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disciplic Gita to Vivasvan
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succession did not correctly
that was such a
pass on the knowledge to long time ago
that we cannot
their students. even imagine.
Vivasvan then
spoke the
chain of disciplic succession,
Bhagavad Gita to his son
and the saintly kings
We can understand how Manu who is the father of
understood it in that way. But
perfect knowledge can be mankind and then in turn
in course of time the
received. This information is Manu spoke that same
succession was broken, and
given to us by Krishna, the Bhagavad Gita to Iksvaku who
therefore the science as it is
Supreme Personality of 2,500,000 years ago was the
appears to be lost. (Bhagavad Gita
Godhead, in the Bhagavad king of this earth planet.
4.2)
Gita, particularly in Chapter 4
We can understand then that
Texts 1 and 2. These two verses describe the
Bhagavad Gita has been
process by which this
The Blessed Lord said: I present in human society for
knowledge of Bhagavad Gita
instructed this imperishable at least 2,500,000 years from
has come into our hands and
the time when Manu
instructed it to his son Iksvaku
who was then the king of this
whole planet. Unfortunately
after some time the
knowledge of Bhagavad Gita
became lost. This is the nature
of the material world.
Everything we find in this
material world goes through
different stages. It is created,
it exists for some time, it
produces some by-products, it
dwindles and then it vanishes.
This is the power of time, time
is very, very powerful and
time wears away everyting.
Even if some very perfect
spiritual knowledge is
established at some point in
time then, because of the
destructive nature of time, in
time this knowledge will be
misunderstood, it will be
misrepresented by the various
generations.
This knowledge of Krishna
consciousness that Krishna
has given us in the Bhagavad
Gita is very delicate
knowledge. This knowledge is
only potent, it only acts if it is
received in the pure disciplic
succession and that disciplic
succession can be very easily
broken. This means that the
preachers of Bhagavad Gita
have an incredibly great
responsibility. As soon as we
speak anything, supposedly
on Bhagavad Gita which is
not simply knowledge that we
have heard in the disciplic
succession then we have
broken the disciplic
succession.
The responsibility of the
reciter of the Bhagavad Gita
is to hear the perfect
knowledge from his bona fide
spiritual master and simply to
repeat that knowledge to the
people he is speaking to. He
has no authorization to
present his own opinion or to
add anything new or to
subtract anything that was
originally in the message as it
was presented by Krishna to
the sun god Vivasvan , as
Vivasvan presented that same
message to his son Manu, and
as Manu presented that same
message to his son Iksvaku.
That was 2,500,000 years ago
and that was when this
Bhagavad Gita entered into
the human society through
this king, Maharaja Iksvaku,
who was at that time the king
of the whole planet.
Therefore, the actual
qualification of a real spiritual
master is that he simply
presents perfectly the
knowledge that has been
given to him by his bona fide
spiritual master to the people
who come to hear from him.
He does not introduce any of
his own opinions, he doesn't
add any new information and
he does not subtract anything
which was there in the
original message as it was
distributed by Krishna.
Although this appears to be a
very simple thing to do, a very
simple process, it goes against
the very nature of our
conditioned life in the
material world. In the
conditioned state in the
material world we are
thinking that, "I am very
important," and that "My
ideas, my opinion is very
valuable." We are thinking
like this, in the conditioned
state of life. This mentality
makes it almost impossible
for someone who is in the
conditioned state of life,
someone who is not a
liberated soul, to speak on the
Bhagavad Gita.
The problem is one who is in
the materialistic concept of
life will be thinking that "I am
the body" and that "I have
some very important ideas" 
and "My ideas are very
valuable." So  instead of
simply humbly hearing the
message of Bhagavad Gita
from his bona fide spiritual
master and simply humbly
repeating that same message,
the same message that's been
handed down through the
disciplic succession since
before the beginning of time,
he will want to put his own
twist on the message, give it
his own spin,  and as soon as
we add any of our own ideas,
any of our own opinions, no
matter how nice or how
wonderful we think they are,
into the message of Bhagavad
Gita, we have broken the
disciplic succession, we have
broken the param para. What
we are speaking is no longer
representative of the disciplic
succession, no longer
representative of the param
para. The transcendental
knowledge will not flow
through us.
This is a very mystical thing,
the Bhagavad Gita, and the
knowledge we find inside the
Bhagavad Gita, and how one
comes to understand the
Bhagavad Gita. These are not
simply words printed on
paper that one can
