(4/5) Escape Parasitic Existence

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Preaching programme in Sirajpur,
30 November 2020, part 4
Translated from Bengali

Many of you have mobile phones. I also have four phones. Just now you have seen that I received a phone call from Vrindavan, and yesterday I had a programme with many countries around the world – America, Russia and many others. This kind of connection is possible through science – sound vibration travels through ether and connects us with various places all over the world. One can be all the way in America, but it is possible to hear them and see them right in front of us, sitting just like you all are sitting here. When we have these online programmes, so many people can see each other at the same time (I can see everybody, and everybody can see me). This facility has been created by scientists through the arrangement of the Lord. It was not possible before. If we can do this with the help of material sound vibration, then why cannot we reach the Lord in Goloka Vrindavan through the transcendental sound vibration, which is the Hare Krishna maha-mantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare / Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare? It is possible – if we chant this Holy Name without offences. If your phone battery does not have charge or if there is no network, then you will hear no sound. In the same way, if there is some adulteration, or impurity, in your chanting – if your chanting is not pure – you will not be able to reach the Lord. Pure chanting means chanting without offences.

aparadha-sunya haye laha krsna-nama
achirat tumi pabe krsna-prema-dhana

'Chant the Holy Name of Krishna without offence and you will quickly get the treasure of divine love to Krishna.'

Following this process, you can attain the divine love for the Lord. This is described in Srimad Bhagavatam.

I will tell you the history of how Srimad Bhagavatam was created. Bhagavatam was not written by anybody using a pen – it descended through a disciplic succession based on aural reception. The history of Srimad Bhagavatam is related to Vyasadev, who composed Srimad Bhagavatam.

Vyasadev composed many scriptures that had existed previously only as aural narratives (sruti sastra). For example, you all know Srimad Bhagavad-gita, the famous conversation between Krishna and Arjuna related by Suta Goswami and recorded by Vyasadev. He also composed Mahabharata, Agni Purana, Garuda Purana and many other scriptures. Having composed so many scriptures, Vyasadev still did not feel happy in his heart. You must think about it. He had composed so many scriptures – as mentioned in Srimad Bhagavad-gita, there is karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, sankhya-yoga and so on. But then Narad Goswami told Vyasadev to compose such a scripture that people could read and consider non-different from the Lord Himself. When Vyasadev felt dejected, he walked to Badarikashram to see Narad Goswami, his gurudev.

'Gurudev, no matter what I do, I do not feel happy,' Vyasadev told Narad Goswami.

'How will you feel happy? You have written so many things, but you may as well have written none of it.'

Suppose you cook five items: rice, dal, subji, rasam, chutney, sweet rice. Then, when you want to feed somebody, you will put these items in separate bowls for the person, but if the person takes the bowls, mixes everything and eats everything together, you will feel upset. 'I have taken so much trouble to cook all this, but he did not even bother to taste them – he mixed everything and ate like that!' If you mix sweet rice with cauliflower subji, then everything will become sweet, will it not? Of course, you will not like that. So, Narad Goswami said to Vyasadev, 'How do you think you can feel happy like that?' Then, he spoke four verses of Bhagavatam to Vyasadev, and Vyasadev conceived of Srimad Bhagavatam...

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2) Detach Yourself from Maya
3) Escape Parasitic Existence
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