Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.45

Following Krishna's Order Is True Dharma, Imitating Krishna Leads to Adharma

📅 June 11, 1976 📍 Los Angeles ⏱ 19 min
Follow Krishna's orders faithfully; attempting to imitate His divine pastimes leads only to spiritual ruin.
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Pradyumna: Translation: "In proportion to the extent of one's religious or irreligious actions in this life, one must enjoy or suffer the corresponding reactions of his karma in the next." Prabhupāda: yena yāvān yathādharmo dharmo veha samīhitaḥ sa eva tat-phalaṁ bhuṅkte tathā tāvad amutra vai [SB 6.1.45] So, one has to suffer or enjoy. There are two things. So that is according to our activities. That we can practically experience.

If one is educated, naturally he gets a good position, and if one is criminal, he gets another position. There is no difficulty to understand. So there are two things, dharma and adharma, religiosity and irreligiosity. Religiosity means to abide by the orders of God, and irreligiosity means to disobey the orders of God.

That's all. Simple thing. But in this connection we must know what is the order of God, what is God, how He orders, how to execute, how we become fit for executing orders. These things..., these questions are there, but God is speaking personally, "This is My order," in the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find, very simple thing. What Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā?

First of all, He establishes Himself that "I am the Supreme Lord." Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya [Bg 7.7]. So the Māyāvādīs, they also think that "I am also Kṛṣṇa. I can also speak." No. That you cannot do.

Just like we are singing this song daily, gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī. [Śrīla Bhakti Vinoda Ṭhākura, Gītāvalī] It is... Kṛṣṇa is playing with the gopīs. The sahajiyās, they take it very easily.

But giri-vara-dhārī, oh, that is very difficult thing. He raised the whole Govardhana Hill in His finger. That nobody is imitating. But gopī-jana-vallabha, very easy.

"You are gopī, I am Kṛṣṇa. Let us enjoy." This is sahajiyā. This is sahajiyā. That is going on, pārakīya-rasa.

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