KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM HH HARIVILAS MAHARAJ’S MORNING BHAGAVATAM CLASS ON SB 2.2.6
- Every one of us is searching after real happiness in life, namely eternal life, eternal or unlimited knowledge and unending blissful life.
- But foolish people who have no knowledge of the substance search after the reality of life in the illusion. A living being’s constitutional position is to render service, but in the atmosphere of māyā, or illusion, or the conditional state of existence, the conditioned soul seeks the service of illusion.
- This material body does not endure eternally, and everything in relation with this temporary body, such as the wife, children, society and country, also changes along with the change of body. This is called saṁsāra, or repetition of birth, death, old age and disease.
- We would like to find a solution for all these problems of life, but we do not know the way. It is suggested that anyone who wants to make an end to these miseries of life, namely repetition of birth, death, disease and old age, must take to this process of worshiping the Supreme Lord and not others.
- If we at all want to end the cause of our conditioned life, we must take to the worship of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is present in everyone’s heart by His natural affection for all living beings, who are actually the parts and parcels of the Lord. (BG 18.65)
- Because we are all part and parcel of the Lord, the Lord is always affectionate to us, and He always tries to get us back home, back to Godhead. But we, the conditioned souls, do not care for Him and run instead after the illusory bodily connections. We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth.
- Actually we are hankering after Him as the child seeks the mother. And to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we need not go anywhere else, because the Lord is within our hearts.
- Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.
- If we are in the conception that “I am this body and the body is everything,” then we are no better that the cats and dogs. So this is a movement to raise people from the platform of cats’ and dogs’ life. It is little difficult, but we have to do it. That is our mission, Caitanya Mahāprabhu = para-upakāra. They’re living like cats and dogs—do something good for them so that they may live like actual human beings.
- People are so much deeply merged into this ignorance, it is very, very difficult to raise them from this ignorance. This is our task. The first business is to convince him that “Your life continues.” Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20].But it is very difficult for the modern man to understand as they have been so poorly educated. But this is the first beginning of knowledge.
- The modern education is how to eat nicely, how to sleep nicely, how to have sex nicely, how to defend nice. And that is the business of the animals. They know how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex, and how to defend. So the extra intelligence of human being is making a royal edition of eating, sleeping, sex and defense.
- The modern civilization is deluxe edition of animal life. That’s all. They do not know what is the aim of life.
- Because they are in darkness, all rascals, mūḍha. Nābhijānāti. They do not know anything. And they’re puffed up by their false education, They do not know how nature’s law is working. Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted this, para upakāra. They are in darkness, tamasi. Bring them in the light = tamasi mā jyotir gamaḥ
- The mission is Indians must be very, very merciful to all outsiders, born in…, out of India. That is India’s mission. Because they are in darkness, Enlighten them, giving them jyotir gamaḥ-tamasi mā:
- Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41]. First of all, make your life successful by Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then do good to others.
- Lord Caitanya consequently wanted this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to be preached on the western side of the world so that people addicted to sense gratification might be benefited by His teachings.
SB 2.2.6 TRANSLATION:
Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.
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In BG(18.61), the Supreme Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the all-pervading omnipresent Supersoul. Therefore one who is a yogī can worship only Him because He is the substance and not illusion.
This idea of substance and category is a big topic in philosophy. Actually real substance os everything is Krsna. It is not the length, breadth and depth. He is present in avery atom as Paramatma. Krishna is the substance and not illusion. Philosophers think the temporary objects or illusory objects as the substance. That is the vision of materialists. Whereas the vision of the devotee is the real substance which is eternally present everywhere that is Krsna. Yogi here means not gymnastic yogi, but bhakti yogi. Every living creature is engaged in the service of Him. Devotees are identified by their service – doing good to others. That is the main theme of Lord Caitanya. SP has written that Lord Caitanya as the model of paraupakar. Famous verse –
A CONDITIONED SOUL WORKS IN THE SERVICE OF HIS TEMPORARY BODY, WHICH IS ILLUSORY
A living being’s constitutional position is to render service, but in the atmosphere of māyā, or illusion, or the conditional state of existence, the conditioned soul seeks the service of illusion. A conditioned soul works in the service of his temporary body, bodily relatives like the wife and children, and the necessary paraphernalia for maintaining the body and bodily relations, such as the house, land, wealth, society and country, but he does not know that all such renderings of service are totally illusory.
EVERY ONE OF US IS SEARCHING AFTER REAL HAPPINESS IN LIFE, NAMELY ETERNAL LIFE, ETERNAL OR UNLIMITED KNOWLEDGE AND UNENDING BLISSFUL LIFE.
