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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="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Whatever books we have got, it should be studied. Bhakti-śāstrī means Nectar of Devotion, Bhagavad-gītā, Nectar of Instruction, Beyond Death—in this way we select some ten books. That is bhakti-śāstrī.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 6, 1976, Nellore|Morning Walk -- January 6, 1976, Nellore]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. Brahmā spoke śruti, Vedas, so whatever he speaks is śruti. It is therefore called saṁhitā. Saṁhitā means Vedas, śruti. As soon as it is called saṁhitā, that is Vedas.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: (break) ...comprises the examination for bhaktivedanta and bhakti-śāstrī?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: There was talk that they would be given examinations.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: What is the syllabus for...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Whatever books we have got, it should be studied. Bhakti-śāstrī means Nectar of Devotion, Bhagavad-gītā, Nectar of Instruction, Beyond Death—in this way we select some ten books. That is bhakti-śāstrī.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: So when will that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then we come to Bhāgavata, then we come to Caitanya-caritāmṛta, in this way. So from next year, unless one passes bhakti-śāstrī, he cannot be second initiated. First initiation is open for everyone. "Come on. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." That will purify him. Then let him understand what is bhakti.</p>
<p>Yaśodānandana: This is very good, because then those that will become second..., those that will have second initiation will have to know the scriptures, will have to know your books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that is.... Now there is...</p>
<p>Mahāmṣa: And unless they know your books, they will never be fixed-up devotees.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Many times people give second initiation because they need a pūjārī in the temple.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: So they give.</p>
<p>Mahāmṣa: (break) ...different Purāṇas have different Gītās, Prabhupāda? So some person said that there is a Gaṇeśa-gītā. Similarly, there are different demigods. They speak their gītā. And they also say...</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Universal form.</p>
<p>Mahāmṣa: They show the universal form or they say that they are paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma ([[Vanisource:BG 10.12|BG 10.12]]). They say the same things in their gitas.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. Let them do that. We take Bhagavad-gītā. That's all. Śaṅkarācārya also—bhagavad-gītā kiñcid adhītā. If Bhagavad-gītā is understood a little only, he becomes liberated.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: Then why should it be called the Bhagavad-gītā and not the Kṛṣṇa-gītā. Kṛṣṇa is referred to as Bhagavān.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh? Bhagavad-gītā, not Bhāgavata-gita.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: No, Bhagavata, because He is.... The others are not Bhagavata.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam ([[Vanisource:SB 1.3.28|SB 1.3.28]]). Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam. Bhagavān, that I explained so many times. Bhagavān everyone, little possessing opulence.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: But these other Gītās are named after the demigod.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right. He can be called bhagavān. He is not ordinary man. He can be called. But the real Bhaga.... Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam. That is the.... The real Bhagavān is here, but these demigods, they have got little opulences, not equal to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore they are sometimes called Bhagavān.</p>
<p>Acyutānanda: But their Gītās are not called Bhagavad-gītā; they are called by their...</p>
<p>Mahāmṣa: But do they have the potency to show the universal form?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Who?</p>
<p>Mahāmṣa: These demigods?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. What is that universal form? It is nothing. Any powerful living being can do that.</p>
<p>Yaśodānandana: In the other Vaiṣṇava-sampradāyas, such as the Madhva-sampradāya and the Rāmānuja-sampradāya, they do not understand that Kṛṣṇa has His own planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana. They think that there is only Vaikuṇṭha and nothing else.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Their knowledge is imperfect. In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is said, goloka-nāmni nija-dhāmni tale ca tasya (Bs. 5.43).</p>
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