{"Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0001": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0002": "lfl'B.M.'B�qg\nal{l\n\nJOlQ�J'I\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0003": "First Printing, 1984: 40,000 copies\n©1984\nAll Rights Reserved\nPrinted in Singapore\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0004": "LIGHT\n\nOF\n\n-\n\nTHE BHAGAWATA\n(A presentation of the source of\noriental philosophy\nby citing examples from nature)\nby\n\nHis Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta\nSwami Prabhupada\nFounder-Acarya of the International Society\nfor Krishna Consciousness\n\nSpecial Commemorative Edition\nThe 7th Anniversary\nof\nHis Disappearance\n\nThe Publishers\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0005": "His Divine Grace\nA.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada\nFounder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness\n\nII\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0006": "This\nEnglish Edition of\n\nLIGHT OF\n-\n\nTHE\n\nBHAGAWATA\n\nis our humble offering\nto\nHis Divine Grace\nA. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada\n\nOUR GRAND SPIRITUAL\nMASTER\nOn the 7th Anniversary\nof\nHis Disappearance Day\nHis books have saved the world\nand are the life and soul of\nHis disciples, grand disciples and all sincere devotees.\n\nThe Publishers\niii\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0007": "We offer\nour humble and respectful obeisances\nunto the lotus feet\nof\nHis Divine Grace\n\nSRILA HANSADUTIA SWAMI\nOUR SPIRITUAL MASTER\nWhose divine guidance and staunch determination to\nprint and distribute the Vedic literatures translated by\nhis spiritual master, His Divine Grace A. C.\nBhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada have been the\nsource of inspiration for this and many other\npublications.\nMay he bless us with strength and determination to\ncontinue in our endeavors.\n\niv\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0008": "Table of Contents\nDedication\n\niii\n\nPreface\n\nvii\n\nText One\n\n1\n\nText Two\n\n3\n\nText Three\n\n7\n\nText Four\n\n13\n\nText Five\n\n15\n\nText Six\n\n19\n\nText Seven\n\n23\n\nText Eight\n\n26\n\nText Nine\n\n27\n\nText Ten\n\n29\n\nText Eleven\n\n·\n\n31\n\nText Twelve\n\n34\n\nText Thirteen\n\n36\n\nText Fourteen\n\n37\n\nText Fifteen\n\n39\n\nText Sixteen\n\n42\n\nText Seventeen\n\n45\n\nText Eighteen\n\n47\n\nText Nineteen\n\n49\n\nText Twenty\n\n51\n\nText Twenty-One\n\n53\n\nText Twenty-Two\n\n57\n\nText Twenty-Three\n\n63\n\nText Twenty-Four\n\n65\nv\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0009": "Text Twenty-Five\n\n69\n\nText Twenty-Six\n\n71\n\nText Twenty-Seven\n\n73\n\nText Twenty-Eight\n\n77\n\nText Twenty-Nine\n\n79\n\nText Thirty\n\n81\n\nText Thirty-One\n\n84\n\nText Thirty-Two\n\n85\n\nText Thirty-Three\n\n91\n\nText Thirty-Four\n\n93\n\nText Thirty-Five\n\n95\n\nText Thirty-Six\n\n97\n\nText Thirty-Seven\n\n99\n\nText Thirty-Eight\n\n102\n\nText Thirty-Nine\n\n106\n\nText Forty\n\n108\n\nText Forty-One\n\n112\n\nText Forty-Two\n\n117\n\nText Forty-Three\n\n120\n\nText Forty-Four\n\n122\n\nText Forty-Five\n\n126\n\nText Forty-Six\n\n128\n\nText Forty-Seven\n\n132\n\nText Forty-Eight\n\n136\n\nAppendixes\n\nvi\n\nThe Artist\n\n139\n\nA Word from the Publishers\n\n140\n\nGlossary\n\n141\n\nIndex\n\n144\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0010": "Preface\n\nW\n\ne offer our respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of\nHis Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhu­\n\npada, the Founder-Acarya of the International Society for\nKf$r}a Consciousness who has delivered the \"Light of the\nBhagawata\" to the whole world. We are pleased to present\nfor his pleasure the first fully illustrated, color publication of\nhis sublime work \"Light of the Bhagawata\" in the English\nlanguage.\nOf all His Divine Grace's writings, this work is perhaps the\nmost unique. It was written in Vrindavan in 1961 in response\nto an invitation to attend a world conference, the Congress\nfor Cultivating the Human Spirit, held in Japan. As most of\nthe participants to the Conference were from the Orient,\nSrTia Prabhupada considered deeply how he could best present the timeless teachings of the SrTmad Bhagawatam suitable to the Oriental people. The original Bhagavatam was\nwritten over 5,000 years ago as an extremely large book\ncomposed of 18,000 verses. Participants to the conference\nwould not have the time to hear it all. He therefore chose the\ntenth canto, twentieth chapter of SrTmad-Bhagavatam for\npresentation.\nThe twentieth chapter is a description of the autumn season in Vrindavan, the place of Lord Kf$r}a's appearance. SrTia\n\nVII\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0011": "Prabhupada knew that the Oriental people were very fond of\nhearing descriptions of nature and that the time of the autumn season is particularly auspicious to them. Presenting\nspiritual philosophy by examples from nature would be best\nfor their understanding. For each seasonal phenomenon, a\nparallel teaching could be given. For example, the dark\ncloudy evening of the rainy autumn season when no stars\nare visible is compared to the present materia_listic, godless\ncivilization when the bright stars of the Bhagawata's wisdom\n(the devotees and scriptures) are temporarily obscured.\nAltogether SrTia Prabhupada composed 48 commentaries to\n\ngo along with the verses of the chapter.\n\nSrTia Prabhupada's plan was that the organizers of the\nconference should find a qualified Oriental artist to illustrate\neach verse, and he also wrote directions from which the\nartist could design each painting. He hoped that the paintings and their accompanying explanations would make an\nimpressive display for visitors to the conference. If possible\nhe wished that a book might also be published containing\nthe illustrations and the texts.\nDue to unfortunate circumstances, SrTia Prabhupada was\nunable to attend the conference and the whole project of\n\"Light of the Bhagawata\" was postponed. In fact, at the time\nof SrTia Prabhupada's disappearance the \"Light of the Bhagawata\" still remained unpublished, and the illustrations not\nyet painted. Only recently has \"Light of the Bhagawata\"\nbeen published in English and Chinese.\nThe color illustrations were done by the renowned artist\nMadame Yun-sheng Li, whose mature creative talent and\nsensitive brushwork alone could properly complement\n\nviii\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0012": "Prabhupada's beautiful descriptions of the autumn season.\nThus the beautifully effulgent \"Light of the Bha.gawata\" may\nnow shine upon the world.\nThis is the first English edition which contains the beautiful\ncolor reproductions of Madame Li's work, 48 paintings completed in less than a year's time, meticulous in their detail\ndespite her advanced age and sometimes failing eyesight.\nUndoubtedly this collection presents the culmination of her\nlong distinguished career as one of the great artists of modern China. Her Gongbi style of painting, together with S rTla\nPrabhupada's poetic descriptions which appear alongside,\nmake for a unique blending of the world's two oldest cultural\ntraditions- India and China. The \"Light of the Bhagawata\"\nalso appears in the Chinese language complete with color\nillustrations.\nWe sincerely hope that readers will appreciate the simplicity and clarity with which S rTia Prabhupada has commented\non these verses.\nThis material world is but a reflection of the pure spiritual\nworld from which the \"Light of the Bha.gawata\" emanates.\nNature itself, as well as the whole cosmic creation, has its\noriginal counterpart in the spiritual world. The order and\npatterns which we see set about in nature are intentionally\ndesigned to illustrate spiritual truths. Indeed, the very existence of nature and its intricate balance is proof for any\nhonest man of the existence of the Supreme Being, the\nSupreme Personality of Godhead, K.r!?r:Ja.\nThe Publishers\n\nix\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0013": "1\n\nThe arrival of clouds, accompanied by thunder and flashes of\nlightning all over the sky, provides a picture of life-giving hope.\n\nCovered by deep bluish clouds, the sky appears artificially dressed. The\nthunder and lightning within the clouds are signs of hope for a new way\nof life.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0014": "The serene sky, limitlessly expansive, is compared to the\nAbsolute Truth. The living entities are truths manifested in relation\nwith the modes of material nature. The deep bluish cloud covers\nonly an insignificant portion of the limitless sky, and this fractional\ncovering is compared to the quality of ignorance, or forgetfulness\nof the real nature of the living being. A living entity is as pure as\nthe limitless sky. He becomes covered by the cloud of forgetfulness, however, in his tendency for enjoying the material world.\nBecause of this quality, called tamas (ignorance), he considers\nhimself different from the Absolute Whole and forgets his purity,\nwhich is like that of the clear sky. This forgetfulness gives rise to\nseparatism in false ego. Thus the forgetful living entities, individually and collectively, make sounds like thundering clouds: \"I\nam this,\" \"It is ours,\" or \"It is mine.\" This mood of false separatism is called the quality of rajas, and it gives rise to a creative\nforce for separate lordship over the mode of tamas. The flash of\nlightning is the only beam of hope that can lead one to the path of\nknowledge, and therefore it is compared to the mode of sattva, or\ngoodness.\nThe limitless sky, or the all-pervading Absolute Truth (Brahman), is nondifferent from the covered portion of the sky, but\nsimultaneously the whole sky is different from the fractional portion that is liable to be covered by the dark cloud. The cloud,\naccompanied by thunder and lightning, cannot possibly cover the\nlimitless sky. Therefore the Absolute Truth, which is compared to\nthe whole sky, is simultaneously one with the manifested living\nbeing and different from him. The living being is only a sample of\nthe Absolute Truth and is prone to be covered by the circumstantial cloud of ignorance.\n2\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0015": "There are two parties of philosophers, generally known as the\nmonists and the dualists. The monist believes in the oneness of\nthe Absolute Truth and the living entity, but the dualist believes in\nthe separate identity of the living being and the Absolute Truth.\nAbove these two classes of philosophers is the philosophy of\nacintya bhedabheda tattva, or the truth of simultaneous oneness\nand difference. This philosophy was propounded by Lord\n\nS rT\n\nCaitanya Mahaprabhu in His explanation of the Vedanta-sotras.\nThe Vedanta is the medium of philosophical interpretations, and\nthus the Vedanta cannot be the absolute property of any particular\nclass of philosopher. A sincere seeker of the Absolute Truth is\ncalled a Vedantist. Veda means \"knowledge.\" Any department of\nknowledge is called a part of the Vedic knowledge, and Vedanta\nmeans the ultimate conclusion of all branches of knowledge. As\nphilosophy is called the science of all sciences, Vedanta is the\nultimate philosophy of all philosophical speculations .•\n\n2 The scorching heat of the sun evaporates water from the\n\nseas, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, and there is little\nwater anywhere. The people become thirsty and always look\noverhead for rain, but in despair. Yet just at the right moment,\ntorrents of rain begin to fall everywhere in the land, even on\nthe hard stones, and the land becomes overflooded.\n3\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0016": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0017": "The welfare state imposes upon its citizens scorching taxes in\nvarious forms - income tax, sales tax, land tax, terminal tax,\nexcise tax, customs tax, and so many other taxes. But in due\ncourse, when the taxes accumulate into a large sum of money,\nthey are utilized for the welfare of the citizens in various ways.\nNonetheless, sometimes it happens that the benefits of the taxes\nfall like rains on stone-hearted men in the state who are unable to\nutilize the money properly and who squander it for sense gratification.\nThe common man supposes the unequal distribution of rain to\nrepresent nature's wrath for our sinful acts. There is truth in this.\nThus to have an equal distribution of state-raised taxes, the\ncitizens need to be scrupulously honest and virtuous. They\nshould be honest in the payment of taxes to the state and should\nhave honest representatives to look over the administration. In\nthe modern setup of democratic states the citizens can have no\ncause for grievances, because the whole administration is conducted by the people themselves. If the people themselves are\ndishonest,\n\nthe administrative machinery must be corrupt.\n\nAlthough a damned government of the people may be given a\ngood or fancy name, if the people are not good they cannot have\na good government, regardless of which party governs the administration. Therefore good character in the consciousness of the\nmass of people is the first principle necessary for a good government and equal distribution of wealth.\nIn ancient days the kings were taught lessons in political philosophy by ideal teachers, and the citizens from village to village\nwere taught the principles of self-realization according to the\nVedic codes for both the material and the spiritual upliftment of\nsociety. Therefore the citizens were God conscious and honest in\ntheir dealings, and the kings were responsible for the welfare of\nthe state. The same basic principles are accepted in the democratic governments of the present day, for the irresponsible party of\nthe people is always voted out of power and must yield to the\n5\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0018": "responsible party for a better government. In the cosmic administra· o\n\nhere is only one party, which consists of the servants of\n\nGod. and the responsible deities of the various planets maintain\nhe cosmic laws in terms of the orders of the Supreme Lord. But\nthe people suffer on account of their own folly.\nAnd what is that folly? In Bhagavad-gTta it is said that people\nshould perform yajflas, or sacrifices for the satisfaction of the\nSupreme.\n\nanntid bhavanti bh£/ttini\nparjanytid anna-sambhavafJ\nyajntid bhavati parjanyo\nyajnaiJ karma-samudbhavafJ\n\n\"All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced\nfrom rains. Rains are produced by performance of yajfta [sacrifice], and yajfta is born of prescribed duties.\" (Bg. 3.14)\nThe Supreme is all-pervading. Therefore people must learn to\nperform yajflas to satisfy four different ages, and in the present\nage of iron industry the yajfla that enlightens the mind of the\nmasses for God consciousness is recommended. This process of\n\nyajfla is called the sankTrtana-yajfla, or mass congregation for\ninvoking man's lost spiritual consciousness. As soon as this\nmovement is taken up through spiritual singing, dancing, and\nfeasting, the people will automatically become obedient and\nhonest.\nObedience is the first law of discipline. The people have become disobedient to the laws of God, and therefore neither rain\nnor wealth is equally distributed. A man who is ultimately disobedient cannot have any good qualification. When disobedient leaders lead the disobedient people, the whole atmosphere of the\nadministration becomes polluted and full of dangers, as when a\nblind man leads several other blind men. The state taxes, therefore, should be spent to build the character of the people in\ngeneral. That will bring happiness to the citizens of the state.•\n6\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0019": "3\n\nAttracted by electricity throughout the sky and driven by\nforceful winds, clouds gradually cover the surface of the\n\nearth to satisfy the needy people by supplying water, which\nis the substance of their life. The clouds bestow rains upon\nman as the mercy of the Lord, who is always kind to the\nneedy living being.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0020": "We should always know that God is\nalways kind to us. Despite our gross disobedience to the laws of God's nature,\nthe Lord is kind enough to look after our\nmaintenance. Water is one of the most important items for our maintenance, because without water we can neither produce food grains nor quench our thirst.\nWater is also required very liberally for\nmany other purposes. Thus the Lord has\npreserved water on three fourths of the\nglobe and has made it salty to preserve it.\nSalty water does not decompose, and that\nis the arrangement of Providence. The\nLord has engaged the powerful sun to\nevaporate the water of planets like earth\nand distill it into clear water in the clouds\nand then stock it on the peaks of mountains, as we stock water in overhead tanks\nfor later distribution. Part of the stock of\nwater is refrigerated into ice so that it will\nnot flood the earth for no good purpose.\nThe ice melts gradually throughout the\nyear, flows down through the great rivers,\nand glides down to the sea again for preservation.\n8\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0021": "Therefore the laws of God's nature are neither blind nor\naccidental, as men with a poor fund of knowledge conclude.\nBehind the laws of nature is the living brain of God, as there is\nalways a lawmaker behind all the laws of the state. It does not\nmatter whether or not we see the lawmaker behind the common\nlaws; we must admit that there is a lawmaker. Matter can never\nwork automatically, without a living hand, and therefore we must\nadmit the existence of God, the supreme living being, behind the\nlaws of nature. The Lord says in Bhagavad-gTta that nature works\nunder His superintendence.\n\nmayiidhyak�e1.w prakrtil�\nsiiyate sa-cariicaram\nhetuniinena kaunteya\njagad viparivartate\n\n\"This material nature is working under M� dire tion. 0\n\non of\n\nKuntl, and it is producing all moving and unmo\\·ing be1ng�. By it\nrule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again ...\n(Bg. 9.10)\n\nNature is only a power, and behind the power s a o\n\n: erhouse\n,\n\nand a brain, just as behind electrical power here s a\" e ectrical\npowerhouse, where everything is conducted by : e o a\nresident engineer. The material nature works so n ce,\n9\n\no\n\nhe\n\na d not\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0022": "blin d ly, because of the superintendence of the supreme powerful\nGod. In the Vedic hymns (Atharva Veda) the same thing is confirmed. It is only under the superintendence of God that all the\nnatural laws are conducted.\nThe Lord distributes His mercy in the form of rains on the\nscorched earth at times of dire necessity. He supplies rain when\nwe are practically on the verge of death for want of water. God is\nmerciful undoubtedly, but He bestows His mercy on us when we\nneed it most. This is so because we forget God as soon as we\nobtain this mercy. We should therefore remember the mercy of\nGod constantly if we want to avoid distress. We are eternally\nrelated with Him, despite the state of forgetfulness already described above. The Bhagavad-gTta confirms that the laws of nature are stringent because they are conducted by three different\nmodes. But one who surrenders unto the Lord overcomes the\nstringency of nature easily. In\n•\n\nBhagavad-gTta, the Lord affirms\n\nthis:\n\ndaivi hy e�a gu1.wmayi\nmama maya duratyaya\nmam eva ye prapadante\nmayam etam taranti te\n\"This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of\nmaterial nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have\nsurrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.\" (Bg. 7.14)•\n10\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0023": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0024": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0025": "4 After heavy rain showers, the fields and\n\nforests in all directions appear green and\n\nhealthy. Thus they resemble a man who has undergone severe austerities for some material gain and\nhas achieved his end, for such a man is strong,\nhearty, and good-looking.\n\nAfter heavy rain showers, the fields and forests in all directions\nappear green and healthy. Thus they resemble a man who has\nundergone severe austerities for some material gain and has\nachieved his end, for such a man is strong, hearty, and goodlooking.\nThe greenery of the rainy season is but a temporary show. It\nlooks very pleasant, but we must remember that it will not last.