“God is for the Meek and the Humble”

Jnane prayasam udapasya namanta eva: “Just become humble and meek. Don’t declare yourself a great philosopher or great learned scholar and…” No. That is not the process. “Now I am a learned scholar, I can discover God, I can manufacture God.” No. Give up this bad habit. Jnane prayasam udapasya—be humble. If you know to know God, then be humble. In the Bible also it is said, “God is for the meek and the humble,” not for the impudent.

So jnane prayasam udapasya namanta eva. Then what will I be I become humble? Yes? Then what is my next duty? San-mukharitam bhavadiya-vartam. You just try to hear from the saintly person, devotee. San-mukharitam bhavadiya-vartam. Then what will be the result? Sthane sthitah sruti-gatam tanu-van-manobhir. This hearing, becoming humble and meek… And if we hear from the devotee who is actually self-realized, one who has seen God through the sastra, if you hear from him… And never mind what you are. You may be a brahmana, you may be ksatriya, you may be sudra, you may be sannyasi, you may be so on, so on, you may be American, you may be Indian, whatever you may be, that doesn’t matter. Remain in your place. Sthane sthitah. Simply hear. Sruti- gatam tanu-van. Then one day, what will be the result? Now God is unconquerable, nobody can conquer, you’ll be conquered. Simply by hearing, He’ll be… This is the process. Therefore he says susruma, humble and meek and hear. Then you’ll understand God. Then you’ll understand what is religion, then you’ll understand everything. Not only religion and God, but everything. Yasmin vijnate sarvam eva vijnatam bhavati. If you simply know God or Krsna, then everything you know. Just like we are sometimes challenging big, big philosophers, big, big scientists, big, big psychologists, and so on, so on. What is the strength? Because we have learned something about Krsna. That’s all. This is Vedic injunction. Yasmin vijnate sarvam eva vijnatam bhavati. If you have learned what is God, what is Krsna, then you learn everything. This is knowledge.

Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.40
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Los Angeles, June 6, 1976