19930102 Bhagavad-gītā 12.6-7

Bhagavad-gītā 12.6-7

January 2, 1993 @ Murāri Sevak Farm

The following is a class given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami on January 2^nd, 1993 at Murāri Sevak Form, in Mulberry, Tennessee. The class begins with a reading from the Bhagavad-gītā, chapter 12, verse six and seven.

ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi
mayi sannyasya mat-parāḥ
ananyenaiva yogena
māṁ dhyāyanta upāsate

teṣām ahaṁ samuddhartā
mṛtyu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt
bhavāmi na cirāt pārtha
mayy āveśita-cetasām

Translation by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Śrīla Prabhupāda: But those who worship Me, giving up all their activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, having fixed their minds upon Me, O son of Pṛthā – for them I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.

Purport by Srila Prabhupada: It is explicitly stated here that the devotees are very fortunate, to be delivered very soon from the material existence by the Lord. In pure devotional service one comes to the realization that God is great and that the individual soul is subordinate to Him. His duty is to render service to the Lord – and if he does not, then he will render service to māyā.

As stated before, the Supreme Lord can be appreciated only by devotional service. Therefore, one should be fully devoted. One should fix his mind fully on Kṛṣṇa in order to achieve Him. One should work only for Kṛṣṇa. It does not matter in what kind of work one engages, but that work should be done only for Kṛṣṇa. That is the standard of devotional service. The devotee does not desire any achievement other than pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. His life’s mission is to please Kṛṣṇa, and he can sacrifice everything for Kṛṣṇa’s satisfaction, just as Arjuna did in the Battle of Kurukṣetra. The process is very simple: one can devote himself in his occupation and engage at the same time in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Such transcendental chanting attracts the devotee to the Supreme to the Personality of Godhead.

The Supreme Lord herein promises that without delay He would deliver a pure devotee thus engaged from the ocean of material existence. Those who are advanced in yoga practice can willfully transfer the soul to whatever planet they like by the yoga process, and others take the opportunity in various ways, but as far as the devotee is concerned, it is clearly stated here that the Lord Himself takes him. The devotee does not need to wait to become very experienced in order to transfer himself to the spiritual sky.

In the Varāha Purāṇa this verse appears:

nayāmi paramaṁ sthānam
arcir-ādi-gatiṁ vinā
garuḍa-skandham āropya
yatheccham anivāritaḥ

The purport of this verse is that a devotee does not need to practice aṣṭāṅga-yoga in order to transfer his soul to the spiritual planets. The responsibility is taken by the Supreme Lord Himself. He clearly states here that He Himself becomes the deliverer. A child is completely cared for by his parents, and thus his position is secure. Similarly, a devotee does not need to endeavor to transfer himself by yoga practice to other planets. Rather, the Supreme Lord, by His great mercy, comes at once, riding on His bird carrier Garuḍa, and at once delivers the devotee from material existence. Although a man who has fallen in the ocean may struggle very hard and may be very expert in swimming, he cannot save himself. But if someone comes and picks him up from the water, then he is easily rescued. Similarly, the Lord picks up the devotee from this material existence. One simply has to practice the easy process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness and fully engage himself in devotional service. Any intelligent man should always prefer the process of devotional service to all other paths. In the Nārāyaṇīya this is confirmed as follows:

yā vai sādhana-sampattiḥ
puruṣārtha-catuṣṭaye
tayā vinā tad āpnoti
naro nārāyaṇāśrayaḥ

The purport of this verse is that one should not engage in the different processes of fruitive activity nor cultivate knowledge by the mental speculative process. One who is devoted to the Supreme Personality can attain all the benefits derived from other yogic processes, speculation, rituals, sacrifices, charities, etc. That is the specific benediction of devotional service.

Simply by chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa – Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare – a devotee of the Lord can approach the supreme destination easily and happily, but this destination cannot be approached by any other process of religion.

The conclusion of Bhagavad-gītā is stated in the Eighteenth Chapter:

sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ
[Bg. 18.66]

One should give up all other processes of self-realization and simply execute devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That will enable one to reach the highest perfection of life. There is no need for one to consider the sinful actions of his past life, because the Supreme Lord fully takes charge of him. Therefore one should not futilely try to deliver himself in spiritual realization. Let everyone take shelter of the supreme omnipotent Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. That is the highest perfection of life. Śrīla Prabhupāda kī!

