By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada

 

By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada, we mean that the distinction between good and evil is simply a mental concoction.



SB 4.9.33

daivīṁ māyām upāśritya
prasupta iva bhinna-dṛk
tapye dvitīye ’py asati
bhrātṛ-bhrātṛvya-hṛd-rujā

Word for word:

daivīm — of the Personality of Godhead; māyām — the illusory energy; upāśritya — taking shelter of; prasuptaḥ — dreaming while asleep; iva — like; bhinna-dṛk — having separated vision; tapye — I lamented; dvitīye — in the illusory energy; api — although; asati — temporary; bhrātṛ — brother; bhrātṛvya — enemy; hṛt — within the heart; rujā — by lamentation.

Translation:

Dhruva Mahārāja lamented: I was under the influence of the illusory energy; being ignorant of the actual facts, I was sleeping on her lap. Under a vision of duality, I saw my brother as my enemy, and falsely I lamented within my heart, thinking, "They are my enemies."

Purport:

Real knowledge is revealed to a devotee only when he comes to the right conclusion about life by the grace of the Lord. Our creation of friends and enemies within this material world is something like dreaming at night. In dreams we create so many things out of various impressions in the subconscious mind, but all such creations are simply temporary and unreal. In the same way, although apparently we are awake in material life, because we have no information of the soul and the Supersoul, we create many friends and enemies simply out of imagination. Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī says that within this material world or material consciousness, good and bad are the same. The distinction between good and bad is simply a mental concoction. The actual fact is that all living entities are sons of God, or by-products of His marginal energy. Because of our being contaminated by the modes of material nature, we distinguish one spiritual spark from another. That is also another kind of dreaming. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that those who are actually learned do not make any distinction between a learned scholar, a brāhmaṇa, an elephant, a dog and a caṇḍāla. They do not see in terms of the external body; rather, they see the person as spirit soul. By higher understanding one can know that the material body is nothing but a combination of the five material elements. In that sense also the bodily construction of a human being and that of a demigod are one and the same. From the spiritual point of view we are all spiritual sparks, parts and parcels of the Supreme Spirit, God. Either materially or spiritually we are basically one, but we make friends and enemies as dictated by the illusory energy. Dhruva Mahārāja therefore said, daivīṁ māyām upāśritya: the cause of his bewilderment was his association with the illusory material energy.

Hare Krishna

 

daivīṁ māyām upāśritya
prasupta iva bhinna-dṛk
tapye dvitīye ’py asati
bhrātṛ-bhrātṛvya-hṛd-rujā

Word for word:

daivīm — of the Personality of Godhead; māyām — the illusory energy; upāśritya — taking shelter of; prasuptaḥ — dreaming while asleep; iva — like; bhinna-dṛk — having separated vision; tapye — I lamented; dvitīye — in the illusory energy; api — although; asati — temporary; bhrātṛ — brother; bhrātṛvya — enemy; hṛt — within the heart; rujā — by lamentation.

Translation:

Dhruva Mahārāja lamented: I was under the influence of the illusory energy; being ignorant of the actual facts, I was sleeping on her lap. Under a vision of duality, I saw my brother as my enemy, and falsely I lamented within my heart, thinking, "They are my enemies."

Purport:

Real knowledge is revealed to a devotee only when he comes to the right conclusion about life by the grace of the Lord. Our creation of friends and enemies within this material world is something like dreaming at night. In dreams we create so many things out of various impressions in the subconscious mind, but all such creations are simply temporary and unreal. In the same way, although apparently we are awake in material life, because we have no information of the soul and the Supersoul, we create many friends and enemies simply out of imagination. Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī says that within this material world or material consciousness, good and bad are the same. The distinction between good and bad is simply a mental concoction. The actual fact is that all living entities are sons of God, or by-products of His marginal energy. Because of our being contaminated by the modes of material nature, we distinguish one spiritual spark from another. That is also another kind of dreaming. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that those who are actually learned do not make any distinction between a learned scholar, a brāhmaṇa, an elephant, a dog and a caṇḍāla. They do not see in terms of the external body; rather, they see the person as spirit soul. By higher understanding one can know that the material body is nothing but a combination of the five material elements. In that sense also the bodily construction of a human being and that of a demigod are one and the same. From the spiritual point of view we are all spiritual sparks, parts and parcels of the Supreme Spirit, God. Either materially or spiritually we are basically one, but we make friends and enemies as dictated by the illusory energy. Dhruva Mahārāja therefore said, daivīṁ māyām upāśritya: the cause of his bewilderment was his association with the illusory material energy.

The Gaudiya Sampradaya

 The Gaudiya Sampradaya , by Haripada Dasa BrahmachariBy the mercy of Srila Prabhupada understand and accept that there are four sampradayas or spiritual schools and only these four sampradayas mantra or transcendental vibrations are genuine or authorized outside these four mantras given sampradayas powerless. Sampradayas The four are: 1 the Laksmi sampradaya whose founder is Sri Ramanujacharya , 2 Brahma sampradaya whose founder is Sri Madhvacharya 3 the Rudra sampradaya whose founder is Sri Kumara sampradaya Visnuswami and whose founder is Sri Nimbarkacharya . We belong to the Brahma- Madhva- Gaudiya sampradaya Srila Prabhupada .By the mercy of Srila Prabhupada understand and accept God or Krishna sent from the spirit world to His devotees to preach God consciousness or Krishna in order to save the souls condiciondas . The practical result of these pure devotees serve God or Krishna is that one is free from envy , fear , prejudice , fanaticism and doubts and so you live a simple life with high thinking and so one is prepared to go back home back to Godhead .527 years ago appeared in Bengal in India Sri Gauranga golden avatara , He is God himself in the role of a devotee of God to teach us to be worshipers of God, by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada have his biography in 17 books 400 pages each when Sri Gauranga disappeared His divine teachings were covered for some time, God or Krishna Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura sent and he preached the teachings of Sri Gauranga as they are , he prayed to God or Krishna to send him a helper its mission of preaching and his son appeared Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura , he founded the Gaudiya Matha and established throughout India 64 devotional institutes , started 60,000 disciples across India , he commanded our spiritual master AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada disseminate awareness of God or Krishna worldwide , he was 69 years old when he left India to fulfill the order of his guru and came to USA in 1965 , in his twelve years of preaching wrote 80 books of 400 pages each one of transcendental knowledge , hit around the world 14 times , started at 10,000 disciples, established 108 temples and thousands of farms , their books will be the law books for mankind in the next 10,000 years and all who follow his teachings lives with him . This is the story of the Gaudiya sampradaya.OM TAT SAT PEACE AND WELLI would like to know your opinion about the messages I send .