Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 24, 2009 at 10:15am
Share: H.H.Satsvarupa Dasa GoswamiYesterday I heard Prabhupada give a lecture on Bhagavad-gita 7.1 on January 25, 195, in Hong Kong. Arjuna is hearing from Krishna. How fortunate Arjuna is that he’s directly hearing from Bhagavan. There are two types of living beings—Bhagavan and living beings like us. He is also a living being. If we say, “Bhagavan is niraka,” it means we have no knowledge of Krishna, or He has a different body from the one we have. We have a spiritual form. If we think that we are this body, we are thinking that we are different from one another. We want to live together peacefully. Unless we have spiritual understanding, we will have the bodily concept and be no better than cats and dogs. A person who thinks that he is the body of kapa, vita, and vayu is mistaken. The first part of self-realization is to know that I am not this body. The spirit soul is in the body. He lives in the body like a grhastha lives in his house. We change from one apartment to another, and we change from one body to another. People don’t have even this preliminary knowledge.The process can be known by yogis. At the end of the sixth chapter, Krishna says, “Of all yogis, the one who is most intimately united with Me in yoga is the best of all.” We are interlinked with God. We can’t see Him, just as at night we can’t see the sun. The mayavadis say that there is God, but He has no form. The voidists say more clearly, “There is no God.” Both deny the existence of God. Bhagavan and Krishna are the same person. He’s the person with six opulences—all riches, intelligence, beauty, reputation, strength, and renunciation.The symptoms of the living entities and Bhagavan are practically the same. We all have creative energy, but He is very great, and we are small. He creates by His energies. We perspire a few ounces of water, he produces vast oceans. We can create a small airship, and Bhagavan has created planets and the sky in which they fly. He creates by His breathing process. We become proud to create a skyscraper, He creates by His breathing.Lord Caitanya says anyone who knows something of Krishna is a guru. Scientists say nature is producing, but they don’t know Krishna is superintending nature. How can you say that matter works automatically? The highest energy in the universe is the sun. It is operating under the sun deity, and he is under Krishna. This is Vaivasvatu Manu period of the sun rulership. One has to learn the Vedas from the spiritual master. If you want to know Bhagavan, you have to transfer your attraction to meditation on Bhagavan. It is done not by force but by attachment. If you want to know Bhagavan, you have to transfer your attachment to Krishna. The mind should be attached to Him.
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