Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.5.5
We can take shelter of the material energy or the spiritual energy, as we like.
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We can take shelter of the material energy or the spiritual energy, as we like.
There is nothing in the material world which can check one's devotional service.
So in this age, the question was, \"What is the best form of religion by which one can become elevated to spiritual emancipation?
First of all, there was only one Veda, Atharva-veda.
Just like in the Vedas there is direction how to prepare by chemical process gold.
So, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the ripened fruit of Vedic literature.
There are eight million different species of life below the human society, but there is no question of God consciousness.
Therefore we should accept knowledge from such person who is beyond these four defects of conditional life.
So in the bodies lower than the human being, there is no question of liberation.
When you say \"tarava,\" then abhinedu.
All-attractive means, therefore, that Kṛṣṇa is attractive to everyone, either one is Kṛṣṇa's devotee or nondevotee.
So the authorities, they say parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto [[sb/5/5/3|[SB.
So Caitanya Mahāprabhu gives reference of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with Brahma-saṁhitā.
Similarly, although we are all sons of God, or Kṛṣṇa, we have got the independence to give up His company and enjoy this material world.
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In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is said Kṛṣṇa is just like sun.
Bhoga means enjoyment, sense enjoyment, and tyāga means to give up this material world.
But that one kind of war causes some disturbances and another kind of war stops it for some time, for the time being—that is not ultimate solution of the problem.
Anyway, everyone is responsible for his sinful activities.
So killing is not allowed in any religious principle.
So therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, ei rūpe brahmāṇḍa brahmite.
So anyone who has developed this unadulterated devotion, automatically he has all the good qualifications of the demigods.
Not visible to the ordinary persons who are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
There are different kinds of yoga and the purpose of yoga is bīja-nirharaṇam.
Therefore you find people are engaged in different activities, not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So I do not wish to take much of your time; you are all busy men, and I thank you very much that you have come.
How it is possible that Kṛṣṇa has produced such a big gigantic material world it puzzles them.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja has very nicely analyzed the characteristics of the soul by twelve items: ātmā, nitya, avyaya, śuddha, eka, kṣetra-jña, āśraya, avikriya, sva-dṛk, hetuḥ, vyāpaka, asaṅgī, anāvṛta.
So whatever instruction Nārada Muni, the great sage, delivered, that was especially meant for Prahlāda Mahārāja.
So we are discussing Prahlāda Mahārāja when his mother was captured by the demigods and their purpose was to keep Prahlāda's mother under custody till she delivers the child.
So after hearing from Prahlāda Mahārāja the son's of the demons, they said that, \"You have stated that your knowledge was received from Nārada.
] vividhā means to be merciful upon the fallen souls.
You will see, if you don't see now, you will see at the time of death.
So Prahlāda Mahārāja concluded that instead of wasting time for so-called material happiness, sense gratification, please engage yourself in the service of Nārāyaṇa.
\"The purpose of practicing yoga means controlling the senses,\" but devotional service, because you are hearing Kṛṣṇa, we are eating Kṛṣṇa, we are chanting Kṛṣṇa, we are taking Kṛṣṇa.
So here it is also saying the same thing, in the Vedic literature you won't find any contradiction.
Cārvāka Muni says that: \"That your body, when it will be put into the fire and it will be turned into ashes then your all responsibility for sins committed,\" he said.
Similarly, if the whole world becomes devotee and the business of the material world is closed for good, that is very good.
After bhāva, when we are always absorbed in thought of Kṛṣṇa in ecstasy, that is the immediate previous stage of love of Godhead, love of Kṛṣṇa.
Tad-arthe akhila-ceṣṭitam, ity ady asmin eva purāṇe tatra tatra pathyate.
So an airplane running on, on that speed, and thinking for millions of years, still, you cannot approach the abode of Kṛṣṇa or understand Kṛṣṇa.
So invisible Viṣṇudūtas, they are always traveling.
Bhakti-yogo bhagavati: \"Of rendering devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.\" That is first-class religion.
Therefore we see, they are becoming educated, scientists, philosophers, but they do not understand what is God.
So, before claiming oneself as the Supreme, one should consider how he is the Supreme.
Simply by devotional service one can understand what is the nature of God.
A great personality means to accept the supreme great; he is a great personality.
The six Gosvāmīs, they are directly recipient of the causeless mercy of Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu; therefore they were empowered to diminish the sinful burden of the world.
And, yajñati ananyalo mattaḥ: although this material existence is always inauspicious, a person who is engaged in chanting the holy name, he is always living in the Viṣṇu-loka.
So we have been discussing the advantage of chanting the holy name.