interpreting in own way
|
So guru is there, Krsna, and His instruction is there in the Bhagavad-gita. Why you are not taking advantage? You have become so foolish. The instruction is there. Guru is there. Somebody says that "Arjuna had the opportunity, good opportunity, to talk with Krsna face to face, but we haven't got that." But what is that talk? The talk is already there. You hear it from His representative, the same instruction. Where is the difficulty? But they will not do that. They will take Bhagavad-gita and misinterpret in a foolish way, in rascaldom, and spoil his career and others' career. That's all. Otherwise everything is there. Where is the difficulty? Krsna says that there is the owner of the body within the body, and He has explained in so many ways-acchedyo 'yam adahyo 'yam [Bg 2.24], distinguishing the quality that the soul is never to be cut into pieces, acchedyo 'yam. It cannot be burned into the fire. It cannot be moistened by water. That means everything matter, there is interruption. Any matter will be interrupted by another matter, but the soul is not anything of this material world. In the material world, any hard thing-the iron, the stone-can be cut into pieces if you have got the instrument. But Krsna says the soul is acchedyo 'yam, it cannot be cut into pieces. So it is above all material action and reaction. Adahyo 'yam. In material, even the iron can be melted, even a stone can be melted nowadays. But adahyo 'yam, asosyah 'yam, in so many ways. That means it is different from this material thing, the soul. Therefore, na hanyate hanyamane sarire.
(More...) Bas. Simply if you repeat what is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, then you become guru. And if you can convince a person, one person, then you deliver him. But no. They are creating their own manufactured knowledge, manufactured process, and exploiting Bhagavad-gita. What is said in the Bhagavad-gita, they'll never say. They'll take a Bhagavad-gita and pose himself that "I am a great scholar of Bhagavad-gita. I have got my own interpretation that I go to hell and you go to hell." That's all.
(More...) There is no use interpreting Bhagavad-gita; it is eternal. Krsna, of course, means Krsna and His confidential devotees; Krsna is not alone. When we speak of Krsna, Krsna means Krsna in His name, in His form, in His quality, in His abode, in His associates, etc. Krsna is never alone because the devotees of Krsna are not impersonalists. For example, a king is always associated with his secretary, his commander, his servant and so much paraphernalia. As soon as we accept Krsna and His associates as our preceptors, no ill effects can destroy our knowledge. In the material world the knowledge which we acquire may change because of the influence of time, but nevertheless the conclusions received from Bhagavad-gita, directly from the speeches of the Supreme Lord Krsna, can never change. There is no use interpreting Bhagavad-gita; it is eternal.
(More...)
|