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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 13.4|BG 13.4, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 13.4 (1972)|BG 13.4, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are.</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>The Lord is describing the field of activities and the knower of the field of activities in their constitutional positions. One has to know how this body is constituted, the materials of which this body is made, under whose control this body is working, how the changes are taking place, wherefrom the changes are coming, what the causes are, what the reasons are, what the ultimate goal of the individual soul is, and what the actual form of the individual soul is. One should also know the distinction between the individual living soul and the Supersoul, their different influences, their potentials, etc. One just has to understand this Bhagavad-gītā directly from the description given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all this will be clarified. But one should be careful not to consider the Supreme Personality of Godhead in every body to be one with the individual soul, the jīva. This is something like equating the potent and the impotent.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>The Lord is describing the field of activities and the knower of the field of activities in their constitutional positions. One has to know how this body is constituted, the materials of which this body is made, under whose control this body is working, how the changes are taking place, wherefrom the changes are coming, what the causes are, what the reasons are, what the ultimate goal of the individual soul is, and what the actual form of the individual soul is. One should also know the distinction between the individual living soul and the Supersoul, their different influences, their potentials, etc. One just has to understand this Bhagavad-gītā directly from the description given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and all this will be clarified. But one should be careful not to consider the Supreme Personality of Godhead in every body to be one with the individual soul, the jīva. This is something like equating the potent and the impotent.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG134ParisAugust121973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="349" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonBG134ParisAugust121973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="349" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: "Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are."</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: "Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Tat kṣetram ([[Vanisource:BG 13.4|BG 13.4]]). Idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 13.2|BG 13.2]]). So Kṛṣṇa has already explained, kṣetra means idaṁ śarīram. Śarīram means this body. Tat kṣetram. First of all, you have to understand that this body or any field of action, anywhere, the three things are there: the field of activities, the owner of the field and the supervisor of the field. You can check and tally anywhere. So Kṛṣṇa says kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi. There are two kṣetrajñaḥ and one kṣetra. One field of activity and two personalities, kṣetrajñaḥ. One is to be supposed as occupier and the other is supposed to be the owner.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Tat kṣetram ([[Vanisource:BG 13.4 (1972)|BG 13.4]]). Idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate ([[Vanisource:BG 13.1-2 (1972)|BG 13.2]]). So Kṛṣṇa has already explained, kṣetra means idaṁ śarīram. Śarīram means this body. Tat kṣetram. First of all, you have to understand that this body or any field of action, anywhere, the three things are there: the field of activities, the owner of the field and the supervisor of the field. You can check and tally anywhere. So Kṛṣṇa says kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi. There are two kṣetrajñaḥ and one kṣetra. One field of activity and two personalities, kṣetrajñaḥ. One is to be supposed as occupier and the other is supposed to be the owner.</p> |
| <p>Just like in this house we are occupier. The house is kṣetra, field of activities. The landlord is the owner and we are the occupier. Two kṣetrajñaḥ. This property is interest for two persons. One is the occupier and the other is the owner. Similarly, anywhere, any part of the world, anywhere you go, you will find these three things: One, the field of activities and the other two means one occupier and one owner. If one understands these three things and he can study everywhere these three things, then: kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor yad jñānam. This knowledge, to understand everywhere that there is a field of activity and two persons are interested in that field of activity... One is the owner, another is the occupier. If you study these three things only, then: taj-jñānaṁ jñānam. That is knowledge. Otherwise all rascals and fools, that's all. Mataṁ mama.</p> | | <p>Just like in this house we are occupier. The house is kṣetra, field of activities. The landlord is the owner and we are the occupier. Two kṣetrajñaḥ. This property is interest for two persons. One is the occupier and the other is the owner. Similarly, anywhere, any part of the world, anywhere you go, you will find these three things: One, the field of activities and the other two means one occupier and one owner. If one understands these three things and he can study everywhere these three things, then: kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor yad jñānam. This knowledge, to understand everywhere that there is a field of activity and two persons are interested in that field of activity... One is the owner, another is the occupier. If you study these three things only, then: taj-jñānaṁ jñānam. That is knowledge. Otherwise all rascals and fools, that's all. Mataṁ mama.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG134ParisAugust121973_4" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="349" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonBG134ParisAugust121973_4" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="349" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Lord, He can eat anything. He can eat anything because He is all-powerful, omnipotent. But we cannot do that. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, "You give Me this vegetable, fruit, grains, milk, and I will take." Therefore indirectly it is said, these are the foodstuff of the human being. Not any others things. You cannot say that "This is also eatable, therefore I shall eat." Then you become a hog. Those who have no discrimination, of eating, they are going to be hog next life. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, yad vikārī yataś ca yat ([[Vanisource:BG 13.4|BG 13.4]]). How one becomes a hog, dog, cat or demigod or Indra, or Brahma, that will be explained. You are given the facility of human being and if you misuse your facilities, then according to your mental condition, you'll be offered the next body. Yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran loke tyajyaty ante kalevaram ([[Vanisource:BG 8.6|BG 8.6]]), you'll find.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Paris, August 12, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Lord, He can eat anything. He can eat anything because He is all-powerful, omnipotent. But we cannot do that. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, "You give Me this vegetable, fruit, grains, milk, and I will take." Therefore indirectly it is said, these are the foodstuff of the human being. Not any others things. You cannot say that "This is also eatable, therefore I shall eat." Then you become a hog. Those who have no discrimination, of eating, they are going to be hog next life. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, yad vikārī yataś ca yat ([[Vanisource:BG 13.4 (1972)|BG 13.4]]). How one becomes a hog, dog, cat or demigod or Indra, or Brahma, that will be explained. You are given the facility of human being and if you misuse your facilities, then according to your mental condition, you'll be offered the next body. Yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran loke tyajyaty ante kalevaram ([[Vanisource:BG 8.6 (1972)|BG 8.6]]), you'll find.</p> |
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| :sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca | | :sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca |
| :tat samāsena me śṛṇu | | :tat samāsena me śṛṇu |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 13.4|BG 13.4]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 13.4 (1972)|BG 13.4]]) |
| <p>Yesterday we have discussed that two souls, the individual soul and the Supersoul, both of them are living within this body. This body is compared... In the Upaniṣads, the body is compared with a tree, and two birds are there. One bird is the individual soul, we, and the other bird is the Supersoul, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He is always flying with the other bird, the living entity. We are trying to enjoy this material world. Just like you have seen a bird sitting in this branch, going another branch, another tree. This is all seeking some pleasure.</p> | | <p>Yesterday we have discussed that two souls, the individual soul and the Supersoul, both of them are living within this body. This body is compared... In the Upaniṣads, the body is compared with a tree, and two birds are there. One bird is the individual soul, we, and the other bird is the Supersoul, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He is always flying with the other bird, the living entity. We are trying to enjoy this material world. Just like you have seen a bird sitting in this branch, going another branch, another tree. This is all seeking some pleasure.</p> |
| <p>Similarly, we are also... Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13|BG 2.13]]). We are enjoying a standard of comfort in this life, and I am preparing another standard of living condition next life. So I shall fly over to another body. Tathā-dehāntara prāptiḥ. But Kṛṣṇa is so kind...</p> | | <p>Similarly, we are also... Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]). We are enjoying a standard of comfort in this life, and I am preparing another standard of living condition next life. So I shall fly over to another body. Tathā-dehāntara prāptiḥ. But Kṛṣṇa is so kind...</p> |
| <p>Because we are all sons of Kṛṣṇa... We are wandering in this material world as mad chap. Just like a rich man's son has become mad. He leaves his home and loitering in the street and eating in the garbage. That is our position. We are the sons of the richest person. Aiśvaryasya samāgrasya. Bhagavān means who is the proprietor of all riches. So we are sons of such a rich man. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanā... But we have become mad. We have become mad. We want to enjoy...</p> | | <p>Because we are all sons of Kṛṣṇa... We are wandering in this material world as mad chap. Just like a rich man's son has become mad. He leaves his home and loitering in the street and eating in the garbage. That is our position. We are the sons of the richest person. Aiśvaryasya samāgrasya. Bhagavān means who is the proprietor of all riches. So we are sons of such a rich man. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanā... But we have become mad. We have become mad. We want to enjoy...</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG134BombaySeptember271973_6" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="350" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonBG134BombaySeptember271973_6" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="350" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have got this body; you have got another body. No two bodies you'll find equal in every respect. You'll find two bodies... We have got two hands, two legs, two eyes. These are all right, but your eyes are different from my eyes, your arms are different from my arms. This is human society. Then there are other bodies, animal society, bird society, beast society, aquatic society, insect society. There are so many, eight million four hundred thousand species forms of life. They're all living entities. But why they have got different types of bodies? That is explained here. Tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk ca.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have got this body; you have got another body. No two bodies you'll find equal in every respect. You'll find two bodies... We have got two hands, two legs, two eyes. These are all right, but your eyes are different from my eyes, your arms are different from my arms. This is human society. Then there are other bodies, animal society, bird society, beast society, aquatic society, insect society. There are so many, eight million four hundred thousand species forms of life. They're all living entities. But why they have got different types of bodies? That is explained here. Tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk ca.</p> |
