# Lecture

*Type: Lectures and Addresses Dated: April 1st 1977 Location: Bombay Audio file: 770401LE.BOM.mp3*

Prabhupāda: ...and shall remain up to eight. So our *darśana* and talks, if there is any, generally, every day it will be done. And on Sunday you can fix up some time. I will speak in the evening. And then Kṛṣṇa's desire, as He likes. For the time being, this arrangement.

So what is that verse? *Divya-jñāna hṛde prakāśito.* Just recite that. [Indians repeat] Before that.

Indian guests: *Prema-bhakti yāhā hoite, avidyā vināśa yāte.*

Prabhupāda: So the necessity is *prema-bhakti. Prema-bhakti yāhā hoite, avidyā vināśa yāte, divya-jñāna.* So what is that *divya-jñāna? Divya* means transcendental, not material. *Tapo divyam* SB 5.5.1. *Divyam* means we are combination of matter and spirit. That spirit is *divya,* transcendental. *Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parā* Bg. 7.5. That is *parā prakṛti,* superior. If there is the superior identity... And for understanding that superior identity we require superior knowledge, not ordinary knowledge. *Divya-jñāna hṛde prakāśito.* So this is the duty of the *guru,* to awaken that *divya-jñāna. Divya-jñāna.* And because *guru* enlightens that *divya-jñāna,* he is worshiped. That is required. The modern... Modern or always; this is *māyā.* That *divya-jñāna* is never, I mean to say, manifested. They are kept in the darkness of *adivya-jñāna. Adivya-jñāna* means "I am this body." "I am Indian," "I am American," "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," this is *adivya-jñāna. Dehātma-buddhiḥ. Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri* SB 10.84.13. I am not this body.

So the beginning of *divya-jñāna* is there when we try to understand that "I am not this body. I am superior element, I am spirit soul. This is inferior. So why should I remain in this inferior knowledge?" We should not remain in the inferior... Inferior knowledge means darkness. *Tamasi mā.* The Vedic injunction is, "Don't remain in the inferior knowledge." *Jyotir gamaḥ:* "Come to the superior knowledge." So to worship *guru* means because he gives us superior knowledge. Not this knowledge---how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex life and defend. Generally, the political leaders, social leaders, they give this knowledge---how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex, how to defend. A *guru* has no business with these things. He is *divya-jñāna,* superior knowledge. That is required. This human form of life is an opportunity to awaken that *divya-jñāna hṛde prakāśito.* And if he's kept in darkness about that *divya-jñāna,* simply if he is trained up how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex and to defend, then life will be lost. That is a great loss. *Mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani. Aprāpya māṁ nivartante mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani* Bg. 9.3. Very risky life if we do not awaken our *divya-jñāna.* We should always remember this. Very risky life---once again thrown into the waves of birth and death, we do not know where I am going. Very serious. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness is *divya-jñāna.* It is not ordinary knowledge. Everyone should try to understand this *divya-jñāna. Daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritam.* Therefore one who is interested in this *divya-jñāna,* he is called *daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritam.* From *daivī, divya* comes, the Sanskrit word. Sanskrit word, from *daivī, divya,* adjective.

So *mahātmānas tu māṁ pārtha daivīṁ prakṛtim āśritāḥ* Bg. 9.13. One who has taken to this *divya-jñāna* process, he is *mahātmā. Mahātmā* is not made by stamping for receiving knowledge how to eat, how to sleep, how to have sex. That is not the definition in the *śāstra. Sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ.*

> bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
> jñānavān māṁ prapadyante
> vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti
> sa mahātmā...

Bg. 7.19

One who has got this *divya-jñāna, vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā,* that is *mahātmā.* But that is very, very rare. Otherwise, *mahātmā* like me, they are loitering in the street. That is their business. So you should always remember this word, *divya-jñāna hṛde prakāśito.* And because the spiritual master enlightens the *divya-jñāna,* one feels obliged to him. *Yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādo yasya prasādān na gatiḥ kuto 'pi.* So this *guru-pūjā* essential. As the Deity worship essential... It is not cheap adoration. It is the process of enlightening the *divya-jñāna.*

Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya Prabhupada. [end]