Smashing the illusion of false ego

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One who works in devotion who is a pure soul and who controls his mind and senses is dear to everyone and everyone is dear to him. One who is in the path of liberation by Krishna consciousness is very dear to every living being. This is due to his Krishna Consciousness such a person cannot think of anything being is seperate from Krishna. Just as the leaves and branches of the tree are not seperate from the tree.

One who works in KC is a servant ot all he is very dear to everyone because everyone is satisfied by his work, he is pure and consciousness. His mind is completely controlled. His senses are also controlled because his mind is always fixed on Krishna there is no chance of being deviated from Krishna.He does not hear anything except topics related to Krishna. He does not eat anything which is not offered to Krishna. He does not wish to go anywhere if Krishna is not involved. Therefore his senses are controlled. A man and woman of controlled senses cannot be offensive to anyone.

One may ask Why was Arjuna was offensive to others wasn't he is Krishna Consciousness?

Arjuna was only superficially offensive because as it is already explained in second chapter all the assembled persons in the battle field will continue to live individually as the soul cannot be slain so spiritually no one was killed on the battlefield of Kuruksetra only their dresses were changed by the order of Krishna. Such a person is never entangled in the reactions of worl.

In the 6th chapter Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna that renunciation is not who does no work, but real renunciation is who performs his prescribed duties in devotion to Him. His devotion awakens within the heart through the association of the Lord and the devotees.

How do we associate with the Lord?

We have many deeply rooted propensities we must dovetail those propensities with Krishna in the center. Krishna being the formost father and mother of all living beings he is again and again providing facilities by which we could always keep him in the center of our lives. One of the greatest and deepest propensities of every living being is to find some excitement through the process of hearing.

How much money is spent, how much time and energy is spent on going to cinema, watching tv, seeing drama, reading books, gossiping, spreading rumors. The average man or woman's life is spent on this. The propensity to find excitement within our minds and hearts and within all our heart through this process of hearing is inate.

There fore the Lord is so kind that he personally descends in this world to perform the most extraordinary, unbelievable and transcendental activities that are simple wonderous and amazing to the mind. In by hearing there wonderful activities not only we find entertainment for the senses but we water the root of our existance by giving the highest pleasures to the soul.

In Srimad Bhagavatam one who takes great pleasures in hearing the pastimes, the glories and teachings of the supreme personality of God head more than anything else this gives pleasure to the Lord and within the heart he reciprocates by completely purifying all the impurities within you and establishing irrevokable love of God.

One who regularly hears the glories of the Lord and one who surrenders to the chanting the glories of the Lord, such a person becomes free from the clutches of all suffereing and attains the highest liberation of Prema (Love of God) so the Lord again and dagain out of causeless mercy gives us the chance to hear his glories.

Bhagavad Gita 4.8

paritrāṇāya sādhūnāḿ
vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām
dharma-saḿsthāpanārthāya
sambhavāmi yuge yuge

He does not require adventing himself again and again to annihilate the miscreants. Within a moment he could send a stone from the sky and destroy a demon however powerful they are. He is within the heart of the most wicked with the Sudharshan chakra he can cut their heads and drop their head immediately he does not have to come to protect the pious, he could do this by his diving energy.

To reestablish the principles of religion he could empower his devotees. Externally there are the reasons but internally the real reason is to perform such wonderful, incredible pastimes, that will attract the minds of all in the world.

The story of boar incarnation - It is describe by Maitreya rishi to Vidura. The story to have a very relevant messsage for what is going on today in the world.

One time two great asuras were born in the world they are born to Kasyapa Muni and Diti.

How they were born is important to understand also.

Diti was feeling a great impulse to enjoy with Kashyapa Muni. they were in the forest, Kashyapa Muni said it is not an auspicious time, we should not do it. We should wait. She was not very inclined to wait. She was very firm. He agreed. Kashyapa Muni said because this was done not in the spirit of devotion but for the spirit of passion without consideration of time of place, very very evil wicked person will take birth in your womb.


In civilized society everything is done in control and everything is done in spirit of devotion. So as a result Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipyu was born and they performed greate tapasya and they were worshippers of demigods Brahma and Shiva.


