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| :kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api | | :kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api |
| :veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ | | :veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ |
| :([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.14|SB 6.1.14]]) | | :([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13-14|SB 6.1.14]]) |
| <p>Now he is giving very nice example. Veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ. Just like in the dry season there are so many dry grasses from the field, and if you have to clear the field, you simply set fire on the field and everything automatically becomes cleansed. Similarly, deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ. Those who are intelligent enough, dharmajñāḥ, one who knows what is real religious principle, and śraddhayānvitāḥ, and who is faithful, he can get out of all kinds of sinful activities by an intelligent method. What is that intelligent method?</p> | | <p>Now he is giving very nice example. Veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ. Just like in the dry season there are so many dry grasses from the field, and if you have to clear the field, you simply set fire on the field and everything automatically becomes cleansed. Similarly, deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ. Those who are intelligent enough, dharmajñāḥ, one who knows what is real religious principle, and śraddhayānvitāḥ, and who is faithful, he can get out of all kinds of sinful activities by an intelligent method. What is that intelligent method?</p> |
| :kecit kevalaya bhaktyā | | :kecit kevalaya bhaktyā |
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| :tyāgena satya-śaucābhyāṁ | | :tyāgena satya-śaucābhyāṁ |
| :yamena niyamena vā | | :yamena niyamena vā |
| :([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13|SB 6.1.13]]) | | :([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13-14|SB 6.1.13]]) |
| :deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā | | :deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā |
| :dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ | | :dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ |
| :kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api | | :kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api |
| :veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ | | :veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ |
| <p>These are the different steps, how one person can become civilized. So first thing is tapasā. Tapasā brahmacaryena ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13|SB 6.1.13]]), austerities. Therefore in the Vedic civilization the children, they are taught from the very beginning brahmacarya. Tapasā brahmacarya. A small boy, five-years-old boy... That is gurukula. Brahmacārī guru-kule vasan dānto guror hitam ([[Vanisource:SB 7.12.1|SB 7.12.1]]). This is a way of life, to teach the brahmācārya, brahmacarya, celibacy, to restrain from sex life. That is brahmacarya. So this is the beginning of civilization. The unlimited, unrestricted sex life like hogs and dogs, that is not civilization. Civilization, the first of all, to learn how to observe celibacy, to come to the point, no sex life. That is perfect civilization: no sex life. Therefore in the Vedic civilization you'll find the human society is divided into four orders and four spiritual or..., material and spiritual, varṇāśrama. Varṇa and āśrama. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha, sannyāsa.</p> | | <p>These are the different steps, how one person can become civilized. So first thing is tapasā. Tapasā brahmacaryena ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13-14|SB 6.1.13]]), austerities. Therefore in the Vedic civilization the children, they are taught from the very beginning brahmacarya. Tapasā brahmacarya. A small boy, five-years-old boy... That is gurukula. Brahmacārī guru-kule vasan dānto guror hitam ([[Vanisource:SB 7.12.1|SB 7.12.1]]). This is a way of life, to teach the brahmācārya, brahmacarya, celibacy, to restrain from sex life. That is brahmacarya. So this is the beginning of civilization. The unlimited, unrestricted sex life like hogs and dogs, that is not civilization. Civilization, the first of all, to learn how to observe celibacy, to come to the point, no sex life. That is perfect civilization: no sex life. Therefore in the Vedic civilization you'll find the human society is divided into four orders and four spiritual or..., material and spiritual, varṇāśrama. Varṇa and āśrama. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha, sannyāsa.