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| <div id="CCAdi7137_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1081" link="CC Adi 7.137" link_text="CC Adi 7.137"> | | <div id="CCAdi7137_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1081" link="CC Adi 7.137" link_text="CC Adi 7.137"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.137|CC Adi 7.137, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Now let us see," the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs continued, "how well You can describe the sūtras in terms of their direct meaning." Hearing this, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu began His direct explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.137|CC Adi 7.137, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Now let us see," the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs continued, "how well You can describe the sūtras in terms of their direct meaning." Hearing this, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu began His direct explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya6132_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1102" link="CC Madhya 6.132" link_text="CC Madhya 6.132"> |
| | <div class="heading">"You do not explain the direct meaning of the Brahma-sūtras. Indeed, it appears that your business is to cover their real meaning." |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.132|CC Madhya 6.132, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"You do not explain the direct meaning of the Brahma-sūtras. Indeed, it appears that your business is to cover their real meaning."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | <div class="purport text"><p>This is typical of all Māyāvādīs or atheists who interpret the meaning of Vedic literature in their own imaginative way. The real purpose of such foolish people is to impose the impersonalist conclusion on all Vedic literature. The Māyāvādī atheists also interpret the Bhagavad-gītā. In every verse of Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā it is clearly stated that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In every verse Vyāsadeva says, śrī-bhagavān uvāca, "the Supreme Personality of Godhead said," or "the Blessed Lord said." It is clearly stated that the Blessed Lord is the Supreme Person, but Māyāvādī atheists still try to prove that the Absolute Truth is impersonal. In order to present their false, imaginary meanings, they must adopt so much word jugglery and grammatical interpretation that they finally become ludicrous. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu remarked that no one should hear the Māyāvādī commentaries or purports to any Vedic literature.</p> |
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| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya6133_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1103" link="CC Madhya 6.133" link_text="CC Madhya 6.133"> |
| | <div class="heading">Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “The Vedānta-sūtra is the summary of all the Upaniṣads; therefore whatever direct meaning is there in the Upaniṣads is also recorded in the Vedānta-sūtra, or Vyāsa-sūtra. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.133|CC Madhya 6.133, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, “The Vedānta-sūtra is the summary of all the Upaniṣads; therefore whatever direct meaning is there in the Upaniṣads is also recorded in the Vedānta-sūtra, or Vyāsa-sūtra.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | <div class="purport text"><p>Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī has explained the word upaniṣad in his Anubhāṣya. Please refer to Ādi-līlā, Second Chapter, fifth verse, and Ādi-līlā, Seventh Chapter, verses 106 and 108, for his explanation.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya6134_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1104" link="CC Madhya 6.134" link_text="CC Madhya 6.134"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.134|CC Madhya 6.134, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“For each sūtra the direct meaning must be accepted without interpretation. However, you simply abandon the direct meaning and proceed with your imaginative interpretation.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya6151_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1120" link="CC Madhya 6.151" link_text="CC Madhya 6.151"> |
| | <div class="heading">“All these mantras confirm that the Absolute Truth is personal, but the Māyāvādīs, throwing away the direct meaning, interpret the Absolute Truth as impersonal. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.151|CC Madhya 6.151, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“All these mantras confirm that the Absolute Truth is personal, but the Māyāvādīs, throwing away the direct meaning, interpret the Absolute Truth as impersonal.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | <div class="purport text"><p>As mentioned above, the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (3.19) states:</p> |
| | :apāṇi-pādo javano grahītā |
| | :paśyaty acakṣuḥ sa śṛṇoty akarṇaḥ |
| | :sa vetti vedyaṁ na ca tasyāsti vettā |
| | :tam āhur agryaṁ puruṣaṁ mahāntam |
