Prabhupada, Vrindavana, October 30, 1972: ..Just see how perfect arrangement! And the water is evaporated on the sky by distillation, making sodium chloride separated from the water. Distillation means to take the pure water, distilled water. Now, the distilled water is taken on the sky, and as rain it drops on the ground, and it is stored on the mountain-hill.
Gradually, the whole year, the water is coming down in this shape of river, and supply is there. First of all, the whole land is moistened with water by rainfall. Then portion, and some of the water is preserved in Iceland, in the shape of ice.
So there is complete arrangement. We have not seen. Pasyati jnana- caksusa. Because we have no knowledge, we do not see how things are nicely arranged by God for our maintenance. Everything is there. Purnat purnam udacyate. Purnasya purnam adaya purnam eva avasisyate.
Everything is complete. It is our mismanagement. We, the so-called civilized human beings, we have created problems. We have created problems: “This is my land. This is my country. Why you are coming here?” Then there is fight, there is spoil of things, so many things. Because they do not know, isavasyam idam sarvam, everything belongs to God.
The… Now they have developed the communist idea that everything belongs to the state. But that is also imperfect. There is no peace, still. Sthite sattvam. Ceta etair anaviddham sthitam sattve prasidati. What is that? Ceta etair anaviddham sthitam sattve prasidati. They do not know that we have to come to the platform of goodness, sattva-guna. Then there will be peace.
Because sattva-guna means knowledge, rajo-guna means passion, and tamo-guna means ignorance. So this world is being carried on by these three gunas. Those who are accepting the tamo-guna, they are kama, lusty, too much lusty. And those who are in rajo-guna, they’re too much greedy. And those are in the sattva-guna, they know things.
That is brahminical qualification. Veda janati iti brahmanah. Veda-pathad bhaved vipro brahma janati iti brahmanah. By reading Vedas, one becomes a vipra. Then not only vipra, but when… Vipra means brahmana. So to become brahmana by qualification is not sufficient.
One must know the Brahman, the Supreme Brahman, Parabrahman. Just like Arjuna understood Krsna, param brahma, param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg. 10.12] That is real stage.
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The way things have defined are overwhelming.
While goinf through the phrase about the three gunas I had one question coming into my mind, i.e. in case of Rajo gunas you said passion is it confined to work only or about love and lust also?
Satva guna deals with the real knowledge but does that exactly means people having a less defined knowledge can never met the truth in their lives?
In case of tamo gunas, which mostly deals with the material fact called ignorance must having a habbit of ignoring everything (where the love,money and lust comes into picture), then how come they can become a greedy fellow in their lives?
It is just the way I thought from the above written phase and would like to accept in a grattitude if given a positive answer for the same.
thanks in advance,
Hare Krishna.
HARE KRISHNA,
It was nice being going through the mails and phrases.
Each time go through, so many question come into my mind and I cannot just ignore them at all.
While going through the phrase regarding satva,rajo and tamo gunas I have got something running differently in my mind which needed to get clarrified for myself,precisely.
The phrase says people having satva gunas will always deal with the perfect knowledge, does that mean people who are on a way to receive some ideas about a particular thing or matter of fact (might not be true to others belief being practical) must stop thinking on that way and must think in a way the world let them think to…Cannot it be possible that people with minimum knowledge (less studious) and bigger thinking will be able to get the true fact of life?
Secondly, Tamo gunas says ignorance..if it is thespecified quality then people belonging to such gunas must ignore almost everything from their lives,I mean it must be in every matter let it be for knowledge,love or lust. Then how come they become greedy about lust?
Thirdly, It is well defined that people with rajo gunas have the greediness of getting something from others for themselves but I think there must be a thin grid of line prescribed between greediness and popularity, if I am not wrong? Coz unless you are being recognized by someone you must not reveal your secrets of innovation or discovery on the other words it better always to make ownself greedy for knowlegde so further that person can move ahead, so does not it mean people from satva gunas will also have a inherent desire for getting things 100% correct way?
I am writing this phrase over the previous one in liew of my perception about the phrase and am waiting for an answer through mail.