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If we simply capture Krsna, then we capture everything

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"If we simply capture Kṛṣṇa"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

If we simply capture Kṛṣṇa, . And the Vedas also says, we are searching after departmental knowledge, but if you simply understand Kṛṣṇa, the central point, then you understand everything. You understand everything. Just like we sometimes speak which great scientists cannot speak. Why? Because we have captured the central point, Kṛṣṇa.


We were discussing in our last meeting that if a person, by sentiment or by persuasion or by some material gain or somehow or other, decides to accept the statement of Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa . . . Kṛṣṇa says that, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66). Ekam: "Only unto Me." He even does not say that there are many incarnations of Kṛṣṇa, but He says, mām ekam. This ekam can be understood in this way, that when we speak "Kṛṣṇa," this term includes everything Kṛṣṇa, all-attractive. But we can capture everything in Kṛṣṇa simply by . . .

Just like the same example, as we have repeatedly . . . that by supplying food in the stomach, you supply food to all the limbs of the body. You don't require . . . this is practical. Or pouring water on the root of the tree, you supply water to all the branches, leaves, everywhere. We see every day. This is practical example. Simply . . . similarly, there must be something central point of all this manifestation. That is Kṛṣṇa. If we simply capture Kṛṣṇa, then we capture everything.

And the Vedas also says, yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati (Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.3). We are searching after departmental knowledge, but if you simply understand Kṛṣṇa, the central point, then you understand everything. You understand everything. Just like we sometimes speak which great scientists cannot speak. Why? Because we have captured the central point: Kṛṣṇa.

So in the last day's meeting we discussed that even by sentiment, without understanding Kṛṣṇa, simply by sentiment, "All right, these . . . all these boys and girls are dancing in 'Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa.' So let me also join this Kṛṣṇa Movement and dance," he will derive the greatest benefit. Simply . . . tyaktvā sva-dharmam (SB 1.5.17). Everyone is engaged, busy in his own occupation—businessman, student, lawyer, engineer, politician, so many. But Nārada says that "If these people give up everything . . ." The same instruction, as Kṛṣṇa says, "Give up everything. Surrender unto Me," Nārada says the same thing.

That is the, I mean to say, significance, that whatever God, or Kṛṣṇa, says, His devotee also will say the same thing. There is no difference. Therefore it is called paramparā. Devotee will not manufacture something, interpretation, which is against the version of Kṛṣṇa. Then he is not devotee. Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu: He is playing the role of a devotee. Kṛṣṇa says that, "You surrender unto Me," and Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: "You surrender unto Kṛṣṇa." So there is no difference between the teaching . . . teachings of Lord Caitanya and teachings of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The object is the same.

So we are . . . what we are doing? We are also asking people, "Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa," the same thing. There is no difference. Therefore one has to accept the real thing from the paramparā system, serious devotee. Then . . . because a serious devotee will speak the same thing as Kṛṣṇa says. There is no invention.

Page Title:If we simply capture Krsna, then we capture everything
Compiler:Ionelia
Created:2015-12-01, 11:43:26
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1