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So human life is meant for understanding this. Athato brahma-jijna... These are all Brahman subject. They are not material subject matter

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"So human life is meant for understanding this. Athāto brahma-jijñā . . . these are all Brahman subject. They are not material subject matter"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

These things are already discussed. So human life is meant for understanding this. Athāto brahma-jijñā . . . these are all Brahman subject. They are not material subject matter. Tattva-vastu. Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam (SB 1.2.11).

jyotiṣām api taj jyotis
tamasaḥ param ucyate
jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ jñāna-gamyaṁ'
hṛdi sarvasya viṣṭhitam
(BG 13.18)

Viṣṭhitam. Kṛṣṇa is situated in everyone's heart. Actually He is knowledge, and He is the object of knowledge, jñeyam, and one should try to understand Kṛṣṇa. Jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ jñāna-gamyam. And He is in everyone's heart. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe arjuna tiṣṭhati (BG 18.61). Simply we have to know the process how to know Him. That is explained already, we have discussed. Amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁsā kṣāntir ārjavam (BG 13.8), ācāryopāsanam, indriya, vinigrahaḥ, bhakti-yoga . . . māṁ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena . . . (BG 14.26). These things are already discussed. So human life is meant for understanding this. Athāto brahma-jijñā . . . these are all Brahman subject. They are not material subject matter. Tattva-vastu. Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam (SB 1.2.11).

So this Vedic civilization is meant for Brahman realization. Therefore we have got so many Vedic literatures. Bhagavad-gītā is only a part, A-B-C-D, the first book of spiritual knowledge. Still, people are so degraded that they cannot understand even Bhagavad-gītā, the A-B-C-D. What they will understand, other things? Their education is so poor and they are so unfortunate that even Bhagavad-gītā, which Kṛṣṇa left behind Him . . . Kṛṣṇa was present five thousand years ago on this planet, and just to benefit us He left His instruction, Bhagavad-gītā.

Arjuna did not require the instruction of Bhagavad-gītā. He was already enlightened, but he presented himself as a fool just to induce the Lord to speak on Bhagavad-gītā, and it is noted by Vyāsadeva, Vedavyāsa, in the Mahābhārata, so that people may take advantage of the instruction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everything is there: what is this brahma-jyotir, what is this material world, what is that spiritual world, what is our object of life, what we should know.

Page Title:So human life is meant for understanding this. Athato brahma-jijna... These are all Brahman subject. They are not material subject matter
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-12, 07:23:36
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1