19931115 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.10.4

Following is a class given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami on November 15^th 1993 in Sweden the class begins with reading from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam first canto, chapter ten, verse four.           

*Verse with repetition*

kāmaṁ vavarṣa parjanyaḥ
sarva-kāma-dughā mahī
siṣicuḥ sma vrajān gāvaḥ
payasodhasvatīr mudā

Translation: During the reign of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, the clouds showered all the water that people needed, and the earth produced all the necessities of man in profusion. Due to its fatty milk bag and cheerful attitude, the cow used to moisten the grazing ground with milk.

Purport: The basic principle of economic development is centered on land and cows. The necessities of human society are food grains, fruits, milk, minerals, clothing, wood, etc. One requires all these items to fulfil the material needs of the body. Certainly, one does not require flesh and fish or iron tools and machinery. During the regime of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, all over the world there were regulated rainfalls. Rainfalls are not in the control of the human being. The heavenly king Indradeva is the controller of rains, and he is the servant of the Lord. When the Lord is obeyed by the king and the people under the king’s administration, there are regulated rains from the horizon, and these rains are the causes of all varieties of production on the land. Not only do regulated rains help ample production of grains and fruits, but when they combine with astronomical influences there is ample production of valuable stones and pearls. Grains and vegetables can sumptuously feed a man and animals, and a fatty cow delivers enough milk to supply a man sumptuously with vigour and vitality. If there is enough milk, enough grains, enough fruit, enough cotton, enough silk and enough jewels, then why do the people need cinemas, houses of prostitution, slaughterhouses, etc.? What is the need of an artificial luxurious life of cinema, cars, radio, flesh and hotels? Has this civilization produced anything but quarrelling individually and nationally? Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men into hellish factories and the war fields at the whims of a particular man?

It is said here that the cows used to moisten the pasturing land with milk because their milk bags were fatty and the animals were joyful. Do they not require, therefore, proper protection for a joyful life by being fed with a sufficient quantity of grass in the field? Why should men kill cows for their selfish purposes? Why should man not be satisfied with grains, fruits and milk, which, combined together, can produce hundreds and thousands of palatable dishes? Why are there slaughterhouses all over the world to kill innocent animals? Mahārāja Parīkṣit, grandson of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, while touring his vast kingdom, saw a black man attempting to kill a cow. The King at once arrested the butcher and chastised him sufficiently. Should not a king or executive head protect the lives of the poor animals who are unable to defend themselves? Is this humanity? Are not the animals of a country citizens also? Then why are they allowed to be butchered in organized slaughterhouses? Are these the signs of equality, fraternity and nonviolence?

Therefore, in contrast with the modern, advanced, civilized form of government, an autocracy like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira’s is by far superior to a so-called democracy in which animals are killed and a man less than an animal is allowed to cast votes for another less-than an animal man.

We are all creatures of material nature. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that the Lord Himself is the seed-giving father and material nature is the mother of all living beings in all shapes. Thus, mother material nature has enough foodstuff both for animals and for men, by the grace of the Father Almighty, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The human being is the elder brother of all other living beings. He is endowed with intelligence more powerful than animals for realizing the course of nature and the indications of the Almighty Father. Human civilizations should depend on the production of material nature without artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos of artificial greed and power only for the purpose of artificial luxuries and sense gratification. This is but the life of dogs and hogs.

Thus, end the Bhaktivedanta Swami translation, purport of text four, chapter ten, canto one of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam  in the matter of “Departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa for Dwaraka”

Jayapatākā Swami: Prabhupāda is sending a message about the vegans.  People are against the use of milk. Of course, certain day cows are not been properly protected. They take into the extreme where they consider that the cows are exploited or cows are not giving the milk. Here we can see that the entire human society is organized according to a plan given by Lord Kṛṣṇa, we have to accept the superior intelligence of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s plan.

If the cow’s milk is offered to Lord Kṛṣṇa then that cow is blessed in so many ways. In any case the cow will take birth as a human in the next life under the normal course of an event. if the cow can die natural death. But if the cow’s milk is offered to Kṛṣṇa then the cow is even more blessed than the and achieves a very high position for that.

The human society is meant to be a vegetarian and at the same time get their animals requirements the animal fats, animal protein, requirements from milk from the cow, in return the human beings protect the cow.

