- . . . mane
- eta cinti' nivediluṅ gurura caraṇe
- (CC Adi 7.80)
So Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu is describing His practical experience about chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. When He saw Himself that, "I am getting almost like a madman," so He again approached His spiritual master and submitted, "My dear sir, I do not know what kind of chanting you have asked Me."
Because He's representing always as a fool, He's presenting that He could not perceive, He could not understand what is happening, but He submitted that, "These are the symptoms I have developed: sometimes I cry, sometimes I laugh, sometimes I dance. These are some of the symptoms. So I think I have become mad."
- kibā mantra dilā, gosāñi, kibā tāra bala
- japite japite mantra karila pāgala
- (CC Adi 7.81)
"I do not know what sort of mantra you have given Me, but it appears that I have become almost like a madman."
- hāsāya, nācāya, more karāya krandana
- eta śuni' guru more
- (CC Adi 7.82)
"'This chanting makes Me obliged to laugh and dance and sing.' So when My spiritual master heard Me, he replied as follows."
- kṛṣṇa-nāma-mahā-mantrera ei ta' svabhāva
- yei jape, tāra kṛṣṇe upajaye bhāva
- (CC Adi 7.83)
Now the spiritual master is explaining, "Yes, this is the right result of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Unless You come to this emotional stage, transcendental emotional stage, You should know that You have not come to the perfectional stage of chanting. So I am very glad to see that You have chanted very nicely and You have developed the desired result."
Kṛṣṇa-viṣayaka premā-parama puruṣārtha (CC Adi 7.84). "Because this emotion means that You are developing love of Kṛṣṇa. And that is required. Not that simply by official chanting You remain where You are. You should develop. This, I mean to . . . laughing, crying and dancing is due to emotion of love of Godhead. So this is not bad." He, I mean to say, informed, the spiritual master of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, yāra āge tṛṇa-tulya cāri puruṣārtha: "Now, the symptoms which You have developed is transcendental and above all other four perfectional stage."
What are the four perfectional stage? In the material world there are supposed to be four perfectional stage of human life. What is that? First perfectional stage is that when one becomes very expert in following the religious principles. That is also another perfectional stage of common man. You have got your principles of religions, say, either Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Jew. You have got your own Bible or Testament or Koran or Vedas.
There are rules and regulation, rituals, everything. So one who follows those rules and regulation, they are called religionist. And what is the effect of becoming religionist? The effect is that you can live very peacefully without any material want. Simply by following the rules and regulation of your scripture, it doesn't matter in which religion you belong to, but if you follow the rules and regulation, then your life will be peaceful and there will be no material want.
That is not, of course, peaceful. You cannot expect any peace in this material world, because the major problem is birth, death, old age and disease. So you cannot check this. But somehow or other, your life will be peaceful and more than those, I mean to say, upstarts who do not follow any rules and regulation. You'll be in better position, far better position than them. So this is one perfection, to become a man of religiosity.
Then, if you become a man of religiosity, then your economic wants will be almost nil. Dharma, artha and kāma. And, if your economic wants are fulfilled, then you can fulfill your sense enjoyment very nicely. We want economic development—why? Because we want to . . . ordinary man who is in the material world, he wants to fulfill his sense . . . he has got so many demands of his senses, either in this world or in the other world.
Suppose a man is trying by his . . . following the religious principle to go to other planets. What is the purpose of going to other planets, heavenly planets? It is for having a better facility for sense enjoyment. Just like, according to Hindu conception, the heavenly planet Indraloka, it is said there are very beautiful women and very beautiful garden, and they can drink soma rasa and enjoy life for ten thousands of years, and their one day is equal to six months of this planet. So opulence, life, enjoyment, far, far greater than this; therefore they want to go to the heavenly planet.
Similarly . . . these are facts. These are not, I mean to say, stories, or fiction. These are facts. Similarly, in the Koran also there is such injunction that if one follows the principles of Koran, in the next life they'll go to Hur, the land of the Hu, the same beautiful woman. Because we have got this material idea, sense gratification, and the last word in the sense gratification is sex life. That's all. So if we think that, "Going to that place, I will have free sex life and the beautiful man, beautiful woman, and nice drinking, nice eating," oh, so materialists, they think, "This is perfection of life. This is perfection of life."
So dharma, artha, kāma, and the last stage is salvation. Salvationist. What are the salvationist? When a person becomes frustrated by become a man of religiosity, a rich man of economic development and satisfaction of sense gratification, when he . . . one has seen that all these things has not given him any peace of mind, then he wants to become out of this scene and become one with the Supreme. This is called salvationist. So somebody is thinking void, somebody is thinking impersonal Brahman. So the last stage is to become extinguished in the void or impersonalism. That is called salvation—salvation from this material entanglement.