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| {{terms|"All these designations are our ignorance"|"I am poor"|"I am rich"|"I am fool"|"I am learned"|"I am black"|"I am white"|"I am Muslim"|"I am Hindu"|"I am American"|"I am Indian"|"unfortunately, these people are going under the identification of this body"}} | | {{terms|"unfortunately, these people are going under the identification of this body"|"I am Indian"|"I am American"|"I am Hindu"|"I am Muslim"|"I am white"|"I am black"|"I am learned"|"I am fool"|"I am rich"|"I am poor"|"All these designations are our ignorance"}} |
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| [[Vanisource:720222 - Lecture SB 07.09.43 - Visakhapatnam|720222 - Lecture SB 07.09.43 - Visakhapatnam]] | | [[Vanisource:720222 - Lecture SB 07.09.43 - Visakhapatnam|720222 - Lecture SB 07.09.43 - Visakhapatnam]] |
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| In the Bhagavad-gītā it is clearly explained, mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūta ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7 (1972)|BG 15.7]]). In the Bhagavad-gītā, or any Vedic literature, there is no such mention that the jīva is as good as the Supreme Lord. It is never stated. Aṁśa, minute particles. Just like the sun and the sunshine. Sunshine is combination of minute luminous molecular parts. There are finer atomic parts, lumination, combined together, that is called sunshine. That minute particle, shining minute particle, is never equal to the sun. Similarly, jīva is minute particle of the supreme sun, Kṛṣṇa. Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūta ([[Vanisource:BG 15.7 (1972)|BG 15.7]]). So as the small molecular particle, shining particle in the sunshine, cannot become the sun, similarly, the molecular particle of the Supreme Soul, the jīvātmā, is never equal to the Supreme Lord.
| | There are living entities who do not accept this material body. They are in the spiritual world. Their number is greater than the number of the living entities within this material world. They are called ''nitya-siddha'', eternally perfect. And here in this material world, the living entities are called ''nitya-baddha. Nitya-baddha'' means eternally conditioned. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says, ''tat sādhu manye asura-varya dehinām. Dehinām'' means in this material world. We are not this ''deha'', this body. We are ''dehī'': only accepting. Just like I am not this shirt; I am different from this shirt. This is called self-realization. ''Ahaṁ brahmāsmi'', I am spirit soul. That is ''jñāna''. So long I am identifying with this body, then my . . . I am in ignorance, I am a ''go-kharaḥ. Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kunape tri-dhātuke, sa eva go-kharaḥ'' ([[vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]]). |
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| The another name of the Supreme Lord is asama-urdhva. Asama. Asama means never equal. What to speak of ordinary living entities, in the śāstra it is stated that even Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva cannot be equal to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the injunction.
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| If anyone thinks that Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu . . . they're all viṣṇu-tattva, bhagavat-tattva; Rāma. If somebody thinks that Nārāyaṇa is as good as Lord Śiva or Lord Brahmā, sa pāṣaṇḍi bhaved dhruvam: he becomes a pāṣaṇḍī.
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| So this human form of life is meant for realizing our relationship with the Supreme Lord. That is the mission of this human form of life. So our duty in this human form of life is to realize our original relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Prahlāda Mahārāja says . . . there is a stotra offered by Prahlāda Mahārāja. When Prahlāda Mahārāja's father, Hiraṇyakaśipu, was killed by Lord Nṛsiṁha-deva, He was very angry. Because this Hiraṇyakaśipu, although father of Prahlāda Mahārāja, he persecuted him in so many ways. The only fault was that he was a devotee. That is the nature of the demoniac world. Even one's son becomes a devotee and if the father is demon, then he'll be angry. That was actually happening.
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| So Prahlāda Mahārāja, Vaiṣṇava, he is speaking to the Lord, naivodvije para duratyaya-vaitaraṇyāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.43|SB 7.9.43]]): "My dear Lord," para. Para means He is transcendental, not of this material world. Udvije: "I am not anxious." Because everyone is anxious. In this material world, everyone is always anxious, either in peace or war, it doesn't matter. In peace, so-called peace . . . there is no peace. Actually, it is a place for struggle for existence with māyā. So there cannot be any peace.
