Practical understanding
Expressions researched:
"practical understanding"
|"understand practically"
|"understand practical"
|"understand. Practically"
|"understand, practical"
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Preface and Introduction
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Young Woman: How do you (indistinct) Kṛṣṇa? By talking about it?
Prabhupāda: No. These people are not talking. They are realized. Talking is the beginning but there is realization. Just like when I did not come to your country I was talking that "America is like this." But now when I have come to America I realize what is America. So talking is theoretical understanding and when you realize that is practical understanding. One is called jñāna, other is called vijñāna. So jñāna and vijñāna both things are there, theoretical and practical.
Young Woman: So how to realize Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: You have to adopt the process. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.- śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-dayā karaha vicāra
- vicāra karile citte pābe camatkāra
- [Cc. Ādi 8.15]
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Initiation Lectures
General Lectures
- kāmādīnāṁ kati na katidhā pālitā durnideśās
- teṣāṁ mayi na karuṇā jātā na trapā nopaśāntiḥ
- (utsṛjyaitān atha yadu-pate) sāmpratam aham labdha-buddhis
- tvām āyātaḥ (śaraṇam abhayaṁ) niyuṅkṣvātma-dāsye
- rāja-vidyā rāja-guhyaṁ
- pavitraṁ paramam idam
- pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ
- su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam
- [Bg. 9.2]
Philosophy Discussions
Hayagrīva: This is Fichte. He's not as important as Kant or Hegel, but he followed pretty much in the footsteps of Kant. His first work was entitled Our Belief in a Divine Government of the Universe, and he writes, "Our belief in a moral world order must be based on the concept of a supersensible transcendental world."
Prabhupāda: But thing is that what is morality? If he cannot define what is morality, simply saying on moral principles, what is this morality? First of all you have to understand what is morality. Simply imaginary moral principle. We want practical understanding what is morality. That they have not defined.Conversations and Morning Walks
1969 Conversations and Morning Walks
Interviewer: Is your philosophy, your approach to consciousness, based on the Gītā?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, Bhagavad-gītā. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness means practical understanding of Bhagavad-gītā. This is the sum and substance. I thank you for your capturing the idea. Bhagavad-gītā is the sum and substance of the whole Vedic literature, and it is very nicely explained, things as they are. Unfortunately there are so many interpreters. They interpret the verses in their own way. That is the nonsense of the whole thing. But if Bhagavad-gītā understood as it is, oh, it is a great boon to the human society.1971 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: These are different coating. Just like you have got your form, therefore your coat has got a form.
Guest (1): No, I was thinking in this form.
Prabhupāda: Don't think like that way. First of all you try to understand. Because you have got a form, your coat has got a form. You try to understand this.
Guest (1): Yes, water, though may not have form, but it has got form.
Prabhupāda: Why may not? You try to understand practically. You have got a form, therefore your shirt has got a form, your coat has got a form.1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Guest (3): Yes. Could you sometime tell me about that school.
Satsvarūpa: Sure, later we can talk.
Prabhupāda: There are good teachers. We are teaching Sanskrit and English especially.
Guest (3): They teach Sanskrit, English?
Prabhupāda: That is what. We are preparing them so that they can read our literature which is in Sanskrit and English. As soon as they can read, that's education finished. They will understand, practical demonstration, ārati, worship of the Deity, and they play mṛdaṅga, they chant, they join Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting. They are not meant for any technology.Prabhupāda: So similarly, if you depend on Kṛṣṇa, God, He'll take care of you. He says in the Bhagavad-gītā:
- sarva-dharmān parityajya
- mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja
- ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo
- mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ
[Bg. 18.66]
Yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham. Teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham [Bg. 9.22]. Everything is there. And that you have to understand practically.Father Tanner: I don't know your disciples, but it is possible that some of them, even with twenty-four hour a day, you know, exercises...
Prabhupāda: Yes, our program is like that.
Father Tanner: ...fail to become spiritual.
Prabhupāda: Now, our program here is like that. We have got Deities, six times ārati. In preparation for that, cleansing the temple room, washing the dishes of the Deity, cooking for the Deity, arranging for the other things... So they are always thinking of Kṛṣṇa. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Just like we have got so many books. So they are reading books of Kṛṣṇa. This is also Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So... Or they are going to saṅkīrtana party. That is also Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So it is a question of practice and practical understanding. A theoretically one cannot understand. But we have got twenty-four hours engagement for these boys. Not a single moment lost. In this way we train them.1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Both of them permanent. No, no, no. Permanent... The jīvas and the Supreme Lord, both of them are permanent, nityā. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20]. Just like nityaḥ śāśvato 'yam. It is said in the Bhagavad-gītā, nityaḥ śāśvato 'yam. Eternal, always existing. And this material word has been described: asasvataḥ. Duḥkhālayam aśāśvataḥ.
Dr. Patel: Aśāśvatam.
Prabhupāda: Aśāś... It is not permanent. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate [Bg. 8.19]. It appears and disappears. So because nityo nityānām, there is transaction between the nitya, the Supreme Nitya, Kṛṣṇa, and the...
Dr. Patel: Cetanaś cetanānām.
Prabhupāda: And the subordinate nityas, the living entities. So there must be one place also where this transaction takes place. Because this is anitya. This material world is anitya. So how the transaction between the nitya and nityānām can take place? Because the place is anitya. Therefore there must be a place which is nitya. There must be place. That is Vaikuṇṭha dhāma, spiritual world. So by practicing bhakti-yoga scientifically, by practical understanding, practical application, yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ, either at the shelter...
Mr. Sar: Anyaj jñātam neha bhūyo...
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Mr. Sar: Anyaj jñātam avaśiṣyate.
Prabhupāda: Ah. Then anyaj jñātavyam. No. Then you become perfect. No more knowledge.Correspondence
1970 Correspondence
1973 Correspondence
Page Title: | Practical understanding |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Panna |
Created: | 30 of Oct, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=11, Con=6, Let=2 |
No. of Quotes: | 20 |