19900507 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.30.51-52

Vande ham sri-guroh sri-yuta-pada-kamalam sri-gurun vaisnavams ca
sri-rupam sagrajatam saha-gana-raghunathanvitam tam sa-jivam
sadvaitam savadhutam parijana-sahitam Kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devam
sri-radha-Kṛṣṇa-padan saha-gana-lalita-sri-visakhanvitams ca

Jayapataka Swami: (reads Translation)

After being born, Daksa, by the super excellence of his bodily luster, covered all others’

bodily opulence. Because he was very expert in performing fruitive activity, he was

called by the name Daksa, meaning “the very expert.” Lord Brahma therefore engaged

Daksa in the work of generating living entities something aside, and maintaining them.

In due course of time, Daksa also engaged other Prajapatis [progenitors] in the process

of generation and maintenance.

Translation with repetition.

Purport by Srila Prabhupada:

Daksa became almost as powerful as Lord Brahma. Consequently, Lord Brahma

engaged him in generating population. Daksa was very influential and opulent. In his

own turn, Daksa engaged other Prajapatis, headed by Marici. In this way the population

of the universe increased.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Fourth Canto, Thirtieth Chapter, of the

Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “The Activities of the Pracetas.”

Jayapataka Swami:

Om tat Sat

So this chapter covers the life, some of the activities of the Pracetas, who are able to

satisfy the Lord by their austerity and devotional service so that the Lord personally

appeared to them. It is not everyone that can realise the Lord. It is the special mercy

when the Lord appears. The Lord appears to the Pracetas and they were overwhelmed

by seeing the transcendental beauty of the Lord. Not only did the Lord appear to them,

Supreme Lord Krishna appeared to Pariksit maharaj. But then again, He disappeared.

He didn’t stay to give any instruction. Instead Sukadev Goswami gave instructions to

Pariksit Maharaja. But the Lord Himself gave instructions to the Pracetas. This was the

special mercy. Then the Pracetas entered into grihasthasram and worshipped the deity

form of the Lord. They also gave birth in this verse to Daksa. The same Daksa offended

Lord Siva and gone through certain austerities and penances had to take birth second

time now. But because of being forgiven by Lord Siva, we can see in this verse that he

regained his opulence and he engaged again in as a progenitor by Lord Brahma. This

chapter gives us many instructions - how by cooperating together the Pracetas got the

mercy of the Lord. Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada said that the devotees of ISKCON,

the international society of Krishna consciousness, should cooperate together or by

cooperating together this will be more pleasing to the Lord. Lord is more pleased when

many devotees are cooperating together than when just one person is doing

independently devotional service.

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In our human life is all filled with garbage activities illicit activities so where is the

Daksha where is the expert person now who can do everything perfectly or where is

even the desire to do it that’s why everything is been simplified we should chant the

name of Krishna by chanting the name of keshava we can easily get the perfection of

life even in age of kali this is the most amazing thing is that if you try to do karma

perfectly in this age you can achieve it you try to do yoga perfectly you can also achieve

it ifp you try even to study and become filled with knowledge still you won’t succeed

easily nastevy nastevy nastevy gatir anyatha but by harer nama harer nama harer nama

eva kevalam by chanting the holy name the holy name the holy name you can achieve it

this is the reason why were saying natevy nastevy nastevy no karma no yoga no gyana

its not possible in the age of kali to do all these things properly but hari naam you can

do still the people they are not interested they don’t realize what a special facility has

been given to them if we go when the Europeans went to South America someone of

them had this bowler cap bowler hat and the princess of the Indian Inca liked that

bowler cap so they traded that for one kilo of gold although the bowler cap is worth

hardly a few rupees so it became a fashion now all the one type of Inca tribal lady they

all wear bowler caps you go in South America and Bolivia on the streets they are all

wearing this bowler caps bowler hats its very surprising they brought tons of those

things and just gave them to these people in exchange for that gold and jewels and all

type of valuable things what is a bowler cap they are giving they are giving a child a

hundred rupees note and take this ,….. and give me that useless piece of paper yes

take that paper give me ….. I can taste this I can eat it like this people today they don’t

know the value of life they are accepting the temporary useless thing they are accepting

the garbage which is the refuse in other yugas they wont even think of these things but

today people are running after thinking how this body is all in after all this body it dies is

going to be either eaten by worms see when you bury the body is going to rot in the

coffin in the ground and is eaten by worms in Bengal one Islamic preacher Mullasen

