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| <p>"My dear Lord, devotional service unto You is the best path for self-realization. If someone gives up that path and engages in the cultivation of speculative knowledge, he will simply undergo a troublesome process and will not achieve his desired result. As a person who beats an empty husk of wheat cannot get grain, one who simply speculates cannot achieve self-realization. His only gain is trouble."</p> | | <p>"My dear Lord, devotional service unto You is the best path for self-realization. If someone gives up that path and engages in the cultivation of speculative knowledge, he will simply undergo a troublesome process and will not achieve his desired result. As a person who beats an empty husk of wheat cannot get grain, one who simply speculates cannot achieve self-realization. His only gain is trouble."</p> |
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| | </div> |
| | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
| | </div> |
| | <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> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonBG130LondonJuly231973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="19" link="Lecture on BG 1.30 -- London, July 23, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.30 -- London, July 23, 1973"> |
| | <div class="heading">Just like a ḍheṅki, you do not understand. The husking machine. Say, a typewriter. So if you send the typewriter to the heaven, what does it mean? It is to be worked as typewriter. Does it mean because it has gone to heaven, the work has changed? No. The work will continue. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.30 -- London, July 23, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.30 -- London, July 23, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa says, 'Just surrender unto Me.' " Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). So Kṛṣṇa is asking to work for Him, giving up everything. That is clear, everyone knows. "Here also I am working very hard, but here I am working hard to be happy, but the viparītāni, I am becoming unhappy. So why not work for Kṛṣṇa?" This is intelligence. I have to work after all. Jīvera svarūpa haya nitya-kṛṣṇera dāsa (Cc. Madhya 20.108-109). Constitutionally, every living entity is a servant. He's serving eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. If he does not serve Kṛṣṇa, then he will have to become servant of māyā. That's all. His servitude, servantship, will not go. Ḍheṅki svarga gele sva-dharmān. (?) Ḍheṅki. Just like a ḍheṅki, you do not understand. The husking machine. Say, a typewriter. So if you send the typewriter to the heaven, what does it mean? It is to be worked as typewriter. Does it mean because it has gone to heaven, the work has changed? No. The work will continue. Either in this hell or heaven, typewriter will kat, kat, kat, kat. That's all.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonSB131VrndavanaNovember141972_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="103" link="Lecture on SB 1.3.1 -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.3.1 -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972"> |
| | <div class="heading">A ḍheṅki, that machine, that wooden machine... Husking machine? So if you send it to the heaven, then what he'll do? The same business. It does not mean the ḍheṅki, while it is promoted in the heaven, he can become soul or anything else. No. Similarly, we living entities, we have desire to enjoy this material world, but our position is servant. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.3.1 -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.3.1 -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we have become, instead of becoming servant of Kṛṣṇa, we have become the servants of our, these enemies. Practically they are enemies-kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ. Or in other words, we are servants of the three material modes of nature. But we are servant. That we cannot deny. So the whole Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is that instead of becoming servant of these three modes of nature, you become servant of Kṛṣṇa. That is your original position. You cannot give up your position as servant. In the Bengali proverb there is a ḍheṅki. Svarga gela dan bange.(?) Means a ḍheṅki, that machine, that wooden machine, which... Husking machine? So if you send it to the heaven, then what he'll do? The same business. It does not mean the ḍheṅki, while it is promoted in the heaven, he can become soul or anything else. No. Similarly, we living entities, we have desire to enjoy this material world, but our position is servant. We have not changed our position. We revolted to serve Kṛṣṇa. That is all right. But what is your position here in the material world? That is also servant. Just like I told Professor Kotovsky that "Your Communism, what is the difference between your Communism and our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement? You have selected Lenin as your leader, or master, and we have selected Kṛṣṇa as our leader, master. So on the principle, where is difference?" The professor could not answer.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonSB611MelbourneMay211975_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="578" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Melbourne, May 21, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Melbourne, May 21, 1975"> |
