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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya Concluding Words|CC Antya Concluding Words]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is to be admitted that whatever translation work I have done is through the inspiration of my spiritual master, because personally I am most insignificant and incompetent to do this materially impossible work. I do not think myself a very learned scholar, but I have full faith in the service of my spiritual master, His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura. If there is any credit to my activities of translating, it is all due to His Divine Grace. Certainly if His Divine Grace were physically present at this time, it would have been a great occasion for jubilation, but even though he is not physically present, I am confident that he is very much pleased by this work of translation.</p>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonBG25556NewYorkApril191966_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="110" link="Lecture on BG 2.55-56 -- New York, April 19, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.55-56 -- New York, April 19, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.55-56 -- New York, April 19, 1966|Lecture on BG 2.55-56 -- New York, April 19, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is another very good example. Of course, that is not in your experience, but it is in our India we have got experience that on the riverside the boatman drags the boat with a rope. Have you got any experience like that here, in America? I don't think you have got. The boat is in the middle, middle of the river, and there is a big log in the middle of the boat, and that log is tied with a rope, and that rope is, I mean to say, snatched by the boatman, and the boat goes in the middle of the river. Now, while passing on the bank of the river, there are so many things which pains his, I mean to say, sole. So he is thinking that "When I shall be very rich man, then I shall cover this bank of the river with, I mean to say, soft pillows so that when I shall go by the pillows, dragging this boat, I shall have no pain." Now, our position is like that, that the foolish boatman, thinking that "When I shall be very rich man, still I shall be pulling on this business." He does not know that "If I at all become rich man, then where is the necessity of my pulling this boat in this way?" So similarly, we want to be happy in the same way, that "When I shall be able to cover the whole world with cushions and soft pillows to travel over it, then I shall have no pain of working like this." You see? This is our plan.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG31316NewYorkMay231966_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="120" link="Lecture on BG 3.13-16 -- New York, May 23, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 3.13-16 -- New York, May 23, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 3.13-16 -- New York, May 23, 1966|Lecture on BG 3.13-16 -- New York, May 23, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So many wonderful things are being done in the material nature. Do you think it is without being done, consciousness? No. There is also consciousness. Just like for the management of your own body, due to the consciousness everything is being well done, similarly, everything that you see very nicely well done in the material nature, that is also being done by superior consciousness. This is human reasoning. How can you deny it? Can you deny it? I don't think any sane man can deny it.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG31617NewYorkMay251966_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="122" link="Lecture on BG 3.16-17 -- New York, May 25, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 3.16-17 -- New York, May 25, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 3.16-17 -- New York, May 25, 1966|Lecture on BG 3.16-17 -- New York, May 25, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhava-mahā-dāvāgni means... Each and every word is very carefully selected in Sanskrit, and they have got immense meaning, full of meaning. Now, this, why this bhava-mahā-dāvāgni, this very word, I will try to explain. Bhava. Bhava means the situation in which we have to take repeated birth and we accept repeated death. That is called bhava. And that is a kind of mahā-dāvāgni. Mahā means great, and dāvāgni means forest fire. Forest fire. Forest fire, have you seen, any of you? Here you have got many forests, but I don't think you have seen any forest fire. I have seen. Forest fire takes automatically. Nobody goes to set fire in the forest, but by, I mean to say, cohesion of different dry bamboos or woods, fire takes, by electricity fire takes place, and the whole forest is ablaze. That is called dāvāgni. So this material world, nobody wants. Everyone wants peaceful life. But the nature of the material world is that automatically there is fire. Automatically there is.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG479NewYorkJuly221966_3" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="146" link="Lecture on BG 4.7-9 -- New York, July 22, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.7-9 -- New York, July 22, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.7-9 -- New York, July 22, 1966|Lecture on BG 4.7-9 -- New York, July 22, 1966]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest: Do you teach self-realization?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, this is self-realization.</p>
<p>Guest: Do you initiate?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh?</p>
<p>Guest: Do you initiate?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. I initiate also. Well, this is the process of self-realization, to know...</p>
<p>Guest: Then you are an authority on initiation?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, and, of course, I do not know whether I am authority, but my spiritual master has authorized me to do this.</p>
