Bhagavad Gita Class(AS IT Is)7.1 Spoken By His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada-Always Think Of Krsna

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Prabhupada:

 

sri bhagavan uvaca

mayy asakta-manah partha

yogam yunjan mad-asrayah

asamsayam samagram mam

yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu

[bg. 7.1]

 

Krsna, Bhagavan, the Supreme... Bhagavan means... Bhaga means opulence.

Just like we use the word bhagyavan. From this bhagya, " fortune, " comes the word

bhaga. So personally the Supreme Bhagavan or Bhagavan... Bhagavan is never

unfortunate. If somebody claims that he is Bhagavan, but Bhagavan is never

unfortunate. He is always fortunate. Sannam bhaga itingana.

 

There are six kinds of opulences. Which one possesses in full, He is

called Bhagavan. There is meaning. So we have several times explained:

aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya yasasah sriyah. The Supreme Personality of

Godhead, because He is the proprietor of all wealth, sarva-loka-mahesvaram, He

is the proprietor of all the planets, all the universes, so who can be fortunate

than Him? Bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram [bg. 5.29]. If you have

got one lakh shillings or ten lakh shillings we think we have become very rich.

But Krsna says, sarva-loka-mahesvaram: " I am the proprietor of all the planets. "

So who can become richer than Him? Therefore He is Bhagavan. The highest rich

man, the richest person is called Bhagavan. Nobody can claim that he is the

richest. That is not possible. So one who claims that " I am the richest. Nobody

is equal to Me, and nobody is greater than Me, " He is Bhagavan. Mattah parataram

nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya: [bg. 7.7] " Nobody is greater than Me. " That is

Bhagavan. Bhagavan cannot be so cheap that anyone can claim that " I am God. I am

Bhagavan. " That is cheating. He must prove first of all that he is the richest

of everyone. Not only richest, aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya, in strength

also. Viryasya. Viryasya yasasah, also reputation.

 

Now, Krsna is, at least in this material world, in this planet, everyone

knows Krsna. Who is such a person who is so famous all over the world?

Especially since we have started this Krsna consciousness movement, anywhere we

go, they chant, " Hare Krsna. " As soon as they see us, our men, jokingly or

seriously they chant, " Hare Krsna. " When I was first coming to Nairobi from

London, the plane stopped at Athens at twelve o'clock at night. So we got down

and was in the public room, and some young men, immediately they began to chant,

" Hare Krsna, " at twelve o'clock. (laughter) So Krsna is so famous at twelve

o'clock in Athens even. Who is such a person within this world? This is

Bhagavan. Aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya yasasah. Yasah mean reputation. He is

so reputed. Anywhere Krsna is known.

 

So yasasah sriyah. Sriya, beauty. Krsna is so beautiful, nobody can

surpass Him. Kandarpa-koti-kamaniya-visesa-sobham [bs. 5.30]. Although He is

blackish, but He is so beautiful, He enchants the most beautiful, Radharani. So

aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya yasasah sriyah. Sri means beauty. He is so

beautiful. Therefore His name is Krsna. On account of His beauty, He attracts

everyone. Beauty attracts. So nobody can be more beautiful than Krsna.

Aisvaryasya yasasah sriyah, and jnana. Not only He is beautiful... Just like a

flower, very beautiful to see but no good smell, no aroma -- useless. So Krsna

is not only beautiful, but He is the most wise. He spoke Bhagavad-gita. Five

thousand years ago He spoke. Still big, big scholars, religionists,

philosophers, they studying. This is called jnana. Aisvaryasya samagrasya

viryasya yasasah sriyah, jnana and vairagya. Vairagya means renouncement. So

Krsna claims that He is the proprietor of all the planet, but if you think,

" Where is Krsna? Let me find out. He is the proprietor, " oh, that you cannot

find out. Vairagya. Although He is the proprietor of all the planets, you won't

find Him within this material world, although His authority is going on. Just

like the president of your country is not to be seen everywhere, but his

authority is going on. Mat-sthani sarva-bhutani naham tesu avasthitah.

