Recorded class by His Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj (July 22, 2023, Sridhar Mayapur) centered on a reading/commentary of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (2.8.20). Speakers discuss the nature of revealed (descending) knowledge as superior to changing, inference-based modern science, the role of guru-parampara and Shukadeva as the realized transmitter of Krishna’s knowledge, and the systematic presentation of answers in the scripture. The video is framed by brief channel/app promotions at start and end.
Be sure to subscribe to our channel. We publish new videos every day. Don't forget, grab your smartphone and download the Lava Mantra app and stay in touch. Guru Maharaj's message is your advice. The following is a class given by His Holiness Jaya Pataka Swami Maharaj on July 22, 2023 in Sridhar Mayapur, India. The class begins with a reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam second canto chapter 8, verse 20.
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I'll try. So anyway I tried to speak today it is two verses.
One of the verses have a very brief purpose. Both the verses have very strong purpose. Beautiful question is giving all the answers.
He was very expert and he gave those answers in the way that he wanted questions. In the end everyone was fully satisfied.
Sam and in this way it was Srila Prabhupada's desire that the questions were put forward properly.
Was a true representative of Shirdi Guru the question is that parishion Maharaj asked should they respond were asked to the Lord by Lord Brahma.
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The knowledge came from Krishna and was handed down by the Guru Parampara in the best league of the DOVP exhibition alongside the.
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I know so much about something more. They know something and they think based on that. They know more, they look more. The transcendental knowledge is spoken by the personality of God and the eyewitnesses. They hand it down.
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We can actually find out how things were.
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Can find out how things were manifested. He creates Mananta Koti Brahmanda from his force but that through the ascending process they cannot know.
So actually what is the fact and what is really happening that one should understand through the descending process. So in this way Sukhateva Swami is aware he knows everything because he has heard from Krishna how everything has taken place.
Is a very special literature.
Vishes how the Lord creates that subject matter is very nicely explained in the the general people people in general they don't understand how everything takes because Krishna has explained this therefore or described this therefore we can understand.
So they explain Krishna in very few words and from these.
Verses contain all the subject matter and Srima Bhagavatam is the elaborate explanation of this.
So actually so actually if we hear from the Srira Bhagavad then we have perfect knowledge 6 Cantos of Sriman Bhagavad. So if we study all the 12 can dos of Srimad Bhagavad then we have a clear idea of how the material world is created. So we hope that all the Devotees will study all the 12 cantos of Sriman. Then you can study the Chaitanya Cherigam. So like this, different devotees go into the subject matter of Srimad Bhagavata in different ways.
But the chronology by which Parishit Mahaj had put forward his questions, the answers may not have been given in that chronology.
Hello. We are saying that Shukadevakur Swami was a realized teacher.
But he had given his answer in a systematic way. So he gave his replies in a systematic way.
Prabhupada. Sometimes the devotees will ask him questions so he would answer not in a systematic way, in a systematic way. The questions sometimes with questions. So sometimes the questions didn't make sense the way which it was asked. Sometimes questions. Here you might notice that sometimes questions are given in a particular way, but.
The answers are given a little different.
He was a very proper member of the Guru dynasty. But his questions were sanguine. Very good. He may have asked seamless questions in a different order. But in the same way that it was handed down in deciphering succession.
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He got all the answers. So the answers to different questions of the Srimad Bhagavatam are rendered or given in this way.
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And each of the questions how they should be answered, she would answer them in that way.
First gentleman will Srila Ramada So these questions given in the Sreeman Bhagavad, they are the essential questions of life. How the different devotees would ask questions and how he got there, how he gives answers.
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No, there is no speculation or kind of inference. We see that in modern science they take inference of things saran fairest and we find that the inference is subject to the scientists limitations. There are scientists. As a result, different scientists come up with different theories. They don't know that that which they are referring is actually discussed in this way.
Scientific research is changed every so often. J. Shamasha.
Depending on how they interpret what they see. That's why Sri Prabhupada said that ours is a real science because they study the universe from descending. Not so. We are having this ascending knowledge from thousands of years science. So we are having science which is unchanging and they are having science which is always changing.
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So if one knows the right questions to answer, then he can get very accurate answers. We see how different theories, how they differently explain what's happening. They have different theories like Darwin's theory. He is propounding that everything comes from matter.
He said that his grandfather was a monkey in this way. There is a joke.
A son asks mother, we are coming from. Father says. Father says, we are coming from monkeys.
The cases.
I don't know about your father's side of the family. Of course they say that we evolved from monkeys. Anyway, if you have any questions, you can ask.
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