Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.45

Pradyumna: Translation: "In proportion to the extent of one's religious or irreligious actions in this life, one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding reactions of his karma in the next."

Prabhupāda:

yena yāvān yathādharmo dharmo veha samīhitaḥ sa eva tat-phalaṁ bhuṅkte tathā tāvad amutra vai [SB 6.1.45]

So, one has to suffer or enjoy. There are two things. So that is according to our activities. That we can practically experience. If one is educated, naturally he gets a good position, and if one is criminal, he gets another position. There is no difficulty to understand. So there are two things, dharma and adharma, religiosity and irreligiosity. Religiosity means to abide by the orders of God, and irreligiosity means to disobey the orders of God. That's all. Simple thing. But in this connection we must know what is the order of God, what is God, how He orders, how to execute, how we become fit for executing orders. These things..., these questions are there, but God is speaking personally, "This is My order," in the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find, very simple thing.

What Kṛṣṅa says in the Bhagavad-gītā? First of all, He establishes Himself that "I am the Supreme Lord." Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya [Bg 7.7]..

[O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no Truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.]

So the Māyāvādīs, they also think that "I am also Kṛṣṅa. I can also speak." No. That you cannot do. Just like we are singing this song daily, gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī. It is... Kṛṣṅa is playing with the gopīs. The sahajiyās, they take it very easily. But giri-vara-dhārī, oh, that is very difficult thing. He raised the whole Govardhana Hill in His finger. That nobody is imitating. But gopī-jana-vallabha, very easy. "You are gopī, I am Kṛṣṅa. Let us enjoy." This is sahajiyā. This is sahajiyā. That is going on, parakīyā-rasa. All rascaldom is going on. But one should understand that "Here is Kṛṣṅa. He can dance with the gopīs and He can lift the Govardhana Hill also, simultaneously." That is also for pleasing the gopīs. When there was incessant rainfall, all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana became so disturbed, and they had no other friend than Kṛṣṅa. So they appealed, "Kṛṣṅa, do something!" "Yes!" Immediately He raised the whole hill as umbrella: "Come on under this." So that is Kṛṣṅa. So don't imitate Kṛṣṅa, but hear Kṛṣṅa, what says; then our life is successful. We cannot imitate God. We have to simply follow His order. That is dharma. And if you imitate Kṛṣṅa, that is adharma. Don't try to imitate. There are two words in Sanskrit, anukāraṅa, anusaraṅa. Anukāraṅa means imitation, and anusaraṅa means follow. So we have to execute anusaraṅa, follow. Tejīyasāṁ na doṣāya. Tejīyasāṁ na doṣāya [SB 10.33.29].

The Parīkṣit Mahārāja inquired that Śukadeva Gosvāmī, "Kṛṣṅa, He came to establish dharma, but it appears that He danced with other's wife or other's daughter." According to Vedic civilization you cannot mix with any other woman except your wife. That is not allowed. So in according to the Vedic conception of life, it was not right thing that Kṛṣṅa danced with other's wife or other's daughter. This question was put. Parīkṣit Mahārāja said that Kṛṣṅa, because He is God, He cannot do anything wrong. Just like in England, the Constitution, "The king can do no wrong." King cannot be subject to any law. Similarly, when Kṛṣṅa danced with the gopīs, it has got a deep meaning. Because they are all devotees, they did not know except Kṛṣṅa, and they prayed to the Kātyāyanī, although they were married, they prayed to Kātyāyanī before they were married, that "Let Kṛṣṅa become our husband." Kṛṣṅa is so beautiful, naturally there is attraction. Kṛṣṅa means "all-attractive." So... And they were not ordinary women. They are eternal consorts or associates of Kṛṣṅa. Ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhiḥ [Bs 5.37].

[I 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.]

They are expansion of Kṛṣṅa; they are not ordinary women. Expansion of Kṛṣṅa. Rādhā-kṛṣṅa-praṅaya-vikṛtiḥ hlādinī-śaktiḥ asmād [Cc Ādi 1.5] The gopīs, Rādhārāṅī, they are expansion of the spiritual energy of Kṛṣṅa. Don't think they are ordinary women. They are Kṛṣṅa. Śaktiḥ śaktimator abhedaḥ. They are not different from Kṛṣṅa. But to give Kṛṣṅa pleasure, Kṛṣṅa expands Himself by His spiritual energy, ānanda hlādinī, spiritual energy, sandinī hlādinī. That is the expansion of His pleasure potency. It is not that to imitate gopīs. That is sahajiyā. That is sahajiyā. They are ānanda-cin-māyā-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto [Bs 5.37]. When Kṛṣṅa wants pleasure, He is full spiritual, His pleasure is full spiritual. There is no question of material. It has been very broadly described by Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī. Read all this. Don't try to imitate. That is sahajiyā. We should know the position of Kṛṣṅa, His expansion of pleasure potency.

Therefore Kṛṣṅa's līlā is put into the middle of the Tenth Canto. First of all, try to understand Kṛṣṅa from the very beginning. Janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. What is Kṛṣṅa? Vāsudeve. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. So what is Vāsudeva? Janmādy asya yato. Here is the original source of everything. Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate [Bg 10.8].

[I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.]

First of all, try to understand Kṛṣṅa. So therefore Vyāsadeva has dedicated full nine cantos for understanding Kṛṣṅa. Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate [Bg 7.19].

[After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.]

Manuṣyāṅāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye [Bg 7.3].

[Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.]

[break] ...siddhis, they think of gopīs. That is recommended in Caitanya-caritāmṛta, siddha-deha. So where is siddha? And siddha-deha means there is no more any material lusty desires. That is siddha-deha.

yad-avadhi mama cetaḥ kṛṣṅa-pādāravinde nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyataṁ rantum āsīt tad-avadhi bata nārī-saṅgame smaryamāne... [Yamunācārya]

[Since my mind has been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Kṛṣṅa, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought and my lips curl with distaste.]

So long we shall think of nārī-saṅga, association, unity with woman, we must consider this is material body, not siddha body. Siddha body means anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyam [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.1.11]:

[One should render transcendental loving service to the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṅa favorably and without desire for material profit or gain through fruitive activities or philosophical speculation. That is called pure devotional service.]

all material desires, zero. That is siddha body. So therefore it is very confidential. But to clear it, that "How Kṛṣṅa accepted to dance with so many gopīs," this was for clearance.

In that question, you'll find, Śukadeva Gosvāmī has answered that unless one is liberated, he should not think of it even. Should not think of it. And he has given the example that, you have read, that Lord Śiva, when there was churning, the poison came out, he took it and kept it. But if we imitate Lord Śiva, that "He kept, he also drunk, so let me drink also, let me smoke gañja," no. You cannot do. Tejīyasāṁ na doṣāya [SB 10.33.29]. The example is given: those who are very, very powerful, they are not contaminated. Just like the sun. Sun is so powerful that it can soak water from the urine or from the stool, but it still is sun. But if you imitate sun and you... Nowadays it is going on. The urine is turned into water and they drink. And from stool they are getting fat. So these things are going on. But we should not try to imitate. The sum and substance is Kṛṣṅa cannot be contaminated. Apāpa-viddham. In the Īśopaniṣad, you'll find. Tejīyasām. Just like sun is never contaminated. From the whole universe, the sun is soaking water from any filthy place, but the filthy place is becoming purified by the sunrays. That is possible by the sun.

So similarly, we cannot imitate Kṛṣṅa. That is pāpa, adharma. Dharma is to abide by the orders of Kṛṣṅa. That is very simple. And if we do that then we become qualified to go back to home, back to Godhead. Very simple thing. It doesn't require much education. Simply it requires a purified mind, that "I shall execute it honestly." That much qualification is sufficient. Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru [Bg 18.65].

[Always think of Me and become My devotee. Worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend.]

This is Kṛṣṅa's law and order. Kṛṣṅa does not say anything which is very difficult to execute, because we cannot do it. Kṛṣṅa asks from you very simple thing. Not that Kṛṣṅa is asking from you very things which we cannot supply. No. We can supply. Anyone, any poor man, any illiterate man, any poor man or any rich man. Everyone. It is open to everyone. Māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ. Kṛṣṅa consciousness is not forbidden to anyone, even pāpa-yoni.

mām hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ striyo vaiśyas tathā śūdras te 'pi yānti parāṁ gatim [Bg 9.32]

[O son of Pṛthā, those who take shelter in Me, though they be of lower birth—women, vaiśyas [merchants], as well as śūdras [workers]—can approach the supreme destination.]

Kiṁ punar brāhmaṅāḥ puṅya bhaktā rājarṣayas tathā [Bg 9.33].

[How much greater then are the brāhmaṅas, the righteous, the devotees and saintly kings who in this temporary miserable world engage in loving service unto Me.]

Bhajasva mām. This is Kṛṣṅa's instruction. Kṛṣṅa says, man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī: "Simply always think of Me." This is the law and order. Who cannot think of Kṛṣṅa? Hare Kṛṣṅa, Hare Kṛṣṅa, Kṛṣṅa Kṛṣṅa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Very easy. Where is the difficulty? This is always thinking of Kṛṣṅa. Man-manā, bhava mad-bhakto. And unless one is devotee, he cannot spend time in that way, "Hare Kṛṣṅa, Hare Kṛṣṅa." Only the devotees can do. And mad-yājī, to worship Kṛṣṅa. So if somebody says, "I am very poor man. I cannot construct such a nice temple or offer Kṛṣṅa so many nice foodstuffs," Kṛṣṅa says, "No. No need." Patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati [Bg 9.26].

[If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.]

"Come on." You do not require. If you have money, then spend it for Kṛṣṅa, as much as you can. Then if you don't spend, if you think, "Kṛṣṅa wants patraṁ puṣpam; the money I shall keep in the bank for my pleasure," then Kṛṣṅa will cheat you also. If you want to cheat Kṛṣṅa, Kṛṣṅa is the greatest cheater. Then you'll be cheated. Don't be cheater. Simply, fervently, very honestly obey the orders of Kṛṣṅa. Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī mām. Four things. And what is the result? Mām evaiṣyasi asaṁśayaḥ [Bg 18.68]: "Without any doubt, you'll come back to Me." What do you want more? [laughter] That Kṛṣṅa is so nice.

So spread this movement all over your country. Your country is... By the grace of Kṛṣṅa, everything is there. And the first qualification is that you are not poverty-stricken. So take the instruction of Kṛṣṅa and be happy. Open similar temples all over your country. Your country is not poor. You can establish such temples, hundreds and thousands. And similarly assemble, hear Kṛṣṅa's instruction, and see how happy you'll become.

Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya. [end]