View source for Who is in Krsna consciousness, he sees everyone on the same level. How it is, that? Has he become a madman, that a highly intellectual person and the dog, he sees on the equal level? Yes. Because he is not seeing on the material platform

<div id="compilation">
<div id="facts">
{{terms|"who is in Krsna consciousness, he sees everyone on the same level. How it is, that? Has he become a madman, that a highly intellectual person and the dog, he sees on the equal level? Yes. Because he is not seeing on the material platform"}}
{{notes|}}
{{compiler|Ionelia}}
{{complete|ALL}}
{{first|2015-11-19T09:55:06Z}}
{{last|2015-11-19T09:55:06Z}}
{{totals_by_section|BG=0|SB=0|CC=0|OB=0|Lec=1|Con=0|Let=0}}
{{total|1}}
{{toc right}}
[[Category:Who Is]]
[[Category:Krsna Consciousness]]
[[Category:He (Disciples of SP)]]
[[Category:Our Seeing (Disciples of SP)]]
[[Category:Everyone]]
[[Category:On The Same Level]]
[[Category:How Is That?]]
[[Category:He Has]]
[[Category:Become]]
[[Category:Madman]]
[[Category:Highly Intelligent]]
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Dog]]
[[Category:On An Equal Level]]
[[Category:Yes]]
[[Category:Because]]
[[Category:Material Platform]]
[[Category:Not]]
[[Category:Questions Posed by Srila Prabhupada]]
</div>
<div id="section">
<h2>Lectures</h2>
</div>
<div id="sub_section">
<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div class="quote">
<div class="quote_heading">
Who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he sees everyone on the same level. How it is, that? Has he become a madman, that a highly intellectual person and the dog, he sees on the equal level? Yes. Because he is not seeing on the material platform; he is seeing on the spiritual platform. In the spiritual platform, there is no distinction. The all distinction is due to our material conception of life.
</div>

<div class="quote_link">
[[Vanisource:670317 - Lecture SB 07.07.32-35 - San Francisco|670317 - Lecture SB 07.07.32-35 - San Francisco]]
</div>
<div class="text">
In the Bhagavad-gītā you have read that a learned person, who is actually learned, he sees everyone on the equal level, sama-darśinaḥ. How? Vidyā-vinaya-sampanne. A person who is very highly learned, very gentle, civilized, vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe, and a brāhmaṇa, still higher, intellectual personality, gavi, a cow, hasti, means an elephant, śuni, the dog, śva-pāke ca, and the dog-eaters, śuni caiva śva-pāke ca paṇḍitāḥ sama, all these—there are different varieties of living condition—but still, one who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he sees everyone on the same level. How it is, that? Has he become a madman, that a highly intellectual person and the dog, he sees on the equal level? Yes. Because he is not seeing on the material platform; he is seeing on the spiritual platform. In the spiritual platform, there is no distinction. The all distinction is due to our material conception of life. Varieties, the bodies, there are 8,400,000 varieties of bodies, and because we are under the concept of this bodily, I mean to say, identification, therefore we see so many varieties.

So a person who is actually in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, Prahlāda Mahārāja says that if he prosecutes the devotional service under the guidance of bona fide spiritual master... That is the beginning of this verse: guru-śuśrūṣayā bhaktyā, beginning with serving the bona fide spiritual master.

<div class="quote_verse">
:hariḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
:bhagavān asta īśvaraḥ
:iti bhūtāni manasā
:kāmais taiḥ sādhu mānayet
:([[Vanisource:SB 7.7.32|SB 7.7.32]])
</div>

So as soon as one is fully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he does not see anyone bad. Everyone he sees, he is sādhu. Sādhu means saintly. So that, his vision, completely changes. He does not see any enemy. There are three stages of development in spiritual life, in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The first stage is when he's under the training. That is called neophyte stage. That, in that stage, he offers his respect to the Deity.

<div class="quote_verse">
:arcāyāṁ eva haraye
:śraddhayā yaḥ iṣṭān pūjān
:kriyate na tad-bhakteṣu cānyeṣu
:sa bhaktaḥ prakṛtaḥ smṛtaḥ
:([[Vanisource:SB 11.2.47|SB 11.2.47]])
</div>

In the beginning stage, he offers respect to the Deity in the church or in the temple or in the mosque, according to different religious conceptions, but he has no idea who is actually devotee, and what is his duty towards others. He does not know. This is the first stage. But he has got good faith in religion and in God. That is the beginning.

The second stage is that,

<div class="quote_verse">
:īśvare tad-adhīneṣu
:bāliśeṣu dviṣatsu ca
:prema-maitrī-kṛpopekṣā
:yaḥ karoti sa madhyamaḥ
:([[Vanisource:SB 11.2.46|SB 11.2.46]])
</div>

The intermediate stage is that he sees four things: īśvara, the Lord, the Supreme Lord, and then His devotee, tad-adhīne. Tad-adhīna means one who has accepted subordination of the Supreme Lord. He is called devotee, or one who has surrendered. So he sees God, God's devotee, and bāliśa. Bāliśa means innocent person, one who has no sense what is God, neither he's against God, he's called bāliśa. And dviṣatsu. And there are atheists. Atheist class, they will, as soon as they hear of God, oh, they become fire. So dviṣatsu, they are envious of the Lord. So these four classes are visioned in the second stage. And he deals with four classes differently: he loves God, he makes friendship with devotee of God, and he instructs sincerely, just like Cai..., Prahlāda Mahārāja is instructing to his friends because they are innocent. They are neither against nor for. So he is instructing them. But those who are dviṣat... His father..., he was not instructing his father because he knew that his father was atheist number one. So he was avoiding. So this is the second stage.
</div>
</div>
</div>