Lecture in Hindi [Partially Recorded]

Prabhupāda:
So this way one can get the taste. This is the concept. Therefore, the Lord is explaining: raso ’ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ [Bg. 7.8] if you start researching [that] where the sun rays come from. So, you can go on researching all your life until you find the sun. Then you have found that here is the origin of all the sun rays. Then you can start asking where the sun came from? In this way you can continue your research and finally you will come to understand that Krishna is the origin of all that is ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate [Bg. 10.8].

So, there are two paths of knowledge one is inductive and the other [another] is deductive. First, you go about researching where the sun rays come from then you start researching where the sun god has come from. In this way you will reach Lord Brahma and where does he come from? He came from Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, and where does He come from? He came from Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who came from Saṅkarṣaṇa, Saṅkarṣaṇa came from Nārāyaṇa in this way you will come to see:

īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
[Bs. 5.1]

Either you can carry out your own research or accept what through the disciplic succession in both ways you can attain knowledge. One who is a bona fide spiritual master in disciplic succession he says my dear son kṛṣṇastu bhagavān svayam [SB. 1.3.28], for instance these spiritual masters have already established that God is one and He is Krishna.

Now, all these boys and girls you see they have accepted this fact and they are dancing with joy and are very happy in their life. Otherwise, one can go on about his research work forever, ciraṁ vicinvan [SB. 10.14.29] one will have to keep on inquiring what is God, what is God? This is one way to attain knowledge and if you have faith then you can just accept what the bona fide spiritual master has said.

Just like when the Lord says, we should simply accept it and in this way we will save time for research work. What is the need of wasting time for research work Krishna has said in the Bhagavad gita mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti [Bg. 5.17], there is no truth higher than me. As soon as we understand this our business is finished. There will remain no need to create theosophist association, this association and that association just to get to know God. And neither is this the way to know God.

Ciraṁ vicinvan, athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi jānāti tattvaṁ [SB. 10.14.29] , those who have even just a trace of the mercy of the Supreme Lord, they can understand Him. Nāyam ātmā pravacanena labhyo [SB. 2.9.36], this knowledge of the soul and the Supreme Lord is not attained just by making big discussions, na medhayah nor just by having good brain substance, na bahunāśrutena nor by reading all the vedas, the Vedanta, srmameva tena [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.23], upon those whom the Lord is merciful they get this knowledge. That is why, the Lord Himself says bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ [Bg. 18.55], only by devotional service can I be [me] known there is no other way. That is why for everyone it is required to take up this Kṛṣṇa bhakti as preached by the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Please accept it, it is very easy to practice.

hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma
rāma rāma hare hare

Thank you very much. [end]