Lecture – [Hindi]
Prabhupāda:
oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya
jñānāñjana-śalākayā
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena
tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ
[Gautamīya-tantra 7.11]
śrī-caitanya-mano-’bhīṣṭaṁ
sthāpitaṁ yena bhū-tale
svayaṁ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaṁ
dadāti sva-padāntikam
[Śrī Rupa-praṇati]
he kṛṣṇa karuṇā-sindho
dīna-bandho jagat-pate
gopeśa gopikā-kānta
rādhā-kānta namo ’stu te
[Śrī Kṛṣṇa-praṇati]
tapta-kāñcana-gaurāṅgi
rādhe vṛndāvaneśvari
vṛṣabhānu-sute devi
praṇamāmi hari-priye
[Śrī Rādhā-praṇati]
vāñchā-kalpa-tarubhyaś ca
kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca
patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo
vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ
[Śrī Vaiṣṇava-praṇati]
śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya
prabhu-nityānanda
śrī-advaita gadādhara
śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda
[Śrī Pañcatattva-mantra]
hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma
rāma rāma hare hare
[Mahāmantra]
Today is very auspicious day.Today is the appearance day of the daughter of Vṛṣabhānu. All the Vaiṣṇavas, and the residents of Vṛndāvana are enthusiastic to see Rādhārāṇī on her appearance day. You have come from far away places and countries. On this occasion we are trying to move forward a bit, today we are trying to do the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Gurukula. We will be very happy if you all participate in this.
So Rādhārāṇī service is “bahunmukha [many faced].” Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was proficient in sixty-four arts, on how to make Kṛṣṇa happy. This is Rādhārāṇī’s duty. Rādhe jaya jaya mādhava-dayite: [all glories to Rādhārāṇī who is very dear to Mādhava—Prayer by Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī.] That is why Kṛṣṇa also is attracted by Rādhārāṇī. The word Kṛṣṇa means, one who attracts everybody, Kṛṣṇa, and Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī attracts Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is known as Madana-mohana. Those who takes shelter of Kṛṣṇa, he will be protected from the hands of Cupid. Śrīpād Yāmunācārya has said in a śloka,
yadavadhi mama cettaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravinde
nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyataṁ rantum āsīt
tadavadhi bata nārī-saṅgame smaryamāne
bhavati mukha-vikāraḥ suṣṭu niṣṭhīvanaṁ ca
[Quoted in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Dakṣiṇa 5.72]
Yamunācārya says… since my mind has started thinking about Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, I spit at the thought of sex pleasure with a woman, tad-avadhi bata nāri-sagame smaryamāne bhavati mukha-vikāra suhu nihivana ca… So the whole world is engrossed in sex life only, between man and woman.
*yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tucchaṁ
kaṇḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham
tṛpyanti neha kṛpaṇā bahu-duḥkha-bhājaḥ
kaṇḍūtivan manasijaṁ viṣaheta dhīraḥ
- [SB 7.9.45]
The aim of human life is saṁyama [restraint]. Śama, dama, satyam, śaucaṁ, jñānaṁ, vijñānam, āstikyaṁ. [Bg 18.42] One has to control the senses. Tapasyā. Ṛṣabhadeva, says,
nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke
kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye
[SB 5.5.1]
He was imparting knowledge to His son, He says, “Son, this human life, this should not be like a hog’s life.” What does a hog do? He works hard the whole day to eat stool and when his body is fat and juicy he enjoys sex with the opposite sex without any discrimination. The human life is not meant to be like this. What is it for? Tapo, to do tapasya, and why the austerities? Divyam, to get connected with the Supreme Lord. Otherwise, Hiraṇyakaśipu, performed a lot of austerities, Rāvaṇa, performed a lot of austerities, for sense gratification. Not that kind of austerity. tapo divyam, yena suddhyet sattvam—austerity should be performed for the Lord in such a way that our existence becomes purified. Are we impure now, I have had a bath now. No this bath is not purifying. It will be purified when we are freed from the entanglement of birth, death, old age and disease. That is purity. This contamination, bhutvā bhutvā praliyate, [Bg 8.19] we take birth, that ends and then we have to take birth again. This, what is the reason? Impurity. Otherwise the living entity is part and parcel of the Supersoul, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre. [Bg 2.20] Just like the Lord says, ajo ’pi, “I am unborn. I don’t take birth.” [Bg 4.6] Similarly since the living entity is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, he too should also be unborn. But why is he born? Impure! His existence is not pure. To purify the existence, our Vedic civilization is only for purifying the existence, nothing else. Nowadays everything is topsy turvy. But our attempt is, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, a little attempt, how the human beings can accept Vedic culture. There is no attempt to take advantage of anyone. So I am trying to advance slowly. In Vṛndāvana, today we are inaugurating, the opening of the Gurukula, attempting to. We are not sure where the funds will come from and what will happen. But the foundation ceremony has been done. The aim of the Gurukula is that the children are taught the devotional service from the beginning.