understand through
scholarship, by simply
studying the words, studying
the language. Understanding
of Bhagavad Gita is not
possible in that way. The
understanding comes from
hearing the words of a pure
devotee in the disciplic
succession, someone who is
not adding his own opinion.
Actually "pure devotee" is not
a very difficult thing, not a
very complicated thing, in one
sense, it simply means
someone who follows the
principles which are set out in
the Bhagavad Gita. The pure
devotee is very humble and
he thinks "My opinion is
worthless," "My knowledge is
worthless," "I am nothing,"
All I can do is I have heard this
knowledge from my spiritual
master and I am simply going
to deliver it to whoever I
meet, I will simply speak the
same thing that I have heard
from Srila Prabhupada. In that
way, because we are simply
repeating the message, then
the message will be powerful.
It is the message that is
powerful, it is not us that are
powerful. So we have to
become simply carriers of the
message.
Srila Prabhupada often gives a
very nice example in regard to
the postman. The
responsibility of the postman
is he will take the letter with
some person's address on it
and he will simply take that
letter and deliver it to that
person. When he does this he
has performed his duty very
nicely. The postman may not
be a very qualified person and
the letter may contain some
very valuable thing. The
postman may be a poor man,
but the letter or parcel may
contain some very valuable
thing.  The parcel may contain
a beautiful diamond ring
worth millions of dollars. The
postman is a poor man, his
responsibility, his duty, is to
simply take that parcel and
deliver it to the person who's
address is written on the
parcel. If he does that then
the person gets that million
dollar diamond. So even
though the postman himself is
not a millionaire, he simply
accepts that this is my duty,
my duty is to take this parcel
and to deliver it to the person
who's name is written on the
parcel, and he delivers the
million dollar diamond.
So, similarly, the business of
the spiritual master is like
that. The business of the
spiritual master is that he
takes the messages that have
been given to him by his bona
fide spiritual master and
whoever comes to him, he
simply delivers that same
message. Actually anyone can
do this. It requires humility
and submission and it
requires surrender. It is a very
simple thing, actually, but we
have to come to this point of
surrender and humility, and
this point of actually realizing
that my mental speculation,
my intellect, my knowledge,
my ideas, they're all useless,
they're all faulty.
This can be a very difficult
thing to come to realize
because we are so attached to
our mental speculation, to the
whole process.  The whole
world,  the "scientific
method," is built on this
mental speculation. The
whole idea which is
underlying the world which
we live in, the material world,
is  that by this process of
mental speculation we can
advance the knowledge of
mankind, that we can create a
better world, that we can
advance. This is the whole
background of the material
world--but it's false.
If you carefully study the
results of all this mental
speculation and scientific
advancement that we see in
the world you will find that
people are not any more
happy than they were 1,000
years ago or 100 years ago. In
fact the people are much
more distressed now and full
of anxieties and the world has
become a very dangerous
place. Everywhere, all over
the world at the present time,
there are big, big wars going
on, there's fighting
everywhere, there's
terrorism. You can not walk
on the street. If you go
outside your house there is
the very real fear that there
will be some criminal who will
give you trouble, steal your
money. So many disturbing
activities are going on, people
are simply afraid, they're
always full of fear.
So what's happened? All
these big, big scientists and
philosophers have been
speculating and coming up
with so many ideas and they
are sincerely thinking that
these ideas will help the
people to become "happy,"
that they will help the world
to become better organized. 
So what is the outcome of all
this mental speculation? The
outcome is that the people
are more unhappy, more
distressed, more anxious than
ever before.
Bringing this back to the
disciplic succession. The
reason I am giving this
example of the results of the
modern scientific and
philosophical mental
speculation is even though
the scientists and
philosophers who have come
up with the technology and
the philosophy which
underpins the way the current
materialistic world is running
were very sincerely working
and were thinking that "My
ideas and my scientific
advancements will help the
people to become happy," or
"My philosophical ideas or my
political ideas will created a
governmental system in
which people will be very
happy..." They were sincerely
trying for very noble goals
from the materialistic point of
view but the outcome has
been the opposite. The
outcome has been very bad.
Instead of creating happiness
for the people they have
created great distress and
great misery. But they did not