| | <div class="heading">In Bengali there is a proverb, dheki svarge gelo dhana bhange. The dheki, that's a wooden machine for husking grain. So if this dheki, this machine, is sent to heavenly planet, what he will do? |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Melbourne, May 21, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Melbourne, May 21, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to educate men that "After all, you are servant. You have to serve somebody. You are now serving your senses. Now just divert your service to Kṛṣṇa, or God, and you will be happy. That's all." The service, constitutional position, will not change. That is my position. In Bengali there is a proverb, dheki svarge gelo dhana bhange.(?) The dheki, that's a wooden machine for husking grain. So I do not know whether it is used in your country. It is a big... It is peddled by the legs, and the grains are taken away the skin. So if this dheki, this machine, is sent to heavenly planet, what he will do? The same business: "Dag! Dag! Dag!" That's all. So either you go to the heavenly planet or you remain here or you remain in animal kingdom, your... Even the trees, they are standing—they are giving service. They are giving you fruits, they are giving you flowers, and if you want his service, by the wood, by the body, you cut; it will not protest. "All right, you take my body." So that is the way to understand that we must render service to somebody higher. So why not go to the Supreme, the great—"God is great"—and render service? This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila222128NewYorkJanuary111967_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="111" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 22.21-28 -- New York, January 11, 1967" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 22.21-28 -- New York, January 11, 1967"> |
| | <div class="heading">The example is, nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām: "Just like husking the grain to take out the skin." Simply, I mean, beating the skin is no good. We must have some concrete result. That concrete result is one who is directly engaged in the transcendental service, loving service of the Supreme Lord. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 22.21-28 -- New York, January 11, 1967|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 22.21-28 -- New York, January 11, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa wants that one should surrender and take to devotional service. So Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.25 (1972)|BG 7.25]]) "I do not reveal Myself to everyone, one and all. No. I cover Myself." So these impersonalists, due to their, I mean to say, less intelligence, or misfortune, they cannot see Kṛṣṇa. So therefore, for them this remark is here that śreyaḥ-sṛtim, that "Actually what is auspicious, devotional service, if somebody gives that path away and takes to simply dry speculation, simply to understand..." Because jñāna means to understand what is the difference between matter and spirit. So they, of course, indulge in that process of knowledge. But simply by that speculation the result is that teṣām asau kleśala eva śiṣyate. The trouble which they accept for discriminating matter from spirit... There is trouble. You have to see so many Vedic literatures, and you have to understand the instruction of Upaniṣads and logic, and so many things there are to, I mean to say, back your understanding. So teṣām kleśala eva... Their, their profit is that the trouble which they accept for studying so many Vedic literatures to prove that the Absolute Truth is not person, that trouble is their profit and nothing more. Kleśala eva, teṣām asau kleśala eva śiṣyate: "They do not get any other profit except that troublesome business." That's all. Teṣāṁ kleśala eva śiṣyate. How it is? The example is, nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām: "Just like husking the grain to take out the skin." Now, there are many grains which are skin over. So there is process of taking out the skin out of the grain. So if the grain is already taken out, only the skins are left. Then, if you husk on it and beat to get out the grains, so there is no possibility to get any grains from them because the grain is already taken out. So that is the trouble. Simply, I mean, beating the skin is no good. We must have some concrete result. That concrete result is one who is directly engaged in the transcendental service, loving service of the Supreme Lord. That is recommended.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1968 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1968 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="MorningWalkatStowLakeMarch271968SanFrancisco_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="8" link="Morning Walk at Stow Lake -- March 27, 1968, San Francisco" link_text="Morning Walk at Stow Lake -- March 27, 1968, San Francisco"> |
