Srimad-Bhagavatam 9.5.45
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Recitation of Srimad Bhagavatam verse
Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya. Om. But reading Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, chapter 8, chapter 5, then we got appeal to the world. Verse 45. Svayam. Naḥ darśayātman,
asmad-karaṇa-gocaram prapannān, dṛk-viṣayaṁ, tri-sam-ītaṁ svapnān darśayātman, sattva-rūpam, smāt-kāla-nāga-śaram prapannān dṛk-viṣayaṁ, sam-ītaṁ te mukhaṁ, sasmita-mukhaṁ, satām na darśayātman, asmad-karaṇa
gocaram, sad-bhāva prapannānām dṛk-viṣayaṁ asmad-karaṇa-gocaram asmān-dṛk-viṣayām sasmita-te mukhāmbujaṁ sasmita-te mukhāmbujaṁ satām na darśayātman satām asmad-karaṇaṁ sarām satām bhagavan darśayasmān,
smarām, asmad-karaṇa bhāca, asma karaṇa bhāca, pramān git sum sasmita-te mukhāmbuja mukhāmbuja. su-pranataṁ darśayātman sandra-sad-ānanda samānaṁ asmad-āraṇa-gocaram asmattanagoram dikam
raṇānaṁ diki-śoṇa sasmita-te mukhāmbujaṁ, sasmita-te mukhāmbujaṁ. Svayaṁ sarva hi. He, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Personality of Godhead tvam. You are my Lord. You are my Lord. Nāvas. Tvam darśaya.
Ātman in your original form. In your original form. Asmad-karaṇa-gocaram asmad-karaṇa-gocaram. Visible by our direct senses. Visible by all your essences. Especially by our eyes. Especially by our eyes. Prapannān.
We are all surrendered unto you. Didṛkṣūṇām. Yet we wish to see you. Yet we wish to see you. Sasmita sasmita smiling smiling your your mukha-ambuja mukambuja lotus like face. Lotus like face. Translation.
By His Divine Grace, Avaisharanalind Bakranda Swami Prabhupada. O Supreme Personality of God, we are surrendered unto you, yet we wish to see you.
Please make your original form and your love smiling lottest face visible to our eyes and appreciable to our other senses.
The devotees are always eager to see the Supreme Personality of God and his original form, with his smiling lotus-like face. They are not interested in experiencing the impersonal form.
The Lord has both impersonal and personal features.
The impersonalists have no idea of the personal feature of the Lord, but Lord Brahma and the members of his discipline succession want to see the Lord in his personal form.
Without a personal form, there can be no question of a smiling face, which is clearly indicated here by the words Sasmitana Teh Mukrambujani.
Those who are in Vaishnava Sampradaya or Brahman always want to see the Supreme Personality of God. They are eager to realize the Lord's personal features, not the impersonal feature.
As clearly stated here, asmatkarana gocharam, the personal feature of the Lord can be directly perceived by our senses.
Shila Prabhupada Shri Padaya Krishna Pishrashtava B Tar, Matihaktividanthanta Swami Nitinani, Namaste Saraswati Devi Goravani Pachari, Nirvisha, Sasu Nava, Sadesha Tari, Vanchakal Patarujesha Gripasi Dubira, Pattitana, Pavane Biovishnavi, Mamma, Jrishna, Chaitanya, Prabhupita, Sriadvaita Badaka, Shiva Sadhi Satvam
no darshayat manam, asmatkara na gocharam, rapananam dhrikshanam, drikshanam, sasmidam klimukam bocham. Our Supreme Personality of Godhead, we are surrendered unto you. Yet we wish to see you.
Brahma's desire to see Krishna
Please make your original form and smiling Lord's face visible to our eyes and appreciable to our other senses.
So here Srila Prabhupada stresses that the ultimate desire of Lord Brahma who offers these beautiful prayers to the Supreme Lord is to see him face to face.
