BG class (Saturday) notes:
Topic : fear, symptoms and solutions.
Reason of Fear- due to absorption in illusory energy (maya).- Sb 11.2.37
9 types of fear defined from shastra-
1. Bhoga roga bhayam- fear due to illness to body and consequently unable to enjoy.
A. The boeing company owner very rich, but diseased from high degree of dialysis attack (great pain while urine pass), so he was fearful of going to pee , although he was extremely rich, he was still fearful.
B. Superman story-spine injury, while horeseriding name chris reeves, suffered fear of life.
2. Kule cyuti bhayam- fear of loss of position and infamy to dynansty
A. john d rockfeller- one son, very rich, went island, eaten by cannibals.
So, when this person said interview-deathbed, he said that he could not die peacefully bcoz his dearmost son not with him.
B. Example, Fear of parents when child comes to iskcon-twin brothers brahmananda and gargamuni earlier were hippies but now since they are serving for iskcon.-mother scared although they left all their wrongful acts..read full pastime.
3. Vitthe Nrupalat Bhayam- (Fear due to excessive wealth possession)
Dr. Cooley story- huge wealth lost ->nervous breakdown, heart surgeron but now couldnt operate.
4. Mane dainya bhayam- fear of infamy.
nixon resigns after scandle.
Reprorter asked during his death, how u look back, from the time scandal exposed, i never slept peacefully.
5. Bale ripu bhayam- Fear of enemies or defeat
alaxender- died of mosqito ,india.
Alaxender during death,
3 wishes
A. Dead body must be carried by physician.
-wanted to give msg to society, that this false hope dat doctor can save us from death.no breadh count fixed, so if time has cm, then noone can save.
B.. Hands must be hanging outisde of coffen- to msg, empty handed we hv cm n we go also.
C. Money distribute- whole life he collected wealth, but he could not get one extra breadth from thqt wealth, pleading begging to doctors to give him dat.
:: Nepolian story read- forced to drink his own urine at the time of death (so nature forces, no one can escape) although a king of many kingdoms under his belt.
6. Rupe jaraya bhayam .- fear of getting old
French actress Brigade bardo-adored by public did suicide just on seeing her first white hair- how cheap death!
7. Sastre vadi bhayam- fear of loosing in arguments when one thinks he is scholar
Edison, he discovered DC current, but at the same time AC current was also invented, so he tried to put hurdles in its paper release n discover (envious).
8. Khale guna bhayam- getting exposed in front of more genuine learned.
Ramanujacharya 2 disciples:
Dasarathi - wanted to understand 18.66 BG, so sent to some acharya, did a great selfless service but once he was asked by his master about his identity n purpose of being here, so hearing that he is disciple of ramanujacharya nd was sent by him to realize 18.66 verse of BG he said he couldn't tell him only his master can instruct the meaning so he was sent back, there ramanujacharya daughter (i think) was having problem in maintaining household activities bcoz she was a mother of a new born baby so he was immediately directed by ramanujacharya to help her in menial tasks like cleaning poop of that child and other household things..one day some brahmana came with followers and started giving lecture ob impersonal explanation of a verse, that disciple could not hear that explanation and immediately he protested that this is wrong meaning then that brahmana said u have no qualification to have a say on this, u r a sudra so do ur duty, but then he easily defeated that puffed up brahmana bh quoting many verses and then asked to reveal his true identity by all of the followers present, he said "i am the disciple of ramanujacharya" then he was taken on pallaki to ramanujacharya by all those followers of that defeated brahmana, so ramanucharya said "he has realized the message/meaning of BG 18.66".
G. Kaale kruthanta bhayam- fear of loosing body. Fear of death.
Solutions to this fear-how to overcome?
Understand krsna n Absorb in krishna's rememberance.
How?
Nice bhajan song on srila prabhupada's fearlesness by Lochan das prabhu
song-bhaja hu re man, abhay charan (prabhupada) ravinde
How to overcome fear?
Know about this fear-why?
Bcoz Tiger illusion-in dream a man chased by tiger fully panicking, perspiration and terrorized.
Now Suppose a person is sitting there beside him in wakeful state and he is seeing that the other person who ia sleeping is so much restless bcoz terrified by tiger in dream. So what the best can he do, can he go and help in his pain by going inside dream no the beat help is to just wake up that person from his dream.
So, bcoz of the forgetfulness of our true identity is why we are getting fear.
Bg 2.49 - most encouraging verse- any small endeavor is not lost in Krishna's service over lifetimes.
18.66- Krishna says you surrender, i will tale charge of you and then you need not to fear.
Practical methods to overcome fear-
Quotes from SB
1. By chanting even unconsciously a living being can come out of the fear of birth n death.
Etan nirvidyamananam
Icchatam akuto-bhayam
Yoginam nroa nirnitam
Harer namanukirtana.
Chanting is undoubtedly perfect process to give success from fearful life-for all kinds of persons , free from material desires, desirous of material enjoyment, self-realized or self-satisfied.
2. Hearing krsna-katha, feeling for loving devotional service sprouts up to end the fire of lamentation, illusion n fearfulness.
3. Meditation on krsna's transcendental body.
4. Association of devotees-path followed by pure devotees are free from fear, so having association of such fearless person will make us also fearless. Haribol.
True story-famous thief ghatam, rajasthan.
He was a Notorious thief had lots of followers coming from dynasty thieves.
When his father dying-told him 2 things to follow.
1. Continue our thief business.
2. Never associate with devotees.
Once nail stuck in ghatam, near to one satsung happening in temple, he tried to follow his fathers advice by not hearing and thus he put one hand on ear n other to nail pricking, but time to time he has to use the hand on ear to help himself in removing the nail.so, in this way he heard a little about demigods i.e.
Heard 3 things about demigod-
They have No shadow, no touch feet,do no blink.
Then ,one fraud disguised as kali, came in front of his followers (thieves) other thief gave all money n got looted and when they bowed down , they were murdered but ghatam check the 3 signs n found her fraud.
So, he saved his looted money and saved his life also so he realized that by hearing just one instructions from satsung his life got saved, so he thought how wrong his father was so he went in temple and desired for initiation from the priest, priest got surprised n scared too so he asked 2 promise to follow first then he will give initiation-
1. Tell always Truth.
2. Mangal Arati attend.
Ghatam went to king palace, got his horse n each time he asked by solders who is he?
He said the truth as he promised,that i m thief n ppl do not believe him and thua let him go thus he looted the kings money using his horse.
Morning attending mangal arati, then solders captured him, he was asked how he did all this?
He narrated everything -> king got shocked, such transformation, also horse's color miraculously changed from black to white (signifying the change of heart of ghatam) , ppl observed this so king set him free.
Later He became a very famous devotee.
Acronym of fear
1. Forget everything and run.
OR
2. Face everything and rise.
Which one u want to choose?
QA.
Shoud we fear god?
Yes. (krsna says in BG that for those who do not believe in god , he comes as death so Atheist shud fear lord as death).
One can have different relationship with lord like relationship in form of Fear,
in form of love (most preferred n desired n strongest),
in form of duty (like in case of self-manager relationship)
But chaitanya mahaprabhu distributed krsna prema freely, no terms n conditions, so we should accept that type of relationship.
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