Devotees: Jaya!

Jayapatākā Swami: Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā As It is kī!

Devotees: Jaya

Jayapatākā Swami: Twelfth chapter on devotional service ki!

Devotees: Jaya

Jayapatākā Swami: Nitāi Gaura Premānande!

Devotees: Hari Bol

Verses 6 to 7, chapter 12, Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.

ye tu sarvāṇi karmāṇi
mayi sannyasya mat-parāḥ
ananyenaiva yogena
māṁ dhyāyanta upāsate

teṣām ahaṁ samuddhartā
mṛtyu-saṁsāra-sāgarāt
bhavāmi na cirāt pārtha
mayy āveśita-cetasām

mayy āveśita-cetasām – But those who worship Me, giving up all their activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, having fixed their minds upon Me, O son of Pṛthā – for them I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.

Oṁ tat sat

This is a very sublime purport. When Śrīla Prabhupāda has explained the process of fully engaging in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Even a little practice of Kṛṣṇa consciousness can give unlimited good fortune. Even after a short process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, someone can achieve perfection, just like Mahārāja Parīkṣit, he achieved perfection in seven days, Kaṭvāṅga Mahārāja, he got perfection in one moment, one muhūrta, 48.5 minutes, he was told that you have 48 minutes by the devas, one muhūrta. When he was offered after fighting with the devas, in the higher planetary systems, he was offered anything he wanted. So instead he said that, “Well, first tell me how long do I have to live, because that’s essential information to know before I tell you what I want.” So they said that, “You have one muhūrta.” [laughter] One 48 minute period of life left, then he said then, “that’s alright I don’t need... just give one of your flying saucers and take me one of your...whatever they were, the spaceships, take me immediately back to my temple on the planet earth, and I will surrender to my Deities, I will take the association of Vaiṣṇavas, and in that association serving to my Deities of Lord Kṛṣṇa, I will go back to home, back to Godhead. So, though he was in another galaxy, for the devas it wasn’t difficult for them to transfer him back immediately to this planet.

You know, we are trying around with our technology, they spend billions of dollars, sending what is that... I forget the name of the probe that was supposed to go up to Jupiter, and now their [inaudible word] is jammed, (laughter) they trying to hammer the [inaudible word] open by some kind of shock therapy. [laughter]. So far it hasn’t worked. And yet we are so proud that we can say that there is no God, or we create everything by evolution, or just create some kind of crazy theory. While the Vedas they are telling us there is life on other planets all over the universe, and some of the life is far much more evolved than we are. So much show that they could transport a person from this planet from another star system in less than 45 minutes. We have enough time not only to hit 45 to live. Get him here, we still have enough time for him to do his final surrender to Kṛṣṇa, get back to Godhead. So almost instantaneously they could return.

So, although human beings are not so highly evolved as a resident in higher planets, we are same type of consciousness in the sense of human evolved consciousness. A consciousness that can understand the self and the Supreme-self, that’s the cutting difference between animals and humans. A human species in its 400,000 different forms has got the potential to realize God, understand God in the present body, whereas the animal species do not find it very easy to do that. Their intelligence is not developed. He knows areas. So even though amongst the human species we are actually considered very insignificant. The higher devas, Gandharvas, Cinnaras, Kannara, Janaloka, Tapaloka, Maharloka and so on, higher planetary system residents are very much more advanced, even the asuras who are in the lower planets, but they are technologically more advanced. They are able to create mechanized very elaborate machines for flying and for doing other everything, but human beings have the capacity to fully developed, to become brāhmaṇas, become spiritually realized, to become Vaiṣṇavas and go back to Godhead in one lifetime.

Śrīla Prabhupāda said we could also go back in this one lifetime, but we should understand that this is no mean feat, that’s not an insignificant thing. May sound very easy but it’s actually the topmost achievement. Kṛṣṇa says, nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ - when someone reaches My Supreme abode they do not want to come down again, they don’t fall down again to the material world. So that is the topmost perfection. I think I explained here about baby monkey and baby kitten philosophies. Atlanta that, maybe I didn’t here.

Devotee: [inaudible]

Jayapatākā Swami: I don’t want to… You have a baby kitten here, and so, but they don’t have seen any monkeys, you know how the mother moves the baby kitten? Others do you know how does the mother moves the baby kitten? What does the kitten do?

