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Somebody's cheating and somebody's becoming cheated. The whole society's the combination of cheaters and cheated. That's all

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Cheaters and the cheated. Somebody's cheating and somebody's becoming cheated. The whole society's the combination of cheaters and cheated. That's all. I see both of them, you do not agree. Just like they have rejected religion because two religionists, they do not agree.

Prabhupāda: Yes. I wrote one time, standard of morality.

(pause)

We have got very simple formulas from the statement of śāstras. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. Haro, "In the Supreme Personality of Godhead," abhakta, "nondevotee, a person who is not a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead," kuto mahad-guṇāḥ, "where is his high qualities?" No.

No high qualities. In the Bhagavad-gītā also: na māṁ prapadyante mūḍhāḥ (BG 7.15). So we see whether he has surrendered to God. Otherwise, he's a mūḍha, rascal.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: The first one is from Bhāgavatam, Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: That is from Bhagavad-gītā.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: No, the first one.

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.

Brahmānanda: Harāv abhakta . . .

Prabhupāda:

yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā
sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ
harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā
manorathena . . .
(SB 5.18.12)

Manorathena. These rascals, they are simply speculating on the mental platform. That's all. Manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ (SB 5.18.12). They are entrapped by the external energy, by mental speculation. They have no value. All these scientists, philosophers, they're on the mental platform, speculating. I am certi . . . "I say this." You say: "No, I say this." You see? Who is correct?

Svarūpa Dāmodara: There is no judgment.

Prabhupāda: No, judgment . . . therefore they're all madmen. You can speak in your own way; I'll speak in my own way. And another fool thinks that both of them are scientists. They do not agree; still he's scientist. Just see. Cheaters and the cheated. Somebody's cheating and somebody's becoming cheated. The whole society's the combination of cheaters and cheated. That's all. I see both of them, you do not agree. Just like they have rejected religion because two religionists, they do not agree.

So why not these rascal scientist? They do not agree. Just see. They are so fool, but still they are after them. Their modern people they have rejected religion because they say that one religionist does not agree with another religionist. So there is no . . . skepticism. So why not about the scientists? Just see.

Everywhere you will find contradiction. Therefore anyone . . . and we are find out this contradiction because we have little attachment for Kṛṣṇa. Others cannot find out. We are challenging scientist, philosopher, although we are teeny person, because we have little attachment for Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise, who is detecting their follies? Nobody. The scientists' follies, the philosopher follies, their contradiction . . . a devotee can find out. Paśyanti jñāna-cakṣuṣā. Unless one is highly enlightened, one cannot find out these defects, contradiction. Paśyanti jñāna-cakṣuṣā. We have got simple formulas in the śāstras. Simply on the basis of those formulas . . . whole Vedic literature is like that. Just like Āyurveda, Āyurveda or astrology. Everything is like that. Āyurveda, the medicine, they have to learn only the beating of the pulse. If one becomes expert in which way the pulse beating is going on . . . they have got example. Just like some birds jump over like this; some bird goes like this.

Page Title:Somebody's cheating and somebody's becoming cheated. The whole society's the combination of cheaters and cheated. That's all
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2023-02-28, 07:05:49
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1