Sri Krishna Kathamrita

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• “OUR FARM PROJECT MEANS INTENSE LOVE FOR KRISHNA” His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada • “IF KRISHNA IS SATISFIED” Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja Concluded from Bindu 118 • THE TREE OF MY LIFE Srila Lochan Das Thakur WO INDS OF APPY EOPLE

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“OUR FARM PROJECT MEANS We want to introduce this farm project. A farm project means intense love for Krishna. Other INTENSE LOVE FOR KRISHNA” things should be very simple — a little milk, a His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta little food grains, a little vegetables. That’s all. If Swami Prabhupada you have fresh vegetables, fresh milk and food Our aim should be a simplified life. We grains, what more do you want? From milk you should not be attracted by the mod- can prepare an unlimited number of nice prepa- ern city life. Save time and uti- rations, all very palatable and sweet. This is the lize it for advancing in Krishna civilization we want to introduce; not the rascal consciousness. That is perfect so-called civilization and become implicated in life. Just like Vrindavan. the cycle of birth and death. That is not civiliza- Vrindavan life means agricultur- tion. That is killing civilization. Human beings ist, cowherd boys, uneducated should get the opportunity to get out of the girls, cows and calves, trees and fruits. This clutches of birth and death. They are such ras- is Vrindavan. The center is Krishna. They are cals that they do not understand how they are the topmost devotees. These uneducated cow- implicated in this cycle of birth and death. Nor men who have no town life are Krishna’s best do they take it seriously that this is the problem friends. They are unsophisticated, with no —janma-mtyu -jarā- vyādhi- dukha- education, but their love is intense — that is do ānudarśanam [Bg. 13.9]. They are blind ras- perfect! That attracted Krishna more. cals; they do not see that this is suffering. They vndāvana parityajya na padam eka — are simply theorizing, making plans — a rascal Krishna is so much attached to Vrindavan civilization. So we have to introduce real civili- that he does not go anywhere. The gopīs are zation. Therefore we are struggling so hard.  not educated girls with up-to-date fashion. — Room Conversation in Bhubaneswar. 31 January 1977. As soon as there was blowing of the flute, im- mediately they began to run towards Krishna. “IF KRISHNA IS SATISFIED” Some were taking care of children, some were Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja engaged in boiling milk, and some were even Concluded from Bindu 118 lying down with their husbands. Still, imme- diately they ran to Krishna. They were very How many people are trying to satisfy Krishna? crude and unsophisticated, but they had in- You may say, “Yes, we are all trying. We are all tense love for Krishna. That is Vrindavan! engaged in loving devotional service to Krishna. next column ! ! Issue One hundred nineteen, Page — 2 é[q k* ZVishnu, have many material desires. He should also and Vishnu fulfilled all his desires. Lord Vishnu pray to Lord Krishna. Krishna will fulfill all came and told Dhruva, “Ask me for any boon”. desires. He confirms that in Śrīmad Bhagavad- However, upon seeing Lord Vishnu all of gītā (13.23): upadra ānumantā ca bhartā bhoktā Dhruva’s material desires were gone. He said, maheśvara — the Lord is the supreme “I have nothing to ask you.” Dhruva Maharaja’s enjoyer, proprietor, overseer, and permitter. statement is there in Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya (7.28): ! ! TopSri leftKr 3ishna-kathamrita Bindu top rightIssue 3 One hundred nineteen, Page — 3 sthānābhilā ī tapasi sthito ‘ha yasyāprasādān na gati kuto ‘pi. Every day you tvā prāptavān deva-munīndra-guhyam chant this in Gurva aka: “The spiritual master is kāca vicinvann api divya-ratna the bona fide representative, intimate associate svāmin ktārtho ‘smi vara na yāce of Krishna or Vishnu. If you can get his mercy “With the desire of gaining a kingdom, I under- then automatically you can get the mercy of went tapasya, penance. I was just searching for some Krishna or Vishnu. If the spiritual master is sat- pieces of glass but instead I found divya-ratna, an isfied by your service then automatically you can invaluable jewel. ktārtho ‘smi vara na yāce — I am satisfy Lord Vishnu or Krishna. Otherwise, now satisfied. I have nothing to ask for.” whatever you may do it’s not possible.” Although This is most important. He had material de- we try, still we cannot satisfy Lord Krishna or sires at first, and therefore he underwent tapasya. Vishnu because we don’t satisfy our guru. But he became so satisfied that he didn’t ask for Devotee: How do we know if our spiritual any boon. Still, Lord Vishnu said, “No, no! You master is satisfied? go and sit on the throne of your father.” That Gour Govinda Swami: How can you was Dhruva’s first desire. Vishnu said, “You know? Why can’t you know? Why can’t you