In the beginning of this particular story, it was said that Lord Brahma didn't really see the Lord. He knew that he exists.
And any sane person knows that Lord exists, if he is little sane. Anyone knows that Lord does exist, but not many people happen to see him. Not many people happen to experience personal interaction with him.
So coming to the shore of the milk ocean, Lord Brahma started offering his prayers to the Supreme Lord, which is the foundation of his further experience. Ultimately, these prayers and the meaning of these prayers is to enable one to see the world.
First you have to be really clearly established in sambandha-jñāna.
And this prayers of Lord Brahmā and other demigods uh presented here in this chapter of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam basically explain uh sambandha-jñāna, the knowledge of existence.
Everything is coming from the Lord, He is the source of everything that is. He is the cause of all causes. He is sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇa. And Lord Brahma stresses this again and again and again.
Because unless we understand this, this simple point, that there is a root of all existence and everything is stemming from this root, you will not be able to surrender to the Lord.
And surrender is the preliminary condition for us to see the Lord. First we have to surrender, then we have to see. But before we will be able to surrender, we have to understand that the Lord is great.
Śrīla Prabhupāda used to say that. Everyone knows the Lord is great. Again, those who know that the Lord exists. Those who know that Lord is there, they know the Lord is great.
But Śrīla Prabhupāda used to say that nobody knows how great he is. So, our experience in spiritual life is entirely based on this understanding of the greatness of the Lord.
It is also explained in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta. We know that the ultimate uh achievement in the spiritual life is to experience
the smiling face of the Lord or His love, His mādhurya-rasa, His sweet aspect, and that's exactly what uh Lord Brahma is asking, what he is eager, what he is desiring.
He says here uh didṛkṣuṇām, didṛkṣuṇām it's uh desiderative form of uh of the Sanskrit word. I'm eager to see you. I want to see you. Why do I want to see you? A smiling face.
Like we see the smiling face of Lord Jagannātha. And his smile represents his mercy. Lord Jagannātha is the complete full manifestation of the Supreme Lord.
And it's very interesting because what is Supreme Lord? Who is he? First of all, he is all-knowing, right? Therefore he has what? Big eyes. His eyes are very big. He can see everything. And then he's all powerful.
He is controlling everything. Therefore, he has what? Big arms. And with these arms he is controlling everything. And then he's all pervading. It means that he doesn't have any legs. Because he's all pervading.
He doesn't have any place to go, right? And then he's all merciful. Therefore he is smiling so nicely.
So these all aspects of the Lord are there, but ultimately here specifically, Lord Brahmā is begging the Lord to see his smiling face, to experience his mercy or his mādhurya.
But as I said in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, it is very clearly said that yes, mādhurya is the ultimate achievement of the spiritual life.
Yes, the ultimate goal of spiritual life is to experience mercy of the Lord, is to experience His pleasing feature as a person, to smile with Him, to joke with Him, to you know to eat some breakfast with Him, to share some intimate dealings with him.
But in order to achieve this, and it is very clearly said by Kṛṣṇa dāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, first you have to have a clear, solid foundation of aiśvarya-jñāna. And aiśvarya-jñāna means sambandha-jñāna.
You cannot have the experience of the mercy of the Lord, of his mādhurya feature, of his full manifestation of his personality, of his Of himself as a person, unless and until you understand his greatness.
And that's exactly what's going on in these prayers.
First Brahmā, before he dares to ask the Lord to appear in front of him and his personal features with the smiling face, first he proves to the Lord, Yes, I know you are great. Yes, I know you are the source of everything. Yes, I know, you are the source of myself. Yes, I know you are the source of all the powers which we as demigods have.
This understanding, this deep realization is extremely important because without this, our experience, if even if we try, even if we try to squeeze ourselves to achieve this personal interaction with the Lord, it will be all joke. It will be just a cheap imitation.
Sahajiyā. Oh my dear Lord, yes, yes, yes, right. Hare Krishna. No. First you have to be established that He's God. He's God and you have to surrender unto Him.