| | <p>This Vedic mantra clearly states, puruṣaṁ mahāntam. The word puruṣa means "person." In the Bhagavad-gītā (10.12) Arjuna confirms that this person is Kṛṣṇa when he addresses Kṛṣṇa as puruṣaṁ śāśvatam: "You are the original person." Thus the puruṣaṁ mahāntam mentioned in the verse from the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad is Śrī Kṛṣṇa. His hands and legs are not mundane but are completely transcendental. However, when He comes, fools take Him to be an ordinary person (avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]])). One who has no Vedic knowledge, who has not studied the Vedas from a bona fide spiritual master, does not know Kṛṣṇa. Therefore he is a mūḍha. Such fools take Kṛṣṇa to be an ordinary person (paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ). They do not actually know what Kṛṣṇa is.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya6152_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1121" link="CC Madhya 6.152" link_text="CC Madhya 6.152"> |
| | <div class="heading">Rejecting the direct meaning of the Vedic mantras, the Māyāvādī philosophers interpret them and try to establish the Absolute Truth as formless. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.152|CC Madhya 6.152, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Are you describing as formless that Supreme Personality of Godhead whose transcendental form is complete with six transcendental opulences?</p> |
| | </div> |
| | <div class="purport text"><p>If the Supreme Personality of Godhead is formless, how can He be said to walk very fast and accept everything offered to Him? Rejecting the direct meaning of the Vedic mantras, the Māyāvādī philosophers interpret them and try to establish the Absolute Truth as formless. Actually, the Supreme Lord has an eternal personal form full of all opulence. The Māyāvādī philosophers try to interpret the Absolute Truth as being without potency. However, in the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (6.8) it is clearly said, parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate: (Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport) "The Absolute Truth has multipotencies."</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya6177_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1146" link="CC Madhya 6.177" link_text="CC Madhya 6.177"> |
| | <div class="heading">When one does not touch the direct meaning but tries to divert attention by misinterpretation, he engages in chala. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.177|CC Madhya 6.177, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Bhaṭṭācārya presented various types of false arguments with pseudo logic and tried to defeat his opponent in many ways. However, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu refuted all these arguments and established His own conviction.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | <div class="purport text"><p>The word vitaṇḍā indicates that a debater, not touching the main point or establishing his own point, simply tries to refute the other person's argument. When one does not touch the direct meaning but tries to divert attention by misinterpretation, he engages in chala. The word nigraha also means always trying to refute the arguments of the other party.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya6275_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1243" link="CC Madhya 6.275" link_text="CC Madhya 6.275"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 6.275|CC Madhya 6.275, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“The word "mukti" refers to five kinds of liberation. But its direct meaning usually conveys the idea of becoming one with the Lord.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya2482_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5398" link="CC Madhya 24.82" link_text="CC Madhya 24.82"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.82|CC Madhya 24.82, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Although the words "brahma" and "ātmā" indicate Kṛṣṇa, their direct meaning refers only to the impersonal Brahman and the Supersoul respectively.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya2525_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5697" link="CC Madhya 25.25" link_text="CC Madhya 25.25"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.25|CC Madhya 25.25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu explains the direct meaning of the Upaniṣads. When all learned scholars hear this, their minds and ears are satisfied.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya2526_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5698" link="CC Madhya 25.26" link_text="CC Madhya 25.26"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.26|CC Madhya 25.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Giving up the direct meaning of the Vedānta-sūtra and the Upaniṣads, Śaṅkarācārya imagines some other interpretation.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="CCMadhya2589_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5761" link="CC Madhya 25.89" link_text="CC Madhya 25.89"> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 25.89|CC Madhya 25.89, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“My dear Lord, whatever direct meaning You have given when explaining the Brahma-sūtra is certainly very wonderful to all of us.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="TLC21_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="27" link="TLC 21" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 21"> |
