TEXT
jvaramayartasya yathagadam sat
nidagha-dagdhasya yatha himambhah
kudeha-manahi-vidasta-drsteh
brahman vacas te 'mrtam ausadham me
TRANSLATION

O best of the brahmanas, my body is filled with dirty things, and my
vision has been bitten by the serpent of pride. Due to my material
conceptions, I am diseased. Your nectarean instructions are the proper
medicine for one suffering from such a fever, and they are cooling waters
for one scorched by the heat.
PURPORT

The conditioned soul has a body full of dirty things--bones, blood,
urine, stool and so forth. Nonetheless, the most intelligent men in this
material world think they are these combinations of blood, bone, urine
and stool. If this is so, why can't other intelligent men be made with
these ingredients, which are so readily available? The entire world is
going on under the bodily conception and creating a hellish condition
unfit for any gentleman's living. The instructions given to King Rahugana
by Jada Bharata are very valuable. They are like the medicine that can
save one from a snakebite. The Vedic instructions are like nectar and
cool water for one suffering from scorching heat.
Lecture by His Holiness Radhanath Swami
The Meaning of Renounciation

(Lecture)
Today we are reading from the 5th cantos chapter 12 text 2. It is entitled ‘Conversation Between Maharaja Rahugana and Jada Bharata’.
The setting for if most wonderful. you know the great story of Bharat maharaj. I assume this true, because this great nation of India is named after him alone, Bharatvarsha. He is considered one of the great great kings of this Land in the vedic civilization. Bharat maharaj is one of the many sons of maharaj Rishabhdeva. Rishabhdeva was an incarnation of Lord Narayan. He came to this world of especially for the purpose of establishingby His words and by His example. As Krishna says in the Gita, yayad acharati jyeshta….. this means what the great leaders of the society do the common man may naturally follow in their footsteps. Whatever great persons do by their exemplary act the common man will presume now when you speak of a leader in society, teaching everyone of us, according to our own circle in which we are living , we are meant to be leaders fathers, he is the leader of his family. So a mother is also a leader f the family. Like teacher is leader of students. A Guru is leader of disciples. A politician is the leader of the citizens. Now when we talk about Lord Rama we talk about Bharat Varsha, what is the real integrity of this great land of India, we must refer to the scriptures. Guru na sasyat, pita na sa syat…. Lord Rishabh deva being leader, he was an incarnation and took the position of a King and instructed all humanity through the pages of Bhagavatam that you have no rights in the eyes of God to take any sort of leadership position unless you strive in such a way that those who follow you , those who are dependent on you never have to take birth again in this material world. Therefore you have no right to become a guru, you have right to become a teacher. You have no right to be c king or a politician; you have no right to be a father or a mother. Unless you understand what is the goal of life and you understand how to guide your dependants in such way, that they never have to suffer the repetition of birth and death again and again. Today people become doctors; a doctor is also a leader? People become teachers people become politicians and sometimes people even become gurus, as a matter of business for some economic stability in their lives.ans some people become parents simple because they like to have children, because they are fond of little children. According to God, according to Lord Rishabhdeva anyone who thinks like this is a cheater and a rascal, and if you want to know what the problem in this world is, it’s because everyone is following in the footsteps of cheaters and rascals. There is no problem except the lack of Krishna consciousness. People are not willing to accept the responsibility of human form of life which is self realization. And if human society is not guided by leaders who take the real responsibility of self realization as their foremost purpose of life, there is no solution to the chaos the problems and the strife and suffering in this world. And all of our great great organized efforts are shallow and empty, the person has a deadly disease, he don’t cover it with bandage, he go to the source of the disease of the blood and cure it. We are living in a bandaged society. Just cover it up. Make some superficial external change so we don’t see the problem anymore. Don’t blame alone else. The solution begins with you and me. We should know that we are all created by God. And we are all responsible 24 hrs a day. Before the God of our life. He is within our heart he is within every atom. He is the witness of every activity. Every event in the entire creation and our responsibility to God is not simply to feed our children the birds are bringing worms to their little buddies in the nest also.

