Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā, Verse 35

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New York, July 31, 1971
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **.
eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ
yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ
aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.35]
Eko 'py asau, that Govinda by His one expansion of plenary
portion, eko 'py asau, that expansion is meant for creating this material
world. Eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi. Not one universe, but
billions of universes. As you see within this universe, there are millions
and trillions of planets. Similarly, there are millions and trillions of
universes. Jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi. So in each universe, Govinda enters, then
it becomes developed. Just like the matter created by the male and
female, the jīva soul enters and then the body develops. Similarly, this
material... Matter has no power of developing. Govinda enters into the
matter, and therefore the universe develops. It is very easy to
understand. Simply matter, combination of matter, cannot produce any
development. Govinda. Eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi koṭiṣ...
Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham, so Govinda is, the
atomic theory that combination of atom, paramāṇu vāda is this
material world, but we say that within the atom there is Govinda. Aṇor
aṇīyan mahato mahīyān. Govinda is greater than the greatest and
smaller than the smallest. That is Govinda. Aṇḍānta...
We cannot imagine, we cannot see even atoms with your naked eyes.
Unless six atoms combine together, you cannot see. One atom we
cannot see. Paramāṇu, aṇu paramāṇu. If six paramāṇu combines in,
one becomes atom. There are so minute divisions. So, aṇḍāntara-stha-
paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ govindam ādi-
puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs. 5.35]. So we
worship... Brahmā says tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. I am worshiping that
Supreme Personality of Godhead, and we are disciplic succession
from Brahmā. Therefore our process is to follow the footsteps
of ācāryas. Ācāryopāsanam, in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, for
making progress in knowledge, one has to worship ācārya,
ācāryopāsanam. So by paramparā system we follow.
How Govinda enters, that doesn't matter. We do not bother about that
thing. That is not our business. How Govinda enters in the atom, that is
not our business. Our ācārya says, aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-
cayāntara-stham, He enters. We accept, that's all. Our business is
finished. This is Vedic way of understanding. We take knowledge from
the authority and do not bother unnecessarily speculating. We don't
waste our time in that way. Our time is very valuable. Instead of
researching how Govinda enters in the atom, we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa,
utilize that time. So this line is very nice. Every knowledge is perfect
there from the disciplic succession. You take it and be advanced, that's
all. We don't bother much.
Just like Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya. You
know, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya was a great scholar,
and Māyāvādī scholar, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu made him surrender
unto Him. He became Caitanya Mahāprabhu's admirer, follower after
being defeated in Vedānta-sūtra, understanding. That story is there in
the Teachings of Lord Caitanya. So Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya became
convinced that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Kṛṣṇa. He wrote hundred
verses about Caitanya Mahāprabhu, out of two verses are available in
the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. He composed—he was a very learned
scholar—he composed one hundred verses
about Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and handed it over. But in all those verses
he admitted that "You are Kṛṣṇa." So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, of course
He was very much pleased that Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya understood,
but because He was playing the part of an ācārya, He, externally He
became, "What you have written all these things?" He immediately torn
out and throw it away. But the devotees saved only two. That two verses
are there.
vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga-
śikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ
śrī (kṛṣṇa) caitanya mahāprabhu (śarīra-dhāri)
kṛpāmbudhir yas tam ahaṁ prapadye
[Cc. Madhya 6.254]
You'll find that verse that "You are the same Śrī Kṛṣṇa, you have come
to teach us vairāgya-vidyā." Vairāgya-vidyā means how to become
unattached with this material world. That is called vairāgya-
vidyā. Because our, we are accepting different types of body on account
of our attachment. Because we are attached to this material world... We
want to enjoy. That is illusion. We cannot enjoy, we are simply
suffering, but we are accepting it as enjoyment.
 Just like these karmīs. It is very distinctly visible wherever you go,
so many congested work (?). All buses and cars are running, so many
luggages being loaded in the street. Bharam udvahato. Great humbug,
you see, great humbug. Prahlāda Mahārāja said māyā-
sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān [SB 7.9.43], actually they are
taking so much trouble for loading these big, big cases, but because
they're getting, say $40.00 a day, they say, think, "I am enjoying. I am
enjoying." Actually he's working so hard, just like ass or hogs, day and
night, but because getting some money and with that money because he
is gratifying his senses, he thinks "I am happy." This is illusion.
