Çré Aparä Ekadäsé Issue no:86 11th April 2018 Life Of Mahätmä Ajamila (Part-1) Features

When Sukadeva Goswami Tested Maharaja Pariksit Sriman Dharma Das

Life Of Mahätmä Ajamila Srila Sukadeva Goswami

Dharma Exists Eternally Alongside Lord Narayana. His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

What Is The Authentic Religious Principle? Srila Bhaktisiddhanata Saraswati Thakura

Eternal Religious Principles Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura Issue no 86, Page — 2 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä When Sukadeva Goswami on this point. It is true that I have punished Tested Maharaja Pariksit many wrongdoers. When sentencing them Sriman Krishna Dharma Das I have even clearly explained why they are being chastised. Furthermore, when eventually Hearing of the miseries of the fallen souls released from their sentence I warn them about in the hellish planets, many of the sages in the severe consequences they will have to face if Naimisharanya wept. In the upcoming age of they re-offend. Nevertheless, impelled by strong Kali, everyone would be sinful and consequently desires, they frequently commit further crimes.” would all have to suffer the horrors of hell. This Sukadeva smiled at Pariksit’s astute reply. is why the compassionate sages had undertaken “Yes, O king, this is true.” Sukadeva explained this sacrifice. They implored the Lord for a way that people sin because they misidentify with to save the pitiable conditioned souls. Speaking the body and mistakenly think that sensual on behalf of the sages, Saunaka disconsolately indulgence equates to happiness. Thus they addressed Suta Goswami, “Dear Suta, pray tell sacrifice all morality to secure sensual pleasures. us how these poor people can be rescued? It is To give up such sinfulness they must be trained the duty of every man to help others with his to properly understand that they are not this body, mind and words.” material body, that they are eternal spirit souls, Suta Goswami spoke reassuringly. “My parts of the supreme spirit. This transcendental dear Saunaka, please take heart. Pariksit also knowledge is known as Vedanta. lamented upon hearing of the conditioned Describing the path of jïäna, or the cultivation souls’ torments. Wanting to benefit them he of such knowledge, Sukadeva continued. “To intelligently questioned Sukadeva. I will now tell realise one’s spiritual nature, one must observe both his question and Sukadeva’s illuminating a life of strict celibacy. Voluntarily giving up answer.” sense enjoyment, one must control the mind Pariksit sat in silence for some moments, his and senses, give charity, be truthful, clean, heart deeply moved by pity for the fallen souls non-violent, follow regulative principles and suffering in their ignorance. Wiping away regularly chant mantras and the like.” tears he asked Sukadeva, “Great sage, you Sukadeva explained that such training in have described how living beings can achieve the practise of yoga destroys sinful tendencies liberation and how they can attain heaven. to some degree, but was insufficient to ensure Those who are sinful, who do not strictly material desires never again arise in one’s heart. adhere to the rules and regulations you have set Therefore, he cautioned, a person could still be out, descend into the darkest regions to endure victimised by sinful desires and go to hell. unimaginable suffering. Pray tell me how such Pariksit listened attentively. He knew of this unfortunate persons can be saved.” path also. The king himself had been trained Sukadeva looked thoughtfully at his disciple. from childhood in spiritual knowledge, and in He had already spoken many spiritual truths. control of the senses and worship of the Lord. Here was an opportunity for him to help Pariksit Despite all this, when plagued by thirst and assimilate the deeper import of those truths. fatigue he had lost control of his mind and “My dear Pariksit, you are a king. Surely you uncharacteristically insulted Sage Samika. All know that a sinful person must be punished in his learning and training had been insufficient order to atone for sins in this life. Such atonement to stop him from such a sinful act. Sukadeva saves him from going to hell in his next life and was right, it was not sufficient. How then could having to suffer even worse punishments at the one be sure of being saved from hell? hands of the Yamadutas. It also deters the sinner Sukadeva said, “If by rare good fortune one from committing further sins and thereby awakens attachment to serving the Lord then by becoming even more degraded.” his grace all material desires will be eradicated, Pariksit looked doubtful. “My lord, forgive even those lying as seeds in the heart.” my impudence, but I cannot agree with you Pariksit asked, “How does one receive such Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.nbsmag.com nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 86, Page—3 good fortune?” he thus spent his time in abominable, sinful Sukadeva immediately replied, “Only by activities, eighty eight years of his life passed by. serving a pure devotee who has an established The now elderly Ajamila had ten sons, of whom relationship with Krishna. This means carefully the youngest was a baby named Narayana. Since hearing from him, repeating what one has heard, Narayana was the youngest of all the sons, he learning from him how to chant the Lord’s was naturally