Everything is situated on Krsna's opulence, but not that you will find Krsna

there. You will find Krsna there when you are advanced. Otherwise you will not

find. Mat-sthani sarva-bhutani naham tesu avasthitah. Krsna is situated

everything, but still, you cannot see in Krsna unless you have got eyes to see.

That is Krsna consciousness movement, to give you the eyes to see Krsna

everywhere. So how this thing can be done? So if you are serious, then you can

see Krsna.

 

So that Krsna is advising in this verse in the Seventh Chapter or

throughout the whole Bhagavad-gita. Krsna is instructing us how to understand

Him. That is our only business. This human form of life is meant for

understanding Krsna because we are very thickly related with Krsna, just like

father and the son. This relation cannot be broken. Maybe son is out of home,

son may have forgotten, but Krsna, the supreme father, He does not forget. He

comes. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, tadatmanam srjamy aham

[bg. 4.7]. So Krsna is so kind that He has come to explain Himself, what He is.

We should take advantage of it, because this human form of life is meant for

understanding Krsna. Athato brahma jijnasa. That is the Vedanta-sutra. " Now you

should inquire of the Absolute Truth. " In the Bhagavata also it is said, jivasya

tattva-jijnasa nartho yas ceha karmabhih. Jivasya, all living entities,

especially the human being, his only business is inquire about the absolute

knowledge, Krsna.

 

But we are missing the opportunity. Nature has given us the opportunity,

possessing this human form of body after evolution, 8,400,000 different types of

bodies, but there is no cultivation of this knowledge how this evolution is

taking place, how many different species of life there are. We can see, but we

don't see very seriously. I see there is a tree in front of my house and it is

also a living entity. I am also living entity. I have got very nice house,

apartment, living very comfortably, and the other living being, the tree, a few

yards from me, he cannot move an inch. He has to stand up in scorching heat, in

cold. He cannot protest. If you cut, he cannot cry. Of course, he feels, but he

cannot do anything. This is also life and I am also life, so why these

differences? But they do not consider, " How he has got this life, and how I have

got this life? " There is no university education wherefrom they are coming, no

knowledge. Still, they are passing on as great scientist, great philosopher.

This is the position.

 

So our real business is to understand Krsna. So Krsna is explaining

Himself. Then there is no difficulty. If you want to know me, you can imagine so

many things: " Swamiji may be this. Swamiji may be that, like that, like this,

like that. " They are all imperfect. But if I tell you about myself openly that

" I am like this, " then your knowledge is perfect. Everyone says, " There is no

God. " Somebody says, " God is there, but He has no form, " and somebody says, " He

has any form you like. Imagine any form. " In this way speculation is going on

all over the world. Actually they are not interested in God. That is the plain

simple thing. They do not want to know God, and they think there is no need of

understanding. But that is the only need, to understand God. That they do not

know. Therefore they are called fools and rascals, mudha. Mudho nabhijanati mam

ebhyah param avyayam. So Krsna therefore left His instruction behind Him that

" These mudhas, rascals, after studying Bhagavad-gita they may understand Me. I

am keeping behind Me. "

 

So we should take advantage of Bhagavad-gita. And even though we take

advantage, we interpret in a different way. The same business is going on, how

to kill Krsna. Instead of understanding Krsna, the endeavor is going on to kill

Krsna. Asura. Just like Kamsa. He was always thinking of Krsna. His sister was

pregnant, and it is foretold that " The eighth child of your sister will kill

you. " So he was thinking of Krsna, that " The eighth child..., " but with a

purpose to kill Him. That is the business of the asuras, how to wipe out Krsna,

Kamsa philosophy. So we haven't got to follow Kamsa philosophy. We have to

follow Krsna philosophy. Then our life will be successful. Anukulyena

krsnanusilanam bhaktir uttama. Anukulyena, favorably, favorably to think of

Krsna. As Krsna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru [bg.