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB611314NewYorkJuly271971_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="606" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- New York, July 27, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- New York, July 27, 1971"> | | <div id="LectureonSB611314NewYorkJuly271971_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="606" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- New York, July 27, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- New York, July 27, 1971"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- New York, July 27, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- New York, July 27, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So here it is said, deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajñāḥ. One who has control, deha, the body, vāk, the words, buddhi, intelligence—they are dhīra. So this tridaṇḍī. This tridaṇḍī-sannyāsa means to become dhīra, controlling śarīra; deha, the body; vāk, words; and intelligence. These things should be utilized. How? By dhīra, those who are dhīra. Dharmajña. One who knows actually the principle of religion. Dharmajña. Deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ, kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api. So because our life is continuously committing sinful activities, from time immemorial... You do not know when it began. Evolution, many births. Therefore this life is meant for rectifying all mistakes that we had committed in our previous life or in this life. How? By this process. Kṣipanty agham. Agham means the resultant action of sinful life. Mahad api. Although it is very great, mahad api, how? Veṇu-gulmam, veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ. Just like if you set fire to unwanted grass and creepers in the field. You set fire, and they will be all burned. Similarly, by this process, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13|SB 6.1.13]]), you can liquidate all of your sinful activities of life and you become purified.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- New York, July 27, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- New York, July 27, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So here it is said, deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajñāḥ. One who has control, deha, the body, vāk, the words, buddhi, intelligence—they are dhīra. So this tridaṇḍī. This tridaṇḍī-sannyāsa means to become dhīra, controlling śarīra; deha, the body; vāk, words; and intelligence. These things should be utilized. How? By dhīra, those who are dhīra. Dharmajña. One who knows actually the principle of religion. Dharmajña. Deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ, kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api. So because our life is continuously committing sinful activities, from time immemorial... You do not know when it began. Evolution, many births. Therefore this life is meant for rectifying all mistakes that we had committed in our previous life or in this life. How? By this process. Kṣipanty agham. Agham means the resultant action of sinful life. Mahad api. Although it is very great, mahad api, how? Veṇu-gulmam, veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ. Just like if you set fire to unwanted grass and creepers in the field. You set fire, and they will be all burned. Similarly, by this process, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13-14|SB 6.1.13]]), you can liquidate all of your sinful activities of life and you become purified.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB611314LosAngelesJune261975_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="607" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB611314LosAngelesJune261975_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="607" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><dd>tapasā brahmacaryeṇa</dd> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><dd>tapasā brahmacaryeṇa |
| <dd>śamena ca damena ca</dd> | | <dd>śamena ca damena ca |
| <dd>tyāgena satya-śaucābhyāṁ</dd> | | <dd>tyāgena satya-śaucābhyāṁ |
| <dd>yamena niyamena vā</dd> | | <dd>yamena niyamena vā |
| <dd>deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā</dd> | | <dd>deha-vāg-buddhijaṁ dhīrā |
| <dd>dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ</dd> | | <dd>dharmajñāḥ śraddhayānvitāḥ |
| <dd>kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api</dd> | | <dd>kṣipanty aghaṁ mahad api |
| <dd>veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ</dd> | | <dd>veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ |
| <dd>(SB 6.1.13-14)</dd> | | <dd>(SB 6.1.13-14) |
| <p>So this is first-class human life. This should be the ideal of first-class human life. The first thing is tapasya, austerity, not extravagance. That is not human life. Tapasya. Tapasā means, generally, voluntarily accepting some inconvenience. And then brahmacarya. Brahmacarya means no sex life. According to Vedic civilization, the students, they are called brahmacārī. In student life there is no sex life. Then his brain will be finished. That is happening nowadays. From the student life they indulge in sex life. Therefore not very big men are coming now—because their brain substance is finished. So a brahmacārī is supposed to raise the semina to the brain, ūrdhvam anti,(?) not discharge, but keep it on the brain. Then their memory becomes very sharp. Once heard from anyone, he will exactly produce, without any forget. Where is that science now? There is no such thing.</p> | | <p>So this is first-class human life. This should be the ideal of first-class human life. The first thing is tapasya, austerity, not extravagance. That is not human life. Tapasya. Tapasā means, generally, voluntarily accepting some inconvenience. And then brahmacarya. Brahmacarya means no sex life. According to Vedic civilization, the students, they are called brahmacārī. In student life there is no sex life. Then his brain will be finished. That is happening nowadays. From the student life they indulge in sex life. Therefore not very big men are coming now—because their brain substance is finished. So a brahmacārī is supposed to raise the semina to the brain, ūrdhvam anti,(?) not discharge, but keep it on the brain. Then their memory becomes very sharp. Once heard from anyone, he will exactly produce, without any forget. Where is that science now? There is no such thing.</p> |
