SPD06-03 Vyāsa-pūjā Festival, 1972, New Vrindavan
[32:37] [Prabhupada:] This ceremony... Of course, those who are my students, they know what is this ceremony.
[32:49] Those who are visitors, for their information, I may inform you something about this ceremony.
[33:04] Otherwise, it may not be misunderstood. A outsider may see it that
[33:20] "Why a person is being worshiped like God?" There may be some doubt.
[33:59] He gave us all Vedic knowledge. He received the knowledge from Narada.
[34:14] So in this way, by disciplic succession, we get transcendental knowledge.
[34:28] So Vyasadeva... Formerly, before Vyasadeva, say, five thousand years ago,
[34:38] before that time there was no need of written literature.
[34:49] People were so sharp in their memory that whatever they would hear
[34:57] from the spiritual master, they would remember for life.
[35:17] our memory, power of memorizing; our feelings of sympathy for others, compassion; age,
[35:29] duration of life; religious propensities. In this way, in this age we are reducing everything.
[35:46] Every one of you can understand very easily.
[35:56] Formerly, if somebody is attacked by another man, many persons will come to help him:
[36:06] "Why this man is attacked?" But at the present moment, if one man is attacked,
[36:15] the passersby will not care for it, because they have lost their sympathy, or mercifulness for others.
[36:26] Our neighbor may starve, but we don't care for it. But formerly, the sympathy for other living entities,
[37:00] Immediately he took his sword, that "Who are you? You are killing a cow in my kingdom?"
[37:10] Because the king is supposed, or the government is supposed to give everyone protection,
[37:20] not that the government is meant for giving protection to the human being and not to the animals.
[37:40] "National" means one who has taken birth in the land. That is called national.
[37:46] That is... You know, everyone. So the trees, they are also born in the land,
[37:56] the aquatics also born in the land. The flies, the reptiles, the snakes, the birds,
[38:04] the beasts, human beings-everyone is born in that land.
[38:11] Suppose your land, America, United States,
[38:17] why the government should give protection to one class of living entities, rejecting others?
[38:44] There are many instances that a hunter who was taking advantage of killing animals,
[38:56] but when he became a devotee he was not prepared to kill even an ant.
[39:06] So the Krsna consciousness movement is so nice that it makes a person perfect in everything:
[39:19] perfect in knowledge, perfect in strength, perfect in age-everything.
[39:27] We need so many things. So this perfection of life, the process how to make life perfect,
[39:39] is coming down from Krsna. Krsna, He is the origin of everything.
[39:50] Therefore the knowledge of perfection is also coming from Him. And periodically-
[40:02] periodically means after millions and millions of years-Krsna comes.
[40:10] He comes once in a day of Brahma. So Brahma's days, even one day, the span of one day,
[40:33] The Brahma's one day means about 433,000,000's of years.
[40:53] That means after a period of 433,000,000's of years He comes. Why?
[41:03] To give perfect knowledge of life, how a human being should live to make his life perfect.
[41:23] Now Brahma's one day we are passing through the twenty-eighth millennium.
[41:46] That is also many millions of years, seventy-two millennium.
[41:51] So we are not interested now about calculation. The perfect knowledge.
[42:08] by disciplic succession. The example is just there, a mango tree.
[42:15] On the top of the mango tree there is a very ripened fruit, and that fruit has to be tasted.
[42:28] So if I drop the fruit from up, it will be lost. Therefore it is handed over, after one, after one, after...
[42:38] Then it comes down. So all Vedic process of knowledge is taking from the authority.
[42:48] And it comes down through disciplic succession. Just like I have already explained,
[43:11] Vyasa gives the knowledge to Madhvacarya. Madhvacarya gives the knowledge
[43:18] to his disciplic succession; later on, to Madhavendra Puri.
[43:26] Madhavendra Puri gives that knowledge to Isvara Puri.
[43:31] Isvara Puri gives that knowledge to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Caitanya.
[43:39] He delivers that knowledge to His immediate disciples, six Gosvamis.
[43:54] Then Kaviraja Gosvami, then Visvanatha Cakravarti, then Jagannatha dasa Babaji,
[44:07] then my spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati.
[44:12] Then we are distributing the same knowledge.
[44:20] [Prabhupada:] We don't manufacture knowledge, because how we can manufacture?
[44:27] Perfect knowledge means I must be perfect. But I am not perfect.
[44:37] Every one of us, when I was speaking... Because
[44:43] we are not perfect, because in our conditional life we have got four defects.
[44:52] The first defect is that we commit mistake. Any one of us who are sitting here,
[45:00] nobody can vouchsafe that he has not committed any mistake in life.
[45:06] No. That is natural. "To err is human."
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