<p>Guest: That's, that's all right. That's sufficient. That's sufficient.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I, I, I do not think myself an authority. I am just to serve the order of my spiritual master. That's all.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG63240NewYorkSeptember141966_4" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="219" link="Lecture on BG 6.32-40 -- New York, September 14, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.32-40 -- New York, September 14, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.32-40 -- New York, September 14, 1966|Lecture on BG 6.32-40 -- New York, September 14, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This whole Bhagavad-gītā was taught to Arjuna in the battlefield. And when Arjuna was just going to release his arms on the opposite party, on the enemy's party, he thought... He got a sentiment: "So why this fighting with my own kinsmen?" That was his illusion, and to eradicate that illusion of Arjuna's, this Bhagavad-gītā was explained by Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Now, you can understand how much time could be, I mean to say, allowed for this discussion. That was a battlefield. Immediately has to be fight. Everyone is ready. And utmost, one hour... I don't think... That is utmost. So within this one hour the whole Bhagavad-gītā was discussed, and Arjuna changed his decision and he fought.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG71AucklandApril151972_5" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="233" link="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Auckland, April 15, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Auckland, April 15, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Auckland, April 15, 1972|Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Auckland, April 15, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if you study Bhagavad-gītā and conclude that the Absolute Truth is nirākāra, I don't think you are making very much progress. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]]). You try to understand this science by praṇipāta, praṇipātena, by surrendering, not by serving yourself, that "I am very learned scholar. Why shall I surrender?" No. That is the first thing wanted. If you want to understand Bhagavad-gītā, then you must take the direction from the Bhagavad-gī</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG91MelbourneApril191976_6" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="298" link="Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976|Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Melbourne, April 19, 1976]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (3): I don't say... No, I wouldn't go about... But the point I'm trying to make is that you call God Kṛṣṇa. Christians call God by whatever name they call God. (laughter) The point is...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Christian? Christian have... I don't think that they have any particular name of God.</p>
<p>Guest (3): All right, then Christ...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So if you, if you get... Suppose you have heard the name of the..., "There is a president," but if you hear from somebody, "The president name is this," so what is the harm? You become advanced in knowledge. Suppose you go to a country. You know that that government has got a president. But if somebody says, "The president's name is this," then where is the wrong there?</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG132MelbourneApril41972_7" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="344" link="Lecture on BG 13.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972|Lecture on BG 13.2 -- Melbourne, April 4, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There are so many varieties of life. We have no information. There are so many universities, so many educational institutions, but they cannot say exactly how many varieties of life are there. They cannot say. Their education is not perfect. They cannot say. But we can see there are so many varieties of life, and each of them is a living entity. But if you consult Vedic literature, you'll find exactly the number. Just like in the Vedic literature you'll find jalajā nava-lakṣāṇi: "In the water the aquatic living beings are 900,000 different bodies." So I don't think there is any biologist or botanist who can say exactly how many forms of life are there within the water.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG165CalcuttaFebruary231972_8" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="384" link="Lecture on BG 16.5 -- Calcutta, February 23, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.5 -- Calcutta, February 23, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.5 -- Calcutta, February 23, 1972|Lecture on BG 16.5 -- Calcutta, February 23, 1972]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So, so long we are not able to come to the platform of thinking the gold and the stone on the equal value, we have to follow these rules and regulation. But that is the highest consideration. Just like Sanatāna Goswāmī, he didn't care for this touchstone. Not for the ordinary man. The ordinary man cannot make that all of a sudden; therefore it is not for him. So what was the purpose of saying that Gītā says sama-loṣṭrāśma-kāñcanaḥ? Why did you raise this question? What is the purpose? We can not raise, ordinary man, but why did you raise this question? What is the purpose?</p>
