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<div id="LectureonBG24045LosAngelesDecember131968_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="103" link="Lecture on BG 2.40-45 -- Los Angeles, December 13, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.40-45 -- Los Angeles, December 13, 1968">
<div class="heading">Even one is not in goodness, even one is in the darkest part of the quality of ignorance, still, he can be immediately elevated to the spiritual platform, which is recommended by Kṛṣṇa, that you have come to the platform above the modes of goodness. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is directly offering the spiritual platform which is above the mode of goodness. The quality of goodness will (be) automatically there. Any person who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his quality of goodness, namely, he does not indulge in illicit sex life, he does not smoke even or take tea or coffee even, he does not eat any forbidden foodstuff, neither he takes part in unnecessary gambling. So good character is immediately there.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.40-45 -- Los Angeles, December 13, 1968|Lecture on BG 2.40-45 -- Los Angeles, December 13, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Devotee: "''Samādhi ''is never possible for persons interested in material sense enjoyment, nor for those who are bewildered by such temporary things. They are more or less condemned by the process of material energy." 

Verse 45: "The ''Vedas'' mainly deal with the subject of the three modes of material nature. Rise above these modes, O Arjuna."

Prabhupāda: Yes. ''Traiguṇya-viṣayā vedā nistraiguṇyo bhavārjuna'' ([[Vanisource:BG 2.45 (1972)|BG 2.45]]). The exact verse is like that. The whole material world is working under three modes of material nature: the modes of goodness, modes of passion and modes of ignorance. Those who are acting in the modes of goodness, they are being elevated to higher standard of life. 

Those who are acting in the modes of passion, they'll remain in the same position as they are now, and those acting in the modes of ignorance, darkness, without any knowledge, they are being degraded in lower grades of life. This is material world. But Kṛṣṇa is advising Arjuna that either goodness or passion or ignorance, after all, they are activities of this material world. You have to come above, transcend this position of goodness also. 

So goodness is not qualification for spiritual advancement, but it is helping. If a man is very good man, then it is helping to spiritual life. But that is not the cause. Here the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, this chanting, is directly offering spiritual life. Even one is not in goodness, even one is in the darkest part of the quality of ignorance, still, he can be immediately elevated to the spiritual platform, which is recommended by Kṛṣṇa, that you have come to the platform above the modes of goodness. 

So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is directly offering the spiritual platform, which is above the mode of goodness. The quality of goodness will automatically there. Any person who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, his quality of goodness—namely, he does not indulge in illicit sex life, he does not smoke even or take tea or coffee even, he does not eat any forbidden foodstuff, neither he takes part in unnecessary gambling—so good character is immediately there. That is the test. How one is spiritually advanced will be tested how he has acquired all the good qualities. 

Not that a ''yogī'' talking with a cigarette in hand. There is a picture. (laughs) In our Back to Godhead somebody was talking with our representative. He cannot give up smoking even for a moment, chain smoker, and claiming, "I am God, I am spiritually advanced," (laughs) and so many nonsense thing. You see. He's being kicked up by material energy in so many ways, and still he's claiming, "Oh, everyone is God. I am God." God is so cheap thing, you see? And they are satisfied, "I am God." That's all. 

So this bluffing, these cheating things are going on. And because we are unable to cheat and bluff, nobody cooperates with us. They want to be cheated and bluffed. That is the business. Yes. </p>
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