The Purpose of Human Life in Kali Yuga
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · Allahabad · 1971
Chapters
Mission of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and paropakara
Samīra bhāva vinda mātṛ-vinda hari-saṅkīrtana, Caitanya Mahāprabhu-vacana pṛthivīte nagarādi-grāma. He is now going again, yoga means for everyone to share on a chariot.
Or yeh hari-kīrtana karne ke liye bhāṣika, advaita-kīrtana. Bhārata-bhūmite, bhārata-bhūmite mānuṣa-janma haila yāra, janma sārthaka kari' kara para-upakāra.
Para-upakāra, para-upakāra, saṅkīrtana āndolana sab loka sādhāraṇera nimitta. Keli prayatna karana, yeh sāre sab paropakāra.
Relationship between living entities and Krishna
Jīva kā yeh duḥkha kyā hai? Saṁsāra. Ātmā Bhagavān Kṛṣṇa kā guhyatama jñāna ki Bhagavān aur Bhagavān kā aṁśa, aṁśa and mamaivāṁśo jīva-loke. Jo jīva hai, Bhagavān kā aṁśa-svarūpa. Yes, I would add aṁśa, Bhagavatam.
Social divisions and principles for peace
Uska brāhmaṇa, Bhagavān kā mukhāravinda, kṣatriya hai, vah Bhagavān kā bāhu, vaiśya hai Bhagavān kā udara, aur śūdra jo hai Bhagavān kā pair. So aise bhāva me ki
pair kā zyādā maryādā hai aur kam maryādā hai, aur mukhāravinda kā zyādā maryādā. Yeh jīva-tattva na sahī hai, veda-tattva se śūdra, kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ, aur kṣatriya-vīrya-mūrdha.
Aur śāstra ka, bhagavad-bhakti hi na sa jāti-pānti-prakriyā. Apne sahī vibhāga sambandha me jaise Bhagavān kahte: cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ. Kṣatriya hone se tab śūdra hai, vaiśya se pṛthak hai.
Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram, suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati.
So agar koī samajh le, if they have śānti cāhte hai, is tīna cīz dhyān me rakhnā: ki yeh Bhagavān jo hai, vah sab jagat kā mālik hai, aur Bhagavān hī ekmātra bhoktā hai, aur Bhagavān hī ekmātra sabke suhṛt.
Sabke sukha dene vālā Bhagavān hī. Yeh tīna cīz agar koī samajh le, to usko śānti mil saktī hai. And it is in Bhagavad-gītā aur Caitanya Mahāprabhu: kṛṣṇa-bhakta — niṣkāma, ataeva śānta.
Bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī — sakali aśānta. Bhoktā, kṣatriya, bhoga-yogya hamārā bīmārī hai dhyāna me, kevala bhoktā na bane.
Ah, sab koī, kṛṣṇa-mantra jīva-bhāvana-cakre, paśyanti māyā-taru-jā-phalāni, sukarmī jo hai bhukti, uttal-bhog, din-bhar pariśrama karta, time lay will go. Is the pariśrama karta janta? Is the Bhagavan kahan mera? Dada.
Spiritual discipline versus material labor
Ah. Dhamang this kirtan happened in a Radha. Manushya-jivan hai Bhagavan ko prāpta karne ke liye.
Bhagavan says some tapasya karne ke liye, a keval din-bhar shram karke rupaiya, rupaiya, rupaiya, rupaiya, rupaiya, rupaiya, rupaiya poisa mera.
Mula ka anekatya, the gadha kapra lo lagake pariśrama karta din-bhar or shram karke. Or this putraka yes, upadeśyata: nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye.
Jo itas-tataḥ kukur-jahai woh bita din-bhar keval pariśrama karke.
Ah, kaṣṭān kāmān arhate, bahut kaṣṭa karke, thoda kam, and pariśrama karke, thoda indriya-tattva kar leta, yes, and manushya-jivan hai... aajkal manushya society may have drive. About bariatnia, bariatnia.
Bhagis sone ka Bhagavat field hai, sleeping field. To ye jo, how things of the keval, gadha ki jaise, suar ki jaise, kutta ka, pariśrama karna, ye vastu-vijnana. Vastu-vijnana hai tapo divyaṁ putrakā.
So so ye tapasya karna bhi jagat ke liye jung nahin, mandaḥ sumanda-matayo, manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ.
