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| <div class="heading">Even if he knew, but sometimes he become bewildered. Therefore it is..., Bhāgavata says that even the big, big demigods, they become bewildered. Janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāt tene brahma hṛdā muhyanti yatra sūrayaḥ (SB 1.1.1). That māyā is so strong that they can bewilder a personality like Brahmā and Indra, and what to speak of us? Māyā is so strong. | | <div class="heading">Even if he knew, but sometimes he become bewildered. Therefore it is..., Bhāgavata says that even the big, big demigods, they become bewildered. Janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāt tene brahma hṛdā muhyanti yatra sūrayaḥ (SB 1.1.1). That māyā is so strong that they can bewilder a personality like Brahmā and Indra, and what to speak of us? Māyā is so strong. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.22 -- Indore, December 13, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.22 -- Indore, December 13, 1970]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (3): Stotra says Brahmā didn't know something about...</p> | | |
| <p>Prabhupāda: Yes, even if he knew, but sometimes he become bewildered. Therefore it is..., Bhāgavata says that even the big, big demigods, they become bewildered. Janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāt tene brahma hṛdā muhyanti yatra sūrayaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). That māyā is so strong that they can bewilder a personality like Brahmā and Indra, and what to speak of us? Māyā is so strong. Similarly, Indra was also bewildered when He stopped Indra-yajña. Kṛṣṇa, when He asked His father, "There is no need of Indra-yajña..." He is under the order of the Supreme Lord. He did not say..., Kṛṣṇa said to Nanda Mahārāja that "I am the Supreme Lord," but He said, "He is working under the Supreme Lord. He has to supply water. There is no need of yajña." In other words, Kṛṣṇa is not in favor of any type of demigod worship. No. In the Govardhana chapter He stressed: simply the Supreme Personality of Godhead should be satisfied. That is stated everywhere, in Bhagavad-gītā also, kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.20|BG 7.20]]). So Indra, when his yajña was stopped, so he tried to punish the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana by torrents of, incessant torrents of rain for seven days—havoc. The whole Vṛndāvana was to be drowned under water, and Kṛṣṇa immediately lifted the whole Govardhana Hill. And He stood seven days without taking any food and protected all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana. Now God is displaying as God. When these things are there, the rascals will say, "Oh, these are all legends." When God displays Himself as God, the rascals take it as legend. Just see. They do not believe in the śāstras. They interpret in a different way. Is it not? Yes. And this is going on. And they are supposed to be... What is their interpretation about this Govardhana Hill? Do you know? Kṛṣṇa's lifting the Govardhana Hill, what, how they interpret it? I know, the Māyāvādīs, they do not accept. Or "Kṛṣṇa is ordinary human being." The Ārya-samājīs and others, they take it as legend. But the ācāryas, they do not take it as legend. Therefore we have to follow the ācāryas.</p>
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| | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.22 -- Indore, December 13, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.22 -- Indore, December 13, 1970]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;"> |
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| | Guest (3): ''Stotra'' says Brahmā didn't know something about . . . |
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| | Prabhupāda: Yes, even if he knew, but sometimes he become bewildered. Therefore it is . . . ''Bhāgavata'' says that even the big, big demigods, they become bewildered. |
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| | :''Janmādy asya yataḥ anvayād itarataś ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ svarāt'' |
| | :''tene brahma hṛdā muhyanti yatra sūrayaḥ'' |
| | :([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]). |
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| | That ''māyā'' is so strong that they can bewilder a personality like Brahmā and Indra, and what to speak of us? ''Māyā'' is so strong. |
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| | Similarly, Indra was also bewildered when He stopped ''Indra-yajña''. Kṛṣṇa, when He asked His father, "There is no need of ''Indra-yajña'' . . ." He is under the order of the Supreme Lord. He did not say . . . Kṛṣṇa said, to Nanda Mahārāja that "I am the Supreme Lord," but He said, "He is working under the Supreme Lord. He has to supply water. There is no need of ''yajña''." |
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| | In other words, Kṛṣṇa is not in favor of any type of demigod worship. No. In the Govardhana chapter He stressed: simply the Supreme Personality of Godhead should be satisfied. That is stated everywhere, in ''Bhagavad-gītā'' also, ''kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 7.20 (1972)|BG 7.20]]). |
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| | So Indra, when his ''yajña'' was stopped, so he tried to punish the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana by torrents of . . . incessant torrents of rain for seven days—havoc. The whole Vṛndāvana was to be drowned under water, and Kṛṣṇa immediately lifted the whole Govardhana Hill. And He stood seven days without taking any food, and protected all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana. |
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| | Now God is displaying as God. When these things are there, the rascals will say: "Oh, these are all legends." When God displays Himself as God, the rascals take it as legend. Just see. They do not believe in the ''śāstras''. They interpret in a different way. Is it not? Yes. And this is going on. And they are supposed to be . . . |
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| | What is their interpretation about this Govardhana Hill? Do you know? Kṛṣṇa's lifting the Govardhana Hill, what . . . how they interpret it? I know, the Māyāvādīs, they do not accept. Or "Kṛṣṇa is ordinary human being." The Ārya-samājīs and others, they take it as legend. But the ''ācāryas'', they do not take it as legend. Therefore we have to follow the ''ācāryas''. |
