Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.8
Therefore whenever we speak something, we quote from the Vedas, from Vedic literature, to support it.
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Therefore whenever we speak something, we quote from the Vedas, from Vedic literature, to support it.
This material life means forgetfulness of God, because we are sons of God or we are part and parcel of God.
So, apaśyatām ātma-tattvaṁ, apaśyatām, a means not, paśyatām refers to one who sees, so apaśyatām means one who cannot see.
Just like according to Vedic culture, we are supposed to follow the varṇāśrama-dharma.
So the materialistic person, they read the newspaper, but we read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
This human life is meant for understanding God, because we are part and parcel of God and we have forgotten.
Actually, we cannot be happy by material prosperity.
And because he was king, all the great sages and kings in all parts of the world, they came to see him, and the problem was what to do at the time of death.
Therefore janma ādi means birth is also coming from Him, maintained also by Him, and when it is destroyed, it goes unto Him.
Therefore, in the Bhagavad-gītā it is said, yajante anya-devatāḥ.
Brahmā-darśanam means the preliminary understanding of the Absolute Truth.
Similarly, this material world means it is a kind of fair, assembly of so many men.
\" \"Therefore\" means after concluding something, then we say \"therefore.
We are speaking that \"You are not this body; you are soul.\" The people cannot understand.
So first of all you have to come to the stage of tranquility.
So to become Kṛṣṇa conscious means immediately—that is the test—immediately he will become free from lust and greediness.
So here it is said bhāgavata-sevayā, not bhagavān-sevayā.
Here it is said, sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ: anyone who is engaged in hearing Kṛṣṇa's kathā.
Because in everyone's heart that kṛṣṇa-bhakti, or devotional service to Kṛṣṇa, is there.
So, so long one is not conscious that \"What is the position of my life?
Life should be molded in such a way that not for a single moment you are without Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So ataḥ, therefore, in the previous verse it was decided who is qualified to see God.
They neglected their children, their family, everything: \"We must go to Kṛṣṇa.\" So this is required.
Without Vedic knowledge, śruta-gṛhītayā...Śruta, śruta means through the ear you have to understand.
So because he has been trained up in his early life about the nature of this world, the gṛhastha who has been trained as brahmacārī, he cannot remain for many days as gṛhastha.
Formerly, even one is king, he was to take leave of householder affairs.
Why He is asking \"Give up all other religious systems.
Religion means the order set by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
And here it is said that they are thinking advanced, and here they say this Kali-yuga, they are qualified with this nonsense.
Vyāsa means guru, because he is our original guru.
So the Vedic literatures, one cannot say that it is concocted—one difference is there, one difference is another Purāṇa.
Instead of becoming sukṛtina, they are becoming duṣkṛtina.
So you European, American students, you take full advantage of this Vedic culture.
\"This perfectional stage is attained by a jñānī after many, many births.
Real purpose is vāsudeve bhagavati ātma-bhāvaṁ dṛḍhaṁ gataḥ, to increase our affection, or love, for Kṛṣṇa.
Death will come, he'll break everything, smash everything.
To become Kṛṣṇa consciousness means to make our materialistic way of life nil.
If you practice, then you become learned scholars simply by chanting these mantra, and the translation, transcendental vibration, will keep you fit for spiritual advancement.
He comes to the conclusion that \"You live peacefully,\" as if to live peacefully in this material world is the highest achievement of life.
Because our whole aim is how to get out of this material encagement and go back to the spiritual world, go back to home.
If one is increasing Kṛṣṇa consciousness, at the same time he has got full attachment for material things, that means he's not developing.
So we are not concerned with the imagination form.
If you misuse the power and do not feel obliged to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has given you the power, then you'll be finished very soon.
Simply always pour in, give aural reception to the message of Urukrama.
So these people, the voidists and impersonalists, because they have no information of the Supreme Lord and His activities...
They take risk, so much risk, for earning money and sense enjoyment.
Because the human life, this life is meant for learning how to engage our senses in the service of the Lord.
We may be very intelligent to cheat here the police or the government or the laws, but it is not possible to cheat the supreme laws.
And this cleansing process is very nicely done simply by hearing the message of Uttama-śloka, or Kṛṣṇa.
This is the proof that love for Kṛṣṇa is there in everyone's heart.