Instead of protection if the cows are slaughtered then it’s not a protection, it’s a very friendly co-operation. Just like children when they are in the house of the parents, they expected they also clean the room, and help them in cleaning the house and preparing the food that is not consider exploitation, that’s a part of the co-operative effort that the family had so the whole human society, the whole universal society, or the world society. We consider the animals also have their parts. Certain animals are naturally domestic animals and the cows have a very important part to play. 

Here the Bhāgavatam brings out as a symptom that the world is very happy if that the cows are happy. But this is something inconceivable for just a normal reaction. How the cows are happy, the world is happy. But this is actually a fact. When the cows in the world are happy the people become happy.

So, therefore it can’t be left up to chance you can’t see the animals in the forest to eaten by the wolf. The human have to take care to protect the animals and see that they are properly fed, taking care of them and in reciprocation that cow gives good milk. And the bulls are engaged in the practical work in the field and you don’t need all this artificial machinery for growing.

Life can be quite simplified and spiritualized. Somehow the cows are happy so people become happy and the cows are unhappy also people are not happy. Someone can do a study but this is the Vedic index, one of the injunctions. When the cows and brāhmaṇas are happy means the kingdom is happy. Brāhmaṇas should also be happy.

When the brāhmaṇas are not happy then the king was considered to be a failure.  The story of how one brāhmaṇa was dissatisfied with a particular king, he said I don’t feel protected. I don’t feel that this king is giving proper protection to the brāhmaṇa. I am going to leave this kingdom. And then King pleaded please don’t leave my kingdom. What can I do? I am leaving because I just don’t feel protected and one even tell the king what was wrong.

And he went to another kingdom and the king said why did you come here said that I don’t feel protected by that king. What? You don’t feel protected by that king; we are declaring war against that king. He is not protecting the brāhmaṇas therefore he is not qualified to be a king. Call my troops and the whole army goes up. Why you declare war?  because you didn’t protect the brāhmaṇa. What did I do wrong, can’t figure it out. There was a huge battle and at the end king was preceded and the other king became the king of both kingdom. Because he was not able to keep his brāhmaṇa satisfied therefore he lost the great kingdom. Didn’t affect the ordinary people they were allowed the daily activities just the kings fight against each other.

It was so important that the brāhmaṇa become happy then the whole kingdom changed its government because of one brāhmaṇa. *Devotees laughing*. Here anyway governments are changing every four years (laughter) but the brāhmaṇas are always dissatisfied.

Mother nature is the energy of the Lord and everything is being organized very systematically. You can see now just a slight bit of change in the nature balance creates many changes.

Recently, in Poland they say now because the temperature doesn’t get colder it was before in the winter that the many kinds of insects and night organisms which are not been killed because the vultures not so strong. Then in the summer there is more flies there are more types of diseases coming around just because few degree temperature changes all of a sudden, all types of ecological changes going on.

So, that in the world there are different types of balances, different types of arrangement which everybody just takes for granted. Now because of… due to over industrialization so many forests and trees have been cut down. That so many different problems are coming up in the world due to the emissions.  In south America when we were there, there is a huge hole in the ozone and the outer violet rays are coming down and, on the people, directly cows are going blind in the field because of the direct ultraviolet rays in the south of Argentina and Chile.

People have to wear sunglasses otherwise they are also going blind because they have to put sunglasses on the cows you know (laughter) because of ozone you know. [aside discussion]. So, all these things now human beings are becoming aware that there seems to be some kind of natural balance.

Of course, they don’t give credit to this whole intricate balance was created by somebody. That this has a plan or intelligence behind it. Now they were messing it up thinking it take so much effort so many big world conferences they had a big conference continuing having regional, continental conferences, so difficult to organize things. But the whole world was organized in such a very nice balance but they think that’s all accidental. 

But Śrīla Prabhupāda, here he had stressed very boldly, pointed out the defects of the modern, Godless civilization, how materialistic civilization is created so many problems. People should have made that this type of a system as far as doesn’t have defects. As personal way of life is not standard that need to be inherited.

One newspaper, one of the Star newspaper reporters in one of the cities in Poland they interviewed and she kept raising this point that people say you are a sect you are a cult and I was there.

Why did you say that? 

What is the definition. Well, you dress differently. All people dress differently. So, there anything is different from their standard, she is going to minister she went to India she probably be stopped that people. Here we are in 20^th century but everything is based on their profile, very limited preaching.