Illusion. He does not know what is real happiness for a second. The
illusory material world happiness means sex life, that's all. How long
does it stay? Say for minutes. But they're working so hard. This is called
illusion. Actually he is being killed, but he thinks that "I am enjoying."
This is illusion. Opposite.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja was very much sympathetic that "I am simply
anxious for these rascals who have created a humbug civilization for
temporary happiness," māyā-sukhāya. Māyā-
sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān [SB 7.9.43]. They have
created ugra karma. This is stated in the Bhagavad-
gītā, ugra karma. Huge factory, day and night melting iron, and they
are working, working. The special technologies, getting some money,
they're happy. They do not know how they're wasting their valuable
life. This is called māyā. Why so much work? Why you are working so
hard? Do you think if you'll get hundred dollars per day you can eat
more capātīs than myself? (laughter). Rascal does not know that he
will eat the same number of capātīs, four or five or six, but he'll work so
hard. So we are the best intelligent class. We don't work, but we get
our capātīs. (laughter) Let the rascal work, but we get
our capātīs. Māyā-sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhan [SB 7.9.43].
So people sometimes envy us. Gargamuni was telling in Los Angeles
that this, some dealers, neighboring dealers, they were asking, "How
you get money? You are living in such a nice place and you are eating so
nice. Where you get money?" They are envious. So I told Gargamuni
that why don't you ask them to come and join? You also eat and dance.
Why you are working so hard? That will, they'll not do. This
is māyā. This is māyā. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that "The whole
country or the city, whole men, let them in, let them come here. I shall
provide them with food." But they will not do.
 So māyā-
sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān [SB 7.9.43]. Therefore Śukadeva
Gosvāmī is recommending that happiness, material happiness also, is
due to pious activities. Unless you are pious, you cannot be happy, even
materially. And if you simply commit sins, Rūpa Gosvāmī has
analyzed—you will read in the Nectar of Devotion—that distress is due
to ignorance, simply ignorance. The distress and happiness... Actually
you can see those who are not educated fairly, they cannot get any good
job. Therefore it is, his distress is due to less, poor fund of knowledge.
So actually our distress is due to ignorance and in ignorance only, we
commit sinful activities. Therefore our topics began
that, prāyaścittaṁ vimarśanam. We are trying to remove the
ignorance of the people, therefore we are giving the best service to the
human society. We are simply trying to remove the ignorance. Ceto-
darpaṇa-mārjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12], we are trying to polish or
cleanse the heart. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-
nirvāpaṇam. As soon as the heart is cleansed, the heart that... Now I
am indifferently conscious. I am thinking that "I am American," "I am
Indian," or "I am this," "I am that." "I have to work, I have got
business." So many you have created. But, our process is, our process is
to cleanse the heart. That you are nothing of this, you are simply
eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. You engage yourself as eternal servant
of Kṛṣṇa and become happy. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-
dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Because we are ignorant of
our constitutional position we have created all these problems.
Actually there is no problem. Exactly the same example, just like at
night in dream we create so many problems, but actually there is no
problem. But dreaming, that I am in such and such position, I am being
harassed, somebody is taking my money, somebody is pinching me, so
many things. I am in the front of tiger, there is ghost, there is so many
things. So these problems, actually there is no problem, but by
dreaming he is creating, mental. Asaṅgo hy ayaṁ puruṣaḥ, Veda says
that this puruṣa, the ātmā, the soul has no connection with all these
things. So we have created, by material concoction, so many problems.
So the whole process is how to cleanse this dreaming condition of life.
That is possible. First of all Śukadeva Gosvāmī recommended
that, tapasā brahmacaryeṇa śamena da... [SB 6.1.13], gradually you
have to go. Generally this is the process. First process is those who are
grossly ignorant: for them atonement. You have done this mistake, all
right you atone for this. But they'll commit again. Therefore the next
stage, the karmīs, karmīs are grossly ignorant, unnecessarily working
so hard. Karmīs, to get some material result out of it. They are
called karmīs. And next prāyaścitta vimarsanam, those who are a
little advanced in knowledge, they think that I am making atonement,
again committing the same thing. I am getting medicine from the
physician, again I am being infected by the same disease. How long this
business will go on? When one comes to the discussion within himself,
then he's little farther advanced than this, these rascal karmīs. And
above them, those who are bhaktas. Karmī, jñānī, bhakta. Yogi comes
to the jñānī platform. Karmī, jñānī, yogi and bhakta. So a bhakta can
be peaceful, others cannot. The karmīs cannot be peaceful,
the jñānīs cannot be peaceful, the yogis cannot be peaceful, only
the bhaktas, they can be peaceful. Why? Because everyone except
the bhakta, śuddha-bhakta, pure, has desire.
