Paṇḍāl Lecture
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is transcendental of pāpa and puṇya.
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The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is transcendental of pāpa and puṇya.
The human life is meant for composing an association where devotees may take part, sādhu-saṅga.
In the animal life we cannot understand that we are in a very, very miserable condition of life in this material world.
We have got experience just like if you are to eat some quantity of food, if we eat more, then we will have to starve for three days because you have broken the law.
Every one of you has got some experience about the forest fire.
So Kṛṣṇa says, sa kāleneha yogo naṣṭaḥ paran-tapa [[bg/4/2|[Bg.
recite some verses from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam which are instruction of Ṛṣabhadeva, Mahārāja Ṛṣabhadeva.
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Devotee: City Hall Mombasa, evening September 12th. Sunday, 1971....
Devotee: Saturday 11th September. First Nairobi lecture in Hindi. Brahma-samaj....
So anyway, that is not sentient; that is material.
But a human life is not meant for this purpose—to remain animal throughout the whole life.
So the spirit soul, when he comes down to this material world from Viṣṇu fire, then it contacts three kinds of material modes of nature: sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa.
So there was interchange of population long, long ago, not only with the moon planet but also with the sun planet.
So our process of knowledge is very easy and perfect.
So I am very happy to see you all, American boys, Indians.
Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura said that kṛṣṇera saṁsāra kara chāḍi' anācāra.
The past, present and future calculation is according to this body.
But by freaks of nature, because we are prone to be allured by the illusory nature, we have come to this material world; therefore, we are suffering.
if you want to understand Me, then you increase your attachment for Me.
So why should we think it that behind the natural laws there is no brain?
So these Gosvāmīs were studying many kinds of Vedic literatures.
So a human being, if he tries, he can attain that perfection.
Similarly, we living entities, we have got a dharma, or religion.
This struggle for existence of the human being is due to his lack of knowledge of God.
Dharma means bhāgavata-dharma, because the rules and regulations given by Lord Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is dharma.
Nobody is very careful to invite distress. Everyone is working very hard for becoming happy not for becoming distressed.
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means the essence of all religious principle.
> om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā > cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave-namaḥ
So anyone who is trying to divert people's attention from Kṛṣṇa to non-Kṛṣṇa...
So far Bhagavad-gītā is concerned, the same aim is there, because at the ultimate instruction, Lord Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [[bg/18/66|[Bg.
So the Vedic literatures, the Vedic civilization, is pointing out to Viṣṇu.
Therefore śāstra says, tarko apratiṣṭhaḥ [[cc/madhya/17/186|[Cc.
For hearing Him there is Bhagavad-gītā, which is Kṛṣṇa personally speaking, and there is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is spoken about Kṛṣṇa.
So, we are talking of teachings of Lord Caitanya to Sanātana Gosvāmī.
This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is a self-purification movement.
We have to understand Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the person Bhāgavatam, whose life is simply Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
By the injunction of the Vedas, people are captivated.
Therefore it is stated here, harer adbhuta-karmaṇaḥ, janma-karma-guṇānāṁ ca tad-arthe akhila-ceṣṭitam ity adi asmin eva purāṇe tatra tatra pathyate.
So, devotional service is the means by which we are revive our forgotten relationship with the Supreme Lord.
[introducing recording] 12th of January [sic], 1971 a lawn gathering [indistinct] Gorakhpur [indistinct].
Devotee: kīrtana evening the 11th, February 1971, Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana....
So, if you may call it a yogi, a karmi or a jñāni, all of them have the sole aim of becoming a devotee.
Our position is very insignificant in this material world.
1] the Supersoul Krsna, he lives in a place made of touch stone, spiritual world, beyond this material world, in that abode, which is God's abode, Goloka Vrndavan, in that abode, it is a place made up of touchstone, cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu,…
There was always some casual invitation from many parts of the country, and in 1966 I registered this Association under New York Religious Act.
Until one is not engaged in service of the Lord, till that time one must understand that it is under the control of maya.
So He presented himself as one of us, as a fool, because in this age everyone is foolish.
So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is that we are trying to place before the world that there is God, and God is one, and that is Kṛṣṇa.
Kṛṣṇa Himself says, we are preaching this cult of devotional service, people in general think that we don't have anything to do.