tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72019169765743020082024-03-28T14:51:15.487+01:00Srila Prabhupada - Vedic TeachingsDo not be left without universal knowledge and light in this darkening age of quarrel and hypocrisy to achieve your true ultimate goal.Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-23408588628223663542024-03-28T07:43:00.003+01:002024-03-28T07:52:36.392+01:00They thought they were killing Jesus Christ<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxfI-50mvZA3-9h8ICDTof67zg6LwqREGYAc-SAJvqRQpe3e2ZS37ggNjXCb6gdWOkKxQnQGlMLyYsFS5TaWMI9PVHfumobTbUm-xrVq-QOtGdvdkRL1G-jBtjPIHr8SSrtfEGjV3izcIvm51nEsUNqeO6KM5J7YiCvf_rb-G5tJEmhzPDtFcrUBzrCQxA/s1324/092_1974_01-63-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1324" data-original-width="992" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxfI-50mvZA3-9h8ICDTof67zg6LwqREGYAc-SAJvqRQpe3e2ZS37ggNjXCb6gdWOkKxQnQGlMLyYsFS5TaWMI9PVHfumobTbUm-xrVq-QOtGdvdkRL1G-jBtjPIHr8SSrtfEGjV3izcIvm51nEsUNqeO6KM5J7YiCvf_rb-G5tJEmhzPDtFcrUBzrCQxA/w300-h400/092_1974_01-63-5.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>"Devotee: </b>Prabhupāda? Does Lord Jesus Christ appear in the spiritual sky
with the body he manifested on the earth?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 150%;"><b>Prabhupāda</b>: Yes. Otherwise how there can be
resurrection? Ordinary body cannot be resurrected. He appeared in his spiritual
body, certainly. Jesus Christ told, if I remember, that "Lord, excuse
these persons," who were crucifying him. Is it not? He knew that
"These rascals, they are killing me, but... They are offending certainly.
So they do not know that I cannot be killed, but they are thinking that they
are killing." You see? But that was offensive, therefore he begged Lord to
be excused because God cannot excuse to the offenders of the devotee. </span><span style="line-height: 150%;">He can excuse one who is offender to
God, but if somebody is offender to the devotee, God never excuses. Therefore
he prayed for them. That is devotee's qualification. He prays for everyone,
even of his enemy. And he could not be killed. That he knew. But those rascals,
they thought they were killing Jesus Christ."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Lecture on BG 4.1-6 -- Los Angeles, January 3, 1969)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-22747917311351482652024-03-20T13:45:00.007+01:002024-03-20T13:51:45.425+01:00Ideologies: material and transcendental conceptions <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBMQbxylCrVESRmHwAHILv76sWLoredSfaEkb7Mw9e4knzCoI4PCU8dslPM_a96-bW4IBmr27tInw0w3DBeme_7d7g6P0LcHvjmftCU1KQZjfe9zE15UmrH975obzkF3hQOKj9VkVJwWFdA6FM8XF6ztxI6eSZp1NnwC-6FuUgP88MwPXyQopJ6BHY8qnb/s278/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="278" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBMQbxylCrVESRmHwAHILv76sWLoredSfaEkb7Mw9e4knzCoI4PCU8dslPM_a96-bW4IBmr27tInw0w3DBeme_7d7g6P0LcHvjmftCU1KQZjfe9zE15UmrH975obzkF3hQOKj9VkVJwWFdA6FM8XF6ztxI6eSZp1NnwC-6FuUgP88MwPXyQopJ6BHY8qnb/w400-h260/images.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 150%;">"The conception of one world state can only be
fulfilled if we can follow the infallible authority. An imperfect human being
cannot create an ideology acceptable to everyone. Only the perfect and the
infallible can create a program which is applicable at every place and can be
followed by all in the world. It is the person who rules, and not the
impersonal government. If the person is perfect, the government is perfect. If
the person is a fool, the government is a fool's paradise. That is the law of
nature. There are so many stories of imperfect kings or executive heads."</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> (<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">SB 1.10.3, Purport)</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 150%;">"Now so far as ideology of religion is
concerned: Religion means to abide by the orders of God, that's all. God is
great, we are his sons, he is supplying all our necessities these are the right
understandings. Why should there be any difference in religious practices. If
you come to God consciousness then we can understand the birds the beasts the
plants everyone is son of God, we have no right to kill. But the so called man
made religious systems say the animals are our food and another religion says, "No,
no, there should be no animal killing," this difference in practice of
religious systems is due to want of God consciousness. If we actually come to
the point of God consciousness then all these differences will be perfectly
resolved, but unless there is actual God consciousness you will not be able to
change the Ideologies. I have asked many Christian Gentle men "Why are you
killing when in the Bible it is clearly said, Thou shalt not kill?" they
cannot give me any satisfactory reply. In a round about way they try to avoid
this question. So all these are due to a lack of God consciousness."</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"> (<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Letter to Sir Alistair Hardy --
Bhaktivedanta Manor 28 July, 1973)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">"Unfortunately the communists do not know how to solve the problem of wealth and its distribution. Consequently when the wealth of the capitalists falls into the hands of the communists, no solution results. Opposed to these two philosophies, the Kṛṣṇa conscious ideology states that all wealth belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Thus unless all wealth comes under the administration of Kṛṣṇa, there can be no solution to the economic problem of mankind. Nothing can be solved by placing wealth in the hands of the communists or the capitalists." (</span></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222;">Nectar of Instruction 2, Purport)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">"Everything belongs to God; nothing belongs to
us. This is Bhāgavata communism. As the communists, they say, "Everything
belongs to the state," we say "Everything belongs to God." We
never say that anything belongs to anyone. No. This is Bhāgavata communism. So
everything belongs to God. So one can utilize God's property as much as he requires,
not more than that. Then he will be thief, he will be punishable. Just like
father's property. Each and every son has got the right to live at the father's
protection. Mā gṛdhaḥ kasya svid dhanam. That is spiritual communism. Whatever
wealth is there within this universe, all belong to God, and we are, as sons of
God, we have got right to take advantage of this wealth, but not more than what
I require. That's all. This is spiritual communism. If you take more, then you
become punishable. This is the law of nature." (Lecture on BG 1.15 -- London,
July 15, 1973)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-83596981432125499552024-03-13T12:38:00.005+01:002024-03-13T12:38:32.778+01:00The spiritual sky is beyond the material sky<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQDCAAgs1zx5VivVA_dt_Q3xkxFeqshyKe2L5mPRPrInzSEQ2qit3DZRt4XrRwqoFr2ZNW-llsOkOAwLRH04ozkozIb10751GIlxafxqD3711ZsFOc4nzA_XAG231ZBJOoay8D8jk2nV5_1_0d4-m3Z2KFqKnIsiDDhXC9Sia83hlbiWNRFIj7oY2K4js4/s480/hqdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQDCAAgs1zx5VivVA_dt_Q3xkxFeqshyKe2L5mPRPrInzSEQ2qit3DZRt4XrRwqoFr2ZNW-llsOkOAwLRH04ozkozIb10751GIlxafxqD3711ZsFOc4nzA_XAG231ZBJOoay8D8jk2nV5_1_0d4-m3Z2KFqKnIsiDDhXC9Sia83hlbiWNRFIj7oY2K4js4/w400-h300/hqdefault.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">„One mustard seed is calculated to be a
universe itself. In one of the universes, in which we are now living, the
number of planets cannot be counted by human energy, and so how can we think of
the sum total in all the universes, which are compared to a bucketful of
mustard seeds? And the planets in the spiritual sky are at least three times
the number of those in the material sky. Such planets, being spiritual, are in
fact transcendental to the material modes; therefore they are constituted in
the mode of unalloyed goodness only. The conception of spiritual bliss
(brahmānanda) is fully present in those planets. Each of them is eternal,
indestructible and free from all kinds of inebrieties experienced in the
material world. Each of them is self-illuminating and more powerfully dazzling
than (if we can imagine) the total sunshine of millions of mundane suns. The
inhabitants of those planets are liberated from birth, death, old age and
diseases and have full knowledge of everything; they are all godly and free
from all sorts of material hankerings.” (SB 2.6.18, Purport)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">„Not even all of the material world is
manifested before us. Our senses are so imperfect that we cannot even see all
of the stars within this material universe. In Vedic literature we can receive
much information about all the planets, and we can believe it or not believe
it. All of the important planets are described in Vedic literatures, especially
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and the spiritual world, which is beyond this material sky, is
described as avyakta, unmanifested. One should desire and hanker after that
supreme kingdom, for when one attains that kingdom, he does not have to return
to this material world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">Next, one may raise the question of how one
goes about approaching that abode of the Supreme Lord. Information of this is
given in the Eighth Chapter. It is said there:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">anta-kāle
ca mām eva smaran muktvā kalevaram<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">yaḥ prayāti
sa mad-bhāvam yāti nāsty atra saṁśayaḥ</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">"Anyone who quits his body, at the end of
life, remembering Me, attains immediately to My nature; and there is no doubt
of this." (BG. 8.5) One who thinks of Kṛṣṇa at the time of his death goes
to Kṛṣṇa. One must remember the form of Kṛṣṇa; if he quits his body thinking of
this form, he approaches the spiritual kingdom. Mad-bhāvaṁ refers to the
supreme nature of the Supreme Being. The Supreme Being is
sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha - eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. Our present body
is not sac-cid-ānanda. It is asat, not sat. It is not eternal; it is
perishable. It is not cit, full of knowledge, but it is full of ignorance. We
have no knowledge of the spiritual kingdom, nor do we even have perfect
knowledge of this material world where there are so many things unknown to us.
