20250201 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.37–38

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram
hariḥ oṁ tat sat

Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.37

dīkṣānujanmopasadaḥ śirodharaṁ
tvaṁ prāyaṇīyodayanīya-daṁṣṭraḥ
jihvā pravargyas tava śīrṣakaṁ kratoḥ
satyāvasathyaṁ citayo ’savo hi te

Translation: Moreover, O Lord, the repetition of Your appearance is the desire for all kinds of initiation. Your neck is the place for three desires, and Your tusks are the result of initiation and the end of all desires. Your tongue is the prior activities of initiation, Your head is the fire without sacrifice as well as the fire of worship, and Your living forces are the aggregate of all desires.

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.38

somas tu retaḥ savanāny avasthitiḥ
saṁsthā-vibhedās tava deva dhātavaḥ
satrāṇi sarvāṇi śarīra-sandhis
tvaṁ sarva-yajña-kratur iṣṭi-bandhanaḥ

Translation: O Lord, Your semen is the sacrifice called soma-yajña. Your growth is the ritualistic performances of the morning. Your skin and touch sensations are the seven elements of the agniṣṭoma sacrifice. Your bodily joints are symbols of various other sacrifices performed in twelve days. Therefore You are the object of all sacrifices called soma and asoma, and You are bound by yajñas only.

Purport: There are seven kinds of routine yajñas performed by all followers of the Vedic rituals, and they are called agniṣṭoma, atyagniṣṭoma, uktha, ṣoḍaśī, vājapeya, atirātra and āptoryāma. Anyone performing such yajñas regularly is supposed to be situated with the Lord. But anyone who is in contact with the Supreme Lord by discharging devotional service is understood to have performed all different varieties of yajñas.

Jayapatākā Swami: So today we are reading two verses. The verse 37 does not have a purport and the verse 38 does. At the Ardha-Kumbha in 1971, Śrīla Prabhupāda was speaking how one had performed all these sacrifices if they are doing devotional service. Śrīla Prabhupāda said that one, if they are doing devotional service, it is understood that they have already done all these sacrifices. One devotee raised his hand and asked a question. His question was, Śrīla Prabhupāda, I looked at my past life, I don’t see any pious activities. How could I come on this path, how did this happen? Śrīla Prabhupāda said, “I have made your good fortune for you!”

So, we are reading about the appearance of Lord Boar in Cākṣuṣa and Svāyambhuva Manu’s destruction. Svāyambhuva Manu reigned many, many yugas before, hundreds of yugas before. And he was the first Manu in this day of Brahmā. And that time, only the higher planets were not inundated. So all the other planets were submerged, destroyed. But the earth was in a very bad situation. She was completely out of her orbit. She was in the bottom of the universe in the water of destruction. In the Svāyambhuva Manu’s time you had Hiraṇyākṣa and Hiraṇyakaśipu. So this is describing how the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He took the form of a boar. We need to know that whatever form the Lord may take, it is not mundane, not material, but it is transcendental. A material boar cannot expand himself to be bigger than a planet! All the scholars, all the sages, they ascertained that the Lord is the form of the Vedas and this is how He expands. So all the devotees were very inspired to see the Lord. But the non-devotees were feeling fear! He was looking at all the ṛṣis offering Him prayers. And then after looking at them, He dived into the ocean and two big waves were created. And the ocean became afraid that maybe she would get divided into two. And she prayed to Bhagavān to save her. So Lord Boar, He came out of the water with the earth on His tusks. And He looked very beautiful. And He immediately killed the Hiraṇyākṣa demon. Hiraṇyākṣa had wanted the earth to remain submerged and had taken the earth out of its orbit. So, if we listen to the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, according to the Padma Purāṇa, it is more than a hundred aśvamedha-yajñas. Haribol! Gaurāṅga!

So this is Śrīla Prabhupāda’s great mercy on all of you! Now that is what is generally said in the Padma Purāṇa, but we are living in Navadvīpa dhāma, I don’t know how much more it is magnified here! Normally the pious activities or spiritual activities done in Navadvīpa dhāma are a thousand times multiplied. Offences to devotees or offences to the holy name take away these blessings! That is why we have to be very careful while residing in Navadvīpa dhāma that we don’t commit any nāma-aparādhā.

So we are reading about the Varāhadeva avatāra in the time of Svāyambhuva Manu. It is very purifying, but it happened millions and millions of years ago. Now, only 500 or so years ago we had the avatāra of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Pañca-tattva. Now only the residents of the highest planets in the universe could see Lord Boar avatāra. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He mixed with one and all and chanted the harināma-saṅkīrtana. We are so unfortunate that we missed this by 500 years! But these places are still visible. Caitanya Mahāprabhu had performed the famous kīrtana march to the house of Chand Kazi, the samādhi of the Chand Kazi is still present.

