Nityananda Caritamrta

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Lord Nityänanda Prabhu’s Appearance Day Lecture
fering from one disease— anxiety. Ask anybody. Take one small
ant and take the big elephant; take the President of United
States or take one street beggar. Ask him, “Whether you are
free from anxiety?” Everybody will say, “No, I am full of anxiety.”
That’s a fact. So why are they in anxiety, full of anxiety?
That Prahläda Mahäräja had replied, “sadä samudvigna-dhiyäm
asad-grahät.” Because we have taken to asad-vastu, what does
not exist. Everything, whatever you have got. Our, this body will
not exist. And this is the main platform of our existence. In the
material world, so long the body is there, you exist. So Prahläda
Mahäräja said that, “Real solution of problems of life is to get
out of this material condition. That is best thing in my opinion.”
Sadä samadvigna-dhiyäm asad. That is Vedic injunction also.
ASATO mä sad gamaya: “Don’t live in this asat, in this material
condition.” SAD gamaya: “Go to real existence.” That real
existence means spiritual life. NA hanyate hanyamäne çarére.
So if we actually want life, blissful life, then we must get out
of this material existence. That is Prahläda Mahäräja’s instruction.
samudvigna-dhiyäm. And if you remain in the material
existence, you must suffer some anxiety. There is no excuse.
So Prahläda Mahäräja advises that hitvätma-pütaà gåham
andha-küpaà vanaà gato yad dharim äçrayeta. Real problem
is anxiety. And this anxiety will continue so long you are in
material existence. Therefore the real life is to get out of this
material hitvätma-pütam. Ätma-ghätam means killing the soul.
This material civilization is killing the soul. They have no information
of the soul. They do not know how to become peaceful,
how to become blissful. They are trying to be peaceful, bahirartha-mäninaù,
by external material energy. They are thinking
by constructing big, big buildings, just like in Bhubaneswar they
are doing, and having good, very big, big roads and motorcars,
that is advancement of civilization. No. That is not advancement
of civilization. That is increasing their anxiety. There is
no solution of the anxiety. Formerly there was no university.
The university was in the cottage—Vyäsadeva. Vyäsadeva was
writing Çrémad-Bhägavatam and all the Puräëas in a cottage.
The university was there. Who can produce such literature as
Vyäsadeva has given? From any angle of vision, from literary
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