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| <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> | | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
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| <div class="heading">Prākṛtaḥ stage, so prakṛtaḥ stage means just like we are worshiping The Deity, but not only we shall worship Deity but we make advancement. What is that advancement? To become gradually a preacher. That is madhyama-adhikārī, second stage, preacher. | | <div class="heading">Prākṛtaḥ stage, so prakṛtaḥ stage means just like we are worshiping The Deity, but not only we shall worship Deity but we make advancement. What is that advancement? To become gradually a preacher. That is madhyama-adhikārī, second stage, preacher. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.4 -- Mayapur, February 11, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.4 -- Mayapur, February 11, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Every living entity originally nitya-siddha, but somehow or other, just like Jaya-Vijaya, fell down in this material world, and he was delivered also, both of them were delivered. So although you have fallen in this material world, and suffering the pangs of material existence, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ([[Vanisource:BG 13.9|BG 13.9]]), on account of accepting this material body, still, Kṛṣṇa personally comes, yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata ([[Vanisource:BG 4.7|BG 4.7]]). This is glāniḥ, discrepancies. We are living this material existence, this is not real life. Real life is to become mahā-bhāgavata. So you cannot become a mahā-bhāgavata all of a sudden, but from kaniṣṭha-adhikārī,</p> | | |
| :arcāyām eva haraye | | |
| :yaḥ pūjāṁ śraddhayehate | | <mp3player>https://vanipedia.s3.amazonaws.com/clip/760211SB-MAYAPUR_clip.mp3</mp3player> |
| :na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.4 -- Mayapur, February 11, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.4 -- Mayapur, February 11, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
| :sa bhaktaḥ prākṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ | | Every living entity originally ''nitya-siddha'', but somehow or other, just like Jaya-Vijaya fell down in this material world, and he was delivered also, both of them were delivered. So although you have fallen in this material world and suffering the pangs of material existence, ''janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ''([[vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]), on account of accepting this material body, still, Kṛṣṇa personally comes, ''yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata ''([[vanisource:BG 4.7 (1972)|BG 4.7]]). This is ''glāniḥ'', discrepancies. We are living this material existence. This is not real life. Real life is to become ''mahā-bhāgavata''. |
| <p>Prākṛtaḥ stage, so prakṛtaḥ stage means just like we are worshiping The Deity, but not only we shall worship Deity but we make advancement. What is that advancement? To become gradually a preacher. That is madhyama-adhikārī, second stage, preacher. Preacher means that,</p>
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| :īśvare tad-adhīneṣu | | So you cannot become a ''mahā-bhāgavata ''all of a sudden, but from ''kaniṣṭha-adhikārī'', |
| :bāliśeṣu dviṣatsu ca | | |
| :prema-maitrī-kṛpā upekṣāḥ | | :''arcāyām eva haraye'' |
| :yaḥ karoti sa madhyamaḥ | | :''yaḥ pūjāṁ śraddhayehate'' |
| <p>When you become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious by worshiping the Deity regularly, as we have got prescription to rise early in the morning, offer maṅgala-ārati, then kīrtana, then class, in this way practicing, practicing. When you become advanced Kṛṣṇa conscious, then your natural tendency will be how to preach. So long you do not develop this tendency for preaching, simply remain in kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, you do not know how to deliver others, na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu, you do not know how to receive elevated, one elevated devotee, you do not know how to do good to others. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission is not to keep one in the kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, especially those who are born in India. He says</p>
| | :''na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu'' |
| :bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra | | :''sa bhaktaḥ prākṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ'' |
| :janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra | | |
| :([[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.41|CC Adi 9.41]]) | | :([[vanisource:SB 11.2.47|SB 11.2.47]]) |
| <p>This is principle, para-upakāra, because everyone is suffering. So in the lower stage, everyone should take part very diligently in the worship of the Deity, śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-sṛṅgāra-tan-mandira-mārj anādau **. One should be engaged, everyone should be engaged, śrī-vigrahārādhanam, with Deity worship. What is that Deity worship? Sri, śrī-vigrahārādhana-nitya-nānā-śṛṅgāra **. To decorate the Deity very, very nicely, śṛṅgāra. Tan-mandira-mārjanādau, and to keep the temple, all through, very clean. This kaniṣṭha-adhikārī should be fully engaged in these things, then he becomes gradually, I mean to say, elevated in the madhyama-adhikārī.</p>
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| <p>In the madhyama-adhikārī he can see four things. What is that? Four things means, first of all the Supreme Lord, īśvara, the controller, he can see. He can see means he understands, he appreciates, he can conceive, "Yes, the Supreme Lord is there". There is no more theoretical. So īśvara, and tad-adhīneṣu, and persons who have become devotee, he can understand, "Here is a devotee." Īśvare tad-adhīneṣu bāliśeṣu. Bāliśa means he knows imperson. They do not know what is God, what is to be done, they are called bāliśa. Just like children, arbhakaḥ, bāliśa. And then dviṣāt, envious. Just like you have experienced so many rascals, as soon as they hear of God, immediately they become agitated. They are called dviṣāt, envious, demons. So four things, God, His devotees, and the innocent person, and the demonic atheist. He can see, madhyama-adhikārī. And then he behaves with these four classes of men differently. What is that? Prema, for Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Lord, how to increase love. That is first business, prema. And those who are devotees, to make friendship with them maitrī. Those who are higher than him, he should offer very respectful obeisances, those who are equal, treat them with nicely, and those who are lower then instruct them, bāliśeṣu. Those who are innocent, how to raise him in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is preaching. And dviṣatsu, upekṣaḥ, those who are atheist, don't associate with them. Don't associate with them. That is the madhyama-adhikārī.</p>
| | ''Prākṛtaḥ ''stage. So ''prakṛtaḥ ''stage means just like we are worshiping the Deity, but not only we shall worship Deity, but we make advancement. What is that advancement? To become gradually a preacher. That is ''madhyama-adhikārī'', second stage: preacher. Preacher means that, |
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| | :''īśvare tad-adhīneṣu'' |
| | :''bāliśeṣu dviṣatsu ca'' |
| | :''prema-maitrī-kṛpā upekṣāḥ'' |
| | :''yaḥ karoti sa madhyamaḥ'' |
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| | :([[vanisource:SB 11.2.46|SB 11.2.46]]) |
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| | When you become fully Kṛṣṇa conscious by worshiping the Deity regularly, as we have got prescription to rise early in the morning, offer ''maṅgala-ārati'', then ''kīrtana'', then class, in this way practicing, practicing, when you become advanced Kṛṣṇa conscious, then your natural tendency will be how to preach. So long you do not develop this tendency for preaching, simply remain in ''kaniṣṭha-adhikārī'', you do not know how to deliver others. ''Na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu''. You do not know how to receive elevated . . . one elevated devotee; you do not know how to do good to others. |
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| | So Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission is not to keep one in the ''kaniṣṭha-adhikārī'', especially those who are born in India. He says, |
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| | :''bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra'' |
| | :''janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra'' |
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| | :([[vanisource:CC Adi 9.41|CC Adi 9.41]]) |
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| | This is principle, ''para-upakāra''. |
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