20181201 The Lord's Pastimes with Students after His Gayā Yātrā

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book work 1^st December 2018 in Chennai, India by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Guru Mahārāja. Reading from Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya-khaṇḍa 1.200-204

Under the section: The Lord's Pastimes with Students after His Gayā Yātrā

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Jayapatākā Swami: So we are compiling the Kṛṣṇa Caitanya book and Lord Caitanya has returned from Gayā to Navadvīpa dhāma. He got initiated from Śrī Īśvara Purī in Gayā and He had darśana of Kṛṣṇa in Kānāi-nāṭaśālā. He arrived in Navadvīpa with great separation of Kṛṣṇa. He was a mahā-bhāgavata, He was a pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa. He had revealed His inner feelings to some of the devotees of Navadvīpa. He had tried to teach His students, but they said they could not understand anything. They went to the Ganges took bath and then He went home. At home He is teaching His mother just like Kapiladeva taught Devahūti, He is also teaching His mother about kṛṣṇa-bhakti. So that is where we are today.

Today, I had my physiotherapy, also some voice therapy. But something is wrong in the medicine, I cannot get to sleep at night. So I get very tired in the activities but I am not able to sleep. So this is my health update. Otherwise, I am gradually getting stronger although I am supposed to put on some more weight, but I have been losing weight. We don’t know what the reason is but we will soon find out.

So let us now read out the compilation of Kṛṣṇa Caitanya book. Gaurasundara is telling to His mother, “Listen, listen mother, devotional service to Kṛṣṇa has such a deep prabhāva. Such a deep meaning in all respects, please do this mother, develop your attachment to Lord Kṛṣṇa. Serve Lord Kṛṣṇa. Chant His holy names.”

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya 1.200

kṛṣṇa-bhaktera māhātmya-varṇana—

kṛṣṇa-sevakera mātā! kabhu nāhi nāśa
kāla-cakra ḍarāya dekhiyā kṛṣṇa-dāsa

Translation: “O mother, the servants of Kṛṣṇa are never destroyed. Even the wheel of time is frightened by the sight of Kṛṣṇa’s devotees.”

Commentary: For a description of the glories of devotional service to Kṛṣṇa and the devotees of Kṛṣṇa, one should refer to the statements of Lord Kapiladeva to His mother, Devahūti, recorded in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (3.25.32-44).

One who worships Kṛṣṇa is not subjected like the conditioned souls to birth, sustenance, and death, which are effects of the material time factor. Actually, the devotees of the Lord are never vanquished by the influence of time; they lead a life of devotional service and eternally engage in the service of Hari. The formidable wheel of time, which brings about birth, sustenance, and death to everyone, including the demigods, is frightened by seeing the influence of the devotees’ devotional service. The formidable wheel of time forces the conditioned souls, or persons averse to Kṛṣṇa, to wander through various species of life; in other words, it forces them to take birth and eventually kills them. But since the devotees of the Lord are eternal, spiritual, and self-realized, such a formidable wheel of time cannot touch them; rather, it follows them like an obedient servant.

In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.25.43) Lord Kapiladeva speaks to His mother, Devahūti, as follows:

jñāna-vairāgya-yuktena
bhakti-yogena yoginaḥ
kṣemāya pāda-mūlaṁ me
praviśanty akuto-bhayam

devotional service for their eternal benefit, take shelter of My lotus feet, and since I am the Lord, they are thus eligible to enter into the kingdom of Godhead without fear.”

Being decorated with the garland of birth and death, persons averse to and forgetful of Kṛṣṇa suffer various tribulations in the wombs of their mothers. The devotees of the Lord, however, do not feel any inconvenience or disgust while living in the wombs of their mothers; rather, by the will of the Lord, they remain indifferent to the miseries resulting from living in a womb and engage in the service of the Lord even in that state. In fact, the devotees of the Lord do not feel any kind of distress at any stage of life, either in the present or future life; they continually remain absorbed in the bliss of Kṛṣṇa’s service. The prime example of this fact is the constant remembrance of Kṛṣṇa by the mahā-bhāgavata Śrī Prahlāda, while residing in the womb of his mother, Kayādhu.

Jayapatākā Swami: “Kṛṣṇa’s servitors, mother, they are never destroyed. The wheel of time, it stops seeing the servitors of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The wheel of time is frightened to see the servitors of Lord Kṛṣṇa.”

