Sound Bhakti

All of the elements were already there, but by the subtle process of hearing it comes together. Prabhupāda makes the point in the purport that all spiritual paraphernalia is available, and it can gather in one's life by the process of hearing. So if you hear spiritual sound vibration from the spiritual world, then all the paraphernalia needed to advance on the spiritual path comes into your purview, and you can take advantage of it.

This brings us to the very practical means given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu: chanting the holy names, hearing the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the association of devotees, and thereby manifesting our original spiritual life—it's already there. Nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema sādhya kabhu naya. "Sādhya kabhu naya" means it's already there, and you uncover it. Or, as Prabhupāda quoted in this verse, anāvṛttiḥ śabdāt—by sound vibration. This is the last verse in the Vedānta-sūtra. By sound, anāvṛttiḥ means to uncover something, and śabdāt means by sound. So by sound you become uncovered, and your real nature will be revealed. (20:17)

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There is no closer way you can connect with the Supreme except by saying His name: āsyenedam upāsya. Then He tells why the name is so nice, because you may be an aparādhī, but if you chant the name, āsyenedam upāsya so ‘pi hi sadānandāmbudhau majjati (Śrī Nāmāṣṭaka - 6), the name will take you and dunk you in a huge pool of ānanda. Would you like that? When you get an offer like that from the Bhagavatam, you just say yes.

Majjati doesn't mean there's a little sprinkle, like you come around an āratik and get a little drop. (I got one in the eye this morning from maṅgal-āratik; woke me up.) It means the whole body, everything plunged—majjati. Say majjati. Say it again, with a little more enthusiasm! If anybody asks you, "How are you?", say, "sadānandāmbudhau majjati —I'm plunged in the ocean!" Why? Because you have the Holy Name.

So, access: this is one of the characteristics of the Bhāgavatam. It's easy to follow all the way through. You can read the Bhāgavatam each Canto successively, and it will dawn upon the reader that the Bhāgavatam knows me better than I know myself. What's more, it's inviting me—of all people, it's inviting me. It's not for somebody 2,000 years ago; it's not for some great sage on the mountaintop. It's for me right now, right here. The access is open and it's direct. So highly consequential, and highly important.

Of course, in the purport, Prabhupāda then says, "Now you've got such access. Don't take it lightly. Be careful when you approach." Some traditions, like in Judaism, they have this once a year—there is an opportunity. From the burning bush, Moses got the name of God, and then once a year, the high priest would say it out loud, and people would come and they would crowd the temple grounds just to hear the name one time. And then... (25:22)

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One might think— "Well, how might I enter into the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam?”

That’s a question Prabhupāda asked on the Jaladūta: How will people be able to receive this message? Because they are so enamored of the modes of material nature and their ways of life. Prabhupāda introduced it a step at a time, and as devotees gathered to hear, they became purified.

If one can appreciate that the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has the power to overcome the modes of material nature—which create this sense of envy in the material world, and fear, and all the other base qualities that come from illusion—then one might take it as medicine. That is mentioned in the 10th Canto of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 10.1.4):

nivṛtta-tarṣair upagīyamānād

bhavauṣadhāc chrotra-mano-’bhirāmāt

ka uttamaśloka-guṇānuvādāt

pumān virajyeta vinā paśughnāt

which contains the word auṣadhi. Auṣadhi means a kind of medicine. This is where we can appreciate the sādhana-bhakti of hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. One may say, “I’m not qualified. I can’t enter. I’m not nirmatsarāṇām.” That’s okay. You take it as medicine.

And one might say, “The people I’m distributing to, they don’t even know what it is.” Well, how are they going to know what it is if you don’t give it to them? Prabhupāda once said that when the devotees were saying, “We’re going to preach, but people are not interested,” Prabhupāda said, “That’s why you preach! How would they become interested unless you tell them?” They are all open to suggestion. You just have to speak it.

