Glories of Moksada Ekadasi. Gita Jayanti.

Today is moksada-ekadasi. We should hear these glories and try to keep them in our heart. If we do, a big fight will come in our heart. If I don’t explain it is good. And if I explained, then a war will start. A big fight will come. Everyone will be against. I request that my classes are not given on the Internet, or on Facebook. I always request this. Today we talk about Birmingham, then some village home, town home and the big fight starts.

I don’t want to insult anyone. It is not my nature. But, I was bitter from my birth and I’m very hard. I am filled with fire. This is my nature. I’m never sweet and I do not like sweets. Therefore, I request, don’t make any announcement here and there. If you like, you can hear and if you don’t like, you can go. I’m not inviting you. I have no relation with anyone. I don’t like anyone. I like my guruvarga and sastra and anyone who likes my guruvarga and sastra, I have relation with them, otherwise, I have no relation with anyone. I came alone, I stay alone and I will go back alone from this world. No one is with me.

If, anyone tries to control me, the stone has no problem. If you smash it entered into powder, it will again become stone. If you want to melt me and make me a liquid drink and consume me, it is not possible. I’m not scared. But I request no one to make any announcement, on Internet, here and there. I don’t like any business. I do not give class for respect, name and fame, popularity, money, wealth and so forth.

Anything that comes in my heart, I express it. If anyone wants, they can take it, and they don’t want, they don’t have to take it. I have no problem. Don’t be disturbed. Whatever you find honey, you can go there and meet with those who are giving this honey. I have no tension. I never called anyone here. If you seriously like bhakti, bhajan and gurudeva, the vaisnavas, then I am your servant. Otherwise, I have no relation. If you like your policy, marketing business, trying to control and this, I’m not involved with anything. I do not like this. i don’t like propaganda, agents, politics, or any followers. If anyone follows gurupadpadma, god will also follow him. Everyone will follow him. And if one has no love with gurupadapadma, in this world, I have no relation with him.

Now, today is moksada ekadasi. If anyone likes by tell, it is okay, and if they don’t like, it is also okay. But do not make announcement and do not destroy other people. People do not try to understand, they only criticized. Your life will become strange. I have no problem.

There is a very nice history about moksada ekadasi. This month is called katayayani vrata. I did not write this. I did not write sastra. I did not give any orders and instructions. All gaudiya maths and all smartas and all vaisnavas and bhaktas write this katayayani vrata in the calendar. They write the beginning and the end. They say, this is katayayani vrata month. Why? What is the special meaning? Why is this written? Whether they follow or not, it is their own headache, but they all write it. It is not my question whether they follow or not. But it is called katayayani. Why?

In this month, Siva thakura requested, “Oh sati, please don’t take any bad association and don’t doubt me. If you doubt me, I have relation with bhakti and the bhaktas and bhagavana. Don’t doubt me.”

She had some doubt. srilagurudeva many times told in class, how Siva gave an asana in front of him for sati and not on his left side. She suffered so much. Siva thakura gave her many instructions and told her, please try to follow this. Don’t doubt me. I’m not acting against you. I’m always thinking of your welfare.”

But she was very disturbed and left Siva thakura and went to her father’s house. Her father was against Siva thakura.

guru na sasyāt svajano na sasyāt
pitā na sa syāt janani na sā syāt
devaṁ na tat syān na patiś ca sa syāt
na mocayet yaḥ sa upeta mṛtyum

Tulsidasa write jinke priya na rama tyajya koti tyajayo pita prahalada…

Siva thakura said, “oh sati, your father is asatasanga. Don’t go there. They don’t like bhakti, the bhaktas and bhajan or bhagavana. Don’t go there.”

But she was careless. Like a lady, she was weeping. This is ladies nature. She neglected Siva thakura and left him. Siva thakura sent his sevakas, nandi, virabhadra and so forth. daksa, sati’s father, abused Siva thakura very badly. He had great envy and anger towards Siva thakura.

sati could not tolerate this. She had relation with Siva thakura, the pure devotee. She heard so much harikatha from him. She had so much experience. She left her body, by self combusting.

