Innvocation

oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ

pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate
pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya
pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate
Translation

1. The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and

2. because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this

phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes.
Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself.

3. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete

units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance. (eg of
prasadam - krsna takes it fully and the full plate remains for us - 1966,
NY lecture)

Completeness of Absolute Truth

The complete whole or the Supreme Absolute Truth is the complete

personality of Godhead. He can be realised in three features 1.2.11
vadanti tat tattva-vidas
tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam
brahmeti paramātmeti
bhagavān iti śabdyate

1. brahman: bodily effulgence - sat aspect - eternity - jnani

2. paramatma: supersoul in everyone's heart - sat and cit - eternity and all
knowing feature - yogi
3. bhagavan: Complete realisation of his personality. Sat, cit and ananda
features - bhakta

He is sacitananda vigraha - he has a form…

The Complete Whole must contain everything both within and beyond our
experience
He has immense potencies.
All his potencies are as complete as he is
 • The twenty-four elements of which this material universe is a
temporary manifestation are arranged to produce everything necessary
for the maintenance and subsistence of this universe.
o 5 bhutas (ether, air, fire, water earth)
o 5 jnanedriyas (ear, eye, skin, nose, tongue)
o 5 karmendriyas (hands, feet, voice, anus genitals)
o 5 tanmatras (sound, form, touch, smell, taste)
o man - Mind
o buddhi - Intelligence
o ahankara - false ego
o mahat tattva - (pradhana when become active it is known as mahat

tattva)

• No other unit in the universe need make an extraneous effort to try to

maintain the universe.

rajo ’dhikāḥ karma-parā (interested in working)

duḥkhe ca sukha-māninaḥ

In the human race, the mode of passion is very prominent. Humans are
always busy in the midst of miserable life, but they think themselves
happy in all respects. (SB 3.10.26 creation by brahma)

• The universe functions on its own time scale, when that schedule is
completed, this temporary manifestation will be annihilated by the
complete arrangement of the Complete Whole.

Four types of annihilation (SB 12.4)

1. nitya : everyday something is annihilated or dead or destroyed
2. naimittika: end of brahma's day - (one kalpa, 1000 catur yuga)
3. prakrtika: end of brahma's life - everything including the elements
are destroyed
4. atyanitka: when false ego is destroyed - mukti

Complete units form the complete whole - Importance of Human Form of

Life
Living beings are complete: All facilities are given to the small complete
units (jiva) to enable them to realise the Complete whole.

Greatness or importance of human life: got after 8.4 million species of life -
fully developed/manifested consciousness

Padma Purana says, (CC M 19.138)

1. jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi - 9,00,000 species living in the water.

2. sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati -20,00,000 non-moving living entities (sthāvara)
such as trees and plants.
3. kṛmayo rudra-saṅkhyakāḥ - 11,00,000 species of insects and reptiles,
4. pakṣiṇāṁ daśa-lakṣaṇam - 10,00,000 species of birds.
5. triṁśal-lakṣāṇi paśavaḥ - 30,00,000 varieties animals with four legged,
6. catur-lakṣāṇi mānuṣāḥ - 4,00,000 human species.

Human life is like a boat -SB 11.20.17- nṛ-deham ādyaṁ su-labhaṁ su-
durlabhaṁ

Don’t waste human form of life – SB 5.5.1 nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke

purpose is human life jivasya tattva jijnasya – SB 1.2.9-10 - dharmasya hy

āpavargyasya nārtho ’rthāyopakalpate

apavarga - The word apavarga means "liberation." Pavarga means "material

existence."
1. Pa - parabhava - defeat or parisram - labour, exertion
2. Pha - phena - foaming - exhaustion
3. Ba - bandha - bondage
4. Bha - bhaya/bhiti - fearfulness
5. Ma - mrtyu - death

Goal of human life - SB 7.5.31 - na te vidu svartha gatim hi visnum; SB

7.5.5 tat sādhu manye ’sura-varya dehināṁ

Human Right is right to enlightenment, not right to information…

demoniac people feel the only purpose of life is to enjoy sense gratification
…. kimanyat kama haitukam? cintām aparimeyāṁ ca.. BG 16
SB 1.5.17 says tasaiva heto prayateta kovido..,

Experiencing Incompleteness
All forms of incompleteness are experienced due to incomplete knowledge
of the Complete Whole

Lack of this understanding leads to Exploitation of resources:

Ignorance: Not knowing that there is a complete arrangement in nature for

our maintenance, we make efforts to utilize the resources of nature to
create a so-called complete life of sense enjoyment. (kastan kaman arhate
vid-bhujam ye)

The world has enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed

Illusion: the living entity cannot enjoy the life of the senses without being
dovetailed with the Complete Whole, the misleading life of sense enjoyment
is illusion.

Jiva: living beings are part and parcel of the Complete Whole, and if they
are severed from the Complete Whole, the illusory representation of
completeness cannot fully satisfy them.

SP gives the example of body & hand. Hand is a complete unit only as long
as it is connected with the whole body. When it is severed from body, it
cannot function like a hand.

A screw that has fallen from a machine has no value.

Complete arrangement for devotees to go BTG

tesam satata yuktanam bhajatam priti purvakam, dadati budhiyogam…

ananya cintayento mam… yogaksemam vahamyaham…

Dovetailing: The completeness of human life can be realized only when

one engages in the service of the Complete Whole. All social, political,
communal or international activities remain incomplete until they are
dovetailed towards the complete whole.