Therefore, we are a culture of the Bhāgavata. And very particularly, Prabhupāda brought it to America—or as he said, it brought him—and he painstakingly made sure that all the volumes were going to be available. Even after Prabhupāda left, he made sure someone else who was trained by him, who could carry the same message, would be able to translate it. Kṛṣṇa made all those arrangements. He sent Pradyumna; He sent Hṛdayānanda Mahārāja. Others who were qualified, who had heard from Prabhupāda sufficiently, were able to read through the commentaries of the ācāryas and give the summary all the way through—what to speak of the tenor of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s voice, whom they had heard from for many years.

Therefore, we have this greatest treasure. We have the daily process of hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the association of devotees, and, of course, we are also distributing it. So we can be very sure of its efficacy, not only for ourselves advancing in devotional service, but also in bestowing it upon other people and helping them to come into the culture of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Nothing else will solve problems. Everything else is a stopgap measure to solve the problems of the material world. But if one gets on a regular diet of hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam on a daily basis—and, of course, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa—then naturally, the impediments to one’s sanity will diminish. What to speak of: one will become happy by hearing it! (31:12)

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Frequently, there is a misconception that the distribution of Kṛṣṇa consciousness—for instance, distributing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam—and the idea of cultivating spontaneous devotional service, entering into higher levels of devotional service, is a separate thing. So, one of the premises that I'm presenting here is that Caitanya Mahāprabhu is in distribution mode, and therefore the rasa is distribution.

Anarpita-carīṁ cirāt—it hasn't been distributed. Samarpayitum—now it's being distributed. And this is the mode of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu: is to give to everybody. That's the overflow of what's coming from Vṛndāvana, and that's being made available to everyone in the world to bring them back to life. That's why Caitanya Mahāprabhu responded. Out of all the verses in the Gopī-gītā, he said, "Bhūri-dā janāḥ" again and again. He said, "These are the most magnanimous souls."

Kṛṣṇa says it in the Bhagavad-gītā (18.68):

ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ

mad-bhakteṣv abhidhāsyati

bhaktiṁ mayi parāṁ kṛtvā

mām evaiṣyaty asaṁśayaḥ

Paramaṁ guhyaṁ—one who's giving this secret. He says, for somebody who is distributing this, there is nobody better. What's more, who can give stronger language than this! You're guaranteed of success, coming back to Me by the distribution—that's Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mode, and it's also Kṛṣṇa's mood in the Bhagavad-gītā.

By participating in the distribution, you're entering into the rasa of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, which is to overflood the world.

We're sitting here in Los Angeles because some engineers, headed by a guy named Mulholland, stole a bunch of water from us up in Northern California. They made a plan that said, "This place down here—there's a lot of extra land, but it's desertous, and who is ever going to live here?" So, they created an aqueduct, and they brought water to the valley and made it fertile.

Caitanya Mahāprabhu's main purpose is giving access to everybody, making sure that everyone has an opportunity to take to this to the highest degree. And then, when we participate, we are also expanding those aqueducts that take it out to the rest of the world. (37:00)

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It’s mentioned a few times that we are cleaning the heart so the Lord can sit there peacefully. In order to do that, it’s important to take guidance. Once we decide—once we surrender to the process—it’s important to take guidance on how to cleanse the heart.

There are so many times that we surrender over this lifetime. First, we surrender by accepting Kṛṣṇa consciousness, wanting to give up the sinful activities of meat‑eating, illicit sex, gambling, and intoxication. We make that vow, we are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, and we are thinking, “Hey, I got this. I’m good.” Then, the purification—the deeper purification—starts, and the anarthas begin to make themselves visible. We shouldn’t be discouraged by that. That’s the process.

If the Lord is showing us these things in the mirror of the heart—if He’s showing us these places that need to be cleansed—that’s His mercy on us. That’s what we want. In the pastime, all the devotees are helping each other. They are all taking the brooms, and they are all chanting the whole time, and they were cleaning, and they were blissful. As Jagrini said, that’s a part of it. We shouldn’t become downtrodden or depressed. I mean, a little bit of those kinds of feelings can be helpful, but they can also be a way to stop us from moving forward in our devotional service.

Taking guidance—submitting ourselves to a guru, to a śikṣā‑guru, to someone we look up to—can really help in the process. Because I know myself: I don’t see my anarthas so clearly. Sometimes, but then there are the more subtle ones that I really want to work on, and I depend on the devotee community—those I associate with, respect, and do service with—to help me overcome those. And most times, it’s not someone pointing it out to me; it’s me reflecting on my interaction, or how I was responding to what someone said or did. If I do that, then I can look and see what I need to work on.