very dear to both his father and his names without offence, learning how to worship mother. Because of the child’s broken language the Lord’s Deity form, as well as how to offer him and awkward movements, Ajamila was very prayers and engage in other such services.” much attached to him. He always took care of the Sukadeva stressed that service to an elevated child and enjoyed watching the child’s activities. devotee of Krishna is the only certain method When Ajamila chewed food and ate it, he called to get release from material entanglement, for it the child to chew and eat, and when he drank awakens a desire to surrender to the Lord. This he called the child to drink also. Always engaged manifests in the heart when genuine attraction in taking care of the child and calling his name, for the Lord’s name, form, qualities and pastimes Narayana, Ajamila could not understand that his has developed. life span was now exhausted and that death was “Although not having fully realized Krishna, upon him. such surrendered souls do not see Yamaraja or When the time of death arrived, the foolish his fierce order carriers, even in dreams.” Ajamila began thinking intensely of his son Pariksit was unsure. He had served pure Narayana. At that time he saw three hideous devotees of the Lord and heard them speak persons with deformed bodily features, fierce, many times. He had developed his attraction twisted faces, and horripulated bodily hair. for the Lord, but still he became victimized by With ropes in their hands, they had come to sinful tendencies and insulted Samika. How then take him away to the abode of Yamaraja. Seeing did service to the pure devotee give any more them Ajamila was extremely bewildered, and protection than cultivating knowledge? because of attachment to his child, who was Sukadeva saw the king’s doubt. After a little playing a short distance away, he loudly called thought, he decided that instead of trying to out his name. Thus with tears in his eyes he explain philosophically, he would instead repeat somehow chanted the holy name of Narayana. an ancient history. The attendants of Lord , the Vishnudutas, — An excerpt from the upcoming book ‘Brilliant as the Sun’ A retelling of Srimad immediately went there when they heard the Bhagavatam, Canto Six by Sriman Krishna Dharma Das. holy name of their master being calledout by the dying Ajamila. Because of his calling out Life Of Mahätmä Ajamila in great anxity Ajamila, had certainly chanted Srila Sukadeva Goswami without offense. As the attendants of Yamaraja were snatching the soul from the core of the Learned scholars and saintly persons explain heart of Ajamila, the husband of the prostitute, the following very old historical incident with resounding voices the attendants of Lord involving a discussion between the attendants of Vishnu, the Vishnudutas, forbade them to do so. Lord Vishnu and those of Yamaraja. In the city When the attendants of Yamaraja, the son of known as Kanyakubja there was a brähmaëa the sun-god, were thus forbidden, they replied: named Ajamila who married a maid-servant and Who are you, sirs, that have the audacity to lost all his brahminical qualities because of her challenge the jurisdiction of Yamaraja? Dear sirs, association. This fallen brähmaëa, Ajamila, gave whose servants are you, where have you come trouble to others by arresting them, by cheating from, and why are you forbidding us to touch them in gambling or by directly stealing from the body of Ajamila? Are you demigods from the them. This was the way he had maintained heavenly planets, are you sub-demigods, or are himself and his wife and many children. While you the best of devotees? Your eyes are strongly resemble the petals of lotus flowers. Dressed in www.nbsmag.com Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya Issue no 86, Page — 4 Top left 4 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä the entire cosmic manifestation according to the three modes of material nature- sattva-guëa, rajo- guëa and tamo-guëa. In this way all living entities are awarded different qualities, different names, different duties [according to the varëäçrama institution], and different forms. Thus Lord Narayana is the cause of the entire cosmic manifestation. The sun, fire, sky, air, demigods, moon, evening, day, night, directions, water, land and the Supersoul Himself all witness the activities of the living entity. The candidates for punishment are those who are confirmed by these many witnesses to have deviated from their prescribed regulative duties. Everyone engaged in fruitive activities is suitable to be subjected to punishment according to his sinful acts. O inhabitants of Vaikuntha, you are sinless, but those within this material world are all karmés, yellow silken garments, decorated with garlands whether acting piously or impiously. Both of lotuses, and wearing very attractive helmets kinds of action are possible for them because on your heads and earrings on your ears, you all they are contaminated by the three modes of appear fresh and youthful. Your four long arms nature and must act accordingly. One who has are decorated with bows and quivers of arrows accepted a material body cannot be inactive, and with swords, clubs, conch shells, discs and and sinful action is inevitable for one acting under the modes of material nature. Therefore lotus flowers. Your effulgence has dissipated all the living entities within this