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> SB 8.6.9

> The Vedic mantras say: yasmin vijnate sarvam evam vijnatam bhavati.

> When the devotee **sees** the Supreme Personality of Godhead by his

> meditation, or when he **sees** the Lord personally, face to face, he

> becomes aware of everything within this universe. Indeed, nothing is

> unknown to him. Everything within this material world is fully

> manifested to a devotee who has** seen** the Supreme Personality of

> Godhead. Bhagavad-gita (4.34) therefore advises:

> tad viddhi pranipatena

> pariprasnena sevaya

> upadeksyanti te jnanam

> jnaninas tattva-darsinah

>

Here seen means saksad darsan -- the final stage of love of Godhead.

 

> I`m sorry but I do not really understand this? It seems to me

> Prabhupada did not understand so many things.

 

There is story about BSST that happened just before he was about to

leave the planet and influenced Prabhupadas views. When Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura was in Puri during his last days and

an eclipse came, one devotee who was supposed to know siddhanta, the

conclusions of scripture, was sitting next to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta

Saraswati Thakura. He suddenly ridiculed the idea given in the

Bhagavatam that during a solar or lunar eclipse Rahu devours the sun or

moon. A friend and godbother of Prabhupada could not tolerate that such

a remark should be passed in regard to the Srimad Bhagavatam and argued

that what Srimad-Bhagavatam has stated is not to be taken lightly. He

offered what seemed like some far-fetched support. He said that in his

Jaiva Dharma, Bhaktivinoda Thakura has created so many characters, but

he thinks that they are not imaginary. What he has written might have

occurred during some other millennium (kalpa), or day of Brahma, and

that has now come to the surface. In this way he went on to support the

cosmological position of the Bhagavatam by arguing that what is

necessary to prove reality must also have some real position. It cannot

but be. In this way the argument went on and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta

Saraswati Thakura supported the side that was in support the

cosmological position of the Bhagavatam. In understanding the position

of the planet Rahu, what Sukadeva and Vyasadeva have said is

geographically impossible, but their statements are there in Srimad-

Bhagavatam, and the literal meaning of the scriptures is not to be taken

lightly.

 

Prabhupada was not an astronomer but Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati

Thakura was. So Prabhupada took it very near to his heart. You know him.

 

Did it help?

 

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