Complete surrender and humility as root
Again, this surrendering process which is expressed here in this prayer is extremely important for us to have or to gain the experience of love. That is explained by Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī in his Bṛhad-bhāgāvatāmṛtam, that dainya or complete utter humility, complete total self-forgetfulness.
When we dedicate ourselves 10% to the service of the Lord, when we completely forget about our own selfish uh little tiny stupid desires. This is the root of prema.
And it's very clearly said by Sanātana Gosvāmī when Nārada Muni explains to Gopāla Kumāra how to achieve prema, he says first you have to achieve dainya. And dainya means uh utter surrender.
And there's no more uh all this you know foolishness in our head. No more stupid desires which are lingering there. Just only one desire. I want to serve the Lord. I want to be with the Lord.
I want to experience the sweetness of the Lord. And this is the key to open the personal feature of the Lord. This is the only way for us to understand that the Lord is the person.
Ultimately, yes, that's what we all desire, that's what we all should desire. And this is the again the highest achievement, but this achievement is not at all cheap.
It is explained by Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda, and his purports twelfth canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The Lord Kurma is glorified. That ultimately here in front of this Milk Ocean,
on the shore of the Milk Ocean, the demigods are praying for the Lord to appear. And the Lord will appear in his root as kurma, in his tortoise form, as kurma dev. And we know the innermost purpose of kurma to appear.
He had some itching within this shell. And you know and he wanted to relieve himself from this itching. Therefore he appeared in this form of gigantic tortoise and the whole huge Mandara-mountain was placed upon him.
Demigods and demons together were really trying hard to relieve
him from his itching, because the itching of the Lord is great as the Lord himself. The Lord is great, and therefore his itching is also really hard. And to relieve him from his itching, this whole you know arrangement of the churning of the kṣīra-udadhi was uh set into motion by himself.
But uh Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda very interestingly explains the nature of this itching. What is this itching? Why?
You know, and somebody can ask, you know, what what kind of what kind of lord it is when he has itching, you know? You know, this is really inconceivable. This is only Vaishnava conception. Everyone else will say no no.
God cannot have itching, you know. God cannot have a smile on his face. God can, God cannot have this, that, no, heck, why not, you know? But when He has teaching, this teaching is also transcendental. It's totally purely
spiritual teaching, and Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī explains that this itching is the disturbance which is created by the theories and conceptions of impersonals.
Who ultimately say, "You have no form, you have no form. My dear Lord, yes, we surrender unto You. You are just impersonal Brahman." And he says that creates a terrible itching within the Lord.
When people say this, he becomes really irritated. And to get a relief from these stupid conceptions, He takes the form of a big tortoise.
And this tortoise, again, this tortoise, this form of the Lord, this representation of the Lord as the foundation of everything.
And then the demons and demigods, they place this huge Mandara mountain just to, uh, uh, uh, show to the Lord that, yes, You have the form. Yes, when we when we forget this simple point that ultimately Lord
is the person, then we try to deny his personal existence, His form.
Because what person is? Person means noun, person means rūpa, person means guṇa, His beautiful qualities, and ultimately person means līlā, ultimately person means pastimes, ultimately person means adventures.
But when we forget about this, then itching comes to our head. The itching of our selfish material desires.
When we understand that the Lord is a person, and that the ultimate, ultimate, uh, pleasure in life, ultimate bliss in life is to have personal interaction with the Lord,
then there is no itching within our head to be peaceful. Kṛṣṇa-bhakta—niṣkāma, śānta. If you want to have peace, total, complete peace and happiness within your heart, then
you have to understand that yes, the Lord is smiling. He is smiling at you. He is seeing you and He is smiling at you. And when you see Him and smile at Him, you become immediately peaceful.
You look at the Lord and you smile at Him because He's smiling at you, you know. You have to reciprocate with his smile. This is just the way to be polite.
