19810617 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.15.31

The following is a class given by H.H. Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on June 17th, 1981 in Los Angeles, California. The class begins with a reading from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Canto 3, Chapter 15, Text 31.

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā 
cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ

nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine

namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe 
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-prabhu-nityānanda
jaya-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare

oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya! 

oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya! 

oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya!

oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya!

nārāyaṇaṁ namaskṛtya
naraṁ caiva narottamam
devīṁ sarasvatīṁ vyāsaṁ
tato jayam udīrayet 

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-gurum dīna-tāranam

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.15.31

tābhyāḿ miṣatsv animiṣeṣu niṣidhyamānāḥ 
svarhattamā hy api hareḥ pratihāra-pābhyām 
ūcuḥ suhṛttama-didṛkṣita-bhańga īṣat 
kāmānujena sahasā ta upaplutākṣāḥ

Translation: When the Kumāras, although by far the fittest persons, were thus forbidden entrance by the two chief doorkeepers of Śrī Hari while other divinities looked on, their eyes suddenly turned red because of anger due to their great eagerness to see their most beloved master, Śrī Hari, the Personality of Godhead.

Purport (by Śrīla Prabhupāda): According to the Vedic system, a sannyāsī, a person in the renounced order of life, is dressed in saffron-colored garments. This saffron dress is practically a passport for the mendicant and sannyāsī to go anywhere. The sannyāsī's duty is to enlighten people in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Those in the renounced order of life have no other business but preaching the glories and supremacy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the Vedic sociological conception is that a sannyāsī should not be restricted; he is allowed to go anywhere and everywhere he wants, and he is not refused any gift he might demand from a householder. The four Kumāras came to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead Nārāyaṇa. The word suhṛttama, "best of all friends," is important. As Lord Kṛṣṇa states in the Bhagavad-gītā, He is the best friend of all living entities. Suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām. No one can be a greater well-wishing friend to any living entity than the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is so kindly disposed towards everyone that in spite of our completely forgetting our relationship with the Supreme Lord, He comes Himself — sometimes personally, as Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared on this earth, and sometimes as His devotee, as did Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu — and sometimes He sends His bona fide devotees to reclaim all the fallen souls. Therefore, He is the greatest well-wishing friend of everyone, and the Kumāras wanted to see Him. The doorkeepers should have known that the four sages had no other business, and therefore to restrict them from entering the palace was not apt.

In this verse it is figuratively stated that the younger brother of desire suddenly appeared in person when the sages were forbidden to see their most beloved Personality of Godhead. The younger brother of desire is anger. If one's desire is not fulfilled, the younger brother, anger, follows. Here we can mark that even great saintly persons like the Kumāras were also angry, but they were not angry for their personal interests. They were angry because they were forbidden to enter the palace to see the Personality of Godhead. Therefore the theory that in the perfectional stage one should not have anger is not supported in this verse. Anger will continue even in the liberated stage. These four mendicant brothers, the Kumāras, were considered liberated persons, but still they were angry because they were restricted in their service to the Lord. The difference between the anger of an ordinary person and that of a liberated person is that an ordinary person becomes angry because his sense desires are not being fulfilled, whereas a liberated person like the Kumāras becomes angry when restricted in the discharge of duties for serving the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

In the previous verse it has been clearly mentioned that the Kumāras were liberated persons. Viditātma-tattva means "one who understands the truth of self-realization." One who does not understand the truth of self-realization is called ignorant, but one who understands the self, the Superself, their interrelation, and activities in self-realization is called viditātma-tattva. Although the Kumāras were already liberated persons, they nevertheless became angry. This point is very important. Becoming liberated does not necessitate losing one's sensual activities. Sense activities continue even in the liberated stage. The difference is, however, that sense activities in liberation are accepted only in connection with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whereas sense activities in the conditioned stage are enacted for personal sense gratification.

