MADHU BINDAVAH

THE ADVANCE TOWARDS TRUTH

The eliminative, yet accommodating nature of progress.

By Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj

The Absolute cannot admit any secondary position. He cannot tolerate that He will be second to someone, because He is absolute. He is not second to anyone, so no partnership is conceivable there. “I am such.” In logic we read, “as connotation increases, denotation decreases. When denotation increases, connotation decreases.” This religious conception is there everywhere.

muktanam api siddhanam narayana-parayanah
(Srimad Bhagavatam, 6.14.5)

jnanibhyo ’pi mato ’dhikah karmibhyas chadhiko yogi
yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana
sraddhavan bhajate yo mam sa me yukta-tamo matah
(Srimad Bhagavad-gita, 6.46–7)

The gradual development of sraddha: elimination and improvement. Improvement means elimination. Improvement means elimination, so those that are very particular about quality cannot mix with the mass, and hankering of mass qualification or capacity. They are always trying to go higher in an eliminative nature. They are ruthless. They are ruthless in their progressing, eliminating nature.

While Yudhisthir Maharaj was making advancement in his mahaprasthan, Draupadi, Sahadev, and Nakul were all falling down, and asking why it is so: “We are so intimately connected with you Maharaj, and you are going up, while we fall down.” Carelessly Yudhisthir Maharaj was going up, “Oh you had such defect, so you fell down.” One by one, Draupadi, Sahadev, Nakul, Arjuna, Bhima. “Why I am falling down?” “You had such defect of this nature, so you fall down.” Without caring he is marching onward.

Should we mark that this is a type of selfishness? No. To advance towards truth, it cannot be so. Truth is distributed by Himself. Truth is not only wholesome, but it is also distributive, self-distributive in nature, so I am going only to enhance that. By serving Him I am going to help Him in His self distribution. It is universal. Apparently, in the worldly sense, in the external sense, it may be thought to be very narrowed, but it is more universal from the qualitative difference.

Eliminating stone, earth, and water we are going to ether, but ether is more extensive than the earth. Water is more extensive than the earth, then the air is more extensive, spacious than the water. In this way, the gross is being eliminated and we are approaching towards suksma, subtle. We are going from subtler to subtlest, and in one sense that is more accommodating. Svayam Bhagavan Krishna, the whimsical, absolute good, is at the back of every form of truth, so approaching Him is outwardly eliminating, but inwardly accommodating. Hare Krishna. Nitai Gaura.