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Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.27

Indore, December 15, 1970
Prabhupada: ...all sinful contamination. Therefore purposely they commit sinful activity and chant Hare Krsna to counteract. That is also greatest offense, that "Because I am chanting Hare Krsna..." Just like some government officer, because he is in higher post... Just like the other day I cited the high-court judge. So "I shall take opportunity of taking bribe on the strength of my superior post in government service." According to law, that is greatest offender, the greatest criminal according to law. If a police man kills, his offense and his punishment is greater than an ordinary man killing. That is the law. Knowingly. So the "Narayana," the constant chanting of "Narayana," on account of the name... Nowadays the fashion is that we do not keep the name of our children in God's name. Formerly, "Krsna dasa," "Narayana dasa," "Govardhana dasa," some of... There are thousands of Visnu's name. The people would keep the children's name according to that so that, so that indirectly, directly, they would be able to chant the holy name of the Lord. That was the process. And by doing so he will be gradually developing his Krsna consciousness. Bhunjanah prapiban khadan balakam sneha-yantritah. By affection. Some way or other, we have to increase our affection for Krsna, love of Godhead. Through the channel of the affection of one's son or children, one can increasethat is Krsna consciousness.
sa evam vartamano 'jno
mrtyu-kala upasthite
matim cakara tanaye
bale narayanahvaye
[SB 6.1.27]
So when he was just on the point of death, naturally he had affection for his son, so he was calling, "Narayana, Narayana, Narayana, Narayana, please come here, please come here." That is natural. I know my father, when he was dying, so I was not at home. So he lived for one day to see me. He was always inquiring "Whether Abhay has come back, come back," like that. So by the paternal affection he showed that. Similarly, the Ajamila was also calling, "Narayana, Narayana." And in the Bhagavad-gita it is said, yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram [Bg. 8.6]. This practice means at the time of death if one can remember Krsna, Narayana, then the whole life is successful. At the time of death. Because the mentality, status of the mind at the time of death, will carry him to the next life. Just like the flavor is carried by the air, similarly, my mentality will carry me to a different type of body. If I have created my mentality like Vaisnava, pure devotee, then I shall immediately transfer to Vaikuntha. If I created my mind as an ordinary karmi, then I will have to stay within this material world to enjoy the type of mentality which I have created. If I keep myself as a businessman, doing business... Naturally it is done so. One gentleman in Calcutta, he was a very big businessman, and he was dealing in shares. So at the time of death he was crying, "Kamahatti, Kamahatti shares." Kamahatti shares at that time was very popular to the people. So at the time of his death the result will be that he might have taken his birth as a rat in the Kamahatti mill. It is possible. At the time of death, whatever you think, that will carry you to a type of body. Krsna is very kind. Ye yatha mam prapadyante [Bg. 4.11]. Anyone whoever begs from Krsna any any benefit, any type of benefit required from Krsna, Krsna gives him: "All right. You are thinking like rat, so you become a rat. You are thinking like a tiger; you become a tiger. You are thinking like a devotee, you become a devotee. You are thinking of Me, please come to Me." That's all. Simple truth.
So by chanting Hare Krsna we have to mold our thinking power, always thinking of Krsna. If you always think... That is recommended in the Bhagavad-gita: yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana. Who is the first-class yogi? "Who is always thinking of Me within himself."
yoginam api sarvesam
mad-gatenantar-atmana
sraddhavan bhajate yo mam
sa me yuktatamo matah
[Bg. 6.47]
This Krsna consciousness movement is specially meant for creating that mentality of the members of the society. That's all. If at the end of his life he simply remembers Krsna, that is natural. Whatever you practice whole life, that will come out at the time of your death. That is natural. Sa evam vartamano ajnah. Ajna. He does not know. Ajna, the very word is used here, ajna, foolish. He is thinking that he will be able to remain forever and enjoy the association of his family and children. Therefore it is said here, ajna. Everyone is thinking that "My..., this material atmosphere, my bank balance, my nice house, my nice family, children, they will protect me." That is foolishness. Nobody will protect you. You have to protect yourself. Just like while you are flying in the sky, airplane or the birds, when there is danger no other plane will be able to save you. No other bird will be able to save you. If you have got your own strength of flying with your wings, then you can be saved. The Bhagavata says therefore,
dehapatya-kalatradisv
atma-sainyesv asatsv api
tesam pramatto nidhanam
pasyann api na pasyati
[SB 2.1.4]
Those who are mad, they think that "My, this body, strong body," deha apatya, "my children, my grown up children," dehapatya-kalatra, "my good wife," dehapatya-kalatradisu, "and the by-products of this combinationwife, children, and bank balance." Just like one fights in the battlefield, you are simply fighting, struggle for existence within this material world, and our soldiers are these: my children, my wife, my relatives, my country, so on, so on. But Bhagavata says pramatta, "he is mad"; tesam nidhanam, "he does not know that they will be all finished." Pasyann api na pasyati: "he does not see, although he is seeing." He has seen that his father was living, but he is no more: "He is not no more protecting me. Then how I shall protect my son, or how my son will protect me?" And therefore it is stated pramatta, ajna. These words are used. They are factually the fact, but they do not know. Pramatta.
