I am your spiritual master
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Paramahaṁsa: People often argue that they don't understand how they can have faith if they don't understand God.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Paramahaṁsa: They don't see how they can have faith if they have no knowledge of God. And they argue, "Well, I don't know God. So how can I have faith in Him?"
Prabhupāda: You learn from me. I am your spiritual master. You tell him. You are asking me. Why you are asking me? What is...? Why you are asking me?
Paramahaṁsa: Well, I was just giving an argument that people...
Prabhupāda: No, argument, that's all right. Why you are asking me?
Paramahaṁsa: For knowledge.
Prabhupāda: For knowledge. So take knowledge from me.
Yogeśvara: That's what you tell them.
Prabhupāda: "Otherwise, why you are asking, wasting your time and my time? If you are asking, you take knowledge from me." Is that all right?
Paramahaṁsa: Yes.Correspondence
1967 Correspondence
1969 Correspondence
1972 Correspondence
- vedaham samatitani
- vartamanani carjuna
- bhavisyani ca bhutani
- mam tu veda na kascana
- [Bg. 7.26]
that He knows everything, and "vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham [Bg. 15.15], that Krishna is non-different from Vedas, then these questions do not arise.
But because you have asked me, I am your spiritual master, I must try to answer to your satisfaction. Yes, sometimes in Vedas such things like the asura's decapitated head chasing after Candraloka, sometimes it is explained allegorically. Just like now we are explaining in 4th Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam the story of King Puranjana. Just like the living entity is living within this body, and the body is described there as city with nine gates, the intelligence as the Queen. So there are sometimes allegorical explanations. So there are many things which do not corroborate with the so-called modern science, because they are explained in that way. But where is the guarantee that modern science is also correct? So we are concerned with Krishna Consciousness, and even though there is some difference of opinion between modern science and allegorical explanation in the Bhagavat, we have to take the essence of Srimad-Bhagavatam and utilize it for our higher benefit, without bothering about the correctness of the modern science or the allegorical explanation sometimes made in Srimad-Bhagavatam.1973 Correspondence
Page Title: | I am your spiritual master |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti |
Created: | 19 of DEC, 2007 |
No. of Quotes: | 10 |
Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=1, Let=6 |