18.65]. This is favorable. Krsna never said that " Like My uncle Kamsa, you think

of Me, how to kill Me. " Krsna does not say that. Krsna says, man-mana bhava

mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru [bg. 18.65]. That will make your life

successful.

 

So here also Krsna says,

 

mayy asakta-manah partha

yogam yunjan mad-asrayah

asamsayam samagram mam

yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu

[bg. 7.1]

 

" My dear Arjuna, I have already explained in the Sixth Chapter that to

become first-class yogi... " When Arjuna was advised by Krsna to become yogi,

hatha-yogi... Hatha-yogi means to train the mind how to become Krsna conscious.

The mind is disturbed always. This way, that way, mind is going, cancala,

restless. So the hatha-yoga system is meant for persons who are too much under

the bodily conception of life, that " I am this body. " For them the hatha-yoga is

there so that by practicing several sitting posture, controlling the mind,

controlling the senses, they can concentrate on Krsna or Visnu, the Supreme

Lord. This is yoga system. This is real yoga system. Dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena

manasa pasyanti yam yoginah [sB 12.13.1]. Who is the yogi? He is yogi who in

meditation, dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa, always thinking of Krsna by the

mind And gradually, when he is perfect in samadhi, trance, he can see Krsna.

 

premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena

santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti

yam syamasundaram acintya-guna-svarupam

govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

[bs. 5.38]

 

Syamasundara. You have come to this temple. Here is Syamasundara's form.

You see always. Come as many times as you like. See the arati. Hear the kirtana.

See the Deity nicely dressed. In this way the impression of God will be within

your mind. Dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena. And when you have got this impression, if

you always meditate upon Krsna as Krsna advises, man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah,

man-manah, " Always think of Me, " that is the perfect yoga system.

 

Therefore, at the end of the Sixth Chapter Krsna says, yoginam api

sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana: " Of all the yogis... " The Krsna and Arjuna was

talking. Krsna advised Arjuna to become a yogi, but Arjuna said that " Krsna, it

is not possible for me. Because I am a politician, I am a soldier, I cannot sit

down to practice yoga superficially. My mind will be disturbed in political

affairs, in state affairs. " So, cancalam hi manah krsna pramathi balavad drdham:

" My mind is so restless, it is not possible. " Then Krsna, to encourage him,

said,

 

yoginam api sarvesam

mad-gatenantar-atmana

sraddhavan bhajate yo mam

sa me yuktatamo matah

[bg. 6.47]

 

" Anyone who is thinking of Me always, " mad-gatenantar-atmana sraddhavan sa

me yuktatamah, " He is the first-class yogi. "

 

So we are trying to make our students the first-class yogi. Always think

of Krsna. This is our Krsna consciousness movement. And Krsna is also saying the

same thing, mayy asakta-manah partha yogam. How you can think of Krsna always?

That is not possible unless you become too much addicted. Just like if you love

somebody, then you can think of him always. Artificially, if I say, " You think

of Mr. John always, " how you'll be possible? Artificially it is not possible. If

you have got some love for Mr. John as a friend, as a lover or as somebody, or

son or master or something, then you can think of Mr. John always. Otherwise it

is not possible. So that thinking, you can revive. There is relationship with

you, with Krsna. So you have to revive that relationship. It is not artificial.

Just like these European, American boys, Krsna was unknown to them. They are

coming from Christian, Jews. So what they had to do with the Krsna? They had

nothing to do, but why they are mad after Krsna? They are no longer mad after

anything. They have given up everything. Simply for preaching in your country,

they have come here. They have not come as a businessman to exploit African

resources like other Europeans. They have come to distribute Krsna

consciousness. Why? Why the responsibility they have taken? Because they have

learned to love Krsna. This is the basic principle. Anyone can understand.

