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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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So at Vṛndāvana there are many great scholars and saintly persons living. So one should go to such holy places not simply to take bath in the water, but he must be intelligent enough to find out some spiritually advanced man living there and take instruction from him and (be) benefited by that. But he does not go. He takes simply bath and purchases some goods and advertises, "Oh, I have been to such-and-such pilgrimage." Well . . . yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke and yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij janeṣv abhijñeṣu: "He has the attachment for pilgrimage, for taking bath only, but he has no attraction for the learned people there." You see?.
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[[Vanisource:660304 - Lecture BG 02.11 - New York|660304 - Lecture BG 02.11 - New York]]
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Now everybody is fighting for the land. "Oh, we are Indian," "We are Pakistani," "We are Vietnamese," "We are American," "We are German." The fighting, so much fighting is going on, the land, for the land. So land, land has become worshipable, so worshipable that one is sacrificed his valuable life for that land. You see? But the land is so dear, why? This body has become grown up from this land. So that is also there, the bodily connection.

So yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma-ijya-dhīḥ. Bhauma, in the land . . . they have no meaning for God. Now, the Russian philosophy, they have no meaning for God, but they have every meaning for their land. For the land. So land has there identified as worshipable, and they're prepared to sacrifice anything for the land. So yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke: "One who is identified with this body, and one who thinks the bodily offshoots as his own men, and the land from which the body has grown as worshipable," yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile. Yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile.

Now, in Christian world also, that the water of the Jordan River is sacred is considered. Similarly, Hindus also, when they go to some pilgrimage, they take bath on the sacred river. But one should know that going to the sacred place does not mean simply to take bath in that water. Real meaning of going to a sacred place: to find out some intelligent scholar in spiritual knowledge, they are living there. To make association with them, to take knowledge from them—that is the purpose of going to pilgrimage.

Because in pilgrimage, holy places . . . just like I, my residence is at Vṛndāvana. So at Vṛndāvana there are many great scholars and saintly persons living. So one should go to such holy places not simply to take bath in the water, but he must be intelligent enough to find out some spiritually advanced man living there and take instruction from him and (be) benefited by that. But he does not go. He takes simply bath and purchases some goods and advertises, "Oh, I have been to such-and-such pilgrimage." Well . . . yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke and yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicij janeṣv abhijñeṣu: "He has the attachment for pilgrimage, for taking bath only, but he has no attraction for the learned people there." You see?

So such kind of man is considered as ass: sa eva go-kharaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]]). Go-khara. Go-khara. Go means cow or . . . and khara means ass. So practically the whole world is moving as the civilization of cow and asses, because the whole thing is identification with this . . . The center is this body, and expansion of the body, the attraction, whole attraction is there. Yes? You want to . . .?
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