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You should be detached from matter and attached to Krsna

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"you should be detached from matter and attached to Kṛṣṇa"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1972 Conversations and Morning Walks

You cannot be completely detached. If you be detachment from something, you must be attached to something. Otherwise you have no perception(?). So you should be detached from matter and attached to Krsna.


Prabhupāda: What is your answer?

Rāmeśvara: So we show them our books and say that these are the real scriptures, real quality. The science has to be . . . (indistinct) . . . authorities of spiritual life.

Prabhupāda: How do you explain? You are realized or not? . . . (indistinct) . . . the proof?

Rāmeśvara: Prabhupāda, when you say that this is the knowledge that's been realized . . .

Prabhupāda: What is that? Why don't you explain? . . . (indistinct) . . . that means you do not know.

Devotee (2): One who is developing in spiritual life is becoming detached from material things. These persons who are following other gurus are attached to material things. They're still smoking, having sex life, drinking.

Jayatīrtha: It's difficult to . . . (indistinct) . . . detached from material things. One should be attached to Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: That detachment is required. That is the special qualification. You cannot be completely detached. If you be detached from something, you must be attached to something. Otherwise you have no perception. So you should be detached from matter and attached to Kṛṣṇa.

Page Title:You should be detached from matter and attached to Krsna
Compiler:TariniKalindi
Created:2015-12-13, 06:21:11
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1