20260110 - Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.23.30-31

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Kunjabijanaval. Yamunatira. Madhava kanjabi. Krishna krishna krishna. Ramadamahari hari. Krishna krishna krishna hare hare hare. Ra krishna hare krishna krishna krishna.

Krishna krishna.

Prabhupadiki. Yeah, yeah, we'll share the mic. There's only one for us. One for. We're just gonna start now. Okay, sure. Gurumar. Reading From Srimad Bhagavatam, 3rd canto 23rd chapter, verse number 30 and 31. Then in a mirror she beheld her own reflection. Her body was completely free from all dirt and she was adorned with a garland. Dressed in unsullied robes and decorated with auspicious marks of tilaka. She was served very respectfully by the maids. Verse number 31. Translation. Her entire body, including her hat, was completely bathed and she was decorated all over with ornaments. She wore a special necklace with a locket. There were bangles on her wrists and tinkling anklets of gold about her anklets ankles. Sorry, translation in Purport By His Divine grace. Where's the translation? Purport by Srila Prabhupada. The word. The word Shirasnam appears here. According to Smriti Shastra's directions, for daily duties, ladies are allowed to bathe up to the neck. The hair on the head does not necessarily have to be washed daily because of the mass of wet hair may cause cold for ladies. Therefore, taking bath up to the neck is ordinarily prescribed and they take full bath only on certain occasions. On this occasion, Devahuti took a full bath and washed her hair very nicely. When a lady takes an ordinary bath is called malasna and when she takes a full bath including the head, it is called Shirasnaan. At this time she needs sufficient oil to smear on her head. That is the direction of the commentators of Smriti Shastra.

Ekati or ekatrin satislock number sloktasami prabhupad kotrik onubad tarpartini inr. Chilakti.

Sri krishna.

Krishna. Krishna.

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Reading about Kairamuni and Devahoti.

Anyway, we are reading about K. Muni and Devahuti.

Kochi.

Is the daughter of Devahuti is a daughter of Swayambhuamanu. His.

Rain I don't know light. But his reign is 71 Chaturaguras.

His reign, his life. I don't know. Maybe for 71 Chaturyugas.

I don't know if his life he dies at the end. I don't know. But he's 71 Chatur Yugas.

I don't know. He dies at the end of the 71 Chhatryugas. But he's Manu for 71 Chhatryugas.

Four million.

Four million three hundred and twenty thousand years.

So he reigns for 71 times 4,320,000 years. And this is his lifespan at least. Or it is his time of room.

How?

His daughter would have the same lifespan.

Now his daughter would have the same lifespan.

So anyway she was under the care of her father.

Anyway, she was under the care of her father.

And then she got her husband as Kardama Muni.

And.

And later on she received her son who was Lord Kapila himself.

So Kaida Muni, after giving her the son he left and took Sannyas. We will read about that later.

But Rav, she served her husband so well, so humbly.

It's important. She served her husband so well, so humbly.

Finish.

Her body was dirty. Her hair was madded. Different problems there.

So her body was dirty, her hair was madded. And then there were different problems.

All these things were rectified by the maids in Bindu Sarovar.

So all the things were rectified by the maids in the Bindu sarovar.

Tara. Srila Prabhupada was saying that Devahoti could be the example how a disciple should serve his spiritual master or her spiritual master.

I saw she sought great dedication and being rehearsed. So they have a certain facility to do extensive jail world.

So that she showed great dedication. And being a grastha they had some facility to enjoy the material world. And they were doing kind of Garbadan Samskara to have children.

Like this Kuni wanted to take the renounced order. But before his other wise choice. Hence yes.

So like this Kartha Muni wanted to take Sannyas. But before he took a wife to experience the material woe.

Wise before he thought it was wise to take away.

So that's one thing we will learn.

From this so that's one thing we can learn from this.

One thing is in the Bhagavad Gita 9th 9:32 it states that women Vaishna Sutras if they take surrender if they surrender to him they can reach this.

Rim destination 9:32 the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says women Vaishya Shudra if they surrender to him they can reach the spiritual world.

Trying to figure out how to do.

That and I'm trying to figure out how to do that.

Bast. And then I found this in the 18th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita.

Continental.

Krishna says that I am telling you the most confidential knowledge how you can get self realization.

Krishna is saying that the one does their duty whatever their nature is as an offering to him.

So Krishna says one does their duty whatever their nature is as an offering to him.

Krishna Balayan Jay.

For instance Arjuna fought in the war.

