All truth

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"all truth"

SB Canto 6

SB 6.9.37, Purport: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of everything, including all knowledge, all truth and all contradictions. The example cited herein is very appropriate. A rope is one truth, but some mistake it for a snake, whereas others know it to be a rope. Similarly, devotees who know the Supreme Personality of Godhead do not see contradictions in Him, but nondevotees regard Him as the snakelike source of all fear.

SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13

SB 10.2.26, Translation: The demigods prayed: O Lord, You never deviate from Your vow, which is always perfect because whatever You decide is perfectly correct and cannot be stopped by anyone. Being present in the three phases of cosmic manifestation-creation, maintenance and annihilation—You are the Supreme Truth. Indeed, unless one is completely truthful, one cannot achieve Your favor, which therefore cannot be achieved by hypocrites. You are the active principle, the real truth, in all the ingredients of creation, and therefore you are known as antaryāmī, the inner force. You are equal to everyone, and Your instructions apply for everyone, for all time. You are the beginning of all truth. Therefore, offering our obeisances, we surrender unto You. Kindly give us protection.

Lord Viṣṇu, Brahmā thus realized, is the reservoir of all truth, knowledge and bliss.

SB 10.13.54, Purport: “The seriously inquisitive student or sage, well equipped with knowledge and detachment, realizes that Absolute Truth by rendering devotional service in terms of what he has heard from the Vedānta-śruti.” (Bhāg. 1.2.12) The word śruta-gṛhītayā refers to Vedānta knowledge, not sentimentality. Śruta-gṛhīta is sound knowledge. Lord Viṣṇu, Brahmā thus realized, is the reservoir of all truth, knowledge and bliss. He is the combination of these three transcendental features, and He is the object of worship for the followers of the Upaniṣads. Brahmā realized that all the different forms of cows, boys and calves transformed into Viṣṇu forms were not transformed by mysticism of the type that a yogī or demigod can display by specific powers invested in him. The cows, calves and boys transformed into viṣṇu-mūrtis, or Viṣṇu forms, were not displays of viṣṇu-māyā, or Viṣṇu energy, but were Viṣṇu Himself. The respective qualifications of Viṣṇu and viṣṇu-māyā are just like those of fire and heat. In heat there is the qualification of fire, namely warmth; and yet heat is not fire. The manifestation of the Viṣṇu forms of the boys, cows and calves was not like the heat, but rather like the fire—they were all actually Viṣṇu. Factually, the qualification of Viṣṇu is full truth, full knowledge and full bliss.

SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)

SB 12.8.44, Translation: Therefore I worship Your lotus feet, having renounced my identification with the material body and everything else that covers my true self. These useless, insubstantial and temporary coverings are merely presumed to be separate from You, whose intelligence encompasses all truth. By attaining You—the Supreme Godhead and the master of the soul—one attains everything desirable.

Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead

Krsna Book 13: By the influence of Lord Viṣṇu, all subordinate mystic powers were engaged in His worship. He was being worshiped by time, space, the cosmic manifestation, reformation, desire, activity and the three qualities of material nature. Lord Viṣṇu, Brahmā also realized, is the reservoir of all truth, knowledge and bliss. He is the combination of three transcendental features, namely eternity, knowledge and bliss, and He is the object of worship by the followers of the Upaniṣads.

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Do you accept all truth?

Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- Mauritius, October 5, 1975:

Indian man (2): In your lecture, Swamiji, if I don’t mistake, you have mentioned many authorities, beginning with the Veda, Brahma-sūtra, Bhagavad-gītā or wisdom of the Mahābhārata. Do you accept all truth?

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.

Indian man (2): Or are they stories? (?)

Prabhupāda: Yes. Because it is given by Vyāsadeva, therefore it is also authority.

Indian man (2): We have all listened to you very attentively.

Prabhupāda: Rāmāyaṇa, Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, that is also authority.

Just like before the high court judge you promise, “Yes I’ll speak... Whatever I’ll speak in this court, it is all truth.” So this promise the judge knows, and he gives his judgment on that. Similarly, these promises must be kept; otherwise it will be useless.

