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	<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2></div>		<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2></div>
	<div id="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is"><h3>BG Chapters 7 - 12</h3></div>		<div id="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is"><h3>BG Chapters 7 - 12</h3></div>
	<div id="BG73_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="3" link="BG 7.3" link_text="BG 7.3">		<div id="BG73_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="3" link="BG 7.3" link_text="BG 7.3">
	<div class="heading">The so-called path of bhakti practiced by unauthorized persons without knowledge of bhakti may be easy, but when it is practiced factually according to the rules and regulations, the speculative scholars and philosophers fall away from the path.</div>		<div class="heading">The so-called path of bhakti practiced by unauthorized persons without knowledge of bhakti may be easy, but when it is practiced factually according to the rules and regulations, the speculative scholars and philosophers fall away from the path.</div>
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 7.3\|BG 7.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all causes, the primeval Lord Govinda. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ/ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam. It is very difficult for the nondevotees to know Him. Although nondevotees declare that the path of bhakti, or devotional service, is very easy, they cannot practice it. If the path of bhakti is so easy, as the nondevotee class of men proclaim, then why do they take up the difficult path? Actually the path of bhakti is not easy. The so-called path of bhakti practiced by unauthorized persons without knowledge of bhakti may be easy, but when it is practiced factually according to the rules and regulations, the speculative scholars and philosophers fall away from the path. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī writes in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.101):		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)\|BG 7.3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all causes, the primeval Lord Govinda. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ/ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam. It is very difficult for the nondevotees to know Him. Although nondevotees declare that the path of bhakti, or devotional service, is very easy, they cannot practice it. If the path of bhakti is so easy, as the nondevotee class of men proclaim, then why do they take up the difficult path? Actually the path of bhakti is not easy. The so-called path of bhakti practiced by unauthorized persons without knowledge of bhakti may be easy, but when it is practiced factually according to the rules and regulations, the speculative scholars and philosophers fall away from the path. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī writes in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.101):
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	:pañcarātra-vidhiṁ vinā		:pañcarātra-vidhiṁ vinā
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	<div id="BG911_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="69" link="BG 9.11" link_text="BG 9.11">		<div id="BG911_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="69" link="BG 9.11" link_text="BG 9.11">
	<div class="heading">"The Supreme is present in every living entity." We should better take note of this particular verse from the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas like Jīva Gosvāmī and Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura instead of following the interpretation of unauthorized persons who deride Kṛṣṇa.</div>		<div class="heading">"The Supreme is present in every living entity." We should better take note of this particular verse from the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas like Jīva Gosvāmī and Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura instead of following the interpretation of unauthorized persons who deride Kṛṣṇa.</div>
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.11\|BG 9.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">Some of those who deride Kṛṣṇa and who are infected with the Māyāvādī philosophy quote the following verse from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.29.21) to prove that Kṛṣṇa is just an ordinary man. Ahaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu bhūtātmāvasthitaḥ sadā: "The Supreme is present in every living entity." We should better take note of this particular verse from the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas like Jīva Gosvāmī and Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura instead of following the interpretation of unauthorized persons who deride Kṛṣṇa. Jīva Gosvāmī, commenting on this verse, says that Kṛṣṇa, in His plenary expansion as Paramātmā, is situated in the moving and the nonmoving entities as the Supersoul, so any neophyte devotee who simply gives his attention to the arcā-mūrti, the form of the Supreme Lord in the temple, and does not respect other living entities is uselessly worshiping the form of the Lord in the temple. There are three kinds of devotees of the Lord, and the neophyte is in the lowest stage. The neophyte devotee gives more attention to the Deity in the temple than to other devotees, so Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura warns that this sort of mentality should be corrected. A devotee should see that because Kṛṣṇa is present in everyone's heart as Paramātmā, every body is the embodiment or the temple of the Supreme Lord; so as one offers respect to the temple of the Lord, he should similarly properly respect each and every body in which the Paramātmā dwells. Everyone should therefore be given proper respect and should not be neglected.</div>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.11 (1972)\|BG 9.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text">Some of those who deride Kṛṣṇa and who are infected with the Māyāvādī philosophy quote the following verse from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.29.21) to prove that Kṛṣṇa is just an ordinary man. Ahaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu bhūtātmāvasthitaḥ sadā: "The Supreme is present in every living entity." We should better take note of this particular verse from the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas like Jīva Gosvāmī and Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura instead of following the interpretation of unauthorized persons who deride Kṛṣṇa. Jīva Gosvāmī, commenting on this verse, says that Kṛṣṇa, in His plenary expansion as Paramātmā, is situated in the moving and the nonmoving entities as the Supersoul, so any neophyte devotee who simply gives his attention to the arcā-mūrti, the form of the Supreme Lord in the temple, and does not respect other living entities is uselessly worshiping the form of the Lord in the temple. There are three kinds of devotees of the Lord, and the neophyte is in the lowest stage. The neophyte devotee gives more attention to the Deity in the temple than to other devotees, so Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura warns that this sort of mentality should be corrected. A devotee should see that because Kṛṣṇa is present in everyone's heart as Paramātmā, every body is the embodiment or the temple of the Supreme Lord; so as one offers respect to the temple of the Lord, he should similarly properly respect each and every body in which the Paramātmā dwells. Everyone should therefore be given proper respect and should not be neglected.</div>
