Against the authority
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Madhya-lila
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1972 Conversations and Morning Walks
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: What is the value? If you are calling him to take education from the school, that means he is accepting authority. Let him be educated at home. Why the college?
Devotee: But in the classrooms, they simply...
Prabhupāda: No, no, no, first of all, the principle? What is this principle?
Rāmeśvara: To train him in the methods of...
Prabhupāda: Yes. So that means authority. You are teaching him to accept the authority. And you are teaching against authority. Everything contradictory. One side, contraceptive; one side, illicit sex. And the.... But Vedic civilization says, "All right, as soon as woman is widow, let her remain as a saintly woman—no more sex." But "No, you can marry and you can have sex hundred times daily, but use contraceptive." Is that civilization? To train one woman not to have any more sex, this is also contraceptive. And another way that "You can have sex any amount, as many times as you like. Take this contraceptive." Whose civilization better? And you call him to be trained up to accept authority and teach him, "Don't accept any authority." Is that education? Nonsense.Correspondence
1971 Correspondence
Prabhupāda: So everything is given with logic and argument. Ete cāṁśa-kalāḥ puṁsaḥ kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam [SB 1.3.28]. First of all He's grouped among the incarnations, but Kṛṣṇa is not incarnation. He's bhagavān svayam.
Indian man: He comes original.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So if you argue against the authority of Bhāgavatam, then that argument has no value.
Indian man: That's where the problem in India is. Everyone is saying God is Mahā-Viṣṇu, and Kṛṣṇa and Rāma are only avatāras, and that's where the big argument came in. In fact, I talked to so many...
Prabhupāda: Otherwise why Sūta Gosvāmī, kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam [SB 1.3.28]? And Kṛṣṇa says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat [Bg. 7.7]. So how one can say like that? That means less intelligent. If Kṛṣṇa... If one accepts the authority of Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat [Bg. 7.7]. Aham ādir hi devānām [Bg 10.2]. Then how they falsely say? Aham ādir hi devānām. Find out this verse.Page Title: | Against the authority |
Compiler: | Siddha Rupa, Visnu Murti |
Created: | 12March08, |
No. of Quotes: | 8 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=2, CC=1, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=3, Let=1 |