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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div class="heading">Gītā without Rāma?... There is no difference between Kṛṣṇa and Rāma... Kṛṣṇa has said in the Gītā, "I am Rāma." "I am Rāma."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Darsana -- July 8, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Evening Darsana -- July 8, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mr. Boyd: A statement was made some time ago in a conversation that somebody was looking for the Gītā without the Rāma. Could you explain what they might be meaning by that?</p>
<p>Vipina: The Gītā without the...</p>
<p>Mr. Boyd: The Gītā without the Rāma, that's all the statement was, that kind of an indication.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Gītā without Rāma?</p>
<p>Dr. Sharma: Perhaps they said Gītā without Rāmāyaṇa. (indistinct) said:</p>
:yadā yadā hi dharmasya
:glānir bhavati bhārata
:abhyutthānam adharmasya
:tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham
:([[Vanisource:BG 4.7|BG 4.7]])
<p>Which also, Hare Rāma, Hare Kṛṣṇa, includes Rāma.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, there is no difference between Kṛṣṇa and Rāma.</p>
<p>Dr. Sharma: We do chant Rāma and Kṛṣṇa both.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa has said in the Gītā, "I am Rāma." "I am Rāma."</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Who made the statement?</p>
<p>Mr. Boyd: I don't think it makes any difference who made the statement, it was just a comment that somebody wanted the Gītā without Rāma, which indicated to me that they didn't want the whole picture, they didn't want the total fact. But otherwise I couldn't put the two together, because Barbara must have taken the Bhagavad-gītā back to Germany with her.</p>
<p>Dr. Sharma: Actually here is a one-to-one translation. (Sanskrit)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: The Tulasī dāsa's Rāmāyaṇa means Rāma-carita. It is not Rāmāyaṇa. Rāma-carita Manas. He was devotee of Lord Rāmacandra. So as he was thinking of Lord Rāmacandra, he has written. So he was a learned scholar, brāhmaṇa, he must have read Bhagavad-gītā, Bhāgavatam. So all his translation is there on the basis of the śāstra, especially Bhāgavata and Bhagavad-gītā. You'll find many parallel passages. But Gītā is the summary of all Vedic literature, and it is spoken by the Personality of Godhead. So if we fix up our attention on the Bhagavad-gītā, then you can get advantage of all other śāstras.</p>
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