Morning Program by HG Satyadev Prabhu
SB 10.14.8
Translation
My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart, words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim.
Purport
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains in his commentary that just as a legitimate son has to simply remain alive to gain an inheritance from his father, one who simply remains alive in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, following the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga, automatically becomes eligible to receive the mercy of the Personality of Godhead. In other words, he will be promoted to the kingdom of God.
The word su-samīkṣamāṇa indicates that a devotee earnestly awaits the mercy of the Supreme Lord even while suffering the painful effects of previous sinful activities. Lord Kṛṣṇa explains in the Bhagavad-gītā that a devotee who fully surrenders unto Him is no longer liable to suffer the reactions of his previous karma. However, because in his mind a devotee may still maintain the remnants of his previous sinful mentality, the Lord removes the last vestiges of the enjoying spirit by giving His devotee punishments that may sometimes resemble sinful reactions. The purpose of the entire creation of God is to rectify the living entity’s tendency to enjoy without the Lord, and therefore the particular punishment given for a sinful activity is specifically designed to curtail the mentality that produced the activity. Although a devotee has surrendered to the Lord’s devotional service, until he is completely perfect in Kṛṣṇa consciousness he may maintain a slight inclination to enjoy the false happiness of this world. The Lord therefore creates a particular situation to eradicate this remaining enjoying spirit. This unhappiness suffered by a sincere devotee is not technically a karmic reaction; it is rather the Lord’s special mercy for inducing His devotee to completely let go of the material world and return home, back to Godhead.
A sincere devotee earnestly desires to go back to the Lord’s abode. Therefore he willingly accepts the Lord’s merciful punishment and continues offering respects and obeisances to the Lord with his heart, words and body. Such a bona fide servant of the Lord, considering all hardship a small price to pay for gaining the personal association of the Lord, certainly becomes a legitimate son of God, as indicated here by the words dāya-bhāk. Just as one cannot approach the sun without becoming fire, one cannot approach the supreme pure, Lord Kṛṣṇa, without undergoing a rigid purificatory process, which may appear like suffering but which is in fact a curative treatment administered by the personal hand of the Lord.
This is so instructive and encouraging for us. When we are suffering we think it's someone else's fault but actually we are just suffering our own misdeeds. If you blame others for your suffering, it is indicative that we have a very far way to go. If you blame yourself, you are half way there, if you blame no one then you are there because the soul is spiritual and is sat cit ananda and is always spiritual. Somehow or other we have fallen into this dream and due to this we are looking for happiness without the lord to complete. Even when we have taken to devotional service, we still have this image of ourselves that we are living independent of the Lord and till we are maintaining this image then we aren't ready to go back home. We are always thinking our next strategy, sometimes when we are actually chanting we are thinking about how to enjoy without Krsna.
Mentality of a devotee is that he's no longer blaming God, he understands that from a physical point of view, I'm going through something which I did in past. When someone around us isn't behaving nicely with us, we feel that person is not behaving well with us and this is conditioning. The way we are feeling is actually just getting stimulated by a past experience. It's not anyone's fault, but actually the only enemy is us. It is us actually which is creating the suffering. Until we don't identify that the whole issue is in our mind we don't get freed.
Attitude of a devotee is I'm the cause of my own suffering. SB 11.23.42 - The brāhmaṇa said: These people are not the cause of my happiness and distress. Neither are the demigods, my own body, the planets, my past work, or time. Rather, it is the mind alone that causes happiness and distress and perpetuates the rotation of material life.
If we are sincere in our practice and pray sincerely to Krsna to help remove any bad tendencies, then Krsna says He will help free him from the last bit of attachment from this material world.
Make a sankalpa, reflect right now what we are still hoping to get rid of the issue we have. Pray to Krsna, Pray to Nityananda who is dosha darshi (doesn't see faults) and give us the desire and determination to help us let go. But issue is our memory is still there and those patterns are still going to arise, but how are we going to greet those issues when they come? Are we going to let it go or are we going to take a bath in them. How can we be ready? By improving how we hear and chant, be more attentive.
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We then went for Harinaam in front of the Puri temple after which we went to Siddha Bakul
Katha at Siddha Bakul
We sang Gauranga Karuna Koro which teaches us how to increase our intensity of our bhajan.