The body is also nirānanda; instead of being full of bliss it is full of
misery. All of the miseries we experience in the material world arise from the
body, but one who leaves this body thinking of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead at once attains a sac-cid-ānanda body, as is promised in this fifth
verse of the Eighth Chapter where Lord Kṛṣṇa says, "He attains My
nature."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>„<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">(BG Introduction)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-59007889887032093782024-03-11T08:04:00.001+01:002024-03-11T08:05:38.169+01:00You can develop a spiritual body<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP4C640VNHcjEJrxIUDkS0qwnP2c2lkGFBIAteiF3S24jY-GLf4Ml-oGkLd-xN0PLCPeCcsSFYHIMaidUDFDBQAzszvTkwQJWozuFPwiDSmE6P8GwPDBCmyhnCkzIMUJOAa1LEWYCUr1X3DKm-DBKGdVHPxd-4YTr-q9S4e8c4f30qGnax2JfM9FVQVMe_/s877/691.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="786" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP4C640VNHcjEJrxIUDkS0qwnP2c2lkGFBIAteiF3S24jY-GLf4Ml-oGkLd-xN0PLCPeCcsSFYHIMaidUDFDBQAzszvTkwQJWozuFPwiDSmE6P8GwPDBCmyhnCkzIMUJOAa1LEWYCUr1X3DKm-DBKGdVHPxd-4YTr-q9S4e8c4f30qGnax2JfM9FVQVMe_/w359-h400/691.jpg" width="359" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Devotee:</span></b><span style="color: black;">
Prabhupāda? You said that spirit soul is one ten-thousandth the tip of a hair.
In the spiritual sky, is the spirit soul still just that big?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Prabhupāda:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> That is
his constitutional position. Either in the spiritual sky or material sky, he's
the same. But as you develop in the material world a material body, similarly
in the spiritual world you can develop a spiritual body. You follow? Your
position is that small particle, but spirit can expand. This expansion in the
material world is being done in contact with matter. And in the spiritual
world, that expansion can be done in spirit. Here in the material world I am
spirit soul. I am different from this body because this body is matter and I am
living. I am living force, but this material body is not living force. And in
the spiritual world there is everything living force. There is no dead matter.
Therefore the body is also spiritual. Just like water with water, water, that's
all. But water and oil—distinction. Similarly, I am spirit soul, I am the oil.
So I am in the water, so there is distinction. But if I am put into the oil,
then everything's all right. So the impersonalists, they do not develop body.
They simply remain as spirit particle. That is their idea. But we Vaiṣṇava, we
want to serve Kṛṣṇa, therefore we require hands, legs and mouth and tongue,
everything. So we are giving such body. As you are getting this body from the
womb of the mother, similarly we get body in the spiritual world. Not from the
womb of the mother, but there is process to get, you can get.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;">(Lecture
on BG 6.1 -- Los Angeles, February 13, 1969)<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-53758626544149924502024-03-07T08:35:00.003+01:002024-03-07T08:40:14.421+01:00We cannot even go to the end of the universe, so how can we go to the spiritual world? <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnnyzHhrMct1GRVdsSXeVk6b_DigISWMo_Xrrh3h5gOBCIecrky7w5HzT8LlQUT7aS9rIQ0Njx8bK1wjAh0icO2T8rMsQk-0LxNHz_D-SWDFcNbI3zwBgJAoaxxb92sMu-rUoEkhGl4GNU4wyeCmsShoQfPXVmtnuX0Rv7whVTFYGpYvVCCjuabeeqVdiJ/s960/prabhupada-gita-smiling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnnyzHhrMct1GRVdsSXeVk6b_DigISWMo_Xrrh3h5gOBCIecrky7w5HzT8LlQUT7aS9rIQ0Njx8bK1wjAh0icO2T8rMsQk-0LxNHz_D-SWDFcNbI3zwBgJAoaxxb92sMu-rUoEkhGl4GNU4wyeCmsShoQfPXVmtnuX0Rv7whVTFYGpYvVCCjuabeeqVdiJ/w266-h400/prabhupada-gita-smiling.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222;">„</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 150%;">We living entities, we are spiritual atoms, and
by material atomic combination we have developed this body, although this
material body is foreign to me. Similarly, we can develop our spiritual body
also in the spiritual world. Is it clear? Just like in the material world, in
combination with matter we have developed this material body. Do you believe in
this, that "I am spiritual atom, and I have developed this material body
on the basis of spiritual atom?" It is a fact. It is a fact.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">Just like in the mother's womb when the
spiritual atom takes place, then it grows, it forms the material body. Without
that spiritual atom, there cannot be any growth of body. Simply sex intercourse
does not give guarantee of pregnancy. Unless that spiritual atom is there, the
body does not grow.” (Lecture on BG 4.11-12 -- New York, July 28, 1966)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">„A man can go to the higher planetary system
when he is preparing himself to go there. So there are millions and trillions
of planets. Wherever you want, you can go. The descriptions are there in the
śāstra. But there is another description, the kingdom of God. That kingdom of
God is there beyond this material sky. So we have to take information where
that spiritual world is there. You can have it from Vedic literature. In the
Bhagavad-gītā it is said, paras tasmāt tu bhāvo 'nyo 'vyakto 'vyaktāt sanātanaḥ
(BG 8.20). There is another nature, the spiritual nature, which is beyond this
material nature. That material nature... Vyaktāvyakta means some portion is
manifested and some portion is not manifested. And we get information from
Bhagavad-gītā that the spiritual nature is beyond this manifested and
nonmanifested cosmic situation. So Kṛṣṇa says, the supreme authority says,
mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām (BG 9.25). If somebody cultivates Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
he can go there. It is not difficult; simply you have to change your mode of
life.” (Lecture on BG 2.12 -- Mexico, February 12, 1975)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">„We are eternally connected with the Supreme
Lord, but somehow or other we are now in material contamination. Therefore, we
must take up a process by which to go back again to the spiritual world. That
linking process is called yoga. The actual translation of the word yoga is "plus."
At the present moment we are minus God, or minus the Supreme. But when we make
ourselves plus—connected—then our human form of life is perfect. During our
lifetime we have to practice approaching that point of perfection, and at the
time of death, when we give up this material body, that perfection has to be
realized. At the time of death, one must be prepared. Students, for instance,
prepare for two to five years in college, and the final test of their education
is the examination. If they pass the examination, they get a degree. Similarly,
in the subject of life, if we prepare for the examination at the time of death
and pass it, then we are transferred to the spiritual world. Everything is
examined at the time of death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">There is a very common Bengali proverb that
says that whatever one does for perfection will be tested at the time of his
death. Bhagavad-gītā describes what we should do at the point of our death,
when we are giving up this present body.” (Easy Journey to Other Planets)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"></o:p></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-55540780182620695112024-03-05T14:16:00.005+01:002024-03-07T09:00:44.311+01:00Human beings, gosths, evil spirits, withches<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm-SRqMhX_A_CTFi_Dl4vj2QmbPHj52ZEPfnxozJtEc_ncngifwUdrrVUy5K5h9-Y34vIwIXLERIpsC9R7vgg7QM-ydyapFtm1BEcRkbsKnQ3nMmyOqjiaDnWUGhRi0F0mexMcosLj_cnaBOV6tIRDSfqtlUL49F91pcMfZRvW1FC3ALh06rm_D130zmYs/s398/Srila-Prabhupada-Disappearance-Day-Bhaktisiddhanta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="398" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm-SRqMhX_A_CTFi_Dl4vj2QmbPHj52ZEPfnxozJtEc_ncngifwUdrrVUy5K5h9-Y34vIwIXLERIpsC9R7vgg7QM-ydyapFtm1BEcRkbsKnQ3nMmyOqjiaDnWUGhRi0F0mexMcosLj_cnaBOV6tIRDSfqtlUL49F91pcMfZRvW1FC3ALh06rm_D130zmYs/w400-h374/Srila-Prabhupada-Disappearance-Day-Bhaktisiddhanta.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">„The living entities
individually are being conducted by a particular mode of nature, but at the
same time there is every chance of their being influenced by the other two.
Generally, all conditioned souls in the material encagement are influenced by
the mode of passion because every one of them is trying to lord it over the
material nature to fulfill his individual desire. But in spite of the
individual mode of passion, there is always the chance of being influenced by the
other modes of nature by association. If one is in good association he can
develop the mode of goodness, and if in bad association he may develop the mode
of darkness or ignorance. Nothing is stereotyped. One can change his habit by
good or bad association, and one has to become intelligent enough to
discriminate between good and bad.</span>” (SB 2.10.41, Purport)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">„<b>Prabhupāda</b>: No, no, you
have not so many experiences. That does not mean these things does not exist.
Your experience is not all in all. Don't think like that. So these are existing
actually. That is the defect, that you do not accept the authorities. That is
the defect. Here Vyāsadeva is describing, who is called Vedavyāsa, full of all
knowledge, and Bhāgavata is a mature experience. We are hearing from him. Why
you should not believe? I may not have experience. This ghost means the living
entity is subtle life without any material body. That is ghost. When one is
very sinful, he does not get the material body. He lives in the subtle body:
mind, intelligence and ego. That is ghostly life. And they display. Because
they have no body, one cannot see, but they display so many mischiefs. That is
ghostly life. (break) Seeing or not seeing doesn't matter. Therefore it is
enjoined in the Vedānta-sūtra, śāstra cakṣuṣā.” (Morning Walk -- April 12,
1974, Bombay)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">„<b>Devotee:</b> Śrīla
Prabhupāda, does the soul, the ghost, enter into the other man's body? The soul
is occupying one body, and the ghost, as another soul, does he enter that body?
There's two souls in the one body?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Not exactly
enters, but he catches the body. But because the ghost has no gross body—he has
got his subtle body, mind, intelligence, and ego—you cannot see him, how he has
attacked that body. You cannot see the body of mind, intelligence. You know I
have got my mind; I know you have got your mind. But you do not see my mind; I
do not see your mind. So ghost is within the subtle body: mind, intelligence,
and ego. So with that subtle body, he attacks the man, but you cannot see. He
does not enter into him. The enter is the soul within the body. Therefore
sometimes ghost is walking in the room. We cannot see. But he takes away
something. We see that the thing is going away. (laughter) Because you cannot
see his gross body. And because he hasn't got gross body, he can move very
swiftly. Now he is here; he can go ten miles away immediately. But there is
ghost. And they attack specially woman.” (Room Coversation with Psychiatrist
and Indian Boy -- May 12, 1975, Perth)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Rākṣasī means those who
are atheists, they are called rākṣasas. Rākṣasa and asura. Asura, they are
always against God. They are called asuras. And rākṣasa means they don't
believe in God. So rākṣasīm āsurīṁ caiva prakṛtim. Why they...? That mohinīṁ
prakṛtim. They are bewildered by this illusory material energy. They are...