So those who are worshipping lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa are not to be considered amongst the conditioned souls who are under the influence of the illusory energy of Lord Kṛṣṇa and not under the influence of the repetition of birth and death.

So there is a purport by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, I will just give a gist. One who is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa is not under the… destroyed by the influence of time because his birth, his life is absorbed in Kṛṣṇa’s sevā, no matter what period of his life, he is always engaged in hari-sevā. Even the demigods who are under the influence of the time factor and have to take different births by the influence of the wheel of time, by the influence of devotional service they become afraid. The kāla-cakra or the wheel of time especially influences those who are against the devotional service to Kṛṣṇa. And those who are under the influence of the illusory energy have to take various births, and in this way they wander throughout the universe. In other words, they take different births and at the end they are always destroyed. But devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa, they are in the eternal, transcendental [service to Lord Kṛṣṇa,] self-realization, ātma-vit. In that way the fearful wheel of time is not able to touch devotees.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya 1.201

garbha-vāse yata duḥkha janme vā maraṇe
kṛṣṇera sevaka, mātā, kichui nā jāne

Translation: “O mother, Kṛṣṇa’s servants do not undergo the tribulations of residing in a womb, taking birth, or dying.”

Jayapatākā Swami: “Residing in the womb of the mother and facing different sufferings due to the rebirth and death Kṛṣṇa’s sevakās or Kṛṣṇa’s servitors, mother, they don’t know anything. They don’t experience any of this.”

If one is a devotee, they don’t have to reside in the womb take rebirth or die, they go to the spiritual world. To get a description on the glories of devotional service to Kṛṣṇa and the devotees of Kṛṣṇa, one can refer to the statements of Lord Kapiladeva to His mother Devahūti reported in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam third canto chapter 25, 32-44 verses. One who worships Kṛṣṇa is not subjected like the conditioned souls to birth, sustenance and death, which are the effects of the time factor. Actually, the devotees of the Lord are never vanquished by the influence of time. They lead a life of devotional service and eternally engage in the service of Hari. The formidable wheel of time which brings about the birth, sustenance and death of everybody including the demigods in the heavenly planets, is frightened by seeing the influence of the devotees’ devotional service.

The wheel of time has its domain over the non-devotees. The conditioned souls or those who are averse to the service of Kṛṣṇa, it forces them to take birth and eventually kills them. But since the devotee of the Lord are eternal, spiritual and self-realized, such a formidable wheel of time cannot touch them. Rather, it follows them like an obedient servant. Kapila Muni told His mother to take shelter of His lotus feet and then she can go back to Godhead. Anyone who takes shelter of the Lord’s lotus feet are eligible to go back to Godhead without any fear. Normally the devotees are safe from the sufferings of birth, death. Śrī Prahlāda constantly remembered the Lord even though he was in the womb of his mother, Kayādhu.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya 1.202

kṛṣṇa-vismṛta bahirmukha jīvera garbhavāsādi kleśa-varṇana—

jagatera pitākṛṣṇa, ye nā bhaje bāpa
pitṛ-drohī pātakīra janma-janma tāpa

Translation: Kṛṣṇa is the father of the entire universe, and anyone who does not respect his father is rebellious and sinful and therefore subjected to miseries birth after birth.

Commentary: Both the animate world of living entities and the inanimate world of matter emanate from Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is the only father of the entire world. Just as it is the prime duty of the grateful son to serve and follow his father, every living entity, particularly the human beings, should understand that the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa are the original source of the entire creation; in other words, they are the source of everything and are meant to be always worshiped by everyone. Those living entities who are deprived of knowledge in the science of self-realization and devoid of devotional service to Kṛṣṇa, who is the original Nārāyaṇa and the father of the lotus-born Brahmā, are in reality ungrateful sons and therefore subjected to the miseries of material existence. The three types of miseries in this world—adhyātmika, adhibhautika, and adhidaivika (miseries inflicted by the body and mind, those inflicted by other living entities, and those inflicted by natural disturbances)—have been arranged for the benefit of such ungrateful offensive sons who transgress the principles of religion.

