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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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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="LectureonBG45MontrealJune101968_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="140" link="Lecture on BG 4.5 -- Montreal, June 10, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.5 -- Montreal, June 10, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.5 -- Montreal, June 10, 1968|Lecture on BG 4.5 -- Montreal, June 10, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Everything in the material world, they're made of five elements: ether, air, and fire, water, and earth. So in somewhere the earth is predominant, somewhere the air is predominant, somewhere the fire is predominant. So there are innumerable planets, and the sun is one of them. So this is also material object. If it is possible for the material object to disappear and appear within our limited senses, what to speak of God and His devotees. So God does not mean that because He is not visible to our imperfect senses, therefore God has no existence. This is foolishness. God is existent. But one who has got eyes to see...</p>
<p>What is that eye? Just like a small child. If I say to the small child, so "Sun is there in the sky, and the child will say, "Show me where is the sun." And if somebody says, "Yes, come on, I shall show you sun. Come on the roof. I have got a torch-light." As it is not possible to show the sun at night, although the child is insisting, similarly, the so-called scientists who are claiming that there is no God, they're just like the child.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG413BombayApril21974_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="168" link="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- Bombay, April 2, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.13 -- Bombay, April 2, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.13 -- Bombay, April 2, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.13 -- Bombay, April 2, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭam ([[Vanisource:BG 4.13 (1972)|BG 4.13]]). Kṛṣṇa says, "These four varṇas are created by Me." So anything created by God, that is not monopoly for any class of men or for any country. Just like the sun is created by God. The sun is the thing which is enjoyed by all parts of the world. But there are countries, Western countries, where sun is not visible, covered by the cloud. Any country, any part of the world which is covered by cloud and the sun is not visible, according to śāstra, such country is condemned. Because, although the sunshine is there, but certain condition, they cannot enjoy the sunshine.</p>
<p>Therefore from the Western countries, when people come to this country, especially in India, when they see from the Arabian Sea bright sunshine, they very much become astonished, "How nice sunshine is here." So sunshine is the property for everyone, but according to intelligence or according to fortune, they enjoy it.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG71LondonMarch91975_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="242" link="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- London, March 9, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- London, March 9, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 7.1 -- London, March 9, 1975|Lecture on BG 7.1 -- London, March 9, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So either you touch the powerhouse or an wire, insig..., who is empowered by the powerhouse, you touch, you get the electricity. This is called paramparā system. Mad-āśrayaḥ. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]]), yogo naṣṭaḥ paran... These are all explained. So mad-āśrayaḥ. As soon as we... Because Kṛṣṇa is not visible at the present moment. He is visible, but we cannot see. So we take āśrayaḥ, shelter of His devotee. Therefore Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī gives his formula how to become attached to Kṛṣṇa. First he says, ādau śraddhā. First of all, faith, the beginning. Just like you have come very kindly to this temple with some faith that "Here is the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Let us go there and see what they are doing," out of inquisitiveness or something. So this is little faith. Now you have to increase this faith. This is required. Ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgaḥ (Cc. Madhya 23.14-15). How you can increase the faith? Those who are actually engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, in devotional service, associate with them. Don't think that at home you will be perfect.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG71MelbourneJune291974New2003_3" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="244" link="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Melbourne, June 29, 1974 (New-2003)" link_text="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Melbourne, June 29, 1974 ">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Melbourne, June 29, 1974 (New-2003)|Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Melbourne, June 29, 1974 ]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So, samagram, one has to understand actually what is Kṛṣṇa in complete. If you want to that, know that, then this is the process, mayi, mayi āsakta-manaḥ, mayy āsakta-manaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.1 (1972)|BG 7.1]]), the mind has to be engaged in Kṛṣṇa, first thing is. Mind. Therefore, Kṛṣṇa manifests Himself in this Deity form. The Deity is Kṛṣṇa Himself. But we cannot concentrate Kṛṣṇa which is not visible. Kṛṣṇa is not visible to the ordinary eyes. Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.136|CC Madhya 17.136]]). God is not perceptible with our, this material eyes, our material senses. ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na, even material ears. You are chanting. If you are not spiritually advanced, this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra also will not appeal. It will be happening mechanically. But by chanting you will gradually advance, ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam, then you will understand that this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is not different from Kṛṣṇa. The mantra, the sound vibration, is also Kṛṣṇa. So, we have to, I mean to say, repose our mind to the form of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says mayi, "Unto Me, ṛṣṇa." We cannot see now Kṛṣṇa personally. Personally He is here, but we want to see anything physically.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1315BombayOctober91973_4" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="363" link="Lecture on BG 13.15 -- Bombay, October 9, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.15 -- Bombay, October 9, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.15 -- Bombay, October 9, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.15 -- Bombay, October 9, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you actually can understand Kṛṣṇa through devotional service... Not by challenging, not by mental speculation, not by meditation, not by fruitive activities, no. If you actually become a devotee and develop the consciousness of love for Kṛṣṇa, then God will be appreciated, God will be seen. Nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā ([[Vanisource:BG 7.25 (1972)|BG 7.25]]). Otherwise He'll not be visible. He's not exposed to the nondevotees.</p>
<p>He's simply exposed, He can reveal Himself, sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ (Brs. 1.2.234), when one engages himself in the devotional service beginning with the tongue. The devotional service begins with the tongue. Now, it is also another astonishment. Service with the tongue. Yes. Service with the tongue means if you chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, that requires tongue. And if you simply take kṛṣṇa-prasāda, that requires tongue. With these two business of the tongue you can realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and take kṛṣṇa-prasāda, and gradually you'll understand what is God.</p>
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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="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1968 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1968 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="InterviewwithLATimesReporterAboutMoonTripDecember261968LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="25" link="Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles" link_text="Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles|Interview with LA Times Reporter About Moon Trip -- December 26, 1968, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: You say they may not be visible to us, though.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Hayagrīva: To these material eyes they are not visible.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. So many things are not visible to our eyes.</p>
<p>Reporter: And when you speak of the analogies of one, say, a foreigner coming to another country and wanting to do whatever he wants to do there and being rejected or opposed by the inhabitants of that country, do you say only by analogy that there might be opposition to earth people?</p>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkMay121973LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="26" link="Morning Walk -- May 12, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- May 12, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 12, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- May 12, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: But they are claiming that there is no life. That is their defect. Therefore they cannot think how there can be human being. But if you begin from life, supreme life, Viṣṇu, from another life, Brahmā came, then there is no problem. Everything is all right. Because they think that life comes from matter, so millions and millions of years ago there was simply matter. Life was not visible. That is their theory. We don't say that. We say both are the energies, God's energies, life and matter. The life is superior energy; the matter is inferior energy. That is the difference. Both of them are existing. Same thing, example: This nail and this part existing always. This is superior part, this is inferior.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: They are existing simultaneously or living entity creates.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Without nails how can I exist? Without skin, how can I exist? My existence means everything—my skin, my hair, my nails, my legs, my hands, everything.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMay141973LosAngeles_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="28" link="Morning Walk -- May 14, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- May 14, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 14, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- May 14, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: They accept one energy. We accept also that. But they, defect is they are beginning from the material. That is their method. Just like this weather is beginning from the light and gradually it is becoming dark. So darkest part or the dark part is called material. But the dark is beginning from light, not the light is beginning from dark. That is their method. They are thinking that from matter, consciousness is coming. Now consciousness is there. When it is covered, degraded, that is unconsciousness. So material means when the consciousness is forgetful of Kṛṣṇa. That is material. Material means gradual development of forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa. That is material. And spiritual means full consciousness of Kṛṣṇa. Is it clear? Try to understand this. Darkness is coming from light. Where the light is not visible that is called darkness. This is not the nature of the sun, this covering, cloudy nature. That is not the... The nature of sun is light, but by the energy of the sun another thing is temporary created which is called mist or darkness.