Just like your American country, it has a date of its beginning. Now it is staying. Now it will be, some day will come, there will be no more America. You should know it. That means, that is nature's law

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"just like your American country, oh, it has a date of its beginning. Now it is staying. Now it will be, some day will come, it will . . . there will be no more America. You should know it. That means, that is nature's law"

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Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures

Just like your American country, oh, it has a date of its beginning. Now it is staying. Now it will be, some day will come, there will be no more America. You should know it. That means, that is nature's law.

670206 - Lecture CC Adi 07.66-76 - San Francisco

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, five hundred years before, He knew it that in future the all these rascals will misinterpret Vedānta-sūtra. Therefore He presented Himself that "I am fool." Vedānta-sūtra is not a very easy thing. Therefore Vyāsadeva, he explained Vedānta-sūtra in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

The first aphorism of Vedānta-sūtra is janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). Athāto brahma jijñāsā: "Now it is the time for understanding what is Brahman." And the next sūtra is . . . "What is Brahman?" The next answer is janmādy asya yataḥ: "Brahman is that from whom or from where everything emanates." Now he explains janmādy asya verse:

janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāṭ

tene brahma hṛdā adi-kavaye muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ

(SB 1.1.1)

In this way, there is lucid explanation of Vedānta-sūtra. Now, if you take Vedānta-sūtra, this janmādy asya aphorism, that Brahman is that Absolute Truth from where everything emanates, or everything is born . . . janma means . . . janma means born, birth. And sthiti, sthiti means maintenance. Janmādy. Janma, sthiti and pralaya. Pralaya means dissolution.

This material world, it has got a date of its creation. Just like your body, it has got a date of its creation. It stays for some times, and again there is a date of its dissolution. You take the history of everything material, either you take this body, or take this world, or take any empire or any . . . just like your American country, oh, it has a date of its beginning. Now it is staying. Now it will be, some day will come, it will . . . there will be no more America. You should know it. That means, that is nature's law. Everything. Everything is born, it stays for some time, then it is dissolute, dissolved.

That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate (BG 8.19). Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate. All this thing, whatever material, that manifests, it comes out, it is manifested. It . . . just like bubbles in the ocean. There are millions and millions bubbles created one second, and next second it is finished. So janmādy asya yataḥ. But this is the manifestation of material creation. Behind this, the, this spirit is there. Therefore that spirit is Brahman.