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video: Srila Prabhupada – Yasomati Nandana
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Father Greene, Melbourne, June 28, 1974: St. Francis found God in the material world. And he used to address the aspects of the material world as “brother” and “sister”. “Brother tree”, “sister water”, like that. What is your view upon this?
Prabhupada: This is real God consciousness. This is real God consciousness, yes, not that “I am God conscious, and I kill the animals.” That is not God conscious. To accept the trees, plants, lower animals, insignificant ants even, as brothers… Samah sarvesu bhutesu. This is explained in the Bhagavad-gita.
brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati samah sarvesu bhutesu [Bg. 18.54]
Samah. Samah means equal to all living entities, to see the spirit soul, anyone… It doesn’t matter whether he is man or cat or dog or tree or ant or insect or big man. They are all parts and parcel of God. They are simply dressed differently. One has got the dress of tree; one has got the dress of king; one has got the, insect. That is also explained in the Bhagavad-gita. Panditah sama-darsinah: [Bg. 5.18] “One who is pandita, learned, his vision is equal.” So if St. Francis was thinking like that, that is highest standard of spiritual understanding. Similar expression is there in the Caitanya-caritamrta, that sthavara-jangama dekhe na dekhe tara murti. A spiritually advanced devotee of the Lord, he sees the trees or the animals or the stone or the anything he sees—he sees that it is the energy of God. Na dekhe tara murti. Just like your murti or my murti—murti means form—may be little different, but we are made of the same ingredients. If your body surgically operated, the same blood, stone, or bone, or flesh, everything is there the same because same ingredients. Similarly, our outward covering is covered by these material elements, but inside, within this, there is the spirit soul. Therefore one who is advanced, he does not see that “This is cat, this is dog, this is man, this is elephant, and this is brahmana, this is this…” No. He sees the soul, that “Here is the soul, part and parcel of God.” That is his vision. Panditah sama-darsinah [Bg. 5.18] So that is God realization. God is spirit, Supreme Spirit, and he is part and parcel, the living entities. That is real vision. Panditah. Panditah means learned. Full Lecture
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