They think, "This is all, and this life..." They do not know
God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lecture on BG 9.11-14 -- New York,
November 27, 1966)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">„one can go to many
ghostly planets and become a Yakṣa, Rakṣa or Piśāca. Piśāca worship is called
"black arts" or "black magic." There are many men who
practice this black art, and they think that it is spiritualism, but such
activities are completely materialistic.” (BG 9.25, Purport)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">„The
evil witches known as Ḍākinīs, Yātudhānīs and Kuṣmāṇḍas are the greatest
enemies of children, and the evil spirits like Bhūtas, Pretas, Piśācas, Yakṣas,
Rākṣasas and Vināyakas, as well as witches like Koṭarā, Revatī, Jyeṣṭhā, Pūtanā
and Mātṛkā, are always ready to give trouble to the body, the life air and the
senses, causing loss of memory, madness and bad dreams. Like the most
experienced evil stars, they all create great disturbances, especially for
children, but one can vanquish them simply by uttering Lord Viṣṇu's name, for
when Lord Viṣṇu's name resounds, all of them become afraid and go away.” (SB 10.6.27-29, Purport)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-66061154487659314572024-03-03T17:47:00.005+01:002024-03-04T07:09:25.440+01:00Alians 5. - The material sky <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCvwzlPEXZTCcQ808Sv4Fn5U7D7Xxt2x03V_Bg17Y6AbNq5G-gARL5-eKHzxffNFnAAf9yBOQZJqR4THn49dCtlLkL1QPnKk28B7cs2NrFPx5x1gb1F8jM4cetCm-znHQDkgEBY8NmRWzKaq2bU7_48rYJXUp2kL60bzB1TGehbBpUP0mMG82_ibu8qUv3/s960/1653971926937.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCvwzlPEXZTCcQ808Sv4Fn5U7D7Xxt2x03V_Bg17Y6AbNq5G-gARL5-eKHzxffNFnAAf9yBOQZJqR4THn49dCtlLkL1QPnKk28B7cs2NrFPx5x1gb1F8jM4cetCm-znHQDkgEBY8NmRWzKaq2bU7_48rYJXUp2kL60bzB1TGehbBpUP0mMG82_ibu8qUv3/w400-h300/1653971926937.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">„In Bhagavad-gītā (14.14-15) it is said that those who are highly
developed in the mode of goodness are promoted to the higher, heavenly
planetary system, and those who are overpowered by the mode of passion are
situated in the middle planetary systems—the earth and similar planets. But
those who are surcharged with the mode of ignorance are degraded to the lower
planetary systems or to the animal kingdom. The demigods are highly developed
in the mode of goodness, and thus they are situated in the heavenly planets.
Below human beings are the animals, although some of them mingle with human
society; cows, horses, dogs, etc., are habituated to living under the
protection of human beings.” (SB 3.6.28, Purport)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">„Downwards from the earthly planetary system there are seven lower
planetary systems inhabited by the asuras and similar other materialistic
living beings.” (SB 1.3.2, Purport)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"The
material body, whether in the higher or lower planetary system, is
destined to die. In the lower planetary system or lower species of
life one may die soon, and in the higher planets or higher species one may live
for a long, long time, but death is inevitable. This fact should be understood.
In the human form of life one should take the opportunity to put an end to
birth, death, old age and disease by performing tapasya. This is the aim of
human civilization: to stop the repetition of birth and death, which is called
mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani(BG.9.3). This can be done only when one is Kṛṣṇa
conscious, or has achieved the service of the lotus feet of the Lord. Otherwise
one must rot in this material world and accept a material body subject to
birth, death, old age and disease. (SB 9.13.10, Purport)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><b>the end of the series</b></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-81481704504065021882024-02-26T08:41:00.003+01:002024-02-26T08:45:48.931+01:00Alians 4. - Evolution<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbkoy7zG8nXYrs_8_TxD5Bm2H5HeFzhd_6n0ai00X6CwhdBuZHQXRdc68L8R2RyvAkYtuM5YhuiAFzMlN7sEFWJnP9z3hbTefQ8huhoIJI3xNJMYxMLZUBl741RKBJj4GSQX2Rd16CUmYKR9rdhvFRoPME3lO5fjSBmOcMetErCmN2Js5dxg3qMElNG77/s512/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="512" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbbkoy7zG8nXYrs_8_TxD5Bm2H5HeFzhd_6n0ai00X6CwhdBuZHQXRdc68L8R2RyvAkYtuM5YhuiAFzMlN7sEFWJnP9z3hbTefQ8huhoIJI3xNJMYxMLZUBl741RKBJj4GSQX2Rd16CUmYKR9rdhvFRoPME3lO5fjSBmOcMetErCmN2Js5dxg3qMElNG77/w400-h266/unnamed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">"Guest (5):</span></b><span style="color: black;"> You say that we have
eternal relationships with the Supreme?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Prabhupāda:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Guest (5):</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Does that mean that at
one time we had this relationship, and now we still have it, and then we will
still have it later?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Prabhupāda:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> Yes, yes. Not once you
have; still. Without God's grace, you cannot live. You are still, but you have
forgotten. Just like a prisoner. A prisoner is put into prison house. That does
not mean he has lost his relationship with the state. Before coming to the
prison house he was a state citizen, and in the prison also, he is also a state
citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And the government has concern both ways: when he was free, and when
he is in prison. So our relationship with God is not broken, or it cannot be
separated. It is there always, but at the present moment we are covered. We are
thinking there is no God. That is our ignorance. Therefore you are suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Guest (6)</span></b><span style="color: black;">: What is evolution,
according to the Veda? What is this evolution that is talked about by the
scientists?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Prabhupāda: </span></b><span style="color: black;">Evolution means changing
of different bodies. The spirit soul is changing from one body to another, and
finally he's coming in the human form of body. This is a chance to know the
actual position. And if he takes this chance, he can go back home to . . . back
to Godhead. Otherwise, he is again put into the cycle of birth and death in
different species of life."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(From lecture on SB 1.2.1 -- New Vrindaban, September 1, 1972)</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-61743368092958637422024-02-25T15:50:00.000+01:002024-02-25T15:50:01.867+01:00Nobody has seen a monkey giving birth to a human being<p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSuMTirlzUfVNzhtgAQsnBJVv_clcIvIvVujh05pJ20BHSqrg5TspVW-Oh4tI6hAi4wG2cX2KHu6pXDajPsPncHkxQkVqvWI2ISOLTqkpPHxZHep6wS7qNP2YplnCG09R2Gt0dug56wcJo4ESfE-dxUgN0DHW1WhgS_cRfywN-NwkQQIGaFT3v_NTrotQ4/s275/images%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSuMTirlzUfVNzhtgAQsnBJVv_clcIvIvVujh05pJ20BHSqrg5TspVW-Oh4tI6hAi4wG2cX2KHu6pXDajPsPncHkxQkVqvWI2ISOLTqkpPHxZHep6wS7qNP2YplnCG09R2Gt0dug56wcJo4ESfE-dxUgN0DHW1WhgS_cRfywN-NwkQQIGaFT3v_NTrotQ4/w400-h266/images%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background: white; color: black;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">"Mundane archeologists are mistaken because they say
from monkey the human beings have come into existence, but at the present
moment both the human being and the monkey are existing. The monkey is not
extinct. So these theories are not correct. Nobody has seen a monkey
giving birth to a human being. As the monkey and the human being are existing
side by side at present, so for millions of years they were existing like this.
That is our theory. The modern material archeology has no meaning for us. Our
realization is depending on the spiritual platform. Transmigration of the soul
does not depend on history."</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Srila
Prabhupada Letter to: Bahu Rupa:—Vrindaban 75-09-01)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-27021641499926132272024-02-25T15:35:00.003+01:002024-02-25T15:39:43.410+01:00Alians 3. - We are also Aliens on this planet<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKtcvodAUUuWA3ld_ASN3DLnOaBYBLP8onx_O1d7NrIgir2v29eFTS9aeBUib0mnJgl221c5PfmzRmbHFeLzaN9_vqQWmDYQz6UdFpxokzzDq_1NCCEklXcwwEohv1udbfs1LhXCL0fR6erkkaZtOzTbijXnv5zoMoN84Z4wSFHyHLH_JEp5X4WgQ0-KH/s1000/701-801x1000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="801" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigKtcvodAUUuWA3ld_ASN3DLnOaBYBLP8onx_O1d7NrIgir2v29eFTS9aeBUib0mnJgl221c5PfmzRmbHFeLzaN9_vqQWmDYQz6UdFpxokzzDq_1NCCEklXcwwEohv1udbfs1LhXCL0fR6erkkaZtOzTbijXnv5zoMoN84Z4wSFHyHLH_JEp5X4WgQ0-KH/w320-h400/701-801x1000.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"You ask any learned scientist,
professor, "Who are you?" He'll say, "I am Mr. John." He'll
say, "I am Mr. John, I am American," or "I am Mexican,"
"I am Indian," like that. So this is ignorance. Nobody is this body.
That is the first lesson of spiritual knowledge. So long we identify with this
body, that "I am Mr. Such-and-such," "I am American,"
"I am Indian," this is all ignorance. When you actually understand
that you are not this body—therefore you are not American, nor Indian nor
Mexican, but you are spirit soul—then your spiritual education begins. And that
is... In Sanskrit it is called ahaṁ brahmāsmi: "I am spirit soul."
