Bhagvatam : LORD KRSNA ESPECIALLY SELECTED ARJUNA FOR INSTRUCTION IN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE ARJUNA HAPPENED TO BE A GREAT DEVOTEE AND CONFIDENTIAL FRIEND,3rd Aug

Bhagvatam :   LORD KRSNA ESPECIALLY SELECTED ARJUNA FOR INSTRUCTION IN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE ARJUNA HAPPENED TO BE A GREAT DEVOTEE AND CONFIDENTIAL FRIEND.    SIMILARLY, GREAT PERSONALITIES ALSO SPEAK TO THE ADVANCED, NOT TO SHÜDRAS, VAISYAS OR UNINTELLIGENT MEN.

TRANSLATION

My dear sir, it appears that the influence of your great spiritual knowledge is hidden. Factually you are bereft of all material association and fully absorbed in the thought of the Supreme. Consequently you are unlimitedly advanced in spiritual knowledge. Please tell me why you are wandering around like a dullard. O great, saintly person, you have spoken words approved by the yogic process, but it is not possible for us to understand what you have said. Therefore kindly explain it.

PURPORT

Saintly people like Jada Bharata do not speak ordinary words.

Whatever they say is approved by great yogis and those advanced in spiritual life.

That is the difference between ordinary people and saintly people.

THE LISTENER MUST ALSO BE ADVANCED TO UNDERSTAND THE WORDS OF SUCH EXALTED, SPIRITUALLY ADVANCED PEOPLE AS JADA BHARATA.

BHAGAVAD-GITÄ WAS SPOKEN TO ARJUNA, NOT TO OTHERS.

LORD KRSNA ESPECIALLY SELECTED ARJUNA FOR INSTRUCTION IN SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE ARJUNA HAPPENED TO BE A GREAT DEVOTEE AND CONFIDENTIAL FRIEND.

SIMILARLY, GREAT PERSONALITIES ALSO SPEAK TO THE ADVANCED, NOT TO SHÜDRAS, VAISYAS, OR UNINTELLIGENT MEN.

Sometimes it is very risky to give great philosophical instructions to ordinary people, but Sri Chaitanya Mahäprabhu, for the benefit of the fallen souls of Kali-yuga, has given us a very nice instrument, the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra.

The general mass of people, although shüdras and less, can be purified by chanting this Hare Krsna mantra.

Then they can understand the exalted philosophical statements of Bhagavad-gitä and Srimad-Bhägavatam.

Our Krsna consciousness movement has therefore adopted the chanting of the Hare Krsna mahä-mantra for the general masses.

When people gradually become purified, they are instructed in the lessons of Bhagavad-gitä and Srimad-Bhägavatam.

Materialistic people like stri, shüdra and dvija-bandhu cannot understand words of spiritual advancement, yet one can take to the shelter of a Vaisnava, for he knows the art of enlightening even shüdras in the highly elevated subject matter spoken in Bhagavad-gitä and Srimad-Bhägavatam.

GITA-SHLOKA-4.20, A Krsna conscious person acts out of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore he has no attraction for the results of the action,3rd Aug

GITA-SHLOKA-4.20, A Krsna conscious person acts out of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore he has no attraction for the results of the action. An unattached person is always free from the resultant reactions of good and bad, sign of akarma, or actions without fruitive reactions. Any other action, therefore, devoid of Krsna consciousness, is binding upon the worker, and that is the real aspect of vikarma.

TRANSLATION

Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and independant, he performs no fruitive action, although engaged in all kinds of undertakings.

PURPORT

This freedom from the bondage of actions is possible only in Krsna consciousness when one is doing everything for Krsna.

A Krsna conscious person acts out of pure love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore he has no attraction for the results of the action.

He is not even attached to his personal maintenance, for everything is left to Krsna.

Nor is he anxious to secure things, nor to protect things already in his possession.

He does his duty to his best ability and leaves everything to Krsna.

Such an unattached person is always free from the resultant reactions of good and bad; it is as though he were not doing anything.

This is the sign of akarma, or actions without fruitive reactions.

Any other action, therefore, devoid of Krsna consciousness, is binding upon the worker, and that is the real aspect of vikarma, as explained hereinbefore.

At the present moment, high government officials are ignorant of the values of life, and when saintly persons endeavor to broadcast the Vedic knowledge, the so-called executives do not offer their respectful obeisances, 2nd Aug

Bhagvatam :   At the present moment, high government officials are ignorant of the values of life, and when saintly persons endeavor to broadcast the Vedic knowledge, the so-called executives do not offer their respectful obeisances but try to obstruct the spiritual propaganda.    Thus one can say that the former kingly government was like heaven and that the present government is like hell.

TRANSLATION

Sukadeva Gosvämi continued: O best of the Pändu dynasty [Mahäräja Pariksit], the King of the Sindhu and Sauvira states [Mahäräja Rahügana] had great faith in discussions of the Absolute Truth. Being thus qualified, he heard from Jada Bharata that philosophical presentation which is approved by all scriptures on the mystic yoga process and which slackens the knot in the heart. His material conception of himself as a king was thus destroyed. He immediately descended from his palanquin and fell flat on the ground with his head at the lotus feet of Jada Bharata in such a way that he might be excused for his insulting words against the great brähmana. He then prayed as follows.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gitä (4.2) Lord Krsna says:

"This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost."

Through the disciplic succession the royal order was on the same platform as great saintly persons (räja-rsis).

Formerly they could understand the philosophy of life and knew how to train the citizens to come to the same standard.

