Sun Orbits at 16000-Miles-Per-Second by Krsna's Order – Krsna Rebukes Arjuna's Bodily Lamentation

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Bhagavad-gītā 2.11 — October 1, 1975, Mauritius 751001BG-MAURITIUS [29:36 Minutes] BG-02.11_751001BG-MAURITIUS Harikeśa: Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, Chapter Two, text 11. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [02:03] śrī bhagavān uvāca aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ [Bg. 2.11] Translation: "The Blessed Lord said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead." Prabhupāda: śrī bhagavān uvāca aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñā-vādāṁś ca bhāṣase gatāsūn agatāsūṁś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ [Bg. 2.11] This is the version of Kṛṣṇa in the beginning of Bhagavad-gītā. So first of all it is said here, Vyāsadeva, the author..., not author, the compiler who recorded the talks between Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna and then put it systematically in a book form.

So he says that bhagavān uvāca. Bhagavān means the Supreme Person. Just like in this meeting, amongst my students I am the supreme person, similarly, in the state there is a supreme person—the president or the prime minister—so everywhere you will find out one supreme person. Without a supreme person nothing can be managed, order-giving person.

This is everlastingly existing, and you cannot avoid this. Even in Communist country they also have the supreme person, dictator. So taking the whole universal affair, the nature, how things are going on... The sun is rising early in the morning.

It is setting exactly in due time. Then the moon is coming. Everyone in big, big planetary system, they are working very systematically. The astronomical calculation is so perfect that, they say, one ten-thousandth part of a second is also calculated.

So accurately things are moving. So in the Brahma-saṁhitā it is said, yac cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇām [Bs. 5.52]. The sun is the eye of all the planets. We have got eyes, but unless there is sunrise, what is the value of our eyes? We cannot see.

We are very much proud of our eyes; we want to see everything. But we do not calculate the value of our eyes. Unless there is sunshine, we cannot see. At night, unless there is electricity or moonlight or some lamp, we cannot see.

And still, we are very much proud of seeing. This is called illusion. We have no power. We are put under certain condition, then we work.

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