Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.6.1
Vrndavana, December 2, 1975
Prahlada Maharaja, our predecessor guru... There are twelve mahajanas: Brahma, Svayambhu, Narada, Sambhu, Kapilo, Kumara, Manu, Prahlada, Janaka, Bhisma, Bali, Vaiyasakir, vayam. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. It is said in the Vedas that we have to follow the footprints of mahajana. Mahajana means great authorized devotees. And they have been described, twelve. Svayambhur means Lord Brahma; Narada, Narada Muni the great saint; Sambhu, Lord Siva... Svayambhur naradah sambhuh kaumara [SB 6.3.20] -- the four Kumaras, sanat-kumara adi. Then Kapila, Kapiladeva, Devahuti's son. There are two Kapilas. So one is imitation; one is real. The real Kapila, He is known therefore Devahuti-putra, "the son of Devahuti." Devahuti was the daughter of Manu, Vaivasvata Manu. So in this way, kapilah kumaro manuh. Then Prahlada Maharaja. Prahlada Maharaja was the son of Hiranyakasipu, the famous demon. So it is not that a demon's son will be demon. That is not. Krsna consciousness can be achieved by anyone.
Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, mam hi partha vyapasritya ye 'pi syuh papa-yonayah [Bg. 9.32]. Papa-yoni means to take birth in low class family or demonic family. So papa-yonayah. Krsna says openly, ye 'pi syuh papa-yonayah. Anyone, it doesn't matter, even if he is born in a papa-yoni Papa-yoni means generally less than the sudras. According to our Vedic system, four classes, varnasrama, social and spiritual division, the social division is brahmana first, then ksatriya, then vaisya, then sudra. This is social division, and there is a spiritual division: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa. This is compulsory regulation for becoming human being. Without varnasrama institution there is no recognition of human being. Without being trained up in the varnasrama system there is no question of becoming human being. So actually it is not by birth as human being but by culture. Janmana jayate sudrah samskarad bhaved dvijah.
So Prahlada Maharaja is one of the twelve mahajanas. So he is speaking to his class friends. He was only five years old boy and he took the opportunity of preaching bhagavata-dharma whenever he got some opportunity. So at that time Prahlada Maharaja's father, Hiranyakasipu, was a great demon. He would not allow Krsna consciousness. So still, Prahlada Maharaja, although he was a boy, he used to take opportunity for preaching Krsna consciousness among his friends. So in the tiffin hours, when the boys were left free to play, so Prahlada Maharaja used to call them, "My dear friends, sit down. Let us talk about Krsna consciousness." So he is preaching Krsna consciousness. He is saying to his friends, "My dear friends," kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. The friends were very much anxious to play and Prahlada Maharaja says, "My dear friends. Don't play. Sit down. Sit down." Why? "A very important subject matter, Krsna consciousness, bhagavata-dharma."
Dharma, there are many dharmas. Especially nowadays there is Hindu dharma, Mussulman dharma or Christian dharma, or Sikh dharma, Arya dharma, this dharma, hundreds and thousands. But in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam, it is declared, dharmo projjhita-kaitavo atra, atra srimad-bhagavate: "In the Srimad-Bhagavatam all rascaldom, cheating type of religion, is kicked out." This is bhagavata-dharma. Bhagavata-dharma means bhagavan, bhagavata-sabda. From bhagavan the word bhagavata has come. So bhagavata-dharma means relationship with God, Bhagavan. Therefore you will see in the Bhagavad-gita, it is Bhagavad-gita means the dharma or the religious principle preached by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore Bhagavad-gita is bhagavata-dharma. Srimad-Bhagavatam. That is bhagavata-dharma. So dharma means bhagavata-dharma. Any other dharma which does not teach anything about God, that is cheating, kaitava.