But foolish people who have no knowledge of the substance search after the reality of life in the illusion. This material body does not endure eternally, and everything in relation with this temporary body, such as the wife, children, society and country, also changes along with the change of body. This is called saṁsāra, or repetition of birth, death, old age and disease.
WE WOULD LIKE TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR ALL THESE PROBLEMS OF LIFE, BUT WE DO NOT KNOW THE WAY.
Herein it is suggested that anyone who wants to make an end to these miseries of life, namely repetition of birth, death, disease and old age, must take to this process of worshiping the Supreme Lord and not others. it is also ultimately suggested in the Bhagavad-gītā (18.65). If we at all want to end the cause of our conditioned life, we must take to the worship of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is present in everyone’s heart by His natural affection for all living beings, who are actually the parts and parcels of the Lord (Bg. 18.61).
LORD IS ALWAYS AFFECTIONATE TO US, AND HE ALWAYS TRIES TO GET US BACK HOME, BACK TO GODHEAD.
because we are all part and parcel of the Lord, the Lord is always affectionate to us, and He always tries to get us back home, back to Godhead. But we, the conditioned souls, do not care for Him and run instead after the illusory bodily connections. We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth. Actually we are hankering after Him as the child seeks the mother. And to search out the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we need not go anywhere else, because the Lord is within our hearts. This does not suggest, however, that we should not go to the places of worship, namely the temples, churches and mosques. Such holy places of worship are also occupied by the Lord because the Lord is omnipresent.
GODLESS CIVILIZATION
When the temples are devoid of activities, the people in general become uninterested in such places, and consequently the mass of people gradually become godless, and a godless civilization is the result. Such a hellish civilization artificially increases the conditions of life, and existence becomes intolerable for everyone. The foolish leaders of a godless civilization try to devise various plans to bring about peace and prosperity in the godless world under a patent trademark of materialism, and because such attempts are illusory only, the people elect incompetent, blind leaders, one after another, who are incapable of offering solutions. If we want at all to end this anomaly of a godless civilization, we must follow the principles of revealed scriptures like the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and follow the instruction of a person like Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī who has no attraction for material gain.
Srila Prabhupada is harping on the point that one who is attached to the family affairs is entangled forever. The importance of being celebate until 24 years is because one cannot learn anything of value when they are engaged in sense gratification. They are learning to ve sense gratifiers. Because it is based on humanism.
Humanism – an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
Lets eliminate everything spiritual. This is the basic foundation of Education. It does not mention anything about God. Humans do not need God they just need their own reasoning and logic. They are over and over again they are saying there is no GOD and human
Humanistic education (also called person-centered education) is an approach to education based on the work of humanistic psychologists, most notably Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.
If we at all want to end the cause of our conditioned life, we must take to the worship of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is present in everyone’s heart by His natural affection for all living beings, who are actually the parts and parcels of the Lord (Bg. 18.61).
We must therefore extricate ourselves from all illusory connections of the world and seek reunion with the Lord, trying to render service unto Him because He is the ultimate truth.
This one statement right there should be taught to every child….
SP is waging war against atheistic philosophy, mayavadi philosophy and secular humanism….
Is Secular humanism athiest
Secular humanism pedagody basis of modern education
All this is based on Speculation. John lock is one of the biggest speculator. He wrote the constitution.
PARAUPAKAR
CC ADI 9.41
bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya janma yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra
As devotees of Lord Caitanya we are meant to do good to others and not exploit them. BG is not just for Hindus. It is for everyone. He is supreme and speaking to everyone and He is not exclusively Hindu.
That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission. Paścimera loka saba mūḍha anācāra [Cc. Ādi 10.89] = “The Western peoples, they are mūḍhas and anācāras.” So this mission is paropakāra, to give them knowledge and how to become civilized. This is the mission.
The first step to preach anyone is to – convince people that they are not the body they are soul. BG 2.20
Yes. So this is the platform of ignorance. And people are so much deeply merged into this ignorance, it is very, very difficult to raise them from this ignorance. This is our task. The first business is to convince him that “Your life continues.” Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20].
But it is very difficult for the modern man to understand. They have been so poorly educated that it is very difficult. But this is the first beginning of knowledge. And if we are in the conception that “I am this body and the body is everything,” then we are no better that the cats and dogs. So this is a movement to raise people from the platform of cats’ and dogs’ life. It is little difficult, but we have to do it. That is our mission, Caitanya Mahāprabhu = para-upakāra. They’re living like cats and dogs—do something good for them so that they may live like actual human beings. This is our...Everyone should help this movement, prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā [SB 10.22.35], by sacrificing life, artha, money, and intelligence. So you have moved among the higher circle.
