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If you actually serious to know about spiritual subject matter, then you must have to, abhigacchet, this word is used when the sense is "must." Not that without, I can go, I can have spiritual knowledge without having accepted a spiritual master

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Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

If you actually serious to know about spiritual subject matter, then you must have to, abhigacchet. Abhigacchet, this word is used when the sense is "must." Not that without, I can go, I can have spiritual knowledge without having accepted a spiritual master. That is not possible.

In the Bhagavad-gītā,

tad viddhi praṇipātena
paripraśnena sevayā
upadekṣyanti tad jñānaṁ
jñāninas tattva-darśinaḥ
(BG 4.34)

So if you actually serious to know about spiritual subject matter, then you must have to, abhigacchet. Abhigacchet, this word is used when the sense is "must." Not that without, I can go, I can have spiritual knowledge without having accepted a spiritual master. That is not possible. You must go to a spiritual master and he must be bona fide, he must be in full knowledge, then your life is successful. (pause)

Any other question?

Indian man (2): Swāmījī, we have heard a lot that we get the . . . (indistinct) . . . of our karma.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Indian man (2): How do you know that this act or that act is good or bad?

Prabhupāda: You do not know what is good or bad?

Indian man (2): We do not know because maybe somebody died or somebody . . . (indistinct) . . . in our family. We say it was because of our past karmas. We do not know what were our past karmas.

Prabhupāda: Well, everyone dies. Death is inevitable. Nobody can avoid death. "As sure as death." And therefore, I have already explained that we have to take information from the Vedas. Just like this body. It is said in the Vedas, karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur dehopapattaye (SB 3.31.1). Karmaṇā. Why we have got different bodies, different mentality? Every one of us sitting here, we are not of the same mentality, not of the same body. So, why the different bodies are there if there is not a superior endowment? Why different bodies? Can you answer this?

Unless there is some superior endowment that, "You accept this body, you take this body," you have to accept. You cannot deny. Because in the Vedas we understand, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 2.13). You have to, after death, you have accept another body. But what kind of body you are going to accept, that you do not know. But there is superior judgment that, "You have done such-and-such karma; you accept this body." How can you deny it?

Just like in the court the judge is giving different judgment, "Yes, you have to receive this one lakh of rupees from this person. I give you decree." And another person is given order, "You go to jail for six months." The judge is the same. But why one is going by his word six months imprisonment and another is getting one lakh of rupees decree? The superior judgment is there and the karma is there.

Therefore because we are getting so many different types of bodies—each body is different from the another body—unless there is superior judgment that one has to accept this body, another has to accept that body. And that judgment is given by karma, and that is stated in the Vedas, karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa (SB 3.31.1). By one's karma and by superior judgment, one has to get another body. Tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 2.13).

So where is the wrong in this? There is superior judgment, and there are different types of body, that is a fact. So how you cannot deny. Sometimes Christians, they deny this karmavāda. I was a student in Calcutta, Scottish Churches College. So I was student of philosophy also. So Dr. Urquhart, he denied karmavāda, that "I am punished at this present, present body. So where is the witness? Where is the witness?"

Because any judgment is done on the strength of witness. So that was his argument. But the witness is there. According to Vedic system, the witness is the sun, the witness is the moon, the witness is the day, the witness is the night. And above all, the supreme witness is God Himself. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati (BG 18.61). The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, so how you can hide yourself from the vigilance of the Supreme Lord? The Supreme Lord is witness.

Page Title:If you actually serious to know about spiritual subject matter, then you must have to, abhigacchet, this word is used when the sense is "must." Not that without, I can go, I can have spiritual knowledge without having accepted a spiritual master
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2023-01-03, 08:55:47
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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