Thus end the Purport by His Divine Grace Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, canto 3, chapter 15, text 31.

tābhyāḿ miṣatsv animiṣeṣu niṣidhyamānāḥ 
svarhattamā hy api hareḥ pratihāra-pābhyām 
ūcuḥ suhṛttama-didṛkṣita-bhańga īṣat 
kāmānujena sahasā ta upaplutākṣāḥ

Jayapatākā Swami: Śrīla Prabhupāda has so kindly revealed to us all these secrets about the spiritual world. Real culture based upon returning back to our original relationship with Kṛṣṇa. The duties of a devotee, of a human being, everything he has so kindly revealed. And one word here suhṛttama, best of all friends. Of course, Kṛṣṇa himself is the best of all friends to the living entities. And because Kṛṣṇa is the best of all friends, he sends his devotees like Śrīla Prabhupāda, who are simply oceans of mercy. Śrīla Prabhupāda had come with simply the interest to carry out the desire of his spiritual master, whose desire was to carry out the order of his spiritual master.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's desire was simply to see that the miserable living entities, those who are suffering in this material entanglement, are given a natural, blissful pure life of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Everyone in this material world is strictly under the control of this material nature.

prakṛteh kriyamānāni gunaiḥ karmāņi sarvaśaḥ
ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate
(Bg. 3.27)

They all think they are the doers, but in fact, being carried always by desire and lust, they are forced to act according to the dictation of their lower nature.

So the four Kumāras, they were already liberated. That means they were transcendental to material desire and to material anger. So of course, the question comes that how is it that they become angry? The impersonalist philosophers, they cannot understand the difference between material and spiritual quality. They think because this material world has quality, therefore the spiritual reality must be quality-less. That is their mistake.

They are simply using their own material intelligence to enter into spiritual truth; this material world has quality therefore spiritual world must have no quality. This is their shortcut intelligence. But this is not the actual fact. This material world has quality which is relative and temporary because the spiritual world has permanent, eternal quality. So the qualities of these four Kumāras, these four youthful devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, are also transcendental. They wanted to see Kṛṣṇa. So they were going to Kṛṣṇa's abode. They were very eager to see Kṛṣṇa.

This desire to see Kṛṣṇa is not material, but it is a pure spiritual desire. That we should understand. People want to know how to be Kṛṣṇa conscious. But it is not very difficult. One simply has to desire to see Kṛṣṇa, desire to relish the nectar of Kṛṣṇa. This desire is a most powerful and subtle thing. Because of desire, people are becoming presidents of The United States. Because of desire, people are going to jail. Because of desire, people are getting married and because of desire, people are becoming divorced. Because of desire, everything that is happening, is happening in this world - with Kṛṣṇa's sanction. But because everyone is desiring imperfectly, therefore no one is satisfied. And the more that this uncontrolled, material, undirected desire increases, the more chaos is the result.

So here we can see our four saintly persons and their desire, being pure, has led them right to the kingdom of God. Similarly, the passport to get out of this material world is this pure desire. But that pure desire has to be cultivated. These four Kumāras, they had no other desire except to see the Lord. They had no material desires.

So when they were restricted, they also became angry. But that is not ordinary anger. Just like here we see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. When He saw Nityānanda was stuck by Jagāi-Mādhāi, when He heard about it, He became angry, “Why they are beating My devotee?? They have offended a Vaiṣṇava!” And He called, “Cakra! Cakra! Sudarśana!” and more brilliant than millions of billions of suns, the Sudarśana Cakra came down from the spiritual sky, illuminating everything at all sides in all ten directions, and came down and ready to immediately chop those two offensive brothers in two. Only by the causeless mercy of Nityānanda were they spared.

Even this mood of anger is there in the Personality of Godhead. He becomes angry when His pure devotee who is simply dedicated to preaching His message is delivering the fallen souls from their misery, is tortured, is harassed; is in so many ways offended and mistreated. Then He becomes angry. Therefore, Caitanya Mahāprabhu advised that,

yadi vaisnava-aparādhā uṭhe hātī mātā
upāḍe vā chiṇḍe, tāra śukhi' yāya pātā
(Cc. Madhya 19.156)

Hātī mātā, upāḍe vā chiṇḍe, tāra śukhi' yāya pātā. That the mad elephant offense is to offend a Vaiṣṇava. Just like an elephant goes into the garden and uproots all of the branches; and those branches being uprooted, their leaves dry. Similarly by offending Vaiṣṇavas, great devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Lord Kṛṣṇa and Viṣṇu, this destroys one's spiritual progress. So that quality of anger is also there in Caitanya Mahāprabhu, although He was the most merciful.