| | <div class="heading">Lord Caitanya gave the direct meaning of Vedānta-sūtra. No Vedic scripture should be used for indirect speculation. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 21|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 21]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus Lord Caitanya gave the direct meaning of Vedānta-sūtra. No Vedic scripture should be used for indirect speculation. In addition to Śaṅkarācārya, other materialistic philosophers like Kapila, Gautama, Aṣṭāvakra and Patañjali have put forward philosophical speculation in various ways. Indeed, the philosopher Jaimini and his followers, who are all more or less logicians, have abandoned the real meaning of the Vedas (devotional service) and have tried to establish the Absolute Truth as subject to the material world. It is their opinion that if there is a God, He will be pleased with man and give man all desired results if man simply performs his material activities nicely. Similarly, the atheist Kapila tried to establish that there is no God who created the material world. Kapila has even tried to establish that a combination of material elements caused creation. Similarly, Gautama and Kaṇāda have given stress to this theory that the creation resulted from a fortunate combination of material elements, and they have tried to establish that atomic energy is the origin of creation. Similarly, impersonalists and monists like Aṣṭāvakra have tried to establish the impersonal effulgence (brahmajyoti) as the Supreme.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="TLC24_1" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="30" link="TLC 24" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 24"> |
| | <div class="heading">You do not elucidate the direct meaning but imagine something and consequently obscure the true meaning. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 24|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 24]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"My dear sir," the Lord replied. "As far as the Vedānta-sūtra or the codes of Vedānta are concerned, I can understand the meaning quite well. However, I cannot understand your explanations. There is nothing really difficult about the meaning of the original Vedānta-sūtra, but the way you explain Vedānta-sūtra appears to obscure the real meaning. You do not elucidate the direct meaning but imagine something and consequently obscure the true meaning. I think that you have a particular doctrine which you are trying to expound through the codes of Vedānta-sūtra."</p> |
| | <p>According to Muktika Upaniṣad, there are 108 Upaniṣads. Among these are: (1) Īśa, (2) Kena, (3) Kaṭha, (4) Praśna, (5) Muṇḍaka, (6) Māṇḍūkya, (7) Tittiri, (8) Aitareya, (9) Chāndogya, (10) Bṛhad-āraṇyaka, (11) Brahma, (12) Kaivalya, (13) Jāvāla, (14) Śvetāśva, (15) Hansa, (16) Arunih, (17) Garbha, (18) Narayana, etc. These 108 Upanisads contain all knowledge about the Absolute Truth. Sometimes people inquire abou the meaning of these 108 prayer beads, but because we think there are 108 Upanisads which contain full knowledge of the Absolute Truth, therefore 108 beads are accepted. Sometimes on the other hand, the Vaiṣṇava transcendentalists think that the 108 beads represent the 108 companions of Lord Kṛṣṇa in His rāsa dance, and therefore 108 beads are accepted.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="TLC24_2" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="30" link="TLC 24" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 24"> |
| | <div class="heading">Lord Caitanya protested against misinterpretations of the Upaniṣads, and He rejected any explanation which did not give the direct meaning of the Upaniṣads. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 24|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 24]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes people inquire abou the meaning of these 108 prayer beads, but because we think there are 108 Upanisads which contain full knowledge of the Absolute Truth, therefore 108 beads are accepted. Sometimes on the other hand, the Vaiṣṇava transcendentalists think that the 108 beads represent the 108 companions of Lord Kṛṣṇa in His rāsa dance, and therefore 108 beads are accepted.</p> |
| | <p>Lord Caitanya protested against misinterpretations of the Upaniṣads, and He rejected any explanation which did not give the direct meaning of the Upaniṣads. The direct interpretation is called abhidhā-vṛtti, whereas the indirect interpretation is called lakṣanā-vṛtti, The indirect interpretation serves no purpose. There are four kinds of understanding, called: (1) direct understanding (pratyakṣa), (2) hypothetical understanding (anumāna), (3) historical understanding (aitihya) and (4) understanding through sound (śabda). Of these four, understanding from the Vedic scriptures (which are the sound representations of the Absolute Truth) is the best method. The traditional Vedic students accept understanding through sound to be the best.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
| | </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="LectureonSB1836LosAngelesApril281973_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="234" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.36 -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.36 -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1973"> |
