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[[Category:Material World (Prakrti)]]
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[[Category:Blazing Fire]]
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[[Category:Laws of Material Nature]]
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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>General Lectures</h3>
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This material world is just exactly like the blazing fire in the forest. Everyone wants to live here peacefully, but situation develops in such a way that it will not allow you to live in peace. That is the law. We are trying to adjust things in so many ways, but this nature's law is so cruel and stringent that in spite of your so much trying, the blazing fire of this material world is continuing.
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[[Vanisource:710919 - Lecture on Sri Sri Gurv-astaka - Nairobi|710919 - Lecture on Sri Sri Gurv-astaka - Nairobi]]
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Prabhupāda:

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:...līḍha-loka-
:trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam
:prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya
:vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam
:(Śrī Śrī Gurv-aṣṭaka 1)
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Just now we have sung this song, saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka. There was little controversy whether I shall speak in English or Hindi. Of course, I am not very much accustomed to speak in Hindi, but I speak sometimes Hindi. But Swami Brahmānanda has asked me to speak in English because some African students are present here, and they cannot understand Hindi. I think most of you can understand English. So I shall speak a little portion in English and little portion in Hindi.

So, what is our problem? The problem is that saṁsāra-dāvānala. This material world is compared with dāvānala. Dāvānala means forest fire. Every one of you has got some experience about the forest fire. The forest fire takes place. Nobody is interested to set fire in the forest, but it takes place automatically, by collision of bamboos. There is friction, and fire is produced, and as soon as they touch some dry..., dry leaves, immediately there is fire; and as soon as there is fire, all the animals in the forest, they become very much disturbed.

And the fire especially kills the serpents, because the serpents are on the ground and the dry grasses and leaves immediately taking to fire, and the serpents, they cannot run very swiftly, so they become the first victims. Similarly this world, this material world, is problematic. Some problems there is always, and because they do not know how to extinguish this blazing fire of problems, we are so much troubled.

So, saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka, this one verse explaining will clear the idea of this movement. This material world is just exactly like the blazing fire in the forest. Everyone wants to live here peacefully, but situation develops in such a way that it will not allow you to live in peace. That is the law. We are trying to adjust things in so many ways, but this nature's law is so cruel and stringent that in spite of your so much trying, the blazing fire of this material world is continuing.

Just like we have got experience: there was First World War in 1914. It continued up to 1920 or '18. The people of the world, they devised some plan: League of Nations. Perhaps those who are older present here, they know. But that failed. Again there was second war, and again they have devised some means, United Nation, but the war is going on—in Vietnam, in Egypt or in Pakistan; so many places the blazing fire is going on. That cannot be stopped.

Therefore, in this verse of Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, he says that this saṁsāra, this material world where we are trying to enjoy life, is just like dāvānala—forest fire without our desire. Nobody wanted the First World War or the Second World War or again the Third World War, but it takes place. So what is the solution?

Saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka. It is blazing. Now, just try to understand how this blazing fire in the forest can be stopped. You cannot send fire brigade, or you cannot send men with buckets of water to extinguish the fire in the forest. That is not possible. How the fire in the forest is stopped? Because the stopping the blazing fire there must be pouring of water.

So what is the arrangement for pouring water? The arrangement is, saṁsāra dāvānala-līḍha-loka-trāṇāya, that to deliver them, kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam. Ghanāghanatvam means clouds, merciful clouds. When there is merciful clouds over the forest and it pours rain torrentially, then immediately the fire, blazing fire in the forest, becomes extinguished. Otherwise there is no other way. You cannot call fire brigade. You cannot save the animals. You cannot send men with bucketfuls of water. (children making noise) It is not possible.
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