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