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember41973LosAngeles_2" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="89" link="Morning Walk -- December 4, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 4, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 4, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 4, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, it's inconceivable by them, not by us. Therefore we call them fools. It is not inconceivable by us. But so you know the Truth from the Truth, Absolute Truth. A layman or a foolish boy does not know where..., which side the sun will rise. His father can say, "This side it will rise." That is the difference. Because he knows how to suggest which side, because there is reddish, how do you say? Illumination. He knows that "This side it will rise," by the symptom. Both of them, the foolish man and the intelligent man, just at present do not see that where is the sun. But the intelligent man knows "Here is the sun," although the sun is not visible both to the intelligent and foolish man. That intelligence means he knows how to find out where is sun. That is intelligence. And this is not discovery. I am intelligent speaking "This side is sun." It is not my discovery. I have heard from authority that from the eastern direction the sun rises, so I know it.</p>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkatVillaBorgheseMay261974Rome_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="86" link="Morning Walk at Villa Borghese -- May 26, 1974, Rome" link_text="Morning Walk at Villa Borghese -- May 26, 1974, Rome">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk at Villa Borghese -- May 26, 1974, Rome|Morning Walk at Villa Borghese -- May 26, 1974, Rome]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...in right position. All wonderful buildings, there is no doubt. Such huge buildings in any other parts of the world is not visible. Just the thickness of the building.</p>
<p>Bhagavān: They kept many slaves the Romans. They had many slaves.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Slaves? This word is used in Vedic language also, slave. The Africans, they were meant for becoming slaves.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Śrīla Prabhupāda, can we take a picture here please?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 2.4.18|SB 2.4.18]]). So the Kirātas, they were always slaves of the Āryans. The Āryan people used to keep slaves, but they were treating slaves very nicely. Later on it degraded. Otherwise, slaves were kept just like family members.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune81974Geneva_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="102" link="Morning Walk -- June 8, 1974, Geneva" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 8, 1974, Geneva">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 8, 1974, Geneva|Morning Walk -- June 8, 1974, Geneva]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: I was taught in religion that God... That is His nature, not that I can't see Him, but He is a person. But that I can't see Him because He's invisible spirit.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Invisible. That means you have no eyes to see. Even if He is spirit. That's all right. But invisible means you have no capacity to see. That is the meaning of invisible. That I cannot see. So you're disqualified, that does not mean He's dis... not visible. He's visible but not to you because you have no eyes to see Him. That we also say. Therefore we have to prepare the eyes to see. That is religion. I cannot see at the present moment that does not mean I shall stop (indistinct). I must prepare myself how to see. That is real intelligence.</p>
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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 id="MorningWalkFebruary61976Mayapura_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="26" link="Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura" link_text="Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Dhāma. Therefore it is called dhāma. Dhāma means not material world. Goloka-dhāma, Vṛndāvana-dhāma. So dhāma is not material world. (aside:) Not to go away. (break) ...visible with these eyes, similarly, dhāma also is not visible with these eyes. Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti (Bs. 5.38). That is dhāma. Premāñjana.</p>
<p>Jagadīśa: (break) In Toronto, Śrīla Prabhupāda... When we purchased the new church in Toronto we sold all the church pews. And Billy Graham... Do you know who Billy Graham is? He's an Evangelist preacher in the United States. He sometimes went to that church to preach. So when we sold the pews we would tell people that "Billy Graham sat in this pew," and they would become excited to purchase.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So it was sold in good price?</p>
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<div id="GardenConversationJune81976LosAngeles_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="116" link="Garden Conversation -- June 8, 1976, Los Angeles" link_text="Garden Conversation -- June 8, 1976, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- June 8, 1976, Los Angeles|Garden Conversation -- June 8, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: This is visible. Your child, a baby, is on the lap, and after one year, he has got a different body. The old, the old body, on the lap, is finished. Now he is walking. It is another body. Why it is not visible?</p>