should sit and rule there for 36,000 years.” Not understand? You should know what the one year or two years, but 36,000 years. With- spiritual master wants from you. out even asking, he got such a great boon and In the tenth canto of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam it all his desires were fulfilled. Then Lord Vishnu is described how Krishna and Balaram were created a planet for him, the Dhruva planet, brahmacārī students in Sandipani Muni’s which will never be annihilated even at the time ashram. Sandipani Muni was their spiritual of complete annihilation. It is an eternal planet. master. He was teaching them. Vipra Sudama Vishnu told him, “After you have ruled your was also there. They were all co-students in kingdom for 36,000 years, go with your mother Sandipani Muni’s ashram. Suniti-devi and live there.” Therefore it is said Sudama was very poor. His wife told him, that if anyone has any material desire to fulfill “Krishna is your friend, and he is such a wealthy he should pray to the Supreme Lord to fulfill it. person. We are so poor. Why don’t you go to However, Krishna or Vishnu gives those Dwarka and ask him for some wealth?” Sudama is a great devotee. He understood, boons in such a way that, like Dhruva Ma- “No, no. One should not ask anything from haraja, a person will never ask for such a Krishna.” Still, when his wife repeatedly re- thing again. A nice description is given in quested him, he thought, “All right, I will go Caitanya-caritāmta (madhya 22.38): and see my friend.” k a kahe, — ‘āmā bhaje, māge vi aya-sukha He went there and Krishna was pleased to amta chā i’ vi a māge, — ei ba a mūrkha see his old friend. He took care of him nicely. “He is worshiping me, and in return he is ask- He recollected the days when they were stu- ing for material enjoyment. He is such a foolish dents in Sandipani Muni’s ashram. At that rascal! āmi — vijña, ei mūrkhe ‘vi aya’ kene diba time Krishna described what is mentioned in — I am not a foolish man. I am vijña, a wise the tenth canto of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. man. Why should I give this mūrkha vi aya, this Once there was no fuel in the ashram. The wife of foolish materialist, material enjoyment? sva- Sandipani Muni said to the boys, “O Krishna and caraāmta diyā ‘vi aya’ bhulāiba He is such a Balaram! There is no fuel today, so how will the food rascal that he is not asking for my lotus feet. be cooked? Go to the forest and fetch some wood.” Instead, he is asking for material enjoyment. He So they went to the forest with an axe to cut wood. is a fool. But I am a vijña, a wise man, so why Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If should I give such a fool material enjoyment? I he had simply desired, so much fuel would have will give him my lotus feet and make him for- come there. Why should he go to the forest and fetch get material enjoyment.” Then all of one’s de- wood? He did so for loka-śik ā — to teach people. sires will be fulfilled and at last one will get the The sun set and it got dark. There was a tor- lotus feet of Vishnu and Krishna. Therefore one rential rain, a great downpour. The land was should worship Vishnu, Krishna, and satisfy inundated with water. It was a dark night, him — then you can satisfy one and all. thundering, lightening, and pouring down rain. But how can one satisfy Krishna? There is a They couldn’t return to the ashram. So they very easy way: yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo spent the whole night standing under a tree. ! ! é[q k* ZBalarama Mandir up. Then the blazing forest fire of birth and National Highway No. 5, IRC Village death came. Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, 751015 Phone: (0674) 2553250, 2557026 durāśā durvāsanā dui u he dhūmāiyā Email: [email protected] phukāra karaye locana marilāma pū iyā Website: www.gopaljiu.org Wicked desires and false hopes were the two Subscriptions: [email protected] streams of smoke that at once arose. This Gopal Jiu Publications is a branch of the Inter- Lochan Das called out, “I am dying! national Society for Krishna Consciousness, egāo egāo mora vai ava gosāi Founder-Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. karuāra jala siñca tabe rak ā pāi Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. “Please! Please! O vai ava gosāi! Sprinkle me Quotations from the books, letters, and lectures of His with the water of your mercy and save me!”  Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ©Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. All other mate- Bibliography rials, unless specified, © ISKCON Bhubaneswar/Gopal — Jagadbandhu Bhadra’s Gaura-pada-tara ginī. Sri Gauranga Press. Jiu Publications. All rights reserved. Blanket permission is Calcutta. 1931. Bengali. given to redistribute Bindu in electronic or print form pro- — Unknown translator. The Acarya’s Songs and Poems Glorifying Lord vided no changes are made to the contents. Gauranga and Lord Govinda. Found in the Vai ava Folio Archives. 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