Evam vartamano 'jno mrtyu-kala upasthite. When it was time for death, mrtyu-kala upasthite, matim cakara tanaye bale narayana. So the benefit was, because he was chanting the name of Narayana in connection with his child's name, naturally at the time of his death he was thinking of the Narayana child, the name. Visvanatha Cakravarti has commented on this point that this Narayana, thinking of the name of the child, immediately reminded him of the service he was doing according to his father's direction. He was also, in the childhood or in his boyhood, he was engaged in the service of the Lord, Narayana. According to Vedic civilization, therefore, a childhe may be a king's son or a poor man's sonmust go to gurukula and live for some time under the training of the spiritual master to be very thickly connected with Narayana and Krsna. The asrama... Just like we have got this Krsna conscious asrama, there is rules and regulations that one should rise early in the morning, chant Hare Krsna mantra, and so many duties are there. They are all in connection with Krsna. If a child is trained up in that way, then he becomes automatically Krsna conscious. And if a child becomes Krsna conscious up to the age of twenty, twenty-five years, then naturally he becomes a devotee of Krsna. So when he enters life, although he accepts wife and children, he cannot forget Krsna. Therefore his household life also continues Krsna consciousness. Naturally, at the age of fifty he leaves the family connection and accepts the vanaprastha. And then, when he is fully trained, he accepts sannyasa.
This is the system of varnasrama-dharmafour kinds of varnas and four kinds of asrama. It is very scientific. The whole idea of human civilization should be how to fix one to Krsna consciousness, to Visnu. Because they do not know na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum [SB 7.5.31]. The real interest is to approach Visnu, to go back to home, go back to Godhead. That he does not know. He is entangled with these material affairs. Anartha. They are called anartha. They are not required. When you get a human form of body you must know that your food and shelter is already ordained. You don't require to try for this. Even the birds and beasts, they do not try for their food and shelter. They are certain that "Somewhere we have got our shelter and there is somewhere my food." Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman. Krsna, the supreme patron, He is supplying food to everyone. He is supplying food to the elephant, who eats one time one hundred pounds, and He is supplying a grain of sugar to the ant also. So why should bother about my food? That is saranagati. When a man becomes saranagata, he knows perfectly well that "Somehow or other there is my food." A sannyasi... sannyasi means sat nyasa, to fully surrender to Krsna. But the sannyasis, they misuse in another way. Actually sannyasa means to fully surrender. Nowadays in India there are so many sannyasis, some three million sannyasis. They are wandering all over the country. They have no food problem. Still, although India is considered to be poverty-stricken. Either sannyasi or grhastha, nobody has to have problem. You have created such... Simply artificially you have created such problem. Bhagavata says, tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatam upary adhah [SB 1.5.18]. One should try for that thing which is not obtainable either in the higher planetary system or lower planetary system. Because everywhere the food, shelter, sex life, and protection is there, in every planet. But the only want is that one is not Krsna conscious. My Guru Maharaja used to say that "There is no scarcity in the world. The only scarcity is that people are not Krsna conscious. That's all. Otherwise there is no scarcity." He has declared like that. They have simply artificially created the problem. If you say that "Why a man is suffering for want?" Actually man is not suffering for want. He is eating. But that you cannot check. Just like a man is suffering from some disease. Why he is suffering? Nobody has given him that disease. Similarly, nobody has given him that poverty. You try to help (indistinct). But don't think that "God has created somebody poor and somebody rich." That is not fact. God is impartial. We create our poverty; we create our disease. Matim cakara tanaye bale narayanahvaye.
When he was dying he also saw that three ferocious persons, very fearful persons with rope in their hands, sa pasa-hastams trin drstva purusan ati-darunan, very fearful, he saw. Sometimes dying man cries because he sees that "Somebody has come to take me to Yamaraja." He sees, and he is very fearful. So now he also became. Vakra-tundan urdhva-romna. The description of the assistants of Yamaraja: their hairs are very curled, vakra. Vakra-tundan urdhva-romna: and the hairs on the body are standing. Urdhva-romna atmanam netum agatan. Now at the time of Ajamila's death, the assistants of Yamaraja have come to take him. We shall discuss, some time again. (devotees offer obeisances) Hare Krsna. (endroom conversation follows)

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