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Theme Analysis
The science of God is not a cheap or easy topic; it is described by Śrīla Prabhupāda as a "very difficult subject matter." From the intricacies of Sanskrit grammar and dharma-śāstra to the confidential reality of Kṛṣṇa's pastimes with the gopīs, these subjects remain inaccessible to those relying solely on mundane scholarship or blunt material senses. The Absolute Truth cannot be approached through mental speculation because philosophers naturally disagree with one another (nāsāv ṛṣir yasya mataṁ na bhinnam). However, Śrīla Prabhupāda offers a profound solution: while the subject is difficult for the materialist, it becomes easy for the devotee through the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Just as Devahūti understood the complex philosophy of Kapiladeva by grace, the sincere student of Kṛṣṇa consciousness can grasp the unfathomable reality of the spiritual world by hearing from the disciplic succession.
- The Inherent Difficulty: Topics like death, the soul, and Kṛṣṇa's internal potency are not accessible to ordinary intelligence or those absorbed in eating, sleeping, and mating.
- The Barrier of the Senses: Materialists and meat-eaters possess "blunt senses" which make understanding the subtle science of God impossible.
- The Mercy Factor: What is difficult for the yogī and jñānī becomes easy for the devotee through the grace of Lord Caitanya and the paramparā.
- Sincerity is Key: The only true qualification required to understand this difficult subject is sincerity and submissive hearing.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Approaching the Absolute - A Very Difficult Subject Matter.
Pages in category "Very Difficult Subject Matter"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- Because we are trying to understand Krsna through Caitanya Mahaprabhu, therefore it has become easy. Otherwise it is very difficult subject
- By the grace of Kapiladeva it was quite possible for Devahuti to understand the Absolute Truth, even though the subject matter is very difficult for ordinary persons, especially women
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- If we take the philosophers, so one philosopher differs from another philosopher. Na casav rsir yasya matam na bhinnam. Therefore, to approach the Absolute Truth, God, is very difficult subject matter
- In the Vedic civilization there are twenty big, big books, dharma-sastra, for regulating life. Very difficult subject matter, dharma-sastra. So Suta Gosvami was offered the seat of vyasasana because he was aware of these things
- It is very difficult subject matter (how to stop accepting bodies), of course, to understand, but Bhagavad-gita teaches, yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati - BG 4.7
- It is very difficult subject matter, but it is made easy because . . . Devahuti says, sukham buddhyeya: "Very easily I can understand, because I am woman." Krsna is open to everyone: striyo vaisyas tatha sudrah - BG 9.32
- It may be possible by the mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu to understand Krsna consciousness. Otherwise it is a very difficult subject matter
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- That (death) is the real problem. But because it is very difficult subject matter, nobody touches it. "Oh, death - we shall peacefully die." But nobody peacefully dies
- That is meditation: "Where I am? What I am?" So you cannot search out by your material . . . that . . . therefore all these universities, they are setting aside - very difficult subject
- The pleasure potency of Krsna's internal energy is a most difficult subject matter, and unless one understands what Krsna is, he cannot understand it
- The pleasure potency of Krsna's internal energy is a most difficult subject matter, and unless one understands what Krsna is, one cannot understand it - CC Intro
- The process is first of all you try to understand Krsna. Without understanding Krsna, which is very difficult subject matter . . . Krsna says that yatatam api siddhanam kascid vetti mam tattvatah - BG 7.3
- The transcendental bodily expansions manifested by the Lord for His pastimes in the mortal world, and the appearance and disappearance of such transcendental expansions, are difficult subject matters
- The transcendental forms and pastimes of the Lord, as described in Bhagavad-gita, are difficult subject matters for those who are not devotees to understand. The Lord never reveals Himself to persons like the jnanis and yogis
- The vrndavana-lila, Krsna's lila with the gopis, is the most confidential lila. We should not entertain this confidential lila unless we are liberated. It is very difficult subject
- These Krsna consciousness movement, the Westerners, they are understanding Krsna. It is very, very difficult subject matter
- This is a very difficult subject matter, and unless one has personal understanding of the Absolute Truth, there is no meaning to devotion
- Those who are little above bodily concept of life, they find pleasure in mind. And farther, they find pleasure in intellectualism. Those who are meat-eaters, they are very dull. They cannot understand. For them the subject matter is very, very difficult
- To understand Krsna is very difficult subject matter. But by the grace of Lord Caitanya we can understand little about Krsna
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- We are satisfied with some temporary knowledge. We have no ultimate knowledge. And because it is very difficult subject matter, we have avoided it very carefully
- We have got many senses, sense organs, but devotional service begins from the tongue, jihva, jihvadau, by chanting. It is very difficult subject matter, but it is made easy
- When a man dies, something is lost. Where is the technology to replace it? Why don't scientists try to solve this problem? Because this is a very difficult subject matter, they set it aside and busily engage in the technology of eating, sleeping & mating
- When we were walking, the question was raised that, "Why war takes place?" That is not a very difficult subject to understand, because every one of us has got a fighting spirit
- Whoever wants to understand the difficult subject matter of krsna-katha should accept the disciplic succession
- With all these blunt senses, how can we... We cannot understand even the Personality of Godhead, what to speak of other things? "God is a person:" - it is a very difficult subject matter for ordinary man to take it