George Harrison – Gopala Krishna
Prabhupada, Stockholm, September 7, 1973: […] And the summary of Vedic knowledge is here in the Bhagavad-gita, because here God directly is instructing about Himself. Therefore it is the essence of all Vedic knowledge. The ultimate goal of Vedic knowledge is to know God.
But we cannot know God. We have blunt senses. Atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih [BRS. 1.2.234]. With these material senses, blunt senses, imperfect senses, we cannot understand God. That is not possible. But if we can please God by your service, by our love, He reveals Himself, revelation. That is the process.
So simply by your speculation, research work, we cannot find out God. That is not possible, although God is here, everyone’s heart. Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto [Bg. 15.15]. God is there in everyone’s heart. But who knows that? So there is a process by which one has to learn God, what is God.
That is sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah. It is very peculiar process, that you have to learn God through the tongue. Through the tongue. They want to see God with the eyes, but the Vedic information is that you have to know God through the tongue. Sevonmukhe hi jihva. Jihva means tongue. When you employ your tongue in the service of the Lord, then he becomes revealed.
The tongue’s business is to glorify the Lord, chant the holy names of God. That is specially recommended in this age. You cannot follow all the rituals in any scripture. That is very difficult. We are now so fallen it is not possible.
Therefore the general regulation is that you chant the holy name of the Lord. It does not mean that we are requesting you to chant the name of Krishna. We believe that Krishna is the name of God, but if you have got another name… God has many names. God is unlimited, therefore He has got unlimited names.
So if you chant the holy name of God, it doesn’t matter, if it actually meaning… Just like “water.” Water, if somebody says jala, he means water. If somebody says “water,” he means water. If somebody says pani, he means water. So actually, if the word you use as the name of God, if it’s actually real name of God, then by chanting that holy name, you realize God.
Therefore tongue is the beginning of realization. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau. As well as controlling the tongue, we have to spiritualize the tongue. If you keep the tongue materialized, then it is defective. So two things are done by the tongue: tasting foodstuff and chanting the glories of the Lord. If we engage our tongue in this way… Foodstuff means…, our process is to offer foodstuff to the Lord and the remnants of foodstuff we eat, prasada.
So this is one process, this is one business of the tongue. And another business of the tongue is to chant the holy name of the Lord. So in this way, if you engage your tongue in the service of the Lord, then gradually your realize. You cannot realize, but God reveals Himself, what He is. So Vedic knowledge means to realize God.
That is ultimate aim of Vedic knowledge. And here, Bhagavad-gita, He’s revealing Himself to Arjuna, because he’s a devotee. So if we take the words of Arjuna, then we also realize God. This is the process.
Full Lecture
Pamho agtacbsp,putrada ekadasi KI Jay, actually only the intimate disciples of HDG ACBSP get the called from HIM when their leave the present body, SRIMAN HARIDAS DAS is the spiritual name of George Harrison who had a private relationship with our guru maharaj because of his dhana charity done with full heart in devotion although externally George Harrison look like a karmi but internally he was a bhakti yogi like HH brahmananda swami i mean he had pastimes with the internal and external paramatma because the internal paramatma make he to feel that he was in a important turn point in his life by giving his salary wage to a real guru as external paramatma it’s the most sublime pastime of the beginning of KRSNA CONSCIOUSNESS in the USA that’s another proof that SRILA PRABHUPADA is not a ordinary living entity because got the power to inspire the supersoul to speak in the mind of other people as result of his pure devotion which inspire many people too because bhakti is the most contagious rasa relationship. George Harrison left good music for us the album of radha krsna in Soho street was the best record done on the fourth dimension,we still listen everyday George Harrison music govindam adi purusam tam aham bhajan ,he did a great service to SRILA PRABHUPADA and krsna never forget whoever do a special service for SRI SRI GURU&GAURANGA I mean the protection is always there for such fortunate soul who done special service for SSGG in his previous lives also .agtacbsp ys haribol