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We cannot use the ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya (CC Ādi-līlā 5.176)—half; I take half of the hen. I take the rear part, and the front part I reject. This kind of logic, argument, will not be very successful. You have to take as it is, in toto, and you have to understand. That is understanding of Bhagavad-gītā. If you take something to your choice, that is useless, useless waste of time.
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''Tattva-vid'', one who knows ''tattva'', he can speak about ''tattva. Tattva'' means the Absolute Truth. So ''vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam.'' That thing is spoken as ''tattva'', as the truth, by persons who are ''tattva-vid. Tattva-vid'' means one who knows the ''tattva''. Unless one knows the thing, how he can explain? Therefore we have to understand the Absolute Truth from a person who knows it. ''Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam.'' That knowledge is absolute, ''advayam'', no relativity, absolute.

:''vadanti tat tattva-vidas''
:''tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam''
:''brahmeti paramātmeti''
:''bhagavān iti śabdyate''
:([[vanisource:SB 1.2.11|SB 1.2.11]])

That truth is explained as Brahman, as Paramātmā or as Bhagavān. The same thing, just like we see the sun. The sun is a planet and there is a sun-god, just like we have got also in each and every planet one chief person. Here we have got president. Formerly there was one president or king on this planet. Now they have now so many presidents. But according to God's plan, there is one president or king in each and every planet. So in the sun planet there is also one king, or one chief person. His name is also given in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'': Vivasvān. If you accept ''Bhagavad-gītā'', then you have to accept all these things. You cannot make minus anything. That is not knowledge of ''Bhagavad-gītā''. Therefore we are presenting ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is.

We cannot use the ''ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya'' ([[vanisource:CC Adi 5.176|CC Ādi-līlā 5.176]])—half; I take half of the hen. I take the rear part, and the front part I reject. This kind of logic, argument, will not be very successful. You have to take as it is, in total, and you have to understand. That is understanding of ''Bhagavad-gītā''. If you take something to your choice, that is useless, useless waste of time. Just like Mahatma Gandhi, he wanted to prove from ''Bhagavad-gītā'' nonviolence. How it is possible? ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is spoken in the battlefield. So in this way if we try to understand ''Bhagavad-gītā'', it will be not ''Bhagavad-gītā'', it will be something else. We must understand ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is. That is our preaching method. We are presenting ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is all over the world. So we accept.

The modern theory, scientific theory, is that "The sun planet is only blazing fire. There cannot be any living entity." No. We don't believe that. Because ''śāstra'' says that "The living entity is never burned." ''Acchedyo 'yam adāhyo 'yam'' ([[vanisource:BG 2.24 (1972)|BG 2.24]]). ''Adāhyaḥ''. Just like we sterilize by putting into the fire, but that does not mean the living entity is dead. No. ''Adāhyo 'yam'': "It cannot be burned into fire." ''Acchedyo 'yam'': "It cannot be cut into pieces." This information we get from ''Bhagavad-gītā''. So in the sun planet, although it is blazing fire, there are living entities. They have got a particular type of body. That particular type of body is fiery.

Just like you have got living entities in the sea. There are hundreds and thousands. ''Jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi'' (''Padma Purāṇa''). There are nine ''lakhs'' species of aquatic animals. But they are living in the water. They have got particular type of body. You cannot say, because you cannot live within the water, you cannot say, "No, no, there cannot be any living entity." This is nonsense. The living entities, another name is ''sarva-ga'': he can live everywhere. It is not a fact that living entities live only in certain particular place. No. ''Sarva-ga'', anywhere in God's creation there are living entities. This is śāstric vision.