Thursday, March 24, 2011
Errant Philosophy of Sankaracharya
Errant Philosophy of Sankaracharya
BY: JOSH HAWLEY
Apr 29, 2010 — MAURITIUS (SUN) —
"All different varieties of atmaramas [those who take pleasure in atma, or spirit self], especially those established on the path of self-realization, though freed from all kinds of material bondage, desire to render unalloyed devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead. This means that the Lord possesses transcendental qualities and therefore can attract everyone, including liberated souls." (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.7.10
Srimad Bhagavatam, Mahabharata, and other Puranas describe the Kali Yuga beginning with the unqualified son of a brahmana, when he cursed Pariksit Maharaja, a devotee of Krishna, without just cause. Kali began with the immature Brahmana Sringi. But it has been definitively solidified by the impersonalist teachings of Adi Shankaracharya. This errant philosophy of Mayavada, or the theory that the absolute becomes covered by illusion, has laid the philosophical ground work for, and has allowed the supposed justification for, essentially all subsequent acts of evil in the modern age.
Mayavada philosophy has pre-positioned itself as the basis for the formula for the modern scientific framework which states that matter is the ultimate cause. The errant philosophy of Shankara, which is purely speculative and has no actual basis in the Vedic Sastras, appears to allow for the atheistic conclusion to have been manifest as an authentic Vedic Conclusion. This attempt to mislead the followers of the Vedas from its actual theistic conclusion is false. Padma Purana (Uttara khanda 25.7) reveals the hidden identity of Shankaracarya as an incarnation of Lord Siva:
mayavadam asac-chastram
pracchannam bauddham ucyate
mayaiva vihitam devi
kalau brahmana-murtina
"The Mayavada philosophy', Siva informed his wife Parvati, ‘is covered Buddhism. In the form of a brahmana in the kali-yuga, I teach this imagined philosophy'."
Prior to the introduction of Shankaracharya's opposed Vedic philosophy there was no room for chance. According to Bhagavada-gita there are five causes for action: adhistanam tatha karta karanam ca prthag-vidham vividhas ca prthak cesta daivam caivatra pancamam - "The place of action, the performer, the senses (5 working senses and 5 knowledge acquiring senses), the endeavor, and ultimately the Super consciousness or Supersoul. It was Shankaracharya's deliberate intention to misdirect his followers from this fifth and Ultimate Cause, The Paramatma.
Adi Shankaracharya's basic flaw is his speculative reduction of the fundamental cause of matter, i.e., consciousness, to be a product or subject of that (or subject to) same material energy. This is contrary to the Vedic conclusion: janmady asya yatah, which declares the ultimate causative as personal and conscious. This also contradicts the Vedic aphorism aham bramasmi: I am consciousness or transcendental spiritual energy. That primeval consciousness existed before the manifestation of the material energy. Therefore how is it possible to conclude that source is subject to its manifestation?
om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat
tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye muhyanti yat surayah
tejo-vari-mrdam yatha vinimayo yatra tri-sargo 'mrsa
dhamna svena sada nirasta-kuhakam satyam param dhimahi
SYNONYMS
om -- O my Lord; namah -- offering my obeisances; bhagavate -- unto the Personality of Godhead; vasudevaya -- unto Vasudeva (the son of Vasudeva), or Lord Sri Krsna, the primeval Lord; janma-adi -- creation, sustenance and destruction; asya -- of the manifested universes; yatah -- from whom; anvayat -- directly; itaratah -- indirectly; ca -- and; arthesu -- purposes; abhijnah -- fully cognizant; sva-rat -- fully independent; tene -- imparted; brahma -- the Vedic knowledge; hrda -- consciousness of the heart; yah -- one who; adi-kavaye -- unto the original created being; muhyanti -- are illusioned; yat -- about whom; surayah -- great sages and demigods; tejah -- fire; vari -- water; mrdam -- earth; yatha -- as much as; vinimayah -- action and reaction; yatra -- whereupon; tri-sargah -- three modes of creation, creative faculties; amrsa -- almost factual; dhamna -- along with all transcendental paraphernalia; svena -- self-sufficiently; sada -- always; nirasta -- negation by absence; kuhakam -- illusion; satyam -- truth; param -- absolute; dhimahi -- I do meditate upon.
TRANSLATION
"O my Lord, Sri Krsna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Sri Krsna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahmaji, the original living being. By Him even the great sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water. Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Sri Krsna, who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon Him, for He is the Absolute Truth."
(Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1)
Srimad Bhagavatam is Srila Vyasadeva's own commentary on the Vedanta Sutra, of whom he himself is the author. His opinion as the author of Vedanta Sutra, and compiler of the Vedas, clearly set the overriding precedent to that of Shankaracharya's speculative Mayavada treatise.
The Bhagavatam describes the param brahma or transcendental source thus depending on the respective view of the practitioner.
vadanti tat tattva-vidas
tattvam yaj jnanam advayam
brahmeti paramatmeti
bhagavan iti sabdyate
SYNONYMS
vadanti -- they say; tat -- that; tattva-vidah -- the learned souls; tattvam -- the Absolute Truth; yat -- which; jnanam -- knowledge; advayam -- nondual; brahma iti -- known as Brahman; paramatma iti -- known as Paramatma; bhagavan iti -- known as Bhagavan; sabdyate -- it so sounded.
TRANSLATION
"Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan."
Lord Brahma, the original manifest living entity in this universe, found himself in perplexity, upon waking in total darkness. The Brahma Samhita describes his situation thus:
sanjato bhagavac-chaktya
tat-kalam kila coditah
sisrksayam matim cakre
purva-samskara-samskrtah
dadarsa kevalam dhvantam
nanyat kim api sarvatah
SYNONYMS
sanjatah -- on being born; bhagavat-saktya -- by the divine potency; tat-kalam -- at that time; kila -- indeed; coditah -- being guided; sisrksayam -- to the act of creation; matim -- his mind; cakre -- turned; purva-samskara-samskrtah -- under the impulse of previous impressions; dadarsa -- he saw; kevalam -- only; dhvantam -- darkness; na -- not; anyat -- else; kim api -- anything; sarvatah -- in every direction.
TRANSLATION
"On coming out of the lotus, Brahma, being guided by the divine potency tuned his mind to the act of creation under the impulse of previous impressions. But he could see nothing but darkness in every direction. nothing but darkness in every direction."
(Sri Brahma-samhita 5.23)
Goddess Sarasvati saw his condition, and being merciful, bestowed upon him the Gayatri mantra. Having taken initiation into the austerity of spiritual practice, through the method of spiritual association by mantra, he was thus guided in the process of creation. His perfection of practice culminated in the realization of the Absolute Reality beyond this material cosmic manifestation.
Lord Brahma continued his austerities for 1000 celestial years. One celestial year is equal to 6 x 30 x 12 x 1000 of our years. The Personality of Godhead was pleased with Brahma's efforts, and thus manifest Himself and His transcendental abode. Brahma was then able to see the Lord surrounded by the subjective energies including the material energies, which are subordinate to the Supreme Lord. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada describes these subordinate energies in his purport to the Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.17:
"The Lord is naturally endowed with His six opulences. Specifically, He is the richest, He is the most powerful, He is the most famous, He is the most beautiful, He is the greatest in knowledge, and He is the greatest renouncer as well. And for His material creative energies, He is served by four, namely the principles of prakr?ti, purus?a, mahat-tattva and ego. He is also served by the sixteen, namely the five elements (earth, water, air, fire and sky), the five perceptive sense organs (the eye, ear, nose, tongue and skin), and the five working sense organs (the hand, the leg, the stomach, the evacuation outlet and the genitals), and the mind. The five includes the sense objects, namely form, taste, smell, sound and touch. All these twenty-five items serve the Lord in the material creation, and all of them are personally present to serve the Lord. The insignificant opulences numbering eight (the as?t?a-siddhis, attained by yogis for temporary overlordship) are also under His control, but He is naturally full with all such powers without any effort, and therefore He is the Supreme Lord."
Lord Krishna accepted Brahma as His friend and shook his hand. Brahma then submissively requested the Lord to explain Himself. The Lord instructed Brahma thus:
"Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.33: "Brahma, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of Godhead.
2.9.34: O Brahma, whatever appears to be of any value, if it is without relation to Me, has no reality. Know it as My illusory energy, that reflection which appears to be in darkness.
2.9.35: O Brahma, please know that the universal elements enter into the cosmos and at the same time do not enter into the cosmos; similarly, I Myself also exist within everything created, and at the same time I am outside of everything.
2.9.36: A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, most certainly search for it up to this, in all circumstances, in all space and time, and both directly and indirectly."
These four verses are collectively known as the Chatur Sloki Bhagavata, and make up the essence of the Vedic Conclusion. The source of matter is Bhagavan, lying beyond matter and existing prior to the manifestation of matter. After the destruction of matter that same transcendental Brahman continues to exist as He was, is, and always will be. The theory that Brahman falls under illusion as advocated by Shankaracharya is obviously false and clearly contradicts the conclusion of Srila Vyasadeva, the author of the Vedanta Sutra, whose commentary is the Srimad Bhagavatam. The succinct Vedic aphorism sarvam khalva idam brahma, which is expanded upon in the above four verses, cannot be accounted for by Shankaracharya, and so he conveniently avoids the issue. Moreover he deliberately avoids touching the Srimad Bhagavatam.
It is also interesting to note the devotionally imbued prayers by Shankacharya composed in the later part of his life. The Bhaja Govindam prayers are also known as Moha Mudgara (Hammer to Shatter Illusion). These prayers are an apparent admission to his fault of misleading innocent people with the atheistic Mayavada conclusions, and in his guilt he counters his own Mayavada interpretation with the solution. Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam mudha mate... Just worship Govinda, just worship Govinda, just worship Govinda, O Crazy Mind.
Shankaracharya's errant conclusion of nondistinction of the living entity is countered by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His proposal of Achintya-bheda-abheda-tattva. Inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference of the Lord and the living Entity. This negates Shankaracharya's misinterpretation of the Vedic aphorism: aham bramasmi. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is none other than the self same Govinda whom Shankaracharya advocates worshiping in his Bhaja Govindam prayers:
krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam
sangopangastra-parsadam
yajnaih sankirtana-prayair
yajanti hi su-medhasah
"In the age of Kali, Krsna appears in a golden form, chanting the two syllables krs-na. He descends along with His weapons, saktis, limbs, and eternal confidential associates. Those with intelligence worship Him with the sankirtana yajna. (1)
(Srimad Bhagavatam 11.5.32)
This Avatara of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is mentioned in many other places throughout the Vedic literatures. Swami B.G. Narsingha compiled this extensive list of the locations where Mahaprabhu is mentioned through out the Vedic literatures.
itotham krta sannyaso'vatarisyami sa-guno nirvedo
niskamo bhu-girvanas tira-atho' lakanandayah kalau
catuh-sahasrabdhopari panca-sahasrabhyantare
gaura-varno dirghangah sarva-laksana-yukta isvara-
prarthito nija-rasasvado bhakta-rupo misrakhyo
vidita-yogah syam
I will descend on the earth after the passage of four thousand years in the Kali-Age, and before the passsage of five thousand years. I will come on the earth on the bank of the Ganges,. I will be a tall and saintly brahmana devotee. I will have all the auspicious symptoms of an exalted person. I will exhibit renunciation. I will have all auspicious signs. I will be a devotee, practicing bhakti-yoga. I will taste the rasa of My own devotional service. (Atharva Veda)
saptame gaura-varna-visnor ity aena sva-saktya
caikyam etya pratar avatirya saha svaih sva-manum siksayati
In the seventh manvantara, in the beginning of the Kali-Yuga, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will, accompanied by His own associates, descend in a golden form to the earth. He will teach the chanting of His own names. (Atharva-Veda Purusa-Bodhini-Upanisad 8)
tathaham krta sannyaso bhu-girvano 'vatarisye
tire'lakanandayah punah punah isvara-prarthitah sa-
parivaro niralambo nirdhuteh kali-kalmasa-kavalita-
janavalambanaya
I shall come to the earth, accompanied by My associates, in a place by the bank of the Ganges. I will advent to save the people who are afflicted and devoured by the sins of the age of Kali. I will manifest as an avadhuta Brahmana sannyasi. (Sama Veda)
mahan prabhur vai purusah
sattvasyaisa pravartakah
su-nirmalam imam praptim
isano jyotir avyayah
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Mahaprabhu, who disseminates transcendental enlightenment. Just to be in touch with Him is to be in contact with the indestructible Brahmajyoti. (Svetasvatara Upanisad 3.12)
yada pasyah pasyate rukma-varnam
kartaram isam purusam brahma-yonim
One who sees that golden-colored Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Lord, the supreme actor, who is the source of the Supreme Brahman, is liberated." (Mundaka Upanisad 3.1.3)
His appearance is also mentioned and authenticated in numerous authorized Puranas.
aham eva dvija-srestha
nityam pracchana-vigrahah
bhagavad-bhakta-rupena
lokan raksami sarvada
"O best of the brahmanas, My disguised form is eternal. In this way, with My own form hidden from ordinary sight I take the form of a devotee and appear among the people in general in order to establish and protect religious principles." (Adi Purana)
aham eva kvacid brahman
sannyasa asramam asritah
hari bhaktim grahayami
kalau papa-hatan naran
‘O Brahmana, I occasionally take the sannyasa asrama in an attempt to bring the fallen people of Kali Yuga to take up the path of bhakti or devotional service to Lord Krsna. (Upa-purana)
kalina dahyamanam
uddhararaya tanu-bhrtam
janma prathama sandhyayam
bhavisyati dvijalaye
The Supreme Person will appear in the first part of the age of Kali. He will appear in the home of a brahmana to save the embodied conditioned souls burning in the troubles of Kali-Yuga. (Kurma-Purana)
kalina dakyamananam
paritranaya tanu-bhrtam
janma prathama sandhyayam
karisyami dvijatisu
aham purno bhavisyami
yuga-sandhyau visesatah
mayapure navadvipe
bhavisyami saci sutah
kaleh prathama sandhyayam
lakshmi- kanto bhavisyati
daru-brahma-samipa-sthah
sannyasi gaura-vigrahah
In the first part of the age of Kali, I will come among the brahmanas to save the fallen souls, who are being burned by the troubles of the age of Kali.
