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Mahajana means great personality. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. That is the real path, if you follow the great personality

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"Mahājana means great personality. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ. That is the real path, if you follow the great personality"

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Mahājana. Mahājana means great personality. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ. That is the real path, if you follow the great personality. Now, there is a difference of great personalities also. You think that he is great personality, he thinks another great personality. But there is a definition of great personality.

You won't find a single philosopher whose opinion is not different from the previous philosopher, or muni. Muni means thinker, thoughtful man, muni, from "mind." Nāsāv munir yasya mataṁ na bhinnam, dharmasya tattvaṁ nihitaṁ guhāyām.

Therefore to understand the Absolute Truth, it is very difficult to find out how to have it. But the only one way recommended in the Vedic scripture, that mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ (CC Madhya 17.186). Mahājana. Mahājana means great personality. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ. That is the real path, if you follow the great personality. Now, there is a difference of great personalities also. You think that he is great personality, he thinks another great personality. But there is a definition of great personality.

That definition is given in the Bhagavad-gītā, that:

bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
jñānavān māṁ prapadyate
vasudevaḥ sarvam iti
sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ
(BG 7.19)

"After many, many transmigration, or changing the body . . ." We should always remember that our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness begins from the fact that we living entities, we are not material product. We are part and parcel of God. We are qualitatively one with God but quantitatively different from Him. That is our philosophy.

Page Title:Mahajana means great personality. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. That is the real path, if you follow the great personality
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-11-08, 07:03:53
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