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<div class="heading">So therefore Arjuna said, sarvam etam ṛtaṁ manye yad vadasi mām (BG 10.14). This is devotee, that "I accept everything, whatever You say." This is devotee, not that I make some amendment and then I accept. And this is nonsense. You cannot... This is called ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya. (Cc. Ādi-līlā 5.176) Ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya means one man was keeping a hen and it was delivering every day a golden egg. So the man thought, "It is very profitable, but it is expensive to feed this hen. Better cut the head so I shall save the expenditure of feeing her, and I'll get the eggs without any charge." So these rascals, they take, accept śāstras like that. "Oh, this is not... That is very expensive. Cut this portion." And when Kṛṣṇa says that "Anyone who sees Me in everyone," "Oh, that is very palatable. That is very palatable." And when Kṛṣṇa says, "You give up everything. You surrender...," "Oh, that is not palatable." And this is ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya. I accept things which are very favorable to my understanding, and other things I reject. This is called ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.22 -- Indore, December 13, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.22 -- Indore, December 13, 1970]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa expanded. So Brahmā understood that "It was my fault that I wanted to test my Lord." Then he came and surrendered, and there is a very nice ''stotra'' of Brahmā.

Guest (3): ''Stotra'' says Brahmā didn't know something about . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes, even if he knew, but sometimes he become bewildered. Therefore it is . . . ''Bhāgavata'' says that even the big, big demigods, they become bewildered.

:''Janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāt''
:''tene brahma hṛdā muhyanti yatra sūrayaḥ''
:([[vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]).

That ''māyā'' is so strong that they can bewilder a personality like Brahmā and Indra, and what to speak of us? ''Māyā'' is so strong.

Similarly, Indra was also bewildered when He stopped ''Indra-yajña''. Kṛṣṇa, when He asked His father, "There is no need of ''Indra-yajña'' . . ." He is under the order of the Supreme Lord. He did not say . . . Kṛṣṇa said, to Nanda Mahārāja that "I am the Supreme Lord," but He said, "He is working under the Supreme Lord. He has to supply water. There is no need of ''yajña''."

In other words, Kṛṣṇa is not in favor of any type of demigod worship. No. In the Govardhana chapter He stressed: simply the Supreme Personality of Godhead should be satisfied. That is stated everywhere, in ''Bhagavad-gītā'' also, ''kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 7.20 (1972)|BG 7.20]]).

So Indra, when his ''yajña'' was stopped, so he tried to punish the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana by torrents of . . . incessant torrents of rain for seven days—havoc. The whole Vṛndāvana was to be drowned under water, and Kṛṣṇa immediately lifted the whole Govardhana Hill. And He stood seven days without taking any food, and protected all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana.

Now God is displaying as God. When these things are there, the rascals will say: "Oh, these are all legends." When God displays Himself as God, the rascals take it as legend. Just see. They do not believe in the ''śāstras''. They interpret in a different way. Is it not? Yes. And this is going on. And they are supposed to be . . .

What is their interpretation about this Govardhana Hill? Do you know? Kṛṣṇa's lifting the Govardhana Hill, what . . . how they interpret it? I know, the Māyāvādīs, they do not accept. Or "Kṛṣṇa is ordinary human being." The Ārya-samājīs and others, they take it as legend. But the ''ācāryas'', they do not take it as legend. Therefore we have to follow the ''ācāryas''.

Woman devotee: Is it true when you said that the hill, there is cracks?

Prabhupāda: Why not true?

Woman devotee: You said it cracked in the hill.

Indian guest: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: So therefore Arjuna said, ''sarvam etam ṛtaṁ manye yad vadasi mām'' ([[vanisource:BG 10.14 (1972)|BG 10.14]]). This is devotee, that "I accept everything, whatever You say." This is devotee, not that "I make some amendment and then I accept." And this is nonsense. You cannot . . . this is called ''ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya''. (Cc. ''Ādi-līlā'' 5.176)

''Ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya'' means one man was keeping a hen, and it was delivering every day a golden egg. So the man thought, "It is very profitable, but it is expensive to feed this hen. Better cut the head so I shall save the expenditure of feeding her, and I'll get the eggs without any charge."

So these rascals, they take . . . accept ''śāstras'' like that: "Oh, this is not . . . this is very expensive. Cut this portion." And when Kṛṣṇa says that "Anyone who sees Me in everyone," "Oh, that is very palatable. That is very palatable." And when Kṛṣṇa says, "You give up everything. You surrender . . ." "Oh, that is not palatable."

And this is ''ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya'': I accept things which are very favorable to my understanding, and other things I reject. This is called ''ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya''. So people accept ''śāstras'' in that way, the Māyāvādīs.

Guest (3): But one who is self-realized, he interprets them out, the ''ślokas'' . . .

Prabhupāda: There is no interpretation. Kṛṣṇa says. In the ''Bhāgavata'' it is said that He lifted the mountain just like a child snatch one flower or the . . . what is called?

Devotee: Mushroom.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Mushroom. Yes. So easily. They do not believe.

Guest (3): (indistinct) . . . No, but in the language of ''Srimad Bhāgavatam'' there are many ''ślokas'' interpreted by many teachers and . . . those who believe in ''Bhāgavata'' . . .

Prabhupāda: Those who believe in ''Bhāgavata'', they do not interpret. Those who do not believe in ''Bhāgavata'', they interpret.

Guest (3): But its meaning has to be understood.

Prabhupāda: Meaning is clear. There is nothing to be understood. But the rascals, they draw their own meaning. Just like ''Bhagavad-gītā''. What is the difficulty to understand this:

:''dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre''
:''samavetā yuyutsava''
:''māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāś caiva''
:''kim akurvata sañjaya''
:([[vanisource:BG 1.1 (1972)|BG 1.1]])

What is the difficulty to understand Kurukṣetra is a religious place, acknowledged by the ''Vedas'', and it is going on still? Why do they interpret, "Kurukṣetra means this body"? Is he not a rascal? Why there is interpretation when you understand a thing very clearly?