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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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So we should always remember that we are reading Bhagavad-gītā and we should understand it as it is. We should not make any interpretation. That is the wrong thing. And if there was some necessity of interpretation, we . . . you should not think that Kṛṣṇa left the matter for being interpreted by in later age by some scholar. Or He could have disclose this Himself. He was quite competent. No. There is no question of interpretation. We have to understand Bhagavad-gītā as it is. If we cannot understand, that is a defect in me, not in the Bhagavad-gītā. So we have to find out the defect in me.
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[[Vanisource:660713 - Lecture BG 04.03-6 - New York|660713 - Lecture BG 04.03-6 - New York]]
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Now, if you enquire where is now sunset on sunrise, you can understand in different countries somewhere the sun is now rising. Now, in America the sunset, and India it is rising. It is rising. Exactly it is now eight, quarter past eight, and if you know by radio message what is the time in India you'll find that it is quarter past eight in the morning, and the sun has just rising. Now, here the sunset, and the sun . . . similarly, if you enquire from Japan or any other country, the sun, the sun is some, somewhere in the meridian; sometimes . . . somewhere it is, I mean to dead of night.

So this timing difference is just like going on according to the position of the world movement. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa's appearance and disappearance is like that. It is not that Kṛṣṇa is born and Kṛṣṇa is gone. No, it is not like that. Somewhere is Kṛṣṇa there. Just like the sun is somewhere. There are innumerable universes. The one universe, you see, oh, this is only one; but there are many. You'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā that ekāṁśena sthito jagat ([[Vanisource:BG 10.42 (1972)|BG 10.42]]).

Ekāṁśena sthito jagat. This material manifestation, with innumerable universes, is only a one part of manifestation of the Supreme Lord. Ekāṁśena sthito jagat. These descriptions are there in the Bhagavad-gītā.

So we should always remember that we are reading Bhagavad-gītā and we should understand it as it is. We should not make any interpretation. That is the wrong thing. And if there was some necessity of interpretation, we . . . you should not think that Kṛṣṇa left the matter for being interpreted by in later age by some scholar. Or He could have disclose this Himself. He was quite competent. No. There is no question of interpretation. We have to understand Bhagavad-gītā as it is. If we cannot understand, that is a defect in me, not in the Bhagavad-gītā. So we have to find out the defect in me.

So Lord Kṛṣṇa says, ajo 'pi sann avyayātmā bhūtānām īśvaro 'pi san: "Although I am the Lord, I am the Supreme Lord of everything, and although I am unborn, aja, and avyayātmā, I have no change, still, prakṛtiṁ svām adhiṣṭhāya." Prakṛtiṁ svām.

Now, you should know there are two kinds of prakṛti. Prakṛti means nature. You'll find it in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā that the Lord says that He has got two . . . why Lord says? In the Vedic scripture also we'll find, parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8); "There are different kinds of nature of the Supreme." Svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca. So out of many kinds of nature of the Supreme Lord, they have divided the whole thing into three division. One is called external nature and the other is called internal nature. And there is another nature, which is called marginal nature. The external nature, the material world, manifestation of this material world, is external nature. And this is described in the Bhagavad-gītā, as we'll find it in the Seventh Chapter, that apareyam. Aparā. Aparā means inferior or lower nature. Lower nature. So He has got higher nature.
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