Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.2.36-37

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevāyā. Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevāyā. Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevāyā. Chan-madya-syāyata-nvayata-terataś-chartesva-bhīgya-svaratteni-brāhma-hridāyādikavaya-muhyanti-yāt-sūraya-te-jo-varim-ridam-yathāvinimaya-tratri-sārgum-riṣa-dham-nasvina-sadhani-rastha-kuha-kam Satthyam Param Dhimahi, Satthyam Param Dhimahi Yampravrajanta manupetama petakrityam dvaipāyano viraha kātara juhāva Putretitan mayataya taravobin edustam sarva bhūta hridayam unimānatosmī Narayanam namaskrityanaram chayvanarotamam devim sarasvatim vyāsam tato jayam udhirayet Našta praesva badrišu mityam Bhagavata sevaya. Bhagavatyutama šloky, bhaktīr bhavati naistiki. Hare Krishna. So today we are reading Śrīmad Bhagavatam. Canto 6, chapter 2. Aja Mila delivered by the Vishnu dūtas. Texts 36 and 37. Vimucya tam imam bandham avidyakama karma jam sarva bhūta suhrit Shantaha Maitraha Karuna Atmavan Mochaye Grastam Atmanam Yosin Mayatma Mayaya Vikriditaha Yayaya Avaham Kridamriga Iva Adhamaha Vimuchyātam imam bandhan Vimuchyātam imam bandhan Avidyā kāma karmajam. Sarvabhuta suhricchanto, Maitrā karūna atmavān, Maitra Karuna Atmavan Vimuccyatamimam Bandham Avidyakamakarmajam Sarvabhuta Sukhriccanto So next verse. mocha ye gras tam atmanam yo shin maya atmam mayayam vi kridito yaya i baham kridam riga i vadham aham vi muchya having become free from tam that imam this bandham bondage avidya due to ignorance, kama due to lusty desire, karma jam caused by activities, Sarvabhuta of all living entities Sukhrit friend Shantaha very peaceful Maitraha friendly Karunaha merciful Atmavan Self-realized. I shall disentangle. Encaged. My soul. In the form of woman. Atma mayaya. By the illusory energy of the Lord, vi kriditaha played with yaya, by which eva, suddenly aham hai, kridam rigaha, a controlled animal, Iva-like, Adhamaha, so fallen. Translation. Because of identifying oneself with the body, one is subjected to desires for sense gratification and thus one engages in many different types of pious and impious actions. This is what constitutes material bondage. Now I shall disentangle myself from my material bondage which has been caused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead's illusory energy in the form of a woman. Being a most fallen soul, I was victimized by the illusory energy and have become like a dancing dog. led around by a woman's hand. Now I shall give up all lusty desires and free myself from this illusion. I shall become a merciful, well-wishing friend of all living entities and always absorb myself in Krishna consciousness. purported by His Divine Grace, I see Bhaktivedanta Swami, Śrīla Prabhupāda, Kīja. This should be the standard of determination for all Krishna conscious persons. A Krishna conscious person should free himself from the clutches of Maya and he should also be compassionate to all others suffering in these clutches, in those clutches. The activities of the Krishna consciousness movement are meant not only for oneself, but for others also. This is the perfection of Krishna consciousness. One who is interested in his own salvation is not as advanced in Krishna consciousness as one who feels compassion for others and who therefore propagates the Krishna consciousness movement. Such an advanced devotee will never fall down, for Krishna will give him special protection. That is the sum and substance of Krishna consciousness movement. Everyone is like a play toy in the hands of the illusory energy and is acting as she moves him. One should become, what should come to Krishna consciousness to release oneself and also to release others. Śrīla Prabhupāda Kīja. Because of identifying oneself as the body, one is subjected to desires for sense gratification and thus one engages in many different types of pious and impious actions. This is what constitutes material bondage. Now I shall disentangle myself from my material bondage which has been caused by the Supreme Personality of Godhead's illusory energy in the form of a woman. Being a most fallen soul, I was victimized by the illusory energy and have become like a dancing dog led around by a woman's hand. Now I shall give up all lusty desires and free myself from disillusion. I shall become a merciful, well-wishing friend to all living entities and always absorb myself in Krishna consciousness. Satsangarana Vāvanā bhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhārājībhā Hare Krishna. So, we continue reading the speech or strain or flow of thoughts of Ajahnil after having encounter Vishnu Dutas and being a witness of their conversation