Lecture on SB 1.16.35 -- Hawaii, January 28, 1974: initiation means by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa though His agent, the spiritual master, you are getting the seed of bhakti-latā. So you have to take care of yourself by the instruction. Not that, “Now I have got a spiritual master and I have got the initiation, my business is finished. Let me do all nonsense.” No. This initiation process, we take promise from you that no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling, no intoxication—before the fire. The fire ceremony means, fire is also representation of yajña-puruṣa, and through fire, the yaj\ va-puruṣa eats, puruṣottama. So there is fire, there is spiritual master, there is śāstra, there is Kṛṣṇa, before—they are all witness. Just like before the high court judge you promise, “Yes I’ll speak... Whatever I’ll speak in this court, it is all truth.” So this promise the judge knows, and he gives his judgment on that. Similarly, these promises must be kept; otherwise it will be useless. That is your business, the same thing, guru-kṛṣṇa..., that by the mercy of guru, by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, you get the thing. Now to use the thing properly, that will depend on you. Guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya bhakti-latā-bīja. I can give you very nice thing, but you keep it locked up in your treasury and never use it, then what will you do? Mālī haya sei bīja kare āropaṇa. You have to sow it and pour water and see that it is nicely growing. This..., that is very nicely described in rupa-śikṣā, mālī hay sei bīja kare āropaṇa. So don’t think that after the official ceremony of initiation your business and my business is finished. No. The business begins. It is not the finishing; it is the beginning. So if you don’t go farther, ādau guru-āśrayaḥ... The beginning is to take shelter of guru. That is the beginning. And, adau guru-āśrayaḥ, then the student must be very inquisitive, sad-dharma-pṛcchā. Sādhu-mārga-anugamanam. You’ll find all these things, instruction, in The Nectar of Devotion. They are there.

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures

You may not have sufficient intelligence, but if you go deep into the matter you will find it is all truth: “Yes, it is all right.” That is called Vedic injunction.

Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 22.5 -- New York, January 7, 1967: There are two kinds of Vedic literature. One is called śruti, and the other is called smṛti. Śruti means the original Vedic injunction which is coming through disciplic succession beginning from Kṛṣṇa down to this day. There are certain axiomatic truths which is called Vedic injunction. The axiomatic truth, as I have given you several times example that cow dung is pure... Now, your reason is, “Oh, you say the Vedic injunction that if you touch stool of any animal you have to take your bath, purify yourself. And the Vedic injunction says cow dung is pure. Oh, this is contradictory.” No. Not contradictory. This is injunction. People are actually accepting this, no argument, and they are benefited by it. So axiomatic truth. How it is truth? You may not have sufficient intelligence, but if you go deep into the matter you will find it is all truth: “Yes, it is all right.” That is called Vedic injunction. So you cannot argue. You have to accept as it is. You cannot interpret. What education we have got, what intelligence, that we can interpret on Vedic injunction? No. It should be accepted as it is. That is called Vedic injunction. This is called śruti. You have to simply hear and act accordingly. That is called Vedic. And smṛti. Smṛti means if you are learned scholar in the Vedic injunction, if you have heard from the bona fide souls, and if you are convinced, then if you write something, that is smṛti. You cannot write nonsense. You have to write something which corroborates with the Vedic injunction. That is called smṛti. You cannot manufacture anything. You should always remember that “I am a tiny brain here, so I have to receive knowledge from superior sources.” Then whatever knowledge you have received, if you can expand that in your, by your, I mean to say, capacity, that is called smṛti.

Philosophy Discussions

So to exist, self-preservation, that is the basic principle of all truth.

Philosophy Discussion on Martin Heidegger:

Prabhupāda: Yes. Without being, how there can be truth? To be is truth. “I am,” this is truth. I exist, that is truth. If I don’t exist, then where is truth?

ātmānaṁ sarvato rakṣet

tato dharmaṁ tato dhanam

ātmānaṁ vikṛti sati

tato kutaṁ tato dharmam

Ātmā, my identity, if I protect, then I can protect my religion, I can protect my riches. And if I cannot protect myself, then where is my riches? Where is my religion? That is our Vedic understanding. So to exist, self-preservation, that is the basic principle of all truth.

Śyāmasundara: He says that the understanding of my existence, of my being here, is truth. So when this, when all the details of why I am here and what I am here for become revealed, that is truth.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Because I am true, therefore why I am here, that is truth. The basic principle is “I am truth.” Therefore “Why I am here?” This is intelligent question. So that... These questions was asked by Sanātana Gosvāmī to Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The first question: “Actually what I am? I don’t want miserable condition of life, but this world is full of miserable condition of life. So why this is?” This is actually human understanding, when one comes to this enquiry that “I do not want any miserable condition of life, but why this miserable condition of life is forced upon me?”

The phenomenological ego becomes a fundamental fact of the universe in which all truth is found.

Philosophy Discussion on Edmund Husserl:

Prabhupāda: That means he knows that he has got another vision.

