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<div class="heading">It is a great science. It is not a sentiment. It is based on philosophy and authorized Vedic literature. So our only request is that you try to take this movement very seriously and you will be happy.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.11 -- Edinburgh, July 16, 1972|Lecture on BG 2.11 -- Edinburgh, July 16, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
If one has actually studied himself, then he can understand God also. Now take, for example, "What I am." Even you meditate upon yourself, you can understand that you are an individual person. Individual person means you have got your own opinion, I have got my own opinion. Therefore sometimes we disagree, because you are individual, I am individual. And because we are all individuals, as part and parcel of God, then God also must be individual. This is study.
 
As I am a person, so God is also person. God cannot be imperson. If we take God as the original father, supreme father . . . the Christian religion believes. All other religion believes. And we also believe, ''Bhagavad-gītā.'' Because Kṛṣṇa says, ''ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā'' ([[Vanisource:BG 14.4 (1972)|BG 14.4]]): "I am the original father of all living entities." So if God is father of all living entities and we all living entities, we are individual person, how God can be imperson? God is person. This is called philosophy. This is called logic.
 
Now here, in this world, we have got experience that we want to love somebody—anyone; even in animal kingdom. A lion also loves the cubs. The love is there. ''Prema''. It is called ''prema''. So therefore this loving affair is there also in God. And when we come in contact with God, our dealings will be simply on the basis of love. I love Kṛṣṇa, or God, and Kṛṣṇa loves me. This is our exchange of feelings.
 
So in this way, the science of God, even without reading any Vedic literature—of course, that will help you—if you have deeply studied what is God, you can understand God. Because I am a sample of God, I am minute particle. Just like the particle of gold is gold. The drop of ocean water is also salty. The ocean is also salty, you can understand. Similarly, by studying our individuality, by studying our propensity, we can understand what is God. This is one side.
 
And here, God personally presents Himself, Kṛṣṇa. He says, ''yadā yadā hi dharmas'' . . . (break) ". . . the saintly devotees and to kill the demons, I appear." But mind that God is absolute. Either His deliverance of the devotee or killing of the demons, they are the same thing. Because we learn from the Vedic literature that demons who are killed by the Personality of Godhead, they also go to the same salvation, liberation point. Because he is killed by God, he's touched by God.
 
So it is a great science. It is not a sentiment. It is based on philosophy and authorized vedic literature. So our only request is that you try to take this movement very seriously and you will be happy.</p>
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