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V.Sadagopan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pranjal Johry" <pranjal_johry@xxxxxxxxx>
To:  "01ANGLES" <01angels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:20 AM
Subject: [Oppiliappan] PERFECTION OF LIFE


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> atha me deva sammoham
> apakrastum tvam arhasi
> yo 'vagraho 'ham mametity
> etasmin yojitas tvaya
> TRANSLATION
> Now be pleased, my Lord, to dispel my great delusion. Due to my feeling of 
> false ego, I have been engaged by Your maya and have identified myself 
> with the body and consequent bodily relations.
> PURPORT
> Maya is the false ego of identifying one's body with one's self and of 
> claiming things possessed in relationship with the body. In Bhagavadgita, 
> Fifteenth Chapter, the Lord says, "I am sitting in everyone's heart, and 
> from Me comes everyone's remembrance and forgetfulness." Devahuti has 
> stated that false identification of the body with the self and attachment 
> for bodily possessions are also under the direction of the Lord. Does this 
> mean that the Lord discriminates by engaging one in His devotional service 
> and another in sense gratification? If that were true, it would be an 
> incongruity on the part of the Supreme Lord, but that is not the actual 
> fact. As soon as the living entity forgets his real constitutional 
> position of eternal servitorship to the Lord and wants instead to enjoy 
> himself by sense gratification, he is captured by maya. This capture leads 
> to the consciousness of false identification with the body and attachment 
> for the possessions of the
> body. These are the activities of maya, and since maya is also an agent of 
> the Lord, it is indirectly the action of the Lord. The Lord is merciful; 
> if anyone wants to forget Him and enjoy this material world, He gives him 
> full facility, not
> directly but through the agency of His material potency. Therefore, since 
> the material potency is the
> Lord's energy, indirectly it is the Lord who gives the facility to forget 
> Him. Devahuti therefore said, "My
> engagement in sense gratification was also due to You. Now kindly get me 
> free from this entanglement." By the grace of the Lord one is allowed to 
> enjoy this material world, but when one is disgusted with material 
> enjoyment and is frustrated, and when one sincerely surrenders unto the 
> lotus feet of the Lord, then the
> Lord is so kind that He frees one from entanglement. Krsna says, 
> therefore, in Bhagavad-gita, "First of all
> surrender, and then I will take charge of you and free you from all 
> reactions of sinful activities." Sinful activities are those activities 
> performed in forgetfulness of our relationship with the Lord. In this 
> material world, activities for material enjoyment that are considered 
> pious are also sinful. For example, one sometimes gives money in charity 
> to a needy person with a view to get back the money four times increased. 
> Giving with the purpose of gaining something is called charity in the mode 
> of passion. Everything done here is done in the modes of material nature, 
> and therefore all activities but service to the Lord are sinful. Because 
> of sinful activities we become attracted by the illusion of material 
> attachment, and we think, "I am this body." I think of the body as myself 
> and of bodily possessions as "mine." Devahuti requested Lord Kapila to 
> free her from that entanglement of false identification and false 
> possession. In asking this, Devahuti is
> accepting her son, Kapila, as her guru. He consequently tells her how to 
> solve all material problems. Material life is nothing but sex attraction. 
> pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam (SB. 5.5.8). Material life means that 
> men are after women and women are after men. We find this not only in 
> human society but in bird, dog, cat and demigod society. As soon as people 
> join to satisfy their sex desire, the attraction becomes greater and 
> greater. An apartment
> is needed for privacy, and then one has to earn a livelihood and acquire 
> some land. Without children,
> married life is frustrated, and of course the children have to be 
> educated. Thus one becomes entangled in material life by creating so many 
> situations, but at the time of death Krsna comes and takes away 
> everything--house, land, wife, children, friends, reputation and whatever. 
