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Prabhupāda: [kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances] [break]

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[sings] Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to approach the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Directly. This …

So Vedānta-sūtra therefore says, athāto brahma jijñāsā. It is not that a different type of religious system we are introducing. …

First disqualification is that they do not live for long time. The average duration of life in India is thirty-five …

They do not try to encroach upon others' property. Anyway, India's position is very precarious, because they have left their …

So this age is like that. Not only in India; in other countries the difficulties are in a different way. …

Anyone can be killed at any moment, and there is no action. So there is another problem. In Communist country …

So problems are there due to this age. Due to this age of Kali, the problems are there. And what …

[aside:] It's not working?

...a brāhmaṇa, he came to the king, "My dear king, my son has died. So please explain why, in the …

So just see how much responsible government was there. The government is responsible if the son dies before the father. …

So duration of life is very uncertain in this age. At any moment we can die. But this life, this …

[Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness and self-control; renunciation of the objects of …

Repeated birth, repeated death. Soul is immortal, eternal, but changing, just like you are changing the dress. So this problem …

So duration, if you get a long duration of life, then there is chance you may meet somebody, you may …

[O learned one, in this iron Age of Kali men almost always have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, …

And even whatever duration of life we have got, we are not properly utilizing. We are utilizing this life just …

So even if we have got short life, we are not very serious. Mandāḥ, very slow. Just like here, we …