intend to do this, they
intended to make the world a
better place.
We have been trained in
mental speculation from
birth. We have been trained
to think that there is some
value in our ideas, there is
some value in our opinion and
that we have some capacity
with our own strength, with
our own mind, to come up
with brilliant ideas that will
solve the problems of the
world and make the people
happy. But this is not the way,
this will never be successful,
our ideas born of mental
speculation will not help
anyone. It is only Krishna's
ideas, Krishna's opinion that
will help. And the only way
we can find out what are
Krishna's ideas and what is His
opinion is to hear from a pure
devotee of Krishna in the
bona fide disciplic succession.
If we are going to become
Krishna conscious or if we are
going to become able to
present this knowledge to
others, if we're going to
become empowered by
Krishna to preach we have to
completely give up this idea
that I can do anything
valuable on my own strength.
We cannot come up with any
valuable ideas ourselves. We
cannot come up with anything
worthwhile.
First we must hear from
Krishna and we must hear
from the bona fide spiritual
master in disciplic succession,
we must hear from Srila
Prabhhupada, and we need to
accept what he is presenting
and follow it in our lives and
then repeat it to others,
simply present the same
message and that will be
powerful.
This disciplic succession is
such an essential point and it
is so easy for the disciplic
succession to become broken.
We see throughout the
history that the disciplic
succession is often being
broken. In the beginning of
time Krishna spoke the
Bhagavad Gita to the sun god
Vivasvan, Vivasvan instructed
it to his son Manu, Manu
instructed it to his son Iksvaku
and Iksvaku was the king of
the earth planet 2,500,000
years ago. For some time this
knowledge was being passed
down through the saintly
kings. Maharaja Iksvaku
taught the Bhagavad Gita to
his sons who in turn became
kings and would teach the
same Bhagavad Gita to their
sons. But after some time,
even though the Bhagavad
Gita was still there, people
were still speaking on the
Bhagavad Gita, however the
actual knowledge, the
essence of the message of the
Bhagavad Gita was lost.
Five thousand years ago
Krishna detected that the
message of the Bhagavad
Gita had become completely
lost and therefore there was a
need for Him to appear as
Krishna to speak the
Bhagavad Gita again to His
friend and disciple, Arjuna.
This is the reason Krishna
appeared within the material
world.
"This supreme science was
thus received through the
chain of disciplic succession,
and the saintly kings
understood it in that way. But
in course of time the
succession was broken, and
therefore the science as it is
appears to be lost." (Bhagavad Gita
4.2)
So this is why Krishna
appears. He appears because
that knowledge which He
originally spoke and which
was passed down through the
saintly kings in the disciplic
succession had become lost.
So there is periodically a
necessity for Krishna to come
himself as an incarnation or
for Krishna to send His
empowered representative,
his pure devotee, to re-
establish the principles of
religion in the material world.
This is because, as we have
been speaking, even if the
pure religious principles are
established, they will be lost
in the course of time.
This happens again and again
and again. It happened before
the advent of Lord Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu
appeared in West Bengal in
India, and Caitanya
Mahaprabhu is Krishna
Himself personally. Also at
that time, 500 years ago, the
message of the Bhagavad
Gita, the param para, the
knowledge of the Bhagavad
Gita had been lost so Krishna
again appeared in the form of
Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu. And Caitanya
Mahaprabhu taught the
teachings of Bhagavad Gita,
the teachings of Krishna in the
mood of a devotee of Krishna.
So the teachings of Lord
Caitanya and the teachings of
Lord Krishna are the same
because Lord Caitanya is
Krishna, the same Krishna.
It did not take very long after
Lord Caitanya re-established
the disciplic succession, the
pure param para,  that the
Bhagavad Gita was again not
being understood correctly.
Not so long after Lord
Caitanya Mahaprabhu left this
planet some of His disciples
also deviated from His pure
teachings and schisms
developed and there were
different groups of followers
of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
who started to have different
opinions. However in spiritual
life there are no different
opinions, there is only one
opinion and that's the opinion
of Krishna. As soon as we see
devotees with different
opinions we can understand
either one of them or both of
them have lost the param
para or broken the disciplic
succession.
There can not be different
opinions in understanding the
Bhagavad Gita. There is only
one opinion. Krishna's opinion
only. So we have to find the
pure representative who is
actually empowered to
present Krishna's opinion.
This is valuable. Krishna's
opinion is very valuable but
our opinion or anyone else's
opinion is completely useless.
