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“This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and producing all moving and unmoving By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.” There is thunder and rain, and from rain comes the food we enjoy.

Rains are produced by performance of yajña [sacrifice], and yajña is born of prescribed duties.” Through yajña, sacrifice, we have to satisfy the Supreme Person, and yajñas can be executed when human There are four varṇas (brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra) and four āśramas (brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa). These varṇas and āśramas have their respective duties, and unless human society is divided according

“Hearing, chanting and remembering the holy name, form, pastimes, qualities and entourage of the Lord , offering service according to the time, place and performer, worshiping the Deity, offering prayers , always considering oneself the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, making friends with Him and dedicating everything

There are nine basic processes of devotional service – hearing and chanting about the Supreme Lord, remembering lotus feet, worshiping Him, offering prayers to the Lord, acting as His servant, becoming His friend, and The beginning is śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam, hearing and chanting. One must be very eager to hear and chant.

Therefore please precisely describe all the activities and pastimes of the Personality of Godhead, who is full of self-desire and who assumes all these activities by His internal potency.

“This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost

The most important demigods (devas) are Brahmā, Śiva and Viṣṇu. In the beginning of the creation there is Lord Viṣṇu, and from Lord Viṣṇu, Brahmā is born. From Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva is born, and these three gods take charge of the three modes of material of sattva-guṇa (the mode of goodness), Lord Brahmā takes charge of rajo-guṇa (the mode of passion), and He is the creator of all demigods and all other living entities.

Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam, hearing and chanting, are the beginning of bhakti, devotional service. One first has to learn how to describe the Absolute Truth, Bhagavān – His actions, His mercy and His The Supreme Lord is more anxious to give us education and enlightenment than we are to receive them. He gives us His literature, His devotees and the paramparā system, but it is up to us to take advantage All we have to do is take this Vedic literature, try to learn it and distribute it.

“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego – all together these comprise My separated All of these are Kṛṣṇa’s energies, and if Kṛṣṇa is the source of them, how can they be untrue? We cannot say that the sunshine is false and that the sun is true. Therefore the Gosvāmīs and Kṛṣṇa Himself tell us that since everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa, everything should

This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was recited by Śukadeva Gosvāmī and heard by Parīkṣit Mahārāja, and we in turn have to hear about Kṛṣṇa and then chant about Him (śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ).

Kṛṣṇa very pleasantly associates with His consort Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and enjoys playing His flute. Even Lord Brahmā and other demigods are anxious. Lord Śiva dances to annihilate the universe, the goddess Kālī is engaged in killing with her sword, and Kṛṣṇa expands as Saṅkarṣaṇa, Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, Mahā-viṣṇu, Garbhodaka-śāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodaka-śāyī Viṣṇu

superior energy of Mine, which consists of the living entities who are struggling with material nature and

Godhead, Lord Viṣṇu, is worshiped by the proper execution of prescribed duties in the system of varṇa and

Kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam: all the viṣṇu-tattvas and incarnations are but plenary expansions or expansions There are millions and millions of incarnations. They are as plentiful as waves in the ocean. There are śaktyāveśa-avatāras, guṇa-avatāras and svayam-avatāras, and these are all described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam All these avatāras, or incarnations, are svacchandātmā, free from care and anxiety. This is material nature, and therefore it is said that there is always anxiety in the material world.

They were not ordinary people engaged in drinking and dancing. The king was worshiped because he was a rājarṣi, both a king and a sage. If he does not, he thinks that eating, sleeping, sex and defense are all in all. There were Napoleon, Hitler, Gandhi, Nehru and many others, but they could not ultimately prevail. If both the leaders and followers are blind, they will all fall in a ditch, for they are all bound by

He comes by His internal potency, and He does not take help from anyone. He possesses a variety of energies, all of which work correctly and perfectly (parāsya śaktir vividhaiva

Unfortunately, we are simply trying to learn technology, and that is our misfortune.

The material world comes into existence, remains for some time, and is then annihilated.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa is jagad-īśvara, the controller of the entire universe, and thus He is managing the entire