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| <div id="BG514_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="208" link="BG 5.14" link_text="BG 5.14"> | | <div id="BG514_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="208" link="BG 5.14" link_text="BG 5.14"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 5.14|BG 5.14, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body, does not create activities, nor does he induce people to act, nor does he create the fruits of action. All this is enacted by the modes of material nature.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 5.14 (1972)|BG 5.14, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body, does not create activities, nor does he induce people to act, nor does he create the fruits of action. All this is enacted by the modes of material nature.</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>The living entity, as will be explained in the Seventh Chapter, is one of the energies or natures of the Supreme Lord but is distinct from matter, which is another nature—called inferior—of the Lord. Somehow the superior nature, the living entity, has been in contact with material nature since time immemorial. The temporary body or material dwelling place which he obtains is the cause of varieties of activities and their resultant reactions. Living in such a conditional atmosphere, one suffers the results of the activities of the body by identifying himself (in ignorance) with the body. It is ignorance acquired from time immemorial that is the cause of bodily suffering and distress. As soon as the living entity becomes aloof from the activities of the body, he becomes free from the reactions as well. As long as he is in the city of body, he appears to be the master of it, but actually he is neither its proprietor nor controller of its actions and reactions. He is simply in the midst of the material ocean, struggling for existence. The waves of the ocean are tossing him, and he has no control over them. His best solution is to get out of the water by transcendental Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That alone will save him from all turmoil.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>The living entity, as will be explained in the Seventh Chapter, is one of the energies or natures of the Supreme Lord but is distinct from matter, which is another nature—called inferior—of the Lord. Somehow the superior nature, the living entity, has been in contact with material nature since time immemorial. The temporary body or material dwelling place which he obtains is the cause of varieties of activities and their resultant reactions. Living in such a conditional atmosphere, one suffers the results of the activities of the body by identifying himself (in ignorance) with the body. It is ignorance acquired from time immemorial that is the cause of bodily suffering and distress. As soon as the living entity becomes aloof from the activities of the body, he becomes free from the reactions as well. As long as he is in the city of body, he appears to be the master of it, but actually he is neither its proprietor nor controller of its actions and reactions. He is simply in the midst of the material ocean, struggling for existence. The waves of the ocean are tossing him, and he has no control over them. His best solution is to get out of the water by transcendental Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That alone will save him from all turmoil.</p> |
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| <div id="LectureonBG5713NewYorkAugust271966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="203" link="Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966"> | | <div id="LectureonBG5713NewYorkAugust271966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="203" link="Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966|Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 5.14|BG 5.14]]). Now you can ask that "If Kṛṣṇa is giving sanction, then He is responsible for my bad work also. Good work, of course, He is responsible. So bad work He is also responsible." Now, here the answer is na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ. Prabhu. Prabhu means the Lord. The Lord does not create work for you, neither He creates the result for you. Na karma-phala-saṁyogaṁ svabhāvas tu pravartate. Svabhāvas tu pravartate. As you have acquired your characteristics, so you create your own work and you create your result of own work and you become entangled. It is not the creation of God. You create. "How I create? If it is sanctioned, if it is controlled by God, then how I create?" The question may be. Yes. The answer is very simple. You can understand that a person who is criminal, who is condemned. Now he's condemned to death or he is condemned to be imprisoned. Now he makes appeal that "Oh, excuse me, what was done(?)." But the judge puts him into the jail or condemns to life. So he thinks that "The judge has condemned me to death or the, he has put me into jail." But is the judge enemy of a particular person that he puts somebody into the jail and condemns to death? No. I have created. I have created my jail life before. The judge is simply giving me the direction. "Oh, you have done this. Now you have to go." He is not responsible. Similarly God is not responsible for my work, neither He creates my work. It is my nature, it is my characteristic, which, by which I create my work, I create the result and I suffer. God simply gives direction because He is the supreme director. Or the agent of God.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966|Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 5.14 (1972)|BG 5.14]]). Now you can ask that "If Kṛṣṇa is giving sanction, then He is responsible for my bad work also. Good work, of course, He is responsible. So bad work He is also responsible." Now, here the answer is na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi lokasya sṛjati prabhuḥ. Prabhu. Prabhu means the Lord. The Lord does not create work for you, neither He creates the result for you. Na karma-phala-saṁyogaṁ svabhāvas tu pravartate. Svabhāvas tu pravartate. As you have acquired your characteristics, so you create your own work and you create your result of own work and you become entangled. It is not the creation of God. You create. "How I create? If it is sanctioned, if it is controlled by God, then how I create?" The question may be. Yes. The answer is very simple. You can understand that a person who is criminal, who is condemned. Now he's condemned to death or he is condemned to be imprisoned. Now he makes appeal that "Oh, excuse me, what was done(?)." But the judge puts him into the jail or condemns to life. So he thinks that "The judge has condemned me to death or the, he has put me into jail." But is the judge enemy of a particular person that he puts somebody into the jail and condemns to death? No. I have created. I have created my jail life before. The judge is simply giving me the direction. "Oh, you have done this. Now you have to go." He is not responsible. Similarly God is not responsible for my work, neither He creates my work. It is my nature, it is my characteristic, which, by which I create my work, I create the result and I suffer. God simply gives direction because He is the supreme director. Or the agent of God.</p> |
