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Not only in this university - there are hundreds and thousands of universities all over the world - there is no department of knowledge where the science of the soul is taught

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"not only in this university—there are hundreds and thousands of universities all over the world—there is no department of knowledge where the science of the soul is taught"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

The duration of age is very small. We are always disturbed, and practically we have no knowledge about spiritual science. For example, that in this university . . . not only in this university—there are hundreds and thousands of universities all over the world—there is no department of knowledge where the science of the soul is taught. Actually, we are all spirit soul.

Just imagine what is his position. Arjuna belonged to the royal family. He was a great warrior and intimate friend of Kṛṣṇa, and constantly living with Him. He, after hearing this process of yoga, aṣṭāṅga-yoga, he said: "My dear Kṛṣṇa, it is not possible for me." He flatly said, admitted, that, "For me, these rules and regulation and practice and controlling the mind is not possible." He flatly denied.

So we have to think—five thousand years ago a personality like Arjuna, he expressed his inability to practice this aṣṭāṅga-yoga system, and what to speak of us? Therefore the conclusion is that in this age, when people are very short-living . . . at least, in India the average duration of life is thirty-five years. In your country it may be more than that, but actually, as your grandfather lived for one hundred years, you cannot live. The things are changing. Especially the duration of life will be reduced. There are prediction in the śāstras. In this age the duration of life, people's sentiment for becoming merciful, brain substance, in so many ways they are being reduced; they are not so powerful.

So the duration of age is very small. We are always disturbed, and practically we have no knowledge about spiritual science. For example, that in this university . . . not only in this university—there are hundreds and thousands of universities all over the world—there is no department of knowledge where the science of the soul is taught. Actually, we are all spirit soul. In the Bhagavad-gītā we understand:

dehino 'smin yathā dehe
kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
tathā dehāntara-prāptir
dhīras tatra na muhyati
(BG 2.13)

We are transmigrating from one body to another, exactly like in our present life. Just like all of us present here, we had a body, a small baby body. Where is that body? That body is gone. So far I am an old man. I remember that I was a small baby. I still remember when I was about six months old I was lying down on the lap of my eldest sister, and she was knitting, and I was lying down and playing. I remember.

So it is possible for everyone to remember that I had a small body, then that I had a boy's body, then I had a youthful body. Now I am in this body. So where are those bodies? The body's now gone. It is a different body. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā, tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ (BG 2.13). Similarly, when I give up this body, then I will have to accept another body.

Page Title:Not only in this university - there are hundreds and thousands of universities all over the world - there is no department of knowledge where the science of the soul is taught
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-17, 04:05:48
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1