Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.33 Pradyumna: “Because Lord Rsabhadeva remained in that condition, the public did not disturb Him, but no bad aroma emanated from His stool and urine. Quite the contrary, His stool and urine were so aromatic that they filled eighty miles of the countryside with a pleasant fragrance.” Prabhupada: tasya ha yah purisa-surabhi-saugandhya-vayus tam desam dasa-yojanam samantat surabhim cakara So here is incarnation of God, Rsabhadeva. Now there are so many rascal incarnation. Is it possible to pass stool and make it surabhi? Is it possible? So you can ask these rascals incarnation that “Pass your stool here. Let us see first of all. Then we shall accept you.” Practical. “We are fools and rascals. We want practical test.” So sastra-caksusah. This is the injunction, sastra. Here is sastra, that the incarnation of God, even He passes stool, it is fragrant. He can do it. That is God. That practically you can see, that the cow dung… Cow dung, you can make a stack of cow dung here. It will never disturb you. You’ll, rather, feel pleasure, passing through that portion of field where cow dung is stacked. You’ll never feel any disturbance because it is pure. Cow dung… We have discussed this point many times. Where it is impure, that it makes pure. In Indian villages, still they use cow dung for smearing over the floor, and it becomes very nice, fresh, and purified. That is injunction of the sastra, that cow dung is pure. So if by the will of Krsna, by the arrangement of Krsna, even an animal’s stool can become so purified, what to speak of Krsna’s stool? But param bhavam ajanantah. They do not know it, what is transcendental body, aprakrta, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1], and what is the difference between this body and that body. Mudha, they do not know. Avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam [Bg. 9.11] Therefore they consider that “The Krsna’s body and my body is the same. If He has become God, so why shall not I become God?” But that is not possible. His body is transcendental; your body is not transcendental. Your body is this rotten earth, water, fire, pannca-bhautika. You cannot compare with that. In this way, as it is stated in the Brahma-samhita, His body is completely different from our body. Angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti, we sing every day in the morning. His body is so made that He can do everything and anything by any part of the body. There are many instances. Just like generally we find a person is born from the yoni. Therefore we call sarva-yoni. But Maha-Visnu or Garbhodakasayi Visnu, He did not take any help from his wife to give birth to a son, Lord Brahma. He generated from His navel. This is called angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti. We have to see that. Where is that instance ordinarily that a child is born from the navel? But He can do that. A child is born from female. That is from the yoni. But here is, a living creature is born from the navel, and that is also purusa. So these things are there. And Krsna, He exhibited, manifested, His virata-rupa. So He can do everything and anything because His body is not this body. Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [Bs. 5.1]. That is sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah. You cannot compare Krsna’s body with our body. If you do that, then you must be a mudha, rascal. Don’t do that. Krsna is always transcendental, divyam. Janma karma ca me divyam [Bg. 4.9]. This divya you should understand. Yo janati tattvatah. He is liberated person. Anyone who knows what is Krsna, immediately he becomes liberated. Janma karma ca me divyam yo janati tattvatah [Bg. 4.9]. It is not so easy to understand Krsna in truth. It requires time. He… Not all of a sudden you can understand. But if you stick to devotional service, sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah, then He reveals. When you engage your tongue… It is also wonderful. To understand Krsna, you require your tongue. Generally we understand by seeing or by hearing. Hearing is there, but here it is recommended tongue, especially. Why tongue is used? Because if you simply chant Hare Krsna by your tongue and taste Krsna prasadam, you will understand Krsna. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah. If you make it a promise that “I shall not talk anything except Krsna’s message,” and if you promise that “I shall not take anything which is not offered to Krsna,” these two things, this prasadam and chanting, will make you perfect to understand Krsna. In another place Krsna says, mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah. This is yoga, bhakti-yoga. How easy it is. There are so many yogas, but if you practice bhakti-yoga you become first-class yogi. yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantaratmana sraddhavan bhajate yo mam sa me yuktatamo matah [Bg. 6.47] So it is very easy, bhakti-yoga. It is not at all difficult. You haven’t got to strain your body as in other hatha-yoga practice you have to very undergo hardship, to sit in a particular posture, in a particular place. These things are stated in the Bhagavad-gita. Not that you become yogi in a fashionable city as you’ll find nowadays, yoga-asrama signboard in a fashionable house, and you show some gymnastic, you become a yogi and get some money. Not that. This is bhakti-yoga, begins from jihva. Exercise your jihva, tongue; then you become a perfect yogi. mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah asamsayam samagram… Samagram. Krsna you understand fully, not partially. Not partially means not simply understanding impersonal Brahman. That is partial understanding. And then localized Paramatma, that is also partial understanding. But when you understand Krsna, the Supreme Person, that is full understanding. So you simply concentrate your mind unto the person of Krsna, mayy asakta-manah. Here is Krsna. We can see Krsna. So if we simply concentrate our mind, meditation Sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayor vacamsi vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane. This was the practice done by Ambarisa Maharaja. So Durvasa Muni, he was a great yogi, and he became very much envious that “Here is a person who is a grhastha and a ksatriya, he is not even a brahmana, and he does not practice anything. He is always engaged in his royal activities, and this man is so famous as a great person, great devotee. So I’ll chastise him. I’ll show.” So he wanted to pick up some quarrel with Ambarisa Maharaja, and on dvadasi day he approached there with sixty thousand disciples and he said, “Maharaja, arrange for our prasadam. We…” “Yes, welcome.” But his purpose was different. So he went to take bath in the Ganges and