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	'''Guest:''' . . . a couple of things for the potential audience who I'm hoping will see the documentary. So it's just a couple of questions I'd like to ask you, if I may. And if I can record them, we can have them typed out. I hope my little tape recorder works.		'''Guest:''' . . . a couple of things for the potential audience who I'm hoping will see the documentary. So it's just a couple of questions I'd like to ask you, if I may. And if I can record them, we can have them typed out. I hope my little tape recorder works.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' You sit down. Actually ours is not in search of truth, but we are presenting the truth as it is. We are not searching out.		'''Prabhupāda:''' You sit down. Actually ours is not in search of truth, but we are presenting the truth as it is. We are not searching out.

	'''Guest:''' Right. Well, this is what I want to . . . I wanted to ask you . . . I'll put the questions in their order. The questions in order is . . . the first one is, "Within Vedic culture, what is meant by ''bhakti-yoga''?" The second one . . . shall we take it in order?		'''Guest:''' Right. Well, this is what I want to . . . I wanted to ask you . . . I'll put the questions in their order. The questions in order is . . . the first one is, "Within Vedic culture, what is meant by ''bhakti-yoga''?" The second one . . . shall we take it in order?

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. You just learn it first of all. Vedic culture is that we are living entities. Some way or other, we have fallen in this material world and encaged in this body or other body. So material world means the spirit soul is wandering throughout the universe under material conditions. And the Vedic knowledge is to get him out of this material condition and take him again to the spiritual world. This is Vedic knowledge.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. You just learn it first of all. Vedic culture is that we are living entities. Some way or other, we have fallen in this material world and encaged in this body or other body. So material world means the spirit soul is wandering throughout the universe under material conditions. And the Vedic knowledge is to get him out of this material condition and take him again to the spiritual world. This is Vedic knowledge.

	'''Guest:''' And ''bhakti'' within that . . .		'''Guest:''' And ''bhakti'' within that . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Bhakti-yoga ''is the direct method. There are many methods recommended: ''karma'', ''jñāna'', ''yoga'', and at last ''bhakti''. They are different steps of the same staircase going upwards, and ''bhakti-yoga'' is the topmost level.		'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Bhakti-yoga ''is the direct method. There are many methods recommended: ''karma'', ''jñāna'', ''yoga'', and at last ''bhakti''. They are different steps of the same staircase going upwards, and ''bhakti-yoga'' is the topmost level.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. Yes. Spiritual world means there the Supreme Lord is supreme, nobody else. And all others, they are engaged in His service. This is spiritual world. Here, in the material world, everyone is trying to be master. In the spiritual world there is no such attempt. They know the master is only God, and all others, they are servants. That is the difference between material world and spiritual.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. Yes. Spiritual world means there the Supreme Lord is supreme, nobody else. And all others, they are engaged in His service. This is spiritual world. Here, in the material world, everyone is trying to be master. In the spiritual world there is no such attempt. They know the master is only God, and all others, they are servants. That is the difference between material world and spiritual.

	'''Guest:''' I think that covers that. Second question. We were talking about that in this documentary, "In Search of Truth." Do you think there is any other way to actually realize God in truth and . . .		'''Guest:''' I think that covers that. Second question. We were talking about that in this documentary, "In Search of Truth." Do you think there is any other way to actually realize God in truth and . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' God can be realized through ''bhakti'', surrender. Otherwise, even it is realized, it is partial, not complete.		'''Prabhupāda:''' God can be realized through ''bhakti'', surrender. Otherwise, even it is realized, it is partial, not complete.
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	"Now hear, O son of Pṛthā, Arjuna, how by practicing ''yoga ''in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt."		"Now hear, O son of Pṛthā, Arjuna, how by practicing ''yoga ''in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt."

	'''Guest:''' That answers it. Can I have that . . . chapter . . .		'''Guest:''' That answers it. Can I have that . . . chapter . . .

	Pusta Kṛṣṇa: ''Bhagavad-gītā'', Seventh Chapter, first text. Seven, one.		Pusta Kṛṣṇa: ''Bhagavad-gītā'', Seventh Chapter, first text. Seven, one.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' Thank you very much.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Thank you very much.

	'''Guest:''' We're both, in our own way, trying to find truth ourselves. It's been . . .		'''Guest:''' We're both, in our own way, trying to find truth ourselves. It's been . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Asaṁśa '' . . . these two words are very important: ''asaṁśayaṁ'', "Without any doubt." Everyone, every religion, they have no doubtless understanding of God. Everyone has some doubt. Neither complete. That is only in ''bhakti-yoga''.		'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Asaṁśa '' . . . these two words are very important: ''asaṁśayaṁ'', "Without any doubt." Everyone, every religion, they have no doubtless understanding of God. Everyone has some doubt. Neither complete. That is only in ''bhakti-yoga''.

