Supreme Absolute Truth - Part 1

Date: 2009-04-09 Author: Vaijayantimala devi dasi

Dear Prabhujis and Matajis,

Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva!

In the tenth canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, we find that the demigods offer selected wonderful prayers to please Lord
Krishna in the womb of Devaki mata. The following is the first of those prayers (SB 10.2.26) and it is a very beautiful
prayer to recite and remember.

satya-vrataṁ satya-paraṁ tri-satyaṁ

satyasya yoniṁ nihitaṁ ca satye
satyasya satyam ṛta-satya-netraṁ
satyātmakaṁ tvāṁ śaraṇaṁ prapannāḥ

The demigods prayed: O Lord, You never deviate from Your vow, which is always perfect because
whatever You decide is perfectly correct and cannot be stopped by anyone. Being present in the three
phases of cosmic manifestation—creation, maintenance and annihilation—You are the Supreme Truth.
Indeed, unless one is completely truthful, one cannot achieve Your favor, which therefore cannot be
achieved by hypocrites. You are the active principle, the real truth, in all the ingredients of creation, and
therefore you are known as antaryaami, the inner force. You are equal to everyone, and Your instructions
apply for everyone, for all time. You are the beginning of all truth. Therefore, offering our obeisances, we
surrender unto You. Kindly give us protection.

Our beloved Guru Maharaj gave a wonderful class on each of the eight qualities of the Lord in the above verse and if
we simply remember and abide by these instructions our perfection in life is guaranteed.

1. Satya-vrataṁ –The Personality Of Godhead who never deviates from His vow:

As stated in the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna descends upon this material world just to protect the pious and destroy the
impious. That is His vow. The demigods could understand that the Lord had taken His residence within the womb of
Devaki to fulfil this vow. Thus, the Lord never deviates from His vow but we always deviate. We proudly call ourselves
shaastris- "we know the scriptures". So if somebody asks us why we did not keep up our vows then we say, ‘O! Prabhu!
It is all kaliyuga. So it is very difficult to be strict with our vows.’ Thus, we blame kaliyuga for our deviations and that is
our foolishness. We take kaliyuga’s help to remain lazy. Krishna’s instruction is that whatever vow we take, we should
try to be very serious about it.

2. Satya paraṁ - He is the Absolute truth:

Absolute Truth means that except Him, there is nothing. Krishna says to Arjuna in Srimad Bhagavad Gita 7.7,

mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañ-jaya

mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva

O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung
on a thread.

Thus, everything is Him. So, whatever some living entity may trouble us, it is Krishna. Some may praise us. It is
Krishna. Some may help us. It is Krishna. Some may try to destroy us. It is Krishna. So, this way, we escape all the
enmity. Seeing Krishna, we don’t have any enemies. Ajāta-śatru. That attitude must be cultivated, if you want to
progress spiritually. Otherwise your valuable time is diverted to the material enmities and then there is blaming and
counter blaming, and we are reacting. All our valuable time is wasted. We should try to save our time. This Absolute
nature of the truth helps us to save our time. Whether we believe it or not, He is in control and without Him, nothing
happens. That is the meaning of Satya param.
3. Tri satyaṁ - He is always present as the Absolute Truth, before the creation of this cosmic manifestation, during its
maintenance, and even after its annihilation

In the seed verses of Srimad Bhagavatam the Lord declares in 2.9.33,

aham evāsam evāgre nānyad yat sad-asat param

paścād ahaṁ yad etac ca yo ’vaśiṣyeta so ’smy aham

Brahma, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was
nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see
now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the
Personality of Godhead.

Krishna willing, the realizations and explanation on the other aspects of the Absolute truth, spoken by our beloved
Guru Maharaj shall be posted in the subsequent mails.

Thank you very much, 

Yours in service of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva, 
Vaijayantimala devi dasi
Abu Dhabi.
 Supreme Absolute Truth - Part II

Date: 2009-04-10 Author: Vaijayantimala devi dasi

Dear Prabhujis and Matajis,

Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva!