with Yamadutas. So what we see here in this train of thoughts of Ajameela is how the spiritual intelligence is being awakened. As I said yesterday, our intelligence, even though it's the most precious God-given gift to us, tend to fall asleep and it still functions in a semi-conscious way without understanding the nature of reality. People usually misuse their intelligence by adjusting to this material life through the media of the intelligence. But the real purpose of intelligence is to help us to achieve the ultimate goal. When the buddhi is used in such a way, it turns its, yeah, it changes its nature and and becomes not just buddhi, but it becomes buddhi yoga, as Prabhupada used to say. But as Krishna himself says, dadami buddhi yogam tamya namam upayantite this awaking of intelligence which will bring us back to Godhead is only possible by his own mercy his own mercy Krishna's own mercy dadami buddhi yogam tamya namam upayantite When the intelligence is awakened, we understand the reality as it is. So, here, Ajameel, he very clearly explains the position, his own position and position of everyone of us before our spiritual intelligence is awakened. Awoken? Awaken? Awaken is awakened. People whose intelligence is sleeping, they think they are free. The free people of free countries, we are free people of free countries, we will do whatever we like to do. We will break all kinds of rules because we are free. Like, especially in America, but in all Western countries, people say, you know, I'm free to do whatever I like with my body. Don't mess with my body. I'm free. People do not realize this fact that actually we are not free, we are just slaves of our own karma. You know, it's so ridiculous to say that somebody who is taking drugs is free because he is a slave of the drugs. But any material enjoyment leaves an impression and this impression requires or demands the repetition of the same experience and in this way we are completely in the bondage of karma. Yeah, and people think, I have my desire and that's why I am free. But the very fact that you have desire means that you are not free. You are a slave of your desire, which is created by your own karma. Yes. Here very clearly, Anjamil says this, that now I am free from this bondage, I am free from this slavery, which is caused by avidya, karma, karma jam, which is the desire of my karma, which I perform because of my karma. And the karma is the result of avidya. Avidya means I, the spirit soul, the little tiny particle of spirit completely identify myself with this beautiful body made of flesh. and that's avidya basically. I think I am this body and I am 100%, 108% convinced that I am this body and nothing else. And as soon as I identify myself as this body, the desire comes to my mind. Now I have to fulfill all the demands of my body. And then I start performing karma and because karma is caused by my desires then it creates consequences and it's just endless cycle of karma, karma bandhanam. But the peculiar thing, the very hilarious thing is that people, they are slaves but they don't understand that they are slaves. They think they are free. Everyone is fighting for freedom, but instead of obtaining real freedom, they become even more enslaved by this, by victimized, as Śrīla Prabhupāda translates it, victimized by this endless chain of karmic reactions. I am free therefore I take intoxication, I am free therefore I engage in illicit sex, I am free therefore I am gambling. It's all very elaborate kind of bandana the slavery the bondage which is provided to us by the Lord himself. Amazingly Adjamil he understands that's what the Lord gave me this facility to be in bondage. Atma Maya. Actually the scientists, they study the structure of the brain, how the brain works. And they discovered a very peculiar mechanism of this bondage. They were making experiments with the mice, and they were putting some electrodes in different parts of their brain. And by mistake they put electrode in some place in the brain which they were not intended. The result was very amazing. the mouse which was put electrode in this part of the brain, it or she or he, whatever it is, became very excited and started pushing the bottom which would put some electric impulse in her or his or its brain again and again and again. Now, this is a mistake. By the way, this electrode is a very important thing. It comes to the power of the electrode. Now, there is a button that is a very important thing. This mouse became so excited and agitated that he, she or eat, whatever it is, eat, right? Eat. It stopped eating, stopped sleeping, stopped mating, was only pushing this button till it fell dead. So, this is why