Jan 22, 2018 —DENMARK (SUN) —
ANOTHER HOLE IN THE RITVIK-BOAT
Nothing has changed - It is all foolishness
"If you want to know positively, what is God, then we should take lesson from a self-realized soul who has understood, who has seen.
Jnaninas tattva-darsinah.
Just like here it is tattva-niscayam atmanah. So tattvam, the truth, so one must have seen the truth, realized the truth.
Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet [MU 1.2.12].
That is guru. Means one who has seen the truth.
How he has seen the truth? Through the parampara system.
Krsna said this, and then Brahma said the same thing, then Narada said the same thing, Vyasadeva said the same thing, and then disciplic succession, Madhvacarya, Madhavendra Puri, Isvara Puri, Lord Caitanya, Sad-gosvami, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Srinivasa Acarya, Narottama dasa Thakura, Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura.
In this way. Jagannatha dasa Babaji, Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati.
Then we are speaking.
The same thing.
Not that "Because we are modernized... Your modern science has changed."
Nothing has changed.
It is all foolishness.
That change is a scheduled change.
Just like day after night. And again, night after day. Again, day after night.
This is not change; this is a system.
So because our poor fund of knowledge... Just like there are many insects.
Their birth, death, marriage, and everything is finished within night. They never see the day.
So if they see day by chance, they will say, "Oh, it has changed."
Because their experience is they have never seen day. Their experience with night.
So all of a sudden, if he sees that there is daylight, "Oh, what is this? Oh, the whole world has changed."
No.
You have not seen.
The so-called scientific discovery, they are seeing something, but the next stage, they have no power to see, and they think, when they see the next item, "Oh, the world has changed."
There is no question of changing.
It is on the process."
Srila Prabhupada, Los Angeles, 1972
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
