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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1972]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1972 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Rajo-guṇa. That is stated, rajo-guṇa. (Hindi) Rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ. Therefore you have to come to the sattva-guṇa. Sattva-guṇa, to come to the sattva-guṇa, you have to sāttvika vikāra (Hindi)... They are described in the Bhagavad-gītā. Brahma-karma svabhāva-jam (BG 18.42). That is sattva-guṇa. Satyaṁ śaucam.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Bajaj and Bhusan -- September 11, 1972, Arlington, Texas, At Their Home|Conversation with Bajaj and Bhusan -- September 11, 1972, Arlington, Texas, At Their Home]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (2): One thing I have been thinking for years together, but I could never understand it. In Bhagavad-gītā when Lord Kṛṣṇa..., Arjuna asks a question, kena prayukto 'yaṁ pāpaṁ carati pūruṣaḥ. Lord Kṛṣṇa says, kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ. The kāma... Where is the beginning of this kāma?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Rajo-guṇa. That is stated, rajo-guṇa. (Hindi) Rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ. Therefore you have to come to the sattva-guṇa. Sattva-guṇa, to come to the sattva-guṇa, you have to sāttvika vikāra (Hindi)... They are described in the Bhagavad-gītā. Brahma-karma svabhāva-jam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.42|BG 18.42]]). That is sattva-guṇa. Satyaṁ śaucam.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Guṇa... (Hindi)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Guṇa, develop. They are... They are developing these brahminical qualifications, coming to sattva-guṇa. From rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa, they are coming to sattva-guṇa. Sthitaṁ sattve prasīdati. Tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.19|SB 1.2.19]]). Tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ. Rajas-tamaḥ, these qualities are manifested by lust and greediness. Tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye, ceta etair anāviddhaṁ sthitaṁ sattve prasīdati. When one's heart will not be disturbed by these two qualities, tamo-guṇa and rajo-guṇa, then he will be situated in sattva-guṇa. Ceta etair anāviddhaṁ sthitaṁ sattve prasīdati. Then he becomes satisfied. At that time he becomes jolly. Evaṁ prasanna-manaso bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ, bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaṁ mukta-saṅgasya jāyate ([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.20|SB 1.2.20]]). When he becomes jolly, being situated in sattva-guṇa, at that time he can understand what is bhagavat-tattva, what is the Absolute Truth, not in the rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa. That is not possible. That is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā,</p>
:brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā
:na śocati na kāṅkṣati
:samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
:mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām
:([[Vanisource:BG 18.54|BG 18.54]])
:bhaktyā mām abhijānāti
:yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ
:(indistinct)
:([[Vanisource:BG 18.55|BG 18.55]])
<p>Guest (2): The problem is most of the time we spend our life in rajo-guṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Guest (2): The problem is most of the time...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (2): ...life goes in rajo-guṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Tamo-guṇa, rajo-guṇa.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Tamo and rajo-guṇa. (Hindi)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: Do you want us to distribute this? Śrīla Prabhupāda, this is special water from the Ganges if you want to drink some.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I have taken it, little. That's all. (pause) Harer nāma, harer nāma ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.21|CC Adi 17.21]]). (pause) So tomorrow you are all invited. Please come. You are also invited.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: A special ceremony tomorrow.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Can we get one picture of the group?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, sit down. No.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Śrīla Prabhupāda, (Hindi)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Hindi)</p>
<p>Guest (2): Why don't you all move and please stand... (Hindi) Can some of them stand over that side?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Why don't you... You could come on this side and ladies over there. You people have to sit on your knees. I am sorry. I think I'll take one group, some people, and then do some other. (Some time passes.)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So it is a happy meeting?</p>
<p>Guest (6): Yes, Mahārāja is converting (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ācchā. Please come tomorrow. (Hindi) What time you have given them, any time?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: Yes. The ceremony is in the morning but if they can't make it, all day long we'll be distributing prasādam. Come and see the Deities.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, any time you can convince him to come. Hare Kṛṣṇa. (Hindi)</p>
<p>Guest (6): Thank you. (Hindi) (end)</p>
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