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Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.6

Vrndavana, October 28, 197
Pradyumna: "When the living entity is covered by the mode of ignorance, he does not understand the individual living being and the supreme living being, and his mind is subjugated to fruitive activity. Therefore, until one has love for Lord Vasudeva, who is none other than Myself, he is certainly not delivered from having to accept a material body again and again."
Prabhupada:
This is another important verse. The problem is presented, deha-yogena. Deha-yogena, this body, contact with this material body, this is the problem. But nobody knows it. Especially in these days they cannot understand that "This material body is a foreign element, and somehow or other I am victimized, I am entrapped within this body." This problem is real problem. But they do not know. And this is called avidya, ignorance.
There are two kinds of strong avidya, ignorance, unawareness. Sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. Rajo-guna and tamo-guna is covering. Tamo-guna is very densely covering, and rajo-guna little open, and sattva-guna means prakasa, there is illumination, brahminical qualifications. When one is in the sattva-guna then he can understand that "I am not this body. I am different from this body." For them, those who are in the sattva-guna, for them it is easier. So therefore the process is Human civilization means not to drag somebody who is already in the sattva-guna or in the family of sattva-guna, to drag him down to the tamo-guna. The modern civilization is like that. The allurement of material civilization is so strong and so bad that those who are by pious activities born in brahmana family, they are being dragged to the tamo-guna behavior like sudras. They are learning how to drink, how to eat meat, how to have illicit sex. These are the symptoms of tamo-guna, lowest type of tamo-guna. There are different degrees of guna. The degrees are so mixed up. Therefore three gunas is manifested into 8,400,000 different forms of life, mixture. You can calculate. We have several times calculated. Three multiplied by three equals nine. Nine multiplied by nine, eighty-one. So therefore there are so many varieties. So human civilization should be so arranged that never mind, it is so mixed up, you have to gradually draw him again to the sattva-guna. That is human civilization. Not that drag him again to the tamo-guna. Somebody, by pious activities, by good work, he's already in the sattva-guna, but the arrangement The social, political, economical arrangement is so bad that one is dragged to the tamo-guna. This is not civilization. This is degradation. Civilization means elevation. The aim is how to become disconnected with this material body. This is civilization. Otherwise that is not civilization. It is animal life. Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke [SB 10.84.13].
So the Krsna consciousness movement is an attempt to bring the human society into the proper platform of civilization. It is a very scientific movement. How it is done? Here it is said, pritir na yavan mayi vasudeve. Pritir na yavan mayi vasudeve na mucyate deha-yogena tavat. This is the problem. So by gradual process, to bring one to the platform of vasudeve pritir, that is bhakti. Pritir means love, how to love Vasudeva, Krsna. That is civilizationto bring one to the platform of loving Krsna, pritir to Vasudeva. Vasudeva sarvam iti. Just like if you love somebody, the intense love is that your lover or beloved is everything. That is love. Just like a mother loves her child. So she is always anxious to take care of the child. Whole attention is on the child. These are examples. These are not actually love, but a perverted reflection of love. We can understand what is love. This love does not stand, but nature dictates that you love your child like this, you love your husband like this, your wife like this, your country like this, your society like this. There are different grades of loving demonstration. That loving demonstration, when it will be concentrated on Vasudeva, Krsna, that is the highest perfection of life.
Therefore it is said, pritir na yavan mayi vasudeve. One may have pritir... Because we do not know Vasudeva, Krsna, we have got natural tendency to love, but we do not know where to place love. If we place our loving tendency unto Krsna, Vasudeva, then that tendency becomes fruitful and perfection. That is wanted. Therefore it is said that,
If you place your loving tendency to Vasudeva, then vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogah. This can be done perfectly by bhakti-yoga, not by any other. There are different yoga systems. Everything is mixed up with little bhakti, but... Just like karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, there are different. But the real yoga means loving Vasudeva, Bhagavan. Therefore Bhagavan says in the Bhagavad-gita, yoginam api sarvesam [Bg. 6.47]. All other yoga systems there is little tinge of vasudeva-bhakti, but not cent percent pure. It is mixed. Misra-bhakti. Misra-bhakti will not be immediately fruitful. It will take long, long time. Bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate [Bg. 7.19]. Everything, there is some bhakti-yoga, but if it is not pure, then it will take very, very, very, very long time, bahunam janmanam. One janma means hundreds of years. We are not talking of any other janma. Even human form of life. Because those who are advanced in spiritual life, there is every possibility for getting next life a human being. Otherwise nobody knows. Those who are ignorant, they do not know. There will be change of bodytatha dehantara praptirthat is a fact. But those who are in the sattva-guna, they are sure to get next life in the human society. Sucinam srimatam gehe yoga-bhrasto sanjayate [Bg. 6.41]. This sucinam, pure brahmana, and srimatam, very rich vaisya, or ksatriya. Kings and mercantile community, they are rich, srimat. Sri means opulence, and mat means one who has. Srimatam.
So this is a chance that even if you are failure in this life, somehow or other, you get chance next life again human form of life, either in a very nice pure brahmana family or Vaisnava family. Vaisnava family is better than brahmana family. [break] ...ringing the karatalas, chanting, dancing, offering obeisances to the Lord, temple atmosphere. Don't think it is ordinary opportunity. It is very great opportunity. From the very beginning of life they are getting impression, bhakti-yoga. Vasudeve bhagavati bhakti-yoga. These are not going in vain. Even a child is playing karatala, imitation. Not imitation. He's given the chance. He was previously Vaisnava. Somehow or other, he could not make his life perfect. Therefore he is given again chance. So naturally he has got tendency to play the karatala, to offer flower here, to offer obeisances. They take pleasure. It is due to previous life, yogas. But it was not perfectly done, so somehow or other they are getting chance from the very beginning of life. It does not mean that if somebody did not get the chance from the very beginning of life he cannot. He can be also.
