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Actually those who are followers of Vedas, they worship Krsna, only Krsna or Visnu. Tad visnoh paramam padam (Rg Veda 1.22.20). Rg mantra

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"Actually those who are followers of Vedas, they worship Kṛṣṇa, only Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ (Ṛg Veda 1.22.20)" |"Ṛg mantra"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1969 Conversations and Morning Walks

Sometimes people who do not know the purpose of Vedas, they say: "The Hindus are worshiper of many gods." That is nonsense. Actually those who are followers of Vedas, they worship Kṛṣṇa, only Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ (Ṛg Veda 1.22.20).

Ṛg mantra. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sūrayaḥ. And in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyam (BG 15.15).

I've several times narrated the story of that hunter. He was animal killer, and he used to enjoy by killing the animal half. But when he became a devotee, he was not prepared to kill even an ant. Who taught him? Nobody taught him, but he was simply chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. That's all. So if you actually making progress in devotional service, you are constantly in touch with the purest.

Kṛṣṇa is the purest. Bhagavad-gītā, it is said, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhama pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān (BG 10.12).

"You are the paraṁ brahma, Supreme Brahman." brahma . . . every living entity is brahma, but He is paraṁ brahma, the leader of the brahma. Just like the president is the first citizen of the state, similarly, Kṛṣṇa is also a living entity, but supreme living entity, just like the first citizen. So similarly, every living entity is brahma, but paraṁ brahma is one. That is Kṛṣṇa.

And therefore in the Brahma-saṁhitā it is confirmed, īśvaraḥ paramaḥ krsnaḥ (Bs. 5.1).

Kṛṣṇa is . . . everyone īśvara, more or less, controller. Lord Śiva, Lord Brahmā, Indra, Varuṇa, Vāyu, Candra, Sūrya, there are so many. They're all demigods, say, almost God. But they are not Supreme God. Supreme God is one.

Sometimes people who do not know the purpose of Vedas, they say: "The Hindus are worshiper of many gods." That is nonsense. Actually those who are followers of Vedas, they worship Kṛṣṇa, only Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ (Ṛg Veda 1.22.20).

Ṛg mantra. Tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sūrayaḥ. And in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyam (BG 15.15).

What is the purpose of Vedas? To understand Kṛṣṇa. One who does not understand Kṛṣṇa, his Vedānta philosophy is nonsense. However you may advertise that "I am Vedāntist," is a pakkā nonsense (chuckles), because he has not attained the perfection of Vedic knowledge.

The perfection of Vedic knowledge is to know Kṛṣṇa, and that is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante (BG 7.19): after many, many births.

Jñānavān. Jñānavān means Vedāntist. Not . . . they have made it, that Vedāntist . . . Vedāntist . . . Vaiṣṇavas, they are also Vedāntist, but it has become a common sense, a common affair that the impersonalists, they are called Vedāntists. Because, due to Śaṅkarācārya's propaganda, they have made their position as Vedāntists. But common men, they do not know that the Vaiṣṇavas are the best Vedāntists.

We shall discuss Vedānta here also. Vedānta . . . in Rāmānuja-bhāṣya there is . . . perhaps you know, in your country, there is Rāmānuja-bhāṣya Vedānta. Madhvācārya, he has also written Vedānta-bhāṣya, not only Śaṅkarācārya. But because the Vaiṣṇavas, they know bhāṣyam brahma-sūtrāṇām: the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the actual explanation of Vedānta. So therefore they take more interest in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, because that is the actual explanation of Vedānta.

Page Title:Actually those who are followers of Vedas, they worship Krsna, only Krsna or Visnu. Tad visnoh paramam padam (Rg Veda 1.22.20). Rg mantra
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-19, 08:05:21
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
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