A śuddha-bhakta has no desire. They are simply happy by
serving Kṛṣṇa. They do not want to know Kṛṣṇa even, whether Kṛṣṇa is
God or not, they don't bother. They want to love Kṛṣṇa, that's all,
whatever Kṛṣṇa may be. Not that because Kṛṣṇa is omnipotent, God, all-
pervasive, Nārāyaṇa. No, no. In Vṛndāvana they did not know, the
cowherds boy, the gopīs, they did not know whether Kṛṣṇa is God or
something else, but they were too much inclined to love Kṛṣṇa. That's
all. That was their position. They were not Vedantists, they are not
yogis, they are not karmīs, village girls, boys. They wanted to
see Kṛṣṇa happy, that's all. That is their position. This is
called sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-
paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170].
Yogis, jñānīs, they are trying to understand God, but they do not
know they are in illusion. They're in illusion. So far karmīs are
concerned, they're in illusion, māyā-
sukhāya bharam udvahato vimūḍhān [SB 7.9.43]. They're fools and
rascals because for illusory happiness for a moment, they are working
so hard. Therefore, they are rascal number one. They cannot, how they
can have peace? There is no question. And next the jñānīs. Jñānīs, they
want to get relief from this hard work of this material
world. Brahmā satyaṁ jagan mithyā, they reject this material
world. Mithyā, false. We have no, nothing to (indistinct). That is little
higher than the karmīs, because the karmīs, they have taken this
material world as everything. Here we shall be happy.
Their dharma means: how we shall live peacefully here in this material
world. Their religion means. I've talked with so many, their religion
means to make a peaceful atmosphere within this material world. But
the rascals do not know that it has been tried for millions of years for
making this world peaceful. It has never happened. And never it will
happen. How it will happen?
This place is meant for giving you troubles and miseries. Kṛṣṇa says,
the Creator says, duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam [Bg. 8.15], this is a place
simply for suffering and that also temporary. You cannot make an
agreement, "All right, let me suffer the three-fold miseries, I will stay
here." That also will not be allowed. You cannot stay. You cannot stay.
You will be kicked out. You make your good bank balance, skyscraper
house, and wife, children, cigarette, wine, liquor, I am living very
peaceful. That's all right, but one day comes, please get out. (laughter)
"Why? It is my house, I have got bank balance, I have got everything, I
have got factory, why shall I get out?" "Yes, you get out. Don't talk, get
out." (laughter) That day he sees God. "I did not believe in God, now
here is God, making everything finished." Everything finished. Sarva-
haraś cāham, Kṛṣṇa says, that "I am God for the demons when I take
away everything from them at the time of death." "You do not believe
God, all right, here I am. Today I am here. I have come to you to take
away everything, whatever you have got. Now get out!" They will see
God on that day.
So why not see God, here, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. Why you want to see God...?
Just like Hiraṇyakaśipu. Prahlāda's seeing God, and Hiraṇyakaśipu is
seeing God by death. And Prahlāda is seeing God, "Oh, here is my
Lord." So those who are challenging that whether you can show me
God, they will see God, like Hiraṇyakaśipu. Everyone will see God, but
one who is sane, one who knows that I am eternally related with Kṛṣṇa,
God, He loves me, my duty is to love. He is so much kind, that even I do
not, even though I do not love Him, still He gives me food. He gives me
fruits, flowers, grains, whatever I want, God is
supplying. Eko bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. You cannot manufacture.
So Kṛṣṇa, God is so kind, that He is supplying food to the atheist also.
But the atheist has no knowledge that where from I am getting my
foodstuff. That is ignorance. So therefore they are committing so many
sinful activities. It is due to ignorance, nothing but ignorance. Atheist
means in gross ignorance, that's all. Otherwise any person who is
honest, he can see God everywhere, always.