Spiritual... Spirit soul has no connection with this material world. When one
understands fully this, I mean to say, fact, that spirit soul is different from
this material world, then he's actually learned."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Lecture on BG 2.12 -- Mexico, February 12, 1975)</span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-42367134713773406312024-02-23T09:39:00.000+01:002024-02-23T09:39:22.198+01:00If I cannot argue with others <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZM9OnqxzvYo2iJJ4ZjNKX9T9vIbOlMEtHj4mD-p68nn_Qd6r66XoU5Sd_WwVgLMoN9rLa6-TRxVr2hoSeYshB1duv17VNZ-OSOQMEJ7cHtuXIWXuqcTwS9g925yHuCrbDXowE5_3cVZsH6-qWvD-7a56H0DzeneLG0GZcmX0OoPtiubG4-LH7vRk0Cqz/s810/prabhupada-upset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="810" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJZM9OnqxzvYo2iJJ4ZjNKX9T9vIbOlMEtHj4mD-p68nn_Qd6r66XoU5Sd_WwVgLMoN9rLa6-TRxVr2hoSeYshB1duv17VNZ-OSOQMEJ7cHtuXIWXuqcTwS9g925yHuCrbDXowE5_3cVZsH6-qWvD-7a56H0DzeneLG0GZcmX0OoPtiubG4-LH7vRk0Cqz/w400-h158/prabhupada-upset.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">"That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, that we
have to try to remember Kṛṣṇa. He's so beautiful, His instructions are so nice.
If we simply remember Kṛṣṇa... That was the perfection approved by Lord
Caitanya. I think I have narrated the story.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">When Lord Caitanya was traveling in South India in a
big temple, Raṅganātha temple, He went to see the Deity, and He saw one
brāhmaṇa was reading Bhagavad-gītā. And people were joking him, "Oh, Mr.
brāhmaṇa, how you are reading Bhagavad-gītā?" Because they were the neighbors,
they knew that this brāhmaṇa was illiterate and he was studying Bhagavad-gītā.
So they were joking. But the brāhmaṇa did not care them. He was taking the book
and in his own way he was reading.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">Caitanya Mahaprabhu saw this incident, He came to the
brāhmaṇa. So He asked the brāhmaṇa,"My dear brāhmaṇa, what you are
reading?" So he could understand "This persons is not joking with me;
He is serious." So he explained, "My dear sir, I am reading Bhagavad-gītā.Unfortunately,
I am illiterate. I do not know even the alphabets." "Why you are
reading Bhagavad-gītā?" So he said that, "My spiritual master knows
that I am illiterate, but still, he has asked me to read Bhagavad-gītā. What can
I do? Therefore I have taken this book. I am seeing simply. I do not know how
to read." "Oh, that's all right. You cannot read. But I see that you
are crying. How you are crying if you are not reading?" "Yes, I am
crying. Of course, there is cause." "What is that?" "As
soon as I take this Bhagavad-gītā, I remember Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is sitting as driver
and Arjuna is hearing. I have heard the story. I know something of the
instruction but cannot read. So as soon as I take this book, this picture comes
before me and I simply think, 'Oh, how Kṛṣṇa is nice that He has become a
charioteer of His devotee. He is so great. Still, He has accepted a menial
service of His devotee.' This gives me so much pleasure that I cry."<br />
Caitanya Mahāprabhu embraced him, "Your Bhagavad-gītā reading is perfect.
You have taken the essence."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">So this is the thing. If you simply remember Kṛṣṇa is
teaching Arjuna and Arjuna is hearing, if you simply remember the picture, that
is sufficient. Even if you think that you cannot read.Because after all we have
to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. We haven't got to become a learned man to argue with
another learned man. If it is possible we can do that, but that does not make
any difference if I cannot argue with others or if I cannot teach very nicely
Bhagavad-gītā to others. Simply if I remember this picture, that is perfection.
Because we have to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. We have to simply think of Kṛṣṇa.
You think in any way. That is your perfection. Smartavyaḥ satataṁ viṣṇuḥ. This
is the injunction. You have to think of Viṣṇu always. This is samādhi; this is
meditation; this is yoga siddhi, perfection of yoga."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><br />
(Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad-gita Lectures – Los Angeles, November 25, 1968)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-58128587405218643242024-02-23T09:25:00.004+01:002024-02-23T13:00:36.671+01:00Those days are gone<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA3Pgsz5B0A08NF1arKec2bE2laOnfNb19LG2lz_WUmxRjg3qupn0Uxjyjod4FAkhlM6V8YLecUmWWnrNTjzfXshPkCg75RQzttQqJrI0vCql6xhltwJYfDmKB8GoP1e2ryZF6VgUqmvF4Zhr3An5fQVHq-7idx80Sdkdzibre5q7e-MzwAqkPT8H7S1ZP/s736/12132.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="713" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA3Pgsz5B0A08NF1arKec2bE2laOnfNb19LG2lz_WUmxRjg3qupn0Uxjyjod4FAkhlM6V8YLecUmWWnrNTjzfXshPkCg75RQzttQqJrI0vCql6xhltwJYfDmKB8GoP1e2ryZF6VgUqmvF4Zhr3An5fQVHq-7idx80Sdkdzibre5q7e-MzwAqkPT8H7S1ZP/s320/12132.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">”But I must now remind you that I have to complete the translation of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. This is the greatest contribution; our books have given us a respectable position. People have no faith in this church or temple worship. Those days are gone. Of course, we have to maintain the temples as it is necessary to keep our spirits high. Simply intellectualism will not do, there must be practical purification.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">So I request you to relieve me of management responsibilities more and more so that I can complete the Srimad-Bhagavatam translation.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">(Srila Prabhupada Letter to: All Governing Board Commissioners—Honolulu 76-05-19)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #747474; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-10188096765822723242024-02-23T08:35:00.004+01:002024-02-23T08:46:59.595+01:00Aliens 2. - No planet is vacant<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8q0e2CnbZIYFOAdzipmsAgUZ5Q9D2OpHnf1Pqze79J56Ua0sB7KfI9WBlJ8VZujzI3Xw0Ccg5kX-IdGtlAbWog61qzokfYsvgEYRh37BcEpQGUhLo_kpFE5CSlldRcEncrFoTqzS3oD30Zom0kkdY0PEyzmqx_YFtVAL-TqgeiI6rvuNJRn5IiXpVNLW7/s500/artworks-000043066621-oytkt1-t500x500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8q0e2CnbZIYFOAdzipmsAgUZ5Q9D2OpHnf1Pqze79J56Ua0sB7KfI9WBlJ8VZujzI3Xw0Ccg5kX-IdGtlAbWog61qzokfYsvgEYRh37BcEpQGUhLo_kpFE5CSlldRcEncrFoTqzS3oD30Zom0kkdY0PEyzmqx_YFtVAL-TqgeiI6rvuNJRn5IiXpVNLW7/w320-h320/artworks-000043066621-oytkt1-t500x500.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">„</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Lord Kṛṣṇa is the chief
King of all kings, and He has created different planets for all kinds of living
entities. Even on this planet there are different places for inhabitation by
different types of men. There are places like deserts, ice lands, and valleys
in mountainous countries, and in each of them there are different kinds of men
born of different modes of nature according to their past deeds. There are
people in the Arabian deserts and in the valleys of the Himalayan Mountains,
and the inhabitants of these two places differ from one another, just as the
inhabitants of the ice lands also differ from them. Similarly, there are also
different planets. The planets below the earth down to the Pātāla planet are
full of various kinds of living beings; no planet is vacant, as wrongly
imagined by the modern so-called scientist. In Bhagavad-gītā we find it said by
the Lord that the living entities are sarva-gata, or present in every sphere of
life. So there is no doubt that on other planets there are also inhabitants
like us, sometimes with greater intelligence and greater opulence. The living
conditions for those of greater intelligence are more luxurious than on this
earth. There are also planets where no sunlight reaches, and there are living
entities who must live there due to their past deeds. All such plans for living
conditions are made by the Supreme Lord, and Vidura requested Maitreya to
describe this for the sake of further enlightenment.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> (SB 3.5.8 Purport)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-85509315364879462232024-02-21T10:21:00.005+01:002024-02-23T08:36:04.767+01:00Aliens 1. - Spaceships there are in every planet<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKoJqUJKXjbgi5eNyAD8En9R3WvGAJJ9SE0Q_LaKB8QQCOTMqYaY5k0G6HHmEYq91xPiSS7gD9hPkT34fq6TbFZZCXEPde8F_WgA-NX17mda4l1LVw3huW5_Pq-UeYx5EtrNtqu_0lWTek9CqZk0dxd_L7HhqwvavdCGmV3L0XvTnzHLn9iEZe_ITKEF3a/s1255/646c86ac05e1721fa3199ae6_srila_06.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1255" data-original-width="1209" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKoJqUJKXjbgi5eNyAD8En9R3WvGAJJ9SE0Q_LaKB8QQCOTMqYaY5k0G6HHmEYq91xPiSS7gD9hPkT34fq6TbFZZCXEPde8F_WgA-NX17mda4l1LVw3huW5_Pq-UeYx5EtrNtqu_0lWTek9CqZk0dxd_L7HhqwvavdCGmV3L0XvTnzHLn9iEZe_ITKEF3a/w385-h400/646c86ac05e1721fa3199ae6_srila_06.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Nalinī-kaṇṭa:</b> They say that they can see planets
trillions of miles away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Hmm?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Nalinī-kaṇṭa:</b> They say that they can see stars
trillions of miles away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>But they cannot go. That's a fact.
According to their estimation, the moon is the nearest. So they cannot go
there. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. (break) . . . deva-vratā devān (BG 9.25).
Moon is one of the heavenly planets. So unless one is very advanced in karma-kāṇḍa,
offering sacrifices, nobody can go there. It is not so easy. Ūrdhvaṁ
gacchanti sattva-sthāḥ (BG 14.18). Those who are more and more higher
status of goodness, they are promoted in the highest planet. Not by drinking
wine and driving a sputnik one can . . . (laughter) It is not so easy. (break)
. . .also drink soma-rasa. The residents of the moon, they live for
ten thousand years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:</b> Ten thousand of their years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Yes, deva.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:</b> And their years are equal to six months .
. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>Six months equal to one day. Such ten
thousand years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa:</b> Śrīla Prabhupāda, another field of study
that Wernher Von Braun is considering is unidentified flying objects. Now, this
previously was not acknowledged by scientists, but he recently stated that when
they have sent rockets into outer space they filmed objects that there's no
explanation for. They think that they're spaceships from other planets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Yes, that's . . . There is
Siddhaloka—without any aeroplane they can go from one planet. They are so
perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa: </b>So these, what they think are spaceships,
perhaps are demigods?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Spaceships there are in every planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kṛṣṇadāsa: On every planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> But there is a planet, the residents of
that planet, they can go without any spaceship. Siddhaloka.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Rādhā-vallabha:</b> Scientists have done another test where
they think . . . The scientists are doing tests where their opinion is that
from certain acids life is coming. So they think that this can only happen . .
.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Prabhupāda: Asses?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Rādhā-vallabha:</b> Acids, nucleic acids. So their opinion
is that this can only occur in an atmosphere of methane. So they have
understood from their telescopes that Jupiter has methane in its atmosphere, so
therefore they say, "Very soon Jupiter will have life."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Very soon? Not now? They have got advance.
Yes. (chuckles) Most of the scientists, they think only living beings are on
this planet, and all, they are vacant. They say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa:</b> Yes. They say the closest planet that could
have life is four light years away. That means the fastest . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>How there is life within this sand? We can
see.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa:</b> They do not believe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> No, there is no life within the sand?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa:</b> In the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>No, no, in the sand. You'll find so many
lives, many millions. How there is life in the water? There is life in the
water, there is life on the land, there is life in the air, so where is there
no life? How you can say there is no life? That is foolishness. And they say
that the dust brought from the moon planet is the same. It can be found here.
So why there should not be life?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa:</b> If there is life on other planets, then they
assume it's in a plant form or very, very low, like plants, bushes at the most.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> That is their opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda? If these scientists,
they landed on the Rāhu planet, that means that . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> That could be, but some . . . Just like
somebody was saying that there are many planets unknown. They might have gone
to some . . . Just like there are many parts of the world you have never seen.
Even on this planet, you cannot say that you have seen all the parts of the
world. That is not possible. (break)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa:</b> As far as these unidentified flying objects
that Wernher Von Braun was recently mentioning, he says that previously they've
had many sightings. They've seen these and filmed these, but they're afraid to
release them, or the government is afraid to acknowledge them, because they're
afraid it would cause a panic amongst the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> What is that panic?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa: </b>A panic that everyone would be frightened
with the fact that there is people from other planets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> And they are not frightened? Without this
knowledge they are not frightened, as if they are safe. (laughter) Are they
safe without that knowledge? They are frightened of your atomic bomb. Who is
not frightened? Who is that rascal who is not frightened? Is there any person
who is not frightened?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa:</b> A fool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>Fool is also frightened when there is
stick. Everyone is frightened. That is the one of the conditions of material
life. As eating is one of the items, similarly frightening is also. And the
more one is godless, he is more frightened.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Kṛṣṇadāsa:</b> There is this question about these, again,
UFOs—they call them UFO—whether or not they are aggressive or if they will
bring us more knowledge than what we have. So there's this fear, uncertainty.
(break)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> . . . sataḥ syāt. This frightfulness
is due to unawareness of God. The more one is unaware of God, he is more
frightened. One who is fully conscious of God, he is not frightened, because he
knows, "Everything is God. Why shall I afraid?"<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(750724 Morning Walk-Los Angeles)</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The full conversation: <a href="https://vanisource.org/wiki/750724_-_Morning_Walk_-_Los_Angeles">https://vanisource.org/wiki/750724_-_Morning_Walk_-_Los_Angeles</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-88781234494012774752024-02-15T21:32:00.006+01:002024-03-04T07:09:54.794+01:00Modern science without God consciousness 3. - A living being who lives in the mundane world has four defects<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntERSO6JOt-vjdQFy5rjuRKwEn8683iezEWlX2xuj1hthXeYAj4_-vmkdIv9ghHF0QS6u85bZ-5gtjfC8lAp_pY5KZyEJ3-Evu1qcTJzdAT2mNoy2zgGS9uMHzpormOR88nR6T8yF4kZsFaWqegK2-U4UNdbwKWpJsH1_RQXQ3Q8c3xe39gYOI2cBt4Fs/s300/LST187.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhntERSO6JOt-vjdQFy5rjuRKwEn8683iezEWlX2xuj1hthXeYAj4_-vmkdIv9ghHF0QS6u85bZ-5gtjfC8lAp_pY5KZyEJ3-Evu1qcTJzdAT2mNoy2zgGS9uMHzpormOR88nR6T8yF4kZsFaWqegK2-U4UNdbwKWpJsH1_RQXQ3Q8c3xe39gYOI2cBt4Fs/w320-h240/LST187.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">„</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Everything
animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the
Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself,
which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things,
knowing well to whom they belong.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Vedic
knowledge is infallible because it comes down through the perfect disciplic
succession of spiritual masters, beginning with the Lord Himself. Since He
spoke the first word of Vedic knowledge, the source of this knowledge is
transcendental. The words spoken by the Lord are called apauruṣeya, which
indicates that they are not delivered by any mundane person. A living being who
lives in the mundane world has four defects: (1) he is certain to commit
mistakes; (2) he is subject to illusion; (3) he has a propensity to cheat
others; and (4) his senses are imperfect. No one with these four imperfections
can deliver perfect knowledge. The Vedas are not produced by such an imperfect
creature. Vedic knowledge was originally imparted by the Lord into the heart of
Brahmā, the first created living being, and Brahmā in his turn disseminated
this knowledge to his sons and disciples, who have handed it down through
history.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Sri
Isopanisad 1, Translation and Purport)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><b>the end of the series</b></i></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-72704125283235614962024-02-06T14:24:00.002+01:002024-02-06T14:28:16.602+01:00Vaiṣṇava influence by touching his body<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6xn50xZ9zaKjifU4QLTLacS6eqUartMNpCnHzoHNHDnLsYR1BswlpxYgzkaw1i7Gzuk8aOpNTNmFIWqU7Thpr7sXatfmwtcZwjGDFO05wLiQQe0SZoWNoVHjQn_7CgiOjTJtp-syv5YIcr6JtBDvW4GpIxOozNSZFj4xB0jQcz2J3H1LiRPblAG1FOKDI/s679/prabhupada-giving-lecture-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="679" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6xn50xZ9zaKjifU4QLTLacS6eqUartMNpCnHzoHNHDnLsYR1BswlpxYgzkaw1i7Gzuk8aOpNTNmFIWqU7Thpr7sXatfmwtcZwjGDFO05wLiQQe0SZoWNoVHjQn_7CgiOjTJtp-syv5YIcr6JtBDvW4GpIxOozNSZFj4xB0jQcz2J3H1LiRPblAG1FOKDI/w400-h265/prabhupada-giving-lecture-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"It was at the age of 16 or 17 that he traveled to Gayā with a host to sing the holy name of Hari in the streets and bazaars. This created a sensation and roused different feelings in different quarters. The bhaktas were highly pleased. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The smārta brāhmaṇas became jealous of Nimāi Paṇḍita's success and complained to Chand Kazi against the character of Caitanya as un-Hindu. The Kazi came to Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita's house and broke a mṛdaṅga (khola drum) there and declared that unless Nimāi Paṇḍita ceased to make noise about his queer religion he would be obliged to enforce Mohammedanism on him and his followers. This was brought to Mahāprabhu's notice. He ordered the townspeople to appear in the evening, each with a torch in his hand. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This groups, and on his arrival in the Kazi's house, he held a long conversation with the Kazi and in the end communicated into his heart his Vaiṣṇava influence by touching his body. The Kazi then wept and admitted that he had felt a keen spiritual influence which had cleared up his doubts and produced in him a religious sentiment which gave him the highest ecstasy. The Kazi then joined the saṅkīrtana party. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The world was astonished at the spiritual power of the Great Lord, and hundreds and hundreds of heretics converted and joined the banner of Viśvambhara after this affair."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">[This account originally appeared in a short work by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura entitled, "Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu: His Life and Precepts." (August 20, 1896)] </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Prologue Teachings of Lord Caitanya 1968 Edition)</span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-586654982954404902024-01-30T10:22:00.002+01:002024-01-30T10:22:15.077+01:00Modern science without God consciousness 2. - The modern man wants to live forever by the advancement of material science<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifuoEIV_ZcV9lE83YuMwJ-HSmTr134566tYaQaz4enLxMJk91MgpTaSXy1OGnNf44t4C2y-NMsX4ZcAmJFz9h4HWwclIKI6QduMZkv0q_Xeu0zXWRepSg4u4PTcKe_Fn4gNTvRD2dxIbaK_fLI6IVkxo7FafPsE40bZ4Li-Ia7uZDqPHz5oiWi4vTi5YCl/s267/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="267" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifuoEIV_ZcV9lE83YuMwJ-HSmTr134566tYaQaz4enLxMJk91MgpTaSXy1OGnNf44t4C2y-NMsX4ZcAmJFz9h4HWwclIKI6QduMZkv0q_Xeu0zXWRepSg4u4PTcKe_Fn4gNTvRD2dxIbaK_fLI6IVkxo7FafPsE40bZ4Li-Ia7uZDqPHz5oiWi4vTi5YCl/w400-h283/images.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">"The
materialistic man of the modern age will argue that life, or part of it, is
never meant for discussion of theosophical or theological arguments. Life is
meant for the maximum duration of existence for eating, drinking, sexual
intercourse, making merry and enjoying life. The modern man wants to live
forever by the advancement of material science, and there are many foolish
theories for prolonging life to the maximum duration. But the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam affirms
that life is not meant for so-called economic development or advancement
of materialistic science for the hedonistic philosophy of eating,
mating, drinking and merrymaking. Life is solely meant for tapasya, for
purifying existence so that one may enter into eternal life just after the end
of the human form of life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">The
materialists want to prolong life as much as possible because they have no
information of the next life. They want to get the maximum comforts in this
present life because they think conclusively that there is no life after death.
