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Kavi means the one who knows present, past and future. Is it not?

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

A man of knowledge.
Morning Walk -- March 25, 1974, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: ...one has to study grammar for twelve years.

Dr. Patel: How much?

Prabhupāda: Twelve years.

Dr. Patel: Twelve years.

Prabhupāda: And as soon as one has his mastership on the grammar, he can study all other books.

Dr. Patel: No, he can be a poet then. The Sanskrit language is poetic in a way.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes, yes.

Dr. Patel: So if you study grammar properly, and then you can, you can just compose poetry. (break)

Prabhupāda: Therefore Lord Brahmā is called Ādi-kavi. Ādi-kavi. Yes.

Dr. Patel: Sanskrit is poetic. You can just compose poetry.

Prabhupāda: Whole Sanskrit language in poetry. Bhagavad-gītā is in poetry. Bhāgavata in poetry. Mahābhārata in poetry.

Dr. Patel: Ninety percent of the Sanskrit literature is in poetry.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Why ninety? It may be ninety-nine.

Dr. Patel: No, but some of the... Kālidāsa, and, you know... They're also composing the ślokas in the... But...

Prabhupāda: Kālidāsa also in poetry.

Dr. Patel: No, that is certain... Not all. Abhijñāna-śakuntalā is not in poetry.

Prabhupāda: Asti himālaya-nāma nakhadi-rāja... Asti uttana-sana-desi (?) himālaya-nāma na-gadi-raja (?).

Dr. Patel: What is that? Raghu-vaṁśa.

Prabhupāda: Raghu-vaṁśa. It is Raghu-vaṁśa.

Dr. Patel: I studied his...

Prabhupāda: Raghu-vaṁśa and Kumāra-sambhava. We studied some portion.

Dr. Patel: I studied in my college days... (break)

Prabhupāda: Motikama (?) is grammar. Poetry for grammar.

Dr. Patel: Meghadūta I studied. (Sanskrit) (break)

Prabhupāda: ...for materialistic persons.

Dr. Patel: No, but they're also... In several places he had entered into high philosophy. It's not only the... Kavidhara (?)... There can never be a kavi without philosophy in him.

Prabhupāda: Philosophy. Yes, yes.

Dr. Patel: All, even the modern kavis.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: Philosophy is the very soul of kavi.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: Kavitā.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: I have found it out.

Prabhupāda: Compact in thought.

Dr. Patel: I am regularly reading these poetry. There also, in English poetry, you'll see so many... (break)

Prabhupāda: One line, two inch, and another line, six inch.

Dr. Patel: And they, they recite poetry in the prosaic way.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: I have actually...

Guest (1): Walt Whitman. Whitman, Whitman. Walt Whitman.

Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. He's a great poet, American. Our Hayagrīva is very much fond of him. You are also?

Satsvarūpa: Not so much.

Guest (1): Yes, we must have some poets in this, our congregation.

Prabhupāda: Everyone is poet. (laughter) (break) Without being kavi, one cannot become devotee. There are twenty-six qualifications of a devotee. One of them is to become kavi.

Dr. Patel: Kavi means the one who knows present, past and future. Is it not?

Prabhupāda: A man of knowledge.

Dr. Patel: And knowledge means this knowledge.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: Yesterday only you said that in the course, this thing.

Prabhupāda: That is perfect knowledge. Harer nāma harer nāma... (CC Adi 17.21).

Dr. Patel: These are, these are joking him, hearing (?) this, you know. Tāny aham... Uh. Not. What is that? What is the word of that śloka? (break)

Prabhupāda: ...janma paraṁ janma vivasvataḥ. Katham etad vijānīyām. (break) ...May, June.

Dr. Patel: (laughs) Yes, May. Mirage in May and also in June. They want to report the... May, June, he has... (break)

Page Title:Kavi means the one who knows present, past and future. Is it not?
Compiler:MadhuGopaldas, Rishab
Created:16 of Jun, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1