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<div class="heading">Now here I am sitting, New York, a very great, the world's greatest city, so magnificent city, but my heart is always hankering after that Vṛndāvana. I shall be very happy to return to my Vṛndāvana, that sacred place.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.11 -- New York, March 4, 1966|Lecture on BG 2.11 -- New York, March 4, 1966]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So such kind of man is considered as ass. Sa eva go-kharaḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]]). Go-khara. Go-khara. Go means cow or..., and khara means ass. So practically the whole world is moving as the civilization of cow and asses because the whole thing is identification with this... The center is this body, and expansion of the body, the attraction, whole attraction is there. Yes? You want to...?</p>
<p>Woman: Yes. In the Indian places known as sacred places...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Sac... Yes.</p>
<p>Woman: ...isn't ...sacred places...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Woman: ...isn't it also a fact that there is more magnetism there because of the meeting of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Certainly.</p>
<p>Woman: ...saints and more people...?(?)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Certainly. Certainly. Certainly. Therefore the place itself has got some magnetism. You see?</p>
<p>Woman: Yes. And when...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like at Vṛndāvana, at Vṛndāvana... That is practical. Now here I am sitting, New York, a very great, the world's greatest city, so magnificent city, but my heart is always hankering after that Vṛndāvana.</p>
<p>Woman: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. I am not happy here.</p>
<p>Woman: Yes, I know.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I shall be very happy to return to my Vṛndāvana, that sacred place. "But then why you are...?" Now, because it is my duty. I have brought some message for you people. Because I am ordered by superior, my spiritual master, that "Whatever you have learned, you should go to the Western countries, and you must distribute this knowledge." So in spite of all my difficulties, all my inconveniences, I am here because I am in duty. I, I... That is my personal convenience, if I go and sit down at Vṛndāvana, I shall be very comfortable there. And I'll be, I'll have no anxiety, nothing of the sort. You see? But I have taken all the risk in the old age because I am in duty-bound. I am in duty-bound. So I have to execute my duty in spite of all my inconveniences. That is the idea.</p>
<p>So this is the whole thing, the whole basic principle of spiritual advancement of knowledge. One should first be convinced that he is not this body. He is not this body. Then other spiritual knowledge will begin. This is the basic principle. You'll find it. You'll find it in the Bhagavad-gītā that this situation of spiritual life is called brahma-bhūtaḥ. Brahman.
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