Haridas Thakur is Lord Bhrama. Lord Bhrama said he's always in maya because he's thinking he's the best, the highest. From the BhramaVimohana Lila we know Lord Bhrama understood who Krsna is. Lord Bhrama then said, Krsna please don't excuse me because I will commit mistakes again. Lord Bhrama was attracted to his own daughter and Haridas Thakur wasn't attracted to even Maya Devi. So what was the difference, because Haridas Thakur was a devotee and Lord Bhrama was a manager.
He was the Namacharya and he came to Puri with Mahaprabhu. Mahaprabhu personally made Haridas Thakur stay here at Siddha Bhakul and he never went to the temple because Mahaprabhu would come personally to him to meet him, showing how by chanting with attention the lord comes to see you personally. Once Mahaprabhu came with Jagannatha's brush one day, and he stuck it in the ground and the old dead stick kept growing and it's still growing. One of the last living eternal association of Mahaprabhu. Haridas Thakur was chanting under the Siddha Bhakul and many devotees used to come here to meet Haridas Thakur - Nityananda Pr, Mahaprabhu, Advaitya Pr and many many devotees.
He didn't exhibit the entitlement that I was the one who isntalled the deities. He was also empowered about Naam Tattva and Mahaprabhu listened. 4 Modes of behavior - love, trust, responsibilitiy and empowerment. Our whole movement is love and trust and it's about responsiblity. Have we earned the trust from Gurudeva and SP to get responsibilities. And they become empowered. When you Love and you earn the trust then you get responsibity and then you get empowered. In this place Haridas Thakur left this world. My only problem is that I can't finish my chanting and Haridas Thakur said another problem - you are going to leave the world soon and I can't see that so please let me leave this body. Mahaprabhu said, you are my sincere follower, you are so disciplined. Mahaprabhu, put his foot on the chest on Haridas Thakur and seeing Mahaprabhu's face he kept chanting Sri Krsna Chaitanya, Sri Krsna Chaitanya and then Haridas Thakur left his body.
Then HG Satyadeva Prabhu spoke about tolerance and how by tolerating relaxation comes.
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Evening Class
From CC Madhya 11 we read this chapter - https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/11/
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “Although it is correct that the King is a great devotee, he is still to be considered a venomous snake. Similarly, even though a woman be made of wood, one becomes agitated simply by touching her form.
Purport
Śrī Cāṇakya Paṇḍita has stated in his moral instructions: tyaja durjana-saṁsargaṁ bhaja sādhu-samāgamam. This means that one has to abandon the association of materialistic people and associate with spiritually advanced people. However qualified a materialist may be, he is no better than a venomous serpent. Everyone knows that a snake is dangerous and poisonous, and when its hood is decorated with jewels, it is no less poisonous or dangerous. However qualified a materialist may be, he is no better than a snake decorated with jewels. One should therefore be careful in dealing with such materialists, just as one would be careful in dealing with a bejeweled serpent.
Even though a woman be made of wood or stone, she becomes attractive when decorated. One becomes sexually agitated even by touching the form. Therefore one should not trust his mind, which is so fickle that it can give way to enemies at any moment. The mind is always accompanied by six enemies — namely, kāma, krodha, mada, moha, mātsarya and bhaya — that is, lust, anger, intoxication, illusion, envy and fear. Although the mind may be merged in spiritual consciousness, one should always be very careful in dealing with it, just as one is careful in dealing with a snake. One should never think that his mind is trained and that he can do whatever he likes. One interested in spiritual life should always engage his mind in the service of the Lord so that the enemies of the mind, who always accompany the mind, will be subdued. If the mind is not engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness at every moment, there is a chance that it will give way to its enemies. In this way we become victims of the mind.
Chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra engages the mind at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa constantly; thus the mind’s enemies do not have a chance to strike. Following Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s example in these verses, we should be very careful in dealing with the mind, which should not be indulged in any circumstance. Once we indulge the mind, it can create havoc in this life, even though we may be spiritually advanced. The mind is specifically agitated through the association of materialistic men and women. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, through His personal behavior, warns everyone to avoid meeting a materialistic person or a woman.
