How bhakti works SB 1 2 15 22 Brahmachari class Chittagong 10 6 23
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In the first canto of the second chapter, from the sixth shloka to the twenty-second shloka, Prabhupada ji has given a separate lecture on dharma in his book, The Way of Consciousness, in every shloka. He has also given a separate lecture on Kundalini in America. He has edited those two lectures and has made a book.
So, this is in the context of dharma. There is one shloka in which Prabhupada ji has quoted the most frequently. It is in the order of 1-2-6 and 1-2-21.
So, Prabhupada ji was very fond of Shlokas and he has quoted them many times. For example, many Hindus have quoted the Shloka 4.7 and 4.8, but Prabhupada ji has quoted more in the next shloka. It means that God comes here and we have to do dharma.
Prabhupada ji has said that God comes here and we have to go to Bhagavad Gita. So, Prabhupada ji has given more emphasis on that. According to Prabhupada ji, some shlokas are very important for him.
So, in this section, Shri Narayan Chachand ji has said that some shlokas are very important for him. This was neither important nor pleasant for Prabhupada ji. When he had written the Bhagavad Gita, when he was coming from India to America, he had taken the Bengali song and Prabhupada ji had used Sanskrit code in it.
This is how some Sanskrit shlokas are quoted. So, from 15 to 22, there are 8 shlokas. Now, I will recite some shlokas in Sanskrit.
So, I will recite some shlokas in Maharashtra. Here, Prabhupada ji is saying that यद अन्ध्यास ना यूत्तो यूत्तो means war. If a warrior is going to war, he will take his weapons with him.
Similarly, he is saying that यद अन्ध्यास आसी means sword. He is saying that it is the remembrance of God. It is the sword of God.
And what is cut with this sword? कर्मग्रंथी निबंधन The bondage of karma The bondage is cut with a very difficult thing. It is cut with a knife. कोमिदास कोमिदास means courageous people.
The courageous people cut the bondage of karma with the sword of remembrance of God. Now, the last shloka of this shloka is a question. That question has rhetorical questions in it.
What are rhetorical questions? There is no need to answer that question separately. We know the reason. We say to someone that if everyone has to go to Buddhism, then what is the use of working so hard and earning a lot of money? What is the use? There is no need to say.
Similarly, the question is coming here. कोन कुर्या कथावरति? If the remembrance of God is so powerful, then who has the courage to remember God? कुर्या कथावरति के लिए उनकी कथा नहीं सूदा. So, this is the question.
कोन कुर्या कथावरति? You can understand this. What is it? If we are going to a temple, we all want to do Prakriti. Is it one or not? One is material, spiritual.
This is the spiritual level. Spirituality is material level. So, when we are here, we want to progress in two directions.
What does material progress mean? We want to have a lot of money. But we want to serve in the material level. We want to develop our talents.
We want to increase our contribution. So, this is not material, it is spiritual. But this is in the material world.
In the spiritual world, we have to come to God. So, we want to move forward. But suppose there is a rope.
We are all tied up with this rope. And this rope pulls us back. The rope pulls us down.
We are walking. Suppose someone pulls the rope from behind. And the other rope pulls us back.
We are not able to do anything. We will struggle. And suppose there is a very strong person and he is pulling the rope.
So, we are stuck. We are not able to do anything. So, what should we do at that time? At that time, if we have a sword in our mind, what will we do with the sword? We will cut the rope.
So, the binding of karma is on us. Today, we have a rope. It is not from outside.
It is from inside. And this rope keeps us tied. But the essence of God is the sword.
That is why,.