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| :na karma-phala-saṁyogaṁ | | :na karma-phala-saṁyogaṁ |
| :svabhāvas tu pravartate | | :svabhāvas tu pravartate |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 5.14|BG 5.14]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 5.14 (1972)|BG 5.14]]) |
| <p>Now, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, says that "The Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is not responsible for anyone's activities." He does not create. He does not say that "You act in this way." Not exactly He does not say. He says that "You act in this way," but the living entity, out of his individual independence sometimes, or always, so long he is conditioned, he does not carry out the orders of the Lord. Therefore he is responsible for his own work. Although the sanction is there by the Lord, still the Lord is not responsible for his work.</p> | | <p>Now, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, says that "The Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is not responsible for anyone's activities." He does not create. He does not say that "You act in this way." Not exactly He does not say. He says that "You act in this way," but the living entity, out of his individual independence sometimes, or always, so long he is conditioned, he does not carry out the orders of the Lord. Therefore he is responsible for his own work. Although the sanction is there by the Lord, still the Lord is not responsible for his work.</p> |
| :na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi | | :na kartṛtvaṁ na karmāṇi |
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| :na karma-phala-saṁyogaṁ | | :na karma-phala-saṁyogaṁ |
| :svabhāvas tu pravartate | | :svabhāvas tu pravartate |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 5.14|BG 5.14]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 5.14 (1972)|BG 5.14]]) |
| <p> Svabhāva. Svabhāva means "his own nature." We are accustomed to the three modes of nature. Some of us are under the spell of the modes of goodness, and some of us under the spell of the modes of passion, and some of us are in the modes of ignorance. So according to our own position in relationship with the modes of nature we create our work. Nādatte kasyacit pāpam...</p> | | <p> Svabhāva. Svabhāva means "his own nature." We are accustomed to the three modes of nature. Some of us are under the spell of the modes of goodness, and some of us under the spell of the modes of passion, and some of us are in the modes of ignorance. So according to our own position in relationship with the modes of nature we create our work. Nādatte kasyacit pāpam...</p> |
| :nādatte kasyacit pāpaṁ | | :nādatte kasyacit pāpaṁ |
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| :ajñānenāvṛtaṁ jñānaṁ | | :ajñānenāvṛtaṁ jñānaṁ |
| :tena muhyanti jantavaḥ | | :tena muhyanti jantavaḥ |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 5.15|BG 5.15]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 5.15 (1972)|BG 5.15]]) |
| <p>Now, here everyone is addressed as jantu. Jantu means animals. Of course, in logic also, human being is called rational animal. They are classified among the animals, but they are called rational animals So here also, in the Bhagavad-gītā, the Lord says, jantavaḥ. Jantavaḥ is the plural number of jantu. Jantu means animal. So nādatte kasyacit pāpam. A... Somebody is engaged in the activities of sinful activities, but he is not induced by the Lord that he should be engaged in sinful activities. Similarly, somebody is engaged in virtuous activities. So that virtuous activity is according to his own, I mean to say, association with the modes of material nature. Ajñānena āvṛtaṁ jñānaṁ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 5.16|BG 5.16]]). But in this material world, either in the modes of ignorance or in the modes of passion or in the modes of goodness, they are all... Total, sum total, is ignorance. Sum total... Even a man is in the modes of goodness, that is also considered as ignorance because real knowledge, real knowledge is to know his relationship with the Supreme Lord. That is real knowledge. Unless one is elevated to that position, that what is his relation with the Supreme Lord, then all his so-called knowledge is also understood as ignorance.</p> | | <p>Now, here everyone is addressed as jantu. Jantu means animals. Of course, in logic also, human being is called rational animal. They are classified among the animals, but they are called rational animals So here also, in the Bhagavad-gītā, the Lord says, jantavaḥ. Jantavaḥ is the plural number of jantu. Jantu means animal. So nādatte kasyacit pāpam. A... Somebody is engaged in the activities of sinful activities, but he is not induced by the Lord that he should be engaged in sinful activities. Similarly, somebody is engaged in virtuous activities. So that virtuous activity is according to his own, I mean to say, association with the modes of material nature. Ajñānena āvṛtaṁ jñānaṁ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 5.16 (1972)|BG 5.16]]). But in this material world, either in the modes of ignorance or in the modes of passion or in the modes of goodness, they are all... Total, sum total, is ignorance. Sum total... Even a man is in the modes of goodness, that is also considered as ignorance because real knowledge, real knowledge is to know his relationship with the Supreme Lord. That is real knowledge. Unless one is elevated to that position, that what is his relation with the Supreme Lord, then all his so-called knowledge is also understood as ignorance.</p> |
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| <p>Prabhupāda: ...association with the different qualities.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: ...association with the different qualities.</p> |
| <p>Mr. Sar: That he has taught within, so many adhyāyas, not only one. (break)</p> | | <p>Mr. Sar: That he has taught within, so many adhyāyas, not only one. (break)</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: ...presents you instruction: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]). That's all. If you simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa, then everything finished. Everything is finished.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: ...presents you instruction: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). That's all. If you simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa, then everything finished. Everything is finished.</p> |
| <p>Mr. Sar: He is (indistinct) nānyaṁ guṇebhyaḥ kartāram...</p> | | <p>Mr. Sar: He is (indistinct) nānyaṁ guṇebhyaḥ kartāram...</p> |
| <p>Dr. Patel: Ah, that... (break) ...ācaret. Then he goes beyond the guṇas.</p> | | <p>Dr. Patel: Ah, that... (break) ...ācaret. Then he goes beyond the guṇas.</p> |