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| <div id="LectureonSB631617GorakhpurFebruary101971_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="721" link="Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971"> | | <div id="LectureonSB631617GorakhpurFebruary101971_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="721" link="Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971]]: </span><div class="text">So we should not try to see God. Then we'll be baffled. Sometimes if, trying, trying, if I baffled -- I cannot see -- then I'll conclude, "There is no God. If there was God, I prayed so much and He did not appear before me. Oh, this... It is all humbug." You see? So pure devotion means anyabhilasita-sunyam (Brs. 1.1.11), without any desire. Simply one desire, that "How I shall be able to satisfy Krsna?" That registered... Where is Mr. Singh? He was saying that "I shall do my duty, and I do not want to know whether Krsna is pleased or not pleased." This is not bhakti. This is not bhakti. Bhakti means the bhakta's only business is to understand whether Krsna is pleased by my activity. That is bhakta's business. But because they have no relationship with God, they are puzzled that "How I shall understand whether Krsna is pleased or not?" They are puzzled. That answer is given by Visvanatha Cakravarti, yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah: ** "If you please the representative of Krsna, guru, then He is pleased." Yasya prasadad bhagavat... Otherwise you cannot understand whether Krsna is pleased or not. You can understand also, because if you follow the Krsna's instructions... Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]). If one is completely surrendered to Krsna and he has no other business than to serve Him, then he can understand that "I am now... Even if I do not understand whether Krsna is pleased or not, by the formula I can understand that because I am fully surrendered -- I have no other business -- then Krsna must be pleased." That is the... And practical. | | <div class="heading">My Guru Maharaja used to say that "Instead of seeing Krsna, you serve so faithfully that Krsna will see you." That should be the process. Krsna is omnipresent. He can see you, He can understand you, what are doing. So we have to execute devotional service in such a faithful way that Krsna will see us. Then you will be successful. "Don't try to see Krsna. Try to become seen by Krsna." That was my Guru Maharaja's instruction. Caksur yathaiva krtayaiva antah-param. |
| Krsna appears in two ways. He appears as antaryami, the Supersoul within himself, within oneself, and He appears as the spiritual master, externally. Caitya-guru and diksa-guru. Caitya-guru... As caitya-guru, as the supreme spiritual master, He is in everyone's heart. And His representative... In order to help externally the sincere person, He sends the spiritual master. Therefore the spiritual master from outside and the caitya-guru from inside, they are helping. The Supreme Personality is helping a devotee, a real, serious devotee two ways: from within, from without. The Caitanya-caritamrta therefore says that krsnera prakasa, manifestation of Krsna, a spiritual master. And Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says, yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado yasya aprasadad na gatih kuto 'pi: ** "If I can satisfy my spiritual master, then I understand that Krsna is satisfied. And if I cannot satisfy my spiritual master, then I have no other way to approach Krsna." These songs we sing every day. So my Guru Maharaja used to say that "Instead of seeing Krsna, you serve so faithfully that Krsna will see you." That should be the process. Krsna is omnipresent. He can see you, He can understand you, what are doing. So we have to execute devotional service in such a faithful way that Krsna will see us. Then you will be successful. "Don't try to see Krsna. Try to become seen by Krsna." That was my Guru Maharaja's instruction. Caksur yathaiva krtayaiva antah-param. Tasyatma-tantrasya harer ahisituh parasya mayadhipater mahatmanah. Evam bhutah paramesvarah mad-anyad astiti. | | </div> |
| Now, Yamaraja says that "I have got a master like that." The Yamaraja has anubhuti. Therefore he describes what is the nature, characteristics, of his master. Yamaraja also does not say that "I have seen my master." But he still accepts that there is a master. "I am not all in all." Never said... In these slokas we do not find anywhere Yamaraja says that "I have seen Him." It is very common thing. Now the government is going on. Not that everyone has seen the president or the king, but still, the government is so nicely managed that everyone knows that there is an executive head. So there is no question of this villainy that "There is no God. I do not believe in God. God is dead," or "Everyone is God." Not like that. | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we should not try to see God. Then we'll be baffled. Sometimes if, trying, trying, if I baffled -- I cannot see -- then I'll conclude, "There is no God. If there was God, I prayed so much and He did not appear before me. Oh, this... It is all humbug." You see? So pure devotion means anyabhilasita-sunyam (Brs. 1.1.11), without any desire. Simply one desire, that "How I shall be able to satisfy Krsna?" That registered... Where is Mr. Singh? He was saying that "I shall do my duty, and I do not want to know whether Krsna is pleased or not pleased." This is not bhakti. This is not bhakti. Bhakti means the bhakta's only business is to understand whether Krsna is pleased by my activity. That is bhakta's business. But because they have no relationship with God, they are puzzled that "How I shall understand whether Krsna is pleased or not?" They are puzzled. That answer is given by Visvanatha Cakravarti, yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah: ** "If you please the representative of Krsna, guru, then He is pleased." Yasya prasadad bhagavat... Otherwise you cannot understand whether Krsna is pleased or not. You can understand also, because if you follow the Krsna's instructions... Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). If one is completely surrendered to Krsna and he has no other business than to serve Him, then he can understand that "I am now... Even if I do not understand whether Krsna is pleased or not, by the formula I can understand that because I am fully surrendered -- I have no other business -- then Krsna must be pleased." That is the... And practical.</p> |
| | <p>Krsna appears in two ways. He appears as antaryami, the Supersoul within himself, within oneself, and He appears as the spiritual master, externally. Caitya-guru and diksa-guru. Caitya-guru... As caitya-guru, as the supreme spiritual master, He is in everyone's heart. And His representative... In order to help externally the sincere person, He sends the spiritual master. Therefore the spiritual master from outside and the caitya-guru from inside, they are helping. The Supreme Personality is helping a devotee, a real, serious devotee two ways: from within, from without. The Caitanya-caritamrta therefore says that krsnera prakasa, manifestation of Krsna, a spiritual master. And Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says, yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado yasya aprasadad na gatih kuto 'pi: ** "If I can satisfy my spiritual master, then I understand that Krsna is satisfied. And if I cannot satisfy my spiritual master, then I have no other way to approach Krsna." These songs we sing every day. So my Guru Maharaja used to say that "Instead of seeing Krsna, you serve so faithfully that Krsna will see you." That should be the process. Krsna is omnipresent. He can see you, He can understand you, what are doing. So we have to execute devotional service in such a faithful way that Krsna will see us. Then you will be successful. "Don't try to see Krsna. Try to become seen by Krsna." That was my Guru Maharaja's instruction. Caksur yathaiva krtayaiva antah-param. Tasyatma-tantrasya harer ahisituh parasya mayadhipater mahatmanah. Evam bhutah paramesvarah mad-anyad astiti.</p> |
| | <p>Now, Yamaraja says that "I have got a master like that." The Yamaraja has anubhuti. Therefore he describes what is the nature, characteristics, of his master. Yamaraja also does not say that "I have seen my master." But he still accepts that there is a master. "I am not all in all." Never said... In these slokas we do not find anywhere Yamaraja says that "I have seen Him." It is very common thing. Now the government is going on. Not that everyone has seen the president or the king, but still, the government is so nicely managed that everyone knows that there is an executive head. So there is no question of this villainy that "There is no God. I do not believe in God. God is dead," or "Everyone is God." Not like that.</p> |
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