The Bhagavad-gita is full of information, but we don't take advantage. We are so unfortunate. And it is our country. This is Indian culture. We have given up this thing

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"the Bhagavad-gītā is full of information, but we don't take advantage. We are so unfortunate. And it is our country. This is Indian culture. We have given up this thing"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20). "This śarīra is not . . ." Avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṁ tatam (BG 2.17). So many things . . . the Bhagavad-gītā is full of information, but we don't take advantage. We are so unfortunate. And it is our country. This is Indian culture. We have given up this thing. Aapka udhar jo ashram me gaya, Bhagavad-gītā ka alachana kaha hai? I went to your āśrama there but where is discussion on Bhagavad-gītā? Gandhijī, he was supposed to be a great student of Bhagavad-gītā. And the such a big āśrama, Sevagram. Where is Bhagavad-gītā ālochanā (discussion)? Boliye.

770109 - Conversation A - Bombay

Tamasa . . . "Don't remain in the darkness; come to the light." So this is the Vedic injunction. But we don't take advantage of the instruction. We think that, "If I can make one table from ordinary wooden plank, that is advancement." This is technology. This nice polished table, it is a transformation of the crude wooden plank. So if a crude wooden plank is transferred into nice table, we see, "Oh, this is advancement." What is actual benefit? I can do without this table. But we have taken, "This is advancement. Transforming the form of an element into another, that is advancement." So asate vilāsa. This is asat, this wood, either in crude form or in transformed form. So I am taking credit because a crude wood has been turned into a table. So that is my vilāsa. So sat saṅga chāḍi kāinu asate vilāsa. So I am now bound up. So I can become a very nice carpenter. Does it mean that I am self-realized? If you have learned the art of turning crude wood into a table, nice table, you may get the credit of becoming a nice carpenter; but that does not mean you are self-realized. They are taking credit of this turning crude wood into nice table, and they're thinking that, "Our life is successful." This is going on. And the real technology that, "I am not this body; I have been put into this condition, and I am transmigrating from one body to another"—there is no such knowledge. For the temporary . . . (break) . . . temporary thing, flickering thing, like children. Children is very busy on the beach, making sand palaces. And he's very happy. So our position is like that. But we should be intelligent enough that, "There is our real life, permanent life, not this temporary life"; that "This life is temporary. There is another life." Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20). "This śarīra is not . . ." Avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṁ tatam (BG 2.17). So many things . . . the Bhagavad-gītā is full of information, but we don't take advantage. We are so unfortunate. And it is our country. This is Indian culture. We have given up this thing. Aapka udhar jo ashram me gaya, Bhagavad-gītā ka alachana kaha hai? I went to your āśrama there but where is discussion on Bhagavad-gītā? Gandhijī, he was supposed to be a great student of Bhagavad-gītā. And the such a big āśrama, Sevagram. Where is Bhagavad-gītā ālochanā (discussion)? Boliye.