True knowledge of God transforms mysticism into practical loving service to the Divine.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Hayagrīva: This is Henri Bergson, additional notations. [break] [aside:] rla Prabhupda? If you could move. I don't think it would be good to have something between me and the microphone, because it might... Nothing between me and the microphone.
Hari-śauri: It won't make any difference.
Hayagrīva: Ah, Henri. Ah Bergson maintained that, "God's reality can only be intuited by mystical experience. The creative effort is of God, if it is not God Himself. Knowledge of God leads to activity not passivity."
Prabhupāda: Yes. Knowledge of God is activity. Just like bhakti, we are twenty-four hours active, not that we are meditating on. So it is service. God says that anyone who preaches this message of Bhagavad-gt, that is activity and that is Caitanya Mahprabhu's order. That you, all of you become guru. To become guru means activity, to train the disciples. So this Ka consciousness movement is full of activity for giving, rendering service to God--Ka. It is activity.
Hayagrīva: The word..., the word, "Mystic" is not a very clear word. It can mean so many different things. When he says, "God's reality can only be intuited by mystical experience," one doesn't really know what this means.
Prabhupāda: No, myst..., not mystical... One who does not know God, for him it is mystical but one who knows God he takes order from God. This is defined: nuklyena knulanam [Cc Madhya 19.167], means favorably working for satisfaction of God. But if one's idea of God is not clear, he thinks it is mystical, but one who has got clear idea of God, clear order from God, then it is not mystical it is practical.
Hayagrīva: He, he believed that mystics--he uses the words, "Mystics not." [?] "Mystics participate in God's love for mankind and aid the divine purpose."