Nityananda Caritamrta
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ÇRÉ NITYÄNANDA CARITÄMÅTA<br />
The difficulty of the present situation is that, actually, we<br />
are moving on account of spiritual strength, but they have no<br />
information of the spiritual strength. They are thinking of material<br />
strength. That is expressed here, that,<br />
ahaìkäre matta hoiyä, nitäi-pada päsariyä,<br />
asatyere satya kori mäni<br />
This is due to ahaìkära. Ahaìkära-vimüòhätmä kartäham iti<br />
manyate (BG. 3.27). Those who are vimüòha, especially rascal,<br />
müòha, rascals, and vi means viçeña, viçeñanam, particularly. Ahankara-vimudhätmä.<br />
The same thing which is spoken in the Bhagavad-gétä,<br />
Narottama däsa Öhäkura says the same thing in a plain<br />
Bengali language. ahaìkäre matta haiyä, nitäi-pada. By the spell<br />
of mäyä—ahaìkära-vimüòhätmä kartäham iti manyate— they<br />
are thinking that, “We are independent. We can do whatever we<br />
like.” This is called ahaìkära-vimüòhätmä. Under false pretext,<br />
false prestige, everyone is thinking that, “We are independent. We<br />
can find out the solution of the problems of life by material adjustment,”<br />
so on, so on. So that is our material disease.<br />
Ahaìkära-vimüòhätmä. Bewildered, they do not understand<br />
that the real strength is spiritual strength. We see daily<br />
a very strong man, a very powerful man, a man with very good<br />
brain, a very good scientist and so on. So what is the strength?<br />
The strength is ätmä. As soon as the ätmä, or the soul, goes<br />
out of the body; the so-called intelligent, strength, and so many<br />
things, become nothing. That is the difference between dead<br />
man and the living man. A living man is very powerful, very<br />
good position, everything. As soon as he dies, he is lying down<br />
on the floor, and if you kick him on his face, he’ll not protest.<br />
So where is that strength? The strength is gone. That is spiritual<br />
strength. On the spiritual strength, the body moves. Suppose<br />
you have got a very good car, Mercedes car or Rolls Royce car,<br />
but when there is no petrol, how the car will move? It is not possible.<br />
There is spirit, petrol spirit. Similarly, real strength is spiritual<br />
strength. That spiritual strength is Balaräma. Bala means<br />
strength. Therefore we have to take shelter of the lotus feet of<br />
Balaräma, guru-tattva.<br />
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