\nSimilarly, there are persons who undergo severe austerities for\nsome material gain, but those who are sane avoid this. Severe\nausterities for temporary gains are simply a waste of time and\n13\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0026": "energy. Material loss and gain are destined in accordance with\nthe formation of each particular body. There are 8,400,000 species of life, and each type of body is destined to enjoy and suffer\nin accordance with its particular formation. The bodily enjoyments\nand sufferings of a wealthy man's son are different from those of a\npoor man's son. Although no one undergoes severe austerities to\nobtain distress, it comes upon us uncalled. Similarly, the happiness we are destined to enjoy will come upon us even without our\ndesires.\nEven though we may be able to avoid distress and artificially\nenjoy some material happiness by temporary achievements, this\nrepresents no factual gain in life. Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life, and it is for that purpose onlyfor the ultimate gain - that we should undertake all sorts of\npenances and austerities.\nThis ultimate gain is possible to achieve in the human form of\nlife. Permanent happiness is possible when one is free from\nmaterial sources of happiness, for continuation of material bondage means continuation of the threefold miseries. Human life is\nmeant for ending these miseries.\nWe should not try to be beautiful like seasonal flowers or\ngreenery that flourish in the rainy season but are weary in the\nwinter. To be enlivened by the clouds of ignorance overhead and\nto enjoy the sight of temporary greenery is not at all desirable.\nOne should try to live in the unlimited clear sky overflooded with\nthe rays of the sun and moon. That is what we actually desire. A\nlife of freedom in eternity, complete knowledge, and a blissful\natmosphere is the heart's desire of an enlightened soul. We\nshould undertake all sorts of penances and austerities to attain\nthat permanent source of happiness .•\n14\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0027": "�\n\n.-f.:�.\nI\n\n-J_\n\n..,\n\n5\n\nThe evening in the rainy season is dark all around. There is no\nsight of the twinkling stars on the horizon or the pleasing moon.\n\nThey are covered by clouds. And the insignificant glowworms become prominent in the absence of the luminaries in the open sky.\n\n15\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0028": "As there are seasonal changes within a year, so there are\nchanging ages in the duration of the manifest cosmic world.\nThese changing ages are catted yugas, or periods. As there are\nthree modes of nature, there are also various ages dominated by\nthese three modes. The period dominated by the mode of goodness is catted Satya-yuga, the period of passion is catted Tretayuga, the period of mixed passion and ignorance is cattted Dvapara-yuga, and the period of darkness and ignorance (the last\nperiod) is catted Kali-yuga, or the Age of Quarrel. The word kali\nmeans \"quarrel.\" Kali-yuga is compared to the rainy season\nbecause many difficulties in life are experienced during this damp\nseason.\nIn Kati-yuga there is a dearth of proper guidance. One may take\nguidance in the evening from the stars and moon, but in the rainy\nseason the light of guidance comes from insignificant glowworms. The real light in life is the Vedic knowledge. The Bhaga­\n\nvad-gTta affirms that the purpose of the Vedas is to know the\nall-powerful Personality of Godhead.\n\nsarvasya caham hrdi sannivi!f(ho\nmauaiJ smrrir j1ianam apohanari1 ca\nvedais ca sarvair aiJCun eva vedyo\nvedanra-krd veda-vid eva caham\n\n\"I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remem­\n\nbrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas am I to be\nknown; indeed I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower\nof the Vedas.'' (Bg. 15.15)\n16\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0029": "But in this Age of Quarrel there are quarrels even over the point\nof the existence of Godhead. In the godless civilization of the Age\nof Quarrel there are numberless societies, religious communities,\nand religious sects, most of them trying to banish God from\nreligion. Glowworms want to be prominent in the absence of the\nsun and the stars, and these small groups following various.\nreligious conceptions are like glowworms trying to be prominent\nbefore the eyes of the ignorant mass of people. There are now a\nnumber of self-made incarnations people follow without authority\nfrom the Vedic literatures. There is regular competition between\none incarnation's group and another's.\nThe Vedic knowledge comes in a tradition from the spiritual\nmaster through the chain of disciplic succession, and the knowledge must be acquired through this chain, without deviation. In\nthe present Age of Quarrel the chain has been broken here and\nthere, and thus the Veda is now interpreted by unauthorized men\nwho have no realization. The so-called followers of the Vedas\ndeny the existence of God, as in the darkness of a cloudy evening\nthe glowworms deny the existence of the moon and stars. Saner\npeople should not be waylaid by such unscrupulous men. The\n\nBhagavad-gTta is the summary of all Vedic knowledge because it\nis spoken by the same Personality of Godhead who imparted the\nVedic knowledge into the heart of Brahma, the first created being\nin the universe. SrTmad-Bhagavatam was especially spoken for\nthe guidance of the people of this age, which is darkened by the\ncloud of ignorance.•\n17\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0030": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0031": "6\n\nOn hearing the sound of the\ntorrential rains, the frogs come\n\nout of the mountain caves and begin to chant, like brahmacarls who\nchant the Vedic hymns by the order\nof the spiritual master.\n\n19\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0032": "In this age of a godless civilization the sages of worldrecognized religious sects who believe in God must come\nout of their secluded places and preach the science of\nGod, the Supreme Will, to the people in general. Hindus,\nMoslems, Christians, and the members of the other sects\nthat have convincing faith in the authority of God must not sit\nidly now and silently watch the rapid growth of a godless\ncivilization. There is the supreme will of God, and no nation\nor society can live in peace and prosperity without acceptance of this vital truth.\nThe warning is already there, and responsible leaders of\nreligious sects must meet together and form a common\nplatform of a league of devotees of the Lord. There is no\nneed for self-realized souls to live in a secluded place.\nPerfect self-realized souls, engaged in the service of the\nLord, are unafraid of maya, just as law-abiding citizens of a\nstate never fear the police. Such fearless devotees of God\nalways speak scientifically about the existence of God, even\nat the risk of death. Such devotees of God feel compassion\nfor the mass of people, who have completely forgotten the\nSupreme Lord and who engage in the false pursuit of happiness that ends in the sense pleasures enjoyed by the hogs\nand dogs.•\n20\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0033": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0034": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0035": "7\n\nThe small rivulets that almost dried up during\nthe months of May and June now begin to\n\noverflow their banks, like upstarts that suddenly\noverflow the limits of expenditure.\n----�------------ �---�\n\n23\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0036": "One should learn gravity from the sea and the rivulet. The\nsea is always within its limits, in spite of the many rivers\npouring water into it. Similarly, one should properly use the\nassets of life and not squander them for purposes that have\nno permanent value. Uncontrolled, sensuous persons play\nwith the assets of the body and accumulate wealth. But the\nstrength of the body should be used for self-realization, not\nfor sense gratification.\nHuman beings have two kinds of temperament. Some are\nintrospective, and the others are extravagant. Those who are\nextravagant are enamored of the external features of phenomenal beauty and have no insight into the whole manifestation. They are practically asleep to introspection, and\nthus they are unable to derive any permanent value from the\nassets of the human form of body. But one who has developed introspection is as grave as the sea. While those\nwho are extravagant are calm and quiet in sleep, such grave\npersons use the full advantage of the human form of life.\nAlthough the animal propensities of the body should be\nminimized, those who are extravagant temporarily overflow\nin material enjoyment. Nonetheless, as soon as the rainy\nseason of life is over, they become as dry as dry river beds.\nLife is meant for the right cause, or sat- that which exists\nfor all time. In the material world, nothing is sat, or eternal,\nbut the bad bargain of the material world can be used for the\nbest purpose. The mind dedicated to extravagance is a bad\nbargain, but one can make the best use of the mind by\nintrospection .•\n24\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0037": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0038": "8\n\nThe colorful greenery of the newly grown\ngrass, the seasonal flowers, the frog's umbrel­\n\nlas, the butterflies, and the other variegatedness of\nthe rainy season perfectly represent a well-to-do\nfamily absorbed in vanity over their personal\nassets.\n\nA rich man displays his opulence in various colorful ways. He\nhas a good residential bungalow with sufficient property and a\nwell-trimmed garden. The bungalow is decorated with up-to-date\nfurniture and carpets. There are motor cars with dazzling polish,\nand a radio set receiving and broadcasting colorful news and\nmelodious songs. All these captivate their proprietor as though he\nwere in a dreamland of his own creation.\nWhen the same man was as dry as fallow land and had none of\nthese opulences, he was plain in behavior, but since obtaining all\nthese material means of enjoyment he has forgotten the principle\nthat everything in the world comes and goes away like the changing seasons. The beautiful Red Fort and the Taj Mahal were built\nby Shah Jahan, who left the place long ago, and many others\nhave also come and gone in the same place, like seasonal flowers. Material assets are like seasonal flowers only. Either the\nflowers wither, or the gardener himself leaves. This is the law of\nnature. Therefore, if we want permanent life, knowledge and\nbliss, we must seek them somewhere else, not in the changeable, temporary rainy season, which is flooded with so many\nvarieties of pleasing sights that vanish when the season ends.\nMaterial manifestations of things are but shadowy representations of reality. They are compared to mirages in the desert. In the\ndesert there is no water, but the foolish deer runs after illusory\nwater in the desert to quench his thirsty heart. Water is not unreal,\nbut the place where we seek it is misleading. The advancement of\nmaterialistic civilization is just like a mirage in the desert. The deer\nruns after water in the desert with full speed, and the illusion of\nwater moves ahead at the same speed as the foolish deer. Water\nis not false, but we must not seek it in the desert. A living entity,\nby his past experience, remembers the real happiness of his\noriginal spiritual existence, but since he has forgotten himself he\nseeks spiritual or permanent happiness in matter, although this is\nimpossible to achieve.•\n26\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0039": "9\n\nA picturesque scene\nof green paddy fields\n\nenlivens the heart of the\npo.Dr agliiculturalist, but it/\nbrings\n\nloom to the face\n\nof the capitalist who lives\n\n[\n\nby exploiting the p_ or\nfarmers.\n\n/\n27\n\n/1\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0040": "With good rains, the farmer's business in agriculture\nflourishes. Agriculture is the noblest profession. It makes\nsociety happy, wealthy, healthy, honest, and spiritually advanced for a better life after death. The vaisya community, or\nthe mercantile class of men, take to this profession. In the\nBhagavad-gTta the vaisyas are described as the natural agriculturalists, the protectors of cows, and the general traders.\nWhen Lord SrT Kr$�a incarnated Himself at Vrndavana, He\ntook pleasure in becoming a beloved son of such a vaisya\nfamily. Nanda Maharaja was a big protector of cows, and\nLord SrT Kr $�a. as the most beloved son of Nanda Maharaja,\nused to tend His father's animals in the neighboring forest.\nBy His personal example Lord Kr$�a wanted to teach us the\nvalue of protecting cows. Nanda Maharaja is said to have\npossessed 900,000 cows, and at the time of Lord SrT Kr$na\n(about 5,000 years ago) the tract of land known as\nVrndavana was flooded with milk and butter. Therefore\nGod's gifted professions for mankind are agriculture and\ncow protection.\nTrade is meant only for transporting surplus produce to\nplaces where the produce is scanty. But when traders become too greedy and materialistic they take to large-scale\ncommerce and industry and allure the poor agriculturalist to\nunsanitary industrial towns with a false hope of earning more\nmoney. The industrialist and the capitalist do not want the\nfarmer to remain at home, satisfied with his agricultural produce. When the farmers are satisfied by a luxuriant growth of\nfood grains, the capitalist becomes gloomy at heart. But the\nreal fact is that humanity must depend on agriculture and\nsubsist on agricultural produce. No one can produce rice\nand wheat in big iron factories. The industrialist goes to the\nvillagers to purchase the food grains he is unable to produce\nin his factory. The poor agriculturalist takes advances from\nthe capitalist and sells his produce at a lower price. Hence\nwhen food grains are produced abundantly the farmers become financially stronger, and thus the capitalist becomes\nmorose at being unable to exploit them.•\n28\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0041": "10\n\nJust as a living being attains a transcendentally attractive form by render­\n\ning service to Lord Hari, similar ly, all the inhabitants of the land and the water have\nassumed beautiful forms by taking ad vantage\nof the newly fallen water.\n\n29\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0042": "We have practical experience of this with our\nstudents in the International Society for Krishna\nConsciousness. Before becoming students, they\nwere dirty looking, although they had naturally\nbeautiful personal features; but due to having no\ninformation of Kr�f)a consciousness they appeared\nvefy dirty and wretched. Since they have taken to\nKr�f)a consciousness, their health has improved,\nand by following the rules and regulations, their\nbodily luster has increased. When they are\ndressed with saffron colored cloth, with tilaka on\ntheir foreheads and beads in their hands and on\ntheir necks, they look exactly as if they come\ndirectly from Vaikuf)tha.\nThe residents of the water are the fish, frogs,\nand so on, and the residents of the land are the\ncows, deer, and so on. By constantly drinking and\ntaking bath in the fresh rain water of the rainy\nseason, the tired and parched animals are refreshed and their complexion becomes brilliant as\ntheir health is invigorated by the arrival of new rain\nwater. The lakes, ponds and rivers are cleansed\nand invigorated by the down-pour of new rain water and thus become most beautiful. Similarly, a\ndevotee of the Supreme Lord who takes advantage of the beautiful and invigorating downpour of\nthe transcendental descriptions of God found in\nVedic literature finds his spiritual consciousness\ninvigorated and refreshed. In this way his spiritualized body becomes very beautiful.•\n30\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0043": "11\n\n1n the rainy season, when the rivers swell and rush to\nthe ocean, and as the wind blows the w�ves about,\n\nthe ocean appears to be agitated. Similarly, if a person engaged in the mystic yoga process is not very advanced in\nspiritual life, he can be affected by the modes of nature and\nthus will be agitated by the sex impulse.\n\n31\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0044": "A person fixed in spiritual knowledge will not\nb e a t t r a c t e d b y the allur ement of material\nnature in the form of beautiful women and the\nsex pleasure enjoyed in their association. One\nhowever, who is still immature in the cultivation of\nspiritual knowledge may be attracted at any moment by the illusion of temporary happiness, just\nas the ocean is agitated by the rushing rivers and\nblowing wind which occur during the rainy season.\nIt is therefore very important to fix oneself at the\nlotus feet of a bona fide spiritual master who is a\nrepresentative of God so that one will not be carried away by sex agitation.•\n32\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0045": "·\n\n�� )(lJ� �lrf, 1M1f �¥Y\n\n09 1t) Yt ilf Jf, t.�·\nn� OULjSJ-I>l l!j[ lr� (tiiU:<: \"1,f\n)ill cf, ill 1'(. IJ:}\"rPil tyl \\:XJ\n( -::-+)\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0046": "12\n\nThe mountains, although\nbeing struck by torrents of\n\nrain during the rainy season, are\nnot shaken, just as those whose\nhearts are dedicated to the transcendental Personality of Godhead\nare never disturbed even when they\nare harassed by great misfortune.\n\nBecause a person who is spiritually advanced accepts any adverse condition of life as\nthe mercy of the Lord, he is completely eligible\nto enter into the spiritual kingdom. Even though a\nperson takes to the devotional service of the Supreme Lord, he may sometimes become diseased,\nimpoverished or disappointed by life's events. A\ntrue devotee of the Lord always considers these\nsufferings to be due to past sinful activities, and\nthus he is not disturbed, patiently awaiting the\nmercy of the Supreme Lord. Such devotees are\ncompared to high mountains which are never agitated in any way even when struck by powerful\ntorrents of rain in the rainy season. Rather, they\nremain humble in spiritual enlightenment. Free of\npride and envy, they easily gain the mercy of the\nLord and go back to home, back to Godhead.•\n34\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0047": "9£\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0048": "13\n\nIn the rainy season some of\nthe roads are not frequently\n\nused and become covered with long\ngrasses, on account of which it becomes very difficult to see the road.\nSimilarly, in this age the transcendental scriptures are not properly studied\nby the brahmaoas. Being covered by\nthe effects of time, the scriptures are\npractically lost, and it becomes very\ndifficult to understand or follow them.\n\nA covered road is exactly like a brahma(la who is\nnot accustomed to studying and practicing the reformatory practices of Vedic injunctions- he becomes covered with the long grasses of illusion. In\nthat condition, forgetful of his constitutional nature,\nhe forgets his position of eternal servitorship to\nthe Supreme Personality of Godhead. By being\ndeviated by the seasonal overgrowth of long\ngrasses created by maya, a person identifies himself with illusory productions of nature and succumbs to illusion, forgetting his spiritual life .•\n36\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0049": "14\n\nThe lightning becomes unsteady in its\nfriendship, failing to remain faithfully in\n\nany one of the clouds, although they are the\nfriends of the entire world, just as lusty women do\nnot remain steady even in the company of men\n·\n\nwho possess excellent qualities.\n\n37\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0050": "During the rainy season, lightning appears in\none group of clouds and then immediately\nin another group of clouds. This phenomenon is\ncompared to a lusty woman who does not fix her\nmind on one man. A cloud is compared to a qualified person because it pours rains and gives\nsustenance to many people; a man who is qualified similarly gives sustenance to many living creatures, such as family members or many workers\nin business. Unfortunately, his whole life can be\ndisturbed by a wife who divorces him; when the\nhusband is disturbed, the whole family is ruined,\nthe children are dispersed or the business is\nclosed, and everything is affected. It is therefore\nrecommended that a woman desiring to advance\nin Kr�rw consciousness peacefully live with a husband and that the couple not separate under any\ncondition. The husband and wife should control\nsex indulgence and concentrate their minds on\nKr�r:m consciousness so their life may be successful. After all, in the material world a man requires a\nwoman, and a woman requires a man. When they\nare combined, they should live peacefully in Kr�rw\nconsciousness and should not be restless like the\nlightning, flashing from one group of clouds to\nanother .•\n\n38\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0051": "15\n\n/n the midst of\nthe thunder in\n\nthe cloudy sky, there\nappears a rainbow that\nh a s no s t r i ng.\n\nIt s\n\nappearance is compared to the appearance of the Supreme\nPer so na l i t y of Godhead or His servants in\nthe midst of the material atmosphere.