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The advanced devotee does not see living entities as moving and not moving. He sees Kṛṣṇa.

In addition, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī in his Hari-bhakti-vilāsa recommends that one should not hear Bhagavad-gītā , the Purāṇas, the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or any hari-kathā from anyone who is not a Vaiṣṇava in his actions That means that we should not hear these Vedic literatures from the Māyāvādīs, who actually do not accept How can one not accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Lord and yet dare to speak on Bhagavad-gītā?

We should take them and not run the risk of committing spiritual suicide.

It is not that a wealth of education is required. One does not even have to understand the language. The only ingredient needed is bhakti, love. One is not a bhakta if he has a taste for material sense enjoyment. Of course, this is not possible for ordinary living entities. We should not consider like rascals that such a thing has come into being automatically.

Sat means “existence,” and asat means “that which does not exist,” that which is temporary. The material world is asat; therefore the Vedas enjoin, asato mā sad gamaya: “Do not remain within this Because we are associating with Kṛṣṇa, we do not wish to talk about anything but Kṛṣṇa.

If we do not understand Kṛṣṇa but advertise ourselves as Vedāntists, we are just being illusioned. People do not know it, but actually anyone in the material world is more or less a mūḍha. We are all mūḍhas, for unless we are mūḍhas, we do not come into the material world. Bhakti is not sentiment; it is a great science, and we have to learn it scientifically. It is not that we have to wait for another life to cultivate devotional service.

Unless one has good engagements in spiritual service, it is not possible to become detached from material Those who are not devotees, therefore, are interested in so-called humanitarian or philanthropic work When one engages in the spiritual activities of devotional service, he does not engage in sense gratificatory Kṛṣṇa conscious activities are performed not blindly but with the perfect understanding of knowledge It does not matter to what mundane category the audience belongs.

Thus by not engaging in the service of the modes of material nature but by developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness

This is also our business, but somehow or other we do not like to serve Kṛṣṇa; therefore we have been When a criminal does not like to obey the laws of the state, he is placed into prison and forced to abide It is not our nature to become master. Even if we become master, we will not be happy, because that is artificial.

We can understand this by bhakti, but not by any other process.

If we paint a picture of a flower, we have to arrange many facets, and still the picture will not be Kṛṣṇa specifically says that we should not think that prakṛti, nature, is working automatically.

all scriptures people are encouraged to act in a pious way so that they can enjoy sense gratification not One who is fixed in mystic power is not disturbed by the allurement of this world or that world; he is Not only is it the easiest process, but the result is sublime.

Then Yamarāja will not touch me.” However, this is simply foolishness. We are under the control of māyā, material nature, and it is not possible to avoid it.

If one renders a little devotional service, he does not fall down into the lower species but again attains However, if one completes his Kṛṣṇa consciousness in this life, he will not take birth again but will

difference between our left hand and our right hand, between the nose and the ear, but these dualities do not

We should not think that the Deity is made of stone. He can become spiritual or material, however He likes, and it does not make any difference to Him. Therefore we should not think, as the atheists do, that we are worshiping idols.

However, if we become Kṛṣṇa conscious, we will not get another material body after leaving this body.

Because they do not associate with devotees, they cannot understand that the Absolute Truth can be a of the Lord are described; they think that these activities are fictional, because spiritual life is not

This is not very difficult. It is not that suddenly we can expect to see God, but we can become qualified to see God through the

Although Kṛṣṇa was a great-grandfather at the Battle of Kurukṣetra, He did not appear any older than