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Haṁsadūta: The following lecture was recorded on the morning of the 23rd, 1970, in Surat, India. [break]

Prabhupāda: ...means Vedic injunction, and Vedic injunction means directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is the sum and substance. …

And next? How this material world is created by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Every religion accepts this: God created …

[SB 6.1.41]

The difference between material world and spiritual world is that here in this material world these three qualities are acting. …

So many varieties. Expert color men, they take three colors—that blue, red and yellow—and mixes the color, and varieties of …

It is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā that the three qualities are also emanated, or generated, from the Supreme Personality of …

The nature of this material world is that it becomes manifest at a certain time and again it disappears. That …

So..., and above this, beyond this manifested and nonmanifest material nature, there is another, spiritual nature, which is sanātana. Sanātana …

So these three qualities... As from Viṣṇu, Brahmā is generated, and from Brahmā, Lord Śiva is generated, so original cause …

[Bs. 5.48]

The Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu, the Viṣṇu lying in the Causal Ocean of material creation, so He is in the nature of …

So with the exhaling of breathing, innumerable universes are being generated. Yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam atha. Niśvasita-kāla, that period. Now, imagine what is …

That is also confirmed by Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, in the Bhagavad-gītā: ekāṁśena sthito jagat [Bg. 10.42]. When Arjuna inquired from Kṛṣṇa, …

So here it is also said that yena svadhāmni bhāvāḥ. The svadhāmni bhāvāḥ. This goodness, this passion, this mode, they …

The Vedānta says, janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. Everything, whatever we see, it has got a source of generation, and …

Guṇa-nāma-kriyā-rūpair vibhāvyante yathā-tatham. And those qualities, guṇa-nāma, guṇa-nāma-kriyā-rūpaiḥ, when the qualities begin to act, they are represented in different varieties, …

And when the quality of passion is represented, that is the quality of kṣatriya. And when the quality of ignorance …

So when it is creation by the Supreme Lord, it is not that the brāhmaṇas are to be found only …

Vaiṣṇave jāti-buddhiḥ: if anyone considers a Vaiṣṇava, a devotee of the Lord, in the categorical estimation of birth, then that …