In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.3) Śrī Camasa Muni, one of the Nava-yogendras, speaks to Nimi, the King of Videha, as follows:

ya eṣāṁ puruṣaṁ sākṣād ātma-prabhavam īśvaram
na bhajanty avajānanti sthānād bhraṣṭāḥ patanty adhaḥ

“If any of the members of the four varṇas and four āśramas fail to worship or intentionally disrespect the Personality of Godhead, who is the source of their own creation, they will fall down from their position into a hellish state of life.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Kṛṣṇa is the father of the whole universe. Whoever doesn’t worship Him my dear Son, killer of the father, a great sinful person, has to undergo birth after birth suffering [28:55 unclear].

My name is Jayapatākā. Patākā means flag; Jaya, victory. Here the word is pātaka, pātaka means great sinner. Some people say, oh, pātaka! Ha! So, little difference, two syllables can make all the difference in the meaning. Patākā and pātaki.

Kṛṣṇa is the father of the entire universe. Anyone who does not respect His father is rebellious and sinful and therefore subjected to miseries birth after birth. Since Kṛṣṇa is the source of all animate and inanimate things, He is the true father of everything. Well, a father who provides all necessities of life to the son or daughter should be respected. If someone either foolishly doesn’t serve Kṛṣṇa or neglects serving Kṛṣṇa purposely then they have to get various sufferings in the material world. So devotional service can save one [unclear 34:00]. If one doesn’t do devotional service can put one into the kāla-cakra or the wheel of time, and [34:14 not clear – quest] birth after birth to suffer hellish conditions.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya 1.203

citta diyāśuna, mātā! jīvera ye gati
kṛṣṇa nā bhajile pāya yateka durgati

Translation: “Dear mother, please hear attentively about the destination of the individual soul and the volume of distress he suffers by not worshiping Kṛṣṇa.

Commentary: The pathetic condition of the living entities who are bereft of the service of Lord Kṛṣṇa is described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 20.117-118) as follows:

kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha
ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha

kabhu svarge uṭhāya, kabhu narake ḍubāya
daṇḍya-jane rājā yena nadīte cubāya

“Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, the living entity has been attracted by the external feature from time immemorial. Therefore the illusory energy [māyā] gives him all kinds of misery in his material existence. In the material condition, the living entity is sometimes raised to higher planetary systems and material prosperity and sometimes drowned in a hellish situation. His state is exactly like that of a criminal whom a king punishes by submerging him in water and then raising him again from the water.”

One should particularly discuss the statements of Lord Kapiladeva to His mother, Devahūti, found in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Third Canto, Chapter Thirty and Chapter Thirty-one, verses 1-31.

Jayapatākā Swami: “Listen with full attention mother, the individual soul’s destination if they don’t worship Kṛṣṇa they achieve a hellish destination.”

Śrīla Prabhupāda would quote this verse from Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya 20.117–118 many times:

kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha
ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha

kabhu svarge uṭhāya, kabhu narake ḍubāya
daṇḍya-jane rājā yena nadīte cubāya

Whichever individual soul forget Kṛṣṇa, who is since long time materialistic, that person is given by illusory energy different kinds of suffering in the material life. Sometimes he goes up to the heavenly planets, sometimes he is submerged in the hell. It is like a king who would punish a criminal by dunking him in the river. This is one of the systems that they would hold someone under the water till aahhhh and when he couldn’t hold it any longer, they would pull up aahhhhh and then knock down aahhhhh. Again DOWN, ahhhhhh, Down aaaa ahh down aaaa! In this way they would punish people. Therefore, the person against serving Kṛṣṇa is forced to suffer in this material world. Sometimes they would give him a short stay in a nice environment, then they are put into some hellish condition. And they get a little breath later and then down again. So, to avoid this just worship Kṛṣṇa, and the illusory energy shall stay away. This is also the teaching of Lord Kapila to His mother Devahūti.

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata Madhya 1.204

mariyā-mariyā punaḥ pāya garbha-vāsa
sarva-aìge haya pūrva-pāpera prakāśa

Translation: “The living entity repeatedly dies and suffers the miseries of confinement within the womb. The reactions to his sinful activities manifest in every one of his limbs.

Commentary: The statements of Lord Kapiladeva to His mother, Devahūti, found in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Third Canto, Chapter Thirty and Chapter Thirty-one, verses 1-31, are as follows:

“The Personality of Godhead said: As a mass of clouds does not know the powerful influence of the wind, a person engaged in material consciousness does not know the powerful strength of the time factor, by which he is being carried.