Siva thakura heard and was very angry. He went there, he said this is not a yajna, these people are against bhakti, the bhaktas and god. They are demons, destroy everything. Then virabhadra, nandi and all many expansions appeared from Siva, and destroyed the yajna, ripped off the mustache of bhrgu, broke the teeth, cut daksa’s neck, Siva thakura is vaisnava nama yatha sambhu..

He never gives punishment. Why was he so angry today? Anyone who is against bhakti, bhaktas, bhajan and god, how long should they be given a chance? Siva thakura was ready to destroy everything.

Lord Visnu came and pacified Siva thakura somewhat. Siva thakura then took the body of sati and caring her body, he danced everywhere. Siva thakura became mad. Why? He lost a bhakta. They did not respect the bhakta. They caused her to commit suicide in front of them. His own daughter. daksa insulted Siva and sati could not tolerate and left her body.

Siva thakura carried the body of that great devotee, sati and carried her everywhere. Visnu sents sudarsana cakra and told him to make sati separate from Siva. visnu’s sudarsana cakra made sati into 52 pieces and she felt in different places in India. Each place that a limb of her body felt became a holy place.

Siva Thakura searched, where has he gone?

Then he jumped in the yamuna. His body was black and he was filled with
He jumped in the water.

In madhava mahotsava, jivagosvami wrote that he said this is not my purport, he said when Siva jumped in the yamuna, the water of the Yamuna became black. He could not tolerate the separation of the bhaktas. Then, what happened?

duḥkha-madhye kona duḥkha haya gurutara?’
‘kṛṣṇa-bhakta-viraha vinā duḥkha nāhi dekhi para’

This is the greatest pain. Separation from the devotees is the greatest suffering. sati would hear harikatha and was favorable for bhakti with Siva thakura.

This month she became liberated and free from everything.

Today, bhagavati yogamaya paurnamasi said to Siva thakura, “yamunadevi, vrndadevi, nandimukhi, paurnamasi, they all told Siva thakura, you should no longer lament and separation. You have pure knowledge. She gave asatasanga and has taken birth in the Himalayas. She will perform bhajan there and her name will be katyayani. She is mohini maya and will be detached from everything. she will only be attached to you. She will not have doubt for you. She will be related to bhakti, bhaktas and bhagavana. She will give mukti or help to those who desire bhajana.

Before, she was a little proud. But now, she realized her mistake and took birth again as parvati.

On mauni amavasya, Siva thakura broke his vow of silence. For many years, he had observed silence, being in complete samadhi. He followed the order of vrndadevi, yogamaya paurnamasi and returned again to vrndavana.

yogamaya bhagavati gave him svarupa siddhi, the form of the gopi in vraja bhumi. Don’t think only the gopis are doing a vrata. Siva thakura would chant a mantra and then achieved the gopis svarupa and was given the name gopisavara. He stayed in vrndavana.

Now, when someone worships katayayani, Siva thakura comes and makes them free from all obstacles. Sastra says, guru brahma guru visnu gurudeva mahesvara guru saksad param brahma tasme sri guruve namah

Is our guru brahma, siva or visnu? No. guru has all the power and qualities and specialties of brahma within him.

One who is like this, is sadguru. guru also has all the power of Siva. gurudeva mahesvara. mahesvara has power to destroy anarthas, false ego, prarabdha and aprarabdha. He has power to destroy all of this. guru has this power of Siva thakura. When anyone comes to guru, guru can clean and purified that person at once and give them special power and says, from today you are the servant of god. Not maya. Serve god, lord srihari. chant harinama, followed bhajan, follow ekadasi, take mahaprasad, be vegetarian.” guru destroys all your bad tendencies. If guru does not have this power, then that person who comes to him will turn back, instead of going back to god and back to home, they will go back to maya. They would jump back into maya.

guru has the power of Siva thakura. Then he is sadguu. He has all the power of Visnu to maintain. From sitting in one place, he maintains all disciples, all temples, because of his mercy and power, the householders will cook offer arati, offer bhoga, maintain themselves with some business and engage that money and service. Without the mercy of sadguru like this, one cannot do any bhajan. sadguru gives all energy, power and taste.