CAITANYA MAHĀPRABHU WANTED THIS, PARA UPAKĀRA. THEY ARE IN DARKNESS, TAMASI. BRING THEM IN THE LIGHT = TAMASI MĀ JYOTIR GAMAḤ.
This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, para-upakāra. It is not the business of the Indian people to exploit others. The mission is they must be very, very merciful to all outsiders, born in…, out of India. That is India’s mission. Because they are in darkness; they do not know. So instead of… Enlighten them, giving them jyotir gamaḥ-tamasi mā: “Don’t remain in darkness.” So we are imitating them. This is not India’s good fortune. We should not imitate. That is not very good civilization. That is…, this has been described as asuric civilization in the Bhagavad-gītā. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu, they do not know. Anyway, although they do not know, they are accepting now. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so potential that they are accepting. That is upakāra.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41]. First of all, make your life successful by Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Then do good to others.
THE MODERN CIVILIZATION IS DELUXE EDITION OF ANIMAL LIFE. THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS THE AIM OF LIFE. MODERN EDUCATION IS HOW TO EAT NICELY, HOW TO SLEEP NICELY, HOW TO HAVE SEX NICELY, HOW TO DEFEND NICE. AND THAT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE ANIMALS.
But the things are different. Both the parents and the children, all of them are going again in the cycle of birth and death and wasting the opportunity of getting a human body. This is modern civilization. They do not know this science. They are kept in darkness. This is so-called education. Mūḍho ‘yaṁ nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ paramaṁ mama [Bg. 7.25]. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi… They do not know what is the destination of life. In darkness. There is no education practically. The modern education is how to eat nicely, how to sleep nicely, how to have sex nicely, how to defend nice. And that is the business of the animals. They know how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex, and how to defend. So the extra intelligence of human being is making a royal edition of eating, sleeping, sex and defense. That’s all. What is called? What is called? Deluxe edition. The modern civilization is deluxe edition of animal life. That’s all. Animal-deluxe edition. That’s all. They do not know what is the aim of life.
THEY ARE IN DARKNESS, PUFFED UP BY THEIR FALSE EDUCATION
Because they are in darkness, all rascals, mūḍha. Nābhijānāti. They do not know anything. And they’re puffed up by their false education, false knowledge. Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā. “Huh! I have no ambition.” Vimūḍhātmā. Kartāham iti manyate. They do not know how nature’s law is working. Do they not know?
HUMAN LIFE IS MEANT FOR PAROPAKĀRA.
So as you are Life Member, you should study our, this philosophy. Life Members, they are given books. And preach this, and save this human… That is the duty. Paropakāra. Human life is meant for paropakāra. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission.
bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra
[Cc. Ādi 9.41]
INDIA’S MISSION IS TO DO PARAUPAKAR (PREACH KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS) TO WESTERENERS WHO ARE IN IGNORANCE.
This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mission, para-upakāra. It is not the business of the Indian people to exploit others. The mission is they must be very, very merciful to all outsiders, born in…, out of India. That is India’s mission. Because they are in darkness; they do not know. So instead of… Enlighten them, giving them jyotir gamaḥ-tamasi mā: “Don’t remain in darkness.” So we are imitating them. This is not India’s good fortune. We should not imitate. That is not very good civilization. That is…, this has been described as asuric civilization in the Bhagavad-gītā. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇu, they do not know. Anyway, although they do not know, they are accepting now. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so potential that they are accepting. That is upakāra. Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted this, para upakāra. They are in darkness, tamasi. Bring them in the light = tamasi mā jyotir gamaḥ.
(SB 4.25.52)
On the western side was a gate named Āsurī. Through that gate King Purañjana used to go to the city of Grāmaka, accompanied by his friend Durmada.
LORD CAITANYA CONSEQUENTLY WANTED THIS KṚṢṆA CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT TO BE PREACHED ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE WORLD SO THAT PEOPLE ADDICTED TO SENSE GRATIFICATION MIGHT BE BENEFITED BY HIS TEACHINGS.
Staying in the west and preaching is Lord Caitanya’s instruction. That is why Bhakti Siddhanta Prabhupada instructed SP to go to west and preach. Srila Prabhupada did exactly what his Guru instructed him.