Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.2.3
Vrndavana, September 7, 1975
Prabhupada:
...am pitaro ye ca sastarah sadhavah samah yadi syat tesu vaisamyam kam yanti saranam prajah [SB 6.2.3] |
So yesterday we discussed that aho kastam dharma-drsam adharmah sprsate sabham. Just like in the court, court of justice, if there is adharma, then it is very painful situation. That is happening now in this Kali-yuga generally. Big, big court justice, magistrate, they are giving favorable judgment, being bribed. This is Kali-yuga. But sastra says, "No. Justice must be given very honestly." That is the rule.
So about this Ajamila, these Yamadutas, they came to take him away to Yamaraja, but the Visnudutas said, "No. He is not to be taken away. He is now cleansed of all sinful activities. You do not know that; therefore you are not giving him justice." So yatradandyesv apapesu dando yair dhriyate vrtha: "One who is not punishable, if he is punished, that is injustice. So you should not take him away. He is not punishable." Yamaraja is there for punishing the sinful men. So all of them are not sinful. There are many pious men. Sinful men, they are of small number. So one must be very cognizant of justice. Just like in the prison house the number of prisoners are not greater than the number of free persons. That is natural. Although this material world is mixed -- sinful men and pious men -- still, at least formerly, there were sinful men, less. It is said in the sastra that in Satya-yuga there was no sinful men at all. All pious men. Then, in Treta-yuga, one-fourth sinful and three-fourth's pious. And then, Dvapara-yuga, half and half. And now, in the Kali-yuga, one-fourth pious and three-fourth's sinful. And that will also gradually diminish. And when everyone will be sinful, then there is no more preaching. There is Kalki avatara, simply cutting the head. That's all. What is that verse? That Kalki avatara... Kesava dhrta-kalki-sarira jaya jagadisa hare.
So at the end of the Kali-yuga people will be so sinful that... It is already becoming. Only five thousand years we have passed, and the number of sinful men is already greater -- three-fourth's sinful men, one-fourth pious men -- and it will increase, and gradually it will become zero. Everyone shall be, at that time, end of Kali-yuga. That will take four lakhs and 27,000's of years. We have passed only five thousand years. Since the Battle of Kuruksetra, or since the demise of Maharaja Pariksit, the Kali-yuga has begun, and that is five thousand years. And the total duration of life of Kali-yuga is 432,000's of years. That means there is a balance of 427,000's of years to finish this Kali-yuga. And gradually, with the advancement of Kali-yuga, people's duration of life, memory, mercifulness, religious propensities, in this way eight items -- they are described in the Srimad Bhagavatam -- will reduce. We can see practically at the present moment. People are not very strong in body. They are lean and thin. And not only in India -- we are poverty-stricken -- but in Europe, America, also I see. The Europeans and Americans are no more as tall men or very stout men, very... So reducing their bodily strength and memory. That is also fact. We cannot memorize very sharply. People are becoming more and more dull. No more very brilliant scholars are coming out, philosophers, mathematicians. And duration of life, everyone knows it is reducing. In India the average duration of life is thirty years. So this will reduce. And dharma, sense of religiosity, that will also reduce and become more and more punishable by the Yamaraja. Yamaraja is there.
But this Ajamila was cleansed of all sinful activity because at the time of his death he chanted the holy name of Narayana. That's a fact. When we chant the holy name of Narayana, Krsna, Rama, the holy name of God, we immediately become free from all sinful reaction. That's a fact. It is said, eka hari-nama yata papa hare, papi haya tata para kari bare nare(?). This is statement of sastra: "By once chanting the holy name of the Lord, you become free from all sinful reaction of life." That's a fact. But the difficulty is that we become free; again we commit sinful life. That is the... Otherwise one chanting in life is sufficient. But that we do not do. We chant and again do the sinful activities. Namnad balad yasya hi papa-buddhih. This is the greatest offense, that "I am chanting Hare Krsna; therefore I can continue to commit sinful activities. It will be adjusted. Balance will be zero." No. This is the greatest offense. Greatest offense. Namnad balad. Out of ten offenses, this is the greatest offense. Namnad balad yasya hi papa-buddhih. So this should not be done.
So Ajamila did not do that. He was sinful, but he never utilized Krsna to counteract his sinful life. Aparadha-sunya, without any offense -- that was his qualification. He did not know what is the value of chanting the holy name. He... Fallen down, he became a rogue, rascal. That's all right. But he never utilized the chanting of name for counteracting his sinful activities. No, he never did. He was affectionate to his youngest son, whose name was Narayana. So, very much affectionate, youngest son -- "Narayana, please come here. Take your food. Please drink this milk. Come here. Sit down" -- so he was addressing Narayana, his son, but it was taken into account by Narayana. Therefore it is the system in Hindu families to keep children's name as Narayana dasa, Krsna dasa, Govardhana dasa, so that one may be able to chant the holy name of the Lord somehow or other. This is the way. So that is the example of Ajamila. Simply by loving his son of the name Narayana, his account was credited in so many times.
