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Our first business is to take care of the soul | City Hall Lecture, Durban

16. October 2013 by 1 Comment

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Srila Prabhupada, Durban, October 7, 1975: […] Because Arjuna accepted Krishna, He chastised him with little hard words, that “You are not a pandita.” Now, you just consider what is the position of this world. Everyone is taking care of this body. But Krishna said, gatasun agatasums ca nanusocanti panditah. The panditah, one who is learned, he knows that he is not this body. He is soul. So our first business is to take care of the soul. And this is the opportunity, this human form of body.

In the human form of body we can understand Bhagavad-gita, not in the dog’s body. That is not possible. So by evolution, jalaja nava-laksani sthavara laksa-vimsati, from aquatics to trees, plants, then insects, then birds, then beast, then human being, then civilized human being… In this civilized form of human being, if we do not take this knowledge of Bhagavad-gita personally given by the Lord Himself, then we are missing the point.

This is the whole Vedic literature’s lesson, that human form of life is meant for self-realization: “I am not this body. I am soul. I am spirit soul. My business is different from simply taking care of the body.” This is human civilization. So therefore our Krishna consciousness movement is very important movement.

We request everyone to study this movement very seriously and make one’s life successful. Full Lecture

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  1. abhaya carana seva das says:
    20. October 2013 at 11:37 am

    pamho agtACBSP, thank you for posting this article!

    We are eternally servants even when we are trying to enjoy Krsna’s energies independently.

    SRILA PRABHUPADA says while you think that you are enjoying you become the servant.

    Prabhupada, New York, January 10, 1967: We don’t wish to serve; we want to enjoy. But actually we become servants of all these principles, kama, krodha, lobha, bhaya. We are servant of fearfulness, we are servant of malice, we are servant of lust, we are servant of anger, although we are thinking that “I am master.” So one who has come to the senses that “I am acting here as servant… I’m servant of my society, I am servant of my family, I am servant of my senses, I am servant of my…” So many things I have created. Up to death I am servant of dog, I’m servant of cat, and so many things I have become servant. But I am thinking, “I am master.” This is called maya. So one who comes to the senses, he can understand that “I am not master; I am servant because I am constitutionally servant.

    ARJUNA is teaching us the way out from the bodily concept of life by being a perfect nimitta matra – a tool in the hand of the remote cause SRI KRSNA.

    We hope to surrender to the Bhagavad-gita even when the time is not easy. ARJUNA did it too on the battlefield of SRI KURUKSETRA with complete saranagati, karisye vacanam tava.

    agtSP

    ys

    haribol

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