NBS#29 The Appearance of Lord Kapila Jan. 2016 | Page 8

Issue no 29, Page — 8 of hankering for Him, leaving aside all sorts of troublous agents which we call our associates – leaving these aside we are to approach Him. If we want to zoomorphise, phytomorphise or neuterise Godhead, if we try to find any masculine or feminine feature in Godhead, if the neuter aspect of Godhead is welcomed, we would be simply missing the opportunity of having an access to Him – we would be simply led astray. Godhead is not necessarily neuter, masculine or feminine as we see here with our defective and temporal senses. We should simply submit to Him. sarva-dharmän parityajya mäm ekaà çaraëaà vraja ahaà tväà sarva-päpebhyo mokñayiñyämi mä çucaù —Bhagavad-gétä 18.66 Sri Krishna is singing this for Arjuna’s purpose. He says He will give warranty of saving everyone of us if he or she submits to Him alone and none will have to run any risk of their own – all risks will lie in Him. He declares He will give us salvation. He is full – all sorts of inadequacies can be fulfilled by His true wishes. We can get rid of all our troubles if we simple submit to Him. As He should descend to meet us, so we should also be unalloyed and quite set free from all sorts of wrong associations we have imbibed during our social life, otherwise, carrying all these references of this mundane world, we cannot have access to the transcendental region. We should not persist in our wrong ideas – in prayers such as ‘give us this day our daily bread’. We cannot have a morsel of bread unless He desires to give it to us. We need not waste our time that way. These prayers are not required for approaching Him. We are quite ignorant of what is to be asked from Him. We do not know what will be for our good. We should only crave for His mercy. This is the only attitude we should have. Sri Krishna is the greatest attractor. We should want to be attracted by Him. The thing is if we have diffidence to be attracted by Him, if we try to avoid or evade His conference of mercy on us, we should be simply entangling ourselves with the measuring temperament. Now we are very busy to measure with our senses all the finitudinal objects of this universe. This is the empiric education. This sort of empiric education is offered to us to impede our course towards the transcendental region. So we should be very careful not be deluded by the influence of the measuring tendency – we should be very careful not to be degraded by this. We should nityaà bhägavata-sevayä not accept the policy of retaliation – for by doing so we should be simply engaging ourselves for that purpose only. We should be always careful not to be meddling with external ideas and thoughts. If we engage ourselves with all these things in order to have some enjoyment of our senses, we should surely be misguided by alluring friends of the phenomena. The finiteness of these things is quite inadequate for our purpose. We require the full thing – the Absolute. We should simply part with the wrong ideas and thoughts which we have incorporated with us. The phenomenon should be deleted – should be abandoned – during the course of our journey to the transcendental plane. The Absolute is He who does not require a finite object or a finite place. He has infinite, eternal knowledge. He has got eternal expansion. He is full of bliss. We are always hankering after bliss – but bliss can never be had here. So meddling with the undesirable objects of the phenomena, we cannot expect to reach that destination. So the only course is bhakti. We should not attempt karma, jïäna, rationalism, agnosticism, good action, charity and all such rubbish. They are the impediments of our approach to the object. The Object should be the Absolute. — From conversation with Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur at Sri Gaudiya Matha, Kolkata. June 29, 1935, Transcribed by Anil Kanta Ganguly . Printed in "The Harmonist" July 12, 1935 · !! Sri Sri Nitai Gaurchandra Jayati !! Nityam Bhagavata-sevaya A Fornightly E-Magazine for serving Çrémad-Bhägavatam. Subscriptions for this fortnightly edition of e-magazine or for the Self Study course on Çrémad-Bhägavatam please write to us at: [email protected] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brajsunderdas Quotations from the books, letters, and lectures of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ©Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. ©All the paintings are copyrights of their respective artists.