kaumāra ācaret prājño
dharmān bhāgavatān iha
durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma
tad apy adhruvam arthadam
[SB 7.6.1]
Prahlāda Mahārāja would spreach to his demon classmates about the topics of the Lord, whenever he would get opportunity in between in his school. They were all children, they would say, “Prahlāda, come let us play and jump around. This is not the time to listen to the topics of the Lord.” But he would say, “No. No. No.” My dear friends, kaumāra ācaret prājño, right from the childhood that is when one is four or five years old, he should learn bhāgavata-dharma. Why so early? Durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma, this human life is rarely obtained and is adhruvam also, this will not last long, but Arthadam. Arthadam means to get some riches or wealth. What is that wealth? To obtain the shelter of the Supreme Lord. This cannot be achieved in any other form of birth. The lion is very strong and powerful but he will never get the Lord. But a human being however weak he may be, if he is taught from the very beginning then he can achieve the Lord. Therefore durlabhaṁ janma. One should be taught from the beginning. There is no school or college in this whole world that teaches that “You are not this body.” Everywhere it is taught that ‘you are this body, you are American, you are Indian, you are Hindu, you are Muslim.’ Just bodily identifications.
yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke
sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ
sa eva go-kharaḥ
[SB 10.84.13]
Go means cow and khara means ass, so this is a ass and cow civilization. Everyone is unhappy with this. Everyone is unhappy because of this go-khara civilization. No one is happy. That is why these people make one party, someone else makes another party and so on, but what benefit will you get? The real disease to consider the body as self, that remains intact. This does not benefit anyone. Real welfare is done when they understand that, ‘we are not this body.’
dehino ’smin yathā dehe
kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
tathā dehāntara-prāptir
[Bg 2.13]
We have to accept another body. They don’t believe that once we leave this body we will have to accept another body and so long we accept a body we will have to suffer, whether we are rich or poor. To get a body means to suffer. This education is not imparted.
So I will not take much of your time. One more attempt, ISKCON, International Society for Kṛṣṇa, we have already opened a Gurukula in Dallas, Texas. There is much progress in that. Even the Education Member of the Government has come and given a certificate that “The happiness that I see in these children here, I have not seen in any other school and college.” Why won’t they be happy! Kṛṣṇa consciousness is such a thing! Lots of Christian priests, one priest, I was traveling from Los Angeles to Hawaii, one priest gentleman came up to me and said, “Svāmījī, can I talk with you?” “Yes!” “Why I see your students so bright faced?” He was surprised by this. In the western countries everyone is full of anxiety. Western country, eastern or western, wherever it may be, all those in the material world are full of anxiety. There is a verse, a śloka of Prahlāda Mahārāja,
tat sādhu manye ’sura-varya dehināṁ
sadā samudvigna-dhiyām asad-grahāt
[SB 7.5.5]
Those who have accepted the temporary bodily designations, asato mā sad gamaya, it is a Vedic injunction, do not remain in this temporary bodily designations. Go to the platform of eternity. Om tat sat. [Bg 17.23] So Prahlāda Mahārāja, has said, asad-grahāt, this material body which we have accepted and we are trying to engage it in sense gratification, this will only increase our anxiety, there will be no benefit, asad-grahāt. Because we have accepted the temporary matter, how will the anxiety go? That is why Prahlāda Mahārāja has advised,
hitvātma-pātaṁ gṛham andha-kūpaṁ
vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta
[SB 7.5.5]
So all these instructions are there in the scriptures but we do not adhere to them, this is the sad situation. So the Gurukula we have started in Texas the pictures are there, those who wish to see them can do so. It has progressed very much. So we wanted to have a Gurukula in Vṛndāvana also and the subject matter of Gurukula has been explained in the scriptures, our priest Puṇḍarīkajī, please read it out to them. You read it out. Give him this microphone. Give him. You please come here. I am sending this priest to Texas. He is a very nice teacher, so we have organized a permit and passport for him. Just give him. [microphone] [end]