But he didn't he was having the nature of Kshatriya but he wasn't fighting for a Satya reason he he was.

Having the nature of a Kshatriya but he wasn't fighting for a Kshatriya. He fought for Krishna. Works mode of passion it says Kshatriya works in the mode of passion.

He is very attached horse dragon he's attached fruit of his work he's very.

Attached he's very enthusiastic for the fruit of his work.

And therefore if you would be victorious he'd be happy and if you would be defeated then he would be very very upset or Sa. And the mode of passion is that one will become very charitable so.

When. You don't want to please with a said you're not you're not planning on your whole course so so when the.

Kurukshetra war was going on Duru then went to Bhishma Dev and told him you are not fighting with your full horse force.

Lord Sa.

All right, it was done five arrows these will kill five and then he said okay.

He put down five arrows and he said that this will kill the five Pandoras.

He did and.

Everything but these arrows Mantras and everything and these five arrows were Pandavas.

And then Duryodhan thought I'll keep these.

Arrows and then Duryodhan thought I'll keep.

These arrows and that's why I'll because I'll ensure that I use Torah right.

Visually in this way I'll ensure that this will be used tomorrow by Bhishma Dev.

Then But Krishna advised Arjuna that you go to Duryodhana and you ask him, you beg him for the five errors that he has gone. When Duryodhana had a fight with the Gandharva Chitratha at that time Arjuna had come to his rescue and saved him.

Then said, you can ask anything from me, I will give you. So Arjuna went and asked Duryodhana for the five arrows.

How do you know? Then Duryodhara said, Krishna told me.

He.

Gave the arrows to Arjuna.

So Duryodhan, he gave the arrows to Arjuna. He was Chatriya Duryodhana, he was a Kshatriya.

Arjuna, he was a Vaishnav.

But Arjuna, he was a Vaishnav.

Now this idea of D is kind of rather than idea.

So this idea of Deva Varnashram is a kind of a revolutionary idea.

Someone may be working for a salary, so they're considered a Sudra. Or some of you a farmer, businessman.

Someone might be working for salary. They might be considered as a Shudra. Someone might be working as a farmer. They might be considered as a Vaishya, farmer or businessman. They might be considered as a Vaisha.

Someone might be a lady.

And someone may be a lady and doing this cooking and serving her husband.

But if they're doing all this as Sarah the Guru and Krishna then.

They.

Don'T have to change their job. That Raj knows. Krishna said they'll draw it.

But they are doing it as service to Krishna. Guru and Krishna then they don't have to change their job. Krishna says that they go back to Godhead.

So some ladies are in a military, judges, politicians.

So now we are in Kali Yuga. Some of the ladies are in the military, some are judges, some are lawyers, Politician. Some are politician.

If I do that for Krishna then they are.

If they do that for Krishna then they are Vaishnavas. Vaishnavis.

Devahoodi, although she was a lady, she ultimately went back to Godhead.

Now we see here Deva Houthi. Even though she was a lady, she went back to Godhead.

She was so fortunate that she got a son who. Who was an incarnation of Vishnu.

I mean devotee was really something special.

So I mean Devavuti was really something special.

You might think all that I had to be a Sannyasi or something. But here we see Vyashta. She had all kinds of provincial building. She had children.

So people might think I might be a Sannyasi or something. But here we can see she is being a Grassh. She had A palatial building. So it depends on our consciousness.

Attached to the roots of our labor, how to stay in the material world.

If we are very attached to the fruits of our labor, then we have to stay in this material world.

But if we are attached to Krishna's service, then we will return back home to Krishna's abode. But if someone may be a housewife, but she's at home, she's doing the cooking and she's offering. If she offers that food to Krishna, she offers Aarti to Krishna, Krishna who is there in the home as DT form.

She doesn't have to be a Brahmana. She don't have the Lord of Toyota preach, she can stay at her home, go back to Godhead.

So she don't have to be a Brahmana. She don't have to go and preach. She just have to stay at home and she can go back home, back to Godhead.

Therefore, whatever one may be, one may be a businessman or whatever, but he should engage in the service of Krishna. In this age of Kali, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu recommended, he prescribed that one should chant Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna.

Yes. Yes. They could hear. We could hear it here as well.

We can hear.

Yeah, yeah. Yes.

So like this, we can preach to all our congregational members, tell everyone they don't have to change their occupation or their situation.

So we should preach to our congregational members that they don't have to change their occupational duty. They don't have to change their situation.

Their continents has changed, consciousness has to be changed.

