20080903 || A Class on Brahma-saṁhitā (5.50) || Bangalore, India #JayapatakaSwamiArchives

Today is Ganesha Chaturi. And there's a verse in. I don't have a translation yet. But what I remember from the translation is that he takes your two lotus feet on his head which are like elephant head. They have like a kumbha, some bumps on the front. And so therefore offering you obeisances. As a result, Gandali Raj's mesh is able to destroy the different obstacles in the path of everyone in the three worlds. We offer you Bhavinda, our obeisances. You who are the original personality of. So Ganesh is also a devotee. You heard that the universe is destroyed. He takes the. He's an expansion of Vishwak Senya with the general of Ishtu's army. He is an eternal personality. He comes into the mature world as son of Siva and Parvati in order to destroy the obstacles for people. But also that he himself is a devotee of Vishnu as is Shiva and Gurgaon. Because many, like when we was at Mahabharata, Bhakti brought off his. What do you call this task? His tusk. And was writing obiaste was the Srimadharvas or the Mahabharata. Don't stall me. I want to keep writing. Then Vyatte will people. You have to understand everything I say first and then write it. So like that. In the Bhagavad Gita also Krishna says that different devas people have faith in them, they worship them. But actually indirectly they're worshiping him because all the devas are part of him. All the power of the different devas come from him. But some people, they don't understand that. They think all gods are the same. They may think that some ones are independent. But for the devotees, we respect all these devas as great devotees, as powerful Asians on behalf of the Lord. At the same time we know that ultimately they are God independent of Krishna. In the Padma Purana there's a history how devas were fighting against the demons. In Pachitiya, he is the general sunlight. Bhavavanda also said he is a general of the devas. There are also the skies that Ganesh was fighting against the demons. But that time there was the Madhu demon. He was so expert that he was so many mystical magical arts that he created illusions that were hard for the devas to understand. For instance, he created the illusion that all the demons look like devas. So the devas didn't know who to kill and who to fight with. Because everyone looked like a deva. But the demons could tell who was the Deva? Who was the demons? So they were attacking the Devas. And the Devas thought some other Deva Purgya. Aisha, what's happening? So there was a confusion. Then Brahma requested Vishnu to come because the Vedas couldn't handle this demon. Then Vishnu came in with his Sudarshan chakras illumination. All the identities of everyone were to heal. Then Madhu Dina took the role of Shiva. He made a form of Shiva. It wasn't actually Shiva. He just made a form like that. Then he threw some weapon at Vishnu. Vishnu threw his weapon and Madhuru Dima Madhu saw the raven coming. He left the body. The delusional body of Shiva. The head was cut off. He was already out. Then he came back in a form like Parvati said is you my husband? And then she threw a weapon at this Shavasana pirate was Madhul demon created evolution. He put down his body like Parvati. Again Vishnu knew this is Madhu demon through the weapon. Soon as the weapon was coming, Madhu left that body and that head was cut off. The Mudhu demon in a subtle form came to Skandha and told them look it. Vishnu just killed your mother and father. Now you should kill Vishnu. So at first Skandha thought how Vishnu killed my mother and father. And he was like bewildered for a minute. And Brahma king said look at it. My las Shiva and Parvati are still there. The Saudi Vishens by manufacturing they love the Nisara Buddhist mystic power Shiva and Durga in Kailash. This motto was very tricky in that fight also this time the Ganesh was also fighting against his mount his Baham. Then finally Vishnu had to liberated. That's why he's known as Madhusuda. Vishnu is the Alipurusha we call angels or device assistants in the material world we call them Devas Suras and then the spiritual pashas associates. But people like worshipping Pranapadi because he removes obstacles. May we all face obstacles in our life. We do Puja telling the worship the Guru to remove the obstacles. And the Sri Raishnaras they worshiped the Shakshena and the Karma Pandis and Smartas they worshiped Ganesh so that the Yajiya will go on nicely. So we were Shaguru God said Sarvadeva moi Guru. All the Devas including Ganesha within the Guru. By doing Guru Pujay are also worshipping the next. And everyone to all the Devas including Ganesh is the main one who removed obstacles. So would you like Start with your Guru Puja before we do some ceremony. And Srivaishnavas, they