Day 13 - Mayapur Yatra

Day 13 – Shantipur

SB class by Gurudev:

SB 7. 10.4

The low grade of material desires and sense enjoyment is mentioned all over in SB and well elaborated. In BG 5. 22 – K says what is born out of sense gratifications it is full of dukh. If we are into material enjoyment, then life is full of misery. Prahalad teaches the kids that as soon as you even remember material enjoyments we start suffering. Even if we have the scriptures put together by Vedavyasa, there is no nectar if it’s devoid of pure dev service. If you have self realization but don’t have love for GOD then you are stupid. Lottery is the tax on the stupid. Then it becomes very entagling. K is very compassionate and merciful and wants all enttieies to come back thome back to Godhead.  He would vountarilly like to have all souls surrender to him.

4 kids of people surrender to K, that’s eternally good. The only thing of value of impetus is to somehow serve K. Out of the people who approach me, one who is a jnani, he has understood that material desires are not needed and have full firm in dev service and hence are dear to K, but K also further states that other 3 are also dear to K because at least they have come to me. K is very compassionate.

Tivrena bhakti yogena – All we require is enthusiasm for dev service and if we do, then K is very merciful to his Devotees, He is karuna and He is aware of one’s intention. Ex – The Avanti bhramin, was very miserly and due to that impiousness he lost everything, but because he had a sliver of intention to serve K that was what is most important. If one is devoid of all good qualities of a devotee but if he has one quality of surrender to K, even a minute molecule of good qualities that is enough for him to come back to K. K gives encouragement throughout SB, even if we are immature in the beginning, K still says that satyam dishati (SB 5.19.27 canto) arthitam arthito nirnam and then after getting some material benefits he wants some more. But K says OK I’ll give you but in such a way that you won’t need it again. K says, I will cover you with my dev service. K recognizes that this person has done something very small service so I will take care of this person.

Just by doing this small service for Me, everything will be covered. From 11.20.27-28; Even though a devotee knows that he is doing something very wrong materially, because he is so conditioned to renounce all sense enjoyment the devotee still remains very happy and is very enthusiastic to keep going on his dev service. Devotee has firm faith and is determined to take the risk and the process to take K and give K to others.

K is so merciful that He takes the smallest qualification of someone and then augments that. Ex – Uddhava says how Putana came to K to kill him but because she had a small desire to be his mother, K accepted that as her dev service. Penny principle = K is so kind, the devotees are so merciful that they want to share this with everyone, anything they can get people to give them a glance = a lollipop prasadam, a sticker anything to get someone to glance or have  response – That is the sankirtan mood.

Cheating mentality = OK if K just sees a sliver then why should I endeavor – well this is for only the sincere devotees who are progressive and are extremely eager to identify material desires and to replace them with spiritual desires, not just take things for granted. Sincere devotees identify the material desire, repent and want to correct themselves by replace them with a spiritual desire. Hard way is to drag your feet but the easy way is to the VLC = Voluntary Life change: Example – Special mercy  of K – instead of waiting for K to give special mercy by taking everything away and forcing the devotee to come to him, instead of waiting which is the hard way do it the easy way of doing VLC. The good devotee, understands these desires are coming due to my past conditioning but he realizes it, doesn’t get depressed remains enthusiastic and hence K helps the devotee to come to him more. Another example is from K and Arjuna in BG.

Shantipur – Sri Sri Adwaita Acaraya’s house, Place where Mahaprabhu had prasadam with Nityananda and Adwaita Pr, Haridas Thakur was initiated, Adwaita Acaraya took initiation from Madhevendrapuri and also prayed to Saligrama Sila for Mahaprabhu to descend.

Class by Gurudev:

From here we get to know Mahaprabhu is very responsive as with the loud roars of Adwaita Mahaprabhu descended. Everyone is equal for K but for devotees he has special mercy. K is like the sun, the rays are going to everyone, but if someone chooses to be in the dark it’s their choice. Material gains should never be used for spiritual gains. The purpose of the life is to maintain a healthy balance for the sake of inquiry. Therefore now is the time to inquire. Therefore means – you have tried everything and now is the time to inquire and you have a human body and mind to inquire and understand this process. Those who worship K, knowledge and everything comes to them. So when Adwaita Pr prayed to K sincerely by ganges water and tulsi leaves and K was very pleased by this.

Prahalad says to Nrsimha, you are like a desire tree, you don’t care what the desire is, you fulfill everything what someone asks. Please allow me to desire for you. Vishesha – K’s creation is unique and that’s where Vaisesika comes from. Adwaita comes from MahaVishnu. He is a manifestation of mahavishnu and sadashiva together. He is the embodiment of pure service and he calls out to K to descend as Mahaprabhu. We all live under a desire tree, K is responsive to our prayers as he lives in us. If we call out to K sincerely, He will appear in his own way. Ex – Varaha, comes out Brahma’s nostril. If you pray, you know He will come out. What is required is sincere prayers to Krsna. This is a very quaint place and if you think about it 500 years ago how this place was? We can do anything at any remote place – If we pray sincerely anywhere, He will come down nno matter what. If we have the desire and are sincere and we want to please our Gurudeva from wherever we are, then we can do it. K will appear and will notice you, He will come down and empower you. If we desire sincerely to spread the KC movement then K will empower you.

If you put your whole heart and soul in any place you are in whatever service you are then you will attract everybody all demigods, K to come and help you in your service. Hence, in this place it’s very importatnt to pray for us to be focused in whatever service we are in, just like Adwaita Acaraya did.

WE CAN DO ANYTHING FROM ANY PLACE TILL WE ARE SINCERE FOR OUR SERVICE TO PLEASE KRSNA.

Class by HG Rajendrananada Pr

This place emphasizes – power of sincere prayer and power of service K at any place. As Adwaita is not different from Hari he is called Adwaita and because he helped to spread the KC movement he is called Acarya. He cried or roared like a lion and because of roaring, he woke up the Lord to come down. At first Adwaita prayed with flowers and one of the flower which went down the ganga touched Mother Saci and that helped bring Mahaprabhu in Mother Saci’s womb. Lord C asked Adwaita to ask for boon and he said – if you are giving the love of God then given it everyone even the women and sudras. He came to give the Holy Name and garland the world with K prema. He also said – anyone who is proud of high education, high birth and envious to the Sankirtan movement be dead. Mahaprabhu loudly responded – Whatever you wish let it be true.

Only Mother Saci didn’t get K prema in the 21 hours of Srivas Angam, because she was an offender. Mahaprabhu said she offended Advaita, Visvaroopa was so serious of KC, that Mother Saci was afraid that he would take sanyas and that’s what happened. Hence she blamed Advaita Acarya and because she was an offender Mahaprabhu said you have to go beg for forgiveness of Adwaita.

This is where Mahaprabhu took prasadam here at Advaita’s home. 

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