20201222 Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya Questions Lord Caitanya’s Need for Accepting Sannyāsa (Part 2)

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation By His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on 22nd December 2020 in Śrīdhāma Māyāpur, India.

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim / yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam /

paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram / hariḥ oṁ tat sat /

Introduction: Today we are continuing with the compilation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya book,

today is Part 3 of chapter entitled:

Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya Questions Lord Caitanya's Need for Accepting Sannyāsa PART 3

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.030 māyāvāda-sannyāse dāmbhikatā mātra lābha— /

śikhā-sūtra ghucāiyā sabe ei lābha / namaskāra kare āsi' mahā-mahā-bhāga /

Jayapatākā Swami: “What one gain in giving up one's śikhā and brāhmaṇa thread

great respectable people

offer one their obeisances.

Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya is saying that, the only thing one gains by taking sannyāsa is that respectful people offer their obeisances.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.031 prathame śuniye ei eka apaceya/ ebe āra śuna sarva-nāśa buddhi-kṣaya/

Jayapatākā Swami: “This is the first loss in accepting sannyāsa.

Now hear about the other loss

by which one's intelligence becomes ruined.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.032 jīvera svabhāva-dharmai nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsya, tad-vyatīta apara dharma aparāvabahula— /

jīvera svabhāva-dharma īśvara-bhajana / tāhā chāḍi' āpanāre bale `nārāyaṇa'/

Jayapatākā Swami: “The constitutional nature and duty of the living entity is to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

But after taking sannyāsa,

one gives up that mentality

and calls himself Nārāyaṇa.

Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya seems to understand the defects problems of the Māyāvādī sannyāsī.

Of course, a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs uses His thoughts words and deeds in the service if Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Purport by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura: In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

(5.10.23) it is stated:

“If one is engaged in his own occupational duty

as ordered by the Supreme Lord,

his sinful activities are certainly diminished.”

Also, in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

(11.2.33) it is stated:

“I consider that one whose intelligence

is constantly disturbed by his falsely identifying himself

with the temporary material world

can achieve real freedom

from fear only by worshiping

the lotus feet of the infallible Supreme Lord.

In such devotional service,

all fear ceases entirely.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.033 garbhavāse ye īśvara karilena rakṣāyā/ hāra prasāde haila buddhi-jñāna-śikṣā/

Jayapatākā Swami: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead protects the living entity when he is within the womb of his mother.

By the Lord's causeless mercy,

the living entity

obtains intelligence

and knowledge.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.034 yāra dāsya lāgi' śeṣa-aja-bhava-ramā / / pāiyāo niravadhi karena kāmanā/

Jayapatākā Swami: “Ananta Śeṣa, Brahmā, Śiva, and the goddess of fortune Lakṣmī devī,

always desire to obtain the devotional service

of that Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.035 sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya yāhāra dāse kare/ lajjā nāhi hena `prabhu' bale āpanāre/

Jayapatākā Swami: ...whose servants carry out the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the material manifestation.

Yet the shameless sannyāsī claims himself, to be that Supreme Lord.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.036 nidrā haile `āpane ke' ihāo nā jāne / / āpanāre `nārāyaṇa' bale hena jane /

Jayapatākā Swami: A sannyāsī claims to be “Nārāyaṇa”

even though he does not know even who he is

once he falls asleep.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.037 kṛṣṇai jagat-pitā—/

`jagatera pitā kṛṣṇa' sarva vede kaya/ pitāre se bhakti kare ye suputra haya /

Jayapatākā Swami: Kṛṣṇa is the father of the entire universe,

all the Vedas declare.

and the obedient son

render devotional service to his father.

So, living entities in the spiritual world, they are all conscious of Kṛṣṇa

and they want to serve Kṛṣṇa

but in this material world they think, that the world is meant for enjoyment

that’s why they forget about Kṛṣṇa.

This is the cause of repetition of birth and death.

Purport by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura: In the Māyāvāda-śata-dūṣaṇī

(7) it is stated:

“O friend, the Supreme

is all-knowing, and He sees everything.

From Him, this entire astonishing

and variegated material cosmos has emanated.

He creates, maintains, and destroys the entire universe

by a slight movement of His eyebrows.

O friend, you are not like Him.

You are ignorant of so many things,

and your vision is limited,

although you wish to see everything.

The Supreme Lord is full of all opulences,

and He is the ultimate witness

who observes everyone.

O friend, the individual living entities are numerous,

but the Supreme is one only.

You are stunted and impure because

of material contact, but He remains always pure

and free from the touch of matter.

O friend, your nature is completely different from

His in these ways.”

Jayapataka Swami: Also in the Māyāvāda-śata-dūṣaṇī (67) it is stated:

“The Supreme Lord is the husband of the goddess of fortune.

He is a nectarean ocean of transcendental bliss.

Lord Śiva and all the great demigods serve Him.

The sacred Ganges is water

that has washed His feet.

Before the material cosmos was manifested,

He created everything

simply by slightly moving His eyebrows.

O individual spirit soul,

your continual muttering of

so 'ham

(`I am the Supreme')

is completely unreasonable

and illogical.

