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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
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<div class="heading">Yes, Bhāgavatam is there. Yaṁ brahmā varuṇendra-rudra-marutaḥ stunvanti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṅga-pada-kramopaniṣadair gāyanti yaṁ sāma-gāḥ.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 5, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 5, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Śrīla Prabhupāda, we have any specific reference for acintya in the Vedic reference?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Acintya, acintya, yes, acintya. Acintya potency, even you have got acintya potency. That I have already explained. Because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, therefore there is pinch of acintya, inconceivable potency, in us also. Harer nāma harer nāma harer nāma... ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]).</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Do we have any specific reference?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Jīva Gosvāmī. Jīva Gosvāmī has stated that unless we accept acintya, inconceivable energy, there is no conception of God. There is no conception of God. If you bring God to your conception, he's not God.</p>
<p>Umāpati: Acintya, acintya-bheda is a unique contribution of Vaiṣṇavas to the concept of God.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. Actually, that is the fact. We cannot explain what is God. We have to accept what is God from God.</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: Avaroha.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: Avaroha process?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, not ava... Yes, avaroha process. Yes, thank you. Here Kṛṣṇa says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat ([[Vanisource:BG 7.7|BG 7.7]]). We have to accept that. Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya ([[Vanisource:BG 7.7|BG 7.7]]). So "There is no more superior authority than Me." Harer nāma harer nāma... ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]).</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: (loud waves drowns out voice)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ah, na me viduḥ sura-gaṇāḥ... (Bg 10.2).</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: What to speak of these teeny scientists, even the great sages can't know Him.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Aham ādir hi devānām...</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: Maharṣīṇāṁ ca sarvaśaḥ.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ah.</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: Even Lord Brahmā, when he saw the innumerable Viṣṇu forms of the child Kṛṣṇa, then he himself said that "As far as I know, as far as I am concerned, I don't know anything about You."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, he... Yes. That is the Brahmā's position, what to speak of others. Yasyāntaṁ na viduḥ surāsura-gaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ. Yaṁ brahmā varuṇendra-rudra-marutaḥ stunvanti divyaiḥ stavaiḥ. Brahmā, Varuṇa, all demigods. Yaṁ brahmā varuṇendra-rudra. Rudra even, Śiva, Lord Śiva. Stunvanti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṅga-pada-kramopaniṣadair gāyanti yaṁ sāma-gāḥ, dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṁ yoginaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 12.13.1|SB 12.13.1]]). That Bhārati cited this verse. Yes.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: The five gods?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, this verse.</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: Is that by Śaṅkarācārya, Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. It is Vedic.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Where is it from, Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Where is it from?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: It is the Bhāgavatam?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, Bhāgavatam is there. Yaṁ brahmā varuṇendra-rudra-marutaḥ stunvanti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṅga-pada-kramopaniṣadair gāyanti yaṁ sāma-gāḥ.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: I remember Śrīla Prabhupāda used this "acintya" to differentiate between the life and the non-living.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Acintya means living.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: No, acintya-śakti. Life, life has acintya...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Whereas non-life doesn't have.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Matter, just like a molecule doesn't have this acintya. But they may...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, it has, but it is covered too much. Consciousness is covered. Potency, potent. It is potent.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Molecule has consciousness?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, everything has consciousness, but it is covered. The degree is of covering.</p>
<p>Umāpati: I was reading the writings of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in Jaiva Dharma.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ah.</p>
<p>Umāpati: And he is explaining the word "śraddhā," and he defines it in there as the tendency of the mind towards devotion without regard to jñāna or karma.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: Śraddhā.</p>
<p>Umāpati: Śraddhā. And I have heard it variously interpreted as meaning "faith" or "belief," which really falls short of that interpretation.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that interpretation?</p>
<p>Umāpati: Could you elaborate on the definition of śraddhā?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Śraddhā is explained in Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Śraddhā means firm conviction. That is śraddhā. Just like Kṛṣṇa says that "I am the Supermost." So if you have firm conviction in Kṛṣṇa's words, that is śraddhā.</p>
<p>Umāpati: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If you have doubts, then that is not śraddhā.</p>
<p>Umāpati: So therefore one can understand only if one is in śraddhā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, that śraddhā has to be increased.</p>
<p>Umāpati: How it is increased?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The beginning of śraddhā means firm conviction.</p>
<p>Umāpati: How is it śraddhā does not exist in one person, and it does exist...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, śraddhā is there. It has to be awakened.</p>
<p>Umāpati: Śraddhā is in every person then.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore I say it is covered. It is covered. That covering has to be taken away. That is called bhajana (indistinct). That is called culture.</p>
<p>Umāpati: Upāsanā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Upāsanā, bhajana, sādhana, culture, whatever you say. He has to awaken that śraddhā, more and more.</p>
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