Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.12

Chanting Purifies Regardless of Birth, Following Authority Brings Perfection

📅 February 19, 1976 📍 Mayapur ⏱ 28 min
Birth and material status are irrelevant; sincere chanting and following authority purify all beings.
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Anantarām Śāstrījī: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [chants verse, with Prabhupāda and devotees repeating] [break] tasmād ahaṁ vigata-viklava īśvarasya sarvātmanā mahi gṛṇāmi yathā manīṣam nīco 'jayā guṇa-visargam anupraviṣṭaḥ pūyeta yena hi pumān anuvarṇitena [SB 7.9.12] Dayānanda: [chants synonyms; devotees chant responsively] [03:13] Translation: "Therefore, although I am born in a demonic family, even still, without any doubt, I may offer prayers to the Lord as far as possible by me. Any person who is engaged in offering prayer and hearing glories of the Lord becomes purified from the material condition of life." Prabhupāda: tasmād ahaṁ vigata-viklava īśvarasya sarvātmanā mahi gṛṇāmi yathā manīṣam nīco 'jayā guṇa-visargam anupraviṣṭaḥ pūyeta yena hi pumān anuvarṇitena [SB 7.9.12] This verse is given by Caitanya Mahāprabhu in another distinct form, ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpanam [Cc Antya 20.12].

It doesn't matter where I am born. That is not important thing. Nīco, even one is very lowborn by freaks of nature... Nobody can guarantee where he'll take his birth.

Karmaṇā daiva netreṇa [SB 3.31.1]. I'll have to take my birth according to my fruitive activities, controlled by nature. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ [Bg 3.27]. We are all completely under the control of the laws of material nature, guṇa-visarga.

So according to the quality or modes of material nature we associate, we create another body. There are many places this thing has been described in the Bhagavad-gītā. Māyayā, yantrārūḍhāni māyayā. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati, bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni [Bg 18.61]. Just like that Jamnalal Agarwal, that...

He is now in the police custody. Now he is crying, "Save me, save me, save me." But nature's law is very strict. Daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā [Bg 7.14]. Once you have committed mistake, immediately nature's law reacts, and it is very difficult to come out of it.

Daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā. But there is only one way. That is anuvarṇitena, repeatedly chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, repeatedly. That is the only way.

Harer nāmaiva kevalam. [Bṛhan-nāradīya Purāṇa] That is recommended by Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet [SB 12.3.51]. This is the simple...

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