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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Now, the idea of accepting spiritual master, that is also very obligatory. You see? As soon as you accept one as the spiritual master . . . First of all, we have recorded in your . . . you have heard it, that acceptance of spiritual master must be selected, you see, after careful examination, just like one selects his bride or bridegroom after careful examination. And in India they are very careful, because the marriage of the boys and girls take place under the guidance of the parents. So the parents very carefully see.
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[[Vanisource:660302 - Lecture BG 02.07-11 - New York|660302 - Lecture BG 02.07-11 - New York]]
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Prabhupāda: So kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ, dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ: "Not only I am miserly, but I am deviating from my duty, dharma." Dharma. Every . . . this dharma means, according to different position. Just like brāhmaṇa, the intellectual society: the kṣatriyas, the administrator society: the vaiśyas, the mercantile society: and the śūdras. Śūdras means the laborer class. So these four divisions are always. Now you can name in a different way—that doesn't matter—but in every society and for all time these divisions are there.

So according to Vedic system, this system is observed by generation. So he was a kṣatriya. Now, kṣatriya's duty was to fight with the enemy, and he was not executing that, I mean to say, injunction. Therefore, he is conscious that dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ: "Oh, I am deviating from my religion also. It is the duty of kṣatriya. No. So I am now perplexed." So yac chreyaḥ syān niścitam: "Now You should kindly, definitely, say." Now, here is a position: "I do not understand what is to be done. You kindly . . ." Yac chreyaḥ syān niścitam. Niścitam means definitely what is right. Brūhi tan me.

Now Kṛṣṇa can say, "Well, I have already saying you that you should fight, but you are not carrying out the order." So he says that śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam ([[Vanisource:BG 2.7 (1972)|BG 2.7]]). So he accepted that "All right, whatever arguments we have done so far, let us forget that. Now I accept You as my spiritual master, not my friend."

Now, the idea of accepting spiritual master, that is also very obligatory. You see? As soon as you accept one as the spiritual master . . . First of all, we have recorded in your . . . you have heard it, that acceptance of spiritual master must be selected, you see, after careful examination, just like one selects his bride or bridegroom after careful examination. And in India they are very careful, because the marriage of the boys and girls take place under the guidance of the parents. So the parents very carefully see.

So similarly, if one has to . . . the acceptance of spiritual master is necessary. According to Vedic injunction, one . . . everyone should have a spiritual master. Perhaps you have seen a sacred thread. We have got sacred thread. Mr. Cohen, you have . . . this kind of . . . sacred thread. That sacred thread is the sign that this person has his spiritual master, has a spiritual master. Just like—here, of course, there is no such distinction—a married girl, according to Hindu system, they have got some sign so that people can understand, "This girl is married." They put on a red, I mean to say, painting here so that others know that "This girl is married." And, according to . . . what is called this? The division of the hair? What is this line, you call?

Young man: Part.

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Young man: Part.

Prabhupāda: What is the spelling?

Young man: To part.

Prabhupāda: To part. This parting, this parting is also . . . there is some meaning. When the parting is here, in the middle, then that girl has her husband and she is coming from respectable family. And if the, I mean to say, partition is here, then she is a prostitute. You see? A prostitute cannot . . . there was king's ruling that a prostitute cannot (laughs) part here. And then again, when a girl is well dressed, then it should be considered that she has got her husband at home. And when she is not well dressed, then it should be understood that her husband is out of home. You see? And a widow's dress . . . there are so many, there are symptoms.
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