Pañca-tattva Installation – May 7, 1972, Honolulu

Prabhupada: [chants word-for-word and devotees repeat]

[07:27]

Many devotees of Lord Caitanya have composed different verses, authorized verses. Some of them attempted on this occasion of installing the deities of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The most important verse is one… Not one; he composed one hundred verses, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. He was a staunch logician, Mayavadi philosopher. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu defeated him, and he become later on disciple of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and adoration, glorification of Lord Caitanya, he composed one hundred verses. He was a very learned scholar, Sanskrit scholar. So Cait... This was handed over to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and when He saw that all the verses were in glorification of His activities, He torn it and thrown it away. So out of that hundred verses, only two verses could be recomposed again by picking up the torn paper. [audience laughs] Don't laugh.

So these two verses were vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yoga. These are very important. This bhakti-yoga is vairagya-vidya, educating people to become unattached to material enjoyment. Just like when we are coming here, hundreds and thousands of people, they are enjoying the beach. People are so much attached to this material enjoyment they have come here from thousands and thousands of miles away just to take the beach and enjoy the material happiness. But people are so attached-not only human beings; even others than human beings-bees, birds, everyone-the central attachment is sex. In any society that is the bondage of material conditioning. These living entities are compared by this sex attachment, priya-kunsa. Man is hankering after woman; woman is hankering after man. This is the secret of binding the living entities in this material world. Pumsaḥ striya mithuni-bhavam etat. This whole material situation means attachment of two sexes. This is, of course, there in the spiritual world, just like Krsna and Radharani. But that is a different thing. That is spiritual completely. There is no material, what is it called, abominable, inebriety. Here sex enjoyment means behind that, after that sex enjoyment, there are so many botherations. So many botherations. Therefore they want to avoid the botherations by chemical method, by contraceptive method. They don't want the botheration, but they want the pleasure. But there is a place where there is no botheration, but there is pleasure.

So vairagya-vidya means to teach people how to become unattached to this material world. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's...

Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu took sannyasa when He was only twenty-four years old. He had very beautiful young wife at home, very affectionate mother, old mother, and there were nobody else to take care of them. They belonged to a very highly respected brahmana family. The brahmana family, they do not accumulate money and bank balance. And the lady, they can plea, "If something comes tomorrow, then we shall eat." That is brahminical culture, not that I keep something for tomorrow; even after eating, it is not finished, then I keep it in the refrigerator. No. Everything should be finished today, and tomorrow we shall see. Tomorrow we shall depend on Krsna. That is brahmana culture. So in this condition He left home, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Why? Anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirnaḥ kalau .

There were many incarnations of Krsna, hundreds and thousands, but this incarnation gave us something unique. Anarpita-carim cirat karunaya: taking compassion with the fallen souls of this age.

Here in this material world they are so much attached to sex life. So it is Caitanya Mahaprabhu who first of all opened this secret of attachment within Radha and Krsna. Radha-Krsna love affair, it was Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu opened. It was there in the Bhagavatam, but other acaryas, like Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, they propogated Laksmi-Narayana, very courteous service to Laksmi-Narayana. Nobody spoke about love between Radha and Krsna. This is the unnatojjvala, very highly elevated spiritual affairs. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu disclosed this. The idea is, if one is…, becomes attracted with the loving affairs of Radha and Krsna, then he will forget the so-called sex enjoyment in this material world.

You will find that Radha-Krsna lila the gopis, they are simply helping Radha and Krsna to combine, jaya radha-madhava kunja-bihari [Gitavali]. The kunjas in Vrndavana, there are nine bushes, so the gopis are helping to attract meeting of Radha and Krsna in those kunjas. They are personally not interested to meet with Krsna directly; they want to see Radha and Krsna meet, and they enjoy.

So this is of course very difficult at the present moment to understand Radha-Krsna lila. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu's contribution is that other acaryas, the Radha-Krsna, Gaudiya Vaisnavas. The Ramanuja-sampradaya there is also got Lord Narayana and Laksmi, Laksmi-Narayana. They worship Laksmi-Narayana. Madhva-sampradaya, they worship Radha-Krsna. Nimbarka-sampradaya, they also worship Radha-Krsna. We Gaudiya-sampradaya, we also worship Radha and Krsna. That is the topmost spiritual realization.