Devotees: It hangs.

Jayapatākā Swami: Hangs loose [laughter] And what does the baby monkey do?

Devotee: Embraces.

Jayapatākā Swami: What does the mother do? With the baby what does she do? She holds on with the baby or just…

Devotee: No, she has many....

Jayapatākā Swami: Alright this are the two philosophies, baby kitten and baby monkey, understood. [laughter]

Devotee: [inaudible]

Jayapatākā Swami: Baby kitten philosophy means that simply to depend on the Lord, not to make any effort on your own part. To say that, “I can’t do anything, it all depends on the Lord’s mercy, simply bathe in the blood.” [laughter] He will do everything, we don’t have to try to do anything.

Devotees: How do we?

Jayapatākā Swami: We just hang loose; we are powerless. We just... so in India and South India there was a sect of Rāmānuja sampradāya, they also developed this offshoot, we can’t do anything, we are helpless, so we have to depend on the mercy of the Lord, so there is also no use in trying to do anything, we just depend... and this has become popular in South East America also. Certain sects has the same idea, the flesh is week, so what can we do? Depend on the Lord. The other side of the coin is monkey philosophy, if we simply do our sādhana-bhakti and there is no special effort needed from the Lord because whatever according to our sādhana we are going to get it anyway. It’s all depended on my chanting and my practices and whatever devotional services I do. So, there is no special reason of genuflecting before God, do our rituals and we get back to Godhead. Whatever we do is all because of our effort. No need a guru, no need of any special help to serve sādhana, so won practice it. It’s like monkey philosophy, I am hanging on, so monkey, just the way the monkey is hanging on, so that is... it is his effort.

So the ācāryas say that the more accurate understanding of our position is like a man who falls on a well and is handed down a rope, so he had to hang on to the rope, can’t get out of the well yourselves, it’s too deep and steep. Just like Prabhupāda gave the example, can’t swim out of the ocean alone. Someone has to come and lift you out of the ocean. So, in the well and the rope example the person holds on to the rope and by the combined effort of the rope and person above and his effort then he is able to get out of the well. We need to practice our devotional service, at the same time we are depending on the mercy of guru and Kṛṣṇa. We make our effort; at the same time we depend on the Lord. Even if the effort may... we try to make it 100%, maybe it is only 70-80% or 90%, or 75 or some, depending on the Lord’s mercy, He can still deliver us, even in less than 100%. But from our side we should try the best that we can to serve Him, to practice, at the same time out of humility the devotee understands that he may not be up to the 100% mark and they always praying to the Lord and His devotees for their blessing and trying to take whatever help and mercy they can get. So, this combination of the Lord’s mercy and the devotee’s desires are important, both the things are needed.

So here it also said,

yā vai sādhana-sampattiḥ
puruṣārtha-catuṣṭaye
tayā vinā tad āpnoti
naro nārāyaṇāśrayaḥ
[Nārāyaṇīya]

Āśraya means to take shelter, so when you take shelter of the Lord, just by the four puruṣārthas or by… Prabhupāda said here, you get all the benefits by taking shelter of Kṛṣṇa. All the benefits from the other various processes are automatically there. We don’t have to individually, independently try for those things. Similarly, one doesn’t need to take shelter of the other processes. The other processes are not so complete. One should take shelter of the devotional service and part of that is to take shelter of guru and Kṛṣṇa. So, comes... from this that there many experts in other processes, there is yogī experts—speculation experts, ritual experts, sacrificial experts, very charitable people, great karma-kāṇḍis—they are all expert in their fields but being expert in those fields doesn’t mean that you know Kṛṣṇa.

To know Kṛṣṇa you have to be a pure devotee, so those other experts, yogīs, bhogīs, jñānīs, and so on they are not able to enter into the actual significant... meaning or understanding of devotional service. This is much as... so if you want to learn devotional service who do you go to, who do you go to? You go to a Vaiṣṇava. If you want to know about Hindu practices, do you go to a Muslim mullah and ask him? Or a Baptist priest? Obviously, you won’t because they are going to give you some speculative answer, they wouldn’t have a true picture. So, you have to go to the Vaiṣṇava’s.

