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The whole system was that. Love exchange. I give you some service; you give me something, out of your love. Dadati pratigrhnati. Love means six symptoms

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"The whole system was that. Love exchange. I give you some service; you give me something, out of your love. Dadati pratigrhnati. Love means six symptoms"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

The whole system was that. Love exchange. I give you some service; you give me something, out of your love. Dadāti pratigṛhṇāti. Love means six symptoms. I give you something, you give me something. I give you something for eating; you also give me something for eating. Dadāti pratigṛhṇāti bhuṅkte bhojayate, guhyam ākhyāti pṛcchati (Upadeśāmṛta 4). If I am in trouble, I express my mind, I open my mind before you, and you also try to help me. These are the six signs of love. That is Vedic civilization— everything exchange of love. No business, mercantile.

In the Vedic knowledge, the viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padam: the supreme goal is Viṣṇu. Oṁ tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sūrayaḥ (Ṛg-veda 1.22.20), this Ṛg Veda mantra. The, some rascals, scholar, so-called, they say: "These Vedas, these mantras, are some primitive. Now we are advanced. We shall create our own mantra." You see? This is going on. The primitive . . . primitive, we have to study. Primitive means very, very old. So whether in the days gone by, people were actually happy or now they are happy? Even if you say: "primitive," the primitive life is very nice. Primitive life means simple life, keeping pace with the nature's law. It is very nice. Primitive life . . . it gives you anxiety-free life, and therefore, even if you take it as primitive, the saintly persons, sages, they used to live long, long years, and their brain was so sharp, because they were taking natural food—fruits, grains, and milk that helps to develop human brain for understanding subtle subject matter. So even Vyāsadeva . . . you have seen the picture of Vyāsadeva. He's writing books just near a cottage only. But she's (he's) writing. Nobody can create such literature. But he was leading very simple life, in a cottage. Even, say, 2,000 years ago or little more, there was Cāṇakya Paṇḍita. Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, he was a brahmin, but great politician. His politics are studied even now in M.A. class. And because he was a great politician, diplomat, under his name in our India, in New Delhi, the capital, there is a neighborhood which is called Cāṇakya Purī, and all the foreign embassies are there. Your American embassy is also there. So he was a great politician. But still, he was living in a cottage. He was not accepting any salary, because he was brahmin. Brahmin cannot accept any salary. Just like you have accepted me as your ācārya, but you do not pay me any salary. This is forbidden. The teacher will not accept salary. Then he comes down to the śūdra platform. The śūdra accepts salary, "I serve you, you pay me." And the brahmin will distribute knowledge freely, and the kṣatriya will give protection to the brahmin. This is the system of Vedic system. Even in fifty years ago, education in India, there was no charges. A learned brahmin will sit down any corner of a neighborhood, and all the children will come there, they will learn primary education. And the parents of the children will send . . . somebody will send rice, somebody will send ḍāl . . . just like we are maintaining, by collecting. Not here, but in Bombay, our center is collecting and distributing. The whole system was that. Love exchange. I give you some service; you give me something, out of your love. Dadāti pratigṛhṇāti. Love means six symptoms. I give you something, you give me something. I give you something for eating; you also give me something for eating. Dadāti pratigṛhṇāti bhuṅkte bhojayate, guhyam ākhyāti pṛcchati (Upadeśāmṛta 4). If I am in trouble, I express my mind, I open my mind before you, and you also try to help me. These are the six signs of love. That is Vedic civilization— everything exchange of love. No business, mercantile.

Page Title:The whole system was that. Love exchange. I give you some service; you give me something, out of your love. Dadati pratigrhnati. Love means six symptoms
Compiler:BhavesvariRadhika
Created:2022-08-18, 11:16:23
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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