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The soul does not have any material qualities. Our first instruction is “You are not this body.” that in his practical understanding Plato identified the soul with the bodily dress, and that does not

Śrīla Prabhupāda: So why not appoint someone to teach Bhagavad-gītā As It Is? That is essential.

That is not full knowledge.

They are all puruṣa, or persons; they are not impersonal. pārtha bhaktyā labhyas tv ananyayā: One can approach the Supreme Person only by devotional service – not by challenge, not by philosophical speculation, and not by exercising in this yoga or that yoga. It is not stated that one can reach Him by philosophical speculation or mental concoction or some physical

It is not that the living entity takes birth. That which does not take birth does not die; death is meant for that which has been created, and that which is not created has no death. Although we may see that a child is born, actually it is not born. Nityaḥ śāśvato ’yaṁ purāṇaḥ.

He does not force one to surrender. That is not good. Something forced will not stand. We do not force anyone. Of course, we may force someone once or twice, but if he does not practice it, force will be useless.

Even if one is illiterate, even if he does not know the ABC’s, he can realize God – provided he engages On the other hand, although one is a very learned scholar, he may not be able to realize God. God is not subject to any material condition, because He is the supreme spirit. Similarly, the process of realizing God is also not subject to any material condition. It is not true that because one is a poor man he cannot realize God, or that because one is a very rich

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Seven continents is not the whole world. You say you have excavated the whole world, but we say no, not even an insignificant portion.

Devotee: But monkeys did not cause men; both came from the same common ancestor.

He does not require the help of any spaceship. This is not the process to reach another planet. Maybe, by scientific progress, one man or two men can succeed, but that is not the general process. But not the bhakti system.

These people were not very advanced. Unfortunately, that detailed, scientific explanation is not there in the Bible. Therefore people are not satisfied. Simply officially going to the church and offering prayers does not appeal to them.

Ah-h-h … but it is not so easy. If you simply go on performing pious activities, still this eagerness is not available.

It is not a sentimental explanation.

But they do not care to analyze what it means.

A high court judge does not produce any grains in the field. Does that mean he is not rendering any service? Of course he is. The theory that unless one performs manual labor in the factory or the fields he is not doing service

Śrīla Prabhupāda says, “By speculating on some shock that may or may not have occurred in childhood, one will never discover the root disease. … He [Freud] did not know the basic principle of spiritual understanding, which is that we are not this body. … We are different from this body, and we are transmigrating

But those so-called scientists and philosophers who do not follow this system of descending knowledge , who do not accept knowledge thus received from higher authorities – they can’t have any perfect knowledge

So why not millions of years ago?

But that perfection is not possible in the material world. Therefore Marx’s theories are useless.

And because people are not educated, they’re accepting these rascals as Vedāntists. Actually, the so-called Vedāntists are bluffers; they are not Vedāntists. They do not know anything of the vedānta. But if we take shelter of the bluffers, then we will not learn vedānta. People do not know anything, so they can be bluffed and cheated by anyone.