Kṛṣṇa philosophy means to understand Kṛṣṇa as He is, without any interpretation. And if we actually understand Kṛṣṇa, then our life is successful. What is the mission of our life? The mission of life is to get out of the cycle of birth and death and old age and disease. That means to cease accepting material body one after another. That is going on.
We are wandering throughout the whole universe in different planets and different species of life. We are spirit soul. We don't require to accept this material body. But we have accepted it, somehow or other.
- dehino 'smin yathā dehe
- kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
- tathā dehāntara-prāptir . . .
- (BG 2.13)
In this way, we are wandering throughout the whole universe. But if want to stop it, if we want to become again originally situated in our constitutional position, then we must understand Bhagavad-gītā as it is. We must try to understand Kṛṣṇa as He is. Then our life will be successful. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya (BG 4.9). Go back to home, go back to Godhead.
This is very simple philosophy, and everything is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā. If we are fortunate enough, we should study Bhagavad-gītā as it is. And then we become successful in the mission of our life.
Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa. (devotees offer obeisances)
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Guest (1): . . . part of puruṣa. Also you say: ahaṁ brahmāsmi. You and all people are part of God . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest (1): . . . and this is jīva and puruṣa. There's a living entity within us.
Prabhupāda: Yes, nitya. We are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa.
Guest (1): . . . is the material nature, and material, this is not the gross body.
Prabhupāda: Eh? Eh?
Guest (1): This is not the gross body. When we go to bed and sleep, we feel that there is some divine spark in us, which puts us by our existence . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Guest (1): We are just . . . this body is gross body. But it is a part and parcel of God. That's what the Śaṅkara . . .
Prabhupāda: No. Part and parcel of God in this way: it is the energy of God.
Guest (1): It is not prakṛti; it is puruṣa. It is puruṣa inside.
Prabhupāda: Puruṣa inside? That is Paramātmā.
Guest (1): Śaṅkarācārya says, Śaṅkarācārya says that . . .
Prabhupāda: No, we differ from Śaṅkarācārya. We follow Kṛṣṇa. We do not follow Śaṅkarācārya. So if you think Śaṅkarācārya is better than Kṛṣṇa, that is your opinion. We follow Kṛṣṇa. Śaṅkarācārya is not original person. Kṛṣṇa is original person. That is accepted by Vyāsadeva and all . . . Nārada, Devala. So our proposition is "Follow Kṛṣṇa." Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13).
The original person, ādi-puruṣam. Govindam ādi-puruṣam. Śaṅkarācārya is, say, 1,500 years, but Kṛṣṇa, He's the original puruṣa, before the creation. The creation was made . . . Śaṅkarācārya also admits in his commentary on the Bhagavad-gītā: nārāyaṇaḥ paraḥ avyaktāt. And he accepts Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead: sa bhagavān svayaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ. So you cannot supersede Kṛṣṇa by accepting Śaṅkarācārya. Śaṅkarācārya admits, sa bhagavān svayaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ. So Śaṅkarācārya admits Kṛṣṇa is the authority, but Kṛṣṇa says that this material body is prakṛti. How you can say it is puruṣa? Kṛṣṇa says that bhūmir āpo 'nalo vāyuḥ, bhinnā me prakṛtir aṣṭadhā (BG 7.4): "These eight kinds of prakṛti, they are My separated energy." How you can say it is puruṣa?
Guest (2): Sir, may I . . . some reference were written by Lord Kṛṣṇa in Gītā. He told us that api cet su-durācāro bhajate mām ananya-bhāk (BG 9.30). And He, kṣipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā, and He also promised pratijāne priyo 'si . . . (indistinct)
But it is difficult to understand that the same Lord Kṛṣṇa told that bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyante (BG 7.19), manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye, teṣām api sahasreṣu (BG 7.3), "Can understand Me?"
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Guest (2): Can understand Lord Kṛṣṇa? It is . . . this knowledge of Him, perfect knowledge, is very difficult because . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes. But that is the standard of perfect knowledge, to surrender to Kṛṣṇa.
Guest (2): Yes, but He is so easy that api cet su-durācāraḥ, it means we must surrender in what way? But . . .
Prabhupāda: Api cet su-durācāro bhajate mām ananya-bhāk. Ananya-bhāk, without deviating to any other thing, if one is simply sticking to worship Kṛṣṇa, that is called ananya-bhāk. Not that, "I am worshiping Kṛṣṇa sometimes, sometimes worshiping this, sometimes that."
No, not like that. Ananya-bhāk. One, concentrated. Such a person, even if he's found su-durācāraḥ, due to his past habits . . . just like these European boys and American boys. They have taken to Kṛṣṇa consciousness very seriously. But sometimes we find that they are not so clean according to the śāstra.
So that is supported. Even though they are not sometimes following the routine work of cleanliness or something else, still, because he's sticking to the principle of worshiping Kṛṣṇa, he does not do anything else, then he's sādhu. He's sādhu. Only for that qualification. They are not going to any other demigods or form of God. They are sticking to the simple . . . mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja. This is required.