Śrī Īśopaniṣad, Mantra 7 – May 9, 1970, Los Angeles

 
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Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 7
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May 9, 1970, Los Angeles
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This question they cannot answer
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Prabhupada: Where is Rupanuga Prabhu? Yes? Ekendra Prabhu also there? That's all. Hare Krsna. Hare Krsna. Kneel down.
om purnam adah purnam idam
purnat purnam udacyate
purnasya purnam adaya
purnam evavasisyate
isavasyam idam sarvam
yat kinca jagatyam jagat
tena tyaktena bhunjitha
ma grdhah kasya svid dhanam
kurvann eveha karmani
jijivisec chatam samah
evam tvayi nanyatheto 'sti
na karma lipyate nare
asurya nama te loka
andhena tamasavrtah
tams te pretyabhigacchanti
ye ke catma-hano janah
anejad ekam manaso javiyo
nainad deva apnuvan purvam arsat
tad dhavato 'nyan atyeti tisthat
tasminn apo matarisva dadhati
tad ejati tan naijati
tad dure tad v antike
tad antar asya sarvasya
tad u sarvasyasya bahyatah
yas tu sarvani bhutany
atmany evanupasyati
sarva-bhutesu catmanam
tato na vijugupsate
Again repeat it. Again.
Repeat it, this last one. Again.
Next verse.
yasmin sarvani bhutany
atmaivabhud vijanatah
tatra ko mohah kah soka
ekatvam anupasyatah
[09:05]
"One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What is there as illusion or anxiety for him?"
This realization is Krsna consciousness. There are different kinds of realization, but ekatvam, a qualitatively oneness, is always there. The brahmavadi, impersonalist, they think that we are cent per cent one with the Lord, or the Supreme Absolute Truth, but that is not a fact. If one is cent per cent one with the Supreme Lord, then how he has come under the control of maya? This question they cannot answer.
So real identity is in the Vedic literature we find that just like the fire, big fire, and the sparks of the fire, they are of the same quality, but the small spark, when he goes out of the fire and falls elsewhere, then, at that time, its fiery quality becomes covered. So this covering becomes manifest according to different qualities. Just like the fire. If a fire spark, if it drops on the water, then it is..., it assumes completely extinguished. Similarly, the living entity, although qualitatively the fire, with God, when it contacts the modes of ignorance, his spiritual quality becomes almost extinct.
When he is on the land, not on the water, then there is something, heat. Similarly, when the living entity is in the rajo-guna, the quality of passion, there is some hope. And when the living entity is in goodness... Just like the same spark, if it drops on the grass, dry grass, then the same spark of fire ignites another fire, another blazing fire. Similarly, if one is in goodness, then he can create a spiritual association. Just like the same example, that the small spark of fire, if it falls in favorable circumstances, or in dry grass, then it can ignite fire.
So one has to come, therefore, to the platform of goodness in this material world. If one does not come to the platform of goodness... The platform of goodness is the brahminical qualification. That we are preaching. Our Krsna consciousness movement is to bring some men on the platform of goodness. The world requires it now. The world is [in] need of some brahmanas, qualified brahmanas. Not that... You are being trained up to become qualified brahmanas. So be always careful that you may not contact the quality of passion and ignorance.
Passion and ignorance will induce you... Kama lobha, lust and greediness. That is the sign of passion and ignorance. And when you are in goodness, then you can see things as they are. Then you can see yourself, that you are not matter; you are spirit soul. And if you make further advance, then you understand that "I am eternal part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, the fiery spark."
So that ekatvam anupasyatah, in this verse, ekatvam, that qualitatively one, not quantitatively. You are one with God qualitatively. You cannot be equal with God quantitatively. That ekatvam.
Thank you. Go on. Chant Hare Krsna.
Devotees: Jaya. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: Chant Hare Krsna. [end]