Letter to Krsnadasa 1972 excerpt :Take the Essence of Srimad-Bhagavatam

[krsna]

Letter to Krsnadasa 1972 excerpt:

 

 

 

 

But because you have asked me, I am your spiritual master, I must try to answer to your

satisfaction.

 

Yes, sometimes in Vedas such things like the asura's decapitated head

chasing after Candraloka, sometimes it is explained allegorically. Just like now we are

explaining in 4th Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam the story of King Puranjana. Just like the

living entity is living within this body, and the body is described there as city with

nine gates, the intelligence as the Queen. So there are sometimes allegorical

explanations.

 

 

So there are many things which do not corroborate with the so-called modern

science, because they are explained in that way. But where is the guarantee that modern

science is also correct?

 

So we are concerned with Krishna Consciousness, and even though

there is some difference of opinion between modern science and allegorical explanation in

the Bhagavat, we have to take the essence of Srimad-Bhagavatam and utilize it for our higher benefit, without bothering about the correctness of the modern science or the

allegorical explanation sometimes made in Srimad-Bhagavatam.

 

But this is a fact that in

each and every planet there is a predominant deity, as we have got experience in this

planet there is a president, so it is not wonderful when the predominating deity fights

with another predominating deity of another planet.

 

The modern science takes everything as

dead stone. We take it for granted that everything is being manipulated by a person in

each and every affair of the cosmology. The modern scientists however could not make

any progress in the understanding of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, therefore we do

not accept modern science as very perfect.

 

We take Krishna's version:

gam avisya ca bhutani

dharayamy aham ojasa

pusnami causadhih sarvah

somo bhutvah rasatmakah

(BG, 15.13)

``I become the moon,''

and ``yac chandramasi yac cagnau,'' (ibid, 12)

``I am the

splendor of the moon,'' and

``jyotisam api taj jyotis,'' (BG, 13.18)

``I am the source of light in all luminous objects,''

so no one is able to give us the correct information than

Krishna, that you should know....

...``Jnanam jneyam jnana-gamyam,'' (ibid),

Krishna is knowledge, He is the object of

knowledge, He is the goal of knowledge, and

you mam evam asammudho

janati purusottamam

sa sarva-vid bhajati mam

(BG, XV, 19)

 

``Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without doubting, is to be

understood as the knower of everything, and he engages himself therefore in devotional

service''--

this is the understanding of advanced devotee, so my best advice to you is to

agree to come to this understanding.

 

Your ever well-wisher,

 

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

 

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So we need not be politically correct all the time? /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[theist]

The way I look at it I can't understand the theories of modern science nor can I understand the allegories of the Bhagavatam. So the details of how the universe came to its present position and what that position is is not very important to me.

 

These facts are:

 

Life comes from life

 

There is one living being who is Supreme and unlimited and is the ultimate cause of all other causes

 

The cosmos in all its inexplicable glory is testimony to His glory.

 

Nature speaks of Him so let me hear Him within nature.Let me be awed by His magnificence.