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| <div id="BG920_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="78" link="BG 9.20" link_text="BG 9.20"> | | <div id="BG920_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="78" link="BG 9.20" link_text="BG 9.20"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.20|BG 9.20, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who study the Vedas and drink the soma juice, seeking the heavenly planets, worship Me indirectly. Purified of sinful reactions, they take birth on the pious, heavenly planet of Indra, where they enjoy godly delights.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.20 (1972)|BG 9.20, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who study the Vedas and drink the soma juice, seeking the heavenly planets, worship Me indirectly. Purified of sinful reactions, they take birth on the pious, heavenly planet of Indra, where they enjoy godly delights.</p> |
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| <div class="purport text"><p>The word trai-vidyāḥ refers to the three Vedas-Sāma, Yajur and Ṛg. A brāhmaṇa who has studied these three Vedas is called a tri-vedī. Anyone who is very much attached to knowledge derived from these three Vedas respected in society. Unfortunately, there are many great scholars of the Vedas who do not know the ultimate purport of studying them. Therefore Kṛṣṇa herein declares Himself to be the ultimate goal for the tri-vedīs. Actual tri-vedīs take shelter under the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and engage in pure devotional service to satisfy the Lord. Devotional service begins with the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and side by side trying to understand Kṛṣṇa in truth. Unfortunately those who are simply official students of the Vedas become more interested in offering sacrifices to the different demigods like Indra and Candra. By such endeavor, the worshipers of different demigods are certainly purified of the contamination of the lower qualities of nature and are thereby elevated to the higher planetary systems or heavenly planets known as Maharloka, Janaloka, Tapoloka, etc. Once situated on those higher planetary systems, one can satisfy his senses hundreds of thousands of times better than on this planet.</p> | | <div class="purport text"><p>The word trai-vidyāḥ refers to the three Vedas-Sāma, Yajur and Ṛg. A brāhmaṇa who has studied these three Vedas is called a tri-vedī. Anyone who is very much attached to knowledge derived from these three Vedas respected in society. Unfortunately, there are many great scholars of the Vedas who do not know the ultimate purport of studying them. Therefore Kṛṣṇa herein declares Himself to be the ultimate goal for the tri-vedīs. Actual tri-vedīs take shelter under the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and engage in pure devotional service to satisfy the Lord. Devotional service begins with the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and side by side trying to understand Kṛṣṇa in truth. Unfortunately those who are simply official students of the Vedas become more interested in offering sacrifices to the different demigods like Indra and Candra. By such endeavor, the worshipers of different demigods are certainly purified of the contamination of the lower qualities of nature and are thereby elevated to the higher planetary systems or heavenly planets known as Maharloka, Janaloka, Tapoloka, etc. Once situated on those higher planetary systems, one can satisfy his senses hundreds of thousands of times better than on this planet.</p> |
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| <div id="SB2221_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="61" link="SB 2.2.21" link_text="SB 2.2.21"> | | <div id="SB2221_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="61" link="SB 2.2.21" link_text="SB 2.2.21"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.2.21|SB 2.2.21, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The process of giving up all material connections and returning home, back to Godhead, the Supreme, is recommended herein. The condition is that one should be completely freed from desire for material enjoyment. There are different grades of material enjoyments in respect to duration of life and sensual gratification. The highest plane of sensual enjoyment for the longest period of life is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā ([[Vanisource:BG 9.20|BG 9.20]]). All are but material enjoyments, and one should be thoroughly convinced that he has no need of such a long duration of life, even in the Brahmaloka planet. He must return home, back to Godhead, and must not be attracted by any amount of material facilities. In the Bhagavad-gītā (2.59) it is said that this sort of material detachment is possible to attain when one is acquainted with the supreme association of life. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate. One cannot be freed from material attraction unless he has complete understanding of the nature of spiritual life. The propaganda by a certain class of impersonalists that spiritual life is void of all varieties is dangerous propaganda to mislead the living beings into becoming more and more attracted by material enjoyments.</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.2.21|SB 2.2.21, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The process of giving up all material connections and returning home, back to Godhead, the Supreme, is recommended herein. The condition is that one should be completely freed from desire for material enjoyment. There are different grades of material enjoyments in respect to duration of life and sensual gratification. The highest plane of sensual enjoyment for the longest period of life is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā ([[Vanisource:BG 9.20 (1972)|BG 9.20]]). All are but material enjoyments, and one should be thoroughly convinced that he has no need of such a long duration of life, even in the Brahmaloka planet. He must return home, back to Godhead, and must not be attracted by any amount of material facilities. In the Bhagavad-gītā (2.59) it is said that this sort of material detachment is possible to attain when one is acquainted with the supreme association of life. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate. One cannot be freed from material attraction unless he has complete understanding of the nature of spiritual life. The propaganda by a certain class of impersonalists that spiritual life is void of all varieties is dangerous propaganda to mislead the living beings into becoming more and more attracted by material enjoyments.</p> |
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| <div id="CCMadhya8257_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1660" link="CC Madhya 8.257" link_text="CC Madhya 8.257"> | | <div id="CCMadhya8257_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1660" link="CC Madhya 8.257" link_text="CC Madhya 8.257"> |
| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.257|CC Madhya 8.257, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">he liberated soul who merges into the existence of the Lord is no better than the trees. Trees also stand in the Lord's existence because material energy and the Lord's energy are the same. Similarly, the Brahman effulgence is also the energy of the Supreme Lord. It is the same whether one remains in the Brahman effulgence or in the material energy because in neither is there spiritual activity. Better situated are those who desire sense gratification and promotion to the heavenly planets. Such people want to enjoy themselves like denizens of heaven in the gardens of paradise. They at least retain their individuality in order to enjoy life. But the impersonalists, who try to lose their individuality, also lose both material and spiritual pleasure. The last destination of the Buddhist philosophers is to become just like a stone, which is immovable and has neither material nor spiritual activity. As far as the hard-working karmīs are concerned, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam states (11.10.23):</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.257|CC Madhya 8.257, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The liberated soul who merges into the existence of the Lord is no better than the trees. Trees also stand in the Lord's existence because material energy and the Lord's energy are the same. Similarly, the Brahman effulgence is also the energy of the Supreme Lord. It is the same whether one remains in the Brahman effulgence or in the material energy because in neither is there spiritual activity. Better situated are those who desire sense gratification and promotion to the heavenly planets. Such people want to enjoy themselves like denizens of heaven in the gardens of paradise. They at least retain their individuality in order to enjoy life. But the impersonalists, who try to lose their individuality, also lose both material and spiritual pleasure. The last destination of the Buddhist philosophers is to become just like a stone, which is immovable and has neither material nor spiritual activity. As far as the hard-working karmīs are concerned, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam states (11.10.23):</p> |
| :iṣṭveha devatā yajñaiḥ svar-lokaṁ yāti yājñikaḥ | | :iṣṭveha devatā yajñaiḥ svar-lokaṁ yāti yājñikaḥ |
| :bhuñjīta deva-vat tatra bhogān divyān nijārjitān | | :bhuñjīta deva-vat tatra bhogān divyān nijārjitān |
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| :te puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam | | :te puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam |
| :aśnanti divyān divi deva-bhogān | | :aśnanti divyān divi deva-bhogān |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 9.20|BG 9.20]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 9.20 (1972)|BG 9.20]]) |
| <p>Now, Lord Kṛṣṇa has described different types of transcendentalists. First He has described about the mahātmā, mahātmā, the great soul. And their symptoms have been described, that satataṁ kīrtayanto mām ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14|BG 9.14]]). They are engaged twenty-four hours, cent percent, in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ, and trying to serve the Lord very carefully with vow. So they are first-class transcendentalists or the great soul. And then? Second-class? Those who are trying to understand the Supreme, the Absolute Truth, by identifying himself with the Supreme, that "I am, I am the Supreme." This I have already explained. This "I am Supreme" means "I am part and parcel of the Supreme, of the same quality." So these people, these devotees, not exactly devotees, transcendentalists, they, doing that, when they are little more advanced and if by chance they get association of another pure devotee, then he can understand that "I am not Supreme, but I am the part and parcel of the Supreme." Then he makes further advance and the ultimate goal, as I have several times explained before you, ultimate goal is to know Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Lord. That is the ultimate goal.</p> | | <p>Now, Lord Kṛṣṇa has described different types of transcendentalists. First He has described about the mahātmā, mahātmā, the great soul. And their symptoms have been described, that satataṁ kīrtayanto mām ([[Vanisource:BG 9.14 (1972)|BG 9.14]]). They are engaged twenty-four hours, cent percent, in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ, and trying to serve the Lord very carefully with vow. So they are first-class transcendentalists or the great soul. And then? Second-class? Those who are trying to understand the Supreme, the Absolute Truth, by identifying himself with the Supreme, that "I am, I am the Supreme." This I have already explained. This "I am Supreme" means "I am part and parcel of the Supreme, of the same quality." So these people, these devotees, not exactly devotees, transcendentalists, they, doing that, when they are little more advanced and if by chance they get association of another pure devotee, then he can understand that "I am not Supreme, but I am the part and parcel of the Supreme." Then he makes further advance and the ultimate goal, as I have several times explained before you, ultimate goal is to know Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Lord. That is the ultimate goal.</p> |
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| :amṛtaṁ caiva mṛtyuś ca | | :amṛtaṁ caiva mṛtyuś ca |
| :sad asac cāham arjuna | | :sad asac cāham arjuna |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 9.19|BG 9.19]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 9.19 (1972)|BG 9.19]]) |
| <p>He is sat and asat both.</p> | | <p>He is sat and asat both.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Cause and effect.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Cause and effect.</p> |
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| :te puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam | | :te puṇyam āsādya surendra-lokam |
| :aśnanti divyān divi deva-bhogān | | :aśnanti divyān divi deva-bhogān |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 9.20|BG 9.20]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 9.20 (1972)|BG 9.20]]) |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Svar-gatim, those who are desiring to go to the Svarga-loka, heavenly planet, they go. They go...</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Svar-gatim, those who are desiring to go to the Svarga-loka, heavenly planet, they go. They go...</p> |
| <p>Dr. Patel: And come back.</p> | | <p>Dr. Patel: And come back.</p> |
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| :Te taṁ bhuktvā svarga-lokaṁ viśālaṁ | | :Te taṁ bhuktvā svarga-lokaṁ viśālaṁ |
| :kṣīṇe puṇye martya-lokaṁ viśanti | | :kṣīṇe puṇye martya-lokaṁ viśanti |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 9.21|BG 9.21]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 9.21 (1972)|BG 9.21]]) |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. But those who are devotees, they do not come back.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. But those who are devotees, they do not come back.</p> |
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