{"id":7289,"date":"2020-05-05T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2020-05-05T12:31:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:31:56","slug":"rascal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/rascal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rascal!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Srila Prabhupada uses the word ‘Rascal’ thousands of times in His books and classes. It means ‘A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel— One who is playfully mischievous’–And Who is the Greatest Rascal of All??
\nSrila Prabhupada replies—<\/p>\n

Bob: Is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a attractive to rascals?<\/p>\n

\nPrabhup\u0101da: Oh, yes. He was the greatest rascal also.<\/p>\n

Bob: How is this?<\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: [laughing] Because He was teasing always the gop\u012bs. The R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b would go, because She was married, and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a will attack Her. And when She fall down, “K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, don’t torture Me in that way.” She will fall down, and K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a will take the opportunity and kiss Her. [Prabhup\u0101da laughs] So from superficially, R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b was very pleased, but superficially K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the greatest rascal. Unless rascaldom is not in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, how rascaldom is there, existence in the world? Because our formula of God is that He’s the source of everything. Unless rascaldom is not in K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, how it can be manifest? Because He’s the source of everything. But His rascaldom is so nice that everyone worships His rascaldom.<\/p>\n

Bob: But what about the rascals who are not so nice?<\/p>\n

Prabhup\u0101da: No, rascaldom is not nice. But K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is absolute God; therefore rascaldom is also good. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is all-good. God is good. Therefore, when He becomes rascal, that is also good. That is Krsna. Rascaldom is not good, but when it is practiced by Krsna, because He’s absolute good, that rascaldom is also good. That one has to understand.
\n>>> Ref. VedaBase => Talk with Bob Cohen — February 27, 1972, Mayapur<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srila Prabhupada uses the word ‘Rascal’ thousands of times in His books and classes. It means ‘A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel— One who is playfully mischievous’–And Who is the Greatest Rascal of All?? Srila Prabhupada replies— … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 18:16:40","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\/7289","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=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}