Dharmartha-kama-moksa [SB 4.8.41]. Dharmartha. Dharma, the religious principles, artha means economic development, kama means sense gratification, and moksa means liberation. So above moksa there is bhagavata-dharma. When one has attained actually moksa. Moksa means mukti, liberation. What is that liberation? Mukti hitva anyatha rupam svarupena vyavasthitih [SB 2.10.6]. This is called mukti. Mukti does not mean that after mukti one is finished; one becomes nirakara or another two hand grow. Not like that. It is a change of consciousness. That is called mukti. Real mukti means change of consciousness. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, jivera svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. Actually, every living being is part and parcel of Krsna. Mamaivamso jiva-bhutah [Bg. 15.7]. So when we forget this position -- I do not become the servant of Krsna but I become the servant of my society, my family, my nation, my dog, my cat -- this kind of dharma is not mukti. When one understands aham brahmasmi, when one understands properly that "I am not this body. I do not belong to any particular nation, family or relationship," aham brahmasmi, this is called brahma-bhutah. So long we identify with particular society or nation or community, then we are not brahma-bhutah. This is called upadhi-bhutah, designation. "I am Hindu." This is designation.
Just like gold. Gold cannot be designation. Gold is gold. Because gold is in the hand of a Hindu, it does not become Hindu gold. Or the gold is in the hand of a Muslim; therefore it is Muslim gold. No. Gold is gold. Similarly, dharma is dharma. There cannot be any Hindu religion or Muslim religion or Christian religion. There is no possibility. As soon as you designate, then it is not dharma. It is cheating. That is rejected in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Dharmah projjhita-kaitavo atra: [SB 1.1.2] "All cheating type of religious system is rejected." That is required. So that bhagavata-dharma, Prahlada Maharaja says that kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. From the very beginning, kaumara.
Kaumara means from five year to fifteenth year, or five year to tenth year, then kisora, kaisora. That is division. So anyway, Just like we send our children to a school at the age of five years, every country. In India also that is the system. When a child is five year, four years, some months he is old, his education begins. So Prahlada Maharaja says from the very beginning of education the bhagavata-dharma must be taught. This is kaumara acaret prajno, if one is intelligent. If one is ass or cow or animal, he cannot understand. Prajna: "One who has known." One who knows the value of life, he is called prajno. Prakrsta-rupena jna. Jna means one who has knowledge. So he says, Prahlada Maharaja, that kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. There are dharmas according to country, society, but real dharma is bhagavata-dharma. That is instructed in the Bhagavad-gita also. Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. Who is mam? Krsna, Bhagavan. You will see in the Bhagavad-gita, sri-bhagavan uvaca. So Bhagavan says that "surrender unto Me." Opportunity. Krsna comes to give the opportunity. He is canvassing.
Not only in this universe, in every universe He is going. That calculation is there. Out of four hundred crores of years, Krsna appears in one universe. In this universe, when He comes, He appears in this land of Vrndavana. Therefore Vrndavana is so valuable. This is Krsna's place. When He comes here. Just like when the governor goes to a city he has got his own resting house, similarly, when Krsna comes to teach us dharma... Dharmasya glanir bhava... Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, tadatmanam srjamy aham [Bg. 4.7]. So what is that dharma? This Bhagavata-dharma. When the rascals forget what is the relationship with Krsna, what is the relationship with God, he becomes entangled in this material affair, maya. He is harassed, harassed in this way, that he has to take birth one after another, beginning from Brahma down to the small ant. There are so many varieties of life. So according to karma, karmana daiva-netrena [SB 3.31.1], by superior arrangement one has to accept a type of body. That we are forgetting. We are thinking that we shall remain free like this. That is not possible. Your every inch of activity is being recorded and at the end of life these things will be taken into account, karmana. And by the superior arrangement you have to accept one type of body. Today you may become a prime minister but your activities will be recorded and tomorrow after your death you may have to accept the body of a dog. That is the law of nature.
prakrteh kriyamanani
gunaih karmani sarvasah
ahankara-vimudhatma
kartaham iti manyate
[Bg. 3.27]
These rascals, they are thinking, "I am free. I can do anything and whatever I like." No. Prakrteh kriyamanani. You have to... Karanam guna-sango 'sya sad-asad-janma-yonisu [Bg. 13.22]. As you are infecting the different types of modes of nature, you are making your next life like that. So we should be very careful. Therefore the others accept... Because without this varnasrama system of religious principles, we can declare, there is no scientific understanding of the modes of material nature, how we are contacting, how we are becoming infected and where is our next life. But if we... Sastra-caksusat. If you see through the sastra, then you can understand.