I will take birth as the son of Saci, in Navadvipa-Mayapura.. I will come in my complete spiritual form in the first part of Kali-Yuga.
In the first part of Kali-Yuga, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will come in a gold-like form. First He will become the husband of Laksmi (Srimati Laksmi Devi, Lord Caitanya's first wife). Then He will become a sannyasi, near Lord Jagannatha who will appear in a divine wooden form. (Garuda-Purana)
satye daitya-kuladhi-nasa-samaye
simhordhva-martyakrtis
tretayam dasa-kandharam
paribhavan rameti namakrtih
gopalan paripalayan vraja-pure
bharam haran dvapare
gaurangah priya-kirtanah
kali-yuge caitanya-nama prabhuh
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead who in the Satya-yuga appeared as a half-man, half-lion to cure a terrible disease that had ravaged the daityas, and who in the Treta-yuga appeared as a person named Rama (Lord Ramacandra), a person who defeated the ten- headed Demon Ravana, and who in the Dvapara-yuga removed the earth's burden, and protected the Gopa (cowherd men) people of Vraja-pura, will appear again in the Kali-yuga. His form will be golden, He will delight in chanting the Lord's holy names, and His name will be Caitanya." (Nrsimha Purana)
yatrayogesvarah saksad
yogi-cintyo janardanah
caitanya vapur aste vai
sandranandatmakah
kaleh prathama-sandhyayam
gaurangotham mahi-tale
bhagirathi-tate ramye
bhavisyami saci-sutah
The Supreme Personality, Janardana, who is the object of the yogis' meditation, who saves the devotees from various sufferings, and who is the master of all yogic practices, who is always full of divine transcendental ecstasy and bliss, will advent in His own divine form of Sri Caitanya.
I shall appear on this earth in the first part of Kali-yuga in a beautiful place on the bank of the Bhagirathi. I shall have a golden form, and I shall take birth as the son of Saci. (Padma-Purana)
aham eva kalau vipra
nityam prachanna-vigrahah
bhavavad-bhakta-rupena
lokan raksami sarvada
divija bhuvi jayadhvam
jayadhvam bhakta rupinah
kalau sankirtana rambhe
bhavisyami saci-sutah
aham eva dvija-srestho
nityam pracchanna-vigrahah
bhagavad-bhakta-rupena
lokam raksami sarvada
O Vipra, in the age of Kali, I will come disguised as a devotee and I will save all the worlds.
O Divija (demigods), please come and advent as devotees on this earth in the age of Kali-yuga. I will incarnate as the son of Saci to inaugurate the congregational chanting of the name of Krsna.
I shall advent in the form of a brahmana devotee and I shall hide my factual identity. I shall deliver all the worlds. (Narada Purana)
kaleh prathama sandhyayam
gaurangotham mahi-tale
bhagirathi-tate bhumni
bhavisyami saci-sutah
I will reveal my eternal golden form in the first part of Kali-yuga. I will advent on the earth on the bank of the Bhagirathi. (Brahma-Purana)
anandasru-kala-roma
harsa-purnam tapo-dhana
sarve mama eva draksyanti
kalau sannyasa-rupinam
O austere sage, you should know that in the age of Kali, everyone will see my transcendental form as a sannyasi. I will be exhibiting symptoms of ecstasy like shedding tears of bliss and hairs standing in ecstasy. (Bhavisya-Purana)
prasantatma lamba-kanthas gaurangas ca suravrtah
The Supreme Personality of Godhead will come in a golden form, full of peace, and a beautiful long neck. He will be surrounded by many saintly devotees. (Agni-Purana)
mundo gaurah su-dirghangas
tri-srotas-tira-sambhavah
dayaluh kirtana-grahi
bhavisyami kalau-yuge
In the age of Kali, I shall advent where the three rivers meet. I shall have a shaven head. I shall have a golden complexion. I will be very kind and always chant the holy name of Krsna. (Matsya-Purana)
golokam ca parityajya
lokanam trana-karanat
kalau gauranga-rupena
lila-lavanya-vigrahah
In the Kali-Yuga, I will leave Goloka and, to save the people of the world, I will become the handsome and playful Lord Gauranga. (Markandeya-Purana)
aham eva dvija-srestho
lila-pracurya-vigrahah
bhagavad-bhakta-rupena
lokan raksami sarvada
I shall come as the best of the brahmanas. I will exhibit many pastimes in the form of a devotee. I shall deliver the people of the world. (Varaha-Purana)
kali-ghora-tamas-channat
sarvan acara varjitan
sacigarbhe ca sambhuya
tarayisyami narada
O Narada Muni, I will take birth in the womb of Saci. I shall save the people, who will give up all proper good conduct, from the terrible darkness of the age of Kali-Yuga. (Vamana-Purana)
paurnamasyam phalgunasya
phalguni-rksa-yogatah
bhavisye gaura-rupena
saci-garbhe purandarat
svarnadi-tiram asthaya
navadvipe janasraye
tatra dvija-kulam prapto
bhavisyami janalaye
bhakti-yoga-pradanaya
lokasyanugrahaya ca
sannyas-rupam asthaya
krsna-caitanya-nama-dhrk
tena lokasya nistaras
tat kurudhvam mamajnaya
dharitri bhavita cabhir
mayaiva dvija-dehina
I shall advent in the month of Phalguna, when the star Phalguni is conjoined with the full moon. I shall incarnate in a golden complexion in the womb of Saci and Purandara Misra.
I will be born in the city of Navadvipa, on the Ganges' shore, in a Brahmana's family. I shall take the renounced order of life (sannyasa) and show kindness to the people in general and engage them in bhakti. I will be known as Sri Krsna Chaitanya.
All of you should follow My order and deliver the people of the world. I shall appear as a Brahmana. I shall make this earth fearless. (Vayu-Purana)
suddho gaurah-su-dirghango
ganga-tira-samudbhavah
dayaluh-kirtana-grahi
bhavisyami kalau yuge
In the age of Kali-yuga, I shall come in a place on the bank of the Ganges. I will be very pure, have a fair complexion, and be very tall and chant the holy names of Krsna. (Vayu-Purana)
kalau sankirtanarambhe bhavisyami saci-sutah
"In the Age of Kali when the sankirtana movement is inaugurated, I shall descend as the son of Sacidevi." (Vayu Purana)."
The Golden Avatara, Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is also described in the Mahabharata.
suvarna-varno hemango
varangas-candanangadi
"He appears in a golden form, His limbs are the complexion of molten gold. His body is extremely beautiful and decorated with sandalwood pulp." (Mahabharata, Visnu Sahasranama)
sannyasa-krcchamah santo
nistha santi-parayanah
"He accepts sannyasa and shows equanimity. He is peaceful. His mind is always fixed and He performs chanting." (Mahabharata, Visnu Sahasranama)
The Ananta Samhita also describes His Lordship and the Various Names by which He is known thus:
svarnadi-tiram asritya
navadvipe dvijalaye
sampradatum bhakti-yogam
lokasyanugrahaya ca
sa eva bhagavan krmo
radhika-prana-vallabhah
srsty-adau sa jagannatho
gaura asin mahesvari
avatirno bhavisyami
kalau-nija-ganaih saha
saci-garbhe navadvipe
svardhuni-parivarite
aprakasyam idam guhyam
na prakasyam bahir mukhe
bhaktavataram bhaktakhyam
bhaktam bhakti-pradam svayam
man-maya-mohitah kecin
na jnasyanto bahir-mokhah
jnasyanti mad-bhakti-yuktah
sadhavo-nyasinotmalah
krmavatara-kale-yah
striyo ye purusah priyah
kalau te'vatarisyanti
sridama-subaladayah
catuh-sasti-mahantas te
gopa dvadasa balakah
caitanyera simhera...
dharma-samsthapanarthay
a viharisyami tair aham
kale nastam bhakti-patham
sthapayisyamy aham punah
gacchantu bhuvi te putrah
jayantam bhakta-rupinah
dharma-samsthapanam kale
kurvantu te mamajnaya
krsnas caitanya-gaurango
gauracandrah saci-sutah
prabhur gauro gaura-harir
namani-bhakti-dani me
To show mercy to the people and give them devotional service, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will appear in a Brahmana's home in Navadvipa by the Ganges's shore. The Supreme Person, Sri Krsna Himself, who is the life of Srimati Radharani, and is the Lord of the universe in creation, rnaintenance, and annihilation, appears as Gaura, O Mahesvari.
In Kali-yuga, I will descend to the earth with My associates. In Navadvipa, which is surrounded by the Ganges, I will take birth in Saci-devi 's womb.
They who are bewildered by My illusory potency will not understand the great secret of the appearance in this world of Me in My personal form, in My form as the incarnation of devotion, in My form as the incarnation of a devotee, in My form bearing the name of a devotee, in My form as a devotee, and in My form as the giver of devotional service.
This secret is not to be revealed to them. Only the saintly, pure, renounced devotees, diligently engaged in My devotional service, will be able to understand Me in these five forms.
My dear male and female associates, headed by Sridama and Subala, who came to this world at the time of My advent as Lord Krsna, will come again during the Kali-yuga.
The Gopas will become the sixty-four mahantas and the twelve gopalas. To establish the truth of religion, I will enjoy many pastimes with them.
In this way I will again reveal the path of devotional service, which has been destroyed in the course of time. My sons should also descend to the earth, assume the forms of devotees, and, by My order, also work to re-establish the principles of true religion.
At this time My names will be: Krsna Chaitanya, Gauranga, Gauracandra, Sacisuta, Mahaprabhu, Gaura and Gaurahari. Chanting these names will bring devotion to Me. (Ananta-Samhita)"
Finally He is mentioned in the Tantra Sastras.
punya-ksetre navadvipe bhavisyami saci-sutah
"I shall appear in the holy land of Navadvipa as the son of Sacidevi." (Krsna-yamala-Tantra)
atha vaham dharadhame
bhutva mad-bhakta-rupa-dhrk
mayayam ca bhavisyami
kalau sankirtanagame
"Sometimes I personally appear on the surface of the world in the garb of a devotee. Specifically, I appear as the son of Saci in Kali-yuga to start the sankirtana movement."
(Brahma-yamala Tantra - Collection of Slokas)
BY: JOSH HAWLEY
Apr 29, 2010 — MAURITIUS (SUN) —
"All different varieties of atmaramas [those who take pleasure in atma, or spirit self], especially those established on the path of self-realization, though freed from all kinds of material bondage, desire to render unalloyed devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead. This means that the Lord possesses transcendental qualities and therefore can attract everyone, including liberated souls." (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.7.10
Srimad Bhagavatam, Mahabharata, and other Puranas describe the Kali Yuga beginning with the unqualified son of a brahmana, when he cursed Pariksit Maharaja, a devotee of Krishna, without just cause. Kali began with the immature Brahmana Sringi. But it has been definitively solidified by the impersonalist teachings of Adi Shankaracharya. This errant philosophy of Mayavada, or the theory that the absolute becomes covered by illusion, has laid the philosophical ground work for, and has allowed the supposed justification for, essentially all subsequent acts of evil in the modern age.
Mayavada philosophy has pre-positioned itself as the basis for the formula for the modern scientific framework which states that matter is the ultimate cause. The errant philosophy of Shankara, which is purely speculative and has no actual basis in the Vedic Sastras, appears to allow for the atheistic conclusion to have been manifest as an authentic Vedic Conclusion. This attempt to mislead the followers of the Vedas from its actual theistic conclusion is false. Padma Purana (Uttara khanda 25.7) reveals the hidden identity of Shankaracarya as an incarnation of Lord Siva:
mayavadam asac-chastram
pracchannam bauddham ucyate
mayaiva vihitam devi
kalau brahmana-murtina
"The Mayavada philosophy', Siva informed his wife Parvati, ‘is covered Buddhism. In the form of a brahmana in the kali-yuga, I teach this imagined philosophy'."
Prior to the introduction of Shankaracharya's opposed Vedic philosophy there was no room for chance. According to Bhagavada-gita there are five causes for action: adhistanam tatha karta karanam ca prthag-vidham vividhas ca prthak cesta daivam caivatra pancamam - "The place of action, the performer, the senses (5 working senses and 5 knowledge acquiring senses), the endeavor, and ultimately the Super consciousness or Supersoul. It was Shankaracharya's deliberate intention to misdirect his followers from this fifth and Ultimate Cause, The Paramatma.
