WHAT IS THE GOAL OF HUMAN LIFE?
vasudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogah prayojitah
janayaty asu vairagyam
jnanam ca yad ahaitukam
vasudeve--unto Krsna; bhagavati--unto the Personality of Godhead;
bhakti-yogah--contact of devotional service; prayojitah--being applied;
anayati--does produce; asu--very soon; vairagyam--detachment; jnanam--
knowledge; ca--and; yat--that which; ahaitukam--causeless.
By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead,
Sri Krsna, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment
from the world.
1.2.8
dharmah svanusthitah pumsam
visvaksena-kathasu yah
notpadayed yadi ratim
srama eva hi kevalam
dharmah--occupation; svanusthitah--executed in terms of one's own
position; pumsam--of humankind; visvaksena--the Personality of Godhead
(plenary portion); kathasu--in the message of; yah--what is; na--not;
utpadayet--does produce; yadi--if; ratim--attraction; sramah--useless
labor; eva--only; hi--certainly; kevalam--entirely.
The occupational activities a man performs according to his own
position are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke
attraction for the message of the Personality of Godhead.
1.2.9
dharmasya hy apavargyasya
nartho 'rthayopakalpate
narthasya dharmaikantasya
kamo labhaya hi smrtah
dharmasya--occupational engagement; hi--certainly; apavargyasya--
ultimate liberation; na--not; arthah--end; arthaya--for material gain;
upakalpate--is meant for; na--neither; arthasya--of material gain;
dharma-eka-antasya--for one who is engaged in the ultimate occupational
service; kamah--sense gratification; labhaya--attainment of; hi--
exactly; smrtah--is described by the great sages.
All occupational engagements are certainly meant for ultimate
liberation. They should never be performed for material gain.
Furthermore, according to sages, one who is engaged in the ultimate
occupational service should never use material gain to cultivate sense
gratification.
1.2.10
kamasya nendriya-pritir
labho jiveta yavata
jivasya tattva jijnasa
nartho yas ceha karmabhih
kamasya--of desires; na--not; indriya--senses; pritih--satisfaction;
labhah--gain; jiveta--self-preservation; yavata--so much so; jivasya--
of the living being; tattva--the Absolute Truth; jijnasa--inquiries;
na--not; arthah--end; yah ca iha--whatsoever else; karmabhih--by
occupational activities.
Life's desires should never be directed toward sense gratification.
One should desire only a healthy life, or self- preservation, since
a human being is meant for inquiry about the Absolute Truth. Nothing else
should be the goal of one's works.
1.2.11
vadanti tat tattva-vidas
tattvam yaj jnanam advayam
brahmeti paramatmeti
bhagavan iti sabdyate
vadanti--they say; tat--that; tattva-vidah--the learned souls; tattvam-
-the Absolute Truth; yat--which; jnanam--knowledge; advayam--nondual;
brahma iti--known as Brahman; paramatma iti--known as Paramatma;
bhagavan iti--known as Bhagavan; sabdyate--it so sounded.
Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this
nondual substance Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan.
1.1.1
om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat
tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye muhyanti yat surayah
tejo-vari-mrdam yatha vinimayo yatra tri-sargo 'mrsa
dhamna svena sada nirasta-kuhakam satyam param dhimahi
om--O my Lord; namah--offering my obeisances; bhagavate--unto the
Personality of Godhead; vasudevaya--unto Vasudeva (the son of Vasudeva),
or Lord Sri Krsna, the primeval Lord; janma-adi--creation, sustenance
and destruction; asya--of the manifested universes; yatah-- from whom;
anvayat--directly; itaratah--indirectly; ca--and; arthesu-- purposes;
abhijnah--fully cognizant; sva-rat--fully independent; tene-- imparted;
brahma--the Vedic knowledge; hrda--consciousness of the heart; yah--one
who; adi-kavaye--unto the original created being; muhyanti--are
illusioned; yat--about whom; surayah--great sages and demigods; tejah--
fire; vari--water; mrdam--earth; yatha--as much as; vinimayah-- action
and reaction; yatra--whereupon; tri-sargah--three modes of creation,
creative faculties; amrsa--almost factual; dhamna-- along with all
transcendental paraphernalia; svena--self-sufficiently; sada--always;
nirasta--negation by absence; kuhakam--illusion; satyam--truth; param--
absolute; dhimahi--I do meditate upon.
O my Lord, Sri Krsna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality
of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon
Lord Sri Krsna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause
of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the
manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all
manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause
beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto
the heart of Brahmaji, the original living being. By Him even the great
sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the
illusory representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water.
Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by
the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although
they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Sri Krsna, who is
eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free
from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon
Him, for He is the Absolute Truth.
1.3.39
atheha dhanya bhagavanta ittham
yad vasudeve 'khila-loka-nathe
kurvanti sarvatmakam atma-bhavam
na yatra bhuyah parivarta ugrah
atha--thus; iha--in this world; dhanyah--successful; bhagavantah--
perfectly cognizant; ittham--such; yat--what; vasudeve--unto the
Personality of Godhead; akhila--all-embracing; loka-nathe--unto the
proprietor of all the universes; kurvanti--inspires; sarva-atmakam--one
hundred percent; atma--spirit; bhavam--ecstasy; na--never; yatra--
wherein; bhuyah--again; parivartah--repetition; ugrah--dreadful.
