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MW ATL 1975-03-01 Don't Speculate-Hear!
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ANNOUNCER: The following is
a morning walk conversation,
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with His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 1st of March,
1975, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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PRABHUPĀDA: You
know who are mūḍhās?
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TRIPURĀRI: Yes Śrīla Prabhupāda.
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Who?
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Fools and rascals who
won’t take your books.
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Sometimes we convince them
that the philosophy is very nice,
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and they agree when we use Lord Kṛṣṇa’s
words, Dehino ’smin yathā dehe [Bg. 2.13],
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and they say “Yes, I can understand
that, but I don’t need your book,”
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or “I would never read it.”
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- “Well, no; take it.”
- You ask them, “So you want to remain mūḍhā?”
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- Ask him.
- Yes, we say,
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“No, take it home, and
some day you will read it.”
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They think they can
find out on their own.
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That is foolishness.
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They cannot.
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mām eva ya prapadyante
māyām etāṁ taranti te
[Bg. 7.14]
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So some… Sometimes they will
agree to everything we say,
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- Hmm.
- but they a… will not give a donation.
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[They] trust more
the man on the TV.
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BALAVANTA: In the
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,
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you say that the Rāhu planet is
visible on the full moon night?
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The Rāhu planet?
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No, when there is [an] eclipse.
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Oh, eclipse.
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Eclipse means Rāhu
planet comes in front.
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[Reads sign:] “No smoking?”
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ŚRUTAKĪRTI: “No swimming.”
- Oh.
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Who is going to swim now?
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Once Balavanta was very sick when
he was dealing with politicians,
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and I heard that you
said it was because he…
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By touching them and
associating with them,
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he accepted some of
their sinful reactions.
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- I did not say.
- No?
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But it may be.
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So I was wondering; sometimes
our men on saṅkīrtana they’re—
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- shaking hands…
- But you are saṅkīrtana.
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You cannot be infected. [break]
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[If the saṅkīrtana] party is
infected, then preaching will stop.
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If [the] doctor is infected,
then treatment will stop.
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[The] doctor is never infected.
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They have good precautions.
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Similarly, when you are engaged
in saṅkīrtana, māyā cannot touch.
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māyām etāṁ taranti te
[Bg. 7.14][break]
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…disciples and you
accept our karma also.
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- [Is] that correct?
- Hmm.
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That is manifest sometimes
in disease on your body?
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Yes.
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So our men also are going
out and preaching…
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[Indistinct] loaded.
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So I am surprised how I have written
something, what to speak of them.
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It is all Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
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DHĪRA−KṚṢṆA: One professor
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the other day was trying to
convince one of our boys
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that you were coming in
the disciplic succession,
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and were authorized to
translate all these books.
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- Yes, that is right.
- He was just…
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He didn’t know that he was
your disciple, so he was saying,
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“Bhaktivedanta Swami: he is coming
in a disciplic line straight from Kṛṣṇa.
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- That’s why he can speak on all these books.”
- Yes, that is a fact.
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That authority I have got.
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That’s a fact.
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yasya deve parā bhaktir
yathā deve tathā gurau
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tasyaite kathitā hy arthāḥ
prakaśānte…
[ŚU 6.23]
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They become manifest: all the
meanings of the Vedic literature.
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yasya deve parā bhaktiḥ
[ŚU 6.23]
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Don’t come very near.
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Hare Kṛṣṇa. [break]
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…explaining last evening.
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Don’t speculate; hear.
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That is the qualification.
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They… All others, they
are simply speculating.
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How long their energy will go on?
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Limited energy.
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How speculating will help them?
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It is not possible.
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It is condemned.
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Athāpi te deva… te deva padāmbuja-
dvaya-prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi
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jānāti tattvaṁ na cānya eko ’pi
ciraṁ vicinvan
[SB 10.14.29]
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Ciraṁ vicinvan: speculating for millions
of years, one cannot understand.
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athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-
prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi
[SB 10.14.29]
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“One who has received a little
mercy of the lotus feet of the Lord…
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He can understand the truth.”
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Others, even speculating for millions of
years, they cannot understand anything.
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The speculation business is
useless in spiritual advance[ment].
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It may help Darwin to come to the
conclusion that man is born from monkey.
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Because he is from monkey, he
thinks others also from monkey.
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He has admitted that whatever he
has given, it is simply a speculation.
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He has admitted.
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And all others [are]
also speculating.
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They are trying to manufacture
life from chemicals,
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but they do not know that
life is never manufactured.
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It is already there.
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