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Even if I advise, try to meditate, I meditate upon my wife, upon my children, on my business. This is not the stage of seeing Krsna everywhere. That requires training. That requires advanced knowledge

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"Even if I try to meditate, I meditate upon my wife, upon my children, upon my business. This is not the stage of seeing Kṛṣṇa everywhere. That requires training. That requires advanced knowledge, prema. Kṛṣṇa is so kind, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante"

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Festival Lectures

Even if I try to meditate, I meditate upon my wife, upon my children, upon my business. This is not the stage of seeing Kṛṣṇa everywhere. That requires training. That requires advanced knowledge, prema. Kṛṣṇa is so kind, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante.

So in the kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, in the beginning . . . it is not that kaniṣṭha, beginning . . . if anyone immediately becomes so advanced, it is not advancement—it is foolishness. Just like somebody, they declare that, "Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. Why should we go to the temple?" Then if Kṛṣṇa is everywhere, He is not in the temple? Huh? What is this argument? If Kṛṣṇa is everywhere, He is also in the temple. But in the temple I worship directly, and what is the utility? That Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. I am not so advanced that I can see everywhere Kṛṣṇa. Who can see Kṛṣṇa everywhere? That is very advanced stage. Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti (Bs. 5.38). If you become so advanced that you cannot live without Kṛṣṇa for a moment, then Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. Where is that . . . (aside) Don't. Where is that training? Where is that advancement? Even if I try to meditate, I meditate upon my wife, upon my children, upon my business. This is not the stage of seeing Kṛṣṇa everywhere. That requires training. That requires advanced knowledge, prema. Kṛṣṇa is so kind, ye yathā māṁ prapadyante (BG 4.11). If a devotee cannot live for a moment without seeing Kṛṣṇa, He is visible everywhere. Not for the neophyte devotee. So there are different stages.

So this is not fact that Kṛṣṇa is within your mind, therefore you should not go to the temple, you have become so advanced. No. Better go to the temple and see Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is not different. Arcye śilā-dhīr guru-darse viṣṇu śilā-dhīr guruṣu nara-mati. Do not consider that "Here is a stone, Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa is everything. Stone is also Kṛṣṇa; simply you have to be qualified how to talk with stone Kṛṣṇa. That is your qualification. You have to qualify yourself. Otherwise Kṛṣṇa is stone, Kṛṣṇa is water, Kṛṣṇa is sky, is everything. So this is the philosophy. Kṛṣṇa says, bhūmir āpo' nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ buddhir mano eva ca (BG 7.4): "I am everything." That's a fact. So why do you say there is stone Kṛṣṇa? Kṛṣṇa is everything. If you have got that eyes to see, you can see Kṛṣṇa everywhere and everything.

So this is the beginning. Therefore you require pravṛtti-nivṛtti to understand how you should think, how you should live, how you should eat, how you should sleep. This training is required. Why it is required? Because to get out of this material bondage, where the birth, death, old age and disease is compulsory. If you want to avoid this, because you are eternal, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20), why don't you think that "If I am eternal, why am I accepting birth, death, old age and disease?" This is intelligence. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. This is Vedānta-sūtra. Now we should enquire how we can get out of this material entanglement.

Page Title:Even if I advise, try to meditate, I meditate upon my wife, upon my children, on my business. This is not the stage of seeing Krsna everywhere. That requires training. That requires advanced knowledge
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-04, 06:44:54
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1