Almost 99.9 percent
of the present population throughout the whole
world are now atheist. Advancement of material science such as Physics,
Chemistry, Biology, Psychology or even Metaphysics, none of these have
been properly treated towards an end which is the immanation. The only
book, perhaps in the whole world, that has properly dealt with the
Spirit Soul the immortal part in living being is the Bhagwat Geeta,
which is the essence of all Vedic knowledge, [and which] is read with
keen interest
almost in all the countries of the world. But nobody has cared to bring
in practical use the words of the Bhagwat Geeta. Such persons, who do
not care to bring in practice the teaching of Bhagwat Geeta, are
described in it as the lowest of the mankind for misusing the talent
developed in the human form of life.
The Personality of Godhead and the Spirit Soul both are qualitatively
one and the same—although they are quantitatively different as part and
whole. When the quality of the Soul Spirit is known, the quality of the
Supreme Godhead is automatically known, or conversely when the quality
of Godhead is known, the quality of the Soul Spirit is automatically
known. Spiritual knowledge means to know either of them, for to know
one
of them means to know both of them. The easiest process is to try to
know the glorious energies of the Personality of Godhead and when He is
known everything is known. In the darkness of night nothing is seen or
known, but in the daylight, when the Sun is up, everything is seen and
known in its proper perspective. The material knowledge without the
knowledge of the Supreme Lord is imperfect knowledge of the night, and
spiritual knowledge with the knowledge of the Personality of Godhead is
the perfect knowledge of day light where nothing remains covered. After
reading the Bhagwat Geeta if one is not able to know the Personality of
Godhead, he is to be considered as the lowest of the mankind. The Sloka
runs as follows:
(In
Devanagari:)
na mam dushkritino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah
mayayapahrita-jnana asuram bhavam ashritah
Synonyms Na=Not, Mam=Unto Me, Duskritino=The
miscreants, Mudha=Grossly foolish, Prapadyante=Do
surrender, Naradhama=The lowest
of the mankind, Maoya=By
the influence of illusory energy, Apahrita=Nullified, Jnana=All
knowledge, Ashuram=Atheistic, Bhabam=Nature, Ashrith=Being
taken up.
Translation The miscreant, grossly foolish, lowest of the mankind, and
nullified of
all knowledge, does not surrender unto Me—being taken up by the
atheistic nature.
Purport
It is said in the Bhagwat Geeta that simply by surrendering oneself
unto the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead, one can surmount the
stringent laws of material nature. And therefore a question arises
here:
How is that many educated philosophers, scientist, lawyers,
businessmen, administrators and all such men who are practically the
heads and leaders of ordinary men do not surrender to the lotus feet of
Shri Krishna (the all-powerful) "Personality of Godhead"? Mukti,
or
liberation from the laws of material nature, is sought after by all the
above mentioned heads of the human being in different ways and with
great plans and perseverance for great many years and births. If that
liberation is possible to be attained by the simple method of
surrendering oneself unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, why then
the leaders of the society who are highly intelligent(?) and hard
worker do not adopt this simple method of solving all the hard-nut
problems presented before them?
The Bhagwat Geeta gives answer to this question very frankly in this
statement.
The answer is that those who are really learned leaders of society like
Brahma, Shiva, Kapila, Kumara, Manu, Narada, Vyasa, Devala, Ashita,
Janaka, Prahlada, Bali, and later on Madhyacharya, Ramanujacharya, Shri
Chaitanya and many others in the line who are faithful philosophers,
politicians, educationists, scientists etc., do certainly surrender
unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Person, the all-powerful authority.
But those who [are] not actually so but pose themselves as such
philosopher, scientist, educationist, administrator [text missing or
illegible] out of mental
[text missing or illegible] do not accept the plan or [text missing or
illegible] the Supreme Lord. [text missing or illegible] without a
Second. Such [text missing or illegible] who has no [text missing or
illegible] God, manufacture their [text missing or illegible] and make
the
[text missing or illegible] material existence more different in the
name of making a solution
for them. Because the material energy is too powerful, she can resist
the unauthorised plans of the atheist and nullify the knowledge of such
planning commissions into baffled adventures.