In other words, they knew how to deliver the citizens from the entanglement of birth and death.

When Mahäräja Dasaratha ruled Ayodhyä, the great sage Visvämitra once came to him to take away Lord Rämachandra and Laksmana to the forest to kill a demon.

When the saintly person Visvämitra came to the court of Mahäräja Dasaratha, the King, in order to receive the saintly person, asked him, aihistam yat tat punar janma jayäya.

He asked the sage whether everything was going on well in his endeavor to conquer the repetition of birth and death.

The whole process of Vedic civilization is based on this point.

We must know how to conquer the repetition of birth and death.

Mahäräja Rahügana also knew the purpose of life; therefore when Jada Bharata put the philosophy of life before him, he immediately appreciated it.

This is the foundation of Vedic society.

Learned scholars, brähmanas, saintly persons and sages who were fully aware of the Vedic purpose advised the royal order how to benefit the general masses, and by their cooperation, the general masses were benefited.

Therefore everything was successful.

Mahäräja Rahügana attained this perfection of understanding the value of human life; therefore he regretted his insulting words to Jada Bharata, and he immediately descended from his palanquin and fell down at the lotus feet of Jada Bharata in order to be excused and to hear from him further about the values of life known as brahma jijnäsä (inquiry into the Absolute Truth).

At the present moment, high government officials are ignorant of the values of life, and when saintly persons endeavor to broadcast the Vedic knowledge, the so-called executives do not offer their respectful obeisances but try to obstruct the spiritual propaganda.

Thus one can say that the former kingly government was like heaven and that the present government is like hell.

THESE ARE THE KINDS OF MENTALITIES IN THIS WORLD #Blog0072

THESE ARE THE KINDS OF MENTALITIES IN THIS WORLD:                                                

मति : ORDINARY MENTALITY

कुमति : UGLY, ENVIOUS & SINFUL MENTALITY

सुमति: PIOUS & AUSPICIOUS MENTALITY

श्री मति: MENTALITY OF MOTHER LAXMI (श्री = GODDESS LAXMI, श्रीमति – ANOTHER NAME FOR MRS.) – WIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE OF THIS MENTALITY ,I.E., TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING IN FAMILY – THEIR FOOD, CLOTHES, RICHES (“खान पान का वैभव सब तुमसे आता” ARE FAMOUS आरती LINES)

महा मति : GREAT MENTALITY (WELFARE OF ALL IN MIND – WHICH IS OF COURSE GODLY)

ULTIMATE AIM OF LIFE IS TO HAVE महा मति & THE BIGGEST & GREATEST WELFARE OF ALL CAN BE EFFECTED ONLY BY SPREADING HIS GLORIES ALL OVER BY ONE WHO HIMSELF IS A PURE DEVOTEE OF LORD 

ALL OTHER WELFARES LIKE PHILANTHROPIES, CHARITY ETC. ARE SUBORDINATE TO DEVOTION TO LORD 

GITA-SHLOKA-4.16- ONLY ACTION PERFORMED IN KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS CAN DELIVER A PERSON FROM THE ENTANGLEMENT OF MATERIAL EXISTENCE, 31st July

GITA-SHLOKA-4.16- ONLY ACTION PERFORMED IN KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS CAN DELIVER A PERSON FROM THE ENTANGLEMENT OF MATERIAL EXISTENCE 

TRANSLATION

EVEN THE INTELLIGENT ARE BEWILDERED IN DETERMINING WHAT IS ACTION AND WHAT IS INACTION. NOW I SHALL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT ACTION IS, KNOWING WHICH YOU SHALL BE LIBERATED FROM ALL SINS.

PURPORT

Action in Krsna consciousness has to be executed in accord with the examples of previous bona fide devotees.

This is recommended in the 15th verse.

Why such action should not be independent will be explained in the text to follow.

To act in Krsna consciousness, one has to follow the leadership of authorized persons who are in a line of disciplic succession as explained in the beginning of this chapter.

The system of Krsna consciousness was first narrated to the sun-god, the sun-god explained it to his son Manu, Manu explained it to his son Iksvaku, and the system is current on this earth from that very remote time.

Therefore, one has to follow in the footsteps of previous authorities in the line of disciplic succession.

Otherwise even the most intelligent men will be bewildered regarding the standard actions of Krsna consciousness.

For this reason, the Lord decided to instruct Arjuna in Krsna consciousness directly.

Because of the direct instruction of the Lord to Arjuna, anyone who follows in the footsteps of Arjuna is certainly not bewildered.

It is said that one cannot ascertain the ways of religion simply by imperfect experimental knowledge.

Actually, the principles of religion can only be laid down by the Lord Himself.

Dharmam hi saksat-bhagavat-pranitam.

NO ONE CAN MANUFACTURE A RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE BY IMPERFECT SPECULATION.

ONE MUST FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GREAT AUTHORITIES LIKE BRAHMA, SHIVA, NARADA, MANU, KUMARA, KAPILA, PRAHLADA, BHISMA, SUKADEVA GOSVAMI, YAMARAJA, JANAKA, ETC.

BY MENTAL SPECULATION ONE CANNOT ASCERTAIN WHAT IS RELIGION OR SELF-REALIZATION.

THEREFORE, OUT OF CAUSELESS MERCY TO HIS DEVOTEES, THE LORD EXPLAINS DIRECTLY TO ARJUNA WHAT ACTION IS AND WHAT INACTION IS.

ONLY ACTION PERFORMED IN KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS CAN DELIVER A PERSON FROM THE ENTANGLEMENT OF MATERIAL EXISTENCE.