Rupa-Siksa:
Rare, Rarer, the Rarest

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Nabadwip Dham, Samadhi-mandir class
14 June 2015

[His Divine Grace is reading from Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya-lila, chapter 19:]

It is called power transmission—Mahaprabhu gave so much power to Srila Rupa Goswami:

Now begins Rupa-siksa: Mahaprabhu's teachings to Srila Rupa Goswami.

"There are so many things—if you try to cross the Ganges, you will see there is so much water in it—what I am giving you is just a drop of it."

The meaning is as follows: divide a hair's cross section ten thousand times and you are actually one of these parts—tiny.

Among the entities that move and live on the land, there are very few species of men:

There are also different kinds of men—mlecchas, bauddhas, savars, pulindas. There are many qualities of people—there are people in some countries who eat other people. Have you heard about the Amazon jungle in Brazil? There are men living there too, but what do they do? What do they eat? What is their lifestyle like? They are called pulinda—they wear no clothes and eat men or some roots of the trees.

Some say, "I am following the Vedas," but they are actually not following it. (The Vedas means four Vedas—Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Artharva.) There are such people here, in Nabadwip, and in other places in India who think they are following the Vedas but at the same time do what is forbidden by the Vedas. They actually do not follow any religion, dharma nahi gane.

Some follow some religion and think that what they are doing is karma-nistha (fruitive work). It means they think, "We are eating, we are sleeping, we are enjoying—we are doing what the dogs are doing, which is the same thing. That is our lifestyle." They do their own work, their own things, and think everywhere it is the same: they are very busy pursuing their own interest. They have no idea that one day they will die.

Out of ten million workers you will get one wise person; out of ten million wise people you will get one liberated soul, and out of ten million liberated souls you will get one devotee of Krishna.

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu told it Himself.

Devotees of Krishna have no material desires. They always think about the Lord, they always think about the happiness of the Lord, and do everything for the Lord. Krishna-bhakta, a devotee of Krishna, is 'niskam'—they have no material desires; they are 'santa'—quiet, peaceful, they are not chanchal (চঞ্চল, their mind is not fickle). Those who have some material desire, who are lusty, who want liberation, who have some other desires, are, on the contrary, fickle-minded, not peaceful-minded...

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Rupa and Sanatan
• First Encounter
• Running Away
• On the way to
Mahaprabhu
• Finishing Visaya

Rupa-siksa:
• Meeting Mahaprabhu
• Empowering Srila Rupa Goswami
• Rare, Rarer, the Rarest
• The Ultimate Gardening Guide
• Pure Devotion

Santan-sikha:
Sambandha:
• Supreme Personality of Godhead
• The Three Worlds
• Brahmas' Realm
• Krishna's Beauty
Abhidheya:
• Maya's Family
• The Cry of a Surrendered Soul
• Breaking Free
• Delusion of Liberation
• Leaving Ulterior Motive
• When Krishna Gives Mercy
• Awakening Taste for Service
• Full Faith
• Power Transmission
• Surrender in Good Association
• Six Limbs of Surrender
• Sixty-Four Devotional Practices
• Spontaneous Loving Devotion
Prayojan:
• The Path to the Supreme Goal
• Hero and Heroine
• "You Are Mine!"
• The All-Attractive Lord