\n\nr\n\nt\n\n/\n)\n\n39\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0052": "The Sanskrit word gu(la means \"quality\" or\n\"mode,\" as well as \"string\" or \"rope.\" When\na rainbow appears during the rainy season,\nit is observed to be like a bow and no guna, or\nstring. Similarly, the appearance of the Personality\nof Godhead or His transcendental servants has\n,\n\nnothing to do with the qualitative modes of material nature. The phenomenal appearance of the\nTranscendence is free from the qualities of material nature, and thus it resembles a bow with no\nstring.\nThe transcendental Supreme Lord is eternally\nthe form of transcendental existence, knowledge,\nand bliss. The material energy works under His\ngood will, and therefore He is never affected by\nthe modes of material nature. When He appears\nbefore us in the midst of material interactions, He\nremains always unaffected, like a stringless\nrainbow.\nBy His inconceivable energy, the Supreme Lord\ncan appear and disappear like a rainbow, which\nappears and disappears without being affected by\nthe roaring thunder and the cloudy sky. The Lord\nis eternally the biggest of the big and the smallest\nof the small. The living beings, who are His parts\nand parcels, are the smallest of the small, and He\nis the biggest of the big as the Absolute Truth, the\nSupreme Personality of Godhead.•\n\n40\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0053": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0054": "16\n\nAt night, by the grace of the moonlight, the clouds in the sky can be\n\nseen moving. Yet the moon itself appears to\nbe moving, just as a living being appears to\nbe moving because of false identification with\nmatter.\n\nAt night in the rainy season the moving clouds reflecting\nthe moonlight make the moon appear to be moving. This is\ncalled illusion. The spirit soul, or the living being, is the root of atl\nthe activities of the material body, but because of illusion the spirit\nsoul remains covered by the gross and subtle material bodies.\nThus covered, the conditioned soul identifies with the material\nbody and thus becomes subject to the sense of false ego.\nThis false ego obliges q living being to consider his material\nbody to be his self, the offspring of the body to be his children,\nand the land of the birth of the body to be an object of worship.\nThus the living being's conception of nationalism is another type\nof ignorance. Because of ignorance a living being identifies himself with the land of his birth and moves with the misconceptions\nof national ideas. In fact, however, a living being does not belong\nto any nation or species of life. He has nothing to do with the\nbody, as the moon has nothing to do with the moving clouds.\nThe moon is far away from the clouds and is fixed in its own\norbit, but illusion presents a scene in which the moon appears to\nbe moving. A living being should not float with the misconception of the temporary body; he must always know himself to be\ntranscendental to the bodily identity. This is the path of knowledge, and complete knowledge fixes the living being in the orbit\nof spiritual activities.\nThe spiritual living force is always active by nature. By illusion\nhis activities are wrongly directed in relation with the body, but in\nthe liberated condition of complete knowledge his activities are\nconducted in spiritual devotion. Liberation does not mean stopping activities; it means being purified of illusory activities and\nbecoming transcendental to relations with the gross and subtle\nbodies.•\n42\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0055": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0056": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0057": "17\n\nWhen the clouds appear in the sky the peacock begins to dance in ecstasy, as a sincere soul becomes\n\noverwhelmed with joy on the appearance of a saint at his\nhouse.\n\nThe duty of sages and saints is to go from door to door and\nthus enlighten the householders in spiritual knowledge. Householder life is compared to a dark well. In a dark well the frog\ncannot see the free light of the open sky. The dark well of\nhouseholder life kills the soul. One should therefore get out of it\nso that he may see the light of spiritual vision. Saints and sages\nmercifully try to uplift fallen souls from the dark well of householder life. An enlightened householder therefore takes pleasure\nin the appearance of such saints and sages at his house. The\nmind of the householder who is a conditioned soul is always\n45\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0058": "disturbed by the threefold miseries of material life. Everyone\nwants to be happy in his householder life, but the laws of nature\ndo not allow one to become happy in material existence, which is\nlike a spontaneous forest fire.\nIn the Age of Kali, as described before, people in general no\nlonger take pleasure in the presence of saints and sages, nor are\nthey interested in spiritual enlightenment. The saints and sages,\nhowever, take all risks to propagate the message of Godhead.\nLord Jesus Christ, Thakura Haridasa, Lord Nityananda Prabhu,\nand many such sages risked their life to propagate the message\nof Godheqd. Self-realized saints and sages take such risks for the\nspiritual enlightenment of the people in general. They do not take\nvows of silence meant to win cheap glory from the ignorant mass\nof people. God is satisfied only when His devotees take all sorts\nof risks to propagate His glories. Such devotees are unafraid of\nthe difficult journey to cross the ocean of nescience. They are\nalways anxious for the welfare of the fallen souls, who are\na ached to the false enjoyment of materialistic life, in which they\n.•\n\nforget their eternal relation with God.\nIt is the duty of the saints and sages to enlighten the fallen\nsouls, and reciprocally it is the duty of the householder to receive\nthe saints and sages cordially, as the peacock dances in ecstasy\nat the presence of clouds in the sky. The fire of threefold miseries\nexperienced by materialistic men can be extinguished only by the\ncloud of mercy of the saints and sages who can pour down the\nwater of transcendental messages to put an end to the miseries of\nthe householders .•\n46\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0059": "f\n\n•\nI\n,\n\nMany plants and creepers that were almost dead during the months\n\n18 of April and May are now visible again in various forms, for they are\n\nnourished by their roots in the moist earth. These numberless plants and\ncreepers resemble persons who dry up in severe penances for some material gain but then achieve their objectives and become luxuriously fat,\nnourished by sense enjoyment.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0060": "In Bhagavad-gTta it is said that when the daytime of Brahma is\nover the manifested creations of the universe all vanish and after\nthe end of Brahma's night the creation is manifested again.\n\nblu/ta-gl'{/nwh sa C\\'rtrari1\nblultl'rl bhtltl'rl pm/Tratc\nu/t n•-c/game' \\'((.\\\"a /.t prl rtha\n\npm blw 1 ·at\\' aha r-ilgwne\n\n··Again and again the day comes. and this host of beings is\nactive: and again the night falls. 0 P�1rtha. and they are helplessly\ndissolved. (Bg. �.llJ)\n\nThus the cosmic creation, in its manifestation and nonman­\n\nifestat! on, resembles the creepers and plants that appear during\nthe rainy season and gradually vanish when the season is over.\nEven when the plants and creepers are no longer to be seen,\ntheir seeds remain, and these dormant seeds fructify in contact\nwith water. Similarly, the seedlike spiritual sparks who are dominated by the desire to lord it over the material nature exist in a\ndormant state after the cosmic manifestation is annihilated, and\nwhen the cosmic manifestation reappears all the silent living\nbeings within the womb of material nature come out and engage\nin sense enjoyment, thereby growing luxuriously fat.\nTo attain liberation, one must be completely purified of perverted forms of desire. A living being cannot snuff out desires,\nand to practice artificially erasing the actions of desire is more\ndangerous than the active desires themselves. All desires should\nbe reformed and directed towards spiritual activities; otherwise\nthose same desires will repeatedly manifest themselves in different varieties of material enjoyment, thus conditioning the living\nbeing perpetually in material bondage.•\n48\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0061": "19\n\nA crane stands on the\nedge of a pond that is\n\nalways disturbed by flowing\nwater, mud, and stones. The\ncrane is like a householder\nwho is disturbed in the shelter\nof his home but who because\nof too much attachment does\nnot want to change his position.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0062": "The forgetful householder life of the conditioned soul is a\nsoul-killing dark well. This is the opinion of SrT Prahlada Maharaja,\nthe celebrated devotee of the Lord. Too much attachment for\nhearth and home is never recommended by a self-realized soul.\nTherefore the span of human life should be methodically divided.\nThe first stage is called the brahmacarT-asrama, or the order of\nlife in childhood, when the man-to-be is trained in the ultimate\ngoal of life. The next stage is the grha_stha asrama, in which the\nman is trained to enter into the Transcendence. Then comes the\nvanaprastha asrama, the preliminary stage of renounced life. The\nlast stage recommended is the sannyasa order, or the renounced\norder of life. In this way one accepts a gradual process of spiritual\nactivities for the ultimate goal of liberation.\nUnfortunately, for want of sufficient culture of the human spirit,\nno one wants to give up the householder life, even though it is full\nof pinpricks and mud. And those who are too attached amidst the\npinpricks of muddy householder life are compared to the cranes\nthat stand on the bank of the river for some sense enjoyment\ndespite all the inconveniences there. We should always remember that the society, friendship, and love we are supposed to\nenjoy in family life are only shadowy representations of the real\nsociety, friendship, and love reciprocated in the kingdom of God.\nThere is no reality in the conditioned life of material existence, but\nbecause of our ignorance we are attached to the mirage. The idea\nof society, friendship, and love is not at all false, but the place\nwhere we search for it is false. We have to give up this false\nposition and rise to the reality. That should be the aim of life, and\nthat is the result of cultivating the human spirit.\nUnfortunately, for want of sufficient culture of this spirit, the\nmaterialistic man always sticks to this false place in spite of all its\nturmoils. It is said that a man should give up the order of householder life at the age of fifty. But in this era of ignorance even an\nold man wants to rejuvenate his bodily functions, put on artificial\nteeth, and make a pretense of youthful life, even on the verge of\ndeath. Cranelike politicians especially are too much attached to\nthe false prestige of position and rank, and so they always seek\nreelection, even at the fag end of life. These are some of the\nsymptoms of an uncultured life.•\n50\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0063": "20\n\nFierce torrents of rain break over the\nstrands and the partition walls of the\n\npaddy field. These disturbances resemble\nthose created by the seasonal opponents of\nthe standard principles of the Vedas, who are\ninfluenced by the Age of Kali.\n\n:�:¢>'\n\n��\n\n9�� :;1.\n\nrr!. :=.. -:-e = �\n\n.l[}il��\"T--T\n\n•\n\n�i\n\n��%-m:¥\nf!if;�\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0064": "-=--+\n\n.$:::!>.;;,t!�%.\n·�±�\n\n•\n\n-1±.-*��;:: ...;;.:\n\n��i.]tS��P.:;A���I/�83\n:�p\n\n�\n\n!!\n\ni7!:t�����\n\n� -� rJt;;;\n\nOriginally the path of self-realization was\nestablished by the standard direction of the\n\nVedas. Srila Vyasadeva divided the original Veda\ninto four divisions, namely Sama, Atharva, Fjk, and\nYajur. Then he divided the same Vedas into eighteen Pura(las (supplements) and the Mahabharata,\nand then again the same author summarized them\nin the\n\nVedanta-sotras. The purpose of all these\n\n�•·F� Vedic literatures is to realize one's self to be a\nspiritual being, eternally related with the Supreme\nPersonality of Godhead, the all-attractive form (SrT\n\nKrf?�a).\n\nBut all these different Vedic literatures were\n\nsystematically distorted by the onslaught of the\nAge of Kali, as the walls of the paddy field and the\nstrand of the river are distorted by the onslaught of\nheavy rains. The attacks of distortion are offered\nby atheistic philosophers who are connected only\nwith eating, drinking, being married, and enjoying.\n52\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0065": "These atheists are all against the revealed scriptures because such persons are intimately\nattached to sense pleasures and gross materialism. There are also others who do not believe in\nthe eternity of life. Some of them propose that life\nis ultimately to be annihilated and that only the\nmaterial energy is conserved. Others are less\nconcerned with physical laws but do not believe\nanything beyond their experience. And still others\nequate spirit and matter and declare the distinction\nbetween them to be illusory.\nThere is no doubt that the Vedas stand as the\nmost recognized books of knowledge, from every\nangle of vision. But over the course of time the\nVedic path has been attacked by philosophers\nlike Charvaka,\n\nBuddha, Arhat,\n\nKapila,\n\nPatanjali,\n\nSankara, Vaikaran, Jaimini, the Nayakas, the\nVaisyasikhas, the Sagul}ists, the Empericists, the\nPasupat Saivas, the Sagul}a Saivas, the Brahmas,\nthe Aryas, and many others (the list of non-Vedic\nspeculators grows daily, without restriction). The\npath of the Vedas does not accord with any principle devoid of an eternal relation with God, attainment of His devotional service, and culmination in\ntranscendental love for Him .•\n\n21\n\nThe wind carries the clouds to different\nparts of the globe, and the clouds distri­\n\nbute rains, to the satisfaction of the people in\ngeneral, just as rich kings and merchants distribute their accumulated wealth, inspired by religious priests.\n53\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0066": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0067": "As already explained, the four divisions of society - namely\nthe intelligent class of men (the brahma(Jas), the ruling class\n(the k$atriyas), the mercantile class (the vaisyas), and the laboring class (the sOdras) - are meant to achieve one goal in life:\nself-realization, or cultivation of the human spirit. The intelligent\nclass of men, the brahmanas, are to inspire the k$atriyas and\nvaisyas in performing sacrifices for spiritual cultivation, and thus\nthe cooperation of the brahma(Jas, k$atriyas, and vaisyas uplifts\nthe people in general, or the ordinary laboring class of men. As\nsoon as this cooperation between the four classes of men in\nsociety stops and the basic principles of spiritual culture are\nneglected, the social structure of humanity becomes a second\nedition of animal life, based on the propensities of eating, sleeping, fearing, and mating. It is the duty of the intelligent men to\ninfluence the members of the richer communities- the k$atriyas\nand vaisyas- to sacrifice for spiritual culture. Only in this way\ncan the tension between the capitalists and the laborers be well\nmitigated.\nIn this Age of Kali, when a slight difference of opinion leads to\nquarrel, even to the extent of riots, it is the duty of the intelligent\nmen, the brahma(Jas, to selflessly inspire the richer people to\nsacrifice for this purpose. It is suggested herewith that the men of\nthe intelligent class should not themselves try to become\n\n55\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0068": "k$atriyas or vaisyas, nor should they engage themselves in the\noccupations of the various other classes; rather, the brahma(las\nshould simply guide them in spiritual cultivation, just as the wind\ncarries the clouds to other places to pour water. The wind itself\ndoes not take up the responsibility for pouring water.\nThe most intelligent men in society are the saints and sages\nwho have sacrificed everything for the service of spiritual culture.\nTheir duty is to travel throughout human society and inspire its\nmembers to engage themselves in acts of spiritual culture by\nsacrificing their words, money, intelligence, and life. That should\nbe the theme of human life in order to make it a complete\nsuccess. A society with no taste for spiritual culture is a blazing\nfire, and everyone in that fire perpetually suffers the threefold\nmiseries. As clouds pour water. on a blazing fire in the forest and\nthus extinguish it, the intelligent men who work as the spiritual\nmasters of society pour water on the blazing fire of miseries by\ndisseminating spiritual knowledge and inspiring the richer section\nof the society to help in the cause. Temples of worship, for\nexample, are constructed by the rich, and these temples are\nmeant to impart spiritual education to people in general. The\nperiodic spiritual ceremonies are held for inspiration, and not for\nexploitation. If there are flaws now because of the Age of Kali,\nthey should be rectified but the institution must be saved.•\n\n56\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0069": "21'1\n\nAfter the complete rainy season, the forest of Vrn­\n\nIC. davana was full of fruits like dates and blackberries\n\nripening on the trees and bushes. Lord Sri K['!iiJa, along with\n\nHis elder brother Sri Baladeva and other cowherd boys of the\nvicinity, entered the beautiful forest, accompanied by the\ncows, to display transcendental pastimes with His eternal\nfriends.\n\nLord Sri Kr$�a. the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appears\nwith His personal entourage once in 4,320,000,000 years and\ndisplays His transcendental paraphernalia, just to attract the conditioned souls of the material world. Although the material world is\nonly a shadow of the spiritual world, the materially encaged living\nentities seek spiritual happiness here, in a form perverted by\nmaterialistic attachment. Emperic philosophers with a poor fund\nof knowledge imagine a spiritual picture that is impersonal. But\nthe spiritual living being, less attracted by the impersonal form of\nspiritual emancipation, becomes more attracted by the material\nform and becomes hopeless of spiritual emancipation.\n\n57\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0070": "Therefore the Absolute Personality of Godhead, out of His\nlimitless and causeless mercy, descends from the spiritual kingdom and displays His personal pastimes at Vrndavana, the replica\nof the Kf$r:Jaloka planet in the spiritual sky. Vrndavana is the most\nsacred place within this cosmic universe, and people seeking to\nachieve spiritual emancipation by entering the kingdom of God\nmay make a home at Vrndavana and become serious students of\nthe six GosvamTs who were instructed by Lord SrT Caitanya\nMahaprabhu. The six GosvamTs were headed by SrTia ROpa GosvamT who was followed by SrTia Sanatana, Bha:tta Ragunatha,\nSrTia JTva GosvamT, Gopala Bhat):a, and Srila Ragunatha dasa\nGosvami. They were all seriously engaged in research and excavation of the mystery of Vrndavana dhama.\nLord SrT Kr$r:Ja, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appeared\nat Vrndavana about five thousand years ago, and the relics of His\nappearance at Vrndavana were lost from view. But Lord SrT\nCaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the very same Lord SrT Kr$r:Ja in the\nform of a great devotee, appeared at NavadvTpa, a district in West\nBengal, and excavated the holy places of Lord SrT Kr$r:Ja's transcendental pastimes. He instructed the above-mentioned six GosvamTs to compose authorized literature on the cult of Vrndavana,\nand any serious student anxious to know about the Supreme Lord\nmay take advantage of this invaluable literature and the guidance\nof authorized scholars and thus know about the Lord of\nVrndavana, SrT Kr$r:Ja, the Personality of Godhead .•\n\n58\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0071": "After the complete rainy season, the forest of Vrndavana was full of fruits like dates and\nblackberries ripening on the trees and bushes. Lord Sri K{'l?fJa, along with His elder brother\nSri Baladeva and other cowherd boys of the vicinity, entered the beautiful forest, accompanied by the cows, to display transcendental pastimes with His eternal friends.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0072": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0073": "2�\n\nThe cows that followed\n\n,.;;} t h e Lord within the\n\nforest moved slowly because\nof their h e a vy,\n\nm ilk-laden\n\nudders. But when the Lord\ncalled them by their specific\nnames they at once became\nalert, and as they hastened toward Him their milk bags overflowed and poured milk on the\nground because of affection\nfor the Lord.