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Any materialistic person, however educated he may be, so-called educated, he is simply a snake, dangerous. That's all. He has no qualification. Harav abhaktasya kuto (SB 5.18.12) One cannot have good qualities unless one is advanced in Krsna consciousness

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"any materialistic person, however educated he may be, so-called educated, he is simply a snake, dangerous. That's all. He has no qualification. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ" |"One cannot have good qualities unless one is advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

It is said, maṇinā bhūṣitaḥ sarpaḥ kim asau na bhayaṅkaraḥ (Nīti Śāstra). Snake. Some snakes are decorated with jewel on the hood. So this materialist, however qualified he may be, just like jewel on the head. The śāstra says: "Do you think that a snake coming to you with a jewel on head is not dangerous or ferocious?" He's as dangerous, as ferocious, as the serpent without jewel. Similarly, any materialistic person, however educated he may be, so-called educated, he is simply a snake, dangerous. That's all. He has no qualification. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ (SB 5.18.12). One cannot have good qualities unless one is advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Prabhupāda: Sleep and inactivity is a sign of ignorance. The more we are inactive and sleepy, that means we are in the modes of ignorance. And passion means activity for sense enjoyment. And goodness means free from the inactivity of ignorance and the activity of passion, but to see things as they are, "Oh, I am eternal servant of God, so my actions should be to serve God." That is goodness. These are the stages.

When one is inactive, lazy, sleeping, that means ignorance. When one is very active for sense enjoyment, it is passion, and when one is neither active like the sense gratifiers nor sitting idly like the ignorant, but he is trying to engage himself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, service, that is goodness. And one who is actually serving Kṛṣṇa, that is transcendental platform, liberated platform.

Then?

Pradyumna: "The effect of devotional service becomes manifest by complete elimination of these effects of passion and ignorance. The devotee is fixed at once in the mode of goodness, and he makes further progress to rise up to the position of vasudeva, or the state of unmixed sattva, or śuddha-sattva . . . or śuddha-sattva state. In this śuddha-sattva state only can one always see Kṛṣṇa, eye to eye, by dint of pure affection for the Lord.”

“A devotee is always in the mode of unalloyed goodness; therefore he harms no one. But the nondevotee, however educated he may be, is always harmful. A devotee is neither foolish nor passionate. The harmful, foolish and passionate cannot be devotees of . . ."

Prabhupāda: The . . . it is said, maṇinā bhūṣitaḥ sarpaḥ kim asau na bhayaṅkaraḥ (Nīti Śāstra). Snake. Some snakes are decorated with jewel on the hood. So this materialist, however qualified he may be, just like jewel on the head. The śāstra says: "Do you think that a snake coming to you with a jewel on head is not dangerous or ferocious?"

He's as dangerous, as ferocious, as the serpent without jewel. Similarly, any materialistic person, however educated he may be, so-called educated, he is simply a snake, dangerous. That's all. He has no qualification. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ (SB 5.18.12). One cannot have good qualities unless one is advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Yes?

Pradyumna: "The harmful, foolish and passionate cannot be devotees of the Lord, however they may advertise themselves as devotees by outward dress. A devotee is always qualified with all the good qualities of God. Quantitatively, such qualifications may be different, but qualitatively, both of them are one and the same."

Page Title:Any materialistic person, however educated he may be, so-called educated, he is simply a snake, dangerous. That's all. He has no qualification. Harav abhaktasya kuto (SB 5.18.12) One cannot have good qualities unless one is advanced in Krsna consciousness
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-02-03, 10:18:56
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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