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| <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> | | <div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG26LondonAugust61973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="38" link="Lecture on BG 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonBG26LondonAugust61973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="38" link="Lecture on BG 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We living entities, we are eternal. Even the creation is annihilated after millions and trillions of years, the living entities, they are not annihilated. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20|BG 2.20]]). They remain. So when this whole cosmic manifestation will be annihilated, the living entities will remain in the body of Viṣṇu. Then when again another creation will take place, they will come out again to fulfill their desires. The real desire is how to go to home, back to Godhead.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.6 -- London, August 6, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We living entities, we are eternal. Even the creation is annihilated after millions and trillions of years, the living entities, they are not annihilated. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). They remain. So when this whole cosmic manifestation will be annihilated, the living entities will remain in the body of Viṣṇu. Then when again another creation will take place, they will come out again to fulfill their desires. The real desire is how to go to home, back to Godhead.</p> |
| <p>So this chance is given. So if this chance is misused, this life, human form of life, it is very, very risky. Again we will have to accept the cycle of birth and death. And not only that, if we do not fulfill the mission of life, then again there will be annihilation of the whole creation and we will have to stay within the body of Viṣṇu for millions and trillions of years. Again we will have to come. So therefore it is called anādi karama-phale. Anādi means "before the creation." This is going on.</p> | | <p>So this chance is given. So if this chance is misused, this life, human form of life, it is very, very risky. Again we will have to accept the cycle of birth and death. And not only that, if we do not fulfill the mission of life, then again there will be annihilation of the whole creation and we will have to stay within the body of Viṣṇu for millions and trillions of years. Again we will have to come. So therefore it is called anādi karama-phale. Anādi means "before the creation." This is going on.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG222HyderabadNovember261972_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="85" link="Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972"> | | <div id="LectureonBG222HyderabadNovember261972_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="85" link="Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972|Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So vāsudeva-parāyaṇa, vāsudeva-parā makhāḥ. These are the śāstric injunctions. So a person can take intelligence from studying Bhagavad-gītā. And Kṛṣṇa says, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19|BG 7.19]]). After many, many births... Because foolish rascals, they will have to transmigrate from one body to another, and there are 8,400,000's of different forms of body. And he has to go through the cycle of this birth and death. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19|BG 8.19]]). Take birth once, and becomes, defy God: "I don't care for God." And when Yamarāja comes, "All right. Whatever you like, you do."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972|Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So vāsudeva-parāyaṇa, vāsudeva-parā makhāḥ. These are the śāstric injunctions. So a person can take intelligence from studying Bhagavad-gītā. And Kṛṣṇa says, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]). After many, many births... Because foolish rascals, they will have to transmigrate from one body to another, and there are 8,400,000's of different forms of body. And he has to go through the cycle of this birth and death. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]). Take birth once, and becomes, defy God: "I don't care for God." And when Yamarāja comes, "All right. Whatever you like, you do."</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG41BombayMarch211974_9" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="133" link="Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Bombay, March 21, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Bombay, March 21, 1974"> | | <div id="LectureonBG41BombayMarch211974_9" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="133" link="Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Bombay, March 21, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Bombay, March 21, 1974"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Bombay, March 21, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Bombay, March 21, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So one who is wise, one who is learned, he should try to understand how to get out of this cycle of birth and death, repetition of birth and death. Now you have got this American body, very nice—rich nation's body. And we have got Indian body. That's all right. But what is the next life? That the people do not know. Just like you prepare by education for the future life. What you are preparing for the next life? They do not know, there is no..., whether there is life or not. Such a fool we are that we do not know. Therefore we have to hear from the perfect person, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, dehino 'smin yathā dehe ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]). That is the first instruction. Dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Bombay, March 21, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Bombay, March 21, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So one who is wise, one who is learned, he should try to understand how to get out of this cycle of birth and death, repetition of birth and death. Now you have got this American body, very nice—rich nation's body. And we have got Indian body. That's all right. But what is the next life? That the people do not know. Just like you prepare by education for the future life. What you are preparing for the next life? They do not know, there is no..., whether there is life or not. Such a fool we are that we do not know. Therefore we have to hear from the perfect person, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, dehino 'smin yathā dehe ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]). That is the first instruction. Dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG413NewYorkApril81973_11" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="167" link="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonBG413NewYorkApril81973_11" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="167" link="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973|Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now Kṛṣṇa says: catur varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13|BG 4.13]]). Now the... When we are animals... We had to pass through animal bodies. By evolution, we have come to this human form of body. Now it is an opportunity to get out of this cycle of birth and death. This is our real problem. But people, because they have no education, poor fund of knowledge... There is no educational institution how transmigration of the soul takes place. They do not know. Big, big M.A., Ph.D's. But they do not know what is the actual position of the living entity. But that is the real problem. They do not know the real problem.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973|Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now Kṛṣṇa says: catur varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). Now the... When we are animals... We had to pass through animal bodies. By evolution, we have come to this human form of body. Now it is an opportunity to get out of this cycle of birth and death. This is our real problem. But people, because they have no education, poor fund of knowledge... There is no educational institution how transmigration of the soul takes place. They do not know. Big, big M.A., Ph.D's. But they do not know what is the actual position of the living entity. But that is the real problem. They do not know the real problem.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG413NewYorkApril81973_12" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="167" link="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonBG413NewYorkApril81973_42" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="167" link="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973|Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">btle body, made of material elements... The gross body is made of earth, water, air, fire. And the subtle body's made of mind, intelligence and ego. This is the shirt and coat. Within this shirt and coat, there is the soul. So the soul is now encaged in this material body. And our business in the human form of body. In animal form of body, we cannot do this. But the human form of body we can understand that "I am not this body." The body, this material body, is a outer encagement, and, because I have got this body, I am subjected to birth, death, old age and disease.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973|Lecture on BG 4.13 -- New York, April 8, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like dress. Your shirt and coat is the covering of your real body. Similarly, this body, gross body and subtle body, made of material elements... The gross body is made of earth, water, air, fire. And the subtle body's made of mind, intelligence and ego. This is the shirt and coat. Within this shirt and coat, there is the soul. So the soul is now encaged in this material body. And our business in the human form of body. In animal form of body, we cannot do this. But the human form of body we can understand that "I am not this body." The body, this material body, is a outer encagement, and, because I have got this body, I am subjected to birth, death, old age and disease.</p> |
| <p>Now, in the human form of body... (indistinct) I understand it. So if I take the process, how to get out of this cycle of birth and death, then our human life is successful.</p> | | <p>Now, in the human form of body... (indistinct) I understand it. So if I take the process, how to get out of this cycle of birth and death, then our human life is successful.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG414BombayApril31974_13" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="171" link="Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974"> | | <div id="LectureonBG414BombayApril31974_13" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="171" link="Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And this conditioned means karmāṇi. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur dehopapattaye ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]). As we are doing work, fruitive activities, under the influence of a particular type of modes of nature, we are getting different types of bodies, and there are 8,400,000 forms of bodies, and we are rotating. Because we do not know, we have forgotten how to become free from this cycle of birth and death and transmigration of the soul. This is called karma. Yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.9|BG 3.9]]).</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.14 -- Bombay, April 3, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And this conditioned means karmāṇi. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur dehopapattaye ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]). As we are doing work, fruitive activities, under the influence of a particular type of modes of nature, we are getting different types of bodies, and there are 8,400,000 forms of bodies, and we are rotating. Because we do not know, we have forgotten how to become free from this cycle of birth and death and transmigration of the soul. This is called karma. Yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.9 (1972)|BG 3.9]]).</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG415BombayApril41974_14" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="174" link="Lecture on BG 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4, 1974"> | | <div id="LectureonBG415BombayApril41974_14" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="174" link="Lecture on BG 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4, 1974"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Evam... Cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭam ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13|BG 4.13]]). The first of all... Unless this division is there, that is animal society. That is not human society if these four divisions are not. Varṇāśramācāravatā puruṣeṇa. Systematic human society means</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.15 -- Bombay, April 4, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Evam... Cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭam ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). The first of all... Unless this division is there, that is animal society. That is not human society if these four divisions are not. Varṇāśramācāravatā puruṣeṇa. Systematic human society means</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG93MelbourneApril211976_24" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="304" link="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonBG93MelbourneApril211976_24" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="304" link="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So real aim of life is to stop the cycle of birth and death. That is real aim of life. If we do not know this, then we are ignorant. We are ignorant. First of all we must know that "I am eternal." That is... In the beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā it is very nicely explained that antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ: ([[Vanisource:BG 2.18|BG 2.18]]) "My dear Arjuna, this body is destructible, but the proprietor of the body, he is eternal." That is the first instruction. I am not this body, I am the proprietor of this body. You are not this body. You are the proprietor of this body. But if we think that "I am body," then that is the same thinking as the dog is thinking.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So real aim of life is to stop the cycle of birth and death. That is real aim of life. If we do not know this, then we are ignorant. We are ignorant. First of all we must know that "I am eternal." That is... In the beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā it is very nicely explained that antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ: ([[Vanisource:BG 2.18 (1972)|BG 2.18]]) "My dear Arjuna, this body is destructible, but the proprietor of the body, he is eternal." That is the first instruction. I am not this body, I am the proprietor of this body. You are not this body. You are the proprietor of this body. But if we think that "I am body," then that is the same thinking as the dog is thinking.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG93MelbourneApril211976_25" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="304" link="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonBG93MelbourneApril211976_25" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="304" link="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So God is Himself explaining how you should live. That is Bhagavad-gītā. Therefore it is said, aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya parantapa: ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3|BG 9.3]]) "My dear Arjuna, if somebody has no faith in My words..." Then what will be the result? The result will be, aprāpya mām: "He'll not get me." Aprāpya means "not getting Myself." Then what he will get? Aprāpya māṁ nivartante: "Again he goes back." Instead of going back to home, back to Godhead, he goes back to where? Now, mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani: ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3|BG 9.3]]) "Again in the cycle of birth and death." Again cycle of birth and death. Suppose in this human form of life you can make your life so perfect that immediately after death, after giving up this body, you go back to home, back to Godhead. You regain your eternal life. But if you misuse this human form of life, do not endeavor for going back to home, back to Godhead, then again go back to the cycle of birth and death. This is nature's law. You are not independent. Nature is working like that.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Melbourne, April 21, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So God is Himself explaining how you should live. That is Bhagavad-gītā. Therefore it is said, aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya parantapa: ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3 (1972)|BG 9.3]]) "My dear Arjuna, if somebody has no faith in My words..." Then what will be the result? The result will be, aprāpya mām: "He'll not get me." Aprāpya means "not getting Myself." Then what he will get? Aprāpya māṁ nivartante: "Again he goes back." Instead of going back to home, back to Godhead, he goes back to where? Now, mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani: ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3 (1972)|BG 9.3]]) "Again in the cycle of birth and death." Again cycle of birth and death. Suppose in this human form of life you can make your life so perfect that immediately after death, after giving up this body, you go back to home, back to Godhead. You regain your eternal life. But if you misuse this human form of life, do not endeavor for going back to home, back to Godhead, then again go back to the cycle of birth and death. This is nature's law. You are not independent. Nature is working like that.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG93TorontoJune201976_26" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="305" link="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Toronto, June 20, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Toronto, June 20, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonBG93TorontoJune201976_26" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="305" link="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Toronto, June 20, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Toronto, June 20, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Toronto, June 20, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Toronto, June 20, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we should take advantage of it. If you don't take advantage of it, aśraddadhānāḥ, no faith, no interest... Aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣāḥ, the human being. This is a chance of human form of life to accept the system which is offered by God Himself. That is our duty. But if one is not interested, then the result is that aprāpya mām. "He cannot get Me." Aprāpya mām. So if we don't get Kṛṣṇa, then what is the wrong there? Very, very wrong. That Kṛṣṇa says: nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani, ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3|BG 9.3]]) then he remains in the cycle of birth and death. That is not very pleasing job. We are making material efforts to make nice road, nice cars, nice skyscraper building, nice other facilities of life. But why I am doing this? This is practical. If I am called by death. How, we are not very happy, "Oh, I am attempting to build this and now I am dying," this is very painful. Sometimes at the time of death, they cry, that "I could not finish my business."