They both gave great benedictions. Sometimes we see demoniac people worship God with great devotion. But the goal is not for uninterrupted service for power, prestige and control over others lives. They worshipped for other wrong reasons. By the worship they has tremendous strength and they conquered the entire universe. Hiranyaksha exploited the earth for his own sense gratification, When we exploit the earth from natural resources it looses the balance.


In those days the greates wealth was gold, therefore they were mining and mining for gold and the imbalance happened and the earth fell into the Garbadaksha ocean. The for this day is black gold (oil). If we pump the earth for oil for the evil sources of sense gratification without consideration of service to God we can understand there will be tremendous imbalance to the earch and will cause painful repurcussions.


So Hiranyaksha was stealing gold of the earth and therefore the earth was cast into the ocean of Garbodaksha. Hiranyaksha was going from place to place and challenged to fight. Then Indhra also hid from him. So he goes deep into the ocean he obtained Varuna dev and asked himi to fight. Varuna dev was peaceful he said you have already everything and why are you fighting again.


Senses will never be satisfied. Bhagavad Gita explains senses burn like fire they never be statiated by fuel they will grow hotter and burn. Varuna said he does not fight and recommended somebody to fight. All the sages went to Brahma and begged to do something. So Brahma meditated of Vishnu.


From Brahma to the insignificant insect we are all exclusively dependant on the mercy of the Lord at every moment for our survival. So there fore the great personalities they always remember that they are totally dependant on the Lord and they gratefully reciprocate the Lord by engaging in humble mode of service. That is knowledge to forget that is the source of all suffering. It is the cause of all bondage, suffering. That time a little creature came out of his nose. He was the size of the thumb, he grew to the size of the large mountain.


Brahma said he would be the Supreme Lord. Then Lord boar to encourage all he roared like mountain, he smiled, he glances his merciful look and he dived into the ocean and he lifted the earth with his tusk. He was so big.


Meanwhile Varuna explained to Hiranyaksha asking him to fight with Varaha dev. Srimad Bhagavatam asuras are so proud of the power they have and they become foolishly intoxicated that no one can defeat me even God himself. So they are not afraid to wage war against with someone who are millions of time powerful than them. This is the nature when ego becomes too much inflated with intoxication you loose all the intelligence. Hiranyaksha dove into the ocean and challenged Varahadev.


Lord Varahadev is like a mother, he wanted to take care of the earth. So he flew away with earth. So this insulted Hiranyaksha what sort of a person are you running away from fight. All these words hurted the Supreme Lord. Because we are his children.

He was willing to bear that pain to protect the earth.

Lesson:
We should be willing to bear any difficult any reversal. Srila Prabupad says when devotees go outsie and spread Krishna Conscious it is like Varaha to take the hearts of the conditional sould who are in suffering condition of darkness to life them out of the ocean.

In the process of doing that just like Lord Varaha you would be insulted, abused, attacked Lord Varaha tolerated all of these and put the earth on top of the ocean and turned to Hiranyaksha to fight. He fought for a long time ahd he was dead.

Of course supreme personality of Godhead could have killed him in a second but Lord fulfills everyones desire to some extent. The demon wanted to kill the Lord and the Lord let him think that for sometime. Just like a cat who kills the mouse.

After this Lord Varaha dev ascended into the sky and everyone glorified Him with beautiful prayers and He returned to eternal abode Vaikunta.


Sukadeva Goswami explains ho Maitreya Muni as he was describing this pastime to Vidura, he gave a benedication that anyone who would with sincere and submissive heart hears this wonderful narration of the appearance of Lord Varaha dev will find the presence of the Lord eternally manifested withing his life and even if one has committed the most of all horrible sins even if a man killed a saintly brahmin by hearing this submissively one is liberated by all sinful reaction opf all previous lives and attains the supreme position of the unmotivated uninterrupted loving service of the Lord.

So why is it we hear this stories again and again and we are still not liberated? and are constantly crushed by the reactiions of our past sins.

The true eagerness and desire to hear with the sincere and submissive heart only awaken when we accept the position of the humble servant of the great saints. When we hear from them with the honest and faithful heard and through that process the propensity to truly hear the Lords glory with sincere heart awakens. This is the great oppurtunity for everyone of us. We should take advantage by coming to the temple of the Lord and associating with the devotees and by reciprocating and engaging in devotional service.