So you look at him and he looks at you and you smile and you become peaceful. All desires evaporate from your heart.
But if you forget about this, that the Lord is a person, that He has His personal will, His personal desire, personal smile, personal plan for your life. And then you become totally disturbed within your mind. And the terrible itching of material desires appears within your mind. And another explanation of this uh uh incarnation of the Lord as a tortoise
as Kurmadev, again given by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati is that when Kurmadev is being scratched in his back by the demigods and demons. It's a really grandiose endeavor, you know. You know, all scratching his back, and when
he is breathing with relief you know the Lord is very peacefully breathing because he's he's happy you know finally, somebody is scratching my back.
So, this breeze of relief of the Lord pulls down the itching of our material desires.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the breathing of the Lord, and its general expression, that the Vedas, the hymns of the Vedas, mantras of the Vedas, is the breathing of the Lord.
When we chant mantras of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or mantras of Vedas or whatever, It's the sound vibration which is originally coming from the Lord.
And when we chant these mantras, which is breathing of the Lord personified, then we can feel again relief from our selfish material desires, from the fire of material desires.
Ultimately, this is the way for the Lord to protect us.
Lord's protection through giving and taking
This eighth canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam together with the seventh canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, represent, according to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam himself represent the personal form of the Lord. Again, the Lord is a person.
Person means form. And form means his interaction with this world and with us as well. So Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is his person, his personification of the Lord. And seventh and eighth canto is the arms of this form.
Because if you have the form, any form, any human form, any God's form because we created in his image has to have form, has to have form.
So the seventh and eighth canto, it's also very interesting to understand the place of the story about milk ocean, they represent the arms. And what do the arms do? Arms they protect, they give and they take.
Basically, this is the way for protection of the Lord. It is explained in the second canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Posanam tadanugraham.
He explains 10 topics of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. He says that posanam of protection of the Lord. How the Lord protects us. And ultimately, what he has to protect us from.
He has to protect us not from the demons outside. Of course, this is also good, but ultimately he has to protect us from the demons of material desires which are inside us. That's the main protection which the Lord has to supply to us.
And Śukadeva Gosvāmī explaining in brief these ten topics of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam which are being explained in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam itself, he says, poṣaṇaṁ pada-anubrahmaṁ. Poṣaṇa or protection of the Lord means His mercy.
And his mercy manifests in the way of him giving and taking away. And when we see this seventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and seventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, there is a protection of the surrendered soul.
Protection of the Lord is the reciprocation without surrender unto Him.
When this desire to surrender unto Him, which is called faith, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains very clearly that faith or śraddhā means this desire to surrender unto the Lord.
When we have this faith that Lord does exist, together with this faith immediately goes desire to surrender unto Him completely. And surrender to Him means to take His shelter, to take His protection. So when this desire within our heart appears, arises
within our heart to surrender unto the Lord and desire to get, to obtain His protection, then the Lord reciprocates with this protection.
And His reciprocation with protection is you know He gives us something and he takes away something. And sometimes when we expect that his protection will be in the form of giving,
He provides the protection in the form of taking away, and vice versa. Why? Sometimes we uh cannot understand how the Lord protects us.
Again, this is a very important topic of the whole Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and especially the seventh and eighth skandha of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam because in the seventh Canto we can see how the Lord gives His kind protection to Prahlāda Mahārāja and how the Lord takes away the life of Hiraṇyakaśipu, how the Lord takes his intestine from his belly and puts him on His body and in the eighth skandha of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam we can see Gajendra. Again Gajendra, his desire to surrender and the reciprocation of the Lord in the form of coming on Garuḍa and protecting him from this danger of material existence.
And this story of the churning of the milk ocean is again about giving and taking away.
And then again, of course, Bali Mahārāja is a very great story. He is completely surrendered soul. He is the manifestation, personification of self-surrender, ātma-nivēdana. He is the one who attained perfection through self-surrender.
