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Because Krsna is in everybody's heart, how can everyone be Krsna? Then dog is also Krsna. So why one should go to the temple? He can worship his dog at home

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"Krsna is in everybody's heart, how can everyone be Krsna" |"Then dog is also Krsna. So why one should go to the temple? He can worship his dog at home"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Mahāṁsa: That does not show any logic, because He is in everybody's heart, how can everyone be Kṛṣṇa? (break)

Prabhupāda: . . . heart of a dog also. Then dog is also Kṛṣṇa. So why one should go to the temple? He can worship his dog at home.

Prabhupāda: As soon as he said that, he was killed immediately. That is the atheistic version, "I don't care for God." So as soon as he became atheistic, he was killed, and so long he was chanting, "Rāma will kill me, Rāma will kill me," so he was not killed.

Indian man (4): He was a bhakta at that time, according to the . . . (break)

Prabhupāda: He was chanting the holy name of Rāma.

Indian man (4): He was chanting Rāma, Rāma, Rāma.

Prabhupāda: Yes. (break) . . . yogino 'nante satyānande cid-ātmani, iti rāma-padenāsau paraṁ brahma ity abhidhīyate (CC Madhya 9.29). So, so long one chants Rāma-Kṛṣṇa, who can kill him? Yes. That is the point. (break) When He constructed bridge on the ocean, the stones were floating. Where is the law of gravitation go on? So He can do that. He withdrew the law of gravitation.

(break) . . . position of the demons. Although he is not learned, he giving instruction. (break)

Mahāṁsa: . . . who is learned. (break)

Prabhupāda: . . . business, that without being learned in the subject matter, he wants to give instruction. (break)

Girirāja: (reading) "Sir, let us now make arrangements to kill all children who were born within the last ten days in towns, countries, villages and pasturing grounds." (break)

Prabhupāda: On this side there is government sign, "No dogs," "No dogs." Dogs are not allowed.

Indian man (4): What is the reason?

Prabhupāda: Dogs are disturbing to the people. They can attack any man. If one takes dog, he must lash it, chain. That is the law there. (break)

Indian man (4): There is no idea also. When master was there, then he can control the dog.

Prabhupāda: Oh, the master is . . . it may be master of the dog, but he is not master of the world.

Indian man (4): But that is how he did it. Come here . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: That is quite all right. But after all, it is dog. After all, it is dog.

Indian man (4): And the law also is that it should be chained. (break)

Prabhupāda: . . . mentioning sometimes dog attacks the master. Not only dog, animals. (break) . . . the bitterest enemies of the demons, always. That is the position. Viṣṇu-bhakto bhaved daiva āsuras tad-viparyayaḥ (BG 16.6). So demigods, they are devotees of Viṣṇu, and they are always enemies unto the demons. (break) . . . especially in the heart of the saintly person, to kill the saintly person. So Kṛṣṇa also will be killed. Because Kṛṣṇa is in everyone's heart, therefore everyone is Kṛṣṇa. The same conclusion.

Mahāṁsa: That does not show any logic, because He is in everybody's heart, how can everyone be Kṛṣṇa? (break)

Prabhupāda: . . . heart of a dog also. Then dog is also Kṛṣṇa. So why one should go to the temple? He can worship his dog at home.

Mahāṁsa: That is what they are saying. (break)

Prabhupāda: . . . if this logic is all right. (break) . . . the verdict of the Rāmakrishna mission, "You can worship even . . . whatever you like. That is God." And therefore they have manufactured this word, daridra-nārāyaṇa. (break) Jāta-karma-saṁskāra, saṁskārād bhaved dvijaḥ. So saṁskāra, reformatory method, begins before the birth. Before the birth, when the father and mother have sex, that is called garbhādhāna-saṁskāra. That is also another ceremony. It is not a hidden fact. So saṁskārad bhaved dvijaḥ. Otherwise it is birth like cats and dogs. That is Vedic civlization: saṁskāra before the birth, then immediately after the birth, then one after another. This is called jata-karma; then nāma-karma; then when he is grown boy, upanayana-saṁskāra, dīkṣā-saṁskāra; then when he is grown up and marriage . . . marriage is also another saṁskāra. In this way there are daśa-vidha-saṁskāra. So unless one goes through all the saṁskāras, he is not accepted as higher caste. He is śūdra. In a brahmin family, if the garbhādhāna-saṁskāra is not taken, it is said that immediately the whole family becomes śūdra, no more brahmin. Then where is garbhādhāna-saṁskāra is going on? Nobody takes care of garbhādhāna-saṁskāra. Still, they are declaring that, "I am brāhmaṇa." Therefore the conclusion is kālau śūdra-sambhavaḥ (Skanda Purāṇa): "Everyone is śūdra." (break) . . . no education. Still, one is called paṇḍitjī. What is the meaning of this "paṇḍitjī"? If he is not learned, then why do you call him paṇḍitjī? (laughing) (break)

Girirāja: ". . . ceremony takes place after the . . ."

Prabhupāda: That paṇḍiya is also another form of paṇḍita.

Indian man (4): . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Yes. From paṇḍiya, pāṇḍiya. From paṇḍitya, from paṇḍitya, it comes paṇḍiya.

Indian man (4): He is not a paṇḍita. He is a pukka businessman. (laughter)

Prabhupāda: I say this is going on. But the śāstra says if one is engaged in particular type of occupation, he should be called that. Yasya hi yal-lakṣaṇaṁ proktaṁ varṇābhivyañjakam (SB 7.11.35). To designate into certain type of varṇa, there are symptoms. That symptoms, yadi anyatra vidhiṣyeta, if it is found somewhere else, tat tenaiva vinirdiśet (SB 7.11.35), one should ascertain by the symptoms. This is the śāstra injunction.

Page Title:Because Krsna is in everybody's heart, how can everyone be Krsna? Then dog is also Krsna. So why one should go to the temple? He can worship his dog at home
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-07, 06:25:24
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1