Using Our Independence Properly - Prabhupada 0657

660401 - Lecture BG 02.48-49 - New York

In the Bhagavad-gītā at the end that after the instruction is given, the Lord inquires from Arjuna that, "I have given you all instruction necessary. Now whatever you like, you do." So this is the position. The Lord never interferes with the little independence that has been offered to us. We have got little independence because we are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. Oh, so under certain percentage we have got independence. Not full independence, but under certain percentage we have got independence. And that independence we can use properly or misuse it also. When we misuse, then we become kṛpaṇa, the miser. And when we use it properly, then we become brāhmaṇa.