We are trying to make a permanent settlement here | Bhagavad-gita Lecture, Hyderabad

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Prabhupada, Hyderabad, November 28, 1972: […] Just like here we are trying to live together, our family — father, mother, children, friends, countrymen, community men. We are trying to make a permanent settlement here. Making very nice building, spending millions of dollars, making it very strong so that it may not, may not be destroyed.

So everyone is trying to keep himself permanent. A old man is trying to make himself young man. Nobody wants to become old man. Nobody wants to be destroyed. But the difficulty is that here everything is destroyed. Asanatana. But we have got a tendency to become sanatana. We want permanent life. We want permanent place. We want permanent relationship. But that is not possible.

That is not possible. Therefore sastra says, andha yathandhair upaniyamanah. The andhas—means blind, blind leaders—they are giving us false hope that we shall make here permanent settlement. Therefore they are called andhas. They have no sense. You cannot make it sanatana. But the whole attempt is going on to make everything sanatana.

This is called illusion. Illusion means you are accepting something which is not possible. But they do not know. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum durasaya ye bahir-artha-maninah [SB 7.5.31]. Durasa, this is a hope which is never to be fulfilled. Durasaya. Asa means hope. So the whole material world is going on, durasaya. They are trying to make permanent settlement.

But there is always disruption, fight… Just like they have now created the United Nations: “My dear all-nations, please do not fight. Let us make a permanent settlement, peace.” But the result is the fighting is going on. It cannot be stopped. Here… This is not a sanatana place. This is impermanent, temporary, bhutva bhutva praliyate. This is the nature of this material world.

Something is generated at a certain date and it stays for some time, it grows, it gives some by-products, then again dwindles, and then it vanishes. Just like this body. This body is given by the father and mother at a certain date. Then it stays, say, for some time. It grows. Then it gives some by-products.

From this body, there will be so many children. Or from the trees, there will be so many fruits and seeds. Then dwindling. Then becomes older. And vanish. This is the nature.

So here we are getting information that acchedyo ’yam adahyo ’yam akledyo ’sosya eva ca, nityah sarva-gatah. This is another qualification of the living entities: sarva-gatah, “everywhere.” The rascal scientist says there is no living entity in the moon planet or sun planet. This is rascaldom. There is. Otherwise how Krishna says sarva-gatah? Any, everywhere there is living entities. This is a false theory. We can see practically.

We see there are living entities in the water. There are living entities in the air. There is living entities within the earth. There is living entities in so many ways. Why not in other planets? Where is the difference between this planet and that planet? This is also made of five elements. And that is also meant of, made of five elements. Here, the earthly element is very prominent. And the sun globe, the fire element is very prominent.

So this material world is made of these five elements. Bhumir apo ’nalo vayuh kham mano buddhir eva ca. So Krishna says, sarva-gatah. The living entities are everywhere. Krishna is also within everyone. Andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham. Krishna is within this universe. Krishna is within your heart. Not only your heart, but in everyone’s heart. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati [Bg. 18.61] Now, if you are a great scientist, take one insect.

There are so many insects, we have seen, especially in the books, less than the full stop. Now, if you are a great scientist, find out where is the heart of this insect. And where is Krishna. But Krishna says, sarva-gatah, everywhere there is Krishna. Unless there is Krishna, there is living entity, how that small, full-stop-like insect is moving? There is everything. The physiological condition is there. There is heart also. You cannot make that. You have imitated a big bird, aeroplane, flying, but just imitate the small insect which is also flying.

So there are so many questions that if we actually, philosophically study, then we can see vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah [Bg. 7.19], how Vasudeva, Krsna is acting. Full Lecture