Adi Shankaracharya's basic flaw is his speculative reduction of the fundamental cause of matter, i.e., consciousness, to be a product or subject of that (or subject to) same material energy. This is contrary to the Vedic conclusion: janmady asya yatah, which declares the ultimate causative as personal and conscious. This also contradicts the Vedic aphorism aham bramasmi: I am consciousness or transcendental spiritual energy. That primeval consciousness existed before the manifestation of the material energy. Therefore how is it possible to conclude that source is subject to its manifestation?
om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat
tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye muhyanti yat surayah
tejo-vari-mrdam yatha vinimayo yatra tri-sargo 'mrsa
dhamna svena sada nirasta-kuhakam satyam param dhimahi
SYNONYMS
om -- O my Lord; namah -- offering my obeisances; bhagavate -- unto the Personality of Godhead; vasudevaya -- unto Vasudeva (the son of Vasudeva), or Lord Sri Krsna, the primeval Lord; janma-adi -- creation, sustenance and destruction; asya -- of the manifested universes; yatah -- from whom; anvayat -- directly; itaratah -- indirectly; ca -- and; arthesu -- purposes; abhijnah -- fully cognizant; sva-rat -- fully independent; tene -- imparted; brahma -- the Vedic knowledge; hrda -- consciousness of the heart; yah -- one who; adi-kavaye -- unto the original created being; muhyanti -- are illusioned; yat -- about whom; surayah -- great sages and demigods; tejah -- fire; vari -- water; mrdam -- earth; yatha -- as much as; vinimayah -- action and reaction; yatra -- whereupon; tri-sargah -- three modes of creation, creative faculties; amrsa -- almost factual; dhamna -- along with all transcendental paraphernalia; svena -- self-sufficiently; sada -- always; nirasta -- negation by absence; kuhakam -- illusion; satyam -- truth; param -- absolute; dhimahi -- I do meditate upon.
TRANSLATION
"O my Lord, Sri Krsna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Sri Krsna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahmaji, the original living being. By Him even the great sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water. Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Sri Krsna, who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon Him, for He is the Absolute Truth."
(Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1)
Srimad Bhagavatam is Srila Vyasadeva's own commentary on the Vedanta Sutra, of whom he himself is the author. His opinion as the author of Vedanta Sutra, and compiler of the Vedas, clearly set the overriding precedent to that of Shankaracharya's speculative Mayavada treatise.
The Bhagavatam describes the param brahma or transcendental source thus depending on the respective view of the practitioner.
vadanti tat tattva-vidas
tattvam yaj jnanam advayam
brahmeti paramatmeti
bhagavan iti sabdyate
SYNONYMS
vadanti -- they say; tat -- that; tattva-vidah -- the learned souls; tattvam -- the Absolute Truth; yat -- which; jnanam -- knowledge; advayam -- nondual; brahma iti -- known as Brahman; paramatma iti -- known as Paramatma; bhagavan iti -- known as Bhagavan; sabdyate -- it so sounded.
TRANSLATION
"Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan."
Lord Brahma, the original manifest living entity in this universe, found himself in perplexity, upon waking in total darkness. The Brahma Samhita describes his situation thus:
sanjato bhagavac-chaktya
tat-kalam kila coditah
sisrksayam matim cakre
purva-samskara-samskrtah
dadarsa kevalam dhvantam
nanyat kim api sarvatah
SYNONYMS
sanjatah -- on being born; bhagavat-saktya -- by the divine potency; tat-kalam -- at that time; kila -- indeed; coditah -- being guided; sisrksayam -- to the act of creation; matim -- his mind; cakre -- turned; purva-samskara-samskrtah -- under the impulse of previous impressions; dadarsa -- he saw; kevalam -- only; dhvantam -- darkness; na -- not; anyat -- else; kim api -- anything; sarvatah -- in every direction.
TRANSLATION
"On coming out of the lotus, Brahma, being guided by the divine potency tuned his mind to the act of creation under the impulse of previous impressions. But he could see nothing but darkness in every direction. nothing but darkness in every direction."
(Sri Brahma-samhita 5.23)
Goddess Sarasvati saw his condition, and being merciful, bestowed upon him the Gayatri mantra. Having taken initiation into the austerity of spiritual practice, through the method of spiritual association by mantra, he was thus guided in the process of creation. His perfection of practice culminated in the realization of the Absolute Reality beyond this material cosmic manifestation.
Lord Brahma continued his austerities for 1000 celestial years. One celestial year is equal to 6 x 30 x 12 x 1000 of our years. The Personality of Godhead was pleased with Brahma's efforts, and thus manifest Himself and His transcendental abode. Brahma was then able to see the Lord surrounded by the subjective energies including the material energies, which are subordinate to the Supreme Lord. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada describes these subordinate energies in his purport to the Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.17:
"The Lord is naturally endowed with His six opulences. Specifically, He is the richest, He is the most powerful, He is the most famous, He is the most beautiful, He is the greatest in knowledge, and He is the greatest renouncer as well. And for His material creative energies, He is served by four, namely the principles of prakr?ti, purus?a, mahat-tattva and ego. He is also served by the sixteen, namely the five elements (earth, water, air, fire and sky), the five perceptive sense organs (the eye, ear, nose, tongue and skin), and the five working sense organs (the hand, the leg, the stomach, the evacuation outlet and the genitals), and the mind. The five includes the sense objects, namely form, taste, smell, sound and touch. All these twenty-five items serve the Lord in the material creation, and all of them are personally present to serve the Lord. The insignificant opulences numbering eight (the as?t?a-siddhis, attained by yogis for temporary overlordship) are also under His control, but He is naturally full with all such powers without any effort, and therefore He is the Supreme Lord."
Lord Krishna accepted Brahma as His friend and shook his hand. Brahma then submissively requested the Lord to explain Himself. The Lord instructed Brahma thus:
"Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.33: "Brahma, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of Godhead.
2.9.34: O Brahma, whatever appears to be of any value, if it is without relation to Me, has no reality. Know it as My illusory energy, that reflection which appears to be in darkness.
2.9.35: O Brahma, please know that the universal elements enter into the cosmos and at the same time do not enter into the cosmos; similarly, I Myself also exist within everything created, and at the same time I am outside of everything.
2.9.36: A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, most certainly search for it up to this, in all circumstances, in all space and time, and both directly and indirectly."
These four verses are collectively known as the Chatur Sloki Bhagavata, and make up the essence of the Vedic Conclusion. The source of matter is Bhagavan, lying beyond matter and existing prior to the manifestation of matter. After the destruction of matter that same transcendental Brahman continues to exist as He was, is, and always will be. The theory that Brahman falls under illusion as advocated by Shankaracharya is obviously false and clearly contradicts the conclusion of Srila Vyasadeva, the author of the Vedanta Sutra, whose commentary is the Srimad Bhagavatam. The succinct Vedic aphorism sarvam khalva idam brahma, which is expanded upon in the above four verses, cannot be accounted for by Shankaracharya, and so he conveniently avoids the issue. Moreover he deliberately avoids touching the Srimad Bhagavatam.
It is also interesting to note the devotionally imbued prayers by Shankacharya composed in the later part of his life. The Bhaja Govindam prayers are also known as Moha Mudgara (Hammer to Shatter Illusion). These prayers are an apparent admission to his fault of misleading innocent people with the atheistic Mayavada conclusions, and in his guilt he counters his own Mayavada interpretation with the solution. Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam mudha mate... Just worship Govinda, just worship Govinda, just worship Govinda, O Crazy Mind.
Shankaracharya's errant conclusion of nondistinction of the living entity is countered by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His proposal of Achintya-bheda-abheda-tattva. Inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference of the Lord and the living Entity. This negates Shankaracharya's misinterpretation of the Vedic aphorism: aham bramasmi. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is none other than the self same Govinda whom Shankaracharya advocates worshiping in his Bhaja Govindam prayers:
krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam
sangopangastra-parsadam
yajnaih sankirtana-prayair
yajanti hi su-medhasah
"In the age of Kali, Krsna appears in a golden form, chanting the two syllables krs-na. He descends along with His weapons, saktis, limbs, and eternal confidential associates. Those with intelligence worship Him with the sankirtana yajna. (1)
(Srimad Bhagavatam 11.5.32)
This Avatara of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is mentioned in many other places throughout the Vedic literatures. Swami B.G. Narsingha compiled this extensive list of the locations where Mahaprabhu is mentioned through out the Vedic literatures.
itotham krta sannyaso'vatarisyami sa-guno nirvedo
niskamo bhu-girvanas tira-atho' lakanandayah kalau
catuh-sahasrabdhopari panca-sahasrabhyantare
gaura-varno dirghangah sarva-laksana-yukta isvara-
prarthito nija-rasasvado bhakta-rupo misrakhyo
vidita-yogah syam
I will descend on the earth after the passage of four thousand years in the Kali-Age, and before the passsage of five thousand years. I will come on the earth on the bank of the Ganges,. I will be a tall and saintly brahmana devotee. I will have all the auspicious symptoms of an exalted person. I will exhibit renunciation. I will have all auspicious signs. I will be a devotee, practicing bhakti-yoga. I will taste the rasa of My own devotional service. (Atharva Veda)
saptame gaura-varna-visnor ity aena sva-saktya
caikyam etya pratar avatirya saha svaih sva-manum siksayati
In the seventh manvantara, in the beginning of the Kali-Yuga, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will, accompanied by His own associates, descend in a golden form to the earth. He will teach the chanting of His own names. (Atharva-Veda Purusa-Bodhini-Upanisad 8)
tathaham krta sannyaso bhu-girvano 'vatarisye
tire'lakanandayah punah punah isvara-prarthitah sa-
parivaro niralambo nirdhuteh kali-kalmasa-kavalita-
janavalambanaya
I shall come to the earth, accompanied by My associates, in a place by the bank of the Ganges. I will advent to save the people who are afflicted and devoured by the sins of the age of Kali. I will manifest as an avadhuta Brahmana sannyasi. (Sama Veda)
mahan prabhur vai purusah
sattvasyaisa pravartakah
su-nirmalam imam praptim
isano jyotir avyayah
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Mahaprabhu, who disseminates transcendental enlightenment. Just to be in touch with Him is to be in contact with the indestructible Brahmajyoti. (Svetasvatara Upanisad 3.12)
yada pasyah pasyate rukma-varnam
kartaram isam purusam brahma-yonim
One who sees that golden-colored Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Lord, the supreme actor, who is the source of the Supreme Brahman, is liberated." (Mundaka Upanisad 3.1.3)
His appearance is also mentioned and authenticated in numerous authorized Puranas.
aham eva dvija-srestha
nityam pracchana-vigrahah
bhagavad-bhakta-rupena
lokan raksami sarvada
"O best of the brahmanas, My disguised form is eternal. In this way, with My own form hidden from ordinary sight I take the form of a devotee and appear among the people in general in order to establish and protect religious principles." (Adi Purana)
aham eva kvacid brahman
sannyasa asramam asritah
hari bhaktim grahayami
kalau papa-hatan naran
‘O Brahmana, I occasionally take the sannyasa asrama in an attempt to bring the fallen people of Kali Yuga to take up the path of bhakti or devotional service to Lord Krsna. (Upa-purana)
kalina dahyamanam
uddhararaya tanu-bhrtam
janma prathama sandhyayam
bhavisyati dvijalaye
The Supreme Person will appear in the first part of the age of Kali. He will appear in the home of a brahmana to save the embodied conditioned souls burning in the troubles of Kali-Yuga. (Kurma-Purana)
kalina dakyamananam
paritranaya tanu-bhrtam
janma prathama sandhyayam
karisyami dvijatisu
aham purno bhavisyami
yuga-sandhyau visesatah
mayapure navadvipe
bhavisyami saci sutah
kaleh prathama sandhyayam
lakshmi- kanto bhavisyati
daru-brahma-samipa-sthah
sannyasi gaura-vigrahah
In the first part of the age of Kali, I will come among the brahmanas to save the fallen souls, who are being burned by the troubles of the age of Kali.
I will take birth as the son of Saci, in Navadvipa-Mayapura.. I will come in my complete spiritual form in the first part of Kali-Yuga.
In the first part of Kali-Yuga, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will come in a gold-like form. First He will become the husband of Laksmi (Srimati Laksmi Devi, Lord Caitanya's first wife). Then He will become a sannyasi, near Lord Jagannatha who will appear in a divine wooden form. (Garuda-Purana)
satye daitya-kuladhi-nasa-samaye
simhordhva-martyakrtis
tretayam dasa-kandharam
paribhavan rameti namakrtih
gopalan paripalayan vraja-pure
bharam haran dvapare
gaurangah priya-kirtanah
kali-yuge caitanya-nama prabhuh
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead who in the Satya-yuga appeared as a half-man, half-lion to cure a terrible disease that had ravaged the daityas, and who in the Treta-yuga appeared as a person named Rama (Lord Ramacandra), a person who defeated the ten- headed Demon Ravana, and who in the Dvapara-yuga removed the earth's burden, and protected the Gopa (cowherd men) people of Vraja-pura, will appear again in the Kali-yuga. His form will be golden, He will delight in chanting the Lord's holy names, and His name will be Caitanya." (Nrsimha Purana)
yatrayogesvarah saksad
yogi-cintyo janardanah
caitanya vapur aste vai
sandranandatmakah
kaleh prathama-sandhyayam
gaurangotham mahi-tale
bhagirathi-tate ramye
bhavisyami saci-sutah
The Supreme Personality, Janardana, who is the object of the yogis' meditation, who saves the devotees from various sufferings, and who is the master of all yogic practices, who is always full of divine transcendental ecstasy and bliss, will advent in His own divine form of Sri Caitanya.
