Unless one is self-realized
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 2
SB Canto 3
SB Canto 7
Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Just like these boys, my students, they are trained up how to be always in devotional service. So one who is engaged in devotional service, he is supposed to be already self-realized. Because he has understood "what I am," yes. And then he sticks to devotional service. Otherwise, he cannot. If one thinks, "I am this body," then he cannot be engaged in devotional service, or he cannot stick. He knows that "I am part and parcel of God. So my duty is to serve God." This is self-realization. And then he engages himself in devotional service.
Professor Durckheim: I say, master, that when you say he knows, you don't speak about this knowledge.
Prabhupāda: Which knowledge?
Professor Durckheim: You came already... You say "believe and by this know that I am participating in the great divine person." And yet I didn't experience it.
Prabhupāda: Why not experience? He knows that "I am that active principle." Everyone knows that "I am not this body." When I say, "This is my finger," I don't say, "I finger." So "I," what "I"? That realization, self-realization, that "I am part and parcel of God." So that he knows, that "I am part and parcel of God. So therefore my duty is to serve God." So they are engaged in serving God. So this serving God, or devotional service, is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā... Find out that verse, that:
- māṁ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa
- bhakti-yogena sevate
- sa guṇān samatītyaitān
- brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
- [Bg. 14.26]
Page Title: | Unless one is self-realized |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti |
Created: | 06 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=3, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=1, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 5 |