Bhagavad-gītā 2.17
Now it is very clearly enunciated, the nature of the soul.
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Now it is very clearly enunciated, the nature of the soul.
\" So we are reciting some verses from the Sixth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, where the subject matter, dharma, is discussed.
Similarly, material world, matter, is not false, but it is nonpermanent.
So you have to learn from guru by three process.
Actually, he has worked for it, although I have translated.
So the whole scheme is—Vedic scheme, not otherwise—how to become immortal.
So picture we have given in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
So, to understand Kṛṣṇa, simply if we read as a formality the Vedic literature, it will be very difficult to understand what is Kṛṣṇa, vedesu durlābhaṁ, although all the Vedas are meant for understanding Kṛṣṇa.
When you make further advancement, then you can understand that \"I am eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa.\" This is perfect knowledge.
Therefore it is mentioned here, dhīras tatra na muhyati.
This is the first lesson to understand, what is spiritual life, what is spiritual knowledge.
So wealth, strength, reputation, beauty and knowledge.
So Kṛṣṇa says this body, either in living force or without living force...
So even Arjuna, Kṛṣṇa's direct friend, māyā is so strong that he also becomes a rascal, what to speak of others.
So in this way, evam uktvā, \"saying this, 'So there is no profit in fighting,' \" evam uktvā, \"saying this,\" hṛṣīkeśam...
In this way, Kṛṣṇa consciousness means adhokṣaja and aprakṛta: beyond the senses.
Doṣa means fault When one does not act according to his position, that is fault, and that is called miserly.
Therefore the birds and beast, they have no education in the university, neither they are professional.
So here the position is that Arjuna is to fight not for himself, but he is only thinking in terms of himself.
Our meditation is twenty-four hours, in varieties of occupation.
\"Bhīṣma is a great devotee, and similarly, Droṇācārya also, a great personality.
Because Kṛṣṇa is always engaged with the gopīs, so the Gosvāmīs, they are searching, \"Now I have come to Vṛndāvana.
And so far I know, he is one of my best students—Śivānanda.
So just see how Kṛṣṇa is inducing Arjuna to fight.
In one side, you see, \"Oh, there is so much profit,\" and another side, you'll see so much pollution.
Actually, these Māyāvādī philosophers, they are so great rascals they sometimes say like that, that Vyāsadeva is also mistaken.
But the industrialists, they are alluring them, \"To give more money, come here.
Material world means step by step, simply danger.
So, sometimes Arjuna is accused, Bhagavad-gītā is also accused, that \"There is violence.
Manuṣyāṇāṁ, those who are human being, they have got family and family rituals, kula-dharma, jāti-dharma.
Our philosophy is that this material world may be temporary, but because it has connection with Kṛṣṇa, it can be used for Kṛṣṇa's purpose.
So unwanted children, as we have discussed in the previous...
So when we study things from material point of view, these things are to be taken care.
So other party, Duryodhana's party, they were not considering all these pious or impious, sinful or vicious activities.
So here that there are, of course, a number of problems of human life.
Pāpam means sinful activities, and puṇyam is pious.
We are spreading this philosophy, that conquer over death and go back to home, back to Godhead.
So Arjuna is thinking in terms of his own sense gratification.
So wherefrom we got this idea that I cannot enjoy alone?
here are made of a very inferior metal, in fact in lead.
Nobody thinks that there is no happiness within these three worlds, beginning from Brahmaloka down to the Pātālaloka.
As such, without the center point, God consciousness, we cannot substantiate the ideas of universal brotherhood.
Minney: We went to an opera, a ballet, and at the ballet, it was a modern ballet, and there were some girls, two American...
That meeting was held after the departure of Kṛṣṇa.
Two things required in human life: knowledge and vairāgya, detachment.
So primarily, it is based on Bhagavad-gītā, and then it is being explained from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
Just like the Pāṇḍavas: They were bereft of their kingdom, bereft of their wife, they were insulted.
So some of the family members on the other side, and some of the family members this side.
So Bible can be taken as Vedas because it is trying to give knowledge about God.
Actually Sañjaya, the secretary of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, he is relating the activities in the battlefield.