And what did he receive as a result of the self-surrender? The Lord took away from him everything. He took everything from him very happily. You know, you surrendered, yes. Yesyah manu gri nandi.
Tad dana Hari means he's snatching away something unwanted, something which is not necessary for us. Again, because he is the person. Because he is the person, his mercy can come to us in any way he desires.
If he wants to give us the mercy in the form of giving to us something, money or whatever, this is this may be mercy, but it's a dangerous kind of mercy. But when he takes away everything, this is a complete mercy.
This is total, complete manifestation of Lord's mercy. And then you become totally happy.
Because when you don't have anything, you don't have any worries, you don't have any problems anymore, the Lord snatched away all your problems, all your worries, all your anxieties, and you're very happy.
Somebody told me that in Malaysia there are many local Indians, but they worship Lord Brahma. And sometimes Lord Shiva and they don't want to worship Krishna and
there is a saying there that Lord Krishna is very dangerous to worship him because when you worship Lord Krishna, he has a flute, you know, and then he blows in his flute with this air of the Lord blowing in the flute he will blow away all your wealth. Here you are.
So don't worship him. If you want to be wealthy, God, worship him. Yes, the Lord may take away, but when he takes away, he only takes away that one thing.
When he knows that you really need something, he gives this, he provides. He says this himself in Bhagavad-gītā. Yogakṣemaṁ vahāmy aham. Those who constantly think about me, I provide them what they need. I give them.
Yes, I may take temporarily, but ultimately I give them more. We can see this in the lives of Śrīla Prabhupāda, we can see this in the life of Bali Mahārāja. Yes, Lord took from him everything.
He took his faith, he took his wealth, he took everything completely, totally, mercilessly. And then he said, yes, I need more. This is not enough. And he gave his head.
And the Lord says, no, this is false ego, you know, this is ridiculous, you know. Your head anyway don't belong to you. But then he gave him everything.
And he himself became his guard, his basically his servant and catalog. And in a similar way, this is an inconceivable way of the mercy of the Lord.
Yes, the Lord is there. His smiling face is there. He is ready to give us all protection and all the mercy. It's up to us to develop the strong desire. And the strong desire is coming.
When our understanding that the Lord is the source of everything, that the Lord is the root of everything, when this understanding is coming to our head and the strong desire to get his protection, to surrender unto him, again comes to our heart.
And with this desire, and it's not enough.
Developing unconditional desire for the Lord
With this desire, we have to understand and we have to really develop the desire of personal interaction with the world, the desire of His sweet mercy, of His sweetness.
And with this desire, there should be also complete total unconditional. This desire has to be unconditional.
When we really want to experience ultimate sweetness of the Lord, we have to develop this complete unconditional kind of desire that in whatever shape or form you want to send me your mercy, I am ready to accept it.
This is the ultimate mood of surrender.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu when he explains the most perfect state of human consciousness, prabhu, He says Āśliṣya pāda-ratāṁ pinaṣṭu mām adarśanān marma-hatāṁ karotu vā, yathā tathā vā vidadhātu lampaṭo mat-prāṇa-nāthas tu sa eva nāparaḥ.
You can appear in front of me or you can you can embrace me or you can completely trample upon me, you can give me everything or you can take everything away from me. I'm always your servant. I know you are Lampaṭa.
Lampaṭa means a devotee. Lampaṭa means somebody who who is is fickle in his mind. Lampaṭa means who is, you know, has so many different things going on on the side, you know. He has so many things.
So Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, yes, you are Lampaṭa, I know. Yes, I don't expect anything good from you, yes. But I am your servant. Life after life after life.
This is because this is my position, this is my nature, this is the sweetness which uh which is there available for me. I have to be surrendered to you completely.
And it means that I have to be ready to accept your mercy in any shape or form that you want to give to me.
And if your mercy will come to me in a seemingly cruel way, as a death, as untimely deaths, then I have to embrace this as your mercy.
