ISKCON Bangalore Group: “An excerpt from Srila Prabhupada’s lecture where he answers the question – If Krishna did not want us to come to this material world why are we here?”
Why are we here in this material world? | Srila Prabhupada’s lecture excerpt
23. September 2011 by 2 Comments
pamho agtACBSP
Guest: Gurudeva, the question I wish to ask is: whence did we come, why are we here, and what is the true reason for our existence, and where are we going?
Prabhupada: Wherefrom just now you are coming? Hm? Tell me wherefrom you are coming. You cannot say?
Who can say wherefrom he is coming. Huh?
Wherefrom you are coming? You cannot say? Hm?
You cannot say wherefrom you are coming just now?
Guest: That is what I would like to know.
Prabhupada: First of all say.
Guest: What is true reason for our existence and where are we going?
Prabhupada: You are coming from home! (laughter)
So this is our temporary home. We have got real home. That is the kingdom of God. We are coming from there. Just like you have come from India, or your forefathers have come from India. Now you have made this country as your home. Similarly, we have come from the spiritual world. Now we have made this material world as our home. So here, struggling for existence… It is said in the Bhagavad-gita,
mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah manah sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati [Bg. 15.7]
“These living entities, they are My part and parcel, or they are as good as I am, part and parcel.” A small particle of gold is gold. It is no other thing. Similarly, we, being part and parcel of God, we are also the same quality. Not the same quantity but same quality. So we have come here, and we are struggling for existence with our mind and senses. This is our position. Therefore our business is how to go back to home, back to Godhead. That is our main business. We are teaching that.
Bhagavad-gita 7.1
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Durban, October 9, 1975
ys seva das haribol
“So we have come here, and we are struggling for existence with our mind and senses”….why you came here…? for enjoyment of material life…or..it was penal action from the godhead…
Where is goloka…God ?
Hell \ heaven is within the world and it’s atmosphere. This world is like a big computer and our soul is a cursor.
According to Geeta –
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Real ‘yogi’ sees me ( God ) in all creatures, and sees all creatures in me also. An accomplished person of non- skeptic nature, can see me every where.
Who ever sees me every where, and sees everything in me, for him neither I nor him are invisible to each other.
” I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me, so that from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me. I am the LORD, and there is no other.”
Isaiah 45:5- 6
Know first what is or who is there as claimed…” from the rising of the sun to the place of its setting men may know there is none besides me ” Why he is not beyond the sun rising and sun setting….? That is – Earth consciousness …Virat bhagwan…
ACCORDING TO KABIR :
AAP DANDI APP TARAJU AAP HI BAITHA TOLTA !
AAP HI MALI AAP BAGICHA APP HI KALIAN TODTA !!
SABMEN SAB PAN AAP BIRAJE JAD CHETAN MEN DOLTA !!!
The meaning is- God is present in every object whether living or non-living in an equal proportion.Whatever is there in this creation is the representation of that ‘Almighty’ only. It is spread in all the ‘inert’ and ‘conscious’ in an equal way. Whatever is visible or invisible, is only the visible and invisible form of it.