When Prabhupāda is trying to do here is sharp a little objectivity, to just accepting that this is that world were living in we should objected to overview of what an ideal situation should be, then gradually work towards that. What is lacking is the group head of perfection or the group head of ideal group head for the world. So Śrīla Prabhupāda providing that teaching here in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, of course the underline requirement or necessity is that people should also be spiritually progressing.

Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja was taking care that all the brāhmaṇas were happy and they were qualified, preaching going on throughout the kingdom and everyone was engaged in worshiping Kṛṣṇa.

That people should be devotees of the Lord they should be engaged in the service of the Lord and everything becomes very easy. Daiva-varṇāśrama is based on the principle that everyone is a devotee of the Lord. And as a devotee of the Lord they all also engage in the Lord’s service according to their nature, because they all devotees they all consider equal in that sense.

So, all on the transcendental platform according to their particular nature, type of work. They have different degrees of social responsibility and certain way of as they are acting. But not which is the richest kind of caste system for one is considered to be practically higher, and other lower and just a different role, a different function, a different responsibility for everyone that everyone should be engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s service. So, right now what’s happening is that people can involve whichever way the wind blows. You know that example from India, going whichever way the wind blows. Of the rich man and his servant who was not the devotee employee of the eggplant.

You know that example, there was once like a small king or like a barren understanding something he was a landlord he was jamindar. And he had his whole small police force and crew that would collect taxes and give to that king. So, he had a special secretary called a gomasta. And he was… the one who was carry out his instructions and his aids. One day he was sitting in his chair and his secretary was… gomasta was there sitting. And he asked the gomasta what do you think what’s your opinion I cannot  [Not Clear 21;01] about you, what you think about the potatoes. And the assistant said wow! Potatoes, I like to know my Lord what do you think about it. And I may ask you are what is my opinion count, who am I but I want to know what is your opinion about potato what did you think about potato?

He was a very submissive assistant. Then the landlord said well potato, I think potatoes are pretty good (laughter) very nice vegetable. Good production of potatoes and I. Yes, Sir potatoes are wonderful. Potatoes are the poor man’s feast. With the potato you can fry it, bake it, boil it you can prepare alone and you can have it with so many other varieties of vegetables.

Potatoes are the best vegetable in the entire world. *Devotees laughing* Potatoes do have all these things potatoes are a bit starchy and they are not all that good for our health. Yes, my Lord actually you are right; potatoes had too much starch and they are also creating blood sugar sometimes, if we eat to many potatoes it makes a swollen belly and children sometimes, they eat too much and blast out their entire intestine.

Actually, potatoes are very bad they are the worst *devotees laughing*. What do you think about eggplant?  Sir, what do you think about eggplant I want to know what you think?

Of course, well eggplants are good vegetable. Yes sir, eggplants are wonderful. Just think you are an ordinary person and you get some very distinguished guest like yourself can fry up little eggplant like a puri and give you a feast. You can make eggplant pakoras you can have eggplant with tomatoes with so many different varieties eggplant is a wonderful vegetable, wonderful.

Oh! But eggplant is a… sometimes it is creating some itching in the skin or something. Oh yes, yes my Lord eggplant… actually eggplant had too many seeds. And eggplant if you eat too much it creates some skin disease also and it also makes thin the vital ingredients of the body.

The eggplant is called in Sanskrit, begun means no quality. It is just an ordinary thing. Do you think eggplant is a very poor vegetable? You see very bad.

What is the thing with you? if I ask you how potatoes are?

You said, if I said they are good you say that they are the greatest, if I said it is bad you said they are worst. And eggplant same thing you don’t have any personality at all? Whatever I say that you are just… taking that point as yours, why don’t you have your own opinion on eggplant and potatoes. My Lord, please I want you to know, I am not working for eggplants nor potatoes, they are not paying my salary. Why should I do what they want? I will do whatever you want. You like potatoes then I like potatoes, if you don’t, I don’t like. I am working for you. So, whatever you like that’s what I am doing.

Jai Śrī Giridhārī || Jaya Gaura-Nitāi, Jay Giriraj

This is the problem today. The peers are falling at the legs of the Māyāvādī  gurus. So they said what you are doing following the system of having an opinion whatever the trend is.  Whatever everybody is thinking whatever some scientist said that people trying to follow like some projected leader some movie star. They are not actually utilizing their own independent intelligence they just follow.

