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920423 - CC Adi-lila 9.46 - A True Attitude and the Process of Chanting the Holy Name - Bhubaneswar

 

 

aho eṣāṁ varaṁ janma
sarva-prāṇy-upajīvinām
su-janasyeva yeṣāṁ vai
vimukhā yānti nārthinaḥ

 


Translation by Śrila Prabhupāda

"Just see how these trees are maintaining every living entity! Their birth is successful. Their behavior is just like that of great personalities, for anyone who asks anything from a tree never goes away disappointed."

Purport by Śrila Prabhupāda

According to Vedic civilization, kṣatriyas are considered to be great personalities because if anyone goes to a kṣatriya king to ask for charity, the king will never refuse. The trees are compared to those noble kṣatriyas because everyone derives all kinds of benefits from them-some people take fruit, others take flowers, others take leaves, others take twigs, and others even cut the tree, and yet the tree gives to everyone without hesitation. Unnecessarily cutting trees without consideration is another example of human debauchery. The paper industry cuts many hundreds and thousands of trees for its mills, and with the paper so much rubbish literature is published for the whimsical satisfaction of human society. Unfortunately, although these industrialists are now happy in this life by dint of their industrial development, they do not know that they will incur the responsibility for killing these living entities who are in the forms of trees. This verse, quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, was spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa to His friends when He was taking rest underneath a tree after His pastime of stealing the clothes of the gopīs (vastra-haraṇa-līlā). By quoting this verse, Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches us that we should be tolerant like trees and also beneficial like trees, which give everything to the needy persons who come underneath them. A needy person may derive many advantages from trees and also from many animals, but in modern civilization people have become so ungrateful that they exploit the trees and animals and kill them. These are some of the sinful activities of modern civilization. From Mahāprabhu's teaching in Śikṣāṣṭaka,
Mahāprabhu has taught this thing:

 


tṛṇād api sunīcena
taror api sahiṣṇunā
amāninā mānadena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ

 


This is the most important teaching in Śikṣāṣṭaka, (Yogesvar, what Mahāprabhu says?) uttama hañā āpanāke māne tṛṇādhama This is real vaiṣṇavata, Vaishnavism. He is uttama, he is the topmost paramahaṁsa but, he thinks, his mood is that, 'I am lowest of the low,' That is the mood, much humbler than a blade of grass laying on the street, those who are walking on the street, they all tread on it with their feet, but it never pinches them, rather it submits, tolerates. dui-prakāre sahiṣṇutā kare vṛkṣa-sama. As tolerant one should be, as tolerant as a tree. Two types of tolerance as a tree, what is that? The tree doesn't ask for water. In summer season, scorching heat of the sun is there, the tree is getting dried up and dies, but still it never asks for water, it tolerates, a vaiṣṇava will be as tolerant as this. Yes, Madhavendra Puri is the example, he never asks for anything, he was such a sannyāsī, he was hungry and thirsty, but he tolerates, he never asks, ayācita-vṛtti, he never asks, so Krishna comes to him. One who tolerates like this, who becomes as tolerant as a tree and becomes as much humbler than a blade of grass laying on the street, then he can chant pure Name, Pure Name means Krishna, so Krishna comes. Krishna tells, "What sort of sannyāsī you are? A sannyāsī goes out to collect some bhikṣā, mādhukarī. Why are you not going out? You are thirsty and hungry." Madhavendra Puri replied, "How do You know I am hungry and thirsty? Who are You?" Krishna said, "I am a cowherd boy, I live in this village and I tend cows here, and I heard some women, who were taking bath in that pond, they were talking amongst themselves that a sannyāsī, sitting underneath that tree is very hungry and thirsty,' So I have brought for you this pot of milk, take it." You see, Krishna gives. ayācita-vṛtti -

 


yei ye māgaye, tāre deya āpana-dhana
gharma-vṛṣṭi sahe, ānera karaye rakṣaṇa

 


As tolerant as a tree, so he tolerates. Again, whatever one asks, he gives, tree gives his very cool shade, who sits underneath, he gives its flower, its fruit, gives its leaves, its twigs, branches, even its whole body, cutting. He gives his whole body, People come and cut it - no complain, he tolerates. gharma-vṛṣṭi sahe, ānera karaye rakṣaṇa  He tolerates the scorching heat of the sun, he tolerates the torrential rain, he tolerates the pelting of the stones, beatings, but still he gives everything and does good to others. A vaiṣṇava should be like that.

