In beginning you are puffed up: "I am so academic"
Conversations and Morning Walks
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
You have to surrender yourself that "I am insignificant." But in beginning you are puffed up. "I am so academic. Now I have got Ph.D." Rascals.
Press Interview -- December 31, 1976, Bombay: Indian man: And what is the upāsanā you will be prescribing for those people who want to achieve jñāna?
Prabhupāda: Yes, upāsanā. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁsā kṣāntir ārjavam ācāryopāsanam [Bg. 13.8]. Vinigrahaḥ, indriya-vinigrahaḥ. Find out this, Thirteenth Chapter. These are the process. First of all amānitvam. You have to surrender yourself that "I am insignificant." But in beginning you are puffed up. "I am so academic. Now I have got Ph.D." Rascals. First, beginning is amānitvam. And as soon as we become puffed-up, a little knowledge... A Little knowledge is dangerous. Then finished. So they are doing like that. A little knowledge, I think, "I have become more than my Guru Mahārāja." Finished. That is the defect. Find out. Read the...
| Page Title: | In beginning you are puffed up: "I am so academic" |
| Compiler: | Laksmipriya |
| Created: | 19 of Dec, 2008 |
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