would be sacri and smart as they do Manesch. But the point always remembered that Ganesh also appeared. Devotee of Krishna. Once I was told I was devotee of Ganesh and he had prayed to Ganesh to reveal to him whose absolute truth. Then that night in the dream Ganesha appeared to him. He opened up his stomach inside him. The stomach, the heart. Very short for Raha and Krishna. So these are the absolute truth. Then there's every day after the Sam Yatra. I mean every year after Samyatra of Jaganna in Jagannath Puri they put on a hathi desh. Did you hear also you have hathi bush here. There were some devotees of Ganapati and then he was at all like Anapati to worship Jaruna who is Lord of the universe. He's Krishna himself. Then Lord Jagannath is showing that he and Balram, they also Ganesh is within them. So they take down a Ganapati port they have in Mayapur they have it and Puri, they have it in Mayapur and also in Melbourne, Australia. So they have their stuff Sangyacha. Every year, 26th of December, the day after Christmas in England and Australia they call that their boxing day. Maybe that day they had boxing, I don't know. It's a holiday. That's the day they do the San Yatra. Because in Australia that summer, that December is summer and December here is January, here is winter, right. So Prabhupada told them they can do the radcats during the same season as it fell in northern hemisphere. Like the summer. Our way of worshipping, they worship Vishnu and offer the prasada to the Nevas. They would be gurga pujas. And I was talking to one of the priests who said that the traditional way that was practiced centuries ago, only a few of the pujas do it. Now they would have a Shaligram shila and do the worship to the Srira and then offer all the posadam to Duba. So all the puja we do to Devas, we do like that. It's like in Jagannath Puri all Jagannath Prashad is offered to Guladi. And in Mahabalipuram, you know, they call Mamalapuram. There's Divya Desha there Karumal temple of Lord Vishnu. And within that temple they have. They have Shiva doing so. Then they offer the Bhava to the Brahma and then the Aphasara they take to all the different devs. They do Aarti. They take the lamp to the offer to all the devas. That the way we worship. So that they also prefer to have Ka Prashant. We don't worship them that they're independent. You know, Krishna is also in their heart. They're super soul. Unless Krishna gives a blessing, we won't get mercy. It sounds just like the Gopis. They also worship form of Durga. In order to get Krishna as their husband. Sometimes the bodies pray to them. He asks for some devotional mercy. They are also like gurus for us. You know, one devotee went to Namakya temple in Assam. There he was. He prayed to Namakya that everyone is asking you for wealth, for house, for wine, for so many different things. I just want to know. You are bonapine guru. Bona fide Guru Paraka. So that night that Namaksha Devi came in the dream and showed Srila Prabhupada. So like that. If you want to pray, pray for something spiritual. Shouldn't be any confusion in your mind. It says one without a second. There's no equal, no greater. The others are assisting you. That's the meditation on devas. And remove the obstacles in our devotional service. So it is made. We also worship a Shiv. Remove obstacles so that obstacles from worshipping. Jamila, Mother Devadarana, Krishna Chandra, Mother Madhava, Astra Shaki. Sometimes devotees normally become devotees. And they have all the different pictures and the altar in their home. What to do? So then I put the Vishnu tattoo on the upper portion. Then put the devas below to the side. And then offer your puja to Vishnu first. And offer the prasadam to the devas. This way everybody gets respected. Nobody is offended. This loads Sambandha again. You see there Sabanda Abhidaya Prayajan Sabhada means what's our relationship with Ka and what's the relationship of everything else with Krishna? We know that Sambhanda is like Krishna has the big personal Godhead. He's got his energies, he's got his different devotees. The devas running the universal functions for him. We know what's the relation. Just like if you were together the chief minister and the mayor. You called the mayor the chief minister. The chief minister wondered why are you calling the mayor chief minister. What does this mean? Throw me out and put him in the mayor instead. Or be some misunderstanding could happen. We should know what is the relationship. That's the first step of devotional advancement. Then once we understand, okay, I'm a servant Of Ka Ka supreme personality. I wanted Paramishwar Bhagavav. Then very soon we're going to be having Vadastami. Radhastami is very important because she is the supreme energy of Krishna. If she gives you mercy, then Krishna will