So, that way you see in the society that… whichever way the opinion is people will change also in their religion. If the general population has not got a particular opinion any religion, they just follow blind. So, their religions become a most democratic process rather that something coming down from God. And naturally in Kṛṣṇa consciousness we trying to maintain very strictly the Kṛṣṇa conscious principles handed down from the śāstra.

The people were challenged and try to get out to change which is based on some popular sentiment. But after some time, sentiment will change and other people will also change. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness has to be based on the books, based on the disciplic succession, not based on whichever way the wind happens to blow on the opinion.

Now before there was a Lord, he was the king their opinion count. And now out of democracy where the public want that would count. Therefore, if the majority of people will think one way, then automatically the people will follow, they have to go on that direction. So, this public opinion is ever changing very complex thing based on the newspapers, scientific and intellectual. And many different factors and musicians and so on gradually public opinion changes in certain way.

Sometimes it might change for the good, now there is a trend, ecological trend, certain good trends are there. But who knows at some point in time everyone can just switch in some other direction. And then again everyone will run on that side.  Rather than being servants of the truth, they are being servants of some illusory master.

What was running is, the servants of the giver of an objective opinion sometimes good or bad but instead he was just mirroring whatever the wind was just as employer. Whether it’s a politician serving the people whether people are whatever this tendency is there. We should understand that a great leader like Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja, they already had a very clear idea they didn’t want to still he went to Bhīṣma-deva to ask him his opinion, he went to Lord Kṛṣṇa, he didn't want their opinion.

He didn’t go and take a vote random from the people. What was the public opinion whether he did right or wrong? He went to ask from some authority who know the absolute truth. Who know the real standard of action, what is to be done, what is not to be done? 

In the Bhagavad-gītā it's also clearly mentioned that part of the knowledge is to know part of the mode of goodness in eighteen chapter. Is to know what is to be done what is not to be done. Therefore, that’s what the brāhmaṇas are there in society for telling the people this is what is to be done, this is what is not to be done. 

Śrīla Prabhupāda wanted that the Kṛṣṇa conscious devotee should provide this brahmanical input to society.  Then we will have to be very clear for everything what should be done and what shouldn’t be done.

And the brāhmaṇas are also respected because not only they say what should be done then they will also live according to those standards. It's a very big responsibility to be a brāhmaṇa. Because it’s not simply a telling out theory, it’s actually having a clear idea of the requirements of society. And then personally showing by example how to do that.

This Śrīla Prabhupāda wanted devotees should be well known as very honest and upright people in the society. One of the effect was seen from the expansion of the congregational preaching in different parts of the world. For before devotees were kind of isolated like this, so that nobody was watching them whatever they were doing it was just internal. When they have big congregation, congregational member see, leads the devotees from our temple like that going this store and buying that thing doesn’t that have some meat product in it.

I have seen this devotee it all type of reports coming to president of congregational members for co-operation all around expecting a very high standard of behavior from the temple devotees. The congregational devotees are looking up to temple devotees as brahmanical figures and they are putting around a lot of pressure that the devotees in the temple behave in an exemplary manner. So this is the one of the effects of congregational preaching. That effect was so strong when the whole society was congregational become engage in Kṛṣṇa… whole society was devoted to Kṛṣṇa that they must be very demanding in what they expected from a brāhmaṇa king. Everyone wants to know what the standard was and someone wasn’t living up to that standard then people would be dissatisfied. Of course there was simply movement but the pressure was so strong from all the sides that automatically people intended to fulfill that standard.

That tendency was there so much so that the king just had a bell, that if anyone in his kingdom had a complaint they could go and ring the bell. There is a famous story how the bell was ringing in the Yudhishthira’s.

Yudhishthira or was it Kṛṣṇa’s, Vasudeva father… Anyway the bell was ringing and nobody knew what was that sound, never heard the bell. Nobody ever had a complaint there was never any complain, what is that sound. And they said there was a brāhmaṇa. He was complaining that what kind of kingdom is this, my son died before I did.

Then Kṛṣṇa took I think its Yudhiṣṭhira or Arjuna and find the departed son. Yamarāja  is … Anyway, the king was so responsible that nature the order of human life became (not clear 33:52) the king and all the citizens they were following the orders of Kṛṣṇa. So far often that I mean it was nothing for children to die before the parents. Nothing unexpected any more everything is in a disorderly state that if you hear everything was so orderly weather, even life and death all these things were happening in such a orderly manner. That people think it must be a mythologist and they often think how it is possible right now. But it was like that it was so orderly that we considered the present state of affairs was almost inconceivable, so that we could so you can see that doesn’t matter and the Vedas they are not subjective is to seeking others mistakes. They are writing what is the actual standard.