There is an example once, I told the story about the Kaṭvāṅga Purāṇa, from the Gopāla Bhārn story, remember that? A Mohammaden king challenged that... You know some big digvijayī ensured, so big Paṇḍita came and challenged all the other digvijayīs, all other paṇḍitas in the kingdom, in the empire. So the Mohammedan empire, he sent a message to Kṛṣṇacandra that, “You should sent a big Paṇḍita up to defeat the digvijayī!” But none of his paṇḍitas in Navadvīpa, 300 years ago they were not prepared to go there, because they were afraid to get defeated. And there was question of you know of defending their empire. So, Gopāla Bhārn was like the Court Jester, like a head tier, he said, “I will go!” [laughter]

“So Gopāla, don’t joke around this is serious.”

“No! No! I can go. How much will you give me if I defeat the Paṇḍita!”

“Well, I will give you a thousand gold coins.”

“Okay! I am going, no problem.”

So, he shaved all up, put on a harināma-cādar, wrapped up an old bedpost he had in a place of usurp. So, looked like one of those ancient manuscripts wrapped up. [laughter] Then he came with big tilaka, so then the king saw him and said, “Well, here you are far out Gopāla, you look like a real pakka-paṇḍita.” “So off I go.” “So what’s that in your hand.” “That is my Kaṭvāṅga Purāṇa” [laughter] So then he walked up with his wooden shoes, you know, walked up to 250 kilometers just to get to the Empires capital, in Maldah, in Gauḍa, near where Rūpa and Santāna lived at Rāmakeli. There they met the Emperor.

After the long journey Gopāla stayed at the Emperor’s guest house and he ate sumptuously for few days. The empire was very anxious, so let’s get the debate going. So, he came out for the debate, and there was the big Digvijayi who had conquered all paṇḍitas all over India. Gopāla came up you know completely [laughter] confident, walked up and everybody was surprised, even the Paṇḍita got shocked, “Wow how this guy is so confident?” So he was svāgatam-ed, welcomed and.... “So where would you like to discuss over it?”

“What is that? I see that you brought some book, what book have you brought?”

He said, “I brought my Kaṭvāṅga Purāṇa.” [laughter]

“Kaṭvāṅga Purāṇa? We know the 18 Purāṇas and the 108 Upaniṣads and the Mahābhārata, the four Vedas, all the Saṁhitās, Kaṭvāṅga Purāṇa?” You know, they didn’t place it. Meanwhile Gopāla said, “Wait, Kaṭvāṅga Purāṇa knows all, it knows all. I have just calculated that at this time, at this muhūrta, at this lagna, at this rising sign and the constellation, at this moment, taking the hair from a great Paṇḍita, taking a hair from this Paṇḍita, this Digvijayī, he has got a special power, whoever takes a hair from his head will get a special blessings of longevity, good fortune, reality, good fame, overcoming all obstacles in life, so many benedictions will be there, this is the special muhūrtam, this is the moment.” And they said, “Really!” They immediately dive on this guy and said, “Give me your hair!” Ripping out his hair and the Paṇḍita “Oh! No! No!! No!!!” He ran off you know, people are all chasing him trying to grab his hair [laughter] And the Digvijayī split, left the place. [laughter] So the emperor was very happy, got rid of this Paṇḍita, he also gave 1000 gold coin to Gopāla, so he got double, he went back, he got some more gold... maybe even 2000, I forget now. Then the king said, heard the whole thing and said, “Gopāla, how could you do that? What... how could you go there?”

He said, “Anyone who is foolish enough to go to a Mohammaden Emperor and challenge, what does the Mohammedan emperor know about... how can he judge who is the victor of the Veda, the Hindu śāstra?” [laughter] So right there it shows that he deserved to get this. If he had to have someone who knows something to be able to able to judge. This is also a difficulty that we face if we are trying to put our religion to trial in America, and where is the jury or where is the judge who is able to actually evaluate someone’s religion. They don’t have that capacity to really understand, what is the religion, what is the practice. Anyway, then the King asked, “What is this Kaṭvāṅga Purāṇa you know?” So, he unwrapped the silk cloth and there was the broken bedpost. Kaṭ means bed, aṅga means part or leg, so this is the broken part of my leg, purāṇa means it is the old one. Old broken leg of my bed. [laugther] Kaṭvāṅga Purāṇa!” “Can I have too Gopāla! Really you are genius!” “Sir could you give my thousand gold coin.”