By Nityānanda's mercy, He requested that, “Please save these two brothers. So many people are also unqualified like them. If We go to kill everyone, then there will be no one left. Please have Your mercy upon them.” So the qualities are spiritual when they do not have connection with material sense gratification. This is the secret of working.

The Gītā describes that one should work without result, work without attachments to the fruits. So that is only possible when one works to please Kṛṣṇa. In India, there are the people who believe that the secret of working is - you work, you get your money and you enjoy. And when you are materially enjoying you think, “I am not enjoying this. I’m eating this ice cream but dont enjoy it. I’m taking this intoxication but I’m really unattached to it. I’m having this unlimited sex life but actually I’m very much detached to it.” So like this, there is an idea.

And Prabhupāda wrote a play called "The Chicken Mission", and this play was a spoof on various religious societies, missions and concepts. So at one point, you see a friend was approaching his other friend and saying how he had to spend so many hundreds and thousands of dollars and equivalent currency to fight some court case. So he didn’t have any money left to marry off his daughter because he needed dowry. So that person asked, “So what you are going to do?” So he said, “I am going to take sannyāsa in the Chicken Mission.” And he said, “What! If you do that then you have to give up so many things.” “No, no you don't have to give up anything.” “Oh of course, I know you don't have to give up eating meat, fish, eggs… you can still take intoxication. But at least you have to give up your wife. A sannyāsī means you have to give up your wife.” So he said, “No, of course I just follow the system of renunciation that is given in the Gītā. Even though I enjoy, I just think that I’m not enjoying. So finish, no enjoyment. Transcendental. While enjoying, I just think I’m not enjoying. Finish! This is the philosophy of the Gītā.” So Prabhupāda, he presented like this, a very nice little play. We show it sometimes. Because now it is very direct to some missions that are there in India, that people sometimes take offense. So we have to be careful but…(devotees laugh) Because of course that person said, “Well I’m not worried about taking sannyāsa there, because a friend of mine took sannyāsa from that mission and he used to visit the wife every weekend. And I have a program that I’ll go begging for that mission and whatever I collect, I’ll give 50% to the mission and 50% I keep. 50-50. Sannyāsa. So in this way Prabhupāda made so many instructions using this medium of drama, humour.

Eventually that person was convinced to not join the mission because he was a little doubtful.

The person challenged, “Well, are you sure you know what you are talking about?”

“Well, I heard it from so many people at the tea stall and in the public parks that that this was the thing.”

“Well are you sure?”

“Well, alright, I am not positive that if I join the Chicken Mission, I’ll be able to still be with my wife after taking sannyāsa.”

So then he said, “I have another program where you can join the Bhojanānanda Akhra. Bhojana means eating and ānanda means pleasure, to take pleasure in eating. Akhra means institution. The institution of pleasure and sense gratification, the Bhojanānanda Akhra. You can join here. There is a team. There is one karmaṇya-avirata, one renounced person, he wears white and he has his private business that he is operating from the Akhras.

There is this other person who is a renounced gṛhastha. He works and takes the percentage of the collections of the deities for his family. And then this other Bhojanānanda Svādu... Svādu not sādhu. Svādu. Svāda means taste. So the Bhojanānanda Svādu is the one who enjoys the taste of eating. So how did he get a name like that? So when he was going around in North Calcutta begging, and he would always ask the Marwaris tak tak tak (sound which comes from tapping his stomach) ‘Feed a Sadhu!’ tak tak tak (sound which comes from tapping his stomach) ‘Feed a Sadhu!’ The Bengalis were little bit tight but he would always find a Marwari.

So one Marwari sat him down to the sweet shop and would tell, “Eat as many sandeśa, rasgullas and samosas that you can eat” and he just starts stuffing himself. So that time he was give this title Bhojanānanda Svādu, for his valor. So this is the play, this is written by Prabhupāda. Every word is a deep spoof you know. So there, you can be still be a gṛhastha and at the same time you can be a part of this mission and you can, without any restriction, go on. So in this way, “That sounds like a better mission.” He was trying to pick the best place but of course because all these so-called spiritual missions, if they don’t have the actual objective of reaching Kṛṣṇa, of spiritual realization, then what is the purpose? People look “What is good for my sense gratification, what is good for my sense? I can’t join this mission, I can’t join this institution, I can’t join this society because it doesn't fit with my idea of sense gratification.”