So, Caitanya Mahāprabhu came in the midst of this kali yuga to bring us the harināma saṅkīrtana. So that people in this dark age of Kali can get revived so that they can get back to Kṛṣṇa.

Lord Caitanya although He started off, He had an argument with brāhmaṇa and scholastic genius and everything. When He began His saṅkīrtana movement then He also became the perfect example of a Vaiṣṇava.

He after taking His initiation He came back and He went down to the Ganges and see the brāhmaṇas before when He was small child sprinkle water on them. Take their clothes and hide from one place to another and mixed men’s cloth with the women so on creating offense or disturbance.

Now He was a humble Vaiṣṇava and He was helping elderly coming out of the water. He was taking their clothes and folding them up and handing it to them. Some people were little too old help them get back to their house. He will plead when all the brāhmaṇa’s that I wasted my life I want Kṛṣṇa conscious please give Me blessings that I can be a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, I can have pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Different brāhmaṇa’s were giving Him blessings. He was plead out to get the blessings may you be empowered to neutralized all the demonic influences of the world. May You being empowered to spread the harināma-saṅkīrtana to every town and village of the whole world. Someone saying any one who chant Your name be able to get love for Kṛṣṇa who ever follows, You something like that.

They all give their wonderful blessings. How He would neutralize demonic influences how He would spread harināma. So, here Lord Caitanya was getting… approaching all brāhmaṇas and getting the blessings. Although of course The Lord He doesn’t need any blessings He is the Supreme powerful, still He showed how even the devotees should ask to get the blessings from senior Vaiṣṇava, so that they can engage effectively in their devotional service.

I remember how Śrīla Prabhupāda was sending someone to do some special mission preaching in some dangerous place. He was calling all the sannyāsīs and senior devotees. He asked them if you give this preacher your blessing, trying to do this very difficult preaching mission he is going to. Yogīs those days do a special book distribution program in some amazing part of the world, opening up of the new field when he was sending Śrīla Harigiri Swami Mahārāja to serve northern Europe, leaving Māyāpur in his personal service to take up book publication, distribution.

So, Harigiri Mahārāja I don’t want to go although he is Śrīla Prabhupāda’s personal service Prabhupāda’s assistant. Later when he came back with the books presented the book.

Śrīla Prabhupāda was just telling if you didn’t want to go but see because you went how much wonderful things had happened. So, carrying out the instruction of the Guru, getting the blessing of the Vaiṣṇava’s. All these things were being demonstrated by Caitanya Mahāprabhu personally.

He personally took care of all the different devotee in this way. So, He gradually started He was leading evening chanting. Of course, He know that in the beginning when He was chanting people didn’t understand it, they didn’t understand about this chanting.

Mother Śacī was looking for Lord Caitanya and then a neighbor would start saying oh! Something is wrong with your son he is gone little mental, little little disturbance in the air. Some vāyu doṣa it seems that, you know he is jumping and dancing and falling in the ground something little strange standing in the hairs on the body.

I think you should give him some tender green coconut, some dark water it will cool him down. Other neighbor said what will I think water do he needs some oil for brain cool his brain down. Nice Viṣṇu oil, you should take roots from ayurvedic plant. No, no I think that it is much more serious than that. Mother Śacī you should tie Him in your house don’t let Him out till he gets cure some where you shouldn’t let him out.

Mother Śacī had to here all these people. I just want to find my son Nimāi, mother Śacī  doesn’t listen to our good advice. Finally, everybody was accusing Lord Caitanya being little crazy sick. Some kind of illness is like that. So, finally Lord Caitanya went to Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura and He asked him Śrīvāsa Prabhu can I just ask a question to you?

You are very senior Vaiṣṇava; you know about the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Please tell me can I ask you a question?

Yes, sit down please come in. What is that you like to know?

You see I ever since I took initiation and chanting, some strange things happening to me and sometime tears are coming in my eyes. My hairs are standing and sometime jumping just so many things are happening. So what’s happening is that general people they are saying that I am, but I want to know -what is true about actually am I diseased.

Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura was very brave. He said, yes you have a very serious disease.