<p>Rāmeśvara: They say all matter goes through the stage of development and destruction.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. First of all, this is to be answered, that this child, when he was born he was very small, lying on the lap of the mother. Now he's jumping. Now that body which was lying on the lap of the mother is no more existing. He has got another body which is jumping. But the mother knows that "It is my same child." Therefore the same soul is there; the body has changed.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJune281976NewVrindaban_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="171" link="Room Conversation -- June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Room Conversation -- June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban|Room Conversation -- June 28, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rādhāvallabha: Okay. So they are on the land. And then there is one more picture. When the goddess of fortune took birth from the milk ocean, they installed her on the throne, and the personified rivers came and personified clouds. So this would be Lord Brahmā, this would be the personified rivers and different personalities. So the ocean actually is not visible, just the actual installation area.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's nice. So?</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: That's all that they want to know. Thank you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. When everything do with devotion, it will come out correct.</p>
<p>Rādhāvallabha: Jaya.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We have got our testing tubes in Bhagavad-gītā. Who was speaking that "If God is talking, what is use of spiritual master," yesterday?</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationWithScientistsJuly61976WashingtonDC_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="188" link="Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Room Conversation With Scientists -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Not visible.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: Oh, it's not manifest</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, not manifest.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: So earth is in a nonmanifest state in the water, and when you analyze water sometimes you can analyze and produce little particles of earth. Is that right?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hmm. Everything is there. Not prominent, that's all.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: So the main characteristic then is the water that is prominent.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like the skin, you cannot find water, but there is water.</p>
<p>Rūpānuga: So earth is prominent.</p>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="EveningConversationJanuary251977Puri_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="54" link="Evening Conversation -- January 25, 1977, Puri" link_text="Evening Conversation -- January 25, 1977, Puri">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Conversation -- January 25, 1977, Puri|Evening Conversation -- January 25, 1977, Puri]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: This is the real answer. They want to see.</p>
<p>Nanda-kumāra: Would you like this pillow, Śrīla Prabhupāda, behind your back?</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: It is very weak argument to say, "Something doesn't exist because I don't see it."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is childish.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: But they can say, "Neither is it a proof that it does exist."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How you can prove? You can hear only. There are many things which is beyond your sense perception. The example which I often give, that "Who is your father?" What is proof? The proof is the hearing from mother. That's all. You cannot have any other proof.</p>
<p>Satsvarūpa: "Although celestial beings are not visible to the naked eyes of the inhabitants of this earth, it was due to the influence of Mahārāja Parīkṣit that the demigods also agreed to be visible. The kings used to spend lavishly during such sacrifices as the cloud distributes rains.</p>
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<div id="ConversationwithSvarupaDamodaraJune211977Vrndavana_1" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="192" link="Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- June 21, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- June 21, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- June 21, 1977, Vrndavana|Conversation with Svarupa Damodara -- June 21, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No, life is not visible to him. He is simply saying, the combination of the modes of nature visible.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: There's a very interesting remark by one of the Nobel Prize-winning chemists. His name is St. Georgi(?). He got Nobel Prize for discovering Vitamin C. And he said he was looking for life for last twenty years or so, but, he said, he wound up with the electrons and protons, which don't have any life. He said, somehow life has escaped through his fingers.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (laughs) Yes.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yeah, he says that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That life has escaped and life is required.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes, that means they couldn't find life.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (Bengali) Life comes from life, and the supreme life, Supreme Being, is God. That is Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMadhusudanaMontreal29July1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="250" link="Letter to Madhusudana -- Montreal 29 July, 1968" link_text="Letter to Madhusudana -- Montreal 29 July, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhusudana -- Montreal 29 July, 1968|Letter to Madhusudana -- Montreal 29 July, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Out of these 16 expansions, Subhadra is one. The mahamaya of the material energy is also expansion of the energy of yogamaya; and both yogamaya and mahamaya are equally important to Krishna as much as any government department is equally important for functioning of the government. The police department may be horrible for the criminals, but to the government it is a department as good as university department. Similarly, mahamaya is horrible to the conditioned soul, but to the liberated soul, there is no fear of mahamaya, because he is protected by yogamaya. It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita when Krishna said the following: "I am not visible to everyone on account of being curtained by yogamaya." So when a conditioned soul surrenders unto Krishna, the yogamaya winds up the curtain and Krishna is visible to the devotee.</p>
