There are 3 kinds of bodies. Sur is a celestial body, nar a human body, and
asur is a demonic body. Why are there three kinds of bodies? Because Maya has 3
qualities: sattvik produces celestial bodies, rajas produces human bodies, and
tamas produces demonic bodies.
BrahmaOnce the leaders of each of these three went to Brahma, the creator,
who is the father of every living being. At the very beginning of creation,
Brahma emerged from Lord Krisnna. From Brahma emerged these three types of
personalities with three types of bodies and temperments – sur, nar, asur. The
leaders said, “Oh, creator of this world! We are all your children. We desire
to hear some teachings from you.” Brahma looked towards all three and said,
“Da, da, da” and then left. The lecture was finished. No one understood what
Brahma meant so they all felt restless. They decided to go back to their
respective Gurus for an explanation.
The celestial gods went to Brihaspati. The humans beings went to their individual
Gurus. The demons went to Shukracharya.
Brihaspati said, “Listen all of you. You have all become extremely
materialistic and desirous of all kinds of comforts. It is true that the
celestial abodes have inconceivable luxuries that are beyond the reach of a
common human being. But when your punya or the consequences of good actions you
earned as a human being that enabled you to enter here come to an end, you will
be thrown back into mrityuloka, the earthly abode. There your nature will
remain the same because of this bad habit. This will prevent you from practicing
devotion to God. So da for you means dam – control your senses.”
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There was a story on the news recently that in a foreign country there is a
dog that is worth millions of dollars. That dog has its own mansion, cars and
drivers, special lawns and outdoor areas for all its activities, insurance and
sixty servants. All this luxury is the consequence of charity given by that
soul in its previous birth. But at the same time, it also did something very
bad, which caused it to take birth as a dog. There is this much power in
charity or daan.
Shukracharya, the Guru of the demons, told the demons, “Da for you means
develop daya or compassion and overcome your violent nature which causes you to
harm others.”
Sur nar asuran Govinda Radhey,
‘dam’, ‘dan’, ‘daya’, teenon brahma bata dey.
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