Lord Caitanya was like. I am sad to hear that and then Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura smiled and said I want that disease too *Devotees laughing* . Lord Caitanya He knows he was like joking you have a disease of love for Godhead, kṛṣṇa-prema.

Lord Caitanya said if you said, I have a disease I will go to the Ganges and throw myself in the water What is the sense of living that so much happiness so much spiritual bliss so much bliss that I was feeling is this an illusion why me nothing to live for.

You saved my life. Nimāi what you have is so rare, so wonderful love you have for Kṛṣṇa that even Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva they want that kind of love. But the general people they can’t understand. That’s why they are accusing you. But you should come in my house we have a nice garden. You can come with your intimate devotees who won’t misunderstand your ecstasies; we can have a private kīrtana.

The devotees who value you, they want your association, they want to be able to chant with you. I invite you please come to my garden and we can have the kīrtana here. We will only let people who will not misunderstand.

So that’s how He started the kirtan Śrīvāsa-āṅgana began. Because people were so weird, they couldn’t understand Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstasy.

So, they started off in private, devotees were having there ecstatic kirtan. Then after some time Lord Caitanya brought kirtan again to the street and whole of Navdeep. Later there was enough momentum. But this chanting of the Holy name is unlimited powerful influence on the world. [not sure 45:04] Wherever there Kṛṣṇa is present there is no place for maya, no place for ignorance.

This Kṛṣṇa conscious movement is to bring Kṛṣṇa to the world. Kṛṣṇa doesn’t incarnate openly in age of kali and after Lord Caitanya left and the devotees were very concerned how can we have Your presence?

We can have His presence through the chanting of

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

We also know from the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam about Kṛṣṇa’s presence.  He was present in the form of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. As the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, simply chanting of the Holy name through the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, through the Holy scriptures more, the Lord is so present in the age of kali. How many people are being exposed to the Holy name or to the sacred books. That’s how people are getting the contact with Kṛṣṇa more regularly more consistently then they get this association.

Of course, the devotees of the Lord also carrying Kṛṣṇa in their heart. So, they need this association from the devotees, from the books, from the Holy names the more they get in contact with Kṛṣṇa automatically they awaken their own spiritual love spiritual vision. Material nature is powerful. It covers the intelligence of even the very great personality.

So, Sarvabhauma Bhattācārya, was actually the Guru of the devas, Bṛhaspati. He wanted to be the teacher of Lord Caitanya. So he took a risk of incarnating as a human being in Navadvīpa to be the teacher of Lord Caitanya. When he took the human body, and he was in Navadvīpa and there were so many Māyāvādīs. So much karma-kāṇḍa then he got bewildered that he forgot why he came for. And he went down to Jagannātha Puri and he became a Guru of a Māyāvādī.

So, you take the human body its acceptable to the whole social environment. That’s why some devotee. Prabhupāda created a society of Kṛṣṇa conscious to give us spiritual environment, guidance, spiritual society so we can associate with devotees who have that type of powerful influence and our self we can also give that association to others.

Of course, by Lord Caitanya’s mercy he didn’t forget why Bṛhaspati wanted to come why he came. So, when he went to Jagannātha Puri, he personally went there and took instruction from him then He delivered him.

But he cannot this world and what to speak of anybody else. Kṛṣṇa need to be given and spread everywhere. The people can actually have that spiritual vision that they can get out of this illusion. Actually, wanting to turns out to be something else.

Śrīla  Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura use example sometimes a person was sitting in the train. And he goes on and wake up and see that the villagers are waiting towards. Very simple example first time he took a ride in train he is looking that a train look at the train is moving but all the villagers are running to us out of illusion instead of realizing that he was moving, going toward the villages, he thought train is not moving .

It's the villagers are running towards me that’s what the picture that Śrīla Prabhupāda is painting here in this purport. Everyone is thinking in the modern society we are making tremendous progress by going forward but actually they are standing still and are seeing everything go by. In actuality they are not making progress but it is after the result of reverse illusion. It seems that they think they are going forward but actually another train is going by. They are just seeing if they keep moving but if you look down the track it’s not you are moving its the other train is moving. 

Actually, they are seeing the whole civilization going down to truth for fact they think that they are going forward *Devotees laughing*. We not have the right perspective of what you look at what you are looking train you are moving or train is moving if they look down on the track, they look at something that doesn’t move.         

Second Level Proofer: Karuṇāpati Keśava das

Second Level Proofed on: 18-Feb-2021