751116 - Morning Walk - Bombay
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Girirāja: He said: "We don't know where the ingredients came from, but we're sure that there's . . ."
Prabhupāda: Then why do you talk nonsense? (laughter) That is another rascal. You do not know. Then what is the use of talking nonsense? You do not know wherefrom these ingredients came. That is nonsense. Our answer is, Kṛṣṇa reveals, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate (BG 10.8): "The ingredients coming from Me." Now make experiment how the ingredients are coming.
Devotee (1): But they say: "Where did Kṛṣṇa come from?"
Prabhupāda: That is Kṛṣṇa. That is Kṛṣṇa. Go to . . . by and by, you go to Kṛṣṇa, and when you don't find Kṛṣṇa's cause, that is Kṛṣṇa. Anādir ādi. He is anādi, but He is ādi. That is Kṛṣṇa.
Devotee (1): They say the original ingredients for the explosion, then, according to your definition, is Kṛṣṇa.
Prabhupāda: No, no.
Dr. Patel: You should never think like that.
Prabhupāda: Kṛṣṇa is the cause of all causes, sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam (Bs. 5.1). But He has no kāraṇa.
Dr. Patel: This is ādi-praśna. Ādi-praśna. Ma pracasva. Ādi-praśna.
Prabhupāda: No, no. He is, after all, a student here. That . . . this is Kṛṣṇa, that you go . . . just like you are caused by your father. Your father is caused by your grandfather, his father, his father, his father, his father. In this way, if you go to Kṛṣṇa, then He has no father, and that is Kṛṣṇa. So long you will find another father, then he is not supreme. And when there is no more father, then He is supreme.
Dr. Patel: It is very difficult for us to understand the divya-bhāva of Kṛṣṇa. That is why people are asking these questions, because divya-bhāva is very difficult to be understood.
Prabhupāda: Therefore it is said:
- matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā
- mitho 'bhipadyeta gṛha-vratānām
- adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisraṁ
- punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām
- (SB 7.5.30)
Those who are simply chewing the chewed, they cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. Naisaṁ matis tavad urukramāṅghrīm (SB 7.5.32).
Yaśomatīnandana: Niskiñcananam . . .
Prabhupāda: Ah. Niskiñcananaṁ mahiyasam. It has to be understood from the same thing, tattva-darśinam. Otherwise it is not possible. You cannot speculate. If you say, as Gandhi said, "My Kṛṣṇa is of my imagination," that kind of knowledge has no value. What you are, your imagination? Matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā. Parataḥ svato vā. Vidya-bhāgavatavadhiḥ. If one reads Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, then he gets the ultimate knowledge of everything. That is the ultimate end, limit of knowledge.
Dr. Patel: Tasya karyaṁ na vidyate.
Prabhupāda: Matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ . . . (SB 7.5.30) Nobody can understand Kṛṣṇa, and they are thinking, "In my imagination, Kṛṣṇa is like this." What is the value of this imagination?
Dr. Patel: That is why I said, sir, that divya-bhāva is very difficult to tell, because it is felt by the divya-bhāva itself. It cannot be felt by the . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, and therefore Kṛṣṇa said, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye (BG 7.3). Unless one is siddha, there is no question of understanding Kṛṣṇa. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye yatatām api siddhānām. Even if he is siddha he cannot understand. Out of many of them, one may understand. And they are trying to understand Kṛṣṇa by imagination. Just see the folly. Kṛṣṇa said:
- manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu
- kaścid yatati siddhaye
- yatatām api siddhānāṁ
- kaścid . . .
- (BG 7.3)
And because one is voted some big man—śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ (SB 2.3.19)—he is thinking . . . (laughter) He is thinking that, "I can imagine my Kṛṣṇa." Hare Kṛṣṇa. (laughter) (break) . . . accept the opinion of a saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ. Because public votes are there, although he is a puruṣaḥ paśuḥ, we have to accept.
So Ambarīṣa Mahārāja, you are feeling all right or not?
Ambarīṣa: Yes, I am feeling well today.
Prabhupāda: You are taking yogurt? (aside) Give him khicuṛi and yogurt.
Harikesa: He won't eat yogurt.
Ambarīṣa: No, I eat it with that śādhisav gold mixed in it.
Prabhupāda: No, no. Take yogurt with black pepper and salt. Yes.
Ambarīṣa: Oh, okay.
Prabhupāda: (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. Very good. What is your name?
Indian child: Kirtan.
Prabhupāda: Kesan?
Indian child: Kirtan.
Yaśomatīnandana: Kirtan.
Prabhupāda: Kirtan. Oh!
Girirāja: Actually, he comes and dances in ecstasy in the temple.
Prabhupāda: Very good. Kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ (CC Adi 17.31).
