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Generally we perform religious rites, ritualistic ceremony, yajna, dharma, for getting some economic development. Dharma artha kama

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For, for satisfying our sense gratification we require money, and generally we perform religious rites, ritualistic ceremony, yajña, dharma, for getting some economic development. Dharma artha kāma. Artha is required; money is required for fulfilling our sense gratification, and when we are baffled in gratifying our senses . . . because here the whole struggle is going on. Everyone is trying to be the "Lord of all I survey.".

To understand Kṛṣṇa as a historical person, that He took His birth in the family of Yadu-vaṁśa, Yadu dynasty, and then He was carried to His foster father, Nanda Mahārāja, and He was raised there—this is also one understanding. But the understanding of Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very difficult. It is very difficult.

So by the grace of Lord Caitanya, who is not different from Kṛṣṇa . . . so Rūpa Gosvāmī detected this fact. When Rūpa Goswāmī first met Lord Caitanya at Prayāg, he offered his obeisances in this way:

namo mahā-vadānyāya
kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te
kṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya-
nāmine gaura-tviṣe namaḥ
(CC Madhya 19.53)

He detected, "My dear Lord, You are Kṛṣṇa Himself. Now You have taken the form in the disguise of Caitanya, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. You are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Your mission is to distribute kṛṣṇa-prema." Kṛṣṇa-prema. Kṛṣṇa . . . Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission was to distribute Kṛṣṇa-prema. Premā pum-artho mahān (Caitanya-manjusa). He distributed love of God, how to love God. That is the highest perfection.

What is said here in the Bhagavad-gītā, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahareṣu kaścit yatati siddhaye . . . siddhaye. Siddhaye means how to obtain the perfection of life. The perfection of life is not dharma artha kāma mokṣa (SB 4.8.41, CC Adi 1.90). That is described in the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: dharmaḥ projjhita-atra kaitavaḥ (SB 1.1.2). Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavaḥ atra paramaḥ nirmatsarāṇāṁ.

In the beginning, introduction of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the author, Vyāsadeva, says that all kinds of kaitavaḥ . . . kaitavaḥ. Śrīdhara Swami has commented upon it, kalaḥ niṣandi rūpa. Any religion which is seeking after some result of action . . . generally we perform religion, dharma-artha, we perform religion for getting some economic benefit, artha. And why artha is required? For kāma, dharma artha kāma.

For, for satisfying our sense gratification we require money, and generally we perform religious rites, ritualistic ceremony, yajña, dharma, for getting some economic development. Dharma artha kāma. Artha is required; money is required for fulfilling our sense gratification, and when we are baffled in gratifying our senses . . . because here the whole struggle is going on. Everyone is trying to be the "Lord of all I survey."

So there is baffle, there is confusion sometimes, and at that time they want mokṣa, relief for all these struggle for existence. But Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says that in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam these four things are rejected: dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra (SB 1.1.2). Śrīdhara Swami has commented that mokṣa-vañcapa yajñaṁ nirastam. Then what it is for? It is for simply developing your lost consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Because originally we are Kṛṣṇa conscious.

Because we are all sons of Kṛṣṇa or part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa; therefore Kṛṣṇa and our relationship cannot be, I mean, eliminated. It is eternal. But that, at the present moment, we have forgotten. That is our present position, māyā. By the pressure of māyā we have forgotten our relationship.

Page Title:Generally we perform religious rites, ritualistic ceremony, yajna, dharma, for getting some economic development. Dharma artha kama
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-11-09, 14:25:58
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