Both impersonalism and Buddhism are incomplete; bhakti is the completion that combines spiritual knowledge with loving service.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — December 27, 1970, Surat 701227LE-SURAT [29:01 Minutes] Lecture_701227LE-SURAT Prabhupāda: [prema-dhvani] All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. All glories to the assembled devotees. Thank you very much. [00:55] [break] ...prakṛti saṁskāra, five sense organs.
Karma-indriya, jñāna-indriya—five senses for acquiring knowledge and five senses for executing the desires. Everyone has got particular type of desire, and he executes that desire by five senses, just like hands, legs, genitals, like that. They are active senses. And five senses for acquiring knowledge: cakṣu, karṇa, nāsikā.
By eyes you acquire some knowledge; by ears—just like you are hearing, acquiring knowledge through the sense of ears. So there are five senses for acquiring knowledge and five senses for executing our desires. [indistinct Sanskrit] Five objectives of our sensual activities. Just like with eyes we see beautiful things. So this beauty of the form is the object of our sensual activities.
Just like you can hear the Vedic sound, Vedic vibration, Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, or you can hear a cinema song. The ear is the instrument of hearing both the things. So other philosophers—Buddha philosophers, Māyāvādī philosophers—both of them are Māyāvādīs, but there is distinction between Śaṅkara's philosophy and Buddha’s philosophy. Everyone is trying to stop these pains and pleasures due to our sensuous activities—all philosophers. No philosopher says that "You go on with your sensuous activities." Lord Buddha, he was prince; he was engaged in very nice sensuous activities; but he gave up everything, his kingdom, when he sat down for meditation. Why?
To stop these sensuous activities and become subjected to the pains and pleasures of this material world. Otherwise he had no business to give up His kingdom. But that was his philosophy, that the sensuous activities would not help us. Then we cannot get liberty or...
Salvation means to get out of the clutches of the pains and pleasures of this material world. Actually there is no pleasure; it is only painful. The other day I was speaking that udāna…, udāna? Devotee: [indistinct] Prabhupāda: [indistinct] Yes. They are enterprising to colonize.
Just like in European countries, the French, the English especially, or the Spaniards, they endeavored colonizing, and they colonized in America, in many places in Africa. Why they wanted to colonize, go out of their home? To get some land and derive some pleasure. So in the beginning..., in the beginning or in the end, still, just like they have got America now, but it does not mean they have pleasure, they are in pleasure. When the attempt was colonizing, that was temporary; and after colonizing there was fight between the French and the Englishmen.