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	<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2></div>		<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2></div>
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	<div id="LectureonBG85NewYorkOctober261966_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="288" link="Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966">		<div id="LectureonBG85NewYorkOctober261966_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="288" link="Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966">
	<div class="heading">God is not subjected to your imagination. But at the present moment, unauthorized person has degraded in such a way that "You can imagine any form. You can imagine even stool." They say like that.</div>		<div class="heading">God is not subjected to your imagination. But at the present moment, unauthorized person has degraded in such a way that "You can imagine any form. You can imagine even stool." They say like that.</div>
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966\|Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">So according to the description, these pictures are drawn. It is not imagination. So this form is factual. It is not imagination. The Māyāvāda philosophers, impersonalists, they answer the Bhagavad-gītā's word that kleśo 'dhikataras teṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām... ([[Vanisource:BG 12.5\|BG 12.5]]). One who is attached to impersonal views, their process of meditation or execution of spiritual activities is very troublesome. Now, therefore Māyāvāda philosopher, they say that "God has no form. But because you cannot meditate upon the formless, so you just imagine any form you like." So God is not subjected to your imagination. That is not God's form. If we imagine something... And that has been degraded. Śaṅkarācārya limited such imaginative forms to five only. Five. What is that five? Viṣṇu, Lord Śiva, and Sun, and Gaṇeśa, and Devī, Durgā. He limited, that "Any of these five forms you can meditate upon, you worship. And ultimately, it is formless." But at the present moment, unauthorized person has degraded in such a way that "You can imagine any form. You can imagine even stool." They say like that. You see.</div>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966\|Lecture on BG 8.5 -- New York, October 26, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">So according to the description, these pictures are drawn. It is not imagination. So this form is factual. It is not imagination. The Māyāvāda philosophers, impersonalists, they answer the Bhagavad-gītā's word that kleśo 'dhikataras teṣām avyaktāsakta-cetasām... ([[Vanisource:BG 12.5 (1972)\|BG 12.5]]). One who is attached to impersonal views, their process of meditation or execution of spiritual activities is very troublesome. Now, therefore Māyāvāda philosopher, they say that "God has no form. But because you cannot meditate upon the formless, so you just imagine any form you like." So God is not subjected to your imagination. That is not God's form. If we imagine something... And that has been degraded. Śaṅkarācārya limited such imaginative forms to five only. Five. What is that five? Viṣṇu, Lord Śiva, and Sun, and Gaṇeśa, and Devī, Durgā. He limited, that "Any of these five forms you can meditate upon, you worship. And ultimately, it is formless." But at the present moment, unauthorized person has degraded in such a way that "You can imagine any form. You can imagine even stool." They say like that. You see.</div>
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	<div id="LectureonBG1023NewYorkJanuary11967_3" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="329" link="Lecture on BG 10.2-3 -- New York, January 1, 1967" link_text="Lecture on BG 10.2-3 -- New York, January 1, 1967">		<div id="LectureonBG1023NewYorkJanuary11967_3" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="329" link="Lecture on BG 10.2-3 -- New York, January 1, 1967" link_text="Lecture on BG 10.2-3 -- New York, January 1, 1967">
	<div class="heading">Don't go to the unauthorized persons. This authority is handed over by disciplic succession.</div>		<div class="heading">Don't go to the unauthorized persons. This authority is handed over by disciplic succession.</div>
	<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 10.2-3 -- New York, January 1, 1967\|Lecture on BG 10.2-3 -- New York, January 1, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">Jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva and san-mukharitāṁ bhavadīya-vārtām. San-mukharitām means just try to hear about the glories of the Supreme Lord from the mouth of realized souls. Don't go to the unauthorized persons. Now, how you can know what is the difference between unauthorized and authorized? That you can know also. There is description. That, in Bhagavad-gītā you'll see, who is authorized, who is not authorized. The Lord says, evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2\|BG 4.2]]). This authority is handed over by disciplic succession.</div>		<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 10.2-3 -- New York, January 1, 1967\|Lecture on BG 10.2-3 -- New York, January 1, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text">Jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva and san-mukharitāṁ bhavadīya-vārtām. San-mukharitām means just try to hear about the glories of the Supreme Lord from the mouth of realized souls. Don't go to the unauthorized persons. Now, how you can know what is the difference between unauthorized and authorized? That you can know also. There is description. That, in Bhagavad-gītā you'll see, who is authorized, who is not authorized. The Lord says, evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)\|BG 4.2]]). This authority is handed over by disciplic succession.</div>
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	<div id="LectureonBG1322HyderabadAugust171976_4" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="370" link="Lecture on BG 1322 -- Hyderabad, August 17, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 1322 -- Hyderabad, August 17, 1976">		<div id="LectureonBG1322HyderabadAugust171976_4" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="370" link="Lecture on BG 1322 -- Hyderabad, August 17, 1976" link_text="Lecture on BG 1322 -- Hyderabad, August 17, 1976">

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Labangalatika at 16:25, 1 July 2009