Carl Gustav Jung

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Hayagrīva: This is Carl Jung, Carl Gustav Jung. One interesting point is that the inscription above the door of Jung's house read in Latin, "Summoned or not summoned, God will be there."

Hayagrīva: And in his book, his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. We find most of his thoughts about the..., about theology and psychoanalysis. In that book he writes, "I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun and are..., and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force." He sees all creatures as parts of God. He says, "Man cannot compare himself with any other creature. He is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite Deity."

Prabhupāda: Hm. Part and parcel. That is our theory. We are part and parcel of God. Like fire and the sparks.

Hayagrīva: He writes, "It was obedience which brought me grace. One must be utterly abandoned to God. Nothing matters but fulfilling His will. Otherwise all is folly and meaninglessness."

Prabhupāda: Hm. Very good. Surrender. Sarva-dharmn parityajya [Bg 18.66]. That is real life. aragati--to surrender to God, to accept things which is favorable to God, to reject things which is unfavorable to God. Always maintaining a conviction that, "God will give me all protection," and remain humble and meek, and think oneself as one of the members of God's family--that is spiritual communism. As the Communist they think as member of a certain community, similarly a man's duty is to think always as

member of God's family. The same idea I was speaking that God is the supreme father, material nature is the mother, and anything. Any living entity coming out of material nature they are all sons of God. So practically we see that all living entities coming out, either from land or from water or from air, everywhere there is living entity. So the material nature is the mother, there is no doubt about it. And we have got experience that mother cannot produce child without connection with the father. So this is absurd to think that without father a child can be born. That is foolishness. Father must be there, and that supreme father is God. This conception of a spiritual family is Ka consciousness or God consciousness.

Hayagrīva: Concerning God's personality he writes, "According to the Bible, God has a personality and is the ego of the universe, just as I myself am the ego of my psyche and physical being."

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