Otherwise, do you think they are poor men? They have come here to earn some

money? They are not poor men. The Americans are the richest country. Any

third-class man, he earns there 400,000's rupees, any third-class man, and what

to speak of the first-class man. This is America. The lowest pay to a person,

whatever qualification, he has, must be at least four thousand dollars. This is

their law. So how they can be poor? There is no question of poverty in America.

Nobody thinks, " What shall I do next? I have no money. " Money is there on the

street. Go and take it and spend. So why they have come here, taking so much

troubles? Because they love Krsna, therefore they have come. This is the... Mayy

asakta. Asakta, attached.

 

So we have to increase the attachment. Krsna is already attractive, but we

are trying to go away from Krsna. This is our business. " Krsna may not touch

me. " We are so clever that " Krsna may not touch me. " This is maya. Big, big

scholars, big, big politicians, they are writing comments on Krsna's book,

Bhagavad-gita, but their aim is very acute, that " Krsna may not touch me. " This

is going on. And then why they are writing on Krsna's book? Now, that is their

business. Because this book, Gita, is very famous, so if they can distribute

their nonsense philosophy through Gita, it will be taken very easily. Otherwise

they do not know Krsna; they do not know what is Bhagavad-gita. But they take

advantage of the popularity of Bhagavad-gita and push their nonsense philosophy

through Bhagavad-gita. The purpose is to kill Krsna, Kamsa philosophy. So, then,

that way, they'll never get Krsna. They'll never understand Krsna. Krsna says

that " If you want to know Me, " asamsayam samagram, " if you want to know Me in

full, completely, without any doubt, then you have to follow this yoga system, "

mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah. Otherwise it is not possible.

 

So all these nonsense speculators... We use purposefully " nonsense, "

because they have no sense, simply speculating. God is unlimited. How you...?

Your mind is limited. What you can speculate? " May be like this, may be like

that, " that's all. " Perhaps it is like this. " All simply theoretical. It is

never possible to know Krsna, God, perfectly and completely by the speculating

method. It is not possible. If you want to know Krsna, or God -- when we speak

of Krsna, God -- so then Krsna's formula must be followed, as it is said here,

mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah. The principal factor is to

become attached to Krsna. Attached means become a lover of Krsna. Then you can

understand asamsayam, without any doubt. Without any doubt. Otherwise you will

find there are so many hundreds of religious system all over the world. Ask

anyone who are their follower, " Do you know what is God? " They'll never be able

to answer clearly, because they do not know God. And if you do not know God,

then what is the meaning of your religion?

 

Religion means to know God. Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam [sB

6.3.19]. One must know God, and one must know what God desires. That is

religion. Just like you must know your government, and you must know what

government wants, expects from you. If you do that, then you are a good citizen.

And if you don't know what is government, if you do not know what government

desires, expects from you, then what is the meaning of your good citizenship?

There is no meaning. Similarly, to become religious without any clear

understanding of God is bogus, is cheating. That is cheating. That is not

religion. Therefore Krsna said that " If you want to know Me, " asamsayam,

" without any doubt... " God may be personal, impersonal, or this, that, but you

must know it perfectly well. Don't say, " Perhaps it may be like this. Perhaps

may be like this... " That is imperfect knowledge. That is no knowledge. So

therefore Krsna personally says, mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan. This is

a yogi. This is the first-class yogi. Krsna has explained that yoginam api

sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana sraddhavan bhajate yo mam sa me yukta... [bg.

6.47]. So sraddhavan bhajate yo mam, one who is worshiping Krsna with sraddha,

with faith, complete faith, bhajate, and serving Him, so who is that person? A

devotee. Without being a devotee, how with faith and adherence and reverence and

obedience you can serve Krsna unless you love Krsna?

 

So mayy asakta-manah partha. We have got attraction for so many things in

this material world. Somebody has got attraction for his family, somebody has

got attraction for his wife, children, or somebody has got attraction for some

sporting, or somebody has attraction for his country, so on, so on. We have got

attraction. That is not a new thing. We have got attraction, but we have got

attraction in different subject matter, material. So this yoga system,

bhakti-yoga system, means you should be only attracted by Krsna. That is wanted.