 


uttama hañā vaiṣṇava habe nirabhimāna
jīve sammāna dibe jāni’ ‘Kṛṣṇa’-adhiṣṭhāna

 


He is uttama, paramahaṁsa but he thinks, 'I am lowest of the low, he never demands respect, rather gives everybody respect thinking Krishna is there in the heart of every living entity, so he pays respect to one and all, he never demands respect. This is amānī mānada. ei-mata hañā yei Kṛṣṇa-nāma laya śrī-Kṛṣṇa-caraṇe tāṅra prema upajaya This is the bhāva, attitude, then you can chant,  Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare then you will get Kṛṣṇa-prema, that means Krishna. This is by offenseless chanting, pure Name, then that is prema, Krishna becomes bound up with that prema, that means Krishna is available, otherwise you cannot get. For hundred lives, thousands lives, crores of lives, if you go on chanting, still no prema, no Krishna.

 


kahite kahite prabhura dainya bāḍilā
‘śuddha-bhakti’ Kṛṣṇa-ṭhāñi māgite lāgilā

 


By saying this, uttering or quoting this verse, Mahāprabhu became so humble, He cries and  develops such mood and asks Krishna, "Please give me prema, śuddha-bhakti, pure bhakti, please give me."

 


premera svabhāva — yāhāṅ premera sambandha
sei māne, — ‘kṛṣṇe mora nāhi prema-gandha’

 


Really one who has gotten Krishna, one who has gotten prema, he says 'I am lowest of the low, most degraded, I am a worm in the stool.' As Kaviraj Goswami says,

 


purīṣera kīṭa haite muñi se laghiṣṭha
jagāi mādhāi haite muñi se pāpiṣṭha

 


This is the mood, No question of pride at all, that is demoniac nature. vaiṣṇava is much humbler, his humility is much humbler than a blade of grass laying on the street, that is real vaiṣṇava. With this mood, if one chants the Name of Krishna, he gets prema, he gets Krishna. Otherwise, Mahāprabhu is giving such thing but you cannot have it unless you chant in this way. Kaviraj Goswami says this in Caitanya-caritāmṛta,

 


tṛṇa haite nīca hañā sadā labe nāma
āpani nirabhimānī, anye dibe māna

 


The chief result of chanting 'Hare Kṛṣṇa' is Kṛṣṇa-prema, but how can one get? What is the process? That is taught here. trna haite nica hañã sadã nãma labe. One who does this nāma-bhajana, he should think himself much humbler than a blade of grass laying on the street, lowest of the low, this is the mood. āpani nirabhimānī, anye dibe māna Don't demand respect, pay respect to one and all, to all living entities; Kṛṣṇa-adhiṣṭhāna, because Krishna is there as Paramātmā.

 


taru-sama sahiṣṇutā vaiṣṇava karibe
bhartsana-tāḍane kāke kichu nā balibe

 


That vaiṣṇava, that nāma-bhajana-kāri, should be as tolerant as a tree, the tree never complains, it tolerates.

 


bhartsana-tāḍane kāke kichu nā balibe

 


If someone comes, slaps you on this cheek then show the other cheek, "Please, slap on this cheek." Jesus Christ is also saying like that, He was crucified, but he tolerated. Haridās Ṭhākura is the example, in twenty-two bajārs, pāṣaṇḍīs dragged him, beat him so severely, such severe persecution, flesh came out, bone came out, but he tolerated. He didn't curse them, he didn't get angry at all, rather he offered prayer to the Lord, "O Lord, please excuse them, they are ignorant fools, they are devoid of knowledge, devoid of proper consciousness, so they are doing this thing. If they would have proper consciousness, proper  knowledge, then they would not have done so, so please forgive them, rather, inculcate unto them such proper consciousness, Krishna consciousness and knowledge that they will never do such persecution any more." He offered such prayer. How he tolerated? this is the example, because  he is chanting pure Name. bhartsana-tāḍane kāke kichu nā balibe-What to speak of this thing, beating? If someone comes and abuses you, calls ill names of you, then  you will get angry, "Hey! What you say!! "You rascal!" "What? I'm a rascal? You are rascal, nonsense, I'll beat you with my shoes!" So no tolerance, no, you can't tolerate. Then how can you chant 'Hare Kṛṣṇa? No.