The rats are also bringing food to their little children to the hole in the wall. The duty of our life is not simply to create nice comfortable home for our children and our family members because the rats and the birds are building their nests and the holes too. The duty is not to make big big name for yourself. Because in due course of time probably we are going to be trampled before you die anyway. There is 1 responsibility that is almost in all of our lives. nayam deho …
Lord Rishabhdeva instructs us now that you have taken this very very rare human form of life which is meant for self realization and which is so difficult to attain after 8.4 million species the soul evolves. Do not waste this human live endeavoring for sense gratification of this world which are available to the dogs and hogs that eat stool. Tapo divyam The human life is meant for one purpose only for self realization. It is meant for the purpose of performing tapasya, tapodivyam for self realization. Because there is no question of spiritual advancement without tapasya. What does tapasya mean? It means simply to live in harmony with the desire of God and to put aside all things that are contrary to God’s will in our life. And it especially means to put aside popular opinion of those persons who are trying to lead us through social pressure against the will of God. Kali yuga, this is an age of quarrel and hypocrisy, and the general masses are becoming more and more chasing after the illusions of a godless world. And therefore if you take seriously spiritual life , people will laugh at you, people will disassociate with you, people will think you are crazy. Human life is meant for self realization, but the popular idea of religion is human life is meant for economic development and sense gratification and religion is something that we practice on the side just to increase or enhance the sweetness of our sense gratification and economic development. Is that not so? And if you take your spiritual life seriously people think you are becoming fanatic, you are not practical , you are not of this world. Go to temple once in a week , hear Bhagavat gita but chanting the holy name, associating with sadhus regularly, this is too much.
Has everyone heard of this type of propaganda? Tapasya mmeans willing to tolerate all this and go on with our spoiritual practices. Aham bija pradapita. Krishna says I m the father of every living being. And our duty is to fulfill the desire of that supreme father. Human life is meant for this. It Is not that we have to put aside all the things for To make the crest jewel , summon bonum, the goal of all activities of our life, the realization of our eternal relationship with Krishna. It is not that we should put things aside for everything else and what’s extra we’ll give to Krishna. It is just the opposite, we should first give the best to Krishna, and then what’s left we maintain ourselves. How will I leave if I do that? People are very much in this idea of insurance these days. But factually insurance is all illusion, there is only one insurance. Krishna’s mercy. Because whatever we invest in service of Krishna is never lost. Whatever we invest in this material world is going to lost inevitably, either today or tomorrow. So therefore in the eyes of god this is our first and foremost responsibility that we personally pursue the path of self realization and we teach our children if we are parents that this is the goal of our lives. It is said in SB that if a man and woman come together in a marriage , the success of their marriage is if their children are all great devotees of Lord, it has nothing about how much money they give them , it has nothing about how much educational qualification may be in this world, only 1 thing that they are devotees of the Lord, that is most imp perfection in the eyes of the God and all other things are important only to the extent they are utilized in the service of Krishna. We can have wealth, we can have educational qualifications. But we use it in krishna’s service , we use it on the path of self realization, we use it for the betterment of of humanity. Yesterday we were asked to give a short talk at a hospital , and we were thinking that curing a sick man is important service to humanity, in itself it has very little value. Because the idea of healing a person should not be that it is my business and I m getting paid for it. The idea should be that I m compassionate. That this is my brother and sister and to see someone suffering causes me suffering so le me extend myself to help the person out of this suffering. Now if you heal a person and tell him to go back and live the life which is full of bad habits he will have to accept the same suffering again,.. you have just put in the bandage over the problem. It is said that cleanliness is next to Godliness. if you want to cure the disease you should educate the people how to live hygienically , how to go to bathroom properly, how to cook properly how to use proper water, how to have proper standards of cleanliness so that you ca not contract the diseases. But this is just the grosses level of cleanliness. Sinful life is dirty and when you commit sinful activities, the karma of that sinful activity must come back and make you suffering. May be it in the form of some disease of some other strife. There are 4 regulative principles as the bhagavatam describes which are the pillars of sinful life , no illicit sex, if you have illicit sex guaranteed you will suffer like an animal or even worse .

