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If you don't use your intelligence for understanding Krsna, you are nothing but cats and dogs. Krpana. They are called krpana. Krpana means miser

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"if you don't use your intelligence for understanding Kṛṣṇa, you are nothing but cats and dogs. Kṛpaṇa. They are called kṛpaṇa. Kṛpaṇa means miser"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

You are very much proud of your intelligence. Just see their intelligence. Everyone is intelligent. Therefore actual intelligence is he who knows Kṛṣṇa. He does not know Kṛṣṇa. He has got intelligence—you cannot deny that—but he cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. That is the defect. You have got intelligence; you can understand Kṛṣṇa. So if you don't use your intelligence for understanding Kṛṣṇa, you are nothing but cats and dogs. Kṛpaṇa. They are called kṛpaṇa. Kṛpaṇa means miser. One has got money but he does not know how to utilize it, he is called kṛpaṇa, miser.

You are very much proud of your intelligence. Just see their intelligence. Everyone is intelligent. Therefore actual intelligence is he who knows Kṛṣṇa. He does not know Kṛṣṇa. He has got intelligence—you cannot deny that—but he cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. That is the defect. You have got intelligence; you can understand Kṛṣṇa. So if you don't use your intelligence for understanding Kṛṣṇa, you are nothing but cats and dogs. Kṛpaṇa. They are called kṛpaṇa. Kṛpaṇa means miser. One has got money but he does not know how to utilize it, he is called kṛpaṇa, miser.

They are so rascal that they cannot conceive that there is something as God and He can be known. Hopeless. That is the real point. Otherwise, why so many scientists are . . .? They know, "This is idea only. There is nothing like God. So let us put our theories." That's all. That is your business, theology. They are so rubbish. That was the first publication in (the Village) Voice paper. They wrote when I first began in 1965 that "We thought that God is dead, but Swāmījī has brought God in kīrtana." They admitted this. I think the paper, you have got copy. You can see. It said exactly like this, that "We thought God is dead, but here we see, Bhaktivedanta Swami has brought God in kīrtana." That's it.

Page Title:If you don't use your intelligence for understanding Krsna, you are nothing but cats and dogs. Krpana. They are called krpana. Krpana means miser
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-08-29, 19:35:47.000
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1