Lecture after Kumbha-Melā
Nobody is very careful to invite distress. Everyone is working very hard for becoming happy not for becoming distressed.
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Nobody is very careful to invite distress. Everyone is working very hard for becoming happy not for becoming distressed.
The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means the essence of all religious principle.
> om ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā > cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave-namaḥ
Not visible to the ordinary persons who are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Bhāgavata also says māyāśritānāṁ nara-dārakeṇa: \"Those who are under the protection of māyā, illusory energy, for them Kṛṣṇa is ordinary person or human being.
They are, according to śāstra, that striya-sūnā-pāna-dyūta yatra pāpāś catur-vidhā [[sb/1/17/38|[SB.
So anyone who is trying to divert people's attention from Kṛṣṇa to non-Kṛṣṇa...
So far Bhagavad-gītā is concerned, the same aim is there, because at the ultimate instruction, Lord Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja [[bg/18/66|[Bg.
Process of killing is different, because in this age if you simply kill all the pāpīs, then there will be no more existence, because everybody is pāpī.
The wife was very sexually agitated, and she requested the husband to have sexual intercourse.
So here Kṛṣṇa says that \"There is nobody greater than Me.
So the Vedic literatures, the Vedic civilization, is pointing out to Viṣṇu.
So this material world is separated energy from Kṛṣṇa, but it is energy, His energy—His energy, acting under His direction.
Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu [[bg/7/3|[Bg.
So these are saṁśayam, or doubts: whether there is actually God or not, whether God is dead or alive.
Therefore śāstra says, tarko apratiṣṭhaḥ [[cc/madhya/17/186|[Cc.
If liberation is offered to a devotee, he does not want it.
Caitanya-Mahāprabhu says that veda-śāstra kahe—'sambandha'.
So try to understand that whatever we are doing, it is not concocted; it is authorized.
There are different kinds of yoga and the purpose of yoga is bīja-nirharaṇam.
For hearing Him there is Bhagavad-gītā, which is Kṛṣṇa personally speaking, and there is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is spoken about Kṛṣṇa.
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.
Wherever there is sun, there is sunlight, immediately.
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, we are talking of teachings of Lord Caitanya to Sanātana Gosvāmī.
So whatever instruction Nārada Muni, the great sage, delivered, that was especially meant for Prahlāda Mahārāja.
Indians students are from all over the world, through birth.
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.
This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is a self-purification movement.
\"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.
So here Caitanya Mahāprabhu quotes one verse from Viṣṇu Purāṇa: viṣṇu-śaktiḥ parā proktā [[cc/madhya/6/154|[Cc.
We have to understand Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the person Bhāgavatam, whose life is simply Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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.
So jñānī, those who are actually searching after the Absolute Truth, they are very much appreciated in the Bhagavad-gītā.
By the injunction of the Vedas, people are captivated.
\" Then you are not fully surrendered, as soon as you say, \"Why?
Tad-arthe akhila-ceṣṭitam, ity ady asmin eva purāṇe tatra tatra pathyate.
So one has to transcend these guṇas; then God realization, or understanding of Kṛṣṇa, can be achieved.
Therefore it is stated here, harer adbhuta-karmaṇaḥ, janma-karma-guṇānāṁ ca tad-arthe akhila-ceṣṭitam ity adi asmin eva purāṇe tatra tatra pathyate.
Feasting means purī and halavā and a vegetable and a chutney.
I am offering my most respectful and humble obeisances unto the lotus feet of my Guru Mahārāja who is most dear unto Lord Kṛṣṇa for he has taken complete shelter of the Lord's transcendental lotus feet.