Only by making such inquiries in this world can one be successful
and perfectly cognizant, for such inquiries invoke transcendental
ecstatic love unto the Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of
all the universes, and guarantee cent-per cent immunity from the
dreadful repetition of birth and death.
bhakti-yogah prayojitah
janayaty asu vairagyam
jnanam ca yad ahaitukam
vasudeve--unto Krsna; bhagavati--unto the Personality of Godhead;
bhakti-yogah--contact of devotional service; prayojitah--being applied;
anayati--does produce; asu--very soon; vairagyam--detachment; jnanam--
knowledge; ca--and; yat--that which; ahaitukam--causeless.
By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead,
Sri Krsna, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment
from the world.
1.2.8
dharmah svanusthitah pumsam
visvaksena-kathasu yah
notpadayed yadi ratim
srama eva hi kevalam
dharmah--occupation; svanusthitah--executed in terms of one's own
position; pumsam--of humankind; visvaksena--the Personality of Godhead
(plenary portion); kathasu--in the message of; yah--what is; na--not;
utpadayet--does produce; yadi--if; ratim--attraction; sramah--useless
labor; eva--only; hi--certainly; kevalam--entirely.
The occupational activities a man performs according to his own
position are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke
attraction for the message of the Personality of Godhead.
1.2.9
dharmasya hy apavargyasya
nartho 'rthayopakalpate
narthasya dharmaikantasya
kamo labhaya hi smrtah
dharmasya--occupational engagement; hi--certainly; apavargyasya--
ultimate liberation; na--not; arthah--end; arthaya--for material gain;
upakalpate--is meant for; na--neither; arthasya--of material gain;
dharma-eka-antasya--for one who is engaged in the ultimate occupational
service; kamah--sense gratification; labhaya--attainment of; hi--
exactly; smrtah--is described by the great sages.
All occupational engagements are certainly meant for ultimate
liberation. They should never be performed for material gain.
Furthermore, according to sages, one who is engaged in the ultimate
occupational service should never use material gain to cultivate sense
gratification.
1.2.10
kamasya nendriya-pritir
labho jiveta yavata
jivasya tattva jijnasa
nartho yas ceha karmabhih
kamasya--of desires; na--not; indriya--senses; pritih--satisfaction;
labhah--gain; jiveta--self-preservation; yavata--so much so; jivasya--
of the living being; tattva--the Absolute Truth; jijnasa--inquiries;
na--not; arthah--end; yah ca iha--whatsoever else; karmabhih--by
occupational activities.
Life's desires should never be directed toward sense gratification.
One should desire only a healthy life, or self- preservation, since
a human being is meant for inquiry about the Absolute Truth. Nothing else
should be the goal of one's works.
1.2.11
vadanti tat tattva-vidas
tattvam yaj jnanam advayam
brahmeti paramatmeti
bhagavan iti sabdyate
vadanti--they say; tat--that; tattva-vidah--the learned souls; tattvam-
-the Absolute Truth; yat--which; jnanam--knowledge; advayam--nondual;
brahma iti--known as Brahman; paramatma iti--known as Paramatma;
bhagavan iti--known as Bhagavan; sabdyate--it so sounded.
Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this
nondual substance Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan.
1.1.1
om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat
tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye muhyanti yat surayah
tejo-vari-mrdam yatha vinimayo yatra tri-sargo 'mrsa
dhamna svena sada nirasta-kuhakam satyam param dhimahi
om--O my Lord; namah--offering my obeisances; bhagavate--unto the
Personality of Godhead; vasudevaya--unto Vasudeva (the son of Vasudeva),
or Lord Sri Krsna, the primeval Lord; janma-adi--creation, sustenance
and destruction; asya--of the manifested universes; yatah-- from whom;
anvayat--directly; itaratah--indirectly; ca--and; arthesu-- purposes;
abhijnah--fully cognizant; sva-rat--fully independent; tene-- imparted;
brahma--the Vedic knowledge; hrda--consciousness of the heart; yah--one
who; adi-kavaye--unto the original created being; muhyanti--are
illusioned; yat--about whom; surayah--great sages and demigods; tejah--
fire; vari--water; mrdam--earth; yatha--as much as; vinimayah-- action
and reaction; yatra--whereupon; tri-sargah--three modes of creation,
creative faculties; amrsa--almost factual; dhamna-- along with all
transcendental paraphernalia; svena--self-sufficiently; sada--always;
nirasta--negation by absence; kuhakam--illusion; satyam--truth; param--
absolute; dhimahi--I do meditate upon.
O my Lord, Sri Krsna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality
of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon
Lord Sri Krsna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause
of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the
manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all
manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause
beyond Him. It is He only who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto
the heart of Brahmaji, the original living being. By Him even the great
sages and demigods are placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the
illusory representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water.
Only because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by
the reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although
they are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Sri Krsna, who is
eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever free
from the illusory representations of the material world. I meditate upon
Him, for He is the Absolute Truth.
1.3.39
atheha dhanya bhagavanta ittham
yad vasudeve 'khila-loka-nathe
kurvanti sarvatmakam atma-bhavam
na yatra bhuyah parivarta ugrah
atha--thus; iha--in this world; dhanyah--successful; bhagavantah--
perfectly cognizant; ittham--such; yat--what; vasudeve--unto the
Personality of Godhead; akhila--all-embracing; loka-nathe--unto the
proprietor of all the universes; kurvanti--inspires; sarva-atmakam--one
hundred percent; atma--spirit; bhavam--ecstasy; na--never; yatra--
wherein; bhuyah--again; parivartah--repetition; ugrah--dreadful.
Only by making such inquiries in this world can one be successful
and perfectly cognizant, for such inquiries invoke transcendental
ecstatic love unto the Personality of Godhead, who is the proprietor of
all the universes, and guarantee cent-per cent immunity from the
dreadful repetition of birth and death.
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