Back to Godhead Vol 03 Part 15, 1960 PDF Download
Anti-Material World or the Kingdom of God
Anti-Material World or the Kingdom of God
You do not die after finishing this body; you simply accept another body. That you can experience daily. In your childhood you can remember that you had a body just like a child’s. Now you are grown up, and so where is that body? That body is gone.
I am trying to teach what you have forgot. That is God. Some of you are saying there is no God. Some of you are saying God is dead, and some of you are saying God is impersonal or void. These are all nonsense. I want to teach that there is God. That is my mission.
The first principle is this that one should be completely aloof from all womanly connection save and except his own married wife. In that sense child marriage is most convenient form of morality and there are many examples in the noble life.
Truth and Beauty are compatible terms. It is rather emphatically asserted that truth which is Absolute is always beautiful. The Truth is so beautiful that it attracts everyone including the Truth itself.
Truth and Beauty
Peace is possible only when we actually pray to God knowing our relation with Him. Everything that be is an emanation from the Supreme Lord is the version of the Vedas, the most authentic sources of transcendental knowledge.
Unless one has undergone the spiritual training in the disciplic succession, it is not possible to comment on “Bhagwat Geeta” or any other revealed scripture. Simple academic knowledge is useless for this purpose.
The fortnightly periodical BACK TO GODHEAD is the need of the time as the panacea for all sorts of material diseases in their various forms.
So far vice is concerned it is a foreign acquisition to the living being when he is in contact with the three qualitative nature called by the names of goodness, passion and ignorance
Definition of Vice and Its Scope
One religion means one God and one scripture namely the Bhagwat Geeta. One God means the All Attractive Personality of Godhead Krishna in His Absolute form.
“It is not the personal Krishna to whom we have to give ourselves up utterly but the unborn, beginningless, eternal who speaks through (Krishna).”
If the living being does not come in contact with a pure devotee of the Lord he cannot get the seed of spiritual activity. Good consciousness for charity and austerity, without good association, is misused for the purposes which are detrimental to his spiritual interest.
A devotee of Godhead is he who glorifies the Personality of Godhead by transcendental ecstasy. This ecstasy is a byproduct of profound love for the Supreme Lord which is also attained by the same process of glorification.
Prayers of King Kulashekhara
I meditate upon Krsna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him.
The Mayavadis are mudhas, fools and rascals, who don’t know what suffering is or what enjoyment is. Krsna says, “The fools and rascals don’t know that I am Supreme.”
Within a very short time, both Balaram and Krishna began to crawl by Their hands and knees and were moving hither and thither. When Rama and Krishna were crawling like that it was very pleasing to the mothers.
Pigs are also working day and night. Then what is the difference between the pig and me, if I am also working hard like the pig?