Obstinacy (Lectures)

Expressions researched:
"obstinacies" |" obstinacy" |" obstinancy" |" obstinate"

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

So anyone who is actually serious about understanding about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no difficulty. But because we are obstinate, because we are sinful, because we are lowest of the mankind, because our knowledge has been taken away by māyā, and because we are atheists, we do not accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality. Otherwise, there is no reason.

Lecture on BG 2.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 7, 1972: Kṛṣṇa personally says that mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya: [Bg. 7.7] "There is no more superior element above Me." Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ [Bg. 10.8]. "I am the origin of everything." Aham ādir hi devānām [Bg 10.2]. Then... There are so many statements, "Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." So anyone who is actually serious about understanding about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no difficulty. But because we are obstinate, because we are sinful, because we are lowest of the mankind, because our knowledge has been taken away by māyā, and because we are atheists, we do not accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality. Otherwise, there is no reason.