Such atheistic plan makers have been described herein by the word Duskritine,
or the miscreants. "Kritina" means one
who has performed
meritorious work. The atheist plan-maker is certainly very intelligent
and meritorious also. Because any gigantic plan good or bad must tax
the good brain for its execution. Because the atheist's brain is
utilised in the wrong direction against the plan of the Supreme, and
because the atheist does not know in fact the strength of the powerful
material energy and also the mode of her work under the direction of
the Supreme Lord, he (the atheistic plan maker) is called "Duskritina"
or the one whose merit is taxed in the wrong direction.
In the Bhagwat Geeta, it is clearly mentioned that the material energy
works fully under the direction of the Supreme Lord. She has no
independant authority.
She works like the shadow moves in accordance with the movements of the
substance. But still she is very powerful also. As such the atheist,
due to his godless temperament cannot know how the material nature
works—neither he can know the plan of the Supreme Lord. Under such
illusion and mode of passion and ignorance—all his (the atheist's)
plans become baffled as in the case of Hiranya Kashipu and Ravana. All
their plans were smashed into dust although both of them were
materially learned, scientist, philosophers, administrators and
educationists etc.
Such Duskritinas or miscreants are of four different patterns
as
mentioned below:—
(1) The Mudhas or those who are grossly foolish, like the
hard-working
beasts of burden. They want to enjoy the fruits of their labour, by
themselves and do not want to part with them for the Supreme. The
typical example of the beast of burden is an ass. This humble creature
is made to work very hard by the illusory method of its master the
washerman. The ass does not know for whom he works so hard day and
night. He remains satisfied by filling his stomach with a bundle of
grass (fooding), sleeping for a while under a fear of being beaten by
the washerman and by satisfying his sex-appetite even at the risk of
being repeatedly kicked by the opposite party. The ass sings poetry and
philosophy also sometime, creating a rabid disturbance to the whole
quarter; that is the position of the foolish fruitive worker who does
not know for whom he should work. He does not know that Karma
is meant
for Yajna. (yajnarthe karmam)
Whenever you meet such foolish worker, working very hard day and night
for clearing the burden of his self-created duties, you will find him
saying that he has no time to hear anything about the immortal part of
the living being. To such Mudhas, material gain, which are
destructible, are all in all although the Mudha enjoys a very
small
fraction of the fruit of his labour. Such foolish fruitive worker will
remain satisfied even without sleeping for days and months together and
due to some indigestive disease, will remain satisfied practically
without food and yet he would like to work hard day and night for the
benefit of his created masters at home and abroad. Without the
knowledge of his real master the foolish worker will waste his valuable
time for something which is not his master. That is his illusion and he
will never surrender to the Supreme Master of all masters, neither he
will have time to hear about his real master in the proper channel. The
Swine who eats the night soil will not care to accept sweet meats made
of Sugar and Ghee. Such foolish worker will go on hearing continuously
sense-enjoyable tidings of the flickering mundane world, but will have
very little time to hear about the eternal living force of the mundane
world.
(2) The next class of Duskritina or miscreants is called the Naradhamas
or the lowest of the mankind. Nara means the human being and "Adhama"
means the lowest. Out of the 84 lakhs of different species of
living
being, there are four lakhs of human species. Out of them there
are
innumerable low grade human forms of life who are mostly uncivilized
and there are only a very few class of men who are actually civilized.
The civilized human being are those who have regulated principles of
social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and
politically developed but have no religious principles must be counted
amongst the Naradhamas. Religion without God is no religion
because
the purpose of following religions principles means to know the Supreme
Truth and our relation with Him. In the Bhagwat Geeta, the Personality
of Godhead has defined clearly that there is nothing above His
authority and therefore He is the Supreme Truth. And the civilized form
of human life is meant for reviving the lost consciousness of his
eternal, relation with the Supreme Truth, the Personality of Godhead
Shri Krishna (all powerful). The civilized human form of life is a
chance to go Back to Godhead, and whoever loses this chance is
classified as the Naradhama.
We get information from revealed
scriptures that in the womb of the mother when the baby remains in
extreme difficult position without any moving facility, the living baby
prays to God for his deliverance and promises to worship Him alone as
soon as he is out. That is a natural instinct of every living being to
pray to God when he is in difficulty—because he is eternally related
with God. But the child after his deliverance forgets the difficulties
of birth and forgets his deliverer also influenced by Maya, the
illusory material energy.
It is the duty of the guardians of children to revive the divine
consciousness dormant in them. The ten processes of reformatory
ceremonies as enjoined in the Manu-Smriti, which is the
guide to
religious principles, are meant for reviving God consciousness in the
system of Varna Ashram. Nothing is strictly followed now in any
part of
the world and therefore 99.9 percent populations are Naradhama.
Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, in the mode of propagating the "Bhagwat
Dharma" or the activities of the devotees, has recommended people
to
hear submissively the message of the Personality of Godhead. The
primary book of this message is the Bhagwat Geeta. He can deliver the
lowest of the human being by this submissive hearing process only, but
unfortunately they deny to give even an aural reception to these
messages and what to speak of surrendering to the will of the Supreme
Lord.
Naradhama or the lowest of the mankind makes a willful
negligence of
the duty of human being.
(3) The next class of Duskritina or miscreant is called Maoya
Apahrita
Jnana or the person whose all erudite knowledge have been nullified
by
the influence of illusory material energy. They are mostly very learned
fellows in the wrong direction. They are great philosophers, poets,
literateurs, scientists, etc., but the illusory energy misguides them
to the wrong direction and therefore they have no obedience to the
Supreme Lord. When the whole population as above mentioned becomes
identified with the Naradhama, naturally all their so-called
education
are made to be null and void by the all-powerful energy of physical
nature. According to the standard of Bhagwat Geeta, a learned fellow is
he who can see on equal terms the learned Brahmin, the dog, the cow,
the elephant and the chandala [dog-eater]. That is the vision
of a devotee. Shri
Nityananda Prabhu, who is the incarnation of Godhead as Divine
Master, delivered the typical Naradhamas like Jagai and Madhai
and
showed the way how the mercy of a real devotee is bestowed upon the
lowest of the mankind. So the Naradhama who is condemned by the
Personality of Godhead can again revive his divine consciousness by the
mercy of a devotee only.
There are a great number of Maoya Apahrita Jnanas at the
present moment
even amongst the regular scholars of the Bhagwat Geeta. In the Bhagwat
Geeta in plain and simple language it is stated that Shri Krishna is
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is none equal to or greater
than Him. He is mentioned as the Father of Brahma, the original father
of all human being. Shri Krishna is said to be not only the father of
Brahma but also the father of all species of life. He is the root of
the Impersonal Brahman and Paramatma or the Super-Soul in every entity
in His plenary portion. He is the Fountain Head of everything. Everyone
is advised to surrender unto the lotus feet of Shri Krishna. In spite
of all these clear statements the Maoya Apahrita Jnana eschew
their own
imaginative way. Such imaginative way of explanations are all
unauthorised because they are not received in the real Parampara
line
or disciplic succession. Such Maoya Apahrita Jnana are
described as Mudhas also because they deride at the person of
the
Supreme Lord for
His feature like a human being. They do not know that the blessed human
form of life is designed after the eternal and transcendental feature
of the Supreme Lord.
All such unauthorised interpretations by the class of Maoya
Apahrita
Jnana outside the purview of Parampara system are so many
stumbling
blocks in the path of spiritual understanding. Such Naradhamas
do not
surrender unto the lotus feet of Shri Krishna, nor do they teach others
to follow such principles.
(4) The last class of Duskritina is called the Ashurabhabamashrita
or
the man of demoniac principles. In other words this class is atheist
outright. Some of them argue that the Supreme Lord can never come down
in this material world. But they are unable to give any tangible reason
as to why He is so not enabled by the desire of an atheist? There are
others who will make Him subordinate to the Impersonal feature although
the contrary is said in the Bhagwat Geeta. Envious to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, the atheist will present a number of illicit
manufactured incarnations in the factory of his imaginative brain. Such
persons whose very principle of life is to decry the Personality of
Godhead cannot surrender unto the lotus feet of Shri Krishna.
Shree Jamunacharya Albandru of South India said, "Oh my Lord! You are
unknowable to the persons taken up by the atheistic principles inspite
of your uncommon qualities, features, and activities; inspite of your
Personality being strongly confirmed by all the revealed scriptures in
the quality of goodness; and in spite of your being acknowledged by the
famous authorities renowned for their depth of knowledge in the
transcendental science and situated in the godly qualities."
Therefore the (1) miscreants, (2) grossly foolish person [text missing
or illegible] (3) the
lowest of the mankind [text missing or illegible] (4) the atheistic
principle [text missing or illegible] as above
mentioned [text missing or illegible] surrender unto the [text missing
or illegible] of the Personality of Godhead in
spite of all scriptural and [text missing or illegible] support to the
[text missing or illegible] words persons who
[text missing or illegible] recognise the Supreme authority [text
missing or illegible] the Lord must belong to [text missing or
illegible] of
the above groups.