In these pastimes, we’re realizing that we should be doing what we need to do, but it’s actually Lord Caitanya, Kṛṣṇa, who does the bulk of the cleaning. If He sees our sincerity, if He sees our desire, then He helps, and He takes out all of those anarthas.

I’ve had that experience where I’m looking at something, I’m feeling something, I know something’s there, and it keeps coming up. So all I can do is put it at the Lord’s lotus feet and say, “Please help me with this. I need Your help. It’s been there for so long, and I’ve fed it—I’ve fed that little monster for so long. I need Your help to overcome this." (30:19)

(excerpt from HG Nirakula Dasi's Talk)

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Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī wants to point out that nothing could compare to the Lord’s mercy toward Mahārāja Pratāparudra; therefore he uses the word dekha (“just see”) and caitanyera kṛpā-mahābala (“how powerful is the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu”). This is also confirmed by Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī: yat-kāruṇya-kaṭākṣa-vaibhava-vatām (Caitanya-candrāmṛta 5). Even a little of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s mercy serves as a great asset for spiritual advancement. Therefore the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement must be spread through the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. When Rūpa Gosvāmī experienced the mercy and magnanimity of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he said:

namo mahā-vadānyāya kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te

kṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya- nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ

“I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, who is more magnanimous than any other avatāra, even Kṛṣṇa Himself, because He is bestowing freely what no one else has ever given — pure love of Kṛṣṇa.” Śrīla Locana dāsa Ṭhākura has also sung, parama karuṇa, pahuṅ dui jana, nitāi-gauracandra: “The two brothers Nitāi and Gaura are so kind that no one can compare to Them.” Similarly, Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has sung:

vrajendra-nandana yei, śacī-suta haila sei,

balarāma ha-ila nitāi,

dīna-hīna yata chila, hari-nāme uddhārila,

tā’ra sākṣī jagāi-mādhāi

“Just to deliver all the sinful persons of this age by propagating the chanting of the holy name, Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Balarāma have advented as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda Prabhu. Jagāi and Mādhāi are evidence of Their success.”

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s special mission is the deliverance of all fallen souls in Kali-yuga. Devotees of Kṛṣṇa must persistently seek the favor and mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to become fit to return home, back to Godhead.

(Cc Madhya 14.16 purport)

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Question: How can be our chanting such that it is exclusively in relationship with Krishna rather than a monotonous activity?

Answer: You hear about Kṛṣṇa from the Bhāgavatam; read Kṛṣṇa book. Also, have a bhajana. Have a variety of activities you put together, you have to thicken your bhajana. It doesn't mean that you have to stop everything you are doing, because we can't. But you should try to thicken it a little bit every day, or every week, or every month, or every year—including, chanting a chapter of Bhagavad-gītā a day. How therapeutic that is, and how relational it is to Kṛṣṇa! You'll feel that He's directly talking to you, and you'll also experience what you are talking about with the inner work being realized in all your activities.

You can do that plus one chapter of Bhāgavatam every day, and also have your pages. You should have something where you say, "Okay, I'll join you in a minute, because I haven't finished my pages." So you should have a quota of pages that you finish every day, whether it's 1 or it's 50 or whatever. But have that. Also make plans to visit Kṛṣṇa at the temple. See Kṛṣṇa. Appreciate what He is wearing. Bring Him a gift. Ring the bell.

And then, if you can, organize your life so that you can visit the dhāma periodically. When you go to Vṛndāvana, you walk around Govardhana Hill and visit the various temples. You start to see, "Oh, there's Kṛṣṇa's home." You go see Nandagrāma, and the villages of the aṣṭa-sakhīs and things like that.

So you make this composite in your life, mix it together, and keep it really solid. Follow the footsteps of the great ācāryas and stay steady. Saṅkhyā-pūrvaka-nāma-gāna-natibhiḥ—even if it's not voluminous, if it's consistent and you have a nice variety in there, then Kṛṣṇa will reveal Himself. (09:31)

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The best of prayers is the prayer to bring God into your mind through His name; this is universal. There are various ways that people think about this. Human beings are naturally drawn to prayer. You might notice that if you cross a high school playground during the break, you will notice there are groups of kids standing there. When you pass by and listen in a little bit, you'll hear them saying, "Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!"

