Lecture [Partially Recorded]
There may be a cloud overcast in the sky for hundred miles, but even hundred miles, is it possible to cover the sun, hundred miles' cloud?
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There may be a cloud overcast in the sky for hundred miles, but even hundred miles, is it possible to cover the sun, hundred miles' cloud?
Prabhupāda:[sings \"Prayers to the Spiritual Master\" followed by Śrī-Kṛṣṇa-Caitanya Prabhu]
You have to convince them that chemistry or philosophy or anything, without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is all useless.
He sends His son, Lord Jesus Christ, or He sends His devotee.
The spiritual master trains the student gradually.
In the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated that this, this process of devotional service to the Lord, is pratyakṣa avagamaṁ dharmyaṁ.
The purpose of dharma-artha-kāma-mokṣa means to come to this platform of bhakti.
Just like a young boy or young girl—there is no educational department how to love a young girl or young boy.
So this is the Vaiṣṇava devotee's temperament: humble and meek.
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So Prahlāda Mahārāja suggests the remedy, how to become free from anxieties.
This ātmā and Paramātmā, kṣetra, kṣetrajña, is very nicely explained in the Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā.
Actually this is the position, that anyone who is unlawfully claiming something, \"It is mine,\" that is illusion.
Now, in another place you will find in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that the perfection of varṇāśrama, these four divisions as we have stated...
So this Mahābhārata is also history, and as history is liked by common man, so Mahābhārata was written by Vyāsadeva for understanding of the most common men.
This continued repetition of accepting different kinds of body is finished simply by understanding what is God, how He appears, how He disappears, what are His activities.
Actually, happiness is not there in the body, nor in the mind.
So the benefit will be that gradually you shall understand what you are.
So duṣkṛtina means a person who does not believe in this.
Kṛṣṇa is personally explaining Himself, His devotees are presenting Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and right manner.
So the Muhammadans, they are very particular to teach the Koran from the very beginning.
do, whatever he eats, everything, then he becomes perfect.
So far appearance and disappearance is concerned, Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa are on the same level.
The test is, according to Bhāgavatam, svanuṣṭhitasya dharmasya.
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This is not only in this age, but in the material world that is the disease.
Now you will see how much husband takes care of the wife, how much it is obliging.
of the Esoteric Commission of Boston Collage is pleased to present here tonight Swami Bhaktivedanta from India.
So there are many things, but today we are observing this ceremony, and the other day we also observed.
So modern technology, they have advanced undoubtedly, but there is no remedy for, I mean to say, to stop birth, death, old age and disease.
coming from Prahlāda Mahārāja's instruction, I'll request you to practice another prayer.
That, that means that he is eternal; therefore he wants to live.
So questions, jijñāsuḥ, inquisitive, of transcendental matter.
You can help us to keep Boston this city of pilgrimage.
So in this material world the reflection, perverted reflection, of the pleasure potency is there.
The Bhagavad-gītā replies what is this consciousness.
Because we are in a dangerous position of material existence.
So when Arjuna decided not to fight, Kṛṣṇa instructed him this Bhagavad-gītā.
Again, after creation of the universes, He enters each and every universe.
Not only Kṛṣṇa, even a perfect yogī, he can also expand.
Kṛṣṇa's name is Yogeśvara, and Lord Śiva's name is Yogīśvara.
It is not regularly in the material world, but it is heard that there is a stone which you touch with an iron and it becomes gold.
Brāhmaṇas means those who are interested in spiritual life, they are called brāhmaṇas, intelligent class.
Just like in the spiritual sky they can live only spiritual body, and material body cannot live there.
The living entity is described in the Bhagavad-gītā as sarvaga.
Tri-kāla-jñā means they could understand, they could know what was in the past, what there shall be in the future and what is at present.
So Kṛṣṇa says mayi, \"unto Me\"; āsakta, \"attachment.
Therefore that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, ideal Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So he was agitating in the school amongst his class fellows to become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Oh, yes, Swāmījī. It can also..., it can be an amplification system.