# October 2 ## Spoken on October 2 *Lectures from this day: 11 recordings* --- **[1968: Lecture on Teachings of Lord Caitanya](spoken/1968/681002le.sea)** > This body is born; therefore it will die. The death is born with the birth of my body. I am increasing my age, number of years of my age, means I'm dying. But in this verse of *Bhagavad-gītā* Kṛṣṇa says *janma karma,* but never says "My death." Death cannot take place. God is eternal. You are also..., you also do not die. That I do not know. I simply change my body. > Therefore in the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is stated that *janma karma me divyaṁ yo jānāti tattvataḥ* : "Any intelligent person who can simply understand how I take my birth and how I work," *janma karma...* Now, mark this word *janma,* birth, and *karma,* work. He never says *janma mṛtyu. Mṛtyu* means death. Everything that is born, that has death also. Anything. We haven't got any experience which is born does not die. --- **[1972: Āmār Jīvan with Purport](spoken/1972/721002mu.la)** > *Bārdhakye ekhona upāya-vihīna,* "In my old age I have no other alternative now,'' *tā 'te dīna akiñcana,* "therefore by force, I have now become very humble and meek.'' *Bhaktivinoda prabhura caraṇe,* "Thus Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura is offering his statement of life's activities at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord." [end] > Śubha-kārja-śūnya*, "In my life, there is not a beat of auspicious activities,'' *sadānartha manāḥ*, "and my mind is always attracted by something mischievous.'' *Nānā duḥkhe jara jara*. "Therefore at the fag end of my life, I am almost invalid by all such sufferings.'' --- **[1972: Morning Walk](spoken/1972/721002mw.la)** > Therefore their knowledge is imperfect. *Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate*. *Jñānavān,* the wise, after many, many births' cultivation of knowledge, when he surrenders, that is practical. Simply knowledge is useless, theoretical. When he practically surrenders, that is end of knowledge. That is perfection. > That is perfection. *Satata-yuktānām,* "Twenty-four hours engaged with love and faith in My service, I give him intelligence, not to others." That is the qualification. *Buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi te yena mām upayānti.* What kind of intelligence? By which one can come back to home, back to Godhead. --- **[1972: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.27](spoken/1972/721002sb.la)** > Just like in Bible also, Jesus Christ is claimed as one with God, but at the same time different. As son, he is different. As representative of God, he is one. That is the philosophy, perfect philosophy. All living entities, anything within this manifestation, even this whole world, is one with God. *Idaṁ hi viśvaṁ bhagavān ivetaraḥ*, Nārada Muni said to Vyāsadeva. *Idaṁ hi viśvam.* This whole universe is God. *Idaṁ hi viśvaṁ bhagavān,* the Supreme Personality of Godhead, *ivetaraḥ:* but it appears like different. > Kṛṣṇa says that *imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam*. So Kṛṣṇa said this. Arjuna was playing just like ordinary man, although he is not ordinary man. Just to give us lessons, he was asking question just like ordinary man. So when Kṛṣṇa said that "I spoke this *Bhagavad-gītā* science of God, or philosophy, to Vivasvān, the sun-god," he clarified the matter. --- **[1973: Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12](spoken/1973/731002bg.bom)** > *Adhyātmā-jñānam,* to understand oneself as the spirit soul, that *jñānam. Adhyātmā-jñānam, tattva-jnanārtha-darśanam.* Philosophy should be utilized. Logic and philosophy should be utilized for self-realization, not for simply mental speculation. We find nowadays, big, big philosophers write volumes of book, simply theorizing, without any understanding of the spirit soul. Big, big philosopher. And Kṛṣṇa says that if one simply puts philosophical theories for some utopian ideas, "Now time is coming which will be like this, like that..." No. Time is there already. You cannot manufacture time like this or like that. It will go on. It is eternal. It is eternal. Just like Kṛṣṇa has said in the Second Chapter of *Bhagavad-gītā* that "Arjuna, you and Me and all the soldiers and kings who have assembled here, it is not that we did not exist in the past. We are existing now, and we shall continue to exist in the future." So this eternity of the soul we do not know. We are simply identifying ourself with this body, and we are simply interested for the bodily comforts of life. This is the civilization, going on. > Because one has got a certain type of body, his destination is already there. *Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur dehopapattaye*. We can study these things, that somebody is living in a poor slum and another man is living in a very palatial building. So simply by endeavoring that "I shall live in a palatial building, and I shall not live in this poor slum hole," it is not possible, because the destiny is there. Therefore the body is made according to our past *karma,* and that is called destiny. Your happiness and distress according to the body is already settled up. It is not possible by natural way to improve or disimprove it. It is already settled up. --- **[1975: Morning Walk](spoken/1975/751002mw.mau)** > Actually, the Supreme Lord is the source of everything. So if one is actually scientist, by his scientific explanation he will point out, "Here is the cause of all causes." By scientific knowledge he will point out that God is the origin of everything. Then his scientific study is perfect. But these rascals, they are doing the opposite, that "There is no need of God. Science is everything," although it is imperfect. That is their fault. Therefore they are rogues. They cannot prove; still, they will insist, "Yes, we shall do. We are trying," like that, and misleading people. General people, they are rascal and fools. If you mislead them, they will be misled. *Śūdra, mūḍhas.