I shall appear on this earth in the first part of Kali-yuga in a beautiful place on the bank of the Bhagirathi. I shall have a golden form, and I shall take birth as the son of Saci. (Padma-Purana)
aham eva kalau vipra
nityam prachanna-vigrahah
bhavavad-bhakta-rupena
lokan raksami sarvada
divija bhuvi jayadhvam
jayadhvam bhakta rupinah
kalau sankirtana rambhe
bhavisyami saci-sutah
aham eva dvija-srestho
nityam pracchanna-vigrahah
bhagavad-bhakta-rupena
lokam raksami sarvada
O Vipra, in the age of Kali, I will come disguised as a devotee and I will save all the worlds.
O Divija (demigods), please come and advent as devotees on this earth in the age of Kali-yuga. I will incarnate as the son of Saci to inaugurate the congregational chanting of the name of Krsna.
I shall advent in the form of a brahmana devotee and I shall hide my factual identity. I shall deliver all the worlds. (Narada Purana)
kaleh prathama sandhyayam
gaurangotham mahi-tale
bhagirathi-tate bhumni
bhavisyami saci-sutah
I will reveal my eternal golden form in the first part of Kali-yuga. I will advent on the earth on the bank of the Bhagirathi. (Brahma-Purana)
anandasru-kala-roma
harsa-purnam tapo-dhana
sarve mama eva draksyanti
kalau sannyasa-rupinam
O austere sage, you should know that in the age of Kali, everyone will see my transcendental form as a sannyasi. I will be exhibiting symptoms of ecstasy like shedding tears of bliss and hairs standing in ecstasy. (Bhavisya-Purana)
prasantatma lamba-kanthas gaurangas ca suravrtah
The Supreme Personality of Godhead will come in a golden form, full of peace, and a beautiful long neck. He will be surrounded by many saintly devotees. (Agni-Purana)
mundo gaurah su-dirghangas
tri-srotas-tira-sambhavah
dayaluh kirtana-grahi
bhavisyami kalau-yuge
In the age of Kali, I shall advent where the three rivers meet. I shall have a shaven head. I shall have a golden complexion. I will be very kind and always chant the holy name of Krsna. (Matsya-Purana)
golokam ca parityajya
lokanam trana-karanat
kalau gauranga-rupena
lila-lavanya-vigrahah
In the Kali-Yuga, I will leave Goloka and, to save the people of the world, I will become the handsome and playful Lord Gauranga. (Markandeya-Purana)
aham eva dvija-srestho
lila-pracurya-vigrahah
bhagavad-bhakta-rupena
lokan raksami sarvada
I shall come as the best of the brahmanas. I will exhibit many pastimes in the form of a devotee. I shall deliver the people of the world. (Varaha-Purana)
kali-ghora-tamas-channat
sarvan acara varjitan
sacigarbhe ca sambhuya
tarayisyami narada
O Narada Muni, I will take birth in the womb of Saci. I shall save the people, who will give up all proper good conduct, from the terrible darkness of the age of Kali-Yuga. (Vamana-Purana)
paurnamasyam phalgunasya
phalguni-rksa-yogatah
bhavisye gaura-rupena
saci-garbhe purandarat
svarnadi-tiram asthaya
navadvipe janasraye
tatra dvija-kulam prapto
bhavisyami janalaye
bhakti-yoga-pradanaya
lokasyanugrahaya ca
sannyas-rupam asthaya
krsna-caitanya-nama-dhrk
tena lokasya nistaras
tat kurudhvam mamajnaya
dharitri bhavita cabhir
mayaiva dvija-dehina
I shall advent in the month of Phalguna, when the star Phalguni is conjoined with the full moon. I shall incarnate in a golden complexion in the womb of Saci and Purandara Misra.
I will be born in the city of Navadvipa, on the Ganges' shore, in a Brahmana's family. I shall take the renounced order of life (sannyasa) and show kindness to the people in general and engage them in bhakti. I will be known as Sri Krsna Chaitanya.
All of you should follow My order and deliver the people of the world. I shall appear as a Brahmana. I shall make this earth fearless. (Vayu-Purana)
suddho gaurah-su-dirghango
ganga-tira-samudbhavah
dayaluh-kirtana-grahi
bhavisyami kalau yuge
In the age of Kali-yuga, I shall come in a place on the bank of the Ganges. I will be very pure, have a fair complexion, and be very tall and chant the holy names of Krsna. (Vayu-Purana)
kalau sankirtanarambhe bhavisyami saci-sutah
"In the Age of Kali when the sankirtana movement is inaugurated, I shall descend as the son of Sacidevi." (Vayu Purana)."
The Golden Avatara, Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is also described in the Mahabharata.
suvarna-varno hemango
varangas-candanangadi
"He appears in a golden form, His limbs are the complexion of molten gold. His body is extremely beautiful and decorated with sandalwood pulp." (Mahabharata, Visnu Sahasranama)
sannyasa-krcchamah santo
nistha santi-parayanah
"He accepts sannyasa and shows equanimity. He is peaceful. His mind is always fixed and He performs chanting." (Mahabharata, Visnu Sahasranama)
The Ananta Samhita also describes His Lordship and the Various Names by which He is known thus:
svarnadi-tiram asritya
navadvipe dvijalaye
sampradatum bhakti-yogam
lokasyanugrahaya ca
sa eva bhagavan krmo
radhika-prana-vallabhah
srsty-adau sa jagannatho
gaura asin mahesvari
avatirno bhavisyami
kalau-nija-ganaih saha
saci-garbhe navadvipe
svardhuni-parivarite
aprakasyam idam guhyam
na prakasyam bahir mukhe
bhaktavataram bhaktakhyam
bhaktam bhakti-pradam svayam
man-maya-mohitah kecin
na jnasyanto bahir-mokhah
jnasyanti mad-bhakti-yuktah
sadhavo-nyasinotmalah
krmavatara-kale-yah
striyo ye purusah priyah
kalau te'vatarisyanti
sridama-subaladayah
catuh-sasti-mahantas te
gopa dvadasa balakah
caitanyera simhera...
dharma-samsthapanarthay
a viharisyami tair aham
kale nastam bhakti-patham
sthapayisyamy aham punah
gacchantu bhuvi te putrah
jayantam bhakta-rupinah
dharma-samsthapanam kale
kurvantu te mamajnaya
krsnas caitanya-gaurango
gauracandrah saci-sutah
prabhur gauro gaura-harir
namani-bhakti-dani me
To show mercy to the people and give them devotional service, the Supreme Personality of Godhead will appear in a Brahmana's home in Navadvipa by the Ganges's shore. The Supreme Person, Sri Krsna Himself, who is the life of Srimati Radharani, and is the Lord of the universe in creation, rnaintenance, and annihilation, appears as Gaura, O Mahesvari.
In Kali-yuga, I will descend to the earth with My associates. In Navadvipa, which is surrounded by the Ganges, I will take birth in Saci-devi 's womb.
They who are bewildered by My illusory potency will not understand the great secret of the appearance in this world of Me in My personal form, in My form as the incarnation of devotion, in My form as the incarnation of a devotee, in My form bearing the name of a devotee, in My form as a devotee, and in My form as the giver of devotional service.
This secret is not to be revealed to them. Only the saintly, pure, renounced devotees, diligently engaged in My devotional service, will be able to understand Me in these five forms.
My dear male and female associates, headed by Sridama and Subala, who came to this world at the time of My advent as Lord Krsna, will come again during the Kali-yuga.
The Gopas will become the sixty-four mahantas and the twelve gopalas. To establish the truth of religion, I will enjoy many pastimes with them.
In this way I will again reveal the path of devotional service, which has been destroyed in the course of time. My sons should also descend to the earth, assume the forms of devotees, and, by My order, also work to re-establish the principles of true religion.
At this time My names will be: Krsna Chaitanya, Gauranga, Gauracandra, Sacisuta, Mahaprabhu, Gaura and Gaurahari. Chanting these names will bring devotion to Me. (Ananta-Samhita)"
Finally He is mentioned in the Tantra Sastras.
punya-ksetre navadvipe bhavisyami saci-sutah
"I shall appear in the holy land of Navadvipa as the son of Sacidevi." (Krsna-yamala-Tantra)
atha vaham dharadhame
bhutva mad-bhakta-rupa-dhrk
mayayam ca bhavisyami
kalau sankirtanagame
"Sometimes I personally appear on the surface of the world in the garb of a devotee. Specifically, I appear as the son of Saci in Kali-yuga to start the sankirtana movement."
(Brahma-yamala Tantra - Collection of Slokas)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Krishna Talk 123 - Everything is by Mahaprabhu’s Grace
Krishna Talk 123 - Everything is by Mahaprabhu’s Grace
by Swami B.G. Narasingha
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(The Following article is from a class given by Srila B.G. Narasingha
Maharaja on Sri Gaura-purnima at Govindaji Gardens on 6th March 2004)
In the beginning of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Krsna Dasa Kaviraja Gosvami
says:
vande sri krsna caitanya nityananda sahoditau
gaudadaye puspavantau citrau san-dau tamo-nudau
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual masters, the devotees
of the Lord, the Lord’s incarnations, His plenary portions, His energies,
and the primeval Lord Himself, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I offer my respectful
obeisances unto Sri Krsna Caitanya and Lord Nityananda, who are like the sun
and the moon, and they have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauda
(Bengal), on the banks of the Ganges, Nadia, to dissipate the darkness of
ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.” (Cc. Adi 1.2)
This is a poetic inference. The sun and the moon cannot appear simultaneously
on the same horizon. One will come, later the other will appear. They don’t
come on the same line of the sky. That is physically impossible. It is a
poetic inference. What is the sun? The sun gives light. What is moon? The
moon gives light. Both the sun and the moon are luminaries – one in the day
and one in the night. And both of them dissipate darkness. Caitanya
Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu are compared to the sun and the moon, and
they dissipate the darkness of ignorance that has found its seat in
everyone’s heart in Kali-yuga.
It is my misfortune to have to say that even the most educated men and women
of our modern times are scarcely better than fools. Even with a series of
degrees and initials behind their names, they do not know who they are. They
think that they are this body in most cases, which is only a combination of
muscles, blood, and so many things that should be taken as rather disgusting.
For example, take a diamond studded gold watch, with a lapis or quartz
crystal face – each part of that watch has value. You smash it into pieces,
but the gold is still good, the diamonds are good, and the quartz crystal is
good. The body of the watch however is only useful if all the parts are
together. Similarly, if any piece of the body becomes detached from it –
your tooth, your fingernail, your beautiful hair, you throw it into the
wastebasket! But if it is all kept together, we think, “Oh! I am so
beautiful! I am so handsome!”
We think we are this body. Everyone in this material world is under this
basic misconception. Regardless of how great their education in this mundane
world is, scientists, philosophers, poets, musicians, and so on – all of
them are under this basic misconception of life. And if you ask, “Who are
you,” then they will just give you a name which can be found in the phone
book. They don’t know who they actually are. This is the prime origin of
all pervading ignorance in this world. They only work for this body and this
society. All ignorance begins from the concept of “I” and misidentifying
with this body. This is called ahankara.
"AHAM BRAHMA’SMI" IS NOT SUFFICIENT
On the other side is a world of knowledge, and beyond that acquired knowledge
is a world of activity that is unknown to them. What is that knowledge? Aham
brahma’smi – I am spirit soul. I am not this body. That is vedantika. And
Mahaprabhu gave much more clarification – jivera svarupa haye, nitya krsna
dasa. This aham brahma’smi of the Vedanta is not actually sufficient
because it is marginal. Mere marginality is a dangerous position to rest in
as it can cause one to fall into the side of Mayavada. One can fall back into
the material side. There must be positive knowledge. jivera svarupa haye,
nitya krsna dasa. Mahaprabhu said, ‘nitya krsna dasa!’ You are the
eternal servant of Krsna. ‘Eternal servant of Krsna’ means you always
have been and you always will be. You are even now the servant of Krsna, but
you are not acting on that knowledge because you don’t have it.
This is the primary defect in every civilization and in every species of life
found anywhere in the universe. People get all excited about UFOs and alien
beings. There are so many abduction theories, UFO cults and movements and
people claiming to have been abducted by spacecraft. But the primary
misconception is the same. You can be assured that the creature in the
spaceship doesn’t know who he is, and does not know that he is an eternal
servant of Krsna. Even the devas don’t know, though they have some glimpse.
Just as during early morning, there is some light but it is not sufficient to
read the newspaper, it is not sufficient to do any work, but there is some
light. So demigods have some light, but they are caught up in the world of
enjoyment and that enjoyment is always keeping the light dim. They cannot see
clearly from their position. Demigods are constantly falling into the
complications of this material world and fighting to save their position.
Sometimes they become envious if a human being is performing a yajna that
will elevate him to a higher position. Indra himself forgets his real
position and becomes inimical, fighting against that person because his fear
is that someone may come and take his chair and become king.
Fear is born from forgetfulness of Krsna. I have seen devotees forget Krsna
also. Even practicing, neck-bead wearing, tilaka-wearing, japa-chanting
devotees sometimes forget about Krsna and become fearful of a particular
situation. Be it physical, financial, or whatever, we become forgetful; we
worry or we try to do something outside of what Krsna has arranged. Generally
that fails and we come back to our senses and remember that Krsna is our
maintainer and He is arranging. What He arranges we will accept, be happy
with, and be successful with. Many types of arrangements may not be favorable
for the performance of pure devotion.