He is the supreme master,

the monarch who rules all existence,

and you are His small son,

always dependent on His protection.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So these verse are describing some of the misunderstandings of Māyāvādī

In the Māyāvāda-śata-dūṣaṇī (69) it is stated:

“O individual spirit soul,

please give up this muttering of so ‘ham

(`I am the Supreme').

Know that you are the

eternal servant of Lord Hari,

engage in His pure devotional service,

and thus become

qualified to enter

the eternal spiritual world

. If you reject the service of Lord Hari,

you will fall down into the wombs of mothers

in many different species and y

ou will suffer great anguish as you

wander among the hells and heavens

of the material world.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So this Māyāvāda-śata-dūṣaṇī is the hundred defects of Māyāvāda philosophy.

In the Māyāvāda-śata-dūṣaṇī (73-74) it is also stated:

“By the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

the individual living entities

are endowed with a tiny fragment of consciousness.

O rascal Māyāvādī,

do not, on this account, arrogantly proclaim,

`I am actually the Supreme.'

By saying this, you have become like

a criminal-minded person

who obtains elephants,

cavalry, and infantry from the king

on the plea of begging

for protection during a journey

and then decides to use all those soldiers

as his own personal army of bandits

to plunder the king's property

on the royal roads.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the point is that all the opulences are coming from Supreme Personality of Godhead

but the Māyāvādī thinks that he is God

so this Māyāvāda-śata-dūṣaṇī points out that He is not God

and that he is plundering the energy of God

so that’s a great defect.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.038 sannyāsī o yogī ke?— /

tathāhi śrī-gītāyām 9/17 / pitāham asya jagato mātā dhātā pitāmahaḥ /

Translation: “I am the father of this universe,

the mother, the support, and the grandsire.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.039 “gītā-śāstre arjunera sannyāsa-karaṇa / śuna ei yāhā kahiyāche nārāyaṇa” /

Jayapatākā Swami: “Hear what the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa said to Arjuna

in the Bhagavad-gītā

about when Arjuna wanted to renounce his duty.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.040 tathāhi gītā 6/1 / anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ / kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ

sa sannyāsī ca yogī ca / na niragnir na cākriyaḥ /

Translation: “One who is unattached to the fruits

of his work

and who works as he is obligated

is in the renounced order of life,

and he is the true mystic,

not he who lights no fire

and performs no duty.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.041 “niṣkāma haiyā kare ye kṛṣṇa-bhajana/ tāhāre se bali `yogī' `sannyāsī' lakṣaṇa /

Jayapatākā Swami: “He who engages in the worship of Kṛṣṇa

without desiring material desires

is called a yogī and a sannyāsī

by His symptoms.

Purport by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura: One who gives up

the four objectives of life

—religiosity, economic development,

sense gratification, and liberation

—and cultivates devotional service

without motives is an actual

yogi or sannyāsī.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.042 viṣṇu-kriyā nā karile parānna khāile/ kichu nahe, sākṣātei ei vede bale” /

Jayapatākā Swami: “The Vedas exclusively state

that he is worth of nothing,

if one does not engage in serving the Supreme Lord

and depends on others for his food.”

Accepting sannyāsa

devoid of devotional service

to Viṣṇu is like depending

on others for one's food.

It is useless.

The perfection of activities

is to attain love of God,

as stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

(3.23.56):

neha yat karma dharmāya na virāgāya kalpate/ na tīrtha-pada-sevāyai jīvann api mṛto hi saḥ/

“Anyone whose work is not meant

to elevate him to religious life,

anyone whose religious

ritualistic performances do not raise him

to renunciation,

and anyone situated in renunciation

that does not lead him to devotional service

to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

must be considered dead,

although he is breathing.”

Jayapatākā Swami: Śrīla Prabhupāda he was stating one day sitting in the airport,

all the people are living dead

So this verse can explain why everyone is considered living dead.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.043 prakṛta dharma, karma, vidyā, sadācāra ki?

“One’s only activities should be

those that can please the Personality of Godhead,

and education should be such

that one becomes elevated to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Since Śrī Hari is the Supersoul

of all living entities

who have accepted material bodies

within this world,

He is the supreme cause

and controller of everything.”

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.044 “tāhāre se bali dharma, karma, sadācāra/ īśvare se prīti janme sammata sabāra /

Jayapatākā Swami: “This is known as the religiosity, pious activities, and proper codes of conduct

are those by which one develops love

for the Supreme Personality of Godhead,

this is the opinion of all.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.045 tāhāre se bali vidyā, mantra, adhyayana / kṛṣṇa-pāda-padme ye karaye sthira mana/

Jayapatākā Swami: “Vidyā is known as knowledge

or education,

chanting of mantras,

and study of the scriptures

are those by which one fixes his mind

at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya-bhāgavata Antya-khaṇḍa 3.046 kṛṣṇai sarvamūla sarva-prāṇa—/

sabāra jīvana kṛṣṇa, janaka sabāra/ hena kṛṣṇa ye nā bhaje, sarva vyartha tāra/

Jayapatākā Swami: “Lord Kṛṣṇa is the life of everyone

and father of everyone.

If one does not worship

that Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa

everything in his life is useless.

So, we could see that Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya is giving

nice Kṛṣṇa conscious instructions,

although He is the teacher for many Māyāvādī sannyāsīs

we can see that his actual understanding is oriented at pure devotional service to Kṛṣṇa.

We will continue the reading tomorrow.