it's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. And they started studying the structure which they put electrode in, And they call this special part of the brain nucleus accumbens and they called it the center of enjoyment within our brain. Yes, asvadana, asvadana, asvadana, asvadana, trisna, whatever. So the center of enjoyment, nucleus accumbens, it's a Latin name for this, It produces the dopamine, the very famous mediator produced in the brain. What is the name of that? Dofamine. But when they studied the nature of this chemical reaction within the brain and how this dopamine acts, they found out that actually dopamine doesn't give you enjoyment really. It only gives you the promise of enjoyment, expectation of enjoyment, not enjoyment itself. It agitates your mind with the hope. Very soon I will be extremely happy. But then this so-called happiness takes place and one feels completely empty and disappointed and he thinks, no, no, no, I have to push it again because this expectation of happiness is happiness itself. That's why it's called my illusion. It's not enjoyment itself because enjoyment is completely different condition which you have when you are peaceful, when you have very nice and peaceful state of mind, but the illusion is that you are seeing that the hope, the expectation of happiness is the happiness. So this is how this Maya works. we think we will become happy by this and that or whatever by sex or by drugs or by gaining a lot of money through gambling. But ultimately we become very frustrated by doing this. And because the desire to enjoy is not satiated, is not fulfilled by this act, the source becomes even more and more and more and people ultimately die as this little poor mouse which was the victim of scientists. And everyone in this world is enslaved in bondage of the expectation of happiness as much as this poor ass in front of whom the clever master put the carrot. and he always tries to get the carrot which is in front of him but he never gets the carrot itself but the expectation makes him very excited. If you are a man, you can't go to a man, you can't go to a man. If you are a man, you can't go to a man. If you are a man, you can't go to a man. If you are a man, you can't go to a man. And therefore Jamil here says, I became like a puppet. I became like a trained play animal, play dog, which is doing whatever its master tells him to do. It is Kridamriga in Sanskrit. Sometimes Srila Prabhupada translated Kridamriga as dog. Sometimes he translated Kridamriga as little monkey. Like, sometimes people, they capture this monkey and they train monkey to do whatever they like it to do, and then they earn money like this. The monkey is dancing and doing all kinds of tricks, and then they give the monkey little toffee as a reward for all this stuff which the monkey is doing. Actually, the master is very cruel. He forces the monkey to do all kinds of stuff. But the monkey is very grateful when she gets little toffee and eats this toffee. Oh, very good. I have such a good master. In the same way we are playing in the hands of Maya and we think, Oh Maya is very nice, very nice, so nice. It gives me some little toffee there. But actually it's a very humiliating position of being the Kridamriga in the hands of Maya. Very humiliating in the form of woman or enjoyment. I have a desire to live in the world of Moshagaram. I have a desire to live in the world of Moshagaram. But people don't realize this, how humiliated they are by this thing and only if by the mercy of the Lord the spiritual intelligence is being awakened, then they can understand what's going on in reality. It's especially, this is a very good business in this material world, how people are being fooled by all these promises of enjoyment. Like in the internet, the biggest business is all these pornography sites. People pay money to see these pornography sites, which is totally useless, total illusion. But still, people think that, yeah, this is the way to enjoy. People want to be happy, but they don't know how to become happy and therefore they get this crazy illusion of happiness by images of sex. Somebody is doing that anyway, whatever it is. But again as I said here, Ajameel understands because of the awakened spiritual intelligence, he understands how to become happy. And he actually says not only how to become happy, but he also says how to become free from this bondage. You cannot really become free from the bondage because bondage is very deep. The roots of the bondage are very deep within our heart. This habit to enjoy material enjoyment is very, very deep in the heart. So you cannot really become free from this bondage of material enjoyment or material