Our suffering stems from our own karma; chanting Hare Krishna liberates us, but only if we stop committing sin.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Anantarām Śāstrījī: [chants mantras] śacīsūnu premāvalita sukharāśe mama gurau mayā labdhaṁ labdhaṁ tava pada prasādaṁ sumadhūram kṛpā pārāvāras tvamasi bhūvijñātam punar idaṁ śaraṇyaṁ tvaṁ yāce tava caraṇa sevāṁ pratidinam My spiritual master is the embodiment of unlimited loving ecstasy for the son of Śacī. I have been blessed by your nectarean mercy. You are an unlimited ocean of mercy. I beg shelter and service to your lotus feet for ever.
[Prayer to Prabhupāda composed by Anantarām Śāstrījī.] Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 7.9.41 [chants verse; Prabhupāda and devotees respond; Prabhupāda corrects some pronunciation] [break] evaṁ sva-karma-patitaṁ bhava-vaitaraṇyām anyonya-janma-maraṇāśana-bhīta-bhītam paśyan janaṁ sva-para-vigraha-vaira-maitraṁ hanteti pāracara pīpṛhi mūḍham adya [SB 7.9.41] Prabhupāda: The reading is pāpacara or pāracara? Anantarām Śāstrījī: Pāracara. Prabhupāda: Pāracara.
Hmm. [03:52] Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Translation: "My dear Lord, You are transcendentally situated on the other side of the river of death. We are suffering on this side of the river of death on account of the resultant action of our own activities and have thus fallen in this river. We are suffering the pangs of repeated birth, death and awful arrangements. Not only me, but on behalf of all others in suffering conditions, kindly see upon them and out of Your causeless mercy and compassion deliver us and thus maintain us." Prabhupāda: evaṁ sva-karma-patitaṁ bhava-vaitaraṇyām anyonya-janma-maraṇāśana-bhīta-bhītam paśyan janaṁ sva-para-vigraha-vaira-maitraṁ hanteti pāracara pīpṛhi mūḍham adya [SB 7.9.41] So this is our material condition of life.
Prahlāda Mahārāja is describing one after another. So sometimes foolish person accuse God that "Why He has put us into this miserable condition, different states..., status of life? Somebody is rich, somebody is poor, somebody is diseased, somebody is healthy, and so many varieties." Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has said, keśava tuyā jagata vicitra. Vicitra [Śaraṇāgati, Prātikulya-varjana, song 25, text 1] means "varieties." "So if God is kind, why He has made so many varieties?" This is not the common question you meet?
You are preaching. They inquire like this, hmm: "Why God is not kind to everyone? Why He has made this distinction?" So this is not God's creation. We should know that it is my creation.
Therefore Prahlāda Mahārāja said, evaṁ sva-karma-patitam. Just like a man is condemned to death. In the court the judge gives the judgment that "This murderer should be hanged." So it is not the judge that he is giving order to the murderer to be hanged. It is the murderer who has created his situation to be hanged.
This is to be understood. Not that the judge is partial, he's giving order to somebody that he must get decree for two millions of dollars, "He must have it," and another man is condemned to death. It is not that the judge is partial, he's giving somebody two millions of dollars and somebody is ordered to be hanged. The judge is impartial.