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In the last meeting we were discussing why people are forced to commit sinful activities.
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In the last meeting we were discussing why people are forced to commit sinful activities.
Now, of course, we can theoretically accept that this is the position, but actually to understand this position, to acquire the requisite knowledge, that requires many stages of development.
So if you want to get yourself free from fearfulness, then Śukadeva Gosvāmī recommends that you have to chant and you have to hear and you have to remember about the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
I may have this body this time; I may have another body, another species of life; therefore it is not śāśvatam.
, imitation rasa-līlā is going on in this material world, but they cannot be satisfied, because it is imitation.
All these universes, all these planets, all the suns and moons, the sky and everything, they have come from the original source, the Absolute Truth.
Everything has scientific process of understanding.
If you simply decide that \"I shall not eat anything which is not offered to Kṛṣṇa,\" then Kṛṣṇa will understand, \"Oh, here is a devotee.
Anyone who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is good in this sense, because he is in transcendental position, and whatever he speaks, because he speaks about God, therefore speaking is not adulterated.
Prahlāda Mahārāja says that \"I don't require to be very educated or a learned scholar in Sanskrit or any other language, and very poetic so that I have to offer my prayers in a beautiful language and God may be pleased by the poetic idea.
This is the prayer of Prahlāda Mahārāja, a great devotee of Lord.
You can plaster together, up and down, and each and every one of them...
That is described in the Vedic literature, in Bhagavad-gītā: asamordhva.
Some of you know how Bali Mahārāja became a great devotee of the Lord.
Practical experience: In my country, India, I was also a student of Gandhi.
Simply by following one principle of this devotional service, they got the highest perfectional life, liberation, back to home, back to Godhead.
So these Gosvāmīs, they made so many books to guide us.
Your starting London yātrā is very nice, beginning.
That which is greater than the greatest, and that which can expand unlimited, that is called Brahman.
We are educated in a way in which we have misunderstood.
So many people are becoming very great in the estimation of material life.
So Kṛṣṇa says that dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya sambhavāmi yuge yuge.
Therefore, Bhāgavata is explaining the nature of dharma, what is dharma.
So this firm conviction is the beginning of initiation.
\" This Śikṣāṣṭaka poetry, containing eight verses, are very valuable, and they were given by Lord Caitanya for understanding of the whole human society.
So the Supreme Personality of Godhead is principally not divided, but He is understood under six primary features.
I have already told you: that very purchase of ticket and the understanding that you are surely going to London, that is happiness.
Upāśraya means just like a person who is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, and if anyone takes shelter of such devotee, he can be purified.
Here in this material world, the so-called love is not actual love; it is lust.
If you want to understand this Kṛṣṇa consciousness on the basis of philosophy, logic and science, we are prepared to present to you.
There may be a cloud overcast in the sky for hundred miles, but even hundred miles, is it possible to cover the sun, hundred miles' cloud?
Prabhupāda:[sings \"Prayers to the Spiritual Master\" followed by Śrī-Kṛṣṇa-Caitanya Prabhu]
You have to convince them that chemistry or philosophy or anything, without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is all useless.
He sends His son, Lord Jesus Christ, or He sends His devotee.
The spiritual master trains the student gradually.
In the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated that this, this process of devotional service to the Lord, is pratyakṣa avagamaṁ dharmyaṁ.
The purpose of dharma-artha-kāma-mokṣa means to come to this platform of bhakti.
Just like a young boy or young girl—there is no educational department how to love a young girl or young boy.
So this is the Vaiṣṇava devotee's temperament: humble and meek.
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So Prahlāda Mahārāja suggests the remedy, how to become free from anxieties.
This ātmā and Paramātmā, kṣetra, kṣetrajña, is very nicely explained in the Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā.
Actually this is the position, that anyone who is unlawfully claiming something, \"It is mine,\" that is illusion.
Now, in another place you will find in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that the perfection of varṇāśrama, these four divisions as we have stated...
So this Mahābhārata is also history, and as history is liked by common man, so Mahābhārata was written by Vyāsadeva for understanding of the most common men.
This continued repetition of accepting different kinds of body is finished simply by understanding what is God, how He appears, how He disappears, what are His activities.
Actually, happiness is not there in the body, nor in the mind.
So the benefit will be that gradually you shall understand what you are.
So duṣkṛtina means a person who does not believe in this.
Kṛṣṇa is personally explaining Himself, His devotees are presenting Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and right manner.