Just like Kṛṣṇa says, try to understand Me, try to under... Try to see
Me everywhere. How? Now, first of all He says, raso
'ham apsu kaunteya, I am the taste of the water. So when you are
thirsty, you require a glass of water, drink it, and when you feel happy
you understand that this quenching power of this water is Kṛṣṇa. That
is Kṛṣṇa realization. Raso 'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-
sūryayoḥ [Bg. 7.8]. So as soon as there is sunrise, you
see Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says "I am the sunshine, I am the moonshine." So why
don't you try to see Kṛṣṇa? In the Bhagavad-gītā, it is said, there is a
big list. Just like Kṛṣṇa says "I am the Lion amongst the animals."
Because He took the shape of a lion, Hiraṇyakaśipu, eternal shape. I am
the banyan Tree, so many thing. Kṛṣṇa has described in the Bhagavad-
gītā. So in the beginning, if one is not fortunate enough to see Kṛṣṇa,
although He is sitting in this temple, let him see Kṛṣṇa in this way. If
he's not fortunate to come here and to see Kṛṣṇa, take prasādam, and
dance in ecstasy, then let his unfortunate condition be diminished by
seeing Kṛṣṇa in water, in sunshine, in moonshine, in this and that.
Kṛṣṇa is visible, but Kṛṣṇa is visible to the
devotees. Nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-
samāvṛtaḥ [Bg. 7.25], I am not exposed to everyone, yoga-māyā-
samāvṛtaḥ, covered by the curtain of yoga-māyā. But those who have
developed love of Kṛṣṇa, for them, premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-
vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti [Bs. 5.38]. One who
has developed love of Kṛṣṇa, he can see Kṛṣṇa within his heart twenty-
four hours. So it is very nice proposition, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Please
take to it. We are canvassing. We are sending our devotees to the street,
begging, "Please come to our temple, be Kṛṣṇa conscious." That is our
business. Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted it. Go door to door, even at the
risk of life, and ask these rascals to come
to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Māyā-sukhāya, because they're, they're
thinking, "Oh, we are very happy." Illusion. The happiness will be
finished within a second. As soon as death will come, finished. But one
can say that "Death will come to you also." "Yes, that's all right." "Then
why do you distinguish my death and your death?" "Yes, because you
do not know where you are going, but I know where I am going, that is
the difference." How do you know? Kṛṣṇa says. What does He
say? Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti. One who has
understood Kṛṣṇa, one has served Kṛṣṇa sincerely and seriously, he is
not going to come again to take any material body. Then where does he
go? Oh, mām eti, he comes to Me.
So how you can go to Kṛṣṇa unless you have got a body like Kṛṣṇa?
Yes, that is the position. Sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ [Bs.
5.1], īśvara (indistinct). Just like you cannot enter into fire without
being fire. Similarly, next life for the devotees is sac-cid-ānanda-
vigrahaḥ, eternal body, blissful life, dancing with Kṛṣṇa in rasa dance.
You have seen the picture. Like the gopīs, like the cowherd boys. Kṛta-
puṇya-puñjāḥ [SB 10.12.11]. Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that these boys
who are playing with Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana, kṛta-puṇya-puñjāḥ, for many
millions of years they simply accumulated pious results of their
activities. The Bhagavad-gītā also says, yeṣāṁ tv anta-
gataṁ pāpam, one he, one who is simply free from all reaction of sinful
life, yeṣāṁ anta-gataṁ pāpam. How it is possible? Janānāṁ puṇya-
karmaṇām. Those who are simply engaged in pious activities, the
sinful activity cannot touch them. That is natural. If you are engaged in
some type of activities, you are not engaged in other activities, you
cannot do. Similarly, if you simply engage yourself in pious activities,
the reaction of sinful activities cannot touch you. Yeṣāṁ anta-
gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām te, such persons, dvandva-
moha-nirmuktā, they're released from the
duality, bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ. So you are engaged in that
business. There is no scope of sinful reaction in your life, provided you
follow the four principles. No intoxication, no meat eating, no illicit sex,
no gambling. These four items and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, sixteen rounds. Is
it very difficult? And here is Kṛṣṇa's certificate. So do it, rigidly, and be
happy. Thank you very much. (devotees pay obeisances)
Devotee: We've got a great desire to distribute Back to
Godhead magazines. We've got such a great desire. We want to
distribute a lot of Back to Godheads more and more Back to Godheads.
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Devotee: We wonder, perhaps you could advise us.
Prabhupāda: So, so what do you want? That desire is nice, that's all.
Either you distribute or not distribute, keep that desire, that's all.
(laughter) (sound of package being opened) What is this,
coconut? Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ. (end)