19820907 Arrival Evening lecture

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The following is an Arrival Evening Address given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on September 7, 1982 – in Denver, USA.

To read just some of the stanzas for meditation. Standard 61 is 62 nitya situ akatre 61 to 70, the seventh glorification of the transcendental qualities of Bhakti Siddhānta Thakur saying to be sad at others, sadness being filled with transcendental compassion is the special quality of a real devotee or a pure Vaishnava. And how that will become manifest and known is by that Vaiava’s increasing the preaching of the Holy Name and glories of the Lord. Nitya Sitta Kṛṣṇa Bhakti, Jagali Savar, the eternally manifest Kṛṣṇa Bhakti which is lying dormant within us, is awakened in everyone and of his own accord. Kali, the personality of this age of Kali flees, crying out ha, Save me. To help all the living entities is Mahāprabhu’s message. In this life and in the future life, one can be happy by understanding this message.

So there’s so much of this type of work that is just lying there to be done in all of your hands, just within your grasp to do all this wonderful work. So let us work together cooperatively and take up this most important responsibility of spreading Lord Chaitanya’s message together. Remember how Basudev Ripra, how he begged the Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu that all of the fallen souls could be delivered and that he requested give me all of their sinful reactions, all of their misery, all of the illusion, everything to me I am so insignificant. Give. Let me suffer on their behalf. Let them be liberated, allow me to suffer. But all these unfortunate souls who don’t have your devotional service, let them and all of their misery be Let all their misery be finished and let them return back to the spiritual sky.

Prabhupāda is saying this is the topmost devotee who is himself Poro Dukuduki sad at the sadness of the conditioned souls. Those one who is sad at the sadness of others and who doesn’t find any happiness in the sense gratification of his own senses slowly Ghazali getting a lot of weird. What mercy can be done to the non devotees? Or what mercy can non devotees do? What can they do? They are all offenders and all their terms, Darib Denayan are also simply offenses. The Vaishnava’s mercy is scientific and systematic. Without the mercy of the Vaishnavas, that land, rather the land that does not have any pure devotees, there is stringently under the cruel hands of Māyā.

And that land, that country where Vishnu, the supreme personality of Godhead worship is kept on the topmost level and where devotees of the Lord are respected and present, actively propagating Kṛṣṇa consciousness. All of the Rishis and Munis and the Vedas confirm that place all of the people become happy in every respect. Here. Śrīla Prabhupāda has very nicely explained about the qualities of a Vaishnava. That Vaishnava is always concerned about the spiritual welfare of the others. When he sees people are suffering. An illusion cannot just stand by blindly ignoring the miseries that they’re suffering due to not knowing about Kṛṣṇa, naturally the Vaiava is stirred to do something.

So then the question comes, what kind of God is it who, in spite of seeing people suffering in illusion and not knowing about Kṛṣṇa, nothing stirs within them to help those souls to come back to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If anyone claiming to be a Vaibhav is not feeling that compassion and not actually engaging in some activity or assisting in the helping of the fallen souls to get back to Kṛṣṇa, then they should feel ashamed. They should feel in their heart some shame, some remorse which can generate within them that enthusiasm to try to help the fallen souls and gain the special mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Nitya Siddha Kṛṣṇa Bhakti Jagalay Savar is Nitya Siddha Kṛṣṇa Bhakti Caitanya Charadamita describes Nitya Siddha Kṛṣṇa Bhakta Kṛṣṇa Prema. That pure love for Kṛṣṇa is dormant in everyone’s heart. It’s an eternal quality that everyone has.

It’s not that we have to learn how to love Kṛṣṇa. Just like you don’t have to learn how to breathe when you’re born. Immediately you just get slapped. It’s right there. The ability to love Kṛṣṇa is within us already simply it’s been covered up by this illusion, by this Māyā. It has to simply be awakened. Just like the baby is born. You give one slap, the doctor gives and starts crying. Breath is coming. Well, like that, you have to just wake up the sleeping souls by injecting Kṛṣṇa Naam Kṛṣṇa name, Kṛṣṇa Kīrtana Kṛṣṇa philosophy in their ear so that it reaches the heart and wakes up that sleeping soul immediately. Just by the association of that powerful names, there’s no possibility of this Kali Yuga having any effect. Kali Yuga has to run away. Just like the darkness runs away from the sun.

