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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: All so-called religions, they're simply cheating. Cheating. Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavaḥ. Kaitavaḥ means cheating. Everything is cheating. They say, "We are advancing." What you are advancing? The problem, birth-death, is there. So what is the meaning of your advancement? Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsarāṇām ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.2|SB 1.1.2]]).</p> | | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: All so-called religions, they're simply cheating. Cheating. Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavaḥ. Kaitavaḥ means cheating. Everything is cheating. They say, "We are advancing." What you are advancing? The problem, birth-death, is there. So what is the meaning of your advancement? Dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsarāṇām ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.2|SB 1.1.2]]).</p> |
| <p>Prajāpati: This is the only means, then, to get off that manorathena.</p> | | <p>Prajāpati: This is the only means, then, to get off that manorathena.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Manorathena, yes. Manorathena means if you remain on that platform, then you have to reject again. Just they are doing, the so-called scientists, philosophers. They are putting forward some theory, and after some time they reject it. So if you remain on the mental platform, then this business of accepting and rejecting will go on. You'll never come to a conclusion. Therefore one has to rise to the spiritual platform. That is nityaḥ śāśvato 'yam, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20|BG 2.20]]). That is eternal, everlasting.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Manorathena, yes. Manorathena means if you remain on that platform, then you have to reject again. Just they are doing, the so-called scientists, philosophers. They are putting forward some theory, and after some time they reject it. So if you remain on the mental platform, then this business of accepting and rejecting will go on. You'll never come to a conclusion. Therefore one has to rise to the spiritual platform. That is nityaḥ śāśvato 'yam, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). That is eternal, everlasting.</p> |
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| :mām aprāpyaiva kaunteya | | :mām aprāpyaiva kaunteya |
| :tato yānty adhamāṁ gatim | | :tato yānty adhamāṁ gatim |
| :([[Vanisource:BG 16.20|BG 16.20]]) | | :([[Vanisource:BG 16.20 (1972)|BG 16.20]]) |
| <p>"Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they sink down to the most abominable type of existence."</p> | | <p>"Attaining repeated birth amongst the species of demoniac life, such persons can never approach Me. Gradually they sink down to the most abominable type of existence."</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Just to keep you everlastingly in darkness He shows this līlā, that "See? I am dying. You are right that I am a man." Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11|BG 9.11]]). "You rascal, mūḍha, you remain in that condition." This is explanation. Otherwise how Kṛṣṇa can die? We do not die, His part and parcel. And how He can die?</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Just to keep you everlastingly in darkness He shows this līlā, that "See? I am dying. You are right that I am a man." Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā ([[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)|BG 9.11]]). "You rascal, mūḍha, you remain in that condition." This is explanation. Otherwise how Kṛṣṇa can die? We do not die, His part and parcel. And how He can die?</p> |
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| <p>Prabhupāda: Hm? Yes. That is our preaching.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Hm? Yes. That is our preaching.</p> |
| <p>Satsvarūpa: And if they submit, they'll never have to suffer again.</p> | | <p>Satsvarūpa: And if they submit, they'll never have to suffer again.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Again. That's it. That is our proposal. We say, "You rascal, you don't be overintelligent. You submit to God. You'll be happy. Because you cannot become intelligent, you are rascal. So give up this rascaldom. sarva-dharmān parityajya ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66|BG 18.66]]), whatever you have created, all rascaldom. Simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Then you'll be happy. Your science, your politics, your philosophy, your so on, so on, so on—all rascaldom. Sarva-dharmān. You are thinking that we have created so many humanitarianism, this ism, that ism, that." We say these are all rascaldom. The sooner you give up this habit, simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa, you...</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: Again. That's it. That is our proposal. We say, "You rascal, you don't be overintelligent. You submit to God. You'll be happy. Because you cannot become intelligent, you are rascal. So give up this rascaldom. sarva-dharmān parityajya ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]), whatever you have created, all rascaldom. Simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Then you'll be happy. Your science, your politics, your philosophy, your so on, so on, so on—all rascaldom. Sarva-dharmān. You are thinking that we have created so many humanitarianism, this ism, that ism, that." We say these are all rascaldom. The sooner you give up this habit, simply surrender to Kṛṣṇa, you...</p> |
| <p>Yogeśvara: So in other words, we're not advocating change of position. Just change of consciousness.</p> | | <p>Yogeśvara: So in other words, we're not advocating change of position. Just change of consciousness.</p> |
| <p>Prabhupāda: There is no change of position. You are rascal. You are thinking there is change of position. There is no change of position. The sun is everlastingly rising from the east. You cannot change that.</p> | | <p>Prabhupāda: There is no change of position. You are rascal. You are thinking there is change of position. There is no change of position. The sun is everlastingly rising from the east. You cannot change that.</p> |