<p>Guest: I think this is practical for a householder.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But I don't think. Then what is the difference? Therefore, household luxury is allowed up to fiftieth year in order to learn, pañcaśordhvaṁ vanaṁ vrajet. That is Vedic system. Not to remain householder until you are fired, you see, or you are taken by death. Just like our big leaders. They won't give up their householder's life unless he is fired to death, or death takes him away. That is not very good proposition.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1867AhmedabadDecember101972_9" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="405" link="Lecture on BG 18.67 -- Ahmedabad, December 10, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 18.67 -- Ahmedabad, December 10, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 18.67 -- Ahmedabad, December 10, 1972|Lecture on BG 18.67 -- Ahmedabad, December 10, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">They are trying to go to the moon planet. I don't think they have been successful. But this is not a very difficult task. But even if you go to the Brahmaloka, where the duration of life is so long and the comforts of life are many, many thousand times what, which we can perceive here, Kṛṣṇa says that "Even you go there, then the birth, death, old age and disease is there. You cannot avoid it." Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]).</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB111LondonAugust61971_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="1" link="Lecture on SB 1.1.1 -- London, August 6, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.1.1 -- London, August 6, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.1.1 -- London, August 6, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.1.1 -- London, August 6, 1971]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Jīva Gosvāmī has got six sandarbhas, theses: Bhagavat-sandarbha, Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha, Tattva-sandarbha, Prīti-sandarbha, like that. So these books are... I don't think it is published in English. So these sandarbhas are so philosophically discussed that throughout the whole world, there is not a single philosopher who can defy these Jīva Gosvāmī's six sandarbhas.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB128BombayDecember261972_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="51" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- Bombay, December 26, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- Bombay, December 26, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- Bombay, December 26, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.8 -- Bombay, December 26, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Your body can be maintained very nicely if you take simple food made of rice, wheat, vegetable, little ghee and little milk. That's all. And you can get all these things anywhere, in any part of the world, and you can offer to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa also says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati ([[Vanisource:BG 9.26 (1972)|BG 9.26]]). Any part of the world, any condition of life, you can secure these things. In Africa we have been in the interior African villages. They are supposed to be uncivilized, but I don't think. They have got enough of these things, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyam, anywhere. And they are being taught by this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to offer to Kṛṣṇa and take.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1317LosAngelesSeptember221972_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="114" link="Lecture on SB 1.3.17 -- Los Angeles, September 22, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.3.17 -- Los Angeles, September 22, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.3.17 -- Los Angeles, September 22, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.3.17 -- Los Angeles, September 22, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Because the son inherits the money of the father, similarly, the law is that if the father dies a debtor, the son becomes responsible to pay the debts. That is the law, Manu-saṁhitā. I do not know what is the law here. I don't think the son is responsible for paying the debts of father, but in India that is the law. One big barrister, Mr. C. R. Das, his father died insolvent, making debts. So when he became very rich, he called all the creditors and paid five to five, that "My father was debtor. You take this money." That is obligation.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB151718NewVrindabanJune211969_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="142" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, June 21, 1969" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, June 21, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, June 21, 1969|Lecture on SB 1.5.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, June 21, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like we are inviting, we are attracting, middle class of men. Those who are too much rich, in consideration of this, they are not attracted. They think that "All right, these boys are chanting in the street. All right." Not, I don't think very rich men contributes. They also, middle class of men, they contribute something. So to become too much rich, too much puffed up with opulence like the two sons of Kuvera, is another chance of being degraded. To remain a little poor is better condition for developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1830LosAngelesApril221973_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="222" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.30 -- Los Angeles, April 22, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.30 -- Los Angeles, April 22, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.30 -- Los Angeles, April 22, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.30 -- Los Angeles, April 22, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now human being, according to their conception, they have manufactured the 747 airplane, supposed to be very big. All right. According to your consciousness, you have produced something big. But can you produce a small airplane like insect flying? That is not possible. Therefore greatness means that who can become greater than the greatest and smaller than the smallest. That is greatness. If you can act one-sided... That is also not perfectly.</p>