No one has to think that where did the darkness go when the sun comes up, it goes away automatically like that. When Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa preached actively, automatically Kali has to go away from that place, movement of Caitanya Mahāprabhu is to make the whole world happy in this life and in the next, not only in this life, but this life and the next, perfect in every way. So Prabhupāda, he was requesting his contemporaries that look, there’s so much work to be done, there’s so many cows being slaughtered, there’s so many people being misled, there’s so many anomalies in society. People are being day by day butchered in terms of losing their eternal spiritual life. A pashugna or killer of the animal also refers to a killer of the soul. As the real living entity, of course, is the soul, the eternal spirit.

And people, by remaining in ignorance, by remaining in forgetfulness of their eternality, of their eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa, the supreme personality of Godhood, they’re killing themselves. So that means that they’re suffering in so many ways. So the Vaivas are to help the people from all these miseries and that makes this life happy and the next life. But if the Vaishnavas who know this philosophy, who know this message of Lord Caitani, if instead they bicker amongst each other or they each try to do their independent attempts when they could easily work together and create a much greater effect, then that is all considered to be a defect, an insufficiency, some misconception on their part.

In any case, Prabhupāda is requesting his contemporaries and all people in the future that for spreading the name glories of Lord Caitanya Mahpraghu, the cooperative effort should be made and they gave the whole example how Vasudev Dutt had prayed to Lord Caitanya and the Caitanya Caitamrita. This pastime is given in detail how he prayed to Lord Caitanya, how he was overwhelmed, crying that how the living entities were missing out that nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s name, missing out on pure devotional service. He prayed to Lord Caitanya that let me take all of their sins, let me suffer, let me rod in, even if it’s millions of years in hell, let me birth, but let them all be delivered. Why, if one soul suffers, that’s better than everyone being in ignorance. So let me alone suffer.

Let them all taste the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s pure devotional service, of his pure love, that will be satisfying enough for me. Let me suffer on their behalf. Like this he was praying to Lord Caitanya. So Prabhupāda is saying, just see, this is the mood of a real devotee of the highest order is always Thinking how to deliver the fallen souls. Uttamare kari not simply Uttamadikari means bhajanandi. No, Uttamadikari may perform Bhajan at one stage in his pastime. But the Uttamarikaris are those who are having this compassion to distribute the Sankirtan message of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu who are so absorbed in seeing that Sankirtan message spread that they’re not conscious of day and night. They’re not conscious of whether their own physical being is healthy or unhealthy or anything like that.

They are completely absorbed in trying to see that this message of Caitanya Maharabu is spiritual spread to the fallen souls. That is the real quality of a top devotee. So his divine grace Rla ac Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda we can see day and night. That’s all that he was concerned with. How to see this Kṛṣṇa conscious message spread through book distribution, through temples, through festivals, through various mediums, especially books are the basis. We can see that exactly how following in his footsteps Śrīla Rameshwar Swami, how he’s also pushing Sussex preaching drive. These are all symptoms of actual devotional service which is being described here. So that’s why the devotees, because they have real compassion, because they have real vision, because they know what is the soul, what is the body. They know everything. Therefore they are in a position to help people.

Not the materialists who have all the misconceptions. They don’t know the difference between a beggar in the street and God Almighty. How can they help anyone? Rather they simply create more disturbance. They create just a disturbance in the whole development of people’s pure spiritual life. Going back to home, to Godhead by giving all kinds of distorted and inappropriate instructions based upon their own mental speculation and not at all authorized by the authorized scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishadas, Purāṇas, Mahabharata, Pancharatra, Narda, Panchratik Sistra, etc. Caitanya Charadamritan so people won. All these big leaders are trying to stop the recession in the world. They don’t see that behind the economic recession that is hitting the 20th century in this particular decade is the spiritual bankruptcy of the people.

When the people are spiritually bankrupt, there will be economic recession, moral recession, there will be all type of recession. People will not be able to be happy. Their good karmas, their punya or pious results are all running out. They’re coming to the end of the road. But by the association of the devotees Their good fortune is guaranteed. In this life they can be happy. And in the next life they’re guaranteed to go back to home, back to Ghanaian. They don’t have to come back to the miserable world of repeated birth and death. So there’s only one real welfare worker who can really help the world and that is a pure devotee of the Lord. Everyone else is ineffectual, rather more dangerous, more harm than good. While they are trying to do good for others by inventing their weapons or their various planning programs.