This is in continuation of the earlier mail on the Srimad Bhagavatam verse 10.2.26,

satya-vrataṁ satya-paraṁ tri-satyaṁ

satyasya yoniṁ nihitaṁ ca satye
satyasya satyam ṛta-satya-netraṁ
satyātmakaṁ tvāṁ śaraṇaṁ prapannāḥ

The demigods prayed: O Lord, You never deviate from Your vow, which is always perfect because
whatever You decide is perfectly correct and cannot be stopped by anyone. Being present in the three
phases of cosmic manifestation—creation,maintenance and annihilation—You are the Supreme Truth.
Indeed, unless one is completely truthful, one cannot achieve Your favor, which therefore cannot be
achieved by hypocrites. You are the active principle, the real truth, in all the ingredients of creation, and
therefore you are known as antaryaami, the inner force. You are equal to everyone, and Your instructions
apply for everyone, for all time. You are the beginning of all truth. Therefore, offering our obeisances, we
surrender unto You. Kindly give us protection.

The first three qualities ‘satya-vrataṁ’, ‘satya-paraṁ’ and ‘tri-satyaṁ’ were covered in the previous mail. The
realizations of our beloved Guru Maharaj on the other qualities are continued here.

4. satyasya yoniṁ – The cause of all relative truths, which are emanations from the Supreme Lord Krishna
‘Yoni’ means the source. Whatever truths we see, the source is Him. The cupboard is here. It is ‘satya’ or ’truth’ for us.
But yoni is Him. How? We are alive and we have soul and Supersoul in our heart. Till that time, I see the cupboard.
Cupboard is also intact. It is not dismantled. It has the three main ingredients earth, water and fire which are Krishna’s
energy and Krishna is holding it. As soon as Krishna decides to leave, the cupboard will be converted into iron ore etc,
then mix into the land, and eventually land will go back to Krishna in the subtle stage. This is the yonim.

Because Krishna is there, then only we are seeing this cupboard. As soon as He leaves our body or decides to leave the
planet, the whole planet will be dismantled immediately. This is satyasya yonim. Anything you feel, it is truth is
because of Him. Without Him everything is null and void. And we don’t digest this idea. We are thinking ‘I am doing. I
am doing.’ We put ‘I’ between Him and us. That is why He is far away. As soon as you give Him credit, He is near you.
Then everything isalright. Because He is the yonim, the source of everything.

5.nihitaṁ ca satye- Entered in the factors that create this material world (namely, the five elements—earth, water,
fire, air and ether).

The Lord enters everything, even the atom: andaantara-stha-paramaanu-cayaantara-stham (Brahma-samhita 5.35).
Therefore, He is called antaryaami, the inner force. Regarding the five elements, one thing we should always
remember that they are allpart of the 12 CIDs who are all the witnesses. In Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.42 it is stated,

sūryo ’gniḥ khaṁ marud devaḥ somaḥ sandhyāhanī diśaḥ

kaṁ kuḥ svayaṁ dharma iti hy ete daihyasya sākṣiṇaḥ

The sun, fire, sky, air, demigods, moon, evening, day, night, directions, water, land and Supersoul
Himself all witness the activities of the living entity.

We find that all the five great elements are included in the above. They are very sincere CIDs and they are always
watching us. Water is situated in our body and water is watching us. Agni is situated in our body and is watching.
Bhumi is already there. Nothing He misses. That is why immediately He knows. As soon as we think anything, He
knows. That is why the devotee’s thinking process is also purified because of Him. Ordinary people they think bad and
the whole existence becomes miserable. Bad means always misery. Good means always satisfying. Sattvam
visuddhau - purified goodness is all Him.

Krishna willing, the final part enlisting the remaining three qualities shall be posted in the ensuing mail.

Thank you very much,

Yours in service of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva,
Vaijayantimala devi dasi
Abu Dhabi.
 Supreme Absolute Truth - Part III

Date: 2009-04-11 Author: Vaijayantimala devi dasi

Dear Prabhujis and Matajis,

Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva!

This is the concluding part of the mail on the realizations of our beloved Guru Maharaj on Srimad Bhagavatam verse
10.2.26.

satya-vrataṁ satya-paraṁ tri-satyaṁ

satyasya yoniṁ nihitaṁ ca satye
satyasya satyam ṛta-satya-netraṁ
satyātmakaṁ tvāṁ śaraṇaṁ prapannāḥ

The demigods prayed: "O Lord, You never deviate from Your vow, which is always perfect because whatever
You decide is perfectly correct and cannot be stopped by anyone. Being present in the three phases of
cosmic manifestation—creation, maintenance and annihilation—You are the Supreme Truth. Indeed,
unless one is completely truthful, one cannot achieve Your favor, which therefore cannot be achieved by
hypocrites. You are the active principle, the real truth, in all the ingredients of creation, and therefore
you are known as antaryaami, the inner force. You are equal to everyone, and Your instructions apply for
everyone, for all time. You are the beginning of all truth. Therefore, offering our obeisances, we
surrender unto You. Kindly give us protection."