The Lord does not come here to please our senses. He does not come here to
serve us. He comes to give us an opportunity for us to serve Him. To properly
serve, surrender is necessary. Service without surrender is not actually
service. That is something we call preliminary practice, but it’s not the
real thing. There must be surrender, and then there can be service. That is
why Mahaprabhu came – to engage us in the service of the sankirtana
movement.
FIRST THE TEMPLE, THEN SANKIRTANA!
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati knew that
before the sankirtana movement of Mahaprabhu could spread all over the world,
the place of His appearance must be manifest again in this world, and along
with its manifestation, a great temple must be built there. From there, the
potency would spread all over the world.
There are some people with the opinion that first sankirtana will spread all
over the world, then all the foreigners will come to India and build that
wonderful temple. There is some confusion about this. But Nityananda Prabhu
says a great temple called the Adbhuta Mandira, (wonderful temple) will be
built at the birth site of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and then, from that temple,
sankirtana will go all over the world.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Sarasvati Thakura, not being conditioned souls, not
having Judeo-Christian backgrounds, not being foreigners, and not being
egotistical, knew that first the order of the Lord must be served according
to His direction and then accordingly the sankirtana mission would be
successful. There was prerequisite work to be done, but they didn’t even
know from where to begin because it was all hidden.
There is a saying, “Seek and ye shall find.” It’s an old saying. If you
try, God is there to help you. Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, yoga-ksemam
vahamy aham – “I preserve what you have and I carry what you lack, and
when the need is there I will be there to help you”. So with this
fundamental understanding, they tried to locate Mahaprabhu’s birthplace.
There was a place where people insisted it was – in the greater
Navadvipa-dhama, but Bhaktivinoda did not feel confident that this was
actually the true birthplace. Even his mantra-guru said, “This is the
place,” but he did not feel confident with that, because his mantra-guru
was not a liberated soul and was part of a group who were much less than
liberated souls. Bhaktivinoda Thakura continued to search.
He looked through the available sacred texts and the first thing he
ascertained was that the ancient town of Navadvipa is on the eastern side of
the Ganges, not on the western side as it is known today. If a river was
there two hundred years ago or thereabout, you would be able to see where it
used to run without any difficulty. The riverbed would not disappear in one
or two hundred years. It takes a long, long time before a riverbed
disappears. In the district that is now known as Navadvipa, they could find
nothing to indicate that the Ganges once ran through there. He concluded that
the Ganges course originally ran in a more easterly location and found no
possibility that the river came near to the current site. He knew it must be
on the eastern side.
Firstly, scriptural evidence mentions Navadvipa and its location, and through
that Bhaktivinoda conjectured the true location of Sri Navadvipa-dhama, but
ultimately it came down to divine revelation. Bhaktivinoda Thakura had a
vision wherein he caught a glimpse of the eternal Navadvipa in a particular
direction. He saw this on more than one occasion from the rooftop of the Rani
Dharmasala in Navadvipa. He would look towards what he thought was the area
of the eternal Navadvipa, the place of Mahaprabhu’s pastimes, At that time
it had become rice fields with a couple of Mohammedan villages around it. No
Hindu villages were in that area. One evening, while chanting his japa, he
got a divine glimpse of the eternal Navadvipa. The next morning he went in
that direction and while searching the area, he came to a place near a
village owned by the Muslims. A natural tulasi garden grew wild there.
Mohammedans don’t really care much about tulasi. When he entered that area,
Bhaktivinoda could feel the presence of his own homeland.
Sometimes, if you are looking for something, you may go to some place and
say, “This is not the place,” then you come out and you intuitively feel,
“Ah! This is it” – some feeling comes over you internally. Ultimately
feeling is the best way of knowing. In the beginning, you have to hear from
an authority to receive knowledge, but ultimately you have to feel the truth
in your heart and know it as such. Not because I or someone else said so –
it has to come by revelation, by feeling, by realization. So when he entered
that tulasi garden he felt, “Oh! This is a divine place.” And he
suspected that this might be the place of Mahaprabhu’s birth.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura had come to know Jagannatha Dasa Babaji as his
siksa-guru, sad-guru, his real guru. Bhaktivinoda always gave formal respect
to Vipina-vihari Gosvami, his mantra-guru, who was more or less a social icon
of the guru establishment. But his heart was one with Jagannatha Dasa Babaji.
Jagannatha Dasa Babaji was a paramahamsa, a liberated soul.
The way of the Vaisnavas is not without confirmation. You think or know
something, but you don’t let your head get as big as an elephant and think,
“Yes, yes, I know. No one can tell me.” I have seen some successful
preachers who, after getting a thousand or two thousand disciples, have this
attitude, “No one can tell me. I know what I’m doing.” But that is
never the way of a Vaisnava. Even the greatest Vaisnava yearns for some
confirmation, some association, someone to talk to about those higher,
important things.
Bhaktivinoda didn’t think, “I am a liberated soul. I know what I am
doing. No one can tell me. This is Mahaprabhu’s birth place – said and
done!” He brought Jagannatha Dasa Babaji there. At this time Jagannatha
Dasa Babaji was so old that he never walked anywhere. The community had
arranged a strong servant to carry him wherever he needed to go in a basket.
He was over hundred and ten years old or so at that time. He was also blind.
When he got there, before the man could even set down the basket, Jagannatha
jumped out of the basket and started dancing and performing kirtana. He was
at an age when he couldn’t even walk, what to speak of jump out of a
basket. He couldn’t see where he was. As far as he knew, he could have been
anywhere. But with the internal eye of devotion he could understand that he
was in the Yogapitha. He had been brought to the epicenter of caitanya-lila.
That was an ecstatic moment for the few blessed souls that were there at that
time.
Based on Jagannatha Dasa Babaji’s experience, Bhaktivinoda concluded that
this was Yogapitha. Then he set out to prove it through historical and
archeological records, literary evidence and notations in every possible way.
But even without any of the evidence, he knew it was so due to the experience
of Jagannatha Dasa Babaji.
GURU KNOWS EVERYTHING!
That is what we do. I don’t know if I am a spirit soul or not, I don’t
know if Krsna is God or not. I don’t know, but my guru knows. My guru knows
and that is good enough for me. I accept my guru’s statements, and then I
can argue and put forward scriptural evidence, show archeological records
etc. to prove that his statements are conclusive. But if I don’t know from
that original point, then how would I know? I wouldn’t know. That is the
way of Vaisnavism; you don’t know, your guru knows, and based on that you
know.
Some people recently said, “Guru knows everything. He knows that someone is
snatching money; he knows that someone is dying; he knows that someone ate
too much sweet rice; he knows that someone is burning the sweet rice. He
knows all these things.” It must drive him crazy to know all these things!
One can’t even sit in a room with three people talking without getting
aggravated. I remember, Prabhupada would not be sitting in a room with so
many people talking and just adjust to that. He wanted some peace and quiet.
But these people say, “Guru knows everything!” Prabhupada said, “Yes,
guru knows everything means that he knows Krsna. Krsna is everything.” So
he knows – everything is Krsna. If Krsna reveals something he may know
that. If He doesn’t reveal, how he will know that?” So later on, some
people said, “Well, he told you that because you weren’t ready for the
truth.” That particular gentleman doesn’t know that we were so crazy that
if Prabhupada had told us to cut off your head, we would cut off your head.
Whatever he said, that was the truth. We were young, very committed, and very
fanatical at that time. What to speak of explaining, if Prabhupada knew
everything and said, “Yes, I know everything,” we would have jumped and
said, “Jaya!” No one would doubt it. If anyone had a doubt about it, we
would have got him by the neck and carried him out.
Because of Jagannatha Dasa Babaji’s confirmation, Bhaktivinoda felt
resolved that they had found the birthplace of Mahaprabhu. For those ordinary
people who don’t have guru-nistha, guru-bhakti or guru-sraddha, we have to
convince them by different arguments because these people try to challenge
our faith. Pure faith won’t hold up in court. You will need evidence. It
went to court and there they concluded that the birthplace of Mahaprabhu was
the Yogapitha in Mayapura.
PREACHING FROM YOGAPITHA
The governor of Bengal came to Mayapura – he was the second most powerful
man in India and the third most powerful man in the world. First, there was
the King of England, then the Viceroy in Delhi, and third was the Governor of
Bengal. So the third most powerful man in the world came to Mayapura.
Sarasvati Thakura even went so far as to get the third most powerful man in
the world to verify this! Why? So that poor fools would not be misguided by
the cheaters who claimed that some false place was the birthplace of
Mahaprabhu. Still, across the river on the western side they are making
crowing sounds, “Mayapura isn’t actually the real place!” They built a
temple there long before Bhaktivinoda. But Nityananda’s prediction never
came true. After they built their temple, the Holy Name of Krsna, never
spread all over the world from there.
Srila Bhaktivinoda and Srila Sarasvati Thakura built and inaugurated the
temple at Yogapitha and not long after, Krsna Consciousness spread all over
the world. You will be hard pressed to find a place in the world, even
amongst the aboriginal cultures or even in the most isolated parts of the
world, where no one has heard of Krsna. I’ve gone to places in Africa –
“The Dark Continent” – with the thought that I was going to tell the
people about Krsna because nobody there had ever heard about Him. And as soon
as I stepped off the plane, one man just looked at us and said, “Hare
Krsna!” Already done! Of course, there were a few million there that
didn’t know about Krsna. The point is that one man knew then – but if you
go there now, more than thirty years later, many more people know about
Krsna.
It started there from Yogapitha. From there, devotees came to join Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta and were instructed on what to do, and they went out and did
that and it was principally one man – Srila Prabhupada. He came to the
distant western hemisphere with Krsna Consciousness. Now many descendants of
Sarasvati Thakura’s disciples and grand disciples can be found all over the
world – from Siberia to South Africa, from New York to London. They are all
over the place.
CROWS AND DOGS
The Sahajiyas in Navadvipa and their supporters are doing nothing except
going on the Internet and complaining. They are nowhere and doing nothing to
fulfill the prophecy. The proof is in the pudding as they say. Anyone can
talk big, and everyone is – but who is actually doing anything? Who did it
and who is still doing it? Who is spreading the Holy Name? Those who have
connection with Navadvipa-dhama, Mayapura, Bhaktivinoda and Bhaktisiddhanta
– they are doing it, and the others are like the crows who come and sit on
the trees and criticize everything underneath. It is said that the dogs bark
when the caravan passes. Many elephants are walking on the road and the local
dogs come out and make noise. But the elephants continue and gradually the
sound of the dogs just dies out. These critics of Bhaktivinoda and
Bhaktisiddhanta are no more than crows or barking dogs actually.
Unfortunately, they will probably have to take birth in those species in
their next life, or possibly worse.
It’s one thing to not know about Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Krsna, or the great
souls, but its completely another thing if you do know. You come in
connection with the truth, yet you criticize and fight against it. It would
be better to remain in ignorance for another million lifetimes – then you
would live just according to your karma, and one day you may know the truth,
act upon it, and go back to Godhead.
We have even seen people that tried to give us trouble in our asrama. They
thought that this asrama would be finished. Now they have become drunkards.
They don’t even believe in Krsna. The same people who were making so much
noise don’t even consider themselves as Hindus. And in the meantime, Krsna
Consciousness goes on. The parade goes on, the dogs bark…
PREACHING WHERE THE MONEY IS
Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission now has been moving forward for over five
hundred years, and it has had high points and low points. But the Holy Name
of Krsna is still out there, on every continent, in every major city, town
and practically every village in the world. It’s out there. But there’s
always somebody that doesn’t know yet. Even in India.
I see among the young people living in India, and I wonder, “How is it that
they were born in India?” They should have been born in Brooklyn, but they
were born in a certain environment, in a modern house and such. I doubt that
those people even know who Ganesa is – what to speak of Krsna and
Mahaprabhu. But they are born within a days train ride of the holy land of
Navadvipa, or within an hour or two-hour flight. It’s so close, yet they
are so far away.
To preach Mahaprabhu’s mission one doesn’t have to go to the other side
of the world. There are plenty of people just within a few hundred meters of
this gate who still do not know the importance of their life, how to perfect
it, who Krsna is, what devotion is, about the Holy Name of Krsna, or about
the grace of Mahaprabhu. And even amongst us, how clearly do we understand
that? We don’t have to be everywhere in the world to preach. You can do
that right where you are, right in your own state.
Once Tripurari Maharaja and I met an old disciple of Sarasvati Thakura at
Bagh Bazaar Gaudiya Matha in Kolkata. He was very nice and cordial and was
happy to see us. Tripurari Maharaja said, “When are you going to preach in
the west?”
He said, “Well, there are almost one billion people here in India. Don’t
you think there is work here also?” We were young and thinking, “Real
work is in America. Real work is in England.” That was our young ego.
Mahaprabhu’s work is everywhere. It is right here in our own village;
it’s in our own states; in our own country, and it is in foreign countries
also. But nowadays, because Prabhupada went to the west, all of the preachers
go to the west. Hardly any of the preachers of Krsna Consciousness preach in
India. I sometimes say critically that they go to the west to make disciples
of people who struggle their whole life to follow the four regulative
principles, but they neglect to preach to the people who live here in India,
who are born followers of the four regulative principles. There are just
ordinary village people who probably are not even drinking water outside of
their own house, what to speak of eating non-vegetarian food and the like. Of
course, there is a lot of non-veg and such here, but there are also families
and traditions that have maintained a pure lifestyle and have still not heard
about Mahaprabhu.