Attraction is there. Nobody can say that " I have no attraction for anything. "

That is false. Everyone has got attraction. If you have nothing to be attracted,

then you keep a cat and a dog to be attracted. That is the nature. Especially in

the Western countries we see. He has no family, but he keeps one pet dog or pet

cat because he wants to be attracted by somebody. This is nature. So here Krsna

says that " You have got already attraction, but in false things which will not

exist. You turn that attraction unto Me. Then you'll get pleasure. " You are

attracted to something for getting some pleasure. So that pleasure is

interrupted because we have posed our attraction in some false things. You have

to change that attraction to the real thing, Krsna. Then you'll be happy. Mayy

asakta. Mayy asakta. Mayi: " Unto Me, " Krsna says personally. If you...

Attraction means you have to engage your mind. Mayy asakta-manah. Attraction

does not come in the air. The mind, mind fully engaged in something, is called

attraction.

 

So this is yoga, bhakti-yoga. And this yoga has to be executed... Krsna

says, mad-asrayah. " You have to execute this yoga system, taking shelter of Me. "

" Me " means either Krsna Himself or His representative. Just like Krsna says in

the Fourth Chapter, evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh [bg. 4.2]. So

you have to learn this bhakti-yoga directly under Krsna or under the direction

of Krsna's representative. So if you do this, then asamsaya, without any doubt,

and samagram, in completeness, mayy asakta, asamsayam samagram mam yatha

jnasyasi tac chrnu [bg. 7.1]. So Krsna will explain, item by item, how you can

increase your attraction for Krsna. Then you will be able to execute the

bhakti-yoga system under the guidance of Krsna directly or directed by His

representative. Then it will be successful.

 

So one of the Krsna's representatives, Srila Rupa Gosvami, he has defined

how this attachment can be increased. He has explained adau sraddha tatah

sadhu-sangah. Adau sraddha. Just like you have come here with some sraddha, some

faith. This is required. And you have to increase this sraddha, this faith, more

and more. How it can be increased? Sadhu-sanga, to intermingle with the persons

who are engaged in Krsna consciousness. Adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sangah. Sadhu

means who is a devotee of Krsna. Otherwise he is not sadhu. Krsna says in the

Bhagavad-gita, api cet su-duracaro bhajate mam ananya-bhak sadhur eva sa

mantavyah [bg. 9.30]. That is sadhu. You cannot create sadhu unless he is

devotee of Krsna. Bhajate mam ananya-bhak. He is sadhu. So if you want to

increase your advancement in Krsna consciousness, then you have to intermingle

with the person who is sadhu, who are sadhu, mean devotees. Adau sraddha tatah

sadhu-sangah. But sadhu-sangah... Then gradually you will be inclined to execute

devotional service as the sadhus are doing, chanting Hare Krsna mantra, offering

arati, offering foodstuff, dressing, so many things. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh

smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam vandanam dasyam... [sB 7.5.23]. The nine different

types of methods, that is called bhajana-kriya. And adau sraddha tatah

sadhu-sango 'tha bhajana-kriya tato 'nartha-nivrttih syat. Then anartha, all

unwanted things which you have learned unfortunately, that will be finished. If

you mix with, intermingle with sadhu, then you will be purified, and things

which are not required at all -- artificially you have learned by bad

association -- that will be... Anartha-nivrttih syat. Nobody learns to smoke

from the very birth. He has to eat something. He drinks milk, the child. He

doesn't say, " Give me a cigarette, " but you have learned it by bad association.

This is called anartha. You have learned it, drinking tea, coffee, not from the

beginning of your life but by bad association. Then this is anartha. So if you

engage yourself in devotional service, then these things will disappear

automatically. You'll find in our temple, we are cooking so many nice

preparations. Perhaps you have tasted some of them. But we are not preparing tea

or coffee or meat -- nothing. These are anarthas. What is the necessity?

