Humility pridelesness, tolerance and simplicity-then grow your own food
SB 2.7.37
Translation
When the atheists, after being well versed in the Vedic scientific knowledge, annihilate inhabitants of different planets, flying unseen in the sky on well-built rockets prepared by the great scientist Maya, the Lord will bewilder their minds by dressing Himself attractively as Buddha and will preach on subreligious principles.
PURPORT
This incarnation of Lord Buddha is not the same Buddha incarnation we have in the present history of mankind. According to Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, the Buddha incarnation mentioned in this verse appeared in a different Kali age. In the duration of life of one Manu there are more than seventy-two Kali-yugas, and in one of them the particular type of Buddha mentioned here would appear. Lord Buddha incarnates at a time when the people are most materialistic and preaches common-sense religious principles. Such ahiṁsā is not a religious principle itself, but it is an important quality for persons who are actually religious. It is a common-sense religion because one is advised to do no harm to any other animal or living being because such harmful actions are equally harmful to he who does the harm.
But before learning these principles of nonviolence one has to learn two other principles, namely to be humble and to be prideless. Unless one is humble and prideless, one cannot be harmless and nonviolent. And after being nonviolent one has to learn tolerance and simplicity of living. One must offer respects to the great religious preachers and spiritual leaders and also train the senses for controlled action, learning to be unattached to family and home, and enacting devotional service to the Lord, etc. At the ultimate stage one has to accept the Lord and become His devotee; otherwise there is no religion. In religious principles there must be God in the center; otherwise simple moral instructions are merely subreligious principles, generally known as upadharma, or nearness to religious principles.
Some conclusions–
Srila Prabhupada gives us a simple formula for advancing in spiritual life. First, he says one must becomehumble and pride less, then when we can understand that, we must also become tolerant and have simplicity in living. This is very similar to the prayer by Lord Caitanya in His Sisastakam in order to learn how to always chant and think of the Lord.
“One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking himself lower than the straw in the street. One should be more tolerant than the tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and ready to offer all respects to others. ln such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.”(Śikṣāṣṭaka )
So it seems from the above lesson, in order to come to the point of simple living high thinking, all the other characteristics must first be in place -humility, pridelessness, tolerance and finally the simplicity of lifestyle will manifest to us.
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Some quotes from a previous article…..
“So let us try to make an attempt to organize a New Vrindaban scheme, and I shall request all my students to develop this idea and show a good example to this Western part of the world where people are always engaged in ugra-karma, asuric-karma.”
“Everyone has to earn his livelihood by agriculture,..”
“Every man must possess a piece of land..”
“The first necessity is that you should be self-sufficient. That is God’s arrangement.”
“There are so many land. Come here and grow food. Grow fruit. That is… That is the desire of Krsna. Annad bhavanti bhutani. Produce food and eat in sufficiently, be strong, and chant Hare Krsna. That is our philosophy.”
“When men are uncivilized, they do not how to grow food, they kill animals in the jungle and eat. When they are civilized, they know how to grow food now and the nice food grains, fruit, flowers”
“There is a proverb: agriculture is the noblest profession. Is it not said? Agriculture is noblest, and Krsna was farmer, His father”.
“I wish to introduce this ideal now. Then if we are successful this cheating civilization will stop.”
“ The beginning of life is how to become cent percent obedient to guru.”
“We want two favours. One from guru, one from Krsna. That’s all. We don’t want anyone’s favour. “
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