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D NO D L rasa L rasa ANCING ITTLENESS ANCING E rasa. ORD . —Bs.5.37 . Ifyoulove rasa NEMIES G hlādinī . Within Ekādaśī AURA ]. , 10 it some persons think that they areGod. understanding ofthe Personality ofGodhead.” Thisisthe Krishna, Youare understood Krishna, he said,“Mydear parama bhavān — in somehell.No.Krishnais money byflatteringsomebodyorworking garbage. ItisnotthatHehastoacquire Krishna hastogothenextmorningdig money forthatdancing.Itisnot morning wehavetogodiggarbagebring enjoy dancinginahotel,andthenthenext do.” Hereinthematerialworldwemay version, that,“TheSupremehasnothingto [ potencies doeverythingforHim.” anything Himself.Hismultifarious Supreme Lorddoesnothavetodo parāsya śaktirvividhaivaśrūyate potency. rasa nija-rūpatayā kalābhi cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis tābhiryaeva going. Butthatlifeiseternal.That have itagain.Itisflashing;comingand finished, andfinishedforever. You willnot finished. Your life—everythingwillbe will befinished. Your American lifewillbe Viu Śvetāśvatara Upaniad Your youthfulenjoymentwillnotlast.It para brahmadhāmapavitra iscalled S S S S S S S S S S , 517 , 517 r r r r r r r r r r i K i K i K i K i K i K i K i K i K i K na tasyakaryakaraacavidyate; B B B Gaurābda B B B B B B B hlādini-śakti r r r r r r r r r r is is is is is is is is is is para brahman [Bg.10.12]. i i i i i h h i i h h h h h h i h h i i n n n n n n n n n n n n n . This n n n n n n n Gītā 6.8]ThisistheVedic a K a K a K a K a K a K a K a K a K a K , Krishna’spleasure du du . Yet afterreading du du du du du du du du Circulation 1,278 ānanda-cinmaya- a a a a a a a a a a para brahman When Arjuna t t t t t t t t t t , theSupreme h h h h h h h h h h amr amr amr amr amr amr amr amr amr amr —“The ānanda- it it it it it it it it it it a a a a a a a a a a Issue Fifty, Page — 2 é[q k*-ZKali, or to be identical with our gross and subtle Durga. No! Kali and Durga are His bodies, being enchanted by the limiting potencies. parāsya śaktir vividhaiva. The energy of Godhead known as māyā. The Supreme has many kinds of potencies. mischief makes its appearance when I Goddess Kali is one of them and Durga is dishonestly begin to think that Godhead, also. Durga is not the Absolute Truth. This His devotees the vaiavas, the spiritual is nonsense. It is stated in the Brahma- guide, and I myself, are on a footing of sahitā, s i-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir equality; or even that I am superior to them. eka chāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti durgā From the wicked thought that I am the [Bs. 5.44]. Durga is the very powerful equal of the spiritual guide and the true material nature. She has the power to devotees, or that they are less than I am, create, maintain, and dissolve. But she is the dreadful offense in the shape of not the absolute personality. She is simply contempt for one’s superiors gathers working like a shadow. As the shadow strength. This is real culpable arrogance as moves when the original substance moves, is clear from the text of the Bhāgavatam similarly, she is only working under the [11.2.47], which says: direction of Krishna. She is the external “One who, while worshipping Govinda, potency. Similarly, Radharani is a pleasure abstains on principle from worshipping His potency, and these gopīs are expansions of devotees is called arrogant.” When the Radharani. They are not ordinary girls. And conviction that all bhāgavatas, devotees, are neither is Krishna enjoying like us, dancing objects of my worship as much as Godhead at night in a hotel and then digging garbage Himself, dawns upon our souls, we are freed in the morning. from the clutches of grief, infatuation and — Initiation lecture, Los Angeles, 16 July 1969. fear. The only method by which this goal is realizable is by the service of Godhead. TRANSCENDING LITTLENESS — Reprinted from the Gaudiya, January 1993. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur A SADHU HAS NO ENEMIES I happen to be an entity dominated by Questions and answers with the knowledge of the five mundane Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja elements. I am entrapped in the functions of littleness by abstaining from thoughts Devotee: You said there is no enemy. But of the great one. Because I have preferred what if someone seems to be impeding your to remain confined to the functions of my idea of how you want to serve Krishna? littleness, the egotistic sentiment that I am Gour Govinda Swami: One who is in the master of myself and of all entities has complete Krishna consciousness never thinks appeared in me. It has become necessary anyone his or her enemy. They see everything to get rid of this desire for domination. as Krishna’s will. What can someone do against Nothing is easier than to assert that the us unless Krishna wills? A sādhu has no enemy. little should aim at being identified with Devotee: How does such a sādhu see the great. If one allows oneself to be someone who criticizes a vaiava, Krishna, mastered by such senseless ambition and or his own guru? Does he see him as enemy? tries to realize his oneness with the divinity, Gour Govinda Swami: No, a sādhu never such egotistic vanity effectively blocks the sees anyone as an enemy. It is up to Krishna. course of all real well-being. The example is Durvasa Muni. He was a When we are cast into the state of evil by powerful yogi, but he committed an offense harboring the hallucination