Mahaprabhu patita-pāvana-hetu kama bahut saral upaya bataya, ati upaya: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare. Kali-kale nāma-rūpe kṛṣṇa-avatāra. Pashatu this.
But he had searched it. Hamara is absorbing the same thing was called vartman. Sikha jata sab kuch available or manushya-jivan ke bepar hai.
Mm... powder has called the suru sevaka kanakama, suru sevaka manushya ke liye jata. Or out of sab-din na nakati aajkal ganja-bhita sab-kuch.
Liberation through devotional service and chanting
So yeah, purinati, hamara, Bangladesh mein bhi aap log jante hain, Bhagavan ko chhod diya, Gita padhana, Bhagavan ki katha sunana, a secular state hai, schools is sab band kar diya, um... katha sunana, and next light band hai.
And you could keep, could hang. Uh, jīvan vikār hai was the cause definitely. Okay. So yeah, the hamārā śrī kṛṣṇa aṅga... ye kyā bolte ho? Yadi hamārā kām kārā so, you anśika kāma, the same it sākāra māyā.
Cakra knows the hamārā aṅga to the Upaniṣad, as an is attack, to help this happening. Tathā go some of you, māyā ke me may have. Mukti got to take a mukti and svarūpeṇa sthitiḥ. Kyoṅki jo bhakta, kevala kāle giliya pastu.
Muktiḥ mukulitāñjaliḥ sevate 'smān. The bhakti mukti kī jarūrat. The janma huā to mukta nahīṅ huā parantu mukta hone kī jarūrat hai. Ah, jo Bhagavān kī sevā me niyukta hai vo to svayaṁ mukta ho gayā.
Bhagavān kahte hai: «māṁ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate», «sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate». Bhagavān kahte hai, brahma-bhūyāya kalpate, brahma jādā, Brahman, jñāna, aṅga-brahma, some guṇas.
Vo to svayaṁ us kām-kāmanā ko, sa-kāma-kāmanā, this got Bhagavān the same for ko huā usko kāmanā kī jarūrat. This chota laṛkā huā, apne pitājī ke pās, eh? Apne pitājī sab jānte hai. See you so many... bahu-nāma.
Well, Bhagavān usko jānte hai. It is hasra-kathā for the kavitā.
Satisfying Krishna through total surrender
Bhagavad-gītā samajhne ke pahle vilāp karne vālā aur Bhagavad-gītā samajhkar jīvan laṛāī karne vālā, choṛne ke bād.
Ah, to kevala usko pānḍasya yogya... usko pahle vicār thā ki ham ab ye sab bhāī ko aur dādā ko isko... isko mārte... sab hī hamārā pakṣa. Ah, Kṛṣṇa. Bhadga. Kṛṣṇa. Unko samjhāyā Bhagavad-gītā.
Aur Bhagavad-gītā samajhkar ki Kṛṣṇa pūrṇa hai. Siddhi lābh. Kevala Kṛṣṇa kā santoṣa karne ke liye bhītar hai, usī me ham ko sukh milegā. Jaise Gopāla. Unkā alag hī bhītarī. Kṛṣṇa santoṣa lābh.
The Bhagavān-kā-kārya-karke, kṛtvā sādhana-karke, I am not Śrīla Prabhupāda. Well, hey, we are Bhagavān-ke sukṛti-vān. But śuddha-bhakti hai, ananyām jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-śīlanam.
Bhagavān kahte: «sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja». Krishna boltā hai: «Ham ko bhajana karo», and Bhagavān, bhāgyavān, and bhakta-jan. Dekho, terī kahā Krishna, uh, bhāva-vaśya.
Tathāpi, kyā ham log cal sakte bhakti? Yadā kṛṣṇa-kaṁsa... five, and then you look at the hand, your Krishna-nāma-liyo, arkali-nāma-liyo, deva-gānam. «antavat tu» «phalaṁ teṣāṁ tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām». Keval Krishna.
Ek-mātrak. Mām ekam. Ye āndolan hai. Ab loka-samīkṣā-bhakti-vidyā. And someplace in, uh, Goswami, there was one lecture and, uh, places, this one bar, Goswami in Northern India, Patrika people.
And another lecture at, uh, the, at the musical organization of, uh, Prayag Sangit Samiti.