This ignorance about the eternity of the living being and the change of
covering in the material world has played havoc in the structure of modern
human society. Consequently there are many problems, multiplied by various
plans of modernized man. The plans for solving the problems of society have
only aggravated the troubles. Even if it is possible to prolong life more than
one hundred years, advancement of human civilization does not necessarily
follow. The <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Bhāgavatam</i> says
that certain trees live for hundreds and thousands of years. At Vṛndāvana there
is a tamarind tree (the place is known as Imlitala) which is said to have
existed since the time of Lord Kṛṣṇa. In the Calcutta Botanical Garden there is
a banyan tree said to be older than five hundred years, and there are many such
trees all over the world. Svāmī Śaṅkarācārya lived only thirty-two years, and
Lord Caitanya lived forty-eight years. Does it mean that the prolonged lives of
the abovementioned trees are more important than Śaṅkara or Caitanya? Prolonged
life without spiritual value is not very important. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 150%;">One
may doubt that trees have life because they do not breathe. But modern
scientists like Bose have already proved that there is life in plants, so
breathing is no sign of actual life. The <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Bhāgavatam</i> says that the bellows of the
blacksmith breathes very soundly, but that does not mean that the bellows has
life. The materialist will argue that life in the tree and life in the man
cannot be compared because the tree cannot enjoy life by eating palatable dishes
or by enjoying sexual intercourse. In reply to this, the <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Bhāgavatam</i> asks
whether other animals like the dogs and hogs, living in the same village with
human beings, do not eat and enjoy sexual life. The specific utterance of <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i> in
regard to "other animals" means that persons who are simply engaged
in planning a better type of animal life consisting of eating, breathing and
mating are also animals in the shape of human beings. A society of such
polished animals cannot benefit suffering humanity, for an animal can easily
harm another animal but rarely do good."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(SB 2.3.18. Purport)</span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-66058126089606015532024-01-27T14:46:00.003+01:002024-01-30T10:21:35.725+01:00Modern science without God consciousness 1.- We don't condemn the scientists<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheCtYxR3864o9TxNeXmfsGYT4yVQdS7Po3UJG97YCmRtEH9UgY-RSD0I5Vq-_9dLtSf-TLPk5Q_fVGSBxsoPSQ7OMfe1dCXKl8Wz08C3GGpMVRH6VYhvxIRcDNtzxVDt0usIuEFaPcNfrKgfMqB5axywJFe21-yqM-ZgiDv3Lf3suIAdC6PgwwvWNScRxY/s258/images.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="258" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheCtYxR3864o9TxNeXmfsGYT4yVQdS7Po3UJG97YCmRtEH9UgY-RSD0I5Vq-_9dLtSf-TLPk5Q_fVGSBxsoPSQ7OMfe1dCXKl8Wz08C3GGpMVRH6VYhvxIRcDNtzxVDt0usIuEFaPcNfrKgfMqB5axywJFe21-yqM-ZgiDv3Lf3suIAdC6PgwwvWNScRxY/w320-h242/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>"Puṣṭa
Kṛṣṇa:</b> Has there ever been debates on the authenticity of modern science, or is
this the first time modern science has been challenged in the world?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:
</b>India, Vedic civilization never cared for anything which is searched out by,
what is called, imperfect human beings. They never cared for it. Because he
knows the man who is searching after, he's imperfect. Whatever he'll do, that
is imperfect. Therefore neglect it. That is Vedic civilization. Śruti-pramāṇa:
whether it is evident from the śruti, from the Vedas. Otherwise, they reject
it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Vipina:</b>
Prabhupāda, if spiritual life and Kṛṣṇa are stronger than māyā, then how is it
that religion was ever overcome to the extent it is now? In Kali-yuga it's so
much neglected, whereas in past ages we learn that it wasn't neglected. How is
it that māyā got such a stronghold?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b>
There is a time. Just like young man and old man. Old man is dwindling, young
man is growing. It is a question of time. Kali-yuga is bad time. Therefore māyā
has got chance to flourish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Hari-śauri:</b>
Eight minutes to seven, Śrīla Prabhupāda. If those people in India who are
aware of the actual science, though, if they had come out and spoken against material
scientists, then . . <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b>
I am speaking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Bṛṣākapi:</b>
You're the only one, though, Prabhupāda.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Sadāpūta:</b>
Śrīla Prabhupāda, one problem we face with students and scientists, when we
present Kṛṣṇa conscious philosophy, they say . . .<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b>
No, no. We don't condemn the scientists. We say that, "Take credit as much
as you can. But why do you defy the existence of God?" That is our
protest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Sadāpūta:</b>
They want to be God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b>
That is their foolishness."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Morning
Walk, 760705MW-Washington DC - July 05, 1976)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-18392808466464592832024-01-25T12:50:00.006+01:002024-02-15T21:41:47.459+01:00Artificial intelligence 2. - To be able to imitate God<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1d6-8mPhMRzTvKMIkuWFWD4joqGqVrCyNHMtj65goR1LR31rNe5fATkx6sc1FUFgc086ggj5N2Pd_q940m0zr2b1mYxYQAlHmIk1tpHW9JOORd-Tv1VJYBqYpBuipJoxxSjsF-qZRzB0b4ZHyG5atNjfla-z5XRsyKHwm-VdmdKtiw8chE0glwBiErs9K/s641/Pabh2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="641" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1d6-8mPhMRzTvKMIkuWFWD4joqGqVrCyNHMtj65goR1LR31rNe5fATkx6sc1FUFgc086ggj5N2Pd_q940m0zr2b1mYxYQAlHmIk1tpHW9JOORd-Tv1VJYBqYpBuipJoxxSjsF-qZRzB0b4ZHyG5atNjfla-z5XRsyKHwm-VdmdKtiw8chE0glwBiErs9K/w400-h283/Pabh2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">„<b>Prabhupāda:</b> But they unnecessarily
spending money. So they have spent unnecessarily for the moon expedition.
Money, if you do not know, you’ll spend it for unnecessary purpose. That is
they are doing. So give them brain, and this money can be spent for Kṛṣṇa
consciousness. They have got money. Why they are trying to manufacture
artificial intelligence? What is the purpose?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">
They want to be able to imitate God.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Prabhupāda:</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">
Then God is there. [laughs] You have to accept. If you want to imitate God,
then God is there. That is our propaganda, not this.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">
If they say artificial intelligence, it means that there is a real
intelligence. And if they’re trying to make artificial intelligence, someone
must have made real intelligence.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Prabhupāda:</span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;">
Real intelligence you see in the flower, how intelligently colorful it is made.
Every nature study. Study this machine, how intelligent. And just the hand,
coming up, this finger, because we have to capture something, the nail is
required. If it would have been all skin, you could not capture. How… And every
machine is coming automatically. You study your body. And if the same machine,
you produce a machine like that, automatically coming out, one thing, male
machine, one female machine, and they’ll bring another machine. Where is that
thing? And here God has made such a nice machine. He says, bhrāmayan
sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni [Bg. 18.61]. That is also not made by God. It is
made by God’s agent, māyā. Now see how God is intelligent. God’s servant māyā,
God says, “Give him a machine like that.” Immediately she gives, supplies.
Clearly says, bhrāmayan sar… “He wants to still travel in this material world,
bhrāmayan. He wants to go there. Then all right, give him a machine.” He’s so
kind. He’s sitting within your heart. You want to do something. And He’s so
kind, because you are son, beloved, He says, “These are not required. Better
come back. Live peacefully.” You’ll not hear: “No. I…” Just like naughty child.
“All right, Māyā, give him. Give him.” This is meaning.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Room
Conversation, 18 February 1977, Māyāpur)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-86597767180071668682024-01-23T14:42:00.004+01:002024-01-26T07:46:46.750+01:00Artificial intelligence 1. - And who has made that brain who has made the machine? <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 18pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTc60pjstP0-K9lvfscezS6K5n5QLTqfwMIUazqmQk-V5Dw5Cge6Mrp3juoEMt_xt3RfjloleB5g2FcT0BxcUtMF8KricOoEclpRAqW4tBuokrulJyvee4dQyzysT6rPnLGeWkbHOQA1Ig-MhI6Aw4vxGEcvfsHspYuBEJDl3jXSsSZOR4i4cdJqFPrGLn/s300/AC123.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTc60pjstP0-K9lvfscezS6K5n5QLTqfwMIUazqmQk-V5Dw5Cge6Mrp3juoEMt_xt3RfjloleB5g2FcT0BxcUtMF8KricOoEclpRAqW4tBuokrulJyvee4dQyzysT6rPnLGeWkbHOQA1Ig-MhI6Aw4vxGEcvfsHspYuBEJDl3jXSsSZOR4i4cdJqFPrGLn/w400-h300/AC123.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Take for example <i>buddhi. Buddhi</i> means
intelligence. And what is that intelligence? Real intelligence? Real
intelligence is to know, to understand that "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme, and I
am part and parcel." It is stated here that intelligence means <i>sukhārtha-vivecana-samatyam.</i> Suppose
one is very intelligence to drive a car. That is not...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That is material intelligence for
earning our bread. Real intelligence is <i>sukhārtha,</i> the finer
sentiments to understand the finer activities of this nature. That is
called <i>buddhi,</i> to understand how things are happening. Just
like one is considered to be intelligent when he tries to understand not this
physiological or anatomical construction of this body; he wants to see by
intelligence what is the active principle of this body that is working. That is
intelligence, not that...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Just like a child. A child sees that a
nice motorcar runs in the street, he thinks that the motorcar is running out of
its own accord. That is not intelligence. The motorcar is not running... In
spite of its... Just like here we have got this tape recorder, this microphone.