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Toronto, June 20, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.3 -- Toronto, June 20, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we should take advantage of it. If you don't take advantage of it, aśraddadhānāḥ, no faith, no interest... Aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣāḥ, the human being. This is a chance of human form of life to accept the system which is offered by God Himself. That is our duty. But if one is not interested, then the result is that aprāpya mām. "He cannot get Me." Aprāpya mām. So if we don't get Kṛṣṇa, then what is the wrong there? Very, very wrong. That Kṛṣṇa says: nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani, ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3 (1972)|BG 9.3]]) then he remains in the cycle of birth and death. That is not very pleasing job. We are making material efforts to make nice road, nice cars, nice skyscraper building, nice other facilities of life. But why I am doing this? This is practical. If I am called by death. How, we are not very happy, "Oh, I am attempting to build this and now I am dying," this is very painful. Sometimes at the time of death, they cry, that "I could not finish my business."</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG94MelbourneApril221976_28" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="307" link="Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonBG94MelbourneApril221976_28" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="307" link="Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So in this way, by the process of evolution, we come to this point of human form of life. And if you are actually civilized, then take advantage of the instruction of Kṛṣṇa and make your choice, whether you are going back to home, back to Godhead, or again in the cycle of birth and death. This is the point. So if we accept the instruction given by Kṛṣṇa with faith, then our life are successful. And why you should not take? It is not very difficult. And if we take Kṛṣṇa's instruction... He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is speaking everything which is correct. If you take instruction from others... Others means those have no connection with God, or Kṛṣṇa. They cannot give you correct information because they are conditioned under the laws of nature. The defect is, ordinary person will commit mistake, will be illusioned, his senses are imperfect, and he has the tendency to cheat. This is ordinary living being. And those who are followers of Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa Himself, they have no such defect. Whatever they say, that is correct. So if we take correct knowledge, then our life is successful. And if we want to be cheated, then there are many cheaters. They'll cheat you. So make your choice, which way you shall go, whether you shall go back to home, back to Godhead, or again go to the cycle of birth and death. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19|BG 8.19]]).</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So in this way, by the process of evolution, we come to this point of human form of life. And if you are actually civilized, then take advantage of the instruction of Kṛṣṇa and make your choice, whether you are going back to home, back to Godhead, or again in the cycle of birth and death. This is the point. So if we accept the instruction given by Kṛṣṇa with faith, then our life are successful. And why you should not take? It is not very difficult. And if we take Kṛṣṇa's instruction... He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is speaking everything which is correct. If you take instruction from others... Others means those have no connection with God, or Kṛṣṇa. They cannot give you correct information because they are conditioned under the laws of nature. The defect is, ordinary person will commit mistake, will be illusioned, his senses are imperfect, and he has the tendency to cheat. This is ordinary living being. And those who are followers of Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa Himself, they have no such defect. Whatever they say, that is correct. So if we take correct knowledge, then our life is successful. And if we want to be cheated, then there are many cheaters. They'll cheat you. So make your choice, which way you shall go, whether you shall go back to home, back to Godhead, or again go to the cycle of birth and death. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]).</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG94MelbourneApril221976_29" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="307" link="Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonBG94MelbourneApril221976_29" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="307" link="Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the first basic knowledge. This is not sectarian. This is a basic knowledge, you believe or not believe. If a child says, "No, no, I don't believe that I shall become a boy," But you believe or..., you must have to become a boy. A boy says, "No, no, I shall not become a young man." No no, you must have to. That is nature's law. Similarly, if one says, "No, no, this body finished, I will not get any body," no, no, no, you have to get it. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]). You must have to get. Now make your choice, which kind of body you shall get. That is intelligence. That is intelligence. So that intelligence is also described in the Bhagavad-gītā that yānti deva-vratā devān pitṟn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.25|BG 9.25]]). In this way last line is mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām. So if you like, you can go back to home; otherwise, as Kṛṣṇa says here, aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣāḥ. Aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya parantapa ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3|BG 9.3]]). Dharma, this process, if one does not believe, then he is sure to go again to the cycle of birth and death. Aprāpya mām. He is given this offer, the opportunity.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.4 -- Melbourne, April 22, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the first basic knowledge. This is not sectarian. This is a basic knowledge, you believe or not believe. If a child says, "No, no, I don't believe that I shall become a boy," But you believe or..., you must have to become a boy. A boy says, "No, no, I shall not become a young man." No no, you must have to. That is nature's law. Similarly, if one says, "No, no, this body finished, I will not get any body," no, no, no, you have to get it. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]). You must have to get. Now make your choice, which kind of body you shall get. That is intelligence. That is intelligence. So that intelligence is also described in the Bhagavad-gītā that yānti deva-vratā devān pitṟn yānti pitṛ-vratāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.25 (1972)|BG 9.25]]). In this way last line is mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām. So if you like, you can go back to home; otherwise, as Kṛṣṇa says here, aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣāḥ. Aśraddadhānāḥ puruṣā dharmasyāsya parantapa ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3 (1972)|BG 9.3]]). Dharma, this process, if one does not believe, then he is sure to go again to the cycle of birth and death. Aprāpya mām. He is given this offer, the opportunity.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG95MelbourneApril241976_30" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="310" link="Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonBG95MelbourneApril241976_30" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="310" link="Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So here it is said, na ca mat-sthāni bhūtāni. Where God is forgotten... That is Godlessness. Na ca mat-sthāni bhūtāni paśya me yogam aiśvaram. Although they are living within the kingdom of God, still they have forgotten because they wanted to forget. God is giving us facility that if you want to forget Him, He will give you good facilities to forget Him forever. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham ([[Vanisource:BG 4.11|BG 4.11]]). But if you want God, He will give all facilities to come back to Him, back to Godhead. So this is our position in the human form of life. If we want to go back to home, back to Godhead, then we can do that in this life. And if we want to forget Him again, we have got this chance. If we want to forget Kṛṣṇa, God, then we are again in the cycle of birth and death.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.5 -- Melbourne, April 24, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So here it is said, na ca mat-sthāni bhūtāni. Where God is forgotten... That is Godlessness. Na ca mat-sthāni bhūtāni paśya me yogam aiśvaram. Although they are living within the kingdom of God, still they have forgotten because they wanted to forget. God is giving us facility that if you want to forget Him, He will give you good facilities to forget Him forever. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham ([[Vanisource:BG 4.11 (1972)|BG 4.11]]). But if you want God, He will give all facilities to come back to Him, back to Godhead. So this is our position in the human form of life. If we want to go back to home, back to Godhead, then we can do that in this life. And if we want to forget Him again, we have got this chance. If we want to forget Kṛṣṇa, God, then we are again in the cycle of birth and death.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG92426NewYorkDecember121966_33" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="322" link="Lecture on BG 9.24-26 -- New York, December 12, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.24-26 -- New York, December 12, 1966"> | | <div id="LectureonBG92426NewYorkDecember121966_33" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="322" link="Lecture on BG 9.24-26 -- New York, December 12, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.24-26 -- New York, December 12, 1966"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.24-26 -- New York, December 12, 1966|Lecture on BG 9.24-26 -- New York, December 12, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like we are changing different dresses. Sometimes I am, I have got this body, Indian, sometimes you have got this body, American, and sometimes I may get the body of a dog or a hog or something else. I may get the body of demigod. As these changes of dresses are going on, cycle of birth and death, transmigration of the soul in different forms of life, similarly, there is transmigration of the soul in different planets. So ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ... This system of going up and down should be stopped. That is the business of an intelligent person. Yad gatvā na nivartante ([[Vanisource:BG 15.6|BG 15.6]]). We should try to go (to) that planet where going, no more coming back. That is Kṛṣṇaloka.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.24-26 -- New York, December 12, 1966|Lecture on BG 9.24-26 -- New York, December 12, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like we are changing different dresses. Sometimes I am, I have got this body, Indian, sometimes you have got this body, American, and sometimes I may get the body of a dog or a hog or something else. I may get the body of demigod. As these changes of dresses are going on, cycle of birth and death, transmigration of the soul in different forms of life, similarly, there is transmigration of the soul in different planets. So ābrahma-bhuvanāl lokāḥ... This system of going up and down should be stopped. That is the business of an intelligent person. Yad gatvā na nivartante ([[Vanisource:BG 15.6 (1972)|BG 15.6]]). We should try to go (to) that planet where going, no more coming back. That is Kṛṣṇaloka.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG1322BombayOctober201973_36" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="370" link="Lecture on BG 13.22 -- Bombay, October 20, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.22 -- Bombay, October 20, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonBG1322BombayOctober201973_36" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="370" link="Lecture on BG 13.22 -- Bombay, October 20, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.22 -- Bombay, October 20, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.22 -- Bombay, October 20, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.22 -- Bombay, October 20, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore śāstra says, tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ: ([[Vanisource:SB 1.5.18|SB 1.5.18]]) "You should try for that thing which you did not receive in your past lives." Past life, by our pious activities or impious activities, we have got a different type of body, here or in higher planetary system. That's all right. But that is not solution of my problem. The real problem is janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ([[Vanisource:BG 13.9|BG 13.9]]). So we should try, we should save time and utilize it, how to get out of this janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi. That is the whole Vedic civilization.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.22 -- Bombay, October 20, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.22 -- Bombay, October 20, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore śāstra says, tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido na labhyate yad bhramatām upary adhaḥ: ([[Vanisource:SB 1.5.18|SB 1.5.18]]) "You should try for that thing which you did not receive in your past lives." Past life, by our pious activities or impious activities, we have got a different type of body, here or in higher planetary system. That's all right. But that is not solution of my problem. The real problem is janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]). So we should try, we should save time and utilize it, how to get out of this janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi. That is the whole Vedic civilization.</p> |
| <p>Therefore it is said, tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovidaḥ. If you are intelligent, then you should try, you should engage your life, how to get out of this cycle of birth and death. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvam ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). We have to purify our existence so that we can revive our original position of eternal life, blissful life, full of knowledge. That is our requirement.</p> | | <p>Therefore it is said, tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovidaḥ. If you are intelligent, then you should try, you should engage your life, how to get out of this cycle of birth and death. Tapo divyaṁ putrakā yena śuddhyet sattvam ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). We have to purify our existence so that we can revive our original position of eternal life, blissful life, full of knowledge. That is our requirement.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG166HyderabadDecember131976_38" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="388" link="Lecture on BG 16.6 -- Hyderabad, December 13, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.6 -- Hyderabad, December 13, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonBG166HyderabadDecember131976_38" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="388" link="Lecture on BG 16.6 -- Hyderabad, December 13, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.6 -- Hyderabad, December 13, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.6 -- Hyderabad, December 13, 1976|Lecture on BG 16.6 -- Hyderabad, December 13, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we are put into this cycle of birth and death. If we don't correct it... Correct means we shall be less attached to the material enjoyment. So long we are attached to material enjoyment, we have to transmigrate from one type of body to another. So daivī-sampada means those who are devatās, their first business is how to rectify this diseased condition of life, repetition of birth and death. Everything is there. Sattva-saṁśuddhir jñāna. This requires jñāna, knowledge. Unless I know what is my position, why I am dying, what is death... This requires jñāna. Jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42|BG 18.42]]). That means you have to become a brāhmaṇa.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.6 -- Hyderabad, December 13, 1976|Lecture on BG 16.6 -- Hyderabad, December 13, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we are put into this cycle of birth and death. If we don't correct it... Correct means we shall be less attached to the material enjoyment. So long we are attached to material enjoyment, we have to transmigrate from one type of body to another. So daivī-sampada means those who are devatās, their first business is how to rectify this diseased condition of life, repetition of birth and death. Everything is there. Sattva-saṁśuddhir jñāna. This requires jñāna, knowledge. Unless I know what is my position, why I am dying, what is death... This requires jñāna. Jñānaṁ vijñānam āstikyaṁ brahma-karma svabhāva-jam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42 (1972)|BG 18.42]]). That means you have to become a brāhmaṇa.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG1610HawaiiFebruary61975_40" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="399" link="Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonBG1610HawaiiFebruary61975_40" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="399" link="Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975|Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore śāstra says that pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syāt, na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. A man should not desire to become a father and the woman should not desire to become a mother unless both of them have taken the vow that "I shall beget a child and stop his cycle of birth and death." This is the duty of the parents, not that "I shall beget children like cats and dogs." There should be some meaning of the life. Samupeta-mṛtyum. Because we have got the circumstances, unclean body, because we have got unclean body, therefore there is birth and death. Just like as soon as you are infected, there is fever, similarly, the birth and death is a kind of disease. It is also listed with disease. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ([[Vanisource:BG 13.9|BG 13.9]]). They are on the same category: birth, death, old age and disease.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975|Lecture on BG 16.10 -- Hawaii, February 6, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore śāstra says that pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syāt, na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. A man should not desire to become a father and the woman should not desire to become a mother unless both of them have taken the vow that "I shall beget a child and stop his cycle of birth and death." This is the duty of the parents, not that "I shall beget children like cats and dogs." There should be some meaning of the life. Samupeta-mṛtyum. Because we have got the circumstances, unclean body, because we have got unclean body, therefore there is birth and death. Just like as soon as you are infected, there is fever, similarly, the birth and death is a kind of disease. It is also listed with disease. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]). They are on the same category: birth, death, old age and disease.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB1523VrndavanaAugust41974_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="145" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.23 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.23 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974"> | | <div id="LectureonSB1523VrndavanaAugust41974_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="145" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.23 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.23 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.23 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.5.23 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">What is that fearful, dangerous position? They do not care. We are so fool that we are always on the brink of dangerous position... If we don't utilize this life properly, I may fall down again to the cycle of birth and death. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]). I shall get another body. There is no guarantee what kind of body I am going to get. I do not know. This foolish civilization is going. Save them by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the best welfare activity.