| <p>Why we have got different bodies? And yādṛk ca, how it is working? Yādṛk ca. Tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk ca yad vikārī. How it has transformed in different forms? Yad vikārī yataś ca yat ([[Vanisource:BG 13.4|BG 13.4]]), and wherefrom it has come to be so? Sa ca yo yat prabhāvaḥ. How, under certain influence, we get this body? There are three kinds of influences, you must always know, material influences.</p> | | <p>Why we have got different bodies? And yādṛk ca, how it is working? Yādṛk ca. Tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk ca yad vikārī. How it has transformed in different forms? Yad vikārī yataś ca yat ([[Vanisource:BG 13.4 (1972)|BG 13.4]]), and wherefrom it has come to be so? Sa ca yo yat prabhāvaḥ. How, under certain influence, we get this body? There are three kinds of influences, you must always know, material influences.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG134BombaySeptember271973_7" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="350" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973"> | | <div id="LectureonBG134BombaySeptember271973_7" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="350" link="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Who can become free from sinful activities? One who is engaged always in pious activities. If you are engaged in pious activities always, where is the chance of committing sinful activities? Therefore the most pious activity is to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. If you are engaged always, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, if your mind is always engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there is no accommodation for other things to come to your mind. This is the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As soon as we forget Kṛṣṇa, māyā is there, immediately captured.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.4 -- Bombay, September 27, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Who can become free from sinful activities? One who is engaged always in pious activities. If you are engaged in pious activities always, where is the chance of committing sinful activities? Therefore the most pious activity is to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. If you are engaged always, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, if your mind is always engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then there is no accommodation for other things to come to your mind. This is the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As soon as we forget Kṛṣṇa, māyā is there, immediately captured.</p> |
| <p>So therefore Kṛṣṇa says, sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca. That prabhāva means according to the modes of material nature. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-sango 'sya sad-asad-janma-yoniṣu ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22|BG 13.22]]). Why one is born in the family of demigod? Why one is born in the family of a hog? Why one is born in the family of a tree or a serpent? There are so many species of life. The only reason is kāraṇaṁ guṇa-sango 'sya. The living entity, as he associates with the guṇas, there are three guṇas. Multiply three by three, it becomes nine, and multiply nine by nine, it becomes eighty-one. Therefore there are eighty-four. Eight million four hundred thousand. This is guṇa.</p> | | <p>So therefore Kṛṣṇa says, sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca. That prabhāva means according to the modes of material nature. Kāraṇaṁ guṇa-sango 'sya sad-asad-janma-yoniṣu ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22 (1972)|BG 13.22]]). Why one is born in the family of demigod? Why one is born in the family of a hog? Why one is born in the family of a tree or a serpent? There are so many species of life. The only reason is kāraṇaṁ guṇa-sango 'sya. The living entity, as he associates with the guṇas, there are three guṇas. Multiply three by three, it becomes nine, and multiply nine by nine, it becomes eighty-one. Therefore there are eighty-four. Eight million four hundred thousand. This is guṇa.</p> |
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| :sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca | | :sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca |
| :tat samāsena me śṛṇu | | :tat samāsena me śṛṇu |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 13.4|BG 13.4]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 13.4 (1972)|BG 13.4]]) |
| <p>Translation: "Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are."</p> | | <p>Translation: "Now please hear My brief description of this field of activity and how it is constituted, what its changes are, whence it is produced, who that knower of the field of activities is, and what his influences are."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: So yesterday we had been discussing about the questions put forward by Arjuna,</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: So yesterday we had been discussing about the questions put forward by Arjuna,</p> |
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| :sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca | | :sa ca yo yat prabhāvaś ca |
| :tat samāsena me śṛṇu | | :tat samāsena me śṛṇu |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 13.4|BG 13.4]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 13.4 (1972)|BG 13.4]]) |
| <p>We have discussed that this body is the field of activity. We are acting according to the body. I am the same person, but when I had my boyhood body or childhood body, I was acting differently. This child, they are acting now some way, but when they will get another body, they will act in a different way.</p> | | <p>We have discussed that this body is the field of activity. We are acting according to the body. I am the same person, but when I had my boyhood body or childhood body, I was acting differently. This child, they are acting now some way, but when they will get another body, they will act in a different way.</p> |
| <p>Similarly, not only this human form of body, but there are eight million four hundred thousand different types of bodies. We have explained several times. Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi: "In the water there are nine hundred thousand different forms of body." How many do we know? We do not know all the details. We know there are different types of fishes, and say, a hundred thousand we have seen or experimented, the zoologist. But from the Vedic literature we understand that there are nine hundred thousand forms of body within the water.</p> | | <p>Similarly, not only this human form of body, but there are eight million four hundred thousand different types of bodies. We have explained several times. Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi: "In the water there are nine hundred thousand different forms of body." How many do we know? We do not know all the details. We know there are different types of fishes, and say, a hundred thousand we have seen or experimented, the zoologist. But from the Vedic literature we understand that there are nine hundred thousand forms of body within the water.</p> |
