Departure Brahma-saṁhitā 5.1
So we have started this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to educate people in perfect knowledge.
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So we have started this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to educate people in perfect knowledge.
Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you very much for your coming here to participate in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
So at the present moment our duty is to enquire about God, athāto brahma-jijñāsā.
Actually a nārāyaṇa-parā devotee has nothing to do with hell and heaven because hell and heaven both of them are within this material world.
Bhāgavata-dharma was explained by Prahlāda Mahārāja, a great devotee of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, Nārāyaṇa, some millions of years ago.
In the meantime, you go on holding this class, morning, regularly, one śloka from Bhāgavata; thoroughly discuss for one hour; kīrtana.
But anyway, because you are living in this country, you must have some friends.
So calculating the age of Manu and others, it is approximately about 40,000,000's of years ago this Bhagavad-gītā or the philosophy of Bhagavad-gītā was spoken by Kṛṣṇa to the sun-god, or the predominating deity of the sun planet.
The person in knowledge, he must see that \"I cannot avoid death, I cannot avoid birth, I cannot avoid old age, I cannot avoid disease so long I have got this material body.
People are trying to bring in peace and prosperity in the world by so many activities—philanthropism, altruism, nationalism, socialism.
So there are many classes of men who have no understanding of God.
So we cannot calculate even the length and breadth of this material world, what to speak of the spiritual world.
This was the realization of Arjuna after hearing Bhagavad-gītā.
So boys and girls who are kindly present here to cooperate with this movement, Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, I thank you very much for your coming here and participating with us.
Actually, if we scrutinizingly study, our constitutional position is to render service.
So religion is a kind of faith, but faith can be changed.
He became insulted, so he decided that \"I shall take from Kṛṣṇa such a kingdom which even my father or grandfather could not imagine.
In this material world two things are going on: lamentation and hankering.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you very much for your coming here and giving us a chance to speak about the Absolute Artist.
So representative of Kṛṣṇa is also in the same way.
So Kṛṣṇa said that what is His mission to come here.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu is speaking from the devotional platform.
Eating is taken as enjoyment, and the enjoyer is the Supreme Lord.
Therefore jñāna and vairāgya is stressed here.
This Brahman effulgence is the bodily glow of Kṛṣṇa.
So our program is to speak on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the evening and to speak in English, and in the morning we speak on Bhagavad-gītā in Hindi.
I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great movement, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
This akhilam jagat, entire cosmic manifestation, is the resultant action of two energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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This human life is not an ordinary life, very rare.
So this material world means combination of these eight kinds of material energy: earth, water, air, fire, ether, mind, intelligence and ego, and the living entity.
Ladies and gentlemen I thank you very much for your coming here and participating in this great Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
I beg to thank you for your kindly coming here and participating with this great Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
So this kṛṣṇotkīrtana the chanting and dancing, is dear very pleasing both to the dhīras and the adhīras, therefore the Gosvāmīs were dear to all classes of men.
Similarly, when the living entity comes to this material world, if by chance he is in the association of the goodness, he keeps God consciousness.
So the question is why Kṛṣṇa selected Arjuna to explain this paramparā system.
The reason behind our preaching in the foreign countries, in the year 1965 I went there, to Boston in a steamship there was no facility to go by air at that time.
That is why for everyone it is required to take up this Kṛṣṇa bhakti as preached by the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
So, Śrīdhara Swami says that eva aikāntika śreya, aitāntika śreya which is the real auspicious thing and earlier also Suta Goswami has explained to the saintly persons that the questions related to Kṛṣṇa that you have asked, they are…
So, if one continues to remain engaged in inferior activities of religion then perfection is never achieved.
This material world it is just a mixture of earth, water and fire, tejo vari mrd vinimayam, but one thing is for sure, the Lord says that it is aparaeyam this is inferior, itas tu viddhi me prakrti para: apart from form these there is one…
Big Big, muni punga, not ordinary philosophers, best of all philosophers, pungam, pungam means great, very great, they also could not understand God, without God's mercy nobody can understand God and in other places God has mentioned, bhaktyā…
Śyāmasundara: Morning, January 17th, Jaipur....
This is cheating, God says, yānti deva-vratā devān, those who are devoted to the demigods, they go the higher planets such as Brahma loka within this material world.
Dharma, I have explained, occupational duty. So long we have got this material body, we have got particular type of occupational duty. We are preaching to the world not any occupational duty, but we a...
Only Kṛṣṇa really, Kṛṣṇa is my Lord and I am his eternal servant, this consciousness is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Therefore unity, or to become one with Kṛṣṇa, means that we agree to His proposals.
So actually our indriyas can be controlled when they are engaged in the service of the Lord.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja is advising his friends, \"My dear friends...