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.23 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.5.23 -- Vrndavana, August 4, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">What is that fearful, dangerous position? They do not care. We are so fool that we are always on the brink of dangerous position... If we don't utilize this life properly, I may fall down again to the cycle of birth and death. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]). I shall get another body. There is no guarantee what kind of body I am going to get. I do not know. This foolish civilization is going. Save them by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is the best welfare activity.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB1756JohannesburgOctober151975_6" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="158" link="Lecture on SB 1.7.5-6 -- Johannesburg, October 15, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.7.5-6 -- Johannesburg, October 15, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB1756JohannesburgOctober151975_6" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="158" link="Lecture on SB 1.7.5-6 -- Johannesburg, October 15, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.7.5-6 -- Johannesburg, October 15, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.7.5-6 -- Johannesburg, October 15, 1975|Lecture on SB 1.7.5-6 -- Johannesburg, October 15, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this question does not strike us, that "If I am immortal—I have no birth, I have no death..." na jāyate mriyate vā kadācit "...at any time. Not that sometimes I was dying. No, never." Nityaḥ śāśvato yaṁ na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20|BG 2.20]]). This is the position. "Then why I am accepting this birth and death and old age, disease? This is my problem." So we do not think that, neither we are educated how to stop it. But there is process. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]). Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā. If you simply try to understand Kṛṣṇa... Janma karma ca me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]). Not Kṛṣṇa ordinarily-factually, kṛṣṇa-tattvataḥ. Janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ, actually, in fact, in truth. Then what is the result? Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti: "His, the cycle of birth and death, old age, and dis..., stopped." Tyaktvā deham. We have to give up this body; that is certain. But after giving up this body, no more material body. Then what happens? He is finished? No, he is not finished. Mām eti: "He comes to Me, back to home."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.7.5-6 -- Johannesburg, October 15, 1975|Lecture on SB 1.7.5-6 -- Johannesburg, October 15, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this question does not strike us, that "If I am immortal—I have no birth, I have no death..." na jāyate mriyate vā kadācit "...at any time. Not that sometimes I was dying. No, never." Nityaḥ śāśvato yaṁ na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). This is the position. "Then why I am accepting this birth and death and old age, disease? This is my problem." So we do not think that, neither we are educated how to stop it. But there is process. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā. If you simply try to understand Kṛṣṇa... Janma karma ca me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). Not Kṛṣṇa ordinarily-factually, kṛṣṇa-tattvataḥ. Janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ, actually, in fact, in truth. Then what is the result? Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti: "His, the cycle of birth and death, old age, and dis..., stopped." Tyaktvā deham. We have to give up this body; that is certain. But after giving up this body, no more material body. Then what happens? He is finished? No, he is not finished. Mām eti: "He comes to Me, back to home."</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB177VrndavanaApril241975_7" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="164" link="Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB177VrndavanaApril241975_7" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="164" link="Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975|Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we are increasing our anarthas, anarthas, and we are becoming entangled in the cycle of birth and death. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19|BG 8.19]]). Once we take a certain type of body, we enjoy or suffer for some time; then again we have to give up this body, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]), and there is no guarantee what sort of body you are going to get. But it is certain that you are going to get a body. And that may be offered to you by the laws of nature. It may be an important, more important body than what we have got just now, or it may be less important. It may be cats and dog or hog, and it may be the body of demigod. That is according to karma.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975|Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we are increasing our anarthas, anarthas, and we are becoming entangled in the cycle of birth and death. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]). Once we take a certain type of body, we enjoy or suffer for some time; then again we have to give up this body, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]), and there is no guarantee what sort of body you are going to get. But it is certain that you are going to get a body. And that may be offered to you by the laws of nature. It may be an important, more important body than what we have got just now, or it may be less important. It may be cats and dog or hog, and it may be the body of demigod. That is according to karma.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB5512ParisAugust121973_22" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="520" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Paris, August 12, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Paris, August 12, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonSB5512ParisAugust121973_21" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="520" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Paris, August 12, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Paris, August 12, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Paris, August 12, 1973|Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Paris, August 12, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now it is up to us to decide whether we are going back again to the cycle of birth and death, from one body to another, or go back to home, back to Godhead, attain eternal body, blissful life. So the path is described very distinctly, mahat-sevaṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes. If you want to get out of this entanglement, then we must associate with saintly personalities. (break) ...to go back in the cycle of birth and death, then we may associate with person who are addicted to sense gratification. So now there are description, very long description, who is saintly person, who is not saintly persons, so it will take much time.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Paris, August 12, 1973|Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Paris, August 12, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now it is up to us to decide whether we are going back again to the cycle of birth and death, from one body to another, or go back to home, back to Godhead, attain eternal body, blissful life. So the path is described very distinctly, mahat-sevaṁ dvāram āhur vimuktes. If you want to get out of this entanglement, then we must associate with saintly personalities. (break) ...to go back in the cycle of birth and death, then we may associate with person who are addicted to sense gratification. So now there are description, very long description, who is saintly person, who is not saintly persons, so it will take much time.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB5516VrndavanaNovember41976_23" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="548" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB5516VrndavanaNovember41976_22" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="548" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In Caitanya-caritāmṛta... So we have to become niṣkiñcana, no more material business, no more. That is called niṣkiñcanasya. Who can take this niṣkiñcana? Bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya. Unless one is eager to serve the Lord, nobody can be niṣkiñcana. Everyone is a kiñcana, "Something mine, something mine, something mine." So for such person, niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya pāraṁ paraṁ jigamiṣor bhava-sāgarasya... Why bhagavad-bhajana is required? Yes, it is most essential, śreya. Śreyasi naṣṭa-dṛṣṭiḥ. We do not know. Kṛṣṇa says that "If you do not come to Me, if you do not accept Me, then," nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani, "you will continue the cycle of birth and death." And that means ananta-duḥkham, ananta-duḥkham, one life after one life, one life after one life. This will go on.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.16 -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In Caitanya-caritāmṛta... So we have to become niṣkiñcana, no more material business, no more. That is called niṣkiñcanasya. Who can take this niṣkiñcana? Bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya. Unless one is eager to serve the Lord, nobody can be niṣkiñcana. Everyone is a kiñcana, "Something mine, something mine, something mine." So for such person, niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya pāraṁ paraṁ jigamiṣor bhava-sāgarasya... Why bhagavad-bhajana is required? Yes, it is most essential, śreya. Śreyasi naṣṭa-dṛṣṭiḥ. We do not know. Kṛṣṇa says that "If you do not come to Me, if you do not accept Me, then," nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani, "you will continue the cycle of birth and death." And that means ananta-duḥkham, ananta-duḥkham, one life after one life, one life after one life. This will go on.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB5518VrndavanaNovember61976_24" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="550" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB5518VrndavanaNovember61976_23" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="550" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The purpose of guru is described in the Bhāgavatam, that tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta ([[Vanisource:SB 11.3.21|SB 11.3.21]]). Guru to go, to surrender. Just like Arjuna, he surrendered, śiṣyas te 'ham śādhi māṁ prapannam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.7|BG 2.7]]). Prapadye, tasmād guruṁ prapadye. You must find out guru where you can surrender. Not that keep your guru your order supply, "Give me some acid bath (?) and I may be benefited." He is not guru; he is your order supplier, your servant. Guru means he must order it, "You must do this." If we agree, then he is a guru. Not that "I shall order my guru, and he will execute my order." No that. That will do the dog, not the guru. Then the... You have got a dog, and if you ask him, "Sit down here," a dog will sit. That kind of guru keeping has no value. But here is the responsibility of guru, first that he must save the disciple from the cycle of birth and death. Kṛṣṇa also said, "What is the problem of life?" Not that "I have got some pain here, I have some trouble or some..." These are not problems. This problem one should tolerate. Because destiny is there, one should āgamāpāyino nityā tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata. We should not be disturbed for all these things. It is material world. You will have sometimes mātrā sparśās tu śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ. The whole world is like that.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The purpose of guru is described in the Bhāgavatam, that tasmād guruṁ prapadyeta ([[Vanisource:SB 11.3.21|SB 11.3.21]]). Guru to go, to surrender. Just like Arjuna, he surrendered, śiṣyas te 'ham śādhi māṁ prapannam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.7 (1972)|BG 2.7]]). Prapadye, tasmād guruṁ prapadye. You must find out guru where you can surrender. Not that keep your guru your order supply, "Give me some acid bath (?) and I may be benefited." He is not guru; he is your order supplier, your servant. Guru means he must order it, "You must do this." If we agree, then he is a guru. Not that "I shall order my guru, and he will execute my order." No that. That will do the dog, not the guru. Then the... You have got a dog, and if you ask him, "Sit down here," a dog will sit. That kind of guru keeping has no value. But here is the responsibility of guru, first that he must save the disciple from the cycle of birth and death. Kṛṣṇa also said, "What is the problem of life?" Not that "I have got some pain here, I have some trouble or some..." These are not problems. This problem one should tolerate. Because destiny is there, one should āgamāpāyino nityā tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata. We should not be disturbed for all these things. It is material world. You will have sometimes mātrā sparśās tu śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ. The whole world is like that.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB5518VrndavanaNovember61976_25" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="550" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB5518VrndavanaNovember61976_24" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="550" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you have become more than your guru, then "Overcoming guru, I shall get Kṛṣṇa's prasāda, Kṛṣṇa's favor, I have learnt more, guru mara vidyā," that is also not good. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo yasya **. This is the injunction of the ācārya, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura. He has described very nicely vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru nandana ([[Vanisource:BG 2.41|BG 2.41]]). The order of guru should be the life and soul of the disciple, without caring for his personal salvation. This is the qualification of śiṣya. Śiṣyas te 'ham śādhi māṁ prapannam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.7|BG 2.7]]), fully surrendered. And guru's duty is to guide them, guide him how to overcome this cycle of birth of death. These are the relationship between guru and disciple or father and son, mother and son, friend and friend, devatā... There are so many devatās. In the śāstras there are thirty-three millions of devatā. They say, "Whatever you worship," the rascals say, not any intelligent man, that "whatever devatā. You worship Kali, that's all right. You worship Gaṇeśa, that's all right. You worship Sūrya, that's all right. Whatever you are doing is all right. It is the same thing." No. Kṛṣṇa does not say. Kṛṣṇa says mām ekam. That is wanted.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.5.18 -- Vrndavana, November 6, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you have become more than your guru, then "Overcoming guru, I shall get Kṛṣṇa's prasāda, Kṛṣṇa's favor, I have learnt more, guru mara vidyā," that is also not good. Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo yasya **. This is the injunction of the ācārya, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura. He has described very nicely vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru nandana ([[Vanisource:BG 2.41 (1972)|BG 2.41]]). The order of guru should be the life and soul of the disciple, without caring for his personal salvation. This is the qualification of śiṣya. Śiṣyas te 'ham śādhi māṁ prapannam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.7 (1972)|BG 2.7]]), fully surrendered. And guru's duty is to guide them, guide him how to overcome this cycle of birth of death. These are the relationship between guru and disciple or father and son, mother and son, friend and friend, devatā... There are so many devatās. In the śāstras there are thirty-three millions of devatā. They say, "Whatever you worship," the rascals say, not any intelligent man, that "whatever devatā. You worship Kali, that's all right. You worship Gaṇeśa, that's all right. You worship Sūrya, that's all right. Whatever you are doing is all right. It is the same thing." No. Kṛṣṇa does not say. Kṛṣṇa says mām ekam. That is wanted.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB611HonoluluMay51976_26" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="579" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Honolulu, May 5, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Honolulu, May 5, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB611HonoluluMay51976_25" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="579" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Honolulu, May 5, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Honolulu, May 5, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Honolulu, May 5, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Honolulu, May 5, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So here it is said,</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Honolulu, May 5, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.1 -- Honolulu, May 5, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So here it is said,</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB617HonoluluMay81976_27" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="592" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, May 8, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, May 8, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB617HonoluluMay81976_26" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="592" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, May 8, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, May 8, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, May 8, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, May 8, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like this morning we were talking so many things. They have no standard knowledge, no real knowledge. They do not know anything. Still, they present themselves, pretend themselves as philosopher, as scientist, as guru, as father, no. Everyone, those who are guardian... Therefore śāstra has forbidden, gurur na sa syāt sva-jano na sa syāt pitā na sa syāj jananī na sa syāt: "One should not become a guru, one should not become a relative, one should not become the father, one should not become the mother, one should not become the husband..." In this way there is a list. Why? Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum: "If he does not know how to guide his disciple or subordinate to stop the cycle of birth and death." He should not do. This is the ultimate goal of life, that we have to stop the cycle. Punar-janma-jayayā. Punar-janma-jayayā, to conquer over next birth. Punar-janma-jayaya.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, May 8, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.7 -- Honolulu, May 8, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like this morning we were talking so many things. They have no standard knowledge, no real knowledge. They do not know anything. Still, they present themselves, pretend themselves as philosopher, as scientist, as guru, as father, no. Everyone, those who are guardian... Therefore śāstra has forbidden, gurur na sa syāt sva-jano na sa syāt pitā na sa syāj jananī na sa syāt: "One should not become a guru, one should not become a relative, one should not become the father, one should not become the mother, one should not become the husband..." In this way there is a list. Why? Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum: "If he does not know how to guide his disciple or subordinate to stop the cycle of birth and death." He should not do. This is the ultimate goal of life, that we have to stop the cycle. Punar-janma-jayayā. Punar-janma-jayayā, to conquer over next birth. Punar-janma-jayaya.