| | <div class="heading">This Māyāvāda interpretation is, explanation, means covering the real meaning. That's all. They do so like that. They'll never accept the direct meaning. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.36 -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.36 -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked to hear Vedānta. You know. And He was hearing. And Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya was going on speaking, reciting Vedānta-sūtra. But He was simply hearing and then He was not asking any questions. So Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya asked that: "My dear boy, You are hearing, but You are not asking anything. What is this? You cannot understand? Or what is the reason that You are silent?" He said: "Yes, I'm understanding. But I am silent because you are explaining in a different way. Therefore I am simply hearing the verses of Vedānta-sūtra. I am not hearing you." Indirectly ... Of course, He was offering respect. Indirectly, he said that: "You are explaining the meaning foolishly." He said later on that: "I see, I hear the verses just like sunshine. But you are explaining just like covering cloud. This is your explanation." Sun is ... Nobody requires any lamp to see the sun. Everyone can see. But if it is covered by the cloud, it is very difficult to see. So this Māyāvāda interpretation is, explanation, means covering the real meaning. That's all. They do so like that. They'll never accept the direct meaning. Kurukṣetra dharmakṣetra... Even big, big political leaders. They will cover: "Kurukṣetra means this, dharmakṣetra means this." No. Hearing should be ... Our policy is hearing the original, as it is. Then it will be effective.</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="LectureonCCAdilila7107109SanFranciscoFebruary151967_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="34" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.107-109 -- San Francisco, February 15, 1967" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.107-109 -- San Francisco, February 15, 1967"> |
| | <div class="heading">Caitanya Mahāprabhu says mukhya-vṛttye, direct meaning, as it is said. That is beauty of understanding. Janmādy asya yataḥ: (SB 1.1.1) "The supreme source from which everything emanating, that is Brahman." |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.107-109 -- San Francisco, February 15, 1967|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.107-109 -- San Francisco, February 15, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So they do not want more, but they want little for their maintenance of this body and soul together. It is the duty of the householder. So unless one becomes responsible householder, how he'll execute his responsibility? If he thinks, "Oh, what is the use of keeping a cow when the milk is available in the market? Oh, sex life is so cheap. Why shall I take the responsibility of marrying?" This is going on. This is going on. Just like cats and dogs. So the cats and dogs cannot understand Vedānta philosophy. First condition. It is not meant for the cats and dogs. It is meant for human beings. So we should be human being first of all. Then we shall try to understand... Our life is so wretched that it is less than cats and dogs, and we try to understand Vedānta philosophy. It is not possible.</p> |
| | <p>So Caitanya Mahāprabhu says mukhya-vṛttye, direct meaning, as it is said. That is beauty of understanding. Janmādy asya yataḥ: ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]) "The supreme source from which everything emanating, that is Brahman." What is the interpretation? There is no interpretation. Supreme... There must be some supreme source. That is quite philosophical and logical, that I have my... This bodily existence has a source, my father. My father has a source, his father. His father... Go on. There must be one supreme source. That is God. Simple to understand.</p> |
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| | </div> |
| | <div id="LectureonCCAdilila7109114SanFranciscoFebruary201967_1" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="36" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967"> |
| | <div class="heading">Caitanya Mahāprabhu is stressing that to read Vedic literature, Vedānta, Upaniṣad—these are principal literatures in the Vedic knowledge—then Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, all these books should be studied from the direct meaning. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Caitanya Mahāprabhu is stressing that to read Vedic literature, Vedānta, Upaniṣad—these are principal literatures in the Vedic knowledge—then Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, all these books should be studied from the direct meaning. Don't try to interpret. According to ordinary, I mean to say, dealings, suppose in the law court there are two parties. Two lawyers are fighting on the principle of one clause or section in the lawbook. One is interpreting in a different way, one is interpreting in a different way, and the judges give their judgment. Now, the opportunity for interpretation is there when the meaning is not clear. A very good example is given by the grammarians, or Sanskrit scholars, that gaṅgayaṁ ghoṣapali, that "There is a neighborhood which is called Ghoṣapali on the Ganges." Now somebody may ask, "How there can be a quarter on the Ganges? Ganges is water." So there is interpretation required. So somebody says, " 'On the Ganges' means on the bank of the Ganges." That makes it clear. "On the Ganges" does not mean that in the middle water there is a, I mean to say, residential quarter. No. "On the Ganges" means on the bank of the Ganges.</p> |
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| | <div id="LectureonCCAdilila7109114SanFranciscoFebruary201967_2" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="36" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967"> |
