You cannot directly approach God. That is useless. You have no power to approach God directly. That is not possible. Let them study this philosophy. We have got books, enough books. One cannot read all these books even throughout whole life

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"You cannot directly approach God. That is useless. You have no power to approach God directly. That is not possible" |"Let them study this philosophy. We have got books, enough books. One cannot read all these books even throughout whole life"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1970 Conversations and Morning Walks

You cannot directly approach God. That is useless. You have no power to approach God directly. That is not possible. Let them study this philosophy. We have got books, enough books. One cannot read all these books even throughout whole life.

701217 - Conversation - Surat:

Prabhupāda: That is the same . . .

Guest (1): Māyāvādīs may die like that, imagining . . . āra saba bhṛtya (CC Adi 5.142).

Prabhupāda: Yes. They are . . . inquiring after Brahma, but nobody could give them. So they have got it. Now they are taking it. This is stage. (Hindi: In our country big kings like Maharaj Yudhistira . . . (indistinct) . . .) That is the stage, sannyāsa stage. So these hippies, they are also giving up all work—that is sannyāsa—but there is no guide. There is no guide.

And because they have no guide, therefore their intelligence is not being purified. Simply there is a, I mean to say, a propensity for renunciation, tyāga. But tyāga (Hindi: . . . (indistinct) . . . that I don”t know.) after renunciation, what is the next stage they do not know. That we are giving: "Yes, come here. Stand here." (laughs) Is it not?

Haṁsadūta: Yes. Exactly.

Prabhupāda: They are very successful. They are standing: "We don't want this." But they must stand. So they could not give the standing. But here is . . . oh, here is standing. Therefore this movement is successful. They want some standing. And where is the standing? (Hindi) So unless you get a solid ground you cannot stand. You'll fall down.

Guest (2) (Indian man): . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Prabhaviṣṇave namaḥ. Kirāṭa-huṇāndhra-pulin . . . (SB 2.4.18) Huh? (Hindi: They offer obeisances to our guru at first) . . . (indistinct)

(break) . . . obeisance to guru. Then his guru, then his guru, up to Kṛṣṇa. (Hindi: This is called . . .) paramparā system. You cannot directly approach God. That is useless. You have no power to approach God directly. That is not possible. Guru kṛṣṇa kṛpayā (CC Madhya 19.151). (Hindi: In this movement as many experienced Indians are there . . .) Let them study this philosophy. We have got books, enough books. One cannot read all these books even throughout whole life. (break)

Guest (2): I am going to . . .

Prabhupāda: (Hindi: Don’t just address someone . . .) You do actually work.

Guest (2): So I can also accompany you to certain places like . . .

Prabhupāda: You arrange. We can go there with all party. Now here in this part . . . you can get. Immediately we can go. From India . . .

Guest (2): From India, yes.

Prabhupāda: . . . we can go to Indonesia.

Guest (2): At the end of March we can go there.

Prabhupāda: That's all right. You also come. Arrange like that. After finishing our program in Simla, let us go to Indonesia. You do it.

Guest (2): . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: That is a fact. At least at the present moment nobody can give better thing than what I am giving to the world.