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A great personality means to accept the supreme great; he is a great personality. Not that fool who declares himself "I am the great." He is a rascal

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"A great personality means to accept the supreme great, he is a great personality. Not that who declares himself" |"I am the great" |"He is a rascal"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

A great personality means to accept the supreme great; he is a great personality. Not that fool who declares himself "I am the great." He is a rascal. How you can be great? There are so many things to be controlled, and he declares that by some so-called gesture, moving the eyes, we find so many cheaters, or by showing some pictures(?), or by knowing some yogic principle, hypnotizing the man, he declares himself, "I am God." God is not so cheap.


So within this universe there is one only who is controlling—Yamarāja. And that also not for all. He is not controller for everyone, only for the moving. And amongst the moving, those who are acting as the sinful, their number are not as great. Just like criminals, if you go to the prison house you will find so many people. But what are the proportion? These criminals who are put in together are a very small proportion.

So just see how humbly he presents that, "I am also controller. My controlling capacity is here." And here there are such fools, if he has control over a dozen of disciples, he declares himself, "I am God." How much foolish they are, just try to understand. A dozens of fools controlled by a rascal, and he says that, "I am God. I have become God."

Therefore mahājana. Mahājana means great personality. A great personality means to accept the supreme great, he is a great personality. Not that who declares himself, "I am the great." He is a rascal. How you can be great? There are so many things to be controlled, and he declares . . . by some so-called gesture, moving the eyes, they will find so many cheaters, or by showing some . . . (indistinct) . . . or by knowing some yogic principle, hypnotizing the man, he declares himself, "I am God." God is not so cheap.

Here Yamarāja says that paro mad-anyo jagatas tasthuṣaś ca (SB 6.3.12): "The greater controller than me, He is so great that He is controlling the creation and maintenance and annihilation of this world, of this whole manifestation." Otaṁ protaṁ paṭavad yatra viśvam. Viśvam. Viśvam means the universe, the whole cluster of universes. Because we have no other information, beyond this universe what is there. That information no scientist can give you.

Page Title:A great personality means to accept the supreme great; he is a great personality. Not that fool who declares himself "I am the great." He is a rascal
Compiler:Iswaraj
Created:2017-02-24, 09:27:48
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1