I know this about many of the big world preachers – they spend the whole
year going to mleccha-desa for preaching because that’s where the money is.
India is rich, but very tight. Money in India is very community-oriented.
People give to their community-gurus and all that, by caste, birth, etc. But
these preachers all go outside of India – I’m talking about real devotees
of Krsna. They spend more time preaching to mlecchas, who can hardly even
follow the basic principles of sub-religion, and they neglect preaching here
in India, and now there is probably more need of preaching in India than
there is in the west.
The people of the world are interested in higher standards of living,
environmental issues, spiritual topics, and meditation. There is an
inclination this way. But these same things in India have become social
embarrassments. A great section of Indian society is embarrassed to associate
itself with its own culture. They dress, eat, think, and live like
westerners. They drive like Indians, but in every other manner they want to
be western, and maintain the attitude, “I am not an Indian.” There are
millions of them here.
BLESSINGS AND DIVINE GRACE
I know people who have so much money, but they can’t get any service done.
They can’t even think of some service to engage in. But they have money.
Money alone does not enable us to serve Krsna. It requires blessings and
divine grace. Inspiration is necessary. When that is there, we will be able
to serve even if Laksmi hasn’t built her palace here. Money might not be
forthcoming yet, but still we will be able to do something. But without the
blessings of our acaryas, without the blessings of the Supreme Lord, even if
we are multi-millionaires, we won’t be able to do much good. The first
thing that is necessary is their blessings and then service will follow. Not
that we will get money and then we will perform service, that we will offer
it to them because they need it – No! The Lord doesn’t need it. God
doesn’t need anything we have or do.
Blessings are from Srimati Radharani, Mahaprabhu and the acaryas in our
disciplic line. They are necessary. We should try to please them with our
personal behavior, our exercises, and our service. Then we will have success.
Just like Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Sarasvati Thakura who knew that for the
Holy Name to spread all over the world, the service of Mayapura was
essential. In those days it took two days to get there by train. Now it takes
three hours by car, but it took two days to get there by train or boat. It
makes today’s village look like a metropolis. It was just rice fields.
There was nothing material worth going out there for. And it was dangerous.
That’s why it took two days to get there, because you would reach there at
night, but you wouldn’t dare cross the Ganges at night because the river
pirates would rob you. It was a treacherous area, because Maya and her agents
had dominated that place. River pirates, dacoits, and gundas were plenty in
number. But they knew that this must first be established according to the
wish of the Supreme Lord and then accordingly, great good can be done all
over the world. They did it in that way. We should understand what is to be
done first and how to progress practically in our spiritual life, not
thinking that we should jump to the topmost position. When we have not
actually finished the first course, why should we want to jump to the final
one?
This appearance day of Mahaprabhu is a good day to remember that everything
comes by His grace. We should sincerely pray for His grace. There are many
prayers and slokas we can recite to ask for the blessings of Mahaprabhu. Even
if we don’t do that, in our mind we should remember, “Everything is by
His grace. Any success in this world is only by His grace.”
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(The Following article is from a class given by Srila B.G. Narasingha
Maharaja on Sri Gaura-purnima at Govindaji Gardens on 6th March 2004)
In the beginning of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Krsna Dasa Kaviraja Gosvami
says:
vande sri krsna caitanya nityananda sahoditau
gaudadaye puspavantau citrau san-dau tamo-nudau
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual masters, the devotees
of the Lord, the Lord’s incarnations, His plenary portions, His energies,
and the primeval Lord Himself, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I offer my respectful
obeisances unto Sri Krsna Caitanya and Lord Nityananda, who are like the sun
and the moon, and they have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauda
(Bengal), on the banks of the Ganges, Nadia, to dissipate the darkness of
ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.” (Cc. Adi 1.2)
This is a poetic inference. The sun and the moon cannot appear simultaneously
on the same horizon. One will come, later the other will appear. They don’t
come on the same line of the sky. That is physically impossible. It is a
poetic inference. What is the sun? The sun gives light. What is moon? The
moon gives light. Both the sun and the moon are luminaries – one in the day
and one in the night. And both of them dissipate darkness. Caitanya
Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu are compared to the sun and the moon, and
they dissipate the darkness of ignorance that has found its seat in
everyone’s heart in Kali-yuga.
It is my misfortune to have to say that even the most educated men and women
of our modern times are scarcely better than fools. Even with a series of
degrees and initials behind their names, they do not know who they are. They
think that they are this body in most cases, which is only a combination of
muscles, blood, and so many things that should be taken as rather disgusting.
For example, take a diamond studded gold watch, with a lapis or quartz
crystal face – each part of that watch has value. You smash it into pieces,
but the gold is still good, the diamonds are good, and the quartz crystal is
good. The body of the watch however is only useful if all the parts are
together. Similarly, if any piece of the body becomes detached from it –
your tooth, your fingernail, your beautiful hair, you throw it into the
wastebasket! But if it is all kept together, we think, “Oh! I am so
beautiful! I am so handsome!”
We think we are this body. Everyone in this material world is under this
basic misconception. Regardless of how great their education in this mundane
world is, scientists, philosophers, poets, musicians, and so on – all of
them are under this basic misconception of life. And if you ask, “Who are
you,” then they will just give you a name which can be found in the phone
book. They don’t know who they actually are. This is the prime origin of
all pervading ignorance in this world. They only work for this body and this
society. All ignorance begins from the concept of “I” and misidentifying
with this body. This is called ahankara.
"AHAM BRAHMA’SMI" IS NOT SUFFICIENT
On the other side is a world of knowledge, and beyond that acquired knowledge
is a world of activity that is unknown to them. What is that knowledge? Aham
brahma’smi – I am spirit soul. I am not this body. That is vedantika. And
Mahaprabhu gave much more clarification – jivera svarupa haye, nitya krsna
dasa. This aham brahma’smi of the Vedanta is not actually sufficient
because it is marginal. Mere marginality is a dangerous position to rest in
as it can cause one to fall into the side of Mayavada. One can fall back into
the material side. There must be positive knowledge. jivera svarupa haye,
nitya krsna dasa. Mahaprabhu said, ‘nitya krsna dasa!’ You are the
eternal servant of Krsna. ‘Eternal servant of Krsna’ means you always
have been and you always will be. You are even now the servant of Krsna, but
you are not acting on that knowledge because you don’t have it.
This is the primary defect in every civilization and in every species of life
found anywhere in the universe. People get all excited about UFOs and alien
beings. There are so many abduction theories, UFO cults and movements and
people claiming to have been abducted by spacecraft. But the primary
misconception is the same. You can be assured that the creature in the
spaceship doesn’t know who he is, and does not know that he is an eternal
servant of Krsna. Even the devas don’t know, though they have some glimpse.
Just as during early morning, there is some light but it is not sufficient to
read the newspaper, it is not sufficient to do any work, but there is some
light. So demigods have some light, but they are caught up in the world of
enjoyment and that enjoyment is always keeping the light dim. They cannot see
clearly from their position. Demigods are constantly falling into the
complications of this material world and fighting to save their position.
Sometimes they become envious if a human being is performing a yajna that
will elevate him to a higher position. Indra himself forgets his real
position and becomes inimical, fighting against that person because his fear
is that someone may come and take his chair and become king.
Fear is born from forgetfulness of Krsna. I have seen devotees forget Krsna
also. Even practicing, neck-bead wearing, tilaka-wearing, japa-chanting
devotees sometimes forget about Krsna and become fearful of a particular
situation. Be it physical, financial, or whatever, we become forgetful; we
worry or we try to do something outside of what Krsna has arranged. Generally
that fails and we come back to our senses and remember that Krsna is our
maintainer and He is arranging. What He arranges we will accept, be happy
with, and be successful with. Many types of arrangements may not be favorable
for the performance of pure devotion.
The Lord does not come here to please our senses. He does not come here to
serve us. He comes to give us an opportunity for us to serve Him. To properly
serve, surrender is necessary. Service without surrender is not actually
service. That is something we call preliminary practice, but it’s not the
real thing. There must be surrender, and then there can be service. That is
why Mahaprabhu came – to engage us in the service of the sankirtana
movement.
FIRST THE TEMPLE, THEN SANKIRTANA!
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati knew that
before the sankirtana movement of Mahaprabhu could spread all over the world,
the place of His appearance must be manifest again in this world, and along
with its manifestation, a great temple must be built there. From there, the
potency would spread all over the world.
There are some people with the opinion that first sankirtana will spread all
over the world, then all the foreigners will come to India and build that
wonderful temple. There is some confusion about this. But Nityananda Prabhu
says a great temple called the Adbhuta Mandira, (wonderful temple) will be
built at the birth site of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and then, from that temple,
sankirtana will go all over the world.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Sarasvati Thakura, not being conditioned souls, not
having Judeo-Christian backgrounds, not being foreigners, and not being
egotistical, knew that first the order of the Lord must be served according
to His direction and then accordingly the sankirtana mission would be
successful. There was prerequisite work to be done, but they didn’t even
know from where to begin because it was all hidden.
There is a saying, “Seek and ye shall find.” It’s an old saying. If you
try, God is there to help you. Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, yoga-ksemam
vahamy aham – “I preserve what you have and I carry what you lack, and
when the need is there I will be there to help you”. So with this
fundamental understanding, they tried to locate Mahaprabhu’s birthplace.
There was a place where people insisted it was – in the greater
Navadvipa-dhama, but Bhaktivinoda did not feel confident that this was
actually the true birthplace. Even his mantra-guru said, “This is the
place,” but he did not feel confident with that, because his mantra-guru
was not a liberated soul and was part of a group who were much less than
liberated souls. Bhaktivinoda Thakura continued to search.
He looked through the available sacred texts and the first thing he
ascertained was that the ancient town of Navadvipa is on the eastern side of
the Ganges, not on the western side as it is known today. If a river was
there two hundred years ago or thereabout, you would be able to see where it
used to run without any difficulty. The riverbed would not disappear in one
or two hundred years. It takes a long, long time before a riverbed
disappears. In the district that is now known as Navadvipa, they could find
nothing to indicate that the Ganges once ran through there. He concluded that
the Ganges course originally ran in a more easterly location and found no
possibility that the river came near to the current site. He knew it must be
on the eastern side.
Firstly, scriptural evidence mentions Navadvipa and its location, and through
that Bhaktivinoda conjectured the true location of Sri Navadvipa-dhama, but
ultimately it came down to divine revelation. Bhaktivinoda Thakura had a
vision wherein he caught a glimpse of the eternal Navadvipa in a particular
direction. He saw this on more than one occasion from the rooftop of the Rani
Dharmasala in Navadvipa. He would look towards what he thought was the area
of the eternal Navadvipa, the place of Mahaprabhu’s pastimes, At that time
it had become rice fields with a couple of Mohammedan villages around it. No
Hindu villages were in that area. One evening, while chanting his japa, he
got a divine glimpse of the eternal Navadvipa. The next morning he went in
that direction and while searching the area, he came to a place near a
village owned by the Muslims. A natural tulasi garden grew wild there.
Mohammedans don’t really care much about tulasi. When he entered that area,
Bhaktivinoda could feel the presence of his own homeland.
Sometimes, if you are looking for something, you may go to some place and
say, “This is not the place,” then you come out and you intuitively feel,
“Ah! This is it” – some feeling comes over you internally. Ultimately
feeling is the best way of knowing. In the beginning, you have to hear from
an authority to receive knowledge, but ultimately you have to feel the truth
in your heart and know it as such. Not because I or someone else said so –
it has to come by revelation, by feeling, by realization. So when he entered
that tulasi garden he felt, “Oh! This is a divine place.” And he
suspected that this might be the place of Mahaprabhu’s birth.
Bhaktivinoda Thakura had come to know Jagannatha Dasa Babaji as his
siksa-guru, sad-guru, his real guru. Bhaktivinoda always gave formal respect
to Vipina-vihari Gosvami, his mantra-guru, who was more or less a social icon
of the guru establishment. But his heart was one with Jagannatha Dasa Babaji.
Jagannatha Dasa Babaji was a paramahamsa, a liberated soul.
The way of the Vaisnavas is not without confirmation. You think or know
something, but you don’t let your head get as big as an elephant and think,
“Yes, yes, I know. No one can tell me.” I have seen some successful
preachers who, after getting a thousand or two thousand disciples, have this
attitude, “No one can tell me. I know what I’m doing.” But that is
never the way of a Vaisnava. Even the greatest Vaisnava yearns for some
confirmation, some association, someone to talk to about those higher,
important things.
Bhaktivinoda didn’t think, “I am a liberated soul. I know what I am
doing. No one can tell me. This is Mahaprabhu’s birth place – said and
done!” He brought Jagannatha Dasa Babaji there. At this time Jagannatha
Dasa Babaji was so old that he never walked anywhere. The community had
arranged a strong servant to carry him wherever he needed to go in a basket.
He was over hundred and ten years old or so at that time. He was also blind.
When he got there, before the man could even set down the basket, Jagannatha
jumped out of the basket and started dancing and performing kirtana. He was
at an age when he couldn’t even walk, what to speak of jump out of a
basket. He couldn’t see where he was. As far as he knew, he could have been
anywhere. But with the internal eye of devotion he could understand that he
was in the Yogapitha. He had been brought to the epicenter of caitanya-lila.
That was an ecstatic moment for the few blessed souls that were there at that
time.