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0074": "It is understood from scriptures like the\nBrahma-samhita that in the spiritual abode of the\n\nLord the houses are made of touchstone and the\ntrees are all desire trees. There the Lord is accustomed to tending thousands and thousands of\nkamadhenus (cows able to supply unlimited quan­\n\ntities of milk). And all the houses, trees, and cows\n·\n\nare qualitatively nondifferent from the Lord. The\nLord and His paraphernalia in the spiritual abode\nare all one and the same in quality, although there\nare differences for the pleasure of the Lord. In the\nmaterial world also we have various paraphernalia\nfor our pleasures in life, but because all this paraphernalia is made of matter it is all destructible at\nthe end. In the spiritual sky there are the very\nsame varieties of pleasure, but they are all meant\nfor the Lord. There the Lord alone is the supreme\nenjoyer and beneficiary, and all others are enjoyed\nby the Lord. The Lord is served there by all kinds\nof servitors, and both the master and the servitors\nare of the same quality. This spiritual variegatedness is displayed by the Lord when He descends\nat V.mdavana, and we may know that the Lord\ndescends with His personal staff of cows, cowherd boys, and cowherd maidens, all of whom\nare but spiritual expansions of the Lord Himself for\nHis own pleasures. Thus when called by the Lord\nthe cows were overwhelmed by joyous affection,\njust as the mother's breast overflows with milk\nwhen the child cries for it.\n64\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0075": "All of us living beings are differentiated expansions of the Lord. But our affection for the Lord is\nsubmerged within us, artificially covered by the\nmaterial quality of ignorance. Spiritual culture is\nmeant to revive this natural affection of the living\nbeing for the Lord. The ingredients of fire are\nalready present in safety matches, and only mild\nfriction is needed to ignite a fire. Similarly, our\nnatural affection for the Lord has to be revived by a\nlittle culture. Specifically, we have to receive the\nmessages of the Lord with a purified heart.\nFor spiritual realization one has to purify the\nheart and know things in their true perspective. As\nsoon as one does this, the flow of one's natural\naffection begins to glide towards the Lord, and with\nthe progress of this flow one becomes more and\nmore self-realized in various relations with the\nLord. The Lord is· the center of all the affection of\nall living beings, who are all His parts and parcels.\nWhen the flow of natural affection for the Lord is\nclogged by desires to imitate His lordship, one is\nsaid to be in maya, or illusion. Maya has no substantial existence, but as long as its hallucinations\ngo qn, their reactions are felt. The Lord, by His\ncauseless mercy, displays the reality of life so that\nour hallucinations may be completely dissipated.•\n\n2�A\n\nWhen the Lord entered the forest of Vm­\n\n..,. davana, all the inhabitants of the fortist,\n\nboth animate and inanimate, were eager to receive\nHim. He saw that the flowers of the forest, all fully\nblossoming, were weeping in ecstasy, honey flowing down their petals. The waterfalls on the hilly\nrocks were gladly flowing, and one could hear\nsweet sounds from the caves nearby.\n65\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0076": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0077": "The Lord has multifarious energies, and therefore the Lord and His energies are identical.\nAmong His various energies the material energy is\none, and it is said in the Bhagavad-gTta that the\nmaterial energy is inferior in quality to the spiritual\nenergy. Spiritual energy is superior because without contact with the spiritual energy the material\nenergy alone cannot produce anything. But the\nsource of all energies is the all-attractive Personality of Godhead, SrT Kp?l)a.\nThis material world is a combination of matter\nand spirit, but the spiritual world, which is far, far\naway from the material sky, is purely spiritual and\nhas no contact with matter. In the spiritual world,\neverything is spirit. We have already discussed\nthis. The Personality of Godhead, the original\nsource of all energies, is able to convert spirit into\nmatter and matter into spirit. For Him there is no\ndifference between matter and spirit. He is therefore called kaivalya.\nIn Lord SrT K.r-?t:la's transcendental pastimes, He\nreciprocates with spirit, not matter. When He is in\nthe mortal world, the material qualities cannot\nwork upon Him. An electrician knows how to take\nwork from electricity. With the help of electricity he\ncan turn water into cold or heat. Similarly, the\nPersonality of Godhead can turn matter into spirit\nand spirit into matter by His inconceivable power.\nEverything is therefore matter and spirit by the\n\n67\n\nl\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0078": ".f\n\ngrace of the Almighty, although there is a difference between matter and spirit for the ordinary\nliving being.\nFlowers,\n\nwaterfalls, trees, fruits, hills, caves,\n\nbirds, beasts, and human beings are nothing but\ncombinations of God's energy. Therefore when\nthe Personality of Godhead appeared before them\nthey all became spiritually inclined, and by natural\n�·\n\naffection they wanted to serve the Almighty in\nvarious capacities.\nThere are different stages of spiritual development in matter. In the material world the spiritual\nsparks of the Personality of Godhead are covered\nby the material energy in different proportions, and\ngradually they become spiritualized in various\nspecies of life. The human form of life represents\nthe complete development of the senses for spiritual realization of one's original affection for the\nLord. Therefore, if despite this opportunity for\nhuman life we are unable to revive our natural\naffection for the Lord, we must know that we are\nwasting our life for nothing. By the grace of the\nLord, however, the spiritual consciousness of\nevery species of life can occupy its proper place,\nand these species can express their spiritual\naffection for the Lord in the santa rasa, as displayed by the land, water, hills, trees, fruits, and\nflowers of Vrndavana during the presence of Lord\n\nS rT Kp;;t:Ja, the Personality of Godhead.•\n\n68\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0079": "211:\n\nThe Lord reciprocated the feelings of the\n\n� inhabitants of the forest of Vrndavana.\n\nWhen there was rainfall, the Lord took shelter at\nthe feet of the trees or in the caves and enjoyed the\ntaste of different fruits with His eternal associates\nthe cowherd boys. He played with them, sat with\nthem, and ate fruits with them.\n\n69\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0080": "�\n\nBecoming one with God does not always\nindicate that a living being merges into the\nexistence of the Lord. To become one with God\nmeans to attain one's original spiritual quality. Unless one attains one's spiritual quality one cannot\nenter into the kingdom of God. The members of\nthe impersonalist school explain their idea of oneness by the example of mixing of river water with\nthe sea water. But we should know that within the\nwater of the sea there are living beings, who do\nnot merge into the existence of water but keep\ntheir separate identities and enjoy life within the\nwater. They are one with the water in the sense\nthat they have attained the quality of living within\nthe water. Similarly, the spiritual world is not without its separate paraphernalia. A living being can\nkeep his separate spiritual identity in the spiritual\nkingdom and enjoy life with the supreme spiritual\nbeing, the Personality of Godhead.\nIn Vrndavana all the spiritual entities-the cowboys, the cow maids, the forest, the trees, the\nhills, the water, the fruits, the cows, and all others\n-enjoy life spiritually in association with the Lord,\nSrT K,r�r)a. They are simultaneously one with and\ndifferent from the Lord. But ultimately they are one\nin different varieties.•\n\n70\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0081": "26\n\nThe Lord enjoyed in the\ncompany\n\nof\n\nLord\n\nBaladeva and the other cowherd\nboys and sometimes sat with\nthem on the same stone slab.\nWhile sitting they ate simple\nfood like rice, dahl, vegetables,\nbread, and curd, which they had\nbrought from their homes and\nwhich they shared in friendly ex-·\nchanges.\n\n71\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0082": "In the Bhagavad-gTta the Lord has expressed\nHis willingness to accept fruits, flowers, leaves,\nand water from His devotee when they have\nbeen offered to Him in devotional affection.\nThe Lord can eat anything and everything, because everything is but a transformation of His\nown energy. But when there is a question of offering Him something, the offerings must be within\nthe range of the eatables the Lord has ordered.\nWe cannot offer the Lord that which He has not\nordered. The Personality of Godhead,\n\nSrT Kr$r:Ja,\n\ncannot be offered anything beyond the range of\ngood foodstuffs like rice, dahl, wheat, vegetables,\nmilk and milk preparations, and sugar. At Jagannath PurT the Lord is offered such foodstuffs, and\nin all scriptures the very same foodstuffs are mentioned everywhere.\nThe Lord is never hungry, nor does He require\nany food to fill His empty stomach. He is complete\nin Himself. Yet He always mercifully eats the foods\noffered by His devotees in sincere affection. The\ncowherd boys brought simple foodstuffs from\nhome, and the Lord, who is constantly served by\nhundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune,\nis always glad to accept such simple foodstuffs\nfrom His devotee friends. All the relatives of the\nLord are His devotees only, and they are situated\nin different transcendental mellows as friends, parents, and lovers. The Lord derives transcendental\npleasure by accepting services from His various\ngrades of devotees, who are situated in various\ngrades of rasas. These transcendental rasas are\npervertedly reflected in the material atmosphere,\nand thus the spiritual living being, out of ignorance\nonly, vainly seeks the same bliss in matter.•\n72\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0083": "27\n\nAfter good rains, the grazing ground\nfor the animals was full of green pas­\n\nture, and both the bulls and the cows sat\ndown on the grass fully satisfied. The cows,\nfollowed by their calves, appeared tired of\ngrazing, because of full milk bags. Calmly and\nquietly the cows and calves rested and ruminated, chewing their cud.\n73\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0084": "·\n\nProtection and grazing ground for the cows are among the\nessential needs for society and the welfare of people in general.\nThe animal fat required for the human body can be well derived from\ncow's milk. Cow's milk is very important for human energy, and the\neconomic development of society depends on sufficient food grains,\nsufficient milk, and sufficient transportation and distribution of these\nproducts. Lord SrT K.l'$r}a, by His personal example, taught us the\nimportance of cow protection, which is meant not only for the Indian\nclimate but for all human beings all over the universe.\nLess intelligent people underestimate the value of cow's milk.\nCow's milk is also called gorasa, or the juice from the body of the cow.\nMilk is the most valuable form of gorasa, and from milk we can prepare\nmany important and valuable foodstuffs for the upkeep of the human\nbody. The killing of cows by human society is one of the grossest\nsuicidal policies, and those who are anxious to cultivate the human\nspirit must turn their first attention toward the question of cow protection.\nIf we really want to cultivate the human spirit in society we must have\nfirst-class intelligent men to guide the society, and to develop the finer\ntissues of our brains we must assimilate vitamin values from milk.\nDevotees worship Lord SrT K.l'$t:la by addressing Him as the wellwisher of the brahma(las and the cows. The most intelligent class of\nmen, who have perfectly attained knowledge in spiritual values, are\ncalled the brahma(las. No society can improve in transcendental knowledge without the guidance of such first-class men, and no brain can\nassimilate the subtle form of knowledge without fine brain tissues. For\nsuch important brain tissues we require a sufficient quantity of milk and\nmilk preparations. Ultimately, we need to protect the cow to derive the\nhighest benefit from this important animal. The protection of cows,\ntherefore, is not merely a religious sentiment but a means to secure\nthe highest benefit for human society .•\n74\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0085": "9L\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0086": "(..::.+ ... ... �\niiJi ;J.. -1- lit -/l.o\n�Jl. EU\nJjJt.:!:.. eB lf:l\n\nThe fully beautiful scenery after the rainy season was attractive to the eyes of everyone,\nincluding Sri K\"r;ra, the cause of all causes.\n76\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0087": "t-=-+�'l\n\n»>fJ.··� .....\nt,JUf'8A•\n�-;::;.lb�J.-t.t;..a..l'if ..\nl\n\n28\n\nThe fully beautiful scenery after the\nrainy season was attractive to the\n\neyes of everyone, including Sri Kr.iQB, the\n\ncause of all causes.\n\nWe should always appreciate the creative\nenergy of the Supreme Lord. Beautiful nature,\neven though material and therefore temporary,\nis always full of the glories of the creator. There\nis a class of philosophers who condemn the\nmaterial creation as false. They say that Brahman\nis truth but the creation is false. This is not good.\n77\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0088": "The temporary creation is also a relative truth. It is\nin fact the temporary picture of the eternal creation. The forgetful soul has no information of the\nspiritual creation, known as the sanatana dhama,\nbut the temporary creation gives an idea of this\noriginal creation. The devotees of the Lord, therefore, make the best use of the bad bargain ·by\nutilizing the temporary creation in the service of\nthe Lord.\nEverything emanates as different energies from\nthe Lord, and thus everything should be engaged\nfor His service only. As soon as even temporary\nthings are engaged in His service, they take on\npermanent values. The process · of such engagement in the service of the Lord is what the sages\ncall cikitsitam, or \"well .treated\". If we have some\nkind of trouble in the stomach from drinking milk,\nthe physician prescribes the same milk in the form\nof curd, which is nothing but treated milk. Similarly, the temporary creation of the material world is\nundoubtedly full of miseries, but when accepted in\nterms of its relation with the Supreme Lord the\nwhole thing becomes as well treated as the curd.\nEverything accepted in full God consciousness\nhas its spiritual value, and by the grace of the\nAlmighty its material effects are diminished in\nterms of the increasing degree of spiritual consciousness. That is the process for cultivating the\nhuman spirit.•\n78\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0089": "29\n\nThus the rainy season came to\nan end.\n\nThe autumn began,\n\nand there were no more clouds in the\nsky. All the reservoirs of water became crystal clear, and the wind was\nno longer forceful. Lord K�Qa, along\nwith His elder brother Lord Baladeva,\nthus lived at Vrndavana in this auspicious season.\n79\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0090": "X\n\nWhen the sky is clear of all clouds there is\nno longer any distinction between the portion\nof the sky that was covered and that which was\nnever covered. Similarly, when the living entity\nnow covered by the modes of material nature is\nfreed from ignorance, passion, and so-called\ngoodness, he becomes one with the Absolute\nTruth. Such oneness is called mukti, or freedom\nfrom the miseries of material life. There are five\ndifferent kinds of mukti. lmpersonalists prefer to\nmerge into the existence of the Transcendence,\nbut the personalists, or devotees, do not annihilate\ntheir individuality, and thus the devotees of the\nLord individually enjoy spiritual variegatedness on\nthe planets of the spiritual sky.\nThe material sky is also the spiritual sky, but it is\ncovered by the modes of material nature. This\nmaterial nature is also a temporary creation of the\nLord, as the cloud is a creation of the sun. When\nthe cloud of the material modes is cleared off, the\nmaterial nature is said to have been annihilated.\nThere are two kinds of living entities, namely the\nconditioned and the pure. It is for the conditioned\nliving entities that the material nature is created,\nand the conditioned souls are put into it to become\npure, unconditioned souls. Those who become\nunconditioned by devotional service enter into the\n�\n\neternal kingdom of God, and those who lose the\nchance rot in dormant material conditions, sometimes manifested and sometimes nonmanifested.\nLord\n\nSrT Kr!?t:Ja descends to reclaim the con­\n\nditioned _souls .•\n80\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0091": "30\n\nIn autumn all the reservoirs of water\nb e c o m e e n r i c h e d w i t h g r ow i n g\n\nlotuses. The muddy water again becomes\nnormally clear and decorated, as fallen, conditioned souls once more become spiritually\nenriched in devotional service.\n\n81\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0092": "We should not be disappointed in our muddy life of material\nexistence, for as soon as we voluntarily take to the devotional\nservice of the Lord our whole life becomes clear, like water in\nautumn. Devoid of our relationship with God our life is barren, but\nas soon as the muddy mind is cleared by spiritual association or\ncultivation of the human spirit the threefold miseries of material\nlife are at once cleared off. Thus the lotus of knowledge graduany\nfructifies, and this gradual process of development ushers in\ntranscendental bliss.\nThe whole spiritual process is technically called yoga, or linking\nwith the Supreme. It is something like a long staircase, and the\nupward steps are variously designated as regulated work, transcendental knowledge, mystic powers, and ultimately bhakti-yoga,\ndevotional service. Bhakti-yoga is pure and unalloyed, being entirely beyond all the preliminary steps. Such unalloyed devotional\nservice in favor of the Supreme Lord was displayed at Vrndavana\nwhen the Lord descended there, and thus the yoga exhibited by\nthe gopTs of Vrndavana is the highest unalloyed love of Godhead,\nthe perfection of bhakti-yoga. To rise to the stage of love shown\nby the gopTs is very difficult, but this stage is attainable for serious\nconditioned souls.\nUnfortunately, cheap neophytes make a show of the transcendental ecstasies of the gopTs, bringing them onto the mundane\nplane for perverted manifestations and thus clearing the way to\nhell by such unwanted caricatures. Serious students of yoga,\nhowever, practice it seriously, and thus they attain the highest\n,..\n..\n\nperfection in bhakti-yoga, as stated in the Bhagavad-gTta.\n\n�\n\n'\n(\n'\n\nyoginiim api sarve�iim\nmad-gateniintariitmanii\nsraddhiiviin bhajate yo miim\n\n..\n\nsa me yuktatarno mata!J\n\n\"And of all yogis, he who always abides in Me with great faith,\nworshiping Me in transcendental loving service, is most intimately\nunited with Me in yoga and is the highest of all.\" (Bg. 6.47)•\n82\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0093": "., -\n\n, '1i\"*-e:!*��� I'\n\ntf{ifj��, -\"-··•Ae,\n-+=>\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0094": "The four prominent features of autumn are that there is no water in the\nsky, the weeds that grew here and there in the\nrainy season all wither away, the muddy\nroads and fields dry up, and the ponds of\nwater become crystal clear. These four features of the autumn atmosphere are compared to the four orders of life.\n\n31\n\nIn the varQasrama system the student goes to the asrama\n..\n.\n\nof the master to take lessons from him and serve him, even\nas a menial servant. These troubles of the student are at once\nmitigated when he attains transcendental knowledge in terms of\nhis relation with SrT Kp:;r:Ja, the Personality of Godhead. As the\nwhite clouds no longer bear the burden of water in the autumn\nsky, the student finds that the troubles of drawing water for the\nmaster becomes a burdenless job if the student, by the grace of\nhis master, attains to spiritual knowledge.\nHouseholders who beget children without restriction, like\nweeds in the rainy season, become solitary as soon as they attain\nto the stage of devotional service. The family planning of a godless civilization cannot check weedlike unwanted population.\nPeople should learn to check sex life by voluntary restraint. This\nvoluntary restraint is possible when one is dovetailed with the\nservice of the Lord. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gTta.