All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga
Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahaṁsa Jagat Guru told that—“To arrest the current perverted tide of this fanatic world is the seemingly unpleasant duty of Gauḍīya Maṭha.” Really people are in confusion with countless “isms” going on in this material world. Even in the name of hari-bhajan (?) countless doctrines or isms or sectarian games are going on. Whom to follow? How to follow? –These are the main problems. Due to lack of direct knowledge or experience people are in darkness. Also, it is the usual nature or habit of all those bonded souls—that they always like to reserve their personal material right or interest, so naturally they became deprived of their real interest of soul. In fact life is going and we are playing. Time and tight wait for none. Days are coming and going away gradually one by one. Sun rising in the east and set in the west. Like all those dry leaves in the springtime are falling down on ground automatically without any pre-information. Similarly, all on a sudden somehow someday we can meet with death. Consciousness level of this material world in general has gone down to such a low level that nobody interested to think about their eternal life.
punarapi jananaṃ punarapi maraṇaṃ punarapi jananī jaṭhare śayanam |
iha saṃsāre bahu dustāre kṛpayā’pāre pāhi murāre
Bhaja Govindam – Adi Shankaracharya Verse – 21
Being born again, dying again, and again lying in the mother’s womb; this samsara is extremely difficult to cross over. Save me, O destroyer of Mura, through your infinite compassion.
Countless of species of birth a jivattma has to travel repeatedly in these fourteen planetary systems. No solution at all. Only and only sādhu-saṅga can safe us. What is the final achievement of our life. That is the main question. Being asked someone may replay that – “Oh! Maharaj I am a M.B.B.S doctor, I have 80 lakhs of deposit money in my bank, I have some sizable L.I.C. deposit money, I have huge amount of land and property etc. etc. also I have a big bungalow at salt lake Kolkata, my wife is also a government service holder (school teacher) etc. etc., but cannot understand that life is uncertain and after death no such material property can go with me, not even my body which I have taken from this material world. Shankar Acharya going to project the naked picture of our society. We can find the following śloka from Moha Mudgar—
mā kuru dhanajana yauvana garvaṃ
harati nimeśhāt-kālaḥ sarvam |
māyāmayamidam-akhilaṃ hitvā
brahmapadaṃ tvaṃ praviśa viditvā
Bhaja Govindam – Adi Shankaracharya Verse – 11
Do not take pride in wealth, friends, and youth. Each one of these is destroyed within an instant by Time. Free yourself from the illusion of the world of Māyā and attain the realm of Brahman, timeless truth.
With all our wife children, father, mother, sister, brother, uncle, anti, we can feel comfortable, but who can help whom at the time of death. That is the main question.
What is the mathematical interpretation of our life? That is the most vital question in front of us. In this relative world all our relationship with each and other, or also our duty for each other all relative and temporary, nothing permanent, but still, it is strange that nobody can feel this point, because Māyā cannot allow us to realise this point, this is the fallacy. We have our eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord. Even if we like to cut our relationship with Him, still it is impossible, whereas all our most unstable relationship with this material world can never be protected at any cost, but still we never like to cut our relationship with this material world. This is called Māyā (Illusionary energy). We live for some years, for some months, for some weeks, for some days, for some hours, for some minutes, for some seconds, etc., nothing else. We should always remember this mathematical calculation of our life. In fact, two different kinds of sevās are there in front of us. One is Māyā´s sevā and the other is guru-sevā. We are bound to do anyone out of the two, no other way. Eighter we can do guru-sevā or we can do Māyā´s sevā. Usually, it is seen that without any pressure automatically we are always busy to serve Māyā, whereas a very few number of people like to do guru–sevā (vaikuṇṭha sevā).
People are growing strong attachment for this material samsara, because they are giving so much energy for Māyā´s sevā. Usually this is the fact that according to the amount of energy spent one can grow attachment for any particular object or man (or woman). In this way different kind of “isms” are going on in this material world—like Buddhism, Christianism, Mohamedanism, Fascism, Capitalism, Communism, or Guruism etc. etc., but our bhāgavata-dharma is not at all under any such cheap category, rather this is beyond any human comprehension, because this is called the absolute dharma of all chinmoya attma. So, anyway we will have to try our best to change our lifestyle to get adopted with this absolute bhāgavata-dharma, otherwise we can get lost. Surely the deluding energy of Māyā will always try to cheat us, because of our strong enjoying mood. This way we are bound to forget Śrī Kṛṣṇa the Absolute Personality of Godhead. Only and only śuddha-sādhu-saṅga can help us to cut Māyā to get back our real svarūpa.
Gaura Hari Hari Bol!