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In Bhagavad-gita it is recommended that you should worship the acarya, not these rascals who talks all nonsense. Then we'll make progress. Acaryopasanam

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"In Bhagavad-gītā it is recommended that you should worship the ācārya, not these rascals who talks all nonsense. Then we'll make progress. Ācāryopāsanam"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Ācāryopāsanam. In Bhagavad-gītā it is recommended that you should worship the ācārya, not these rascals who talks all nonsense. Then we'll make progress. Ācāryopāsanam. Is it not? Ācāryopāsanam is there. And still in India the ācārya's paramparā system existing, sampradāya. Rāmānuja-sampradāya, Madhvācārya-sampradāya, Nimbārka, going on.

Prabhupāda: Yes, I know these rascals. Therefore the country's position is the godless India. They lost their culture.

Vāsughoṣa: They had big propaganda that Sai Baba is God also. He was saying in the . . . these professors challenged him, so he said, "How can an ant try and understand an ocean?" He made that statement, that the Professor at Bangalore University, Vice Chancellor said that, you know, so many . . . (break)

Prabhupāda: Does that mean we have to accept him? That does not mean we have to accept. (break) . . . one is against this movement because we are presenting Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme. (break)

Indian man (1): . . . when I was talking to him, he said only . . . (indistinct) . . . we don't call it anything, but we want to. But all the movements . . . (indistinct) . . . everything.

Prabhupāda: That means prostitute. "Everyone is my husband." Prostitution. That's all. (break) . . .does not know what is duty. Duty is sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇam (BG 18.66). This is duty. Kṛṣṇa never said that, "Everything is all right." He says, sarva-dharmān parityajya: "Simply surrender unto Me." That is duty. They do not know what is duty. And he's manufacturing his duty. That is not duty. Duty is that which is ordered by the superior authorities, "You do this." So if he does that, that is discharge of duty. And if he manufactures his duty, that is not duty. That is concoction. So they are manufacturing duty. That is not duty. If the child manufactures a duty that "I shall play all day. This is my duty," will the parents accept it?

Indian man (1): Under . . . (break)

Prabhupāda: No. But if he knows? But he does not know. That is the difficulty. That I was explaining, mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam. Mūḍho nābhijānāti. He does not know what is duty because he's a mūḍha. If you say: "If he knows," but "If he knows" means it is difficult to know what is duty. The mūḍhas, they cannot know what is duty. Therefore Kṛṣṇa personally says: "This is duty: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam (BG 18.66). This is duty."

Devotee: Also the paramahaṁsas never speak, they say.

Prabhupāda: Paramahaṁsa may speak all nonsense, but Kṛṣṇa is accepted by all the ācāryas—Madhvācārya, Rāmānujācārya, Nimbārka, Caitanya. They are important men. Evaṁ paramparā prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ (BG 4.2). So we have to give up the instruction of ācārya and accept some rascal? That we cannot do. Ācāryopāsanam. In Bhagavad-gītā it is recommended that you should worship the ācārya, not these rascals who talks all nonsense. Then we'll make progress. Ācāryopāsanam. Is it not? Ācāryopāsanam is there. And still in India the ācārya's paramparā system existing, sampradāya. Rāmānuja-sampradāya, Madhvācārya-sampradāya, Nimbārka, going on.

Page Title:In Bhagavad-gita it is recommended that you should worship the acarya, not these rascals who talks all nonsense. Then we'll make progress. Acaryopasanam
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-16, 11:22:44
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1