Mercy: Something Else

BY: BHAKTA TORBEN

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust


Mar 16, 2013 — DENMARK (SUN) —

"So this is preaching. This is preaching. So Arjuna has to be a preacher. Practical preacher. What is that preaching?

That he has to sacrifice everything for Krsna's sake. That's all. This is preaching. Sakalam eva vihaya durat. Arjuna will be the greatest example, how he became Krsna conscious, in the last Tenth Chapter.

He will say, sarvam etad rtam manye yad vadasi kesava: [Bg. 10.14] "My dear Krsna, Kesava, whatever you say, I accept in total." Without any interpretation, or "This is like this, this is like that, this is not very good."

Ardha-kukkuti-nyaya. All rascals, they accept this Bhagavad-gita on the principle of ardha-kukkuti-nyaya. In the nyaya, in the logic. There is a logic, ardha-kukkuti-nyaya. What is that ardha-kukkuti-nyaya?

Kukkuti means the hen. So hen gives one egg every day. So the man, proprietor of the hen, he is considering that "This hen is very good, giving every day one egg. But the, its mouth is expensive. It eats. So let me cut the mouth, simply take the egg."

So there are rascals, they study Bhagavad-gita on this principle of ardha-kukkuti-nyaya. "Cut this, take this, cut this, take this." So if you cut the head, there will be no more egg. The rascal does not know. If you cut the head there will be no more production of egg.

So similarly, if you try to study Bhagavad-gita according to your whims, cut this and take this, that is not study of Bhagavad-gita.

That is something else. That is something else. That is something else."

(Bhagavad-gita 1.28-29 - London, July 22, 1973)


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