Gupta Mohamed he was converted Hindu to Islamic dharma he came to Mayapur and

he gave lecture he said that I used to be Hindu but Hindu dharma I saw that they burn

the bodies when I saw how they take that bodies and they just burn it and they throw

the ashes in the ganges I saw this is very barbaric then I saw the Islamic dharma that

they are taking the bodies and they are putting it in a nice box all surrounded by velvet

and satin and silk good clothing they are putting it in a nice box they are covering it very

respectfully not just burning it like they didn’t value it but very respectfully they bury it in

a nice warm earth then I knew this is the real dharma, everyone has the right for their

own dharma we have nothing to say but in Bhagavat it says very clearly if you burn the

body it becomes ashes if u bury the body it becomes worms not that if you bury the

body and if you open up the coffin after 6 months what will you find the same person will

be there Egyptians they mummified their bodies by various process they try to do but

eventually

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Person will be there . Egyptians they mummify the body by various process. So they

try to do but eventually sooner or later it becomes digested. It becomes worms. Or like

the Parsis they tie up the body and that the vultures eat it, so the vultures eat and

digest and pass out the body as stool or sometimes we see some dead body. One time

in Mayapur we saw some man was poisoned and all around the body in the morning

there was about 10 dead dogs and two pakshis. They had gone to eat the body. They

ate ,there's so much poison in the body that when they ate they died. But mostly the

bodies are unpoisoned. So when they eat the body,they eat it,they pass it out as stool.

So Bhagvata says this body, what's it meant for? This body is going to be stool or

ashes or worms, this is what it's meant for? Go in the public garden see all big people

walking. But whatever big body they may have whether cricket player,or whether

politician or whether movie star or whatever it may be the body is simply going to

become stool, ashes or worms. But everyone's thinking this body is all in all. This whole

universe gets destroyed at the end. Paraya, everything is wound up. Nothing remains.

It all gets completely dried up, then flooded and dissolved and then finally it dissolves

right back to Pradhan. To the unmanifest material energy goes back into the Maha

Vishnu. So this material world, the material bodies, they all are temporary. They have

no permanent value. So the Vedas are telling the human beings using the best use of a

bad bargain as Srila Prabhupada would to say. You have a temporary body, a body

which is going to grow old, get diseased, die . Again you have to take birth again just

like Daksha he had to take birth again. He is again taking up and he began. He has this

desire. So long as we have desires, we have to again come back. He again took and he

began. So he has good desires. Desire to beget progeny for the universe. Some

mixture of goodness and passion is there. But he doesn't have the transcendental

desire to serve Krishna in pure devotional service. So again he come back to the

material world. Similarly unless we purify ourselves from the material desire, we again

have to come back to this material world. So the easiest way of purifying, the effective

way in the age of kali is to chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Actually yesterday like I gave the

example Europeans are giving their bowler hats to the tribals and getting gold. But we

are more fortunate. We are giving some temporary body in this service of Krishna we

are getting something back eternal. But it's not that we are cheating Krishna. This is

Krishna's mercy. Please accept me, alright. You use your body, use your mind, you use

your word in My service, you can come back to Me. He is agreeing for this exchange.

This is kindness. Although this is the best bargain. You see it's Like you give someone

an ice cube an exchange for the equal weight in gold. The Ice cube is going to melt any

second. So hot it will melt. But gold will last for so long. You are getting some temporary

thing, you are getting back eternal. This is the special mercy. But because some people

are so blind to their real benefit, the Lord has given His special facility. Actually the

devotee they have the mandate from the Lord, Lord Caitanya ordered His devotees to

go out and request people to chant Hare Krishna. It is our only duty to request people

to chant Hare Krishna. Even

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This is our only duty, to request people to chant Hare Krishna. Even, Srila Prabhupada

once explained, you can go up to someone, “ my dear sir, you are very intelligent, you

are very aristocratic, you are very educated, you are very wealthy, you know so many

things. I have just one request; forget everything. All this, forget it and simply please

chant Hare Krishna. Don’t mind.