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB6111HonoluluMay121976_28" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="603" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB6111HonoluluMay121976_27" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="603" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the beginning of human life, that unless you come to this knowledge... athāto brahma jijñāsā. This is called brahma-jijñāsā. So that is possible in the human form of life. A dog cannot. A dog comes within your room, and you drive him away, you punish him, and still, with some plea he will come. So therefore Parīkṣit... Śukadeva Gosvāmī suggests that we have to make him free from the avidyā, ignorance. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Everyone is under the spell of māyā. Punaḥ punaḥ. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19|BG 8.19]]). It is going on, but we do not inquire that "Why I am repeatedly accepting the cycle of birth and death?" That is avidyā. They are, rather, supporting, "Suppose if I become dog, what is the wrong there?" They say like that: "What is the wrong there?" So this means avidyā, ignorance.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the beginning of human life, that unless you come to this knowledge... athāto brahma jijñāsā. This is called brahma-jijñāsā. So that is possible in the human form of life. A dog cannot. A dog comes within your room, and you drive him away, you punish him, and still, with some plea he will come. So therefore Parīkṣit... Śukadeva Gosvāmī suggests that we have to make him free from the avidyā, ignorance. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Everyone is under the spell of māyā. Punaḥ punaḥ. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]). It is going on, but we do not inquire that "Why I am repeatedly accepting the cycle of birth and death?" That is avidyā. They are, rather, supporting, "Suppose if I become dog, what is the wrong there?" They say like that: "What is the wrong there?" So this means avidyā, ignorance.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB611314HonoluluMay141976_29" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="608" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Honolulu, May 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Honolulu, May 14, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB611314HonoluluMay141976_28" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="608" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Honolulu, May 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Honolulu, May 14, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Honolulu, May 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Honolulu, May 14, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So sense enjoyment is not very difficult. Even there... Viṣayaḥ khalu sarvataḥ syāt. The hogs and pigs, they have got facility for sense enjoyment. They do not care even who is who. Even she is mother or she is sister or she is daughter, they will enjoy sex. That is hog life. You have seen. There is no discrimination. And the monkeys, they are enjoying sex life. So everyone enjoys sense life. So "Why? I have got this valuable life, human form of life. Why I shall become a living entity like hogs and dogs?" This is called tapasya. "Why I shall become hogs and dogs and again I shall put myself in the cycle of birth and death? I have got this life after so many evolutionary process. Why not practice little tapasya in this life?" This is knowledge. "If by practicing little tapasya, restraint, I can get relief from this repetition of birth and death, why shall I not do it?" This is knowledge.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Honolulu, May 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.13-14 -- Honolulu, May 14, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So sense enjoyment is not very difficult. Even there... Viṣayaḥ khalu sarvataḥ syāt. The hogs and pigs, they have got facility for sense enjoyment. They do not care even who is who. Even she is mother or she is sister or she is daughter, they will enjoy sex. That is hog life. You have seen. There is no discrimination. And the monkeys, they are enjoying sex life. So everyone enjoys sense life. So "Why? I have got this valuable life, human form of life. Why I shall become a living entity like hogs and dogs?" This is called tapasya. "Why I shall become hogs and dogs and again I shall put myself in the cycle of birth and death? I have got this life after so many evolutionary process. Why not practice little tapasya in this life?" This is knowledge. "If by practicing little tapasya, restraint, I can get relief from this repetition of birth and death, why shall I not do it?" This is knowledge.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB613439SuratDecember191970_30" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="658" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970"> | | <div id="LectureonSB613439SuratDecember191970_29" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="658" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So people are so much addicted to sinful activities. How they can be happy? They are condemned. Only this movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, if they take to this movement, they can be saved. Otherwise, there is no saving. They must cycle round the 8,400,000 species of life, sometimes very happy and sometimes very sad, sometimes this Brahma, sometimes the germs in the stool. This is going on, changing bodies, one after another, just like we change our dress. This will go on so long one is not completely freed from the sinful activities. Unless he enters into the kingdom of God, this cycle of birth and death will go on. Only in the spiritual sky there is no birth, death, old age, and disease. And as soon as you are out of the spiritual sky, these four things will... You may live for thousands of years. That doesn't matter, but you have to die.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.34-39 -- Surat, December 19, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So people are so much addicted to sinful activities. How they can be happy? They are condemned. Only this movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, if they take to this movement, they can be saved. Otherwise, there is no saving. They must cycle round the 8,400,000 species of life, sometimes very happy and sometimes very sad, sometimes this Brahma, sometimes the germs in the stool. This is going on, changing bodies, one after another, just like we change our dress. This will go on so long one is not completely freed from the sinful activities. Unless he enters into the kingdom of God, this cycle of birth and death will go on. Only in the spiritual sky there is no birth, death, old age, and disease. And as soon as you are out of the spiritual sky, these four things will... You may live for thousands of years. That doesn't matter, but you have to die.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB613940SuratDecember211970_31" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="664" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.39-40 -- Surat, December 21, 1970" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.39-40 -- Surat, December 21, 1970"> | | <div id="LectureonSB613940SuratDecember211970_30" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="664" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.39-40 -- Surat, December 21, 1970" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.39-40 -- Surat, December 21, 1970"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.39-40 -- Surat, December 21, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.39-40 -- Surat, December 21, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like in ordinary way, all the state laws are applicable to the human being, not to the animals. Because if an animal goes to the wrong path or if an animal takes away something from your possession, he is not punished, neither anybody goes to complain in the police court. Similarly, human being... That is also civilized human being, advanced, civilized... That is stated here that daṇḍyāḥ kiṁ kāriṇaḥ sarve āho svit katicin nṛṇām. Human being... That is also very few human being, because those who are supposed to be advanced, the Aryans... The Aryans are called the advanced human being. The civilization means Aryan civilization. So katicin nṛṇām. This very word is used here. Not all human beings. Those who are..., they are also punished. But a civilized human being is very much responsible life. The chance is given to get out of this cycle of birth and death. Therefore, for civilized human being, these Vedas, these scriptures, are made for them, not for the rascals and fools, those who are in the lower stage of life, only for the civilized.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.39-40 -- Surat, December 21, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.39-40 -- Surat, December 21, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like in ordinary way, all the state laws are applicable to the human being, not to the animals. Because if an animal goes to the wrong path or if an animal takes away something from your possession, he is not punished, neither anybody goes to complain in the police court. Similarly, human being... That is also civilized human being, advanced, civilized... That is stated here that daṇḍyāḥ kiṁ kāriṇaḥ sarve āho svit katicin nṛṇām. Human being... That is also very few human being, because those who are supposed to be advanced, the Aryans... The Aryans are called the advanced human being. The civilization means Aryan civilization. So katicin nṛṇām. This very word is used here. Not all human beings. Those who are..., they are also punished. But a civilized human being is very much responsible life. The chance is given to get out of this cycle of birth and death. Therefore, for civilized human being, these Vedas, these scriptures, are made for them, not for the rascals and fools, those who are in the lower stage of life, only for the civilized.</p> |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="LectureonSB6143LosAngelesJune91976_32" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="673" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.43 -- Los Angeles, June 9, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.43 -- Los Angeles, June 9, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB6143LosAngelesJune91976_31" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="673" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.43 -- Los Angeles, June 9, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.43 -- Los Angeles, June 9, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.43 -- Los Angeles, June 9, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.43 -- Los Angeles, June 9, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we have got this opportunity, this human form of life. As I was saying yesterday, kṛṣṇa-bhuliya jīva... Anādi bahirmukha jīva kṛṣṇa bhuli gela, ataeva kṛṣṇa veda-purāṇa karila. We do not know when, but since a very, very long time, anādi... Ādi means it is beginning of this creation. And before that, anādi. Anādi bahir-mukha jīva. We are forgetful of Kṛṣṇa since a very, very long time, and going within the cycle of birth and death, transmigration. So we get the opportunity, this human form of life. So we must revive our consciousness by going through, by understanding, by hearing these literatures. Veda-Purāṇa. Veda-Purāṇa. Anādi bahir-mukha jīva kṛṣṇa bhuli gela. Our position is: we have forgotten God. But this forgetfulness can be subdued, and we can revive our original consciousness. Just like a man sleeping, but if you call him again and again, "Mr. such and such, get up. Get up. Now your time is to go to office and do this, to do that," similarly, although we are sleeping on the lap of māyā, kota nidrā yao māyā piśācīra kole, so we can be awakened by simply this chanting process, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.43 -- Los Angeles, June 9, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.43 -- Los Angeles, June 9, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we have got this opportunity, this human form of life. As I was saying yesterday, kṛṣṇa-bhuliya jīva... Anādi bahirmukha jīva kṛṣṇa bhuli gela, ataeva kṛṣṇa veda-purāṇa karila. We do not know when, but since a very, very long time, anādi... Ādi means it is beginning of this creation. And before that, anādi. Anādi bahir-mukha jīva. We are forgetful of Kṛṣṇa since a very, very long time, and going within the cycle of birth and death, transmigration. So we get the opportunity, this human form of life. So we must revive our consciousness by going through, by understanding, by hearing these literatures. Veda-Purāṇa. Veda-Purāṇa. Anādi bahir-mukha jīva kṛṣṇa bhuli gela. Our position is: we have forgotten God. But this forgetfulness can be subdued, and we can revive our original consciousness. Just like a man sleeping, but if you call him again and again, "Mr. such and such, get up. Get up. Now your time is to go to office and do this, to do that," similarly, although we are sleeping on the lap of māyā, kota nidrā yao māyā piśācīra kole, so we can be awakened by simply this chanting process, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB6148DallasJuly301975_33" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="682" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Dallas, July 30, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Dallas, July 30, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB6148DallasJuly301975_32" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="682" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Dallas, July 30, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Dallas, July 30, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Dallas, July 30, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Dallas, July 30, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So how to keep oneself always with Kṛṣṇa, that is the aim of human life. And if we do not do that, that is sinful. Then we become punishable, that "You were given the chance to understand yourself, Kṛṣṇa and your relationship with Kṛṣṇa. You did not take this chance." Oh, he is punished: "All right, you become again animal, again in the cycle of birth and death." So we should be very, very careful. Do not think that "We are independent, and we can do whatever nonsense I like." That is very risky life. Do not think like that, foolishly. There is a regular... There is Yamarāja. Because we are sons of Kṛṣṇa, when Kṛṣṇa wants that "These My sons, rascals, are suffering in this material world. Let them come back home," therefore He comes personally. Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata, tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmyaham ([[Vanisource:BG 4.7|BG 4.7]]). He desires that, that "These rascals, they are rotting in this material world, birth after birth. Let them come back." Because He is more affectionate. So... And if he does not utilize this human form of life to take the advantage of going back to home, back to Godhead, that is sinful. Then he is punished.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Dallas, July 30, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Dallas, July 30, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So how to keep oneself always with Kṛṣṇa, that is the aim of human life. And if we do not do that, that is sinful. Then we become punishable, that "You were given the chance to understand yourself, Kṛṣṇa and your relationship with Kṛṣṇa. You did not take this chance." Oh, he is punished: "All right, you become again animal, again in the cycle of birth and death." So we should be very, very careful. Do not think that "We are independent, and we can do whatever nonsense I like." That is very risky life. Do not think like that, foolishly. There is a regular... There is Yamarāja. Because we are sons of Kṛṣṇa, when Kṛṣṇa wants that "These My sons, rascals, are suffering in this material world. Let them come back home," therefore He comes personally. Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata, tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmyaham ([[Vanisource:BG 4.7 (1972)|BG 4.7]]). He desires that, that "These rascals, they are rotting in this material world, birth after birth. Let them come back." Because He is more affectionate. So... And if he does not utilize this human form of life to take the advantage of going back to home, back to Godhead, that is sinful. Then he is punished.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB6148DetroitJune141976_34" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="683" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Detroit, June 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Detroit, June 14, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB6148DetroitJune141976_33" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="683" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Detroit, June 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Detroit, June 14, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Detroit, June 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Detroit, June 14, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore the living entities, means human beings, they have been described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as manda. Manda means all bad. Manda, there are two meanings, "slow" or "bad." Slow means bad. Slow, if you take the meaning of slow, that will be like this, that this human form of life is meant for spiritual realization. That is the advantage. In the cycle of birth and death, we are rotating. Once a chance is given to decide whether we shall rotate in the cycle of birth and death or we shall go back to home, back to Godhead. That decision rests on this life. It is a very responsible life. Labdhvā sudurlabhaṁ idaṁ bahu-sambhavānte ([[Vanisource:SB 11.9.29|SB 11.9.29]]). Prahlāda Mahārāja says, durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam: "Don't spoil this human form of life like animals." This is the special prerogative, to realize one's spiritual identity and engage oneself in spiritual activities. That is human life.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Detroit, June 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.48 -- Detroit, June 14, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore the living entities, means human beings, they have been described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as manda. Manda means all bad. Manda, there are two meanings, "slow" or "bad." Slow means bad. Slow, if you take the meaning of slow, that will be like this, that this human form of life is meant for spiritual realization. That is the advantage. In the cycle of birth and death, we are rotating. Once a chance is given to decide whether we shall rotate in the cycle of birth and death or we shall go back to home, back to Godhead. That decision rests on this life. It is a very responsible life. Labdhvā sudurlabhaṁ idaṁ bahu-sambhavānte ([[Vanisource:SB 11.9.29|SB 11.9.29]]). Prahlāda Mahārāja says, durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma tad apy adhruvam arthadam: "Don't spoil this human form of life like animals." This is the special prerogative, to realize one's spiritual identity and engage oneself in spiritual activities. That is human life.</p> |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="LectureonSB6163VrndavanaAugust301975_35" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="696" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB6163VrndavanaAugust301975_34" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="696" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are put into such a position that every moment we are being affected by the three modes of material nature. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni. The prakṛti, the nature, is working so expertly. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni. And kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22|BG 13.22]]). In this way our transmigration from one body to another, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]), it is due to this infection of contacting different material modes of nature. The whole world is going on. So therefore our business of human life is how to protect ourself from this infection of material nature. That should be the aim of human life, not that allow us to be infected more and more and become implicated in the cycle of birth and death, sometimes lower, sometimes higher. This is not intelligence. The intelligence is how to get out of it. In the lower animal forms of life the nature takes care. Jalajā nava-lakṣāni sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati, kṛmayo rudra-sāṅkhyakāḥ. From the aquatics to the plant life, then insect life, then bird life, then beast life, then we come to the human life. And that is also When we come to the civilized life we should not waste our time like animals or lower creatures.