But there is a very important word that is used here in describing these Kumāras. Viditātma-tattva. Vidita-ātma: living entities who know tattva, the Truth. What is the Truth? If that is not desire of the person, then everything else is just a farce. All the outward shows have no meaning unless one actually wants to reach the truth, unless one actually wants to reach the perfection. So the Kumāras of course, they such were real seekers of the truth. So therefore they shouldn't have been stopped. But other people who are such Bhojanānanda Svādūs and Chicken Missions, they will be stopped at the gate of Vaikuṇṭha, they won’t even get close. What to speak past the six? The first gate! They won’t get close because their desires will lead them elsewhere.

Kṛṣṇa will satisfy their desire. They don’t have to become dressed as a saintly person in order to satisfy their desires materially. Those desires, Kṛṣṇa will satisfy. There are 8,400,000 species of life in which they can satisfy their desires. But if one wants to get out of that repetition of birth and death, to actually re-establish the original relationship with Kṛṣṇa which is the goal of life, which is the only secret for actually becoming satisfied, then one has to be dedicated to Truth, to doing whatever will be beneficial to achieving the Truth and to giving up whatever is hypocritical. Whatever is detrimental.

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He is actually Kṛṣṇa Himself. That means He is the origin of all the Vaiṣṇava-sampradāyas. These four Kumāras, they were originally brahmānandīs or impersonally realized, liberated. They have seen the light, the brahma-jyoti coming from Lord Kṛṣṇa and they had not yet seen Nārāyaṇa. Nārāyaṇa Himself, He came to see the Kumāras at His gate, at His kingdom and they bowed down at His lotus feet. And although they were in Brahman realization, when they smelled the tulasī offered at His lotus feet, then their whole existence became filled with ecstatic symptoms. And at that time they could understand that the Lord’s transcendental position was so much higher than their own realization. So immediately they were converted.

tasyāravinda-nayanasya padāravinda- 
kiñjalka-miśra-tulasī-makaranda-vāyuḥ 
antar-gataḥ sva-vivareṇa cakāra teṣāṁ 
saṅkṣobham akṣara-juṣām api citta-tanvoḥ

Translation: When the breeze carrying the aroma of tulasī leaves from the toes of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead entered the nostrils of those sages, they experienced a change both in body and in mind, even though they were attached to the impersonal Brahman understanding.

Purport: Because of the fragrance of His lotus feet, carried by the air and mixed with the aroma of tulasī, their minds changed; instead of becoming one with the Supreme Lord, they thought it wise to be devotees. Becoming a servitor of the lotus feet of the Lord is better than becoming one with the Lord.

Jayapatākā Swami: In other words, the impersonalist who feels transcendental pleasure in striving to become one with the Lord is defeated when he sees the beautiful transcendental features of the Lord. So these four Kumāras, then they went to Navadvīpa-dhāma after this episode; and they began worshiping the Lord for a long time, in the beautiful garden of Bael trees called Belpukur today and was known as Bilva Puṣkara, the same as the Bilvavana in Vṛndāvana, not different.

One saintly devotee called Nimbāditya, he was worshiping Lord Śiva and he requested Lord Śiva, how he could find a spiritual master. He worshiped Lord Śiva as a devotee. He was a Vaiṣṇava, Nimbāditya. Then Lord Śiva told him to go to Navadvīpa. There in the forest of Bilvavana, you will find the four Kumāras meditating. They will give you their mercy. So there he went. And there in the forest, he saw the four brothers engaged in meditation on Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. So he began to chant

Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

And the four Kumāras, hearing this holy name of Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, they came out of their meditation; and there they saw this beautiful Vaiṣṇava Nimbāditya who immediately offered his obeisances. And they very simply then asked who he was. He said he was Nimbāditya. He had come because he wanted to have the mercy of serving the Lord. The four Kumāras said, “Yes we were once impersonalist philosophers. But we have been converted now to devotional service. We want to initiate you. We want to initiate you because we want to have our own Vaiṣṇava sampradāya, to spread the teachings of Vaiṣṇava philosophy. Already Lakṣmī Devi has her sampradāya with Rāmanuja, Lord Brahmā has his sampradāya with Madhvācārya and Lord Śiva has his sampradāya with Viṣṇuswami. So now we also want to have one sampradāya. So you take bath in Ganges and come back, and we will initiate you.”

