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<div class="section" id="Lectures" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2></div>

<div class="sub_section" id="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" text="Arrival Addresses and Talks"><h3>Arrival Addresses and Talks</h3></div>

<div class="quote" book="Lec" link="Arrival Lecture -- Philadelphia, July 11, 1975" link_text="Arrival Lecture -- Philadelphia, July 11, 1975">
<div class="heading">Our point is that you come to the spiritual platform, then this equality will be possible. If you keep yourself on the material platform, then artificially you may say, "We are equal," but at last we shall fight. This is our proposition.</div>


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<div class="text">'''[[Vanisource:750711_-_Lecture_Arrival_at_Temple_-_Philadelphia|Arrival Lecture -- Philadelphia, July 11, 1975]]:''' <br />
So in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' you will find different statement by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In one place He says that ''vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini''. In another place Kṛṣṇa says, ''strīṣu duṣṭāsu vārṣṇeya, varṇa-saṅkaraḥ abhibhavāte'' ([[vanisource:BG 1.40 (1972)|BG 1.40]]). ''Strīṣu dustasu'': "When woman becomes polluted, then there is unwanted population." So if in one place it is stated that ''paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ'', man and woman is equal, or ''paṇḍita'', or learned, dog and ''brāhmaṇa''. In another place He says, ''strīṣu duṣṭāsu vārṣṇeya''. So the fact is that in order to make progress towards the end of spiritual realization that we must make distinction, but the aim should be one. If you artificially do not make distinction, that will not stay. Just like in your country the black and white, they have got equal rights, but why they fight sometimes, racial fight? Because it is on the material platform. 

So our point is that you come to the spiritual platform, then this equality will be possible. If you keep yourself on the material platform, then artificially you may say, "We are equal," but at last we shall fight. This is our proposition. Therefore we request everyone that you come to the spiritual platform, then everything will be very nice. There will be no distinction, because ''brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā''. When one was spiritually realized, then he becomes happy. ''Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati'' ([[vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]). There is no more lamentation. There is no more hankering. Just like one man is trying to become another man's position. That is hankering. So in spiritual platform there is no hankering, because he understands that spiritually we are one. 

So how that spiritually oneness can be made possible, that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We are trying to solve all problems by this one stroke, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Practically, you can see. Here, while you are chanting, dancing, the boy is dancing, the father is dancing, the black is dancing, the white is dancing, the young is dancing, the old is dancing. You can see practically. The woman is dancing. A man is dancing. So dancing everyone. They are not artificially dancing like dog, but by spiritual ecstasy. That is the dancing platform. They are not dancing here for some monetary purpose. No. It is automatic, automatic, realizing God, in relationship with God. Even it is not realized. . . It is realized, but even if you say that they are not realized, but they are feeling ecstasy, that "We are all servant of Kṛṣṇa." That is wanted.
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