Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.11 – August 1, 1970, Los Angeles

700801SB-Los Angeles [28:47 Minutes]

Teaching Nrsimha Prayers

[Govindam record plays] [break]

[long pause]

Prabhupada: [indistinct] Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama... And where is the center [indistinct]

Devotee: I am just from New York.

Prabhupada: Oh? Where is that slip yesterday you gave me? That mantra, nrsimha-mantra? There was one extra mantra. You have got, everyone, slip? This.

Namas te, narasimhaya, prahlada, hlada-dayine, hiranyakasipor, vaksah, sila-taṅka, nakhalaye.

[devotees sing with Prabhupada]

The meaning of this mantra, that "I offer my humble obeisances to Lord Nrsimha, who is the source of bliss to Prahlada, but," hiranyakasipor vaksah, "but his father, Hiranyakasipu, on his chest the nails of His finger is just like chisel cutting the stone."

The same Personality of Godhead is prahlada ahlada-dayine. Ahlada means pleasure. For Prahlada... Prakrsta-rupenahlada, prahlada. A devotee is, being always in Krsna consciousness, naturally he is in blissfulness. Still more, when he meets or associates with his Lord, still more blissfulness. That is the position of the theist devotee. Whereas the atheist nondevotee, he's always feeling like a strike of the chisel, like..., what do you call? Stone cutting chisel. Nakha. Nakhalaye. Simply by the nails of His finger. All right.

Where is that book? Now this Bhagavatam. Yes. Om namo bhagavate vasudevaya.

Prabhupada: Then here text number 11.

Prabhupada: Again.

Again.

[12:54]

Etan nirvidyamananam. There are three classes of men. One class of men, karmis, they are trying to enjoy the material resources. Icchatam, always desire: "I want this, I want this, I want this." And another class, they are con..., or rather, what is called? Frustrated. After trying utmost, "I want this, I want this, I want this," when at the end do not get anything, he is frustrated. That is called nirvidya. "I don't want." Or actually one is satiated or disgusted: "No more material world. I don't want it." They are called nirvidyamanam. So the one class is trying to possess, and another class is trying to renounce: "I don't want."

And another class is akuto-bhayam. Akuto-bhayam. Who is akuto-bhayam? Akuto-bhayam means one who does not fear. And who does not fear? Because fearfulness is one of the items of our conditional life. Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithuna [Hitopadesa 25]: eating, sleeping, fearing and mating. So who is without any fear? That means he's also liberated. He's not in the material platform: transcendental, who is out of the limits of fearfulness.

So akuto-bhayam means the devotees. The devotees, just like Prahlada Maharaja, his father teased him in so many ways, but he was not at all fearful. He was simply thinking of Nrsimhadeva and he was fearless. So only the devotee who has fully surrendered to Krsna, he can be fearless. Narayana-parah sarve na kutascana bibhyati [SB 6.17.28]. Narayana-parah means devotees who have dedicated their life to the service of Narayana, Krsna. Na kutascana bibhyati. He does not fear in any condition of life.

So here, icchatam akutah. Icchatam means those who are desiring. Nirvidyamanam means those who are not desiring; renouncing. And the other class, akuto-bhayam, fearless. And yoginam. Another class-mystic yogis. So generally, these four classes men are there. So Sukadeva Gosvami says that for all of them, either he is karmi or he is jnani or he is yogi or he is bhakta. Karmi means fruitive worker, and jnanis means empiric philosophers, and yogis, mystic, I mean to say, yogis, and bhaktas, and the devotees. Generally, these four classes of men.

So Sukadeva Gosvami gives his judgment. Nrpa, "My dear king, for all these classes of men," nirnitam, "it is already decided." This is Vedic conclusion. You haven't got to search out. You have to take information from the authority. So here Sukadeva Gosvami is authority, that "For all these classes of men, this is decided conclusively." What is that? Harer namanukirtanam [SB 2.1.11]: chant Hare Krsna.

Either you are jnani, either you are yogi, either you are karmi, you desiring something or not desiring something, but you have got your objective, perfection of life. So if you want that, then chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

Thank you very much.

Devotees: All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Karandhara: We're going to pose. We're just about ready. Everyone can pose?

Prabhupada: This is all right. Oh, yes, special pose.

Karandhara: If everyone stands up and dances, then we won't be able to... You can sit for just a minute longer.

Prabhupada: So chant Hare Krsna. Sit down for a moment.

[japa] Chant. Chant.

[18:57] [Visnujana leads kirtana]

[Prabhupada plays gong] [prema-dhvani] [end]