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Vanimedia Lecture on BG 2.46-62 -- Los Angeles, December 16, 1968: You mark this. When there is miseries, a
Vanisource Kṛṣṇa conscious person takes the responsibility himself, and when there is happiness, it is due to Kṛṣṇa. But
Vanibooks the materialistic person is just the opposite. When he is in miseries, he'll say, "Oh, God has put me into such
Vaniversity miseries." And when he's happiness, his friend says, "Oh, you are now well-to-do." "Yes, you do not know
Vanictionary how much I have worked hard." When he's happiness, he takes the credit for himself, and when he's in

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distress, he gives the discredit to Kṛṣṇa. "Oh, Kṛṣṇa has put me into such miserable..." But a Kṛṣṇa
conscious person, when he's in distress, he'll say, "Yes, due to my misdeeds I should have suffered a
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hundred times more than this distress, but Kṛṣṇa is so kind, He has given me little. That's all." And when he's
happiness, "Oh, it is all given by Kṛṣṇa. Therefore all the opulence should be utilized for Kṛṣṇa's service." This
bhagavad-gītā intro 108+ is the difference. He's asking, Arjuna is asking, what are the symptoms of Kṛṣṇa conscious person. Sthita-
Participating prajña. Sthita-prajña means steadfast in intelligence. So these are the difference. I have read one speech,
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Chicago speech by late Vivekananda Swami. He's talking to the audience that "You work so hard, why you
languages - 87 give credit to God?" You see? If you find his Chicago speech, you'll see. Go on.
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African Languages Sthita-prajña means one who is steadily situated in the platform of consciousness. Prajña means
Asian Languages consciousness, and sthita means steadily fixed up.
European Languages Lecture on BG 2.55-56 -- New York, April 19, 1966:
Indian Languages So either to think that "Stop consciousness altogether," that is also not perfect, and either to accept simply
Afrikaans consciousness, that "I am consciousness," without any conscious engagement, that is also not perfect. You
Akan have to understand that you are consciousness, not this body; at the same time, you have to engage your
Amharic consciousness to the supreme activities. Unless you do that, your life will not be perfect. So Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Azerbaijani says that,
Bulgarian
prajahāti yadā kāmān
Chinese - simplified
sarvān pārtha mano-gatān
Chinese - traditional
Croatian
ātmany evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ
Czech sthita-prajñas tadocyate
Danish (BG 2.55)
Dutch Sthita-prajña mea... Sthita-prajña means one who is steadily situated in the platform of consciousness.
Estonian
Prajña means consciousness, and sthita means steadily fixed up. So this is the only..., that you have haven't
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got to create mental concoction to become happy. You have simply to dovetail yourself with the supreme will.
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There will be activities. There will be activities because your consciousness cannot be inactive. But there will
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be activities. That activity will be standard and without any mistake, without any flaw, because it is dictated by
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the Supreme. Just like a fa..., a child is given instruction to write "A." So he does not write, does not know
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how to write. He's doing this way, that way. The teacher says, "My dear boy, kindly do this, this way, this
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way, 'A.' " So, if he does it, he's nice. It is nice. Similarly, we have to engage our consciousness... There is a
Italian supreme plan, supreme plan, all over the creation of the world, supreme plan. Everything is going on under
Latvian some plan. Don't you see how the sun rises exactly at the right time, how the moon rises exactly at the right
Lithuanian time, how the seasonal changes come exactly at the time? Eh? Everything is going on under the control of
Macedonian the supreme consciousness. (break) ...C, A, T, cat, C, A, T, cat, C, A, T, cat. Now, that required. Now, if
Malay somebody says, "Oh, 'cat,' he has once said 'cat.' What is the use of again saying 'cat'?" No. When we will
Moldovan learn something, we have to repeat it, even in material things. And what to speak of spiritual? You see.
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Nepali Sthita-prajñaḥ means steady, steady in consciousness.
Persian Lecture on BG 2.55-56 -- New York, April 19, 1966: So this plan has to be rejected. The Lord says that
Polish "Your plan, so many plans, foolish plans, you should reject." Prajahāti. Now, He says... What... Arjuna
Portuguese inquired that "What is the sign of a person who has already dovetailed his consciousness with the supreme
Portuguese (Brazil)
consciousness, sthita-prajñaḥ. Sthita-prajñaḥ means steady, steady in consciousness. So what are the
Romanian
signs? Now, those signs are being explained by the Lord like this. Now, prajahāti yadā kāmān sarvān pārtha
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mano-gatān. Now, we plan like that boatman. For our happiness, we make multi-plans, that "I shall do this.
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Then I shall be happy. If I shall have it, then I shall be happy." In this way. But all... We do not know that "I am
Slovak
pure consciousness. Any amount of my plan on this bodily conception of life, I'll never be happy." He does
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know it. He does not know it. He simply makes plans. You see? Because the platform on which you are
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standing, that platform itself is tottering, is tottering. You cannot make it stop tottering. This, this body... We
Tamil have already discussed that all the miseries of our life, it is due to this body. Mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya
Turkish śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ (BG 2.14). Mātrā-sparśās tu. All the distress and happiness that we feel in this
Yoruba material world, that is due to the skin, this body. Otherwise, the things as they are, they are neither miserable
nor source of happiness. The example is given: just like water. Water now, in this season, the summer
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is—neither pinching nor the source of pleasure. But it is due to this body—under certain circumstances, it
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feels pleasure, and under certain circumstances, it feels distress. So pleasure and distress, these dual forms
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of our existence, is going on. Now, if we want to transcend above this material plane, then our, we'll have to
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