Because the karmic reaction will cause a torturous condition in your mind your body , today or tomorrow. There is no escape. If yu engage in intoxication, the karmic reaction will be to cover you within illusion ,with ignorance which will cause tremendous sufferings. Gambling.. whimsical way taking the property of God and utilizing it for your own horrible excitement. When that same money can be utilized for so many good activities to help so many others. eating with meat, every bit of pain caused to an animal for your satisfaction, you have to suffer that pain a hundred fold so we are actually concerned with helping someone suffering out of something you have to teach him how to live a clean life. How to live life in harmony with the laws God , otherwise you are just a hypocrite. Oh I m so compassionate I m so kind, I m helping you out of your disease. but then I send you back into the mouth of that same suffering. You must want to educate people how to live a clean life. Hygienically as well as spiritually. That is compassion. And it is the duty of everyone who is on a leader position who has dependants , taking guidance from them. To Show them the way so that they wont have to suffer again by showing them how to live with harmony with the laws of God. so these were the basic instructions of Lord Rishabhdeva to his sons. He told them that now Bharath he is the oldest amongst you , he will be king . you all co operate . live according to these principles. So Bharat maharaj ruled the kingdom for long time. And he ruled very very exactly according to the rules of dharma. So when it came time for him, to enthrone his son , he knew he had to set a proper example by leaving the world behind him and pursuing simply the path of self realization. While he was king , he was the most responsible father, he was the most responsible brother, he was the most responsible husband. he was the most responsible servant of all of the society. He lived in his palace for Krishna. But he wanted to show the world that after we finish our duty in this way, our only duty is to emerge our consciousness in the loving service of the Lord. So it describes that Bharat maharaj, he left his beautiful family. He left his wonderful palatial palace. He left all the fine foods cooked by the best cooks . he left his royal robes. And he went into the forest. Taking nothing with him, except his faith in God. It is said that he left all the luxuries of this world with the same indifference of the man who leaves his stool on the ground after passing it. He didn’t even turned back. And he went to the holy land of Himalayas and he took residence on the banks of the Gandaki rives, one of the great sacred rives of India . and there he simply practiced meditation on the super soul within his heart and he became so much purified that ecstatic symptoms of love gradually began to awaken more and more and more and more. Tears were filling his eyes, his limbs were trembling. His hairs would stand on end on the mere thought of Sri Krishna. At every step in our spiritual progress, we will be tested, from the beginning until we leave this material world behind, we will always be tested. Somebody yesterday was asking me, one of our devotees, that when I first came to spiritual life, everything was sp exciting and wonderful, when I was chanting the holy name I was so conscious of the sound vibration, it was such a beautiful and enrapturing meditation, and following the regulative principles, my mind was just anxious to live a pure life, a sinless life, and devotional service I was so eager to do everything and anything , but now I have been devotee for many years, now when I try to chant my mind starts running every other direction except the name and sometimes I feel no enthusiasm for devotional service and my mind is sometimes filled with thoughts of sinful activities. Am I doing something wrong? Or perhaps this process I don’t understand what is happening? why? When you first come to KC , Maya , the personification of the illusory energy, she does not see you much attractive. Because actually at least 95% of people who come to spiritual life just on their own , due to their own insincerity, leave shortly after. So mayadevi knows that most likely as far as they go I don’t have to do anything against you, you are just going to leave on your own because spiritual life becomes troublesome after sometime. So therefore when you first come to Krishna, maya does not take you seriously, she just lets you as u like, chant the holy names live a sinful life I don’t take you seriously. Just like a parent when a child says, I m going to take this vow and I m never going to do this again. Parents just say – han han yes of course why not? But after so many years deepening your commitment and deepening you determination and taking on responsibilities for Krishna for making propaganda which is going to actually threaten the position of Maya in this world then Maya starts taking you seriously. Then she starts planning out major attack against you. From within and from without. And then there is all sorts of problems. It seems it was so easy when I was new. Because you were not at threat , maya just let you go on your way, but now you are a threat . now she is going to show all of her teeth. And do everything she can to divert you away. Because that is her service she must do that. But in the heart of her heart she is hoping you’ll pass all the test, because she knows that she is actually helping a devotee. Is this devotee is sincere the more I make life horribly difficult for him, the more he is going to develop faith, the more he is going to receive the mercy of Krishna. And the more he is going be empowered to do the greatest most womderful work to please the Lord. And if the person is not sincere then I have done my service. I have sorted out the sincere from the insincere for Krishna can see cleanly.
