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Just to have a loincloth, imitating Rupa Gosvami, and having so many illicit connections. This is spoiling

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

So without being culturally advanced, they do not know the value of life. They waste their life. The advanced persons, they try to reduce waste of time. We have already discussed that the Gosvāmīs, they were ministers. They came to Vṛndāvana not for begging but for advancing the spiritual culture of life. Vṛndāvana is not meant for making a solution of the economic condition—one who has no . . . nothing to eat outside, they should come and beg cāpāṭi and roṭī from door to door. The . . . Rūpa Gosvāmī did it, mādhukarī. Rūpa Gosvāmī used to beg. Not beg, collecting twenty capatis. Only one or two, that's all. Not to collect the cāpāṭis and sell it in the market and get some money and purchase bīḍī. This is not Rūpa Gosvāmī. And just to have a loincloth, imitating Rūpa Gosvāmī, and having so many illicit connections. This is spoiling.

So non-Āryan and Āryan, what is the difference? The Āryan civilization means this varṇāśrama-dharma—four varṇas, four āśramas. And non-Āryan means there is no division. Everyone is one or equal. That is advocated now at the present moment. In India also, they think of casteless society, no caste. But it is not caste. It is division of culture. Brāhmaṇa means advanced in culture; kṣatriya means less advanced than the brāhmaṇa; and vaiśya means less advanced; and śūdra is less advanced; and the pañcamas, fifth grade, sixth grade, kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ (SB 2.4.18), they are less. In this way, high grade and low grade division of the society. One who follows the high-grade culture, they are called Āryans, ārya. In many places in Vedic literature the superior person is addressed as ārya.

So without being culturally advanced, they do not know the value of life. They waste their life. The advanced persons, they try to reduce waste of time. We have already discussed that the Gosvāmīs, they were ministers. They came to Vṛndāvana not for begging but for advancing the spiritual culture of life. Vṛndāvana is not meant for making a solution of the economic condition—one who has no . . . nothing to eat outside, they should come and beg cāpāṭi and roṭī from door to door. The . . . Rūpa Gosvāmī did it, mādhukarī. Rūpa Gosvāmī used to beg. Not beg, collecting twenty capatis. Only one or two, that's all. Not to collect the cāpāṭis and sell it in the market and get some money and purchase bīḍī. This is not Rūpa Gosvāmī. And just to have a loincloth, imitating Rūpa Gosvāmī, and having so many illicit connections. This is spoiling.

Rūpa Gosvāmī came on the order of Caitanya Mahāprabhu to rejuvenate, re-excavate this land of Vṛndāvana. And they were engaged in the service of Lord Caitanya for preaching work. Whatever we are preaching now, it is based on the principles laid down by the Gosvāmīs. Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has sung,

rūpa-raghunātha-pade, haibe ākuti,
kabe hāma bujhabo śrī-yugala-pīriti

The loving affairs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, that is not ordinary material things as we conceive. Generally people are very much interested in painting picture of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa's love. These pictures are very popular, because they think, "Kṛṣṇa is like us. He is after young girls. So He's a great support for us. We are also after young girls. So Kṛṣṇa has done, so we are doing that." So Kṛṣṇa affairs—different. Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says,

rūpa-raghunātha-pade, haibe ākuti,
kabe hāma bujhabo śrī-yugala-pīriti

It is not so easy to understand the loving affairs of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. It is meant for the most advanced spiritually. That is not ordinary thing. Not only the loving affairs of Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī, but everything. They are not material. They are all spiritual. It has nothing to do.

Page Title:Just to have a loincloth, imitating Rupa Gosvami, and having so many illicit connections. This is spoiling
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-22, 10:47:45
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