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SB 10.14.8
Translation
My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart, words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim.
Purport
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains in his commentary that just as a legitimate son has to simply remain alive to gain an inheritance from his father, one who simply remains alive in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, following the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga, automatically becomes eligible to receive the mercy of the Personality of Godhead. In other words, he will be promoted to the kingdom of God.
The word su-samīkṣamāṇa indicates that a devotee earnestly awaits the mercy of the Supreme Lord even while suffering the painful effects of previous sinful activities. Lord Kṛṣṇa explains in the Bhagavad-gītā that a devotee who fully surrenders unto Him is no longer liable to suffer the reactions of his previous karma. However, because in his mind a devotee may still maintain the remnants of his previous sinful mentality, the Lord removes the last vestiges of the enjoying spirit by giving His devotee punishments that may sometimes resemble sinful reactions. The purpose of the entire creation of God is to rectify the living entity’s tendency to enjoy without the Lord, and therefore the particular punishment given for a sinful activity is specifically designed to curtail the mentality that produced the activity. Although a devotee has surrendered to the Lord’s devotional service, until he is completely perfect in Kṛṣṇa consciousness he may maintain a slight inclination to enjoy the false happiness of this world. The Lord therefore creates a particular situation to eradicate this remaining enjoying spirit. This unhappiness suffered by a sincere devotee is not technically a karmic reaction; it is rather the Lord’s special mercy for inducing His devotee to completely let go of the material world and return home, back to Godhead.
A sincere devotee earnestly desires to go back to the Lord’s abode. Therefore he willingly accepts the Lord’s merciful punishment and continues offering respects and obeisances to the Lord with his heart, words and body. Such a bona fide servant of the Lord, considering all hardship a small price to pay for gaining the personal association of the Lord, certainly becomes a legitimate son of God, as indicated here by the words dāya-bhāk. Just as one cannot approach the sun without becoming fire, one cannot approach the supreme pure, Lord Kṛṣṇa, without undergoing a rigid purificatory process, which may appear like suffering but which is in fact a curative treatment administered by the personal hand of the Lord.
This is so instructive and encouraging for us. When we are suffering we think it's someone else's fault but actually we are just suffering our own misdeeds. If you blame others for your suffering, it is indicative that we have a very far way to go. If you blame yourself, you are half way there, if you blame no one then you are there because the soul is spiritual and is sat cit ananda and is always spiritual. Somehow or other we have fallen into this dream and due to this we are looking for happiness without the lord to complete. Even when we have taken to devotional service, we still have this image of ourselves that we are living independent of the Lord and till we are maintaining this image then we aren't ready to go back home. We are always thinking our next strategy, sometimes when we are actually chanting we are thinking about how to enjoy without Krsna.
Mentality of a devotee is that he's no longer blaming God, he understands that from a physical point of view, I'm going through something which I did in past. When someone around us isn't behaving nicely with us, we feel that person is not behaving well with us and this is conditioning. The way we are feeling is actually just getting stimulated by a past experience. It's not anyone's fault, but actually the only enemy is us. It is us actually which is creating the suffering. Until we don't identify that the whole issue is in our mind we don't get freed.
Attitude of a devotee is I'm the cause of my own suffering. SB 11.23.42 - The brāhmaṇa said: These people are not the cause of my happiness and distress. Neither are the demigods, my own body, the planets, my past work, or time. Rather, it is the mind alone that causes happiness and distress and perpetuates the rotation of material life.
If we are sincere in our practice and pray sincerely to Krsna to help remove any bad tendencies, then Krsna says He will help free him from the last bit of attachment from this material world.
Make a sankalpa, reflect right now what we are still hoping to get rid of the issue we have. Pray to Krsna, Pray to Nityananda who is dosha darshi (doesn't see faults) and give us the desire and determination to help us let go. But issue is our memory is still there and those patterns are still going to arise, but how are we going to greet those issues when they come? Are we going to let it go or are we going to take a bath in them. How can we be ready? By improving how we hear and chant, be more attentive.
==========================
We then went for Harinaam in front of the Puri temple after which we went to Siddha Bakul
Katha at Siddha Bakul
We sang Gauranga Karuna Koro which teaches us how to increase our intensity of our bhajan.