Instead they simply cause innocent souls, innocent living entities to suffer more and more through slaughterhouses, through mass abortions, through uncontrolled violence, and through killing the spiritual life of the people by simply promoting intoxication, frivolous sports which distract one from the real problems and their solutions in life and make one simply infatuated with this sense gratification. So Rla Prabhupāda’s mercy is so great that foolish people, naturally they cannot appreciate how great of mercy is preaching Lord Caitanya’s message. But if someone, a sober minded person objectively analyzes the situation, can understand that this is the greatest mercy that can be. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, I think last time, right here we discussed his scholastic pastime. How he used to challenge Mayavadis and anyone arguing going around with his students. Then he challenged anyone can defeat, give any argument. He would defeat the argument.

Then he would again after defeating that argument, the person would admit yes, you’re right. Then he would again prove the other person’s point. So that way he was into his youth, he was into this arguing scholastic pursuits. And all the Vaishnavas were saying when is Lord Caitanya going to become a pure devotee? When they even chastised him, why are you going to be a devotee? Why are you wasting your time? And he said, well, you bless me, I want to mend a few devotional service in the future. But I have not yet found a guru. When I find my spiritual master now like that. There were so many pastimes were discussing last time. Of course, after Jagannātha Mistra left the planet.

It’s the custom that for a deceased father the son will go and perform Pinda or Pindi Daan, giving up worship to the lotus feet of Gaddadhar. At that time Lord Caitanya met with Ishwar Purī and took initiation and performed the worship of Godadhara lotus feet at Gaya. So when he returned, were discussing past few days that how Lord Caitanya became from that time on he was just manifested his pure love for Kṛṣṇa somehow he had the Darshan of Kṛṣṇa just while he was worshipping. And then Kṛṣṇa disappeared like that. His mood was that I have achieved Kṛṣṇa. Now where has he gone? He was simply calling out Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa all. When he came back and the Vaiava saw what happened to that argument of Lord Caitanya to that Nimāi Pandit. Now he’s become a Vaishnava. So Lord Caitanya saw Suklambhar Brahmachari and he just.

He told him that. He told Siman Pandit he said that I want to meet you all. Have all the Vaishnavas meet at Suklambar Brahmachari’s house and I will go there tomorrow and I will reveal to you my heart innermost secret. So then he went there the next day. But before that everybody at Śrīvas house they used to go to pick flowers because Śrīvas had in his house a special tree. It was like a Kalpa Riksha that had unlimited sweet flowers. And no matter how many flowers you picked it never ran out. More and more were there. So naturally why go far? All the Vaishnavas went to history because there were unlimited flowers. So while they’re picking the flowers naturally they’re discussing about Kṛṣṇa caught up. So it came out that now Lord Caitanya, he’s just manifesting pure devotional symptoms.

He wants to meet the devotees that Sukhrambar Brahmachari, that’s his name, right? And Simon Pang did Śiva. So many are going to go there. And then when they heard that this is now he’s just calling out hey Kṛṣṇa. Where is Kṛṣṇa? So on and so forth. Then they all of a sudden the devotees, they became overjoyed. Now finally someone has come who can establish pure Kṛṣṇa. Bhakti. Yes, now all these atheistic people will be driven away once and for all. Now Nimay Pandit, he is the proper person to stab like this. They’re all discussing and before you know it the word got out everywhere that Nimāi Pandit has now become a pure Vaishnava. So the next day when Lord Caitanya came to the house Gaddadhar hid inside the house and a few others, Seemaan and Suklam Bhagavān and others were outside actually his house.

And when they went there then Caitanya came up. Then there was the big column of the house. So he came up and he embraced that column. Oh Kṛṣṇa, where have you gone like that? He was Just in ecstasy. And he embraced the column crying. And it was so hard renderings that the devotees, they also started to cry. Chant Kṛṣṇa. And then Lord Caitanya, he just fainted. When Lord Caitanya fainted one by one all the devotees Ganada in the house he was crying. When heard Lord Chaitanya’s heart crying, we all said like that someone coming in. And everyone was scattered. So then when Lord Caitanya came, he said I have. He said, who’s inside? He said, well, Godaddhar brought Gaddadhar out. He embraced Gaddadhar and said, you are so fortunate. Your whole life you have been a devotee.

