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To understand God, even the greatest of the greatest thinker, philosopher or sage or saintly person, they are also bewildered. Cannot understand

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"To understand God, even the greatest of the greatest thinker, philosopher or sage or saintly person, they are also bewildered. Cannot understand"

Lectures

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures

Now muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ. To understand God, even the greatest of the greatest thinker, philosopher or sage or saintly person, they are also bewildered. Cannot understand. Panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamya. So Lord Caitanya is . . . (indistinct) . . . that He has got two characteristics. One characteristic is . . . that is always present. What is that? He's independent and full of knowledge, and He's conscious. Unconsciousness is not the qualification of God. Voidness cannot be accepted as the qualification of the Supreme. The Supreme must be conscious.

Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ. Now, people may argue that in the creation we find Brahmā the first-born living creature, and he has given us the Vedic knowledge. So this . . . in the creation, because he's the first living creature, then he is svarāṭ. He is also independent. Why God is independent? This living creature, he's first-born. He's independent. Otherwise, how could he give the knowledge of Vedas?

So the reply is tene brahma hṛdā. No. He's also dependent. He got the knowledge from the Supreme Lord. How is that? He's the first-born living creature. How he got knowledge from God? Tene brahma hṛdā. Brahmā . . . the Vedic knowledge was imparted into the heart of Brahmā. Why? Because God is situated within everyone's heart. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati (BG 18.61).

These things are very nicely described in the Bhāgavatam in the beginning. Tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye. Ādi-kavaye means Brahmā. Kavi means the learned. Kavi. Kavinaṁ purāṇam anuśāsitāram (BG 8.9). In the Bhagavad-gītā. He's the kavinaṁ purāṇam. He's the oldest learned man. Oldest. Purāṇam. Purāṇam means the oldest.

Then why God is not recognized? Now muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ. To understand God, even the greatest of the greatest thinker, philosopher or sage or saintly person, they are also bewildered. Cannot understand. Panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamya. So Lord Caitanya is . . . (indistinct) . . . that He has got two characteristics. One characteristic is . . . that is always present. What is that? He's independent and full of knowledge, and He's conscious. Unconsciousness is not the qualification of God. Voidness cannot be accepted as the qualification of the Supreme. The Supreme must be conscious.

Tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye, tejo-vāri-mṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo yatra trisargo 'mṛṣā. And yatra; in Him rests the material manifestation. And what is this material manifestation? Tejo-vāri-mṛdāṁ vinimayam. It is simply exchange of fire, water and earth. Of course, there other things are eight elements, fire, water, earth, ether and air. This is the gross material elements. And the finer material elements are the mind, intelligence and false ego. We have discussed this in the Bhagavad-gītā.

So this material manifestation is nothing but a manipulation, or a preparation of these things. Just . . . just like we present sometime varieties of foodstuff—kacaurīs, siṅgāra, purī and rasagullā, and so many things. But what are these? That is varieties of grains and milk, fat, that's all. Similarly, all these varieties, manifestation in the material world, they are . . . yatra, yatra . . . tejo-vāri-mṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo, oh, and yatra trisargo 'mṛṣā.

Amṛṣā. It is false. But it appears to be just like real. Foolish living entities, under the spell of illusory energy, they have accepted this false exchange of material elements as reality. This is called materialism. One who has accepted this false representation of reality, they are called materialist. And one who knows the real position of this material world, he's spiritualist. That is the difference between materialism and spiritualism.

Page Title:To understand God, even the greatest of the greatest thinker, philosopher or sage or saintly person, they are also bewildered. Cannot understand
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2023-01-18, 04:33:51
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1