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The demon, even with high educational qualification, he is rascal

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"the demon, even with high educational qualification, he is rascal"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

So "A serpent with jewel, does it mean that he is not fearful?" Even with jewel he is fearful. Therefore the demon, even with high educational qualification, he is rascal. He is rascal, fearful.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Once there was a big cobra, Śrīla Prabhupāda, in home in Manipur, in our kitchen. He was just coiling and just sitting there, but he was very mild, because he was about to skin his skin. By that time, he doesn't bite anything; very tame.

Prabhupāda: No, sometimes the serpents are tamed.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.

Prabhupāda: That's a fact. But still, they are dangerous. That is said by Cāṇakya Paṇḍita. The serpent is so dangerous. That, Caitanya Mahāprabhu said. The serpent is so dangerous that even one imagines there is a serpent, he is . . . becomes afraid. You see? When Mahārāja Pratāparudra wanted to see Him and Sarva Bhaṭṭācārya and others requested that, "He is a devotee." "But I know that he is a devotee, but because he is king, therefore I cannot see him." He gave this encou . . . "The serpent even by imagination is also fearful." He said like that. And Cāṇakya Paṇḍita said, manina bhujitaḥ sarpa kim asau na bhayaṁkaraḥ. A serpent . . . you know, sometimes they have got jewel.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So "A serpent with jewel, does it mean that he is not fearful?" Even with jewel he is fearful. Therefore the demon, even with high educational qualification, he is rascal. He is rascal, fearful.

Prajāpati: That high education is just like the jewel.

Prabhupāda: Yes. But still fearful.

Prajāpati: But Haridāsa Ṭhākura, he had a serpent in his cave that he was not so much fearful of.

Prabhupāda: No, I said that, that sometimes serpents are tame, friendly, everything, with jewel. But still they are fearful. Still, they are fearful. They cannot be trusted. A demon may be your friend, but you cannot trust him. Manina bhujitaḥ sarpa kim asau na bhayaṁkaraḥ. Just like (laughing) your sky in the Western world. However clear it may be, you cannot trust. At any moment there will be cloud.

Jaya-hari: Yes.

Is that all right?

Jaya-hari: Especially in London.

Prabhupāda: Yes, I am therefore speaking, Western world. So what is the London news, Jaya-hari? (break)

Prajāpati: . . . in what sense is the First Canto His lotus feet?

Prabhupāda: Lotus feet because we worship Kṛṣṇa by worshiping the lotus feet first. We offer flower to the lotus feet. So one must go from First Canto to Second Canto, Third Canto, gradually make progress, not all of a sudden want to see how Kṛṣṇa is smiling. You see? That you cannot understand. So the sahajiyās, they go, immediately jump to the Kṛṣṇa's rāsa-līlā, without worshiping gradually. Therefore they misunderstand. (break) Just to understand Kṛṣṇa.

Prajāpati: But Kṛṣṇa's disappearance, about having a māyā body that He left behind, a māyā body, is that anything to do with Māyāvādī?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Māyāvādī means those who are in māyā, those who are thinking Kṛṣṇa as one of the human being, for them, to delude them, He left the body. But actually He departed in His own body. There is no question of . . . here is another . . . but just like this is also, this material world, this is also Kṛṣṇa's body. But this is interesting to the Māyāvādīs, the so-called scientist, so-called philosopher. But it is not interesting to the devotees. They are thinking, "This is all." Is not that? The scientist, the philosophers, they are thinking, "This is all. There is nothing beyond this." This is illusion. This is only reflection of the reality.

Viśvareta: Śrīla Prabhupāda, what about process to understanding? Scientists, they have their mental process, but what is our process to understand this knowledge?

Prabhupāda: Ascending. Ah, descending, not ascending. We have to take knowledge from superior. We should not try ourself to know. That will be imperfect. Avaroha-panthā. Just like we're receiving knowledge from Kṛṣṇa. We are not researching. Those who are researching, they cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. They understand Kṛṣṇa as ordinary human being, maybe little learned. That's all. The Dr. Frog's calculation of Atlantic Ocean. That's all. Avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ (BG 9.11).

(break) . . . automatically. You see? But he does not know that behind this automation there is brain. He'll see, "Oh, how nice." That's all. Similarly, childlike scientist, they will say: "Everything is going on automatically." (break) . . . but there is brain behind that.

Karandhara: But for the child, the presents do appear automatically.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Karandhara: For the child, the presents at Christmas do appear automatically, by the grace of the parents. So the fruits appear automatically by the grace of Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Rūpānuga: The main thing is their leaders have no qualifications. Our leader has all qualifications. Our leader has all qualifications.

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, because they are perfect.

Prajāpati: Therefore all auspiciousness appears by your presence, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Yes, provided you accept it. You have got independence also. Acceptance and rejection.

Jaya-hari: English car, Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Rolls-Royce. Not only English; you could not. (laughter) You could not, but he has done. Sometimes Śyāmasundara is envious of Karandhara. Now, just see what is the difference. He has taken twenty thousand dollars. He cannot pay.

Devotees: Jaya. All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Page Title:The demon, even with high educational qualification, he is rascal
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-07, 04:11:06
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