 


kāṭileha taru yena kichu nā bolaya
śukāiyā mare, tabu jala nā māgaya

 


A tree may dry up without water, but it will never ask for water, somebody may comes and cuts it, but no protest.

 


ei-mata vaiṣṇava kāre kichu nā māgiba
ayācita-vṛtti, kiṁvā śāka-phala khāiba

 


In this way a vaiṣṇava will never ask anybody for anything, like Madhavendra Puri, ayācita-vṛtti. If anything is received without effort, without asking, then he is content with it.

 


yadṛcchā-lābha-santuṣṭo
dvandvātīto vimatsaraḥ

 


In Bhagavad-gītā, Krishna has said that thing. yadṛcchā-lābha, anything that is received without asking for it, then be content with it. "I want fridge, I want computer, I want telephone, I want AC room, I want Dunlop cushion, I want a car, air-conditioned car, I want all these things." Dinabandhu, We have so many demands? "Otherwise I cannot do, I can't stay, I cannot do service." What is this? We have so much demands, we are creating artificial needs. These are artificial needs, then how can you chant 'Hare Kṛṣṇa' and get Krishna?

 


ayācita-vṛtti, kiṁvā śāka-phala khāiba

 


But you should be, "whatever is available here, some śāka, yes, Krishna has made this arrangement, only śāka is available, all right I will take śāka." But "Oh, I can't eat it. I can't eat it, no, I can't stay here, because here proper food is not available." (Isn't it? Dinabandhu.)- ayācita-vṛtti, kiṁvā śāka-phala khāiba-

 


sadā nāma la-iba, yathā-lābhete santoṣa
eita ācāra kare bhakti-dharma-poṣa

 


Always chanting,

 


Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare 
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

 


Whatever arrangement Krishna has made, bas. "Krishna has made this arrangement for me, that's alright." One vaiṣṇava, who is nāma-bhajana-kāri, he develops such mood, he can stay anywhere, he can stay in a palatial building, he can stay underneath a tree, still no complain. But you have so many complains. "This thing, that thing, I want this, I want that, and that, that, Otherwise I can't stay here." Nimai said, " here so many problems, I can't tolerate this, I can't stay here, I have health problem, I can't tolerate."

You have so many conditions, so many demands. So how will you do hari-bhajana? No hari-bhajana, no, no, no, you see, no hari-bhajana, these are examples. Mahāprabhu set up this example.

Gaura-priya-jana, dear devotees of Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu, they have set up example, like Rupa Goswami, Sanātana Goswami, they had everything - janma, aiśvarya, śruta, śrī, they were born in a very high, aristocratic family, they had ample, immense material opulence, they were like kings, Chief ministers. What opulence you have? Only one computer, "oh, I have got one computer." What is this nonsense? This is opulence? What opulence is this? One computer, this is opulence?

They have immense opulence, aiśvarya; they were kings, aśeṣa-maṇḍala-patiṁ. (500 years ago there were no computers, You nonsense! Yogeshvar,) they had more than that. What computer you see? They had such computers that you cannot invent or make such computer.

They had such computer. What is that? They had such TV, such computers, because they had Krishna, Krishna means everything. What TV, what computer? Krishna means everything. (Do you follow, Yogeshwar? Dull-headed fellow, he says, 'In those days, there was no computers.')

You cannot get such computer or TV what they had, that is Krishna. You should understand, Janma, aiśvarya, śruta, great learned scholars, pandits, proficient scholars in many languages, Sanskrit, Arabic, Parsi, nowadays such pandit is not available.

