Bhagavad-gītā 3.21–25
Now, what are the things we, generally, people aspire after?
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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.