Perfect_Questions_Perfect_Answers by unknow
Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: krishnapath.org
Published: 2016-01-08T18:30:00+00:00
sve sve karmaṇy abhirataḥ
saṁsiddhiṁ labhate naraḥ
"By following his qualities of work, every man can become perfect." Complete perfection. Saṁsiddhi. Siddhi is perfection. That is Brahman realization, spiritual realization. And saṁsiddhi means devotion, which comes after Brahman realization.
BOB: Could you just say that last thing again please?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Saṁsiddhi.
BOB: Yes.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Sam means complete.
BOB: Yes.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: And siddhi means perfection. In the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated that one who goes back home, back to Godhead, has attained the complete perfection. So perfection comes when one realizes that he is not this body; he is spirit soul. Brahma-bhūta that is called Brahman realization. That is perfection. And saṁsiddhi comes after Brahman realization, when one engages in devotional service. Therefore if one is already engaged in devotional service, it is to be understood that Brahman realization is there. Therefore it is called saṁsiddhi.
BOB: I ask you this very humbly, but do you feel diseases and sickness?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Hm-m?
BOB: Do you personally feel disease and sickness?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Yes.
BOB: Is this a result of your past karma?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Yes.
BOB: So one in this material world never escapes his karma completely?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Yes, he escapes. No more karma for a devotee. No more karmic reaction.
BOB: But you must be the best devotee.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Hm-m . . . No, I don't consider myself the best devotee. I am the lowest.
BOB: No!
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: You are the best devotee.
BOB: [Laughs.] Oh, no, no! But, see, you say—what you say . . . always seems right.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Yes.
BOB: Then you must be the best devotee.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: The thing is that even the best devotee, when he preaches, comes to the second-class platform of a devotee.
BOB: What would the best devotee be doing?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: The best devotee does not preach.
BOB: What does he do?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: He sees that there is no need of preaching. For him, everyone is a devotee. [Bob laughs heartily.] Yes, he sees no more nondevotees—all devotees. He is called an uttama-adhikārī. But while I am preaching, how can I say I am the best devotee? Just like Rādhārāṇī—She does not see anyone as a nondevotee. Therefore we try to approach Rādhārāṇī.
BOB: Who is this?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: Rādhārāṇī, Kṛṣṇa's consort.
BOB: Ah.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA: If anyone approaches Rādhārāṇī, She recommends to Kṛṣṇa, "Here is the best devotee. He is better than Me," and Kṛṣṇa cannot refuse him. That is the best devotee. But it is not to be imitated: "I have become the best devotee."
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