urdhvam gacchanti sattva-stha
madhye tisthanti rajasah
jaghanya-guna-vrtti-stha
adho gacchanti tamasah
[Bg. 14.18]
Everything is there in the Bhagavad-gita. Unfortunately, we do not take care of it and we make our own interpretation. This rascaldom is going on. And perhaps we are the only society who is proclaiming, "Here is God, Krsna. Take it." We are the only society in the whole world. Otherwise they are all misled, all misled. So anyway, others may cooperate or noncooperate, we don't mind. But we cannot change our policy. Our policy is: Krsna says, "I am the Supreme;" we must declare throughout the whole world that Krsna is the Supreme. Krsna says, mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya [Bg. 7.7]. We shall declare to the whole world that "Krsna is the Supreme. There is no more superior anyone than Krsna." This is our Krsna consciousness movement. Krsna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru [Bg. 18.65]. We are preaching this. In this temple we are asking eveyone, "Here is Krsna. Always think of Krsna. Chant Hare Krsna." Then you will have to think, "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna," means thinking of Krsna. As soon as you hear the name of Krsna, man-mana. And who will do that? Mad-bhakta. Unless you become a devotee of Krsna, you cannot waste your time, "Krsna, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna." That means simply by chanting Hare Krsna mantra you become a devotee of Krsna. Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji.
Now, this worship of Krsna... The whole day is engaged for Krsna's mangala-aratika, for Krsna's chanting, for Krsna's cooking, for Krsna's prasadam distribution, so many ways. So our devotees all over the world -- there are a 102 centers -- they are simply engaged in Krsna consciousness. This is our propaganda, always, no other business. We don't do any business but we are spending at least twenty-five lakhs of rupees, twenty-five lakhs of rupees every month, but Krsna is supplying. Tesam nityabhiyuktanam yoga-ksemam vahamy aham [Bg. 9.22]. If you remain Krsna consciousness, fully dependent on Krsna, then there will be no scarcity. I started this Krsna business with forty rupees. Now we have got forty crores of rupees. Is there any businessman in the whole world within ten years with forty rupees he can increase forty crores? There is no example. And ten thousand men, they are eating prasadam daily. So this is Krsna consciousness. Yoga-ksemam vahamy aham [Bg. 9.22]. As soon as you become Krsna conscious, you simply depend on Him and work sincerely and then Krsna will supply everything. Everything.
So this is practically being manifested. State, example, in the Bombay, now the land is one crore of rupees' worth. And when I purchased this land I had, might be, three or four lakhs. So it was completely speculation because I was confident that "I shall be able to pay. Krsna will give me." There was no money. That's a long history. I do not wish to discuss. But I have got now practical experience that you depend on Krsna -- there will be no scarcity. Whatever you want, it will be fulfilled. Tesam nityabhiyuktanam. So be always engaged in Krsna consciousness. Then everything will be fulfilled, any desire, if you have got.
akamah sarva-kamo va
moksa-kama udara-dhih
tivrena bhakti-yogena
yajeta paramam purusah
[SB 2.3.10]
There are three classes of men: akama... Akama means devotee. He has no desire. He has no... Anyabhilasita-sunyam [Brs. 1.1.11]. Personally he has no desire. His only desire is how he would glorify Krsna. That is the only desire. Akamah sarva-kamo. He is akama. And sarva-kama means the karmis. They are desiring, "Bring money, bring money, bring money, bring money." They are called karmis, sarva-kama. Their desire is never fulfilled. And akamah sarva-kamo va moksa-kama [SB 2.3.10], the jnanis. They want to become united, one with the Supreme, moksa-kama. So Caitanya-caritamrta, the moksa-kama Tara madhye moksa vancha. That is very inferior desire. And Sridhara Swami, he has commented on the Bhagavata verse, atra moksa-vancha api nirasta. A devotee should not desire even for moksa. What is moksa? Moksa is very insignificant thing for a devotee. Bilvamangala Thakura has explained, muktih mukulitanjali sevate asman. "Mukti, she is standing on my door and flattering me, 'Sir, what can I do for you?' " This is mukti. So why a devotee shall aspire about mukti? No.