Yamuna, and then he came late. In the meantime he had to observe dvadasi-parana. With the advice of the brahmanas he took little water. The brahmanas advised, “Maharaja, water is food and no food. It has no actually food value. So your guest has not returned as yet. You can take little water and observe the completion of dvadasi.” So he did it, and Durvasa came very angry, that “I am your guest, and you have taken food?” That is not food, little water. So he wanted to chastise him. He created a big giant to kill the Maharaja. So immediately Krsna’s promise… Kaunteya pratijanihi na me bhaktah pranasyati. Immediately sudarsana-cakra came and killed that demon immediately, and then he pursued Durvasa Muni. Durvasa Muni first of all approached Lord Siva because he was devotee of Siva: “Please give me protection.” He said, “Oh, it is not possible for me. If sudarsana-cakra is after you, I cannot do anything.” Then similarly, he approached Brahma. So he also said, “No, this is not possible.” Then he was so powerful that he approached Lord Visnu even, personally, in the Vaikunthaloka. He refused to help him. He said, “Durvasa Muni, unless you beg pardon from Ambarisa Maharaja, there is no question of excusing you. The sudarsana-cakra will not excuse.” Therefore Vaisnava aparadha is very, very offensive. You should be very careful. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has warned vaisnava aparadha, hati mata. Vaisnava aparadha, offense at the feet of Vaisnava, is exactly like mad elephant. If a mad elephant enters your garden, then he spoils everything. This has been given. Vaisnava aparadha means hati mata. Mata means mad, and hati means elephant. So we should be very, very careful not to commit any offense at the feet of Vaisnava. Vaisnava does not take any offense. He does not care who is offender, but Krsna takes care. Krsna will never tolerate if a person is Vaisnava aparadha. Mind that. Just like a big man. You can offend him, he doesn’t mind. But if he does something harmful to his child, so he becomes very angry. Similarly, here also, Lord Visnu… Just see how much powerful was Durvasa Muni that he could cross over the material universe and go to the Vaikuntha universe and see the Lord personally. How much powerful yogi he was, just you can… There is no such yogi, at least at the present moment. He could see, but he was refused by Lord Visnu, and he came back to Ambarisa Maharaja, and Ambarisa Maharaja was standing without aking any food, that “This brahmana came at my place. Somehow or other, unnecessarily he became angry and he has left. So unless he comes back, I cannot take any food.” So he took only one year. The modern scientists, they are estimating that to go to the topmost planet of this universe, it will take forty thousands of years. That is their estimation. Now, Durvasa Muni, by his yogic power, he not only crossed over this material space and the material universe, but he went to the other space, paravyoma, where he saw Lord Visnu, and he came back within a year. So that is yoga. One can reach even the sun planet by the beams. This is yoga practice. By touching the beams he can go to the sun planet. There are so many wonderful things. So Durvasa Muni was a great yogi. He knew all these things. Still, he was defeated before a Vaisnava. He had to come and immediately fall down, “Maharaja Ambarisa, kindly excuse me. I have done offense.” Maharaja Ambarisa was so humble that “You are in trouble, brahmana, so whatever I have got, asset, whatever I have done austerity, penance, and…, you take immediately and be excused.” This is Vaisnava: “You take all my asset.” So there was very friendly. Then both of them took prasadam, and then Durvasa Muni could understand what is the power of devotee. Yam labdhva caparam labham manyate nadhikam tatah. So be very much careful to remain a spotless devotee. Then all success is there. There is no doubt about it. There are so many instances. So this is transcendental body. It has nothing to compare with the material body. Param bhavam ajanantah. Krsna also says, janma karma ca me divyam yo janati tattvatah [Bg. 4.9] So one has to know Krsna. But that tattvatah, in truth to understand Krsna, is very difficult job. manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye yatatam api siddhanam kascid vetti mam tattvatah [Bg. 7.3] Not to understand superficially but to understand tattvatah. Then you are liberated immediately. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9] One who has understood Krsna tattvatah, he is immediately liberated person. He is fit for being transferred to the spiritual world. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. Punar janma… One who does not understand Krsna, he will have to repeat birth after birth. Nivartante mrtyu-samsara-vartmani. Unless you understand Krsna—harim vina na mrtim taranti—you cannot escape death, birth, death, old age and disease. It is not possible. So if you want actually your life successful, you must try to understand Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness movement. Then your life is successful. And to understand Krsna, no other method will help you. Krsna said, bhaktya mam abhijanati [Bg. 18.55]. Never said that “I can be understood by yogic process or by karma, by jnana.” The modern politicians, they stress on karma because they want to work hard like hogs and dog. They think karma-yoga… So karma-yoga is good, but karmis are mudhas. Those who are simply working hard day and night for sense gratification, they are no better than the hogs and dogs. They are no good. But karma-yoga is different thing. Karma-yoga means one who has got attachment for producing something, working something. So Krsna said that “Yes, you can do, but,” yat karosi yaj juhosi yad asnasi yat tapasyasi kurusva tad mad-ar…, “the result you must give to Me.” Anasritah karma-phalam karyam karma karoti yah, sa sannyasi. So anyone who does not take the result of his karma, then he is sannyasi. Suppose you earn… You are a businessman. You have earned two lakhs of rupees, but give it to Krsna. Anasritah karma-phalam. Otherwise what you will do with these two lakhs of rupees? If you don’t take it, will you throw it away? “No, why shall I throw it? It should be utilized for Krsna.” So let them… People are very much enthusiastic to earn money in this material world. We can see practically, especially in the Western world. But if they engage their profit for pushing on Krsna consciousness movement, then their money will no more be engaged in releasing atomic bomb. Otherwise it will be used for releasing atomic bomb. I shall break your head and you shall break my head. Both of them, we shall finish. Thank you very much. (end)
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Vrndavana, November 20, 1976