Because, all whatever is in this material world doesn’t last at all. But if somehow or

another they chant Hare Krishna it is to their eternal benefit.

Unfortunately, people have no brain to understand what is valuable and what is not

valuable. But the devotees have their brain. Therefore, the devotees go and they go on

trying to awaken people. The devotees know that any activity which is not connected

with Krishna has no value, no permanence.

So many histories are given in the Mahabharath, Ramayan, in Bhagavat, in Puranas.

Great souls, great kings, great brahmanas great people of the universe but now they

are just a name in history.

Here, people are trying to etch their name in history. If you go by the Hussain Sagar so

many people’s statues are there. So their name is etched in the history of Andhra

Pradesh or the history of South India. But maybe in Tamil Nadu, many don’t know

these people. In Tamil Nadu, they have their own statues. In Karnataka, they have

another set. Or may be someone is known to the whole South India but they don’t know

them in North India.

(Bell rings)

GM: Jaya Bhagavan Ki

Devotees : Jaya)

Or they are known in this country but they are not known in America, Europe.

Actually Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Ramananda Raya, they were discussing. The

question was given, who is the most famous of all people. And the answer, is that

person who is pure devotee of Radha and Krishna; he’s got the real fame. The devotee

of the Lord is actually the famous person. But the devotee doesn’t care whether they

have fame or not because they have the real thing. What is the use of fame without

devotion? After time people will forget. Just name remains some time, one year, years,

hundred years, thousand, ten thousand. After sometime it is forgotten. Only that great

devotees they are remembered timelessly because, they are, it is worth remembering

them. Because what they did was beneficial for everyone to know. Now, the

government wants people to remember the freedom fighters because it is considered

good for national unity.

But before this was India, it was Bharatha varsha with so many other kings. Then it was

also, various kingdoms were there. Hyderabad was under Nizam. Like this many

divisions, subdivisions of the earth. Bhumi is same. So now one nationalism, in the

future may be another nationalism. Different types of nationalism are there. So, different

heroes they want to keep in their mind. But the real thing that people should understand

is to get a proper perspective.

Daksha is such a personality always, you can say, millions of years he is going on. Son

of Brahmā had to take birth again twice. But he keeps coming after his original position

because of getting blessing. Somehow or another we are all the children of Krishna ...

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The original position because of getting blessing. Somehow another we are all the

children of Krishna. We are all part and parcel of Krishna. In Gita, Krishna says

“mamaivamso jiva-loke
jiva-bhutah sanatanah”,

we are eternal parts and parcels of Krishna but somehow or another we have fallen

down. We committed some offense. We are in this material ignorance but we can regain

our position by taking up Krishna consciousness. We can regain, just as Daksha

regained his position, we can regain our eternal position.

Indra deva, he was cursed and he became a pig. He fell down from the position of being

deva-raj. He became a pig. He was happy as a pig. He had his wife, had his children,

had his mud hole. He was lying in the mud. Hot day, didn’t bother, yet air-conditioning

all around was nice muddy water. He’s lying there, like air-conditioning he is enjoying

surrounded by the luxury of his mud hole. But he could do more service, he could do

higher service, so Brahma came down and delivered him from that so he could

remember than he was deva-raj and he left that place and went back to svarga. But

even Indra is not eternal, even Indra will die, take a new birth, a new Indra will come. So

temporarily he forgot, he came and again went back.

So, we are originally all from the spiritual existence but somehow we have fallen. Now

we have to return back and this is special opportunity given by Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Actually this Kali yuga, which is yuga of tamas or ignorance, there’s so many difficulties,

so many problems. How the Lord was so kind even to step foot in Kali yuga. Even He’s

come as devotee, but still He put His lotus feet here in this Kali yuga. Even the Lord is

known as Tri-yuga; He only comes in Satya, Treta, Dvapar yuga. Still out of His

causeless mercy He came in disguise in Kali yuga. He put his lotus feet in this yuga.