This is not enough. Then it says, guru saksad parabrahma

Parabrahma, pratapara, parmesvara, all his power is in gurudeva. Then that person is sadguru and jagadguru. He does not make everyone his disciple. He makes others into gurus. He gives them responsibility. He says, take care of others, you take care of others. Help the jivas. bring them to the path of bhakti, bring them to the lotus feet of god. This is your service. If you take this responsibility, then you are my true follower. And if you do not do this, if you take everyone into maya, then you are mayadasa. If you bring anyone to Krishna, then you are krsnadasa.

guru gives this power. He is sadguru.

This month is named katyayani.

devi subhadra yogamaya took birth in this month. She took birth from the womb of devaki. First she was born in yasoda mata’s womb and when she came to the jail and kamsa tried to kill her, she did not show her svarupa as yogamaya, she showed herself to the mahamaya, durga and kicked kamsa. Then, subhadra, yogamaya, the younger sister of Krishna, took birth in the womb of devaki. From the womb of devaki. And she is always present in between balarama and Krishna.

when sadguru comes, he connects them to yogamaya, who gives them entrance and permission to serve Krishna.

How can we achieve Mukti?

The previous ekadasi was uttapana ekadasi. The birthday of ekadasi.

Siva thakura came to vrndavana and prayed to bhagavati paurnamasi and she gave him mukti from everything.

alpa kari’ nā māniha dāsa hena nāma
alpa bhāgye dāsa nāhi karena bhagavān
agre haya mukti, tabe sarva-vandha-nāśa
tabe se haite pāre śrī kṛṣṇera dāsa

Without mukti, we cannot be the servant of god. We are arrested inside maya. We cannot get liberation from maya. One cannot perform bhajan when present with maya. maya is on one side and bhajan is on one side. We need mukti from maya. Who will give us this? Therefore, today, in this Vrndavana, ekadasi devi promises, if anyone likes Krishna bhajan, if anyone likes bhakti, if anyone likes serving god, then I promise to make them free of everything. to give them mukti.

nirodho ‘syānuśayanam
ātmanaḥ saha śaktibhiḥ
muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ
sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ

This is mukti. mukti means not only to be free of everything. It means to be situated in bhakti and in one’s eternal form, as a servant of Krishna. This is mukti. If we do not understand our eternal form and service, then we have not achieved mukti. Our svarupa is jīvera svarūpa haya nitya kṛṣṇa-dāsa, We are Krishna’s servant. When we are always engaged in Krishna’s service, 24 hours a day and always have this desire to serve more, then we have achieved mukti.

People think, where did you get this energy?

If we don’t get mercy, then will go on parikrama one day and then we won’t be able go the next day. One day we go to manglarati and the next we would not go. Then we are kelasa. One day we do puja, then we feel so much tension.

We do puja, offer bhoga and feel it is such a great tension. Svarupena avasthiti. mukti means trtva premanandam pradaynam sevanandam pradayte…

mukti means to be free from everything and then to have desire to always serve. When you have desire to always serve, you should understand that person is following his svarupadharma. He is never hopeless, weak, tired, disturbed or feeling any tension or problem. He is always enthusiastic.

utsāhān niścayād dhairyāt
tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt
saṅga-tyāgāt sato vṛtteḥ
ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ prasidhyati

It means, god, tat and tat, vaisnavas. bhakti and the bhaktas. He always has enthusiasm to serve them. tat, pravartanat and sanga-tyagat, he stays away from all bad association. If one is in asatasanga, then doubt will come. And went doubt comes, d o u b t, then one goes out. O u t.