So I instructed the Govinda dasi and Gaurasundara to make this Hawaii island as New Navadvipa. Navadvipa means nine islands, and here are five islands. Similarly, in Bengal, Bengal is very…, there are many rivers. So mixing of the rivers, cutting of the rivers, makes islands. So there were nine. There were nine islands formerly, and all those islands were called Navadvipa, nine islands, and there are very learned scholars, especially resided by brahmanas. Caitanya Mahaprabhu also appeared in one of the islands, which is called Antardvipa, or Sridama Mayapur. We are erecting our center there on a very big scale. We shall be able to go there and read and learn Vaisnava philosophy. Arrangement is being made there. So that is Navadvipa. Now here you make New Navadvipa. Just like there is York in England, there is New York in America. New England. There are so many new-New London. So you make this New Navadvipa, and the predominating deities of Navadvipa is,

Five tattvas: Sri Krsna Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead; Sri Nityananda is immediate expansion; Sri Gadadhara is incarnation; and Sri Advaita is incarnation; and Gadadhara is internal energy; and Srivasa is marginal energy. There is no external energy. External energy is in this material world. In the spiritual world there is no external energy; there is marginal energy and the internal energy, and the Lord. So the Lord is the predominating Deity there. Everyone is engaged in the service of the Lord. The energies, the expansions, eko bahu syama: He has expanded Himself, the Lord, in many multiforms. Some of them are called visnu-tattva. Visnu-tattva is equal to the position Lord. Nityananda prabhu is visnu-tattva, and similarly Advaita prabhu is visnu-tattva, and some, according to some opinions, he is between jiva and visnu-tattva. Anyway... And Srivasa is jiva-tattva, and sakti-tattva. So panca-tattva, they are called panca-tattva, the five eminent.

So this panca-tattva will become established here, so you take shelter of this panca-tattva, you worship them-kirtana. The method is very simple: sahkirtanaika-pitarau [Mahgalacarana]. He is the father of the sahkirtana movement, piti. Pitri means father, and like in also the paternal, in Sanskrit pitri now practically is the same word, so pitarau. These five tattvas: visnu-tattva, prakasa-tattva, avatara-tattva, sakti-tattva. Panca-tattva. So by worshiping Panca-tattva, how the method? The method is very simple. It has become easiest for the fallen souls of this world: simply come and join in this sahkirtana.

There are different incarnations in different ages. In this age this is the incarnation. What is that? Krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam. The Lord appears, Krsna Himself appears in a form where His bodily complexion is no more blackish. Akrsna, akrsna. Krsna, Lord Krsna, is black, but this avatara incarnation is akrsna. Akrsna means non-black. So non-black, it maybe other color also-red, white, blue, so many other colors, non-black. So that is also mentioned in the sastra. The Lord appears in four colors: sukla-raktas tatha pitam idanim krsnatam gataḥ.

When Lord Krsna appeared His horoscope was made, and Gargamuni said… Formerly..., still now in India there are many astrologers, they can speak of your past life. There is a system of astrology which is called Bhrgu-samhita. That Bhrgu-samhita will speak of your past life, your present life and your next life.

[someone laughs]

[aside: Why you are laughing? These are all serious talks, and you are laughing. There is nothing for laughing and joking. Don't laugh.]

So this Gargamuni said to Nanda Maharaja that "Your son, He formerly accepted whitish color, sukla; reddish color, rakta; sukla-raktas tatha pitam, and yellowish color; and now He has accepted blackish color." So this was spoken because Krsna is coming the rotation of four ages: Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga, Kali-yuga is going on. So in different ages He comes in different colors. So this pita, yellowish color, is for Lord Caitanya. Therefore akrsna, in the Kali-yuga the incarnation of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Although He is Krsna, but tvisa akrsna. Tvisa means by bodily complexion, tvisa. Tvaci, tvaci means skin, the skin complexion is non-black, krsna-varnam. And another meaning may be krsna-varnam ete[?]. One way you can take, krsna-varnam means caste, or category. So if He comes to the category of visnu-tattva, or Krsna, but His color, complexion, is not Krsna, not black. This is description. Or He's Krsna, but He Himself is always chanting Krsna, krsna-varnam ete: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. This is Krsna Himself; He is teaching us actually that is the position. Krsna Himself has come to teach how to love Krsna. Because Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita says that you give up all nonsense, so-called dharma, religion.

"You just take shelter of Me." But foolish people misrepresent. The so-called Mayavadi philosopher presented this version of Lord Krsna, that "You give up everything; simply surrender unto Me." They mis-present: "Why? There are other demigods. Why Krsna should be accepted alone?" Still that propaganda is going on. Perhaps you know or may not know. I was in Japan, in… What is that city?

Devotees: Kobe

Prabhupada: Kobe. There was a…, one sannyasi, after my speech he recommended the five kinds of demigods[?]. This is going on. So that danger is always there, counterpropaganda. But actual philosophy is this: the religion means surrender to Krsna. Anything else which does not surrender to Krsna, that is not religion. That is rejected in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo [SB 1.1.2]: all cheating religion is rejected.

That is a fact. Religion means to surrender to Krsna. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared to teach this religion, how to surrender to Krsna. Vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yoga. Nija-bhakti-yoga. He is teaching surrendering to Krsna, just like we are teaching. We are… What we are teaching? Surrender to Krsna. This is our mission; we have no other mission. Krsna says, "You surrender unto to Me," and we say, "You surrender unto to Krsna." That is religion.