Who is really is devotee but Krishna says in Gita, apichet suduracharo bhajate mam ananya sadhureva …….. that if one is sincere on this path even if due to previous conditioning maya overcomes you and causes you to fall down into the most abominable position of olife, in the eyes of Krishna you are sill saintly.kshipram bhavati dharmatma shashvatshanti …. He says very soon I will pick that person and make him right just again. Dharmatma. The definition of dharmatma in this sense is if the soul who is following dharma, who falls down due to the influence of temptation of maya, but because of his sincere heart, Krishna picks them up and that devotee only benefits and learns from that experience. So here bharat maharaj was sitting alone in seclusion in the forest of Himalayas on the bank of the holy sacred river Gandaki, merged in a very very high level of spiritual life, on the path of Bhakti. And naturally he was becoming more and more compassionate, more and more selfless. More and more of a loving soft hearted person. But maya understood what I am going to do with this person, he has already left his beautiful family he left all the luxuries of the world he has left the power and the fame of being king , he has left food, how I m going to temp this person? Maya is so clever, his only weakness is he is too kind to others. So she sent a deer, a mother deer who was pregnant with a baby in her womb. And that deer was being chased by a lion, she was running for her life, and she came right by the small hermitage of bharat maharaj, and then that deer jumped to cross the Gandaki river as an only hope of escaping the jaws of hungry lion and at that time the lion roared , and she became so overwhelmed with fear that she had a miscarriage , the baby fell into the river. She finished her leap on the other side and when she saw her helpless baby drowning in the river it caused her so much grief that she feel down the ground and died. And bharat maharaj was thinking ,Oh my God who is going to care for this little baby, so with his own loving and tender hand he rescued that baby deer from the. then he realized that I m the father I m the mother . so he started collecting nice foodstuff to feed the deer and built a nice little place for her to sleep ,protected her during the day during the night, from dangerous animals and other inflictions in the nature. And as the months went by he was so much engrossed in taking care of the deer, that he stopped chanting the holy name he stopped meditating on Krishna he stopped all of his spiritual disciplines, he became utterly attached to this deer and at times when the deer got little older, when he didn’t come home on time he was in tremendous anxiety he was overwhelmed with concern with care. Due to this attachment he would just go chasing through forest calling where are you where are you oh mother earth have you seen my deer? All clouds in the sky where is she? Oh trees! This way he was utterly engrossed in this illusion. And when he became old, the deer would lick his body and he would think Ahhha so nice! The deer would lay on his body and he would say Ahhha so nice. and he died Krishna says in geeta, yam yam vapi smaram………kalevaram tva32.40 . what you think of at the time of death that you become in your next birth. So he took his next birth as a deer. But because of his saintliness, because of his dedication n to the path of God consciousness, even though he fell down from his position, Krishna was always in his heart. Kshipram bhavati dharmatma/………..he says I always protect my devotee, kaunteya , na me bhaktya pranashyati, Krishna gave him full awareness of his previous life. He is thinking , oh my God what a crazy fool I m .i gave everything of this world to pursue the only real goal of self realization and right at the last minute before I attain pure love of God, I became attached to this deer!! Therefore as deer he simply went to those places where the great saints were reciting the Bhagavatam and the holy scriptures. And chanting kirtna,. And he would simply always be immersed in hearing the glorious narrations of supreme personality of Godhead , and then he left his body as deer. And his next birth he was born as very very high civilized family of Brahmans. But in this s birth he understood, that fasle ego and prestige is the greatest enemy and here I m Brahman and people will give me so much of credit , they will give me so much recognition and respect, this is a great disturbance the best way to fix my mind of Krishna is to let everyone think I m mad I m crazy I m useless , then I will always remain humble. So he did everything utterly wrong, the Bhagavatam explains he was so useless that his brothers just put him like a scare crow just stood him in their corn fields just to keep the crows away. They felt that’s all he would do . that’s one way of keeping him out of the way. It is a long story of Life of Jadabharat. But eventually he was casted away and he lived in the jungles. The one day a great king named Rahuguna, was travelling in a palanquin being carried by his servants, one of the servants felt sick so they needed an forth man in one of the fron t sides of palanquin so some of these people and they found that Jadabharat has very strong body, they tought he is fit so they put him in the service of King.