So, Gopāla wasn’t a pure Vaiṣṇava, he knew, he respected pure Vaiṣṇavas, he respected the what it took to know Vedic culture, so just like this mohammaden emperor he won’t really know, can’t really evaluate the fine aspects of Hindu or Vedic philosophy, similarly even within Vedic philosophy, the other... even they may be very expert, the other parts of it, they are not able to understand, but if somebody surrenders like this verse explained, if you take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, someone takes shelter of Kṛṣṇa in pure devotional service, Kṛṣṇa gives him that knowledge – teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ, dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ – For someone who is constantly engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s service He gives him the intelligence whereby he can come to Him. Yena mām upayānti te, so that’s why the devotional service process is so special. Is the only process that gives one knowledge about Kṛṣṇa directly. Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti, only devotee can know Kṛṣṇa as He is, so this is a special feature of devotional service.

So, all these things are impetuses for us actually to simply take shelter of devotional service. Sometimes due to association, devotees want to take shelter in some psychic process or some mystic process, astral projection, or any other yoga or whatever some speculation, but these things will not actually be able to take us through to the perfectional platform. Their destinations are much more planes. If you want actually to know Kṛṣṇa, actually want to get back to Godhead, we simply need to follow this process that Kṛṣṇa is recommending. In other yugas it seems that there were many yogīs, many people that were very expert in other processes of self-realization. So, since they were getting a lot of results, they didn’t… they were satisfied with those processes. Even though they didn’t know Kṛṣṇa, they knew certain different things that, they didn’t even know that there was Kṛṣṇa to know about. So, they were somehow satisfied... in the Age of Kali the practice of other yogas wouldn’t be successful, whatever they were successful at, it is very difficult. This is very difficult age to practice all these rituals. Other processes are more ritualistic, but devotional service has practices but it’s dependent on our surrender to Kṛṣṇa. So that, it said the only guaranteed process in this age, the other processes are not very easy, neither they will take you to the supreme destination nor will they give you the partial fruit that they normally offer. It’s very hard to get those because people don’t practice it so perfectly.

Our devotional service would depending on the Lord’s mercy and even if we fall little short He may still deliver us, but in the other processes one has to be more accurate otherwise you don’t get... So whereas to reach a middle, intermediate result it may take many, many births of hard effort, to reach the highest benediction, the person can complete in even one month moment, 45 minutes. So sometimes the people they get bewildered, they can’t understand how is this, as you say by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa accidentally- nāmābhāsa, you can get liberation, even the great yogīs they can’t get it even after so many births.