“Whatever is produced by the materialist with great pain and labor for so-called happiness, the Supreme Personality, as the time factor, destroys, and for this reason the conditioned soul laments.

“The misguided materialist does not know that his very body is impermanent and that the attractions of home, land and wealth, which are in relationship to that body, are also temporary. Out of ignorance only, he thinks that everything is permanent.

“The living entity, in whatever species of life he appears, finds a particular type of satisfaction in that species, and he is never averse to being situated in such a condition.

“The conditioned living entity is satisfied in his own particular species of life; while deluded by the covering influence of the illusory energy, he feels little inclined to cast off his body, even when in hell, for he takes delight in hellish enjoyment.

“Such satisfaction with one’s standard of living is due to deep-rooted attraction for body, wife, home, children, animals, wealth and friends. In such association, the conditioned soul thinks himself quite perfect.

“Although he is always burning with anxiety, such a fool always performs all kinds of mischievous activities, with a hope which is never to be fulfilled, in order to maintain his so-called family and society.

“He gives heart and senses to a woman, who falsely charms him with māyā. He enjoys solitary embraces and talking with her, and he is enchanted by the sweet words of the small children.

“The attached householder remains in his family life, which is full of diplomacy and politics. Always spreading miseries and controlled by acts of sense gratification, he acts just to counteract the reactions of all his miseries, and if he can successfully counteract such miseries, he thinks that he is happy.

“He secures money by committing violence here and there, and although he employs it in the service of his family, he himself eats only a little portion of the food thus purchased, and he goes to hell for those for whom he earned the money in such an irregular way.

“When he suffers reverses in his occupation, he tries again and again to improve himself, but when he is baffled in all attempts and is ruined, he accepts money from others because of excessive greed.

“Thus the unfortunate man, unsuccessful in maintaining his family members, is bereft of all beauty. He always thinks of his failure, grieving very deeply.

“Seeing him unable to support them, his wife and others do not treat him with the same respect as before, even as miserly farmers do not accord the same treatment to their old and worn-out oxen.

“The foolish family man does not become averse to family life although he is maintained by those whom he once maintained. Deformed by the influence of old age, he prepares himself to meet ultimate death.

“Thus he remains at home just like a pet dog and eats whatever is so negligently given to him. Afflicted with many illnesses, such as dyspepsia and loss of appetite, he eats only very small morsels of food, and he becomes an invalid, who cannot work any more.

“In that diseased condition, one’s eyes bulge due to the pressure of air from within, and his glands become congested with mucus. He has difficulty breathing, and upon exhaling and inhaling he produces a sound like ghura-ghura, a rattling within the throat.

“In this way he comes under the clutches of death and lies down, surrounded by lamenting friends and relatives, and although he wants to speak with them, he no longer can because he is under the control of time.

“Thus the man, who engaged with uncontrolled senses in maintaining a family, dies in great grief, seeing his relatives crying. He dies most pathetically, in great pain and without consciousness.

“At death, he sees the messengers of the lord of death come before him, their eyes full of wrath, and in great fear he passes stool and urine.

“As a criminal is arrested for punishment by the constables of the state, a person engaged in criminal sense gratification is similarly arrested by the Yamadūtas, who bind him by the neck with strong rope and cover his subtle body so that he may undergo severe punishment.

“While carried by the constables of Yamarāja, he is overwhelmed and trembles in their hands. While passing on the road he is bitten by dogs, and he can remember the sinful activities of his life. He is thus terribly distressed.

“Under the scorching sun, the criminal has to pass through roads of hot sand with forest fires on both sides. He is whipped on the back by the constables because of his inability to walk, and he is afflicted by hunger and thirst, but unfortunately there is no drinking water, no shelter and no place for rest on the road.

“While passing on that road to the abode of Yamarāja, he falls down in fatigue, and sometimes he becomes unconscious, but he is forced to rise again. In this way he is very quickly brought to the presence of Yamarāja.

“Thus he has to pass ninety-nine thousand yojanas within two or three moments, and then he is at once engaged in the torturous punishment which he is destined to suffer.