| | <div class="heading">What can you do? If the cloud becomes without rain, if the fruit become without pulp, if the paddy becomes without grain, then what you have to eat? You have to eat the grass, the husk, the skin, and the seed. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk at Stow Lake -- March 27, 1968, San Francisco|Morning Walk at Stow Lake -- March 27, 1968, San Francisco]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guru dāsa: Is that a qualification, is that part of the age of Kali-yuga? Flowers with no scent?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Trees will have no fruits. The fruit will have no juice. That is mentioned. Just like in a mango there is a seed. In many fruits there is seed. In Kali-yuga you'll find simply the skin and seed, no pulp. And cloud without rain. These are mentioned. (laughs) What can you do? If the cloud becomes without rain, if the fruit become without pulp, if the paddy becomes without grain, then what you have to eat? You have to eat the grass, the husk, the skin, and the seed. Or kill another man and eat.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="MorningWalkFebruary191974Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="22" link="Morning Walk -- February 19, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- February 19, 1974, Bombay"> |
| | <div class="heading">Teṣāṁ kleśala eva śiṣyate: "Their gain is simply their trying for, that labor." Nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām: "It is exactly like one is beating the husk." So these impersonalists, they are trying to approach the Absolute Truth, but the method is not very good. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 19, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- February 19, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...impersonalist or personalist. Who is better? That is explained, that personalists are better posted than the impersonalists. Gatir duḥk..., avyaktā hi gatir duḥkhaṁ dehavadbhir avāpyate.</p> |
| | <p>Mr. Sar: Yes.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: They simply suffer, that's all. It is already explained. The impersonalists, they cannot concentrate their mind upon the Supreme, and simply hodgepodge. Therefore they suffer.</p> |
| | <p>Mr. Sar: Yes.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Māyāvādīs, they suffer only. Teṣāṁ kleśala eva śiṣyate. In Bhāgavata it is explained, "Their gain is only suffering." That's all.</p> |
| | <p>Mr. Sar: That's why they...</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Huh? Bhaktim udasya te vibho kliśyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye. Kevala-bodha-labdhaye.</p> |
| | <p>Mr. Sar: Ah, kevala-bodha.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Simply trying to know, know, know.</p> |
| | <p>Mr. Sar: Know.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: You see? So, teṣāṁ kleśala eva śiṣyate: "Their gain is simply their trying for, that labor." Nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām: "It is exactly like one is beating the husk."</p> |
| | <p>Mr. Sar: Yes, and not getting that thing.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: There is no rice...</p> |
| | <p>Mr. Sar: No rice even.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Simply "gad, gad, gad, gad, gad, gad."</p> |
| | <p>Mr. Sar: "Gad, gad, gad, gad, gad, gad, gad."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: That's all. Teṣāṁ kleśala eva śiṣyate nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām. So these impersonalists, they are trying to approach the Absolute Truth, but the method is not very good.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="RoomConversationwithMonsieurRoostHathayogiMay311974Geneva_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="92" link="Room Conversation with Monsieur Roost, Hatha-yogi -- May 31, 1974, Geneva" link_text="Room Conversation with Monsieur Roost, Hatha-yogi -- May 31, 1974, Geneva"> |
| | <div class="heading">Bhakti school does not very much appreciate the speculative method. They surrender and they try to get knowledge directly from the Supreme Lord, as Bhagavad-gītā is being spoken by the Supreme Lord, or statements of the pure highly elevated devotees, just like Brahmā is speaking. This way. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Monsieur Roost, Hatha-yogi -- May 31, 1974, Geneva|Room Conversation with Monsieur Roost, Hatha-yogi -- May 31, 1974, Geneva]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nitāi: "The attempt of persons who are interested only in speculative knowledge is simply wasted labor, like the labor of a person who attempts to gain something by beating the empty husk of rice paddy. A little quantity of paddy can be husked by the grinding wheel, and one can gain some grains of rice, but if the skin, the paddy, is already beaten by the grinding wheel, there is no further gain in beating the husk. It is simply useless labor."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: So bhakti school does not very much appreciate the speculative method. They surrender and they try to get knowledge directly from the Supreme Lord, as Bhagavad-gītā is being spoken by the Supreme Lord, or statements of the pure highly elevated devotees, just like Brahmā is speaking. This way. Hearing. The main purpose is hearing, hearing from the right source. That is... Especially in the western world, instead of hearing from the right source, they want to speculate about the Absolute. We have got about twenty books like this, but they are not speculation. They are simply by hearing. I am writing what I have heard, not that I am speculating. Mostly, the philosophers, they write as they speculate. They write their own opinion. But our process is not that. We don't speculate. We present the statements of God and His devotees.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="MorningWalkMay221975Melbourne_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="87" link="Morning Walk -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne" link_text="Morning Walk -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne"> |
