Lecture at the Home of Mr. Mitra
So I wish to recite one or two ślokas from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which was in course of instruction given by Mahārāja...
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So I wish to recite one or two ślokas from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which was in course of instruction given by Mahārāja...
movement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the Western countries.
So it is a property of God and every living entity is His son.
The kind of culture or knowledge and teaching required for making human life perfect is available only in India, and nowhere else.
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So there are five senses for acquiring knowledge and five senses for executing our desires.
Principal, boys and girls, I am very happy to meet you, and I shall try to explain what is this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement that we have inaugurated from the Western world.
Eating and sleeping: āhāra-nidrā, and being fearful, and sex, sense gratification.
Therefore it is not advancement, although they are very much proud of advancement.
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There is a big party in Hawaii, Honolulu Island, it is not our sampradāya, but it chants, \"Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare.
Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the whole world is going to hell.
That: tasyaiva hetoḥ prayateta kovido [[sb/1/5/18|[SB.
So we cannot make any permanent settlement in this material world.
There are many eternals, many millions and trillions of eternals, but He is the supreme eternal.
So Kṛṣṇa appeared, and immediately He was transferred to a friend's house by His father.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not for the third-class men, only first-class men—more than first-class men; those who are above first-class men.
Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā in practical demonstration of life.
ways that God is giving facility to become one of His associates.
Every religion is meant for realizing God and realizing self also, and this process, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is directly teaching you to love God.
Material world means forgetful of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that's all.
So in the higher status of life, when this distinction is not recognized or cannot be understood, that is called impersonal status, Brahman.
Therefore you accept any process of self-realization...
You can remember that you had a body just like this child.
Therefore such child, they are all fortunate child.
So the summary of this age is described that, in this age, the duration of life is very small.
This is a Orient version of what may be the same tradition, suppressed in the West when the CIA took over religion in 313 A.
Now Sūta Gosvāmī says that varṇāśrama-vibhāgaśaḥ.
So your business is how to become happy, because by nature you are happy.
So this is called ignorance, ignorance, sleeping state.
So everyone is feeling nationally or internationally, but the center is missing.
So one has to, from the bodily concept of life, one has to transcend himself to the spiritual platform.
Now, in this age, Kali-yuga, which has begun about five thousand years past, in this age, it is recommended, kalau tad dhari-kīrtanāt: you can realize yourself simply by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
This age is called, according to the Vedic language, Kali.
When I was in Buffalo, my last lecture was at the Buffalo University college.
Therefore Vedic process does not accept that one should endeavor to know the ultimate truth by exertion of our present senses, which are conditioned by so many ways.
In the beginning, when my Guru Mahārāja ordered me, I thought it that \"I shall first of all become very rich man; then I shall preach.
So God is not created by such artificial meditation.
There is a verse by Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yogam apāyayan mām anabhīpsum andhaṁ kṛpāmbudhir yas tam aham...
So His attractiveness is evidently presented by the wisdom of Bhagavad-gītā.
The spiritual world is at least three times greater than this material world.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja is considering that, \"Although I am a child, I have no education, my parentage is not at all bona fide; still, devotional service is unconditional.
So if I require to see him or to touch him or to feed him—these are all exchanges of love.
, apart from ceremonial function, let us try to understand the philosophy of Lord Caitanya.
So a devotee says that to control the mind and senses, that is also required, but if one has gotten the mercy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu...
In Vṛndāvana, Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodā-mayī, Rādhārāṇī, gopīs, the cowherdsmen, boys, cows, calves, trees, they do not know that Kṛṣṇa is God.
Therefore our first relief, guaranteed relief, is this shelter of Kṛṣṇa.
So you may question that \"In the creation, first, there was only one living creature, Brahmā.