“He is placed in the midst of burning pieces of wood, and his limbs are set on fire. In some cases he is made to eat his own flesh or have it eaten by others.

“His entrails are pulled out by the hounds and vultures of hell, even though he is still alive to see it, and he is subjected to torment by serpents, scorpions, gnats and other creatures that bite him.

“Next his limbs are lopped off and torn asunder by elephants. He is hurled down from hilltops, and he is also held captive either in water or in a cave.

“Men and women whose lives were built upon indulgence in illicit sex life are put into many kinds of miserable conditions in the hells known as Tāmisra, Andha-tāmisra and Raurava.

“Lord Kapila continued: My dear mother, it is sometimes said that we experience hell or heaven on this planet, for hellish punishments are sometimes visible on this planet also.

“After leaving this body, the man who maintained himself and his family members by sinful activities suffers a hellish life, and his relatives suffer also.

“He goes alone to the darkest regions of hell after quitting the present body, and the money he acquired by envying other living entities is the passage money with which he leaves this world.

“Thus, by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the maintainer of kinsmen is put into a hellish condition to suffer for his sinful activities, like a man who has lost his wealth.

“Therefore a person who is very eager to maintain his family and kinsmen simply by black methods certainly goes to the darkest region of hell, which is known as Andha-tāmisra.

“Having gone through all the miserable, hellish conditions and having passed in a regular order through the lowest forms of animal life prior to human birth, and having thus been purged of his sins, one is reborn again as a human being on this earth.

“The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through the particle of male semen to assume a particular type of body.

“On the first night, the sperm and ovum mix, and on the fifth night the mixture ferments into a bubble. On the tenth night it develops into a form like a plum, and after that, it gradually turns into a lump of flesh or an egg, as the case may be.

“In the course of a month, a head is formed, and at the end of two months the hands, feet and other limbs take shape. By the end of three months, the nails, fingers, toes, body hair, bones and skin appear, as do the organ of generation and the other apertures in the body, namely the eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth and anus.

“Within four months from the date of conception, the seven essential ingredients of the body, namely chyle, blood, flesh, fat, bone, marrow and semen, come into existence. At the end of five months, hunger and thirst make themselves felt, and at the end of six months, the fetus, enclosed by the amnion, begins to move on the right side of the abdomen.

“Deriving its nutrition from the food and drink taken by the mother, the fetus grows and remains in that abominable residence of stools and urine, which is the breeding place of all kinds of worms.

“Bitten again and again all over the body by the hungry worms in the abdomen itself, the child suffers terrible agony because of his tenderness. He thus becomes unconscious moment after moment because of the terrible condition.

“Owing to the mother’s eating bitter, pungent foodstuffs, or food which is too salty or too sour, the body of the child incessantly suffers pains which are almost intolerable.

“Placed within the amnion and covered outside by the intestines, the child remains lying on one side of the abdomen, his head turned towards his belly and his back and neck arched like a bow.

“The child thus remains just like a bird in a cage, without freedom of movement. At that time, if the child is fortunate, he can remember all the troubles of his past one hundred births, and he grieves wretchedly. What is the possibility of peace of mind in that condition?

“Thus endowed with the development of consciousness from the seventh month after his conception, the child is tossed downward by the airs that press the embryo during the weeks preceding delivery. Like the worms born of the same filthy abdominal cavity, he cannot remain in one place.

“The living entity in this frightful condition of life, bound by seven layers of material ingredients, prays with folded hands, appealing to the Lord, who has put him in that condition.

“The human soul says: I take shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appears in His various eternal forms and walks on the surface of the world. I take shelter of Him only, because He can give me relief from all fear and from Him I have received this condition of life, which is just befitting my impious activities.

“I, the pure soul, appearing now bound by my activities, am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of māyā. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him who is also here with me but who is unaffected and changeless. He is unlimited, but He is perceived in the repentant heart. To Him I offer my respectful obeisances.

“I am separated from the Supreme Lord because of my being in this material body, which is made of five elements, and therefore my qualities and senses are being misused, although I am essentially spiritual. Because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is transcendental to material nature and the living entities, because He is devoid of such a material body, and because He is always glorious in His spiritual qualities, I offer my obeisances unto Him.