* They are to be educated. Instead of educating them, they are making them more and more fools and rascals. [break] There is utility, but they have no utility. There is some service; they carry some passengers. They are carried nowhere. Simply they mislead. [break] >spiritual knowledge. Therefore we see big, big scientists, they are thinking that combination of matter can produce life. In spite of so much advanced learning, they do not know what is life. They cannot create life; still, they will theorize. How foolish they are. And as soon as you catch his throat, "Produce life," "No, we shall do it in future." Just see. --- **[1975: Press Conference](spoken/1975/751002pc.mau)** > 'The Absolute Truth is realized in three phases of understanding by the knower of the Absolute Truth, and all of them are identical. Such phases of the Absolute Truth are expressed as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān.' [Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, First Canto, Second Chapter, eleventh verse.] These three divine aspects can be explained by the example of the sun, which also has three different aspects, namely the sunshine, the sun's surface and the sun planet itself. One who understands the sunshine only is the preliminary student. One who understands the sun's surface is further advanced. And one who can enter into the sun planet is the highest. > "Ordinary students who are satisfied by simply understanding the sunshine, its universal pervasiveness and the glaring effulgence of its impersonal nature may be compared to those who can realize only the Brahman feature of the Absolute Truth. The student who has advanced still further can know the sun disc, which is compared to knowledge of the Paramātmā feature of the Absolute Truth. And the student who can enter into the heart of the sun planet is compared to those who realize the personal features of the Supreme Absolute Truth. Therefore the *bhaktas,* or the transcendentalists who have realized the Bhagavān feature of the Absolute Truth, are the topmost transcendentalists, although all students who are engaged in the study of the Absolute Truth are engaged in the same subject matter. The sunshine, the sun disc and the inner affairs of the sun planet cannot be separated from one another, and yet the students of the three different phases are not in the same category. --- **[1975: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.5.30](spoken/1975/751002sb.mau)** > Kṛṣṇa says, "These classes of men, namely..." First is the *duṣkṛtina. Duṣkṛtina* means always engaged in sinful activities. *Kṛti. Kṛti* means very meritorious, very intelligent, *kṛti,* this word. But *duṣkṛti:* their merit is being utilized in sinful activities. They are called *duṣkṛti.* They could be utilized for making this life perfect, but instead of doing that, they are engaged in sinful activities. Sinful activities mean sense gratification. Sense gratification, they are... When one becomes very much addicted to sense gratification... The symptoms are very prominent in this age. Everyone is working very hard simply for sense gratification. And as soon as you take this life of sense gratification, you are sure to commit sinful activities. > If we don't produce food grain—you require it—and put unnecessarily men into scarcity, that is sinful. That is sinful. Everything, every instruction for our happy life and to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and make life perfect... Unfortunately, we do not know what is the perfect life. Therefore it is said here, *punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām* : "chewing the chewed." If we don't make our life perfect... Perfect means stop this business of chewing the chewed. *Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām.* Now, suppose we have got this human form of life. Now, by our pious activities we may be elevated to the higher planetary system, Svargaloka, heavenly planet. But what we shall gain there? The same sense gratification in higher standard, that's all. Just like sense gratification is there in the society of the cats and dogs, sense gratification is there in one country, in another country, but the arrangement is..., may be, little different. But the pleasure of sense gratification is the same, either you enjoy it as a dog, as a human being or as a demigod. The sense gratification pleasure is not different. It is the same. --- **[1976: Morning Walk [Partially Recorded](spoken/1976/761002mw.vrn)** > be engaged in flower business, in dress business, light and interesting to them. They should not be given any heavy work. Cooking, helping cooking, cutting the vegetables. --- **[1976: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.41–42](spoken/1976/761002sb.vrn)** > So there is sufficient information in the Vedic literature how a man should be trained up, a boy should be trained up, a girl should