760210SB.MAY                   Lectures                   232164/530501 Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, mattah parataram nanyat.  Nobody is greater in every respect. Not that “Krsna is shorter at least  in this respect.” He is shorter in one respect, that He could not repay back  the obligation He received from the gopis. He was only shorter to  the gopis. That is His grace. He said that “I cannot repay you. It  is impossible. Please be satisfied with your own service.” That is  the gopis. So He was shorter always, especially before Radharani. He  felt Himself shorter. Otherwise He is the Supreme. He is always  the Supreme. Mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya. So if  you want to conquer over this unconquerable Krsna, then, according to  the prayer of Brahma and appreciated by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu,  that sthane sthitah sruti-gatam tanu-van-manobhih: “You remain in  your place, it doesn’t matter, but you become very humble. Don’t be  puffed up.” Jnane prayasam udapasya namanta eva. You should not  think yourself that you are very advanced, “By my speculative knowledge  I can understand God.” That is mistake. That is not possible. You have to  give up first of all this attempt, that “I am very learned,” “I am very  rich,”or “I am very this and that. Therefore for me to  understandGod, it is nothing.” They think like that.  Janmaisvarya-sruta-sribhih.

Those who are very much proud, they do not take Krsna  consciousness very seriously. They think, “These poor fellow who  had no money, no foodstuff, they have come in the name of Krsna for begging.  So it is for them. It is not for us. I am very rich. I am very opulent. I  am very educated. I am very aristocratic. So for me there is no need  of.” The Indians say like that in your country. “Now we have known  this Krsna, Hare Krsna. We have… Now it is not needed. Now it  is technology.”    So these puffed-up persons cannot understand  Krsna. One has to become very humble. Christ also says, “The kingdom of  God is for the humble and the meek.” That is actually… And Krsna also  says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja. This is the  beginning of humbleness: “Yes, I have nothing, insignificant.” Bahunam  janmanam ante jnanavan mam. This is real knowledge, to remain  always insignificant before guru-Krsna. Then it is profit. If  somebody thinks that “I have become more than my guru, more than Krsna,” then  he is finished. So one should become very humble and meek. It doesn’t  matter where he is situated, either this institutionally,  brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa. Even one has taken sannyasa,  he should remain always humble. So never we should think that “I  have

become very big personality.” That was the instruction of my  Guru Maharaja, that bada vaisnava–“I am very big Vaisnava.  Everyone should come and obey my orders”–this is condemned  position. The real position is one should be very humble and  meek. Jnane prayasam udapasya namanta eva. Namanta means humble.  One should be prepared to learn from… Namanta eva san-mukhari…  Those who are pure devotee. From them one should be very much  anxious to hear. That, the same thing, anyabhilasita-sunyam. Who  has no other desire in the material world except to serve Krsna, he is pure  devotee. So one should be anxious in humbleness to hear from  such personality. Sthane… It doesn’t require to change. There are so many questions sometimes: whether it is necessary to take  sannyasa and It is… By the routine work, it is necessary. But if one is  serious, so for him it is not necessary–ahaituky apratihata–because for  a serious student of devotion, Krsna is in his hand. So anyway, even if  you are a sannyasi or grhastha or vanaprastha, it doesn’t matter. You  should remain very humble. That is required. Sthane sthitah. And you  should hear from the realized soul in humbleness. Then the Krsna,  the great, He will be conquered by you.

Bg 4.39    Transcendental Knowledge                A faithful  man who is absorbed in transcendental knowledge and who subdues his  senses quickly attains the supreme spiritual  peace.