narayana-parah sarve
na kutascana bibhyati
svargapavarga-narakesv
api tulyartha-darsinah
[SB 6.17.28]
Just like Narada Muni. He is going to the hellish planet also for preaching Krsna consciousness. So a devotee is not afraid of going anywhere for the service of the Lord. That is devotee. He has no personal desire, simply how to glorify. So this Prahlada Maharaja, he is our guru. Out of the twelve mahajanas, he is one of them. So he is advising, kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. Why so early, kaumara? Prahlada Maharaja says, durlabham manusam janma: "This human form of life is very, very rarely obtained in the process of evolution, 8,400,000's of different species of life." After that, we have got this durlabham manusam janma. It should not be wasted, living like cats and dogs. Everyone should be trained up in this bhagavata-dharma. Durlabham manusam janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam. And "Yes, it is important, that's all right. But let me live for hundred years. Then we shall talk about Krsna." And Prahlada Maharaja said, "No." Adhruvam: "You do not know when you will die. At any moment you can die." Padam padam yad vipadam [SB 10.14.58]. Therefore, before your next death, you realize Krsna. Durlabham manusam janma tad apy adhruvam. But arthadam. Arthadam means even if you live for a few years and if you take the chance of chanting Hare Krsna, still, you are benefited. You are still benefited.
So this chanting of Hare Krsna is so important that you can think always that "Death is coming. Death is at my door. Let me finish my chanting. Let me finish my chanting." Always you should think like that, that "Death is already coming, so let me chant." So this is called bhagavata-dharma, and Krsna consciousness movement means bhagavata-dharma. So you read Prahlada Maharaja's instruction very nicely and utilize it in your life. Your life will be successful. Thank you very much.
Devotees: Jaya! (end)
Vrndavana, December 2, 1975
Prabhupada: ...this table here.
kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha durlabham manusam janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam [SB 7.6.1] |
Prahlada Maharaja, our predecessor guru... There are twelve mahajanas: Brahma, Svayambhu, Narada, Sambhu, Kapilo, Kumara, Manu, Prahlada, Janaka, Bhisma, Bali, Vaiyasakir, vayam. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. It is said in the Vedas that we have to follow the footprints of mahajana. Mahajana means great authorized devotees. And they have been described, twelve. Svayambhur means Lord Brahma; Narada, Narada Muni the great saint; Sambhu, Lord Siva... Svayambhur naradah sambhuh kaumara [SB 6.3.20] -- the four Kumaras, sanat-kumara adi. Then Kapila, Kapiladeva, Devahuti's son. There are two Kapilas. So one is imitation; one is real. The real Kapila, He is known therefore Devahuti-putra, "the son of Devahuti." Devahuti was the daughter of Manu, Vaivasvata Manu. So in this way, kapilah kumaro manuh. Then Prahlada Maharaja. Prahlada Maharaja was the son of Hiranyakasipu, the famous demon. So it is not that a demon's son will be demon. That is not. Krsna consciousness can be achieved by anyone.
Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, mam hi partha vyapasritya ye 'pi syuh papa-yonayah [Bg. 9.32]. Papa-yoni means to take birth in low class family or demonic family. So papa-yonayah. Krsna says openly, ye 'pi syuh papa-yonayah. Anyone, it doesn't matter, even if he is born in a papa-yoni Papa-yoni means generally less than the sudras. According to our Vedic system, four classes, varnasrama, social and spiritual division, the social division is brahmana first, then ksatriya, then vaisya, then sudra. This is social division, and there is a spiritual division: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa. This is compulsory regulation for becoming human being. Without varnasrama institution there is no recognition of human being. Without being trained up in the varnasrama system there is no question of becoming human being. So actually it is not by birth as human being but by culture. Janmana jayate sudrah samskarad bhaved dvijah.