 

So anartha-nivrttih syat. Then you become purified. Then you become...

When anartha-nivrttih syat, when you are free from all these unwanted nonsense

things -- illicit sex, intoxication, gambling and meat-eating... This is

anartha. Then you, being purified, then your faith in Krsna becomes confirmed.

Anartha-nivrttih syat. Adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sango 'tha bhajana-kriya

anartha-nivrttih..., tato nistha. Then you become firmly fixed up: " Yes, I shall

continue, Krsna. " Nistha. How this nistha, artificial? No. Ruci, taste. You

cannot do without Krsna consciousness. That is called tato nistha rucis tatah,

bhavah, " Oh, Krsna is so exalted. " Sadhakanam ayam premnah pradurbhave bhavet

kramah. This is the step-by-step increasing perfection of Krsna consciousness.

And when you are on the perfectional stage of Krsna consciousness, then your

human life is perfect. This is Krsna consciousness movement.

 

Thank you very much. [break]

 

Reduce sex. Because material life means sex. Yan

maithunadi-grhamedhi-sukham hi tuccham [sB 7.9.45]. In the material world, not

only in the human society but also in the birds, beast, animal, insect --

everywhere the sex impulse is very strong. And if you indulge in sex life, then

you'll be complicated more and more in this material body. This is the law of

nature. Therefore whole Vedic civilization is meant for curtailing sex life.

First of all brahmacari, no sex life. First of all training is brahmacari, how

to train him to remain without sex. That is brahmacari. Tapasa brahmacaryena [sB

6.1.13]. Tapasya means to remain brahmacari. This is tapasya. It is very

difficult. Therefore it is called tapasya, because the whole world is attracted

by sex life, pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam, whole world, not only in this planet,

every planet, even in the demigods' planet.

 

So our this Krsna consciousness movement means not bodily consciousness.

The material world means bodily consciousness: how to keep the body in

comfortable. But that is not possible. Body means misery. You cannot keep it

comfortable. That is maya. It will never be comfortable, but they are all trying

to make it comfortable. This is called maya. Klesada asa dehah. So long you'll

have a material body you'll have to suffer. So this Krsna consciousness movement

is not on the bodily platform. It is on the spiritual platform. To come to the

spiritual platform, it is necessary that you reduce or make nil sex life. So if

one remains brahmacari throughout the whole life it becomes very easy for him to

go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the secret. Therefore the whole Vedic

civilization is based on first of all brahmacari, no sex life. Grhastha, that is

also very regulated. Only for begetting child one can have sex life, father,

mother, man and woman. So dharmaviruddho kamo 'smi. In the Bhagavad-gita you

will find Krsna says that " Sex life which is prescribed by the religious system,

that is, I am. " Otherwise it is illicit sex. So illicit sex, there is

punishment. These things are there. So tapasya means tapasa brahmacaryena samena

damena va [sB 6.1.13]. You have to control. The more one controls, he becomes

advanced in spiritual culture. The yoga system means yoga indriya-samyamah.

" Yoga means how to control the senses. " This is yoga system, and therefore Krsna

says, mayy asakta-manah partha. So sex indulgence is against spiritual

advancement of life. Therefore you have seen that the brahmacaris, they go

there. It becomes very easy to enter into the spiritual kingdom. So that you can

do here also. If you increase your attraction for Krsna, then naturally you lose

attraction for sex. That is Krsna consciousness. Therefore Krsna's name is

Madana-mohana. Madana means sex life. He can enchant even madana. So these are

things which the devotee will learn by studying the literature. But even without

studying, if you sincerely chant Hare Krsna mantra under regulation, everything,

all good qualification will come.

 

Devotee (1): Srila Prabhupada, you said that if we asked the other

religious sects what is God... [break]

 

Prabhupada: Nothing to do with any physiological, anatomical. We have to

see that we are advancing in Krsna consciousness. So we have to eat something.

