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How is it possible that Tulasi-devi is a pure devotee, what we might call a plant?

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"How is it possible that Tulasi-devi is a pure devotee, what we might call a plant"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

That you cannot know in your impure state. You just become pure. You will understand. (laughter) Just like a physician, he can understand another physician, what is his position. The layman, what he can understand?... So when you become devotee, you will understand what kind of devotee is Tulasi. So long you are not devotee, you cannot understand.
Lecture on SB 6.1.15 -- Auckland, February 22, 1973:

Devotee (3): How is it possible that Tulasi-devī is a pure devotee, what we might call a plant?

Prabhupāda: That you cannot know in your impure state. You just become pure. You will understand. (laughter) Just like a physician, he can understand another physician, what is his position. The layman, what he can understand? If you say, physician, "Oh, how I can understand this physician?" How you can understand? You are not a physician. You become a physician, then you will understand what kind of physician he is. So when you become devotee, you will understand what kind of devotee is Tulasi. So long you are not devotee, you cannot understand. Don't expect. Therefore we have to accept the authority. That is beginning. Śāstra says, "Tulasi is the greatest devotee of Kṛṣṇa." We have to accept, that's all. Authority. How she is so great devotee, that you will understand when you become a devotee. You come to the platform; then you will understand, not before. Now chant.

Page Title:How is it possible that Tulasi-devi is a pure devotee, what we might call a plant?
Compiler:Visnu Murti, Rishab
Created:14 of Apr, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1