Haridas Thakur is Lord Bhrama. Lord Bhrama said he's always in maya because he's thinking he's the best, the highest. From the BhramaVimohana Lila we know Lord Bhrama understood who Krsna is. Lord Bhrama then said, Krsna please don't excuse me because I will commit mistakes again. Lord Bhrama was attracted to his own daughter and Haridas Thakur wasn't attracted to even Maya Devi. So what was the difference, because Haridas Thakur was a devotee and Lord Bhrama was a manager.
He was the Namacharya and he came to Puri with Mahaprabhu. Mahaprabhu personally made Haridas Thakur stay here at Siddha Bhakul and he never went to the temple because Mahaprabhu would come personally to him to meet him, showing how by chanting with attention the lord comes to see you personally. Once Mahaprabhu came with Jagannatha's brush one day, and he stuck it in the ground and the old dead stick kept growing and it's still growing. One of the last living eternal association of Mahaprabhu. Haridas Thakur was chanting under the Siddha Bhakul and many devotees used to come here to meet Haridas Thakur - Nityananda Pr, Mahaprabhu, Advaitya Pr and many many devotees.
He didn't exhibit the entitlement that I was the one who isntalled the deities. He was also empowered about Naam Tattva and Mahaprabhu listened. 4 Modes of behavior - love, trust, responsibilitiy and empowerment. Our whole movement is love and trust and it's about responsiblity. Have we earned the trust from Gurudeva and SP to get responsibilities. And they become empowered. When you Love and you earn the trust then you get responsibity and then you get empowered. In this place Haridas Thakur left this world. My only problem is that I can't finish my chanting and Haridas Thakur said another problem - you are going to leave the world soon and I can't see that so please let me leave this body. Mahaprabhu said, you are my sincere follower, you are so disciplined. Mahaprabhu, put his foot on the chest on Haridas Thakur and seeing Mahaprabhu's face he kept chanting Sri Krsna Chaitanya, Sri Krsna Chaitanya and then Haridas Thakur left his body.
Then HG Satyadeva Prabhu spoke about tolerance and how by tolerating relaxation comes.
===========================
Evening Class
From CC Madhya 11 we read this chapter - https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/11/
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “Although it is correct that the King is a great devotee, he is still to be considered a venomous snake. Similarly, even though a woman be made of wood, one becomes agitated simply by touching her form.
Purport
Śrī Cāṇakya Paṇḍita has stated in his moral instructions: tyaja durjana-saṁsargaṁ bhaja sādhu-samāgamam. This means that one has to abandon the association of materialistic people and associate with spiritually advanced people. However qualified a materialist may be, he is no better than a venomous serpent. Everyone knows that a snake is dangerous and poisonous, and when its hood is decorated with jewels, it is no less poisonous or dangerous. However qualified a materialist may be, he is no better than a snake decorated with jewels. One should therefore be careful in dealing with such materialists, just as one would be careful in dealing with a bejeweled serpent.
Even though a woman be made of wood or stone, she becomes attractive when decorated. One becomes sexually agitated even by touching the form. Therefore one should not trust his mind, which is so fickle that it can give way to enemies at any moment. The mind is always accompanied by six enemies — namely, kāma, krodha, mada, moha, mātsarya and bhaya — that is, lust, anger, intoxication, illusion, envy and fear. Although the mind may be merged in spiritual consciousness, one should always be very careful in dealing with it, just as one is careful in dealing with a snake. One should never think that his mind is trained and that he can do whatever he likes. One interested in spiritual life should always engage his mind in the service of the Lord so that the enemies of the mind, who always accompany the mind, will be subdued. If the mind is not engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness at every moment, there is a chance that it will give way to its enemies. In this way we become victims of the mind.
Chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra engages the mind at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa constantly; thus the mind’s enemies do not have a chance to strike. Following Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s example in these verses, we should be very careful in dealing with the mind, which should not be indulged in any circumstance. Once we indulge the mind, it can create havoc in this life, even though we may be spiritually advanced. The mind is specifically agitated through the association of materialistic men and women. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, through His personal behavior, warns everyone to avoid meeting a materialistic person or a woman.
Videos:
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