Guest guest Posted July 4, 2002 Report Share Posted July 4, 2002 Hare Krsna, dear Vaisnavas. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Please accept my humble obeisances. Please can someone kindly explain, what means that SOUL is IMMOVABLE. (ref Bg 2.24) Thanks very much. small servant Gopalapriya dasa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 4, 2002 Report Share Posted July 4, 2002 Hamsaduta: In Bhagavad-gita, it says that the soul is immovable. In the Second Chapter there is a verse that says the soul is immovable. Prabhupada: Yes. Hamsaduta: What does that mean exactly? Are we not moving? In that verse it says immovable and... Prabhupada: sthanu, means fixed up. Hamsaduta: You mean its nature is...? Prabhupada: Unchangeable. Hamsaduta: Unchangeable. Not that we are not moving. We are moving. Prabhupada: Might be that word was not properly used. Sthanu, the word is sthanu. If you have got Sanskrit, you know what is the meaning of sthanu. And acalo 'yam, acalo 'yam, yes. Revatinandana: The point of all those... Prabhupada: That means acalo 'yam also, so acalo 'yam. Acalo 'yam means that does not move. Sthano acalo 'yam, in the Bhagavad-gita it is given. You can see. Now there is no time. [srila Prabhupada in room conversation, July 9, 1973, London] ******************** Devotee (2): Srila Prabhupada, what does it mean that the soul is immovable? Prabhupada: Immovable? Where it is? Devotee (2): It states this in Bhagavad-gita. Prabhupada: What is this? What is the verse? Devotee (2): I don't know exactly. It's in the Second Chapter. Krishna's describing the nature of the spirit soul to Arjuna. Does anyone know that verse? Nitai: Sthanur acalo 'yam...? Prabhupada: Immovable in this sense: when he is fixed up in a certain body, then he is immovable from that body. Acalo 'yam stanuh, stanuh. Just like we're speaking of transplanting the heart. That does not mean you move the soul. That is immovable. Devotee (3): Srila Prabhupada, the pure devotee's spirit soul is not trapped by the gross and subtle bodies? Prabhupada: Yes, when he is liberated by devotional service. Sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate. [srila Prabhupada Morning Walk, July 14th, 1975, Philadelphia] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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