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Yaśomatīnandana Dāsa

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

This book was composed during the journey from Jagannatha Puri to Vrindavana. I was anxious to get to the Holy Dhama of Vrindavana due to the presence of my spiritual master's samadhi. Our spiritual family comes together every year to celebrate his transcendental disappearance. Fear always intrigued me in general, thinking myself a breaker of rules and advocate of an easier and more direct way of living, I considered fear my friend. In society I observed different anxieties from social anxiety, to financial stress, physical conditioning or leadership pressure. All these fears originated in the forgetfulness of the living entity about the intrinsic presence of God everywhere and within everyone. People in general have forgotten the divine life of service and humility ending up in a selfish circle of bodily misery and construed philosophy. Anxious to live happily and fed until one faces death, the common man is fearful at every step and thus tries very hard by dint of scientific research to prolong life and prevent death. Inevitably, science has failed and death scares the people in general, because they lost understanding of the eternal soul. Such ignorance is pitiable and we must educate the general class of people that the living entity is eternal and eternally connected to Supreme Lord.

Leseprobe

Abhay - Fearless

Based on Seventh Canto Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Nectar of Devotion and Bhagavad-Gītā.

Following the fearless lotus footsteps of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda By Yaśomatīnandana Dāsa (Jan Wolter) Disciple of His Holiness Kadamba Kanana Swami

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Dedicated to Abhay CharanaravindaBhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, founder-acharya of the International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness

Acknowledgements

Hare Kṛṣṇa,

dear devotees of the Lord, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

I'm nobody special but your mercy carries me. You have been guiding me, knowlingly, or unknowingly. Lost in words and travels, fallen in many ways and illusioned by the material energy, I am fully dependent on the mercy of Śrī Guru and Śrī Gauranga.

I thank you all for respecting and tolerating what I have to say. It's basically for my own purification and by your blessings only, this path is cleared and I can be a humble servant of Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Introduction

“This sound of the Lord is identical with the Lord, as we have tried to explain by the nondual position of the Lord.

The material existence of our present status is full of fear. Out of the four problems of material existence, namely the food problem, the shelter problem, the fear problem and the mating problem, the fear problem gives us more trouble than the others. We are always fearful due to our ignorance of the next problem. The whole material existence is full of problems, and thus the fear problem is always prominent. This is due to our association with the illusory energy of the Lord, known as māyā or external energy, yet all fear is vanished as soon as there is the sound of the Lord, represented by His holy name, as it was sounded by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in the following sixteen words: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/

Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare We can take advantage of these sounds and be free from all threatening problems of material existence.” (ŚB

1.11.3)

Hiranyakashipu lives within this heart of fear and only a sincere devotee can conquer over him, by the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

So Prahlāda Mahārāja said that "Real solution to the problems of life is to get out of this material condition.

That is the best thing in my opinion.”

Ask anybody. Take one small ant and take the big elephant; take the President of the United States or take one street beggar. Ask him, "Whether you are free from anxiety?" Nobody will say, "No." "I am full of anxiety."

That's a fact. So why they are anxiety, in full of anxiety?

We have no anxiety. We require thousands and thousands of rupees for maintaining Europe, America---a costly affair. But because we are under the shelter of Nityānanda Prabhu, Balarāma, we have no anxiety. That means material life means anxiety. You cannot avoid anxiety if you lead a material life. Then you will be anxious.

That is Prahlāda Mahārāja's instruction. He was asked by his father, "My dear son, what you have learned, the best thing from your teachers?" So he replied, "My dear father..." He never said "My dear father"; He said "My dear best of the asuras," asura-varya. Tat sādhu manye

'sura-varya dehinām. Tat sādhu manye 'sura-varya dehināṁ sadā samudvigna-dhiyām asad-grahāt [SB

7.5.5]. The whole human society is suffering, at least suffering from one disease---anxiety.

Fear is afraid of God

The story retold: In the seventh Canto of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam we find the transcendental history of Prahlāda Mahārāja, the grandfather of Bali Mahārāja.

Bali was a great conqueror like many of his family members. He even conquered over the throne of Indra, the king of heaven. When his rulership got too much for the demigods, they complained to Brahmā, the creator of this universe for relief. In return Brahmā prayed to the Supreme Lord for His help. Vamana thus appeared as the dwarf brahmana and because Bali was a ‘good’

demon, his manner invited Vamana to ask anything He liked from Bali. Vamana begged for ‘only’ three paces of land and Bali was astonished, but beyond the doubt of his teacher, Sukracharya, Bali consented and saw Vamana take three steps of land. Because Vamana is all-powerful, He took the first step over the lower planetary system, the second of the higher planetary system and because all the universe had already been covered, Bali offered his head as the space for the third step. Thus, Vamana conquered Bali, who was then bound by the ropes of Varuna, taking him captive as property of Vamana, or better ‘a fully surrendered soul’.

In this humiliated way, Bali was seen by Prahlāda, his grandfather who also had his own pastime with the Supreme Lord. Remembering the pastime of Nṛsiṁhadeva one can understand that this family is blessed for many generations by the grace of God.