Self-centered
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 1 - 6
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
SB Canto 2
SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead
Renunciation Through Wisdom
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Devotee: "Without God consciousness, one must be always seeking self-centered or extended selfish activities. But a Kṛṣṇa conscious person can do everything for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa and thereby be perfectly detached from sense gratification. One who has no such realization, must mechanically try to escape material desires before being elevated to the top rung of the yoga ladder."
Prabhupāda: "Yoga ladder." Yoga ladder, it has been compared with a ladder. Just like steps in a big skyscraper house there are steps. So every step is a progress, that's a fact. So the whole stepladder may be called the yoga system. But one may be on the fifth step, another may be on the fiftieth step, another may be on the five hundredth step, and another may be on the top of the house. So although the whole ladder is called yoga system or stair case, but one who is on the fifth step, he cannot be equal with the person who is on the fiftieth step. Or one who is on the fiftieth step, he cannot be compared with the man who is on the five-hundredth step. Similarly, in the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga, dhyāna-yoga, bhakti-yoga. It is stated with the name yoga. Because the whole yoga ladder is connected with the topmost floor. So every system is connected with God, Kṛṣṇa. But that does not mean every man is on the topmost floor. One who is on the topmost floor, he is to be understood in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Others, they are just like fifth or fiftieth or five-hundred, like that. The whole thing is called ladder.Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Nectar of Devotion Lectures
Conversations and Morning Walks
1973 Conversations and Morning Walks
Svarūpa Dāmodara: Ātmābhimāninām means the...
Prabhupāda: Ātmā, dehātmā-māninām. "I am this body."
Svarūpa Dāmodara: So those self-centered...
Prabhupāda: Self? They have no information of the self. These rascals, they think, "I am this body." Ātmā means body, ātmā means self, ātmā means mind. So this ātmābhimānī means bodily concept of life. Bālaka. Bālaka means a fool, child, bālaka. Ātmābhimānināṁ bālakānām. Those who are under the bodily concept of life, they are like children, fools, or animals.1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: And Kṛṣṇa incarnation appears according to the particular planet and climate, er, planet. Just like churning. That is in higher planetary system. There are persons like that. It is not improper. And we are comparing with us, that "We cannot churn. Therefore there is no churning." That is our disease, to simply compare with our position.
Upendra: Self-centered.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Even in this planet, in different places there are different standard. In the ocean, then the standard is different from this standard.Page Title: | Self-centered |
Compiler: | Rati, Archana |
Created: | 18 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=1, SB=4, CC=1, OB=3, Lec=5, Con=2, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 16 |