Expressions researched:
"trance"
|"trances"
Prabhupāda: Trance is... The actual meditation means concentrate one's mind on Viṣṇu form. That is real meditation. But now they have, the impersonalists and voidists, they have manufactured so many things, but actual meditation means...
Guest (3): Transcendental meditation. Trans...?
Prabhupāda: Transcendental meditation. The transcendental meditation means to think of Lord Viṣṇu.
Dr. Patel: No, but gañjā, they say, some of the people say that you come in such trance. It's an artificial trance.
Prabhupāda: They say also like that!
Dr. Patel: Hm. These boys.
Prabhupāda: They... These hippies, they also say that by marijuana... They call marijuana... They call marijuana? Or what is called?
Devotees: Marijuana.
Prabhupāda: Marijuana. So they learned this gañjā smoking... They came here for spiritual enlightenment, but they do not know who can give them spiritual enlightenment. They went to these rascals, gañjā-smoker, having long beard...
Prabhupāda: Eh? In Calcutta there was a big poet, Girish-chandra Ghosh. Perhaps you heard his name.
Dr. Patel: Yes.
Prabhupāda: He started Indian state. He was a first-class gañjā smoker.
Dr. Patel: They get in a trance, and...
Prabhupāda: That, that... You have got appreciation for this trance.
Dr. Patel: They have got a trance. They get a trance...
Prabhupāda: You are, you are smelling.
Dr. Patel: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes. You never condemn it.
Dr. Patel: I won't condemn it if it is good, and if it is bad, I will condemn it.
Prabhupāda: No, no. It is bad.
Dr. Patel: Every bad thing has good also. Some good quality must be there.
Prabhupāda: (laughs) No, no, no.
Brahmānanda: ...and stop their heart beating, and still they are not dead.
Prabhupāda: Yes. This is perfection of astanga-yoga, samādhi, to remain in trance. (break) Yes. Actually he was not dead.
Cyavana: He never died.
Prabhupāda: Yes. He practiced yoga from India. For twelve years he was there.
| Page Title: | Trance (Conv and Letters) |
| Compiler: | Labangalatika, Serene, MadhuGopaldas, Unica |
| Created: | 04 of Mar, 2010 |
| Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=10, Let=1 |
| No. of Quotes: | 11 |