\nvi�aya vinivartante\nnirahdrasya dehinaf;\nrqsa-varjam raso'py asya\nparam dr�tva nivartate\n\"The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment,\nthough the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such\nengagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness. (Bg. 2.59)\n84 .\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0095": "Well situated devotees of the Lord refrain from materialistic\nsense enjoyment, for they are attracted by the beauty of Transcendence. Forcible restraint by regulative family planning or ·similar artificial means cannot work very long; one must be attracted\nby the Transcendence. One can give up the inferior quality of\nenjoyment as soon as one receives the superior quality of\nspiritual enjoyment. So family planning is successful when one is\nengaged in the culture of the human spirit.\nThe vanaprasthas, who voluntarily avoid cleaning themselves\nand who allow their beards and nails to grow, no longer feel the\ndiscomforts of these burdens when they engage in the service of\nthe Lord. And above all, the mendicants who take a vow to refrain\nfrom sex life no longer feel sexual urges when fixed in the\ntranscendental service of the Lord.\nTherefore, in all four of the spiritual orders and the four grades\nof social life, devotional service to the Lord is essential. Without\nthis relationship, all the regulative principles of varQa and asrama\nbecome burdensome duties, as they have in the Age of Kali.\nWhen the regulative principles have no aim, the van;as become a\ncaste system, and the asramas become the business of various\nshopkeepers. All these anomalies of the present social system\ncan be reformed only by cultivation of the human spirit in the\ndevotional service of the Lord.•\n\n3'�\n\nThe beautiful white clouds,\n\nIC. freed from all burdens of wa­\n\nter distribution, floated in midair, like\nmendicants freed from all family responsibilities.\n85\n\n·;.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0096": "98\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0097": "As long as one is attached to the so-called responsibilities of family burdens, he is always full of cares and\nanxieties about meeting his family expenses. The four\norders of social life, as designed in the varry3srama system,\nare very scientific and cooperative. In student life one is\ntaught the primary principles of the human form of life. One\nwho enters the householder's life can execute the duties of\na family man because he has already been trained for this\njob in the brahmacarT asrama. After fifty years of age the\nhouseholder retires from family life and prepares for the life\nof sannyasa.\nThe householder is dutybound to maintain the members\nof all three of the other asramas, namely the brahmacarTs,\nthe vanaprasthas, and the sannyasTs. Therefore, every\nmember of society was given a chance to retire for a higher\norder of spiritual culture, and the householders neglected no\none. The brahmacarTs, vanaprasthas, and sannyasTs all curtailed their necessities to the minimum, and therefore no one\nwould begrudge maintaining them in the bare necessities of\nlife.\nIn Kali-yuga, however, the entire system has gone topsy-\n\n87\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0098": "turvy. The student lives in luxury at the expense of the father\nor the father-in-law. When the educated, indulgent student\nbecomes a householder by the strength of university degrees, he requires money by all means for all kinds of bodily\ncomfort, and therefore he cannot spare even a penny for the\nso-called\n\nvanaprasthas and sannyasTs. The vanaprasthas\n\nand sannyasTs nowadays are those who were unsuccessful\nin family life. Thus the so-called sannyasTs try to construct\nanother home in the name of the sannyasa asrama and glide\ndown into all sorts of luxury at the expense of others. So all\nthese var(1as and asramas have now become so many transcendental frauds.\nBut that does not mean that there is no reality in them.\nOne should not conclude that there is no good money simply because one has met with counterfeit coins. The sannyasa\nasrama is meant for complete freedom from all anxieties,\nand it is meant for uplifting the fallen souls, who are merged\nin materialism. Unless the sannyasT is freed from all cares\nand anxieties, like a white cloud, it is difficult for him to do\nanything good for society .•\n\n88\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0099": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0100": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0101": "· 31�\n\nThere are waterfalls flowing\n\n� from the hills of the forest,\n\nbut sometimes water does not flow\nfrom them. So the waterfalls are not\nlike ordinary rainfall. They are compared to gr eat reformers, who\nspeak or do not speak, as the time\nrequires.\n\nThere are two different kinds of religious preachers.\nOne of them is called the professional preacher, and\nthe other is called the acarya. The professional preachers\nare like the rainfall from the sky, but the acaryas are like\nwaterfalls. The professional traders in Bhagavatam and\nRamayana will speak from the portion of the scripture that\nwill appeal to the mundane senses of the audience. For\nexample, the professional Bhagavatam reciter will generally\nspeak on the subject of rasa-IT/a, which appears to the layman to be something like the dealings of ordinary men and\nwomen. Thus the professional reciters earn money from\ntheir so-called admirers. But an acarya will never speak on\n\n91\n\n1\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0102": "rasa-IT/a to the general mass of peole. The rasa-IT/a chapters\nof the Bhagavatam are the most confidential part of the\nscripture, and they are meant for advanced students of spiritual realization. In the Bhagavatam there are twelve cantos,\nand the rasa-IT/a is in the tenth. So before one comes to the\nTenth Canto, the Bhagavatam tries to convince one of the\ntranscendental nature of the Absolute Truth: Unless one has\ngrasped the spiritual status of the Supreme Personality of\nGodhead, one is sure to accept Him as an ordinary man and\nthereby commit offenses at His lotus feet by so many unwanted activities.\nThe acarya is he who knows the scriptures well and\nteaches his disciple in terms of the disciple's capacity to\nunderstand and advance in spiritual realization. Therefore he\nsometimes does not speak and sometimes speaks. The holy\nmessages of Godhead have to.be received from the realized\nsoul, and not from the professional man. Although rain water\nand the waterfalls are the same, the water from the waterfalls\nhas a different effect than ordinary rain water. One should\nnot accept messages from the professional men, as one\nshould not accept milk touched by the tongue of a serpent.\nMilk is good, but as soon as it is touched by the snake it\nbecomes poisonous. The acarya, therefore, is not a mercenary order-supplier like the professional reciter of scriptures .•\n\n92\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0103": "31A\n\nSmall pools of water accumulate dur­\n\n..,. ing the rainy season, and in the au­\n\ntumn they gradually dry up. The little creatures playing in those small pools do not\nunderstand that their days are now numbered\nand will end very soon. Thus they are like\nfoolish men who do not care for the nearing\nday of their death but become absorbed in the\nso-called enjoyment of family life.\n\n93\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0104": "Foolish politicians are too attached to family life. A big\npolitician means a big family man. An ordinary family man\nis attached to his limited· family of wife and children, but\nbig politicians extend the same family feeling to a wider\ncircle and thus become encumbered by false prestige,\nhonor, and self-interest. The politician never retires from\npolitics even if he has enjoyed many covetable posts, like\nthat of minister or president. The older he is, the more he is\nattached to his false prestige. Even at the fag end of his life\nhe thinks that everything will be spoiled without him. He is so\nfoolish that he does not see that many other politicians who\nthought like him have come and gone, with no gain or loss.\nfor want of them. These family men, big and small, are like\nthe small fish in the pools of water that gradually dry up in the\nautumn. They are foolish because they think that their\nattachment to their family, even at the end of their lives, will\nbe able to protect them from the cruel hands of death.\nAs already mentioned, the human life must be divided into\nfour component parts: the student life, the householder life,\nthe preparative life, and the life of dedication to the service of\nthe Lord. One must retire from all sorts of family life, big or\nsmall, at the age of fifty, and thus prepare for the next life.\nThat is the process of human culture. The householders are\nallowed a pension from service so that they can live for a\nhigher cultural life. But foolish men, reluctant even to accept\nthis pension, want to artificially increase the duration of their\nlife. Such foolish men should take lessons from the drying\npools of water and should know, in their own interests, that\nlife is eternal, continuing even after death. Only the body\nchanges, whether spiritually or materially. An intelligent man\nshould be careful to know what sort of body is going to be\nawarded him, and thus he must prepare for a better life in\nother planets, even if he is reluctant to go back to Godhead.•\n\n94\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0105": "3'1:\n\nWhen the small pools of water be­\n\n� come too hot because of the scorch­\n\ning heat of the autumn sun, the poor small\ncreatures, with their many family members,\n\nsuffer terribly, as poor householders with too\nmany family members suffer economic\nstrains and yet go on begetting children because of uncontrolled senses.\n\n95\n\n.\n..\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0106": "�\n\nHuman life is meant for controlling the senses, for uncontrolled senses are the cause of material bondage.\nBut for fools sense enjoyment is the pivot of life's activities. All men undergo hard laborious duties all day and\nnight and in all seasons of the year, only for the sake of\nsense pleasure with their mates. These foolish creatures\nhave no information of other enjoyment. In a godless civilization especially, sense pleasure, accepted in the name of.\n\ntl..\n\n,\n\nculture and philosophy, is all and all. Men who are addicted\nto this pleasure are called kfPa(las.\nWhen the k.rpa(las have too many children, they suffer the\nscorching heat of family life, and then similar leaders advise\nthem to undertake family planning. The idea of this family\nplanning is that sense pleasure should not be curtailed but\nbirth control should be accomplished by artificial measures.\nSuch methods of birth c�ntrol are called bhrO(Iahatya, or\nkilling the child in embryo. Such killing is a sinful act, and in\nth'e revealed scriptures a specific hell is designated for those\nwho commit such sins.\nSpiritual culture means pursuing a better engagement in\nlife. When a man engages in such cultural life, the desire\nfor mating automatically abates, and the sufferings of\nuncontrolled family life are mitigated without artificial means.\nThe attention of a human being, therefore, should be\ndrawn to the cultivation of the human spirit, for this will\n\n�\n\ngradually protect him from all sorts of discomfiture and elevate him to a higher status of life for real and eternal enjoyment in personal contact with the Personality of Godhead,·\n\nSrT Kp;;t:Ja.•\n96\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0107": "36\n\nWith the progress of the autumn season the moist earth and muddy places\n\nbegin to dry up, and the green vegetation begins to fade. This drying up and fading resembles the gradual disappearance of the false\nsense of affinity and ego.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0108": "Progress in cultivating the human spirit entails the\ngradual disappearance of the materialistic ego. Covered\nby ignorance, passion, and so-called goodness, the spirit\nsoul thinks himself all in all and is covered by a false\n\nl.�\n\"I\n\nsense of ego. Thus he falsely identifies the soul with the\nbody, and his bodily relations with material things become\nthe objects of his attraction. This false identification and\nattraction for matter gradually dry up and fade away by success in the cultivation of the human spirit. That is the effect of\nsuch higher cultivation. Progress in spiritual culture brings\nabout the disintegration of false ego and material attraction.\nThe ultimate goal of cultivating the human spirit is God\nrealization and surrender unto God with a full sense of His\nall-pervasive nature. When a liberated soul thus surrenders\nunto the lotus feet of the all-pervading Godhead, the ocean\n\n�\n•\n\n(.E:.+*>\n\n: i.fJT �At\n\n•\n\n:.�. ttt.Mf�\n\n��*�·\n� � �1. � 69 i.fJT j;;_ �\n\nof nescience becomes as insignificant to him as the water in\nthe small hoofprint of a calf. He at once becomes eligible to\nbe promoted to the spiritual kingdom, and he has nothing to\ndo with the miserable land of the material world.\nCultivation of the human spirit is not, therefore, mere\nadjustment of materialistic anomalies. It is the process for\npreparing oneself to be promoted to the spiritual kingdom.\nNo one can adjust the sufferings of material existence, but\nby spiritual culture one can elevate himself from the effects\nof such miserable life. As an example one may cite the\ncondition of a dry coconut. The dry coconut pulp automatically becomes separate from its outer skin. Similarly, the\nouter skin, or the gross and subtle material coverings of the\nsoul, automatically separates from the spirit soul, and the\nspirit soul can then exist in spiritual existence, even though\napparently within the dry skin. This freedom from the false\nsense of ego is called the liberation of the soul.•\n\n98\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0109": "37\n\nWith the inauguration of the autumn season the\nrough sea becomes calm and quiet, just like a philo­\n\nsopher after self-realization, who is no longer troubled by the\nmodes of nature.\n\n99\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0110": "The result of self-realization is cessation of the storms of\ndesire and lust, which are products of the modes of ignorance\nand passion. This cessation of the storm does not mean that the\nsea becomes inactive. When the storm subsides, the work of\nnavigation can take place smoothly. According to the Indian system of navigation, there is a ceremony on the seashore known as\nthe coconut day. On the coconut day the sea is offered a coconut\nbecause she has become peaceful, and from that day on the\nseagoing vessels sail to foreign countries.\nThe three modes of nature divide human activities into two\ndifferent spheres, one external and the other introspective. As\nlong as a man is dominated by the modes of ignorance and\npassion, he is active externally in desire and lust. Men absorbed\n�\n\nin desire and lust are called asuras, and they are always chasing\nafter women and money. For the sake of women and money the\n\nasuras exploit every source of- economic development. As a\nresult of this asuric civilization, the entire human society becomes\nlike a stormy sea, with no trace of peace and prosperity.\nToo much of an external view of the world gives rise to an\noverly large-scale and difficult type of industry and trade, known\nas ugrakarma. The word ugra means \"hard\" or \"difficult,\" and\n\nkarma means \"task.\"' The development of hard and difficult industrial undertakings always hinders the progressive cultivation\nof the human spirit. Asuric leaders of society never retire from\nsuch lustful undertakings unless killed by the laws of nature. For\nthem there is no question of retirement or of cultivating the\nhuman spirit. But men in the mode of goodness have an intro'\n\nspective mind, and after a regulative struggle for existence they\nretire at a ripe old age and engage their time to cultivate the\nhuman spirit.\n\n100\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0111": "According to the var(lasrama principle, it is compulsory that one\nretire after the ag·e of fifty, without considering other circumstances. Business offices close at a fixed hour no matter what\nbalance of work remains. Similarly, after the age of fifty one must\nretire from the active, external life and devote oneself to the\nintrospective cultivation of the human spirit. This retirement must\nbe compulsory so that foolish old men will no longer disturb the\npeaceful progress of spiritual culture. In the modern democratic\ngovernment, no one should be elected after the age of fifty.\nOtherwise the storm of the ocean of nescience cannot be\nstopped to allow the ships and boats to sail back to Godhead. The\ngreatest enemies to progressive spiritual culture in human society are the old fossils of political parties who are blind themselves\nand who try to lead other blind men. They bring about disaster in a\npeaceful human society. The members of the younger generation\nare not as stupid as the old politicians, and therefore by state law\nthe foolish politicians mu�t retire from active life at the age of fifty .•\n\n101\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0112": "38\n\nAfter the rainy season, the farmers begin to rebuild the partitioning walls of\n\nthe paddy fields so that the water will be conserved, just as yogis try to use their conserved energy for self-realization.\n\n102\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0113": "The living being is the marginal energy of the absolute\nPersonality of Godhead, and he can spend his conserved\nenergy either externally or internally. When spent internally the\nenergy is identified with the internal energy of the Personality of\nGodhead, but the same conserved energy, when spent for His\nexternal energy, is identified with that external energy. All energies - internal, external, and marginal - are emanations from\nHim, the Supreme, and they act differently to prove diversity in\nunity. The unity is the Lord, and the energies represent diversity.\nThe Lord is so powerful that He can do anything and everything\nmerely by His sweet will alone. As mentioned above, everything\nis done by His energies in a natural way, with full knowledge and\ncomplete perfection. That is the information we have from the\nVedic literatures.\nThe internal energy and the marginal energy are of the same\nsuperior quality, but the external energy is inferior in quality. That\nis the information we have from the Bhagavad-gTta. Because the\nliving entity is classified as marginal energy and is of the same\nquality as the internal energy, it is quite natural for him to cooperate with the internal energy. But when the living entity prefers to\ncooperate with the-external energy, he is put into difficulty. By the\nprocess called pratyahara (diversion), yoga diverts our energies\nfrom external to the internal.\nThe energy of our senses is meant to be diverted, not stopped.\nThe senses are to be purified so that they serve the Lord instead\nof disturbing His settled harmony. The entire cosmic harmony is a\n\n103\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0114": "4\n\nsettled fact by the will of the Supreme. So we must find the\nsupreme will in every action of the cosmic situation. That is the\ninstruction of the Tsopani$8d. The human life is an opportunity to\nunderstand this cosmic harmony, and therefore our conserved\nenergy, which is likened to the conserved water in the paddy\nfield, must be used for this purpose only.\nAs there is no chance of rain from the sky in autumn, we shall\nnot immediately have a chance to get a human body again if we\nspend our conserved energy for sense enjoyment. The senses\nhave their utility for the service of the Lord, and if properly engaged they can reach the highest perfection by being directly\nengaged in the service of the Lord in His personal presence.\nWhen the living entity thus goes back home, back to Godhead,\nand engages in the personal service of the Lord, he is said to\nhave attained samsiddhi parama, the highest perfection. This is\nconfirmed in the Bhagavad-gTta.\n\nmam upetya punar janma\nduf}khalayam asasvatam napnuvanti mahatmanaf}\nsamsiddhim paramam gatah\n\n\"After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion,\nnever return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries,\n\ng\n\nbecause they have attained the hi hest perfection.\" (Bg. 8.15)•\n\n104\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0115": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0116": "c\nI\n\n39\n\nIn the autumn there is a gulf of difference between the day and the night.\n\nDuring the day the extreme heat of the sun is\nunbearable, but at night the moonlight is extremely soothing and refreshing. Similarly,\n,.\n.\n\nLord Sri K{'!IQa is soothing for both the gopis\nand the mundane man in illusion, who\naccepts the body as the soul.