When you have doubt, it means you are going out. Then you are outside, not inside.

first we must receive mukti. This is called moksada ekadasi. after mukti, the jiva will have no more tension. He will always feel that he is Krishna’s servant, a sadhu, a brahamacari, a sanyasi, a vanaprasthi. Not only this. Not this. He will feel, I am gurudasa. and vaisnava dasa. I am bhaktadasa. I bhaktidasa. Very special people will understand I am gopidasa. People are shy, to chant gopi, how they think, how can I say gopidasa. Ohhh.

How will I be gopi dasa? They have no problem being hanumana dasa, or anything else, but they won’t be gopidasa. If they say radheradhe, it is a big problem.

The meaning of katayayani vrata is not some lady program. It is not only for young girls going and doing some puja and dancing naked and Krishna steals their cloth, Siva thakura himself came to Vrndavana and came to the yamuna, after sati disappeared and he jumped in the water of the yamuna and followed this vrata. He came here and jumped in the yamuna and yamuna became black. yamunadevi ran. She was afraid, why has this tamasi come? Then Vrndadevi came and asked, what problem?
I will not stay here longer.
Why? Siva has come.

Then Vrndadevi said, don’t worry. She took Siva out, and give him mantra. Then he chanted this the entire mantra. Then he went to the Ganga, and gangadevi also ran and was afraid.

Vrndadevi sent Siva thakura to Himalaya, to perform austerities. She told him, then you will be cooled, and free from everything. You will not think of sati, parvati, or bahiranga sakti. After realization, Siva thakura came and achieved svarupa siddhi. Then he is gopesvara mahadeva.

Before he did not have this position. This ekadasidevi gives mukti. This is one side.

On another side, on the battlefield of Kuruksetra, on one side, there was the pandavas, and the other side the kaurvas. Why are they there to fight? Why did the fight start? duryodhana desire to steal draupadi. She was a very nice lady, a fire lady. He liked her. He wanted to control and keeper with him. He wanted to make her his maidservant, his Shakti.

He cannot tolerate that she was with the pandavas. She was not on the pandavas side, or the kaurvas side. She is on Krishna’s side. She has love for Krishna. One of her names his Krishna.

She always worships and serves Krishna. The pandavas therefore have no tension. But duryodhana had tension. duryodhana started a program to anyhow engage all the power of the demons, making friendship with them, to kill the pandavas, to kill Krishna, and steal draupadi. He thought, if she comes according to her own will, it is okay. He said dusasana, go and pull her here by the hair, she is my dasi. I will make her naked, and put her on my lap in front of everyone. That’s his desire.

This is not any principle of human life. In the open assembly of the Kings, he wanted to make her naked, and have her sit on his lap. Who would say this? He thought, I am supreme.” This was his nature.

Is this to his anarthas, to his ignorance, or what? He is filled with kama. lust. Whatever is there to enjoy in the world, we want it to be ours. like ravana. hirnyakasipu thinks like this. All demons think like this. This was the nature of duryodhana.

Krishna called everyone without any invitation. On one side is the kaurvas, and one side the pandavas army, and Krishna was in the middle with Arjuna.

Krishna told Arjuna how to become free of everything. Maya was in front of him. Why? Only for maya. They fought only for Maya. They were two sides, and they tried to destroy everyone. One wanted to follow a dharma, they wanted to be free of all rules and regulations. And on the other side, they were saying, your nature is very black and poisonous. How can you be free of anything? How can you receive mukti

Krishna took them to dhramaksetra.

dharma-kṣetre kurukṣetre
samavetā yuyutsavaḥ
māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva
kim akurvata sañjaya

Sanjay told dhrtarastra: Oh maharaja, hear me.

vyasadeva wanted to give eyes to dhrtarastra so that he could see the mahabharata war, but dhrtarastra said no, then vyasa gave transcendental vision to sanjaya, so he could see the battlefield from a distance, and tell everything that happened to dhrtarastra. dhrtarastra asked, what happened? Sanjay said

dharma-kṣetre kurukṣetre

That place is dharma-kṣetra
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Kuru maharaja performed austerity there, to make a place dhama ksetra, the field of religion. Where can one go, where dharma will appear in the heart, and desire to follow dharma will come. And one will be free from anarthas, where shall I go?