surely give you mercy. Krishna is not known to say no to Ravarami. She is the Satchirananda. So this also have their energies. Samdit Samdini and Alarini. Alini is the Ananda Shakti. She gives happiness to Ka. She is the source of all the happiness and the universe. You understand? You understand? Why is it him? I raised my hand, left the world for meditation looking for the spiritual happiness. Bhar Maharaj left behind his kingdom looking for the spiritual happiness. So many great yogis and transcendentalists they're looking for their spiritual happiness. Mozamshisa in the sound of fight in the form of Radha raman. She appears 15 days after Ka Purana says is really important for everyone to worship Madarani. By worshipping Anurani it's we get 50,000, 100,000 calluses. So the ones that watch the a lady who was wealthy, she was traveling alone around the world. In those ancient days it wasn't normal for ladies to travel around alone. Maybe she was moderately liberated, but she wasn't any kind of rules or regulations. But she was an open minded person. So one time she visited one city in her travels and she found. She went to the Radharaga temple. There she found that the ladies were making garlands and stringing flames and doing different Sevas. She said what's happening here? What's the festival coming? You don't know? Tomorrow is Vavasini Tamsara Krishna Das Sabina energy. Why don't you stay with us, help us and tomorrow you can observe the festival. She being an open minded person since Sanoki she stayed and helped them do the decorations. Stayed over there, one of the families. And then next day she watched the Pujas, the Abhishek, the Pushpadi. Said the different programs they do Prarara and the Prashadam feast. And she went on end of my life. When she died because she had done some sinful activities. Nama Bhikras came to claim her. But then La Vishwa Bhiras came, said no, she observed Vyarasmi. She's one of us. I think one Vrastami she did so many things. One Vyarastami was enough. No one been encouraged to do sins but be encouraged to attend narratives. You know why exactly Dhatma Prana especially ladies that don't attend Rajasthani Hatsu big trouble. I don't know why they pick our ladies. But it was mentioned like that. So we observe Anastominas Swami comes to give Krishna pleasure. Radhaswami. Actually Radharani was born blind. This day thought she was blind because she didn't open her eyes. She had taken a vow that she won't open her eyes unless she could see Krishna. She wants to see Krishna first. There was a big festival going on. And that was about the one year birthday for Krishna and Madhurani. So they put Krishna in a Singh who wrote as Radha Krishna crawled over and looked at Rara Radar would smell this shaft. Then she opened her eyes and so the father Bishop Anu Vaas and Kirtiba thought it was an airborne or Lady Ghana iceberg. And there are many different pastimes. But she knows that Varun Rani was. She served the Basamuni very nicely. And the Rasa Muni gave her the boon that whatever you cook will be nectar. And whoever eats it will have a long life, healthy life. So Nara Muni told that to Dasura. He wanted Krishna to be healthy. And you should have Radharani because she got his blessing. Good friend for him. Then every day Raridani would be asked to cook for Ka as the girl who had a blessed cooking will give all life and good health. Many different pastimes. So hope everyone observes that festival here really nicely. Nice to see so many devotees. After I left from here I went to Hyderabad and inaugurated the Bhakti Vinanta Vedic Samskara hall. We have a new hall opposite from their temple. Quite a big hall. Maybe about four to five times as big as this. You have classes functions there. Then I went to Raja Mandi Montuchirabati. And then a good time is there was this movie star Shimanji who was going to declare a few days after Radha Masami his new political party. So there was lacks of followers fans who were there in Tihu at the time. So they had nothing to do. So I don't know. Many of them came to the temple and 4, 5 practice. And I already given out three bags of those Tuma Donas. Donas. Donas or donuts. Donas. They said probably by saying the darshans over at 11. There will be another two nights. So we will have five nights of people going to the temple. Then they had a nice drama from this Bengaluru or two. You know the Bengal Raj troupe. They always book them in Sudupa. It's a 100 year old troupe. They do dance dramas. Classical dance dramas. Anyone notice them? So we have a big joint picture at the end. I remember them a couple of years ago. He says he wants to bring them to Mayanpur. Then I was in Chennai for Prabhupada Vyas, Puja Bhakti, Bhajananda Maharash and Banu Swami were there. 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