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Most of you, you are Buddhists. There are similarly Muhammadan scriptures, Christian scriptures. But in each & every scripture there is rules & regulation to follow to become more & more aware of the topmost principle, the original cause of all causes

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"most of you, you are Buddhists. There are similarly Muhammadan scriptures, Christian scriptures. But in each and every scripture there is rules and regulation to follow to become more and more aware of the topmost principle, the original cause of all causes"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

So all over the world the civilized man has got some religion. It may be professing the Vedic religion; somebody the Buddhist scriptures. Just in your country, most of you, you are Buddhists. There are similarly Muhammadan scriptures, Christian scriptures. But in each and every scripture there is rules and regulation to follow to become more and more aware of the topmost principle, the original cause of all causes. That is, means, religion. So one who does not care to understand this philosophy, they are called asura.

So all over the world the civilized man has got some religion. It may be professing the Vedic religion; somebody the Buddhist scriptures. Just in your country, most of you, you are Buddhists. There are similarly Muhammadan scriptures, Christian scriptures. But in each and every scripture there is rules and regulation to follow to become more and more aware of the topmost principle, the original cause of all causes. That is, means, religion. So one who does not care to understand this philosophy, they are called asura. And one who understands this philosophy of life, they are called sura or devatā, god, demigods, they are called.

Dvau bhūta-sargau loke daiva āsura eva ca (BG 16.6). There are two kinds of men throughout the whole universe. There are men in other planets also, they are very highly elevated; they are therefore called devas, or demigods. The moon planet, the sun planet. . . There are many other heavenly planets. There is sun-god. In the Bhagavad-gītā you will find the name of the sun-god, or the predominating deity of the sun planet, Vivasvān. His name is Vivasvān. Everything you will find in the śāstra. So there are two divisions: asura and sura, or asura or deva. Devāsura. Deva means those who are conscious of the responsibility of life. They are called deva. So for the devas, Kṛṣṇa has explained so many things. Now He is explaining about the asuras - what are the symptoms of asura.

Page Title:Most of you, you are Buddhists. There are similarly Muhammadan scriptures, Christian scriptures. But in each & every scripture there is rules & regulation to follow to become more & more aware of the topmost principle, the original cause of all causes
Compiler:Soham
Created:2022-12-25, 12:43:56
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1