<p>Supposing you can manufacture still more bigger. I don't think that the modern age they have manufactured the biggest.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB241LosAngelesJune241972_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="399" link="Lecture on SB 2.4.1 -- Los Angeles, June 24, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.4.1 -- Los Angeles, June 24, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.4.1 -- Los Angeles, June 24, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.4.1 -- Los Angeles, June 24, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Simply by hearing and chanting you become pious. Puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ. Even you don't understand the meaning, the very sound vibration will help you. Now we have finished one chapter within five minutes. How much time it took? I don't think more than five minutes. So everyone should chant every day at least one chapter.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB2914MelbourneApril131972_6" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="415" link="Lecture on SB 2.9.14 -- Melbourne, April 13, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.9.14 -- Melbourne, April 13, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.9.14 -- Melbourne, April 13, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.9.14 -- Melbourne, April 13, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You should read all this. You don't read. In the first volume of Bhāgavata these things are explained. But I don't think you read all these things. Do you read? So if you don't read, then you will feel restless: "Oh, let me go from Japan to India, from India to Japan." You are restless because you don't read. I am laboring so hard for you, but you don't take advantage. Don't take advantage of eating and sleeping. Take advantage of these books. Then your life will be successful. My duty—I have given you so valuable things, day and night trying to convince you, each word to word. And if you don't take advantage of this, then what can I do for you?</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32630BombayJanuary71975_7" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="490" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nitāi: "Doubt, misapprehension, correct apprehension, memory and sleep, as determined by their different functions, are said to be the distinct characteristics of intelligence."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda:</p>
:saṁśayo 'tha viparyāso
:niścayaḥ smṛtir eva ca
:svāpa ity ucyate buddher
:lakṣaṇaṁ vṛttitaḥ pṛthak
:([[Vanisource:SB 3.26.30|SB 3.26.30]])
<p>So the modern psychologists, they have divided the function of the mind: thinking, feeling, willing, and then other subdivisions. That is known as the science of psychology. But intelligence... Above mind there is intelligence. I don't think in the modern science there is any analytical study of the intelligence function. But in the Vedic literature there is analysis of the intelligence. They are described here: saṁśaya, doubtfulness. The saṁśaya, saṁśayātmā vinaśyati.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSBQuestionsAnswersHyderabadApril101975_8" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="514" link="Lecture on SB Questions &amp; Answers -- Hyderabad, April 10, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB Questions &amp; Answers -- Hyderabad, April 10, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB Questions &amp; Answers -- Hyderabad, April 10, 1975|Lecture on SB Questions &amp; Answers -- Hyderabad, April 10, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: It is already described in the Bhagavad-gītā that kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya sad-asad-janma-yoniṣu ([[Vanisource:BG 13.22 (1972)|BG 13.22]]). There are different forms of life, different species of life. What is the reason of these different gradations? A dog's life and a man's life is different. How it has so become? What is the scientist's reply? I don't think the scientists can reply this. Or they can reply, "Evolutionary process." How the evolutionary process is taking place? So that answer is also given in the Bhagavad-gītā,</p>
:mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ
:sūyate sa-carācaram
:hetunānena kaunteya
:jagad viparivartate
:([[Vanisource:BG 9.10 (1972)|BG 9.10]])
<p>That... The developed human life is obtained by karma. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur dehopapattaye ([[Vanisource:SB 3.31.1|SB 3.31.1]]).</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB551DelhiNovember281975_9" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="516" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.1 -- Delhi, November 28, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.1 -- Delhi, November 28, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.1 -- Delhi, November 28, 1975|Lecture on SB 5.5.1 -- Delhi, November 28, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (1): And what do you think about the factor in reincarnation? Do you think it has got any significance?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I do not think anything. I have already explained. We do not think, "Perhaps," "Maybe."</p>
<p>Guest (1): Do you think reincarnation is there...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that is stated in the śāstra.</p>
<p>Guest (1): What is your opinion about it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I have no opinion. I take śāstra as it is.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB5512BombayMarch251977_10" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="522" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Bombay, March 25, 1977" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Bombay, March 25, 1977">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Bombay, March 25, 1977|Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Bombay, March 25, 1977]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (2): As we heard in the beginning, one of the principal statements that a man goes on the motor train, stands there for two hours, reaches his place of business, and work there from nine o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the evening, returns back, has his food and sex and all that. I found many a people who have worked very hard, raised children very nicely, have sex, but lead a good life. I don't think there is anything wrong with that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, if there is no wrong, it is all right. But this sort of life is not very palatable.</p>
