Srimad Bhagavatam 07.13.01-05 - Minimising Bodily Necessities (download mp3)
by HG Govinda Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty
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SB 7.13.1
sri-narada uvaca
kalpas tv evam parivrajya
deha-matravasesitah
gramaika-ratra-vidhina
nirapeksas caren mahim
sri-narada uvaca
kalpas tv evam parivrajya
deha-matravasesitah
gramaika-ratra-vidhina
nirapeksas caren mahim
Translation:
Sri Narada Muni said: A person able to cultivate spiritual knowledge should renounce all material connections, and merely keeping the body inhabitable, he should travel from one place to another, passing only one night in each village. In this way, without dependence in regard to the needs of the body, the sannyasi should travel all over the world.
SB 7.13.2
bibhryad yady asau vasah
kaupinacchadanam param
tyaktam na lingad dandader
anyat kiñcid anapadi
Translation:
A person in the renounced order of life may try to avoid even a dress to
cover himself. If he wears anything at all, it should be only a
loincloth, and when there is no necessity, a sannyasi should not even
accept a danda. A sannyasi should avoid carrying anything but a danda
and kamandalu.
SB 7.13.3
eka eva cared bhiksur
atmaramo 'napasrayah
sarva-bhuta-suhrc-chanto
narayana-parayanah
Translation:
The sannyasi, completely satisfied in the self, should live on alms begged from door to door. Not being dependent on any person or any place, he should always be a friendly well-wisher to all living beings and be a peaceful, unalloyed devotee of Narayana. In this way he should move from one place to another.
SB 7.13.4
pasyed atmany ado visvam
pare sad-asato 'vyaye
atmanam ca param brahma
sarvatra sad-asan-maye
Translation:
The sannyasi should always try to see the Supreme pervading everything and see everything, including this universe, resting on the Supreme.
SB 7.13.5
supti-prabodhayoh sandhav
atmano gatim atma-drk
pasyan bandham ca moksam ca
maya-matram na vastutah
Translation:
During unconsciousness and consciousness, and between the two, he should try to understand the self and be fully situated in the self. In this way, he should realize that the conditional and liberated stages of life are only illusory and not actually factual. With such a higher understanding, he should see only the Absolute Truth pervading everything.
The unconscious state is nothing but ignorance, darkness or material existence, and in the conscious state one is awake. The marginal state, between consciousness and unconsciousness, has no permanent existence. Therefore one who is advanced in understanding the self should understand that unconsciousness and consciousness are but illusions, for they fundamentally do not exist. Only the Supreme Absolute Truth exists. As confirmed by the Lord in Bhagavad-gita (9.4):
maya tatam idam sarvam
jagad avyakta-murtina
mat-sthani sarva-bhutani
na caham tesv avasthitah
"By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them." Everything exists on the basis of Krsna's impersonal feature; nothing can exist without Krsna. Therefore the advanced devotee of Krsna can see the Lord everywhere, without illusion.
