Sri Isopanisad Invocation

Sri Isopanisad Invocation

📅 April 26, 1970 📍 Los Angeles ⏱ 11 min
Living beings are complete only when connected to Krishna; separation brings worthlessness and spiritual death.
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Śrī Īśopaniṣad Invocation [partially recorded] — April 26, 1970, Los Angeles 700426IP-LOS ANGELES [11:06 Minutes] Iso-Invo_700426IP-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: There is complete facility, because pūrṇam, whatever is done by Kṛṣṇa, that is complete. You cannot find out any flaw in it. His potencies are so complete that svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca [Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8]. Just like a child, if you love, immediately there is some reponse.

And if you slap the child, immediately crying response. So these things are not to be learned. Svābhāvikī: automatically. Similarly, because Kṛṣṇa, or God, is complete, whatever He does, it is complete. You cannot find out any flaw.

You cannot say, "Oh, why God has done this?" Just like sometimes some foolish persons, they say, "Why God has made somebody poor and somebody rich?" This is most foolish question. Yes. If God has done it, then it is complete. There is no flaw.

Just like if the state orders somebody to be murdered, to be killed, that is complete. You cannot find out any law, er, any flaw. That is complete execution of the law. So if we cannot find out in man-made laws, how we can find out a fault in God-made laws?

That is not possible. So if you want to get out of this entanglement, there is complete arrangement, facility, complete facility. Teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam [Bg. 10.10]. There is another verse, that "Those who are engaged in devotional service," Kṛṣṇa says, yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham [Bg. 9.22], "I take personal charge for their maintenance." This is complete arrangement. Just look to the karmī world.

Now, so far we are concerned, we have to pay installment, two thousand dollars, for this house, and we have to spend another two thousand dollars for our maintenance. So four thousand, five thousand dollars we are spending. Can any karmī depend like that? Take practical example.

Can they depend for paying five thousand dollars bills without any arrangement? They will have no sleep at night. And we are freely moving, [laughter] because we are sure that Kṛṣṇa will provide, and He is providing. Go anywhere in the karmī's world. Find out such nice place, just like our temple.

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