<p>Guest (2): Because I find even the dogs...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: If you like that life, it is very good. That is up to you. But I don't think this is a very nice way of life, to work so hard simply for bread.</p>
<p>Guest (2): No, I agree there.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then agreed, agreed. Then why disagree? (laughter) That's all right, no more.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6130HonoluluMay291976_11" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="650" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.30 -- Honolulu, May 29, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.30 -- Honolulu, May 29, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.30 -- Honolulu, May 29, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.30 -- Honolulu, May 29, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija... God has many names. It is not that you have to chant only "Kṛṣṇa." No. If you have got any other name of God... Must be God's name. But they do not believe in God. Generally they think there is no God, or if there is God, God is dead. Something like that. And I don't think there is any definitive name in any other religious system. It is only in the Vedic system there is name. So anyway, if somebody thinks that "This Kṛṣṇa is an Indian name. Why shall I chant 'Kṛṣṇa'?" Well, you chant any other name, but it must be God's name. Then it will be effective.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7612StockholmSeptember61973_12" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="745" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.1-2 -- Stockholm, September 6, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.1-2 -- Stockholm, September 6, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.1-2 -- Stockholm, September 6, 1973|Lecture on SB 7.6.1-2 -- Stockholm, September 6, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa says, the authoritative knowledge, that, as the soul, dehi, the proprietor of the body. We do not know whether I am this body or I am the proprietor of this body. That knowledge is also lacking. Big, big professors, they do not know. I was talking in Moscow, one big professor, Professor Kotofsky, he said: "Swamijī, after this body's finished, everything is finished." This is their knowledge. Blunt knowledge. No, it is not finished. We get from the Vedic literature, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). Nityo śāśvato yaṁ na jāyate na mriyate vā kadācit. The soul is eternal. Soul is eternal and soul does not take birth. The body, we get a new body, that is called birth. And when this body is annihilated, that is called death. So birth and death is in reference with the body, not with the soul.</p>
<p>I don't think in any university throughout the whole world there is such educational department where this science is handled. The soul. Whether I am this body or I'm not the body. I am not this body; that is the fact.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB771920BombayMarch181971_13" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="774" link="Lecture on SB 7.7.19-20 -- Bombay, March 18, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.7.19-20 -- Bombay, March 18, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.7.19-20 -- Bombay, March 18, 1971|Lecture on SB 7.7.19-20 -- Bombay, March 18, 1971]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Agronomist?</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes. Agra means field, one who studies the earth.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And just like one can understand from the characteristics of the particular soil, that there is gold. In this (place) there is possibility of gold. That is agronomist?</p>
<p>Devotee: No, that would be geologist.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Geologist?</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All right, geologist. (laughter) So.... I don't think geologist. (laughter) Geologist is different. You have no dictionary? Where is my dictionary?</p>
<p>Devotee: It is in the next room. Should I get it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All right, we shall see later on. Take it for agronomist, geologist. But soil expert (laughter).</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7941MayapuraMarch191976_14" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="847" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.41 -- Mayapura, March 19, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.41 -- Mayapura, March 19, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.41 -- Mayapura, March 19, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.41 -- Mayapura, March 19, 1976]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That throughout the whole week he'll commit all sinful activities, and on Sunday he'll simply agree, or what is called?</p>
<p>Devotee: Confess.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That "I have committed, yes. I have committed these sins," and give some fine. This process is not good. We should not do that, confession, "Yes, sir, I am..." I think in your country there was a movement, Moral Rearmament. Their process was that "You commit sinful activities, but you confess. Then it will be neutralized." That was their formula. But I don't think it was successful. It could not be successful. That is not possible. Process is that "By my karma I have become sinful. Now I have got the remedial measure, chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa, but I shall not commit again." Then he's successful. Then it is successful, immediately. Nāmnād balād... But we should not take advantage of this.</p>
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<div id="Festival_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Lectures" text="Festival Lectures"><h3>Festival Lectures</h3>
