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Dear mpmahesh
Interesting article in lucid style. This is a never ending issue. Many
scriptures on the same subject have been written by great Acharyas after
Gitacharya and then the views of eminent people from various forums like
this one; libraries are filled with books on the subject ; lectures are
going on in every nook and corner ; yet we are still not able to come out
of this whirlpool of desires and anxieties; we are getting drawn more and
more into materialism justifying to ourselves that this is all part of
scientific advancement which again is the gift of God. Today we want things
to happen by click of the button. We are becoming impatient ! this
impatience leads to anxieties even for petty issues. We are able to find
ways and means to quickly satisfy our desires so that we can go for the
next one even before the one on hand is satisfied. We are not able to give
up even an inch of anything!. leave alone our dear body! I asked my wife to
throw
certain unwanted things when we shifted the house. She did so ; but not
outside ; but into the balcony of the new house ! only temporarily! anytime
it can be brought back. The quest for krsna the Ultimate Brahman and our
quest for material things cannot co exist in our heart; we have to leave the
lower and seek the Higher.

In fact the rush in temples is increasing day by day. Serpentine queues
waiting either to thank the Perumal for desires fulfilled along with a new
wish list. The Lord is ever ready smiling inside the sanctum sanctorum to
grant the wishes of the bhaktas. We normally find a notice outside the
temples " please leave slippers here". It would be more appropriate if they
add " slippers and desires ". Our desires are worth no more than our
slippers.

Sorry' moderator saab ; my knowledge of scriptures is almost "nil" hence
not able to draw references of relevant verses like the various eminent
writers in this forum.

Thanks for the wonderful article!

On this auspicious Nrusimha Jayanthi day let us pray to Lord. May the
Ferrocious Lord burn our mundane desires the way He tore open
Hiranyakassipu.

asatoma satgamaya
tamasoma jyothirgamaya
mirutyoma amrutamgamaya
om santhi!santhi!santhi


Pranams
vijayaraghavan v k




----- Original Message -----
From: "mpmahesh" <mpmahesh@xxxx>
To: <srirangasri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 5:37 PM
Subject: [SriRangaSri] PrahladaMaharaja