Out of the eight qualities of the Lord mentioned in this verse, we have already covered the first 5 qualities in the last
two mails. The other three qualities are described herewith:

6. satyasya satyam: The Lord is the original truth of all that is accepted as the truth:
So many truths are there but the Lord is the original one. Many people follow only morality and say that good
behaviour is alright. They say that I am living good and nobody troubles me, and I am not troubling anyone. There is
no Bhagavan. 

But these people fail to understand that the ‘yoni’ or source is Him. Whatever satya or truth they speak, He is the
reason and they do not know that. People are completely ignorant of this. We think that our legs walk. Frankly spoken,
our eyes and the light (prakash) help us to walk. In pitch dark, it is very difficult to walk. Eyes are not working and
there is no light. Particularly when your legs are weak, you cannot walk in darkness. Always it is Him in the background
and we do not see. It is true but we never see that the light helps us to walk. Never. 

Regarding the movement of the body, any movement is because of the air in the body. I can see, I can talk, I can
walk,and it is all because of air. The root is air. For all the pains and aches, air is the reason. So, He orders the air in the
body, ‘let this man have ache’. So that is why it is insisted in the Sastras that bodily pains must be regarded as the
mercy of Krishna. So, tolerate it. He is sending it. Don’t unnecessarily worry about it. The root is all within the five
elements. In that also, air is very important. Without air, we can’t survive. Any small movement you do, it is the air.
Hence regulation of air is a must in our body. This regulation always goes wrong because of our sinful activities. That is
why it is very much insisted in Bhagavad Gita 7.28,

yeṣāṁ tv anta-gataṁ pāpaṁ janānāṁ puṇya-karmaṇām

te dvandva-moha-nirmuktā bhajante māṁ dṛḍha-vratāḥ

Persons who have acted piously in previous lives and in this life and whose sinful actions are completely
eradicated are freed from the dualities of delusion, and they engage themselves in My service with
determination.

The thing is that the sinful ideas must also vanish. As soon as we think about sin, the air in the body becomes
unregulated. The first thing the sin is affecting is our digestion. That we don’t know. That is why good behaviour is a
must for our healthy body. Any anti Srimad Bhagavatam activity, affects our bodily health and then existence. Then we
become angry and kill indiscriminately. In America, there are so many shoot outs and it is all air and sinful ideas. We
are all suffering from sinful thinking. The vedic culture acts on the thinking process. It is said, ‘Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-
padāravindayor’.

Unless we qualify ourselves in the above way, we cannot understand Krishna lila. The sinful attitude must disappear
from our lives. Then only we can understand how the five great elements work under His control. Why somebody has a
stroke and within a second, half the body is completely gone. Who does that? Air on that part is gone and the
movement stops, and it becomes very heavy. Just to move it, requires great endeavour. Try to avoid the pitfalls and
you will be alright. 

Real intelligence is to be dedicated to understanding these things. Srila Prabhupada insisted that our temples should
be spiritual embassies disseminating this knowledge.

7.ṛta-satya-netraṁ – He is the origin of whatever truth is pleasing:

Anything regarding Him is truth and He is all pleasing.

8. satyātmakaṁ - Everything pertaining to the Lord is truth (sac-cid-ānanda: His body is truth, His knowledge is truth,
and His pleasure is truth).

Whenever we utter something, four defects are bound to be there in our statements and they are imperfect senses,
mistakes, cheating, and illusion. Supposing we call and say that ‘I am coming’ then we have to understand that we
cannot go unless we are alive and there is no guarantee that we will be alive and our sense are imperfect and we are
completely illusioned. But suppose we add to our sentence ‘Krishna willing I am coming’, then all the 4 defects vanish
immediately just by adding Krishna. As soon as He comes in the form of His name, His name being non different from
Him, and a great purifying force, everything becomes truth.

Thank you very much.

Yours in service of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva,
Vaijayantimala devi dasi
Abu Dhabi.