Somebody may say, "Oh, how fine discoveries are these. They are working so
nicely." But one should see that this tape recorder or this microphone
cannot work for a single moment unless a spirit soul touch it. This is
intelligence. We should not be wonderful by seeing a machine. We should try to
find out who is working the machine. That is intelligence, <i>sukhārtha-vivecanam,</i> to
see the finer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Grossly seeing, that is not
intelligence. Oh, man is working; man is living; man is writing books, oh,
wonderfully. He is scientist. But what that finer things that at once it is
vanished—the scientist becomes fool. No more scientist. Can scientist discover
something and place it before his student that "When my body will be
stopped, you inject this things, and I'll come out again"? Has scientist
discovered this thing? No. If scientist could discover such thing, then there
would have been no scarcity of scientist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Jagadish Chandra
Bose, Sir P. C. Raya and so many scientists all over the world, they have
discovered very, very... In your country, Edison. They have discovered so many
wonderful things. Oh. Then why don't you... "O Mr. Scientist, why don't
you discover something so that we can keep it as soon as your body will be
stopped, and we shall inject this scientific, and you will come out again and
work?" So this is called intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span>The scientist is working, the
philosopher is working, not out of his own accord; it is working under the
spell of material nature. Therefore in the <i>Bhagavad-gītā</i> you'll
find,</span></span><i style="text-align: center; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">prakṛteḥ
kriyamāṇāni</span></i></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ<br />
ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā<br />
kartāham iti manyate </span></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; text-align: right; text-indent: 18pt;">[</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; text-align: right; text-indent: 18pt;">Bg</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; text-align: right; text-indent: 18pt;">. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; text-align: right; text-indent: 18pt;">3.27</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c; text-align: right; text-indent: 18pt;">]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Prakṛti...</span></i><span style="color: #0c0c0c; text-align: left; text-indent: 18pt;"> By nature's law he's working. Why not everybody
scientist? Why not everybody? If it is accidental and it is automatic, why
there are so many differences? Here is a scientist; here is a fool. Why? Why
this distinction? The distinction is made by <i>prakṛti,</i> by
nature. And what is this <i>prakṛti</i>? That <i>prakṛti</i> is <i>mayādhyakṣeṇa
prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram</i> [<i>Bg</i>. 9.10]<i>.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Oh. Kṛṣṇa says, "Under My direction
this <i>prakṛti</i> is working." The <i>prakṛti,</i> nature,
is the agent. Real worker is Kṛṣṇa. We are simply instrument. That is our
position. If you have got intelligence, then you have to understand that you
are simply an instrument. Just like my hand. What is this hand? This is an
instrument. I can pick up. So I am working, not this hand is working. I am
working.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So people do not understand it. <i>Ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā.</i> By
false ego he is thinking, "Oh, I am scientist," "Oh, I am
philosopher," "I am Rockefeller," "I am businessman,"
"I am <i>svāmī,</i>" "I am this." Sometimes we think,
"I am poor. I am this. I am that." No. You are simply instrument in
the hands of Kṛṣṇa. That is intelligence. Therefore you should work as Kṛṣṇa
desires. That is real intelligence. If you work in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is
real intelligence. And if we work against Kṛṣṇa, that is foolishness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0c0c;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">That is the distinction between
intelligent and foolishness. <i>Jñānam. Jñāna</i> means knowledge.
Now, so far knowledge is concerned, here is a key packet. If you want to make
research who has made this packet, who has discovered it, in which country
first it was introduced, in what material it is made, oh, you can write volumes
of books. You can speculate in any damn thing, and you can write volumes of
books. That does not mean that you are a man of knowledge. There are so many." </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">(Lecture, Bhagavad-gita 104.4-5- </span><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Jan. 6, 1967 </span><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">New York)</span></span></p><p></p><div style="text-indent: 24px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 18pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: white; color: #4d5156;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></h1><p></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-55064564484123486712024-01-15T12:38:00.002+01:002024-01-15T12:38:25.728+01:00But how this intelligence being used?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xCQBZZHv3j3NK_tu1l7I2PWe-Mv_wlI8mtcuO2SZ8hBVJoBKnFsKoZyup5iuBZ4Y0jBJUq6nhqRS02JKviXlK_-juflBJa53ZgC4MX-NXsCAY-_GNBXpOPcZoK_DW5EGPf1vKvjim5Nv7ZWjvCkDnWR6_FnyjesJf_v6e_Esvp8M7NARqO8-crNaIbM0/s259/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9xCQBZZHv3j3NK_tu1l7I2PWe-Mv_wlI8mtcuO2SZ8hBVJoBKnFsKoZyup5iuBZ4Y0jBJUq6nhqRS02JKviXlK_-juflBJa53ZgC4MX-NXsCAY-_GNBXpOPcZoK_DW5EGPf1vKvjim5Nv7ZWjvCkDnWR6_FnyjesJf_v6e_Esvp8M7NARqO8-crNaIbM0/w320-h240/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">„You
have got this human form of body, the best body. That is the instruction of all
Vedic literature, simply stressing. But what is this material civilization?
Simply working like cats and dogs. The same eating, sleeping, sex intercourse
and defending. There are so many buildings in your city, Paris. Where is the
culture to make the human life perfect? You have got very nice building. There
is intelligence. So many nice buildings. People come to see the building. But
that is not all. Simply if you utilize your intelligence... Certainly there is
intelligence. But if you use your intelligence for the simply material
activities, then you are not intelligent. You are a fool. </span>(Lecture
on SB 2.1.6 -- Paris, June 14, 1974)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">„Similarly,
if you keep yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no chance of coming māyā
and attack you. No. That is not possible. But if you forget Kṛṣṇa, then māyā
immediately will catch you. Just like side by side there is darkness and light.
If you keep yourself light, there is no darkness, and if you keep yourself in
darkness... So you have to use your intelligence. God has given you
intelligence, mind, senses, and you have to utilize them. If you utilize, then
you become free from these clutches of māyā or being covered by the three modes
of material nature, ignorance, passion, even goodness. Even you become a very
good man, moralist, that is also a bondage. That is also your bondage. You may
have good knowledge, you may be a very good philosopher, you can understand,
you may be a very learned man to understand what is this world, what is this,
how it is working—very great scientist, advanced, educated man. That is
goodness.” </span>(Lecture
-- Montreal, October 26, 1968)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">„Prabhupāda:
That is . . . karma jagat means that if you have to raise this house, then you
have to cut the wood somewhere. You have to destroy somewhere, and then you can
make house. You have to adjust things like that. You cannot create. This house
was constructed, created, by destroying somewhere else. Is it not? So where is
your creation? Creation is God's creation. He has created everything, and if
you want to create, you have to destroy somewhere. That is karma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Puṣṭa
Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes these people are called duṣkṛtina. And you've mentioned that
the duṣkṛtina, actually he has some intelligence, just misused.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Prabhupāda:
Yes. Intelligence. After destroying the wood, you use your intelligence to
construct this house. You have intelligence, there is no doubt. Human being
must have intelligence. But that intelligence is given to him for getting out
of the clutches of birth, death, old age and disease. He's not utilizing that
intelligence for that purpose, therefore duṣkṛtina. Intelligence he has got. We
don't say that modern world, they are unintelligent, fools. No, they have got
intelligence. But the intelligence is being utilized for duṣkarya, which he
should not have done. Duṣkarya. Karya and duṣkarya—work and bad work. His
intelligence was given so that he could get relief from these clutches of
birth, death, old age and disease, but that he's not utilizing. He's opening
factory and creating another bad atmosphere. Therefore duṣkṛtina. To open a
factory requires intelligence. So many machine is working, that's all right.
But how this intelligence being used? To keep man in a hellish condition of
life. Therefore duṣkṛtina.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Garden
Discussion on Bhagavad-gita Sixteenth Chapter -- June 26, 1976, New Vrindaban)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-16599022987857439022024-01-10T10:48:00.007+01:002024-03-07T08:57:55.402+01:00Euthanasia vs. Killing<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCTqAI6XOfxwQHS8yny66r014-suXpYpv6nR_sQ3y6_HW5P4Nx4BtwOZZf9pQX0eEvCKw_A7Hewgb4w-2i5hplCu-BSz_XfwtiT0GnxpIhpndshn-NTYGk43sxXpU_fjsIdZK9xvO1YUkFJhHrDOJ2_GmRPDDWebk0tLB3LHMh9QVvTX2IGeLAL0lI5NKh/s1000/1699.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="675" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCTqAI6XOfxwQHS8yny66r014-suXpYpv6nR_sQ3y6_HW5P4Nx4BtwOZZf9pQX0eEvCKw_A7Hewgb4w-2i5hplCu-BSz_XfwtiT0GnxpIhpndshn-NTYGk43sxXpU_fjsIdZK9xvO1YUkFJhHrDOJ2_GmRPDDWebk0tLB3LHMh9QVvTX2IGeLAL0lI5NKh/w270-h400/1699.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Although
Jaḍa Bharata was forced to carry the palanquin, he did not give up his
sympathetic feelings toward the poor ants passing on the road. A devotee of the
Lord does not forget his devotional service and other favorable activities,
even when he is in a most distressful condition. Jaḍa Bharata was a qualified
brāhmaṇa, highly elevated in spiritual knowledge, yet he was forced to carry
the palanquin. He did not mind this, but while walking on the road, he could
not forget his duty to avoid killing even an ant. A Vaiṣṇava is never envious
or unnecessarily violent. There were many ants on the path, but Jaḍa Bharata
took care by looking ahead three feet. When the ants were no longer in his way,
he would place his foot on the ground. A Vaiṣṇava is always very kind at heart
to all living entities. In His sāṅkhya-yoga, Lord Kapiladeva explains: suhṛdaḥ
sarva-dehinām. Living entities assume different bodily forms. Those who are not
Vaiṣṇavas consider only human society worthy of their sympathy, but Kṛṣṇa
claims to be the supreme father of all life forms. Consequently the Vaiṣṇava
takes care not to annihilate untimely or unnecessarily any life form. All
living entities have to fulfill a certain duration for being encaged in a
particular type of material body. They have to finish the duration allotted a
particular body before being promoted or evolved to another body. Killing an
animal or any other living being simply places an impediment in the way of his
completing his term of imprisonment in a certain body. One should therefore not
kill bodies for one’s sense gratification, for this will implicate one in
sinful activity."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(SB. 5.10.2)</span></span></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-68390483196686200232023-12-28T09:37:00.006+01:002023-12-28T09:40:05.718+01:00New post will appear on January 7th 2024.<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-86858941775537423762023-12-21T19:31:00.004+01:002023-12-21T19:36:32.710+01:00But is each cell an individual living entity?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7MVD4MDqRk_jQyjarrOVffKq7-p8ZCxQytSK0vUyPme5A96QIVPmQPW1XlMs785v8YEZK6A2K8Aa1Vh474_yJBlkyDcqOIDYQiXiUPJoZ_WZyiE4Lt9j5OcOdkc-0YJmPbAx8U-0P83McEe9PFBvoRUkj1sOzcBOETQuO4varaHgAMVn6tew_IBSZwLkA/s182/images%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="182" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7MVD4MDqRk_jQyjarrOVffKq7-p8ZCxQytSK0vUyPme5A96QIVPmQPW1XlMs785v8YEZK6A2K8Aa1Vh474_yJBlkyDcqOIDYQiXiUPJoZ_WZyiE4Lt9j5OcOdkc-0YJmPbAx8U-0P83McEe9PFBvoRUkj1sOzcBOETQuO4varaHgAMVn6tew_IBSZwLkA/w320-h301/images%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: The
question that I wrote to Śrīla Prabhupāda, the answer that Śrīla Prabhupāda
gave me was that the cells in the body and the jīvātmā that resides in the
heart, they are different living entities. But my understanding was directed to
the relationship between the two, the jīvātmā in the cells and the jīvātmā in
the heart, how they are related, how they...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>They are
separate identity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: But it
looks like, though, in the material body the one cannot exist without another.