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0117": ".As long as the living being, under illusion, accepts the\nbody or the mind as the soul, he will always be unhappy,\nlike a man in the burning heat of autumn. But when the\nsame living being becomes a devotee of Lord SrT Kf$r)a, the\nPersonality of Godhead, he at once lives a soothing life, as if\nunder the cooling rays of the moon in autumn. Lord SrT Kf$r)a\nis so merciful that He descends to reclaim suffering humanity and preaches the Bhagavad-gTta with the intense desire\nthat all living beings give up all of their engagements and\ntake shelter of His lotus feet. This is the most confidential\npart of all revealed scripture.\nThe example of the damsels of VrajabhOmi Vrndavana (the\ngopTs) is given here because these eternal consorts of the\nLord terribly suffered the separation of Lord Kr$t:la when the\nLord was absent from their presence for His engagement in\ntending the cows in the forest. During the absence of Kf$r)a\nthe entire day would appear to the gopTs to be as unbearable\nas a hot day in autumn. The Lord so much appreciated this\nnatural feeling of the gopTs that He declared His inability to\nrepay their intense love. Lord Caitanya recommended the\nfeeling of the gopTs as the highest mode of worship that can\nbe rendered to the Lord. The conclusion is that the regular\npractice of bhakti-yoga will lead the devotee to the plane of\nintense love for the Lord, and that is the single qualification\nby which the conditioned soul is allowed to reenter the\neternal life of bliss in the kingdom of God. The threefold\nmiseries of material existence are at once nullified by intense love of God, which is the ultimate goal of cultivating\nthe human spirit.•\n107\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0118": "40\n\nIn the clear autumn sky the twinkling\nstars appear brighter and brighter,\n\njust like a transcendentalist with clear vision\nof the purpose of the Vedas.\n\n108\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0119": "It is said that the import of the Vedas becomes clear to one who is not only a sincere devotee orthe Lord but also a sincere servitor of\nthe spiritual master. The spiritual master knows\nthe purpose of the Vedas, practices it personally,\nand teaches the disciple of the true light of the\nVedas. The supreme spiritual master, Lord SrT\n\nK.r$r:Ja, teaches us the import of the Vedas in the\nfollowing verse of the Bhagavad-gTta.\ndviiv imau puru�au toke\nk�aras ciik�ara eva ca\nk�arafJ sarviifJ.i bhutiini\nkurastho 'k�ara ucyate\n\"There are two classes of beings, the fallible\nand the infallible. In the material world every\nentity is fallible, and in the spiritual world every\nentity is called infallible.\" (Bg. 15.16)\n\nThe Lord says that in the Vedas it is mentioned\nthat there are two kinds of living beings, called the\nfallible and the infallible. Those living beings who\nare materially encaged are all fallible, whereas\nthose who are not conditioned and who are eternally situated in the spiritual realm are called\n•\n\nak$[1ra, or infallible. The Lord then says:\nuttamafJ puru�as tv anyafJ\nparamiitmety udahrtafJ\nyo loka-trayam iivisya\nbibharty avyaya !svaraf]\n\"Besides these two, there is the greatest living\npersonality, the Lord Himself, who has entered\ninto these worlds and is maintaining them.\" (Bg.\n15.17)\n\n109\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0120": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0121": "yasmat k�aram atito 'ham\nak�arad api cottamah\nato 'smi toke vede ca\nprathitah puru�ottamafJ\n\"Because I am transcendental, beyond both the\nfallible and the infallible, and because I am the\ngreatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in\n\nthe Vedas as that Supreme Person.\" (Bg. 15.18)\n\nThe import of the Vedas is still more explicitly\nexplained in the SrTmad Bhagavatam. The conclusion of the Vedic literatures is that Lord SrT Kr�t:Ja is\nthe primeval Lord and the cause of all causes. He\nhas His eternal two-armed form as Syamasundara, with features exactly like those of a most\nbeautiful young man, and that is the sum and\nsubstance of the Vedas concerning God. God is\none, but the living entities, including both the liberated and the conditioned, are many and have\nmany different grades of positions. The living entities are never equal to God, but as parts and\nparcels of the Lord they are eternally His servitors.\nAs long as the living entities are situated normally\nas His servitors they are happy; otherwise they\nare always unhappy. That is the Vedic conclusion.•\n\n111\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0122": "r\n\n41.\n\nIn the clear sky of autumn, the beautiful moon among the beautiful stars\n\nbecomes the cynosure of all eyes, just as\nLord Sri K�I)B is the central attraction in the\nV{'¥.1i dynasty or in the family of Yadu.\n\n112\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0123": "The Personality of Godhead\n\nSrT Kp?r)a appeared in the\n\nfamily of Yadu, and since then the Yadu dynasty has been\nluminous like the moon in autumn. The appearance and disappearance of the Lord are similar to the appearance and disappearance of the sun. The sun is first seen on the eastern\nhorizon, but that does not mean that the sun is the sun of that\nside. The sun is fixed in its own orbit, and it neither rises nor sets.\nBut because we first see it on the eastern horizon we may say\nthat the sun rises on that side. Similarly, the appearance of\nGodhead in some particular family does not mean that He is\nlimited by obligations to that family. He is fully independent and\nmay appear and disappear anywhere and everywhere, because\n�\n\nHe is all-pervading.\nLess intelligent persons cannot accommodate the appearance\nand disappearance of the Lord as an incarnation, but there is no\nsound reasoning to support such unbelievers.\n\nIf God is all­\n\npervading, like the power of electricity, He can manifest Himself\nat any place within His creation. When He is within we cannot-see\nHim, but when He is without He is seen by everyone, although\nvery few know Him as He is. Everyone sees the sun every day,\nbut that does not mean that everyone knows what the sun actually\nis. Similarly, when Lord SrT Kp;;r)a was present five thousand years\nago, very few could know what He was.\nAnyone who comes to know Him as He is becomes liberated at\nonce, and while leaving this present body such a knower goes\n\n113\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0124": "back to Godhead, never to return to this universe of manifold\nmiseries. In the Bhagavad-gTta, the Lord confirms this as follows:\n\njanma karma ca me divyam\nevam yo vetti tattvataiJ.\ntyaktvii deham punar janma\nnaiti miim eti so 'rjuna\n\n\"One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance\nand activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again\nin this material world, but attains My eternal abode, 0 Arj una.\"\n\n( Bg. 4.9)\nBut there are foolish persons who take Him to be an ordinary\nman, not knowing the essence of His transcendental features. In\n\nBhagavad-gTta, the Lord affirms this:\navajananti miirn mucfhii\nmiinu�im tanum asritam\nparam bhavam ajananto\nmama bhuta-mahesvaram\n\n\"Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do\nnot know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion\nover all that be.\" ( Bg. 9.11 )•\n;\n\n114\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0125": "9L L\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0126": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0127": "41 �\n\nAt night in autumn the atmosphere is\n\n� pleasant because it is neither very hot\n\nnor very cold. The mild wind blowing through\nthe gardens of fruits and flowers in Vrn­\n\ndavana appeared very much pleasing to all all but the gopis, who were always overtaken\nby heartfelt sorrow in the absence of K�I)B.\n\nThere are two kinds of transcendental feelings for those\nengaged in the worship of the Lord. One is called sambhoga,\nand the other is called viraha. According to authorities in the\ndisciplic line, viraha worship is more palatable than sambhoga\nworship. Sambhoga takes place in direct touch, w.heras viraha\ntakes place without such direct contact. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught us to accept viraha worship. In the present state of\naffairs we cannot make any direct touch with the Personality of\nGodhead. But if we practice the viraha mode of worship we can\ntranscendentally realize the presence of the Lord more lovingly\nthan in His presence.\nWithout love of Godhead there is no meaning even to direct\ncontact. During the presence of the Lord there were thousands\nand thousands of men, but because they were not in love of\nGodhead they could hardly realize the Personality of Godhead,\nSrT Kr�t:la. Therefore we must first activate our dormant love of\nGodhead by following the prescribed rules and by following in the\nfootsteps of the authorities who are actually fixed in love of\nGodhead. The gopTs provide the highest examp le of such unalloyed love of Godhead, and Lord Caitanya at the ultimate stage\nof realization displayed the viraha worship in the mood of the\n\ngopTs.\n117\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0128": "In the mundane world there is also some shadow of such\nviraha. A loving wife, husband, or friend may for some time be\nmaddened by the absence of the beloved. Such a state of mind,\nhowever, is not permanent. The loving husband or wife takes to\nanother an·d forgets everything of the past. This is so because\nthere is no reality to such relationships in the material world.\nThe spiritual situation, however, is completely different. A bona\nfide lover of God could never forget Him, even in exchan·ge for\neverything else. The devotee of the Lord cannot be happy in any\n1\n·\n\ncircumstance without the Lord. In the absence of the Lord the\ndevotee associates with Him by remembering His separation, and\nbecause the Lord is absolute the devotee's feeling of separation\nis transcendentally more relishable than direct contact. This is\npossible only when we develop genuine love for Him. In that state\nthe devotee is always with the Lord by feelings of separation,\nwhich become more acute and intolerable in suitable circumstances. The mild wind reminded the gopTs of the association of\nthe Lord, and they felt separation from Him acutely .•\n\n118\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0129": "6ll\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0130": "43\n\nIn the autumn season all the birds,\nbeasts, and men become sexually\n\ndisposed, and the bull, the stag, the male\nbird, the man, and the other male creatures\nforcibly impregnate the fair sex. A similar\nimpregnation takes place as a result of devotional service to the Lord.\n\nDevotional service to the Lord never goes in vain. Just at the\nright moment, the result of one's particular devotional service will\ncome, even if one has no desire for it. The pure devotees do not\nwish any return from the Lord in exchange for their service; they\ndo not make business exchanges with the Lord. But the Lord, out\nof His own accord, fulfills all the desires of the devotees.\nIt may appear that a devotee of the Lord is becoming poorer\nand poorer in terms of material prosperity, but factually he is not.\nThe typical example is the Par:1<;Javas. The five brothers, headed\nby King Yudhi$thira, underwent all sorts of difficulties because of\nthe conspiracy of their cousins, headed by Duryodhana, but in the\nlong run King Yudhi$thira was enthroned by Lord SrT Kf$t:la, and\nhis enemies were vanquished. King Yudhi$thira was never disturbed by all the calamities that overcame them even though Lord\nKf$t:la was ever their companion. The Pandavas never prayed to\nthe Lord for anything but His devotional service, and in due time\neverything came out in favor of the devotees.\n120\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0131": "A devotee, therefore, should execute his devotional services\nwith full energy, endurance, and confidence, he should perform\nhis scheduled duties, he should be pure in heart, and he should\nserve in association with devotees. All six of these items will lead\nthe devotee to the path of success. One should not be discouraged in the discharge of devotional service. Failures may not be\ndetrimental; they may be the pillars of success. One must have\ngood faith in the regulative principles followed by the self-realized\nspuls, and one should not be doubtful about the ultimate result of\nquch devotional service. Rather, one must go on executing his\nprescribed duties without hesitation, and one should never be\ninfluenced by unwanted association.\nWe should not consider going back to Godhead a plaything. We\nmust take it seriously, as enjoined in the scriptures. For a strict\nfollower, the result is sure and certain, and when the time is right\nthe result will come of its own force. Dhruva .Maharaja went to\nworship God to gain something, but when he actually came in\ncontact with God he did not want anything from the Lord. The\nLord, however, awarded Dhruva Maharaja both benefits- that is,\nthe Lord fulfilled his desires and also gave him eternal salvation.\nSuch are the lessons we learn from all the revealed scriptures.\nThe almighty God awards the results we desire, and therefore we\nshould desire that which is eternal, blissful, and full of knowledge.\nIn devotional service we should not endeavor for that which is\ntemporary and useless.•\n121\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0132": "r\n\n''·\n\n44\n\nIn the autumn season all the reservoirs of water are full of lotus flowers.\n\nThere are also flowers that resemble the lotus\nbut are of a different class. Among them is a\nflower called kumud. When the sun rises, all\nthe flowers but the kumud blossom beautifully. Similarly, lotus-like men take pleasure in\nthe advent of a responsible king, but men who\nare like the kumud do not like the existence of\na king.\n\n122\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0133": "In this Age of Kali the people want their own government,\nbecause the kings have become corrupt. Formerly it was not\nlike that. The sons of kings were trained under the guidance of a\ngood brahmaf)a acarya, just as the Par:1<;Javas and the Kauravas\nwere put under the instruction of the qualified brahmaf)a professor Sn Drol}acarya. Princes were rigidly trained in politics, economics, the military arts, ethics and morality, the sciences, and,\nabove all, devotional service to the Lord. Only after such good\ntraining were the princes allowed to be enthroned. When such a\nprince became king, then too he was guided by the advice of\ngood brahmaf)as. Even in the middle ages, Maharaja Candra\nGupta was guided by the learned brahmaf)a Chanakya Pandit.\nIn a monarchy, one man sufficiently trained was competent\nenough to conduct alone the business of the state. But in a\ndemocracy no one is trained like a prince; instead, politicians are\nvoted to responsible posts of administration by diplomatic\narrangements. In place of one king or supreme executive officer,\nin a democracy there are so many quasi-kings: the president, the\nministers, the deputy ministers, the secretaries, the assistant\nsecretaries, the private secretaries, the undersecretaries, the\nPA's, and the MP's. There are a number of parties - political,\nsocial, and communal- and there are party whips, party whims,\nand so on. But no one is well enough trained to look after the\nfactual interests of the governed. In a so-called democratic government, corruption is even more rampant than in an autocracy or\nmonarchy.\n\n123\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0134": "Men who want to flourish in the guise of servants of the people\ndo not want a good king at the head of the state. They are like the\nkumud flowers, which do not take pleasure in the sunrise. The\nword ku means \"bad\" and mud means \"pleasure.\" Persons who\nwant to exploit the administrative power for their own self-interest\ndo not like the presence of a good king. Although professing\ndemocracy, they want themselves to be kings. Thus they com'\n\npete for votes by bad propaganda and take pleasure in having\npolitics but no king. Thieves and dacoits also take no pleasure in\nthe presence of a good king, but it is the interest of the people to\nhave a well-trained king as the head of the state .•\n\n124\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0135": "9ll\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0136": "45\n\nAfter the new grains were cut\nand brought home from the\n\npaddy fields, the people began to\nobserve the navanna ceremony everywhere, in the presence of the Lord as\nSri K�Qa and Baladeva.\n\n�\n\nAccording to Vedic culture, learned men consider all natural\nproducts, such as food grains, fruits, flowers, and milk, to be\nGod-sent. No one can manufacture these things in manmade\nfactories, however scientifically advanced people may be. People\ncan make preparations of such God-sent foodstuffs, but they\ncannot manufacture the natural ingredients. Spiritually cultured\nmen, therefore, feel obliged to the Lord when they get sufficient\nnatural foodstuffs by the grace of the Lord.\nThe navanna prasana ceremony is observed as a way of acknowledging the gifts of God. Newly collected grains would first\nbe offered to the Lord by the villagers, either individually or\ncollectively, and in either case all the members of the village\nwould partake of the prasadam thus offered to the Lord. Such\nceremonies make the people happy and prosperous.\n\n126\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0137": "We should always acknowledge the mercy of God. We should\nnot think that we can produce ample food grains merely with the\nhelp of tractors and fertilizers. These can help us only as instruments for such production; without the sanction of the Lord there\nis no possibility of having grains, even if there are trucks and\nfertilizers.\nWhen Lord Kf$1}a and Baladeva were present, the good men of\nVrndavana realized that it was due to the presence of the Lord that\ntheir supply of food grains were sufficient. Some of the people\nof V.mdavana, including Lord K,r$1}a's father Nanda Maharaja, used to\nperform sacrifices to propitiate King lndra, the king of heaven,\nbecause he is the controller of rains. Without good rains, grains\ncannot be produced, and therefore the people would offer sacrifices to lndra. Lord SrT Krol}a, however, stopped this age-old\nceremony and advised His father to offer the same sacrifice to the\nSupreme Lord. His purpose was to teach that we need not satisfy\nthe various demigods in charge of the various departments of\ncosmic affairs; instead we must offer sacrifices to the Supreme\nLord, for the Lord is the master and all others are His servants.\nThe famous AnnaROta ceremony, performed in V rndavana especially and also in all other parts of India, was thus introduced by\nthe Lord, and people still follow this path by worshipping Govardhana Hill, where the Lord used to take pleasure in tending\ncows. People also worship Giri-Govardhana as identical with the\nLord, because there is no difference between God and His paraphernalia and pastimes .•\n\n127\n\n.J\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0138": "\"-\n\n;\nli\n\n46\n\nThe merchants, preachers, kings, and\nstudents who were confined to home\n\nduring the four months June, July, August,\nand September began to flow out and attain\n�\n�\n\nsuccess in life, just as perfected souls attain\nthe required body as soon as they leave the\npresent one.\n\n128\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0139": "The people in general - especially the merchants,\npreachers, kings, and students - are advised not to\nleave home during the four months of the rainy season.\nThese four months ar-e known as caturmasya, and for\neveryone there are specific rules for observing this\nperiod, partly for.the sake of health and partly for spiritual realization. During this period, the merchants cannot do free buslness, dedicated souls like sannyasis\ncannot freely preach the doctrines of the Vedas, kings\ncannot go out to tour their states, and students cannot\ngo to their schools, which are closed. But after the\ncaturmasya period they all get the freedom to go out\nand perform their respective duties, and by doing so\nthey can achieve the results they desire.\nIn the same way, one cannot achieve the desired\nresults of one's penances until one attains freedom\nfrom the present body. There are various ways to practice the various kinds of yoga to attain various results in\nvarious spheres of life. It is not that everything is the\nsame. There are varieties of life, varieties of planets,\nand varieties of success in spiritual realization. And all\nthese can be achieved only when we have finished the\ncaturmasya like period of life. It is a foolish imagina-\n\n129\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0140": "tion therefore that we can go to other planets in the\npresent body. If we want to go to Devaloka, the planets\nof the demigods, we must achieve the required qualifications, and the same is true if we want to go back to\nthe kingdom of God. If we want to remain on this planet\n\ni\n\nin some better condition of life, that also will depend on\nthe required achievements. In any case, those achievements can be fulfilled just after one leaves the body.