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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord and engage himself in pure devotional service. As the Lord takes charge, one becomes completely free from all kinds of materialistic endeavors.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

His [Vyāsadeva’s] son was a great devotee, an equibalanced monist, whose mind was always concentrated in monism. He was transcendental to mundane activities, but being unexposed, he appeared like an ignorant person.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Religion means to know God and to love Him.

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary, the perfection of yoga is attained when one actually sees the Personality of Godhead in His eternal form.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

If by studying Bhagavad-gītā one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sinful reactions.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

…only a fool would believe in miracles because – let us say you are a child and an adult lifts this table. That’s a miracle. Or you’re a chemist and you combine acid and base and you make smoke, an explosion or whatever. To somebody ignorant, that’s a miracle. But for everything there is a process, and so when you see a miracle, it’s just ignorance of the process. So that only a fool would believe in miracles…

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, “This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife.” These are the dualities of delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind on physical things and try to see how Krsna is manifested by physical representations.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

So it is our request that you try to study Bhagavad-gītā as it is. Don’t try to distort it by your so-called education. Try to understand Kṛiṣṇa as He is saying. Then you will be benefited. Your life will be successful.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brāhmaṇa, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.