	'''Guest:''' We're just discovering veils of ignorance. We're busy trying to . . .		'''Guest:''' We're just discovering veils of ignorance. We're busy trying to . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Any religious system, ask them, "What do you understand by 'God'?" They will not be able to explain, because that is not complete, not doubtless. Therefore these two words have been used, ''asaṁśayaṁ samagram''.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Any religious system, ask them, "What do you understand by 'God'?" They will not be able to explain, because that is not complete, not doubtless. Therefore these two words have been used, ''asaṁśayaṁ samagram''.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' They have no realization. They have simply jugglery of words. That's all.		'''Prabhupāda:''' They have no realization. They have simply jugglery of words. That's all.

	'''Guest:''' It's new for us, so I'm not very . . .		'''Guest:''' It's new for us, so I'm not very . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes, yes.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes, yes.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Aurobindo ''has no clear knowledge. And which other ''svāmī ''you are reading?		'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Aurobindo ''has no clear knowledge. And which other ''svāmī ''you are reading?

	'''Guest:''' We've read . . . which one did you read?		'''Guest:''' We've read . . . which one did you read?

	'''Woman guest:''' Maharishi.		'''Woman guest:''' Maharishi.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' No, he has no idea.		'''Prabhupāda:''' No, he has no idea.

	'''Guest:''' We've started practicing that Transcendental Meditation. We have found that by practicing the meditation we have had a change in consciousness. It has led us into further inquiry, so we've found that it has been valuable in a certain way. And that's the only actual practice. We have been reading things like Muktananda and ''kuṇḍalinī-yoga ''and that sort of stuff, the ''haṭha-yoga''. So it's just been an inquiry of our own which we've never done before. We've only been exposed to our own Christian scriptures. And we find in ''bhakti-yoga ''and Christianity a lot of similarities. They are the same, as far as we can see. It's difficult, though, to understand our scriptures in as much . . .		'''Guest:''' We've started practicing that Transcendental Meditation. We have found that by practicing the meditation we have had a change in consciousness. It has led us into further inquiry, so we've found that it has been valuable in a certain way. And that's the only actual practice. We have been reading things like Muktananda and ''kuṇḍalinī-yoga ''and that sort of stuff, the ''haṭha-yoga''. So it's just been an inquiry of our own which we've never done before. We've only been exposed to our own Christian scriptures. And we find in ''bhakti-yoga ''and Christianity a lot of similarities. They are the same, as far as we can see. It's difficult, though, to understand our scriptures in as much . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' No, in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' everything is clearly explained.		'''Prabhupāda:''' No, in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' everything is clearly explained.
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	'''Guest:''' That's right. Our scriptures are interpreted, and we've been taught to interpret them in a certain way, and it hasn't been very clear.		'''Guest:''' That's right. Our scriptures are interpreted, and we've been taught to interpret them in a certain way, and it hasn't been very clear.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' What scripture you are . . . bible?		'''Prabhupāda:''' What scripture you are . . . bible?

	'''Guest:''' Well, the Bible. But we only know the Bible as we've been told it, and it's been told to us by unrealized men, and we ended up being virtually atheistically inclined, until that led to . . .		'''Guest:''' Well, the Bible. But we only know the Bible as we've been told it, and it's been told to us by unrealized men, and we ended up being virtually atheistically inclined, until that led to . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' So in Bible, what is the conception of God?		'''Prabhupāda:''' So in Bible, what is the conception of God?
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	'''Guest:''' It's very unclear.		'''Guest:''' It's very unclear.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' That I was speaking. In every religion . . .		'''Prabhupāda:''' That I was speaking. In every religion . . .

	'''Woman guest:''' Hard to identify with it.		'''Woman guest:''' Hard to identify with it.

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	'''Guest:''' . . . a couple of things for the potential audience who I'm hoping will see the documentary. So it's just a couple of questions I'd like to ask you, if I may. And if I can record them, we can have them typed out. I hope my little tape recorder works.		'''Guest:''' . . . a couple of things for the potential audience who I'm hoping will see the documentary. So it's just a couple of questions I'd like to ask you, if I may. And if I can record them, we can have them typed out. I hope my little tape recorder works.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' You sit down. Actually ours is not in search of truth, but we are presenting the truth as it is. We are not searching out.		'''Prabhupāda:''' You sit down. Actually ours is not in search of truth, but we are presenting the truth as it is. We are not searching out.