So Prahlada Maharaja is one of the twelve mahajanas. So he is speaking to his class friends. He was only five years old boy and he took the opportunity of preaching bhagavata-dharma whenever he got some opportunity. So at that time Prahlada Maharaja's father, Hiranyakasipu, was a great demon. He would not allow Krsna consciousness. So still, Prahlada Maharaja, although he was a boy, he used to take opportunity for preaching Krsna consciousness among his friends. So in the tiffin hours, when the boys were left free to play, so Prahlada Maharaja used to call them, "My dear friends, sit down. Let us talk about Krsna consciousness." So he is preaching Krsna consciousness. He is saying to his friends, "My dear friends," kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. The friends were very much anxious to play and Prahlada Maharaja says, "My dear friends. Don't play. Sit down. Sit down." Why? "A very important subject matter, Krsna consciousness, bhagavata-dharma."
Dharma, there are many dharmas. Especially nowadays there is Hindu dharma, Mussulman dharma or Christian dharma, or Sikh dharma, Arya dharma, this dharma, hundreds and thousands. But in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam, it is declared, dharmo projjhita-kaitavo atra, atra srimad-bhagavate: "In the Srimad-Bhagavatam all rascaldom, cheating type of religion, is kicked out." This is bhagavata-dharma. Bhagavata-dharma means bhagavan, bhagavata-sabda. From bhagavan the word bhagavata has come. So bhagavata-dharma means relationship with God, Bhagavan. Therefore you will see in the Bhagavad-gita, it is Bhagavad-gita means the dharma or the religious principle preached by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore Bhagavad-gita is bhagavata-dharma. Srimad-Bhagavatam. That is bhagavata-dharma. So dharma means bhagavata-dharma. Any other dharma which does not teach anything about God, that is cheating, kaitava.
Dharmartha-kama-moksa [SB 4.8.41]. Dharmartha. Dharma, the religious principles, artha means economic development, kama means sense gratification, and moksa means liberation. So above moksa there is bhagavata-dharma. When one has attained actually moksa. Moksa means mukti, liberation. What is that liberation? Mukti hitva anyatha rupam svarupena vyavasthitih [SB 2.10.6]. This is called mukti. Mukti does not mean that after mukti one is finished; one becomes nirakara or another two hand grow. Not like that. It is a change of consciousness. That is called mukti. Real mukti means change of consciousness. Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, jivera svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. Actually, every living being is part and parcel of Krsna. Mamaivamso jiva-bhutah [Bg. 15.7]. So when we forget this position -- I do not become the servant of Krsna but I become the servant of my society, my family, my nation, my dog, my cat -- this kind of dharma is not mukti. When one understands aham brahmasmi, when one understands properly that "I am not this body. I do not belong to any particular nation, family or relationship," aham brahmasmi, this is called brahma-bhutah. So long we identify with particular society or nation or community, then we are not brahma-bhutah. This is called upadhi-bhutah, designation. "I am Hindu." This is designation.
Just like gold. Gold cannot be designation. Gold is gold. Because gold is in the hand of a Hindu, it does not become Hindu gold. Or the gold is in the hand of a Muslim; therefore it is Muslim gold. No. Gold is gold. Similarly, dharma is dharma. There cannot be any Hindu religion or Muslim religion or Christian religion. There is no possibility. As soon as you designate, then it is not dharma. It is cheating. That is rejected in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Dharmah projjhita-kaitavo atra: [SB 1.1.2] "All cheating type of religious system is rejected." That is required. So that bhagavata-dharma, Prahlada Maharaja says that kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. From the very beginning, kaumara.
Kaumara means from five year to fifteenth year, or five year to tenth year, then kisora, kaisora. That is division. So anyway, Just like we send our children to a school at the age of five years, every country. In India also that is the system. When a child is five year, four years, some months he is old, his education begins. So Prahlada Maharaja says from the very beginning of education the bhagavata-dharma must be taught. This is kaumara acaret prajno, if one is intelligent. If one is ass or cow or animal, he cannot understand. Prajna: "One who has known." One who knows the value of life, he is called prajno. Prakrsta-rupena jna. Jna means one who has knowledge. So he says, Prahlada Maharaja, that kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. There are dharmas according to country, society, but real dharma is bhagavata-dharma. That is instructed in the Bhagavad-gita also. Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. Who is mam? Krsna, Bhagavan. You will see in the Bhagavad-gita, sri-bhagavan uvaca. So Bhagavan says that "surrender unto Me." Opportunity. Krsna comes to give the opportunity. He is canvassing.
