Guest (3): Is there any chance to understand the Absolute thing?
Prabhupāda: Yes, this is the chance, human body. If you want to know, you can know. Here is the chance.
Guest (2): Is there a way of knowing that the body you inhabited before was of a inferior quality than the one you're inhabiting now, or . . .
Prabhupāda: Inferior quality, just like cats and dog. That is inferior quality.
Guest (2): Yeah, is there a way of knowing whether you're on the way up or you're falling?
Prabhupāda: Yes. You . . . just like you infect some disease. Then it is sure that you are going to grow that disease. And if you don't infect, then you don't grow that disease. Do you know this, infection? Disease infection?
Guest (2): Yes.
Prabhupāda: So if you don't infect a certain disease, then you don't grow it. And if you infect . . . therefore you must know, or you must know the rules and regulation, how you can save yourself from infection. If you are ignorant and if you infect some disease, epidemic, then you have to suffer. If you remain disinfected, then you don't get inferior body, you get superior body, in other planets. Or you can go back to home, back to Godhead. Therefore I said that this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is for purification so that you may not get infected by the material modes. Therefore we advise our student four regulative principles: no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication. Plus chanting the holy name of God. Then you remain immune from the infection. And that you will feel practically also, if you adopt the means. Now it is up to us to decide whether I shall continue the life of infection or I shall remain immune from all infection. That is your decision. Better we should remain immune from all kinds of infection, and that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Sa guṇān samatītyaitān (BG 14.26), find out this verse.
- māṁ ca'vyabhicāreṇa
- bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate
- sa guṇān samatītyaitān
- brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
- (BG 14.26)
Paramahaṁsa:
- māṁ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa
- bhakti-yogena sevate
- sa guṇān samatītyaitān
- brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
- (BG 14.26)
"One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman."
Prabhupāda: This is the way. The purport?
Paramahaṁsa: "This verse is a reply to Arjuna's third question: What is the means of attaining to the transcendental position?"
Prabhupāda: So everything is explained. One has to learn it very carefully.