True knowledge manifests as devotion to Krishna; all other learning is merely decorating a corpse.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation, Bhagavad-gītā 9.34 — February 25, 1973, Jakarta 730225R1-JAKARTA [41:15 Minutes] Conv_730225R1-JAKARTA Bg-09.34_730225R1-JAKARTA Devotee: ...mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam ātmānaṁ mat-parāyanaḥ [Bg. 9.34].
Prabhupāda: Yes, now. Read the translation.
Devotee: Translation: "Engage your mind always in thinking of Me. Offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me." Prabhupāda: So this is the process. Says, "Always think of Me." [speaks Hindi with guest for some Minutes] Formula...
This is the translation. [aside:] Read the purport. Purport.
Devotee: Purport: "In this verse it is clearly indicated that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the only means of being delivered from the clutches of this contaminated material world. Sometimes unscrupulous commentators distort the meaning of what is clearly stated here: that all devotional service should be offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Unfortunately, unscrupulous commentators divert the mind of the reader to that which is not at all feasible. Such commentators do not know that there is no difference between Kṛṣṇa's mind and Kṛṣṇa.
Kṛṣṇa is not an ordinary human being. He's Absolute Truth. His body..." Prabhupāda: Just like Dr. Radhakrishnan.
He has explained this verse... When Kṛṣṇa says, man-manā bhava mad-bhaktaḥ [Bg. 9.34], he comments, "It is not to the person Kṛṣṇa." Just see. Kṛṣṇa says man-manā, "Always think of Me." And he, out of his so-called nonsense scholarship, he says, "It is not to Kṛṣṇa." [Hindi] Indian man (1): He's impersonalist. Prabhupāda: He's a nonsense. Indian man (1): He's impersonalist. I read that Bhagavad-gītā in school. Prabhupāda: He's a nonsense.