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David, Ben Yosef, Har-Zion, who writes under the pen name Prabhuji, is a writer and avadhūta mystic. In 2011, he chose to retire from society and lead a silent and contemplative life as a hermit. He spends his days in solitude, writing, painting, praying, and meditating.
David, Ben Yosef, Har-Zion, who writes under the pen name Prabhuji, is an avadhūta mystic. In 2011, he chose to retire from society and lead a silent and contemplative life as a hermit. He spends his days in solitude, writing, painting, praying, and meditating. Prabhuji does not accept the role of a religious authority figure that people have been trying for years to attribute to him. Although many consider him to be an enlightened being, he does not claim to be a preacher, guide, coach, content creator, influencer, preceptor, mentor, counselor, consultant, monitor, tutor, teacher, instructor, educator, enlightener, pedagogue, evangelist, rabbi, posek halacha, healer, therapist, satsangist, psychic, leader, medium, savior, or guru. He has retired from all public activity and does not offer sat-saṅgs, lectures, gatherings, retreats, seminars, meetings, study groups, or courses.
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Prabhuji Podcast
Lost in the concept, blind to the Truth
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Prabhuji answers the question: "I am not a person of faith. I would like you to give me a definition or a logic concept of what is God."
- I am not a person of faith.
I would like you to give me a definition
or a logic concept of what is God.
Is it possible to have a
concept in order to know Him?
If we want to know who is Gopal,
Krishna Devi,
Swami Omkarananda,
Swami Ramananda,
Michael, Peter,
and we say a concept like
a rational and political animal.
Even it is right,
you will say nothing
about Gopal in particular.
A concept has no history,
no texture, no perfume,
no narrative.
If you say,
Argentine, India,
United States of America,
Volkswagen,
Mercedes Benz,
et cetera, et cetera.
All these words has no history.
So they don't say,
they don't allow you to
know really nothing about
a country or a people.
If you say Israel,
a country, a nation,
you need a history.
So through the concept,
it is impossible to know
not only God, but nobody and nothing.
When human being talk about God,
they talk about a history.
In the same way that when
you talk about somebody,
you talk about the history.
The human being is an
historical being first of all.
You, what are you without your story?
Who are you without the
narration of your life?
You are a story.
Who is your father, your mother?
for you, a story.
When human beings talk about God,
they talk about a story.
If you see the Hebrew revelation,
We don't say God is a
self-sufficient entity.
We talk about "Elokei Abraham", "Elokei Yitzhak"
"Elokei Yaakov",
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
the God of Jacob
(Hebrew) "...that took you from the land of Egypt"
the God who took you from Egypt.
When we talk about God,
we talk about a history.
And it's not only the history of God,
but it's the history
of God with the human.
To talk about God is to
talk about a history.
If we go to India,
we talk about Lillas, pastimes.
To talk about, to associate with Krishna
is to associate with
his Lillas, his pastimes.
In the Shreemad Bhagavatam,
one, first Canto, first chapter, 19 verse,
it is said that we never become tired.
To hear, to talk about the
pastimes of Lord Krishna.
In the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 9, 14,
chapter 9 verse 14, it is said,
(Sanskrit) "satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ
yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ
namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā
nitya-yuktā upāsate"
"satatam" - always, "kirtayanto" - glorifying
"mam" - me, always glorifying me.
That is the constant
activity of the Mahatmas.
That is that glorification and how
glorificating Krishna,
Shravanam, kirtanam
hearing, glorifying, talking, narrate.
So to talk about Krishna is
to talk about his history,
his pastimes.
That is the way the
devotee relate to God.
It is impossible to know
somebody or God through a concept.
The only way to know God is the symbol.
We can know God only through the symbol.
That has two parts.
What is showing and what is hidden.
Jesus say in John 14, 9,
who saw me,
who saw me, saw the Father.
And that showed Jesus as a symbolic Ente
Because Jesus is
the visible.
And the Father, the invisible.
The symbol has these two parts.
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the servant,
the perfect servant, but he is
simultaneously Krishna.
And in the Caitanya Charitamrita,
we read in Bengali his
history, his pastimes.
That is the only way to know God.
Then appear the malignant devil,
the malignant demon of Descartes
The malignant demon of the card.
The malignant demon of Descartes
That is the enemy of the phenomenology.
It is a wound in the
individual consciousness
that break
the sensory
perception with the unmanifest.
Because arise the doubt in
the individual consciousness
about what he perceive.
And when that doubt arise,
you can only trust in
what the mind creates.
Only then you can
trust only in the concept.
Try to understand.
The malignant demon of Descartes
Bring the doubt about your perception.
And then your only alternative
is to trust in your own conceptualization
about the thing or what the thing is.
And then the only medicine
can be for this division,
for this break,
can be the symbol of that reintegrate.
And lead us to know the unmanifest
through the manifest.
The invisible through the visible.
The father through Jesus.
Krishna through Lord Caitanya.
And this is the critic of the Husserl
This is the critic of Husserl.
That we create such a
magnitude of concepts,
we conceptualize reality
until the point that instead of
describe things through concepts,
we cover the thing with the concepts.
It's a conceptualization that cover
instead of describe.
The concepts don't say
anymore something about the things.
But we look how to adapt
the thing with the concepts.
We go in life and we
don't conceptualize people.
We try to introduce them in the box of
our previously made concepts.
No.
You want to know God through concepts.
But not God, nothing, nothing can be
known through concepts.
The only way to know
is with meditation,
the disappearing of
yourself as a concept.
And only then,
in that disappearing,
to really know by
dissolving yourself as a concept
in reality,
in God,