Bhagavad-gītā 13.13
So this chapter is explanation of the knower and knowledge...
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So this chapter is explanation of the knower and knowledge...
So we have been discussing for the last few days about the process of knowledge.
If you simply understand Kṛṣṇa, what is Kṛṣṇa, then tyaktvā deham, giving up this body, you'll not have to accept another material body.
Kṛṣṇa, the supreme authority, Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is speaking the process of acquiring knowledge, jñānam.
If you try to understand Kṛṣṇa, you get all the knowledge—material, spiritual, everything—practically.
People are searching after īśvara, \"Can you show me God?
We are using Kṛṣṇa's property, but we are claiming \"our.
So therefore Brahma-sūtra is called nyāya-prasthāna.
Yesterday we have discussed that two souls, the individual soul and the Supersoul, both of them are living within this body.
So as soon as our consciousness becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious...
So Kṛṣṇa replied, idaṁ śarīraṁ kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate [[bg/13/2|[Bg.
\" This is the Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā.
So there is another statement of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura that kṛṣṇera saṁsāra kara chāḍi anācāra.
When it was suggested that I purchase house, I said that \"I am not going to have this tenants' trouble.
Knowledge means they must know what is the aim of life, what is God, what we are, what is this material world, why we have come here.
Ut means transcendental, and tama means this material world.
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Well, one who is preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he's already back to Godhead.
So \"The ideals of human society is broader than in the Middle Age, and the world tendency is towards one state or one human society.
Aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya, strength, influence.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, pañcama skandha, Fifth Canto.
When a living entity, when a person comes to the understanding, without any doubt, that he's eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, then his real life begins.
That Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, the Sanskrit word...
From material point of view, you can understand how much potency is God, Kṛṣṇa.
So, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī is first offering his respect, obeisances, to Sanātana Gosvāmī, who is his elder brother, at the same time guru.
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So the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Rūpa Gosvāmī teaches that even if you be attached to Kṛṣṇa in adverse condition, in opposite condition, that is also good, because Kṛṣṇa is there.
There is a propensity of men, association with woman, mithunī-bhāvam etat.
If actually one understands Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa līlā, then they'll forget forever this sex life of the material world.
Without being Kṛṣṇa conscious, there cannot be blissful life.
So the original father of this universe is Lord Brahmā; therefore he is addressed as Pitāmaha.
So Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī is giving us the process how to elevate one's self from this material platform to the spiritual platform.
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Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adhaḥ.
Kṛṣṇa says, mataṁ mama: \"This is My opinion.\" Knowledge means to understand the owner of the body and the body.
Therefore here it is said, kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata [[bg/13/3|[Bg.
, then I have to leave it, and I have to accept, what is called, hut, because I cannot pay more.
\"Arjuna said: O my dear Kṛṣṇa, I wish to know about prakṛti, nature; puruṣa, or the enjoyer; and the field and the knower of the field; and of knowledge and the end of knowledge.
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But unless one is engaged in sevānanda, service of the Lord, this brahmānanda will not be sufficient to keep him in the spiritual world.
So Rūpa Gosvāmī says that sense gratification is required, but not simply we shall devote our life for sense gratification.
I am eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa.\" This consciousness is required to invoke.
He's thinking that \"This is my permanent position.
You have to give up this bhoga dharma and tyāga dharma.
So here also Sūta Goswāmī says, dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitasya...
So everything is there in Kṛṣṇa, akhila-rasāmṛta-sindhu, all rasas are there.
, there are so many subtle laws of material nature, or God.
Eating is taken as enjoyment, and the enjoyer is the Supreme Lord.
So here Kṛṣṇa says, balaṁ balavatāṁ cāhaṁ: \"I am the strength.
So, to attain the Supreme Personality of Godhead the path has been enunciated by the Lord Himself when He says mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha [[bg/7/1|[Bg.