Girirāja: After the kīrtana we read the Kṛṣṇa book, and his parents want to leave, but he insists on staying.
Prabhupāda: Good boy. Very good.
Yaśomatīnandana: What was that, inquired?
Prabhupāda: Eh? What is that?
Yaśomatīnandana: Girirāja was saying something.
Girirāja: Oh, yes, the scientist. When the reporter asked him where the things come from, he said he doesn't know, but he's sure that he doesn't . . .
Prabhupāda: Still, he is scientist. He doesn't know. He is rascal, still he is scientist. (laughter) Just see. Contradiction. He doesn't know; still, he is scientist. One word. He doesn't know anything, but he is scientist. Just see. Maja dekho. (See the fun.) And we have to hear him—the unfortunate position. We say that "Go for scientific knowledge to a person who knows, who has seen." And this rascal, he says: "I do not know; still, I am scientist." Then what he replied? He doesn't know?
Girirāja: But he's sure that they don't need God to explain it.
Prabhupāda: That he knows, how to deny God. That he is expert. And the newspaper reporter accepted this?
Girirāja: No. He didn't express his point of view, but you could see he wasn't satisfied.
Prabhupāda: That is the position. (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.
Girirāja: Then he asked him about the future.
Prabhupāda: Future is darkness, because these are scientists. He doesn't know; still, he is scientist. Then what is the future? Future is darkness, because a person who doesn't know, he has become leader. The same thing: andha yathāndhair upanīyamānāḥ (SB 7.5.31). If a blind man, he becomes the leader of other blind men . . .
Devotee (2): Actually it's sad that if someone says there is no God, then that means that they . . .
Prabhupāda: He's a dog.
Devotee (2): He's a dog.
Prabhupāda: Yes, immediately. Anyone who says there is no God, then he, immediately he's a dog. That's all.
Yaśomatīnandana: No more words.
Prabhupāda: No more words. He is immediately a dog. That's all.
Devotee (2): If he cannot see throughout the entire universe, from one end of the universe to the other, how can he make the statement that there is no God? He cannot see. And yet they are saying: "I don't know."
Prabhupāda: This is reasonable. (break) . . . no God, it is spoken by pāgala, mad, mad. In Bengal it is said, pāgale ki na bale, chāgale ki na khāya. Pagal kya na bolta hai chagal kya na khata hai. (What a mad man does not say and what a goat does not eat.) Chāgala, goat.
Brahmānanda: "What the goat does not eat?" Is that?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Brahmānanda: "What the goat does not eat?"
Prabhupāda: It eats everything, goat.
Brahmānanda: "And what the fool will not speak?"
Prabhupāda: Yes. There is no discrimination. We can go this side. Pāgale ki na bale, chāgale ki na khāya. (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Yaśomatīnandana: Now all these pāgalas are making such a big noise all over the world.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma (SB 5.5.4). And doing all kinds of sinful activities—kurute vikarma—because they are pāgalas. Nūnaṁ pramattaḥ kurute vikarma. (pause) It is very difficult there to cross?
Indian man (3): Yes, sir. (break)
Prabhupāda: . . . ko bolta hai na kya government hai hum nahi mante hai bus ho gaya (. . . he says what kind of a government is this? I don't accept it. That's all over.)
Indian man (3): What is your idea about the secularism preached by our government of India, and the policy of secularism? What do they mean by that? That means they say that there is no place for religion.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Dharmena hina paśubhiḥ samana. As soon as there is no religion, the population—animal, that's all. That is going on. Because there was no religion, therefore the government has to declare emergency. (laughter) Because all animals. So they created first animals, then emergency. This is going on. (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Why emergency? If there is human being, then why emergency? All animals. To control the animals you require some special measure. This is the proof that they're animals. Otherwise why? (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. That is long, long ago said, dharmena hina paśubhiḥ samana: "When you give up religion, you are no better than animals."
Indian man (3): What is the harm if I become an animal also?
Prabhupāda: You are already animal. There is no question of becoming animal. You are already animal. (laughter)
Indian man (3): So what is the difference between animal and a man?
Prabhupāda: Because you do not know, therefore you are animal. Therefore you are animal. You do not know what is the difference between man and animal; therefore you are animal.
Indian man (3): Very good. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: You are good animal. (laughter)
Indian man (3): This is right answer. When you cannot differentiate between man and animal, then that means you are animal.
Prabhupāda: And you admit it—then good animal. (laughter) (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. (break) . . . who has got this bodily conception of life, he is animal. That is the definition of animal.
Indian man (3): Anyone . . .?
Prabhupāda: Who is thinking, "I am this body," he is animal.
- yasyātmā-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke
- sva-dhīḥ kalatrādiṣu bhauma ijya-dhīḥ
- yat-tīrtha-buddhiḥ salile na karhicit
- janeṣv abhijñeṣu sa eva gokharaḥ
- (SB 10.84.13)
Indian man (3): Means?
