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The students are all rascals, and the teacher's duty, to educate him properly, that is

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"The students are all rascals, and the teacher's duty, to educate him properly, that is"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Prabhupāda: That is, that is Kṛṣṇa is teaching, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66), that you have (to) understand. You have to learn Bhagavad-gītā nicely, that's all.

Guest (2): Excuse me. Your Honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?

Prabhupāda: To teach the rascals. (laughter) The students are all rascals, and the teacher's duty, to educate him properly, that is.

Guest (2): Is not the perfect master, when come to the Earth, prophet, he showed to the God?

Prabhupāda: You were asking what is the duty of the master and teacher.

Guest (1): That I want to go out of this avajñāna cakra.

Prabhupāda: So then you become a fish within the water. Then you will never come out. And if you remain superficially on the water, you will be evaporated.

Guest (1): So there is no remedy.

Prabhupāda: There is . . . no, there is remedy. You can become a devotee of God, then you will not be evaporated.

Guest (1): That's right.

Prabhupāda: And if you superficially merge into God, then you will be evaporated. Bhūtvā bhūtvā praliyate (BG 8.19). You will once mix up, again you will be evaporated; again you will mix up, again you will be evaporated. If you want to stop this, then you become a devotee. Surrender, like the fish, a small fish within the ocean. Because he does surrender, it is not evaporated. It is never evaporated, although he is very small fish. So you become a devotee, don't try to merge, serve, then you will never evaporated.

Guest (1): How can I be devotee if I don't . . .

Prabhupāda: That is, that is Kṛṣṇa is teaching, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66), that you have (to) understand. You have to learn Bhagavad-gītā nicely, that's all.

Guest (2): Excuse me. Your Honor, sir, what is the duty of the perfect master?

Prabhupāda: To teach the rascals. (laughter) The students are all rascals, and the teacher's duty, to educate him properly, that is.

Guest (2): Is not the perfect master, when come to the Earth, prophet, he showed to the God?

Prabhupāda: You were asking what is the duty of the master and teacher.

Guest (2): Yes.

Prabhupāda: The teacher's duty is to make right the rascals, that's all.

Guest (2): When is the perfect mast . . .

Prabhupāda: So, first of all this is the duty of the teacher. So therefore a disciple should consider himself that he's a rascal, and then he goes to a teacher. If he thinks himself that he is quite all right, he does not require a teacher.

Guest (2): But when we are going to the teacher, teacher is showing from the 1, 2, 3, 4, teacher is showing, but not to what you call telling to just you. Teacher is telling, and teacher is showing us. So the perfect master, when the Lord Kṛṣṇa . . .

Prabhupāda: But how do you know the perfect master if you are a student?

Guest (2): When the Lord Kṛṣṇa was on the Earth . . .

Prabhupāda: First of all you answer me, that if you are a student, how you can know who is perfect teacher? (laughter) So you do not know what is your position. If you are teacher . . . if you are a student, then you should go to the teacher submissively, not that strong attitude.

Guest (2): If I am the student, excuse me, Your Honor, sir . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Guest (2): If I am the student, I am going to the class, and I want to know that he's the principal teacher or not . . .?

Prabhupāda: So how you can know the principal teacher or not, if you are student?

Guest (2): Naturally he's giving us lesson from there, I will understand that he is teacher, and he will show us that, "This is A," "This is B," "This is C . . ."

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Page Title:The students are all rascals, and the teacher's duty, to educate him properly, that is
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-12-12, 12:32:38
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1