So he went and took a bath in the Ganges at Navadvīpa and came back, and he was initiated as Nimbārkācārya. There he worshiped… he was given the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa mantra by the four Kumāras. Worshiping there, Lord Caitanya appeared to him in Navadvīpa-dhāma and he wanted to simply serve Caitanya Mahāprabhu. But Lord Caitanya said, “No, you are doing what is dear most to Me, that is, to spread the message of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worship. They are My worshipable object, My worshipable deities. So you should go now and preach this Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worship and in the future all the Vaiṣṇava-sampradāyas, they will all unite because I’ll come and I’ll be preaching the philosophy which will unite all the four Vaiṣṇava sampradāyas. Taking two qualities from each of the sampradāyas, I will make the perfect philosophy. So now go and preach Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worship, and later again we shall be rejoined. But do not tell anyone now about My coming, because this will disturb the secretiveness of My coming as a devotee.”

So like this the four Kumāras, they also have a Vaiṣṇava sampradāya: the Nimbārka Gosvāmi Sampradāya and they worship Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. So although they were impersonalists, they became Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worshippers. This was there. Because of the mercy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, now this worship of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa has spread also, all over the world. In order to understand Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, one has to worship Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya, He is very merciful.

The Kumāras, they became angry. They cursed these Jaya-Vijaya to take birth in the material world. Jagāi-Mādhāi, they hit Nityānanda, causing blood to come. But just on the appeal of Lord Nityānanda, who is the ocean of mercy personified, they were given also initiation. They were forgiven. But the wonderful thing is that after they were initiated, they did not break their oath.

When they realized that it was now or never, they begged, “Please forgive us! Please give us Your mercy.” They were forced practically in one sense. They were going to have their heads chopped off by the Sudarśana Cakra. But they knew that once one takes an oath; whether under duress, whether under whatever circumstances, an oath is an oath. They were determined to maintain their oath at all costs. So they took their initiation, and never once did they break their regulative principles that they accepted. Daily they were chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa... Jagāi-Mādhāi, I mean Mādhava Dāsa Brahmacārī and his brother, they would dance in kīrtana down to the Ganges in ecstasy, take their bath, come back, offer there rice and bhoga to the Lord and take the prasāda. And people would come and donate rice, vegetables from thousands of miles; to see how these two violent brothers, who had before been rapists, murderers, the black marketeers, had become pure Vaiṣṇavas. Devotees of Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

So to take different types of initiations and to take oaths before the Deity and before the fire, it is a very serious matter. So of course, to encourage people who have not yet that determination to take such oaths, we are encouraging people in India that everyone should chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Just like here it is mentioned in the purport that Agnideva; that this morning, Lord Caitanya, when he met the brāhmaṇa, the Kurma brāhmaṇa in Southern India and that brāhmaṇa said, “I want to go out with Lord Caitanya. I want to leave my family and I want to leave my home.” And Lord Caitanya said, “No, you have to stay at home and worship from there and make all your friends and your village people Kṛṣṇa conscious. It is not necessary just to give up your family, to give up your house.”

In Latin America this program has been started called Amigo de Kṛṣṇa - friends of Kṛṣṇa, with eight hundred to thousand people from each country already in just eight months. When someone gets Kṛṣṇa consciousness they are also grateful.

Chile is a little advanced like a European country, but Lima and Peru is like India almost, economically. So there someone came and dropped off one slide projector with automatic controls, a friend of Kṛṣṇa. That was a very big donation for them, three-four hundred dollars. Of course in Chile one lady has donated $70,000 worth of land to the temple after being a friend of Kṛṣṇa. So someone may have something to give and someone may not. Our goal is to give people Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So those who are not determined enough, this lady was not determined enough to become a full time devotee, she must be some 60 year old follower of some other mission for her whole life. She saw Kṛṣṇa consciousness is doing the most benefit for the public, “I want to help.” She was chanting two-three rounds a day, gradually learning how to be a vegetarian; she was a friend of Kṛṣṇa, Amiga de Kṛṣṇa. And in this way, we encourage everyone to be connected.

Someone who is not strictly following, they can be a league of devotee... that means a vegetarian chanting four rounds, no strong intoxication and no extra-marital sex; the two and half regulative principles and chant at least four rounds a day. Sometimes devotees who leave these strict principles, they come down a stage. That there’s already a status for them. But that is unfortunate. So we always try to encourage people. That system is one of positive alternatives.

