Morning Walk

Seeing God in Sunshine, Fearing Death Yet Clinging to Life

📅 August 31, 1976 📍 Delhi ⏱ 17 min
God is visible in all creation; death comes regardless, yet people deny it through bodily identification.
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Prabhupāda: Raso 'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ [Bg 7.8]: "I am the sunshine and moonshine." You cannot see sunshine and moonshine? Indian man: But, sir, the sunshine is the hiraṇyagarbha. That too is the product. That is material.

There is something beyond the sunshine, sir.

Prabhupāda: For God there is nothing material. For God... Indian man (2): I think that's what Īśopaniṣad says. Om īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam.

Prabhupāda: Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam [Īśo mantra 1]. So what is material? Indian man (2): Yat kiñca jagatyāṁ jagat tena tyaktena bhuñjīthāḥ.

Prabhupāda: If it is sarvam, then what is material? Indian man (2): Tena tyaktena bhuñjīthāḥ.

Prabhupāda: That is another for you. Indian man (2): [laughs] It's all right. Children: This way! This way!

This way! This way! This way! Hari-śauri: This is it.

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