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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG220HyderabadNovember251972_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="82" link="Lecture on BG 2.20 -- Hyderabad, November 25, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.20 -- Hyderabad, November 25, 1972">
<div class="heading">Because there is no history and there is no philosophy.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.20 -- Hyderabad, November 25, 1972|Lecture on BG 2.20 -- Hyderabad, November 25, 1972]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian: (break) ...is supposed to be universal Lord, and about Him...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why supposed? He is. Why you suppose like that?</p>
<p>Indian: Of course. But, at the same time, only in Indian history or in Indian philosophy, only God's description is there. But whereabouts, in America or other places, in other continents, there is no description in their history at all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because there is no history and there is no philosophy.</p>
<p>Indian: Pardon me.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: There is no philosophy in other countries.</p>
<p>Indian: But, God, there is no...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If there is any philosophy, that is in India. And you are so, I mean to say, what can I say, that you say because the philosophy's not in America, therefore this philosophy is null and void.</p>
<p>Indian: But they say later there was no Lord Viṣṇu, because...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why not? They do not know. Now they are knowing it.</p>
<p>Indian: But they say that that description that He has wandered there, He lives in there. That should be some reason.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why you are so envious of America? (laughter)</p>
<p>Indian: No, no. God is distributed (?) everywhere.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: God is everywhere. Therefore God's disciples or God's sons are everywhere.</p>
<p>Indian: Why you...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So if, in America, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness is preached, why you are envious?</p>
<p>Indian: Why?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why you are envious?</p>
<p>Indian: I didn't follow you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You do not like that this philosophy should be preached in America?</p>
<p>Indian: Should be preached</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then?</p>
<p>Indian: But why they are not in all these histories?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That...</p>
<p>Indian: There is no history at all. Even in the United States also there is no mention that Lord Viṣṇu or Lord Kṛṣṇa, like that, and They were also...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Have you read, have you read Kṛṣṇa's book, Bhagavad-gītā?</p>
<p>Indian: To some extent.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then you do not know what Kṛṣṇa says, that "Everyone, My son." Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 14.4|BG 14.4]]), tāsāṁ mahad yonir brahma ahaṁ bīja-prada... Kṛṣṇa claims everyone—American, Indians, birds, beasts—everyone, His son. You do not know the philosophy.</p>
<p>Indian: The Gītā is coming out of India. That is my question.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So it is therefore, because it is made in India, it should not be accepted?</p>
<p>Indian: Not like that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then what is your philosophy, I do not know.</p>
<p>Indian: There is no mention of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is your philosophy? I do not know.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: He says because there is no history books...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: There are no history books from the West showing Kṛṣṇa used to live in the West, or that He ever was in the West.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So... There is history, the Christians believe, God. So Kṛṣṇa is God. So what is the difference? Kṛṣṇa is God. So do they not believe in God? In the Western histories?</p>
<p>Indian: They believe.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then that's all right. Now, they believed in God. Now we are giving that "Here is God." That is the difference only. They believed in God. But they did not know...</p>
<p>Indian: ...there only the Lord existed.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that? (laughter)</p>
<p>Devotee: So much rascal philosophy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (break)...understand. They... (break) ...God. Now we are giving "Here is God, here is the name and address of God." What is the difference?</p>
<p>Indian: In India, about God it is...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: India! Why you are thinking in India? God is not for India or American. God is for everyone.</p>
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