Based on Jagannatha Dasa Babaji’s experience, Bhaktivinoda concluded that
this was Yogapitha. Then he set out to prove it through historical and
archeological records, literary evidence and notations in every possible way.
But even without any of the evidence, he knew it was so due to the experience
of Jagannatha Dasa Babaji.
GURU KNOWS EVERYTHING!
That is what we do. I don’t know if I am a spirit soul or not, I don’t
know if Krsna is God or not. I don’t know, but my guru knows. My guru knows
and that is good enough for me. I accept my guru’s statements, and then I
can argue and put forward scriptural evidence, show archeological records
etc. to prove that his statements are conclusive. But if I don’t know from
that original point, then how would I know? I wouldn’t know. That is the
way of Vaisnavism; you don’t know, your guru knows, and based on that you
know.
Some people recently said, “Guru knows everything. He knows that someone is
snatching money; he knows that someone is dying; he knows that someone ate
too much sweet rice; he knows that someone is burning the sweet rice. He
knows all these things.” It must drive him crazy to know all these things!
One can’t even sit in a room with three people talking without getting
aggravated. I remember, Prabhupada would not be sitting in a room with so
many people talking and just adjust to that. He wanted some peace and quiet.
But these people say, “Guru knows everything!” Prabhupada said, “Yes,
guru knows everything means that he knows Krsna. Krsna is everything.” So
he knows – everything is Krsna. If Krsna reveals something he may know
that. If He doesn’t reveal, how he will know that?” So later on, some
people said, “Well, he told you that because you weren’t ready for the
truth.” That particular gentleman doesn’t know that we were so crazy that
if Prabhupada had told us to cut off your head, we would cut off your head.
Whatever he said, that was the truth. We were young, very committed, and very
fanatical at that time. What to speak of explaining, if Prabhupada knew
everything and said, “Yes, I know everything,” we would have jumped and
said, “Jaya!” No one would doubt it. If anyone had a doubt about it, we
would have got him by the neck and carried him out.
Because of Jagannatha Dasa Babaji’s confirmation, Bhaktivinoda felt
resolved that they had found the birthplace of Mahaprabhu. For those ordinary
people who don’t have guru-nistha, guru-bhakti or guru-sraddha, we have to
convince them by different arguments because these people try to challenge
our faith. Pure faith won’t hold up in court. You will need evidence. It
went to court and there they concluded that the birthplace of Mahaprabhu was
the Yogapitha in Mayapura.
PREACHING FROM YOGAPITHA
The governor of Bengal came to Mayapura – he was the second most powerful
man in India and the third most powerful man in the world. First, there was
the King of England, then the Viceroy in Delhi, and third was the Governor of
Bengal. So the third most powerful man in the world came to Mayapura.
Sarasvati Thakura even went so far as to get the third most powerful man in
the world to verify this! Why? So that poor fools would not be misguided by
the cheaters who claimed that some false place was the birthplace of
Mahaprabhu. Still, across the river on the western side they are making
crowing sounds, “Mayapura isn’t actually the real place!” They built a
temple there long before Bhaktivinoda. But Nityananda’s prediction never
came true. After they built their temple, the Holy Name of Krsna, never
spread all over the world from there.
Srila Bhaktivinoda and Srila Sarasvati Thakura built and inaugurated the
temple at Yogapitha and not long after, Krsna Consciousness spread all over
the world. You will be hard pressed to find a place in the world, even
amongst the aboriginal cultures or even in the most isolated parts of the
world, where no one has heard of Krsna. I’ve gone to places in Africa –
“The Dark Continent” – with the thought that I was going to tell the
people about Krsna because nobody there had ever heard about Him. And as soon
as I stepped off the plane, one man just looked at us and said, “Hare
Krsna!” Already done! Of course, there were a few million there that
didn’t know about Krsna. The point is that one man knew then – but if you
go there now, more than thirty years later, many more people know about
Krsna.
It started there from Yogapitha. From there, devotees came to join Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta and were instructed on what to do, and they went out and did
that and it was principally one man – Srila Prabhupada. He came to the
distant western hemisphere with Krsna Consciousness. Now many descendants of
Sarasvati Thakura’s disciples and grand disciples can be found all over the
world – from Siberia to South Africa, from New York to London. They are all
over the place.
CROWS AND DOGS
The Sahajiyas in Navadvipa and their supporters are doing nothing except
going on the Internet and complaining. They are nowhere and doing nothing to
fulfill the prophecy. The proof is in the pudding as they say. Anyone can
talk big, and everyone is – but who is actually doing anything? Who did it
and who is still doing it? Who is spreading the Holy Name? Those who have
connection with Navadvipa-dhama, Mayapura, Bhaktivinoda and Bhaktisiddhanta
– they are doing it, and the others are like the crows who come and sit on
the trees and criticize everything underneath. It is said that the dogs bark
when the caravan passes. Many elephants are walking on the road and the local
dogs come out and make noise. But the elephants continue and gradually the
sound of the dogs just dies out. These critics of Bhaktivinoda and
Bhaktisiddhanta are no more than crows or barking dogs actually.
Unfortunately, they will probably have to take birth in those species in
their next life, or possibly worse.
It’s one thing to not know about Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Krsna, or the great
souls, but its completely another thing if you do know. You come in
connection with the truth, yet you criticize and fight against it. It would
be better to remain in ignorance for another million lifetimes – then you
would live just according to your karma, and one day you may know the truth,
act upon it, and go back to Godhead.
We have even seen people that tried to give us trouble in our asrama. They
thought that this asrama would be finished. Now they have become drunkards.
They don’t even believe in Krsna. The same people who were making so much
noise don’t even consider themselves as Hindus. And in the meantime, Krsna
Consciousness goes on. The parade goes on, the dogs bark…
PREACHING WHERE THE MONEY IS
Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s mission now has been moving forward for over five
hundred years, and it has had high points and low points. But the Holy Name
of Krsna is still out there, on every continent, in every major city, town
and practically every village in the world. It’s out there. But there’s
always somebody that doesn’t know yet. Even in India.
I see among the young people living in India, and I wonder, “How is it that
they were born in India?” They should have been born in Brooklyn, but they
were born in a certain environment, in a modern house and such. I doubt that
those people even know who Ganesa is – what to speak of Krsna and
Mahaprabhu. But they are born within a days train ride of the holy land of
Navadvipa, or within an hour or two-hour flight. It’s so close, yet they
are so far away.
To preach Mahaprabhu’s mission one doesn’t have to go to the other side
of the world. There are plenty of people just within a few hundred meters of
this gate who still do not know the importance of their life, how to perfect
it, who Krsna is, what devotion is, about the Holy Name of Krsna, or about
the grace of Mahaprabhu. And even amongst us, how clearly do we understand
that? We don’t have to be everywhere in the world to preach. You can do
that right where you are, right in your own state.
Once Tripurari Maharaja and I met an old disciple of Sarasvati Thakura at
Bagh Bazaar Gaudiya Matha in Kolkata. He was very nice and cordial and was
happy to see us. Tripurari Maharaja said, “When are you going to preach in
the west?”
He said, “Well, there are almost one billion people here in India. Don’t
you think there is work here also?” We were young and thinking, “Real
work is in America. Real work is in England.” That was our young ego.
Mahaprabhu’s work is everywhere. It is right here in our own village;
it’s in our own states; in our own country, and it is in foreign countries
also. But nowadays, because Prabhupada went to the west, all of the preachers
go to the west. Hardly any of the preachers of Krsna Consciousness preach in
India. I sometimes say critically that they go to the west to make disciples
of people who struggle their whole life to follow the four regulative
principles, but they neglect to preach to the people who live here in India,
who are born followers of the four regulative principles. There are just
ordinary village people who probably are not even drinking water outside of
their own house, what to speak of eating non-vegetarian food and the like. Of
course, there is a lot of non-veg and such here, but there are also families
and traditions that have maintained a pure lifestyle and have still not heard
about Mahaprabhu.
I know this about many of the big world preachers – they spend the whole
year going to mleccha-desa for preaching because that’s where the money is.
India is rich, but very tight. Money in India is very community-oriented.
People give to their community-gurus and all that, by caste, birth, etc. But
these preachers all go outside of India – I’m talking about real devotees
of Krsna. They spend more time preaching to mlecchas, who can hardly even
follow the basic principles of sub-religion, and they neglect preaching here
in India, and now there is probably more need of preaching in India than
there is in the west.
The people of the world are interested in higher standards of living,
environmental issues, spiritual topics, and meditation. There is an
inclination this way. But these same things in India have become social
embarrassments. A great section of Indian society is embarrassed to associate
itself with its own culture. They dress, eat, think, and live like
westerners. They drive like Indians, but in every other manner they want to
be western, and maintain the attitude, “I am not an Indian.” There are
millions of them here.
BLESSINGS AND DIVINE GRACE
I know people who have so much money, but they can’t get any service done.
They can’t even think of some service to engage in. But they have money.
Money alone does not enable us to serve Krsna. It requires blessings and
divine grace. Inspiration is necessary. When that is there, we will be able
to serve even if Laksmi hasn’t built her palace here. Money might not be
forthcoming yet, but still we will be able to do something. But without the
blessings of our acaryas, without the blessings of the Supreme Lord, even if
we are multi-millionaires, we won’t be able to do much good. The first
thing that is necessary is their blessings and then service will follow. Not
that we will get money and then we will perform service, that we will offer
it to them because they need it – No! The Lord doesn’t need it. God
doesn’t need anything we have or do.
Blessings are from Srimati Radharani, Mahaprabhu and the acaryas in our
disciplic line. They are necessary. We should try to please them with our
personal behavior, our exercises, and our service. Then we will have success.
Just like Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Sarasvati Thakura who knew that for the
Holy Name to spread all over the world, the service of Mayapura was
essential. In those days it took two days to get there by train. Now it takes
three hours by car, but it took two days to get there by train or boat. It
makes today’s village look like a metropolis. It was just rice fields.
There was nothing material worth going out there for. And it was dangerous.
That’s why it took two days to get there, because you would reach there at
night, but you wouldn’t dare cross the Ganges at night because the river
pirates would rob you. It was a treacherous area, because Maya and her agents
had dominated that place. River pirates, dacoits, and gundas were plenty in
number. But they knew that this must first be established according to the
wish of the Supreme Lord and then accordingly, great good can be done all
over the world. They did it in that way. We should understand what is to be
done first and how to progress practically in our spiritual life, not
thinking that we should jump to the topmost position. When we have not
actually finished the first course, why should we want to jump to the final
one?
This appearance day of Mahaprabhu is a good day to remember that everything
comes by His grace. We should sincerely pray for His grace. There are many
prayers and slokas we can recite to ask for the blessings of Mahaprabhu. Even
if we don’t do that, in our mind we should remember, “Everything is by
His grace. Any success in this world is only by His grace.”
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Israeli Lobbies own USA
"The Israeli Lobby owns the Congress, media, Hollywood, Wall Street, both political parties, and the White House. This kind of talk will get people fired by this lobby, as we have seen recently with White House correspondent Helen Thomas and CNN anchor Rick Sanchez. However, many Americans are growing tired of the arrogance of the Israel Lobby and their bigoted attitudes toward anyone who challenges their influence-peddling and their ridiculous insistence that Israel must be supported because of some ancient fairy tales involving some tribes who wandered the deserts of the Middle East and saw and heard non-existent things because of sun stroke, drinking bad water, and smoking local hallucinogenic plants." - Wayne Madsen
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Is the Illuminati Waging War on Whites?
March 7, 2011
1945: Dresden was destroyed by British & American bombers killing 100,000 civilians.
by "Molecule"
for henrymakow.com
[Editor's Note: I cannot vouch for "Molecule's" references to Charlemagne and the RC Church, but his overall argument is compelling. After all, 60 million mostly White Christians died in the last world war, yet our attention is narrowly focused on the Jewish holocaust.]
Here are two quotes that may interest you. One is by Hitler, another by a man named Lindemann, who was Churchill's chief adviser during the Second World War, and both saying the same thing. The goal of the war was extermination of the white race.
In a speech to the Reichstag in 1942, Hitler says the "Jews" (aka the London bankers, aka the Illuminati) intend to exterminate the White race.
"It is clear to us that the war can only end with the destruction of the Germanic peoples or the disappearance of Jewry from Europe. On September 3, I already announced in the German Reichstag, and I am careful not to make rash prophecies, that this war would not develop as the Jews imagine, namely that the European-Aryan peoples will be destroyed. Instead, the result of this war will be the destruction of Jewry. For the first time! For the first time, others will not bleed alone! For the first time, the genuine old Jewish law will be applied: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!" And the more this war spreads, the more Anti-Semitism will spread. Anti-Semitism will be nourished in every prison camp, in every family which must be informed why they must sacrifice to the bitter end. And the hour will come when the most evil world enemy of all times will have played out its role for a thousand years."
While being fully aware of their plan, Hitler was also a stooge. For starters, to confuse their enemy, his Jewish-Illuminati controlled advisers had cooked up this smokescreen of Indo-Aryan theology. It proposed that white Europeans are a wandering transplant, like a weed that blew across Asia, from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tibet.
It's possible the whole Aryan thing was an intelligence operation designed by Goebbels to distract attention away from the plain and simple, original history of the white European people. As a distraction, it would keep the white European race confused and unaware of its own dignity, origins and history, including pyramids recently discovered in Serbia which are larger, predate, and are more precise, than the Egyptian ones.
The lluminati is planning yet another war to eradicate all memory of the White race.
