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As far as we know from sadhu-guru-sastra. That's all. That is our understanding

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"As far as we know from sādhu, guru, śāstra" |"That's all. That is our understanding"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

As far as we know from sādhu-guru-śāstra. That's all. That is our understanding.


Room Conversation -- August 08, 1972, London:

Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is not understandable does not mean that we are also as fool as they are.

Revatīnandana: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Rather, Kṛṣṇa is so big, that is understandable even by us, and what to, about these here rascals. What you can understand? We cannot understand. This should be the position that, "We are constantly serving Kṛṣṇa, we cannot understand Him, and what, rascal, you can understand?" (laughter) The attitude should be taken like that.

Haṁsadūta: We just accept whatever Kṛṣṇa says.

Prabhupāda: That's it.

Haṁsadūta: That's a fact and that's all, and, and we serve Kṛṣṇa. In the material sense people try to understand a thing without . . . by, by inspecting it.

Prabhupāda: Without knowing his capacity.

Haṁsadūta: Yeah.

Prabhupāda: He has no capacity, still he wants and, and when, and when he is caught, that you have no capacity, "No, I am trying, I am trying."

Haṁsadūta: Yeah.

Prabhupāda: He won't say that, "I have no capacity."

Śyāmasundara: (laughing) Or "I will understand."

Prabhupāda: "I will understand," that he will say.

Śyāmasundara: "In the future, someday I will."

Prabhupāda: Obstinacy.

Revatīnandana: So we always try to understand as far as possible, and then when we don't understand . . .

Prabhupāda: As soon as . . .

Revatīnandana: . . . and then when we don't understand, that's . . .

Prabhupāda: As far as we know from sādhu, guru, śāstra.

Revatīnandana: Yes.

Prabhupāda: That's all. That is our understanding.

Śyāmasundara: Yeah. Can't extend it any further . . .

Prabhupāda: No.

Śyāmasundara: . . . on our own.

Prabhupāda: Don't try to extend on it.

Revatīnandana: No.

Devotee: Yes. Like that business . . .

Revatīnandana: That was speculation.

Śyāmasundara: . . . about the soul and the table. It just completely changed everything we've learned so far.

Prabhupāda: Therefore Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura said that "Whatever I heard from my guru, that is my life, that's all. Let me execute that."

Revatīnandana: That was . . . that was semantics. That was, that was word usage. That's why we got confused. And that's . . . so now I can clear up the confusion. Thank you very much. All glories to you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Haṁsadūta: Uhh, I have one more question, Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: (aside) On the light.

Haṁsadūta: There are in, in our world here, there are material scientists, and they understand things in a particular way. They understand, for instance . . .

Prabhupāda: Their way and our way is completely different.

Haṁsadūta: I know, but I mean there must be, suppose on the heavenly planets, there must also be a class of men who understand things and . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no. Anywhere within this material world, they are all conditioned souls. Their understanding is incomplete. Even Brahmā. Even Brahmā. Brahmā has admitted, in his prayer, that people . . . "Other rascal may say that he has understood You, but for my part I say I have never understood You." He has said like that. Have you read this portion?

Haṁsadūta: Yes.

Revatīnandana: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So even Brahmā cannot understand, why . . . what we? He said the other rascals may say . . . uh? Where is that Brahmā prayer? In the first part? Find out.

Śyāmasundara: Brahma-samhitā.

Haṁsadūta: No, that's in the, uh, "Process of Creation," isn't it?

Prabhupāda: No, no. In Kṛṣṇa book.

Revatīnandana: Kṛṣṇa One.

Prabhupāda: Now, where is that?

Śyāmasundara: Right here.

Prabhupāda: This is second part. I see always that volume.

Śyāmasundara: Second part? There, there's . . . Volume Two is there.

Prabhupāda: No. Volume Two, yes.

Śyāmasundara: It's here.

Prabhupāda: That is Volume Two. That . . . no, no, it is not in Volume Two.

Revatīnandana: No, it's in Volume One.

Haṁsadūta: In Volume One.

Revatīnandana: Volume One, in . . . at, when Brahmā kidnaps the cowherd boys.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Śyāmasundara: Oh.

Revatīnandana: There was . . . when I went to Paris they had gotten all confused. Some were thinking that Brahmā, Lord Brahmā, is not a pure devotee, because . . .

Prabhupāda: In one sense not, he is not pure devotee.

Page Title:As far as we know from sadhu-guru-sastra. That's all. That is our understanding
Compiler:Visnu Murti
Created:30 of Nov, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1