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Addr LA 1972-10-06 The Original Person--Perfect Knowledge
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ANNOUNCER: The following
is a departure address,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 6th of October,
1972, in Los Angeles, California.
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PRABHUPĀDA: Govindam ādi-
puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. [Bs 5]
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So, we are worshiping the
original person, Govinda.
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People are embarrassed to find
out the cause of all causes.
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The scientists, the philosophers, they
are embarrassed, the religionists.
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But we have got information
of the original cause.
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īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
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anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
[Bs 5.1]
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There must be some cause.
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We do not accept
anything as chance.
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No.
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There is no chance.
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There is cause.
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Everything has got cause.
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So, the original cause is Kṛṣṇa.
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So, our knowledge is perfect,
therefore; we know the cause.
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So you chant this mantra,
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govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ
bhajāmi, and you will be in full knowledge.
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yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavanti
[Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.3]
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In the Vedānta-sūtra,
Vedic language, it is said,
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“If you know simply Govinda, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead,
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then you know everything.
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All knowledge is perfect.”
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So try to understand Kṛṣṇa.
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Then, all other categorical
knowledge will be revealed.
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Spiritually, knowledge is revealed.
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By material senses we try
to acquire knowledge,
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but that is always,
remains imperfect.
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And, if you receive knowledge
from the original person,
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then your knowledge is perfect.
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So, we have started this Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement,
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to educate people in
perfect knowledge.
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So we have got so many branches, and
we have to travel and encourage them.
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So now I am going to
the eastern hemisphere—
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from the western hemisphere
to the eastern hemisphere.
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So I am going now
[to] San Francisco.
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From there, I shall go to Hawaii,
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and then cross the international
line, dividing East and West.
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Then we go to Manila, and
therefrom we shall go to India.
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In Vṛndāvana we shall have
Ūrja-vrata for one month.
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You also could observe ūrja-vrata here
from the next Ekādaśī, one month.
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I have already
instructed Karandhara
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to have a sky lamp and put candle in
the evening to the Deity for one month.
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Then, after Ūrja-vrata, we have a
big engagement in Hyderabad.
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Then in Bombay, then in Delhi.
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In this way.
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In the meantime you
go on with your work,
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hold the morning
class, Bhāgavatam.
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Each verse try to understand
scrutinizingly and worship Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.
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Dress very gorgeously.
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Offer Them prasādam very gorgeously,
and you take remnants of the foodstuff.
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So in this way keep yourself fit
always in Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
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and there will be no chance
for māyā to attack you.
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Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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