You are simply engaged in worshiping Kṛṣṇa right from your childhood. Well, I wasted so much time arguing and studying and getting into so many other academic pursuits. You are also fortunate. So much time I have wasted. Now I simply want to hear the trazinal nectar of the Holy name. When will I again reach my Lord Kṛṣṇa? Then they start to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa Ka Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Rāma Hare Ram Hare. So like this, all the devotees, they’re overwhelmed with happiness that Lord Caitanya manifested. Now his real pastime is started. This before was just his childhood proclivities. Now his real purpose is being manifested. Why he’s come. So she’s actually very Kṛṣṇa conscious. She has a cat that she calls Tilak. That’s the cat what you like. He just has what Keisha Lawyer. Yeah. So then Lord Che tell me.

He went home and he saw his mother. He told his mother that simply always worship Kṛṣṇa. There’s nothing else. Kṛṣṇa is everything. And he sat down to take his meal and he just absorbed Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa. Mother said she became very frightened. I already lost my eldest son. Tuk Sanyas. My father. My husband deceased. O Bhagavān, don’t take away this son. At least give me the one son here. Everything else you have taken away, please let me keep Nimāi. Then he called Vishnu Priya. This is the natural psychology. The mother thinks well get the wife to serve the husband and husband will become entangled. Stay in the house, serve your husband. Didn’t take much to say that. Very devoted. But poor Caitanya wasn’t very interested. He was just concerned at that time. Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa. So sometimes he would just fall and faint.

Sometimes he was completely absorbed. Then in his transcendental ecstasy. So then he went to say his Guru Gaṅgā Das touched his guru means the Sanskrit teacher. That is Diksha Guru. Sanskrit teacher. Guru. So then he went to see him touched his feet, said oh you come back Very good. So you don’t have to study today. Just take it easy, you don’t have to take your students. So then Lord Caitanya took all the students and they went bathing in the Ganges. That Lord who is worshipped by all the demigods, Brahma Shiv they are frolicking in the Ganges telling them just chant only thing in the whole world is the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. They are suspecting what happened to divine Pandi. So then Lord Caitanya went home and did his Tulsi Pūjā Govinda Pūjā took rest but even in the nighttime he couldn’t sleep.

Sometimes he’d get up chanting, sometimes he’d sit down very restless, completely overcome by desire for just chanting Kṛṣṇa, thinking of Kṛṣṇa. So the next day he went to the side of the Ganges and sat and all the students came and he started to teach his Sanskrit classes. But every time then that he would, they would ask the question like what is a pure verb? And he would say yes, the purest verb is Kṛṣṇa. He’d give the whole interpretation about Kṛṣṇa. Then every time everything, every Sanskrit question, everything they brought up, they would just talk about Kṛṣṇa. So they all became completely bewildered looking at each other. What’s he talking about? All he’s talking about is Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa. Everything is indicating Kṛṣṇa. So this was going on and he said all right. He would get so absorbed in Kṛṣṇa he’d look out and see.

Have you understood what I said? You can’t understand. All you’re talking about is Kṛṣṇa. Alright, close your books, let’s again go to the Ganges. They all went for swimming in the Ganges. So the next day the same thing. So the students, they became very frustrated. What happened to our good old Nimay Pandit? Hairsplitting arguments crack Sanskrit. Now no matter what he’s talking about, everything is tying in Kṛṣṇa. Where are those speculative, where are those detailed pedantic interpretations? Now every interpretation is backing up and actually bringing that the conclusion of all the scriptures is Harina. So they made, they said they decided to go to the Gangadas Pandit and they told him that now everything that Lord Caitanya is doing is simply this Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa. What to be done? How can we learn anything of Sanskrit?