It's just quite natural, and it's in any language that people, when they see something that is awe-inspiring, they'll say, "Oh God, oh my God." Or when some disaster comes, they'll say, "Oh my God." When Oppenheimer—the Manhattan Project, they did the first test of the nuclear weapon, and he quoted from the Bhagavad Gita. Basically, it's just our first reaction. It's visceral. It comes right from the heart. It's quite natural that we think, "Oh God," and it's in any language, in any culture.

So this is a natural inclination that everyone has, because we're part of God. We're always under His purview and under His protection, but oftentimes, most of the time, we think we're independent until there's something that urges us to move forward to take shelter. The recommended process by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and by the bhakti-yoga literatures, to always keep in contact with Kṛṣṇa or God is to say His name in a prayerful way. That's why we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Now, how much should you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa? Well, there's an admonition given by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You want to hear how much he said you should chant Hare Kṛṣṇa? Now, I'm just going to preface it by saying, when you hear this, you should also know that since he said it, it's possible—agreed upon.

So he said, "kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ," which means that you should do it constantly. Now, someone might freak out and say, "Well, how can I possibly do it constantly?" So, great teachers have anticipated this, and also they think in realistic ways. So they've said that don't freak out. Consider that if at least you practice it every day, then that's also for beginners considered doing it constantly. Don't miss a 24-hour period.

(excerpt from the talk: Everything Already Belongs to God https://youtu.be/460naElimok?t=1408 )

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People get into a moral dilemma about owning things. In fact, there are many economic systems that talk about who owns what. Some say the state owns everything. Then there are very enthusiastic capitalistic systems that say, "No, each person." I don't want to try to truncate the meaning of capitalism, but in general, it belongs to the people. You own your own private property, and so forth. These conceptions run into problems: who owns what, under what circumstances. In fact, it becomes quite litigious. I'll tell you a story I heard this morning.

Prabhupāda was speaking about this concept that God owns everything, and then he told a story about some thieves. They went into town at night, and they robbed a few places, and they took all the loot. They went to the edge of town, and they gathered in a circle with all the stuff they stole, and then one of them proclaimed, "Let's divide it equitably and morally."

So, there is a cognitive dissonance that people have. When we start thinking about who owns what in the world, there is a bit of a conundrum because whatever we think we own will be unceremoniously taken away from us at a certain point, and other people may put a claim on it also, or a percentage of it, and it gets really complicated.

Just as a side, Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā—and there are other utterances that are very helpful in this way—if you want to be happy for the rest of your life (that's the beginning of a song, but I'll finish in a different way), you should consider that everything already belongs to God. Don't make a claim over it. You can take care of it, but don't think that it belongs to you. This is something Kṛṣṇa mentions in the Bhagavad-gītā when he says: "brahmaṇy ādhāya karmāṇi saṅgaṁ tyaktvā karoti yaḥ." Which means that you should renounce the idea that "this belongs to me." You can use it, but don't think "this is mine to keep." Use it in the right way, and then he says you won't be affected by it. And another place this is mentioned is in the... (13:52)

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We are continuing our reading of the pastimes of Rathayātrā, because we've been given the facility by the Śrī Guru-paramparā, and therefore our participation in hearing is rightly done.

śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ

puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ

hṛdy antaḥ stho hy abhadrāṇi

vidhunoti suhṛt satām

(SB 1.2.17)

Simply by hearing about Kṛṣṇa's unlimited pastimes, one will have a change of heart. The human body is specifically designed to hear about Kṛṣṇa, and we have God-given intelligence, so that we can enter deeply within the pastimes, and we can also transfer ourselves from this realm—which is a little rocky, to say the least—back to the spiritual realm. We can also develop the wherewithal to explain the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness to others simply by hearing. No other education is necessary except for hearing and hearing and hearing more. Everything else takes place from the inside out. (0:00:58)

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