Prabhupāda: Means anyone who is thinking that, "I am this body."
Indian man (3): "I am the. . ."?
Prabhupāda: This body. And in body relationship, "She is my wife, she is my child, she is my countrymen, she is my race." So this is dehātmā-buddhiḥ. Yasyātmā-buddhiḥ . . . "This is my country." In this way one is thinking, and little more religiosity, he is going to holy place and taking bath in the river, but not to the person who knows things. Sa eva go-kharaḥ (SB 10.84.13). There are. Sa eva go-kharaḥ. Go means cow, and kharaḥ means ass. This class of men are grouped among the cows and asses.
Dr. Patel: Asses.
Indian man (3): That means they have got no . . . sthira-buddhi Sthir buddhi nahi hai unko. (They don't have firm intelligence.)
Prabhupāda: Buddhi nahi hai sthir buddhi kidhar buddhi hai ye duniya nahi chalta. Sabhi samajhta hai hum Hindu hai hum Mussalman hai, hum Indian hai, hum American hai , hum mota hai tazaa hai yehi sab wo jo soul hai usko kaun samajhta hai. "Aham Brahmasmi" ye kaun samajhta hai koi nahin. (No intelligence. Where is firm intelligence? They have intelligence, otherwise the world will not go on. Everyone understands that I am Hindu, I am Muslim, I am Indian, I am American, I am fat, I am healthy— but who understands about the soul. Aham Brahmasmi who understands this? No one.) This is animal civilization. There is no spiritual knowledge. Simply like cats and dogs they are working hard, eating, sleeping . . .
Indian man (3): Then what should be the spirit of a man? How do you call him a man?
Prabhupāda: When he knows that he is not this body—he is soul, ahaṁ brahmāsmi—then he begins to become. Then his real identity . . .
Indian man (3): That means ninety-nine, ninety percent of the people living in the world are practically animals.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Asses.
Indian man (3): Asses.
Prabhupāda: Very good analysis. Why asses? And you load the ass with as much cloth, washerman, and he cannot move. But he will go on, and the washerman will give, after that, little grass, and he will stand there up to the evening again to be loaded. The ass does not know that, "This much grass I can get anywhere. Why I have become servant of this washerman?" Therefore he is ass. He will eat two cāpāṭi, but he is working like an ass whole day.
Indian man (3): Yes. And he cannot eat more than two cāpāṭis.
Prabhupāda: That's all. So if the ass, he will eat a little grass, which can be had anywhere, but he is working for the washerman. Therefore he is ass.
Indian man (3): But there in the ass . . . there is some egoism in the human being, but that is not there in the ass.
Prabhupāda: No, no, that egoism also ass has got. That egoism is there in ass also.
Indian man (3): But how do you know it?
Prabhupāda: Any animal, he knows that, "I am ass." Dog knows, "I am dog." Similarly, if you know "I am Hindu," "I am Mussulman"—the same conception. What is the difference? If a dog thinks "I am dog," and if you think that you are Indian, then where is the difference? Simply by changing the name you become very big man? The conception is the same.
Indian man (3): That point is not clear.
Prabhupāda: It is clear. Just like two dogs. He is thinking, "I am dog of this quarter," and another dog is thinking, "I am this dog. Gow! Gow! Gow! Gow! Gow!" So what is that? Does that make any difference? Similarly, you are thinking "Indian," he is thinking "American," fighting like dogs. Where is the difference between the dog and this conception?
Indian man (3): That point is right.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Indian man (4): Kitne badi gyan ki baat hai samajhne ke liye aadmi ko . . . (Such a great concept of knowledge is there for a man to understand . . .)
Indian man (3): Krpaya hamein samajha dijiye. (Kindly explain it to me.) Make your mind understand is very problematic.
Prabhupāda: It is not problematic. It requires the association. Association, teacher, then it will be possible.
Indian man (3): Association is most necessary.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Indian man (3): Aao aur gyan ki baat sunane ko milegi. (Come, you will get to listen to more words of wisdom.)
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Indian man (3): Namaste. Acche hai? (Are you fine?)
Prabhupāda: Jaya. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Thank you. (break). . . ek dafa Hare Krishna bola na to bahut bhagyavan. Kitna paap uska nasht ho gaya (. . . once he says Hare Kṛṣṇa he becomes so fortunate. So many sins will get destroyed.) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. Reporter was not satisfied. Eh?
Brahmānanda: Girirāja? The press reporter was not satisfied.
Girirāja: No. Then he asked him about the future.
Prabhupāda: (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. So what he will . . .? He does not know. What he'll speak? (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Girirāja: He said the population will go on increasing more and more, and there won't be enough food, so everyone will starve.