| | <div class="heading">This kind of knowledge is compared with beating the bush. That's all. After taking away the paddy grains, only the skin remains. And if you again beat the skin to get grains, that is not possible. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne|Morning Walk -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...plans. They had to work very hard to find out, "What is this? What is this?" So that is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Kliśyanti kevala-bodha-labdhaye. "Working hard simply to know." Kliśyanti. Kliśyanti means working very hard, labor. Kevala-bodha-labdhaye. Simply to understand. But they are not kliśyanti to understand God. Kliśyanti kevala-bodha-labdhaye. This kind of knowledge is compared with beating the bush. That's all. After taking away the paddy grains, only the skin remains. And if you again beat the skin to get grains, that is not possible.</p> |
| | <p>Devotee 1: Beating the husk.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. It is like that. Kliśyanti kevala-bodha-labdhaye.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <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> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="RoomConversationJuly21976NewVrindaban_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="177" link="Room Conversation -- July 2, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 2, 1976, New Vrindaban"> |
| | <div class="heading">Any process you accept, rejecting devotional service, the result will be that there is no profit. You simply labor for nothing, as much as to beat the husk, you'll never get the rice, you will simply be tiresome, that's all. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 2, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- July 2, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hari-śauri: What they're doing is entirely pointless. There's no proper reason for any of it. Because they aren't improving their actual living standards by it. They are... It's just like a jñāni, he thinks advancement of knowledge, just to simply acquire any amount of knowledge.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Kevala-bodha-labdhaye. They are described: Kliśyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye. Simply works hard simply to know things. No benefit. These rascals are like that. Kevala-bodha-labdhaye.</p> |
| | <p>Hari-śauri: That's the futility of the university system now. They are going and they're accumulating knowledge which is worthless for living. It has no practical value, so all the youth are becoming very frustrated.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Any sane man will be frustrated. Why you are spending money and going there? Kevala-bodha-labdhaya, kliśyanti kevala, bhaktim.... Kliśyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye teṣām asau kleśala eva śiṣyate nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām. Just like the husk... The outer portion of rice? If there is rice, you husk, beat it, rice will come. The rice is not there, simply husk, what is the use of this beating? It is like that. Rice will not come, simply they are trying to beat it. So the result is they become tired, that's all. They only result is they'll become tired. Kleśala eva śiṣyate, that's all. The result of hard labor is tiresome. So they'll get that only, that's all. They are satisfied, "Now we are tiresome, let us sleep." What you have gotten? "Dust." That's all. This is the philosophy. Bhaktim, what is that verse?</p> |
| | <p>Pradyumna: Śrama eva hi kevalam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.8|SB 1.2.8]])?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Huh? That's not it. Kleśala, kleśala.</p> |
| | <p>Pradyumna: Kleśadikataras, kleśa?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Kliśyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye teṣām asau kleśala eva śiṣyate nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām.</p> |
| | <p>Hari-śauri: It's from the Bhāgavatam?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, it is mentioned in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Any process you accept, rejecting devotional service, the result will be that there is no profit. You simply labor for nothing, as much as to beat the husk, you'll never get the rice, you will simply be tiresome, that's all.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="EveningConversationAugust81976Tehran_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="250" link="Evening Conversation -- August 8, 1976, Tehran" link_text="Evening Conversation -- August 8, 1976, Tehran"> |