emotions just by understanding it intellectually. You need some other emotional experience to be free from this enslavement or bondage of material enslavement. Material bondage. Anubhav. Anubhav. Anubhav. Anubhav. Anubhav. Anubhav. When the intellect, intelligence is being awakened, it's a good beginning, it's a good starting point. You get the determination, yes. But you also have to understand what you're supposed to do to ultimately, in reality, be free from this bondage. Not just on intellectual level. So therefore, Ajayamil here says, to be free from this to be free from this Maya or this bondage of material enjoyment I have to be Sarvabhuta Sukhric Shanto Maitrah Karuna Atmavan this is what I should do to get the experience which would neutralize and completely overshadow the experience of material enjoyment I am a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a person who is a Yes, and Atmavan. Atmavan means. So you can only neutralize or get free from the bondage of emotions by other emotions, stronger emotions, emotions which give you greater satisfaction. And here he gives the recipe of how to obtain this experience. What is the way to obtain this experience of spiritual happiness? He says, first of all, I have to become Sarvabhuta Sukhrit. I have to develop this friendly attitude towards all living entities. It basically means that I have to understand that all other living entities are my relatives. I am connected with them. Suhrit, they are close to me. They are my relatives, my family. Yes, as it is said, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. This is my Kutumbakam. This is my family. Sarvabhuta suhrit shantam. And I have to become very peaceful. I have to develop this peaceful nature, not agitated nature. People usually, they cultivate, especially less here in India, but still even in India now, they cultivate this agitated nature of the mind. That's why they have these mobile phones. Mobile phones is just to agitate you. You can become peaceful if you have mobile phone. There is no chance. Somebody will always contact you or will agitate you by news or whatever. So mobile phone is the way to agitate the mind and to train the mind to be always agitated and to want to have desire to have more and more agitation. That's what mobile phone is all about. And the way to become happy is to have close relationship. Sarvabhuta suhrid, to feel that other people are related to you and to exchange with them. But nowadays people, they sit together and everyone looks at his phone. You know, they sit close to each other, but nobody looks at each other. They look in their mobile phone. Husband and wife live in one home, one in one room and the other one is in another room and they write messages on WhatsApp to each other. Because people lost this understanding how to become happy in real way and they only know how to become happy by agitating the mind again and again and again. Therefore, Ajameel here says, this is the way to become happy, to cultivate the peaceful nature, shantaha. I should cultivate this peaceful nature in myself. What is the question of the peaceful nature? This is... The peaceful nature is being facilitated by... The agitated nature by dopamine and peaceful nature by... What's the other one? Serotonin. So there are different chemical counterparts or different chemical producers of this experience. And then he says, Maitra Karuna Atmavan. Maitra, again, he says, I have to become very friendly towards every living entity or everyone. It basically means, Maitra means that you wish everyone well. Let everyone be happy. As Prahlad Maharaj says, what is this? Let everyone become happy. Sarva Sukhinu Bhavantu, this is the slogan of Vedic culture. Let everyone become happy. I wish them well. And this itself gives very strong experience of happiness. if we have this sort of attitude towards others. But not only Mitra, Karuna, we have to also develop the compassionate nature which is also an intrinsic part of our consciousness. Actually Bhaktivinoda Takur explains in Chaitanya Shikshamrita that there are some constitutional qualities of the soul. Bhaktivinoda Takur, Chaitanya Shikshamrita, there are some... There are some incidental qualities of the soul which we develop by interacting with matter, but there are some basic constitutional qualities of the soul, of the particle of consciousness. And friendliness and compassion are the nature, the very nature of our soul. And therefore, when we manifest our qualities, we become ourselves. We become happy because we are acting not against our nature but in accordance with our nature. People think because of the culture, because of their bringing, because the atmosphere