 | The next story is “Smoking ganja through a friends hand”. You know, ganja is the Indian word for marihuana. Prabhupada told this story to illustrate this point: that if one has his own philosophy, then let him preach his own philosophy. But don’t preach your own philosophy in the name of the Bhagavad-gita. This is our protest to all the interpreters of the Bhagavad-gita. If they do not believe in God, Krishna, and they don’t want to surrender to Him, then let them preach atheism – everyone has got the right to do this, but why preach atheism in the name of the Gita? This is like the man who wants to smoke ganja, but he doesn’t want to be caught by the police. So he sits next to a friend, who’s not smoking ganja and he puts the marihuana cigarette between his fingers and smokes from his hand. Then when the police come, they smell marihuana smoke and the way they check in India, anyway, they look at everyone’s hand. “Who has been smoking ganja, show us your fingers.” And because the ganja leaves a very significant yellow mark between the fingers, so when the police do that, then they catch this friend who wasn’t smoking and they arrest him. So Srila Prabhupada mentioned the other day about this one mayavadi Ramana Maharishi. Prabhupada actually told this story in that connection, that he has his own philosophy. So why does he bother to introduce Bhagavad-gita? “Just preach your own philosophy and leave Gita alone,” this Prabhupada said. This is like smoking marihuana through another person’s hand.
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