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Green Bird Appears Merged but Stays Separate, Liberation Is Fever Gone Bhakti Is Health

📅 December 22, 1976 📍 Poona ⏱ 129 min
The answer to self-realization is one; only the explanation varies according to the student's capacity.
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Indian man: ...self-realization. Various methods, as many people are there, so many techniques are there. Each individual has to find out his own way.

Prabhupāda: Do you think that is scientific proposal? Indian man: They say.

Prabhupāda: I say they are bluffing. Just like you go to educational institution, is there any knowledge that is to be realized according to the whims of the students? Indian man: Not the knowledge.

Prabhupāda: Then what is this? Self-realization, what it is? Indian man: The being.

Prabhupāda: That is knowledge. That is knowledge. Self-realization... Indian man: This is, one part is true knowledge.

Prabhupāda: No, not... Suppose self-realization, what I am, is it not? Indian man: Yes.

Prabhupāda: So what I am, then you have to study in this way, whether you are this body or you are something else. Is it not? So that is in the beginning of the Bhagavad-gītā explained, dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā [Bg 2.13]. Find out this verse.

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