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Story 19 Illiterate brahmana
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PRABHUPĀDA: I’ll recite one
story in this connection,
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that one brāhmaṇa in South India,
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in Raṅganātha temple, he
was reading Bhagavad-gītā.
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And he was illiterate.
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He did not know neither
Sanskrit nor any letter—illiterate.
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So, the people [in the]
neighborhood, they knew that,
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“This man is illiterate, and he
is reading Bhagavad-gītā.”
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He is opening the Bhagavad-
gītā, “Uh, uh,” like that; yes.
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So somebody was joking,
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“Ah, well, brāhmaṇa, how you
are reading Bhagavad-gītā?”
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He could understand that “This man
is joking because I am illiterate.”
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So, in this way,
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Caitanya Mahāprabhu also happened to
be that day in the Raṅganātha temple,
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and He could understand
that “Here is a devotee.”
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So, He approached
him and He asked,
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“My dear brāhmaṇa,
what you are reading?”
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So he could also understand
that “This man is not joking.”
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So he said, “Sir, I am
reading Bhagavad-gītā;
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I am trying to read Bhagavad-
gītā, but I am illiterate.
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So, my Guru Mahārāja said that,
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‘You must read eighteen chapters
daily.’ So, I have no knowledge.
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I cannot read.
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Still, Guru Mahārāja said,
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so I am just trying to carry out his order
and opening the pages, and that’s all.
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I do not know how to read it.”
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Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that
“You are crying sometimes, I see.”
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Then, “Yes, I am crying.”
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“How you are crying
if you cannot read?”
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“No.
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Because when I take this Bhagavad-
gītā book, I see one picture,
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that Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He has taken
the chariot driver, sārathi, of Arjuna.
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He is His devotee.
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So Śrī Kṛṣṇa is so kind that He can
accept the position of a servant,
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because Arjuna was ordering,
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‘Keep my chariot here,’
and Kṛṣṇa was serving him.
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So Kṛṣṇa is so kind.
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So when I see this picture
within my mind, I am crying.”
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So Caitanya Mahāprabhu
immediately embraced him:
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that “You are reading
Bhagavad-gītā.
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Without any an education, you
are reading Bhagavad-gītā.”
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He embraced him.
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So this is… How he was
seeing the picture?
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Because he was a lover of Kṛṣṇa, it doesn’t
matter, he could read these ślokas or not.
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But he was absorbed
in love of Kṛṣṇa,
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and he was seeing, Kṛṣṇa was sitting there,
and He was driving the chariot of Arjuna.
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This is required…
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