śrī- they were not ugly looking persons, they were very handsome looking persons. Everything they had but they kicked everything.

 


tyaktvā tūrṇam, dīna-gaṇeśakau 
karuṇayā kaupīna-kanthāśritau

aśeṣa-maṇḍala-pati

 


they were kings, they kicked up everything and became poor, pauper, dainya, they lived in the jungle of Vrindavan, they only had kaupīna and kaṇṭhī. This description is there.

 


"aniketa duṅhe, vane yata vṛkṣa-gaṇa
eka eka vṛkṣera tale eka eka rātri śayana

 


This speaks about Rūpa, Sanātana, they were not even erecting a cottage, they were spending one night underneath one tree, so one-one night under one tree, not the same tree, this night under this tree, next night under another tree, in this way they were spending their nights.

 


'vipra-gṛhe' sthūla-bhikṣā, kāhāṅ mādhu-karī
śuṣka ruṭī-cānā civāya bhoga parihari'

 


They were getting out to brāhmaṇās' house to get some madhu-karī, dry pieces of bread and some canā, bas. To five houses, bas. This was their food, drinking Yamuna water, bhoga parihari', no material enjoyment, nothing.

 


karoṅyā-mātra hāte, kāṅthā chiṅḍā, bahirvāsa

 


one waterpot, kantha, one bahirvāsa, bas, this is their asset, nothing else. Kṛṣṇa-kathā, Kṛṣṇa-nāma, nartana-ullāsa- Every moment Kṛṣṇa-kathā, Kṛṣṇa-nāma, dancing, chanting, rolling on the ground, ecstatic, This is Krishna.

 


aṣṭa-prahara Kṛṣṇa-bhajana, cāri daṇḍa śayane
nāma-saṅkīrtane seha nahe kona dine

 


Twenty-four hours they were doing Kṛṣṇa-kīrtana, Only cāri daṇḍa, ten minutes, fifteen minutes sleeping, day and night, twenty-four hours, Kṛṣṇa-kīrtana, nāma-saṅkīrtana.

 


kabhu bhakti-rasa-śāstra karaye likhana
caitanya-kathā śune, kare caitanya-cintana"

 


Sometimes writing these books, bhakti-śāstra on palm-leaves with an iron pen, and sometimes hearing Caitanya-kathā, and thinking about Chaitanya, this was how they were leading, spending their lives, they had gotten Krishna.

You can get Krishna if you can chant the holy Name in this mood, as Mahāprabhu said in Śikṣāṣṭaka, thinking yourself much humbler than a blade of grass laying on the street, becoming as tolerant as a tree, don't demand respect rather pay respect to one and all. In this mood if you chant 'Hare Kṛṣṇa' you will get Krishna -Kṛṣṇa-prema and Krishna. One who gets Krishna, he is completely full, pūrṇa-brahma, so where is the deficiency? Why you will demand, "I want computer, I want fridge, I want TV, I want AC room, I want a car, I want this, I want that," Why such thing? He can stay anywhere - in a palatial building, or underneath a tree. My Guru Mahārāja came here and stayed in that humble cottage for 17 days, he didn't go to the guest house. I arranged a nice government guest house, fan was there, cushion was there, but he says, "No, no, I will stay here." He taught us, he was so dear devotee of Krishna, Mahāprabhu. They teach us, otherwise you can't chant 'Hare Kṛṣṇa'. No, no, no, you can't chant 'Hare Kṛṣṇa', you cannot chant His holy name, your chanting is offensive chanting, or nāma-ābhāsa stage; no more than that,  no prema will come, no Krishna.

