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You can just see that that minute particle of the soul within this body, how wonderful things we are doing. Everything, whatever material manifestation, at least in this world

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"You can just see that that minute particle of the soul within this body, how wonderful things we are doing. Everything, whatever material manifestation, at least in this world"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

You can just see that that minute particle of the soul within this body, how wonderful things we are doing. Everything, whatever material manifestation, at least in this world . . . in New York City you see so many big, big buildings and so many machineries, factories and organization, but who has done it? That minute particle, embodied in the soul. Just see. If that minute particle can play so much wonderful things, just see, just imagine what wonderful things cannot be done by the supreme particle. Or not particle: He is the whole.

Kṛṣṇa says that if our whole misery . . . the whole philosophy is that our whole misery is due to this bodily contact. Bodily contact. We feel miseries, distress or happiness, at the present stage. It is due to this body. We have already discussed that . . . just like take, for example, the water. Water, in summertime it is very pleasant, and wintertime, oh, it is very distressful. We are afraid. Even a drop of cold water we are afraid of. Without hot water, we cannot take our bath. Now, water as it is, it is water constitutionally, chemically or whatever it may be, but it is due to the bodily touch of the water we sometimes feel pleasure and sometimes feel distress.

Therefore all our feelings of distress and happiness is due to this body. Is due to the body. Body under certain condition, mind under certain condition feels happiness and feels distress. So therefore, if we . . . but happ . . . we are actually hankering after happiness, because the soul's constitution is happiness. Soul's constitution is happiness. Anyone who is brought up in a very nice family with all comfortable condition, as he feels distress in a different condition, similarly, the soul is the part and parcel of the Supreme Being. Supreme Being, His constitution is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs 5.1]]).

The Supreme Being is the embodiment of eternity, bliss and knowledge. Eternity, bliss and knowledge. That is the constitution of the supreme entity. He is eternal, He is blissful, and always full of pleasure. Always full of pleasure. Kṛṣṇa, this word, Kṛṣṇa . . . now, we have chanted, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare. This Kṛṣṇa is . . . do not take it that we are presenting some sectarian conception of God or like that. This Kṛṣṇa, this is a Sanskrit word. You have to understand, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa means . . . Kṛṣ means the greatest, and ṇa means pleasure. He is the symbol of greatest pleasure. Greatest pleasure.

So we are also part and parcel of that greatest pleasure. Just like the ocean and a drop of water of the ocean, if you chemically analyze, you will find the same ingredients. The volume of the ocean is certainly greater than the volume of the drop of the ocean water, but so far the constitution is concerned, either this drop of ocean water or the full ocean water, the same chemical composition you will find. Similarly, because we are part and parcel of the Supreme, sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha—eternity, blissful and knowledge—therefore, although we are minute particles, minute particle . . . but the minute particle has got so much energy.

You can just see that that minute particle of the soul within this body, how wonderful things we are doing. Everything, whatever material manifestation, at least in this world . . . in New York City you see so many big, big buildings and so many machineries, factories and organization, but who has done it? That minute particle, embodied in the soul. Just see. If that minute particle can play so much wonderful things, just see, just imagine what wonderful things cannot be done by the supreme particle. Or not particle: He is the whole. He is the whole.

Because we do not understand the capacity, the energy of the . . . just calculate mathematically. Mathematically. Now, this particle, the particle is so small that it has been calculated that one ten-thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair is the measurement of the soul. Now, we cannot even imagine, but supposing that the point, if that point has got so much energy that it is playing wonderful things—everything is being manufactured by the brain of that small particle—now you can just make a proportion: then the full one, how much wonderful things He can do. If a small particle of . . . a spark of fire, if it is dropped here, it will at once burn it. Now, you can just imagine the big fire, how much capacity has got.

So the thing is that we, we are, because we are part and parcel of that sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, eternity, blissful and knowledge, therefore our hankering is always to live eternally. Our hankering is always to get full knowledge, and our hankering is always to remain happy. That is our natural hankering. But that is being hampered due to this body. That we do not understand. We are hankering after full knowledge, we are hankering after full bliss, we are hankering after eternity, but we do not know how to obtain that. Here is the information. Here is the information, that you are hankering after all these things through some imperfect instrument. That is not possible.

So you have to understand yourself that you are not this body. Whole impediment, whole, meaning, choking of your progress, is due to this body. So you have to separate yourself from this body. Simply separating, I mean to say, theoretically will not do. You have to keep yourself, keep yourself always separate, always separate as master of this body, not as servant of this body. That should be your aim of life.

Page Title:You can just see that that minute particle of the soul within this body, how wonderful things we are doing. Everything, whatever material manifestation, at least in this world
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2023-05-23, 12:54:14
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1