Prabhupāda: He said, the scientist. Then what your scientific knowledge will help?
Brahmānanda: Well, if they drop some bombs they will reduce the population. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: That is very easy. The bomb is also ready. Everyone has got now nuclear weapon, bomb. So the scientists gave the solution. So what is the use of scientific knowledge? This is going to happen.
Brahmānanda: Actually there was one proposal, it was written in the seventeenth century in England by one famous writer that, "Because the population is increasing so much, therefore if we become cannibals, then the population will be maintained."
Yaśomatīnandana: So who will eat who?
Brahmānanda: Well, that he didn't say.
Prabhupāda: These are scientists, big men.
Girirāja: So the reporter asked him what were his personal plans for the future. So he said he likes one girl, so he wants to get married, and that's all.
Brahmānanda: Increase the population. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: Our plan is the best, because before meeting such catastrophes, go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the best. They are seeing the catastrophe, but they have no way to escape. That is the difference between them and ourselves. (aside) Jaya. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. (break) . . . said that, "There is no need of God, but there is need of girl, of a girl." He said that. Yes. Then what is the difference between a scientist and a dog? The dog also does not know what is God, but another female dog he wants. Huh? What is the difference? Sa eva go-kharaḥ (SB 10.84.13). Then it is proved that he is no better than animal. The animal requires another opposite sex, but he does not know God. Then where is the difference? (break)
Brahmānanda: You know that the Detroit house, the house in Detroit? The president, he wrote in his letter—I neglected to ask you—he wanted to have a name for that temple.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Brahmānanda: So Ambarīṣa Prabhu says that he was thinking of New Keśighāṭa, because it's situated near the water.
Prabhupāda: Keśighāṭa we have already given in New . . .
Ambarīṣa: It's right on a river. (break)
Prabhupāda: . . . name that . . . Kṛṣṇa . . . they brought the assembly house from heaven and located in Dvāraka. There is a name like that. I shall give you the name. (break)
Brahmānanda: . . . robi. You can give a name for Nairobi mandir.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (break) Devasadan.
Brahmānanda: Devasadan. What is the meaning?
Prabhupāda: Celestial building.
Ambarīṣa: What does it mean?
Brahmānanda: Celestial.
Prabhupāda: D-e-v-a-s-a-d-a-n. Devasadan. (break)
Brahmānanda: . . . Devasadan?
Prabhupāda: No. Devasadan.
Brahmānanda: Just Devasadan.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (break)
Brahmānanda: . . . Vṛndāvana.
Prabhupāda: Vṛndāvana is not black. (laughter) People have come less due to candra-grahana. (break) Kirātuddhara.
Brahmānanda: Kirāta?
Prabhupāda: Uddhara.
Brahmānanda: Uddha. Uddha means?
Prabhupāda: Uddhara means deliverance.
Brahmānanda: Okay. "Delivering the kirātas." They might object to that. (laughing) They might object to that.
Prabhupāda: They might object?
Brahmānanda: The Africans, if they ask what is the meaning of that, they might object.
Prabhupāda: No, you can say kirāta means African. Actually that is the meaning. Kirāta-hūṇāndhra-pulinda-pulkaśā ābhīra-śumbhā yavanāḥ khasādayaḥ ye 'nye ca pāpā . . . (SB 2.4.18).
Yaśomatīnandana: Yad-apāśrayāśrayāḥ.
Prabhupāda: Śuddhyanti.
Yaśomatīnandana: What is this ābhīras? Ābhīra?
Prabhupāda: Ābhīra, this dacoit class.
Yaśomatīnandana: Dacoits.
Prabhupāda: Just like the queens of Dvāraka were plundered by the ābhīra. That's why. (pause) There is no pasturing ground. Otherwise this cow would have been taken there. He would have eaten grass, that's all. What she will eat here in the town? Even Sumati Morarji's cows, they are not healthy . . . (indistinct Hindi) (pause) It appears to be so, because in the evening the milk, whatever you give me, that appears to be powdered milk.
Brahmānanda: It was powdered milk?
Prabhupāda: It appears. Now it is confirmed.
Yaśomatīnandana: Maybe we should have our men stand there and milk and get directly from . . .
Prabhupāda: Everyone will say: "We should have," but who will have? There is no men. As soon as try to find out a man, there is no man. Simply we shall suggest, "We should have." That's all. And who is the man, that is not to be found, although we have got so many men. Why this deficiency? Everyone suggests that "There should have been a man," but who is that man? No man. As soon as try to find out who is that man, no man. (pause) Find out a man immediately. Not "should have." Immediately you must have. (break)
Brahmānanda: . . . means?
Prabhupāda: Means African.
Brahmānanda: African? No other meaning to it? No other meaning?
Prabhupāda: American? (laughter) (end)
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