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| <div class="heading">The law college is open for everyone. But he must be properly qualified to get entrance. Similarly, one must be properly qualified to enter into the transcendental subject matter. Everyone and anyone cannot. Śūdras, those who are in śūdra qualification, how they can understand Vedas? It is not possible. | | <div class="heading">The law college is open for everyone. But he must be properly qualified to get entrance. Similarly, one must be properly qualified to enter into the transcendental subject matter. Everyone and anyone cannot. Śūdras, those who are in śūdra qualification, how they can understand Vedas? It is not possible. |
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| <span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 18.67-69 -- Ahmedabad, December 9, 1972|Lecture on BG 18.67-69 -- Ahmedabad, December 9, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Atapaskāya. Actually, one who is sinful, who is not undergoing the method of austerities, penance, what he will understand about Bhagavad-gītā? It is not a table talk. People are taking it as a table talk. By so-called scholarship... That is not possible. Just like it is said that unless one is a brāhmaṇa, qualified brāhmaṇa, he should not touch the Vedas. That means what he'll understand? Unless one has attained the brahminical qualification: truthfulness, cleanliness, controlling the senses, controlling the mind, simplicity, tolerant, full of Vedic knowledge, practical application in life, and full faith in the Vedas... This is, these are the brahminical qualifications. So unless one has attained the brahminical qualification, what he will understand, the Vedas? It is not that Mr. Max Muller translates Vedas. This is all nonsense. What Max Muller will understand Bhagavad, uh, Vedas? It is, these are not the subject matter of advanced in A-B-C-D. No. These are transcendental subject matter. Tat. Oṁ tat sat. Unless one is advanced... Everything... Just like on our ordinary life also, unless one has graduated, he cannot enter into the law college. So it is not prohibition. The law college is open for everyone. But he must be properly qualified to get entrance. Similarly, one must be properly qualified to enter into the transcendental subject matter. Everyone and anyone cannot. Śūdras, those who are in śūdra qualification, how they can understand Vedas? It is not possible.</p> | | |
| <p>Therefore Kṛṣṇa knows that mostly they are persons contaminated. Therefore He said, idaṁ te na atapaskāya. Those who are too much contaminated with the material qualities, three qualities: sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa... So generally, people are contaminated with tamo-guṇa and rajo-guṇa. Hardly, at the present moment, hardly we shall find out one is qualified with the sattva-guṇa, brahminical qualification. Śāstra says, kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ: "In this age, Kali-yuga, mostly all of them are śūdras." No brāhmaṇa, no kṣatriya, no vaiśya, according to qualification. You can, by force, you can say, "I am brāhmaṇa; because I am son of a brāhmaṇa, I am brāhmaṇa." That you can do, but that is not the qualification. If somebody says, "My father is high-court judge. Therefore I am a high-court judge," is that very nice proposal? One must attain the qualification of high-court judge, even though he's a son of a high-court judge.</p>
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| | ''Atapaskāya''. Actually, one who is sinful, who is not undergoing the method of austerities, penance, what he will understand about ''Bhagavad-gītā''? It is not a table talk. People are taking it as a table talk. By so-called scholarship . . . that is not possible. Just like it is said that unless one is a ''brāhmin'', qualified ''brāhmin'', he should not touch the ''Vedas''. That means what he will understand? |
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| | Unless one has attained the brahminical qualification: truthfulness, cleanliness, controlling the senses, controlling the mind, simplicity, tolerant, full of Vedic knowledge, practically application in life, and full faith in the ''Vedas'' . . . this is, these are the brahminical qualifications. So unless one has attained the brahminical qualification, what he will understand, the ''Vedas''? |
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| | It is not that Mr. Max Mueller translates ''Veda''. This is all nonsense. What Max Mueller will understand ''Bhagavad'', uh, ''Vedas''? It is, these are not the subject matter of advanced in A-B-C-D. No. These are transcendental subject matter. ''Tat. Oṁ tat sat''. Unless one is advanced . . . everything . . . just like in our ordinary life also, unless one has graduated, he cannot enter into the law college. |
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| | So it is not prohibition. The law college is open for everyone. But he must be properly qualified to get entrance. Similarly, one must be properly qualified to enter into the transcendental subject matter. Everyone and anyone cannot. ''Śūdras'', those who are in ''śūdra'' qualification, how they can understand ''Vedas''? It is not possible. |
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| | Therefore Kṛṣṇa knows that mostly they are persons contaminated. Therefore He said, ''idaṁ te na atapaskāya''. Those who are too much contaminated with the material qualities, three qualities: ''sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa'' . . . so generally, people are contaminated with ''tamo-guṇa and rajo-guṇa.'' Hardly, at the present moment, hardly we shall find out one is qualified with the ''sattva-guṇa'', brahminical qualification. |
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| | ''Śāstra'' says, ''kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ'': "In this age, Kali-yuga, mostly all of them are ''śūdras''." No ''brāhmin'', no ''kṣatriya'', no ''vaiśya'', according to qualification. You can, by force, you can say, "I am ''brahmin''; because I am son of a ''brahmin'', I am ''brahmin''." That you can do, but that is not the qualification. If somebody says, "My father is high-court judge; therefore I am a high-court judge," is that very nice proposal? One must attain the qualification of high-court judge, even though he's a son of a high-court judge. |