\nThe merchants, preachers, kings, and students form\nthe four important sections of human society. The merchants should see that everyone gets his proper share\nof the food given as a gift by God. The sannyasl\npreachers should go from door to door to preach the\nsense of God consciousness, not to build ma,thas and\ntemples but to enlighten the people. The king should go\nout from his home to see with his own eyes how things\nare going on. (Maharaj ParTk$it, while on tour, saw a\nman - Kali -attempting to kill a cow, so the king at\n\n..\n\n'1\n\nonce punished him.) And students should gather knowledge wherever it is available. The combined work of\nthese four sections is meant for the general welfare of\n.society .•\n\n130\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0141": "", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0142": "47\n\nFrom the Transcendence, which is called Kr.;IJBioka, there\nemanates a glowing effulgence that resembles the tail of a\n\ncomet. This glowing effulgence is unlimited, immeasurable, and\nunfathomable. Within this effulgence there are innumerable glowing planets, each of them self-luminous. Somewhere, a limited\npart of that glowing effulgence is covered by material energy, just\nas a part of the sky is covered by a cloud. Within this material\nenergy there are innumerable universes, in every universe there\nare innumerable material planets, and the earth is one of these\nplanets. Thus we can understand what an insignificant part of the\nentire cosmos is this globe on which we live.\n\nKr�!Jaloka, as above mentioned, is the residence of the\nPersonality of Godhead, the original Transcendence. The\nglowing effulgence emanating from Kr�rJaloka is the personal\n,\n\nglow of the Lord. The almighty Lord, being full of inconceivable\nenergies, expands Himself in various forms and energies. There\nare forms from His energy as well as forms from His person. He\nhas innumerable energies, and therefore He can do anything and\neverything as He desires, and these things take place immediate-\n\n·:\n\nly with all perfection. His energies are like the heat and light that\nexpand from a fire. The entire cosmic manifestation is nothing but\nan expansion of His energies, the energies are emanations from\nHim, and therefore the emanations are simultaneously one with\nand different from Him.\n132\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0143": "The Transcendence is compared to milk, and the emanations\nare compared to curd. Curd is nothing but milk, but at the same\ntime it is different from milk. Curd is a milk preparation, but it\ncannot be used in place of milk. The Lord is also sometimes\ncompared to a tree. The root of the tree is the cause of the trunk,\nbranches, twigs, leaves, and fruits, yet the trunk is not the fruit,\nthe fruit is not the leaf, nor is the leaf the root. When water is\nneeded it has to be poured on the root, not on the leaves. Pouring\nwater on the leaves serves no purpose, but pouring water on the\nroot serves all purposes. This is the essence of the philosophy of\nspiritual culture.\nKf$1}aloka is also called Goloka Vrndavana. Beneath this Goloka\nare Haridhama,\n\nMahesadhama, and DevTdhama. Hari (Vi$t:JU,\n\nNarayal}a) is the formal expansion of the Lord, Mahesa (Siva) is\nthe formal-energetic expansion of the Lord, and DevT is the Lord's\nenergetic expansion. The living entities are also energetic expansions of the Lord. There are two different kinds of living entities,\ncalled the liberated souls and the conditioned souls.\nThe planets within the· glowing effulgence are called Haridhama.\nOn these planets the predominating deity is Hari, and the prepominated deities are the liberated souls. The features of the\nliberated souls and those of Hari are almost the same, yet Hari is\npredominator and the liberated souls are predominated. The innumerable planets in Haridhama are predominated by different\nformal expansions of the Lord, and all of them have different\nnames.\n\n133\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0144": "The universes within the material energy are called DevTdhama,\nand within DevTdhama the predominating Deity is Vi�t:JU, who is\nassisted by Brahma and Siva. DevTdhama is controlled by three\nmodes, namely goodness, passion, and ignorance. Vi�t:Ju is the\nincarnation of goodness, Brahma of passion, and Siva of ignorance. Brahma creates, Vi�t:Ju maintains, and Siva destroys the\nmaterial creation. The material creation comes into being by the\nwill of the Lord, and it is again annihilated by His will. But although\nthe universes of the material energy are thus created and annihilated, the planets in Haridhama are ever existent.\nThe conditioned living entities, who wish to enjoy and not\nserve, are given· a chance within DevTdhama to seek liberation.\nSome of them enter Haridhama, some of them enter Mahesadhama,\nand some o'f them remain within DevTdhama. Mahesadhama\nis the marginal place between Haridhama and DevTdhama. The\nimpersonalists who want to merge into the existence of the\nTranscendence are placed within Mahesadhama. Those who\nwant to remain within the planetary systems of the material universes do so on various planets, but those who want to go\noutside the material energy can enter Haridhama and go either to\nthe various planets there or directly to Kr�t:Jaloka.\nThe system of bhakti-yoga makes one eligible to enter Haridhama,\nthe system of jnana-yoga makes one eligible to enter Mahesadhama and the system of karma-yoga obliges one to remain in\nDevTdhama and repeatedly be born and die, changing his material\ncovering according to the standard of karma he performs.•\n\n134\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0145": "9£L\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0146": "48\n\nThe moon, or Candraloka, is one of the four important\nplaces of residence for the demigods. Beyond Man­\n\nass Lake is Sumeru Mountain. On the eastern side of this\nmountain is the planet Devadhani, where lndra resides. On\nthe southern side is the planet known as Samyamani, where\nYamaraja resides. On the western side is the planet known as\nNimlocati, the residence of Vayu, the demigod who controls\nthe wind. And on the northern side of the mountain is the\nmoon, which is also known as Vibhavari.\n\nAll these various planets are within the universe in which our\nplanet is situated. Persons who are too materialistic always engage in sense enjoyment. Such persons worship· the material\ndemigods and goddesses to fulfill their material desires. They are\nfond of performing many yajnas to propitiate the various demigods and the forefathers in heaven. Such persons are automatically promoted to the moon, where they enjoy soma, a celestial beverage.\nThe moon is too cold for the inhabitants of this earth, and\ntherefore ordinary persons who want to go there with earthly\nbodies are attempting to do so in vain. Merely seeing the moon\nfrom a distance of eighty thousand miles cannot enable one to\nunderstand the real situation of the moon. One has to cross\nManasa Lake and then Sumeru Mountain, and only then can one\ntrace out the orbit of the moon. Besides that, no ordinary man is\nallowed to enter that planet. Even those admitted there after death\nmust have performed the prescribed duties to satisfy the Pitas\nand devas. Yet even they are sent back to earth after a fixed\nduration of life on the moon.\n136\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0147": "Men with developed consciousness, therefore, do not waste\ntime making excursions, real or imaginary, to the moon. Such\nintelligent persons do not endeavor to achieve temporary sense\nenjoyment. Rather, they apply their conserved energy for the\nsake of spiritual cultivation. They discharge religious duties for the\nsatisfaction of the Supreme Lord, and not for personal sense\nenjoyment. The signs of such exceptional devotees of the Lord\nare that they are unattached to material enjoyment, contented,\npure in heart, attached to devotional service, free from affection\nfor temporary things, and devoid of false ego. According Vedic\ninjunctions, such great personalities ultimately attain the place\nwhere the Supreme Personality of Godhead predominates and\nwhere there is no death, no birth, no old age, and no disease. On\nthe way to these spiritual planets, such personalities pass through\nthe sun-line called arcir-marga. And on the way they can see all\nthe planets between here and the spiritual world.•\n\n137\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0148": ".\n\nB£L\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0149": "The Artist\nMadam Li Yuen Sheng was born in the city of Tientsin in Hopei, China in 1924. Her interest in painting\nbegan in early childhood, and she studied under Mr.\nChen Shao Mei, an accomplished artist before graduating from Peking's Central Academy of Arts in 1950.\nSubsequently she worked as a graphic designer, but\nher reputation as an artist spread quickly, and in 1959\nshe was elected a member of the Chinese Painting\nResearch Institute.\nThe paintings in this book bear the most recent witness to her excellence in the traditional Gongbi painting\nschool style. They are the culmination of a remarkable\ncareer, during which her paintings were highly\nacclaimed by the celebrated Chinese artist Xu Bei Hong\nand extensively exhibited by the Chinese Government\nboth inside and outside of China. When she left China\nfor Hong Kong in 1979, she was unable to take any of\nher paintings with her, because by that time they were\nconsidered part of the Chinese Art Treasury. Since\nthen, the Hong Kong public has enjoyed exhibitions of\nher paintings at Shatin Municipal Hall and Star House at\nTsim Sha Tsui. Her work has also been the topic of\nseveral newspaper and magazine articles.\nThe Gongbi style is very intricate in its finely detailed\ndepiction of Chinese figures and scenery, as can be\nseen from the meticulous care and labor in Madam Li's\nwork. It is only after a lifetime of practice and experi:\nence that she has acquired such a skillful hand. Now\nshe is dedicating much of her time to teaching students\nwho are interested in learning and preserving this fine\npainting tradition of which she is one of the few remaining masters.\n\n139\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0150": "A Word from the Publishers\n\nThis is the age of darkness and quarrel, so naturally there is no\nidea of spiritual life. People are busy only in taking care of the\ntemporary material body and its relationships, such as wife, children and friends. They do not believe, or what is more unfortunate,\nthey have not even heard of it. In Kali-yuga there is no knowledge. There is only the struggle to exist- to eat and sleep.\nThe unique characteristic of a human being is that he can\nspeak, whereas animals cannot. Therefore we find books in human society. Books are the essence of speech. We do not find\nbooks in any other species of life. Nor do we find religion in any\nother species of life. The books of religion, known as the Vedic\nliterature, are the original books of knowledge in human society\nand have been preserved in the Sanskrit language. Practically\nspeaking, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada has unlocked\nthe treasure house of Vedic wisdom by translating the most\nessential of these books, such as Bhagavad-grta and SrTmadBhagavatam into the English language.\nWe invite all interested to read and learn more about Vedic\nliteratures by p\\:lsting enquiries to any of the following addresses:\n\nNo. 11 Jalan 6/6,\n\nP.O. Box40,\n\nP.O. Box95,\n\nPetaling Jaya,\n\nKuching,\n\nThompson Road\n\nSelangor,\n\nSarawak\n\nPost Office,\n\nMalaysia\n\nMalaysia\n\nSingapore 2057\n\n140\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0151": "Glossary\nA\nA. C . Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada- Founder, acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and translator/author of\nBhagavad-gTta, SrTmad Bhagavatam, SrT Caitanya Caritam.rta and\n\nnumerous other volumes of Vedic literatures.\n\nAcintya-bhedabheda-tattva- Philosophy of simultaneous oneness and\ndifference of living entity in relation to the Absolute Truth, presented\nby SrT Caitanya Mahaprabhu.\nAsrama- One of the four spiritual orders of life- b rahmacarT asrama,\nor student life; 9.rhasta asrama, or married life; vanap rastha asrama, or\nretired life; and sannyasa asrama, or the renounced order of life.\nAsuras- (a- not+ sura- godly) Demon, or one who does not follow\nthe principles of scripture.\nAk$8-ra- Infallible living beings who are eternally situated in the spiritual\nabode.\nA rci r-marga- Sun-line on the way to the spiritual planets.\n\nB\nBhagavad-gTta- The essence of the Vedic scriptures, meaning \"Song\nof God.\" This literature was sung by Lord Kr�t:la to His disciple Arjuna\nin order to dissipate nescience.\nB rahma- The first created being in the universe.\nB rahmacarT- Celibate student under the care of a bonafide spiritual\nmaster.\nB rahmaf}as - The intelligent class of men, according to the system of\nsocial and spiritual orders.\nBhakti-yoga - The system of cultivation of bhakti, or pure devotional\nservice, which is untinged by sense gratification or philosophical\nspeculation.\nBh rOf}ahatya- Killing the child in embryo as birth control.\n\nc\nCaturmasya- Four months of the summer rainy season.\nCikitsitam - Well treated.\n\nF\nFalse ego- Misidentification of the spirit soul with matter (the body and\nmind).\n141\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0152": "G\nGopTs- The cowherd girls of V_mdavana, pure devotees of Lord Sri\nK.r.:;t:Ja.\nGorasa- Milk, or the juice of the cow.\nGuf!a - A material quality, of which there are three - ignorance,\npassion, and goodness; also string or rope.\n\nK\nKamad henus- Cows of the spiritual abode.\nKaiva/ya- Absolute, as source of spirit and matter (see p. 67).\n\nKarma- Fruitive action, for which there is always a reaction, good or\nbad.\n\nKrpa(la - One who is miserly and does not make use of valuable\nassets; specifically, one who wastes his life by not striving for spiritual\nrealization.\nK$3triyas- The administrators or protectors of society, according to the\nsystem of four social and spiritual orders of life.\nKumud flowers- (ku- bad+ mud- pleasure) Flowers which do not\ntake pleasure in the sunrise.\n\nM\nMa.thas- Temples.\nMaya- (ma- not + ya- this) Illusion; an energy of Kr�t:Ja which\ndeludes the living entity into forgetfulness of the Supreme Lord.\nMukti - Liberation, freedom from material consciousness, freedom\nfrom material miseries.\n\np\nPratyahara - Diversion, process by which yoga diverts our energies\nfrom external to internal.\nPitas- Forefathers or ancestors.\nPrasadam - Foodstuffs offered to Sri K�t:Ja.\n\nR\nRajas- Mode of passion of material nature.\nRasa- Relationship between the Lord and the living entities.\nRasa-171a- Pastime of Sri Kr�t:Ja with the gopTs in Vrndavana.\n142\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0153": "s\nSarhsiddhi parama- The highest perfection attained by the living entity\nwho returns to Godhead and engages in personal service of the Lord.\nSanatana-dhama- The eternal, spiritual abode.\nSahkTrtana yajfla - The sacrifice prescribed for the age of Kali, i.e.\ncongregational chanting of the name, fame and pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.\nSanta-rasa- The neutral relationship between the Lord and the living\nentities.\nSat- Eternal.\nSattva- Mode of goodness of material nature.\nSoma- Celestial beverage enjoyed by the residents of the moon.\nSrTmad Bhagavatam - The scripture composed by Vyasadeva to describe and explain Kp;>t:Ja's pastimes.\nSodras - Laborers of society, according to the system of four social\nand spiritual orders of life.\n\nT\nTamas- Mode of ignorance of material nature.\n\nu\nUgrakarma- (ugra- hard or difficult + karma- task) Overly largescale and difficult type of industry and trade.\n\nv\nVaisyas - Those involved in business and farming, according to the\nsystem of four social and spiritual orders of life.\nVarf)asrama system - System of four social orders and four spiritual\norders of society.\nVedanta - (veda - knowledge + anta - end) The end of all knowledge, or the scriptures containing knowledge of all branches of science, especially the science of spiritual self-realization.\n\ny\nYajfla- Sacrifice.\nYoga- The linking of the consciousness of the infinitesimal living entity\nwith the supreme living entity, K.r�t:Ja.\nYuga- Age or period in cosmic time.\n143\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0154": "Index\nA\n\n\\\n\"\n\nAbsolute Truth\nas Supreme Personality of Godhead, 40\n\nAutumn\nfour prominent features of, compared to four\norders of life, 84\n\nas truth of simultaneous oneness and\n\nB\n\ndifference, 3\ncompared to the sky, 2\nrelationship between living entity and, 2-3\n(see also Acintya-bhedabheda-tattva)\n\nAcaryas\ncompared to waterfalls, 91\ndefined, 91\n(see also Preachers)\n\nA. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada\nhis purpose in presenting \"Light of the\nBha.gawata\", ix-x\n\n�\n\nAcintya-bhedabheda-tattva\nas propounded by Caitanya Mahaprabhu, 3\n(see also God, becoming one with; Absolute\nTruth)\n\nActivities\nin illusion vs. in liberated condition of\nknowledge, 42\n\nAdversities\naccepted as mercy of the Lord by devotee,\n\n34\n\nAges\ndescribed,' 16\n(see also Yugas)\n\nAgriculture\nas noblest profession, 28\n\nAnnakO�a ceremony\nfor worshipping Govardhana Hill, 127\n\nArcir-marga\nas sun-line on the way to the spiritual\nplanets, 137\n\nAsuras\nactivities of, 100\n\nAtheists\n�\n�\n\nas opponents of revealed scriptures, 53\n\nAusterities\nfor material gain, 13\nfor permanent happiness and eternal life, 14\nresults of, gained upon attaining freedom\nfrom body, 129\n\nBaladeva\nas brother and companion of Kr��a. 57, 71,\n\n79\n\nBeauty\nattained by rendering service to Lord Hari,\n\n29-30\nlikened to seasonal flowers, 14\n\nBhagavad-grta\nas summary of all Vedic knowledge, 17\npreached by Krs�a. 107\n\nBhakti-yoga\nas unalloyed devotional service, 82\nmakes one eligible to enter Haridhama, 134\nperfection of, 82\nregular practice of, 107\n\nBirth Control\nby artificial measures, 85, 96\nby voluntary restraint from sex pleasure, 84\n(see also Householder life)\n\nBody\nidentification with, as false ego, 42\nshould be used for self-realization, 24\n\nBrahma\nas first created being in universe, 17\nas incarnation of goodness, 134\ndaytime and night of, 48\n\nBrahmacarT asrama\ndescribed, 50\n(see also Student)\n\nBrahmacarTs\nhouseholder dutybound to maintain, 87\n\nBrahmarJas\nduty of, 55-56\nprinces trained under guidance of, 123\nsociety depends upon guidance from, 7 4\nwho are not accustomed to studying &\n\n· practicing Vedic injunctions, 36\n\nBrahma-samhita\nspiritual abode described in, 64\n\n144\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0155": "c\nCaitanya Mahaprabhu\ninstructed six GosvamTs to compose\nliterature, 58\npropounded philosophy of\n\nacintya-bhedt:ibheda-tattva, 3\nCandraloka\nas residence of demigods, 136\n\nCapitalist\n\n'\n\nlives by exploiting farmers, 27-28\n\nCaste system\n\nyields to responsible party for better\ngovernment, 5-6\n\nDesire\nas product of ignorance and passion, 100\ncessation of storms of, 100\nmen absorbed in, 100\nshould be directed towards spiritual\nactivities, 48\n(see also Lust)\n\nDevaloka\nas planets of the demigods, 130\n\nDevTdhama\n\nin Kali-yuga, 85\n\n(see also VarQt:israma system)\n\nCaturmasya\n\ndescribed,134\n\nDevotees\ncompared to high mountains which are\n\nrestrictions of, 129\n\nnever shaken,34\n\nChristians\n\ndo not wish any return from Lord, 120\n\nduty of, 20\n\nenjoy spiritual variegatedness, 80\n\nCitizens\n\nfeel compassion for the mass of people, 20,\n\nduty of, 5\n\n46\n\nCommerce\n\nfree of pride and envy, 34\n\nof greedy and materialistic traders, 28\n\nConditioned soul\n\nleague of,20\nremember Krl?�a in His separation, 118\n\nenriched in devotional service, 81\n\nsigns of,137\n\nidentifies with material body, 42, 98\n\nsituated in various rasas, 72\n\nmaterial nature created for, 80\n\nsix items for, 121\n\n(see also Living being; Spirit soul)\n\nunafraid of maya, 20, 46\nutilize temporary creation for the Lord, 78\n\nCow protection\nas God's gifted profession for mankind, 28\n\nDevotional service\nas goal of the Vedas, 53\n\nimportance of, 74\n\nCreation\n\nas highest perfection, 104\n\nas expansion of Kp?�a. 132\n\nconditioned souls become pure by, 80\n\nas relative truth, 78\n\nessential in varQasrama system, 85\n\nliving beings in, 48\n\nexecution of, 121\n\nmanifestation and annihilation of, 48\n\nresult of, 81-82, 120\n\nspiritual, known as sant:itana-dhama, 78\n(see also Material world; Nature; Planets)\n\nD\nDemigods\nresidence of, 136\nworship of, 127, 136\n\nDemocracy\ncitizens of such can have no grievances, 5\n.