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<div id="GovardhanaPujaLectureNewYorkNovember41966_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="33" link="Govardhana Puja Lecture -- New York, November 4, 1966" link_text="Govardhana Puja Lecture -- New York, November 4, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Govardhana Puja Lecture -- New York, November 4, 1966|Govardhana Puja Lecture -- New York, November 4, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So it is a long story, three, four chapters. Of course, it will take some time. I don't think you can give us so much time. The net, the result is that when Kṛṣṇa talked like this, then His father agreed not to perform the sacrifice. Because all the inhabitants of Vraja, Vṛndāvana, they are so much fond of Kṛṣṇa, whatever Kṛṣṇa will say, they will accept. So although Kṛṣṇa was a boy, He implored his father and other elderly gentlemen present there that "There is no need of performing this sacrifice." So they stopped sacrifice.</p>
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<div id="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Lectures" text="Arrival Addresses and Talks"><h3>Arrival Addresses and Talks</h3>
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<div id="ArrivalConversationLosAngelesJune201975_0" class="quote" parent="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" book="Lec" index="25" link="Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975" link_text="Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975|Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So why you are behind publication? Now all the big men are here. Why our books are behind? Why? Here the editors are there. I don't think there is any scarcity.</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: Now there is no scarcity.</p>
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<div id="Initiation_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Lectures" text="Initiation Lectures"><h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
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<div id="InitiationHawaiiMarch251969_0" class="quote" parent="Initiation_Lectures" book="Lec" index="14" link="Initiation -- Hawaii, March 25, 1969" link_text="Initiation -- Hawaii, March 25, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Initiation -- Hawaii, March 25, 1969|Initiation -- Hawaii, March 25, 1969]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Then take another bead, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. In this way you come to this end. Don't cross this summit. Again begin from this end. In this way chant daily sixteen rounds. One round, two round, three round, four round, fifth round, like that. And you have noted down the rules and regulation? Yes. And the ten kinds of offenses to give up, chanting? Yes. And your Godbrothers will help you. I don't think there is name, any Balabhadra? So your spiritual name is Balabhadra. Just bow down. (devotee repeating each word:)</p>
:nama oṁ viṣṇu-pādāya kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
:śrīmate bhaktivedānta-svāmin iti nāmine
<p>All right, take your beads and be happy, and Balabhadra dāsa brahmacārī. Is that all right? (laughter)</p>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="ClassinLosAngelesLosAngelesNovember151968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="30" link="Class in Los Angeles -- Los Angeles, November 15, 1968" link_text="Class in Los Angeles -- Los Angeles, November 15, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Class in Los Angeles -- Los Angeles, November 15, 1968|Class in Los Angeles -- Los Angeles, November 15, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One of my Godbrothers, some years ago, in 1935 he went to London, and Lord Zetland, Marquis of Zetland, Lord Ronaldsay... He was a Scotsman. I don't think whether he is living, but he was very interested in Indian philosophy. He was once governor of Bengal. In our childhood we saw him. He came to our college. So he inquired from this preacher, my Godbrother, that Bannerji, he was Mr. Bannerji, Goswami Bannerji: "Bannerji, can you make us brāhmaṇa?" Bannerji said, "Why not? Yes, we can make you brāhmaṇa. Then you have to follow the rules, these four principles of rules. Then you can become a brāhmaṇa." He said, "Oh, it is impossible." He said. You see? Such a big personality, he is interested in philosophy, he holds some position, responsible man, he flatly denied, "Oh, it is not possible to give up these habits." But our student, hundreds of students who are coming to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are giving up very easily.</p>
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<div id="LectureExcerptNewYorkApril121969_1" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="44" link="Lecture Excerpt -- New York, April 12, 1969" link_text="Lecture Excerpt -- New York, April 12, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture Excerpt -- New York, April 12, 1969|Lecture Excerpt -- New York, April 12, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So God is not created by such artificial meditation. God is God. Just like chemically you cannot produce gold. Gold is gold. Iron is iron. Law of identification. So His opulence, His strength, His reputation... His reputation, taking Kṛṣṇa as a great personality, I don't think any personality in this world is existing who is so reputed as Kṛṣṇa from historical point of view, five thousand years past. You may... "Kṛṣṇa was Indian. He is famous in India." No. Kṛṣṇa is famous in every country all over the world for His Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
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<div id="LectureLosAngelesJuly111971New2003_2" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="90" link="Lecture -- Los Angeles, July 11, 1971 (New-2003)" link_text="Lecture -- Los Angeles, July 11, 1971 ">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Los Angeles, July 11, 1971 (New-2003)|Lecture -- Los Angeles, July 11, 1971 ]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This Kṛṣṇa consciousness is dormant in every person; otherwise why you are taking so much interest? You are all American boys and girls. I don't think in this meeting there is any Indians. Somebody may say that "Kṛṣṇa is Indian, Kṛṣṇa is Hindu. It is Hindu God." No. Kṛṣṇa is for everyone. If Kṛṣṇa would not have been for everyone, how could you, especially, take up this movement so serious? Kṛṣṇa also said that He does not belong to any particular sect. He said that all living entities in different types of forms, 8,400,000's of forms, and Kṛṣṇa claims that He is the seed-giving father of all of them.</p>