So then he said all right, I will go to see him. So they went to see Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya saw his original teacher of course, offered him respect, touched his lotus, his feet. Gangadha said listen, you are Brāhmaṇa, you Know the duties of the Brāhmaṇa Vai. They should have all the high culture. They should know the Vedas, they should know Sanskrit. They should be able to explain everything. In this way you will be able to maintain the proper standard in society. Now you want to teach your students all these things. This is the duty of the Brahmanas after all, and the Vaishnavas to know all these things. Lord Caitanya then said, of course it’s me, Nilay Pandit, who is there that can get any argument. I can defeat them in a moment. From the scriptures. Who is there?

Is there anyone who can dare challenge me? And everyone became fired up. It’s the good old Imai that’s the old Imai we knew. He blessed him. Yes, he said, I can go anywhere. Let them come by. Let them challenge who is there. So then he went just by the side of the road. He challenged all right. Anyone who is there has any argument, come forward. Like all the Brahmanas are running away again. And then who was very dear to the same village as Jagannath minstrel, He happened to come by. He saw this. Oh, here’s my like nephew, like a grandson almost. So he then he quoted the verse. I believe he quoted the verse. The exact look, I can’t remember. But he quoted one verse in the Bhāgavatang simply glorifying Lord Kṛṣṇa’s qualities. The mercy of Lord Kṛṣṇa, I believe.

How he delivered the Agastura demon, how he delivered the Putana which even though they were the most inimical that who else is there to take shelter of than Kṛṣṇa? He’s so merciful. He quoted some Shokas as soon as the vibration of pure bhakti entered in Lord Caitanya’s ear. Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa. He just fell down and started smashing his head and rolling. Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa. Where is my Kṛṣṇa? Rolling. All the students were looking. Oh no. And then Acharya Ratna was overjoyed. Appeared like my nephew, pure devotee and Lord Chetan. And then he was completely unconscious. What’s going on? He’s beating his head and his arms when he’s rolling. But he’s not conscious of any pain. Also there’s no bruise or anything coming. But tears are just pouring from his eyes.

The sometimes hares are standing and he’s crying, sometimes he’s shaking and that’s why he’s just crying out for Kṛṣṇa. Finally Gadatthar came and saw the crowd is gathering and they’re all. They’re not appreciating, you know, they’re not he said he told don’t repeat the slok anymore. And then Lord Shay tell me I heard that and came to our external conscious looked around and said that what did I do? Student said well, you are the. You are the doer of your deeds and you’re the one who knows we couldn’t stop you but one of your own people he stopped you. So like that Lord Caitanya, everything changed. He went back home and then his mother said well how were they? How was the arguing and kedante pursues today? He said simply all waste of time. Waste of time.

Only thing in this whole world is simply to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare, Hare Ram, Hare Ram. We’re born even in the womb seven months at the seventh month we become conscious Then we think at that time fortune and so off. Oh why I wasted so many births. I wasted so much time Mother, this way the soul is just saying how much time they have wasted. How they wasted so much time simply in their materialistic activities birth after birth and they’re thinking just how they can this time become a pure devotee. So mother, you should simply absorb yourself in the name of Kṛṣṇa. There’s nothing else. Forget everything else O Kṛṣṇa. This way Lord Caitanya started to manifest his internal pastimes His Sankirtan pastimes. And then later of course he started because only a certain amount of devotees could appreciate.

Then he did the Kirtans in Śrīvas house. That’s another pastime. So actually Lord Kṛṣṇa came down as Lord Caitanya just to distribute this love for Kṛṣṇa everywhere to everyone. But actually, if anyone hears about the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, how can you serve any other master? This witch, the sister of Banasur I believe not this.

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Takes on the form of a beautiful woman puts poison on her breast to kill Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa he doesn’t think all this witch is trying to kill me thinking oh she’s giving me her breast. She’s like my mother gives her that highest position in the spiritual sky as one of his mothers elevates Agasur that snake. When Kṛṣṇa is so kind even are those trying to kill him then why how can we think of putting any of our worship anywhere else, any of our dependents anywhere else? Who is there more merciful than Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya? He is the most merciful because he is giving Kṛṣṇa freely, giving pure love for Kṛṣṇa. So we should take advantage of Lord Caitanya’s mercy. Now it’s available. Somehow another Prabhupāda has brought it to the west. It’s being spread.

Take advantage, drink to our up to the neck and then give it out to as many people as possible. 7th voice J.