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Lect SEA 1968-10-20 Initiation--On the Maha-Mantra
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ANNOUNCER: Next is a lecture on
chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa Mahā-mantra,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on October
20th, 1968, in Seattle.
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PRABHUPĀDA: So harā, harā
is the form of the word…
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Hare is the form of the word harā
when address… when She is addressed.
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And Kṛṣṇa, when He’s addressed, the form
does not change; this is grammatical rule.
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So Hare Kṛṣṇa means, “Oh, the energy
of Kṛṣṇa, or energy of the Lord,”
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and Kṛṣṇa, “the Lord.”
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So Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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Hare Kṛṣṇa means I am praying not
only to the Lord, but to the energy also.
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This is natural.
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Just like a man and woman.
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In whole world there is combination
of male and female, either…
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Any society, human society, or bird
society or dog society or animal society.
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Why this male and female? Why?
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Female is the energy.
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Energy of the male.
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Why a man takes—marries a
woman and takes responsibility?
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Of course, in your country
they marry as a matter of joke:
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Immediately divorce after
week or after seven days.
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But marriage means to take
full responsibility of a woman.
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That is real marriage:
Vedic marriage.
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We… When I get married
our boys and girls… we…
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The boy takes this vow that,
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“I take responsibility of your maintenance
throughout your whole life.”
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And the girl promises that “I desire to
serve you throughout my whole life.”
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So the woman, the
female, is energy.
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When a man comes at home, he… he
sees that everything is nicely decorated.
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My wife is well-dressed and foodstuff is
nicely prepared, he becomes encouraged.
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He can work more nicely.
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Therefore, woman is the energy.
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The woman gives the
energy and he can work.
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Why… Where… Wherefrom
this idea came?
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The idea came because it is originally
there: janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1].
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Everything is coming from the Supreme;
otherwise where do you get this idea?
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sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma
[Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1]
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Without being in the origin?
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bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
[Bg 7.10]
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Kṛṣṇa says that “I am
the root of everything.”
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So, if this energy, male and female
combination, is a necessity…
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So wherefrom this necessity came into
existence unless it is there in the origin?
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Therefore it is to be understood
that the Absolute has energy.
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He has got different energies.
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By His energies He is acting, and that
is a… confirmed in the Vedic sūtra:
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parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate
[Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8].
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The Supreme Absolute
Truth has multi-energies.
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Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva
śrūyate: Multi-energies.
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And: svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā
ca [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport].
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And by His energies he’s
working in such a nice way
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that it appears that it is
being automatically done.
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Just like this tape
recorder is working.
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How it is working?
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The electric energy is there.
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By the electric energy the
machine is so nicely working
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that when it is replayed:
Exactly I am speaking.
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So energy is working.
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I am speaking; My
speaking energy is acting.
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Electric energy is helping.
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This machine energy is accepting
and a nice thing is coming.
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Similarly, the whole cosmic manifestation
is the manifestation of the energies.
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The rascals: They
do not understand.
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And when it is stated that
everything is Brahman,
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A that…
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That is to be understood
that everything is working
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under the energy of
the Supreme Brahman.
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That is real meaning.
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But at the…
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This is simultaneously
one and different.
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When this tape recorder will play, it will
play exactly how I am speaking to you.
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There will be no
difference of voice.
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If somebody hears from other room,
he’ll understand that Swamiji’s speaking.
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But still, that speaking
is different from me.
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Because my energy
is working there.
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Similarly, there are
two kinds of energies.
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Just like when I am speaking,
this is my real energy.
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And when this tape
recorder will speak,
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that is also my energy, but
that is separated energy.
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Similarly, this material
manifestation is separated energy.
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And there is direct energy.
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The direct…
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This material energy, separated energy,
is the reflection of the direct energy.
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Just like when this tape
recorder will be replayed
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it is the reflection of
my original speech.
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Similarly, this material manifestation
is a reflection of the original energy:
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Internal energy.
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Therefore in the Bhagavad-gītā it
is stated that perverted reflection.
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Ūrdhva-mūlam adhah-śākham
[Bg. 15.1]; perverted… A tree.
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This ma… mata…
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cosmic manifestation is compared
just like a tree with root upwards.
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That means perverted.
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Have you seen a tree
[with] upward root[s]?
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JĀHNAVĀ: [indistinct] I’ve heard
an analogy to that before.
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Yes.
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So this… this material world is perverted
reflection of the original energy.
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So, this “Hare” means we are directly
approaching the original energy
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of the Supreme Lord.
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“Please accept me, under You.
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Now I am under reflection.
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I am trying to get substance
from the reflection.”
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Suppose a tree is reflected by the
bank of a river: The exact [reflection].
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So if somebody dives into the river
and tries to take fruit from that tree,
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it will not be possible
because that is reflection.
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One has to go to the real tree.
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So we are hankering after life.
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We are hankering after pleasure.
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But we are seeking pleasure
in the reflection: Māyā.
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Therefore we are
frustrated, confused.
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Therefore this prayer is
to the original energy.
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Without energy…
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Without energy…
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The Lord is not without energy.
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Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa; Lakṣmī-
Nārāyaṇa; Sītā-Rāma.
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So God is always with energy.
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Without energy, he is incomplete.
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Sun without sunshine
is incomplete.
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Is it possible?
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One…
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Can one think of sun
without sunshine?
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Similarly, the Māyāvāda theory that
the absolute is without energy:
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“There is no energy; absolute
is…” They have misunderstood.
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The energy is not different
from the energetic.
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Just like sunshine is not
different from the sun.
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Neither the sunshine has got
any existence without the sun.
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Nor the sun can exist without sunshine;
they are so intimately related.
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Similarly, the Lord and the
energies are so intimately related.
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It cannot be separated,
but they are not one.
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This is the whole philosophy.
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So, we are praying to the
original energy: Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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So because energy and the
energetic: Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.
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Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa; They are not
separate, but it is pleasure.
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When They are separated;
Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa,
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that is energetic; that is
giving impetus. [splice]
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So one has to learn all this
thing; everything is there.
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