{"id":6056,"date":"2024-08-08T01:33:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2024-08-08T07:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T11:07:29","slug":"gaura-purnima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/gaura-purnima\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaura Purnima"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam Lecture 7.9.38
\nBy His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup\u0101da
\nM\u0101y\u0101pur, March 16, 1976<\/p>\n

Pu\u1e63\u1e6da K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a: \u201cIn this way, my Lord, You have appeared in different incarnations\u2014as human beings, as animals, as a great saintly person, as demigods and as a fish and a tortoise. In this way You maintain the whole creation in different planetary systems and kill the demoniac principles in every age. My Lord, You therefore protect the principles of religion. In the age of Kali You do not assert Yourself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore You are known as Tri-yuga, or the Lord who appears in three yugas.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prabhup\u0101da:<\/p>\n

ittha\u1e41 n\u1e5b-tiryag-\u1e5b\u1e63i-deva-jha\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101rair lok\u0101n vibh\u0101vayasi ha\u1e41si jagat prat\u012bp\u0101n dharma\u1e41 mah\u0101-puru\u1e63a p\u0101si yug\u0101nuv\u1e5btta\u1e41 channa\u1e25 kalau yad abhavas tri-yugo \u2019tha sa tvam<\/p>\n

So here is a very specific statement about \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu, who is avat\u0101ra. Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead, but He\u2019s channa. Channa means covered, not directly, because He has appeared as a devotee. Avat\u0101ra\u2026 R\u016bpa Gosv\u0101m\u012b has found out that He\u2019s avat\u0101ra of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. All the devotees, S\u0101rvabhauma Bha\u1e6d\u1e6d\u0101c\u0101rya, R\u016bpa Gosv\u0101m\u012b, and in the \u015b\u0101stra, and the Upani\u1e63ad, Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata, in every\u2026 S\u0101dhu-\u015b\u0101stra. Avat\u0101ra should be confirmed by great devotees, personalities, and must be collaborated with the statement in the \u015b\u0101stra.<\/p>\n

So here is another statement in the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bhgavatam. The directly, it is stated in the Elaeventh Canto, you know,<\/p>\n

k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-var\u1e47a\u1e41 tvi\u1e63\u0101k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u1e41 s\u0101\u1e45gop\u0101\u1e45g\u0101stra-p\u0101r\u1e63adam yaj\u00f1ai\u1e25 sa\u1e45k\u012brtanai\u1e25 pr\u0101yair yajanti hi sumedhsa\u1e25 [SB 11.5.32]\n

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, when He was being described before King Nimi by Karabh\u0101jana Muni the different incarnation in different millenniums, yuga-dharma-v\u1e5bttam\u2026 Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu is also described by V\u1e5bnd\u0101vana d\u0101sa \u1e6ch\u0101kura, yuga-dharma-p\u0101lo. So Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu is described here as channa\u1e25 kalau. In the Kali-yuga He\u2019s not appearing as other incarnations, not like N\u1e5bsi\u1e41hadeva or many, V\u0101manadeva, Lord R\u0101macandra. He is appearing as a devotee. Why? Now, this is the most magnanimous avat\u0101ra. People are so foolish, they could not understand K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a said, sarva-dharm\u0101n parityajya m\u0101m eka\u1e41 \u015bara\u1e47a\u1e41 [Bg. 18.66], they took it: \u201cWho is this person ordering like that, Sarva-dharm\u0101n parityajya? What right?\u201d That is our material disease. If somebody is ordered to do something, he protests, \u201cWho are you to order me?\u201d This is the position. God Himself, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, what can He say? He orders, the Supreme Person, Supreme Being. He must order. He\u2019s the supreme controller. He must order. That is God. But we are so foolish that when God orders that \u201cYou do this,\u201d we take it otherwise: \u201cOh, who is this man? He\u2019s ordering like that. And sarva-dharm\u0101n parityajya, \u2018giving up everything\u2019? Why shall I give Him?\u201d Sarva-dharm\u0101n: \u201cI have created so many dharmas, \u2018isms.\u2019 I shall give it up? Why shall I give it up?\u201d Therefore the same Lord came again as Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu.<\/p>\n