We simply always offer the next stage, we always offer the positive alternative. Because there are many people that are too much entangled to just immediately come forward. In India, we have the same experience when distributing books. People read books and come forward and say, “I want to take part in your movement. What can I do?” And a distributor would tell him to just move in to our temple. So “I have 8 children, I have worked for 20 years in the railway and I have eight more years to go before I get my pension. And I have 20 cows, and ten acres of land, and a house, and I live 200 miles away from the temple and it is not possible to come right now. So what else can I do?” “Buy another book!” So “Okay, give me another book, what else can I do?” “Ah.. see you later!” “All right, Hari Bol! Who's next? Here take a book!” and that was it. And these people would write letters and be crying that, “I want to be part of your movement. What can I do? What can I do? And I asked Śrīla Prabhupāda and he said, “You should engage them. You should train them up and have them practice in their village. Let them come for a few days to our temples, see how we do and you have them go back and they should do the same thing in there village. And they should practice.” And practically, there are many people who are not able to 100% follow but at least if they start to follow, then after some lifetimes they may be able to 100% follow. We guarantee anyone who follows completely, dedicates themselves to this preaching movement ‘You will go back to Godhead in this lifetime!’ We don't make that guarantee if someone doesn't take that dedication. But at least they should start somewhere. That we encourage everyone.

The difference is this Bhojanānanda and these other groups, they tell everyone, “Oh whatever you do, you are going to reach perfection.” No, we don't cheat people like that. Whatever you do, you don't get the same result. But you should at least start to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. You should start to perfect yourselves spiritually. That encouragement we want to give to everyone. Anyone who reads our books, they want to know what else to do. “Oh You should chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. We will help you. We will teach you. You should start to offer prasādam in your home.” And if they are right to become devotees, to fully move in and help our preaching movement to make other devotees, then of course that's wonderful. At least they should practice in their house. What is the difficulty? There is no difficulty.

We need so many people that can help this movement in different ways and that will purify them. By helping our preaching movement, that will purify them of their offenses. So we're very anxious to see the people. Here is a very nice beach. There is no reason why everyone in this beach can’t chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. It may be difficult to get everyone to move in our temple and it will become a financial burden if they come too quickly. Of course, that's not a problem. But at least everyone should chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Or those who are intelligent and sincere.

So the four Kumāras, they of course went back to the spiritual sky and they were so kind to again come back here to give us that mercy. So some living entities are liberated and some are conditioned. So those who are conditioned living entities, they should try to get liberated. That is the goal. And those who are liberated and still here, those who have realized what is the truth, they should take the mercy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu and give it to everyone without prejudice. That is the mood of Lord Nityānanda.

Actually Lord Nityānanda, He is a very unusual, extraordinary transcendental personality, always with ankle bells on His ankles, dancing, always a blissful character. Dancing and singing. And simply by His glance, people would be transformed into ecstatic symptoms. So we try to get even one drop of mercy, one speck of dust from Lord Nityānanda's lotus feet. Because by His mercy glance one is immersed in transcendental ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa. By Lord Nityānanda's mercy, one gets the mercy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Śrīla Prabhupāda is the representative of Lord Nityānanda. He freely gives out that mercy. So everyone in this movement, they are simply the representatives and servants and assistants for Lord Nityānanda and His representatives, to give out the mercy. Wholesale! As much as we can market, as much as we can give out. That is our program - to flood everyone, but to not distort the truth - viditātma-tattva, to make people know what is the actual truth.

They can then choose how much of the truth they want to embrace. But someone who rejects any contact with Kṛṣṇa, that person is most unfortunate because that person's fortune is undetermined; or rather he is determined that he is going to remain rotting in this material world for literally millions of births, unlimited births. Because this opportunity does not come very often... once in a day of Brahmā, once in billions of years by our calculations.

So everyone should take this opportunity. Because simply by chanting the names of Nitāi-Gaura, the Pañca-tattva, by following Their instructions of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, one is guaranteed very quickly the highest realization of pure kṛṣṇa-prema.

jaya śrī kṛṣṇa caitanya prabhu nityānanda
śrī advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi gaura bhakta vṛnda 

Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare

Devotee: Śrīla Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja ki!

Devotees : Jaya!