that we are at the lotus feet of Ambarish Maharaja. Sri Krishna-kathamrita Bindu Issue Fifty, Page — 3 Ambarish Maharaja remained undisturbed. way. If someone blasphemes a bhakta, Then Krishna took His sudarśan cakra and ran devotee, you should express anger behind him. Durvasa Muni ran here and towards him. Otherwise you should have there. He went to brahmā-loka, siddha-loka, no anger. Hanumanji’s eyes turned red- and finally to Lord Narayan. Narayan told hot. Ravan had kept Sita-devi in a garden him, ”No, I cannot protect you. You have as beautiful as Indra’s, named “Ashoka”, committed such an offense. Go and beg meaning, “that place where there is no excuse from Ambarish Maharaja. If he offers lamentation”. But Sita-devi was always prayers then the cakra will go away. During lamenting. Ravan had made that garden that period, Ambarish Maharaja had not very nice and beautiful, with many taken any food. He patiently waited, thinking, varieties of flowers and fruits he had “Oh, Durvasa Muni must come back.” brought from the celestial planets. Devotee: So how do we understand that When Tulsidas was reading the Rāmāyaa. sometimes a vaiava shows anger on He was giving a description, “Oh, Ravan’s someone who blasphemes another vaiava Ashok-kanan garden is very beautiful with or the Lord? many varieties of flowers, fruits, and colors.” Gour Govinda Swami: A vaiava tolerates Hanuman was sitting there listening. He everything. But he cannot tolerate blasphemy said, “No, no, no. I have seen the garden. It of another vaiava or the Lord. It is intolerable was all red.” for him. He must be angry. “No, Hanuman. You were very angry at Devotee: What about cow killing and other that time, therefore you saw all red because types of ignorance? Shall we just tolerate it of your angry mood.” or should we try to stop such ignorance? In Hanuman’s anger he saw everything red Gour Govinda Swami: Therefore we — no varieties of color. Therefore it is said preach. We go out and preach and inculcate that a person sees the reflection of his mind. Krishna consciousness in others. If they can What is in his mind, he sees. understand then they will stop. If they cannot Devotee: Once you explained that anger understand, how can you stop it? comes from envy. Haridas Thakur was beaten severely by the Gour Govinda Swami: Muslims. They dragged him to twenty-two kāma ea krodha ea rajo-gua-samudbhava market places giving him very severe lashes. mahāśano mahā-pāpmā viddhy enam iha vairiam His flesh and bones came out. But still he didn’t [Bhagavad-gītā 3.37] curse them. Rather, he offered prayers on their You have material desires, and if they are behalf, “O Supreme Lord, they are devoid of unfulfilled then anger comes. That anger is knowledge. They don’t know what they are born out of rajo-gua. Otherwise why would doing. If they had knowledge they would not anger come? have done these things. Please excuse them. Devotee: In devotional service some Let pure knowledge be imparted to them so in obstacles come and then anger comes? the future they won’t do like this.” Gour Govinda Swami: Anger on whom? Taror iva sahiunā — a vaiava is as tolerant Devotee: Anger on anything that is as a tree. But he is not tolerant if he hears impeding it, a person or anything. blasphemy of vaiava, sādhu, śāstra, guru. He Gour Govinda Swami: Anger on the cannot tolerate it. circumstances or anger on a person? Devotee: Does it mean he is angry but does Devotee: Usually anger towards a person. not feel that person is his enemy? It seems like he is in the way. It is devotional Gour Govinda Swami: He doesn’t feel service and anger should not be there, but any enmity. A sādhu’s anger is a blessing. why is anger there? Hanumanji is a great sādhu. But he was so Gour Govinda Swami: In devotional service angry with Ravan. “He kidnapped the my guru has said that I have to do something. wife of my master.” He became so angry If someone creates an obstacle then anger that he burned all of Lanka. This is real comes: “Why are you doing like that?” A anger. You should utilize anger in that sādhu becomes angry. Issue Fifty, Page — 4 é[q k*-ZHari! THE MOONLIKE LORD GAURA Hari!” He embraces everyone, down to the By Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur lowly ca āla, in His arms. (Sung in dhānaśī-rāga) 3. Overcome with ecstatic love, His staggering gait defeats the walking of 1. vimala hema jini tanu anupāma re tāhe śobhe nānā phula-dāma intoxicated elephants. Clothed in saffron kadamba keśara jini eka ī pulaka re garments surpassing the beauty of the rising tāra mājhe bindu bindu ghāma sun, the movement of His golden limbs 2. calite nā pāre gorā- cānda gosāñi re resembles the dancing of waves. balite nā pāre ādha bola 4. Alas! At that blissfully fortunate time I bhāve avaśa ha-iyā hari hari bolāiyā did not worship Lord Gaura. I did not yearn āca āle dhari dei kola to attain His feet. Lamenting in this way, 3. gamana manthara-gati jini maya-matta hātī Vrindavan Das sings the glories of Sri Krishna bhāvāveśe huli huli jāya Chaitanya and Thakur Sri Nityananda. arua vasana-chabi jini prabhātera ravi Bibliography gorā a ge laharī khelāya — Hare Krishna Mukhyopadhya. Vaiava Padāvali. Sahitya Samsad. 4. e hena sampada kāle gorā nā bhajiluñ hele Kolkota. 1980. Bengali. tuyā pade nā kariluñ āśa — Viswanath Chakravati Thakur. Śrī Kaadā-gītā-cintamani. English translation by Sri Kusakratha Das. The Krishna Library. Culver City, CA. 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