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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
[[Category:Questions On... Krsna, His Expansions, Associates, Paraphernalia]]
[[Category:Questions On... Bhagavad-gita]]
[[Category:Questions On... War, Violence]]
[[Category:Questions On... Eastern, Western]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">That is the only statement in the Bhagavad-gītā? There is no other statement?... So you have captured that only... But if you know Kṛṣṇa, that He is God, then whatever He speaks, it is all right. Just like Arjuna, he accepted Kṛṣṇa, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān. So he said, sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye yan māṁ vadasi keśava. Find out this verse. So "Whatever You say, I accept it as truth." That is understanding of Bhagavad-gītā. If you have understood Bhagavad-gītā, then you should have understood that whatever Kṛṣṇa has said, that is truth.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Darsana -- July 11, 1976, New York|Evening Darsana -- July 11, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian man (3): I wanted to ask you a question. While talking to some of the European people, when we say that Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that asked him to fight, kill his own relatives and friends and not to bother about the consequences of the action. Now this statement sometimes is difficult for people of the West to understand, where they say before you do any action you should know the consequences and then only take action...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is the only statement in the Bhagavad-gītā? There is no other statement?</p>
<p>Indian man (3): There is, but...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So you have captured that only.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Not I, I'm talking discussion. In a discussion it's difficult to convince people of the West, what is to answer to that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But if you know Kṛṣṇa, that He is God, then whatever He speaks, it is all right. Just like Arjuna, he accepted Kṛṣṇa, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān ([[Vanisource:BG 10.12-13 (1972)|BG 10.12]]). So he said, sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye yan māṁ vadasi keśava ([[Vanisource:BG 10.14 (1972)|BG 10.14]]). Find out this verse. So "Whatever You say, I accept it as truth." That is understanding of Bhagavad-gītā. If you have understood Bhagavad-gītā, then you should have understood that whatever Kṛṣṇa has said, that is truth. Read that.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri:</p>
:sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye
:yan māṁ vadasi keśava
:na hi te bhagavan vyaktiṁ
:vidur devā na dānavāḥ
:([[Vanisource:BG 10.14 (1972)|BG 10.14]])
<p>Prabhupāda: Translation.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: "O Kṛṣṇa, I totally accept as truth all that You have told me."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all. That is understanding. Arjuna is not a fool. He said, "Whatever You have said, I accept them as truth." That is real understanding. But as soon as you make amendment, then you have not understood Kṛṣṇa. Sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye yan māṁ vadasi keśava ([[Vanisource:BG 10.14 (1972)|BG 10.14]]). There are so many rascals, they think "I don't believe in this, I don't believe in this." That is not understanding of Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Does it mean that before we, or anybody, before he at all...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Before he, if... First of all he must know what is Kṛṣṇa. Then he will understand that what is Kṛṣṇa. That he will understand from Bhagavad-gītā by this beginning. And at the end Kṛṣṇa is accepted as the Supreme Lord. So if you know that Kṛṣṇa is Supreme Lord, then whatever He says is correct.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): That means the first thing is to accept Kṛṣṇa as God, and then...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not blindly.</p>
<p>Indian man (3): Not blindly.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Not blindly. But you must know... Just like if you accept the government, and the government orders, "This man should be hanged," you have to accept it. You cannot protest that "The government has ordered this man should be hanged. It should be protested." And who will care for your protest? Government is government. You cannot criticize. You may criticize on account of your less intelligence, but government order is all. Is it not? If government orders that "This man should be hanged," can you say anything against it? It will not be accepted. Similarly, if you know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Lord, then as Arjuna said, sarvam etad ṛtaṁ manye yan māṁ vadasi keśava ([[Vanisource:BG 10.14 (1972)|BG 10.14]]). Paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitram ([[Vanisource:BG 10.12-13 (1972)|BG 10.12]]). Unless you understand Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa's personality, you will try to weight the strength of His words, the value of His words. But if you understand other statement... Just like Kṛṣṇa says mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya ([[Vanisource:BG 7.7 (1972)|BG 7.7]]), "I am the supreme authority." So if He is the supreme authority, then whatever He has said, it is all right. But if you have doubt about He's supreme authority, then you will find out His fault. That is the defect. So if Kṛṣṇa says that "I am the supreme authority..."</p>
:mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat
:kiñcid asti dhanañjaya
:mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ
:sūtre maṇi-gaṇā iva
:([[Vanisource:BG 7.7 (1972)|BG 7.7]])
<p>If you understand that Kṛṣṇa is the supreme authority, then you will understand that whatever He has said, that is absolute. Now if we become doubtful, that is on account of our less intelligence. Why you are questioning this, that Kṛṣṇa... What you are question?</p>
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