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.63 -- Vrndavana, August 30, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are put into such a position that every moment we are being affected by the three modes of material nature. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni. The prakṛti, the nature, is working so expertly. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni. And kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22 (1972)|BG 13.22]]). In this way our transmigration from one body to another, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]), it is due to this infection of contacting different material modes of nature. The whole world is going on. So therefore our business of human life is how to protect ourself from this infection of material nature. That should be the aim of human life, not that allow us to be infected more and more and become implicated in the cycle of birth and death, sometimes lower, sometimes higher. This is not intelligence. The intelligence is how to get out of it. In the lower animal forms of life the nature takes care. Jalajā nava-lakṣāni sthāvarā lakṣa-viṁśati, kṛmayo rudra-sāṅkhyakāḥ. From the aquatics to the plant life, then insect life, then bird life, then beast life, then we come to the human life. And that is also When we come to the civilized life we should not waste our time like animals or lower creatures.</p> |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="LectureonSB623VrndavanaSeptember71975_36" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="704" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB623VrndavanaSeptember71975_35" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="704" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The demigod worship, there is injunction that "You do this." But for whom? For the less intelligent person. Kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ yajanti anya-devatāḥ: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.20|BG 7.20]]) "Except God, the Supreme Lord, when the other demigod worship is allowed, that is for the person, hṛta-jñānāḥ, one who does not know his ultimate goal of life, for them." But one who is interested to stop the cycle of birth and death, they must come to Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise it is not possible. Hariṁ vinā na mṛtiṁ taranti. Kṛṣṇa, Hari, also says, Kṛṣṇa also says, māṁ ca yo What is that? What is that verse? Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]). Janma karma me divyam. Kṛṣṇa says that "I appear." Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati ([[Vanisource:BG 4.7|BG 4.7]]). "I take birth as the son of Devakī, or I am raised as the son of Mother Yaśodā. So one should understand that ajo 'pi sann avyayātmā: I am aja, I never take birth, but why I come and take birth as a child of Devakī or Yaśodā?" If we simply understand this fact, janma karma me divyaṁ, janati yo tattvataḥ, if anyone understands, then he becomes free from the cycle of birth and death. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]).</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The demigod worship, there is injunction that "You do this." But for whom? For the less intelligent person. Kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ yajanti anya-devatāḥ: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.20 (1972)|BG 7.20]]) "Except God, the Supreme Lord, when the other demigod worship is allowed, that is for the person, hṛta-jñānāḥ, one who does not know his ultimate goal of life, for them." But one who is interested to stop the cycle of birth and death, they must come to Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise it is not possible. Hariṁ vinā na mṛtiṁ taranti. Kṛṣṇa, Hari, also says, Kṛṣṇa also says, māṁ ca yo What is that? What is that verse? Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). Janma karma me divyam. Kṛṣṇa says that "I appear." Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati ([[Vanisource:BG 4.7 (1972)|BG 4.7]]). "I take birth as the son of Devakī, or I am raised as the son of Mother Yaśodā. So one should understand that ajo 'pi sann avyayātmā: I am aja, I never take birth, but why I come and take birth as a child of Devakī or Yaśodā?" If we simply understand this fact, janma karma me divyaṁ, janati yo tattvataḥ, if anyone understands, then he becomes free from the cycle of birth and death. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]).</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB623VrndavanaSeptember71975_37" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="704" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB623VrndavanaSeptember71975_36" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="704" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this is possible. Therefore the government, the father, the guru and the guardian—the everyone should try to make his dependent how he becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious. This is the duty. Therefore the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so important, because the human life is meant for stopping the cycle of birth and death. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. This is the only process. You cannot stop... But they do not know that this birth and death can be stopped. They are so rascal, they are so foolish, that they do not believe, neither they believe in the next birth, neither they have any idea how to stop death or stop next birth. No education. Throughout the whole world there is no education, there is no science. They are callous. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, mūḍha.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this is possible. Therefore the government, the father, the guru and the guardian—the everyone should try to make his dependent how he becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious. This is the duty. Therefore the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so important, because the human life is meant for stopping the cycle of birth and death. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. This is the only process. You cannot stop... But they do not know that this birth and death can be stopped. They are so rascal, they are so foolish, that they do not believe, neither they believe in the next birth, neither they have any idea how to stop death or stop next birth. No education. Throughout the whole world there is no education, there is no science. They are callous. Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, mūḍha.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB623VrndavanaSeptember71975_38" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="704" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB623VrndavanaSeptember71975_37" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="704" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This āsuri-bhava: "What is God? I don't believe in God. There is no God. Every one of us we are God. Why you are finding God anywhere, in the temple? You do not know that in the street there are so many gods, loitering, daridra nārāyaṇa?" This is going on. This is going on, all full of ignorance. Therefore we have to push on this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement at very difficult position.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.3 -- Vrndavana, September 7, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This āsuri-bhava: "What is God? I don't believe in God. There is no God. Every one of us we are God. Why you are finding God anywhere, in the temple? You do not know that in the street there are so many gods, loitering, daridra nārāyaṇa?" This is going on. This is going on, all full of ignorance. Therefore we have to push on this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement at very difficult position.</p> |
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| :kaścid vetti mām | | :kaścid vetti mām |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 7.3|BG 7.3]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]]) |
| <p>Simply by knowing Kṛṣṇa, one can become free from the clutches of cycle of birth and death. That's a fact. But manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye, yatatām api siddhānām ([[Vanisource:BG 7.3|BG 7.3]]). It is very, very difficult.</p> | | <p>Simply by knowing Kṛṣṇa, one can become free from the clutches of cycle of birth and death. That's a fact. But manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye, yatatām api siddhānām ([[Vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]]). It is very, very difficult.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB6217VrndavanaSeptember201975_39" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="718" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.17 -- Vrndavana, September 20, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.17 -- Vrndavana, September 20, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB6217VrndavanaSeptember201975_38" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="718" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.17 -- Vrndavana, September 20, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.17 -- Vrndavana, September 20, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.17 -- Vrndavana, September 20, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.17 -- Vrndavana, September 20, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You have become the inhabitants of the higher planets, and you have become an ant, a small insect. This is going on. But you haven't got that release. Now you have got sense; you are human being. Tapo divyam ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). Now you engage yourself in that tapasya. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriya na tyājyaṁ kāryam eva tat. Yajña, dāna and tapasya. Kṛṣṇa says, "These things are not to be given up." That is human civilization. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriya na tyājyaṁ kāryam eva tat: "It must be done." So if we do not do that, then you are not human being. We are not... We are losing the chance of becoming purified, and again implicated in the cycle of birth and death.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.17 -- Vrndavana, September 20, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.17 -- Vrndavana, September 20, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You have become the inhabitants of the higher planets, and you have become an ant, a small insect. This is going on. But you haven't got that release. Now you have got sense; you are human being. Tapo divyam ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.1|SB 5.5.1]]). Now you engage yourself in that tapasya. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriya na tyājyaṁ kāryam eva tat. Yajña, dāna and tapasya. Kṛṣṇa says, "These things are not to be given up." That is human civilization. Yajña-dāna-tapaḥ-kriya na tyājyaṁ kāryam eva tat: "It must be done." So if we do not do that, then you are not human being. We are not... We are losing the chance of becoming purified, and again implicated in the cycle of birth and death.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB761SanFranciscoMarch31967_40" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="733" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 3, 1967" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 3, 1967"> | | <div id="LectureonSB761SanFranciscoMarch31967_39" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="733" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 3, 1967" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 3, 1967"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 3, 1967|Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 3, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says that "One should not become a father, one should not become a mother, one should not become a spiritual master, one should not become a guardian, one should not become a husband..." In this way they have given a long list. Who? Who is that one? "One who cannot give his dependents relief from death." Samupeta-mṛtyuḥ. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyuḥ: "One who cannot make free his dependents." What is that freedom? "Freedom from the cycle of birth and death." He should not become a father or mother or spiritual master, like that. And Prahlāda Mahārāja is also instructing in this way, that "This human form body should be utilized fully for understanding our real position, our relationship with God, and our transaction, our dealings, and the basis of our relationship with God, and what is the real goal of life." So Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said that the real goal of life is premā pum-artho mahān, prema, to attain love.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 3, 1967|Lecture on SB 7.6.1 -- San Francisco, March 3, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says that "One should not become a father, one should not become a mother, one should not become a spiritual master, one should not become a guardian, one should not become a husband..." In this way they have given a long list. Who? Who is that one? "One who cannot give his dependents relief from death." Samupeta-mṛtyuḥ. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyuḥ: "One who cannot make free his dependents." What is that freedom? "Freedom from the cycle of birth and death." He should not become a father or mother or spiritual master, like that. And Prahlāda Mahārāja is also instructing in this way, that "This human form body should be utilized fully for understanding our real position, our relationship with God, and our transaction, our dealings, and the basis of our relationship with God, and what is the real goal of life." So Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said that the real goal of life is premā pum-artho mahān, prema, to attain love.</p> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="LectureonSB761ExcerptTorontoJune171976_41" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="744" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.1 Excerpt -- Toronto, June 17, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.1 Excerpt -- Toronto, June 17, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB761ExcerptTorontoJune171976_40" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="744" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.1 Excerpt -- Toronto, June 17, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.1 Excerpt -- Toronto, June 17, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.1 Excerpt -- Toronto, June 17, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.6.1 Excerpt -- Toronto, June 17, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prahlāda Mahārāja also says here that durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma. "My dear friends, you have got this human form of body after many millions of years." Durlabha, very rarely. That is nature's law. We are in the cycle of birth and death. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]). Tathā dehāntara-prāptir. After death we shall get another body, but we do not know what kind of body we are going to get. There are 8,400,000 different types of body and the life begins from the grass, from the ground. We have seen so many grass. And gradually the grass is eaten by some animals or insects, and then there is semina. Then the same semina becomes insect. From insect to bird, bird to beast, from beast to animals. It takes millions and millions of years to come to the form of human being. This is evolution.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.1 Excerpt -- Toronto, June 17, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.6.1 Excerpt -- Toronto, June 17, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prahlāda Mahārāja also says here that durlabhaṁ mānuṣaṁ janma. "My dear friends, you have got this human form of body after many millions of years." Durlabha, very rarely. That is nature's law. We are in the cycle of birth and death. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). Tathā dehāntara-prāptir. After death we shall get another body, but we do not know what kind of body we are going to get. There are 8,400,000 different types of body and the life begins from the grass, from the ground. We have seen so many grass. And gradually the grass is eaten by some animals or insects, and then there is semina. Then the same semina becomes insect. From insect to bird, bird to beast, from beast to animals. It takes millions and millions of years to come to the form of human being. This is evolution.</p> |
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| </div> | | </div> |
| <div id="LectureonSB767VrndavanaDecember91975_42" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="759" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.7 -- Vrndavana, December 9, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.7 -- Vrndavana, December 9, 1975"> | | <div id="LectureonSB767VrndavanaDecember91975_41" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="759" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.7 -- Vrndavana, December 9, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.7 -- Vrndavana, December 9, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.7 -- Vrndavana, December 9, 1975|Lecture on SB 7.6.7 -- Vrndavana, December 9, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Any, at any moment the life can be finished. You know. There is no guarantee, "Because a child is a child, oh, he has got hundred years' age, so let him play now." No, that is not. He should be trained up. This is the duty of the father and mother. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. "One should not become father, one should not become mother, if he is not very careful to save the child from the imminent death." The imminent death does not mean motor accident. Imminent death means we are in the cycle of birth and death. It is the duty of the father and mother, the duty of the guru, the duty of the relative, to save one another from the cycle of birth and death. This is real upakāra, to save from the cycle of birth... Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. This life, we are thinking that "I am eighty years old or ninety years old." But it is not eighty years, ninety... It is mṛtyu. Mṛtyu. You are dying every moment. It is the life of mṛtyu. Therefore one has to save.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.7 -- Vrndavana, December 9, 1975|Lecture on SB 7.6.7 -- Vrndavana, December 9, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Any, at any moment the life can be finished. You know. There is no guarantee, "Because a child is a child, oh, he has got hundred years' age, so let him play now." No, that is not. He should be trained up. This is the duty of the father and mother. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. "One should not become father, one should not become mother, if he is not very careful to save the child from the imminent death." The imminent death does not mean motor accident. Imminent death means we are in the cycle of birth and death. It is the duty of the father and mother, the duty of the guru, the duty of the relative, to save one another from the cycle of birth and death. This is real upakāra, to save from the cycle of birth... Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. This life, we are thinking that "I am eighty years old or ninety years old." But it is not eighty years, ninety... It is mṛtyu. Mṛtyu. You are dying every moment. It is the life of mṛtyu. Therefore one has to save.