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SB 1-03-16 LA 1972-09-21 Don't Think You Are All in All
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a class
on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 1st canto,
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3rd chapter, text number 16,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on September 21st, 1972, in Los Angeles.
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PRADYUMNA: Translation:
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“The eleventh incarnation of the
Lord was in the form of a tortoise
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whose shell served as a pivot for the Mandarācala Hill,
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which was being used as a churning rod
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by the theists and the atheists of the universe.”
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PRABHUPĀDA: So Yasyāntaṁ na viduḥ surāsura-gaṇa
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devāya tasmai namaḥ [SB 12.13.1].
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The mantra, there is mantra, that yasyāntaṁ na viduḥ.
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One cannot understand the antam,
the ultimate end of the Supreme…
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yasyāntaṁ na viduḥ Viduḥ means “does not know.”
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surāsura-gaṇa Sura.
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Sura means demigods, theists.
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Those who are believer in God, they are
called sura, and just the opposite—asura.
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Asura does not believe in the existence of God.
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He thinks he is God. That is asura.
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āsuri-bhāvam āśritāḥ. In the
Bhagavad-gītā it is said āsuri.
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Āsuri, this word has come from this āsura.
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Adjective.
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Asura is nominative.
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So from āsura, it becomes āsuri.
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āsuri-bhāvam āśritāḥ Those who
are atheists, they do not surrender.
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They do not like the idea of
God or Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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But they do not know what is
God or what is the ultimate end,
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who is the original cause. They do not know.
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Even the theists, they also do not know.
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They know Kṛṣṇa,
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but it is impossible to understand
what is the limit of Kṛṣṇa’s energies,
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just like we were discussing this morning.
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So unlimited, unlimited.
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Yasyāntaṁ na viduḥ surāsura-gaṇa
devāya tasmai namaḥ [SB 12.13.1].
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Devāya, that Supreme Lord, we simply
offer our respectful obeisances.
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It is not possible to know perfectly
what is the potency and energy of God.
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The atheists, they do not know at all.
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But theists, devotees, they
know, but that is not complete.
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Even Kṛṣṇa does not know how much powerful He is.
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That is called unlimited.
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So surāsura-gaṇa udadhiṁ mathnatām.
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Churning.
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Once upon a time they churned the whole ocean.
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Now, churning the ocean…
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You have got experience, churning the
milk in a pot or something else in a pot.
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But the pot is the ocean, the Pacific
Ocean, and the rod is Mandarācala Hill.
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And one side, the asuras, and the other side, the suras.
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So the churning rod must be
placed on something, a pivot.
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That is kamaṭha-rūpeṇa.
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Lord accepted the… Because the kamaṭha,
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the tortoise can live within the
water and without the water also.
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They can live on the land and within the water.
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So the churning rod, Mandarācala Hill, was
placed on the shell, on the back of the…
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keśava dhṛta-kūrma-śarīra…
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kṣitir iha vipulatare tiṣṭhati tava
pṛṣṭhe [Śrī Daśāvatāra Stotra]
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This pṛṣṭha, he is carrying.
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Kṣitir iha vipulatare tiṣṭhati tava pṛṣṭhe
dharaṇi-dhāraṇa-kiṇa-cakra-gariṣṭhe
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keśava dhṛta-kūrma-śarīra jaya
jagadīśa hare [Śrī Daśāvatāra Stotra].
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This Kūrma, kamaṭha-rūpeṇa.
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Now, the surāsura-gaṇa, they
are standing on the ocean.
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If you go up to your waist in the water,
you become dangerously situated.
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But they were standing.
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This proves the law of relativity.
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Everywhere this law of relativity is working.
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You do not think,
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because you cannot stand in the
midst of the water of the ocean,
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therefore nobody can stand.
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That is nonsense.
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The ant, the small ant, it is also working.
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The same thing is going on in the ant society.
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They are also struggling for existence,
eating, sleeping, mating, and defending.
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And we are also doing that.
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And higher than us, surāsura-
gaṇa, they are also doing that.
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But although the quality of the work
is the same, the quantity is different.
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Quality of the work the same.
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Eating, sleeping, mating, and defending.
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Everywhere, all living entities, they are struggling.
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Whole day they are working according to their capacity.
