Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.113–17 – February 23, 1967, San Francisco
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Sri Caitanya-caritamrta,
Adi-lila 7.113-17 - February 23, 1967, San Francisco 670223CC-San Francisco [25:37 Minutes]
You should not worship any other demigods
Prabhupada: [chants mahgalacarana prayers]
om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena tasmai sri-gurave-namaḥ sri-caitanya-mano-'bhistam sthapitam yena bhū-tale
svayam rūpaḥ kada mahyam dadati sva-padantikam vande 'ham sri-guroḥ sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurūn vaisnavams ca
sri-rūpam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam tam sa-jivam sadvaitam savadhūtam parijana-sahitam krsna-caitanya-devam sri-radha-krsna-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams ca he krsna karuna-sindho dina-bandho jagat-pate
gopesa gopika-kanta radha-kanta namo 'stu te tapta-kancana-gaurahgi
radhe vrndavanesvari vrsabhanu-sute devi pranamami hari-priye vancha-kalpa-tarubhyas ca
krpa-sindhubhya eva ca patitanam pavanebhyo vaisnavebhyo namo namaḥ sri-krsna-caitanya
prabhu-nityananda sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrnda hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare This..., this, up to this we discussed yesterday.
So parasya saktir vividhaiva srūyate. This is from Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad. So the commentator said that in the Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad it is stated, parasya saktir vividhaiva srūyate: "That Supreme Personality of Godhead's energies are variously manifested." Parasya saktir vividhaiva srūyate na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate.
Just like a very... In your country it is very easy to understand that a man is sitting as controller in the control room, the subway trains. He, in his table, he has got everything ready: which train is running on which line, where it is, in which station it is now. So he has got switches and he's controlling everything. Not only here; in India also they have now managed. So they can say which train is where it is now.
The light also moves according to the train moving. Similarly, if you can manufacture, if you can invent your own energies in different ways, as the modern material civilization they are discovering different manifestation of energy by machine, by electronics, and they are managing from one place, similarly, if it is..., materially it is possible, why not spiritually? Spiritual is still finer.
So parasya saktir vividhaiva srūyate. He has got so many energies, subtle energies, that He appears to be doing nothing. Just like Krsna. Krsna is at Vrndavana. He is playing as cowherds boy or He is dancing with the cowherd girls or He is going to the pasturing ground with the cows as if He has nothing to do. He is free. Why He is free? Because He has got so many energies to act that He hasn't got to see personally whether things are being done or not done. This is the Absolute Truth qualification.
Parasya saktir vividhaiva srūyate, na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate, na tat-samas cabhyadhikas ca drsyate. There is another qualification: that Supreme Personality of Godhead is so that nobody is equal or higher than Him in opulences. Na tasya samaḥ. Samaḥ means equal, and adhikasya, adhikasya means higher. He has no equal; neither anybody is more than Him. Therefore everybody is under Him, subordinate to Him.
Tad visnoḥ paramam padam. Similarly, in the Svetasvatara Upanisad there is another statement, that tad visnoḥ paramam padam sada pasyanti sūrayaḥ [Rg Veda 1.22.20].
Visnum padam. Visnu is the highest, Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this material world, which is being conducted by three modes of material nature, so Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara. Brahma is in charge of the creation, Visnu is in charge of maintenance, and Lord Siva is in charge of destruction, dissolution.
Janma..., janma-sthiti-pralaya. Everything material, it has got a fixed date of its birth, its duration and its dissolution. So the Visnu, in the Svetasvatara Upanisad, out of these three Deities, visnoḥ tat-paramam padam, that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Tad visnum paramam padam..., visnum paramam padam, Visnu.
Those who are sūrayaḥ... Sūrayaḥ. Sūrayaḥ means those who are demigods. There are two kinds of people: sura and asura. Asura means demons, and sura means godly. So sūrayaḥ tad visnum paramam padam sada pasyanti. Those who are demigods, those who are godly, they are simply searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth. They are focusing their concentration, their meditation, on the lotus feet of Visnu. This is the statement of Svetasvatara Upanisad.
Sa iksancakre. In the Prasna Upanisad... In the... This is in the Rg-veda; I am sorry. This version, tad visnoḥ paramam padam sada pasyanti sūrayaḥ, this version is from Rg-veda. Then again, in the Prasna Upanisad, there is another statement, sa iksancakre: "He glanced over. Glanced over." "Glanced over" means when He glanced over, then the creation began, this material creation.
