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Prabhupada, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 20.144-146, New York, December 1, 1966:[…] So Krishna is very kind. He has given you all facility: “All right, you enjoy. You build up. You construct skyscrapers and again break it and again do it. Do it and waste your time.” So He gives us facility. He supplies us materials: “All right, you take material.”
Because He has no scarcity, purnam, He is complete, so whatever you go on taking, you take, you build and break and keep it again. Dig earth and make high buildings, and again break it and fill it up. This is your business. Go on doing that and waste your valuable time. Your life is meant for realizing your self, self-realization, and get out of this material entanglement.
But if you want to waste in that way, well, Krishna will give you all facilities. Waste. This is going on. Therefore Vedas, they give you instruction, “All right, you want to enjoy? Just try to enjoy this way, so that by following the Vedic principles you will come to this stage of liberation.” And what is that?
Knowing Krishna. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyam [Bg. 15.15] By study of Vedas, when you come to that conclusion, that Krishna is everything, vasudevah sarvam iti: [Bg. 7.19] “Oh, Krishna is everything,” sa mahatma su-durlabhah: “That great soul is very rare.”
So similarly, as Krishna says, this is called disciplic succession. Lord Caitanya, although He is Krishna Himself, but He has accepted the disciplic succession from Krishna… I have given you the process of disciplic succession: from Krishna, Brahma; from Brahma, Narada; from Narada, Vyasa; from Vyasa, Madhva; from Madhva, Madhavendra Puri; from Madhavendra Puri, Isvara Puri; from Isvara Puri, Lord Caitanya.
So evam parampara. So in the parampara system in that disciplic succession, you will find no change. The original word is there.
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