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Song Lyrics: Namaste
Narasimhaya (Sri Nrsimha Pranama)
Purport Author: A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami
The meaning of
this mantra, that I offer my
humble obeisances to Lord Nṛsiṁha,
who is the source of bliss to Prahlāda, but hiraṇyakaśipor vakṣaḥ.
But his father Hiraṇyakaśipu, on
his chest the nails of His finger is just like chisel cutting the stone. The
same Personality of Godhead is prahlāda āhlāda-dāyine. Āhlāda
means pleasure. For Prahlāda...
Prakṛṣṭa-rūpeṇāhlāda, prahlāda.
A devotee is, being always in Kṛṣṇa
consciousness, naturally he is in blissfulness. Still more,
when he meets or associates with his Lord, still more blissfulness. That
is the position of the theist devotee. Whereas the atheist nondevotee,
he's always feeling like a strike of the chisel, like what do you call? Stone cutting chisel. Nakha. Nakhālaye. Simply by the nails of His
finger. All right. Where is that book? Now this Bhāgavatam. Yes. Oṁ namo
bhagavate vāsudevāya.
(with devotees-begins with chanting of verses S.B.
2.1.1 through 2.1.10) Then text number 11. (chanting
responsively)
etan nirvidyamānānām
icchatām akuto-bhayam
yogināṁ nṛpa
nirṇītaṁ
harer nāmānukīrtanam
[SB 2.1.11]
Again.
(chants verse with devotees) Again.
(everyone repeats) Etan nirvidyamānānām.
There are three classes of men. One class of men, karmīs, they are trying to enjoy the
material resources. Icchatām, always desire.
"I want this, I want this, I want this." And
another class, they are con... or rather, what is called? Frustrated.
After trying utmost, "I want this, I want this, I want this," when at
the end do not get anything, he is frustrated. That is called nirvidyā. "I don't want." Or
actually one is satiated or disgusted. "No more material world. I don't
want it." They are called nirvidyamānānām. So the one class is trying to possess and another class is
trying to renounce. "I don't want." And another class is akuto-bhayam. Akuto-bhayam. Who is akuto-bhayam? Akuto-bhayam means one who does not fear. And who
does not fear? Because fearfulness is one of the items of our
conditional life. Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna. Eating,
sleeping, fearing, and mating. So who is without any fear? That means he's also
liberated. He's not in the material platform, transcendental. Who is out of the
limits of fearfulness.
So akuto-bhayam
means the devotees. The devotees, just like Prahlāda
Mahārāja, his father teased him in so many
ways but he was not at all fearful. He was simply thinking of Nṛsiṁhadeva and he was fearless. So only the
devotee who has fully surrendered to Kṛṣṇa,
he can be fearless. Nārāyaṇa-parāḥ sarve na kutaścana
bibhyati [SB 6.17.28]. Nārāyaṇa-parāḥ
means devotees who have dedicated their life to the service of Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa.
Na kutaścana bibhyati.
He does not fear in any condition of life. So here, icchatām akutaḥ. Icchatām
means those who are desiring. Nirvidyamānānām
means those who are not desiring, renouncing. And the
other class, akuto-bhayam, fearless. And yoginām. Another
class-mystic yogis. So generally, these four classes
men are there. So Śukadeva Gosvāmī
says that for all of them, either he is karmī or he is jñānī
or he is yogi or he is bhakta. Karmī means fruitive
worker, and jñānīs
means empiric philosophers, and yogis, mystic, I mean to say, yogis, and bhaktas, and the devotees. Generally, these four classes of men.
So Śukadeva Gosvāmī
gives his judgement. Nṛpa, "My dear king, for all these
classes of men," nirṇītam, "it is already decided."
This is Vedic conclusion. You haven't got to search out. You have to take
information from the authority. So here Śukadeva
Gosvāmī is authority, that "For all
these classes of men this is decided conclusively." What is that? Harer nāmānukīrtanam.
Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Either you are jñānī, either you
are yogi, either you are karmī,
you desiring something or not desiring something, but you have got your
objective, perfection of life. So if you want that, then chant Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa
Hare Hare, Hare Rāma
Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare. Thank you
very much.
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