Vedic Knowledge Means To Revive Our Krsna Consciousness

[Gavin Swinden]

(What is Vedic knowledge? Vedic knowledge means to revive our Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is Vedic knowledge. If you revive your Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is the perfection of Vedic knowledge) 

 

"In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyam (BG 15.15). The Vedic . . . What is Vedic knowledge? Vedic knowledge means to revive our Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is Vedic knowledge. If you revive your Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is the perfection of Vedic knowledge. But if you read only Vedas and perform formalities, ritualistic ceremonies, but you do not awaken your Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that is useless waste of time. That is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,

 

dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁviśvaksena-kathāsu yaḥnotpādayed ratiṁ yadiśrama eva hi kevalam(SB 1.2.8)

 

You may be a very religious person—never mind you are Hindu, Muslim or Christian or anyone—or according to your religious principles, ritualistic ceremonies, you execute very nicely, svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsām. But after doing all these things, if you do not become God consciousness, God conscious, or you do not understand what is God, then the Bhāgavata says that it is simply waste of time. Śrama eva hi kevalam."

 

(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 15, 1976, Mayapur)

[Tamohara dasa ADMIN.]

 

We are originally and still, sat, in the sat chit ananda sequence. That is our inheritance and our right. We are being suppressed and kept in ignorance by the trident of Mayadevi. Our inheritance is a blissful delightful satisfying lovely giving colorful ecstatically mellow and fun intelligent artful existence...playing with Krsna and Friends!