| | <div class="heading">There are so many policies and so many programs of the supreme authorities, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that that is time service. For the time being they are necessary. Actually, such interpretation is not necessary at all. We should take direct meaning. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.109-114 -- San Francisco, February 20, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So there are so many policies and so many programs of the supreme authorities, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that that is time service. For the time being they are necessary. Actually, such interpretation is not necessary at all. We should take direct meaning. Now He's explaining Vedānta. The first thing He's explaining, 'brahma' śabde mukhya arthe kahe-'bhagavān'. Whenever we speak of Brahman... Because these Māyāvādī philosophers, they are very much uttering this word, "Brahman." Ahaṁ brahmāsmi: "All Brahman." They don't utter "Kṛṣṇa" or "Govinda." Oh, that is very difficult for them. They simply utter, "Brahman." Now... Let them. Brahman is also Vedic word. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu says the direct meaning of Brahman is Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Cid-aiśvarya-paripūrṇa, anūrdhva-samāna. Now what is the grammatical meaning of Brahman? The grammatical meaning of Brahman is that "the greatest" and "expansive." That is the grammatical meaning of Brahman. Which is unlimitedly expanded and greatest, He is called Brahman. Now, who can be unlimitedly expansive unless He's unlimitedly powerful? Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu says that according to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also, the same meaning is there.</p> |
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| | <div id="Initiation_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Lectures" text="Initiation Lectures"><h3>Initiation Lectures</h3> |
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| | <div id="InitiationofSatyabhamaDasiandGayatriInitiationofDevoteesGoingtoLondonMontrealJuly261968_0" class="quote" parent="Initiation_Lectures" book="Lec" index="5" link="Initiation of Satyabhama Dasi and Gayatri Initiation of Devotees Going to London -- Montreal, July 26, 1968" link_text="Initiation of Satyabhama Dasi and Gayatri Initiation of Devotees Going to London -- Montreal, July 26, 1968"> |
| | <div class="heading">Nobody should interpret any other way. This is direct meaning. Nāmna artha-vādaḥ. Or to imagine some meaning. No imagination. It is all direct interpretation or direct meaning. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Initiation of Satyabhama Dasi and Gayatri Initiation of Devotees Going to London -- Montreal, July 26, 1968|Initiation of Satyabhama Dasi and Gayatri Initiation of Devotees Going to London -- Montreal, July 26, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The tax is distributed—the education department, municipal department, this department, that department. Therefore the people are missing the center. They are trying to satisfy one another, but nobody is satisfied. And by illusion they cannot understand this mistake. Everyone is very much proud: "Oh, I am serving my country." And he does not know what somebody, his countrymen, will come and kill him. You see? He does not know that. This is māyā. So one should be intelligent to serve Kṛṣṇa. This prayer Hare Kṛṣṇa means "Kṛṣṇa, I am so much harassed by this service of this māyā. Now please engage me in Your service." This is our prayer. And as soon as I am engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service, then I will be satisfied, Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied, and the whole world will be satisfied. So nobody should interpret any other way. This is direct meaning. Nāmna artha-vādaḥ. Or to imagine some meaning. No imagination. It is all direct interpretation or direct meaning.</p> |
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| | <div id="InitiationofRukminiDasiMontrealAugust151968_1" class="quote" parent="Initiation_Lectures" book="Lec" index="7" link="Initiation of Rukmini Dasi -- Montreal, August 15, 1968" link_text="Initiation of Rukmini Dasi -- Montreal, August 15, 1968"> |
| | <div class="heading">Just like we are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, somebody may make interpretation. There is no interpretation. The direct meaning is that we are praying Kṛṣṇa and His energy to accept me in the society of His service. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Initiation of Rukmini Dasi -- Montreal, August 15, 1968|Initiation of Rukmini Dasi -- Montreal, August 15, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All right. So the first offense is satāṁ-nindā. No devotee shall be blasphemed. Satāṁ-nindaṁ śruti-śāstra-nindanam, no scriptures should be defiled. Satāṁ-nindaṁ śruti-śāstra-nindanam tathārtha-vādo hari-nāmni kalpanam. And never make any interpretation. Just like we are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, somebody may make interpretation. There is no interpretation. The direct meaning is that we are praying Kṛṣṇa and His energy to accept me in the society of His service. This is the simple... There is no other interpretation. Or artha-vādaḥ. And sāmya-śubha-kriyā-pramādaḥ, one should not accept chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa with some, something śubha-kriyā. Just like generally the materialist persons, they go to churches or temple just to become purified of their sinful activities. Just like in Christian religion it is the custom, what is called? Confession. So we should not (be) like that. It is not confession. Confession means I confess that I have done this sinful act, and as soon as I come out from the church I do it again. No. We should know that all sinful activities are washed off by chanting, but that does not mean we shall commit it again.</p> |
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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="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> |
