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| [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]] |
| [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]] | | [[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]] |
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| <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> | | <div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Life Member, Mr. Malhotra -- December 22, 1976, Poona|Room Conversation with Life Member, Mr. Malhotra -- December 22, 1976, Poona]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian man: He used Bhagavad-gītā for political purposes.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Life Member, Mr. Malhotra -- December 22, 1976, Poona|Room Conversation with Life Member, Mr. Malhotra -- December 22, 1976, Poona]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian man: He used Bhagavad-gītā for political purposes.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: That is, political purpose, you may. But even politically, Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. Yuddhyasva mām anusmara ([[Vanisource:BG 8.7|BG 8.7]]). "Fight. But always remember Me." That is politics. Kṛṣṇa never says that you forget and fight. Yuddhyasva mām anusmara ([[Vanisource:BG 8.7|BG 8.7]]). This is Bhagavad-gītā. Kṛṣṇa never says that "You give up politics." Actually, the Battle of Kurukṣetra is politics. But still Kṛṣṇa is there. How you can discard Kṛṣṇa?</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: That is, political purpose, you may. But even politically, Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme. Yuddhyasva mām anusmara ([[Vanisource:BG 8.7 (1972)|BG 8.7]]). "Fight. But always remember Me." That is politics. Kṛṣṇa never says that you forget and fight. Yuddhyasva mām anusmara ([[Vanisource:BG 8.7 (1972)|BG 8.7]]). This is Bhagavad-gītā. Kṛṣṇa never says that "You give up politics." Actually, the Battle of Kurukṣetra is politics. But still Kṛṣṇa is there. How you can discard Kṛṣṇa?</p> |
| <p>Mr. Malhotra: Yes, battle of Kurukṣetra was fought...</p> | | <p>Mr. Malhotra: Yes, battle of Kurukṣetra was fought...</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Politics. Senayor ubhayor madhye rathaṁ sthāpaya me acyuta. Senayor ubhayor madhye. ([[Vanisource:BG 1.21|BG 1.21]]) "Between the two soldiers, keep my chariot, my dear Acyuta." He is addressing Acyuta. Acyuta, Kṛṣṇa, agreed to become his chariot driver. Therefore he is purposefully using this word acyuta. "Because I know You are the Supreme Lord, and I am ordering You, but because You promised that You will carry my order, Acyuta, You never fail in Your word." So God's another name is Acyuta. God never falls down. This Māyāvādī theory that "I am God, now I am fallen down," That is wrong theory. How God can fall down? If God falls down He is not God. Dog falls down, not the God.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Politics. Senayor ubhayor madhye rathaṁ sthāpaya me acyuta. Senayor ubhayor madhye. ([[Vanisource:BG 1.21-22 (1972)|BG 1.21]]) "Between the two soldiers, keep my chariot, my dear Acyuta." He is addressing Acyuta. Acyuta, Kṛṣṇa, agreed to become his chariot driver. Therefore he is purposefully using this word acyuta. "Because I know You are the Supreme Lord, and I am ordering You, but because You promised that You will carry my order, Acyuta, You never fail in Your word." So God's another name is Acyuta. God never falls down. This Māyāvādī theory that "I am God, now I am fallen down," That is wrong theory. How God can fall down? If God falls down He is not God. Dog falls down, not the God.</p> |
| <p>Mr. Malhotra: How can he be supreme if he can fall down?</p> | | <p>Mr. Malhotra: How can he be supreme if he can fall down?</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Na māṁ karmāṇi limpanti na me karma-phale spṛhā ([[Vanisource:BG 4.14|BG 4.14]]). "I have nothing to do, and neither if anyway I act, the resultant action does not effect Me." But we are all karma-phala vatya. (?) So how God and myself can be equal? Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa. There is daiva, there is superior arrangement. According to my karma I get a different type of body. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur deha upapattaye ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]).</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Na māṁ karmāṇi limpanti na me karma-phale spṛhā ([[Vanisource:BG 4.14 (1972)|BG 4.14]]). "I have nothing to do, and neither if anyway I act, the resultant action does not effect Me." But we are all karma-phala vatya. (?) So how God and myself can be equal? Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa. There is daiva, there is superior arrangement. According to my karma I get a different type of body. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur deha upapattaye ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]).</p> |
| <p>Mr. Malhotra: But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty...</p> | | <p>Mr. Malhotra: But when I surrender my karmas to Almighty...</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Then ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣ... ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]), then Kṛṣṇa takes care of you.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Then ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣ... ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]), then Kṛṣṇa takes care of you.</p> |
| <p>Mr. Malhotra: Then those karmas don't affect...?</p> | | <p>Mr. Malhotra: Then those karmas don't affect...?</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: No. Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām (Bs. 5.54). Those who are bhaktas, their karmas are finished. Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi. Devotee is not under karma-phala.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: No. Karmāṇi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhājām (Bs. 5.54). Those who are bhaktas, their karmas are finished. Kṛṣṇa says, ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi. Devotee is not under karma-phala.</p> |
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| :sa guṇān samatītyaitān | | :sa guṇān samatītyaitān |
| :brahma-bhūyāya kalpate | | :brahma-bhūyāya kalpate |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 14.26|BG 14.26]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 14.26 (1972)|BG 14.26]]) |
| <p>He is Brahman, immediately, liberated soul. Without being liberated, nobody can be engaged in devotional service.</p> | | <p>He is Brahman, immediately, liberated soul. Without being liberated, nobody can be engaged in devotional service.</p> |
| <p>Mr. Malhotra: Then if one understands ahaṁ brahmāsmi...</p> | | <p>Mr. Malhotra: Then if one understands ahaṁ brahmāsmi...</p> |
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| :samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu | | :samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu |
| :mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām | | :mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 18.54|BG 18.54]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]) |
| :That is perfection of brahma-jñāna. | | :That is perfection of brahma-jñāna. |
| <p>Mr. Malhotra: But in the final analysis, at...</p> | | <p>Mr. Malhotra: But in the final analysis, at...</p> |