Establish Bhagavatam institutions to teach systematic God-science to all people, regardless of social status.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Paṇḍāl Lecture – Delhi, November 21, 1971 711121LE-DELHI [29:57 Minutes] Lecture_711121LE-DELHI Prabhupāda: Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for your participating in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tad tad evetaro janaḥ sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute lokas tad anuvartate [Bg. 3.21] Lord Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā this verse, that the leading people must be ideal, yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas. Śreṣṭhas means “leading personalities.” Tad tad evetaro janaḥ: and his actions are followed by the ordinary men. The present condition of India, I may say, is spiritually so much fallen because our leaders were disinterested in the spiritual matter. So I am glad that His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Jahar[?], he attended this meeting and expressed his views on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, or the system of bhāgavata-dharma, which was being discussed by me in this platform for three, four days. kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān iha [SB 7.6.1] So I am glad, Mr.
Jahar's speech on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is quite appropriate, and he has acknowledged the importance of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. So far we proposed to open an institution for teaching the bhāgavata-dharma in this city, great city. We may inform the public that bhāgavata-dharma means to understand the science of God. As I have many times explained what is the science of God and sanātana-dharma: to understand the science of God means sanātana-dharma. Every living entity is sanātana; the Personality of Godhead, He is also sanātana; and the system, or the modus operandi which we execute, is that to achieve that final goal how we can again unite together, both sanātanas—the jīva and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This unification does not mean that we become amalgamated, homogeneous.
No. This unity means that in the conditioned state of our existence, or in our material life, we do not agree to the proposal of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Personality of Godhead says, Kṛṣṇa, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ [Bg. 18.66] But so long we do not agree to this proposal—the open offer by the Supreme Personality of Godhead—that is our material existence. Material existence and spiritual existence does not mean that in our material existence we have got two hands and in our spiritual existence we shall have four hands, or something different.
It is not like that. Spiritual existence means to agree with the offer or proposal by the Supreme Godhead. This is unity, unity of agreement. Not that we become one.
One in agreement. In the second chapter of Bhagavad-gītā you will find that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, says to Arjuna, “My dear Arjuna, you, Me, all these kings and the soldiers who are now assembled here, it is not that they were not existing in the past, neither it is that they will cease to exist in the future.” That means Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna and the other living entities, all of us, nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13], we are all individuals. Kṛṣṇa is individual, you are individual, I am individual—everyone individual. And we have got individual independence also. Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya [Īśo Invocation]. Kṛṣṇa is so perfect that whatever He creates, that is also perfect.
So if we are supposed to be created by God, or Kṛṣṇa, then perfectly we have got all the qualities of Kṛṣṇa—but in minute quantity. That is the difference. We have got all the qualities. You can study Kṛṣṇa simply by studying your qualities.
Whatever quality you have got, Kṛṣṇa has got also the same quality. The difference is that you have got them in minute quantities, and Kṛṣṇa has got them in full quantities. That is the difference. Therefore unity, or to become one with Kṛṣṇa, means that we agree to His proposals. It is very simple to understand.