Even He walked everywhere. How fortunate we are, only 504 years ago Lord Caitanya

was here on this planet. Even that time there was Mogul rule in many places. People

were meat eating, they were also killing cows then. They were doing so many things.

People were drinking wine. Already Kali yuga had begun. May be not to the extent now,

but already so many sinful activities were there. Still some religious idea was there also.

So Lord Caitanya He came in the midst of that sinful situation and He delivered people.

He delivered Jagai Madai and so many like him.

“papi tapi jata chilo, hari-name uddharilo, tara saksi jagai madhai re”.

So we should see that how the Lord is so merciful to the conditioned souls. He wants

them to return back. Even in the midst of this Kali yuga, if people will all chant Hare

Krishna we can have a period of Satya yuga. We can have a period where goodness

will prevail.

This is our duty to go on chanting and spreading this message. We don’t have to be

shy. We see some person, they may be wealthy, they may be proud, they may be

powerful; it doesn’t matter. They are insignificant to Krishna. We are the servant of the

greatest. But the devotee remains humble in regard to his own position. But in regard to

preaching he knows whatever this person may be- he may have wealth, he may have

good looks, he may have education, he may have power, this is due to previous karma

and when the karmas are finished he’ll be finished and again he has to take some other

birth. So, the devotee doesn’t get bewildered by all this show. Devotees should remain

very clear that they are very fortunate, but you want real fortune chant Hare Krishna.

Then you will get the eternal….

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Jayapataka Swami: should be made very clear that you are very fortunate.

But if you want real fortune, chant Hare Krishna. Then you get the eternal thing.

Whatever you have good fortune now, will not stay forever. Wealth can be stolen by

thieves, beauty can be destroyed by, even now- car accidents, so many things, fire -

anything can destroy beauty. Some movie star was there, some demoniac person took

razor blade and cut his face, out of envy. Beauty- this material beauty can easily go.

Then they do plastic surgery, trying to keep the beauty. Old age will take beauty, why,

even without anything else, old age will take the beauty. One will become wrinkled.

President of united states previous- his wife, she spent twenty five thousand dollars to

pull the wrinkles from her face. She is getting old, so they tight the wrinkles make it

stretch. When you get old, the skin become loose, so they hang. So to make you look

younger, they take again twenty five thousand, to pull everything, keep it looking

younger for three more years. After three years, again same. Again, twenty five

thousand dollars. Like this people are wasting the money. Because they are thinking

that how the body is, beauty is maintained is very important. People become very

superficial.

 Daksa was son of Brahma, but due to offence he had to take birth in a Ksatriya family.

That comparatively very low birth. But it didn’t tie him down because he did sacrifice and

penance. He again came up. Birth -be this or that. Birth is not the most important thing,

that is the advantage. We have to use it. If we misuse it, there’s no use. So, everything,

whatever facility, it’s all very short lived.

So best service we are doing when we approach these wealthy people become life

member, engage yourself in Krishna’s service. We should right out tell them what is the

harm. My dear Sir, you are very fortune, you must be very pious, did lot of good karma.

But you know, this Karma is very relative thing. It would go anytime. So we want to

make you real good fortune. You should do service to Krishna, you should give some

donation, you should serve, you should chant Hare Krishna. We are simply here for

your welfare. Devotees are the real tax collectors. But you give tax to Krishna, you gain.

What you gain by giving tax to government – that is another question. But whatever tax

you give to Krishna, you gain. Some people give land to Krishna, they want to take it

back. Reddy who donated the land for this temple, he said, after giving this land he got

so much other land from Krishna. He was not a loser. So this way, if we give to Krishna

we don’t lose, we only gain.

