Today's darshan of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai
SB 3.9.7-O my Lord, persons who are bereft of the all-auspicious performance of chanting and hearing about Your transcendental activities are certainly unfortunate and are also bereft of good sense. They engage in inauspicious activities, enjoying sense gratification for a very little while.
PURPORT-The next question is why people are against such auspicious activities as chanting and hearing the glories and pastimes of the Lord, which can bring total freedom from the cares and anxieties of material existence. The only answer to this question is that they are unfortunate because of supernatural control due to their offensive activities performed simply for the sake of sense gratification. The Lord’s pure devotees, however, take compassion upon such unfortunate persons and, in a missionary spirit, try to persuade them into the line of devotional service. Only by the grace of pure devotees can such unfortunate men be elevated to the position of transcendental service.
SB 3.9.8-O great actor, my Lord, all these poor creatures are constantly perplexed by hunger, thirst, severe cold, secretion and bile, attacked by coughing winter, blasting summer, rains and many other disturbing elements, and overwhelmed by strong sex urges and indefatigable anger. I take pity on them, and I am very much aggrieved for them.
PURPORT-A pure devotee of the Lord like Brahmā and persons in his disciplic succession are always unhappy to see the perplexities of the conditioned souls, who are suffering the onslaughts of the threefold miseries which pertain to the body and mind, to the disturbances of material nature, and to many other such material disadvantages. Not knowing adequate measures for relieving such difficulties, suffering persons sometimes pose themselves as leaders of the people, and the unfortunate followers are put into further disadvantages under such so-called leadership. This is like a blind man’s leading another blind man to fall into a ditch. Therefore, unless the devotees of the Lord take pity on them and teach them the right path, their lives are hopeless failures. The devotees of the Lord who voluntarily take the responsibility of raising the foolish materialistic sense enjoyers are as confidential to the Lord as Lord Brahmā.
SB 3.9.9-O my Lord, the material miseries are without factual existence for the soul. Yet as long as the conditioned soul sees the body as meant for sense enjoyment, he cannot get out of the entanglement of material miseries, being influenced by Your external energy.
PURPORT-The whole trouble of the living entity in material existence is that he has an independent conception of life. He is always dependent on the rules of the Supreme Lord, in both the conditioned and liberated states, but by the influence of the external energy the conditioned soul thinks himself independent of the supremacy of the Personality of Godhead. His constitutional position is to dovetail himself with the desire of the supreme will, but as long as he does not do so, he is sure to drag on in the shackles of material bondage. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (2.55), prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha mano-gatān: he has to give up all sorts of plans manufactured by mental concoction. The living entity has to dovetail himself with the supreme will. That will help him to get out of the entanglement of material existence.
Some Conclusions --From the above three sequential verses in Srimad Bhagavatam we can see several things. The very first verse/purport explains why devotees (what to speak of the karmis) do not want to congregate together for Kirtan rasa. Even though we (the devotees) know it is the most auspicious activity possible, our reluctance to come together for Krsna Kirtan with regularity is due to our misfortune, as Srila Prabhupada so kindly puts it. The next verse/purport explains that those devotees of the Lord why are constantly trying to bring others together for devotional service are as confidential to the Lord as Lord Brahma. We should not think this is an exaggeration. The last verse/purport explains that this reluctance to come together for Krsna kirtan is ultimately due to still maintaining a body concept of life which causes us to remain so called independent in our pursuit of so called material happiness, instead of trying to go back to Godhead.. Sometimes due to circumstances we cannot get together for Krsna kirtan, but where there is a will there is a way. So the result of all of this is we stay in the samsara wheel of repeated birth and death due to the offenses of not hearing what our spiritual master has so kindly given to us.
Hare Krsna
Damaghosa das