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Now, at the present moment, everyone is highly educated to the material standard, but they have no knowledge what is God

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"Now, at the present moment, everyone is highly educated to the material standard, but they have no knowledge what is God"

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Now, at the present moment, everyone is highly educated to the material standard, but they have no knowledge what is God. So even they become vipra, because they are lacking this knowledge, Prahlāda Mahārāja says that a person, a dog-eater who has God consciousness, is better than him. Śvapacaṁ variṣṭham. Śvapaca means a person who is born in the family of dog-eaters. Śvapacaṁ variṣṭham.

Pādāravinda. Aravinda-nābha pādāravinda. Aravinda-nābha. Nabha means this navel, and aravinda means lotus. You know that the creation is made by the navel of Viṣṇu, the first sprouting of the lotus flower–like planet, and there is Brahmā, and he creates other things. So therefore, aravinda-nābha, "the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose navel has the lotus flower," aravinda-nābha.

And pādāravinda: "And His feet is also just like lotus, aravinda." Aravinda-nābha aravinda-pāda. That means Supreme Personality of Godhead. So a vipra, a qualified person with all good qualities, material qualities, if he is lacking the simple quality that he is not conversant with the science of God, vimukhāt, he is not very serious to understand what is God . . . that is the position.

Now, at the present moment, everyone is highly educated to the material standard, but they have no knowledge what is God. So even they become vipra, because they are lacking this knowledge, Prahlāda Mahārāja says that a person, a dog-eater who has God consciousness, is better than him. Śvapacaṁ variṣṭham. Śvapaca means a person who is born in the family of dog-eaters. Śvapacaṁ variṣṭham.

Manye tad-arpita-mano-vacanehitārtha. There is description, mauna-vijṣāna-santoṣa-satyāṣṭika-dviṣād-guṇān, yad vā śamo damas tapo śaucaṁ kṣānti ārjava viraktataḥ. Mauna-vijṣāna-santoṣa-satyāṣṭika-dviṣād-guṇān. The eleven . . . twelve qualities, good qualities, is described in the Vedic literature. What is this? That śama. Śama means the equilibrium of the mind. Dama. Dama means controlling the senses. Śamo damas tapaḥ, austerity. Tapa means . . . tapa means from tapa, "heat." Just like this heat is not tolerable; I require the fan. So tapa means to accept voluntarily some physical trouble. That is called tapa.

There are many sages who, in . . . during summer, they will burn fire all sides and meditate. There is already high temperature, 112 degrees in India. Sometimes 118 degree, and still they have fire all sides, all sides. Yes. And they are meditating, not disturbed. So this is called voluntarily tapa. And in winter season, when the temperature is forty degrees, fifty degrees—of course, not below zero—anyway, he goes to the water and dip into the water simply keeping the mouth up, and meditating. So there are some severe processes for tapasya. So this is one of the good qualities.

Page Title:Now, at the present moment, everyone is highly educated to the material standard, but they have no knowledge what is God
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-09-19, 06:38:32
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