They should perform devotional service to Krishna.

So I mean, we can make the whole world.

So that means we can make the whole world Krishna conscious.

Now, say one disciple businessman, he told me that he wanted to be a Pujari. So because he wanted to go back to Ghada.

So disciple businessman told me that he wants to be a Pujari because he wants to go back home, back to Godhead. So.

I told him, you can do your business for Krishna and you don't have to be a Pujari.

So I told him, you can do your business for Krishna and you don't have to be a Pujari.

So he started making more money.

So he started making millions and millions and millions. So he started making more money, millions and millions and millions of dollars of dollar.

I don't know. So then what now he offers not only to the Israeli generals to ir. He is also developing a Krishna Ganges project.

So he doesn't only offer to Iskcon temples, Mayapur he also develops Krishna conscious projects.

Krishna.

Therefore everyone can perform or practice devotional service to Krishna by getting the mercy of Lord Sri Krishna. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Means that.

Means that you are a Vaishnavi or a Vaishnava.

In the three modes.

And ordinary Varanashrama is in the three modes.

Say someone likes to work in a particular way so they can be engaged, but they're not Vaishyas, Sujas or whatever.

Vaishnavas say somebody likes to work in a particular way, but they can be engaged. But they are not Vaishya Shudras, they are Vaishnavas.

Now Arjuna he wanted to be a Brahmin, a beggar, a Mennegan.

So Arjuna he wanted to be a Brahmin, a beggar, a mendicant, not fight.

Arjun Brahman.

But Krishna said that better you do your own work than someone else's work. Even if there's some directing your own work and you do the other work properly.

So Krishna told him, even better than doing others work, do your own work. And even if it has defect, then doing others work perfectly.

The way to really do it as an offering to him.

So in the 18th, in the 18th chapter of Bhagavad Gita he says the way to really do it is to do it as an offering to him to Krishna.

I think that in India also is not band carry all the traditional varnishram system.

So in India the culture is that we know it is the traditional Varnashrama system. And that's the caste system and people are against that.

Means you do your work according to your nature, but you will serve Krishna.

But Deva Varnashrama means you do your work according to your nature, but you serve Krishna.

If you do it like that, then Krishna will be pleased with you and your life will become successful.

So why in the so much details about Karmone and devotee how's the life? And.

So why in the Bhagavatam so much given about Karadamuni Devahuti, the Agrastha life, the austerities.

You see that in this their life was millions of years long.

We see that their lives were millions of years long.

Now he was doing great austerity. He got all this, he got a lot of yellow powers.

So as we know, he was doing great austerities and he had great mystic yoga power, everything.

And then he wanted to enter into the householder life.

But he his island, he took sannyas and he dedicated his whole life always was to please for his Daughter.

So after that he took Sannyas. After enjoying he took Sannyas and he dedicated his life.

His whole life.

His whole life. His whole life was dedicated to Krishna.

In this way he was the father of an incarnation of Krishna.

So it's not restricted that you do any kind of tail activities but you should do it in a Ka conscious way.

So it's not restricted that you shouldn't do any kind of material activities but you should do it in a Ka conscious way.

That both Karamoni and Levahuti, she went back hell, went back to Godhead.

Now we are saying that Kardra Muni and Devahuti Devi Dasi, they all went back to Godhead.

Are there any questions?

Are there any questions?

How are you in here? You in here?

Yeah, yeah. There's some questions. Yeah. Yes. So Guruma has a question from Brajavasi Das. Devahuti achieved Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavan, what is a eternal form? So she went to the abode of Lord Kapila.

I think that's. I mean that's all I know.

As far as I know that is in Vaikunta. But whatever dam you go, it's according to what, what Rasa, you have.

Kind of respectful Sakya naturally.

So some people, if they are Santa Das, a kind of respectful Sakya, they naturally go to Vaikuntha. So every evening we are discussing from Chaitanya Sikshamrata. Now we are discussing on Sakya Rasa, Where do you want to go?

Fix your mind on Krishna or on his avatar.

So accordingly you should fix your mind on Krishna or is different avatars. There's one more Bengali question.

All right.

Come closer to his ears.

My question is. Thank you so much for the wonderful class. It was a very, very practical class with a lot of practical advice for us. My question, If somebody is engaged in a profession of say selling fishes so should he give up that profession or he can, if he is not eating the fish he can continue with that occupation and still he can engage in or he can give the results to Krishna. You see, if you are a businessman you can do some business but you should not be selling fish, meat, eggs et.