So Vyāsadeva, he compiled the whole Vedas but still he was not satisfied. He had written the four Vedas, the 108 Upaniṣads, the 17 Purāṇas including Mahābhārata but he wasn’t happy! So he asked Nārada Muni, his guru, what was the reason why he was not satisfied. Nārada Muni, he replied that you have to write a book simply illuminating the greatness of devotional service to Kṛṣṇa! So that is how we got the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. You know, that is why Śrīla Prabhupāda had stressed we should read the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and I am also saying that we should do these courses. Bhakti-śāstrī has Bhagavad-gītā, Nectar of Instruction, Nectar of Devotion, Īśopaniṣad. Bhakti-vaibhava and Bhakti-vedānta, they are based on the whole Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Bhakti-Sārvabhauma is the whole of Caitanya-caritāmṛta.

Why did Bhagavān come as a devotee? We need to know all these things. We should be able to explain it. To get the mercy of kṛṣṇa-prema from Kṛṣṇa is very tough. But Lord Caitanya, Pañca-tattva, They gave out this kṛṣṇa-prema very easily. Gaurāṅga! In Bengali there is a proverb:

muci hañā śuci haya yadi kṛṣṇa tyaje
muci hañā śuci haya yadi kṛṣṇa-bhaje

One becomes a purified person even if he is from the family of a cobbler if he worships Kṛṣṇa. But if one is born in a purified family, or even in a family of a brāhmaṇa, but he rejects Kṛṣṇa, then he also becomes a very lowly person or as good as a cobbler which is considered lowest of the varnāśrama strata. If you somehow take up devotional service, then you are glorified. And one maybe born in an illustrious brāhmaṇa family, with all kinds of rituals and things, but you are not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then you are considered unqualified. So what we need to do is surrender to Lord Caitanya, Lord Nityānanda, Advaita, the Pañca-tattva and beg for Their mercy! When He went around India after taking sannyāsa, in Jagannātha Purī, then He did something, which He did not do in Navadvīpa. Whoever He met on the road, He would embrace them! So this is a symptom how much Lord Caitanya loved all the people and wanted to give them kṛṣṇa-prema!

And Amogha, the son-in-law of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, he was very critical of Vaiṣṇavas, he was a non-devotee. So he had criticized Lord Caitanya, as a result, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and his wife were fasting and crying and so on. So someone came to the residence of Lord Caitanya in Purī and He asked what is happening with Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya. Then the person told Him about Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and his wife and that Amogha was now on his deathbed. So, then Lord Caitanya went walking quickly to where Amogha was staying. Amogha was on his bed, he was sick with cholera or something and Lord Caitanya put His lotus hand on his heart! He said, why have you let these dirty things into your heart? A brāhmaṇa’s heart is supposed to be pure but you have let jealousy, enviousness, into your heart! So, he told Amogha to stand up and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa! He got up out of his bed and started to dance and chant and he showed symptoms of rati. Gaurāṅga! Lord Gaurāṅga has made Amogha a devotee and He did not kill him, He killed his demoniac nature. So when Lord Caitanya went to the house of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya asked, “Why did You save him?” Lord Caitanya explained, “Even the dog in your house is dear to Me, because you are dear to Me!” So, by serving Śrīla Prabhupāda we can be dear to Lord Caitanya! Sārvabhauma kī jaya!

I hope that all these līlās of different avatāras will enter into your hearts! Because Lord Caitanya was here in Navadvīpa 500 or more years ago. So we are very fortunate to be able to worship the Pañca-tattva, Rādhā Mādhava Aṣṭa-sakhi, Rādhā Mādhava Māyāpur-candra. So, I will end the class here. If there are any questions, I will take the questions.

I have been told that there is a Pañca-tattva Sevā Challenge from 4^th February to 10^th February, it is a one week challenge, open to all ages and three levels of participation. Śravaṇam hearing about Kṛṣṇa, kīrtanam chanting and glorifying the Lord and ātma-nivedanam full surrender through daily Kṛṣṇa conscious activities. Evening highlights, online Navadvīpa-maṇḍala parikramā. Guest speakers: His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami, His Holiness Bhakti Puruṣottama Swami, His Holiness Candramauli Swami, His Holiness Kavicandra Swami. Special offerings – all participants’ names will be offered to Pañca-tattva. Participants can submit personal prayers which will be offered on Nityānanda Trayodaśī. So you can join the challenge and the link will be shared on His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Facebook page and WhatsApp channel.

I just heard that today is the last day to join the challenge! So you have to join fast, fast, fast! The challenge is free of cost. Rush, it is the last day! Gaurāṅga! Nityānanda! Advaita Gosāñī! Haribol!