Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.7.6 Śrīla Prabhupāda's Speech at The Opening of the Hyderabad Temple
Even from literary point of view, if you see the contribution of Vyāsadeva, it is not possible in any age.
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Even from literary point of view, if you see the contribution of Vyāsadeva, it is not possible in any age.
So very nice system, everything was there—but for the purpose of realization of the highest truth.
There is one instance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, how the devotee does not lose a single moment without thinking of Kṛṣṇa.
For the purpose of one or two nice children one should marry, not for sense gratification.
\"Kardama Muni expressed his desire for a very beautiful wife to Emperor Svāyambhuva, and he accepted his daughter for marriage.
In the Bhagavad-gītā, the Absolute Truth, Kṛṣṇa, is explaining Himself.
So little endeavor is sufficient to begin our business with Him.
\"My dear friends, O sons of the demons, it is certain that no one bereft of knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead has been able to liberate himself from material bondage at any time or in any country.
In the Vedic version it is said simply Kṛṣṇa put His glance over material nature, and she produced so many children.
So, vitteṣu nityābhiniviṣṭa-cetā, if we become too much attached for getting money, that is the material world.
So, more we become implicated in this material world, more we suffer from the threefold miseries, ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika, ādhidaivika.
One way is this entanglement, this kind of happy life, household life.
So, the beginning of instruction was kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān iha [[sb/7/6/1|[SB.
So handcuff is bondage; either it is made of gold or iron, it doesn't matter.
Then, remaining thirty years, and twenty years in old age, invalidity, not fulfillment of desires, what to do.
So the temple worship should go on; at the same time, śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam of Viṣṇu must go on.
So this should be the human activity, that śarīraṁ pauruṣaṁ yāvan na vipadyeta puṣkalam.
And as soon as this body's finished, another body's ready.
So the suffering also, and enjoyment, this is also due to the senses.
Bhāgavata-dharma, yesterday we discussed, dharmān bhāgavatān iha.
This is called bhāgavata-dharma, to understand this philosophy, that \"God is the supreme master and I am His eternal servant.
So unless we are free from all kinds of desires, we shall be entangled with these elements.
So we have got this body according to our past work.
This is called tri-kāla-jña: past, present and future.
So, so far the Kali-yuga is concerned, the future is very dark.
So the point is that although he was born in a brāhmaṇa family, he was being trained up as a pure brāhmaṇa, but he fell down to the modes of ignorance.
If one is educated, naturally he gets a good position, and if one is criminal, he gets another position.
This material world is karma-kṛt—you have to do something.
Living entities, we are part and parcel of God; we are not separated from God.
These are so many gods, witnesses, and over and above them svayam, the Personality of Godhead in His Supersoul feature.
> gopī-jana-vallabha giri-vara-dhārī yaśodā-nandana, braja-jana-rañjana, yāmuna-tīra-vana-cārījaya oṁ viṣṇu-pāda paramahaṁsa parivrājakācārya aṣṭottara-śata śrī śrīmad bhaktisiddhānta sarasvatī gosvāmī prabhupāda ki jaya.
So here the Yamadūta says that dharma means what is spoken or directed in the Vedas, Veda.
So challenge was replied that \"You are representing Dharmarāja.
So here is a very good challenge, that \"You are talking that you are the servant of Dharmarāja.
But it is very difficult to accept the position that \"I shall do whatever Vāsudeva says.
\"The lotus feet of our spiritual master are the only way by which we can attain pure devotional service.
Unless we advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, unless we become accustomed to enjoy this ecstasy of chanting and dancing, it is not possible.
So the Yamarāja is in charge of ruling of the sinful persons.
So the Yamadūta was dragging Ajāmila—not this body, but the soul.
So Caitanya Mahāprabhu has introduced Kṛṣṇa name, kṛṣṇa-varṇam.
So at the time of death there are so many disturbance.
Simply we understand, because we are foolish rascals, we understand that this body is dead when the soul is away.
So this difference has been explained by the author of Caitanya-caritāmṛta, that what is the difference between lusty desires and love?
Sad-ācāra lost means your progress in spiritual life is lost.
\" Yes, it is duty, but the prime duty is to solve the real problems: how to stop mṛtyu, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi [[bg/13/9|[Bg.
So in this way the Ajāmila, he practiced this unfair way of livelihood.
So that history is recorded in the Vedic literature.
So when he's trained up nicely, humble, self-controlled, educated, then his second birth, second birth, by Vedic knowledge.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto Six, Chapter One, verse number twenty?
So even though you think that Kṛṣṇa is not present, but He is present by His words, Bhagavad-gītā.