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<div id="LectureatChristianMonasteryMelbourneApril61972_4" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="107" link="Lecture at Christian Monastery -- Melbourne, April 6, 1972" link_text="Lecture at Christian Monastery -- Melbourne, April 6, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture at Christian Monastery -- Melbourne, April 6, 1972|Lecture at Christian Monastery -- Melbourne, April 6, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you are after the knowledge, why should you stick to one particular place or...? If the knowledge is available in other places, you must have it. That is inquisitiveness, seriousness. But if you say, "No. We are Christian. We have studied Bible. That is all. We do not touch," I don't think that is very nice conclusion. You remain Christian, but what is the harm to study other literatures where more informations are there? That is quite reasonable. We are not asking you to become Hindus. We simply want to, everyone, that you become God conscious. That is our mission. Our mission is not that to convert. What is the use of converting? If my habits are the same... Suppose I am Hindu. I become Christian, but my habits are not changed. Then what is the use of becoming from Hindu or Christian or to Christian or Hindu?</p>
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<div id="TownHallLectureAucklandApril141972_5" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="108" link="Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972" link_text="Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972|Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In all centers our temple is open. Any man can come and eat and live with us. Here also, we have opened temple. We invite anyone. If one person thinks that he is in scarcity or he has no... I don't think in your country such person is there. But still, if there is, he is cordially invited, "Please come and live with us. We shall supply all, everything, necessities of life." But you shall have to live with us as we live. That's all. That is the only condition.</p>
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<div id="RotaryClubLectureAhmedabadDecember81972ThePresentNeedofHumanSociety_6" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="125" link="Rotary Club Lecture -- Ahmedabad, December 8, 1972 'The Present Need of Human Society'" link_text="Rotary Club Lecture -- Ahmedabad, December 8, 1972 'The Present Need of Human Society'">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Rotary Club Lecture -- Ahmedabad, December 8, 1972 'The Present Need of Human Society'|Rotary Club Lecture -- Ahmedabad, December 8, 1972 'The Present Need of Human Society']]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You can also change, by distilling the sea water or ocean water, but it will not be as tasteful as it is done by God. Or you can say "nature." The same water, taken from the ocean, transferred, transformed into cloud, the cloud is distributed, and water, rain, falls, you get nice distilled water, tasteful water. So if you are going to challenge, "There is no existence of God," then you can do it. Why don't you do it? Why you are so much in scarcity of water? I do not think any scientist can very boldly answer that "Yes, we can do, and we can defy the existence of God, or the mercy of God." That is not possible.</p>
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<div id="LectureatIndoAmericanSocietyEastandWestCalcuttaJanuary311973_7" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="129" link="Lecture at Indo-American Society 'East and West' -- Calcutta, January 31, 1973" link_text="Lecture at Indo-American Society 'East and West' -- Calcutta, January 31, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture at Indo-American Society 'East and West' -- Calcutta, January 31, 1973|Lecture at Indo-American Society 'East and West' -- Calcutta, January 31, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So there is no question of you and me. It is simply education. Just like these boys. Four or fives year, ago, they did not know anything about this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But because they have been educated with this Bhagavad-gītā, they are also following me. And they are very sound in their conviction in this Western, Eastern culture, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Of course from my part of view, I do not think there is any East and West. Any knowledge is meant for the whole world. Any scientific knowledge. Just like Professor Einstein, if he discovered the law of relativity, it is not for the Western people. It is for the Eastern people also. So there is no such question. When there is culture, when there is knowledge, there is no question of Eastern and Western.</p>
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<div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononSigmundFreud_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="17" link="Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud|Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: (indistinct) sometimes they can't trace out the history of a particular case. The idea is that if they can find out from this person remembering back when they were young that he had been locked in a room, then (indistinct) the person was able to understand the significance of that incident, that it was really very small. Then it loses its importance in his life. He has been unable to resolve it because he has repressed it.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But I don't think when a man's brain is already deranged he can be rectified by finding out the cause.</p>