Lord Caitanya, He went everywhere, but He was simply interested in meeting the

devotees. Some king wanted to see Him, He wouldn’t meet. Prataparudra said he

wanted to meet Him. He said I won’t meet a king. I don’t care for king. Finally

Prataprudra, because he swept the road before Jagannath. So Lord Caitanya was

merciful to him. He said you can send his son. So He gave blessing to the prince. And

later Prataprudra dressed as a vaisnava in white clothing, with tilak, he went in to the

garden after the Ratha yatra festival when Lord Caitanya was resting after dancing in

ecstasy. And he went and he started to massage the lotus feet of the Lord and sing

bhajan. So the way to approach Lord Caitanya – you can’t go that “I have this

qualification . I am a king, I am a Prime minister, I have many.. “What qualification? You

go as a devotee. You can get His mercy. “I am simply the most fallen soul. Give me

your mercy. “That’s how you can easily get the mercy of Lord Caitanya. He is special

avatar for the fallen,

Patita pavana hetu tava avatara mo sama patita na paibe aara.

So like that we have to approach in a humble way.

Trnad api sunicena taror iva sahisnuna

We have to go in a humble way to the Lord.

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Vishnutha, shishnuna we have to go in a humble way to the lord, but that doesn’t mean

when we approach these people, I say because I see they proudly walk it’s really

intimidating sometimes even if you say good morning they are very stiff, they are very

proud. How to help these people who are so proud? they are going along their own way

but they don’t know what is the future for them, they maybe human being now but next

life they maybe dog, they maybe anything so that’s why Lord Caitanya’s devotees are

bit bold, although they are humble when it comes to preaching they are bold, some of

the devotees of Lord Caitanya even approach the muhammadians they went to

muhammadian cultured person, one Khazi was there, he said don’t mind but you should

chant Hare Krishna in a friendly way. He said well later, no, no, you should chant Hare

Krishna I will chant Hare Krishna tomorrow HARIBOL HARIBOL HARIBOL, you already

started you said Hare Krishna so don’t stop go on chanting, so we don’t care for any

external designation we simply want people to know they are all eternal servitors of the

Supreme Personality Of Godhead this can unite the whole world.

Thank you very much

Hare Krishna.

Any question? Come in maharaj, maharaj the take after being born, Daksha by the

super excellence of his bodily luster covered all others bodily opulence because he was

very expert in performing furtive activity, he was called by the name Daksha meaning

the very expert. Lord Brahma therefore engaged Daksha in the work of generating living

entities in maintaining them, in due course of time Daksha also engaged other

prajapati’s, progenitors in the process of generation, maintenance. This is explained in

the purport previous verse that each manu lives for 4,320,000 years multiplied by 71,

the present manu has already lived for 4,320,000 years multiplied by 28 all these long

life spans are ultimately ended by the laws of material nature. The controversy of

Daksha yagna took place in svambuhuva manavantra period as a result Daksha was

punished by Lord Shiva, by virtue of his prayers to Lord Shiva he became eligible to

regain his former opulence. According to Vishwanath Chakravarth Thakura Daksha

underwent severe penances after the 5th Manavantara thus at the beginning of the 6th

Manavantara know as the Chaksusha Manavantara Dasksha regained her former

opulence by the blessings of Lord Shiva, so know he was taken birth in this Chaksusha

Manavantara as sons of one of the Prachetas. So the next chapter is of Prachetas,

seeing they have so many good sons, good progeny, they leave and they go and do

penances, and austerity, meditation and they meet Narada Muni who instructs them.

The next chapter is Narada instructs the Prachetas. Any other question? Mataji’s any

question? You have a doubt (Audience question inaudible) but why you are not picking

up Hare or say the mantra Hare is there. Hare means the energy, so energy is Radha,

Radha has a different outlook then Krishna, Hare Rama Sita if you say that Rama

Raghupati Raghav Ram then Sita also has a different outlook if you take Radha Ram

any way Radha Krishna they are both

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Is that Rama, Raghupathi Raghav Ram and then in Sita there is different outlook, if you

take Radha Raman any way Radha and Krishna they both have different outlook, so

why you are not bringing that point also, why the Shakti is also there with different

outlook. Why are you bringing social. Radha social outlook, why are you bringing social,

outlook is different, that does not matter what does it matter what outlook they have.