“The human soul further prays: The living entity is put under the influence of material nature and continues a hard struggle for existence on the path of repeated birth and death. This conditional life is due to his forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, without the Lord’s mercy, how can he again engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord?

“No one other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the localized Paramātmā, the partial representation of the Lord, is directing all inanimate and animate objects. He is present in the three phases of time—past, present and future. Therefore, the conditioned soul is engaged in different activities by His direction, and in order to get free from the threefold miseries of this conditional life, we have to surrender unto Him only.

“Fallen into a pool of blood, stool and urine within the abdomen of his mother, his own body scorched by the mother’s gastric fire, the embodied soul, anxious to get out, counts his months and prays: O my Lord, when shall I, a wretched soul, be released from this confinement?

“My dear Lord, by Your causeless mercy I am awakened to consciousness, although I am only ten months old. For this causeless mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the friend of all fallen souls, there is no way to express my gratitude but to pray with folded hands.

“The living entity in another type of body sees only by instinct; he knows only the agreeable and disagreeable sense perceptions of that particular body. But I have a body in which I can control my senses and can understand my destination; therefore, I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by whom I have been blessed with this body and by whose grace I can see Him within and without.

“Therefore, my Lord, although I am living in a terrible condition, I do not wish to depart from my mother’s abdomen to fall again into the blind well of materialistic life. Your external energy, called deva-māyā, at once captures the newly born child, and immediately false identification, which is the beginning of the cycle of continual birth and death, begins.

“Therefore, without being agitated any more, I shall deliver myself from the darkness of nescience with the help of my friend, clear consciousness. Simply by keeping the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu in my mind, I shall be saved from entering into the wombs of many mothers for repeated birth and death.

“Lord Kapila continued: The ten-month-old living entity has these desires even while in the womb. But while he thus extols the Lord, the wind that helps parturition propels him forth with his face turned downward so that he may be born.

“Pushed downward all of a sudden by the wind, the child comes out with great trouble, head downward, breathless and deprived of memory due to severe agony.

“The child thus falls on the ground, smeared with stool and blood, and plays just like a worm germinated from the stool. He loses his superior knowledge and cries under the spell of māyā.

“After coming out of the abdomen, the child is given to the care of persons who are unable to understand what he wants, and thus he is nursed by such persons. Unable to refuse whatever is given to him, he falls into undesirable circumstances.

“Laid down on a foul bed infested with sweat and germs, the poor child is incapable of scratching his body to get relief from his itching sensation to say nothing of sitting up, standing or even moving.

“In his helpless condition, gnats, mosquitoes, bugs and other germs bite the baby, whose skin is tender, just as smaller worms bite a big worm. The child, deprived of his wisdom, cries bitterly.

“In this way, the child passes through his childhood, suffering different kinds of distress, and attains boyhood. In boyhood also he suffers pain over desires to get things he can never achieve. And thus, due to ignorance, he becomes angry and sorry.

“With the growth of the body, the living entity, in order to vanquish his soul, increases his false prestige and anger and thereby creates enmity towards similarly lusty people.

“By such ignorance the living entity accepts the material body, which is made of five elements, as himself. With this misunderstanding, he accepts nonpermanent things as his own and increases his ignorance in the darkest region.

“For the sake of the body, which is a source of constant trouble to him and which follows him because he is bound by ties of ignorance and fruitive activities, he performs various actions which cause him to be subjected to repeated birth and death.”—One should seriously discuss these degradations, miseries in the womb, and tortures by the wheel of time experienced by conditioned souls who are averse to and forget of Kṛṣṇa. [The purport up to this point applies to verses 204-236.]