So these Yamaduta, they did not know. So they came to arrest him. But Visnuduta came to save him: "No, no. He is no more sinful. He is free from all sinful life. Don't do injustice." So for They are regretting that aho kastam dharma-drsam adharmah sprsate sabham. "Justice must be done very nicely." Prajanam pitaro ye ca sastarah sadhavah samah. Prajanam, children, or the citizens, praja Praja means who has taken birth, national. Prajanam pitaro. Pitaro means father or anyone who takes the care of the children or the citizen like father. The government or the king -- formerly there was king, now government -- their position is just like father. As the father's duty is to see that the children, the son, is raised very nicely so that in future he may be very happy. This is the duty of the father, to see, not that simply to feed him and make him fatty. No. In the sastra it is said, pita na sa syat. One should not become a father. This is contraceptive. Pita na sa syat janani na sa syat: "One should not become a father, one should not become a mother, one should not become a guru, one should not become a relative, one should not become a caretaker, one should not become the king..." Who? Na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum: "One who cannot protect the dependent from the clutches of death." This is sastric injunction. So how much the father and the government or the guru should be strong so that he can save his dependents from the clutches of death.
So how it is possible? Harim vina na mrtim taranti. Without becoming Krsna conscious, nobody can be saved from death. This is the law. Harim vina na mrtim taranti. You can have other benefits from the demigods. There are sastric... There is injunction that "If you want a beautiful wife, you can worship Uma. If you want to be free from disease, you worship the sun-god. If you want to be very learned, you worship Brahma, Sarasvati." There are... That is the injunction, that "If you want this benefit, particular benefit, then you worship this particular." Yanti deva-vrata devan [Bg. 9.25]. There is injunction. The demigod worship, there is injunction that "You do this." But for whom? For the less intelligent person. Kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah yajanti anya-devatah: [Bg. 7.20] "Except God, the Supreme Lord, when the other demigod worship is allowed, that is for the person, hrta-jnanah, one who does not know his ultimate goal of life, for them." But one who is interested to stop the cycle of birth and death, they must come to Krsna. Otherwise it is not possible. Harim vina na mrtim taranti. Krsna, Hari, also says, Krsna also says, mam ca yo What is that? What is that verse? Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. Janma karma me divyam. Krsna says that "I appear." Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati [Bg. 4.7]. "I take birth as the son of Devaki, or I am raised as the son of Mother Yasoda. So one should understand that ajo 'pi sann avyayatma: I am aja, I never take birth, but why I come and take birth as a child of Devaki or Yasoda?" If we simply understand this fact, janma karma me divyam, janati yo tattvatah, if anyone understands, then he becomes free from the cycle of birth and death. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti [Bg. 4.9].
So this is possible. Therefore the government, the father, the guru and the guardian -- the everyone should try to make his dependent how he becomes Krsna conscious. This is the duty. Therefore the Krsna consciousness movement is so important, because the human life is meant for stopping the cycle of birth and death. Na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum. This is the only process. You cannot stop... But they do not know that this birth and death can be stopped. They are so rascal, they are so foolish, that they do not believe, neither they believe in the next birth, neither they have any idea how to stop death or stop next birth. No education. Throughout the whole world there is no education, there is no science. They are callous. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gita it is said, mudha.
na mam duskrtino mudhah
prapadyante naradhamah
mayayapahrta-jnana
asuri-bhavam asritah
[Bg. 7.15]
This asuri-bhava: "What is God? I don't believe in God. There is no God. Every one of us we are God. Why you are finding God anywhere, in the temple? You do not know that in the street there are so many gods, loitering, daridra narayana?" This is going on. This is going on, all full of ignorance. Therefore we have to push on this Krsna consciousness movement at very difficult position.
manusyanam sahasresu
kascid yatati siddhaye
yatatam api siddhanam
kascid vetti mam
[Bg. 7.3]
Simply by knowing Krsna, one can become free from the clutches of cycle of birth and death. That's a fact. But manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye, yatatam api siddhanam [Bg. 7.3]. It is very, very difficult.
So we have taken a very difficult task, to convince people to take to Krsna consciousness. But that is the only benefit, or the supreme goal of life. Krsna personally comes to teach this science. Why Krsna left Bhagavad-gita? Out of His compassion, that "After My disappearance people would take advantage of this Bhagavad-gita. As I instructed My dear friend Arjuna, they will also take advantage and become free from the clutches of death." This is the purpose of Bhagavad-gita. Bhagavata-dharma. Unfortunately, people have become so rascal that they do not care for this Bhagavad-gita instruction. And if anyone poses himself to be a very good scholar of Bhagavad-gita, he interprets in his own way, he misleads himself and misleads others also. This is the position. Therefore my request to you all who are in Krsna consciousness movement -- do not be a bluffer. Behave in your life how to become Krsna conscious and teach others. Then the whole world will be benefited, and the Yamaduta will not come to them.
Thank you very much. (end)
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