Vedas Are Directly Narayana - Guru Is His Representative

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.40 — December 22, 1970, Surat 701222SB-SURAT [48:07 Minutes] SB-06.01.40_701222SB-SURAT Prabhupāda: So those who attend lecture will kindly sit down. Speaking in English for the majority. Haṁsadūta: [aside, introducing recording:] The following lecture was recorded on the morning of the 22nd December, 1971..., 1970, Surat, India. [break] Prabhupāda: veda-praṇihito dharmo hy adharmas tad-viparyayaḥ vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt svayambhūr iti śuśruma [SB 6.1.40] So we were speaking this verse yesterday morning. So vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt.

That is to be understood—why Vedas are given so much importance. Here it is explained that Veda means directly Nārāyaṇa. Why? Because Nārāyaṇa is absolute, God is absolute; therefore the words of God are also God.

You cannot make any differentiation. Sākṣāt, directly. So this is to be understood, that God—His form, His quality, His pastimes, His entourage—everything of God is God. Even sometimes... Why sometimes?

Always: the devotee of God is also God. Just like we chanted this mantra, sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstraiḥ, that "In every scripture the spiritual master is identified as directly God." Sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstraiḥ. Viśvanātha Cakravartī said, not that any sectarian śāstra, but all śāstra, all scriptures, they admit that the spiritual master is God directly. Sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair uktaḥ: **(1) "It is said; it is mentioned." Authoritative śāstra, actually bona fide śāstra, it is said. Sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair uktaḥ: "It is said." And sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair uktas tathā bhāvyata eva sadbhiḥ: "And that is accepted by all strict followers of transcendental science." Not that somebody admits or somebody does not admit.

No. Everyone, sadbhiḥ. Sad-bhiḥ means "by the transcendentalists, those who are actually making progress in transcendental science and those who are..., objective is to reach the Supreme." They are doing. Then again, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says, kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya. Why the spiritual master should be accepted directly as Nārāyaṇa and God?

The Māyāvāda philosophers, they say, "Yes, spiritual master is God and I am God, you are God—everyone is God." No. That is rectified. Everyone is not God. God is God, and living entities are living entities.

In the Vedas it is..., nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13]: "He is the prime entity of all entities." So there cannot be two Gods. One God. As such, if God is one, there cannot be two religion also, because religion means to understand God, to love God. That is religion. And religion means the words of God, just as it is said.

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