Therefore it should be understanding..., it should be understood that this glancing is not material, because before His glancing there was no material creation. So our glancing and His glancing is different. Our glancing-we are seeing with these material eyes. As soon as these material eyes will be taken away, we cannot see; you are blind. But He... Here is the statement, iksancakre: "He saw." "He saw" means He saw with His spiritual eyes. Otherwise where is the material creation, that He can have material eyes? So these things are to be considered.
Similarly, if He has got spiritual eyes, then He has got spiritual ear, He has got spiritual nose, He has got spiritual head, body, everything spiritual. And it is confirmed in the Brahma-samhita,
The Supreme Lord, Krsna, Govinda, His bodily, different, I mean to say, limbs of His body, or different senses, they are so perfect that every sense organ can act the, I mean to say, work of the other senses. Just like we can see with our eyes. Simply we can see. But if I close my eyes, I cannot see. But my... I can hear only by my ears, but I cannot see.
If I close my eyes, I cannot see with my ears. But about the Supreme Personality of Godhead it is said that He can see with His ears, He can see with His hand and He can hear with His hand. He can do anything from any part of His body. That is spiritual. He can do any part of His body. Just like..., this is the philosophy.
Now, we offer something to Krsna. That Krsna, I mean to say, Deity is not different from original Krsna, because absolute. Everything is Krsna. Why this Deity should not be Krsna? This is quite reasonable. If Krsna is everything, why not this Deity Krsna? This is also Krsna. He can do. He has..., His power is just like...
If you take my photograph and if you put it in my seat, and I am not here, that photograph cannot act, because it is material. But for Krsna, His photograph, His statue, His everything can act because He is spiritual. So we should always know that as soon as we chant Hare Krsna, Krsna is immediately there. Immediately. Krsna is already there. But we should know that He has, by sound vibration, Krsna is there. So ahgani yasya. Sa iksancakre.
So His vision, His presence, His activities, they are all spiritual. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said, janma karma me divyam yo janati tattvataḥ [Bg 4.9]: "Anyone who understands the absolute nature of My birth, of My appearance, disappearance and activities," tyaktva deham punar janma naiti, "he becomes immediately liberated." Sa aiksata. Sa imal lokan asrjata [Aitareya Upanisad 1.1.1-2].
This is Aitareya, Aitareya Upanisad. What is that? Sa aiksata. The same thing: "He saw. He put His glance." Sa aiksata. Sa imal lokan asrjata: "He has created all this material manifestation, cosmic manifestation." So tad va isan vijato tebhya ha prabhur babhūva. In this way, there are so many instances, so many quotations.
Apani-padaḥ [Svetasvatara Upanisad 3.19]. In the Svetasvatara, apani-padaḥ. He has no, I mean to say, hands and legs. If He has no hands and legs, then how can He see? Is there any instance in your experience that something which has no hands and legs, he can see? No. He has no... Whenever... This is impersonal. The impersonalists quotes these authorities, that "He has no hands and... Therefore He's impersonal."
No, it is not... If He sees, sa aiksata, if He sees, if He hears, if He creates, then there is hand, there is eyes. But another place, if it is said, apani-padaḥ: "He has no hands and legs," that means He has no hands and legs like us. Because we have got material hands and legs, but the... "He saw; therefore there was creation." Therefore His seeing power existed before this material creation.
So it is natural that He has no material hands and legs. So when it is denied that "He has no hands and legs," it is to be understood that He has no material limited hands and legs, but He has spiritual. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu concludes, therefore, that cid-ananda-tehho, tahra sthana, parivara .
Therefore anything of Krsna, or anything of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is spiritual. Spiritual. Deha. Deha means body. His body is spiritual, His abode is spiritual, and His paraphernalia, parivara-His friends, His mother, His father, His beloved-everything spiritual.
He's expansion of all spiritual. Tahre kahe-prakrta-sattvera vikara . And Sahkaracarya says that "The Absolute is imperson, but when He comes, appears, He assumes a form which is in the modes of goodness." He does not say, of course, in the modes of ignorance. Modes of goodness. No. When Krsna comes, He has nothing to do with modes of goodness even. What is this goodness here in this material world? This is also matter. So there is no value, even goodness. One has to transcend the modes of goodness. That is transcendental, or aprakrta.
tahra dosa nahi, tehho ajna-kari das
ara yei sune tara haya sarva-nasa So again He supports Sahkaracarya, that "It is not his fault. He had to do it under the superior order to explain the Vedic literature in an impersonalist way. But those who are not expert, if they hear the commentary of Sahkaracarya, Sariraka-bhasya, then he is doomed." In other words, those who are actually aspiring for being elevated in spiritual science, they should avoid to hear any commentary which is impersonal. Any commentary. Then he is doomed. If we follow Caitanya Mahaprabhu's instruction, then any impersonal commentary means, if we hear...