> Material existence means full of anxieties and desires. This is the sum
and substance of material existence. Everyone is full of anxieties. Not only
humans. There are so many bad news than good news when we read paper or see
TV. So spiritual life means anxiety-less. This is the difference between
material life and spiritual life. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma [Bg. 18.54], in
the Bhagavad-gita it is described what is spiritual life. As soon as you are
identified with the Absolute Truth, Brahman, then symptoms will be
prasannatma, jubilation: "Oh, I do not belong to this material world. I
belong to the spiritual world. I am part and parcel of Krsna. Why should I
suffer so many things?" That is jubilation. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma [Bg.
18.54]. The prasannatma means na socati na kanksati. He has no lamentation,
no hankering. Here people are always full of anxieties because they have got
hankering, "I want this. I want that." And there is lamentation. What they
possess, if it is lost, they cry, "Oh, my things are lost." And what they do
not possess, they hanker. So their anxiety is there, either he possesses or
not possesses. This is material anxiety. If you have no money, then you will
hanker after money, "How to get money, how to get money, how to get money?"
And when you get money, then how to utilize it, how to, where to keep it, in
the bank, or in the house, or who will take away? Somebody will take away.
So where is anxiety-less? You possess or not possess, the real disease is
anxiety. So when one becomes brahma-bhuta, self-realized, identified with
the Absolute Truth, then he has no more anxiety. This is the best education,
when you become anxiety-less. That is perfection of education.
>
> So when Prahlada Maharaja, in Srimad Bhagavatham, was enquired by his
father that "What nice thing you have studied, my dear boy, in your school?"
so he replied, "My dear father, the best education I have received, how to
become anxiety-less." That's all. Tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam. "Not
only for me, but for everyone. But you will not understand, my dear father,
because you are demon number one." He is addressing his father,
asura-varya, asura-varya. Asura means demon, and varya, varya means the
first-class. He is not addressing his father as "My dear father," "My dear
best of the atheists." Therefore his father was very angry, "This child, he
talks with me on equal level and does not fear me. Kill him!" Asura. He is
prepared to kill his son even, if he does not agree with him. You see. We
are also prepared. If one is not devotee, if he is son, we can kill him. The
same. But our is for Krsna, and the asuras is for himself. That is the
difference. He wants to do everything for his personal satisfaction, and we
want to do everything for Krsna's satisfaction. That is the difference. The
same propensities are there, but when it is applied for Krsna, then it is
purified, and when it is applied for personal self, it is impure. This is
the difference.
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> So Prahlada Maharaja said, "The best education is that which makes one
anxiety-free." That is best education. Now where is that education? Is there
any education throughout the whole world, in so many universities,
especially in your country there are nice, very, very... Rather, they have
created so much anxieties that the boys, they are frustrated. They are
giving up everything, Where is anxiety-less? They increase anxiety.
Increase anxiety. Tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam sada
samudvigna-dhiyam. "My dear father, the best of the asuras, I think that
anyone who has accepted this material body is full of anxieties."
Asad-grahat. Asad-grahat means..., asat means temporary. Because he has
accepted a body which is temporary, he is full of anxieties. That is the
real problem. We, if we want to be anxiety-less, no anxiety, then we have to
refuse to accept this material body. Otherwise there is no possibility. All
anxieties are due to this material body. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja said,
tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat.
>
> This is the problem. Now somehow or other, we have come in contact with
this material body. We, "I am not this material body, you are not this
material... We are soul." That realization required, that "I am not this
material body. Therefore I am not Indian, I am not white, I am not black. I
am pure soul." Aham brahmasmi. This is the real business of human society.
Athato brahma jijnasa. The swine is enquiring, "Where is stool? Where is
stool? Where is stool?" But a human being is also engaged for that purpose,
"Where is stool?" or "Where is food?" Stool is his food, and we are also,
whole day and night with motorcar going this or, "Where is food? Where is
food?" Diva carthehaya rajan kutumba-bharanena va [SB 2.1.3]. The whole day
is spent, so many motorcars going this way and that way. What is the
business? "Where is money? Where is food? Where is shelter?" And as soon as
you get shelter, money, and food, kutumba-bharanena va. Then "How to feed my
children, how to feed my wife, how to feed my country, how to..., society?"
That's all. This is anxiety. This is anxiety. They... Nidraya hriyate
naktam. At night they want to become anxiety-less by sleeping or by sex
life. They want to forget anxiety. This is their business. Nidraya hriyate
naktam. They think that "If I sleep, then I shall be... Let me drink so at
night there will be very deep sleep." That is not possible. You dream very
ferocious dream, you are dreaming.
> So these are not the methods. Method is, here it is recommended by Arjuna,
vasudeva-anudhyanam. Anudhyanam. Anu means constantly, and dhyanam means
meditation. They have manufactured so many meditation -- without Vasudeva.
That so-called transcendental meditation club and yogasana, but go there,
what you meditate upon? Zero. That is there. They cannot say, "What is that
meditation? And where is that transcendental meditation?" No rascal will be
able to explain. But they'll call big, big words, "Transcendental
meditation." And what is that transcendental meditation? Please explain.
"Oh, that cannot be explained." You see. Is it not? But we have got
(indistinct), vasudeva-anudhyanam. You just say.
Vasudevanghry-anudhyana-paribrmhita-ramhasa. Here is Vasudeva, Krsna. You
come here and see, very minutely, how Vasudeva is dressed nicely, how He is
playing on His flute, how He is situated with His eternal consort, Srimati
Radharani, how He is enjoying her company. So nice thing for meditation. But
why you are after zero? Just see the rascaldom. Here is such nice object
for meditation, and they are trying to meditate upon zero. Therefore
Bhagavad-gita says, klesah adhikataras tesam avyaktasakta-cetasam. Klesa,
that "Trouble is more." We can meditate upon Krsna, immediately. We are
constantly seeing Krsna here. So as soon as I close my eyes, I see Krsna.
That is not very difficult. Anything you see, you'll be able to immediately
have the form within your heart, immediately. So there is no difficulty, but
they will create some difficult task. Therefore Bhagavad-gita (says), klesah
adhikataras tesam. To fix up the mind on Vasudeva, or Visnu, that is also
difficult. But those who are trying to fix up their mind on zero, their
position is more difficult, adhikataram. Adhikataram means more.
>
> So people are voluntarily accepting some nonsense method, and they are not
happy. That is their misfortune. Misfortune. Naradhama. The, everything is
there, but because they do not know... Duskrtina, naradhama. Duskrtina,
duskrtina means misfortunate, or always engaged in sinful activities.
They'll not meditate upon Vasudeva; they'll meditate on something, some
color, some zero, or something like that. We do not know what kind of
meditation there is. But real meditation, recommended in the Vedas,
dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yoginah [SB 12.13.1]. Yogi.
Yogis see the Supreme Personality of Godhead by meditation. Meditation,
dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa, mind is absorbed in the Supreme
Personality. That is the real process of yoga system and meditation -- to
see the form of Visnu. Dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa, this is the
recommended process, standard recommended process.
>
> So here, if you simply think of Krsna -- Krsna recommends also that,
man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah. This Krsna consciousness movement is nothing,
just to train people how to think of Krsna and how to become devotee of
Krsna. That's all. So you may become devotee... But you will become devotee.
If you think of Krsna, naturally you will become devotee. So... But think of
Krsna, is it very difficult task? Very simple, very easy, even a child can
do it. Here is Krsna. You can think of. So you go on thinking, thinking,
thinking, thinking, you will be attached. You will be attached. You will be
attached. Adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sangah. And thinking of Krsna in
association of the devotees. Not alone, then you will go to hell. Alone will
not do. Association is so strong that anyone who is coming to our
association, we..., not that we are everyone teaching, but by association,
he wants to become devotee. By association, automatically. So the
association is so powerful. Therefore Narottama dasa Thakura says,
>
> tandera carana-sevi-bhakta-sane vasa
> janame janame haya ei abhilasa
>
> He is praying, "My dear Lord, this is my ambition, birth after birth."
What is that? "That to be engaged in the service of the acarya guru, and in
the association of devotees. This is perfection." Janame janame haya ei:
"This is my desire. I don't want to stop my birth, but simply I want that I
may take birth -- it doesn't matter -- but bhakta-sane vasa, let me live
with the devotees and chant your Names always. My only prayer is that this
should be the ultimate aim of my life.
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