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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Now, what are these book of knowledge, religious scriptures? Religious scripture means they are meant for training you to that conception of life that you are pure soul. Nothing more. They restrict your bodily activities under certain conditions. Under certain conditions. That is called morality. Just like your Bible has got ten commandments. Ten commandments. What is that commandment? To regulate your life. Because without regulation you cannot . . . because we have to control the body to reach to the highest perfection. So if we don't follow any regulative principles, how we can make our life perfect?
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[[Vanisource:660325 - Lecture BG 02.44-45, 58 Excerpts - New York|660325 - Lecture BG 02.44-45, 58 Excerpts - New York]]
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Now, as soon as we are convinced that, "I am not this body. I am conscious. I am pure soul. So I have to get free from this entanglement," then I will have to make arrangement for that. Simply theoretically knowing will not do. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says that bhogaiśvarya-prasaktānām ([[Vanisource:BG 2.44 (1972)|BG 2.44]]): "Those who are too much attached with these bodily pleasure, and by that conception, one who is illusioned, that person cannot fix up in his identification with the soul."

So that is the critical point. That is the critical point, that if we indulge in our bodily pleasure, that pleasure is flickering. That pleasure is flickering. We cannot enjoy. Bodily pleasure we cannot enjoy. That is an intoxication, something like intoxication. That is not pleasure, actual pleasure. Actual pleasure is of the soul, not of this body. So we have to guide our life, we have to mold our life in such a way that we must not be diverted by the so-called bodily pleasures. And if we are diverted by the bodily pleasures, then we cannot be fixed up in our identification with the soul. This is clear. Now, next śloka is:

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:traiguṇya-viṣayā vedā
:nistraiguṇyo bhavārjuna
:nirdvandvo nitya-sattva-stho
:niryoga-kṣema ātmavān 
:([[Vanisource:BG 2.45 (1972)|BG 2.45]])
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Vedas, Veda. Veda means the book of knowledge. Now, the book of knowledge . . . according to the climate, according to the population, according to the country there are different books of knowledge. Just like in India the book of knowledge is accepted as the Veda, Vedas, Vedic knowledge. In your European, American countries the book of knowledge accepted as the Old Testament, New Testament. Similarly, the book of knowledge amongst the Muhammadans, they have accepted as the Koran. Actually, they are book of knowledge, undoubtedly. There is no doubt about it.

Now, what are these book of knowledge, religious scriptures? Religious scripture means they are meant for training you to that conception of life that you are pure soul. Nothing more. They restrict your bodily activities under certain conditions. Under certain conditions. That is called morality. Just like your Bible has got ten commandments. Ten commandments. What is that commandment? To regulate your life. Because without regulation you cannot . . . because we have to control the body to reach to the highest perfection. So if we don't follow any regulative principles, how we can make our life perfect?

So that regulative principle may be a little, little different from my country to your country or my Veda to your Bible, but that does not matter. That is made according to the time, condition and the mentality of the population. But there is the regulative control. Regulative control. A human society is not considered civilized unless . . . unless and until the members of the society are put into some regulative control. By regulative control. Without regulative principle, you cannot make the progressive march of the state or the people or the citizens.
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