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| | <div id="MorningWalkMarch51974Mayapura_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="30" link="Morning Walk -- March 5, 1974, Mayapura" link_text="Morning Walk -- March 5, 1974, Mayapura"> |
| | <div class="heading">One who keeps himself in household life, he kills himself. Killing, Gṛhamedhī. And that is little long term meaning. But this is the direct meaning. The medhi rod is there, and he simply... He's very busy. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 5, 1974, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- March 5, 1974, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Medhi, yes. Another medhi means killing. So one who keeps himself in household life, he kills himself. Killing, Gṛhamedhī. And that is little long term meaning. But this is the direct meaning. The medhi rod is there, and he simply... He's very busy. Busy means within few feet. But he's thinking he's very busy. Anyone got, he has got home, and he's simply rounding about. Anywhere you go. The center is that. And what is that gṛha? Where? Which way?</p> |
| | <p>Bhavānanda: This way, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Na gṛhaṁ gṛham ity āhur gṛhiṇī gṛham ucyate. The gṛham, house, is not actually gṛha. Gṛha means the wife. Gṛhiṇī gṛham ucyate na gṛhaṁ gṛham ity āhuḥ. Gṛhiṇī gṛham ucyate. So to become householder means one must have a wife. So actually round the wife. Gṛhamedhī. Round the wife. And what is wife means, everyone knows. It means round that thing. Is that good analysis?</p> |
| | <p>Devotees: Jaya.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="RoomConversationwithPaterEmmanuelABenedictineMonkJune221974Germany_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="128" link="Room Conversation with Pater Emmanuel (A Benedictine Monk) -- June 22, 1974, Germany" link_text="Room Conversation with Pater Emmanuel (A Benedictine Monk) -- June 22, 1974, Germany"> |
| | <div class="heading">If you want to support it by many testaments, that is, of course, your business, but we take the direct meaning, "Thou shall not kill"—the Christians should not kill. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Pater Emmanuel (A Benedictine Monk) -- June 22, 1974, Germany|Room Conversation with Pater Emmanuel (A Benedictine Monk) -- June 22, 1974, Germany]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: I do not know many testament, but I see in the Ten Commandments these words are there. If you want to support it by many testaments, that is, of course, your business, but we take the direct meaning, "Thou shall not kill"—the Christians should not kill. Interpretation you can give in your own way to support your business, but we see openly. If we can understand openly, there is no need of interpretation. (German)</p> |
| | <p>Pater Emmanuel: No, I understand.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Why should we interpret? Interpretation is required when the things are not clear. Here it is clear, "Thou shall not kill," plainly advised. Why should we interpret? (German)</p> |
| | <p>German devotee: (translating for Pater Emmanuel:) To eat plants, is it not killing? To eat vegetables, is it not killing?</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: Then vegetable killing and animal killing is the same?</p> |
| | <p>Pater Emmanuel: It's not the same. Not the same. But human killing and animal killing is also the same.</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: So we are not killing. Our Vaiṣṇava philosophy, we do not kill even vegetable because our Kṛṣṇa says... Find out this verse. Patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati ([[Vanisource:BG 9.26 (1972)|BG 9.26]]).</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> |
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| | <div id="ConversationwithIndianGuestsApril121975Hyderabad_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="52" link="Conversation with Indian Guests -- April 12, 1975, Hyderabad" link_text="Conversation with Indian Guests -- April 12, 1975, Hyderabad"> |
| | <div class="heading">Here is no other part. It is direct meaning. If anyone who has not surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, he is either duṣkṛtinaḥ, mūḍhāḥ, narādhamāḥ, māyayāpahṛta-jñānā, asuriṁ bhāvam. |
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Indian Guests -- April 12, 1975, Hyderabad|Conversation with Indian Guests -- April 12, 1975, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Just see. He is to judge which is suitable, which is not suitable. Just see, this philosophy. Cinmayananda or any ordinary person, he has to judge which śloka is suitable, which is not suitable. That means he is more than Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa has spoken something unsuitable—which he can judge. This is the position.</p> |
| | <p>Guest: I believe that in another sense whatever is written, we should take the sweet from the (?)...</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: There is no sweets...</p> |
| | <p>Guest: ...and if there are some...</p> |
| | <p>Mahāṁsa: Everything is sweet in Bhagavad-gītā.</p> |
| | <p>Guest: ...the other part is there. (indistinct) ...that other part, that meaning be...</p> |
| | <p>Prabhupāda: No. Other part, there is no other part. There is only one part. Just like Kṛṣṇa says that</p> |
| | :na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ |
| | :prapadyante narādhamāḥ |
| | :māyayāpahṛta-jñānā |
| | :āsuriṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ |
| | :([[Vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]) |
