I am the greatest
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 13 - 18
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
- prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
- guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
- ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā
- kartāham iti manyate
- [Bg. 3.27]
The material world, especially in this age, everyone is thinking, "I am the greatest. Who can become more than me?" Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā. This material world is like that. Everyone is thinking like that. Asuric pravṛtti. Kaḥ āḍhyo 'sti mama samaḥ: "Who is greater than me?" There is a struggle for this vimūḍhātmā competition.
But at the end he is under the control of nature—everyone knows it—because ultimately the death will come and all ahaṅkāras will be taken away. "I don't care for God. I am independent. I am God"—all these ahaṅkāra, false egotism, on account of bewildered, being bewildered, these things will be finished when Kṛṣṇa will come as death. Everything will be finished.Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Philosophy Discussions
Conversations and Morning Walks
1972 Conversations and Morning Walks
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Rāmeśvara: One of their big charges is that when we go out and distribute our books we are very aggressive, and therefore it is a sign that we are not actually religious.
Prabhupāda: Every salesman must be aggressive. That is a qualification.
Rāmeśvara: They say we are interfering with the right of the person. He doesn't want to speak to us, but we insist that he speak to us. Prabhupāda: That is salesman's qualification. Nobody is dying for our book, but if we can create market for our book, that is our qualification.
Rāmeśvara: So then they will say, "Then that means you are not a religion. You're simply a business."
Prabhupāda: Yes. From business side... Religion means we are expert in every way. We can cheat also very nicely, which you cannot do. That is religion, expert in everything. Ṣaḍ-aiśvarya-pūrṇaḥ. And Kṛṣṇa says that "Amongst the cheaters, I am the greatest cheat."
Haṁsadūta: They think religious people should be fools.
Prabhupāda: Yes, but our religion is not that. The most intelligent man can be religious.Page Title: | I am the greatest |
Compiler: | Archana, Labangalatika |
Created: | 20 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=5, Con=2, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 8 |