 


ūrdhva-bāhu kari' kahoṅ, śuna, sarva-loka
nāma-sūtre gāṅthi' para kaṇṭhe ei śloka

prabhu-ājñāya kara ei śloka ācaraṇa
avaśya pāibe tabe śrī-Kṛṣṇa-caraṇa

 


Kaviraj Goswami says, "I request you, O my brothers, with folded hands, raising my hands, I request you - Make a garland of this verse, put it around your neck, then chant Hare Kṛṣṇa,

 

 

tṛṇād api su-nīcena
taror iva sahiṣṇunā
amāninā māna-dena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ

nāma-sūtre gāṅthi’ para kaṇṭhe ei śloka
prabhu-ājñāya kara ei śloka ācaraṇa

 


Mahāprabhu has ordered us, "I tell you this thing, - avaśya pāibe tabe śrī-kṛṣṇa-caraṇa - you must get Krishna, guarantee." He said 'guarantee', you must get, it is guaranteed if you do like this, otherwise you can't. The purport is that, four things are there, what is that? sunīcatva, much humbler than a blade of grass. Second is tolerance, as tolerant as a tree. Third is amānitva, not demanding respect. Fourth is mānadatva, giving respect to one and all, all living entities, these four things are required.

These are the four ingredients for making this garland, mālā, then you will really do hari-bhajana, otherwise you cannot do hari-bhajana. Unless one develops such mood, He cannot do hari-bhajana. And if someone does like that, he must get Krishna - guaranteed, yes. He must develop prema so Krishna becomes bound up.

One who has developed such mood, he is eligible for chanting 'Hare Kṛṣṇa', real Name and he gets Kṛṣṇa-prema, the chief result of chanting harināma, otherwise, though Mahāprabhu gives prema through chanting,

 


nāmnaiva prādurāsīd avatarati
pare yatra taṁ naumi gauram

 


We are quoting that verse, we pay obeisance to that Gaura who gave this prema through chanting 'Hare Kṛṣṇa'.

But this is His teaching - You should chant Hare Kṛṣṇa with this mood: four things are required, then you must get, definitely get Krishna, it’s  guaranteed.

Those who have really gotten, they say, 'I have not gotten, I am lowest of the low, Kṛṣṇa-prema nāhi gandha, I have not prema at all, I am most degraded, most sinful.

 


purīṣera kīṭa haite muñi se laghiṣṭha
jagāi mādhāi haite muñi se pāpiṣṭha

 


This is the mood, He never says, he never beats his own drum, he never blows his own trumpet. Otherwise he is a rascal. Once Mahāprabhu told Murari Gupta, Murari Gupta is Hanumān, very dear servant of Lord Rāma, he is Murari Gupta in Caitanya-līlā. Once Mahāprabhu praised Murari Gupta and wrote on his forehead 'Rāmadāsa.'

 


murāri-gupta-mukhe śuni' rāma-guṇa-grāma
lalāṭe likhila tāṅra 'rāmadāsa' nāma

 


then he said:

 


murārike kahe tumi Kṛṣṇa vaśa kailā
śuniyā murāri śloka kahite lāgilā

 


"Murāri, you are very fortunate, you have gotten Krishna, you have captured Krishna, you have developed such prema for Krishna that you have captured Krishna." Then Murāri said, "Aho, what are You saying Mahāprabhu? I am so wretched, degraded, pāpiṣṭha, most sinful." He quoted one verse from the tenth canto Bhāgavatam:

 


kvāhaṁ daridraḥ pāpīyān
kva Kṛṣṇaḥ śrī-niketanaḥ
brahma-bandhur iti smāhaṁ
bāhubhyāṁ parirambhitaḥ

 


It is Sudama Vipra's statement, utterance, he was very poor, when Sudama Vipra was returning from Dvaraka, he was thinking in his mind, saying, "I am so poor, the poorest of the poor, where I am, such a poor brahmin? Where is all opulent Krishna? Where is He? I am such a worthless, unworthy person but that Krishna embraced me with His chest, on that chest Lakshmi is there, but He embraced me with that chest, this is so amazing, I am most worthless, unqualified person, the lowest of the low, it is not at all possible on my part to be embraced by Krishna, but He showed His causeless mercy to me and He embraced me.” That means, Murāri Gupta quoted this verse, said that, "I am not at all a qualified person, not at all worthy to capture Krishna, but this is Krishna's causeless mercy, He is so merciful, though I am worthless, no qualification, nothing, still He embraced me, that is His causeless mercy." aho bakī yaṁ stana-kāla-kūṭam  He is so merciful, Putana came smearing very dreadful poison on her breast to kill Krishna, but she allowed Krishna to suck her breast, so she did the work of Mother, Mother Yaśodā. Krishna sucks the breast of Mother Yaśodā and Putana did the same thing, allowed Krishna to suck her breast but Krishna sucked her life air, so she was dead, still Krishna gave her the position equal with Mother Yaśodā because she did the work of mother, He is so merciful. - kaṁ vā dayāluṁ śaraṇaṁ vrajema - Then who will not take shelter of Krishna? Who will take shelter of anything else other than Krishna? He is so merciful, but I am most degraded, most sinful, most unqualified person, most hopeless person, have no qualification,  I am not worthy at all." This is the mood, The purport is that, if you can't develop this mood,