Activities of the miscreant Ashuras or Atheist are described in
the
Bhagwat Geeta [Bhagavad-gita 16.4-5] as follows:—
Synonyms Dambha=Vanity, Darpa=Pride, Abhimana=False
sense, Cha=and, Krodha=Anger, Parushyam=Rudeness,
Eba=Also, Cha=and, Ajnanam=Ignorance, Cha=and,
Abhijatasya=one born in, Partha=Oh
the son of Prithu, Sampadam=possessions, Ashurim=Atheistic. Daibi=Godly, Sampat=Possessions, Bimokshaya=Leading
to liberation, Nibandha=Leading to bondage, Ashurim=Atheistic,
Mata=Ascertained, Ma=Do
not, Sucha=Be disturbed, Sampadam=Possession, Daibim=Godly,
Abhijata=Born in, Ashi=are, Pandaba=Oh
the son of Pandu.
Translation Oh the son of Prithu! The atheistic possessions of the
Atheist are
vanity, pride, false-sense, anger, rudeness and ignorance.
Know it from Me that the Godly possessions are leading to liberation
while the possessions of the atheist are leading to bondage. But oh the
son of Pandu, you are certainly born in the qualities of the faithful.
Purport
The miscreant atheist or the Naradhama class of men are vainly
proud of
their possessions like religiosity, wealth, etc. Such men do know very
little of the meaning of religion and yet they post themselves as men
of higher religious consciousness. Some of them dream of creating a Ram
Rajya or the Kingdom of God without any obedience to the Personality of
Godhead.
Similarly Ravana wanted to possess Sita, the potential Kingdom of Rama,
without Rama. He wanted the possession of Sita, the energy of Rama,
minus
Rama the Supreme Lord without knowing that Rama and Sita are never to
be separated. In such a mode of ignorance he posed himself as a great
devotee of Lord Shiva (a show of religiosity). This is called vanity or
false sense of religiosity.
Such false sense of religiosity makes the atheist very proud of his
so-called wealth and education. A learned faithful devotee of the
Personality of Godhead is never proud of his education and importance.
Due to such pride and vanity, the atheist will look for receiving
respects, artificially, which he cannot command. Respects cannot be
demanded but it is commanded. The atheist is always keen after material
honour for his false prestige. When such hankerings are not fulfilled,
he becomes angry and behaves very rudely with other respectable men.
The atheist is always keen for dethroning the Lord and sits on His seat
[text missing or illegible] without knowing that the Supreme Lord can
never be dethroned by any
powerful attempt of an Ashura like Ravana. His only business is
to kill
the godly consciousness of human being by force—which is a sign of
ignorance. Such sense of denying the existence of Godhead, leads a
living being to be entangled in the laws of physical nature. This means
continuance of an existence of threefold miseries.
Atheistic temperament of human being is an artificial covering of the
pure spirit soul and it is formed by unholy association. By culture of
knowledge and by good association of devotees, one is able to give up
his atheistic tendency, which procedure is always faultless. This
faultless quality can be attained by culture of faithful performances
of charity, restraint, sacrifice for God's service, penances,
simplicity, studies of the Vedas, non-violence,
truthfulness, calmness,
renunciation, peace, not to speak ill of others, mercy, non-hankering,
meekness, intelligence, cleanliness, prudence, strength of mind,
forgiveness, devotion, etc.
A person who takes his birth in an auspicious moment by dint of his
past pious actions does attain such good qualities leading to the path
of liberation; but even if a person by dint of his past misdeeds has
taken birth in an inauspicious moment, he can rectify his bad luck by
good association of the transcendental devotees and thereby taking to
the practice of devotional services. Back to Godhead is giving you such
good chances. It contains the potent sound of the liberated souls.
All the above-mentioned qualities are means to an ultimate end. They
are not the end by themselves. The ultimate end is attainment of
devotional service of the Supreme Lord in place of illusory service of
the external energy. This is our eternal engagement as against the
temporary life. Arjuna is assured of his ultimate goal because he was
engaged in the service of the Lord. The Lord desired the war of
Kurukshetra and to execute it was to serve the Lord. Arjuna was
therefore immune from the reaction of the necessary cruel acts of a
battlefield as a matter of course.
The atheist being devoid of this transcendental service, he does not
know how to apply different energies at different place .
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