Adhyatmika: miseries coming from one’s own body and mind
( aching bones, rotting teeth, headaches, worry and stress.)
Adhibahutika: miseries coming from other living beings
( mosquitoes, envious people, vicious dogs, etc. )
Adhidaivika: miseries coming from nature / demigods
( earthquake, famine, extreme weather conditions, etc. )
Seeing how these four limiting factors of the material world create suffering for the living entity is an item of knowledge listed in Bhagavad-gita 13.8-12
It takes a little contemplation and discussion to grasp. We usually forget the suffering of birth, and while we are young and healthy, old age, disease, and death seem distant and irrelevant.
Birth, Disease, Old age and Death
Therefore the Vedas ( Bhagavatam ) attempts to awaken us.
- * Consider the suffering the child goes through at birth.
- * The disease is a misery that repeatedly arises throughout life. See how many different kinds of disease and affliction you can think of.
- * Consider also the disturbing symptoms of old age.
- * Lord Kapila describes ( SB 3.30 ) the typical miseries surrounding the death.
- * Old age, severe disease, and death are bad enough in themselves but they also cause pain to loved ones who see the suffering condition.
Hmmmmmmm.. something to think about..
The material nature provides the living entity with much more opportunity to suffer than to enjoy. For example, how many ways can you give pain to your foot compared with how many ways you can give it pleasure?
Even if we don’t realize personally that the material world is a place of suffering, Lord Krishna certifies it in Bhagavad-gita 8.15 ( duhkhalayam )
Drawbacks of Material Happiness is:
- * simply a relief from suffering
- * temporary and limited
- * based on envy and is therefore unreal
- * nothing compared to what we are missing
- * makes us attached
- * keeps us bound to material life and bodily concept of life
- * never as good as one expects
Song Name: Radha Krsna Bol Bol
Official Name: Nagara Kirtana Song
Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Book Name: Gitavali
Language: Bengali
LYRICS:
(1)
‘rādhā-kṛṣṇa’ bol bol bolo re sobāi
(ei) śikṣā diyā, sab nadīyā
phirche nece’ gaura-nitāi
(miche) māyār bośe, jāccho bhese’,
khāccho hābuḍubu, bhāi
(2)
(jīv) kṛṣṇa-dās, e biśwās,
korle to’ ār duḥkho nāi
(kṛṣṇa) bolbe jabe, pulak ha’be
jhorbe āńkhi, boli tāi
(3)
(‘rādhā) kṛṣṇa’ bolo, sańge calo,
ei-mātra bhikhā cāi
(jāy) sakal’ bipod bhaktivinod
bole, jakhon o-nām gāi
TRANSLATION
1) Chant, chant “Radha-Krsna!” Everyone chant! When Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda came dancing through Nadia, They gave these teachings: Chant, chant “Radha-Krsna!” Everyone chant! You are caught up in a whirlpool of senseless action and are sinking lower and lower. Chant, chant “Radha-Krsna!” Everyone chant!
2) If you just understand that the spirit soul is the eternal servant of Krsna, you will never have any more sorrows. Chant Hare Krsna and your eyes will fill with tears and your body will feel transcendental shivering. Chant, chant “Radha-Krsna!” Everyone chant!
3) Simply chant “Radha-Krsna” and join with us. Those are the only alms we beg. Chant, chant “Radha-Krsna!” Everyone chant! “All dangers will be gone when that Name is chanted,” says Bhaktivinoda Thakura. Chant, chant “Radha-Krsna!” Everyone chant!