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| <p>Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk ca. Why we find so many varieties of life? How it has come into being? It is... Everything will be explained by Kṛṣṇa. He says, tat samāsena me śṛṇu: "From Me you hear." Everyone is inquisitive, "Why there are varieties of life?" I do not know what the modern scientist says, but they do not understand that there is soul in these different types of body. That we have already discussed, that idaṁ śarīraṁ kṣetram ity abhidhīyate. Every different particular living entity... Not particular. We are all living entities, part and parcel of God. But we have entered into different types of bodies according to our desire. That's it. According to... We have got desires, different types of desires. The eight million four hundred thousand bodies means, at least, we have got eight million four hundred thousand different types of desires. That we have to learn from authorities like Kṛṣṇa.</p> | | <p>Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk ca. Why we find so many varieties of life? How it has come into being? It is... Everything will be explained by Kṛṣṇa. He says, tat samāsena me śṛṇu: "From Me you hear." Everyone is inquisitive, "Why there are varieties of life?" I do not know what the modern scientist says, but they do not understand that there is soul in these different types of body. That we have already discussed, that idaṁ śarīraṁ kṣetram ity abhidhīyate. Every different particular living entity... Not particular. We are all living entities, part and parcel of God. But we have entered into different types of bodies according to our desire. That's it. According to... We have got desires, different types of desires. The eight million four hundred thousand bodies means, at least, we have got eight million four hundred thousand different types of desires. That we have to learn from authorities like Kṛṣṇa.</p> |
| <p>Therefore He says, tat samāsena me śṛṇu: "You try to understand." You cannot speculate. Is there any psychologist who can say that how many different types of thinking, feeling, willings are there? No, they cannot say. But we must know from Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that these eight million four hundred thousand species or forms of life are there because there are eight million four hundred thousand different types of desires, exactly eight million four hundred thousand.</p> | | <p>Therefore He says, tat samāsena me śṛṇu: "You try to understand." You cannot speculate. Is there any psychologist who can say that how many different types of thinking, feeling, willings are there? No, they cannot say. But we must know from Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that these eight million four hundred thousand species or forms of life are there because there are eight million four hundred thousand different types of desires, exactly eight million four hundred thousand.</p> |
| <p>This is called Vedic knowledge. Exactly what is the fact, that is stated there. So our process of understanding, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement—we do not hear from any bogus person. We hear from Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says for us, those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, tat samāsena me śṛṇu: "From Me because I am the supreme authority, Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa says that mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.7|BG 7.7]]) "There is no more superior authority than Me." So we get knowledge from superior authority. That is the process of acquiring knowledge.</p> | | <p>This is called Vedic knowledge. Exactly what is the fact, that is stated there. So our process of understanding, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement—we do not hear from any bogus person. We hear from Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says for us, those who are Kṛṣṇa conscious, tat samāsena me śṛṇu: "From Me because I am the supreme authority, Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa says that mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.7 (1972)|BG 7.7]]) "There is no more superior authority than Me." So we get knowledge from superior authority. That is the process of acquiring knowledge.</p> |
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| Dr. Patel: Kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānam tad jñānaṁ mataṁ mama. | | Dr. Patel: Kṣetra-kṣetrajñayor jñānam tad jñānaṁ mataṁ mama. |
| Prabhupāda: Yes. | | Prabhupāda: Yes. |
| Dr. Patel: Tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk yad-vikāri yataś ca yat, sa ca yat... ([[Vanisource:BG 13.4|BG 13.4]]). (break) | | Dr. Patel: Tat kṣetraṁ yac ca yādṛk yad-vikāri yataś ca yat, sa ca yat... ([[Vanisource:BG 13.4 (1972)|BG 13.4]]). (break) |
| Prabhupāda: ...prajña. This point must be clearly understood. Then you go further. A kṣetra... This body is kṣetra. Kṣetra means "the field of activities." Just like a kṛṣana works in his field, and he reaps his result. As he works, he gets the result. Similarly, this body is kṣetra, and we are working with this body. And we are reaping the result. Karmaṇa daiva-netreṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]). Karmaṇa. So this is the kṣetra and kṣetra-jña. Now... And next He says that "I am also kṣetra-jña. I am also kṣetra-jña." How He's kṣetra-jña? Because He's Paramātmā. | | Prabhupāda: ...prajña. This point must be clearly understood. Then you go further. A kṣetra... This body is kṣetra. Kṣetra means "the field of activities." Just like a kṛṣana works in his field, and he reaps his result. As he works, he gets the result. Similarly, this body is kṣetra, and we are working with this body. And we are reaping the result. Karmaṇa daiva-netreṇa ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]). Karmaṇa. So this is the kṣetra and kṣetra-jña. Now... And next He says that "I am also kṣetra-jña. I am also kṣetra-jña." How He's kṣetra-jña? Because He's Paramātmā. |
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