Dedicated to my spiritual master His Divine Grace Abhaya Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami 'Srila Prabhupada'
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Introduction
istan bhogan hi vo deva
dasyante yajna-bhavitah
tair dattan apradayaibhyo
yo bhunkte stena eva sah
Bg 3.12
In charge of the various
necessities of life, the demigods, being satisfied by the performance of yajna
[sacrifice], will supply all necessities to you. But he who enjoys such gifts without
offering them to the demigods in return is certainly a thief.
Role of demigods in the cosmic creation
The demigods are authorized supplying agents on behalf of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. Therefore, they must be satisfied by the
performance of prescribed yajnas. In the Vedas, there are different kinds of
yajnas prescribed for different kinds of demigods, but all are ultimately
offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For one who cannot understand
what the Personality of Godhead is, sacrifice to the demigods is recommended.
According to the different material qualities of the persons concerned,
different types of yajnas are recommended in the Vedas. Worship of different
demigods is also on the same basis -- namely, according to different qualities.
For example, the meat-eaters are recommended to worship the goddess Kali, the
ghastly form of material nature, and before the goddess the sacrifice of
animals is recommended. But for those who are in the mode of goodness, the
transcendental worship of Visnu is recommended. But ultimately all yajnas are
meant for gradual promotion to the transcendental position. For ordinary men,
at least five yajnas, known as panca-maha-yajna, are necessary.
One should know, however, that all
the necessities of life that the human society requires are supplied by the
demigod agents of the Lord. No one can manufacture anything. Take, for example,
all the eatables of human society. These eatables include grains, fruits,
vegetables, milk, sugar, etc., for the persons in the mode of goodness, and also
eatables for the nonvegetarians, like meats, none of which can be manufactured
by men. Then again, take for example heat, light, water, air, etc., which are
also necessities of life -- none of them can be manufactured by the human
society. Without the Supreme Lord, there can be no profuse sunlight, moonlight,
rainfall, breeze, etc., without which no one can live. Obviously, our life is
dependent on supplies from the Lord. Even for our manufacturing enterprises, we
require so many raw materials like metal, sulphur, mercury, manganese, and so
many essentials -- all of which are supplied by the agents of the Lord, with
the purpose that we should make proper use of them to keep ourselves fit and
healthy for the purpose of self-realization, leading to the ultimate goal of
life, namely, liberation from the material struggle for existence.
End note
This aim of
life is attained by performance of yajnas. If we forget the purpose of human
life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense
gratification and become more and more entangled in material existence, which
is not the purpose of creation, certainly we become thieves, and therefore we
are punished by the laws of material nature. A society of thieves can never be
happy, because they have no aim in life. The gross materialist thieves have no
ultimate goal of life. They are simply directed to sense gratification; nor do
they have knowledge of how to perform yajnas. Lord Caitanya, however,
inaugurated the easiest performance of yajna, namely the sankirtana-yajna,
which can be performed by anyone in the world who accepts the principles of
Krsna consciousness.
Ys in service of Srila Prabhupada
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