Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.23
Actually, Kuntī is presenting the characteristics of Kṛṣṇa.
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Actually, Kuntī is presenting the characteristics of Kṛṣṇa.
Yoga means \"contact\" or \"having connection.\" So bhakti-yoga means directly connection with Kṛṣṇa, or God.
So this is difficulty, that we are not very much interested in hearing.
Kṛṣṇa is realized by qualification, and the qualifications are described here.
So the, in the present Age of Kali, the government men will be dasyu.
So the principle is that we have to place our mind, or consciousness, in the sattva-guṇa.
These American and European boys, they began with śraddhā.
And there are different kinds of suffering, different types of body.
So hari-toṣaṇam or bhagavat-paritoṣaṇam can be possible when we actually know what is God.
So at the present moment, people are becoming more and more poor, and they are simply educated to gratify senses.
Now, in the last verse Nārada Muni says, yena gacchanti tat-padam: \"by which one can go back to home, back to Godhead, tat-padam.
If you are still inclined for eating, sleeping and sex life, there is no possibility of understanding what is Vṛndāvana.
So Kṛṣṇa personally giving the most confidential knowledge.
This is a relationship between disciple and guru.
So here Nārada Muni says that \"During the four months...
So our business is to awaken that Supreme ātma-ruciḥ.
, \"Vedānta-vādī or the bhaktivedāntas are impartial in distributing the transcendental knowledge of devotional service.
Vaiṣṇavas do not require to practice any yogic power to become materially powerful.
But they cannot give any perfect information, their theory.
To become a devotee does not mean a sentimentalist.
But the bhakti process is so transcendental that by discharge of devotional service you will be far above the sattva-guna.
Abhadra, in human understanding, means it is not civilized.
That kind of śānti, or peace, is going on perpetually—there is never śānti; it is simply formality.
Not that depend on Kṛṣṇa means, \"I have not to..., nothing to do.\" So everything is there.
So he's asking whether mother is lamenting because Kṛṣṇa...
In your country there are so many regulative principles.
So here description of cow-killing is already done.
So in the Satya-yuga people were very religious, full, four parts full.
If anyone understands Kṛṣṇa, that \"Kṛṣṇa, You are the greatest...\" God is great, we have heard so many times from so many people.
So, anyone can understand that this lump of matter, big cosmic manifestation, until a thing like me, soul, is there, how it is going on nicely—how the sun is rising in due time, the moon is rising in due time, the oceans are flowing in due order?
Kuntī, although she knew that Kṛṣṇa is her nephew, brother's son, but still she knew that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Ātmavit is different, that \"I am not this body; I am soul,\" ahaṁ brahmāsmi So kṛṣṇa-praśna, inquiry about Kṛṣṇa, and to understand Kṛṣṇa means on the spiritual platform, ātmavit.
That is nairguṇya-sthā ramante sma guṇānukathane hareḥ.
At the time of death, if you can remember Nārāyaṇa—Nārāyaṇa or Kṛṣṇa, the same thing—then your life is successful, whatever you do.
This one culture means politically, one flag; religiously, one God, Kṛṣṇa; and to understand Kṛṣṇa, one scripture, Bhagavad-gītā; and one work, one work, simply to satisfy Kṛṣṇa.
At night also, we waste our time, and in daytime also, we waste our time.
So the purpose was that this material world is only a manifestation, exhibition, of one-fourth energy of Kṛṣṇa.
So this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is a question and answer.
So Vidura is Yamarāja, the superintendent of death.
Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam [[sb/7/5/23|[SB.
Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukhasya [[cc/madhya/11/8|[Cc.
Bhāgavata means one who has his relation with Bhagavān.
So for all these anarthas, the only means is bhakti-yoga.
Kṛṣṇa is the original spiritual master, and then from Kṛṣṇa, Lord Brahmā learned the Vedic knowledge.
Anyway, so the devotees, they are so compassionate that titikṣavaḥ, they suffer all kinds of odds in this material world.
So these are all adjectives of the Śukadeva Gosvāmī.
So we are reading chapter, the Second Chapter of the First Canto, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, \"Divinity and Divine Service.
Yesterday we have been discussing the aim of life.
So, \"All glories to the assembled devotees\" means including the children also.
So dharma, practice of dharma, means to nullify these conditions, these miserable conditions of material existence.