You know, like recently, just a couple of weeks ago I visited his holiness Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja in his final pastimes. And I saw him, how happy he was. You know, it's amazing what Prabhupada gave to us.
Prabhupada, I was thinking about this recently, I was reading all this reports or journal about Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja's departure from this world. And this description of the celebration which devotees arranged
for Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja's departure, you know, the glorious celebration of the ultimate joy and ultimate sadness of separation with this great soul.
And I was thinking how great is the mercy of Śrīla Prabhupāda. How inconceivable it is. You know, He gave us the process by which every day of our life can become a festival. It's a complete total festival.
Every day of our life. When you see how Mahädyuti Prabhu is dancing in the kīrtana, it's a festival. It's a festival for the eyes. When you see the beautiful form of the world, it's a festival.
When you take prasāda, it's a festival. But not only this. Not only this. No any other religion can give you this. Every day of your life can become a real festival.
But not only this, Srila Prabhupada gave us the way that even now death can become the festival. And this is totally, completely, absolutely inconceivable. Then the death can become the glorious celebration.
And then you know the death is coming, and you're not afraid of your death. You know that this is the merciful, that the manifestation, ultimate manifestation of the mercy of the Lord.
He's coming to you to take you, he's a boat. He's coming to you to give you his shelter, his complete protection, to give you his mercy and that what I could experience being near this Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja.
I'm by far I mean I I don't know but just being near him gave me such a you know vivid and uh life experience of of this festival of being Krishna conscious, of seeing the smiling face of the Lord every moment in your life.
And this is all available to us. This is all mercy of Śrīla Prabhupāda.
He gave us this process by which we can develop very strong desire to see the world personally. And then the Lord for sure He will reciprocate with us. This is the way of the Lord.
You know, even if we you know And we smile upon him. And if even if he is the nastiest person in the world, you know, you will have to squeeze out a smile.
You know, if we look at somebody and smile, you know, ultimately some smile will appear on his face. So but if we smile to the Lord, he will smile to us much more. He will be very happy to see our smile.
And he will reciprocate with our smile and with our surrender, with our desire to love him, with our desire to achieve him. In the most inconceivable way, in the most beautiful, and the most miraculous way.
This is the way Lord is. And this is all available to us. It's just a question, it's up to us basically. If we want to develop this desire, we can develop this desire.
And the chanting of the holy name is the way to develop this desire. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma, Rāma, Hare Hare.
And then we will be able to hear the uh sweet breeze of Lord Kurma who is relieving us from this itching of accepting and rejecting of this sankalpa and bikalpa which is going on within our mind and we will be able to see the sweet smile of the Lord and to hear the sweet sound of his flute, to experience the sweet touch of his hands to experience the sweet taste of his kiss and to experience the sweet aroma of his beautiful body.
That's exactly what Lord Brahma is begging for. He said that my all my senses experience your person.
Seeing Krishna according to one's desire
Let all my senses be completely satiated and fulfilled by seeing your smile. And in this way I will attain the perfection of all my desires. And it's very interesting, and this is the last point which I will make.
That uh just in a couple of verses in the next chapter it will be explained that when the Lord appeared, that most of the demigods didn't see him because the effulgence which was coming, emanating from his body was so bright that practically everyone was blinded.
And only Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva could see the personal features of the world. Everyone else was just seeing some bright light. Why?
Again, because this is the way of reciprocation of the Brahma wanted to see his personal feature. Prabhupāda explains this in the book for that this is the disciplic succession of Lord Brahmā.
I want to see, to experience Lord personally. And therefore he saw him. Everyone else wanted to see his effulgence. And they saw his effulgence. No problem.
You want to see his effulgence, his Brahman, you will see his effulgence. If you want to see him personally, you will see him personally. It's up to you. What you want, the Lord will give to you. Thank you very much.
Śrīla Prabhupāda. Isso aí não spaccia Maharaj Key.