Not only in this universe, in every universe He is going. That calculation is there. Out of four hundred crores of years, Krsna appears in one universe. In this universe, when He comes, He appears in this land of Vrndavana. Therefore Vrndavana is so valuable. This is Krsna's place. When He comes here. Just like when the governor goes to a city he has got his own resting house, similarly, when Krsna comes to teach us dharma... Dharmasya glanir bhava... Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, tadatmanam srjamy aham [Bg. 4.7]. So what is that dharma? This Bhagavata-dharma. When the rascals forget what is the relationship with Krsna, what is the relationship with God, he becomes entangled in this material affair, maya. He is harassed, harassed in this way, that he has to take birth one after another, beginning from Brahma down to the small ant. There are so many varieties of life. So according to karma, karmana daiva-netrena [SB 3.31.1], by superior arrangement one has to accept a type of body. That we are forgetting. We are thinking that we shall remain free like this. That is not possible. Your every inch of activity is being recorded and at the end of life these things will be taken into account, karmana. And by the superior arrangement you have to accept one type of body. Today you may become a prime minister but your activities will be recorded and tomorrow after your death you may have to accept the body of a dog. That is the law of nature.
prakrteh kriyamanani
gunaih karmani sarvasah
ahankara-vimudhatma
kartaham iti manyate
[Bg. 3.27]
These rascals, they are thinking, "I am free. I can do anything and whatever I like." No. Prakrteh kriyamanani. You have to... Karanam guna-sango 'sya sad-asad-janma-yonisu [Bg. 13.22]. As you are infecting the different types of modes of nature, you are making your next life like that. So we should be very careful. Therefore the others accept... Because without this varnasrama system of religious principles, we can declare, there is no scientific understanding of the modes of material nature, how we are contacting, how we are becoming infected and where is our next life. But if we... Sastra-caksusat. If you see through the sastra, then you can understand.
urdhvam gacchanti sattva-stha
madhye tisthanti rajasah
jaghanya-guna-vrtti-stha
adho gacchanti tamasah
[Bg. 14.18]
Everything is there in the Bhagavad-gita. Unfortunately, we do not take care of it and we make our own interpretation. This rascaldom is going on. And perhaps we are the only society who is proclaiming, "Here is God, Krsna. Take it." We are the only society in the whole world. Otherwise they are all misled, all misled. So anyway, others may cooperate or noncooperate, we don't mind. But we cannot change our policy. Our policy is: Krsna says, "I am the Supreme;" we must declare throughout the whole world that Krsna is the Supreme. Krsna says, mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya [Bg. 7.7]. We shall declare to the whole world that "Krsna is the Supreme. There is no more superior anyone than Krsna." This is our Krsna consciousness movement. Krsna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru [Bg. 18.65]. We are preaching this. In this temple we are asking eveyone, "Here is Krsna. Always think of Krsna. Chant Hare Krsna." Then you will have to think, "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna," means thinking of Krsna. As soon as you hear the name of Krsna, man-mana. And who will do that? Mad-bhakta. Unless you become a devotee of Krsna, you cannot waste your time, "Krsna, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna." That means simply by chanting Hare Krsna mantra you become a devotee of Krsna. Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji.
Now, this worship of Krsna... The whole day is engaged for Krsna's mangala-aratika, for Krsna's chanting, for Krsna's cooking, for Krsna's prasadam distribution, so many ways. So our devotees all over the world -- there are a 102 centers -- they are simply engaged in Krsna consciousness. This is our propaganda, always, no other business. We don't do any business but we are spending at least twenty-five lakhs of rupees, twenty-five lakhs of rupees every month, but Krsna is supplying. Tesam nityabhiyuktanam yoga-ksemam vahamy aham [Bg. 9.22]. If you remain Krsna consciousness, fully dependent on Krsna, then there will be no scarcity. I started this Krsna business with forty rupees. Now we have got forty crores of rupees. Is there any businessman in the whole world within ten years with forty rupees he can increase forty crores? There is no example. And ten thousand men, they are eating prasadam daily. So this is Krsna consciousness. Yoga-ksemam vahamy aham [Bg. 9.22]. As soon as you become Krsna conscious, you simply depend on Him and work sincerely and then Krsna will supply everything. Everything.
