Room Conversation with French Journalist, Maurice Rougemont
And to get help for this realization we are concerned with everything.
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And to get help for this realization we are concerned with everything.
Suppose the United Nation is the organization of the whole human society, so if I ask the United Nation, as an organization, that \"What is the purpose of this cosmic manifestation?
You eat according to your taste; I eat according to my taste.
Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for your kind invitation and reception.
The spiritual master is the representative of God.
, Prabhupāda spoke on our philosophy of Bhagavad-gītā.
So in the human form of body there is the opportunity to understand all these activity or philosophy of life.
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.
To usurp others' property is durbuddhi, mischievous.
There the Supreme Lord is taken in aiśvarya, opulences.
Just opposite the temple. So round about. Therefore I asked him, \"Purchase these houses. Purchase.\" Never mind. So that is not lost. They were paying rent elsewhere. They can pay here. We get our permanent tenants.
So, this is our program we are pushing on the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement on the basis of the science of God.
Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Arjuna knows that \"I am not controller; I am controlled.\" He is devotee, he knows his position.
This struggle for existence is going on because they do not know that the goal of life is God, Kṛṣṇa, or Viṣṇu.
Therefore they interpret foolishly, speculate, and demonstrate their rascaldom.
Just like, I am a person, my disciples they are also persons, but my disciple consider me as greater person.