View source for My request, especially to the Indians, that do not neglect your culture, the Vedic culture. Vedic culture means Krsna consciousness. There is no other different meaning of Vedic culture

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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div class="heading">Bhārata-bhūmi is puṇya-bhūmi, the land of piety. We should understand this. After many pious activities... I have traveled all over the world. They have got enough money, enough material facilities, but still this Vedic culture is different. It is so high. And it is taken still in estimation, in adoration, all over the world. So my request, especially to the Indians, that do not neglect your culture, the Vedic culture. Vedic culture means Kṛṣṇa consciousness. There is no other different meaning of Vedic culture.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Bombay, November 2, 1970|Lecture -- Bombay, November 2, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
So ''bhārata-bhūmi'' is ''puṇya-bhūmi'', the land of piety. We should understand this. After many pious activities . . . I have traveled all over the world. They have got enough money, enough material facilities, but still, the Vedic culture is different. It is so high. And it is taken still in estimation, in adoration, all over the world. So my request, especially to the Indians, that do not neglect your culture, the Vedic culture. Vedic culture means Kṛṣṇa consciousness. There is no other different meaning of Vedic culture. In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' you have seen:

:''sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo''
:''mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca''
:''vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyam . . .''
:([[Vanisource:BG 15.15 (1972)|BG 15.15]])

Kṛṣṇa is to be understood. Vedic culture means to understand Kṛṣṇa, what is Kṛṣṇa. Vedic culture . . . all the ''Vedas'', they are meaning how to understand Kṛṣṇa. ''Vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva''. ''Vedānta''. ''Vedānta'' means . . . ''Veda'' means knowledge, and ''anta'' means the end. There is . . . everything has got the ultimate, the supreme summum bonum. The summum bonum of Vedic knowledge or ''Vedānta'' is Kṛṣṇa. So that ''Vedānta'' knowledge, Kṛṣṇa personified, He is explaining Himself in the ''Bhagavad-gītā''.

Everyone is searching after God: "Where is God? What is God? What is the meaning of God? What God does? What is the power of God?" So many things. So everything is explained in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'', what is God. Sarvasya . . . in the ''Vedānta''-''sūtra'' it is said what is God. That is the first question of the ''Vedānta''-''sūtra'': ''athāto brahma jijñāsā''. The human life especially meant for inquiring about God. Unfortunately, people, instead of inquiring God, they are very much eager now to inquire about dog. This is the position. There are big, big dog shows in India. At the present moment we have seen many places.</p>
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