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| | | [[Category:First-class Prisoner|1]] |
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| | | <div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2> |
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| | | <div id="SB_Canto_2" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3> |
| == Srimad-Bhagavatam ==
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| === SB Canto 2 ===
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| <span class="q_heading">'''The intelligent person should not try to be promoted from third-class prison life to first-class prison life, but should try to be released from the prison altogether.'''</span>
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| <span class="SB-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:SB 2.10.37-40|SB 2.10.37-40, Purport]]:''' Some of the living entities are relatively happy in better conditions of life, whereas others are in distressed
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| :sarva-dharmān parityajya | | :sarva-dharmān parityajya |
| :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja | | :mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja |
| :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo | | :ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo |
| :mokṣayiṣyāmi... | | :mokṣayiṣyāmi... |
| :[Bg. 18.66] | | :([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]) |
| So if you surrender to God, if you have grown up from the childish nature to the real human nature, then surrender to Kṛṣṇa, or God. Then our life is perfect. Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate [Bg. 7.19]. Find out this verse. | | <p>So if you surrender to God, if you have grown up from the childish nature to the real human nature, then surrender to Kṛṣṇa, or God. Then our life is perfect. Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate ([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]). Find out this verse.</p> |
| | | <p>Hari-śauri:</p> |
| Hari-śauri: | |
| :bahūnāṁ janmanām ante | | :bahūnāṁ janmanām ante |
| :jñānavān māṁ prapadyate | | :jñānavān māṁ prapadyate |
| :vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti | | :vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti |
| :sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ | | :sa mahātmā sudurlabhaḥ |
| :[Bg. 7.19] | | :([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]]) |
| "After many births and deaths he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare." | | <p>"After many births and deaths he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare."</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: That's it. So everyone can become a great soul if he accepts the proposal of God. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śara... ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). Everything solved. But that he'll not do. Just like your first question was "How to solve these problems?" The problems will be solved as soon as he surrenders to God. But that he'll not do. He is bigger than God. He will make solution by his own plan. This is the difficulty.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: That's it. So everyone can become a great soul if he accepts the proposal of God. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śara... [Bg. 18.66]. Everything solved. But that he'll not do. Just like your first question was "How to solve these problems?" The problems will be solved as soon as he surrenders to God. But that he'll not do. He is bigger than God. He will make solution by his own plan. This is the difficulty. | | <p>Dr. Kneupper: Is that because of the age?</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: No, this is the... Just like anyone who is in the prisonhouse. They are all criminals, but some of them are first-class prisoners, some of them second-class, some of them third-class, but they are prisoner. Similarly, according to different time, people are more or less god..., godless. So this time is more godless. The prisonhouse is filled up with more third-class prisoners.</p> |
| Dr. Kneupper: Is that because of the age? | | <p>Dr. Kneupper: How long does that period last?</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: Well, now this age will... The duration of this age is calculated 432, 432 thousands of years. Out of that we have passed only 500,000..., no, five thousand years.</p> |
| Prabhupāda: No, this is the... Just like anyone who is in the prisonhouse. They are all criminals, but some of them are first-class prisoners, some of them second-class, some of them third-class, but they are prisoner. Similarly, according to different time, people are more or less god..., godless. So this time is more godless. The prisonhouse is filled up with more third-class prisoners. | | <p>Dr. Kneupper: A long time to go.</p> |
| | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. But why should you wait for the long time? You can go back to home, back to..., immediately. That is our proposal, that "Why should you wait? This may be long time. But we... You give up the connection with the material world. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). If you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then after giving up this body you go back to home, back to Godhead. Then you have no connection, this. But we are make, planning here, "We shall be comfortable." This is rascaldom.</p> |
| Dr. Kneupper: How long does that period last? | | </div> |
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| Prabhupāda: Well, now this age will... The duration of this age is calculated 432, 432 thousands of years. Out of that we have passed only 500,000..., no, five thousand years. | | </div> |
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| Dr. Kneupper: A long time to go. | |
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| Prabhupāda: Yes. But why should you wait for the long time? You can go back to home, back to..., immediately. That is our proposal, that "Why should you wait? This may be long time. But we... You give up the connection with the material world. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. If you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then after giving up this body you go back to home, back to Godhead. Then you have no connection, this. But we are make, planning here, "We shall be comfortable." This is rascaldom.</span> | |