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Lect STO 1973-09-06 To Students--Brahma Samhita
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ANNOUNCER: The
following is a lecture,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 6th of September,
1973, in Stockholm, Sweden.
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PRABHUPĀDA: It takes time.
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I have cited about a dozen only.
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Let me try to explain
some of them.
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Because I have already
taken much time.
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So one verse in these we find:
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advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
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vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.33]
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The Lord is one, without
a second, advaita.
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Acyuta: the Lord never falls down.
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The distinction between
Lord and ourself:
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We are also eternal living entities.
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The Lord is also eternal.
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He’s also a living entity, a person,
just like us, but His name is Acyuta.
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He never falls from His position.
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But we living entities:
Sometimes we fall down.
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Just our material condition of life.
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This is our falldown.
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Therefore He’s called
advaitam acyutam anādim.
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And He has no beginning.
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He is the beginning of everything.
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The creation is from Him,
but He has no creator.
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So Advaitam acyutam anādim
ananta-rūpam [Bs. 5.33].
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And He has got multi-forms.
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He can expand Himself.
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The one expansion is
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that Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-
deśe arjuna tiṣṭhati [Bg. 18.61].
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He has expanded Himself to
live with you within your heart.
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īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānām
[Bg. 18.61]
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Not only that: Another
place it is described,
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eko ’py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi
[Bs. 5.35]
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One portion of the Lord…
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That is confirmed in
the Bhagavad-gītā:
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ekāṁśena sthito jagat
[Bg. 10.42]
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Jagat means this material world.
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That is being maintained by
one of His plenary portions,
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which is called Paramātmā.
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Or Garbhodakaśayī Viṣṇu,
or Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu.
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So, one portion of His plenary portion:
He is within the material world.
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A material world means
within the universe.
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Aṇḍāntara-stham; [Bs. 5.35] aṇḍa,
brahmāṇḍa means this universe.
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This is not only one universe, but
there are many millions of universes.
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So He’s there.
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advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
[Bs. 5.33]
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And aṇḍāntara-stham:
He is within the universe.
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aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham
[Bs. 5.35]
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And He is within the atom also.
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Just imagine: Expansion of God.
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So Advaitam acyutam
anādim ananta-rūpam
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ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
[Bs. 5.33]
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Although He’s the oldest of all, you’ll
find Kṛṣṇa always a young man.
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He’s, from His face, we’ll find a young
boy, twenty to twenty-five years.
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nava-yauvanaṁ…
vedeṣu durlabham…
[Bs. 5.33]
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If you want to search out
God by studying Vedas,
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it will be very difficult.
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…adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
[Bs. 5.33]
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But He’s very easily
available from His devotee.
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This is the description.
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Then, in another place:
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ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis
tābhirya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ
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goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto…
[Bs. 5.37]
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The Lord…
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Everything is not material.
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That is Sac-cid-ānanda-
vigraha [Bs. 5.1].
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Kṛṣṇa is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha: His form
is eternity, blissful and full of knowledge.
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So, all His paraphernalia
in the Goloka Vṛndāvana:
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That is His expansion of that quality:
Eternity, blissfulness and knowledge.
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ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis
[Bs. 5.37]
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His gopīs, His consorts,
His father, His mother,
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His friends, His trees, His
flowers, His calves and cows:
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Everything is spiritual;
expansion from Him.
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We are also expansion from Him.
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We are marginal potency.
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And this is spiritual potency.
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So, everything expansion.
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Therefore the Vedic literatures say,
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sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma [Chāndogya
Upaniṣad 3.14.1]: “Everything is Brahma.”
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We are now combination of two energies:
Marginal energy and the external energy.
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But in the spiritual world,
everything is only spiritual energy.
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So we are constitutionally
spiritual energy.
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Somehow or other we have been
entangled with this material energy.
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So, if we try in this
human form of life,
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we can get out of this material energy
and again go back to the spiritual energy.
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That is the opportunity.
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ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis
tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ
[Bs. 5.37]
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In another śloka is to explain:
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aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti
[Bs 5.32]
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The spiritual body is equally
qualified for doing everything.
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Just like with our hand,
we can touch only.
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We cannot do… Or we
can pick up something.
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But by simply having hand, or
with the hand, we cannot eat.
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For eating we shall
have to use this mouth.
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We have to use the stomach.
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But in the spiritual world, Kṛṣṇa:
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About Him is described: Aṅgāni yasya
sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti [Bs 5.32].
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Each and every limb of Kṛṣṇa has
got the potency of other limbs.
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He can eat by His eyes.
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He can hear from His eyes;
anything—all the parts of the limbs.
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Because they are spiritual, you
can use it for any purpose.
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This is not understandable in this material
condition of life, but it is possible.
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When it is spiritually realized, it is
possible; these things are there.
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aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti
paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti
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ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs 5.32]
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So, His spiritual world—His
planet, is described that:
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cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
[Bs. 5.29]
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In His planet, there are many trees,
many palaces, but they’re all spiritual.
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Cintāmaṇi means spiritual.
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The houses: They’re
made of touchstone.
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Just like here the houses are
made of bricks and wood.
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There the houses are also spiritual.
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The touchstone:
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It is described in the śāstra that if there
is any touchstone in this material world,
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the touchstone can
turn the iron into gold.
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There are houses also.
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Big, big palaces, like here.
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Cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa
[Bs. 5.29]; the trees are kalpa-vṛkṣa.
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Kalpa-vṛkṣa means here you can get
fruit: One kind of fruit from one tree.
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But there, any fruit you
want, you can get any tree.
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That is spiritual.
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Prakara-sadmasu kalpa-
vṛkṣa; kalpa-vṛkṣa means that.
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And Surabhīr
abhipālayantam [Bs. 5.29].
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Kṛṣṇa is very fond of tending cows.
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And what are those cows?
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Surabhī.
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Surabhī means you can take as much milk
as you like and as many times as you like.
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Here in this material world you have
got cows, but you can take milk:
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Limited quantity.
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And also once or twice.
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That is the difference.
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In this way, if you
read Brahma-saṁhitā,
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you’ll get complete description of the
spiritual world, the spiritual entities,
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the Supreme Lord, His associates,
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His country, His pastimes…
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Everything, very nicely described.
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And if we become attached
to such place, then we can try,
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we can try, we can prepare ourself for
going back to home, back to Godhead.
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That is the perfection of life.
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That is the mission of Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement.
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Thank you very much; Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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