> Then we have to begin another life. It is not that we simply die and 
> finish everything. We are living eternally; the body is finished, but we 
> have to accept another body out of the 8,400,000 forms. In this way, our 
> life is going on, but we are thinking in terms of wife, children, and so 
> forth. This is all illusion. In any case, we will not be allowed to stay 
> here, and
> although we are attached to all this, everything will be taken away at 
> death. Whatever post we are occupying--be it president or Lord Brahma--we 
> are occupying temporarily. We may be here five years, ten
> years, one hundred years or five million years. Whatever, our position is 
> limited. Our position in the
> material world is not eternal, but we are eternal Why, then, should we be 
> illusioned by the noneternal?
> By nature we are part and parcel of Krsna, and Krsna is 
> sac-cid-ananda-vigraha. In order to transcend the
> darkness of material life and go to the world of light, we need to 
> approach a guru. It is for this reason that Devahuti is approaching Lord 
> Kapiladeva. In the morning, when the sun arises, the darkness of night 
> immediately goes away. Similarly, when God or His incarnation comes, the 
> darkness of material life
> is dissipated. When Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, came, 
> Arjuna's illusion was dispelled. He was thinking, "Why should I fight with 
> my relatives?" Actually the whole world is going on under this
> conception of "my" and "mine." There are fights between nations, 
> societies, communities and families.
> People are thinking, "Why are you interfering with my business?" Then 
> there is a fight. Because of illusion,
> we do not consider these situations temporary. On a train, people may 
> argue and fight over a seat, but one
> who knows that he will only be on the train for two or three hours thinks, 
> "Why should I fight? I shall only
> be here for a short while." One person thinks in this way, and the other 
> person is ready to fight, thinking
> that his seat is permanent. No one will be allowed to stay within this 
> material world; everyone will have to
> change his body and position, and as long as one remains here, he will 
> have to fight and struggle for
> existence. This is the way of material life. We may temporarily make some 
> compromises,but ultimately the
> material world is full of misery. We are very much attached to this 
> material world, but according to the
> Vedic system, renunciation is compulsory, for when one reaches the age of 
> fifty, he renounces his family
> life. Nature gives warning, "You are now past fifty. That's all right. You 
> have fought in this material
> world. Now stop this business." Children play on the beach and make houses 
> out of sand, but after a while
> the father comes and says, "Now, my dear children, time is up. Stop this 
> business and come home." This is
> the business of the guru--to teach his disciples detachment. The world is 
> not our place; our place is Vaikunthaloka. Krsna also comes to remind us 
> of this. The dharma, or order, of the Supreme Person is to
> become His devotee and always think of Him. Krsna says:
> man-mana bhava mad-bhakto
> mad-yaji mam namaskuru
> "Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship 
> Me." (Bg. 9.34) In this way,
> Krsna opens the door, but we unfortunately do not accept Him. Krsna tells 
> Arjuna, "Because you are My
> friend, I am revealing to you the most confidential dharma." What is that? 
> "Simply surrender unto Me."
> This is the dharma taught by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and 
> Krsna's incarnation and His devotee
> will teach the same dharma. We are all after happiness, but we do not know 
> how to enjoy happiness.
> We want to enjoy our senses, but it is not possible with these covered 
> false senses. The senses must be
> opened, and that is the process of purification. We are thinking of 
> ourselves according to so many false
> material identifications, but we should take Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's 
> advice: jivera `svarupa'
> haya--krsnera `nitya-dasa.' We must come to understand, "I am the eternal 
> servant of Krsna." After all, our senses are employed for the satisfaction 
> of somebody--either for ourselves or for someone else. That is kama,
> krodha, lobha and matsara-- illusion. If we are not serving our own lusty 
> desires (kama), we are serving
> anger (krodha). If I am the master of anger, I can control my anger, and 
> if I am the master of my desires, I can control my desires. In any case, I 
> am a servant, and my service should be transferred to Krsna. That is the 
> perfection of life. If we are situated in the transcendental position 
> (bhakti), we can understand Krsna, Krsna cannot be understood by mental 
> speculation; otherwise He would have said that He
> could be understood by jnana, karma or yoga. However, He clearly says, 
> bhaktya mam abhijanati: "Only by
> devotional service can I be understood." If we want to know Krsna as He 
> is, we have to accept the process of
> bhakti. It is this bhakti process that Kapiladeva will reveal to Devahuti. 
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