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB76917SanFranciscoMarch311969_43" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="764" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.9-17 -- San Francisco, March 31, 1969" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.9-17 -- San Francisco, March 31, 1969"> | | <div id="LectureonSB76917SanFranciscoMarch311969_42" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="764" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.9-17 -- San Francisco, March 31, 1969" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.9-17 -- San Francisco, March 31, 1969"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.9-17 -- San Francisco, March 31, 1969|Lecture on SB 7.6.9-17 -- San Francisco, March 31, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kuṭumba-poṣāya viyan nijāyur na budhyate 'rthaṁ vihataṁ pramattaḥ. Pramattaḥ. The so-called materialistic advanced people, they are described herein as pramattaḥ, crazy. Sometimes we are designated by them that "These people, Kṛṣṇa conscious people, they are crazy." And we think that they are crazy. So we do not know who is crazy. Therefore we have written a small pamphlet, "Who is Crazy?" Actually, one who has forgotten his real destination of life, he is crazy. He is wasting his life. He is spoiling his life. This is the only opportunity. But due to ignorance, they do not care for it. They think that "Life is going on like this. We are enjoying life." No. We should be very responsible and cautious. Otherwise, Prahlāda Mahārāja says, na budhyate arthaṁ vihatam. Artham. They cannot understand, they are sacrificing their greatest wealth. Greatest wealth. This human form of life is the only opportunity to get out of the cycle of birth and death. If we again put into the cycle of lower animals, oh, it will take millions of years again to come again to this human form of life.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.9-17 -- San Francisco, March 31, 1969|Lecture on SB 7.6.9-17 -- San Francisco, March 31, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kuṭumba-poṣāya viyan nijāyur na budhyate 'rthaṁ vihataṁ pramattaḥ. Pramattaḥ. The so-called materialistic advanced people, they are described herein as pramattaḥ, crazy. Sometimes we are designated by them that "These people, Kṛṣṇa conscious people, they are crazy." And we think that they are crazy. So we do not know who is crazy. Therefore we have written a small pamphlet, "Who is Crazy?" Actually, one who has forgotten his real destination of life, he is crazy. He is wasting his life. He is spoiling his life. This is the only opportunity. But due to ignorance, they do not care for it. They think that "Life is going on like this. We are enjoying life." No. We should be very responsible and cautious. Otherwise, Prahlāda Mahārāja says, na budhyate arthaṁ vihatam. Artham. They cannot understand, they are sacrificing their greatest wealth. Greatest wealth. This human form of life is the only opportunity to get out of the cycle of birth and death. If we again put into the cycle of lower animals, oh, it will take millions of years again to come again to this human form of life.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB7916MayapurFebruary231976_44" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="823" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.16 -- Mayapur, February 23, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.16 -- Mayapur, February 23, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB7916MayapurFebruary231976_43" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="823" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.16 -- Mayapur, February 23, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.16 -- Mayapur, February 23, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.16 -- Mayapur, February 23, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.16 -- Mayapur, February 23, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even if you go to the Brahmaloka, from down, Pātāla, up to Brahmaloka... You can go there if you want. Kṛṣṇa is very, very kind. He has given you chance because you wanted to come here and enjoy material world. Kṛṣṇa says, "All right, go." So beginning from Brahmā down to the insignificant worm in the stool, they are coming down and going up, coming down. This is going on. This is called saṁsāra-cakra, cycle of birth and death. That is going on perpetually. And they do not know what to do. You have to die. You get one form of life, enjoy it, either as human being or as hog, pig, cat, dog, or demigod. Whatever you wanted, you have got it, desire. Now enjoy. But after some time you have to die. But actually your position is not to die. You are eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20|BG 2.20]]). Destruction of this body does not mean your destruction. This is saṁsāra-cakra.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.16 -- Mayapur, February 23, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.16 -- Mayapur, February 23, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even if you go to the Brahmaloka, from down, Pātāla, up to Brahmaloka... You can go there if you want. Kṛṣṇa is very, very kind. He has given you chance because you wanted to come here and enjoy material world. Kṛṣṇa says, "All right, go." So beginning from Brahmā down to the insignificant worm in the stool, they are coming down and going up, coming down. This is going on. This is called saṁsāra-cakra, cycle of birth and death. That is going on perpetually. And they do not know what to do. You have to die. You get one form of life, enjoy it, either as human being or as hog, pig, cat, dog, or demigod. Whatever you wanted, you have got it, desire. Now enjoy. But after some time you have to die. But actually your position is not to die. You are eternal. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). Destruction of this body does not mean your destruction. This is saṁsāra-cakra.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSB7123BombayApril141976_45" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="863" link="Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976"> | | <div id="LectureonSB7123BombayApril141976_44" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="863" link="Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Risky life means that if we are not cultured, if we do not take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and properly trained up, there is every chance to become again cats and dogs next life. This is the understanding. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]). I repeatedly say you. Kṛṣṇa confirms. Kṛṣṇa says and we are repeating Kṛṣṇa's word. Dehāntara-prāptiḥ: You have to change this body to another. And if you do not properly work like human beings, and if you keep yourself like cats and dogs, then dehāntara-prāptiḥ means you get the body of cats and dogs and pigs. So they do not know this science. Therefore they want to forget that there is life after death. They think after death everything is finished, but that is not the case. So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to help everyone so that he may not fall again to the cycle of birth and death at the risk of becoming cats and dogs.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.12.3 -- Bombay, April 14, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Risky life means that if we are not cultured, if we do not take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and properly trained up, there is every chance to become again cats and dogs next life. This is the understanding. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]). I repeatedly say you. Kṛṣṇa confirms. Kṛṣṇa says and we are repeating Kṛṣṇa's word. Dehāntara-prāptiḥ: You have to change this body to another. And if you do not properly work like human beings, and if you keep yourself like cats and dogs, then dehāntara-prāptiḥ means you get the body of cats and dogs and pigs. So they do not know this science. Therefore they want to forget that there is life after death. They think after death everything is finished, but that is not the case. So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to help everyone so that he may not fall again to the cycle of birth and death at the risk of becoming cats and dogs.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSBExcerptLosAngelesJuly31972_46" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="872" link="Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972"> | | <div id="LectureonSBExcerptLosAngelesJuly31972_45" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="872" link="Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972|Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this circle of birth and death in different species of life is going on, and this human form, life, is a chance to get out of this cycle of birth and death. It is a chance. It is by nature's arrangement, by Kṛṣṇa's arrangement, that these living entities who have come here in this material world for false happiness, material happiness, and they are entrapped in this birth and death problem, transmigrating from one type of life to another type of life... Here is a chance for the human being. And Kṛṣṇa comes to the human being, and here is a chance, Bhagavad-gītā. Kṛṣṇa gives them. So if after reading Bhagavad-gītā... Anāśritya govinda-caraṇa-dvayam. Who is neglecting? His neglect means that teṣām ātmābhimānināṁ varākhānām. Varākha means fools or childish. We are thinking that "I am this body." Such fools cannot understand how to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore tad apy aphelatam jata tesam ātmābhimānināṁ varākhānām anāśritya, without taking shelter, govinda-caraṇa-dvayam, the lotus feet of Govinda.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972|Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this circle of birth and death in different species of life is going on, and this human form, life, is a chance to get out of this cycle of birth and death. It is a chance. It is by nature's arrangement, by Kṛṣṇa's arrangement, that these living entities who have come here in this material world for false happiness, material happiness, and they are entrapped in this birth and death problem, transmigrating from one type of life to another type of life... Here is a chance for the human being. And Kṛṣṇa comes to the human being, and here is a chance, Bhagavad-gītā. Kṛṣṇa gives them. So if after reading Bhagavad-gītā... Anāśritya govinda-caraṇa-dvayam. Who is neglecting? His neglect means that teṣām ātmābhimānināṁ varākhānām. Varākha means fools or childish. We are thinking that "I am this body." Such fools cannot understand how to surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore tad apy aphelatam jata tesam ātmābhimānināṁ varākhānām anāśritya, without taking shelter, govinda-caraṇa-dvayam, the lotus feet of Govinda.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonSBExcerptLosAngelesJuly31972_47" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="872" link="Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972"> | | <div id="LectureonSBExcerptLosAngelesJuly31972_46" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="872" link="Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972|Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guru na sa syāt. This is the injunction. "No rascal should become a guru unless he can save his disciples from the cycle of birth and death." In other words, anyone who wants to become guru, if he cannot teach his disciples how to surrender, govinda-caraṇa-dvayam, anāśritya, how to take shelter of the lotus feet of Govinda, he should not become guru. That is cheating. That is cheating. Similarly, one should not become father. The father and mother should have determination that "The child I produce, I give birth, if I cannot teach him Kṛṣṇa conscious, surrender to Kṛṣṇa, I shall not beget any child." This is real contraceptive method, not to beget child like cats and dogs. Sva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-khara. So Bhāgavata says, "One should not become father, one should not become mother, one should not become relative, one should not become king, one should not become guru if they cannot save their dependents from this cycle of birth and death." This is the meaning of this verse. Anāśritya govinda-caraṇa-dvayaṁ varākhānām ātma-vimāninaḥ.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972|Lecture on SB Excerpt -- Los Angeles, July 3, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guru na sa syāt. This is the injunction. "No rascal should become a guru unless he can save his disciples from the cycle of birth and death." In other words, anyone who wants to become guru, if he cannot teach his disciples how to surrender, govinda-caraṇa-dvayam, anāśritya, how to take shelter of the lotus feet of Govinda, he should not become guru. That is cheating. That is cheating. Similarly, one should not become father. The father and mother should have determination that "The child I produce, I give birth, if I cannot teach him Kṛṣṇa conscious, surrender to Kṛṣṇa, I shall not beget any child." This is real contraceptive method, not to beget child like cats and dogs. Sva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-khara. So Bhāgavata says, "One should not become father, one should not become mother, one should not become relative, one should not become king, one should not become guru if they cannot save their dependents from this cycle of birth and death." This is the meaning of this verse. Anāśritya govinda-caraṇa-dvayaṁ varākhānām ātma-vimāninaḥ.</p> |
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| <div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaNovember141972_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="43" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972"> | | <div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaNovember141972_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="43" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14|BG 7.14]]). Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]). These statements are there. If we actually take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then māyā, the laws of nature, will not act. And... Otherwise, we shall be put into the cycle of birth and death. So the best utilization of this human life is to elevate oneself to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ: if we try to understand Kṛṣṇa, in truth, then tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]), then we'll not have to accept any more this material body, which is full of miserable conditions. Then we go back to home, back to Godhead.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 14, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). These statements are there. If we actually take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then māyā, the laws of nature, will not act. And... Otherwise, we shall be put into the cycle of birth and death. So the best utilization of this human life is to elevate oneself to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and, as it is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ: if we try to understand Kṛṣṇa, in truth, then tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]), then we'll not have to accept any more this material body, which is full of miserable conditions. Then we go back to home, back to Godhead.</p> |
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| :([[Vanisource:BG 9.3|BG 9.3]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 9.3 (1972)|BG 9.3]]) |
| <p>If you don't accept aśraddadhānāḥ, then you'll never understand what is God, and you'll be rotating in the cycle of birth and death. Mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani. You have to accept this path. There are two paths. Either you accept Kṛṣṇa, go back to home, back to Godhead, or you accept the path of repetition of birth and death. Two alternatives in this human life. Now it is up to you to make your choice which way you want to go.</p> | | <p>If you don't accept aśraddadhānāḥ, then you'll never understand what is God, and you'll be rotating in the cycle of birth and death. Mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani. You have to accept this path. There are two paths. Either you accept Kṛṣṇa, go back to home, back to Godhead, or you accept the path of repetition of birth and death. Two alternatives in this human life. Now it is up to you to make your choice which way you want to go.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila20154157NewYorkDecember71966_4" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="82" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157 -- New York, December 7, 1966" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157 -- New York, December 7, 1966"> | | <div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila20154157NewYorkDecember71966_4" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="82" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157 -- New York, December 7, 1966" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157 -- New York, December 7, 1966"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157 -- New York, December 7, 1966|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157 -- New York, December 7, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we are seeking after peace, but we do not know that where we are living. We are claiming proprietorship for the time being. We come here under different shapes, in different body, and claim proprietorship for the land where we are born. But we do not know by freaks of nature, any second, we can be driven away from this land and put another land. So where is my proprietorship? If I am staying for some time here, some time there... Bhojanaṁ yatra yatra śayanaṁ haṭṭa-mandire: "I eat wherever eatables are available, and I sleep on the marketplace." Then where is my home? Where is my home? So this is our position. We are circumambulating under, in the cycle of birth and death. Sometimes I am claiming, "America is my land," sometimes claiming, "India is my land," sometimes claiming, "China is my land," sometimes claiming, "Moon planet is my land." No land belongs to you. Everything belongs to God. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam ([[Vanisource:ISO 1|ISO 1]]). He is the proprietor. Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29|BG 5.29]]). That misunderstanding... We are falsely encroaching upon and falsely claiming proprietorship. Therefore there is no peace. You are searching after peace. How can there be peace? You are falsely claiming something which does not belong to you. So here it is said, sarvaiśvarya-pūrṇa.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157 -- New York, December 7, 1966|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.154-157 -- New York, December 7, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we are seeking after peace, but we do not know that where we are living. We are claiming proprietorship for the time being. We come here under different shapes, in different body, and claim proprietorship for the land where we are born. But we do not know by freaks of nature, any second, we can be driven away from this land and put another land. So where is my proprietorship? If I am staying for some time here, some time there... Bhojanaṁ yatra yatra śayanaṁ haṭṭa-mandire: "I eat wherever eatables are available, and I sleep on the marketplace." Then where is my home? Where is my home? So this is our position. We are circumambulating under, in the cycle of birth and death. Sometimes I am claiming, "America is my land," sometimes claiming, "India is my land," sometimes claiming, "China is my land," sometimes claiming, "Moon planet is my land." No land belongs to you. Everything belongs to God. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam ([[Vanisource:ISO 1|ISO 1]]). He is the proprietor. Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram ([[Vanisource:BG 5.29 (1972)|BG 5.29]]). That misunderstanding... We are falsely encroaching upon and falsely claiming proprietorship. Therefore there is no peace. You are searching after peace. How can there be peace? You are falsely claiming something which does not belong to you. So here it is said, sarvaiśvarya-pūrṇa.</p> |