Today is Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu\u2019s appearance day, so we must discuss this very thoroughly, that, that R\u016bpa Gosv\u0101m\u012b understood it. Therefore we have to go through guru. R\u016bpa Gosv\u0101m\u012b is our guru. Narottama d\u0101sa \u1e6ch\u0101kura said, r\u016bpa-raghun\u0101tha-pade, hoibe \u0101kuti, kabe h\u0101ma bujhabo, \u015br\u012b-yugala-p\u012briti. If we want to understand the transcendental position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then we have to go through guru, guru-parampar\u0101 system. Otherwise it is not possible. R\u016bpa-raghun\u0101tha pade hoibe \u0101kuti. Unless we accept this process, unless we submit\u2026 This whole process is submission. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a wants this. Sarva-dharm\u0101n parityajya. So if you want to approach K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, you have to become very submissive. And to whom? \u201cK\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is not here. To whom I shall submit?\u201d No. To His devotee, to His representative. The business is submission. So \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu appeared this day for giving mercy to the fallen souls who are so foolish, they cannot take to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. He is personally teaching how to take to K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. And that is this k\u012brtana. You\u2019ll find. You have seen the picture in our Teachings of Lord Caitanya that in Prayag He was engaged in chanting, and R\u016bpa Gosv\u0101m\u012b is offering his obeisances. That is the first meeting with R\u016bpa Gosv\u0101m\u012b, and he composed this verse, namo mah\u0101-vad\u0101ny\u0101ya k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-prema-prad\u0101ya te\u2026 [Madhya 19.53]\n

Devotees: \u2026k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47\u0101ya k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-caitanya-n\u0101mne gaura-tvi\u1e63e nama\u1e25.<\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: Yes. So this is channa\u1e25-avat\u0101ra. He\u2019s K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, He has come to give you k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-prema, but He\u2019s acting like a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a devotee. This is covered. He is not commanding now, \u201cYou do this.\u201d Yes, He\u2019s commanding, \u201cDo this,\u201d but in different way. Because people misunderstood, \u201cOh, who is this person commanding?\u201d Even some so-called rascal scholar, he has said, \u201cIt\u2019s too much to demand.\u201d They have remarked like that. Yes, sophisticated persons, they are thinking like that.<\/p>\n

But our process is to submit. Unless we submit, there is no hope of advancing in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness. That is Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu\u2019s teaching.<\/p>\n

t\u1e5b\u1e47\u0101d api sun\u012bcena taror api sahi\u1e63\u1e47un\u0101 am\u0101nin\u0101 m\u0101nadena k\u012brtan\u012bya\u1e25 sad\u0101 hari\u1e25 [Cc. adi 17.31]\n

If you want to chant Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mantra, then you have to take this principle, t\u1e5b\u1e47\u0101d api sun\u012bcena. You have to become humbler than the grass. Grass, it is lying on the street. Everyone is trampling down. Never protests. In the lawn you are\u2026 Everyone is trampling the grass. There is no protest. Taror api sahi\u1e63\u1e47un\u0101. And tolerant than the tree. The tree is giving us so much help. It is giving us fruit, flower, leaves, and when there is scorching heat, shelter also. Sit down underneath. So beneficial, still, we cut. As soon as I like, I cut it down. But there is no protest. The tree does not say, \u201cI have given you so much help, and you are cutting me?\u201d No. Tolerant. Yes. Therefore Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu has selected, taror api sahi\u1e63\u1e47un\u0101. And am\u0101nin\u0101 m\u0101nadena. For oneself one should not expect any respectful position, but he, the devotee, should offer all respect to anyone. Am\u0101nin\u0101 m\u0101nadena k\u012brtan\u012bya\u1e25 sad\u0101 hari\u1e25 [Cc. adi 17.31] If we acquire this qualification, then we can chant Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a mah\u0101-mantra without any disturbance. This is the qualification.<\/p>\n

So Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu came to teach these principles. He is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Himself. There is no\u2026 Na caitany\u0101t k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47\u0101t para-tattva\u1e41 param iha. Para-tattvam, the Supreme Truth, is Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu. The Supreme Truth is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, but Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu is not different from K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Na caitany\u0101t k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47\u0101t para-tattva\u1e41 param iha, yad advaita\u1e41 brahmopani\u1e63adi. The Brahman, advaita, monists\u2019 Brahman, which is described in the Upani\u1e63ad, yad, that factor, yad advaita br\u0101hma\u1e47opani\u1e63adi, param\u0101tm\u0101, and the Param\u0101tm\u0101, Brahman, Param\u0101tm\u0101 and Bhagav\u0101n\u2014this is the three features of the Supreme Absolute Truth.<\/p>\n

vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattva\u1e41 yad j\u00f1\u0101nam advayam brahmeti param\u0101tmeti bhagav\u0101n iti \u015babdyate [Bh\u0101g. 1.2.11]\n

The Absolute Truth is one, advaya-j\u00f1\u0101na. There is no difference. But He, according to our qualification of understanding the Absolute Truth, He appears as Brahman, impersonal Brahman; He appears as localized Param\u0101tm\u0101, Supersoul; and He appears as the beloved Supreme Personality of Godhead, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, according to the receiver. Ye yath\u0101 m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyante. That is meant. If you want to understand the Absolute Truth as impersonal Brahman, you realize that. If you want to realize the Absolute Truth as Param\u0101tm\u0101, everywhere, all- pervading, you can realize Him. And if you want to see Him as the most beloved, then you can also have. That is the meaning of ye yath\u0101 m\u0101\u1e41 prapadyante. You can realize the Absolute Truth any way. He is prepared to manifest Himself as you desire.<\/p>\n

So \u201cas you desire\u201d does not mean\u2026 That also, He is present because, here it is stated, n\u1e5b-tiryag-\u1e5b\u1e63i-deva-jha\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101rai\u1e25. According to the evolutionary process, so there was water all over the universe. So at that time, da\u015ba-avat\u0101ra, ke\u015bava dh\u1e5bta-m\u012bna-\u015bar\u012bra jaya jagad\u012b\u015ba hare. Similarly, He became tortoise. Then He becomes N\u1e5bsi\u1e41hadeva, He became V\u0101manadeva\u2014so many. That is going on, nitya, nitya-l\u012bl\u0101. Don\u2019t think the avat\u0101ra comes only to the human society, n\u1e5b. But He appears amongst the animals, amongst the insects, amongst the trees. Therefore in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 there is statement, \u201cAmong the trees, I am this tree. Among the animals, I am this animal. Among the persons\u2026 Among the fighters, I am this, I am this.\u201d He\u2019s everything, but just to point out a few\u2026 In another place He says, raso \u2019ham apsu kaunteya. He is prepared to be appreciated by you in any condition of life if you take His instruction how to realize Him. And if you manufacture your own way, no, that is not possible. That is\u2026 Even if you are most ordinary man, still, you can realize Him. There is no difficulty. How? K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a said, raso \u2019ham apsu kaunteya: \u201cMy dear Arjuna, I am the taste of the water.\u201d Now, who does not drink water? Anyone? The animal also drinks water and the human being also drinks water. But the animal cannot understand God, although God is there in the water, and the man can understand because he is human being. Therefore a human being is different from animal. If we remain like animals\u2014we are drinking water, but we are not realizing K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2014then you are animal. This is animals. And if we drink water\u2014everyone drinks water many times\u2014so many times we can remember K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. And that is the process of devotional\u2026 Smara\u1e47am. \u015arava\u1e47a\u1e41 k\u012brtana\u1e41 vi\u1e63\u1e47o\u1e25 smara\u1e47am [SB 7.5.23]\n