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| So everyone is full of anxiety. That is also explained by Prahlāda Mahārāja, that sadā samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahāt ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.5|SB 7.5.5]]). When his father . . . after all, father and son, the relationship is very affectionate. So even though father was not happy that his son was growing to be a great devotee, still, one day he called his son, "My dear son, what best thing you have learned from your teachers?" So Prahlāda Mahārāja is answering. He knew that his father was a demon, so he is addressing directly: tat sādhu manye asura-varya dehinām. Asura-varya. "My dear father, you are the best of the asuras." (laughter) Asura-varya. Varya means the best. "My dear father," tat sādhu manye asura-varya dehinām, "I think," dehinām, "for the living entities who have accepted this material body . . ."
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| There are living entities who do not accept this material body. They are in the spiritual world. Their number is greater than the number of the living entities within this material world. They are called nitya-siddha, eternally perfect. And here in this material world, the living entities are called nitya-baddha. Nitya-baddha means eternally conditioned. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says, tat sādhu manye asura-varya dehinām. Dehinām means in this material world. We are not this deha, this body. We are dehī: only accepting. Just like I am not this shirt; I am different from this shirt. This is called self-realization. Ahaṁ brahmāsmi, I am spirit soul. That is jñāna. So long I am identifying with this body, then my . . . I am in ignorance, I am a go-kharaḥ. Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kunape tri-dhātuke, sa eva go-kharaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]]). | |
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| But unfortunately, these people are going under the identification of this body: "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am white," "I am black," "I am learned," " I am fool," " I am rich," "I am poor." All these designations are our ignorance. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says dehinām. Anyone who has accepted this body, tat sādhu manye 'sura-vārya dehināṁ sadā samudvigna-dhiyam. Because the living entity, although spirit soul, he has accepted this material body, asat. Asat means which will not exist. This body will not exist, but we forget that. This is the most wonderful thing in this material world. Everyone is dying every moment, still, one who is living, he thinks that he will live forever. That is the most wonderful thing.
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| So our position is in ignorance, and therefore we are always full of anxiety. Just like this war between India and Pakistan . . . (indistinct) . . . the anxiety is not yet over; it is going on. There may be another war. So in this material world you cannot be free of anxiety. That is not possible. Sadā samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahāt ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.5|SB 7.5.5]]). Asad-grahāt means because we have accepted something which is temporary, not permanent—take, for example, this body—therefore, we must be always full of anxieties.
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| So Prahlāda Mahārāja advised that "The best thing which I have learned is that you should give up this material world." Tyaktva . . . gṛham andha-kūpaṁ ātma-pātaṁ vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta: "My dear father, I have learned this best thing," that tyaktva . . . gṛham andha-kūpam. "This world, material world, which is just like a dark well . . . if a man is thrown into this dark well as he is in this precarious condition of life, similarly, anyone who is in the material world, he is put into the dark well. Therefore, somehow or other, we have to get out of this" and vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.5|SB 7.5.5]]), "We shall accept the shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari." The father became very much angry. Mūrkhāya upadeśa hi prakopāya na śāntaye: if you give good instruction to a mūrkha, to a foolish person, he will be angry. He will not rectify himself, but he will be angry on that count.
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| So Prahlāda Mahārāja was . . . (indistinct) . . . the great devotee in the world. There are many descriptions of his characteristic and activities. In Bhāgavata, Prahlāda-caritra is everyone knows. So when his father was killed, he said, naivodvije para deva duratyaya vaitaraṇyāḥ. Duratyayā. Duratyayā means very . . . very difficult to cross over this ocean of nescience, material world. It is very difficult. We do not know how we have been put into this ocean of nescience. We are traveling, going through 8,400,000 species of life. Sometimes in different species of life in different types of planets and different types of body we are passing through.
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| | But unfortunately, these people are going under the identification of this body: "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am white," "I am black," "I am learned," " I am fool," " I am rich," "I am poor." All these designations are our ignorance. Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja says ''dehinām''. Anyone who has accepted this body, ''tat sādhu manye 'sura-vārya dehināṁ sadā samudvigna-dhiyam''. Because the living entity, although spirit soul, he has accepted this material body, ''asat. Asat'' means which will not exist. This body will not exist, but we forget that. This is the most wonderful thing in this material world. Everyone is dying every moment, still, one who is living, he thinks that he will live forever. That is the most wonderful thing. |
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