| | <div class="heading">Dekhi, husking, the skin is taken away. Then mixed with salt and make it heated. Then when it is prepared, then they heat sand, and in that heated sand you put the rice and immediately puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff. Like that. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Conversation -- August 8, 1976, Tehran|Evening Conversation -- August 8, 1976, Tehran]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: They make very nice puffed rice in Melbourne.</p> |
| | <p>Atreya Ṛṣi: How do they make it, Śrīla Prabhupāda?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Not difficult. The paddy, they are boiled. And then again baked in the sunshine. Again boil, then again baked in the sunshine. Then the skin is taken out by that dekhi, what is called? That rice...</p> |
| | <p>Pradyumna: Thresher?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Dekhi, husking, the skin is taken away. Then mixed with salt and make it heated. Then when it is prepared, then they heat sand, and in that heated sand you put the rice and immediately puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff-puff. Like that.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoSaiBabaSeptember131976Vrndavana_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="308" link="Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana"> |
| | <div class="heading">Still, husk is not rice. You cannot say husk is rice. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana|Letter to Sai Baba -- September 13, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna: That he says. That he says here. He says that, "Take paddy or rice by way of an illustration. Every grain of rice is enclosed in a husk. You have to remove the husk to get the grain of rice. Now husk and rice both come from the same seed. Rice is the equivalent of God in man."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: But still husk is not rice. You cannot say husk is rice.</p> |
| | <p>Pradyumna: He says the husk... He says "Rice is the equivalent of God in man while the husk can be compared to desire which reduces God to man."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: No, no.</p> |
| | <p>Pradyumna: Therefore my desire is life plus desire equals man. Life minus desire equals God."</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: (dictating:) You are desiring to become God. There cannot be no desire. But you're unceremoniously desiring to become God. Although there is no proof in the śāstras. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is accepted that the living entities are sparks of..., part and parcel of God, Kṛṣṇa.</p> |
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| | <div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> |
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| | <div id="ConversationwithYogiAmritDesaiofKripaluAshramPAUSAJanuary21977Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="2" link="Conversation with Yogi Amrit Desai of Kripalu Ashram (PA USA) -- January 2, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Conversation with Yogi Amrit Desai of Kripalu Ashram (PA USA) -- January 2, 1977, Bombay"> |
| | <div class="heading">If there is paddy, if you beat it, you'll get rice. But if you beat on the husk, then your gain is only that labor. So similarly, if you don't know what is the substance, you go on laboring, that laboring is your only achievement and nothing else. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Yogi Amrit Desai of Kripalu Ashram (PA USA) -- January 2, 1977, Bombay|Conversation with Yogi Amrit Desai of Kripalu Ashram (PA USA) -- January 2, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: You must accept the standard way, then you'll get siddhi, you'll get sukha and parāṁ gati. Unless you follow the standard way, na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim. So if you have interest in bhakti-yoga, then you practice the bhakti-yoga properly. That will make you successful. Otherwise, teṣām asau kleśala eva śiṣyate, simply whatever labor you are doing, that is your profit and no other profit. Kleśala eva. Nānyad yathā sthūla-tuṣāvaghātinām. The example is tuṣa. Tuṣa you know? The skin of rice? Husk. Yes. So if there is paddy, if you beat it, you'll get rice. But if you beat on the husk, then...</p> |
| | <p>Yogi Amrit Desai: You won't get anything.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: But your gain is only that labor. So similarly, if you don't know what is the substance, you go on laboring, that laboring is your only achievement and nothing else.</p> |
| | <p>Yogi Amrit Desai: Such a beautiful example. If you keep on beating the husk...</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: What you'll get?</p> |
| | <p>Yogi Amrit Desai: The labor you get.</p> |
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| | </div> |
| | <div id="ConversationsApril191977Bombay_1" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="144" link="Conversations -- April 19, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Conversations -- April 19, 1977, Bombay"> |
