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Just like a student is working very hard to find out the possibilities of nuclear weapon. That is also tapasya. But what is that? For finding out some means to kill the human society. That sort of tapasya is not required

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"Just like a student is working very hard to find out the possibilities of nuclear weapon. That is also tapasya. But what is that? For finding out some means to kill the human society. That sort of tapasya is not required"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

So that pain is called tapasya, voluntarily accepting little pain. Tapo divyam (SB 5.5.1). And what for that pains taking? Divyam, for realizing the Absolute Truth. Not for that . . . just like a student is working very hard to find out the possibilities of nuclear weapon. That is also tapasya. But what is that? For finding out some means to kill the human society. That sort of tapasya is not required, like Rāvaṇa's tapasya or Hiraṇyakaśipu's tapasya. Tapasya . . . here it is especially mentioned that you accept, voluntarily accept some pain for realizing the Absolute. Tapo divyam.

This human form of life is not meant for living like a hog. Then what it is for? That is stated in the next line, tapo divyam (SB 5.5.1): "My dear boys, this life is meant for tapasya." Tapasya means restraining your senses. That is. That is human life. That is human civilization. The more you restrain your senses from its activities, the more you're advanced, civilized, advanced in life. Tapasya. Tapasya means . . . tapa, tapa, from tap, tapa comes. Tapa means temperature.

So if I restrain my senses, because we are, from time immemorial, we have been practiced to indulge our senses for gratification, and in the human form of life, because we have to control the senses, it sometimes gives us some pains. "I am accustomed to do something, but my spiritual master said . . . just like in this country I say that you cannot take meat, you cannot smoke. So all my students, they were accustomed to this habit, but by my order they have restrained. In the beginning there is some pain.

So that pain is called tapasya, voluntarily accepting little pain. Tapo divyam (SB 5.5.1). And what for that pains taking? Divyam, for realizing the Absolute Truth. Not for that . . . just like a student is working very hard to find out the possibilities of nuclear weapon. That is also tapasya. But what is that? For finding out some means to kill the human society. That sort of tapasya is not required, like Rāvaṇa's tapasya or Hiraṇyakaśipu's tapasya. Tapasya . . . here it is especially mentioned that you accept, voluntarily accept some pain for realizing the Absolute. Tapo divyam.

So you may answer that, "Why shall I take so much pains for realizing the Absolute? I can take some pains here for material acquisition, I shall be happy here. I do not . . ." - that answer is also given: Tapo divyam . . . tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvaṁ śuddhyet (SB 5.5.1): "My dear boys, you just take to this austerity, life of austerity, for realizing the Absolute, by which your existence will be purified."

We began . . . because we require . . . this human form of life is meant for being purified. So just like a diabetic patient is advised by the physician not to take so many things—not to take sugar, not to take this, not to take this—that prohibition is meant for his curing.

Similarly, here also, if we accept some voluntary pains in giving up our sense gratificatory process, then our existence will be purified. Tapo divyam. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena sattvam (SB 5.5.1). Sattvam means your existence. Yena sattvaṁ śuddhyet. Śuddhyet means becomes purified. Then you may ask, "What is the result? Suppose if I purify by your prescription." Śuddhyed yasmād brahma-saukhyam anantam (SB 5.5.1) . . . because if you purify your existence, then you get unlimited pleasure.

Page Title:Just like a student is working very hard to find out the possibilities of nuclear weapon. That is also tapasya. But what is that? For finding out some means to kill the human society. That sort of tapasya is not required
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-08-30, 13:37:56
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1