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<div id="LettertoRayaramaSeattle17October1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="378" link="Letter to Rayarama -- Seattle 17 October, 1968" link_text="Letter to Rayarama -- Seattle 17 October, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Rayarama -- Seattle 17 October, 1968|Letter to Rayarama -- Seattle 17 October, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Next point, therefore, one who spoils food grains unnecessarily, he is criminal. And one who accumulates more money than is actually required, he is also criminal. And according to the law of nature, or according to the law of God, such persons are surely to be punished.</p>
<p>This punishment may not be visible in this life, but because life is eternal, it is continuity, one must be prepared to accept such punishment in this life or next life, and because they are taking the risk, therefore, the living entity is transmigrating from one body to another, and that is his problem of life. The human life is meant for solving this problem. All animals like deer, camel, ass, monkey, even flies and snakes, none should be ill treated. Even they enter into the house or in the fields and take their eatables, they should not be stopped. Because they have also got the right to eat, eatables supplied by the Lord.</p>
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<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoCitsukhanandaLosAngeles28April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="273" link="Letter to Citsukhananda -- Los Angeles 28 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Citsukhananda -- Los Angeles 28 April, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Citsukhananda -- Los Angeles 28 April, 1970|Letter to Citsukhananda -- Los Angeles 28 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Regarding your second question, in reference to Isopanisad mantra 15, should a devotee ask the Lord to reveal Himself the answer is yes. Unless the Lord reveals Himself, the devotee cannot see Him, He reserves the right of being exposed or not being exposed. The yoga maya curtain is always covering the Lord, and in the Bhagavad-gita the Lord says, "I am not visible to everyone." Even in the material world, a man in the position of Presidentship is not visible to everyone. So one has to qualify himself by devotional service, then God will reveal Himself. So this Isopanisad mantra is an appeal by the devotee to move the veil of yoga maya or the glaring effulgence of Brahma so that the devotee can see Him face to face. The idea is one has to transcend the material conditions as well as the Brahma effulgence, then one can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Here the word "face" means the Absolute Truth is a Person. That is the most important point, that God is ultimately a Person.</p>
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<div id="LettertoSyamasundaraLosAngeles14May1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="306" link="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 14 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 14 May, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 14 May, 1970|Letter to Syamasundara -- Los Angeles 14 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually Krsna's planet and Krsna's pastimes are going on eternally, and the same is manifested before the conditioned souls at certain intervals, that is to say once in one day of Brahma, exactly as the sun is visible for 12 hours once in a 24 hour cycle of day and night. When the sun is visible it is called prakata, and when the sun is not visible that is called aprakata or unmanifested. Nonmanifested therefore does not mean there is no existence, but the terms are used in relation to the visibility or nonvisibility to the limited conditioned souls.</p>
<p>Krsna by His causeless mercy manifests Himself along with His form, name, qualities, entourage, and pastimes in order to attract the conditioned souls to the eternal blissful life of knowledge.</p>
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<div id="1976_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Correspondence" text="1976 Correspondence"><h3>1976 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMembersofthefamilyofHirjibhaiGelabhaiBabaMayapur9February1976_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Correspondence" book="Let" index="118" link="Letter to Members of the family of Hirjibhai Gelabhai Baba -- Mayapur 9 February, 1976" link_text="Letter to Members of the family of Hirjibhai Gelabhai Baba -- Mayapur 9 February, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Members of the family of Hirjibhai Gelabhai Baba -- Mayapur 9 February, 1976|Letter to Members of the family of Hirjibhai Gelabhai Baba -- Mayapur 9 February, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am very sorry to learn that His Holiness Hirji Baba has recently disappeared from this material world. Last time when I was in Nairobi, I had some talks with him when we were preparing to take lunch at the house of Damji Devji. That was our last talk. So it is a great shock that he is not visible to our eyes. But as we know, the living being does not die. It is said about the saintly persons: moro va jivo va which means that the saintly person devoted to the lotus feet of the Lord is always glorious, either physically present or not present. So I wish that the devotees who took shelter of this saintly person continue to progress in spiritual life. May Krishna bless all of you in spiritual life.</p>
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