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Last night in the television, one boy was asking me, "Swamiji, you are all after spiritualism. Why you are using this clay as tilaka and so many things you are using which is matter?"

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Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Actually, there is no matter, actually, in this sense, because everything is emanating from the Supreme Spirit.


Now you are trying to be happy by your work. Everyone is trying to be happy by his work. A man, ordinary worker, he is also trying to be happy by working, and a great capitalist, he is also trying to be happy by his work. But Bhagavad-gītā says that they are trying to be happy in what sense? They're trying to be happy with the body or sense gratification. But how long you shall be able to satisfy your senses? Your interest is different: not sense gratification. Your interest is that you have to find out what you are.

So that is described in Bhagavad-gītā very nicely, that you are this consciousness. Avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṁ tatam (BG 2.17). That you are, that permanent, the consciousness. And what is that consciousness? That consciousness is, pure form, is Kṛṣṇa consciousness that, "I am servant of God." This is pure consciousness. So long my consciousness is designated: "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am Chinese," "I am Russian," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian . . ." These are all designations due to this body. But actually I am neither American, neither Indian, nor Christian, nor Hindu, nor Muslim, but I am eternally the servant of God.

So Prahlāda Mahārāja is submitting that, "If you are servant of God, eternally, then you find out your engagement, eternal engagement. That is the duty of your human form of life. Don't be misled by designation." Kṛṣṇa consciousness means to become free from all designations. Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam (CC Madhya 19.170). You have to become free from all designations. Tat-paratvena nirmalam. And in connection with the Supreme Lord you have to become nirmalam. Nirmalam means without any contamination.

Last night in the television, one boy was asking me, "Swāmījī, you are all after spiritualism. Why you are using this clay as tilaka, and so many things you are using which is matter?" So I explained to him—perhaps you have known—actually, there is no matter, actually, in this sense, because everything is emanating from the Supreme Spirit. Everything is emanating . . . Janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1). What is the Absolute Truth? The Absolute Truth is that from which everything is emanating—the source, the fountainhead, the fountainhead of everything.

So whatever we see . . . now, of course, we are in condition, material condition. We see everything material. But even this material energy is also spiritual, because it is coming from the spirit, the Supreme Spirit. Suppose anything comes from the fire, it is hot. Fire, anything coming from . . . anything you take. You are cooking daily, and as soon as you cook something it becomes very hot, and you take it from . . . it is hot. You cannot touch it. So by nature, everything is hot, or everything is spirit, because it is coming from the spirit, by nature.

Just like sunshine. Sunshine has got all the qualities of the sun. Sunshine has got temperature. Sunshine has got illuminating power as the original sun has got. Similarly, although the whole creation, whole manifestation, is the display of the energy of the Supreme Lord, they are not different in quality. In quality there is no difference.

Just like the sunshine and the sun: It may be the temperature in the sun planet is very great. That's all right. But you cannot say that sun is hot but the sunshine is cold. No. That cannot be. That cannot be. It may be the degree of temperature lesser, but there is temperature. That is the sign that it is coming, emanating, from sunshine.

Similarly, in the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find that this whole manifestation, there are different kinds of energy. That is confirmed in the Vedas, Vedic literature, Upaniṣad also: parasya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8). The energy of the Lord are differently manifested. Just like this light. Take the same example, fire.

Fire is placed in one place, but it is manifesting in different way. It is illuminating, it is distributing its heat from one place. Similarly, the Supreme Lord, He may be far, far away. He's not far, far away, because He is present by His energy. Just like sunshine. Sun is far, far away from us, but he is present just before us by his shining. We can understand what is sun. Similarly, if you study the energy of the Supreme Lord, then you are in conscious, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

So if you engage yourself in the energy of Kṛṣṇa, then you become Kṛṣṇa conscious. And as soon as you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, you become nonseparated. You become nonseparated from Him. Just like qualitatively the sunshine and the sun is hot, warm; similarly, you are also the same spiritual energy, or this whole world is spiritual energy, nothing but . . . there is nothing but spiritual. Sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma (Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1). Everything is Brahman. But how to realize it? If everything is Brahman, then why we are separating, "This is material, this is spiritual"? This is māyā. This is called māyā. Māyā means illusion or forgetfulness.

Page Title:Last night in the television, one boy was asking me, "Swamiji, you are all after spiritualism. Why you are using this clay as tilaka and so many things you are using which is matter?"
Compiler:Rishab
Created:2015-02-27, 09:13:49
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1