	'''Guest:''' Right. Well, this is what I want to . . . I wanted to ask you . . . I'll put the questions in their order. The questions in order is . . . the first one is, "Within Vedic culture, what is meant by ''bhakti-yoga''?" The second one . . . shall we take it in order?		'''Guest:''' Right. Well, this is what I want to . . . I wanted to ask you . . . I'll put the questions in their order. The questions in order is . . . the first one is, "Within Vedic culture, what is meant by ''bhakti-yoga''?" The second one . . . shall we take it in order?

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. You just learn it first of all. Vedic culture is that we are living entities. Some way or other, we have fallen in this material world and encaged in this body or other body. So material world means the spirit soul is wandering throughout the universe under material conditions. And the Vedic knowledge is to get him out of this material condition and take him again to the spiritual world. This is Vedic knowledge.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. You just learn it first of all. Vedic culture is that we are living entities. Some way or other, we have fallen in this material world and encaged in this body or other body. So material world means the spirit soul is wandering throughout the universe under material conditions. And the Vedic knowledge is to get him out of this material condition and take him again to the spiritual world. This is Vedic knowledge.

	'''Guest:''' And ''bhakti'' within that . . .		'''Guest:''' And ''bhakti'' within that . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Bhakti-yoga ''is the direct method. There are many methods recommended: ''karma'', ''jñāna'', ''yoga'', and at last ''bhakti''. They are different steps of the same staircase going upwards, and ''bhakti-yoga'' is the topmost level.		'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Bhakti-yoga ''is the direct method. There are many methods recommended: ''karma'', ''jñāna'', ''yoga'', and at last ''bhakti''. They are different steps of the same staircase going upwards, and ''bhakti-yoga'' is the topmost level.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. Yes. Spiritual world means there the Supreme Lord is supreme, nobody else. And all others, they are engaged in His service. This is spiritual world. Here, in the material world, everyone is trying to be master. In the spiritual world there is no such attempt. They know the master is only God, and all others, they are servants. That is the difference between material world and spiritual.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes. Yes. Spiritual world means there the Supreme Lord is supreme, nobody else. And all others, they are engaged in His service. This is spiritual world. Here, in the material world, everyone is trying to be master. In the spiritual world there is no such attempt. They know the master is only God, and all others, they are servants. That is the difference between material world and spiritual.

	'''Guest:''' I think that covers that. Second question. We were talking about that in this documentary, "In Search of Truth." Do you think there is any other way to actually realize God in truth and . . .		'''Guest:''' I think that covers that. Second question. We were talking about that in this documentary, "In Search of Truth." Do you think there is any other way to actually realize God in truth and . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' God can be realized through ''bhakti'', surrender. Otherwise, even it is realized, it is partial, not complete.		'''Prabhupāda:''' God can be realized through ''bhakti'', surrender. Otherwise, even it is realized, it is partial, not complete.
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	'''Guest:''' Well, that answers that.		'''Guest:''' Well, that answers that.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Bhakti ''. . . just like I have got some official servant, and I have got very confidential servant. So to my confidential servant everything is disclosed. He knows everything. But official servant, he may not know everything. Therefore ''bhakti'' is the confidential part of understanding God. Otherwise they understand vaguely, impartially, not sufficiently. In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' there is a verse, ''mayy āsakta-manā pārtha yoga yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ'', ''samagram'', ''asaṁśaya samagra mā yathā jñās ''. . . (aside) You can quote it. That is the first ''śloka ''of the Seventh Chapter.		'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Bhakti '' . . . just like I have got some official servant, and I have got very confidential servant. So to my confidential servant everything is disclosed. He knows everything. But official servant, he may not know everything. Therefore ''bhakti'' is the confidential part of understanding God. Otherwise they understand vaguely, impartially, not sufficiently. In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' there is a verse, ''mayy āsakta-manā pārtha yoga yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ'', ''samagram'', ''asaṁśaya samagra mā yathā jñās '' . . . (aside) You can quote it. That is the first ''śloka ''of the Seventh Chapter.

	Pusta Kṛṣṇa:		Pusta Kṛṣṇa:
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	"Now hear, O son of Pṛthā, Arjuna, how by practicing ''yoga ''in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt."		"Now hear, O son of Pṛthā, Arjuna, how by practicing ''yoga ''in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt."

	'''Guest:''' That answers it. Can I have that . . . chapter . . .		'''Guest:''' That answers it. Can I have that . . . chapter . . .

	Pusta Kṛṣṇa: ''Bhagavad-gītā'', Seventh Chapter, first text. Seven, one.		Pusta Kṛṣṇa: ''Bhagavad-gītā'', Seventh Chapter, first text. Seven, one.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' Thank you very much.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Thank you very much.

