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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

 

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

not understand so many things. Please note the word "seems". It is most

important. So is that yoga maya and if so how to understand. Does Arjuna

knows his previous lives or he pretends not to know, or because of yoga maya

he forgot? Or he simply does not know his previous lives, but is still a

pure devotee.

"True or nontrue, I am layman. I am saying that if the moon is rising from

this side and going to this side, so sun is also rising from this side and

going to this side. So if the moon is moving, the sun is moving."Morning

Walk

--

March 18, 1976, Mäyäpura

 

"Prabhupäda: And it was not possible for me to digest. (laughs) Somebody

else helped me to... I am a layman. I do not know.

Tamäla Kåñëa: How did you write it?

Prabhupäda: That somebody, Kåñëa, helped me. That He manufactured."

 

Room Conversation

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June 18, 1977, Våndävana

 

"Regarding the scientists, we have entrusted our own three scientists namely

Svarupa Damodara, Sadaputa, and Madhva and we leave the matter to them, we

do not say anything ourselves, but are leaving it to them. But there are

many common men who do not believe that they have gone to the moon planet.

So as common men we can simply say, how can dust and rocks reflect so much

of light as to illuminate the night, like the sun at day."

 

Letter to: Dr. W.H. Wolf-Rottkay, Chandigarh

14 October, 1976

 

 

 

So is Prabhupada, in this regard a common man?

 

 

And why does Prabhupada say "But one thing, I am convinced that the universe

is just like a great tree as described therein."Letter to: Svarupa Damodara

--Auckland, 27 April, 1976. Although in this case Prabhupada is right off

course, he seems a little doubtfull. Is this Vaisnava humilty or Yoga maya?

 

Çré Çukadeva Gosvämé said: O King, Maitreya, being thus agitated by the

inquisitive Vidura, at first seemed astonished, but then he replied to him

without hesitation, since he was fully God conscious.

PURPORT

Since the great sage Maitreya was filled with God consciousness, he had no

reason to be astonished at such contradictory questions by Vidura.

Therefore, although as a devotee he externally expressed surprise, as if he

did not know how to reply to those questions, he immediately became

perfectly settled and properly replied to Vidura. Yasmin vijïäte sarvam evaà

vijïätaà bhavati. Anyone who is a devotee of the Lord knows about the Lord

to some extent, and devotional service to the Lord makes him able to know

everything by the grace of the Lord. Although a devotee may apparently

express himself to be ignorant, he is full of knowledge in every intricate

matter.

SB 3.7.8

 

O son of Miträ, kindly describe how the planets are situated above the earth

as well as underneath it, and also please mention their measurement as well

as that of the earthly planets.

PURPORT

Yasmin vijïäte sarvam evaà vijïätaà bhavati. This Vedic hymn declares

emphatically that the devotee of the Lord knows everything material and

spiritual in relationship with the Lord. Devotees are not simply emotional,

as is ill conceived by certain less intelligent men. Their direction is

practical. They know everything that is and all the details of the Lord’s

domination over the different creations.

SB 3.7.26