Without association of devotees and Krishna consciousness, life itself becomes spiritual death wrapped in illusion.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhajan & Purport to Gaura Pahū — January 10, 1969, Los Angeles 690110PU-LOS ANGELES [31:27 Minutes] Bhajan & Purport_690110PU-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: [sings:] gaurā pahu nā bhajiyā goinu prema-ratana-dhana helāya hārāinu [I invited my spiritual death by not worshiping Lord Caitanya. Due to my neglect, I have lost the transcendental treasure of love for Kṛṣṇa.] adhane yatana kari dhana teyāginu āpana karama-doṣe āpani ḍubinu [I rejected the real purpose of my life and strove for worthless things. I am drowning in the ocean of birth and death because of my own misdeeds.] sat-saṅga chāḍi' kainu asate vilāsa te-kāraṇe lāgilo ye karma-bandha-phāṭsa [I gave up the association of devotees to enjoy sense gratification in the association of common, nonsense men, and immediately Māyā caught me and entangled me in the web of fruitive activities.] viṣaya-viṣama-viṣa satata khāinu gaura-kīrtana-rase maghana nā hainu [I have always drunk the most dangerous poison of sense gratification, and therefore I could not merge myself into the saṅkīrtana movement of Lord Caitanya.] keno vā āchaye prāṇa ki sukha pāiyā narottam dās keno nā gelo mariyā [Why am I living? What is my happiness? Why did Narottama Dāsa not die long, long ago?] [18:33] Gaura pahū nā bhajiyā goinu, prema-rathana-dhana helāya hārāiṭu. This is another song by Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura. He's saying that "I have invited my spiritual death by not worshiping Lord Caitanya." Gaura pahū nā bhajiyā goinu. Gaura pahū means Lord Caitanya, and nā bhajiyā, "without worshiping." Goinu, "I have invited spiritual death." And adhame yatane kari dhanu tainu: "Why I have invited the spiritual death?
Because I am engaged in something which is useless, and I have rejected the real purpose of my life." Adhama means valueless things, and dhana means valuables. So actually, every one of us, neglecting our spiritual emanicipation, we are engaged in material sense gratification, and therefore we are losing the opportunity of this human form of body to elevate myself on the spiritual platform. This human body is especially given to the conditioned soul to take a chance for spiritual emancipation. So anyone who does not care for spiritual emancipation, he is inviting spiritual death. Spiritual death means to forget oneself that he's spirit.
That is spiritual death. So in the animal life it is fully forgetfulness. They cannot be reminded at any circumstances that they are not this body, they are different from this body. It is only in this human form of body, human form of life, one can understand that he is not this body, he's spirit soul. So by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, one can easily understand this fact, and by worshiping Lord Caitanya, following His principles and ways, one can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and very easily come to the platform of spiritual understanding.
But Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says on our behalf that we are neglecting this; therefore we are inviting spiritual death. Then he says that prema-rathana-dhana helāya hārāiṭu. Spiritual life means to develop real love. The... Everyone says love.
There are so many signboards, so many papers, "love, love." But there is no love. This is illusion. It is all lust. Love for intoxication, love for sex, love for this...
This is going on. So actual love means... "Love," this word can be applicable only with Kṛṣṇa, with God. Because we are created for that purpose.
To love means to love Kṛṣṇa. So that is wanted. That is spiritual love. So prema-rathana: "I could achieve that transcendental position of love, but I am neglecting.