The Khazarian hatred of White people began with the original war between Charlemagne and the Roman Catholic Church. From its beginning, the Roman Catholic Church has been a religious smokescreen for the Venetian bankers who controlled the "Holy Roman Empire."
At a grass roots level, Charlemagne continued the war that Mohammed's armies had waged. Both the Roman Catholic Church and its Anglican spin off have always been religious smokescreens and intelligence operations, controlled by Khazarian- Venetian- London bankers, and their opium pushing pharmacists.
This larger view of history cannot be suppressed any longer. A cabal of mongoloid rapists and child molesters (aka the Illuminati) intends to exterminate the white European race, and all memory of its contributions to science and human consciousness.
To review, the Roman Caesarians, including all of the Catholic Popes to follow, were nothing but a pack of wet sock-puppet perverts, appointed by their early Khazarian overlords, then operating from a banking outpost in Venice, from whence they financed the silk trade. (Try to pronounce the word "Caesarian" without the psy-ops effect of that soft and mellifluous-C ... see what happens when you try to say the word Caesarian with a hard-C instead!) The Caesarians (politicians with a soft-c) were sock puppets for the Khazarians (bankers with a hard one). As usurers, thieves, interlopers, rapists, murderers, driven only by the laws of jealousy and vengeance, they set together out to subsume and destroy the White race.
Continuing with the extermination of the white race by the Khazarian Illuminati, both sides of the American Civil War were run by drug dealing Illuminati, in London and Paris.
The white soldiers, both sides North and South, who weren't slaughtered outright, were made into heroin addicts. Upon their discharge, they were given a bag of heroin, a syringe, and a leather pouch to wear around their necks.
The Boar War and Crimean War were also run by the Khazarian Illuminati (again with dumb Brits as their stooges). Their goal was the same. Destroy the white races in South Africa and the Ukraine. World War One destroyed much the white populations in Europe.
The unpayable debt frauds of the Versailles Treaty were then converted into assets, that funded the New York Illuminati bankers who then stole farmlands, and factories from productive white farmers and inventors in America.
(The Versailles Treaty also created a one-world Illuminati control of all opium trade. The Permanent Central [Opium] Control Board, is still housed in Lake Success, Long Island, New York. It is right across the East River from the UN building. The Secretary General of the UN comes under the thumb of the hidden Permanent Control Board. The Secretary is required to submit his report to the Permanent Control Board.)
2624186.jpg(Lindemann right, & family)
To corroborate Hitler's statement above, and two millennia of history, we now have this quote from Churchill's chief aide, also an Illuminati Jew, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell. (b. 5 Apr. 1886, Baden Baden; d. 3 Jul. 1957, England-?, son of Adolph Friedrich Lindemann and Olga Noble, widow of a wealthy Connecticut banker named Davidson.
How fake a name is that? "Olga Noble!" Reportedly, she was kinky, vivacious and lithe as well. Illuminati Jews will move into town and adopt any name, or they will just make one up. Words mean nothing to them ... especially the family name, the name of a father. The Windsors are not the Windsors. They are the Battenbergs.
It was the Illuminati Jew Lindemann who came up with the Allied plan for bombing the civilian populations of Europe during World War Two. He proposed saturation bombing for purposes of terrorism and not for military effect.
He argued that the primary targets should be the family homes, schools, churches and neighborhoods of the white European peoples. Terrorist bombing of the wives and children, and homes, schools and churches of the factory workers, he said, would frustrate military production more than direct bombing of factories would. The Holocaust of Dresden was the culmination of his Illuminati Jewish dream of humiliating, exterminating, and silencing of the white European race.
So, on top of Hitler's quote above, we now have Lindemann's quote that affirms that long-range goal as well. From "The Prof: A Personal Memoir of Lord Cherwell" by [Sir Roy Forbes] R.F. Harrod, Macmillan, 1959, pp.261-262, we have:
"Do you know," he [Lindemann] asked, "what the future historians will regard as the most important event of this age?" "Well, what is it?" [I, Sir Roy Harrod, asked.] "It will not be Hitler and the Second World War. ... It will not be the release of nuclear energy. ... It will not be the menace of Communism. ..." These negatives seemed very comprehensive. [And note that they are all the work of the Illuminati!] He put on an expression of extreme severity, and turned down the corners of his lips. "It will be the abdication of the White man." Then he nodded his head up and down several times to drive home his proposition.
The Illuminati will be remembered for their "abdication" of the White man.
Lindemann was extremely intelligent, and could have chosen the word extermination, to mean physical elimination. So, why did he choose "abdication," in the sense that he used it.
In its usual context, the word abdicate presumes a voluntary action ... a king abdicates a throne, for a woman for example.
But, Lindemann, who was known as "the Professor" and was clever with words, used it in an unusual involuntary sense. His meaning of "abdication" has to be derived from its roots.
The root word is "to speak," from a conjugation of Latin "dice." Thus, to give dictation, is to speak, with authority, and intention of preserving the words for history.
The prefix ab- requires total negation. To be abdicated, as used in the involuntarily context of Lindemann, the Illuminati Jew, is to have all authority to speak taken away from you.
For a population to be abdicated, it must suffer a fate that goes far beyond mere physical extermination. An exterminated population can still speak through the power and beauty of its contributions to human consciousness. But an abdicated population is a population that has been involuntarily deprived of all ability to speak. Not only has it been exterminated in a physical sense (we all die), but an abdicated population has also lost its ability to be even vaguely remembered, for the beauty of its contributions to ongoing advances of human consciousness.
Lindemann, the Illuminati Jew, says future historians will regard as the most important event of this age the "abdication of the White man."
If the last two centuries or last two millennia are any indication, the primary long range goal of the Khazarian-Illuminati-Jewish has always been "abdication" of the White race, meaning not only physical extermination, but also total abdication, including all memory of their contributions to science and consciousness.
1945: Dresden was destroyed by British & American bombers killing 100,000 civilians.
by "Molecule"
for henrymakow.com
[Editor's Note: I cannot vouch for "Molecule's" references to Charlemagne and the RC Church, but his overall argument is compelling. After all, 60 million mostly White Christians died in the last world war, yet our attention is narrowly focused on the Jewish holocaust.]
Here are two quotes that may interest you. One is by Hitler, another by a man named Lindemann, who was Churchill's chief adviser during the Second World War, and both saying the same thing. The goal of the war was extermination of the white race.
In a speech to the Reichstag in 1942, Hitler says the "Jews" (aka the London bankers, aka the Illuminati) intend to exterminate the White race.
"It is clear to us that the war can only end with the destruction of the Germanic peoples or the disappearance of Jewry from Europe. On September 3, I already announced in the German Reichstag, and I am careful not to make rash prophecies, that this war would not develop as the Jews imagine, namely that the European-Aryan peoples will be destroyed. Instead, the result of this war will be the destruction of Jewry. For the first time! For the first time, others will not bleed alone! For the first time, the genuine old Jewish law will be applied: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!" And the more this war spreads, the more Anti-Semitism will spread. Anti-Semitism will be nourished in every prison camp, in every family which must be informed why they must sacrifice to the bitter end. And the hour will come when the most evil world enemy of all times will have played out its role for a thousand years."
While being fully aware of their plan, Hitler was also a stooge. For starters, to confuse their enemy, his Jewish-Illuminati controlled advisers had cooked up this smokescreen of Indo-Aryan theology. It proposed that white Europeans are a wandering transplant, like a weed that blew across Asia, from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tibet.
It's possible the whole Aryan thing was an intelligence operation designed by Goebbels to distract attention away from the plain and simple, original history of the white European people. As a distraction, it would keep the white European race confused and unaware of its own dignity, origins and history, including pyramids recently discovered in Serbia which are larger, predate, and are more precise, than the Egyptian ones.
The lluminati is planning yet another war to eradicate all memory of the White race.
The Khazarian hatred of White people began with the original war between Charlemagne and the Roman Catholic Church. From its beginning, the Roman Catholic Church has been a religious smokescreen for the Venetian bankers who controlled the "Holy Roman Empire."
At a grass roots level, Charlemagne continued the war that Mohammed's armies had waged. Both the Roman Catholic Church and its Anglican spin off have always been religious smokescreens and intelligence operations, controlled by Khazarian- Venetian- London bankers, and their opium pushing pharmacists.
This larger view of history cannot be suppressed any longer. A cabal of mongoloid rapists and child molesters (aka the Illuminati) intends to exterminate the white European race, and all memory of its contributions to science and human consciousness.
To review, the Roman Caesarians, including all of the Catholic Popes to follow, were nothing but a pack of wet sock-puppet perverts, appointed by their early Khazarian overlords, then operating from a banking outpost in Venice, from whence they financed the silk trade. (Try to pronounce the word "Caesarian" without the psy-ops effect of that soft and mellifluous-C ... see what happens when you try to say the word Caesarian with a hard-C instead!) The Caesarians (politicians with a soft-c) were sock puppets for the Khazarians (bankers with a hard one). As usurers, thieves, interlopers, rapists, murderers, driven only by the laws of jealousy and vengeance, they set together out to subsume and destroy the White race.
Continuing with the extermination of the white race by the Khazarian Illuminati, both sides of the American Civil War were run by drug dealing Illuminati, in London and Paris.
The white soldiers, both sides North and South, who weren't slaughtered outright, were made into heroin addicts. Upon their discharge, they were given a bag of heroin, a syringe, and a leather pouch to wear around their necks.
The Boar War and Crimean War were also run by the Khazarian Illuminati (again with dumb Brits as their stooges). Their goal was the same. Destroy the white races in South Africa and the Ukraine. World War One destroyed much the white populations in Europe.
The unpayable debt frauds of the Versailles Treaty were then converted into assets, that funded the New York Illuminati bankers who then stole farmlands, and factories from productive white farmers and inventors in America.
(The Versailles Treaty also created a one-world Illuminati control of all opium trade. The Permanent Central [Opium] Control Board, is still housed in Lake Success, Long Island, New York. It is right across the East River from the UN building. The Secretary General of the UN comes under the thumb of the hidden Permanent Control Board. The Secretary is required to submit his report to the Permanent Control Board.)
2624186.jpg(Lindemann right, & family)
To corroborate Hitler's statement above, and two millennia of history, we now have this quote from Churchill's chief aide, also an Illuminati Jew, Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell. (b. 5 Apr. 1886, Baden Baden; d. 3 Jul. 1957, England-?, son of Adolph Friedrich Lindemann and Olga Noble, widow of a wealthy Connecticut banker named Davidson.
How fake a name is that? "Olga Noble!" Reportedly, she was kinky, vivacious and lithe as well. Illuminati Jews will move into town and adopt any name, or they will just make one up. Words mean nothing to them ... especially the family name, the name of a father. The Windsors are not the Windsors. They are the Battenbergs.
It was the Illuminati Jew Lindemann who came up with the Allied plan for bombing the civilian populations of Europe during World War Two. He proposed saturation bombing for purposes of terrorism and not for military effect.
He argued that the primary targets should be the family homes, schools, churches and neighborhoods of the white European peoples. Terrorist bombing of the wives and children, and homes, schools and churches of the factory workers, he said, would frustrate military production more than direct bombing of factories would. The Holocaust of Dresden was the culmination of his Illuminati Jewish dream of humiliating, exterminating, and silencing of the white European race.
So, on top of Hitler's quote above, we now have Lindemann's quote that affirms that long-range goal as well. From "The Prof: A Personal Memoir of Lord Cherwell" by [Sir Roy Forbes] R.F. Harrod, Macmillan, 1959, pp.261-262, we have:
"Do you know," he [Lindemann] asked, "what the future historians will regard as the most important event of this age?" "Well, what is it?" [I, Sir Roy Harrod, asked.] "It will not be Hitler and the Second World War. ... It will not be the release of nuclear energy. ... It will not be the menace of Communism. ..." These negatives seemed very comprehensive. [And note that they are all the work of the Illuminati!] He put on an expression of extreme severity, and turned down the corners of his lips. "It will be the abdication of the White man." Then he nodded his head up and down several times to drive home his proposition.
The Illuminati will be remembered for their "abdication" of the White man.
Lindemann was extremely intelligent, and could have chosen the word extermination, to mean physical elimination. So, why did he choose "abdication," in the sense that he used it.
In its usual context, the word abdicate presumes a voluntary action ... a king abdicates a throne, for a woman for example.
But, Lindemann, who was known as "the Professor" and was clever with words, used it in an unusual involuntary sense. His meaning of "abdication" has to be derived from its roots.
The root word is "to speak," from a conjugation of Latin "dice." Thus, to give dictation, is to speak, with authority, and intention of preserving the words for history.
The prefix ab- requires total negation. To be abdicated, as used in the involuntarily context of Lindemann, the Illuminati Jew, is to have all authority to speak taken away from you.
For a population to be abdicated, it must suffer a fate that goes far beyond mere physical extermination. An exterminated population can still speak through the power and beauty of its contributions to human consciousness. But an abdicated population is a population that has been involuntarily deprived of all ability to speak. Not only has it been exterminated in a physical sense (we all die), but an abdicated population has also lost its ability to be even vaguely remembered, for the beauty of its contributions to ongoing advances of human consciousness.
Lindemann, the Illuminati Jew, says future historians will regard as the most important event of this age the "abdication of the White man."
If the last two centuries or last two millennia are any indication, the primary long range goal of the Khazarian-Illuminati-Jewish has always been "abdication" of the White race, meaning not only physical extermination, but also total abdication, including all memory of their contributions to science and consciousness.
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