material world the darkness of this place with extraordinary are punishable. In proportion to the extent of illumination. Now, sirs, please explain why you one’s religious or irreligious actions in this life, are obstructing us? one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding Being thus addressed by the messengers of reactions of his karma in the next. O best of the Yamaraja, the servants of Lord Vasudeva smiled demigods, we can see three different varieties of and spoke the following words in voices as deep life, which are due to the contamination of the as the sound of rumbling clouds. three modes of nature. The living entities are The blessed messengers of Lord Vishnu, the thus known as peaceful, restless and foolish; as Vishnudutas, said: If you are actually servants of happy, unhappy or in-between; or as religious, Yamaraja, you must explain to us the meaning irreligious and semi-religious. We can deduce of religious principles and the symptoms of that in the next life these three kinds of material irreligion. What is the process of punishing nature will similarly act. Just as springtime in others? Who are the actual candidates for the present indicates the nature of spring-times punishment? Are all karmés engaged in fruitive in the past and future, so this life of happiness, activities punishable, or only some of them? distress or a mixture of both gives evidence The Yamadutas replied: That which is concerning the religious and irreligious activities prescribed in the constitutes dharma, the of one’s past and future lives. The omnipotent religious principles, and the opposite of that is Yamaraja is as good as Lord Brahma, for while irreligion. The Vedas are non-different to the situated in his own abode or in everyone’s Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana, heart like the Paramatma, he mentally observes and are self-born. This we have heard from the past activities of a living entity and thus our master Yamaraja. The supreme cause of all understands how the living entity will act in causes, Narayana, is situated in His own abode in future lives. As a sleeping person acts according the spiritual world, but nevertheless He controls to the body manifested in his dreams and Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.nbsmag.com nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 86, Page—5 accepts it to be himself, so one identifies with subtle bodies are created according to his desire. his present body, which he acquired because Since the living entity is associated with material of his past religious or irreligious actions, and is nature, he is in an awkward position, but if in the unable to know his past or future lives. Above human form of life he is taught how to associate the five senses of perception, the five working with the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His senses and the five objects of the senses is the devotee, this position can be overcome. mind, which is the sixteenth element. Above the — Çrémad-Bhägavatam (Bhägavata Puräëa) » Canto 6 » Chapter 1: The mind is the seventeenth element, the soul, the History of the Life of Ajamila » Verses: 20-55. living being himself, who, in cooperation with the other sixteen, exclusively enjoys the material Dharma Exists Eternally world. The living being enjoys three conditions, Alongside Lord Narayana. namely happy, distressful and mixed. The subtle body is endowed with sixteen parts; the five His Divine Grace knowledge-acquiring senses, the five working A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada senses, the five objects of sense gratification, and the mind. This subtle body is an effect of the The servants of Yamaraja had replied quite three modes of material nature. It is composed of correctly. They did not fabricate imaginary insurmountably strong desires, and therefore it principles of religion or symptoms of irreligion. causes the living entity to transmigrate from one Instead, they explained what they had heard body to another in human life, animal life and from their authority Yamaraja. Mahäjano life as a demigod. When the living entity gets the yena gataù sa panthäù: [Cc. Madhya 17.186] body of a demigod, he is certainly very jubilant, one should follow a mahäjana, an authorized when he gets a human body he is always in person. Yamaraja is one of twelve great spiritual lamentation, and when he gets the body of an authorities. Therefore the servants of Yamaraja, animal, he is always afraid. In all conditions, the Yamadutas, replied with perfect clarity however, he is actually miserable. His miserable when they said çuçruma ("we have heard"). The condition is called saàsåti, or transmigration to members of modern civilization however do various material bodies. The foolish embodied fabricate defective religious principles through living entity, inept at controlling his senses and speculative concoction. This is not dharma. mind, is forced to act according to the influence They do not know what is dharma and what is of the modes of material nature, even against adharma. Therefore, as stated in the beginning of his desires. He is like a silkworm that uses its Çrémad-Bhägavatam, dharmaù projjhita-kaitavo own saliva to create a cocoon and then becomes 'tra: [SB 1.1.2] dharma not supported by the trapped in it, with no possibility of getting out. Vedas is outside of çrémad-bhägavata-dharma. The living entity traps himself in the