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| <div id="SriIsopanisadInvocationLectureLosAngelesApril281970_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Isopanisad_Lectures" book="Lec" index="2" link="Sri Isopanisad Invocation Lecture -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1970" link_text="Sri Isopanisad Invocation Lecture -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1970"> | | <div id="SriIsopanisadInvocationLectureLosAngelesApril281970_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Isopanisad_Lectures" book="Lec" index="2" link="Sri Isopanisad Invocation Lecture -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1970" link_text="Sri Isopanisad Invocation Lecture -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1970"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Sri Isopanisad Invocation Lecture -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1970|Sri Isopanisad Invocation Lecture -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All these people are killing themselves because they do not know what is life; simply like animal or living. The animal does not know what is life, but he is under the laws of nature, evolution, going on. But when you get this human form of life, there is responsibility. You have to chalk out. Here is a chance you can become Kṛṣṇa conscious and make your life solve all problems. If not, then again go to the cycle of birth and death again, 8,400,000. It will take many, many millions of years again to come back. Just like the sunshine you will see after twelve hours, twenty-four hours, morning. Everything is a process. Process. So if you lose this opportunity of elevating yourself, then again you come to the process. Nature's law is very strong. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14|BG 7.14]]). The sooner you surrender to Kṛṣṇa, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te. Such person is able to overcome this process of material nature.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Sri Isopanisad Invocation Lecture -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1970|Sri Isopanisad Invocation Lecture -- Los Angeles, April 28, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All these people are killing themselves because they do not know what is life; simply like animal or living. The animal does not know what is life, but he is under the laws of nature, evolution, going on. But when you get this human form of life, there is responsibility. You have to chalk out. Here is a chance you can become Kṛṣṇa conscious and make your life solve all problems. If not, then again go to the cycle of birth and death again, 8,400,000. It will take many, many millions of years again to come back. Just like the sunshine you will see after twelve hours, twenty-four hours, morning. Everything is a process. Process. So if you lose this opportunity of elevating yourself, then again you come to the process. Nature's law is very strong. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). The sooner you surrender to Kṛṣṇa, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te. Such person is able to overcome this process of material nature.</p> |
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| <div id="HisDivineGraceSrilaBhaktisiddhantaSarasvatiGosvamiPrabhupadasAppearanceDayLectureMayapurFebruary81977_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="47" link="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977" link_text="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977"> | | <div id="HisDivineGraceSrilaBhaktisiddhantaSarasvatiGosvamiPrabhupadasAppearanceDayLectureMayapurFebruary81977_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="47" link="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977" link_text="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977|His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the real suffering of the humanity. I especially speak humanity because in the human form of life one can actually understand what is the position, what is the value of life. The value of life one should understand that we are in the cycle of birth and death. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19|BG 8.19]]). Once we take birth and again we die. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi duḥkha-doṣānu-darśanam ([[Vanisource:BG 13.9|BG 13.9]]). So one should be intelligent to understand that I am eternal. I learn from Bhagavad-gītā and Vedic literature that ahaṁ brahmāsmi: "I am eternal." Why I am dying? This is intelligence. This is intelligence. Otherwise cats and dogs. A dog, a cat, does not know why he is dying. Neither he knows that he is eternal. But a human being can take information from the śāstra that he is eternal and he does not die on the destruction of the body. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20|BG 2.20]]). Kṛṣṇa is giving this information. Tathā dehāntara. This is our real unhappiness.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977|His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is the real suffering of the humanity. I especially speak humanity because in the human form of life one can actually understand what is the position, what is the value of life. The value of life one should understand that we are in the cycle of birth and death. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 8.19 (1972)|BG 8.19]]). Once we take birth and again we die. Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi duḥkha-doṣānu-darśanam ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]). So one should be intelligent to understand that I am eternal. I learn from Bhagavad-gītā and Vedic literature that ahaṁ brahmāsmi: "I am eternal." Why I am dying? This is intelligence. This is intelligence. Otherwise cats and dogs. A dog, a cat, does not know why he is dying. Neither he knows that he is eternal. But a human being can take information from the śāstra that he is eternal and he does not die on the destruction of the body. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). Kṛṣṇa is giving this information. Tathā dehāntara. This is our real unhappiness.</p> |
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| <div id="HisDivineGraceSrilaBhaktisiddhantaSarasvatiGosvamiPrabhupadasAppearanceDayLectureMayapurFebruary81977_1" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="47" link="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977" link_text="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977"> | | <div id="HisDivineGraceSrilaBhaktisiddhantaSarasvatiGosvamiPrabhupadasAppearanceDayLectureMayapurFebruary81977_1" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="47" link="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977" link_text="His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977|His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if we don't accept the dharma, then we'll be punished. That is stated in the Bhāgavata. Dharmasya asya. Aśraddadhānāḥ. "If I have no faith in the words of God..." Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru ([[Vanisource:BG 18.65|BG 18.65]]). Kṛṣṇa is saying, "If you do not become devotee, if you do not think of Kṛṣṇa, then you will not get Kṛṣṇa." Remain continuously, birth after birth, forgetful of Kṛṣṇa, that is very dangerous. What is that danger? Nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani: again you'll be in the cycle of birth and death, birth and death, birth and death. Not that today you are Indian; you shall get the birth again as Indian. No. Today you may be Indian, prime minister; tomorrow you may be a dog in some other country. They do not know these laws.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977|His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Mayapur, February 8, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if we don't accept the dharma, then we'll be punished. That is stated in the Bhāgavata. Dharmasya asya. Aśraddadhānāḥ. "If I have no faith in the words of God..." Man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru ([[Vanisource:BG 18.65 (1972)|BG 18.65]]). Kṛṣṇa is saying, "If you do not become devotee, if you do not think of Kṛṣṇa, then you will not get Kṛṣṇa." Remain continuously, birth after birth, forgetful of Kṛṣṇa, that is very dangerous. What is that danger? Nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani: again you'll be in the cycle of birth and death, birth and death, birth and death. Not that today you are Indian; you shall get the birth again as Indian. No. Today you may be Indian, prime minister; tomorrow you may be a dog in some other country. They do not know these laws.</p> |
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| <div id="ArrivalLectureCalcuttaFebruary41977_1" class="quote" parent="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" book="Lec" index="43" link="Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977" link_text="Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977"> | | <div id="ArrivalLectureCalcuttaFebruary41977_1" class="quote" parent="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" book="Lec" index="43" link="Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977" link_text="Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977|Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we must know all these principles of our life, and Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the guide. Kṛṣṇa consciousness means we are guided by Kṛṣṇa personally. Everyone can be guided. Kṛṣṇa is giving instruction to the whole human society in the Bhagavad-gītā. So we can take advantage of it. Kṛṣṇa is guiding personally. So there are two ways of accepting Kṛṣṇa's guidance. You accept the instruction of the Bhagavad-gītā, then you'll be happy. If you don't accept, then you will go back again to the cycle of birth and death. Mām aprāpya nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3|BG 9.3]]). So mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani is not good life. Mṛtyu, mṛtyu... Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi. If you take birth, then you'll have to die, and if you have to die, you have to take birth again. This is called mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartma. So this is not very good business.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977|Arrival Lecture -- Calcutta, February 4, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we must know all these principles of our life, and Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the guide. Kṛṣṇa consciousness means we are guided by Kṛṣṇa personally. Everyone can be guided. Kṛṣṇa is giving instruction to the whole human society in the Bhagavad-gītā. So we can take advantage of it. Kṛṣṇa is guiding personally. So there are two ways of accepting Kṛṣṇa's guidance. You accept the instruction of the Bhagavad-gītā, then you'll be happy. If you don't accept, then you will go back again to the cycle of birth and death. Mām aprāpya nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani ([[Vanisource:BG 9.3 (1972)|BG 9.3]]). So mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani is not good life. Mṛtyu, mṛtyu... Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi. If you take birth, then you'll have to die, and if you have to die, you have to take birth again. This is called mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartma. So this is not very good business.</p> |
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| <div id="LecturetoTechnologyStudentsMITBostonMay51968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="5" link="Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968" link_text="Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968"> | | <div id="LecturetoTechnologyStudentsMITBostonMay51968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="5" link="Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968" link_text="Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968|Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Student (4): Then how can the dog then become a higher soul, a higher form after the dog?</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968|Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Student (4): Then how can the dog then become a higher soul, a higher form after the dog?</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, there is gradual evolution. From dog life, from animal life, again by evolutionary process... That is accepted by anthropo... What is called? Anthropology. That they come to the human being, again there is a chance to get out of this bodily embodiment, and you can get yourself free life in the spiritual world. So if you lose this chance, then you again go to the cycle of birth and death in so many forms of bodies. Therefore we should utilize this enlightened body, the human form of body, the civilized form of life, for our next eternal life. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama ([[Vanisource:BG 15.6|BG 15.6]]). We should prepare ourself to go to that form of life which has no more birth, death, or disease or old age. Eternal life.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, there is gradual evolution. From dog life, from animal life, again by evolutionary process... That is accepted by anthropo... What is called? Anthropology. That they come to the human being, again there is a chance to get out of this bodily embodiment, and you can get yourself free life in the spiritual world. So if you lose this chance, then you again go to the cycle of birth and death in so many forms of bodies. Therefore we should utilize this enlightened body, the human form of body, the civilized form of life, for our next eternal life. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama ([[Vanisource:BG 15.6 (1972)|BG 15.6]]). We should prepare ourself to go to that form of life which has no more birth, death, or disease or old age. Eternal life.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureExcerptMontrealJune291968_1" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="10" link="Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, June 29, 1968" link_text="Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, June 29, 1968"> | | <div id="LectureExcerptMontrealJune291968_1" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="10" link="Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, June 29, 1968" link_text="Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, June 29, 1968"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, June 29, 1968|Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, June 29, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So actually, we are under the grip of this material nature, and we are being pushed life after life in different bodies by the influence of material nature. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27|BG 3.27]]). How prakṛti, nature, is working? According to the quality we acquire. Gunaiḥ. There are three qualities: the good quality, the quality of passion, and the quality of ignorance. So we are being contaminated by certain type of quality, and the nature is supplying me a type of body. And there are 8,400,000's of bodies, and we are going through them in a cycle. And as soon as we become, I mean to say, devotee, or we look forward to the Paramātmā, then we can be free from the cycle of repeated birth and death. This yoga system is..., meditation means to find out the Paramātmā. The Paramātmā is described in the śāstras: His feature, His body, His hand, Supersoul. And one has to meditate. And by meditation, when one is in samādhi, always thinking of the Supersoul, then he becomes freed from this material entanglement. That is self-realization. That is liberation. So Paramātmā and individual ātmā, or the living creature, they are qualitatively one but quantitatively different.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, June 29, 1968|Lecture Excerpt -- Montreal, June 29, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So actually, we are under the grip of this material nature, and we are being pushed life after life in different bodies by the influence of material nature. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27 (1972)|BG 3.27]]). How prakṛti, nature, is working? According to the quality we acquire. Gunaiḥ. There are three qualities: the good quality, the quality of passion, and the quality of ignorance. So we are being contaminated by certain type of quality, and the nature is supplying me a type of body. And there are 8,400,000's of bodies, and we are going through them in a cycle. And as soon as we become, I mean to say, devotee, or we look forward to the Paramātmā, then we can be free from the cycle of repeated birth and death. This yoga system is..., meditation means to find out the Paramātmā. The Paramātmā is described in the śāstras: His feature, His body, His hand, Supersoul. And one has to meditate. And by meditation, when one is in samādhi, always thinking of the Supersoul, then he becomes freed from this material entanglement. That is self-realization. That is liberation. So Paramātmā and individual ātmā, or the living creature, they are qualitatively one but quantitatively different.</p> |
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| <div id="TownHallLectureAucklandApril141972_8" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="108" link="Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972" link_text="Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972"> | | <div id="TownHallLectureAucklandApril141972_8" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="108" link="Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972" link_text="Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972|Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is one boy, "D.D.D.," I call him. He is always engaged in making ārati, in worshiping Jagannātha. His father sent him some toys. He did not take it. So I asked him, "Why you are not taking the toys?" And he said, "It is māyā." (laughs) So you can train your children from the very beginning and make his life... That is the duty of father and mother. The Vedic injunction is: one should not become a father, one should not become a mother, unless they can help the child from the imminent danger of death. So who can save? Unless one is Kṛṣṇa conscious, nobody can escape the cycle of birth and death. Nobody can. This is the only process if you want to stop. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]). After giving up this body, there is no more birth in the material world. You get immediately transferred to the spiritual world, and you get your eternal, blissful, knowledge life.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972|Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is one boy, "D.D.D.," I call him. He is always engaged in making ārati, in worshiping Jagannātha. His father sent him some toys. He did not take it. So I asked him, "Why you are not taking the toys?" And he said, "It is māyā." (laughs) So you can train your children from the very beginning and make his life... That is the duty of father and mother. The Vedic injunction is: one should not become a father, one should not become a mother, unless they can help the child from the imminent danger of death. So who can save? Unless one is Kṛṣṇa conscious, nobody can escape the cycle of birth and death. Nobody can. This is the only process if you want to stop. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). After giving up this body, there is no more birth in the material world. You get immediately transferred to the spiritual world, and you get your eternal, blissful, knowledge life.</p> |
