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Śrī - , Ādi - Māyāpur, March 25, 1975: Caitanya Caritām Ta Līlā
Śrī - , Ādi - Māyāpur, March 25, 1975: Caitanya Caritām Ta Līlā
This is the basic principle of all philosophies. Acintyabhedbheda.Acintya means inconceivable, bheda means different,
and abheda means nondifferent. The whole situation... The one is
there, God, but He has expanded Himself in different
way. Eko bahu sym.
So that is described here. Ka-caitanyasajakam. Ka CaitanyaMahprabhu, He has expanded Himself
as gurn. The guru, the spiritual master, he's also
r Caitanya Mahprabhu. Skd-dharitvena samastastrair ukta **.In all the stras, guru is accepted as Ka. Skddharitvena. Skd means directly. Just like you offer your devotion,
respects, to guru. So that respect is offered to Ka. Guru also does not
think himself that he is Ka, but he collects the devotional services of
the disciples to offer to Ka. This is the process. We cannot
approach Ka directly. We should approach
through guru.Tasmd guru prapadyeta jijsu reya uttamam [SB
11.3.21]. That is the injunction of the stra, that one should approach
the guru who can transfer the service from the disciple to the Supreme
Person. So... Therefore the first offering
is guru, vande gurn. Then guru creates many devotees. Guru's
business is to canvass on behalf of Supreme Lord. That is guru's
business. Ka says, sarvadharmn parityajya mm eka araa vraja [Bg. 18.66], so, "You
give up all material, engage..." Sarva-dharmn means in the material
world we have created so many so-called duties. This is our material
disease. People are interested in material engagements and they have
created different varieties of engagements. Sociology, communism, and
this "ism," that "ism," philanthropism, altruism, internationalism,
nationalismmany, many duties they have created. That is all
material. Ka, out of His causeless mercy... (children crying) Stop
that children. Out of His causeless mercy, He comes, He
descends. Yad yad hidharmasya glnir bhavati bhrata [Bg. 4.7].
Glnir, this is glnir. Human life is meant for one
thing, athto brahma jijs, to inquire about the Supreme Absolute
Truth. But instead of doing that, they have created so many "isms."
That is their misfortune.
Real business is athto brahma jijs. This human life, nature,
gives us the opportunity to inquire about the Absolute Truth. We have
got the intelligence. The cats and dogs, they have no intelligence to
inquire about the Absolute Truth. The trees, the plants, the aquatics,
understand further when the body does not movethat difference, why
the body was moving and why the body is not now moving. If we simply
study this difference of position we can understand what is living force.
It is not very difficult. Simply we have to understand, "Now this living
force is gone out of this body; therefore the body is no longer moving
and it is a dead matter." This is this... So this Caitanyacaritmta means we are talking of the living force, not of the dead
matter. We should always remember. So the guru belongs to that living
force. And a, a means controller. So everyone, that living
force. Gurn, a,a-bhaktn, a-bhaktn and am. So they are all
living force. The Lord, His devotee, His representative, everyone, they
belong to the spiritual platform, living force. Caitanyasajakam. Caitanya means living. That personification of all living
forces is Ka Caitanya, r Caitanya Mahprabhu. People
mistakeKa Caitanya Mahprabhu because by misfortune they
understand KaCaitanya as a devotee or just like socalled sdhu or yogi, like that. That is mistake. Ka Caitanya means
the original living force, Ka.
So Srvabhauma Bhacrya, he understood Him.
rla Rpa Gosvm, he understood Him. Similarly, the followers
of Rpa Gosvm, SrvabhaumaBhacrya, and all the Gosvms,
they will understand Ka CaitanyaMahprabhu. And one who
understands or follows the path enunciated
by KaCaitanya Mahprabhu, for them Ka is very easily obtained.
This is calledCaitanya-caritmta. If you follow
r Caitanya Mahprabhu... r CaitanyaMahprabhu's mission is
described by Srvabhauma Bhacrya, r-ka-caitanya-arradhr. Pura-purua, I just now forget the verse. Yes:
vairgya-vidy-nija-bhakti-yogaikrtham eka purua pura
r-ka-caitanya-arra-dhr
kpmbudhir yas tam aha prapadye
[Cc. Madhya 6.254]
So
r Ka Caitanya is
the
same Ka, Pura-purua.
dya Pura-purua. Pura-purua means Ka, the original
Personality of Godhead, very old. Pura means very old. So, vairgyavidy-ikrtham. Because we are suffering here on account of so many
designations, so r Ka CaitanyaMahprabhu came to purify us from
all these nonsense designations. That is called vairgyavidy. Rga means attachment. So... And virga. This false attachment
thing is the same. Either you accept in open eyes or blind eyes. So
similarly, if you accept this theoryit is not theory; this is fact,
thatKa is the Supreme Personality of Godheadthese few words,
then you are advanced student, immediately. Take it from me, that
simply this conviction, that "Ka is the Supreme Personality of
Godhead," then you are advanced student in spiritual life.
So all these persons associated with Ka, r Ka Caitanya,
rNitynanda, r Advaita, and Gaddhara and rvsa, all of them,
they are one. One in this sense, they are all interested how to push
on Ka consciousness. rKa Caitanya Mahprabhu, He's trying
personally, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
And Nitynanda Prabhu, Advaita Prabhu, rvsa, Gaddhara, they are
trying to help. So..., and to approach all these five supreme persons,
you require the help of guru. Therefore the guru is offered first the
respectful prayers, vandegurn. And gurn, bahu-vacana, plural
number, that many gurus. But they are not many; they are one, gurutattva. Just like Ka has many forms, but that does not mean Ka is
different. No. Ka is one. Similarly, guru, there may be many gurus, it
doesn't matter, but their philosophy must be one: to teach everyone
that Ka is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So there may be
thousands of gurus, but the guru's business is to teach the disciple
that Ka is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is the test
of guru. If guru is teaching something else, nonsense, then he is
not guru. Gurur na sa syt. a-karma-nipuo vipro mantra-tantravirada. A brhmaa, he is very expert in his business, in Vedic
culture, Vedic mantras, tantras. That is the test of thebrhmaa, that
he is very learned. So a-karma-nipuo vipro mantra-tantravirada. Virada, very expert. Avaiavo gurur na sa syt. But if he
does not know what is Ka or if he's not a devotee of Ka, he
cannot become guru.a-vaiava vapaco guru. But one person
who is coming from the family of dog-eaters... The dog-eaters, they are
considered to be the lowest of the human beings. So, vapaca, va means dog, and paca means eater or cooker. So vapaca,even
a person is coming from the vapaca family, and if he's a Vaiava, if
he's a devotee of Ka, he can become guru. On the other side, even
born in abrhmaa family and very expert in Vedic ritualistic
performances, mantra-tantra-virada, he cannot become guru if he
does not understand Ka. So therefore guru is very important
because he has accepted Ka... Tattva-daribhi, he has seen the
truth. So therefore guru is first offered... This is the test