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Ascending process - my endeavor, what is called inductive process

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Just like in the darkness, if you try to understand what is sun by ascending process, by flying your very powerful airplane or sputniks—just go round over the sky—you cannot see. But the descending process, when the sun rises, you understand immediately. Ascending process—my endeavor, what is called inductive process. Inductive process.

The Supreme, Bhāgavata says that He knows everything, directly and indirectly. I know I am eating, but I do not know how my eating process is helping my circulation of blood, how it is being transformed, how it is working, how it is going through the veins. I do not know anything. But God must be He who knows everything. Every corner of His creation what is going on He must know. Therefore the Bhāgavata explains that Supreme Truth from whom everything is emanated, He must be supremely cognizant. Cognizant. Abhijñaḥ. Abhijñaḥ means cognizant.

Then you may question: "Then if He is so powerful, wise and cognizant, He must have learned it from similar . . ." No. He says that if he learns knowledge from somebody else, then he is not God. Svarāṭ. Automatically. He's self-independent. This is jñāna-yoga: the study,what is the nature, by . . . just analyze what should be the nature of the Supreme, from whom everything is emanating.

That is explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Therefore Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the supreme jñāna-yoga and bhakti-yoga combined. Yes. (pause) jñāna-yoga process means to search out the Absolute Truth or to understand the nature of the Absolute Truth by philosophical way. And this is called jñāna-yoga. And our is bhakti-yoga.

Bhakti-yoga means the process is the same, target is the same. One is trying to reach the supreme ultimate goal by philosophical way, one is trying to concentrate his mind on the Supreme, and the other, the bhaktas, they are simply engaging themselves to serve the Supreme Lord so easily. One process is to understand by the ascending process, and another process is the descending process.

Just like in the darkness, if you try to understand what is sun by ascending process, by flying your very powerful airplane or sputniks—just go round over the sky—you cannot see. But the descending process, when the sun rises, you understand immediately. Ascending process—my endeavor, what is called inductive process. Inductive process.

Just like my father says that, "Man is mortal," I accept it. Now if you want to study whether man is mortal, you study, you see many thousands of men, whether he is immortal or mortal, that will take so much time. But if you take the knowledge from the superior authority that man is mortal, your knowledge is complete. So:

athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya
prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi
jānāti tattvaṁ bhagavan-mahimno
na cānya eko 'pi ciraṁ vicinvan
(SB 10.14.29)

Therefore it is said: "My dear Lord, a person who has received a little favor from You, he can understand You very quickly. And others, who are trying to understand You by the ascending process, they may go on speculating for millions of years, they will never understand."

Page Title:Ascending process - my endeavor, what is called inductive process
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-15, 12:51:56
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1