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Just like we were saying that everything belongs to Krsna. So where is the . . . any religious feeling? Everything belongs to Krsna, how you can say no? Can you say

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

We are talking of science. We are, just like we were saying that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. So where is the . . . any religious feeling? Everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa, how you can say no? Can you say?.

Prabhupāda: The māyā is explained very nicely in the Bhāgavata, yathābhāso yathā tamaḥ (SB 2.9.34). Just like sun is reflected in the water, and the light is reflected again on the wall. This is the exact explanation of māyā. Reality . . . this material world, the man who manufactured all these things, nobody knows where he has gone. But these things are taken as reality. This will be also finished. It will remain as relics, as Rome, relics, but when it was . . . the houses were prepared with great enthusiasm as reality. And now it is as relics. So the energy expended for manufacturing those house, that is also māyā, and now they are being visited as relics, that is also māyā. So all these things are māyāra vaibhava, expansion of māyā. So if somebody says that you don't appreciate these things, no, we appreciate, very much appreciate intelligence. But if you, for this appreciation, if you forget, then it is māyā. Forget Kṛṣṇa.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Then it is māyā. Otherwise, it is reality. If they would have installed Deity worship in these buildings, how much nice it would have been—people chanting, dancing, and taking prasādam, twenty-four hours. Then it is no more māyā; it is reality. Such big, big, nice houses, they should have been places of worshiping Kṛṣṇa. But they're worshiping bones, keeping some dead bones, and . . .

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: People must be educated that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: That is a fact. Why do they not understand?

Paramahaṁsa: The government argues that they do not want to discriminate against any religious faith. So they remain secular.

Prabhupāda: No, no. That is no government . . . religious faith is different. That is nonsense. You . . . we are talking of science. We are, just like we were saying that everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa. So where is the . . . any religious feeling? Everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa, how you can say no? Can you say?

Paramahaṁsa: They can say, "We don't know Kṛṣṇa."

Prabhupāda: You don't know Kṛṣṇa, but it belongs to somebody. He may be named as Kṛṣṇa or something else. That doesn't matter. But it is . . . it does not belong to you. How you can deny it? You have come here . . . suppose I have come here, in Paris. I stay here for one week, two. Does it mean Paris is mine? Similarly, you come from the womb of your mother and stay here, say, fifty years. That is, mean, yours? The same example. Does it mean that the world belongs to you? Why you are claiming, "This is France," "This is Europe," "This is America," "This is mine," "This is mine"? Before your birth it was there, and when you go, it will remain there. So how you claim that it is yours? So you don't . . . you must know as it remained, it was there before my birth, and it will remain after my departure. Then how it belongs to you? What is the answer?

Page Title:Just like we were saying that everything belongs to Krsna. So where is the . . . any religious feeling? Everything belongs to Krsna, how you can say no? Can you say
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-08-18, 14:03:23
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1