| | <p>So there is no other part. It is direct meaning. If anyone who has not surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, he is either duṣkṛtinaḥ, mūḍhāḥ, narādhamāḥ, māyayāpahṛta-jñānā, asuriṁ bhāvam.</p> |
| | </div> |
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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="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3> |
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| | <div id="LettertoMrBaileyAllahabad14September1951_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="11" link="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 14 September, 1951" link_text="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 14 September, 1951"> |
| | <div class="heading">I wish that the American people may try to understand Bhagavad-gita in terms of its direct meaning. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 14 September, 1951|Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 14 September, 1951]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I wish that the American people may try to understand Bhagavad-gita in terms of its direct meaning. Let it not be unnecessarily misunderstood by the empiric speculative method for making a show of the vanity of so called learning without any living experience. Such academic erudition has nothing to do with living reality.</p> |
| | <p>I wish to present an analytical study of Bhagavad-gita as it is. If your people can grasp the direct meaning of Bhagavad-gita it will be possible for us all to understand the basic principle of cosmic harmony. When that is done we shall know then that all adjustment of our existence is not only peaceful but an eternal bliss distinguished from the ephemeral sensual satisfaction. We shall then only know that here is world where there is no struggle for existence and every living entity, never mind what it is, is fit to exist.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoMrBaileyAllahabad7July1953_1" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="15" link="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 7 July, 1953" link_text="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 7 July, 1953"> |
| | <div class="heading">I wish that your people may try to understand Bhagavad-gita in terms of its direct meaning. Let it not be unnecessarily misunderstood by the empiric speculative method. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 7 July, 1953|Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 7 July, 1953]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I wish that your people may try to understand Bhagavad-gita in terms of its direct meaning. Let it not be unnecessarily misunderstood by the empiric speculative method. For making others of the vanity of so called learning without any living experience. Such academic erudity has nothing to do with the living reality.</p> |
| | <p>I shall try to present an analytical study of Bhagavad-gita through the pages of your American Reporter in order to help the American people to understand Bhagavad-gita as it is. If your people can grasp the direct meaning of Bhagavad-gita it will be possible for us all to know the basic principle of cosmic harmony. When that is done we shall know that all maladjustment of our existence is not only peaceful but an eternal bliss distinguished from the ephemeral temporary sensual satisfaction. We shall then only know that here is a world where there is no struggle for existence and every living entity, never mind what it is either a man or a beast is fit to exist. The enclosed peace of article & the _____ is the first of a series of articles on the above subject to understand Bhagavad-gita by its direct meaning.</p> |
| | </div> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3> |
| | </div> |
| | <div id="LettertoSriKRaghupatiRaoCalcutta13January1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="39" link="Letter to Sri K. Raghupati Rao -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976" link_text="Letter to Sri K. Raghupati Rao -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976"> |
| | <div class="heading">The direct meaning of the 15th Chapter 7th verse is that every living entity is the eternal part and parcel of Krishna. |
| | </div> |
| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sri K. Raghupati Rao -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976|Letter to Sri K. Raghupati Rao -- Calcutta 13 January, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You say that there is some contradiction in the Bhagavad-gita, that is your defective understanding. The direct meaning of the 15th Chapter 7th verse is that every living entity is the eternal part and parcel of Krishna. How can you think of contradiction in the Bhagavad-gita? Krishna is not an ordinary human being. How can you think that Krishna is contradicting Himself in His own statements? It is your concoction. The jiva is jivatma and Krishna is paramatma. Where is the contradiction? Why do you manufacture "iva"? That is the defect of Mayavadi philosophy. They concoct ideas.</p> |
| | <p>Yes, Krishna can enter into anything. The body is also His energy. "Bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh" ([[Vanisource:BG 7.4 (1972)|BG 7.4]]). And in Srimad-Bhagavatam in the prayers of Queen Kunti, Krishna is described "antar-bahih", within and without. In the Brahma Samhita it is stated by Lord Brahma about Krishna: "andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stam", He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms.</p> |
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