Go to Vanipedia | Go to Vanisource | Go to Vanimedia


Vaniquotes - the compiled essence of Vedic knowledge


One should be inquisitive to understand, "What is my constitutional position?" Then it is perfect life. Otherwise it is crazy life

Expressions researched:
"One should be inquisitive to understand" |"What is my constitutional position" |"Then it is perfect life. Otherwise it is crazy life"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Nobody will exist." This question, unless there is in the human mind, then, Bhāgavata says, parābhavas tāvat: "His all activities are simply defeat." Yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam (SB 5.5.5). So ātma-tattvam. One should be inquisitive to understand, "What is my constitutional position?" Then it is perfect life. Otherwise it is crazy life. We may try to live by so much hard struggle of life, but we cannot exist.

Dehāpatya-kalatradiṣv ātma-sainyeṣv asatsv api, teṣāṁ pramatto nidhanam (SB 2.1.4). Everyone is seeing that it will destroy. Suppose if you know . . . suppose you are constructing a very nice skyscraper building, but if you know . . . somebody says that tomorrow the whole city will merge into the Atlantic Ocean. Would you like to construct such building? No. I am giving that one example, but it is a fact that the struggle for existence for living, but living condition will not be allowed.

Then the next question should be that, "Why this is happening? We are, everyone, is struggling for existing, but existence, there is no . . . I will not exist. Nobody will exist." This question, unless there is in the human mind, then, Bhāgavata says, parābhavas tāvat: "His all activities are simply defeat." Yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam (SB 5.5.5). So ātma-tattvam. One should be inquisitive to understand, "What is my constitutional position?" Then it is perfect life. Otherwise it is crazy life.

We may try to live by so much hard struggle of life, but we cannot exist. We can exist only when we understand "What I am." Then I shall . . . this is diagnosis. If I know that what is my actual need, if I know what is my actual position, if I know that wherefrom I have come and where I have to go, all these informations, if we are fully informed, that is perfection of life. Otherwise it is simply defeat, whatever we may do here. Apaśyatām. Teṣāṁ pramatto nidhanaṁ paśyann api na paśyati.

Page Title:One should be inquisitive to understand, "What is my constitutional position?" Then it is perfect life. Otherwise it is crazy life
Compiler:undefined
Created:2022-11-16, 05:34:55
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1