Now for Jadbharat do u think he had any special respect for this king? He already went through being the greatest king, in all history of India, history of world, he was not impressed by the fact that this person was a king. So as far as he was concerned he was just going to go about his business , but they forced him. He was living as an avadhuta. He appeared like a low class man, all dirty and everything. ‘Carry this palanquin ‘ but he was going to carry the way he wanted to carry, so when come little ants crossed on the road he stopped , but of course the other 3 they did not stop. So you know what happens on a palanquin when 3 people go and 1 person stops, everything goes like this – (imitates) and the king is the person who uuup.. what is this why is this happening ? everyone point(to Jadbharat) this man stops. Why r u stopping rascal? I m the king . follow my directions. Don’t stop until I tell you to stop. He didn’t say anything started walking again some ants started crossing the road and he stopped. King was becoming very annoyed. ”if you do this again I will cut off your head I will kill you will be punished”. Jadbharat was--- what do I care for this man? All of his power all of his prestige I had it all its all illusion. So he went on walking according to his order and when some little insects crossed his path he stopped. The king just was furious raving, insulting Jadbharat liking anything, calling him all frown names . threatening him in so many ways, Jadbharat very calmly compassionately looked at the king. This poor fellow , when he spoke, he looked like a retarded mad man but when he spoke , it was like the river Ganges the transcendental knowledge flowing from his lotus like mouth , that my dear king, today you are king and I m just you insignificant servant, but tomorrow I may the king and you may be my insignificant servant. He was speaking from his realizations . he has been on that position himself. This is all the bodily concept of life my dear king. It is only due to false ego that you are thinking better than me. Or yo are thinking yourself better than anyone. We are the eternal soul. No man is better than any other man. God is great we are all his insignificant servants. You have your duties I have my duties. But on the spiritual platforms we all have only one duty , ie to satisfy Krishna. It is due to your uncontrolled contaminated mid that you are identifying with this body and you rare so proud of your position , your power over me and others. But if you want to know the truth u have to humble yourself before the great sages and take shelter of the loving service of the lord and you have to learn to treat all living beings with respect, knowing it God is in their heart. In this way he instructed the king , and when the king Rahuguna hear the wonderful words of Jadabharat he got down out of his palanquin he bowed at the feet of this great soul and surrendered his life as his disciples. What you are saying is true. Throughout my life I have been in great illusion. All of these dualities have simply ensnared me into false ego. Thinking I m better than anyone else because of my position , because of power, because my position. Here is Jadbharat, who is totally banished by society, he acted so retarded, that even the most common people used to throw abominable substances on him spit on him , pass urine on him and do all kinds of abominable things insulting him because they thought he was crazy and everyone bowed their head to the king, but when the king understood the words of Jadabharat, the king bowed his head at his lotus feet. this false ego Jadbharat explains is very powerful and it id the cause of all sufferings and disease. Our real ego is to understand that we all are subordinate to Krishna , all of us , whoever we are to please him and to serve him . so after hearing this wonderful instructions and hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord as the only remedy for the great disease of the bodily concept of life, king Rahuguna spoke , Oh most exalted personality , you are not different from the supreme personality of Godhead, by the influence of your true self, all kinds of contradiction in the shastras have been removed and in dress of a friend of a Brahman d u are hiding your transcendental blissful position, I offer my respectful obeisance unto you. Oh best of the Brahmans my body is filled with dirty things and my vision has been beaten by the serpant of pride. When one actually starts coming out of illusion of intoxication of ego, that I m this body and those things in relation to this body are mine. However great you are u come to this conclusion , when u come in contact with great souls and hear their words, whatever your position is in society ,u r most fortunate if u ceom to this conclusion , hat my body is filled with dirty things and my vision has been beaten the serpent of time. Due to my material conceptions I m diseased. Your nectarean instructions are the proper medicines for one suffering from such a fever and and they are cooling waters for one scorched by the heat . king Rahuguna had everything a person in this world could ever want, but he saw the greatness of Jadbharat who had everything a person in this word does not want . this was his conclusion. Whatever doubts I have about a particular subject matter I shall ask you about later, for the time being this mysterious yoga instructions you have given me for self realization appear very difficult, please repeat them in a simple way so that I can understand them. My mind is very inquisitive and I want to understand this directly. And then Jadbharat explains him , the simple process which he himself was personally following of always thinking of Krishna. This is the goal of life, this is the great responsibility w have and this is the great responsibility we have in regard to all others. To show thw way to always think of Krishna. That same Lord who appeared like Rishabhdeva who planted the seed of transcendental knowledge in the heart of Maharaj Bharat that same Lord has appeared in this age of Kaliyuga to teach the means by which all of us can always remember Krishna, like chanting his Holy names.