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And the qualities, what for they are working?
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Eating, sleeping, mating, and defending.
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That’s all.
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If you just resist one ant, it is coming, if
you try to stop, the ant will also resist.
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It will go this way, that way, this way.
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It will not agree, “Why you are stopping me?”
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But it is trying in its own capacity.
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Similarly, you are also trying to resist in your own
capacity by discovering atomic bomb.
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But as you can smash millions of ants
simply by rubbing your leg on the ground,
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similarly there are other beings who can
finish you simply by rubbing their legs.
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Don’t think you are all and all.
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The rascals, the so-called human scientists,
they are thinking they are all in all.
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“I am the monarch of all I survey.” That is not.
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In God’s creation there is smaller than the
smallest and the bigger than the biggest.
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Nobody can claim that “I am
everything.” No. That is not possible.
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So they were standing on the… Without
standing, how they are churning?
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But the sea water is up to the
knees. How they can stand?
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So the seven mile sea water is up to their knees.
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Your, an ant, even seven inches is sufficient water.
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And for you seven feet is sufficient water.
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Similarly, others, even seven miles is not sufficient.
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This is the order of… Don’t
think that these are all stories.
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Surāsurāṇāṁ mathnatām [SB 1.3.16].
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“How they can stand on the ocean? How
they can churn? Oh, these are all stories.”
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They are not stories. It may be story for you.
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Just like if you speak to an ant or what is
called, insect… There are many insects.
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They take their birth… We have seen it. In India we see.
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In this season there are insects. They
are called divāli-pokā, insect divāli.
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Just in the evening they are born.
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And they flock together before a light,
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[sound imitation:] bawnh,
bawnh, bawnh, bawnh, like that.
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And throughout the whole night they
will do, and at the end of the night,
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in the morning, you will see, they
are, in heap, they are lying dead.
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So their life, the duration of life is that night.
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within that night they take their birth,
they grow, they beget children, family,
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and defend, eat, mate. Everything
is complete within the night.
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And at the end of the night, it is finished.
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So similarly, if to these flies, if you say, “Oh,
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we are dying like this, but there is human being.
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This is only one night.
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And such… There is another
day also of the same period.
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Then together, day and night, such
thirty day and night makes their month.
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And such 12 months make their year.
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And such 12… such hundred years they live.”
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So how the fly will understand?
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Similarly, we cannot understand.
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When the duration of life of Brahmā
is described, we think it is story.
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Similarly, they will think also story. Nothing is story.
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In the Vedic literatures all informations are there.
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Their relative life, big and small, smaller
than the smallest, bigger than the biggest.
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Don’t think that these description
in the Vedas, they are stories.
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They are not stories. They are facts.
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But we cannot accommodate in
our poor teeny brain. That’s all.
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So what we shall understand about God?
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It is not possible.
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Therefore it is said,
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Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved
grāhyam indriyaiḥ [BRS. 1.2.234].
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In our present senses we always think of seeing.
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But we forget, what seeing power we have got?
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It is nothing.
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It is simply under certain condition
we can see a little portion.
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We cannot see perfectly, so we should
not believe in our seeing power.
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So therefore śāstra says,
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Ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved
grāhyam indriyaiḥ [BRS. 1.2.234].
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“You cannot understand Kṛṣṇa and
God by your present imperfect senses.
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That is not possible.”
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na bhaved grāhyam [Cc. Madhya 17.136]
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“You cannot accept or you cannot
receive by your blunt senses.”
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That is not possible.
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Then how it is possible?
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“I have… My only asset is these blunt senses.
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How can I understand God?” Yes.
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Sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva
sphuraty adaḥ [Cc. Madhya 17.136].
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If you engage in devotional service,
then God will reveal to you, “Here I am.
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Here I am.
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I am like this.”
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Just like Arjuna saw Kṛṣṇa. He understood God.
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So if we take the position of Arjuna, submissive…
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Śiṣyas te ’haṁ śādhi māṁ prapannam [Bg. 2.7].
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Surrender, then God, by kindness,
because you have surrendered,
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He will reveal to you.
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Otherwise by your so-called calculation,
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you cannot understand what is the
greatest and what is the smallest.
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But there are things smaller than the
smallest and the greater than the greatest.
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That’s all right. Thank you.
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