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You take the superior quality activities and you forget inferior quality. Param drstva nivartate (BG 2.59). This is the Vedic version. When one finds out superior engagement, he gives up inferior engagement

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"you take the superior quality activities and you forget inferior quality. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate" |"This is the Vedic version. When one finds out superior engagement, he gives up inferior engagement"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

If you are eating something and if you get a better thing, you'll give it up. So when one takes to bhakti means he understands the inferior quality of karma. So you take the superior quality activities and you forget inferior quality. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate (BG 2.59). This is the Vedic version. When one finds out superior engagement, he gives up inferior engagement.

Woman devotee: (translating question) If the circumstances don't allow it—I can't live in the temple, can't live in the āśrama, but I can still see the devotees—what else can I do to advance spiritually?

Prabhupāda: You follow the temple procedure. You can remain anywhere, it doesn't matter. What is temple? They are following some rules and regulation. (break) If you are eating something and if you get a better thing, you'll give it up. So when one takes to bhakti means he understands the inferior quality of karma. So you take the superior quality activities and you forget inferior quality. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate (BG 2.59). This is the Vedic version. When one finds out superior engagement, he gives up inferior engagement.

Hṛdayānanda: (translating question) He asked about heart transplants, where does the soul go in heart transplant, when they change the heart from one body to another body. He's asking about that.

Prabhupāda: Heart changing?

Hanumān: No. Now they're doing this heart transplantation. They're taking the heart of one person. . .

Prabhupāda: The soul changes from this heart to that heart. That's all. Just like you are running your car. It stops. Then you change, this car to that car. That's all. (laughter) This is it. It is very common thing.

Page Title:You take the superior quality activities and you forget inferior quality. Param drstva nivartate (BG 2.59). This is the Vedic version. When one finds out superior engagement, he gives up inferior engagement
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-05-19, 14:35:25
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1