So every time, if you drink water and remember K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, then you are on the devotional service. Where is the difficulty? But the rascals will not take it. That is the\u2026 Where is the difficulty? Everyone drinks water, and as soon as you drink water when you are thirsty, and the taste of the water appeases your thirst, so if you simply remember that \u201cIn the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 it is stated that this taste is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a,\u201d then immediately you remember K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. And as soon as you remember K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, it is devotional service, smara\u1e47am. Where is the difficulty? Where is the difficulty for becoming K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a conscious? Raso \u2019ham apsu kaunteya prabh\u0101smi \u015ba\u015bi-s\u016bryayo\u1e25: \u201cI am the illumination of the moon and the sun.\u201d So who does not see the moonshine and the sunshine? In daytime you see the sunshine and at night you see the moonshine. So if you see the sunshine and moonshine and if you remember K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s instructions that \u201cThis sunshine, moonshine, I am,\u201d so where is the difficulty?<\/p>\n

raso \u2019ham apsu kaunteya prabh\u0101smi \u015ba\u015bi-s\u016bryayo\u1e25 pra\u1e47ava\u1e25 sarva-vede\u1e63u\u2026<\/p>\n

Now, if you think, \u201cEh, I am so learned Vedantist. Why shall I study the sunshine-moonshine and what? I shall chant o\u1e41.\u201d (laughter) \u201cRascal, this o\u1e41 I am. (laughter) You are so big Vedantist. You chant o\u1e41, but that I am.\u201d Pra\u1e47ava\u1e25 sarva-vede\u1e63u. Every Vedic mantra is chanted after the vibration of omkara. O\u1e41 tad vi\u1e63\u1e47o\u1e25 parama\u1e41 pada\u1e41 sad\u0101 pa\u015byanti s\u016br\u2026 This is the Vedic mantra always, every Veda. So either you become Vedantist or ordinary human being\u2014 does not know anything\u2014you can realize K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. There is no difficulty.<\/p>\n

So K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a taught everything for becoming K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a conscious, but still, we are so rascal we could not understand K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Therefore K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a came again: \u201cThese rascals failed to understand Me, and now I shall teach how to become a devotee of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a by My personal behavior.\u201d That is \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu, by His personal\u2026 Don\u2019t think that because He\u2019s playing the part\u2026 Just like somebody is giving massage to my body. So he\u2019s not giving properly. So immediately I take his hand and I began to give massage, \u201cDo like this. Do like this.\u201d That does not mean I am masseur or I am servant of that person. Similarly, don\u2019t forget that \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. \u015ar\u012b-k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-caitanya r\u0101dh\u0101-k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a nahe anya. You are worshiping R\u0101dh\u0101-K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, and there is Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu\u2019s Deity also. There are some parties, they protest, \u201cWhy Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu\u2019s Deity should be placed along with K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a?\u201d But they do not know \u015br\u012b-k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-caitanya r\u0101dh\u0101-k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a nahe anya. It is not different.<\/p>\n

So \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a Caitanya is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. It is confirmed by the \u015b\u0101stras. Here it is said, channa\u1e25 kalau yad abhava. In the Kali-yuga, directly He does not appear as the incarnation like N\u1e5bsi\u1e41hadeva or V\u0101manadeva or Lord R\u0101macandra, yes, but as devotee. So He\u2019s the same incarnation, Lord Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu. Abhavat. \u201cTherefore sometimes You are called as tri-yuga.\u201d There are four yugas, but He is known\u2026 Because in three yugas He appears distinctly, and in the fourth yuga, the Kali-yuga, as devotee, therefore He\u2019s called tri-yuga.<\/p>\n

So today is the birthday or appearance day of \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu, and this is the birthplace, this M\u0101y\u0101pura, and you are all present here. It is a good fortune. Always remember \u015ar\u012b Caitanya Mah\u0101prabhu and chant \u015br\u012b-k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-caitanya prabhu-nity\u0101nanda\u2026<\/p>\n

Devotees: \u2026\u015br\u012b-advaita gad\u0101dhara \u015br\u012bv\u0101s\u0101di-gaura-bhakta-v\u1e5bnda.<\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: This will make your life perfect. Thank you very much. (end)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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