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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
A few quotes.

Krsna consciousness movement means we are not manufacturing anything by our fertile brain. No. We don't create anything. We simply repeat, but we try to explain for modern understanding. That's all. Otherwise there is no question of manufacturing. Because nobody can manufacture the perfect knowledge, because we are all imperfect. Our senses are imperfect. However we may be learned, but the senses are imperfect. Therefore we cannot give perfect knowledge. Perfect knowledge can be received from higher authorities evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh / sa kaleneha mahata yogo nastah parantapa
[Bg. 4.2]

As soon as the process of receiving perfect knowledge is lost, then the original purpose is lost. So it becomes sometimes lost. When the parampara system... Just like nowadays, everyone is proud of reading Bhagavad-gita, but he interprets in his own way. Everyone is at liberty to interpret Bhagavad-gita as he likes. That is the modern proposal. So there are 664 editions of Bhagavad-gita. Everyone is commenting in his own way. I have heard that there is one doctor, some rele(?). He has interpreted Bhagavad-gita as the talks between a patient and a physician. You see? So this is going on. Everyone whimsically, he is interpreting. Sometimes in our country also, we see that Mahatma Gandhi wanted to interpret Bhagavad-gita as nonviolence. It is very difficult to prove, because Bhagavad-gita is spoken in the Battlefield of Kuruksetra. (laughs) So how you can prove nonviolence? So it is a difficult job. So that is not the process of understanding Bhagavad-gita. Bhagavad-Gita is to be understood, as our Swamiji immediately talked, that it has to be received from the parampara system. So Krsna said to Arjuna that at the present moment the parampara system is now lost. Yogo nastah parantapa. Sa kaleneha yogo nastah parantapa. "It is the parampara system has been lost because there have been so many interpretation, wrong interpretation. Therefore I am selecting you to make again parampara." Bhakto 'si sakha ceti. "Why You are entrusting me? I am not a Vedantist. I am not a sannyasi. I am not very learned scholar. I am military man. So why You are trying to give the instruction of Bhagavad-Gita unto me?" This question may be raised. Because Arjuna was a family man. He was not a sannyasi, neither he was a Vedantist. A military man is not expected to become a Vedantist. Ksatriya, he knows how to fight. And Krsna says that "I will speak to you." Why? Bhakto 'si priyo 'si me: "You are My dear friend. Therefore I shall tell you." So this is the process of understanding: you have to become dear friend of Krsna. Then you will understand Bhagavad-gita.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.6 November 12, 1973, New Delhi

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