Kuru maharaja said, “I will open a dharma place in this life. He asked brahma, where to go, brahma said perform a yajna, and lord visnu will come, with all His associates, and that place you should give abhiseka of lord Visnu, and when yajnesavara visnu gives you mercy, that place will become dharma ksetra. Upon going there, one will desire to follow dharma. By bathing there in brahma kunda, everyone will get liberation from maya, and will follow dharma. How to make a yajna bhumi? First we must plow, and clean, and perform 108 yajnas. Then Visnu would come. kuru maharaja began. Then, Indra came and said oh maharaja, what are you doing? Why are you plowing with your own hand? Do you have no farmers or servants?

kuru maharaja said I’m making this dharma bhumi. I will perform a yajna here.

Indra came 10 minutes later and said maharaja, why are you plowing? Why are you doing this hard work? What is the purpose of this?
I’m making a yajna bhumi. A dharma bhumi.

Again Indra came, he came 100 times, to try and make kuru maharaja agitated. But kuru maharaja never became angry. When someone performs sadhana, if some anger fire comes within them, then,

kāma eṣa krodha eṣa
rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ
mahāśano mahā-pāpmā
viddhy enam iha vairiṇam

One who has no enemies, still has first two enemies with himself, kama, and krodha. Lust and anger. Wherever there is lust, then anger will be there. Wherever someone has so much lust, the anger will certainly be there. This anger fire will burn everything. But kuru maharaja had not anger fire and no lust. He was completely cool and clean. After being asked hundred times by Indra, and not becoming agitated, Indra give him blessings that he should do a yajna, and then Visnu would come, and that place would become dharma ksetra. And who ever came, would get mukti from anarthas, and have desired perform dharma.

kuru maharaja began a yajna bhumi there.

This month moksada ekadasi comes. Today, sanjaya told dhrtarastra maharaja, in this dharama ksetre, in Kuruksetra, everyone is present to fight.

What happened next? dhrtarastra said. Why? He was worried that going to dharma ksetra, his sons would lose the desire to fight with the pandavas, and would desire to follow dharma. Then they would not fight. dhrtarastra thought oh they would say that the share the country in half. Let us share the kingdom. dhrtarastra was worried about this. And he was worried arjuna and the pandavas would say, we do not need to fight. We will take sanyas, and give everything to duryodhana and leave. Even whole kingdom. And he thought, little be even more of a problem. Whatever an enemy remains, it is very dangerous.

sanjaya said you are dhrtarastra, you forcibly want to steal the whole kingdom by a cheating process. You are not only blind by birth, you are blind in dharma, and blind in your affection, you are completely blind. In all aspects. You don’t think about the sons of your brother. You are only blindly attached to your own sons. You are completely under illusion.

You always want to steal others’ property.

You are worried they are going to dharma ksetra, thinking that your son’s mood will change, and they will follow dharma and bhakti.

Krishna came and gave the advice of the Srimad Bhagavad-Gita to Arjuna in that dharma ksetra. But, arjuna could not hear His instructions. He was in the middle of both armies. Everyone was in front of him. Krishna gave him gave them all advice. How many people listen to? This is moksada ekadasi, the appearance day of the Bhagavad-Gita. What is told there? What is the Gita?

Sarva upanisda gabo insert verse…

The essence of all the Upanisads is the Gita. All the Upanisads in veda is like a cow, and Krishna came as the milkmen, but without the calf, the cow will not give any milk. Who is the calf? partha vatsa, Arjuna is the calf. Krishna told Arjuna to be the calf. Then Krishna would milk the cow of all the Vedas and Upanisads, and would distribute this nectar to everyone.