	'''Guest:''' We're both, in our own way, trying to find truth ourselves. It's been . . .		'''Guest:''' We're both, in our own way, trying to find truth ourselves. It's been . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Asaṁśa ''. . . these two words are very important: ''asaṁśayaṁ'', "Without any doubt." Everyone, every religion, they have no doubtless understanding of God. Everyone has some doubt. Neither complete. That is only in ''bhakti-yoga''.		'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Asaṁśa '' . . . these two words are very important: ''asaṁśayaṁ'', "Without any doubt." Everyone, every religion, they have no doubtless understanding of God. Everyone has some doubt. Neither complete. That is only in ''bhakti-yoga''.

	'''Guest:''' We're just discovering veils of ignorance. We're busy trying to . . .		'''Guest:''' We're just discovering veils of ignorance. We're busy trying to . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Any religious system, ask them, "What do you understand by 'God'?" They will not be able to explain, because that is not complete, not doubtless. Therefore these two words have been used, ''asaṁśayaṁ samagram''.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Any religious system, ask them, "What do you understand by 'God'?" They will not be able to explain, because that is not complete, not doubtless. Therefore these two words have been used, ''asaṁśayaṁ samagram''.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' Which book you are reading?		'''Prabhupāda:''' Which book you are reading?

	'''Guest:''' Well, we've been just reading mainly biographies by'' svāmīs ''and ''yogīs'', ''Aurobindo ''and ''Resynthesis of Yoga ''. . .		'''Guest:''' Well, we've been just reading mainly biographies by'' svāmīs ''and ''yogīs'', ''Aurobindo ''and ''Resynthesis of Yoga '' . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' They have no realization. They have simply jugglery of words. That's all.		'''Prabhupāda:''' They have no realization. They have simply jugglery of words. That's all.

	'''Guest:''' It's new for us, so I'm not very . . .		'''Guest:''' It's new for us, so I'm not very . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes, yes.		'''Prabhupāda:''' Yes, yes.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Aurobindo ''has no clear knowledge. And which other ''svāmī ''you are reading?		'''Prabhupāda:''' ''Aurobindo ''has no clear knowledge. And which other ''svāmī ''you are reading?

	'''Guest:''' We've read . . . which one did you read?		'''Guest:''' We've read . . . which one did you read?

	'''Woman guest:''' Maharishi.		'''Woman guest:''' Maharishi.
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	'''Prabhupāda:''' No, he has no idea.		'''Prabhupāda:''' No, he has no idea.

	'''Guest:''' We've started practicing that Transcendental Meditation. We have found that by practicing the meditation we have had a change in consciousness. It has led us into further inquiry, so we've found that it has been valuable in a certain way. And that's the only actual practice. We have been reading things like Muktananda and ''kuṇḍalinī-yoga ''and that sort of stuff, the ''haṭha-yoga''. So it's just been an inquiry of our own which we've never done before. We've only been exposed to our own Christian scriptures. And we find in ''bhakti-yoga ''and Christianity a lot of similarities. They are the same, as far as we can see. It's difficult, though, to understand our scriptures in as much . . .		'''Guest:''' We've started practicing that Transcendental Meditation. We have found that by practicing the meditation we have had a change in consciousness. It has led us into further inquiry, so we've found that it has been valuable in a certain way. And that's the only actual practice. We have been reading things like Muktananda and ''kuṇḍalinī-yoga ''and that sort of stuff, the ''haṭha-yoga''. So it's just been an inquiry of our own which we've never done before. We've only been exposed to our own Christian scriptures. And we find in ''bhakti-yoga ''and Christianity a lot of similarities. They are the same, as far as we can see. It's difficult, though, to understand our scriptures in as much . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' No, in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' everything is clearly explained.		'''Prabhupāda:''' No, in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' everything is clearly explained.
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	'''Guest:''' That's right. Our scriptures are interpreted, and we've been taught to interpret them in a certain way, and it hasn't been very clear.		'''Guest:''' That's right. Our scriptures are interpreted, and we've been taught to interpret them in a certain way, and it hasn't been very clear.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' What scripture you are . . . bible?		'''Prabhupāda:''' What scripture you are . . . bible?

	'''Guest:''' Well, the Bible. But we only know the Bible as we've been told it, and it's been told to us by unrealized men, and we ended up being virtually atheistically inclined, until that led to . . .		'''Guest:''' Well, the Bible. But we only know the Bible as we've been told it, and it's been told to us by unrealized men, and we ended up being virtually atheistically inclined, until that led to . . .

	'''Prabhupāda:''' So in Bible, what is the conception of God?		'''Prabhupāda:''' So in Bible, what is the conception of God?
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	'''Guest:''' It's very unclear.		'''Guest:''' It's very unclear.

	'''Prabhupāda:''' That I was speaking. In every religion . . .		'''Prabhupāda:''' That I was speaking. In every religion . . .

	'''Woman guest:''' Hard to identify with it.		'''Woman guest:''' Hard to identify with it.

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