Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.25

Sankarsana Controls Mind Senses and Elements – Worshipping Krishna Fulfills All Obligations

📅 January 2, 1975 📍 Bombay ⏱ 26 min
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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.25 — January 2, 1975, Bombay 750102SB-BOMBAY [25:52 Minutes] SB-03.26.25_750102SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: "The threefold ahaṅkāra, the source of the gross elements, the senses and the mind, is hence identical with them because it is their cause. It is known by the name of Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is directly Lord Ananta with a thousand heads." Prabhupāda: sahasra-śirasaṁ sākṣād yam anantaṁ pracakṣate saṅkarṣaṇākhyaṁ puruṣaṁ bhūtendriya-manomayam [SB 3.26.25] So this is the description of quadruple expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The advaitam acyutam anādir ananta-rūpam [Bs. 5.33], how ananta-rūpam of Kṛṣṇa is expanded, now this is the beginning of such description. The first expansion is Balarāma, Baladeva.

Nāyam ātmā bala-hīnena labhyaḥ. It is... In the Upaniṣad it is said, "Ātmā, the Supreme Soul, cannot be understood without being favored by Balarāma." This balarāma sometimes misunderstood as the bodily strength, that "Without physical strength, nobody can attain the Supreme Personality of Godhead." But that is not the fact. Bala-hīnena means one who is not favored by Balarāma or Nityānanda, he cannot make any progress to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

That is the real meaning, bala-hīnena: "without the favor of Balarāma." Balarāma is guru-tattva, and Balarāma is present in this age as Nityānanda. So bala-hīnena labhyaḥ does not mean "without any physical strength." One has to get favor of Nityānanda Prabhu. Nityānanda Prabhu, katiya mohan, avadhya karuna sindhu katiya mohan, durlabha kṛṣṇa-prema kare jare tare jana.[?] There is a song like that. So this first expansion is Balarāma. And from Balarāma, then catur-vyūha: Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Aniruddha..., Pradyumna, Aniruddha.

So the Saṅkarṣaṇa feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is the controller of bhūtendriya-manomayam, these five elements, bhūta, indriya, and the ten senses and the mind. They are... Similarly, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, Aniruddha—they are different controlling Deities of the different functions of the mind, intelligence, ego. So saṅkarṣaṇākhyaṁ puruṣaṁ sahasra-śirasam anantam.

Ananta. You will find the picture of Nārāyaṇa lying down on ananta-śayyā. That Ananta caturdaśī-vrata. As there is Nṛsiṁha caturdaśī...

A Vaiṣṇava, they have got different functions of appearance and disappearance days of Vaiṣṇava and Viṣṇu. Āvirbhāva, tirobhāva. Just the rising sun and the setting sun. When the sun sets, it does not mean the sun is finished. Of course, some of the former theosophists and scientists, they used to think that this is..., at night the sun is dead.

That is not fact. The sun is not visible to our limited eyes. Similarly, appearance and disappearance of incarnation of Godhead is like that. They are going on just like the..., a horse is running in due course, but when it comes in front of your door or window, you can see.

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