So this is practically being manifested. State, example, in the Bombay, now the land is one crore of rupees' worth. And when I purchased this land I had, might be, three or four lakhs. So it was completely speculation because I was confident that "I shall be able to pay. Krsna will give me." There was no money. That's a long history. I do not wish to discuss. But I have got now practical experience that you depend on Krsna -- there will be no scarcity. Whatever you want, it will be fulfilled. Tesam nityabhiyuktanam. So be always engaged in Krsna consciousness. Then everything will be fulfilled, any desire, if you have got.
akamah sarva-kamo va
moksa-kama udara-dhih
tivrena bhakti-yogena
yajeta paramam purusah
[SB 2.3.10]
There are three classes of men: akama... Akama means devotee. He has no desire. He has no... Anyabhilasita-sunyam [Brs. 1.1.11]. Personally he has no desire. His only desire is how he would glorify Krsna. That is the only desire. Akamah sarva-kamo. He is akama. And sarva-kama means the karmis. They are desiring, "Bring money, bring money, bring money, bring money." They are called karmis, sarva-kama. Their desire is never fulfilled. And akamah sarva-kamo va moksa-kama [SB 2.3.10], the jnanis. They want to become united, one with the Supreme, moksa-kama. So Caitanya-caritamrta, the moksa-kama Tara madhye moksa vancha. That is very inferior desire. And Sridhara Swami, he has commented on the Bhagavata verse, atra moksa-vancha api nirasta. A devotee should not desire even for moksa. What is moksa? Moksa is very insignificant thing for a devotee. Bilvamangala Thakura has explained, muktih mukulitanjali sevate asman. "Mukti, she is standing on my door and flattering me, 'Sir, what can I do for you?' " This is mukti. So why a devotee shall aspire about mukti? No.
narayana-parah sarve
na kutascana bibhyati
svargapavarga-narakesv
api tulyartha-darsinah
[SB 6.17.28]
Just like Narada Muni. He is going to the hellish planet also for preaching Krsna consciousness. So a devotee is not afraid of going anywhere for the service of the Lord. That is devotee. He has no personal desire, simply how to glorify. So this Prahlada Maharaja, he is our guru. Out of the twelve mahajanas, he is one of them. So he is advising, kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha [SB 7.6.1]. Why so early, kaumara? Prahlada Maharaja says, durlabham manusam janma: "This human form of life is very, very rarely obtained in the process of evolution, 8,400,000's of different species of life." After that, we have got this durlabham manusam janma. It should not be wasted, living like cats and dogs. Everyone should be trained up in this bhagavata-dharma. Durlabham manusam janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam. And "Yes, it is important, that's all right. But let me live for hundred years. Then we shall talk about Krsna." And Prahlada Maharaja said, "No." Adhruvam: "You do not know when you will die. At any moment you can die." Padam padam yad vipadam [SB 10.14.58]. Therefore, before your next death, you realize Krsna. Durlabham manusam janma tad apy adhruvam. But arthadam. Arthadam means even if you live for a few years and if you take the chance of chanting Hare Krsna, still, you are benefited. You are still benefited.
So this chanting of Hare Krsna is so important that you can think always that "Death is coming. Death is at my door. Let me finish my chanting. Let me finish my chanting." Always you should think like that, that "Death is already coming, so let me chant." So this is called bhagavata-dharma, and Krsna consciousness movement means bhagavata-dharma. So you read Prahlada Maharaja's instruction very nicely and utilize it in your life. Your life will be successful. Thank you very much.
Devotees: Jaya! (end)
CHANT HARE KRISHNA MAHAMANTRA
AND BE HAPPY..........ALWAYS
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