Bhagavad-gītā 4.39–5.3
So suppose you do not believe, that \"Oh, they have been written, so many things for Kṛṣṇa, just to make Him very great.
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So suppose you do not believe, that \"Oh, they have been written, so many things for Kṛṣṇa, just to make Him very great.
So my point is that the living entity has got the tendency to move freely.
There are millions of names of God in different parts of the world, but Kṛṣṇa is the supreme name according to Vedic knowledge.
Now, we have given the list, the author of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, but all these incarnation of Godhead, they are either plenary manifestation or manifestation of the plenary manifestation, like that.
Now, Kṛṣṇa is concluding these different types of yajña.
Now, from the Bhagavad-gītā we understand that two energies are working.
This process is being described by Śrī Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna.
The real knowledge is that when one understands convincingly that \"I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa.\" Kṛṣṇa, or God.
So he said that \"I am finished the laghimā-siddhi perfection.
So if we study Kṛṣṇa science with great attention, then the result will be that we shall be free from the reaction of our activities.
So when we are in the healthy condition, that is called Brahman.
Now here is a chance to stop this nonsense of transmigrating from one body to another and suffer the material miseries.
Supreme leader, the leadership is accepted, but we do not know that the supreme leader is the Supreme Lord, or Kṛṣṇa.
So there is a very nice verse in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
So by understanding the transcendental activities of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, by Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one can become liberated.
So that constitutional position, which cannot be changed, which is called dharma, in order to pre...
Now, now the principal religions of the world—Hindu religion, Muslim religion, Christian religion and Buddha religion—most of them believes some supreme authority or personality coming down from the kingdom of God.
Now, in the inductive process you have got some defects.
We have got cheating propensity, we are prone to commit mistake, and we accept illusory things.
Now, what are the things we, generally, people aspire after?
Therefore Kṛṣṇa comes and He presents Himself just like ordinary man acting.
So he has to learn it, and he can get rid of this material existence by the process which is prescribed in authoritative scriptures like Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Vedic literatures.
So for making that mission fulfilled, we have got developed consciousness than the animals.
We can see from great sages and ācāryas that whatever we earn...
So here, Bhagavad-gītā says that viṣayā vinivartante nirāhārasya dehinaḥ.
If it is applied, if we apply our devotional service unto the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, then the result will be that janayaty āśu vairāgyam, very soon you'll be detached from this material attraction.
Now, this \"Yes, I shall fight,\" this \"I\" and the former \"I\"—\"I shall not fight\"—so there is vast difference.
In the beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā, Arjuna, in the battlefield, he was perplexed whether to fight or not to fight.
So here we should always understand that if we sincerely and seriously take up the message of the Bhagavad-gītā as it is, without any, I mean to say, adulteration...
So unfortunately, because we are in contact with this matter, we are hampered in so many ways.
Now, from studying Bhagavad-gītā or deeply thinking over the matter, I come to understand that I am not this body.
This is a song which a devotee is praying and asking his mind, bhajahū re mana.
So we are discussing for the last few days on the constitutional position of ourself, myself, yourself—the soul, pure soul.
Religious scripture means they are meant for training you to that conception of life that you are pure soul.
So that pleasure you can have only when you are spiritually realized soul.
In abnormal condition sometimes we can see one thing into two, divided into two.
So last day we had been discussing that difference between the conditioned soul and liberated soul is that a conditioned soul is imperfect in four ways.
And I have given in the Introduction that how one man changes his body.
When the parting is here, in the middle, then that girl has her husband and she is coming from respectable family.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's foundational Introduction to Bhagavad-gītā, covering the purpose of the Gītā, the disciplic succession, the five subject matters (īśvara, jīva, prakṛti, kāla, karma), the difference between material and spiritual consciousness, and how to reach the spiritual world through constant remembrance of Kṛṣṇa.