Initiation Lecture
So this chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is purifying your existence. Yasmād śuddhyed sattvam ]]. Sattvam means existence. You are existing, I am existing, God is existing—eternally. The temporary existenc...
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So this chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is purifying your existence. Yasmād śuddhyed sattvam ]]. Sattvam means existence. You are existing, I am existing, God is existing—eternally. The temporary existenc...
American history. That's all. They are Americans. They should learn American history. Don't bother much.
But as far as possible, very cautiously and very rarely we shall present.
ways that God is giving facility to become one of His associates.
So he said, \"There are many subject of news, or newspaper.
Every religion is meant for realizing God and realizing self also, and this process, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is directly teaching you to love God.
Material world means forgetful of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that's all.
The purport of this mantra, mantra means—man means mind and tra means delivering.
So in the higher status of life, when this distinction is not recognized or cannot be understood, that is called impersonal status, Brahman.
and when the call is there, they throw it, everything, and go away.
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So the Śrīmad-Bhāgavata says that if you want to be free...
Therefore you accept any process of self-realization...
You can remember that you had a body just like this child.
Therefore you have to stop this manufacturing process, that \"I shall be happy in this way.
But one poor man and diseased man, so he had his very faithful wife.
So this is the beginning of life, and these strictures are followed even if he is son of a king or even if He is Supreme Personality of Godhead.
This singing is the process for clearing the dust accumulated on the heart.
So our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, it is not a manufactured, new thing.
So he says, praying to Lord Kṛṣṇa, \"My dear Lord,\" hari hari, \"I have simply spoiled my life.
Vedic civilization, unless one is inquisitive for the solution of the problems, he is not on the human being standard.
So if you study yourself, that \"I am spirit soul, and this body is external expansion only,\" then you can understand that within this external expansion of cosmic manifestation there is the Supersoul.
All this eulogization about me, people, outsider, may think that \"This man is being flattered, and he is hearing his own eulogization.
The whole process, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, is to purify the people in general from the contaminated condition of material existence.
The baby was on the lap of His mother, and they looked little far-off, just to glance over the baby, not touching.
Therefore in the Vedas it is said that the living entities are maintained by the Supreme Lord.
Therefore, according to Vedic system, a boy born in a brāhmaṇa family, he is allowed all the saṁskāras, reformatory, purificatory process, but the girl is not.
So when one cannot understand his sufferings of this material contamination, his life is animal life.
Here is a verse in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam spoken by Śaunaka Ṛṣi—a great sage of the name Śaunaka.
Therefore such child, they are all fortunate child.
So the statement of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukham [[sb/1/5/18|[SB.
So we were discussing in our last meeting that if a person, by sentiment or by persuasion or by some material gain or somehow or other, decides to accept the statement of Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa...
And Caitanya-caritāmṛta says, ekale īśvara kṛṣṇa: \"Yes, the Supreme Lord is only Kṛṣṇa.
Just like in Mahābhārata he has put this Bhagavad-gītā.
People are enamored by so-called education, so-called high post or nationality or family or beauty or opulence.
Unless one has clear vision, how he can do welfare activities?
As there is distinction between the crows and the swans, even in the bird's kingdom, or even in the animal kingdom...
So it does not require any artificial musical knowledge or dancing knowledge.
Everyone has to make his own routine work, and for chanting and reading and Bhagavad-gītā he requires, say, two to three hours.
This is a verse from Vedic scripture, Bṛhan-nāradīya Purāṇa, that \"In this age, if you want to realize yourself, then the simplest process is to chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.
Maybe in different forms, but religion must be there.
So keeping this point of view, if we follow the regulative principle, then...
So Brahman, Brahman, nirviśeṣa-brahman, impersonal Brahman, when one understands, jñānaṁ vijñānam...
So when you go to preach, you know the preachers are sometimes attacked.
Now here Nārada's qualification is that \"Because you are a great devotee of the original Personality of Godhead, puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ.
So Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the right explanation of the philosophy.
, Bhāgavata interpretation is that he is cheating the atheist person.
Actually, when the child remains within the womb of his mother, packed up in airtight bag, at the age of seven months within the womb, when he develops his consciousness, he feels very uncomfortable, and the fortunate baby prays to God, \"Please…
So the summary of this age is described that, in this age, the duration of life is very small.
His name was Paṇḍita Keśava, and because he belonged to Kasmir province...