If you teach the principles of Bhagavad-gita, then you have to take the principles of Bhagavad-gita. If you want to read Bhagavad-gita, so if you remain in other atmosphere, then it will not help. It is simply waste of time

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"if you teach the principles of Bhagavad-gītā, then you have to take the principles of Bhagavad-gītā. If you want to read Bhagavad-gītā, so if you remain in other atmosphere, then it will not help. It is simply waste of time"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Scholar: I think the principle is the same, but by the way to perform, to grow . . . Prabhupāda: No, no. Your principle . . . if you teach the principles of Bhagavad-gītā, then you have to take the principles of Bhagavad-gītā. If you want to read Bhagavad-gītā, so if you remain in other atmosphere, then it will not help. It is simply waste of time. That is explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayati (SB 1.2.7). Therefore Bhagavad-gītā is also there. "I'm talking to the most confidential part of this knowledge." Sarva-guhyatamam.

730227 - Conversation A - Jakarta

Prabhupāda: People are in darkness. Do you mean to say when you said that we have not come to that stage, that means that you want to remain in darkness? Does it mean? You don't want to take this light. You have not come to this stage. Does it mean you want to remain in darkness?

Scholar: Well, not really. But step by step we have to enlighten ourselves.

Prabhupāda: But step by step . . . you have to know it. Step by step is there. First of all you have to fix up that we have . . . this is the goal. Then we get step by step. But if you don't accept the principle, then you remain in darkness.

Scholar: I think the principle is the same, but by the way to perform, to grow . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no. Your principle . . . if you teach the principles of Bhagavad-gītā, then you have to take the principles of Bhagavad-gītā. If you want to read Bhagavad-gītā, so if you remain in other atmosphere, then it will not help. It is simply waste of time. That is explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayati (SB 1.2.7). Therefore Bhagavad-gītā is also there. "I'm talking to the most confidential part of this knowledge." Sarva-guhyatamam. What is that?

(aside) Find out. The Eighteenth Chapter. I think sixty-three verse. Where is that verse sixty-three?

Śrutakīrti: Iti te jñānam ākhyātam, "Thus I have explained to you the most confidential of all knowledge"?

Prabhupāda: Before that verse, what is that? Sarva-guhyatamam. (devotees look for verse) Ah, yes, yes. Sixty-three. Just open to sixty-three.

Scholar: Sixty-three.

Prabhupāda: Read it. (break)

Scholar: . . . probably do . . .

Prabhupāda: "Whatever you like."

Scholar: "Whatever you like."

Prabhupāda: Yes. "Whatever you like." That independence is there always. But he has . . . just like we are speaking, "This is the aim of life." Now if you like, you can take, you'll not take—that depends on your independence. So that independence is all . . . before that independence is there, therefore we are sometimes degrading from this human life to cats' and dogs' life.