of nature which they are unable to surpass.

Academically, one may be very learned, but because of his long association with material nature, he is in bondage.

Krsna consciousness helps one to get out of the material entanglement, even though one may be engaged in his prescribed duties.

Therefore, without being fully in Krsna consciousness, no one should suddenly give up his prescribed duties and become a so-called yogi or transcendentalist artificially.

It is better to be situated in one's position and to try to attain Krsna consciousness under superior training.

Thus one may be freed from the clutches of maya..

Bhagvatam: THE REAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEM IS THAT WHICH LEADS ONE TO BECOME A DEVOTEE OF THE SUPREME LORD,6th July

Bhagvatam: THE REAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEM IS THAT WHICH LEADS ONE TO BECOME A DEVOTEE OF THE SUPREME LORD.

TRANSLATION

RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES THAT OBSTRUCT ONE FROM FOLLOWING HIS OWN RELIGION ARE CALLED VIDHARMA. 

RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES INTRODUCED BY OTHERS ARE CALLED PARA-DHARMA. 

A NEW TYPE OF RELIGION CREATED BY ONE WHO IS FALSELY PROUD AND WHO OPPOSES THE PRINCIPLES OF THE VEDAS IS CALLED UPADHARMA. 

AND INTERPRETATION BY ONE'S JUGGLERY OF WORDS IS CALLED CHALA-DHARMA.

PURPORT

To create a new type of dharma has become fashionable in this age. So-called svamis and yogis support that one may follow any type of religious system, according to one's own choice, because all systems are ultimately the same. In Srimad-Bhagavatam, however, such fashionable ideas are called vidharma because they go against one's own religious system. 

THE REAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEM IS DESCRIBED BY THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja. 

THE REAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEM IS THAT OF SURRENDER TO THE LOTUS FEET OF THE LORD. In the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, in connection with Ajamila's deliverance, Yamaraja says, dharmam tu sakshad bhagavat-pranitam: REAL RELIGION IS THAT WHICH IS GIVEN BY THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD, JUST AS REAL LAW IS THAT WHICH IS GIVEN BY THE GOVERNMENT. 

No one can manufacture actual law at home, nor can one manufacture actual religion. Elsewhere it is said, sa vai pumsam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokshaje: THE REAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEM IS THAT WHICH LEADS ONE TO BECOME A DEVOTEE OF THE SUPREME LORD. 

THEREFORE, ANYTHING OPPOSED TO THIS RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF PROGRESSIVE KRSHNA CONSCIOUSNESS IS CALLED VIDHARMA, PARA-DHARMA, UPADHARMA OR CHALA-DHARMA. 

Misinterpretation of Bhagavad-gita is chala-dharma. When Krshna directly says something and some rascal interprets it to mean something different, this is chala-dharma—a religious system of cheating—or sabda-bhit, a jugglery of words. One should be extremely careful to avoid these various types of cheating systems of religion.

GURU : IMPORTANCE ; SIGNIFICANCE #Blog0022

Guru : Importance & Significance

 

"ज्ञान ध्यान कुछ कर्म न जाना , सार न जाना तेरी”  

 

I am not aware of any ज्ञान (wisdom), nor am I meditating (ध्यान)

nor do I do any satkarm (pious deeds)

 

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“सब तो वड्डा सद्गुरु नानक, जिस कल राखी मेरी”

 

BUT even then, my Guru is the greatest (सब तो वड्डा) as he protected me yesterday & will protect me tomorrow also, simply because I love Him & so He reciprocates my love.

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"यह ससार कांटो की बाड़,  उलझ उलझ मर जाना है

यह संसार कागज की पुड़िया, बूँद पड़े घुल जाना है

कहत कबीर, सुनो भाई साधो 

सतगुरु नाम ठिकाना है, सतगुरु नाम ठिकाना है"

This world is a mesh of thorns (कांटो की बाड़) in which we all are going to perish (मर जाना है) all entangled up (उलझ उलझ).  

And also this world is like a paper boat (कागज की पुड़िया) which will dissolve itself by a mere drop of water (बूँद पड़े). 

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The only solace is Guru which can safely protect & make us reach our eternal blissful Home (ठिकाना है)(Lord's personal abode)

 

"गुरु बिनु भवनिधि तरई न कोई 

जो बिरंचि संकर सम होई"

संत शिरोमणि गोस्वामी तुलसीदास ने रामचरितमानस में कहा कि चाहे सृष्टि के रचयिता ब्रह्मा (बिरंचि) हों या भगवान शंकर (संकर) हों, गुरु के बिना कोई भी जीवन में सफल नहीं हुआ है।

 

Without the help of Guru, none has been able to cross (तरई न कोई) this world of nescience (भवनिधि) - even if he be (सम होई) Lord Brahma (बिरंचि) or Lord Shankar

"गुरु को मानुष जानते

ते नर कहिए अंधे"

 

"Whoever considers Guru as an ordinary person, is blind".

 

"जो बात दवा से ना बन सके

वो बात दुआ से होती है

मुरशिद काबिल मिल जाए 

तो बात खुदा से होती है " 

(मुरशिद ,i.e., Guru, काबिल = capable)

 

"When the medicine fails, prayer succeeds 

and 

when you find a true Guru, you are able to talk to Lord"

 

“संत सभई गुरु देव हैं”

जिसके हृदय में भगवत प्रेम प्रकट हुआ है 

वह आराध्य है वह प्रेम प्रदान करने वाला होगा

 

All saints (संत सभई) are Gurus - whoever has kindled love of Lord in his heart, he would give (प्रदान) love & is worthy of worship (आराध्य).

 

"भक्त, भक्ति, भगवंत, गुरु, चतुर नाम वपु एक 

इन के पद वंदन किये नासत विघ्न अनेक"                                   

भक्ति भगवान है और भगवान को भी बांधने वाली है     

“Devotee (भक्त), Devotion (भक्ति), God (भगवंत), Guru (गुरु) ” – चतुर (all four) are same

(वपु =bodily,रूप), वंदन (worship), नासत (destroy), विघ्न (hurdles)               

"गुरुर्ब्रह्मा ग्रुरुर्विष्णुः गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः  

गुरुः साक्षात् परं ब्रह्म तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः ॥"              

गुरु ब्रह्मा है, गुरु विष्णु है, गुरु शंकर है

गुरु साक्षात् परब्रह्म है; उन (तस्मै) सद्गुरु को प्रणाम ।