If there is a very snigdha, sweet, soft, humble disciple, then gurudeva will automatically speak harikatha. Just like when a cow sees a small calf, automatically milk flows from her udders. Today, Krishna gave the advice of the Bhagavad-Gita to Arjuna. He could not take this. Cora dase dharma nase..

A thief comes and says give me advice. He tries to hear something from sadhus, but will not listen. Thieves would not listen harikatha. They will come before harikatha, leave during harikatha, and will come back afterwards. thieves come to see how many people have expensive items, and when everyone is absorbed in harikatha, they can easily steal things. They are looking only towards maya.

Krishna said, I am here present. Everyone here will get mukti. You have come to dharma ksetra, kuruksetra. No one will leave this place. If you follow bhakti, you have life. And if you do not follow bhakti, you are dead. You not be wounded or injured, you will die. Being dead means that you will receive no more chance in this life. You will get kaivalya mukti, brahma nirvana. You will go to mahakalpuram. Krishna says, calo! calo!” Why? Krishna gives all kinds of help. But still, people do not follow bhakti, and Krishna’s advice. Only want to enjoy. Then, 18 akashaini were destroyed in this battle.

Everyone was destroyed. Only the pandavas remained, and asvathama…

On one side, there is the advice of God, and on the other, there is the aluver of maya. The chick chick singing of the mice. In the night, when mice sings, and then many other mice sing and come to see where to go, what to cut and steel, and where to hide their stolen possessions. This is their activity.

Krishna today told Arjuna Bhagavad-Gita in the middle of the battle place. Here is like a battle place, therefore the chant so fast. Who heard the Gita? Sanjay. Sanjay repeated everything. vyasadeva also heard the entire Gita, and wrote it down. This is called divya netra, transcendental vision. If a sadhu has no transcendental vision, and no transcendental connection, how can he realize anything in his heart? Today is moksada ekadasi.

After achieving mukti, then ekadasi devi gives power to the 11 spiritual senses. She gives them power to never be defeated by maya. To never be attracted to maya.

Gurudeva does this with the disciples who surrendered him.

dīkṣā-kāle bhakta kare ātma-samarpaṇa
sei deha kare tāra cid-ānanda maya

At the time of diksa, guru gives the diksa mantra, and offers his disciple to Krishna. He offers him for the service of Krishna. ekadasi devi then makes the senses very strong, and young, and able to serve Krishna. Then one will never return back. Then,

sevā sādhaka-rūpeṇa siddha-rupeṇa cātra hi
tad bhāva lipsunā kāryā vraja lokānusārataḥ

One can endeavor for this after getting mukti from maya. If one does not have mukti, he will have no time to chant harinama, and will have no taste for bhajan.

From satya, treta, dvapara and kali, yuga, it is very rare for people to follow pure bhakti. When someone follows, others say, why are you following?

people chant harinama, we go to the bank of the yamuna, and sing songs about Krishna lila, and pray to Radharani, lalita and Visakha, what is the problem? We don’t cut any goats, and paid in blood, we are not following any tamasika rajasika or satvika upasan. We are following only nirguna upasana. Why do people have any problem with this? When someone has desire to follow anything good, many people will be against him.

kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet

In kaliyuga, harinama-sankirtana is everything. How can we chant harinamasankirtanam?

ekakī āmāra, nāhi pāya bala, hari-nāma-saṅkīrtane

We cannot do harinamasankirtana alone. Chanting kirtana of maya is very easy. Today, we pray to moksada ekadasi devi, that she will give us mukti svarupena vyavasthiti

May she give us entrance and permission to follow svarupasiddha bhakti. Next year, if we have life still, then we will hear the fall of further meanings. At one time, we cannot digest everything. There are many things. When we came to gurudeva, he gives us something. This year he has given us something. Next year he will give us something more. If we received everything in once, we cannot digest or tolerate it.

There are only for five days left of katayayani vrata. Then we will be free from everything. Gaura premanande, Hari Hari bol!

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