We have to eat the remnants of foodstuff taken by Krsna. Prasade sarva-duhkhanam

hanir asyopajayate. That is our policy. We do not see to the physiological,

anatomical condition. That is not our business. That is automatically done.

 

Devotee (2): Srila Prabhupada (indistinct).

 

Brahmananda: He says that according to Krsna consciousness philosophy, the

first living being was Brahma, and in the Christian Bible it says Adam was the

first man. So he wants to know if in Krsna consciousness scriptures there is any

mention of Adam.

 

Prabhupada: Why you want to tally with Bible and Krsna conscious

literature? Do you think that Krsna conscious literature has to tally with

Bible? There is, that " There is first living being, Brahma, " and Brahma was also

married couple. So you can take it as Adam and Eve. That's all. (laughter) Why

do you want cent percent tally? But this nonsense theory, that there was a

monkey first of all, (laughter) Darwin's theory, and from monkey, human being

has come, this is nonsense. So any other question?

 

Indian man (1): Swamiji, some religions, the guru, if someone wants to be

his disciple, he is being given a sort of beads by the guru himself. Is it

possible to get beads through your worship?

 

Prabhupada: Yes. That is our process. When we accept a disciple we give

him beads, we give him direction.

 

Indian man (2): This mantra we chant for Krsna and Rama both, but this

movement glorifies the Krsna's pastimes and not much of Rama.

 

Prabhupada: Yes, there is... Vaisnavas... Ramayana is also approved.

Ramayana is also Vedic literature, Valmiki Ramayana, not any other. So we

discuss Valmiki Ramayana. In the Bhagavata there is discussion about

Ramacandra's activities. So we are giving Srimad-Bhagavatam. There is

Ramacandra's activities there. Where is Ramacandra, which planet He is now, that

is also described in the Bhagavatam. So it is not that we are without Rama. And

our direct worshipable Rama is Balarama, Krsna-Balarama. We have opened the

temple of Krsna-Balarama in Vrndavana. So Rama is there. Ramadi-murtisu

kala-niyamena tisthan nanavataram akarod bhuvanesu kintu [bs. 5.39]. Krsna has

got many, many incarnation. Rama is also one of them. So when we speak of Krsna,

it means including all the incarnation -- Rama, Nrsimha, Varaha -- everything.

Ramadi... Therefore ramadi, " taking Rama as the original, " murtisu, " in such

forms, " ramadi-murtisu kala-niyamena tisthan [bs. 5.39], " He is existing. " Krsna

is not alone. He is always existing with His different incarnations, Rama,

Nrsimha, Varaha, Matsya, Kurma -- so many. So either you worship Krsna or Rama,

Nrsimha, Varaha, Matsya, Kurma, anyone you can worship. We don't say that don't

worship Rama. We never say, because Rama and Krsna, the same. We shall... In

future we have got a hope we shall start an Rama-Laksmana murti, yes, in some

temple. That is our worshipable Deity. We have got in my room Lord Ramacandra's

murti, Sita-Rama. So it is not that we are neglecting worship of Ramacandra.

There is. Yes? Somebody else?

 

Indian man (3): Srila Prabhupada, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of

Godhead, is controller of everything, whole universe, everything. So why He is

having these demigods to help Him? Because He's controller, He has got power to

control whole universe, and why there are all these demigods? Why He can't

control this universe?

 

Prabhupada: He can control everyone, but He has given little freedom that

He does not interfere the freedom given to you. Otherwise He can control. Just

like in Bhagavad-gita, you will find, after explaining Bhagavad-gita to Arjuna

He is giving the freedom to Arjuna, yathecchasi tatha kuru: " Whatever you like,

you do. " He is supreme controller, He can force him to do it, but he doesn't do

that. The little independence you have got, you have to utilize it favorably.

Therefore Krsna says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja: [bg.