Śyāmasundara: Yes. But he’s still dealing on the lowest level now, just to really understand things (?). He says that this ego as truer subjectivity—that is the understanding that “I am”—is the wonder of wonders, and he considers that it is a mystery that the world should contain a being which is aware of its own existence. The phenomenological ego becomes a fundamental fact of the universe in which all truth is found. In other words, beginning with this understanding that “I am existing,” that “I am this,” becoming aware of myself, this is the springboard or launching pad to know the truth. And an animal, he does not have that knowledge, subjective...

Prabhupāda: So how you developed that knowledge, better knowledge than...?

Śyāmasundara: That is the mystery.

Prabhupāda: ...better knowledge than the animal?

Śyāmasundara: That is what he calls the mystery. That gradually that...

Prabhupāda: Then next mystery will be: there is somebody who is better than you.

Śyāmasundara: He comes to that conclusion.

Prabhupāda: Then it is better to consult that better than you. Why you shall go down to the animal status?

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Lord Viṣṇu, Brahmā also realized, was the reservoir of all truth, knowledge and bliss.

Morning Walk -- April 16, 1974, Bombay:

Dr. Patel: This scene and all those things showed to Brahmā was to teach him a sort of lesson to take out his ego from him.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That was the purpose. It was not that Brahmā was degraded, but Kṛṣṇa is merciful upon Brahmā and Indra. Hm. Go on.

Girirāja: “Lord Viṣṇu, Brahmā also realized, was the reservoir of all truth, knowledge and bliss. He is the combination of three transcendental features, namely eternity, knowledge and bliss. He is the object of worship by the followers of the Upaniṣads. Brahmā realized that all the different forms of cows, boys and calves transformed into Viṣṇu forms were not transformed by a mysticism of the type that a yogi or demigod can display by specific powers invested in him. The cows, calves and boys transformed into viṣṇu-mūrtis, or Viṣṇu forms, were not displays of viṣṇu-māyā, or Viṣṇu energy, but were Viṣṇu Himself. The respective qualifications of Viṣṇu and viṣṇu-māyā are just like fire and heat. In the heat there is...” [break]

Dr. Patel: (Sanskrit) [break] So you stop. You stop only.

Prabhupāda: Give up, give up the result.

Dr. Patel: That is what the Bhagavad-gītā says. [break]

Prabhupāda: ...kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ,...

Dr. Patel: Sa sannyāsī ca yogi ca.

Prabhupāda: Go on.

Girirāja: “The transcendental form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is perfect or so great that the impersonal followers of the Upaniṣads cannot...” [break]

Prabhupāda: Sometimes we...

Dr. Patel: First reading you don’t mind following.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So after all, we have got still the material body. Sometimes we get tired. That is also fortune. [break] That is the advantage of human life. You can check.

Dr. Patel: Particular intelligence is given to human being?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: The elephant has got so much intelligence, they say, as good as human being.

Prabhupāda: Intelligence... Not only intelligence. Human life has got the discriminating power. Sad-asat. (Indians speaking) [break] ...infected, how your medicine will be sold? [break] ...merchant, I will say like that. [break] Since we are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, then bahyābhyantaraṁ śuciḥ. We are... What is called? Prophylactic, prophylactic.

So we must come to the truth. So we must find out first of all truth. Then we discuss the other, subordinate things.

Room Conversation with Roger Maria leading writer of communist literature -- June 12, 1974, Paris:

Pṛthu Putra: He says that the answer of that is very often come, although it doesn’t have to come with a name of God because the name of God is very often utilized to mystify the people.

Yogeśvara: In other words, he’s saying, “I know what you want to get me to say. You want me to say that the center is God.” But he’s saying, “I’d rather not say that because that’s too mystical.”

Prabhupāda: Then what is the use of talking if you do not know the central point? He says that to come to the truth, neti neti. So we must come to the truth. So we must find out first of all truth. Then we discuss the other, subordinate things. (French) Neti neti means “Not this, not this,” means to search out the truth. (French for some time, devotees try to explain Prabhupāda’s challenges, RM makes a long speech.)

Bhagavān: The first thing is he’s talking for too long, and you’re missing the point. It’s getting confusing. Ask him, first of all, to speak a little shorter. (French)

Yogeśvara: So he said, what he’s suggesting is that first of all, we’d be better off not giving it some kind of concrete form because he thinks ultimately the silence is the best answer.

Prabhupāda: Then let him learn that. If silence is best, then don’t talk.

Yogeśvara: Well, he says, still, we can give it some form for discussion purposes.

Prabhupāda: Then what is his silence? Silence means don’t talk. If you prefer silence, then don’t talk.