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Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.]

mano-vaco-dṛk-karaṇehitasya sākṣāt-kṛtaṁ me paribarhaṇaṁ hi vinā pumān yena mahā-vimohāt kṛtānta-pāśān na vimoktum īśet

[SB 5.5.27]

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Translation = "The true activity of the sense organs---mind, sight, words and all the knowledge-gathering and working senses---is to engage …

Prabhupāda:

mano-vaco-dṛk-karaṇehitasya sākṣāt-kṛtaṁ me paribarhaṇaṁ hi vinā pumān yena mahā-vimohāt kṛtānta-pāśān na vimoktum īśet

[SB 5.5.27]

So the entanglement is made by the senses. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung that śarīra avidyā-jāl, joḍendriya tāhe kāl, jīve phele …

Therefore the first business is how to purify the senses. Bhakti means that. Bhakti, devotional service, means purifying the senses. …

Hari-śauri: Indriyāṇi parāṇy āhuḥ?

Prabhupāda: Ah, very good. Thank you. Indriyāṇi parāṇy āhur indriyebhyaḥ paraṁ manaḥ, manasas tu parā buddhiḥ [Bg. 3.42]. These are …

Therefore one who sticks to this body only, gross body, atheist class... Just like in our country the Cārvāka, he …

So intelligent person, they will try to get out of this śarīra avidyā-jāl, joḍendriya tāhe kāl, to get out of …

But the difficulty is that we cannot come to the pure stage of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra. Due to our …

So we are rascals, we do not know what is that mṛtyu saṁsāra vartmani. We have dismissed everything, all instruction …

So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to bring him to the right position of consciousness. Consciousness we have got. The more …

śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ hṛdy antaḥ stho hy abhadrāṇi vidhunoti suhṛt satām

[SB 1.2.17]

So this is the process, that we should engage our ear to receive the knowledge, Vedic knowledge, very attentively. And …