Todays Srimad-Bhagavatam Class 1.2.11-- "The Last Word In Understanding"

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text-027Dear Members and Prabhus,please Accept my most humble obeisances!We must

understand when the Guru comes,He speaks for time and circumstance,so this

lecture was given in 1972,when Srila Prabhupada was first Explaining this Krsna

Consciousness,to people from all over the world! But that doesnt mean the

lecture was any different in meaning, than it is now! Spiritual

understandment is still the same!He used to explain this, by the Example of the

bag of sugar,whether you taste the sugar from the top of the bag,or from the

Bottom of the Bag, the sugar is just as sweet!So we must understand this,that

the Measage is always the same,when talking about Spiritualality or RadhaKrsna!

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Your servant Jaya Kesava Dasa

"The Last Word In Understanding"

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.11

October 22, 1972, Vrndavana

 

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Dear Members,I am just putting on a Few verses of this Class,so if you are

interested you can go to the Address,I am putting here,and listen and Read this

Class ,,,of His Grace Srila Prabhupada!

"The Last Word In Understanding"

Please go to

 

http://www.prabhupadavani.org/Bhagavatam/text/027.html

 

Where you will be able to hear from the Lotus Lips of Srila Prabhupada

 

 

Pradyumna: "Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call

this nondual substance Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan."

 

Prabhupada:

 

vadanti tat tattva-vidas

tattvam yaj jnanam advayam

brahmeti paramatmeti

bhagavan iti sabdyate

[sB 1.2.11]

 

So the Absolute Truth is realized in three different features, according

to the capacity of realization of the Person. Those who are trying to approach

the Absolute Truth by exercise of the senses, they can reach up to the point of

impersonal Brahman. Those who are searching out the Absolute Truth by

meditation, by mystic yogic practices, they can realize the Paramatma feature of

the Absolute Truth. And those who are engaged in devotional service, they

realize the Absolute Truth as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

 

Actually, we have to reach to the point of Personality of Godhead, person.

Before that, Brahman realization and Paramatma realization, that is partial

realization of the Absolute Truth. Because Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita,

brahmanah aham pratistha. The impersonal Brahman is resting on Krsna. Just like

the sunshine. Sunshine is very all-embracing, wide, widely spread all over the

universe, the sunshine. But the sunshine is resting on the sun globe. We see the

sun globe, localized. It is floating in one corner of this universal sky. But

the sunshine is covering the whole universe. That does not mean the sunshine is

more important than the sun globe. And if you can penetrate within the sun

globe, then you'll find there is sun-god.

 

That is also mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita, imam vivasvate yogam

proktavan aham avyayam [bg. 4.1]. Krsna says that "This yoga system, bhakti-yoga

system, as they are mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita, it was first explained to

the sun-god, Vivasvan." The sastra gives us the name of the predominating deity

of the sun-god, sun globe. Just like any gentleman can know or give the name of

your president, Mr. Nixon. He might not have seen, but he knows that the present

president of U.S.A is Mr. Nixon. Similarly, actually, those who are in

knowledge, they know who are the predominating deities of the different planets.

They know. Not to speak of others, Krsna, who can know better than Him? Vedaham

samatitani. Krsna knows past, present, and future. So He's saying that imam

vivasvate yogam proktavan aham avyayam [bg. 4.1]. "This imperishable yoga

system, bhakti-yoga..." It is imperishable, avyayam. This very word is very

significant. Bhakti-yoga is imperishable. Other yoga systems may be perishable,

but bhakti-yoga is not perishable. Whatever you execute in this life,

bhakti-yoga, that becomes your permanent asset, so that in the next life you can

begin from the point where you ended in this life. If you can finish in this

life, cent percent, that is very nice. If not,... Suppose you have finished

fifty percent. Still it is permanent asset. It will never be lost. Therefore

Krsna says avyayam, inexhaustible. Imam vivasvate yogam proktavan aham avyayam

[bg. 4.1].

 

 

 

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