in Kali Yuga, they think that they have to be very competitive, that they have to be very angry and whatever. But actually this is against the nature of the soul, against the very nature of the soul, all these qualities which are acquired by the external influences. And then he says, I will also try to ultimately come back to myself. Atmavan literally means I will become the possessor of my own soul. I will try to understand my real nature as the soul. That's what it means. And therefore, Srila Prabhupada translates this particular word in the translation of the verse, and always absorb myself in Krishna consciousness. That's what Atmavan means according to Srila Prabhupada. I will try to understand that I am Atma, the soul, and there is Atma of my Atma, the Paramatma, the soul of my soul, who is Krishna. And that's what means Atmavan. And in this way, this is again the recipe to experience, not in an intellectual way, but in a real way, to experience happiness. Atmiya talatila shandiyam sanduṣṭhityam anubhavikya and raya talam. And Śrīla Prabhupāda, of course, in the pulport, he says that basically it means that we should preach Krishna consciousness. And we all know when we preach Krishna consciousness, we become happy. We may not have much Krishna consciousness ourselves, but when we try to give it to others, somehow or other, Krishna being pleased with our meager endeavors to do it gives us the experience of happiness. I remember very much in the very beginning of my Krishna consciousness I became very interested with Ayurveda. I am still very interested with Ayurveda. Ayurveda? Yes. Maharaja My scientific mind really liked this beautiful science of Ayurveda. I really enjoyed how it is so beautifully explained how the body works. So I decided to give seminar to the devotees about Ayurveda and I started giving few lectures on this topic. And I was speaking but I was feeling, it is so boring. I don't feel happiness while explaining to people Ayurveda. But when you speak about Simad Bhagavatam, when you speak about Bhagavad Gita, you naturally become happy. Why? Because Krishna is pleased with your endeavors to give Krishna consciousness to others. The other day, Mother Lakshmi Moni explained to me, wrote me a letter about her life. And from material point of view, if you look at this description, it's just a nightmare. But I am sure she was very happy by doing this. So, Srila Prabhupada explains, that's the real intelligence when you understand how to become happy in this material world. Not in a false way, not an illusory way, but in a real way. And to become happy in this material world, you have to really, you have to try to understand Krishna and love Krishna, but also try to preach Krishna consciousness to others. Because again, this is very natural, this is something which is very natural to the soul, which actually the manifestation of the real nature of our soul. To be compassionate, to be friendly, to try to help others and ultimately to pursue this spiritual path. So that's the essence of what Ajameel is trying to impress upon us here. If your intelligence is awakened, then you will get the determination to act in a certain way, not to become the victim of illusion again, but to be free from this illusion once and forever. And Srila Prabhupada makes also one very important point, significant point in the purport. In previous verse, I was speaking yesterday that it's very easy to become the victim of illusion again, even though the intelligence has awakened, but still it's very easy to fall back into this illusory conception of life, material conception of life. But Prabhupada says here that to prevent ourselves from going back into this conception, we have to preach Krishna consciousness. And by doing this, we will please Krishna. and Krishna will help us to remain in the safe position of being Krishna conscious bhakti. When we try to help others to become Krishna conscious, that's the best way for us to help ourselves. It's not really for them, it's for us. Okay, I guess that's it. I tried to explain what Srila Prabhupada says this. Here, thank you very much. Hare Krishna. Okay. Hey, Krishna Maharaj, you have a question here. If you have a question, you don't have a question. Because you have a message to Maharaj. You have a question. Yesterday he sent me a message. Hmm? Yesterday. He sent me a message. No, no. You are a secretary. Don't ask Maharaj again. He has lot of meetings and lot of engagements. What I said? No, yesterday his secretary sent me a message. Don't ask Maharaj again to give class because he is too busy. Anyway, thank you very much. Hare Krishna. Śrīla Prabhupāda ki jāri. Krantarājśrīmad-bhāgavatam ki jāri.