{"id":2116,"date":"2018-12-18T07:36:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2018-12-18T07:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T11:37:02","slug":"listen-even-if-you-dont-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/listen-even-if-you-dont-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen even if you don’t understand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Listen even if you don’t understand<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Srila Prabhupada’s response when requested to change his Guru Maharaja’s {Srila Bhaktisidanta Saraswati} book Brahma-Samhita<\/span><\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada…” So even there\u00a0is difficulty, let them read over and over and again. Then they will understand. Why should we change it? Let it be presented as Bhaktisiddh\u0101nta Sarasvat\u012b has given”<\/span><\/p>\n

K\u012brtan\u0101nanda: Why don’t you write some purports to that?<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: Huh?<\/span><\/p>\n

K\u012brtan\u0101nanda: To Bhaktisiddh\u0101nta’s Brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101. It would be nice if you would write some purports to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: Purports?<\/span><\/p>\n

K\u012brtan\u0101nanda: Yes. Some of us have difficulty understanding Bhaktisiddh\u0101nta Sarasvat\u012b.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: Yes. So if I get time… My time is very limited. So even there is difficulty, let them read over and over and again. Then they will understand. Why should we change it? Let it be presented as Bhaktisiddh\u0101nta Sarasvat\u012b has given, and… Then don’t give more than one or two pages at a time. Their brain will be puzzled. (laughter) Yes. When Guru Mah\u0101r\u0101ja was speaking, at least my brain was puzzled. (laughter) Even he would speak in Bengali, it was very difficult to understand. He was speaking from a very, very high platform. But I wanted to hear him. That’s all. Even I did not understand it. That he appreciated, (laughs) that “This boy does not go away. He hears.” Actually that was my position. In the beginning I could not understand what he was speaking, but I wanted to hear him. That’s all. I was very much anxious to hear him. That he marked. And he was kindly pleased on me, that “He wants to hear. He does not go away.” That was my policy, that “let me hear. Even I do not understand, let me hear.” That’s all. Yes. Actually I did not understand in the beginning what he was speaking. So Bhaktisiddh\u0101nta’s writing is not very easy to understand. Yes. But we should try, read and read again, and simply that vibration will help us. That’s all. It is transcendental vibration, not that everyone will understand. But if you simply give aural reception to the vibration, that will make him advanced, not exactly that anyone has to understand it. Yes. Just like a man is sleeping and somebody is calling him. In his sleeping condition he does not understand. By calling, calling, calling, he gets up because that vibration is there. Not that in his sleeping condition he is understanding what is this sound is coming. So similarly, we should give reception to the transcendental vibrations made by K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and His bona fide representatives. That will make us awakened. Not that we understand everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Srila Prabhupada’s Discussion with BTG Staff<\/span>
\nDecember 24, 1969, Boston<\/span><\/p>\n

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Listen even if you don’t understand   Srila Prabhupada’s response when requested to change his Guru Maharaja’s {Srila Bhaktisidanta Saraswati} book Brahma-Samhita Srila Prabhupada…” So even there\u00a0is difficulty, let them read over and over and again. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 22:52:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}