They look like interdependent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> That may be,
but still, they are individuals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: When
the jīva in the heart dies, then all the other cells in the body also have to
die.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> No.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: No,
they don't. But when the body decays, doesn't everything...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> No. Dead body
so many germs come out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: Oh.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> How it comes?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: But
that is different, though. When a body dies, then there are many germs from
outside that...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Living
entities within the body, they come out, hundreds and thousands. They have not
died. Suppose in this jungle there are so many living entities. If I die, what
has got to do with them?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: But
science tries to understand what is life and in order to do that they just want
to understand what is cell. Because science tries to understand what is life,
and in order to do that they just want to study what is the cell because cells
are the smallest living units of life. That is their understanding. So once
they understand what a cell is, then they know what life is. That is their aim.
So if the cells and the jīvātmā within the heart, they are different and they
are independent, then they cannot conceive of just having a jīvātmā in the
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> That... The
particular jīvātmā who has been given this body, he is living in the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: But
according to the scientists, our body is made up of little cells just like a
brick wall is made up of so many individual bricks. Each... Like in one piece
of skin there is...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>That's all
right. That is body. Just like I live in a house. The house is made of so many
bricks. But I am not brick.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: But
they say that...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> "They
say!" They are foolish, we always say. Because I am living in a house
consisting of so many bricks, it does not mean that I am brick.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: But
is each cell an individual living entity?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> That I do not
know. What do you mean by cell? But there are many living entities within this
body. That we know.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is
different from the concept of cell. there are many living entities like
germs...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> So concept of
cell is the cell is just like bricks. Matter and spirit, two things are there.
Either it must be matter or must be spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: But
it's seen that the scientists, they can take some skin from your body and by
putting in different solutions can keep that skin itself alive for such a long
time. They have taken the heart of a chicken out of the chicken's body and then
kept it beating for so many hours even though that heart was away from the main
chicken. Or they take some other tissue and keep it alive. So they say that
each cell is an individual living being.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> So we have no
objection.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: That is
all right. So there is a spirit soul in every...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> No, no. All
right or not all right I don't say. But if they say like that, we have no
objection<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: So the
understanding to find out what life is is just to study what a cell is. That is
their... They say that cells are composed of these molecules.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> What is the
position of the cells when the man dies?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svaupa Dāmodara: The
cells are dead. The cells that compose the body, they are dead. There are may
be new living entities coming from different parts, but the cell that composed
the human body is dead. They cannot reproduce anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> So what is
your proposal? That cell is life?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>So can you
develop life from the cells? As you said that you take the skin and you keep,
so take the cells and develop into life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: That's
called culturing of the cells. They can culture it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>That's all
right. Whether you have done it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: Well,
they have that process called cloning?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: No, no,
this is the culture. That means take a cell from a living tissue, and you
culture it and you supply the sufficient nutrients. Then theoretically they
will grow forever. They will divide. They will...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> So they will
grow to a human being?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Not a
human being, but the cells just divide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>Then an ant,
an ant?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: No.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Then what is
this? (laughter)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara:
(laughing) But the cell is still alive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>But you said
that as soon as the man dies, they also die.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is
what my question arose, how these, the relationship between the jīvātmā in
cells and the jīvātmā in the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> The
jīvātmā... If the cells are living entities, then why do they not remain? Just
like other living entities, they remain in the body and they come out. Even the
man who has died, he is not there, but the other living entities are there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: So it
seems that the cells are not independent. They are somehow controlled by the
jīvātmā or the... Of course, Paramātmā is controlling everything. But I know
sometimes the cells that compose the body of a living body, it seems that they
are not independent; they are dependent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>That may be.
But what about your cultivating living entities from the cells?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes,
that can be done. That they have already done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> "That
can be done," you say everything. But you never done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: They
call it... You know that? They call it cloning?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Cloning
is a different process, though. Cloning is just they take the life from the
genes from different species and put this together and form a new species called
hybrids of some living entity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ravīndra-svarūpa: The
scientists say that the cells reproduce not by mating but by splitting in
half...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> That is
possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: But
once Śrīla Prabhupāda told us, though, that I am in the heart and...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>I am an
individual.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda: </b>So that is my
position. I live in the heart, and I go away. Other living entities may remain
there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gurudāsa: When a heart is
transplanted does the soul stay in the heart?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: I want
to clarify another that Prabhupāda told us that compared with the cells, I am a
little bigger god, but the cells are smaller. Just like we are serving
spiritual master. Similarly, the cells are serving. They have no choice in the...<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Yes. That is
good idea. Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: So
similarly, we were discussing with the Balavanta Prabhu one day about the... He
was giving a nice example that in a kingdom where the king stays... Just like
Śrīla Prabhupāda's example: living in an apartment. Śrīla Prabhupāda and
disciples and many other living entities stay in the same apartment, but a
person, an individual, who knows his position, is to serve the order of the
head of the apartment. But somebody doesn't follow. He just goes away from the
apartment. So Balavanta was asking what is the use of that? So similarly, when
the cells... We can take out from one part of the body and can culture it, but
what is the use? It produces, but actually it's not really behaving as it
should. It has no value.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b> Yes. They are
just like machine parts. Parts and parcels, they are helping the whole machine
work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Morning Walk -- July 14, 1975, Philadelphia - detail)</span></p><br /><p></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7201916976574302008.post-63075878632910536072023-12-19T14:40:00.002+01:002023-12-19T14:40:27.270+01:00Why you create the cause of cancer disease?<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3YSjLgx6L7B8CWtyv66ryguaebeC06UGH47s8Q_YtYt8T1C60PImTcBnTpnH29UpjBXL5UHxjQY0fwSgcgYty0EUFctiNkdaZvhl1IdrPCtz6MhyOF1dSnCPt2Jz8ZkYpDAvixNS098rhYg8SSYiSQ8ck9FebUQBXwlcFOmGTN1GBE7V7lLYvoSb6PoTg/s259/let%C3%B6lt%C3%A9s%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3YSjLgx6L7B8CWtyv66ryguaebeC06UGH47s8Q_YtYt8T1C60PImTcBnTpnH29UpjBXL5UHxjQY0fwSgcgYty0EUFctiNkdaZvhl1IdrPCtz6MhyOF1dSnCPt2Jz8ZkYpDAvixNS098rhYg8SSYiSQ8ck9FebUQBXwlcFOmGTN1GBE7V7lLYvoSb6PoTg/w400-h300/let%C3%B6lt%C3%A9s%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Brahmānanda:
Do they know the cause of cancer?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Svarūpa
Dāmodara: Oh, there are several theories. (laughter)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prabhupāda:</b>
Suppose he knows the cause of cancer. What is the benefit? Neither he can stop
cancer, neither a man suffering from cancer, if it is cured, he will live
forever. That is not possible. Cancer or no cancer, a man has to die. He cannot
check death. The death may be caused, if not cancer, simply by accident you can
die. The real scientific research should be how to stop death. That is real
scientific. That we are giving. To find out some medicine for some disease,
that is not triumph. Real triumph is how to stop disease. That they cannot.
Therefore Bhagavad-gītā puts before you the real trouble is this birth, death,
old age and disease. That process we are giving. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti kaunteya (BG 4.9). After giving up this body, no more acceptance
of material body. This is real science. (break) ...suffer from cancer.
(laughter) They don't suffer from cancer. So they are in better position than
the so-called human society. They are creating causes of cancer disease and
then making research and taking Nobel Prize. How foolish society it is, this. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Why
you create the cause of cancer disease? You accept these four principles of
life—no meat-eating, no intoxication, no illicit sex—there will be no cancer.
There will be no cancer. You find out, those who are strictly on this line,
they never suffer from cancer or any disease. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Now
take for example, me. I have come here in this country for the last seven
years, 1965, and it is 1973, eight years. How many times I have gone to doctor?
That once that heart attack. That is serious; that is another thing. Otherwise
generally how many times I have gone to? I don't pay any bill of doctors. So if
we live very hygienic life, regulated life, there is no question of cancer or
any disease.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(Morning Walk -- May 4, 1973, Los Angeles)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Maricihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111170995904867525noreply@blogger.com0