So..., but the ultimate aim is vasudeve. Pritir na yavan mayi vasudeve. This is the ultimate goal. You have to come to this stage, vasudeva sarvam iti, fully, firmly convinced that "Vasudeva is my life. Vasudeva is everything. Krsna is my life." And the highest perfection is visible in the Vrndavana atmosphere, especially by the gopis. Everyone in Vrndavana, even the trees and plants, even the grains of sand, everyone is attached to Krsna. That is Vrndavana. So not all of a sudden we can get that highest stage of life of Vrndavana attachment, but still, wherever we stay, if we practice this bhakti-yoga, as we are preaching... It is becoming successful. People are taking. Those who were so-called mlecchas and yavanas, they are also taking to Vasudeva. Their love for Krsna is increasing. That is natural. It is said in the Caitanya-caritamrta, nitya siddha krsna bhakti. Nitya siddha. Just like I am, or you are, we are eternal. Nityo sasvato 'yam na hanyate hanyamane sarire [Bg. 2.20]. We are not destroyed by the destruction of the body. We remain, continue to remain. Similarly, our devotion to Krsna continues. It is simply covered. Avidyayatmany upadhiyamane. Avidya. This is avidya. We forget Krsna, that is avidya. And as soon as we take Krsna as our life and soul, that is vidya. You can do. Anyone can do very easily. Krsna says, therefore, sarva dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam [Bg. 18.66]. Why? Any other so-called religious system, that is avidyawill keep you in ignorance. There is no light. And the Vedic injunction is that "Don't keep yourself in the darkness of ignorance." Tamasi ma jyoti gamah.
That jyotih means to love Krsna. And loving affairs of Krsna is in the spiritual world. That is jyotih, jyotirmaya dhama, self-effulgent. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. There is no darkness. Just like in the sun there is no question of darkness. The examples are here. We can understand what is jyotih. We can see that there is no darkness in the sun planet. It is all glowing effulgence. Similarly, in the spiritual world there is no ignorance. Everyone is suddha-sattva. Not only sattva-guna, but suddha-sattva. Sattvam visuddham vasudeva-sabditah. Here, in this material world, there are three qualities, sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. So none of these gunas are pure. There is a mixture. And because there is mixture, therefore we see so many varieties. But we have to come to the platform of sattva-guna. And that process is hearing. This is the best process. Srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-kirtanah [SB 1.2.17]. If you hear regularly Srimad-Bhagavatam... We are therefore stressing: "Always hear, always read, always hear." Nityam bhagavata-sevaya [SB 1.2.18]. Nitya. If you can constantly, twenty-four hours, if you hear and chant Hear means somebody chants or you chant yourself or hear, or some of your colleague may chant, you hear. Or he may hear, you may chant. This process must go on. This is sravanam kirtanam visnoh. Visnoh [SB 7.5.23]. That is Bhagavata. Not any other nonsense talks, gossiping. Simply hear and chant. Then srnvatam sva-kathah krsna. If you seriously hear and chant, seriously"Yes, this life I shall engage only for increasing my love of Vasudeva"if you are determined, it can be done. There is no difficulty. And as soon as you do this, you increase fully your love for Vasudeva, then there is no more chance of contacting material body.
That is the same thing.
And if you do not understand Krsna, if you do not increase your natural love for Krsna, then na mucyate deha-yogena tavat. There is no chance. They have no chance. You may take birth next life in a very rich family, in a brahmana family, yogo-bhrastah, but that is also not release. Again you may fall down. Just like we see there are so many... Just like you Americans, you are born in rich family, rich nation, but falling down, becoming hippies. Falling down. So there is chance. Not that it is guaranteed. "Because I am born in a rich family or brahmana family, that is guarantee." No guarantee. This maya is so strong that it is only trying to drag youdrag you down, drag you down. So many influences. So therefore we sometimes see that these Americans, they are so fortunate they are born in a country where there is no poverty, there is no scarcity. But still, because the leaders are rascals, they have arranged for meat-eating, illicit sex, intoxication, and gambling. Advertise. Advertise naked woman and, what is called, beefeaters, and liquor. This is going on. Advertise cigarettes, just to pull them down again. Go to hell. Punar musika bhava. They do not know what dangerous civilization this is dragging them. Therefore sometimes some saner section of the old men, they come to me, they offer their thanks: "Swamiji, it is a great fortune that you have come to our country." They acknowledge. Yes, that's a fact. This Krsna consciousness movement is a great fortunate movement. And especially in the Western countries, that's a fact.
So those who have taken, take it very seriously. Increase your love for Krsna. Pritir na yavan mayi vasudeve na mucyate deha yogena... They do not know what is the actual problem of life. The actual problem of life is deha-yoga, this foreign body. We are accepting one time Bhutva bhutva praliyate [Bg. 8.19], accepting one type of body. Therefore they have, these rascals, leaders in Europe and America, they have concluded there is no birth. That's all. Because if they accept there is life after death, then it is horrible for them. So they have dismissed: "No, there is no birth." Big big so-called professors, learned scholars, they talk foolishly: "Swamiji, after this body is finished, everything is finished." That is their conclusion. And the body comes by accident, kim anyat kama-haitukam. Asatyam apratistham te jagad ahur anisvaram [Bg. 16.8].
So, this kind of civilization is very dangerous. Very, very dangerous. So at least those who have come to Krsna consciousness, they should be very, very cautious about this dangerous type of civilization. People are suffering. Take to Krsna consciousness movement and be happy and perfect.
Thank you very much. (end)

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