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| <div id="PublicSpeechBadHomburgGermanyJune221974_10" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="150" link="Public Speech -- Bad Homburg, Germany, June 22, 1974" link_text="Public Speech -- Bad Homburg, Germany, June 22, 1974"> | | <div id="PublicSpeechBadHomburgGermanyJune221974_9" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="150" link="Public Speech -- Bad Homburg, Germany, June 22, 1974" link_text="Public Speech -- Bad Homburg, Germany, June 22, 1974"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Public Speech -- Bad Homburg, Germany, June 22, 1974|Public Speech -- Bad Homburg, Germany, June 22, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So the simple process is, as we are preaching in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, that if you try to understand only what is Kṛṣṇa—Kṛṣṇa or Christ, the same thing—then you get your original, spiritual body. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness can be awakened simply by chanting the mahā-mantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa, or the holy name of God. So keep yourself aloof from four kinds of sinful life, and keep always in touch with Kṛṣṇa and God. Then you will go back to home back to Godhead. This advantage is possible in this human form of life; otherwise, we are missing the chance. We may be again put in the cycle of that 8,400,000 forms of body. The process is very simple and easy because you can remain in your occupation, in whatever position you are. Simply you chant the holy name of God. Not only Hare Kṛṣṇa, you can chant the holy name of God, "Christ." Christ is also the same as Kṛṣṇa. So do it. There is no expenditure, but the profit is very, very great.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Public Speech -- Bad Homburg, Germany, June 22, 1974|Public Speech -- Bad Homburg, Germany, June 22, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So the simple process is, as we are preaching in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, that if you try to understand only what is Kṛṣṇa—Kṛṣṇa or Christ, the same thing—then you get your original, spiritual body. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness can be awakened simply by chanting the mahā-mantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa, or the holy name of God. So keep yourself aloof from four kinds of sinful life, and keep always in touch with Kṛṣṇa and God. Then you will go back to home back to Godhead. This advantage is possible in this human form of life; otherwise, we are missing the chance. We may be again put in the cycle of that 8,400,000 forms of body. The process is very simple and easy because you can remain in your occupation, in whatever position you are. Simply you chant the holy name of God. Not only Hare Kṛṣṇa, you can chant the holy name of God, "Christ." Christ is also the same as Kṛṣṇa. So do it. There is no expenditure, but the profit is very, very great.</p> |
| <p>So the conclusion is we should not put ourself in the cycle of birth and death continually in 8,400,000 species of life, to stop it and go back to home, back to Godhead, and regain your original spiritual life.</p> | | <p>So the conclusion is we should not put ourself in the cycle of birth and death continually in 8,400,000 species of life, to stop it and go back to home, back to Godhead, and regain your original spiritual life.</p> |
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| <div id="CityHallLectureDurbanOctober71975_11" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="162" link="City Hall Lecture -- Durban, October 7, 1975" link_text="City Hall Lecture -- Durban, October 7, 1975"> | | <div id="CityHallLectureDurbanOctober71975_10" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="162" link="City Hall Lecture -- Durban, October 7, 1975" link_text="City Hall Lecture -- Durban, October 7, 1975"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:City Hall Lecture -- Durban, October 7, 1975|City Hall Lecture -- Durban, October 7, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">According to our desire, we are creating a different type of body, and after death, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ. Just like the child is become a boy, the boy is becoming young man, the young man is becoming middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man is becoming old man. So what is next after the old body? The next is tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ: you have to accept another body. This is called chain or cycle of birth and death, or transmigration of the soul. This is going on. So if you want to... But nobody wants to die. Nobody wants to change this body. But this is a problem. One should know it.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:City Hall Lecture -- Durban, October 7, 1975|City Hall Lecture -- Durban, October 7, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">According to our desire, we are creating a different type of body, and after death, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ. Just like the child is become a boy, the boy is becoming young man, the young man is becoming middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man is becoming old man. So what is next after the old body? The next is tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ: you have to accept another body. This is called chain or cycle of birth and death, or transmigration of the soul. This is going on. So if you want to... But nobody wants to die. Nobody wants to change this body. But this is a problem. One should know it.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureBhuvanesvaraJanuary291977withOriyantranslator_12" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="182" link="Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)" link_text="Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)"> | | <div id="LectureBhuvanesvaraJanuary291977withOriyantranslator_11" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="182" link="Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)" link_text="Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)|Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Īśvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Paramātmā, is sitting in everyone's core of the heart, and He is witness, witnessing everything. So according to our karma, we are getting a body or a machine for movement given by māyā. So therefore we are getting different types of body. The reason is kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-janma-yoniṣu ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22|BG 13.22]]). The different types of body we are getting on account of association with the material qualities. So if we want to stop this business of repetition of birth and death in this cycle, we must understand. Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te. We must understand. It is compulsory. We must understand "What is God, what is my relations with Him." Then we can get release from this repetition of birth and death.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)|Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 29, 1977, (with Oriyan translator)]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Īśvara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Paramātmā, is sitting in everyone's core of the heart, and He is witness, witnessing everything. So according to our karma, we are getting a body or a machine for movement given by māyā. So therefore we are getting different types of body. The reason is kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-janma-yoniṣu ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22 (1972)|BG 13.22]]). The different types of body we are getting on account of association with the material qualities. So if we want to stop this business of repetition of birth and death in this cycle, we must understand. Mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te. We must understand. It is compulsory. We must understand "What is God, what is my relations with Him." Then we can get release from this repetition of birth and death.</p> |
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| <div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3> | | <div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3> |
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| <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononHenriBergson_3" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="6" link="Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson"> | | <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononHenriBergson_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="6" link="Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson|Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That's all. That is the chance of this human form of life. The, everything is there. If he takes the standard instruction and makes his choice whether he shall continue this perpetual, this subordinate position under the laws of nature or he should become free by going back to home, back to Godhead—that choice is there. So Kṛṣṇa's instruction is there, and simply following the instruction one can become completely detached from this cycle of birth and death, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti... ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]). Simply by understanding Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa's instruction, this body will be ended, that is described. But after ending this body, no more material body. That is perfection.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson|Philosophy Discussion on Henri Bergson]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That's all. That is the chance of this human form of life. The, everything is there. If he takes the standard instruction and makes his choice whether he shall continue this perpetual, this subordinate position under the laws of nature or he should become free by going back to home, back to Godhead—that choice is there. So Kṛṣṇa's instruction is there, and simply following the instruction one can become completely detached from this cycle of birth and death, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti... ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). Simply by understanding Kṛṣṇa or Kṛṣṇa's instruction, this body will be ended, that is described. But after ending this body, no more material body. That is perfection.</p> |
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| <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononJohnStuartMill_4" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="8" link="Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill"> | | <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononJohnStuartMill_1" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="8" link="Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill|Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So this way they have developed their consciousness. So Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura said, nānā yoni brahman kare kadarya bhakṣaṇa kare, this cycle of birth and death is that, that he comes to a species of life, he eats the most abominable food. So that, that is to be prohibited in human life. That is checking the natural instinct and to become rightly rational, what to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex, how to defend. This is also animal propensity. Above that he should search out about the Absolute Truth, then his rationality is properly used. Otherwise he remains animal.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill|Philosophy Discussion on John Stuart Mill]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So this way they have developed their consciousness. So Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura said, nānā yoni brahman kare kadarya bhakṣaṇa kare, this cycle of birth and death is that, that he comes to a species of life, he eats the most abominable food. So that, that is to be prohibited in human life. That is checking the natural instinct and to become rightly rational, what to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex, how to defend. This is also animal propensity. Above that he should search out about the Absolute Truth, then his rationality is properly used. Otherwise he remains animal.</p> |
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| <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononCarlGustavJung_5" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="18" link="Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung"> | | <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononCarlGustavJung_2" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="18" link="Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung|Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Hm. So overcoming the earthly existence means you enter in the spiritual world, because spirit soul is eternal. So from this atmosphere to another. That is explained clearly in the Bhagavad-gītā, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]). After giving up this present body, this is material, so those who continue to, in the cycle of birth and death, they get another material body, but those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, they do not get another material body, but he goes to Kṛṣṇa. That is the difference.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung|Philosophy Discussion on Carl Gustav Jung]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Hm. So overcoming the earthly existence means you enter in the spiritual world, because spirit soul is eternal. So from this atmosphere to another. That is explained clearly in the Bhagavad-gītā, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). After giving up this present body, this is material, so those who continue to, in the cycle of birth and death, they get another material body, but those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, they do not get another material body, but he goes to Kṛṣṇa. That is the difference.</p> |
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| <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononSocrates_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="26" link="Philosophy Discussion on Socrates" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Socrates"> | | <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononSocrates_3" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="26" link="Philosophy Discussion on Socrates" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Socrates"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Socrates|Philosophy Discussion on Socrates]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When Kṛṣṇa says, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9|BG 4.9]]), they are reading Bhagavad-gītā, but this simple thing they can not understand, that a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, after giving up this body—the body has to be given up—then what happens? Kṛṣṇa says mam eti, "He come to Me." And other system says that after death he goes to hell or goes to heaven. So that is to some extent fact. This human life, if he understands Kṛṣṇa, he goes to the eternal abode—you can take it as heaven or something. Otherwise he remains in this material world to undergo the same cycle of birth and death. That is hell. It can be taken in that way.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Socrates|Philosophy Discussion on Socrates]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: When Kṛṣṇa says, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]), they are reading Bhagavad-gītā, but this simple thing they can not understand, that a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, after giving up this body—the body has to be given up—then what happens? Kṛṣṇa says mam eti, "He come to Me." And other system says that after death he goes to hell or goes to heaven. So that is to some extent fact. This human life, if he understands Kṛṣṇa, he goes to the eternal abode—you can take it as heaven or something. Otherwise he remains in this material world to undergo the same cycle of birth and death. That is hell. It can be taken in that way.</p> |
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| <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononPlato_1" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="27" link="Philosophy Discussion on Plato" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Plato"> | | <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononPlato_4" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="27" link="Philosophy Discussion on Plato" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Plato"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Plato|Philosophy Discussion on Plato]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dharmāviruddho kāmo 'smi. Kṛṣṇa says, "Sex life which is not against religious principle, that is I am." And sex life which is, which has no religious principle, that is sense gratification leading one to hell. So this theory: that we should marry, we should have sex life for creating good progeny. And my Guru Mahārāja used to say—he was a sannyāsī brahmacārī—but he said that "If I could produce really Kṛṣṇa conscious children, I can use hundred times sex life. Otherwise why shall I use my sex for cat, producing cats and dog?" He has said like that. So the śāstra also says, pitā na sa syāt janani na sa syāt: the father's, mother's duty is how to rescue their children from the cycle of birth and death. That is real father and mother. Otherwise cats and dogs, they are also father and mother. That is not wanted. Vedic culture is different. Produce children for such education and such accomplishment that he can be saved from the cycle of birth and death, and the putra should be such qualified that even his father goes to the hellish condition of pundama, he will deliver him. That is the idea of becoming father and family.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Plato|Philosophy Discussion on Plato]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Dharmāviruddho kāmo 'smi. Kṛṣṇa says, "Sex life which is not against religious principle, that is I am." And sex life which is, which has no religious principle, that is sense gratification leading one to hell. So this theory: that we should marry, we should have sex life for creating good progeny. And my Guru Mahārāja used to say—he was a sannyāsī brahmacārī—but he said that "If I could produce really Kṛṣṇa conscious children, I can use hundred times sex life. Otherwise why shall I use my sex for cat, producing cats and dog?" He has said like that. So the śāstra also says, pitā na sa syāt janani na sa syāt: the father's, mother's duty is how to rescue their children from the cycle of birth and death. That is real father and mother. Otherwise cats and dogs, they are also father and mother. That is not wanted. Vedic culture is different. Produce children for such education and such accomplishment that he can be saved from the cycle of birth and death, and the putra should be such qualified that even his father goes to the hellish condition of pundama, he will deliver him. That is the idea of becoming father and family.</p> |
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| <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononThomasAquinas_2" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="32" link="Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas"> | | <div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononThomasAquinas_5" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="32" link="Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas|Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: To get on to another point, Aquinas believed, or rather he opposed sex for any purpose other than the begetting of children, and not only should sex be used only for the begetting of children, but that when one begets children one takes the responsibility of giving them a spiritual education.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas|Philosophy Discussion on Thomas Aquinas]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: To get on to another point, Aquinas believed, or rather he opposed sex for any purpose other than the begetting of children, and not only should sex be used only for the begetting of children, but that when one begets children one takes the responsibility of giving them a spiritual education.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That is Vedic injunction, that don't beget children unless you can give the children relief from the cycle of birth and death. One should not become father and mother. That is responsible father and mother. And without this responsibility, if a man gives birth to a child and if a woman bears the pregnancy, that is prohibited. One should not become a father, one should not become a mother unless they are competent to give freedom to the children from the cycle of birth and death.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. That is Vedic injunction, that don't beget children unless you can give the children relief from the cycle of birth and death. One should not become father and mother. That is responsible father and mother. And without this responsibility, if a man gives birth to a child and if a woman bears the pregnancy, that is prohibited. One should not become a father, one should not become a mother unless they are competent to give freedom to the children from the cycle of birth and death.</p> |