| <p>So to fulfill the human life aim of human life, we have to become first-class human being. The first-class human being, ideal human being, is the brāhmaṇa. And the second class, the kṣatriya; the third class, vaiśya; and fourth class, śūdra. So at the present moment, Kali-yuga, kalau śūdrā-sambhavāḥ. In Kali-yuga there is no first class, second class, or even third class. All fourth-class men, śūdrā-sambhavāḥ. So therefore they are unable to perform all these tapasya or brahmacarya. Then what is their hope for progress? That has been enunciated in the śāstra, Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu has given us the formula that,</p> | | <p>So to fulfill the human life aim of human life, we have to become first-class human being. The first-class human being, ideal human being, is the brāhmaṇa. And the second class, the kṣatriya; the third class, vaiśya; and fourth class, śūdra. So at the present moment, Kali-yuga, kalau śūdrā-sambhavāḥ. In Kali-yuga there is no first class, second class, or even third class. All fourth-class men, śūdrā-sambhavāḥ. So therefore they are unable to perform all these tapasya or brahmacarya. Then what is their hope for progress? That has been enunciated in the śāstra, Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu has given us the formula that,</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB611314LosAngelesJune261975_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="607" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB611314LosAngelesJune261975_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="607" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if we want to know, everything is there; but to understand, that will require a separate brain. That is recommended here. You create your brain. Tapasā, first of all austerity. You cannot create your brain by doing nonsense things. That is not possible. You have to control: śamena damena, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13|SB 6.1.13]]). These are the process to create a brain to understand God. Otherwise it is useless. Śrama eva hi kevalam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.8|SB 1.2.8]]). It is simply laboring for nothing. So this is the recommended, that treatment. That is also not sufficient. In the last, Śukadeva gives an hint that "This kind of purification, by tapasā brahmacaryeṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13|SB 6.1.13]]), is like veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ." Veṇu-gulma, veṇu-gulma means the dried creepers and grass. You can set fire. In India or here also—I have seen in London—they set fire, and all the dried creepers and grass become... But what is the purpose of saying veṇu-gulman ivānalaḥ? Veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ means that superficially we see that now it is burnt into ashes, but the root remains there. As soon as there will be rain, waterfall, they will come out again. So the whole process is how to become detached from this material world. So this, even if you practice this tapasya, it is not completely able to finish these attachments. Therefore it is said, veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Los Angeles, June 26, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if we want to know, everything is there; but to understand, that will require a separate brain. That is recommended here. You create your brain. Tapasā, first of all austerity. You cannot create your brain by doing nonsense things. That is not possible. You have to control: śamena damena, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13-14|SB 6.1.13]]). These are the process to create a brain to understand God. Otherwise it is useless. Śrama eva hi kevalam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.8|SB 1.2.8]]). It is simply laboring for nothing. So this is the recommended, that treatment. That is also not sufficient. In the last, Śukadeva gives an hint that "This kind of purification, by tapasā brahmacaryeṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 6.1.13-14|SB 6.1.13]]), is like veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ." Veṇu-gulma, veṇu-gulma means the dried creepers and grass. You can set fire. In India or here also—I have seen in London—they set fire, and all the dried creepers and grass become... But what is the purpose of saying veṇu-gulman ivānalaḥ? Veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ means that superficially we see that now it is burnt into ashes, but the root remains there. As soon as there will be rain, waterfall, they will come out again. So the whole process is how to become detached from this material world. So this, even if you practice this tapasya, it is not completely able to finish these attachments. Therefore it is said, veṇu-gulmam ivānalaḥ.</p> |
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