Lecture at Art Gallery
Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your coming here and giving us a chance to speak about the Absolute Artist.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your coming here and giving us a chance to speak about the Absolute Artist.
Well, you are in my front. You are a soul. What is the difficulty? Everyone, you are all souls. You are in my front. Simply you are dressed only. Suppose you come in a dress. You are my friend. Do I see your dress or you? Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ.…
> vande ahaṁ śrī-guru śrī-yuta-padakamalaṁ śrī-gurūn vaiṣṇavāṁś ca > śrī-rūpaṁ sāgrajātaṁ saha-gaṇa-raghunāthānvitaṁ taṁ sa-jīvam > sa advaitaṁ sāvadhūtaṁ parijana-sahitaṁ kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devaṁ > śrī-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pādān…
So representative of Kṛṣṇa is also in the same way.
So being afraid, he wanted to be saved by his youngest son.
Just like the same man: he is attracting his son; he is attracting his wife; he is attracting his servant; he is attracting in the court his client.
So you are getting initiation in this auspicious day when Lord Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī, His eternal consort, is now being situated, er, established, installed, on this auspicious moment, and you will be initiated to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra in the…
So Kṛṣṇa said that what is His mission to come here.
When a man comes to inquire this point, that \"Why I am forced to leave my comfortable position?
So this verse I am just now quoting is the verse given by Sūta Gosvāmī, the president of the meeting.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu is speaking from the devotional platform.
> hari hari! bifale janama goṅāinu > manuṣya-janama pāiyā, rādhā-kṛṣṇa nā bhajiyā, > jāniyā śuniyā biṣa khāinu
Neither by jñāna, yoga, karma, no, that will not touch.
Now, our simple philosophy is that we are spirit soul.
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.
For generating, there are two parts: the male part and female part.
Therefore jñāna and vairāgya is stressed here.
So in the Bhagavad-gītā it is also said, yānti deva-vratā devān [[bg/9/25|[Bg.
So this morning one gentleman was asking me, \"Why there are so many religions in the world?
So, as we have explained last morning, all these different forms, both living and not living, jaḍa cetana, animate and inanimate—everything—they are products of the two energies of Kṛṣṇa: aparā and pa...
When we understand that we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, we are eternal servants of Kṛṣṇa, that is jñāna.
Even though we have got these eyes, we cannot see; we require light.
So we are all under the influence of māyā, illusion.
The first verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, First Canto, First Chapter, janmādy asya yato: the original source of everything, that is the Absolute Truth, yataḥ, from which or from whom everything is emanating.
This Brahman effulgence is the bodily glow of Kṛṣṇa.
This material body is made of three elements, and I think that is me.
So our program is to speak on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the evening and to speak in English, and in the morning we speak on Bhagavad-gītā in Hindi.
I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So our Vedic literature accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not only at the present moment, but in the past also, great sages like Vyāsadeva, Nārada, Asita, Devala.
This akhilam jagat, entire cosmic manifestation, is the resultant action of two energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
If Bhāgavata is accepted as we accept that five thousand years ago it was written, then their whole civilization becomes topsy-turvy.
This Rādhā-Govindanātha, there was some protest against him. He has not accepted Baladeva Vidyābhūṣana also as authority.
Conversation in Bengali with guests at the Rādhā-Dāmodara Temple.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa particularly says avyakta-mūrtinā.
Soul is one—that is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa—but according to karma, according to desire for material enjoyment, we have taken different dresses, and we are wandering all over the universe, according to our karma.
So long he is not surrendering to Kṛṣṇa, he is trying to become Kṛṣṇa or he is posing himself as equal to Kṛṣṇa or sometimes above Kṛṣṇa.
This is plural number, yogā, all these kind including.
Prahlāda Mahārāja is considering himself to be unfit for worshiping the Lord.
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Lord Kṛṣṇa, He instructed Brahmā to spread knowledge, Vedic knowledge, all over the universe.
They have forgotten that Kṛṣṇa is the center he is our father.
So far his past activities that is excused during the time of initiation as soon as he chants—but one should not commit again.
The how to become good man, they're described in the Bhagavad-gītā: daivī sampad and asurī sampad.
Perfected soul means twenty-four hours engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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The whole Vedic principle is to get liberation from this material bondage.
This human life is not an ordinary life, very rare.
So this material world means combination of these eight kinds of material energy: earth, water, air, fire, ether, mind, intelligence and ego, and the living entity.