Temple Address at Visakhapatnam

Installation of the supreme incarnation

0:06Prabhupāda: ...His Holiness Śrīpāda Puri Mahārāja. we are very much thankful to the authorities of this temple for giving us shelter and associating with this holy function. [aside:] You will translate? [Yaśomatīnandana translates throughout] [break]

0:33Today's function is installing a different important incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. [break]

0:48In the Brahma-saṁhitā, about the incarnation of the Supreme Lord, Govinda is mentioned primarily, beginning with Rāma. [break]

1:15BS 5.39रामादि मूर्तिषु कला नियमेन तिष्ठन्नाना अवतार अकरोत् भुवनेषु किन्तु |कृष्णः स्वयं समभवत् परमः पुमान् योगोविन्दम् आदि पुरुषं तमहं भजामि ॥ ३९ ॥rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhannānāvatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintukṛṣṇaḥ svayaṁ samabhavat paramaḥ pumān yogovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmiI worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who manifested Himself personally as Kṛṣṇa and the different avatāras in the world in the forms of Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Vāmana, etc., as His subjective portions.

Absolute nature of divine expansions

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1:31Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead, as it is said in the Bhagavad-gītā and other Vedic literature. Kṛṣṇa says Himself, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya BG 7.7

1:45= "There is no more superior authority than Me." [break] There is no difference between Lord Rāma, Lord Kṛṣṇa, Lord Nrsiṁha, Varāha. They are all the Supreme Personality of Godhead. [break]

2:08That is the explanation that a candle, the original candle, and you can lit up another candle, you can lit up another candle.

2:24Although the original candle you can say number one candle, but all the candles are equally powerful. There is no question.

2:38Because the second candle is enlightened from the first candle, it does not mean that the second candle is less powerful than the original candle. [break] The one Supreme Lord, He expands Himself.

2:53Just like we can get one example = you can have your photograph and you can, by photograph, you can expand yourself.

3:09Or you stand before hundreds and millions of mirrors, your body will be reflected, your bodily feature will be reflected.

3:18But the thing is, in this material world, that reflection of the body is not as good as the original body, because it is dual world.

3:28But in the absolute world, such reflection, such expansion, they are as good as the original [break].

3:39Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, as we have sung just now, rādhā-mādhava kuñja-bihārī, He lives in His place, Goloka.

3:52BS 5.37आनंद चिन्मय रस प्रतिवाभि ताभिःताभिः य एव निज रूप तया कलाभिः |गोलोक एव निवसति अखिलात्म भूतोगोविन्दम् आदि पुरुषं तमहं भजामि ॥ ३७ ॥ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhistābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥgoloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūtogovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmiI worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, resembling His own spiritual figure, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities, in the company of Her confidantes [sakhīs], embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form, permeated and vitalized by His ever-blissful spiritual rasa.

4:06Although He is always situated in Goloka Vṛndāvana for satisfaction of the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana...

4:17Gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī. Kṛṣṇa, the original Personality of Godhead, is very busy to satisfy the gopī-jana, the gopīs and the cowherd boys. He does not go out of Vṛndāvana.

4:36But still, because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He can expand Himself in such a way. Aṇḍāntara-sthaṁ paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [break].

Distinction between creator and living entities

4:52Kṛṣṇa expands Himself, eko bahu syāma. According to Vedic description, the first is viṣṇu-tattva. Viṣṇu-tattva and jīva-tattva. The viṣṇu-tattva is called svāṁśa. There is no difference between one viṣṇu-tattva to another.

5:13Just like viṣṇu, Rāmacandra, He is viṣṇu-tattva. Nārāyaṇa, viṣṇu-tattva. Balarāma, viṣṇu-tattva. So there is no difference in power.

5:26They are called svāṁśa, svāṁśa-vistāra. And there are other vistāra. That is called vibhinnāṁśa vistāra, separated part and parcel. We are, we the jīvas, we are also expansion of Kṛṣṇa, or Viṣṇu.

