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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · Bombay · 1973
Chapters
Scientific basis of devotional service
Vishwas is not fact. Vishwas bhram, bhrama sakta. Bhul se kuch kaam kar diya, would be vishwas. Fact is fact. So it's science. This is a great science. Put up Bhagavad-bhakti-tattva-samaj, sādhana-samaj.
Krishna as the supreme cause
But this is «īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda- vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam». Bhagavan khud hi batate, Bhagavad-gītā mein: «mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat». Unse badhkar koi higher authority aur hai?
Demigods and destinations of worshipers
I am the original person of all the demigods. Deva-bhūta ko bhajan karta hai, woh devaloka mein jayega. So Bhagavad-gītā... Sujama-kartuta hai, myopasidhuta.
Philosophical understanding of absolute truth
Uh, jaise yeh Viṣṇu hai ki Brahman mein Viṣṇu, loka hai, woh Viṣṇu se avatāra... Uh, pūrva-dik se sūrya uday hota. Pūrva-dik sūrya pita. Oh, sūrya-deva udit se uday hua, uh,
Bhagavān jab prakāśa hote, koi source hota hai, jaise Bhagavān, uh, Devakī-putra ho kar ke aaye. So it's a great science. Tattvik samajh. Samajh toh paye, tattvatah.
«Tattva-dṛśibhir jñāninaḥ...» Nahin, «manusyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati siddhaye | yatatām api siddhānāṁ kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ». Siddhānāṁ kaścid vetti māṁ tattvataḥ, tattvik samajh.
This science, we have to understand the science.
Original personality and various incarnations
I said that Viṣṇu, parama-puruṣa, parama-puruṣa Viṣṇu, kisika aṁśa, kisika kalā hai. «Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam». Bhagavad-gītā, kṛṣṇa-janma, śrī-saṅga, Bhagavad-kathā samajhne par,
Bhagavān, Viṣṇu Bhagavān, Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān hai, bhakti ādi jo hai. «Rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan nānā- vatāram akarod bhuvaneṣu kintu kṛṣṇaḥ svayaṁ samabhavat».
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, udhyaya... lekin Rāmacandra ka sambandh kar raha hua, koi naya kahani ka. Try to keep them, you try something. Try to keep them to be ready.