Because we have to say we are servant of Krsna; therefore we have to teach everyone to surrender to Krsna. Not that "I am God; you surrender to me." But one who teaches this philosophy-surrender to Krsna-he is also as good as Krsna, because he is Krsna's representative. He is speaking the same thing, without any alteration, without any change. Therefore he is perfect representative of Krsna, and perfect representative of Krsna should be honored as good as Krsna:

These are the description of the devotee. Guru is respected as good as Krsna because he is most confidential servant of Krsna. Why? Because he is teaching everyone to surrender to Krsna. Others, they are not teaching; they are so-called gurus. They are not teaching; they are bluffing, cheating people: "I am God. You press your nose, you become God. You..." So many nonsense things are there. Just see. But the pure guru is he who is teaching simply, "You surrender to Krsna." That is it. That is the pure religion.

So our system is very simple, and at the same time very hard also. It is very hard for the unfortunate, but for the fortunate it is very easy. There is no difficulty to accept this philosophy. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu came [indistinct]. He is Krsna Himself, but He is teaching how to surrender to Krsna.

Caitanya Mahaprabhu is teaching, yugayitam nimesena, "I am thinking every moment as a yuga." A yuga calculated in twelve[?] years. Or [indistinct] Kali-yuga these four yugas of hundred thousands of years. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu is feeling separation,

[break]... yugayitam nimesena,

[break] " I am thinking just like a yuga, so long." Yugayitam nimesena caksusa pravrsayitam: "From the eyes, torrents of rain is pouring." Sūnyayitam jagat sarvam: "I see the whole world is void." Why? Govinda-virahena me: "I cannot see Govinda." This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching. Virahena, always feeling separation of Krsna, this is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching. Not that "I have got now Krsna." No. Caitanya Mahaprabhu never said. His direct disciples, the Gosvamis, they simply begged separation: "Where is Krsna?" You know that verse. Six Goswami's.

Not only Caitanya Mahaprabhu, but His disciples. This is our process. Feeling seperation from Krsna, and to become mad after Krsna. This is perfection. Always feeling separation for Krsna. Just like if you love somebody, it is very common thing when a child dies, mother becomes mad, cries like madman, madwoman, that person dies. But one who has once cried in separation for Krsna, that crying is not stopped; that will continue.

So Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught that way. That is that if you want to cry for Krsna, then no more crying for this material world. Finished. If you can once learn how to cry for Krsna, then you will no more cry for this material world. That is Vedanta. Try to feel separation for Krsna, separation from this nonsense material world. Everyone is suffering or hankering, Either hankering… One who hasn't got, he is hankering, and one who has but lost it, he is lamenting. This is the activity. But Krsna consciousness means once you hanker after Krsna, there will be no more lamentation. Here the lamentation is, "I could not find Krsna," not that "I have lost Him." First of all get Krsna; then there is question of loss. But once you get, there is no more loss. That is Krsna consciousness. Once you get Krsna, there is no more loss; you get it forever, and you enjoy with Krsna [indistinct]. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's philosophy.

So [break] Somehow or other you have come in contact with this Krsna consciousness movement, and by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu we are establishing today, the auspicious day, Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

So you learn this philosophy. Every day discuss Caitanya-caritamrta, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, specifically in this temple. Try to understand the philosophy and preach this philosophy to others who are suffering. Everyone is suffering. In this material world we suffer, but due to the illusion of maya they are thinking that they are enjoying. That is nonsense. They are not enjoying. Nobody can enjoy in this material world. That is not possible. They are simply suffering. But illusion, due to lack of knowledge, they are accepting. Just like in the sea, it is a kind of suffering. We have to struggle with the waves, and do so much laboring, but they think they are enjoying. Actually it is laboring, but they are thinking their [indistinct]. This is called maya. This is called maya. Just see, at least if somebody says, "Swamiji, you take so much money. Let us enjoy ourselves here struggling with the waves," I'm not prepared to take so much labor for taking part. And maybe I am old man, I am afraid, but I'm not prepared, even if I were young.

So this is going on. The karmis, they are working day and night, sita atapa bata barisana e dina jamini jagi re [Bhajahū Re Mana].

They do not care severe cold. They do not care scorching heat, eh? They do not care torrents of rain. Still they will go to office, to factory, fifty miles, sixty miles, hundred miles. I have seen in New York, they are coming from Pittsburgh, every other city. In Bombay, fifty miles, one hundred miles, three hours, [indistinct], they are coming to the office. There is no question of "Today it is not very nice day." But still they have to come. So sita atapa bata barisana, at night, night duty, day duty. E dina jamini jagi re, biphale sevinu krpana durajana, capala sukha-laba [Bhajahū Re Mana]. There is the karmis are working for some affection, for family affection or dog's affection-one who hasn't got family, he has got a dog. So there is some affection. So sita, and they are working so hard, but capala sukha-laba lagi re. That happiness is very flickering.

So instead of working foolishly for sense gratification, if we work one hundred times, one-hundredth portion of that labor for Krsna, our life will be successful. That is the teachings of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. We are working so hard for sense gratification, we are never satisfied. But if one-hundredth part of this labor, if we devote for understanding Krsna consciousness, our life will be successful. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teachings. Try to understand and spread it and hear it. Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya Srila Prabhupada! [end]