Because we are not expert. We are not expert. Kanistha-adhikari. Kanistha-adhikari means neophytes, neophytes who are not conversant with the conclusion of the Vedas. They have got some, I mean to say, faith. That's all. But faith can be changed. Any... If a person, strong in arguments and strong in presenting things in jugglery of words, oh, the neophyte, his idea can be changed. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu warns, therefore, in the Vaisnava philosophy that "You should not worship any other demigods." It does not mean that you should show disrespect to demigods. No. That is not.
But because he is in the lower stage, if he is allowed to worship or to show respect to the demigod, he will think that he is also like Krsna. "Krsna is another demigod, and this Candra is another demigod, the Siva is another demigod." Just like some foolish person, they propagate that "Whatever deity you worship, oh, that is God." Even, they say, if you worship a cat or a dog, that is also God. So therefore there is stricture.
And in the Bhagavad-gita also, mam ekam, "Simply unto Me, one," Krsna says. Because one is a neophyte, he can be turned, his faith can be disturbed at any moment; therefore in the beginning one has to, I mean to say, pin his faith only in Krsna, mam ekam. Otherwise, he cannot make progress. And when one understands Krsna, janma karma me divyam [Bg 4.9], in truth, then he can understand other things also.
Ara yei sune tara haya sarva-nasa. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu warns that "Anyone who hears Sahkara's bhasya, Sariraka-bhasya, he is doomed."
prakrta kariya mane visnu-kalevara
visnu-ninda ara nahi ihara upara Prakrta kariya mane. Prakrta means material. "If somebody thinks that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His body is material, that is the greatest offense." The greatest offense is that... To accept a material thing as God, that is the greatest offense, and God..., and to accept a material thing as God or to accept God as material.
Just try to understand. Just like they are preaching that "Anything you worship, that is God," or "God is also material. When He comes, when He appears, He is also material." So these kinds of conclusion is the greatest offense. Visnu-ninda ara nahi ihara upara ninda. Blasphemy. So this should be avoided.
isvarera tattva-yena jvalita jvalana
jivera svarūpa-yaiche sphulihgera kana Now, tattva, the Absolute Truth, He is comparing just like blazing fire. Absolute Truth is blazing fire and, jivera svarūpa-yaiche sphulihgera kana, and the living entities, they are just like sparks, sparks of the fire. We have seen fire, blazing fire, and when fire is blazing, we can see the sparks and the original fire.
jiva-tattva-sakti, krsna-tattva-saktiman
gita-visnupuranadi tahate pramana Now, Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that "Jiva-tattva, the living entities, they are never the energetic; they are energy." Energetic and energy. So how it is so? The evidence is from Bhagavata, Visnu Purana and Bhagavad-gita. Because one has to give evidence. How do you say that jiva-tattva, the living entities, they are not the Supreme? Caitanya Mahaprabhu sa..., they are not su...
Not to, I mean to say, speak of Supreme, they are not even of the same category. Because there are different categories. Visnu-tattva, jiva-tattva and sakti-tattva-there are so many categories. So He says that "Jiva, the living entities, they are in the categories of energy. They are not energetic."
Energetic and energy, you should try to understand. Just like the fire, fire and its heat. Heat is the energy, and the fire is the energetic. Similarly, the Supreme Lord, He is the energetic, Supreme Person, and we, the living entities, we are energy. But as you cannot separate energy and energetic separately... Wherever there is energy... Wherever there is fire, there is heat also.
You cannot separate the fire... So as soon as we are separated, that is our conditional state. How we are separated? Just like the sparks of the fire, as soon as it's come out of the fire and falls down on the ground, it loses its illumination immediately. Immediately. That illuminating spark which was dancing with the fire, as soon as falls down, it becomes black, charcoal; it is just like carbon. So, so long with the fire, it is just like, as good as fire, illuminating.
So our position is like that. We are sparks, energy. As from the energy of the fire there are so many sparks dancing, similarly, we are all sparks of the Supreme Lord. But as soon as we come out of the fire, as soon as we want to become independent of the Supreme Absolute Truth, our that spiritual energy becomes almost extinguished. It is never to be extinguished, but it appears. It appears.
Just like fire covered with ashes. So again, when ashes are removed, the fire comes. So our position is like that. We are now covered by the ash of this material energy and, as soon as this will be removed... The removal process is Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna-ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc Antya 20.12], cleansing process.
As soon as we are completely cleansed, we are as good, I mean, as illuminating as Krsna. So this is the process. We shall study again tomorrow.
Thank you very much. [end]
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