18.66] " You do this. " He can forcibly make me to do that, but He doesn't do that

because He has given little independence, and He wants that voluntarily we

surrender, not by force. That is wanted. Otherwise it is not that He cannot

control you. He can control everyone.

 

Devotee (3): Srila Prabhupada, when we are preaching to Christian people

or to Muslim people, is there advantage in being familiar with their scriptures

or simply Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam?

 

Prabhupada: We are not preaching to Christian or Hindu or Muslim. We are

preaching to human being. We do not see, " Here is a Christian. Here is a Muslim.

Here is a Hindu. Here is a white man. Here is a black man. " No. Every living

being, his duty is to understand God. This is our preaching. This is our

preaching, that " You are living being. You are part and parcel of Krsna. This

designation, that 'You are Hindu,' 'You are Muslim,' 'You are Christian,' 'You

are this' -- these are all designations. Actually you are living being, part and

parcel of Krsna. Therefore your main duty is to understand Krsna. " This is our

preaching. We are not going to convert Hindu into Muslim, Muslim into Christian.

No, that is not our... That is not our business. He may think that he is

Christian, he is Hindu, he is Muslim, but we think that he is a spirit soul,

part and parcel of God. That is stated in the...

 

vidya-vinaya-sampanne

brahmane gavi hastini

suni caiva sva-pake ca

panditah sama-darsinah

[bg. 5.18]

 

If one is learned pandita, he does not see Hindu, Muslim, Christian. I

went to America, I did not go there to turn the Christian to become Hindu. No, I

never said that. Did I say, any, anyone, that " You are Christian. You become a

Hindu " ? No, never I said. That is not my business.

 

Indian man (4): Just now you said we are all part and parcel of God. What

would you say is God?

 

Prabhupada: That we have explained, what is God. Asamsayam samagram mam

yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu [bg. 7.1]. You have to become God conscious. Then you

will understand what is God. It is not a so trifle thing you ask me and, one

minute, you understand God. That is foolishness. You have to study the science

of God. God is not so cheap.

 

manusyanam sahasresu

kascid yatati siddhaye

yatatam api siddhanam

kascin mam vetti tattvatah

[bg. 7.3]

 

Out of many thousands of men, one wants to become perfect, and out of many

millions of perfect men, one can understand God. So God is not so cheap thing.

Therefore Krsna recommends,

 

mayy asakta-manah partha

yogam yunjan mad-asrayah

asamsayam samagram mam

yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu

[bg. 7.1]

 

If you want to know God without any doubt, completely, then you have to

adopt this yoga. So first of all come to the yoga. Then speak of God

understanding. It is not so cheap thing.

 

Indian man (5): Krsna consciousness is the oldest teaching of God, or

Krsna.

 

Prabhupada: Yes. That is mayy asakta-manah. That is explained.

 

Indian man (5): But the Gita was written about five thousand years ago.

 

Prabhupada: No. You have not read Bhagavad-gita. Did you read? Did you

read Bhagavad-gita?

 

Indian man (5): Yes, I read some portion.

 

Prabhupada: Then why do you say like that, five thousand years?

 

Indian man (5): All the scriptures were written (indistinct).

 

Prabhupada: Hm? What does he say?

 

Indian man (5): Then how come in the locational(?), archaeological and

ontological records, Krsna consciousness is not mentioned by other religions?

 

Prabhupada: Krsna consciousness is always there. You are calculating with

reference to your age, but Krsna consciousness is there. In the Fourth Chapter,

you read, imam vivasvate yogam proktavan aham avyayam: [bg. 4.1] " I spoke this

Krsna consciousness science first of all to the sun-god. " Then how do you say

five thousand years? There is reference to the Manu. And if we take the, all

these advanced calculation, then it becomes that forty millions of years ago

Bhagavad-gita was spoken by Krsna to the sun-god. Have you got forty millions'

history? (laughter) You haven't got even five thousand years' even history. Your

history is so imperfect. So don't bring it into historical reference. It is

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