network Bhägavata-dharma comprises only that which is of his own fruitive activities and then can find given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. no way to release himself. Thus he is always Bhägavata-dharma is sarva-dharmän parityajya bewildered, and repeatedly he dies. No single mäm ekaà çaraëaà vraja: [Bg. 18.66] one must living entity can remain unengaged even for a accept the authority of the Supreme Personality moment. One must act according to the three of Godhead, surrender to Him and do whatever modes of material nature because his natural He says. That is dharma. For example Arjuna, tendency forcibly impells him to work in a thinking that violence was adharma, was particular way. The fruitive activities a living disinclined to fight, but Krishna urged him to do being performs, whether pious or impious, are so. Arjuna abided by the orders of Krishna, and the unseen cause for the fulfillment of his desires. therefore he is actually dharmé because following This unseen cause is the root for the living entity’s the order of Krishna is dharma. Krishna says in different bodies. Because of his intense desire, the Bhagavad-gétä (15.15), vedaiç ca sarvair aham eva living entity takes birth in a particular family and vedyaù: "The real purpose of veda, knowledge, is receives a body which is either like that of his to know Me." One who knows Krishna perfectly mother or like that of his father. The gross and is liberated. As Krishna says in Bhagavad-gétä www.nbsmag.com Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya Issue no 86, Page — 6 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä (4.9): What Is The Authentic Religious Principle? janma karma ca me divyam Srila Bhaktisiddhanata Saraswati Thakura evaà yo vetti tattvataù tyaktvä dehaà punar janma Bhägavata-dharma, bhakti-dharma, and naiti mäm eti so 'rjuna bhägavata-sevä-dharma are different names for genuine religion. To serve Krishna and His "One who knows the transcendental nature of devotees is that authentic religious principle. My appearance and activities does not, upon Apart from this, everything else is temporary leaving the body, take his birth again in this or conditioned dharma- or even an improper material world, but attains My eternal abode, O religious principle. Devotional service to the Arjuna." Lord is the soul’s eternal occupational duty, and One who understands Krishna and abides by that is why it is called “authentic religion.” His orders is a candidate for returning home, When people realize that all living entities are back to Godhead. It may be concluded that servants of Krishna, they will see with equal dharma, religion, refers to that which is ordered vision. This means they will be liberated from in the Vedas, and adharma, irreligion, refers to the constant tendency to discriminate between that which is not supported in the Vedas. great and small. Dharma is not created by Lord Narayana. To follow the path of peace means to engage in As stated in the Vedas, asya mahato bhütasya Krishna’s service. Devotional service is sanätana- niçvasitam etad yad åg-vedaù iti: the injunctions of dharma, eternal dharma, and is also called dharma emanate from the breathing of Narayana, parama-dharma and ätmä-dharma. Without the supreme living entity. Narayana exists devotional service the jiva’s life is useless. Without eternally and breathes eternally, and therefore devotional service, every endeavor is solely aimed dharma, the injunctions of Narayana, also exist at becoming a master. Devotional servitorship is eternally. on one side of the balance, and the attempt to Srila Madhvacarya, the original äcärya for those master the material energy by practicing karma, who belong to the Mädhva-Gauòéya-sampradäya, jïäna, yoga, or other such materialistic pursuits says: is on the other. Chanting the holy name is the ultimate goal of Bhägavata-dharma. There is no other remedy for our material disease than vedänäà prathamo vaktä harir eva yato vibhuù reciting Krishna’s name. ato viñëv-ätmakä vedä ity ähur veda-vädinaù — Amåta Väëé: Nectar of Instructions of Immoratality: Srila Bhaktisiddhänta Sarasvaté Thäkura. Published by Ishvara Das,Touchstone Media. The transcendental words of the Vedas emanated from the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Eternal Religious Principles Godhead. Therefore the Vedic principles should be understood to be Vaishnava principles because Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura Viñëu is the origin of the Vedas. The Vedas contain nothing but the instructions of Vishnu, and one What is the eternal constitutional propensity who follows the Vedic principles is a Vaishnava. of the living entities? The Vaishnava is not a member of a concocted community of this material world. A Vaishnava “Krishna is the infinite supreme spirit and the is a real knower of the Vedas, as confirmed in living entities are the fragmental part and parcels Bhagavad-gétä (vedaiç ca sarvair aham eva vedyaù of that supreme spirit. In spiritual quality they [Bg. 15.15]). both are identical; but according to the difference — Çrémad-Bhägavatam (Bhägavata Puräëa) » Canto 6: Prescribed Duties for in their completeness and incompleteness their Mankind » Chapter.1: The History of the Life of Ajamila » Verse: 40, Purport. nature certainly becomes different. Krishna is the eternal Lord of the living entities and the living entities are His eternal servants, this is natural.

Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya www.nbsmag.com nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Issue no 86, Page—7 Krishna is all attractive and the living entities are Which religious principles are the purest of all? attracted. Krishna is the Supreme Controlling “That religion is the purest, which gives you Personality and the living entities are controlled the clearest conceptulisation of God. Absolute by Him. Krishna is the seer and the living entities religion requires an absolute conception.” are the seen. Krishna is full of opulence and the —The Bhagavat: Its Philosophy, Its Ethics and Its Theology) living entities are unendowed and insignificant, Krishna is omnipotent and the living entities are Which religious principle is worthy of being powerless. Therefore eternal subordination or called the actual religious system? service to Krishna is the living entities eternal “That religious system whose ultimate goal is nature and the constitutional duty. pure love of God is actual religious system.” The living entity is not a product of matter; rather we is transcendental to matter. —Caitanya Çikñämåta 1/1 Consciousness is our constitution; to love God is our nature. Service to Krishna is that pure love Is the religious principle singular? of God. Therefore, the constitutional duty of a “The religious principle for human beings can living entity is to love Krishna by engaging in His never be many. That religious principle which is service. eternal for all human beings can never become —Jaiva-dharma Chapter :1 varied due to time, place, and circumstance. In fact the eternal religious principle is one and ever uncontested.” Why is Vaiñëava-dharma the eternal religious system? —Çré Manaù Çikñä Chapter:1 “The pure Vaiñëava-dharma that is found in Çrémad Bhägavatam is the eternal constitutional Is eternal religion one or many? dharma of the living entities. All religious “The eternal religion is one. Every living entity principles which have been preached has an eternal religion and it is called Vaiñëava- throughout the world can be divided into three dharma This dharma cannot be changed due categories. These are eternal religious principles, to differences in language, country or caste. occasional religious principles, and temporary Though different people address this eternal religious principles. Those religious principles religion of the living entities in various names; in which there is no discussion about God and they cannot create a separate dharma. Rather the the eternity of the spirit soul is denied are called minute spirit soul’s loving propensity towards temporary religious systems. Those religious the supreme spirit is its eternal constitutional principles which accept the eternity of God propensity or Jaiva-dharma. Since the living and the spirit soul but teach that one can attain entities have different external natures, their the favor of God through temporary methods constitutional propensity also appears to be of are called occasional religious systems. Those different shapes and persuasions. That is why religious principles which teach the attainment the pure state of the living entities has been of the service of God Krishna through pure love addressed as Vaiñëava-dharma Other religious are called eternal religious systems. Even though systems are pure in proportion to the degree that this eternal religious system manifests differently they possess of Vaiñëava-dharma” according to country, caste, and language, it —Jaiva-dharma Chapter: 2 is one and the most satisfying. The Vaishnava religion which is widely spread in contemporary What is pure Vaiñëava-dharma? India, is the epitome of the eternal religious “Two separate dharma are passing on in this system. Moreover great personalities and exalted world in the name of Vaiñëava-dharma: One devotees have accepted that the religious system is pure Vaiñëava-dharma and the other one is taught by our most beloved Lord Gaura Hari, perverted Vaiñëava-dharma Even though pure the son of Sacé, is the pure Vaishnavas religion.” Vaiñëava-dharma is in truth one, according to —Jaiva-dharma Chapter: 2 different rasas it has been categorized as four: www.nbsmag.com Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya Issue no 86, Page — 8 nityaà bhägavata-sevayä Vaiñëava-dharma in the mood of däsya, Vaiñëava- Therefore cultivation of impersonal brahman dharma in the mood of säkhya, Vaiñëava-dharma is causal and not eternal. Similarly the living in the mood of vätsalya, and Vaiñëava-dharma in entities who follow the principles of Paramätmä- the mood of mädhurya. Actually pure Vaiñëava- dharmawith a desire to attain pleasure derived dharma is one and without a second. Another from Samädhi, also make the subtle material name of this dharma is nitya dharma or parä enjoyment as the criteria and thus they also dharma. The statement from the Veda yad vijnate follow the path of occasional religious principle. sarvam idam vijnatam bhavati (by knowing Therefore cultivation of Paramätmä-dharma which everything becomes known) indicates is not eternal. Only pure Bhägavata-dharma is pure Vaiñëava-dharma” eternal.” —Jaiva-dharma Chapter: 4 —Jaiva-dharma Chapter: 4 —Translation by Sarvabhävana däsa Why is Bhägavata-dharma the only eternal religion? “Due to spiritual inclination towards Supreme Lord fortunate souls have a natural taste in the science of pure devotional service. Their worship !! Sri Sri Gaurchandra Jayati !! of the Supreme Lord is neither a function of ISKCON fruitive activities nor mental speculation. Rather Bhāgavata Mahāvidyālaya it is pure devotional service. 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