5:46But we are a small, separated part and parcel, whereas viṣṇu-tattva expansion, They are full in power. [break]

5:56The viṣṇu-tattvas are known as puruṣa-tattva, whereas the jīva-tattva is known as śakti-tattva. [break] Jīva-tattva, as the Māyāvādī philosophers, they think that jīva-tattva can be God or jīva can become God, that is a false theory.

Refuting impersonalism and material energy

6:23It has no value according to Vedic scripture. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that, BG 7.5अपरेयमितस्त्वन्यां प्रकृतिं विद्धि मे पराम् ।जीवभूतां महाबाहो ययेदं धार्यते जगत् ॥५॥apareyam itas tv anyāṁprakṛtiṁ viddhi me parāmjīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāhoyayedaṁ dhāryate jagatBesides these, O mighty-armed Arjuna, there is another, superior energy of Mine, which comprises the living entities who are exploiting the resources of this material, inferior nature.

6:45So this jīva-tattva is accepted as prakṛti, not puruṣa. [break] There are two kinds of prakṛtis, or energies, of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One is called inferior energy, bhūmir āpo 'nalo vayuḥ BG 7.4

7:00this material elements, earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego. They are inferior energies of the Supreme Lord. And the jīva-bhūta, that superior energy world...

7:20Because the superior energy tries to lord it over the material energy. Just like we are jīvas. Every one of us trying to utilize the material resources of the material nature. We are simply trying.

7:37Actually we are not bhoktā. Bhoktā is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. [break] ...natural endeavor of the jīvas, living entities, to have control over this material world is false.

7:54Therefore, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is propagated to make them understand that their endeavor to lord it over the material nature will always be frustrated [break].

Illusion of material enjoyment and control

8:14An example can be given, one gentleman has got more than one wife. So if the wives quarrel between themselves that one wife will enjoy the another or predominate over the other wives, that is not possible.

8:33Similarly, prakṛti, we are prakṛti, we cannot control over the other prakṛti. It may be I am superior prakṛti but the other is inferior prakṛti, but that does not mean one prakṛti can enjoy the other prakṛti.

8:51Therefore, this enjoying spirit should be given up. This enjoying spirit is māyā. Māyā means illusion. The same example = one woman cannot enjoy other woman. The all women is enjoyable by the man. That is the nature.

9:11Similarly, we are prakṛti, jīva, and the material world is also prakṛti. So one prakṛti cannot enjoy prakṛti. The best thing is, best adjustment is that all the prakṛtis should be engaged in the service of the Lord.

9:30That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja BG 18.66

9:38All these prakṛtis, different wives of Kṛṣṇa or energy, they are struggling, unnecessarily they are struggling to become predominator.

Consequences of false ego and leadership

9:52In this material world, everyone is trying to be predominator. One nation is trying to become predominator of other nations. One man is trying to be predominator of other men.

10:05One brother is trying to be predominator of other brother. This is māyā. So everyone should give up the spirit of predominating. They should be willingly surrendered for becoming predominated by the Supreme Lord.

10:26That will be in peace[?]. The whole world is suffering on this false predominating position. The human form different parties, this party and that party. But if you have got the same disease...

10:45Same disease means spirit of predominating. At the present moment, it is going on. Take for example the Communist Party or Jana Sangha Party or this party or that party.

10:54They have formed different parties, but the disease is there that "I shall predominate." So this party forming with the diseased condition that "I shall be enjoyer," there cannot be any peace. [break]

11:15Therefore, in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, SB 7.5.31न ते विदुः स्वार्थगतिं हि विष्णुंदुराशया ये बहिरर्थमानिनः ।अन्धा यथान्धैरुपनीयमानास्तेऽपीशतन्त्र्यामुरुदाम्नि बद्धाः ॥३१॥na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁdurāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥandhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāste 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥPersons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.

11:38The different parties, different mentalities, they are trying to predominate over other. They are blind themselves, andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānas. One blind man is trying to lead other blind men.

11:51There cannot be any benefit. They should know the ultimate goal of life is Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and we shall all surrender unto Him. Then there can be peace and prosperity. Thank you very much. [break] [to tape]

13:12Śyāmasundara: Speech delivered in the Gauḍīya Math, Visakhapatnam, February 19th, 1972. [break] [kirtana] [Śrīla Prabhupāda leads] [end]