In the course of time every object in the material world of birth, sustenance, and death successively takes birth, grows, stays for some time, produces by-products, and dies. Misusing his independence, the spiritual living entity gives up the worship of Kṛṣṇa out of greed for material objects that are not related to Kṛṣṇa. At that point his natural characteristics are transposed and the propensity for material enjoyment appears palatable to him. This is the reason for the living entity’s misuse of independence and his suffering the resultant miseries of material existence. As a result of misusing his independence, the living entity is repeatedly covered by gross and subtle bodies and thrown into this perishable world. Forgetting his constitutional position and giving up the endeavor for worshiping Kṛṣṇa, he then desires to either enjoy the fruits of his karma or renounce the fruits through jñāna. Therefore, when he abandons the service of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, he becomes bereft of and fallen from his constitutional position and repeatedly wears the garland of birth and death. When such a conditioned soul dies, his gross body gradually mixes with the five gross material elements and his subtle body, which is full of desires for material enjoyment, leaves behind the gross body and anxiously awaits another gross body. Under the direction of the Supreme Lord, who awards everyone the fruits of their activities, that subtle body again takes up residence in a particular type of gross body according to the fruits of his karma. Thus he actively engages in fulfilling his unsatiated desires. After death, when he takes a new gross body in the womb of his mother, his previously accumulated sinful reactions manifest in his gross body in the form of diseases or deformed limbs. In order to suffer the burden of his previously acquired sinful reactions in this new gross body, the conditioned soul obtains deformed limbs and diseased bodies as the result of his sins and then again indulges in gross sense gratification. Thereafter, as a result of past sins, the conditioned soul becomes either a father or mother of sons and daughters that he produces. Until his spiritual knowledge is awakened by the nonduplicitous mercy of the spiritual master and Kṛṣṇa, his fructified and unfructified sinful reactions are not completely exhausted. When the characteristic of averseness to Kṛṣṇa produces in the conditioned souls the mentality of accepting the body as the self, then the causelessly merciful Kṛṣṇacandra sometimes comes personally and sometimes sends His dear associate as a teacher, preacher, or deliverer of the transcendental sounds of the spiritual world to revive the constitutional position of the unfortunate souls who have forgotten Kṛṣṇa. While living in the womb of his mother, the conditioned soul suffers various miseries or distresses in the form of disease as punishment for his previous sinful activities, thus accounting for those previous sins.

Jayapatākā Swami: “Dying again and dying again he is forced into some womb. Every part of his body is getting the results of his previous sinful activities,” Kapila deva told His mother.

As a mask of cloud does not know the powerful influence of the wind, a person engaged in material consciousness does not know the powerful strength of the time factor by which he is being carried. Whatever a person or materialist by his intense endeavor and labor with great pain just achieves some so-called happiness, the Supreme Lord as the time factor destroys and in this way the conditioned soul laments. The materialist does not understand how this body is itself impermanent and his attraction to his home, land and wealth is all in relationship to his body and also temporary. Out of ignorance only he things that everything is permanent.

Recently a town called Paradise in California, 98, 99, or some 97 percent all houses were burnt down. All the people were staying in tents, in some parking lots or some malls or somewhere. So, they had nice homes and nice facilities, but all burnt down in a matter of hours and they were lamenting how they lost everything in the fire. So this is the material world. We stay in a home and spend so much energy buying it, fixing it up and it can be taken in a single moment. Similarly, our life can be lost in one moment. Last news I saw was 88 people lost their lives. In 1953 there was a massive flood in Rotterdam and 1500 people died. It describes how one’s satisfaction, one’s standard of living is due to his deep rooted attraction for his body, wife, husband, home, children, animals, wealth and friends and in such association the conditioned souls think themselves quite perfect although he is always burning with anxiety. Such a fool performs all kinds of mischievous activities for the hope which could never be fulfilled, in order to maintain his so-called family and society.

So, the teachings of Lord Kapila to mother Devahūti are repeated here, how illusory energy binds us to this material world. So we should in all circumstances engage in devotional service.

The purport to this point of 10 pages applies to the verses 204 to 236 of the teachings of Lord Kapila to His mother. So it is already, what time?

So Sāṅkhya-yoga means study of the material world from a proper spiritual perspective and by doing that one understands how one is put in an illusion by neglecting to serve Kṛṣṇa or we have forgotten the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I remember watching a video of some preacher outside the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and he was saying to the people how they should pray to get a better job, to get a raise in a salary. His idea was just to encourage the people to approach the Lord simply for some material benefit. Not saying the good qualities, great qualities of the Lord or His devotees.

So, in this way you can see how many people are being misled and as a result they again and again have to take birth in the material world. Of course, they have some relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They probably can take birth as human beings, but they should develop their lost relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, let us not talk to them at all. You know like, Lord Jesus said, the first commandment is ‘Love Thy God.’ And in every religion, it says how we should be attached to Kṛṣṇa, how we should love the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but instead people have forgotten the Lord, and they are just worried about their mundane life.

Any questions?