 


tṛṇād api sunīcena
taror api sahiṣṇunā
amāninā mānadena,

 


you can't chant 'Hare Kṛṣṇa'. Your chanting is either offensive, nāmābhāsa or nāma-aparādha, offensive chanting, or at best nāmābhāsa; not pure Name. For crores of lives, if you go on chanting in this way, still you can't get Krishna, you can't get Kṛṣṇa-prema, but if you chant in this mood, then it is guaranteed, you must get Krishna. He says, avaśya pāibe. This is the process how to chant 'Hare Kṛṣṇa', this teaching is here also, this is Mahāprabhu's teaching. So the most important thing is this bhāva, mood, It is the mood, inside.

 


bhāva vinodiya hari
bhāvaku nikaṭa bhāvaku dūra

 


He is known as bhāva-grāhī janārdana, He accepts the mood, nothing else. What is your mood, that is bhava. So He is known as bhāva-grāhī, who accepts the mood, bhāva-grāhī janārdana. - bhāvaku nikaṭa bhāvaku dura  If you have such mood, He is very close to you, He is with you. If you are devoid of such mood, He is far, far, far away, away from you, this is the thing. This is Mahāprabhu's teaching and the dear devotees of Mahāprabhu, mahajanas like Bhaktivinode Ṭhākur, Narottam Dās Ṭhākur, Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami, all have said like this and they have developed such mood. They have developed such love and they have gotten Krishna. Here he says, Bhaktivinode Thakur's song is there.

 


āmi to vaiṣṇava', e buddhi hoile, amānī nā ho'bo āmi
pratiṣthāśā āsi', hṛdoya dūṣibe, hoibo niraya-gāmī

 


If someone says, "I am vaiṣṇava", he cannot become amāni and mānada. He will demand respect, "Hey, don't you know I am vaiṣṇava? Pay respect, you rascal, you don't know who I am?" āmi to vaiṣṇava', e buddhi hoile, amānī nā ho'bo Then you are demanding respect, so how can you give respect? Then, pratiṣthāśā āsi', hṛdoya dūṣibe, hoibo niraya-gāmī, then you are after this name, fame, adoration - lābha, pūjā, pratiṣṭhā, then my heart will be polluted, I will go to hell. Bhaktivinode Ṭhākur says, "I will go to hell, my heart will be polluted, my consciousness will be polluted, then I will go to hell, That is what.

 


amānī mānada, hoile kīrtane, adhikāra dibe tumi
tomāra caraṇe, niṣkapaṭe āmi, kāńdiyā luṭibo bhūmi

 


"O Guru and Gaurāṅga, if I will develop such mood,

 


tṛṇād api su-nīcena
taror iva sahiṣṇunā
amāninā māna-dena

 


then I will get the right, adhīkāra, for chanting 'Hare Kṛṣṇa'. You grant me that thing, you give me such thing, grant me such thing, sanction me. I will get such sanction from you. Otherwise I cannot chant. - tomāra caraṇe niṣkapaṭe āmi kāndiyā luṭibo bhūmi - Without duplicity, with a simple heart I will cry, shed tears and roll at Your lotus feet, and of Lord, O Guru and Gaurāṅga." This is the mood. One who has gotten, he got Krishna. One who has gotten Krishna, he can stay anywhere - in a palatial building, underneath a tree, Dinabandhu. If you are really chanting 'Hare Kṛṣṇa', getting prema, you get Krishna, otherwise. This is the teaching. Thank you.