\ncorruption in, 123-124\nno one after age of fifty should be elected in,\n101\n\n145\n\n(see also Bhakti-yoga)\n\nDhruva Maharaja\nKfl?�a fulfilled desires of,121\n\nDistress\ncomes uncalled, 14\n(see also Miseries; Suffering)\n\nDivorce\neffect of, 38\n\nDuryodhana\nin conspiracy against the Pa�9avas, 120\n\nDuties\nof brt:ihmaQas, 55-56\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0156": "enjoyed byKr:?na,71-72\n\nof Christians, 20\n\nGod\n\nof citizens, 5\nof householder life,46, 87\n\nas lawmaker behind laws of nature, 9\n\nof kings, 5, 130\n\nbecoming one with, 70, 80\n\nof k�atriyas, 55\n\nHis existence challenged inKali-yuga, 17\n\nof merchants,130\n\nmercy of,7-8, 10\nrealization of,98\n\nof Moslems, 20\n\nGoodness\n\nof preachers, 130\nof religious leaders, 20\n\nas mode of material nature, 2, 134\n\nof sages and saints, 45-46,56\n\nlikened to flash of lightning, 2\n\nof sannyasis, 130\n\nmind of men in, 100\n\nof student, 130\n\nSatya-yuga as dominated by mode of, 16\n\n(see also Religious duties)\n\nVi:?nu as incarnation of,134\n(see also Sattva)\n\nDvapara-yuga\nas period dominated by mixed passion and\nignorance, 16\n\nGopTs\nabsence ofKf:?�a unbearable as hot autumn\nday for,107\n\nE\nEnergies\n\"\"'!\n\nas emanations fromKrs�a. 67,103, 132\ncosmic manifestation as expansion of\nKp_;�a's, 68, 78, 132\ninternal, external and marginal, 103\nliving entities as expansions ofKr:?�a's, 103,\n133\nmaterial, 40,67-68,132\n\nEnjoyment\ndestined for each type of body,14\n\nfeeling of,as highest moEJe o! worship, 107,\n117\nimitation of transcendental ecstasies of, 82\nKr:?�a unable to repay,107\n\nyoga of,82\nGovardhana Hill\nworship of, 127\n\nGovernment\ncosmic, 6\ngood character in consciousness of people\nnecessary for,5\n\nof all spiritual entities in Vrndavana, 70\nofKr:?�a,64,69,71-72\nof material happiness,14,24\nof senses does not guarantee chance for\nhuman body,104\n\nG\nGravity\none should learn from sea and rivulet, 24\n\nGrhasta asrama\ndescribed,50\n\nF\nFalse ego\ndisintegration of,by progress in spiritual\n\n(see also Householder life)\n\nGut;a\nrainbow likened to bow without,39-40\n(see also Modes of nature)\n\nculture, 98\ndue to forgetfulness and ignorance,2,42\nfreedom from, called liberation,98\nobliges living being to consider body to be\nself, 42\n\nFamily\nsee Householder life\n\nFoodstuffs\nas God-sent,126\ncan be prepared from milk,74\n\nH\nHappiness\nlaws of nature do not allow,46\nmaterial,as temporary, 14\npermanent,as goal of penances and\nausterities, 14\nsought in matter by forgetful living being,26,\n57,72\n(see also Enjoyment)\n\n146\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0157": "Haridhama\ndescribed, 133\neligibility to enter, 134\n\nIndustry\ncreated by greedy traders, 28\ndue to external view of world, 100\n\nplanets of, ever existent, 134\n\nInternational Society for Krishna\n\n(see also Spiritual abode)\n\nConsciousness\n\nHealth\nimproved by Kp;;(la consciousness, 30\n\nHindus\nduty of, 20\nHouseholder life\nattachment for, 49--50\ncompared to dark well, 45, 50\nduty of, 46, 87\nfamily planning in, 84, 96\n\nstudents of, 30\n\nIntrospection\nas best use of mind, 24\nas mentality of men in mode of goodness,\n\n100\nvs. extravagance, 24\n\nTsopani9ad\ninstructs us to find supreme will in every\naction of cosmic situation, 104\n\nmind of one in, always disturbed, 45-46\nsaints and sages try to uplift fallen souls\nfrom, 45-46\nthose attached to, compared to cranes,\n\n49--50\nthose absorbed in, compared to little\ncreatures playing in small pools, 93-94\n\nJ\nJesus Christ\nrisked his life to propagate message of\nGodhead, 46\n\nas having two kinds of temperament, 24\n\nJnana-yoga\nmakes one eligible to enter MahesadMma,\n134\n\nHuman life\nas complete development of senses for\n\nK\n\nHuman beings\n\nspiritual realization, 68\nas opportunity to understand cosmic\nharmony, 1 04\nmethodically divided, 50, 94\npermanent happiness possible to achieve\nin, 14\n\nKali-yuga\ncompared to rainy season, 16\ndisciplic succession broken in, 17\npeople want their own government in, 123\nreligious sects of, compared to glowworms,\n\n17\n\nsahkTrtana-yajna recommended for, 6\nvarnasrama system corrupted in, 85, 87-88\nKamadhenus\npastimes with Kn;;(la, 64\nIgnorance\nas forgetfulness of real nature of living\nbeing, 2\nas mode of material nature, 2, 100, 134\nman dominated by passion and, 100\nSiva as incarnation of, 134\n(see also Tamas)\n\nlmpersonalism\nexplained, 70, 80\n\nlndra\nresidence of, 136\nsacrifices to, 127\n\n147\n\nKarma-yoga\nobliges one to remain in DevTdhama, 134\n\nKingdom of God\nsee Spiritual abode\nKings\ncorrupt in Kali-yuga, 123\nresponsible for welfare of the state, 5, 130\ntraining of sons of, 123\n\nKnowledge\nfixes the living being in orbit of spiritual\nactivities, 42\nfructifies in devotional service, 82\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0158": "one fixed in spiritual, 32\n(see also Vedic knowledge)\n\nK(pa(18S\nmen addicted to sense pleasure called, 96\n\nKr9�a\naccepts specific offerings, 72\nas all-pervading, 113\nas Caitanya Mahaprabhu, 58\nas center of all affection of all living beings,\n\n65\nas complete in Himself, 72\nas having multifarious energies, 67, 132\nas Lord of Vrndavana, 58\nas primeval Lord and cause of all causes,\n\n111\nas soothing for gopTs and mundane man in\nillusion, 106\nas son of vaisya family, 28\n\nLeaders\nasuric, 100\ndisobedient, 6\nintelligent, 74\nof religious sects, 20\n(see also BrahmarJas, Politicians)\n\nLiberation\nas freedom from false ego, 98\ndoes not mean stopping activities, 42\none must be purified of perverted desire in\norder to attain, 48\n\nLife\ncontinues even after death, 94\nmeant for sat, 24\n\nLiving beings\nalways unhappy under illusion, 107\n\nas supreme enjoyer, 64\n\nas differentiated expansions of the Lord, 65\n\nas Supreme Personallity of Godhead,\n\nas enjoyed by the Lord, 64\n\n57-58, 113\n\nas eternal servitors of the Lord, 111\n\nas supreme spiritual master, 109\n\nas having separate spiritual identity, 70\n\nas Syamasundara, 111\n\nas marginal energy of Kr!?�a. 103\n\ncompared to a tree, 133\n\nas pure as the limitless sky, 2\n\ncosmic manifestation as expansion of His\n\n,{\n\nL\n\nenergies, 132\neffulgence of, 132\n\nas sample of the Absolute Truth, 2\nas smallest of the small, 40\nas spirit soul, 42\n\nfrequency of His appearance, 57\n\nas transcendental to bodily identity, 42\n\nHis appearance as transcendental, 114\n\nas truth manifested in relation with modes of\n\nHis appearance in Yadu dynasty, 113\nHis pastimes in Vrndavana, 57-65, 68-71\nlikened to the moon, 112\nnondifferent from His paraphernalia, 64\none who understands appearance and\nactivities of, 114\nplace of His appearance, 58\npurpose of His appearance, 57-58, 80, 107\nregarded by foolish persons as ordinary,\n\n114\nrelatives of, 72\nunaffected by material qualities, 67\n(see also God; Supreme Personality of\nGodhead; Transcendence)\n\nKr9�aloka\nalso called Goloka Vrndavana, 133\nas residence of Personality of Godhead, 132\n\nK$atriyas\nduty of, 55\n\nmaterial nature, 2\nbecome covered by cloud of forgetfulness,\n\n2\nbecome one with the Absolute Truth, 80\n\n8,400,000 species of, 14\nin manifestation and annihilation of cosmic\ncreation, 48\nnatural affection of, for the Lord, 65\nnot attracted to impersonalism, 57\nremember real happiness of original spiritual\nexistence, 26\nseek permanent happiness in matter, 26,\n\n57, 72\nspiritual consciousness may be reviewed of\nevery species of, 68\ntwo kinds of, 80, 109\n(see also Conditioned soul; Spirit soul)\n\nLiving force\nactive by nature, 42\n\n148\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0159": "Merchants\n\nLust\nas product of ignorance and passion, 100\n\nduty of, 130\n(see also Vaisyas)\n\n(see also Desi.re)\n\nMind\nbest use of, 24\n\nM\nMahesadhama\ndescribed, 134\n\nMarriage\n\nof men in mode of goodness, 100\n\nMiseries\ncleared by spiritual association, 82\nfire of, extinguished only by cloud of mercy\nof saints & sages,46\n\nin Kn?(la consciousness, 38\n\nnullified by intense love of God, 107\n\n(see also Householder life)\n\nof material world as threefold, 14,46\n\nMaterial energy\nas inferior to spiritual energy, 67\nlimited part of glowing effulgence covered\nby, 132\nspiritual sparks covered by, 68\nworks under will of the Supreme Lord, 40\n\nMaterial existence\nlikened to spontaneous forest fire, 46\nsufferings of, cannot be adjusted, 98\n\nMaterialistic civilization\nadvancement of, likened to mirage in desert,\n26\ncompared to dark cloudy evening of rainy\nautumn season, x\n\nMaterial world\nannihilation of, 80\nas combination of matter and spirit; 67\n\n(see also Distress; Suffering)\n\nModes of nature\naffect one who is not advanced in spiritual\nlife, 31-32\nappearance of Kr�na or His servants as free\nfrom,40\ndescribed, 2, 10, 100, 134\ndivide human activities into two spheres,\n100\n\nMoon\nas residence of demigods, 136\nexcursions to, 136-137\npersons promoted to, 136\n\nMoslems\nduty of, 20\n\nMukti\nmeaning of, 80\n\nas shadow of spiritual world, 57\nas the spiritual sky, covered by modes of\nnature, 80\n\nN\n\nbad bargain of, used for best purpose, 24\ncreated for the conditioned souls, 80\nin relation with the Supreme Lord, 78\nnothing satin, 24\n(see also Creation)\n\nMatter\n\nNanda Maharaja\nas protector of cows, 28\n\nNationalism\nas ignorance, 42\n\nNature\n\nas shadowy representation of reality, 26\n\nconducted by three modes, 10\n\ncannot work without living hand, 9\n\nfull of glories of the creator, 77\n\ndifferent stages of spiritual development in,\n\nlaws of,under superintendence of God,\n\n68\nfor Kf�(la no difference between spirit and,\n67\nliving entity seeks happiness in, 26\n\nMaya\ndefined, 65\nself-realized souls unafraid of, 20, 46\n\n149\n\n9-10\none who surrenders to the Lord overcomes\nthe laws of, 10\n(see also Creation; Material World; Modes\nof nature)\n\nNavanna prasana ceremony\ndescribed, 126\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0160": "Preachers\n\nNityananda Prabhu\nrisked His life to propagate message of\n\ncompared to waterfalls, 91\nduty of, 130\n\nGodhead, 46\n\nprofessional, 91\n\n0\n\nProsperity\nsee Wealth\n\nObedience\n\nQ\n\nas first law of discipline, 6\n\nOld age\n\nQualifications\n\npoliticians in, 101\npretense of youthful life even in, 50\nretirement from external life in, 100-1 01\n\np\nPa�<;lavas\nnever prayed to the Lord for anything but\n....\n\ndevotional service, 120\n\nParTI<�it Maharaja\nas exemplary king, 130\n\nPassion\nas mode of material nature, 134\nBrahma as incarnation of, 134\nman dominated by ignorance and, 100\n\nPenance\nsee Austerities\n\nPhilosophy\nimpersonal, 57\nof acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, 3\nof atheists, 52-53\n\nfor entering spiritual abode, 107, 130, 134\nfor entering various planets, 130, 134, 136\n\nR\nRains\nlikened to mercy of the Lord, 7, 10\n\nRajas\nas mood of false separatism, 2\n\nRasa-ma\nas most confidential part of scripture, 92\nas spoken by professional Bhagavatam\nreciter, 91\n\nRasas\ndevotees situated in various, 72\n\nReligious duties\nfor satisfaction of Supreme, 137\nsee also Austerities\n\nReligious sects\nduty of leaders of, 20\nin Kali-yuga, compared to glowworms, 17\n\ntwo parties of, 3\n\nPlanets\n\ns\n\ndescription of, 132-137\non the way to the spiritual, 137\nqualifications for entering, 130, 134, 136\nwithin glowing effulgence called Haridhama,\n\n133\n\nPoliticians\nas attached to family life, 94\ncompared to kumud flowers, 124\n\nSacrifices\npeople should perform for satisfaction of the\nSupreme, 6, 127\nperformed for I ndra, 127\n(see also Yajfias)\n\nSages and saints\nas most intelligent men, 56\n\ncranelike, 50\n\nduty of, 45-46, 56\n\nin old age, 101\n\ntake all risks to propagate message of\n\nPrahlada Maharaja\ncompared householder life to dark well, 50\n\nPrasadam\noffered to the Lord, 126\n(see also Foodstuffs)\n\nGodhead, 46\n\nSambhoga worship\nin direct touch with the Lord, 117\n\nSanatana-dhama\nforgetful soul has no information of, 78\n\n150\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0161": "SankTrtana yajfta\n\nbased on eating, sleeping, fearing and\n\nSannyasa asrama\n\ncompared to stormy sea,100\n\nrecommended for present age, 6\n\ndescribed, 50,87-88\n\nSannyasTs\nduty of, 130\nhouseholder dutybound to maintain, 87\n\nSanta rasa\nevery species of life expresses spiritual\naffection for Lord in, 68\n\nSat\nlife meant for,24\n\nSattva\nflash of lightning compared to, 2\n(see also Goodness)\n\nSatya-yuga\nas period dominated by mode of goodness,16\nSelf-realization\ncessaiion of desire and lust as result of, 100\nestablished by standard direction of Vedas,\n52\n\nof various relations with the Lord, 65\n\nSelf-realized souls\n\nspeak fearlessly about existence of God, 20\n\nScriptures\nin this age practically lost, 36\n\nspiritual abode of the Lord described in, 64\n(see also Bhagavad-gTta;\n\n$rTmad-Bhagavatam; Vedanta; Vedas)\n\nSenses\nenergy of, meant to be diverted, 103\nhuman life meant for controlling, 96\nperfection of,104\n\nSex pleasure\nhusband and wife should control, 38,84\nmen addicted to, 96\none fixed in spiritual knowledge not attracted\nby,32, 96\nrefrained from by mendicants, 85\n\nSiva\nas incarnation of ignorance, 134\nSix GosvamTs\n\ninstructed by Caitanya Mahaprabhu to\ncompose literature on cult of Vrndavana,\n58\n\nSociety\nas cooperation for :self-realization, 55\n\n151\n\nmating,55\ncultivation of human spirit in,dependent\nupon leaders, 74\neconomic development of, 74\nfour divisions described, 55, 84-85, 87-88,\n94,130\nhaving no taste for spiritual culture likened to\nblazing fire, 56\n\n(see also Citizens; Varnasrama system)\n\nSociety, friendship and love\n\nin family life as shadowy representation of\nthe real, 50\n\nSoma\nenjoyed by persons promoted to the moon,\n136\n\nSpirit\n\nfor Kr�r1a no diiference between matter and,\n67\nmaterial world as combination of matter and,\n67\n\nSpirit soul\nas root of activities of the material body,42\ncompared to dry coconut pulp,separate\nfrom its outer skin, 98\ncovered by the modes of nature,98\nwho surrenders to Kr�na,98\n(see also Conditioned soul; Living being)\n\nSpiritual abode\n\nas having no contact with matter, 67\ndescribed in scriptures,64\nqualifications for entering, 107\n(see also Haridhama; Krsr]aloka; Vrndavana)\n\nSpiritual Master\n\nimportance of fixing oneself at lotus feet of,\n32\nKr�r1a as supreme,109\npours water on blazing fire of material\nmiseries, 56\nteaches Vedic knowledge, 17, 109\n(see also Acaryas)\n\nSrTmad Bhagavatam\ncontents described, 92\nespecially spoken for people of this age,17\nprofessional reciters of, 91\n\nStudent\n\nin varnasrama system, 84, 130\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0162": "devotees attracted by beauty of, 85\n\n$adras\n\neffulgence emanating from, 132\n\ndefined, 55\n\nSuffering\ncannot be adjusted, 98\nconsidered by devotee to be due to past\nsinful activities, 34\ndestined for each type of body, 14·\non account of folly, 6\n(see also Distress; Miseries)\n\ngrhasta trained to enter into, 50\nimpersonalists prefer to merge into\nexistence of, 80\n(see also Kr�r�a; Supreme Personality of\nGodhead)\n\nTreta-yuga\nas period dominated by passion, 16\n\nSupreme Personality of Godhead\nable to convert spirit into matter and matter\ninto spirit, 67\n\nu\nUgrakarma\n\nappearance of, compared to rainbow, 39-40\nas Absolute Truth, 40\nas biggest of big and smallest of small, 40\n\nhinders progressive cultivation of human\nspirit, 100\n\nas eternally form of transcendental\nexistence, knowledge and bliss, 40\nKr�r1a as, 57-58\nmessages of, have to be received from\nrealized soul, 92\nmistaken to be ordinary, 92\nocean of nescience becomes like water in\nsmall hoofprint for one surrendered to, 98\npurpose of appearance of, 57-58\n(see also God; Kr�r)a)\n\nv\nVaisyas\ndefined, 28, 55\n\nVanaprastha asrama\ndefined, 50\ndescribed, 85\nhouseholder dutybound to maintain those\nin, 87\n\nVarf}asrama system\ncompared to autumn, 84\n\nSupreme will\nin every action of cosmic situation, 104\n\nT\nTamas\nliving entity covered by, 2\n(see also Ignorance)\n\nTaxes\nfall like rains on stone-hearted men in the\nstate, 5\nmeant to be utilized for welfare of citizens,\n\n5-6\nTemples\npurpose of, 56\n\nTha.kura Haridasa\nrisked his life to propagate message of\nGodhead, 46\n\nTrade\noverly large-scale and difficult, 100\npurpose of, 28\n\nTranscendence\ncompared to milk, 133\n\ncorrupt in Kali-yuga, 85, 87-88\ndescribed, 84-85, 87-88\ndevotional service to Lord essential in, 85\nretirement in, 101\n\nVedanta\nas ultimate conclusion of all branches of\nknowledge, 3\n\nVedas\nconclusion of, 109, 111\ndevotional service as goal of, 53\nfour divisions of, 52\nimport revealed to sincere devotee and\nservitor of spiritual master, 109\nopponents of, 52-53\npurpose of, 52\n\nVedic knowledge\nacquired through chain of disciplic\nsuccession, 17\n\nViraha worship\nas more palatable than direct contact with\nthe Lord, 117\nshadow of, in mundane world, 118\n\n152\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0163": "Women\n\nVi�r:JU\nas incarnation of goodness, 134\n\nVrndavana\n\nlusty, compared to lightning, 37-38\npursued by men absorbed in desire and lust,\n\nas flooded with milk and butter, 28\nas place of Kf�(la's appearance, 58\nas replica of Kf�(laloka, 58\nas site of research and excavation by six\n\n100\n(see also Marriage; Divorce)\n\nWorship\ntwo modes of, 117\n\nGosvamTs, 58\ninhabitants of, 65, 69-70\nserious students invited to make home in,\n\n58\nspiritual variegatedness displayed in, 64\n(see also Spiritual abode)\n\nVyasadeva\ndivided Veda into four divisions, 52\n\nw\nWealth\naccumulated by uncontrolled, sensuous\npersons, 24\nlikened to seasonal flowers, 26\nof devotees, 120\nopulences of, captivate proprietor, 26\npursued by men absorbed in desire and lust,\n\n100\nsacrifice of, 55-56\n\n153\n\ny\nYajnas\nas prescribed for Kali-yuga, 6\nfor satisfaction of demigods, 136\n(see also Sacrifices)\n\nYoga\ndiverts energies from external to internal,\n\n103\nlikened to staircase, 82\nof gopTs, 82\nvarious kinds of, 129\n\nYogTs\nuse conserved energy for self-realization,\n\n102\n\nYudi�thira\nnever disturbed by calamities, 120\n\nYugas\ndescribed, 16\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0164": "ISKCON CENTERS IN ASIA\nISKCON is a worldwide community of devotees dedicated to the\nprinciples of bhakti-yoga. Write, call, or visit for further information.\nClasses are held in the evenings during the week, and a special feast\nand festival is held every Sunday afternoon.\n\nMALAYSIA: Sarawak, Kuching- 363 Tabuan Jaya, Tel: 082/22510; Selangor- 11 Jalan 6/6 Petaling Jaya; Kedah, 81 4 Taman Sulaiman Kulim. SINGAPORE: Sembawang - Holy Tree Sri Bala Subramaniar Temple, Canberra\nRoad, Singapore 2775;\n\nISKCON FARM-COMMUNITY: PHILIPPINES, Cebu- 231 Pagsabungan\nRoad, Tel: 846-76, Basak-Mandaue; SRI LANKA: Colombo- 188 New Chetty Street, Tel: 13/333-25; INDONESIA: Jakarta- Jalan Rawamangun Timur\n80, Tel: 483519; Bali - Jalan Saga Mona 17, Renon, Denpasar Tel: 8045;\nTHAILAND: Bangkok - 139 Soi Putta- Osot, off New Road; JAPAN:\nTokyo- 3-13-4 Kamirenjaku Mitaka-shi, 181, 0422 (47)5847.\nINDIA: Ahmedabad, Gujarat - 7, Kailas Society, Ashram Rd., 380 009/\n49935; Bangalore, Mysore- 34/A, 9B Cross, West of Chord Rd., Rajajinagar 2nd Stage, 560 010; Bhadrak, Oris!::a- Gour Gopal Mandir, Kuans, P.O.\nBhadrak, Dist. Balasore; Bhubaneswar, Orissa- National Highway No. 5,\nNayapalli (mail: c/o P.O. Box 173, 751 001)/53125; Bombay, MaharastraHare Krishna Land, Juhu, 400 049/566-860; Calcutta, W. Bengal- 3 Albert\nRd., 700 017/44-3757; Chandigarh, Punjab- Hare Krishna Land, Dakshin\nMarg. Sector 36-B, 160 023; Chhaygharia (Haridaspur), W. Bengal- Thakur Haridas Sripatbari Sevashram, P.O. Chhaygharia, P.S. Bongaon, Dist. 24\nPargonas; Gauhati, Assam- Post Bag No. 127, 781 001; Hyderabad, A.P.\n- Hare Krishna Land, Nampally Station Rd., 500 001/51018; lmphal, Manipur- Paona Bazar, 795 001; Madras, Tamil Nadu- 4 Srinivasamurty Ave.,\nAdayar, Madras 20; Mayapur, W. Bengal - Shree Mayapur Chandrodaya\nMandir, P.O. Shree Mayapur Dham (District Nadia); New Delhi, U.P. M.-119 Greater Kailash 1, 110 048/624-590; Patna, Bihar- Post Bag 173,\nPatna 800 001; Vrindavan, U.P.- Krishna-Balarama Mandir, Bhaktivedanta\nSwami Marg. Raman Reti, Mathura/178.\nFARMS: Hyderabad, A.P.- P.O. Dabilpur Village, Medchal Taluq. Hyderabad District, 501 401; Mayapur, W. Bengal- (contact ISKCON Mayapur).\nRESTAURANTS: Bombay - Hare Krishna Land; Mayapur - Shree\nMayapur Chandrodaya Mandir; Vrindavan - Krishna-Balarama Mandir.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0165": "The simplicity, beauty\nand intricacies found in\nnature have captured\nthe minds and hearts of\nthe greatest\nphilosophers throughout\ntime. Even the greatest\nscientific minds of our\ntime are at a loss to\nunderstand nature's\ngreat mysteries.\n\nLIGHT OFTHE\nBHAGAWATA\npresents a clear and\ntangible illustration of\nthe purpose and\nsignificance of nature\nand it's origin.\n\n", "Light_of_the_Bhagavata-1984_first_edition_SCAN#p0166": ""}