This is actually the key to
understanding and advancing
in spiritual life: that Krishna's
opinion is valuable and
everbody else's opinion is
completely useless, worthless.
This is the beginning.
We have to give up this idea
that "My opinion has some
value."
So we see that even a few
years after Lord Caitanya
Mahaprabhu disapeared
some of his disciples started
quarreling and different
factions of disciples appeared
presenting different opinions.
By the time of Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakura who
was preaching in the late
1800's. In 1896 Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakura sent his
booklet, Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu--His life and
Precepts, all over the world to
different Universities. It was
found by one of Srila
Prabhupada's disciples in the
McGill  university in Canada.
So we can see from this that
even in 1896 Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakur had this
dream to preach Krishna
consciousness all over the
world.
But the point of Bhaktivinoda
Thakur is that at his time, in
the late 1800's, the whole
message of Bhagavad Gita
was completely lost. Krishna,
as Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu, appeared in
1486 and He established the
pure knowledge of Bhagavad
Gita and in the early 1500's
Lord Caitanya flooded the
subcontinent of India with His
message of Love of God. He
established the clear
understanding of Bhagavad
Gita.
However by the late 1800's,
maybe 450 years later, there
was no hint of the pure
teachings of Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu or the pure
teachings of Krishna and the
message of the Bhagavad
Gita had been completely lost
again. The disciplic succession,
the param para was
completely broken.
The way the disciplic
succession was re-established
was through Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakura's
studies of the writings of the
Vaisnava Acharyas,
particularaly the Six Gosvamis
of Vrindavana, the direct
disciples of Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu, principally the
books of Rupa Goswami,
Sanatana Goswami and Jiva
Goswami. Srila Bhaktivinoda
Thakur studied these books
and from these literatures of
the previous acharyas he was
able to establish the pure
teachings of Krishna.
The preacing of Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakur was not
so expansive as he was living
in Jagannath Puri and acting
as the magistrate in the court
system in Jagannatha Puri,
and he was in charge of the
temple of Jagannath. So he
was not able to preach very
widely all over the world or
even all over India, but he had
the idea to do this. His dream
was that this message of Lord
Caitanya would be spread all
over the world. So he prayed
to Krishna for a son who
would be empoured to preach
the pure message of Krishna
consciousness, the Bhagavad
Gita in the bona fide disciplic
succession, all over the world.
So Bhaktivinoda Thakur did
have a son, and that son was
Srila Bhaktsiddhanta Sarasvati
Thakur, and Srila
Bhaktsiddhanta Sarasvati
Thakur took on this great
mission of very powerfully
preaching the pure message
of the Bhagavad Gita all over
India.
Srila Bhaktsiddhanta was
always requesting any of  his
disciples who were a little
intelligent and knew the
English language to preach
Krishna consciousness in the
West. He would instruct them
that "You should take this
Krishna consciousness very
seriously and you should
preach this message of Lord
Caitanya in the Western
countries in English." So Srila
Prabhupada was one of many
disciples who Srila
Bhaktsiddhanta gave this
instruction to but Srila
Prabhuapda was the one
disciple who actually took it
very seriously and made that
the mission of his life.
power of the disciplic
succession we will become
instruments in the hands of
Krishna.

So we see because Srila

Prabhuapda made the order
of his spiritual master, Srila
Bhaktsiddhanta Sarasvati
Thakur, the mission of his life,
and he worked very hard to
establish the Krishna
consciousness movement
based on the pure philosophy
of Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu in the Western
countries, so he was very
successful.

Srila Prabhupada's success

was that he simply repeated
the message he received from
Srila Bhaktsiddhanta Sarasvati
Thakur, his bona fide spiritual
master in the disciplic
succession. So this grand
success of Srila Prabhupada's
preaching is a testament to
the power of the disciplic
succession.

We can also become

empowered to preach, but
only if we actually realize that
my opinion, my ideas, my
intellect, has no value. The
only value is Krishna's
opinion, Krishna's ideas. So
we must get Krishna's opinion
and Krishna's ideas through
the bona fide pure devotee in
the disciplic succession,
param para. And we have to
humbly simply present that
knowledge to anyone we
meet, like the postman simply
takes the parcel and delivers
it to the person whose name
is on it. This is his duty.

So we simply have to hear the

pure messages which are
coming from Krishna through
the disciplic succession and
repeat them to everybody we
meet. In this way, through the