be trained up, so that in future they may become happy. The ultimate aim of life is how to become connected with Kṛṣṇa. That is the ultimate. **Athāto brahma-jijñāsā. If I say to anybody that "Your ultimate goal of life is to understand Kṛṣṇa, or Viṣṇu," naturally there will be inquiries: "Who is Kṛṣṇa?" "What is Kṛṣṇa?" "What does He do?" So many questions. That question is recommended in the *Vedānta-sūtra: *athāto brahma-jijñāsā. That is life. So the boys and girls should be trained up how to inquire about the ultimate goal of life, Kṛṣṇa, or Viṣṇu. That they do not know in the modern civilization. That they do not know. Not only in the modern civilization; in the past also, those who were entrapped by the modes of material nature, *ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā, the material conception of life, false ego... *Ahaṅkāra* this is called... *Ahaṅkāra* there is. But when we are in a false *ahaṅkāra,* that is our cause of all trouble, miseries. *Ahaṅkāra, ahaṅ...* If we become entrapped in false *ahaṅkāra,* then we are *vimūḍhātmā,* entrapped by nature. That is the difficulty. > Just like Uddhava. Uddhava wanted to become one grass in Vṛndāvana because the *gopīs* will trample over it. This is the highest perfection. So liberation... Liberation means *gopī-bhartuḥ pada-kamalayor dāsa-dāsa-dāsānudāsaḥ.* The more you become servant of the servant, servant of Vaiṣṇava, then your perfection is there. That is qualification. Our the Vedic injunction is just try to understand yourself, *ahaṁ brahmāsmi.* That is a fact. But if I simply try to become *ahaṁ brahmāsmi* without knowing the full philosophy, then I shall be fallen again, that "I am equal to God." *Ahaṁ brahmāsmi* means "I am the Supreme God," as the Māyāvādīs, they think that liberation means "I become one with God." No. That is not your position. You cannot become... That is another *māyā.* That is the last dictation of *māyā:* "Why you shall become the servant of *gopī-bhartuḥ*? You become God." That is *māyā.* That is the last snare of *māyā.* Therefore they fall down. *Āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ patanty adho 'nādṛta-yuṣmad-aṅghrayaḥ*. --- **[1977: Room Conversation](spoken/1977/771002r1.vrn)** > "The *paramahaṁsa* stage of existence is the highest perfectional stage of spiritual values. According to Śrīmatī Kuntīdevī, the Lord is factually understood by the *paramahaṁsas* only. As there is gradual realization of the transcendence from impersonal Brahman to localized Paramātmā to the Personality of Godhead, Puruṣottama, Lord Kṛṣṇa, similarly there is gradual promotion of one's situation in the spiritual life of *sannyāsa. Kuṭīcaka, bahūdaka, parivrājakācārya* and *paramahaṁsa* are gradual progressive stages in the renounced order of life, *sannyāsa,* and Queen Kuntīdevī, the mother of the Pāṇḍavas, has spoken about them in her prayers to Lord Kṛṣṇa* [Canto One, Chapter Eight]. The *paramahaṁsas* are generally found among both the impersonalists and the devotees, but according to *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* [as it is clearly stated by Kuntīdevī], pure *bhakti-yoga* is understood by the *paramahaṁsas,* and she has especially mentioned that the Lord descends [*paritrāṇāya sādhūnām* [[bg/4/8| ]]] especially to award *bhakti-yoga* to the *paramahaṁsas.* So ultimately the *paramahaṁsas,* in the true sense of the term, are unalloyed devotees of the Lord. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has directly accepted that the highest destination is *bhakti-yoga,* by which one accepts the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Those who accept the path of *bhakti-yoga* are the factual *paramahaṁsas.* "Since the Lord is very kind to everyone, the impersonalists..." [break] > The devotees, who are aware of His transcendental form, render Him service; therefore the Lord also reciprocates by His causeless mercy and thus delivers His devotees from all distresses. The pious men who follow the rulings of the *Vedas* are also dear to Him, and therefore the pious men of this world are also protected by Him. The impious and the nondevotees are against the principle of the *Vedas,* so such persons are always hampered from making advances in their nefarious activities. Some of them, who are specially favored by the Lord, are killed by Him personally, as in the cases of Rāvaṇa, Hiraṇyakaśipu, Kaṁsa, etc., and thus such demons get salvation and are thereby checked from further progress in their demoniac activities. Just like a kind father, either in His favor upon the devotees or His punishment of the demons, He is ever kind to everyone because He is the complete existence for all individual existence. --- ## Letters on October 2 *Letters from this day: 3* --- **[1951: Letter to Mr. Bailey](letters/1947-1965/511002_mr._bailey)** > AR-2732 of the 26th ultimo, and I am very glad to note your frankness to admit that you cannot go so far at present to disseminate the basic principles of Indian philosophies. --- **[1972: Letter to Niranjana](letters/1972/721002_niranjana)** > So, both you and Ramananda come to Vrndavana and I shall clear up everything. I am arriving there by the 15th of October. --- **[1974: Letter to Ken Kaffke](letters/1974/741002_ken_kaffke)** > The opening of the Vrindaban temple has been postponed to after March, 1975, so if you like you can come to our Gaura purnima celebration at Mayapur and then to the Vrindaban festival at that time. ---