False philosophy
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Carol: How do you go if you look at the two as say the creator and the person? Would that be the two that you have in mind? How would you go about fostering that relationship?
Amogha: She says if you mean by the two the creator and us, how would you go about fostering or increasing that relationship between us and...
Prabhupāda: Creator, created. Do you believe in creator?
Carol: Impersonal creator, yes.
Prabhupāda: Huh?
Amogha: She says impersonal creator.
Prabhupāda: Impersonal?
Amogha: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Oh, what is that philosophy? Impersonal creator?
Carol: Without any attributes that we can...
Prabhupāda: Creator is an attribute. To become creator, that is attribute. If I create this bell, I know the art of how to create a bell.
Carol: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: So, this is my attribute. How you can say the creator is without attribute? This is false philosophy. I know how to create this bell. That is my artistic sense. That is my qualification. And how you say I am without qualification? As soon as you say "creator," then He has got many qualifications.Dhṛṣṭaketu: So the Māyāvādīs' philosophy is actually the supreme illusion.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu has forbidden. Māyāvādī-bhāṣya sunile haya sarva nasa [Cc. Madhya 6.169]. One is finished if he follows the Māyāvāda philosophy. He is doomed. He will never be able to accept the real philosophy. He will be absorbed in that false philosophy. This is Māyāvādī's position. Māyāvādī haya kṛṣṇe aparādhī. They are aparādhī, offender. Therefore they shall remain perpetually in ignorance and think himself, "I am God." This is Māyāvādī's position. Vivekānanda preached openly that "Why you are thinking that you are sinful? You are God." He preached like that.1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: In Russia, it seems from Harikeśa's letter, that they are admitting it is a failure.
Prabhupāda: It is... It must be failure.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Now in Russia they seem to be tending more and more to give up all of this false philosophy. They're allowing churches again.
Prabhupāda: Lenin, Stalin, they were guṇḍās. Guṇḍā philosophy.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: What about Marx?
Prabhupāda: He was a rascal. What is his philosophy?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Economic philosophy.
Prabhupāda: No, no, what is that, basic principle?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Basic principle is that the...
Prabhupāda: I do not care to read this nonsense, never. What I hear from you, that's all. I tell them, "Mūḍhas, narādhamas." That's all.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You don't spend any time studying their philosophy.
Prabhupāda: Why shall I waste my time? I never read all these.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes devotees say, in order to defeat... This is their philosophy.
Prabhupāda: They are defeated, already dead. Few days they can quack. That's all. Who asks for Marx now? Gandhi, Marx, Tolstoy, who cares for them? Vivekananda? Now Kṛṣṇa's Bhagavad-gītā is taken.Page Title: | False philosophy |
Compiler: | Rati, Visnu Murti |
Created: | 24 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=2, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=3, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 7 |