<p>Devotee: It's not that the trauma makes him crazy so that he cannot function in society. He could be a business executive who has claustrophobia; he can't stand getting in an elevator. He is leading a normal life in society but he has a problem which causes him a great deal...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So why not divert his attention to Kṛṣṇa consciousness?</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononSigmundFreud_1" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="17" link="Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud|Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: Freud would give an example like this: The child three or four years old, and then a younger child is born in the family. The four-year-old child sees the younger child as a source of competition for affection, and he doesn't like the younger child, but then if he expresses dislike for the child he will be chastised by the parents, so he makes as if he likes the child very much in order  to get approbation, but factually he dislikes the child. That is another mechanism that...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I don't think the older child dislikes the younger child. Sometimes.</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes. But he would say this sometimes occurs.</p>
<p>Śyāmasundara: You don't notice it very much in Indian families because they are so well-adjusted, but in Western families this quite often happens—the older child becomes jealous of the younger child's favors, but in order to gain the favor of the parents, he expresses overt love for the younger child, or...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I don't think children are so clever, that in order to win the love of parents they will treat like that.</p>
<p>Devotee: Freud put so much emphasis on children and the mentality and emotions of children—what one is experiencing, youth and so on—and it is all concocted, don't you think?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Children can be trained in a different way. As you train them, they become like that.</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononKarlMarx_2" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="22" link="Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx|Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Our point is that religion is not sentiment. Leadership has to be accepted, either by the Communist or the theist or atheist. There is leadership. So when the leadership is selected and the direction given by the leader, you can take it as some "ism." So religion is the same thing. When we accept the leadership of God and His direction, that is religion. I don't think on principle the Communist can change this idea. The same leader is Lenin or Stalin, and he is giving his direction, and people must follow it. So where is the difference of philosophy? Similarly, Kṛṣṇa is there, His instruction is there, and we are following. So where is the difference in fact?</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx|Philosophy Discussion on Karl Marx]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: You have been to Communist Russia, and was there any church worship? The Eastern Orthodox church used to be the standard Russian religion. Is there any church worship in Russia today?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I, I, I did not see, but I saw some mosquelike building in the, what is called, Red Square. I saw that building, but that is vacant. They are worshiping Stalin, no, Lenin. Yes. They are worshiping Lenin's tomb. That I have seen in the Red Square. And there was a church or mosque, I do not know. The building is, can be called a church or mosque...</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Church.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That was vacant.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: It's more like a museum.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: They keep it as a museum.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, that I have seen. I don't think there is any worship of church.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: But there must be some... There must be some people in Russia, since God is...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They may be doing private, privately. Or I did not see.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: Well at least now some people are interested in purchasing your books in Russia.</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononJohannGottliebFichte_4" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="25" link="Philosophy Discussion on Johann Gottlieb Fichte" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Johann Gottlieb Fichte">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Johann Gottlieb Fichte|Philosophy Discussion on Johann Gottlieb Fichte]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hayagrīva: No standard conscience or intuition.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So which one will you follow?</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: They seem to think there is a standard within everyone.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So what is that standard? We say the order of Kṛṣṇa is standard. That's all. What Kṛṣṇa says, that is standard, that we have got some standard. Unless there is standard, you say conscience, high sense, morality... What is that? Define it. Just like we have got definition of God. I think nobody has got any definition of God. What is the standard that a person should be called God? I don't think... it is only in Vedic literature.</p>
:aiśvaryasya samagrasya
:vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ
:jñāna-vairāgyayoś caiva
:ṣaṇṇām iti bhaga iṅganā
:(Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47)
<p>Clear. What is religion? Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam ([[Vanisource:SB 6.3.19|SB 6.3.19]]). This is the definition of God, and dharma means the order of God. Everything is standard. What is their standard conception? And if you have no standard conception, simply imaginary morality, imaginary controller, imaginary God, how it will help us?</p>
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