| | <div class="heading">So these people are interested with the fiber, not with the pulp. So all discoveries of the modern education, they are ksoprai kanana. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversations -- April 19, 1977, Bombay|Conversations -- April 19, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Hm. Keep it there. (break) ...is a Bengali common word. It is said, ksoprai kanana(?). Ksopra(?), that is like a coconut. Coconut pulp is within, and it is covered with a hard... What is called?</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Shell.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: ...shell, and again covered with fiber.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Husk.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So these people are interested with the fiber, not with the pulp. So all discoveries of the modern education, they are ksoprai kanana(?).</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That fiber is the least valuable part.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: But they are discovering(?).</p> |
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| | <div id="SrilaPrabhupadaVigilMay28291977Vrndavana_2" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="182" link="Srila Prabhupada Vigil -- May 28-29, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Srila Prabhupada Vigil -- May 28-29, 1977, Vrndavana"> |
| | <div class="heading">If you send the ḍheṅki to heaven, so what it will do? Same business. Either the ḍheṅki is kept here or in the heaven, his business to do that "Dag, dag, dag, dag..." |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Srila Prabhupada Vigil -- May 28-29, 1977, Vrndavana|Srila Prabhupada Vigil -- May 28-29, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Bhavauṣadhāc chrotra-mano-'bhirāmāt. You'll find, not find any medicine throughout the universe that you'll be benefited either you die or be... This is the only medicine. In both ways you are... The death is inevitable. You die today or tomorrow. So by taking this medicine, if you die, you have the greatest benefit. And if you live, enjoy. If you die, enjoy; if you live, enjoy. Go on chanting. (kīrtana) (break) No, I have no objection. (laughter) I am prepared in either way. What is that machine they keep? Husking machine?</p> |
| | <p>Upendra: Asking machine?</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Husking machine.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: That from paddy, rice is taken away by beating.</p> |
| | <p>Bhavānanda: (whispering) That's the...</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: In your country there is no such thing.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In Māyāpura we have seen.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: It is called ḍheṅki.</p> |
| | <p>Bhavānanda: Ḍheṅki.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: That is Indian. (Bengali) Ḍheṅki? (Bengali)</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Jayapatākā must know.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Jayapatākā must know.</p> |
| | <p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What is that husking machine?</p> |
| | <p>Bhavānanda: Ḍheṅki?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p> |
| | <p>Bhavānanda: Ḍheṅki.</p> |
| | <p>Jayapatākā: Ḍheṅki.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: So the ḍheṅki... If you send the ḍheṅki to heaven, so what it will do? Same business. Either the ḍheṅki is kept here or in the heaven, his business to do that "Dag, dag, dag, dag..."</p> |
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| | <div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> |
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| | <div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3> |
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| | <div id="LettertoPancadravidaBombay24November1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="617" link="Letter to Pancadravida -- Bombay 24 November, 1974" link_text="Letter to Pancadravida -- Bombay 24 November, 1974"> |
| | <div class="heading">We can preach anywhere. We have to preach both in heaven and hell. There is a Bengali saying that a husking machine will husk the rice whether in heaven or in hell. So whereever Krishna desires, we will preach this movement. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Pancadravida -- Bombay 24 November, 1974|Letter to Pancadravida -- Bombay 24 November, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Never mind if you do not get the visa for India. We can preach anywhere. We have to preach both in heaven and hell. There is a Bengali saying that a husking machine will husk the rice whether in heaven or in hell. So where-ever Krishna desires we will preach this movement.</p> |
| | <p>Try your best to establish a center in Bangkok, and the men here who have to leave India for visa difficulty, they can go to Bangkok and remain there and get the visas from there. Here now there is visa difficulty, so a center in Bangkok will be good. Manasvi can go to Bangkok to assist you. He speaks Hindi and can be valuable. He has already told Brahmananda that he will go.</p> |
| | <p>So take this as Krishna's desire, and we are servants of Krishna, so our only business is to try to satisfy Him. You are a sannyasi and I have got full confidence in you that you can do very nicely there. Everywhere this movement is accepted, so please keep me informed what is the progress there.</p> |
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