Lecture

Transcendental Knowledge Awakens The Soul, Guru Enlightens Superior Spiritual Wisdom

📅 April 1, 1977 📍 Bombay ⏱ 9 min
The guru's sacred duty is awakening transcendental knowledge that liberates the soul from the darkness of bodily identification.
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Prabhupāda: ...and shall remain up to eight. So our darśana and talks, if there is any, generally, every day it will be done. And on Sunday you can fix up some time. I will speak in the evening.

And then Kṛṣṇa's desire, as He likes. For the time being, this arrangement. So what is that verse? Divya-jñāna hṛde prakāśita.

Just recite that. [Devotees repeat] Before that. Devotees: Prema-bhakti yāhā hoite, avidyā vināśa yāte. divya-jñāna hṛde prakāśita. [Prem-bhakti-candrika by Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura Song 1] Prabhupāda: So the necessity is prema-bhakti. Prema-bhakti yāhā haite, avidyā vināśa yāte, divya-jñāna.

So what is that divya-jñāna? Divya means transcendental, not material. Tapo divyam [SB 5.5.1]. Divyam means we are combination of matter and spirit.

That spirit is divya, transcendental. Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parā [Bg 7.5]. That is parā prakṛti, superior. If there is the superior identity... And for understanding that superior identity we require superior knowledge, not ordinary knowledge.

Divya-jñāna hṛde prakāśito. So this is the duty of the guru, to awaken that divya-jñāna. Divya-jñāna. And because guru enlightens that divya-jñāna, he is worshiped.

That is required. The modern... Modern or always; this is māyā. That divya-jñāna is never, I mean to say, manifested.

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