CC daily 67 – CCM 5.76-81 – Put serious agreements into writing to avoid conflicts

Thank you sakshi gopal pastime text 76 so these words which i have spoken whatever i have told you this is how things have happened achhe mahajan so i have a great witness for this great person so mahajan the word you earlier used to refer to the people who had assembled the villagers now he is using the word to refer to the supreme lord achhe mahajan yandra vakya sattya kari mane tri bhuvan so yandra vakya his word sattya kari his words are always true mane tri bhuvan tri bhuvan all the people in all the three worlds accept his word as true he is a supreme authority there is no greater authority than him generally now when even a witness is to be called so if a person is making a case that person's credibility comes into the picture and if that person makes a case between two people then if some witness is there then we are also concerned about the witness credibility sometimes the people who are not of a good character they may lie they may lie or do something like that they may take bribes or they may for whatever reason speak counterfactually and when they speak counterfactually then the case the force of justice may be impeded or even stopped to prevent this from happening what is required is that a person be that the witness be credible so he says over here that actually who can be more credible than the supreme lord he says that that his words the supreme lord is mentioned in the previous line that he always speaks the truth that his words are true he is accepted as a credible authority not just in this particular village not just in this particular city or in this particular kingdom or in this particular planet but in all the three worlds this faith in the authority of the supreme lord this is actually quality of a devotee and Srila Prabhupada writes in the parpot how this was the quality that Prahlad Maharaj said in the Bhagavatam to be the highest knowledge to be able to accept the supreme lord as the greatest person to know the lord and to trust the lord and to love the lord and to accept him as the highest authority that is real knowledge so although the brahmana had only said that I am a fool I am a fool but he is showing how he is truly learned because he has faith in the supreme lord and his faith in the authority so 77-78 texts are together here so so now the young brahmana has completed describing the narrative fully the course of events and then the elder brahmana who had prayed to Gopal please protect my dharma so he is now saying this is the agreeable solution if the deity comes and gives witness then I will also agree so this is the truthful narrative I will accept this as a truthful narrative if Gopal comes to bear witness if Gopal himself comes here to bear witness then surely I will give my daughter to this person know this to be true so now we see that the elder brahmana had a what we could say an ethical crisis because he did not want to go back on his word at the same time he did not want to go back he did not want to hurt his family members so therefore he is now going to he says that I have faith in the lord, if the lord comes as a witness he had said that I don't remember what had happened so he now says that if the lord comes as a witness I don't remember, but if the lord comes as a witness I will accept that this is the true katha I will accept it in that time and I have made a resolve now and I make a commitment I make a promise know this to be my resolve what is it? that if the lord comes as a witness then surely I will give my daughter to him his son said oh this is a very good thing, this is a good plan of action now why did he say that this is a good plan of action? because his younger son was sceptic, he was almost like an atheist and he felt that the lord is never going to come how will the deity be able to move? how will the lord come? and he thought that this way this whole marriage can be avoided so this is text 79 बड़विप्रेरमने कृष्णबड़दयावान आवश्यमोरवाकितेहो करीबेप्रमान बड़विप्रेरमने so at that time the elder Ramana spoke कृष्णबड़दयावान he thought the elder Ramana thought Krishna is very merciful आवश्यमोरवाकितेहो करीबेप्रमान आवश्य truly definitely मोरवाकितेहो करीबेप्रमान he will accept my word to be true and he will make my word come true आवश्यमोरवाकितेहो surely he will ensure that my word comes true and therefore I don't have anything to worry about he was confident that the words will come out to be true आवश्यमोरवाकितेहो here we see that both the younger Ramana and the elder Ramana they have faith in the Supreme Lord and here also his, the elder Ramana's faith in the Supreme Lord is being seen when he says आवश्यमोरवाकितेहो करीबेप्रमान he will come to prove my statement and thus my dharma will be protected कृष्ण बड़ा दयवान he is considering that the Lord is very merciful, surely the Lord will come and Krishna is merciful, now why would we consider he is merciful because actually it requires a good amount of effort to come all the way from such a far away place to another place to give witness and that indicates the Lord's mercy now Krishna's Kriya Rajyotsava gives us an insight into the mentality of the younger son also, of the elder Ramana's son पुत्रेरमने प्रतिमा न असीबे साक्षि दीते एइ बुद्धे दूई जन हैल सम्मते so पुत्रेरमने the Putra thought in the mind प्रतिमा न असीबे साक्षि दीते so how will the Pratima come to give witness एइ बुद्धे दूई जन हैल सम्मते so now the two of them had different motivations but they came to the same conclusion the conclusion was yes if the witness comes along if the Gopal Dede comes as a witness then I will give my daughter in marriage I will give my sister in marriage both the father and the son agreed to this why did they agree they had different reasons the older Brahmana anyway wanted to give his daughter in marriage and he felt that if the lord comes as a witness then in that way my word will come to be true and the younger Brahmana he said that the Brahmana's son he had a sceptical attitude he said how can the Pratima how will the Pratima come here it is not possible that the Pratima can come therefore this plan is not going to work and in this way my sister will stay safe from this schemer so it is interesting that the Prabhupada added the word atheistic sunset although there is no such word in the Bengali it is simply Putreramani but Prabhupada added the point to point us to the mentality of the son so here atheists does not necessarily refer to one who does not believe in the existence of god atheists is used not in that sense but in a more generic sense to refer to a person who is actually not devoted to the lord a person who does not have faith in the potency of the deity so that person is being called here as a atheist one who does not so the word atheist is used in a slightly more specific sense because there is no mention from the context that the Brahmana's son was an outright atheist in terms of not believing in god but he is not believing in the potency of the deity so it is the first text Chota Viprabale yeh patra karah nikhan punah yena nahi chala yeh sab vachan so now the younger Brahmana he wanted to have the issue resolved once and for all he made a commitment and he will not keep the commitment so he said that now let us make it official in general in general when there are serious commitments it is best to make those official and formal by writing the younger Brahmana he knows that he is going to actually have to get the lord as a witness but even after he gets the lord as a witness what if these people don't agree so he said put them in writing so in general whenever there are major decisions to be made or major agreements which are available it is best to formalize them by putting them in writing and then the restlessness of one's mind the fickleness of one's circumstances otherwise they come into play and they affect us too much and when they affect us then the trust gets lost the relationship gets disrupted and the plan gets wrecked to avoid all that it is best to put things down in writing and especially serious formal agreements put them down in writing so that there will be no complication in future that's what the younger Brahmana makes the statement we will see what happens in the future talks.