That’s a discussion happening with Gopāla Cakravartī, mentioned in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta in the house of the Govardhana and Hiraṇya Majumdar, when he challenged Haridāsa Ṭhākura statement about the holy name. Actually they asked Haridāsa Ṭhākura to speak on the whole glories of the holy name, but some of the paṇḍitas wanted to show off and said, “Oh, yes, yes we know about the... by chanting you can’t the liberation.” Then Haridāsa Ṭhākura said, “Actually liberation is not the real fruit of chanting, it’s a by-product, you can get it even by accidentally chanting!” And he quoted a verse in Vedas how by accidentally chanting the holy name, nāmābhāsa one can get liberation. Then Gopāla Cakravartī got so upset, that he said that, he stood up and said, “Oh, don’t listen talking to people, listen to this sentimental, this speak, how do you expect us to listen to what he is saying? Great yogīs are meditating for thousands of births, they don’t get liberation, and he is saying that if we just accidentally chant the holy names, we get liberation, how is it possible? This is our insult to our intelligence, to hear such.” Haridāsa Ṭhākura said that, “This are not my words, this is what the scriptures saying.” He quoted so many scriptures, but still this Gopāla Cakravartī said, “If you can’t get liberation by accidentally chanting the holy name then I will cut off your nose. I will let your nose fall off.” Then Haridāsa Ṭhākura said, “I will cut my nose off if one doesn’t get liberation by nāmābhāsa.” Then everybody stood up, “No, no stop this! Gopāla how can you do this, he is our distinguished guest, he is a great ācārya, you leave here, you are fired. You are retrenched. You committed a great offense. Please fall at the feet of Haridāsa Ṭhākura and beg him to forgive them because anyone who even hears offenses against a Vaiṣṇava, if they don’t ask forgiveness they can also get the reactions. So, it is very dangerous to hear offenses, even what to speak of to do them against a pure Vaiṣṇava. So Haridāsa Ṭhākura said, “Well, obviously this person doesn’t know anything about vaiṣṇava-tattva, he just must have studied only the impersonal path, so he doesn’t know about it.” 35:45 This is... so many times they... here they... so many brāhmaṇas, scholar, but when they came to bhakti-tattva he had a totally, wrong, erroneous idea to the point that he was offensive against Haridasa Thakur, and finally then Haridas Thakur heard that within three days Gopal Chakraborty got Leprosy and his nose fell off his face. He felt very sad to hear the bad news, because the Vaiṣṇavas are sad to see other’s sadness, and happy to see others spiritually happy. So Gop... Haridāsa Thakura left that place. Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare So one should give up all other processes of self-realization and simply execute devotional service in Krsna consciousness, that will enable one to reach the highest perfection of life. So what happens is that when one starts devotional service, then the mind starts to play tricks saying that, minds losing control, intelligence is taking over the mind, māyā tries to influence the mind, it comes up with all different idea. Well, actually before you do devotional service, maybe you should visit some holy places or do some tapasyas or any... so many or you should do little charity first or take care of this thing or that thing, like so many... anything that kind of get used not to do devotional service, so this verses are to protect us, give our intelligence ammunition to say, “wait a minute my mind, don’t pull that one on me, don’t try to fool me in that way, there is no way one that one can able to achieve this perfection except through devotional service. There is no use of me doing anything else. So here we are in the shelter of Nitai-Gauracandra, trying... Śrīla Prabhupāda trying to do devotional service, bring people to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and by taking shelter of the Lord, by keeping ourselves always engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s service, associating with the Vaiṣṇavas, we can advance. Jagadānanda Paṇḍita nicely explained how people worship their own devo... Deities, or worship Deities in the temple but they just think that everybody else 38.40-42, they don’t respect the Vaiṣṇavas, they don’t really... they think, “I am doing my service, I go to my religious institutions and that is enough. So those are the kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs, and the madhyama-adhikārī means he is the friend with the devotees, worships the Lord, take shelter of the spiritual master and the advanced Vaiṣṇavas, and the foolish people, the innocent people, he gives his compassion on them to 39.10-13, and he avoids the envious people, that is the madhyama adhikārī, then so many different... different kinds of uttama-adhikārīs that there who are very much fixed up in their devotional service. So, says that if we are steady in our devotional services as a madhyama-adhikārī very quickly Kṛṣṇa will elevate one to the platform of a uttama-adhikārī without delay. So here also Kṛṣṇa says, na chirat, not after a long time, it won’t take very long. In one example Jīva Gosvāmī explains that one can get purified in the time of sata padama dala preparation, understand? Sata padma ...preparation... a thousand lotus leaf... a hundred lotus leaf, sata, if you put them on top of each other, then you take a pin... a needle and you insert the needle through the leaves at the same time, right?

Devotees: Right.

Jayapatākā Swami: Wrong, so actually going through one at a time, there is a slight difference between one to the next, minute fraction of a second, fraction of a moment... time, isn’t it? So that time is like that slight time span, this type of minute time span, in that slight time span, all the sinful reactions can be destroyed by Kṛṣṇa.

Devotee: Sata pata padma

Jayapatākā Swami: preparation, I don’t know (laughter)

Devotees:

Jayapatākā Swami: So doesn’t take... [laughter] Kṛṣṇa can deliver us just like that, very less time, in a very short amount of time, in a little amount of time, small amount of time, so we take the mercy of Lord Caitanya and takes shelter of Śrī Śrī Nitāi-Gauracandra, then Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura he mentioned... Prabhupāda quite many times that how a devotee’s are compassionate. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his song, Nāmahaṭṭa song that how chanting the holy name and then doing jīvera dayā, being Kṛṣṇa conscious, serving Kṛṣṇa, chanting the holy name and then being merciful to other Vaiṣṇavas, other conditioned souls. This are the essence of religion, chanting the holy names, worshipping the Lord and being compassionate to others, ...so this are the basic process trying to practice our Kṛṣṇa consciousness and at the same time going out distributing books, distributing prasāda, distributing the mercy, so this is very pleasing to Lord Caitanya and Śrīla Prabhupāda. Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.

Transcribed by: Sadānanda Kṛṣṇaprema dāsa - 4/10/2015, Māyāpur.